FS#25516 - [libtool] Remove gcc dependency

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Thursday, 11 August 2011, 18:34 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 08 September 2011, 07:17 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

libtool depends on gcc which might not really necessary by those packages which depend on libtool. An option would be either make gcc optional or somehow split the package.

Esp. on server some people don't like having gcc installed which is now pulled in via mcrypt.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Thursday, 08 September 2011, 07:17 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  libtool-2.4-5
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 02:56 GMT
I'm really not sure what to do here...

The gcc dependency is really needed (it is strictly versioned for a reason) so making it an optdepend is really out of the question (at least until pacman-4.1 comes out with better optdepends support).

I am also not really a fan of splitting libltdl out into its own package as that seems a bit un-Arch like given the size of the package and it appears not particularly easy to do given the install targets in the libtool Makefile. But that does seem the "best" option to remove the gcc dependency...

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