PING MAINTAINERS of ccache, distcc, ocaml: [was Re: [1.7] gcc-3.4.4-3 gets reinstalled every time I run setup]

Damien Doligez damien.doligez@inria.fr
Thu Nov 4 12:29:00 GMT 2010


On 2010-11-03, at 21:36, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 21:23 +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>>  In the meantime, I think that ocaml, ccache and distcc should remove gcc
>>> from their setup.hint lines, and perhaps replace it by gcc-core.
>> 
>> BTW: both 'ccache' and 'distcc' are depending on 'gcc' in latest
>> setup.ini (I'm trying to avoid gcc-3 on my fresh install).
> 
> Then shouldn't that be 'gcc4-core'?

I never received Dave's message, so I'm missing some context here, but
the latest ocaml (3.12.0-4) actually depends on gcc4-core, not on any
flavor of gcc 3.

I don't think it's possible to make a binary of OCaml that can work
indifferently with gcc3 or gcc4.

-- Damien



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