[Neurodebian-users] matlab-spm8 fails to install due to missing gcc

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 17:37 +0200, Michael Hanke wrote: 
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 09:48:37AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Michael Hanke wrote:
> > > > and I don't know which are the minimal requirements to fullfill these 
> > > > dependencies. Can you depend on a virtual package like 'libstdc++-dev'?)
> > > What if we make it depend on 'build-essential'? 
> > 
> > we could, but why couldn't we indeed just depend on gcc? ;-)
> > 
> > or was there something forbidding us to do so? [do not recall this
> > detail now]
> 
> I was thinking, because in this case it is about gcc, next time it might
> be g++...

Unless I am mistaken, they used to ship LCC or OpenWatcom with the
Windows version, interestingly, it doesn't seem to be the case for the
Linux version.

Maybe they are not shipping the compiler with the Windows version
anymore either...

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev