Bug#749451: libgtk-3-dev introduces dependency on C++ library

Tue May 27 00:43:08 UTC 2014

Package: libgtk-3-dev
Version: 3.4.2-7

Summary: libgtk-3-dev introduces dependency on C++ (as opposed to just
C) library.

Details:
 libgtk-3-dev depends on libglib2.0-dev, which depends on libpcre3-dev.
However, libpcre3-dev depends on libpcrecpp0, which introduces
dependencies on C++ libraries (libstdc++).

Possible solution:
According to the documentation at
 https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-building.html
 GLib can, and is indeed recommended to, be compiled using GLib's
internal version of PCRE (i.e. using the configure script option
--with-pcre=internal).
Note that the internal version of PCRE does not require C++ (see
https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/glib/pcre).

uname -a: 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux