Bug#281766: java-package: Please add missing dependency: gcc

Alessandro Polverini Alessandro Polverini <alex@nibbles.it>, 281766@bugs.debian.org
Fri Nov 19 06:11:02 2004


On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 13:01, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:30:26 +0100, 
> Alessandro Polverini <alex@nibbles.it> wrote: 
> 
> > Hello,
> > I tried to execute make-jpkg on sun jdk 1.5.0 and got the following
> > error:
> >
> > sh: line 1: gcc: command not found
> > dpkg-architecture: warning: Couldn't determine gcc system type, falling
> > back to default (native compilation)
> >
> > I suppose gcc should be added to the dependencies.
> 
> The question is why does jdk 5.0 does need gcc!

Well, actually I believed that it was the java-package detect script
that needs gcc and not the jdk.

Anyway, if it's one way or the other, if gcc is needed I think it should
be declared in the dependencies.

Alex