Circular dependencies
Dennis Gilmore
dennis at ausil.us
Sat Feb 11 16:46:34 UTC 2006
Once upon a time Saturday 11 February 2006 10:31 am, Anthony Green wrote:
> So, would it be OK to submit binary -bootstrap SRPMS to FE for the
> purposes of bootstrapping these loopy packages? This has the advantage
> that is doesn't require any special intervention on the part of the FE
> build infrastructure maintainers.
have a look at fpcits initial build contained a bianry copy of the compiler as
fpc is written in pascal and needed a pascal compiler to build. its first
update then required itself to build.
you could possibly do something similar if indeed there is a circular
dependancy. if that is indeed the case thats a bad design by upstream
--
Dennis Gilmore, RHCE
<dennis AT ausil DOT us> http://www.ausil.us
Proud Australian
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