Re: bc dependencies
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 07:24:49PM +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> I wanted to install apt-move on a slink system last night.
> Since it depended on bc >= 1.05a-6, I just downloaded the source to
> recompile - so far so good.
> I also downloaded bc's (potato version) source, because of dependencies.
> Now when I had build that on my slink system, it's only dependency was
> 'libc6' (without a version), while the web page for unstable bc mentions
> not only a dependency for 'libc6 (>=2.1)' but also for libncurses4 and
> for libreadlineg2.
> Now I'm wondering why it is that the same source package compiled on a
> different system does not depend on the latter two???
> Is this a bug or something?
Most probably you didn't have libreadline-dev and ncurses-dev installed, and
bc detected this at configure time.
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