Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/gcc46

[Tim Zingelman <tez%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Steven Drake <sbd%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
>
>> Module Name:  pkgsrc
>> Committed By: hans
>> Date:         Fri Apr 13 11:02:48 UTC 2012
>>
>> Modified Files:
>>       pkgsrc/lang/gcc46: Makefile options.mk
>>
>> Log Message:
>> Add option gcc-inplace-math to allow building devel/gmp, math/mpfr and
>> math/mpcomplex together with gcc, as described at
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html
>
> Why is this necessary, can't you build and use the packages?

Doing so results in circular dependencies, if you later rebuild them
using the pkgsrc built compiler.
This seems like a great solution to me.

 - Tim