Re: Questions about lang/gcc47

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2013-10-23 at 14:16 BST, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> while building said package (on Solaris 11), two questions came to my mind:
> 
> 1) Why doesn't it build binutils as a prerequisite?

It does if it cannot find a native assembler.  See the logic in
gcc47/Makefile.

> 2) Why doesn't it build its own gmp/mpc/mpfr support libs, as described
> here: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC ?

It does.  On SunOS the gcc-inplace-math is enabled by default, which
pulls in those dependencies as inplace packages.  See options.mk.

Regards,

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