Re: NetBSD and pkgsrc packages of parallel

[Jan Schaumann]

Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk> wrote:
> Great. Expect the good news to be included in next release.
> 
> In your requirements gcc is listed. Since everything is perl gcc ought
> not to be a requirement. Can you check if gcc is really needed?

The pkgsrc system differentiates between build requirements and runtime
requirements.  The binary package only depends on perl, but in order to
build parallel, you'd need to have perl and GNU make installed, for
which in turn you'd need gcc to build those.

Hope this makes sense. :-)

-Jan

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