On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 04:40:03AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > > > > > I noticed cc1 moved from the gcc package to the cpp package. What was the > > > rationale behind this decision ? This change breaks my > > > distcc-compilers-fedora package. > > > > GCC 3.3 has fully integrated preprocessor, ie. /usr/bin/cpp cannot work > > without cc1. The options were either to remove cpp package (but that would > > mean anyone which needs cpp (e.g. several window managers) needs to > > install glibc-devel and other stuff which they certainly need. > > Or move cc1 into cpp package (which gcc rpm requires anyway). > > Ok, it's just that normally distcc doesn't need a preprocessor on the > different nodes. And this change actually demands that the preprocessor is > installed on Fedora, although not used. Actually, now that I think of it, cpp needed to be installed in the past anyway. The only difference is that I now have an extra package to rpm2cpio for the distcc compiler suite. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
