circular build dependency

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #290496 http://bugs.debian.org/290496

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #290496 http://bugs.debian.org/290496

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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:56:18 +0100
From: Max Kellermann <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: circular build dependency

Package: mcs
Version: 1.0.4-1
Severity: serious

mcs build-depends on mono-utils, which in turn depends on
mono-assemblies-base. mono-assemblies-base is a binary package
provided by mcs itself.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

There is nothing that disallows circular build-dependencies when necessary.
Bootstrapping a programming language is one of the cases where it's commonly
necessary.

--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:50:12 -0800
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: circular build dependency

There is nothing that disallows circular build-dependencies when necessary.
Bootstrapping a programming language is one of the cases where it's commonly
necessary.

--=20
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Closed as invalid upstream