Subject: gcc and binutils

From: [email-masked] (Bernd Eckenfels)
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 17:12:02 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi,

ist it possile that on a fresh new install gcc is installed before binutils
is installed, and therefore fail to configure? If I run configure afterwards
everything is fine. Will dpkg install a package first if it sees that other
ones depend on it?

Greetings
Bernd
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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 96 23:31 BST

> everything is fine. Will dpkg install a package first if it sees that other

Err, I don't quite understand the question.  The answer to your first
sentence is `no, it shouldn't be possible'.

See the draft programmers' manual for details of exactly how things
happen.

Ian.