Re: [tlug] printer setup and config problem

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

I see you solved your printer problem.  But this is hideous, and
should probably be reported to Debian as a dependency bug.

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com> writes:

    Charles> When I got to # ./configure, I found out that I was
    Charles> lacking the necessary compiler, so I apt-got gcc. Running
    Charles> it again, I got

    Charles> configure:2024: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
    Charles> /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory

You don't have libc-dev (whatever Debian calls it, probably glibc-dev).

This is a dependency bug, as libc provides the libraries defined by
the C standard, and therefore any "generic" C program (ie, just about
anything except the kernel) is going to depend on glibc.

This is something that every single binary distro gets wrong.  (If
Gentoo provides binary packages, I still don't consider it a binary
distro.)  Header files constitute measurable overhead, it's true, but
there's just no excuse for failing to provide them on an open source
system.

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