From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 22 08:33:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD949106564A for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 08:33:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3308FC16 for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 08:33:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from sarevok.dnr.servegame.org (mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EEFC7E837; Fri, 22 May 2009 00:33:00 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, yuri@rawbw.com Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 10:32:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.2.3; i386; ; ) References: <4A15EB1D.2070604@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <4A15EB1D.2070604@rawbw.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905221032.58601.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Subject: Re: Why so many ports have run-dependencies on non-system gcc versions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 08:33:02 -0000 On Friday 22 May 2009 02:00:29 Yuri wrote: > When I tried to delete gcc-4.3.4_20090517 I got this message: > pkg_delete: package 'gcc-4.3.4_20090517' is required by these other > packages and may not be deinstalled: > blas-1.0_3 > cgnslib-2.5.3_1 > fftw3-3.2 > fftw3-float-3.2_1 > fr-med-2.3.5 > getdp-1.2.1_7 > gmsh-2.3.1 > lapack-3.2.1 > libofa-0.9.3_3 > libsamplerate-0.1.7_1 > octave-3.0.5_1 > suitesparse-3.3.0 Probably only fftw3 requires gcc43 and the rest comes from needing fftw3. As others said, it's not just building, it will need runtime libraries and in the case of fftw3, fortran support. -- Mel