On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:13:20AM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote: > It look like there is a cross dependence, the build of tcsh failed with the > following message: > > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7250: /usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.7250 (pbuild) > > So tcsh is needed to build perl and perl is needed to build tcsh :-( One of the reasons why I believe that the major Linux distributions are fundamentally flawed - their build process doesn't account for such dependencies. Point for BSD. The escape from this circular dependency is to build those packages manually which may require cheating in the configure and build process a bit. Or install them from a binary package (which may require --nodeps and --force to install). General rule therefore should be to only do such distribution package builds on systems which have a maximum installation. Ralf
