firefox 13.0,1 needs lang/gcc46 -- to RUN?!

[Doug Barton]

On 06/06/2012 12:18, Heino Tiedemann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> Why this ports needs his compiler to RUN?!
> 
> 
> firefox 13.0,1

It's very common for binaries built with gcc to link to libgcc, and/or
libstdc++:

ldd firefox-bin  | grep gcc
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/gcc46/libstdc++.so.6 (0x802b19000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/gcc46/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x8033a5000)

In an ideal world, we would have separate packages for the runtime libs
and the build tools so that packages could be more portable, but I would
imagine that would be a lot of work.

Doug

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