On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:29:19AM -0400, Johnny Lam wrote:
> joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:19:51AM +0000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> >>We had briefly discussed simply excluding all files in share/examples
> >>from CHECK_INTERPRETER checks by making the appropriate variable
> >>definitions in check-interpreter.mk.  Should we just go ahead and do
> >>that?
> >
> >Agreed. I'd also add share/doc to that list.
> >
> >Does CHECK_INTERPRETER distinguish between runtime and build time
> >dependencies?
> 
> I don't understand this question in this context.  CHECK_INTERPRETER 
> inspects the set of installed files visible to all users for missing 
> interpreters, so why are build-time dependencies involved here?

CHECK_INTERPRETER should complain if a file in bin/ has an interpreter
which is only a build dependency. When installing the package from a
binary package or removing leaf dependencies, the file becomes
non-executable.

Joerg