Re: why does libatomic need gcc15?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 02:29:07PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> writes:
>> 
>> > I am starting pkg_rr for a number of pkg builders, and on n10-i386 I see
>> > libatomic wants gcc15.  That seems aggressively high, and not
>> > particularly aligned with any base gcc.  There's no comment in the
>> > Makefile about why this version is chosen.
>> >
>> > Perhaps, after the download finishes (it's "only" 100 MB), the build
>> > will not take so long, and this is not worth worrying about.   But I am
>> > surprised by this.
>> 
>> Indeed, it did not take all that long to build, so it's not a big deal.
>
> Are you sure it's pulling in gcc15 as a dependency? libatomic
> uses the gcc15 distfile, because it's part of gcc, but doesn't
> build the full compiler.

You are correct.  It downloaded the gcc15 distfile, but did not build
all of gcc15.