[Bug 774215] Re: include/asm missing - change "Suggest" to "Depends" on gcc-multilib

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 06:15:51PM -0000, D wrote:
> I'm not sure what happened here exactly. But the missing asm dir breaks
> a lot of builds for me, e.g. ufraw for my own system as well. And my
> thought was also that I need to get just build-essential....

You do only need build-essential.  If you are using the standard Ubuntu
gcc, it will find headers in this subdirectory without any problems.  The
only problems arise when you use either

 - a non-Ubuntu compiler which doesn't know about multiarch paths
 - a build system that inspects the filesystem directly, bypassing the
   compiler's built-in include path.

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Title:
  include/asm missing - change "Suggest" to "Depends" on gcc-multilib

Status in “gcc-defaults” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After upgrade to Natty my system was suddenly missing the
  /usr/include/asm symlink.  The responsibility for setting this up had
  been moved to gcc-multilib, which was not a direct dependency of gcc
  (or build-essential for that matter), only "Suggest".

  I'd like to suggest that it becomes a direct dependency of either the
  gcc package or build-essential.

  Thanks for an otherwise awesome distribution!
  Best regards
   /Troglobit

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: gcc 4:4.5.2-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Apr 30 17:37:03 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1
   LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gcc-defaults
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-16 (44 days ago)