* Jonathan Wakely:
On 08/02/19 19:56 -0600, Patrick Diehl wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I maintain the hpx package and it uses std:atomic and when I install
>gcc-c++ it seems that libatomic is not a dependency of the gcc-c++
>package. My program fails, because it can not link against libatomic. Is
>this the supposed behavior to install libatomic or should libatomic
>become one of the dependencies of gcc-c++?
Not all C++ programs need libatomic. If hpx needs it, I think you
should require it explicitly.
Not all C++ programs need libstdc++ or librt. Yet both are available by
default.
What's the benefit of not installing libatomic as a dependency of
gcc-c++?
Thanks,
Florian