On 11/02/19 12:14 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
* 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.
True.
What's the benefit of not installing libatomic as a dependency of
gcc-c++?
None that I know of. It would mean that certain things Just Workâ˘.