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Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 11:56:50 -0500
From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@happy.cs.twsu.edu>
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To: jgoerzen@happy.cs.twsu.edu, submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: dpkg: Hidden dependency on gcc

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.7

Displays:
dpkg (subprocess): failed to exec C compiler `gcc': No such file or directory
dpkg: subprocess gcc --print-libgcc-file-name returned error exit status 2

I don't have gcc and don't want to have to have it on this system.  There is
no reason that dpkg should require it.

The above message was displayed when I selected "update".

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.2
Kernel Version: Linux happy 2.0.25 #1 Fri Feb 28 16:49:31 CST 1997 i386

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
libc5	Version: 5.4.20-1
ncurses3.0	Version: 1.9.9e-1