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Message-ID: <16928.11856.162565.878464@mithrandir.hornik.net>
Date: 2005-02-26T09:17:41Z
From: Kurt Hornik
Subject: SystemRequirements clarification
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.58.0502251548310.141363@odin.mdacc.tmc.edu>

>>>>> Paul Roebuck writes:

> Did google search and checked R-ext but found very little
> on this DESCRIPTION field. Does it document runtime dependency
> only? If I have some code that can only be used with a specific
> compiler (code makes use of GCC attributes), should I add
> 	SystemRequirements: GCC
> to the package's DESCRIPTION to document the build-only
> requirement.

That's what I would do.

-k