Description of problem: In FC6 (relative to FC5), binutils was split into binutils and binutils-devel. However, binutils-devel is no longer part of the default install, even when development packages are selected. (It doesn't appear at all in comps.xml.) The binutils headers are needed when compiling a decent number of programs, so it seems like they should be part of a development install -- i.e., be a default package in the development-libs group in comps.xml. I suspect this package is needed to compile many debugging / profiling tools. I know it's needed for jprof (a profiler that's part of Mozilla). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): binutils-2.17.50.0.3-6 binutils-devel-2.17.50.0.3-6 This is a regression relative to FC5, where these headers/libraries were part of the binutils package.
took this by accident
I've fixed this in our comps file, and will hopefully remember it if we make a 'Developer' spin of Fedora 7.