Bogus pthreads dependencies for GCC?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Folks,

I'm trying to tidy up the mingw-get package specifications for GCC-4+.  
Throughout the XML "requires" specifications for the "gcc-core" package, 
(specifically for its "bin" component), I'm seeing references to the 
development headers and libraries for pthreads-win32.  Why?  I can 
understand why each "libgomp-dll" component package release must specify 
dependencies for the specific pthreads-win32 DLL, against which it may 
have been linked, but why on earth are the associated pthreads-win32 
development headers and static libraries required to run GCC?

Am I missing something?

- -- 
Regards,
Keith.

Public key available from keys.gnupg.net
Key fingerprint: C19E C018 1547 DE50 E1D4 8F53 C0AD 36C6 347E 5A3F
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux)
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=2HtG
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot