Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/12/15/15:32:14
Lennart Borgman wrote:
> I am not sure I understand what you mean. What is the "requires" line?
It is in the setup.ini file (which is generated from the individual
setup.hint files), which are not directly seen by the user but parsed by
setup.exe.
> Where is it? Should binutils have been dowloaded automatically when I
> downloaded gcc-core?
Yes, whenever you select a package for installation it should also
select for installation all packages that that package requires.
> When I look under Devel in setup.exe the binaries for binutils are
> checked but without any download date. "which as" says "as" is not
> found. Can you tell me what I should have done? Did I do something wrong
> or is there perhaps a bug? Could it perhaps be because the downloader
> stalled? (Maybe because of slow download here.)
Ah, that might explain it. Setup is not all that great about error
recovery. Fortunately you can work around this by just running it again
if anything abnormal happens. Every time you run setup it will first
add any packages that are not installed but listed as a requirement by
packages that are installed. So if you just run it, and don't select
anything, then you should get any missing dependencies downloaded and
installed.
Brian
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