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Brian Dessent 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. > > Thanks for the good explanation. >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. > > I believe I did that without opening anything in the selection tree first, but I am not totally sure. Is it necessary to open a node in the tree for the process to continue? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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