Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Matthew O. Persico" To: , Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 00:31:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030509021903.GB8100@redhat.com> Message-ID: <2003590313.051761@mopxp> Subject: Re: Wanted X, got Perl - operator error or prequisiste Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h494VFB16390 On Thu, 8 May 2003 22:19:03 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:10:55PM -0400, Matthew O. Persico wrote: >>Subject says it all. > >http://cygwin.com/problems.html > >says it all, too. > The following searches were performed on the email archives XFree and perl - 45 hits XFree and require - 120 XFree and requirements - 17 XFree and prerequisites - 17 A scan of the subjects and a number of the email bodies led me to message msg01159.html, which concerned how to create a package for installation using the setup.exe program including setup.hints. I made a quick detour to a shareware site to grab a .bz2 reader to see if I could find those files in the bz2 packages on my disk. I could not find them. However, I did check the setup.ini file. perl is listed as a dependency of only autoconf_devel/stable automake_devel/stable dpkg enscript rpm tetex-bin However, none of the packages whose category was XFree86 listed perl or any of the above mentioned programs as a dependency. A find / -name \*.pl revealed (among other things) /usr/X11R6/bin/bdftruncate.pl /usr/X11R6/bin/ucs2any.pl /usr/X11R6/sbin/fvwm/2.4.7/FvwmConsoleC.pl /usr/X11R6/share/fvwm/fvwm-script-ComExample.pl /usr/X11R6/share/fvwm/fvwm-script-setup95.pl Since these are perl scripts in the X11R6 tree, I have to assume that perl is a requirement. However, that assumption doesn't quite jibe with the fact that I couldn't find an explicit requirement anywhere in setup files. AFTER doing all that research, I felt I still did not have a definitive answer and therefore, I asked the question "Is perl a prerequisite of XFree". Next time I post a question, I will post the research done. I will also in the future post XFree questions to the cygwin-xfree list, not the main cygwin list. Thank you -- Matthew O. Persico -- 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/