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 Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:26:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Dave Korn cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: setup: how to handle circular dependencies? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >From: Gerrit P. Haase > >Sent: 16 September 2005 14:14 > > > Hi Setup maintainers, > > > > I need some circular dependencies, i.e. gcc-core requires > > gcc-core-mingw because -mno-cygwin will not work without the mingw > > version of the gcc runtime. However, the gcc-core-mingw package only > > includes the runtime which needs gcc-core to be useful. > > > Maybe I should include the mingw gcc runtimes in the main gcc > > packages? > > I can't see the use in having them separate if gcc-core-mingw is > really no use whatsoever on its own. Perhaps someone else can think of > a reason? The only use I can see is later on, if setup allows optional dependencies, someone may be able to save disk space by omitting gcc-core-mingw (and other gcc-mingw packages) if they never plan to use -mno-cygwin. At the moment, having a circular dependency is the same as having the two in the same package -- both will be installed (unless the user goes to great pains to unselect one). What I would suggest, however, is placing a stub in the main gcc package that would produce a meaningful error on -mno-cygwin if *-mingw packages aren't present, thus making gcc-core independent of gcc-core-mingw. If gcc-core-mingw is that exact stub, then by all means fold it into gcc-core. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/