X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43A1D4BD.3090303@student.lu.se> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:40:29 +0100 From: Lennart Borgman User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Where is patch? References: <43A1A66B.9080704@student.lu.se> <43A1A895.A6231F0E@dessent.net> <43A1ACF2.80600@student.lu.se> <43A1D2C1.8D3CF8EA@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <43A1D2C1.8D3CF8EA@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 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/