X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:30:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Joel Rubin cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Missing dependency (Attn: links, w3m maintainers) (Was Re: ossl 0.9.7 is still needed by some apps) In-Reply-To: <886l039vet5t1o555mg14a39eer5k86hrn@entropy.org> Message-ID: References: <886l039vet5t1o555mg14a39eer5k86hrn@entropy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Joel Rubin wrote: > I decided to clean up my cygwin setup and got rid of some things and > reinstalled stuff. I found out that the current versions of two of the > text-only browsers, links and w3m, won't run unless you have openssl097 > which is, unless you uncheck the hide box, invisible in setup. > > Doing a Google search, I see that this has been a problem in the past > with other packages. Yes, this is a missing dependency issue. Since openssl is now pointing to a new version, and these packages have not been recompiled, they need to put openssl097 into their list of dependencies instead. Thanks for the report. I'm cc'ing the cygwin-apps list, where such issues are usually discussed. Package maintainers, please note. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- 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/