X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 00:14:53 +0200 From: Aaron Schneider User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Perl 5.14.2 seems to expect gcc-4 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 01/08/2012 19:46, Reini Urban wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: >> Did Cygwin "setup.exe" prompt you to install the "gcc-4" package when you updated perl? >> >> I thought "setup.exe" would prompt the user if any additional packages needed to be installed. > > no. gcc-4, make and more are not automatically installed with perl. > you will only need when you compile your own XS packages with cpan. > > XML::LibXML is included in the new package perl_vendor > Since a lot of people are having issues because 'perl_vendor' is not installed when should, wouldn't be better to set perl_vendor as a mandatory dependency of perl so just everyone gets it installed? I guess package size won't be an issue. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple