X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 12:33:31 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Perl 5.14.2 seems to expect gcc-4 From: Reini Urban To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Aaron Schneider wrote: > 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. Sure. But Yakoov explicitly wanted a perl independent from perl_vendor. Yakoov? -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- 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