X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.6 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: <874noldv5a.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <874noldv5a.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 21:42:28 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Perl 5.14.2 seems to expect gcc-4 From: Nikolai Weibull To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q72JgkWC020202 On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Aaron Schneider writes: >> 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. > No, please don't — I have compiled my own perl packages and need > perl_vendor to stay out of the way. If anything this would be a hint > that hiding packages in perl_vendor, while helping to keep the number of > packages down, doesn't help people finding what they need. I agree on the not hiding packages in perl_vendor part. Once I realized that I was missing XML::LibXML, I checked whether it was available and, finding that it for some reason wasn’t (anymore, I thought, as I had used it previously with Perl 5.10), went the cpan route, which led me down the rabbit’s hole. It’s impossible to know what the perl_vendor package contains unless you actually install it. Split it up, make XML::LibXML available as a separate package and add its dependencies. -- 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