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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:10:22 -0500
From: "David A. Cobb" <Superbiskit AT cox DOT net>
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   "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT cox DOT net>
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To: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>,
   Cygwin General Discussion <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problems with setup handling of gcc-core & gcc-testsuite
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Brian Ford wrote:

>On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, David A. Cobb wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I couldn't find this in the archives, but the two packages gcc-core &
>>gcc-testsuite, which are distinguished by being source-only,
>>never get registered as "installed."  Setup has now re-installed them
>>about 6 times.  I know, I don't need to select them; however,
>>I figured there was some likelihood they weren't correctly installed the
>>previous time.
>>
>>    
>>
>They get selected automatically if one just chooses all->install as I
>usually do.
>
>It is an outstanding bug that has been reported several times in various
>guises.  See this thread for one of them:
>
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00536.html
>
>AFAIK, no one seems to care enough to fix it.
>
>  
>
Well, I read that.  It doesn't sound like the same thing.

The first time I saw it, I explicitly selected "Install" the gcc-core.  
However, it keeps showing up as something to be installed. 
It still shows with the "new or omitted" packages view.  
My hypothesis is that, because it is a source-only package, setup never 
records it in INSTALLED.DB (?).
Hey, I can probably edit the database myself - I'm pretty sure it's 
text.  But that wouldn't solve the perceived problem.

-- 
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!





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