Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <4048504C.1040109@yahoo.ca> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 05:02:52 -0500 From: "Daniel F. Dickinson" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Broken package selection for a full install Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes I installed cygwin (version 1.5.7) using setup.exe. I downloaded all the files locally, then cycled to "Install" rather than "Default" for selection "All". A large number of post-install scripts produced the error dialog "A required .DLL file CYGPCRE.DLL is missing" and "A required .DLL file CYGKPATHSEA-3.DLL is missing". A perusal of the mailing list in some recent messages gave me a clue: It seems that setup (or dependencies in a lot packages) are broken, and the libraries required are not always selected (in this case libpcre and libkapthsea3). I have fired up setup and opened up every branch, and discovered that there are actually quite a few packages that were not installed. Either cycling to "Install" in "All" is not what I thought (install everything), or setup is broken. Well setup is broken anyway because, it should, at a minimum, install all dependencies. Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel F. Dickinson: "Time does not die; the circle is not round." http://www.geocities.com/danielfdickinson/index.html http://www.indigo.ca : bookstore http://www.talkorigins.org : for origins of life archives -- 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/