X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:55:30 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: L DOT Wood AT surrey DOT ac DOT uk Subject: Re: Geomview & Cygwin setup Message-ID: <20060428195530.GA29343@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, L DOT Wood AT surrey DOT ac DOT uk References: <7 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 20060428165427 DOT 059e7e88 AT surrey DOT ac DOT uk> <000401c66ae3$0d4c6a30$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <7 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 20060428202008 DOT 059c9cc8 AT surrey DOT ac DOT uk> <44526D90 DOT 2B04B48C AT dessent DOT net> <44526F62 DOT 8030305 AT cygwin DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44526F62.8030305@cygwin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:39:14PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >Brian Dessent wrote: >>Lloyd Wood wrote: >> >>>If you don't install any of the gcc-mingw- upgrade stuff (devel tab >>>in Cygwin), you only want ONE compiler. >> >>It's not possible to install one without the other, at least not without >>overriding setup.exe's wishes, because gcc-core includes gcc-mingw-core >>on the "requries" line, and similarly for all the other modules. This >>means if you select one the other will be added automatically. > >And, implied by Brian's response but is worthwhile to state explicitly, >if you choose to override setup.exe's defaults here, it's assumed that >you know what you're doing (i.e. what the consequences are, etc.) But >then you're creating a custom installation of Cygwin and such installs >are not supported by this list. That means you're on your own if you >run into problems. I don't know if this situation applies to Lloyd's >case or not. But I thought it prudent to tie up any perceived loophole >here. :-) Let me state something else, too. We're not going to be changing Cygwin's gcc. I haven't seen anything in this thread to support the notion that gcc is doing anything wrong. I will admit, however, to being biased by the fact that the initial message in this discussion was rather insulting even if it was arguably intended to be "humorous". So, that means that "Geomview" will either have to use what we provide or decide not to support Cygwin. Given this statement of fact, further complaints about how things work or offering of opinions about how things should work would be fruitless. So, I would appreciate it if this thread would now die or move to cygwin-talk. Gerald Williams has already valiantly tried to do this once. Let's follow his example. cygwin-talk AT cygwin PERIOD com cgf -- 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/