X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46CE067B.8050401@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:13:15 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: mmroff is installed with a bad path to perl after installing groff References: <3d31600f0708231448y3e8bb6d4h7dfa07a33614415 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <3d31600f0708231448y3e8bb6d4h7dfa07a33614415@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Mike Burns wrote: > mmroff is a perl script that is installed along with groff. > > I'm not sure if cygwin setup is supposed to detect dependencies, but > it doesn't realize that perl is required. > > After installing perl, the path to the perl interpreter is incorrect > in the mmroff script. > > I'm also not sure if this is the responsibility of cygwin or groff > but the mmroff script tries to find perl in /usr/local/bin instead of > /usr/bin. That would be a packaging error. One might also say that the missing dependency is a packaging error but I think it also raises a more important question - does it make sense to have Perl pulled in by dependencies from the "Base" category of packages (i.e. those installed by default even if the user selects nothing else)? This is a rhetorical question though. It has been asked and answered before. The answer was "no". So it would seem that if 'mmroff' has a dependency on Perl and 'groff' will be pulled in as part of a base installation, 'mmroff' needs to be pulled out into its own package if Cygwin is going to continue to provide it. There may be other options as well, which the 'groff' maintainer is free to explore. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/