X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.4 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: References: Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:46:19 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Perl 5.14.2 seems to expect gcc-4 From: Reini Urban To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: "cygwin AT sourceware DOT org" , Nikolai Weibull Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q71Hkch9024858 On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Nikolai Weibull wrote: >> > >> > Cygwin updated perl to 5.14.2 on my system and now I can’t compile >> > XML::LibXML. It seems that >> > >> > c:\lib\perl5\5.14\i686-cygwin-threads-64int\Config.pm >> > >> > expects cc to be gcc-4. Gcc-4 doesn’t exist yet, it seems. What’s >> > going on here? >> >> Sorry, scratch that, gcc-4 is available. I got confused by the separate >> version schemes (which I realize are necessary, but easy to miss when >> you’re a bit stressed out.) > > Did Cygwin "setup.exe" prompt you to install the "gcc-4" package when you updated perl? > > I thought "setup.exe" would prompt the user if any additional packages needed to be installed. no. gcc-4, make and more are not automatically installed with perl. you will only need when you compile your own XS packages with cpan. XML::LibXML is included in the new package perl_vendor -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- 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