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Re: Problems with setup handling of gcc-core & gcc-testsuite
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit at cox dot net>, Cygwin General Discussion <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:25:24 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: Problems with setup handling of gcc-core & gcc-testsuite
- References: <3FD20E5D.60109@cox.net>
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.
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