Re: Please try new setup exe's

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jul 16 14:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 16 11:37, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> > On 16/07/2013 03:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 09:49:12PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
> > >> On 7/15/2013 8:20 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:05:53PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >>>> I'd appreciate it if people could try the two new setup.exe's
> > >>>> installed at http://cygwin.com/
> > >>>>
> > >>>> http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe for 32-bit
> > >>>> http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe for 64-bit
> > >>>>
> > >>>> The setup.ini's for both are updated using a similar schedule to the
> > >>>> "official and soon to be deleted" version which uses
> > >>>> /var/ftp/pub/cygwin/release.  The -x86* versions of these programs
> > >>>> use the release directories from the arch specific locations.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> The setup.ini's used by these two new programs are not
> > >>>> backwards-compatible with old setup.exe.
> > >>>
> > >>> Just to be clear, these new setup.exe's should not do anything untoward
> > >>> to your existing installation.  They should *just work*.
> > >>
> > >> setup-x86_64.exe behaves differently from setup64.exe with respect to 
> > >> source-only packages.  (I don't know which one is "right".)  This is 
> > >> showing up for me because the 64-bit versions of gcc and readline are 
> > >> source-only packages that are (incorrectly?) required by other packages. 
> > >>  setup64.exe seems to ignore these requirements, whereas 
> > >> setup-x86_64.exe wants to install the packages but then reports 
> > >> "Incomplete download".
> > > 
> > > Thanks for trying this.  I doubt that is anything that I introduced.
> > > 
> > > Do you see the same behavior from setup-x86.exe?
> > 
> > In x86, readline is the devel package, and so has source and binary tar files.
> > 
> > In x86_64, the packaging is different and a libreadline-devel package has been
> > added, so readline is now source only, but has things which depend on it (e.g.
> > gawk, gdb, python) becuase they haven't been updated for this change.
> > 
> > It seems setup reports trying to install a package for which it knows no
> > versions with the helpful message "Incomplete download" :-)
> 
> That's not nice of setup, but the dependencies to gcc are incorrect
> anyway.  I figured that the culprit are three of my packages, namely
> gperf, openssh and psmisc, which all three depend on gcc for no apparent
> reason.  I vaguely recall a discussion with Yaakov, months ago, that the
> gcc dependencies were created by a tiny bug in cygport.
> 
> I fixed these wrong dependencies on sourceware.
> 
> Just checking if the latest cygport still produces these spurious gcc
> deps...

...apparently not.  I just built openssh again, and the gcc dep has not
been added to the generated setup.hint.


Corinna

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