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Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:00:39 -0500
- Subject: Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)
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- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:16:37PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>>Fixed. By the way, does anyone know exactly what Devel packages are
>>required to build Cygwin? I used to just think "install everything"
>>but now there's a lot of new X or GNOME related stuff. I know I've got
>>more than I need installed, but I'm thinking that would be useful
>>information for the FAQ and/or a README in CVS.
>>
>> binutils
>> gcc
>> make
>> gettext-devel
>> ??
>
>I was actually a little curious about this, so I did a little
>experiment. I sequestered away my normal Cygwin installation and
>started with a fresh install. Aside from the default "base" packages
>that setup.exe intstalls out of the gate, I found that I only had to
>actually select three packages in setup: gcc, make, and perl. (and Perl
>was required only for gendef it seems.)
Well, that's it then.
This is all WAY too complicated.
How can we possibly expect people to do in-depth debugging of problems
in the DLL if we require them to have gcc, make, and perl on their
systems? We can't expect people to be *perl hackers* if they want to
build cygwin. Just the perl requirement alone would mean that they'd
waste months learning perl.
cgf