On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Aaron Schneider wrote: > On 01/08/2012 19:46, Reini Urban wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: >>> >>> 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 >> > > Since a lot of people are having issues because 'perl_vendor' is not > installed when should, wouldn't be better to set perl_vendor as a mandatory > dependency of perl so just everyone gets it installed? I guess package size > won't be an issue.
Sure. But Yakoov explicitly wanted a perl independent from perl_vendor. Yakoov? -- 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
