On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, David A. Cobb wrote:Well, I read that. It doesn't sound like the same thing.
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.
The first time I saw it, I explicitly selected "Install" the gcc-core. However, it keeps showing up as something to be installed. It still shows with the "new or omitted" packages view. My hypothesis is that, because it is a source-only package, setup never records it in INSTALLED.DB (?).
Hey, I can probably edit the database myself - I'm pretty sure it's text. But that wouldn't solve the perceived problem.
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