On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, David A. Cobb wrote: > Brian Ford wrote: > >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. > > > Well, I read that. It doesn't sound like the same thing. > Ok. How `bout this guise?
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-11/msg00008.html > 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. > I think you are correct, and I think the usual way to fix this is with a dummy, empty binary package as discussed above. I don't think there was an outcome, though. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
