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FW: setup: how to handle circular dependencies?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:26:07 +0100
- Subject: FW: setup: how to handle circular dependencies?
----Original Message----
>From: Dave Korn
>Sent: 16 September 2005 14:23
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> ----Original Message----
>> From: Gerrit P. Haase
>> Sent: 16 September 2005 14:14
>
>> Hi Setup maintainers,
>>
>> I need some circular dependencies, i.e. gcc-core requires gcc-core-mingw
>> because -mno-cygwin will not work without the mingw version of the gcc
>> runtime. However, the gcc-core-mingw package only includes the runtime
>> which needs gcc-core to be useful.
>
>> Maybe I should include the mingw gcc runtimes in the main gcc packages?
>
>
> I can't see the use in having them separate if gcc-core-mingw is really
> no use whatsoever on its own. Perhaps someone else can think of a
> reason?
cheers,
DaveK
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