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Re: cygcheck
Sorry about that. Tell me if this is better.
Yes I could tell Cygwin under cygcheck -s was retrieving more information
then was in the download. I did have it set to full.
So I don't know what more I could have gotten.
The result was as I showed. So you think some of the items
I mentioned as Not Found should have been found choosing Full
in the Setup? Hmmm....
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George Hester
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"Igor Pechtchanski" <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote in message Pine.GSO.4.56.0402281123081.19703@slinky.cs.nyu.edu">news:Pine.GSO.4.56.0402281123081.19703@slinky.cs.nyu.edu...
> George,
>
> Please instruct your mailer to wrap long lines, otherwise it's very hard
> to read the messages in the archives. Thanks. More below.
>
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, George Hester wrote:
>
> > I've installed the latest cygwin. That seemed to go OK in Windows 2000
> > Server SP3.
> >
> > I started cygwin from the desktop icon made during the install process.
> >
> > I ran cygcheck -s
> >
> > I find there are a few things "not found."
> >
> > 1) cpp (good!)
> > 2) gcc
> > 3) gdb
> > 4) ld
> >
> > What are these? Why is cpp "Not found" "(good)"? What does that mean?
> >
> > I downloaded and installed all the options so why are some things "Not
> > found"? Can I "find" them somewhere? Should I "find" them? Thanks.
>
> The cygcheck program in its "-s" mode (system information) was designed to
> cram as much useful information about your Cygwin installation as possible
> into its output, to help others in diagnosing and/or reproducing your
> problems (and, hopefully, eventually fixing them).
>
> The "installed programs" part of the output attempts to list some common
> programs that people usually ask about. This helps in situations where
> some other version of gcc hides the Cygwin version, for example, and
> people complain that gcc doesn't work. The fact that the programs are or
> aren't found on your system shouldn't bother you unless you need to use
> one of them. All four of the programs that you listed are development
> tools to let you build and debug programs.
>
> Frankly, I have no idea why "cpp not found" is "(good!)". Perhaps it used
> to be that the gcc package hid cpp in its special directory, and you
> weren't supposed to invoke it directly, but rather by passing an option to
> gcc. AFAICS, the current package ships with that program, so perhaps that
> note is outdated and should be removed.
>
> Since these programs are in the official Cygwin packages, you, apparently,
> haven't installed everything (which is what I read your "all the options"
> to mean). If you want to see exactly what you've installed and what's
> available, run setup.exe and switch the view to "Full" (using the button
> on the top right of the package selection page). You will see information
> about all the packages in the distribution. I can't really tell you more
> about your system, since you haven't attached the output of "cygcheck
> -svr" as requested in <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
>
> As for whether you *should* "find" them, that's entirely up to you. If
> you don't know what "gcc" is, likely you won't need it. If you install a
> package that requires it, hopefully that package will either pull it in or
> complain the first time it tries to use it, at which point you'll know you
> need to install it (and will be able to find it on the Cygwin package
> search page at <http://cygwin.com/packages/>). Until then, don't bother.
>
> HTH,
> Igor
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