Problems with setup handling of gcc-core & gcc-testsuite
Brian Ford
ford@vss.fsi.com
Mon Dec 8 19:45:00 GMT 2003
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.
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