cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

[Larry Hall]

At 10:20 PM 2/9/2004, Edward S. Peschko you wrote:
>I was looking at setup.ini, and found the following entries:
>
>@ cygwin
>
>requires: libintl2 _update-info-dir base-passwd
>
>and then...
>
>@ libintl2
>
>requires: cygwin libiconv2
>
>hunh? what's going on? which comes first? 


The chicken.  Wait no, the egg.  Ah, well no, I think it's the chicken...


>Dependencies like this are all over the place inside of setup.ini - where's an 
>accurate representation of what needs to get compiled first?  How do you compile 
>from scratch?


These are package installation dependencies.  If you're trying to build
the Cygwin DLL, visit <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html> for info.  If you're
trying to build some other package, its configure script will tell you
the libraries it depends on.  You can then go looking in 
<http://cygwin.com/packages/> to find the packages you need to install 
if you don't already have them.



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