Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

2004-02-10 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:01 PM 2/10/2004, Edward S. Peschko you wrote: >> > well, I need to know which ones to *build* first, and which order >> > to build them.. Like I said I want to do it with as few deps as possible, >> > if possible just g++ and make, and shell. >> >> I believe I mentioned this before, but anyw

Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

2004-02-10 Thread Edward S. Peschko
> > well, I need to know which ones to *build* first, and which order > > to build them.. Like I said I want to do it with as few deps as possible, > > if possible just g++ and make, and shell. > > I believe I mentioned this before, but anyway... Most maintainers put the > build requirements in t

Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

2004-02-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:26:38PM -0800, Edward S. Peschko wrote: >ok, I misread. 'cygrunsrv' for cygsrv, assumed 'cygwin' == cygwin, >mingw-runtime == mingw, etc. In order to do a 'simple inspection' I >would need to download these all. I thought it'd be simpler to ask. http://cygwin.com/pack

Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

2004-02-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Edward S. Peschko wrote: > > I also know that build-depends is a real headache for Red Hat package > > maintainers so I'm not in a hurry to foist that extra bookkeeping > > headache on cygwin maintainers. It's moderate effort for small > > gain given that there are other more

Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

2004-02-09 Thread Edward S. Peschko
> I also know that build-depends is a real headache for Red Hat package > maintainers so I'm not in a hurry to foist that extra bookkeeping > headache on cygwin maintainers. It's moderate effort for small > gain given that there are other more important things that could > be done with and to setu

Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

2004-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:41:59PM -0800, Edward S. Peschko wrote: >On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:04:21AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >or, if someone had a script which did a complete build of cygwin from >source, the dependencies would be listed there... Why would there be such a thing? Cygwin

Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

2004-02-09 Thread Edward S. Peschko
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:04:21AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:40:53PM -0800, Edward S. Peschko wrote: > >If possible, I'd like to avoid having to run across dependencies inside > >of configure files, hence I'm hoping that somewhere its documented > >(centrally or

Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

2004-02-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 16:04, Christopher Faylor wrote: > (And here is where Robert steps in to say that build-depends is actually > recognized by setup.exe's parser...) But is currently useless because their is no UI to say 'install the build dependencies'. But you knew that I expect ;). Rob --

Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

2004-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:40:53PM -0800, Edward S. Peschko wrote: >If possible, I'd like to avoid having to run across dependencies inside >of configure files, hence I'm hoping that somewhere its documented >(centrally or in someone's head) which packages are dependent on other >packages.. Larry'

Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

2004-02-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:40 PM 2/9/2004, Edward S. Peschko you wrote: >> >> >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.

Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

2004-02-09 Thread Edward S. Peschko
> > >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

Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

2004-02-09 Thread 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. Wa

cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

2004-02-09 Thread Edward S. Peschko
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? Dependencies like this are all over the place inside of setup.ini - where's an a