cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

Tue Feb 10 04:00:00 GMT 2004

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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