Fw: help win winxp install

Wed Jan 10 02:40:00 GMT 2007

> Sam The Cat wrote:
>>>>>>> According to Morgan Gangwere on 1/9/2007 11:14 AM:
>>>> this outlines my point exactly. we need to give _all_ of the mirrors
>>>> not a _48_ hour but at max a _24_ hour.
>>>>>> You need more convincing arguments if you want the current mirror policy
>>> to change.
>>>>>>> and _all_ the mirrors should
>>>> have the same packages.
>>>>>> They do. In order to be a non-stale mirror on cygwin's setup.exe list,
>>> the mirror must provide everything that cygwin.com provides, updated to
>>> within the last 48 hours.
>>>>>>> this goes back to having _libintl8_ but not
>>>> being able to get the _libintl3_ packages.
>>>>>> libintl8 and libintl3 are two different packages, but both are available
>>>> That might be true now -- but it was not true last friday eve. Two 
>> complete downloads from two different mirrors (no I no longer remeber 
>> which) did not yeld 'libint3'
>>> Well you must have caught them cleaning house since libintl3 has been 
> around
> for years. You can check the announcements list to see when various 
> packages
> were added and updated.
>>>>> on all current cygwin mirrors. libintl3 is obsolete. New code should 
>>> not
>>> be using it.
>>>> Thats interesting -- the package I had problmes with was 'gcc' 
>> specifically the first pass parser 'cc1'. Unless things have changed it 
>> would seem to me that the flagship compiler would not be considered 'old 
>> code'
>>>>> It's not old code but gcc is a long time package. Looks like it 
> incorrectly
> picked up cygintl-3.dll for cc1.exe the last time it was built. But 
> looking
> at the setup.hint files, it correctly says that it depends on it. So if 
> you
> were installing gcc, you would get the libintl3 package if it existed on 
> the
> mirror you chose.
>> I do notice, however, that gcc has a dependency on cygintl-8.dll but 
> doesn't
> show the dependency in the setup.hint file. Dave, can you review this and
> see if the setup.hint files need to be updated?
>
Thanks -- I was hoping that someone with more wherewithall would look into 
this
Cheers
Eric
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