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Re: PING MAINTAINERS of ccache, distcc, ocaml: [was Re: [1.7] gcc-3.4.4-3 gets reinstalled every time I run setup]
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:47:27 -0400
- Subject: Re: PING MAINTAINERS of ccache, distcc, ocaml: [was Re: [1.7] gcc-3.4.4-3 gets reinstalled every time I run setup]
- References: <neoem4dof23c6p7hjfpb27qg5tk3hrhq51@4ax.com> <49676AD4.4070309@byu.net> <49D13F96.4060701@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:54:30PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Eric Blake wrote:
>>According to Andrew Schulman on 1/9/2009 7:42 AM:
>>>Subject says it all. setup sees the package as new, and reinstalls it,
>>>every time.
>>>
>>>Is this a known problem? I didn't see any other reports of it. Is
>>>there a simple fix or workaround?
>>
>>The package is a source-only package, but something else you have
>>selected depends on it. Because it is source-only, setup.exe has
>>nothing to install when doing the default binary-only installation; and
>>even if you do install source, setup.exe doesn't recognize that a
>>source-only package has been installed.
>
>In the meantime, I think that ocaml, ccache and distcc should remove
>gcc from their setup.hint lines, and perhaps replace it by gcc-core.
I've made the change but I wonder if I should just remove ccache from
the distro. I have never heard that anyone is using it.
cgf