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From: JonY <10walls@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Circular dependency with mingw64-x86_64-runtime
Date: Wed, 02 May 2018 10:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <234104cd-8a77-161d-7d56-4c270403acea@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ae8f950.1c69fb81.5f000.63ab@mx.google.com>


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On 05/01/2018 11:33 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2018 13:44:45, JonY wrote:
>> What is the actual problem you are facing?
> 
> i already described it: when 2 things depend on each other in this
> way, that is an error:
> 
> http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_dependency
> 

That is not a problem affecting Cygwin.

> while setup.exe may account for this, it doesnt change the fact that 
> this is not correct. ideally one should depend on the other, and
> *not* vice versa. in this case "gcc" should depend on "runtime", and
> not the other way around. the fix is pretty simple; with
> "mingw64-x86_64-runtime.cygport", change:
> 
> REQUIRES="mingw64-x86_64-headers mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core"
> 
> to
> 
> REQUIRES="mingw64-x86_64-headers"
> 
> compare this to "w32api-runtime.cygport":
> 
> REQUIRES="w32api-headers"
> 

Perhaps in the next rebuild.


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  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-02 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-30  2:16 Steven Penny
2018-05-01 13:45 ` JonY
2018-05-01 23:33   ` Steven Penny
2018-05-02 10:47     ` JonY [this message]
2018-05-02 13:31     ` Kaz Kylheku
2018-05-03 12:20     ` Andrey Repin
2018-05-02 15:22 ` Mikhail Usenko via cygwin
2018-05-02 15:26   ` Vince Rice
2018-05-02 15:55     ` Mikhail Usenko via cygwin
2018-05-02 16:18   ` Marco Atzeri

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