Re: Problems with updating nearly any package meant for Cygwin or using packages such as libtool

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>]

On 11/15/2011 2:28 PM, viper_88 wrote:
> The avalanche of my problems has started when I wanted to install
> compat-libstdc++ 33-3.2.3. The installation failed due to the following
> dependencies errors:
>
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          /sbin/ldconfig is needed by compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5
>          libc.so.6 is needed by compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5
>          libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5
>          libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5
>          libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5
>          libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5
>          libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5
>          libgcc_s.so.1 is needed by compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5
>          libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0) is needed by compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5
>          libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.3) is needed by compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5
>          libgcc_s.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by
> compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5
>          libm.so.6 is needed by compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-55.fc5

Hm.  This looks to me like output of rpm or yum on a Linux system.  If
you're trying to install Linux binary RPMs onto Cygwin, you're in for a
world of hurt.  Cygwin != Linux.  You need to build from source on Cygwin.

-- 
Larry

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