On Jul 16 10:04, Ken Brown wrote: > On 7/16/2013 8:58 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jul 16 11:37, Jon TURNEY wrote: > >>In x86, readline is the devel package, and so has source and binary tar > >>files. > >> > >>In x86_64, the packaging is different and a libreadline-devel package has > >>been > >>added, so readline is now source only, but has things which depend on it > >>(e.g. > >>gawk, gdb, python) becuase they haven't been updated for this change. > >> > >>It seems setup reports trying to install a package for which it knows no > >>versions with the helpful message "Incomplete download" :-) > > > >That's not nice of setup, but the dependencies to gcc are incorrect > >anyway. I figured that the culprit are three of my packages, namely > >gperf, openssh and psmisc, which all three depend on gcc for no apparent > >reason. I vaguely recall a discussion with Yaakov, months ago, that the > >gcc dependencies were created by a tiny bug in cygport. > > > >I fixed these wrong dependencies on sourceware. > > The dependencies on readline also need to be fixed. In addition to > the three that Jon mentioned, there's also rlwrap. My guess is that > all four dependencies should be removed (rather than replaced with > dependencies on libreadline-devel), since none of the packages > depend on readline in the x86 distro.
How did I miss that? THis is probably the same effect as for the gcc dependency since it's no coincidence that 3 of the 4 affected packages are mine. I fixed that for all of them, including the python package. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
