On 2025-07-22 12:38, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 2025-07-21 15:27, Matthew Sheets via Cygwin-apps wrote:
In troubleshooting issues using Cygwin within GitHub runners, one specific
problem scenario identified is when the Cygwin "git" package is installed.
When that happens, Cygwin's Git installation ends up being executed instead of
GitHub's installation of Git, which obviously doesn't have the same setup,
configuration, etc. as GitHub's own internal install of Git.
Usually, these issues can be avoided by simply not including the "git" package
among the list of packages to be installed along with Cygwin [1], but it
appears there are certain cases where Cygwin's "git" package is being pulled
in as a dependency by other Cygwin packages.
In particular, "gettext-devel" [2] (source package "gettext") is listing an
explicit dependency on Git, and I am unclear why. At least on the surface,
GNU Gettext itself does not appear to have any such dependencies [3], and
while the packages don't map one-to-one, Debian packages don't appear to have
such a dependency, either [4].
In reviewing the gettext.cygport file [5], "git" is explicitly listed as a
DEPEND (though I do see that use of DEPEND is deprecated [6]) and then again
as a PKG_REQUIRES [7] of gettext-devel [8]. It seems this listed dependency
on git is a result of this manual specification and not Cygport's auto-
detection of package dependencies.
Is this explicit listing of "git" as a dependency of "gettext-devel"
necessary? Can it be removed?
It appears to be used to access git-archive used by --with-git option to
compress some data formats, but I will have to check further to find out what
that entails exactly.
Looks like we can drop bz2 and git as the default xz is used anyway.
Another suggestion was that we should include building libtextstyle as recent
Fedora does.
Does anyone have any experience with libtextstyle and think Cygwin might have
any issues if that library is included?
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut
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