Sorry about that. Tell me if this is better. Yes I could tell Cygwin under cygcheck -s was retrieving more information then was in the download. I did have it set to full. So I don't know what more I could have gotten. The result was as I showed. So you think some of the items I mentioned as Not Found should have been found choosing Full in the Setup? Hmmm....
-- George Hester __________________________________ "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > George, > > Please instruct your mailer to wrap long lines, otherwise it's very hard > to read the messages in the archives. Thanks. More below. > > On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, George Hester wrote: > > > I've installed the latest cygwin. That seemed to go OK in Windows 2000 > > Server SP3. > > > > I started cygwin from the desktop icon made during the install process. > > > > I ran cygcheck -s > > > > I find there are a few things "not found." > > > > 1) cpp (good!) > > 2) gcc > > 3) gdb > > 4) ld > > > > What are these? Why is cpp "Not found" "(good)"? What does that mean? > > > > I downloaded and installed all the options so why are some things "Not > > found"? Can I "find" them somewhere? Should I "find" them? Thanks. > > The cygcheck program in its "-s" mode (system information) was designed to > cram as much useful information about your Cygwin installation as possible > into its output, to help others in diagnosing and/or reproducing your > problems (and, hopefully, eventually fixing them). > > The "installed programs" part of the output attempts to list some common > programs that people usually ask about. This helps in situations where > some other version of gcc hides the Cygwin version, for example, and > people complain that gcc doesn't work. The fact that the programs are or > aren't found on your system shouldn't bother you unless you need to use > one of them. All four of the programs that you listed are development > tools to let you build and debug programs. > > Frankly, I have no idea why "cpp not found" is "(good!)". Perhaps it used > to be that the gcc package hid cpp in its special directory, and you > weren't supposed to invoke it directly, but rather by passing an option to > gcc. AFAICS, the current package ships with that program, so perhaps that > note is outdated and should be removed. > > Since these programs are in the official Cygwin packages, you, apparently, > haven't installed everything (which is what I read your "all the options" > to mean). If you want to see exactly what you've installed and what's > available, run setup.exe and switch the view to "Full" (using the button > on the top right of the package selection page). You will see information > about all the packages in the distribution. I can't really tell you more > about your system, since you haven't attached the output of "cygcheck > -svr" as requested in <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>. > > As for whether you *should* "find" them, that's entirely up to you. If > you don't know what "gcc" is, likely you won't need it. If you install a > package that requires it, hopefully that package will either pull it in or > complain the first time it tries to use it, at which point you'll know you > need to install it (and will be able to find it on the Cygwin package > search page at <http://cygwin.com/packages/>). Until then, don't bother. > > HTH, > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route > to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/