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Subject: RE: Recently installed cygwin - cannot install gcc
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:59:25 +0100
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Reini Urban wrote on 13 May 2008 18:34:

> 2008/5/13 David Ziants <dziants AT 013>:
>> Installed cygwin under Windows XP prof, and the basic environment works.
>> I cannot do gcc nor can I find reference to the compiler under any of
>> the bin directories. 
>> 
>> 
>>  Have run the setup a second time (as advised by documentation) and also
>> tried reinstalling from a different mirror. Explicitly tried to
>> install/reinstall the "develop" package where gcc is supposed to be
>> installable from.
> 
> install gcc-core and not gcc.

  If you're going to do that, you will have to manually install the C++
packages that gcc would pull in that gcc-core doesn't: "gcc-g++
gcc-mingw-g++".  (Assuming you want C++, of course, but most folks do....)

> gcc has an invalid tar for me also.

  Setup.exe version numbers involved?  There have been some issues there
lately to do with how we define an "empty" tarball[*], but:

/artimi/software/firmware $ wget
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/cygwin/release/gcc/gcc-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2
--18:50:43--  http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/cygwin/release/gcc/gcc-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2
           => `gcc-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2'
Resolving ftp.heanet.ie... 193.1.193.64
Connecting to ftp.heanet.ie|193.1.193.64|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 46 [application/x-tar]

100%[====================================>] 46            --.--K/s

18:50:43 (485.02 KB/s) - `gcc-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2' saved [46/46]

@_______. .
(       /"\
 ||--||(___)
 '"  '"'---'
/artimi/software/firmware $ tar tvfj gcc-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2  && echo OK
OK
@_______. .
(       /"\
 ||--||(___)
 '"  '"'---'
/artimi/software/firmware $

    cheers,
      DaveK

[*] - See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-05/msg00055.html and
subsequent thread for info.
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