Re: Circular dependency with mingw64-x86_64-runtime
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 10:46:35 +0000
- From: JonY <10walls@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Circular dependency with mingw64-x86_64-runtime
On 05/01/2018 11:33 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2018 13:44:45, JonY wrote: >> What is the actual problem you are facing? > > i already described it: when 2 things depend on each other in this > way, that is an error: > > http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_dependency > That is not a problem affecting Cygwin. > while setup.exe may account for this, it doesnt change the fact that > this is not correct. ideally one should depend on the other, and > *not* vice versa. in this case "gcc" should depend on "runtime", and > not the other way around. the fix is pretty simple; with > "mingw64-x86_64-runtime.cygport", change: > > REQUIRES="mingw64-x86_64-headers mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core" > > to > > REQUIRES="mingw64-x86_64-headers" > > compare this to "w32api-runtime.cygport": > > REQUIRES="w32api-headers" > Perhaps in the next rebuild.
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