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Re: setup.hints which mention Base in their category


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Ok, I cleaned up all of the above.

Thanks.

As a further optimization, we should move:

libncurses5
libncurses6 
libreadline4

to category _obsolete because they are not used by anything. 
libreadline5 is almost-but-not-quite obsolete, it is still in use by
only:

SWI-Prolog
units

It looks like we can also clean up references to the ancient unversioned
'libintl' package.  There are only three packages that call for this
package:

grep
xorg-x11-bin
xorg-x11-bin-dlls

All three contain the strange combination of both libintl and libintl1
in the "requires", which looks wrong.  I checked every binary under
/usr/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin and none of them depend on the unversioned
cygintl.dll.  So, libintl can be moved to _obsolete too, and the three
"requires" above need to be edited to reflect the proper versioned
library name.

grep's dependencies are especially broken:

$ cygcheck grep | grep -i intl
  C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-3.dll

requires: bash cygwin libintl1 libpcre0 libintl libiconv2
_update-info-dir

>  Let the Cygwin ML whines begin.

Just to confirm I tested the newly edited setup.ini on a fresh install
and it worked fine, pulling in only the necessary libs for things in
Base.

Brian


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