Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

["Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On 2014-01-13 13:21, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> lftp also has this problem.  It comes with a few sample scripts, two of which
> are in Perl.  I include the sample scripts because why not, but cygport is now
> quite diligent about finding this sort of thing, with the result that its
> automatically-generated setup.hint now says that lftp depends on Perl.  Which is
> annoying.

If they are just examples, you could install them as docs instead, as 
script dependencies under docdir are ignored; in the case of lftp:

cyginstall lib_LTLIBRARIES= pkgdatadir=\$(docdir)/examples

> lftp isn't part of base of course.  I guess my point is just that when the only
> option for dependency is "Requires", and Requires is determined automatically,
> dependency lists are going to tend to grow.  It certainly seems to me that my
> setup runs are pulling in a lot of extra required packages these days, that I
> have no idea what they're for.

While there have been a few false positives, IMO cygport setup.hint 
generation has made for much more accurate dependencies overall, and the 
additional deps it finds really *should* have been there all along. 
That being said, please let us know if there are any specific dependency 
issues that you see.


Yaakov


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