Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps writes: > texinfo also depends on perl5_036. I was almost saying it doesn't need to, but it seems to come with it's own XS module that gets installed into a non-standard path (which is why I didn't pick it up before). It might still not really need it iff there is a PP fallback in the code, but that can't be properly recognized by setup until it can deal with recommendations (at all or preferrably of various strength).
> It is particularly problematic > because cygport and automake both depend on texinfo (indirectly in the > case of automake). But setup will balk at updating perl as long as > texinfo is installed, making it difficult to rebuild texinfo against > the new perl. Well, I'd be totally unable to do anything when cygport stopped working, so simply forcing the new Perl to get installed should suffice to bootstrap texinfo. I can do that for you if you want as I obviously already have the new Perl installed, the rebuild I attempted just said this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- … *** Info: Package hint files are prepared for a current release >>> texinfo requires: cygwin libgcc1 libiconv2 libintl8 libunistring5 perl >>> perl-Archive-Zip perl-File-ShareDir perl-Win32-API perl5_040 perl_base info >>> texinfo-tex requires: bash texlive-collection-basic gawk texinfo >>> texlive-collection-latex >>> info requires: cygwin dash libiconv2 libintl8 libncursesw10 >>> Testing texinfo-7.1-1.x86_64 … ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 87 # PASS: 87 # SKIP: 0 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ … ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 59 # PASS: 59 # SKIP: 0 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ … ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 19954 # PASS: 19954 # SKIP: 0 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ … ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 110 # PASS: 76 # SKIP: 34 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ … ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 9 # PASS: 5 # SKIP: 4 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ … ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 1 # PASS: 1 # SKIP: 0 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ … ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 1 # PASS: 1 # SKIP: 0 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ … ============================================================================ Testsuite summary for GNU Texinfo 7.1 ============================================================================ # TOTAL: 1 # PASS: 1 # SKIP: 0 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ============================================================================ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- If anybody else would like me to re-release their packages together with the Perl update, just let me know. If the build requirements aren't too outlandish I should be able to cope. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Samples for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#BlofeldSamplesExtra
