RE: mssing packages for cygwin

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 01 October 2006 03:43, Tom Lee wrote:
>
> >> According to Tom Lee on 9/29/2006 10:23 PM:
>
> >>> when I copy cpp.exe and all cygwin related dll to another computer,
> >>> I got the error: cpp: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1': No
> >>> such file or directory
> >>
> >> Are you SURE you copied all things cygwin related?
> >
> > Just checked if I just want to run cpp and copy
> > C:/cygwin/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/cc1.exe over, it works fine.
>
>   Nope, it's still broken.  You didn't copy over the fixed includes, you
> didn't copy over libgcc, you left out loads of stuff.  It's really
> difficult to copy applications from one machine to another like this and
> not miss anything out.

One thing that might work is

cygcheck -l gcc-core gcc-g++ | tar -T - -czf gcc_files.tgz

then copy gcc_files.tgz to the other machine and untar it.

>   Instead, copy setup.exe and the entire downloaded local package
> directory (where setup.exe stored the downloaded files) to the new
> machine, run setup.exe and tell it to "install from local directory",
> using the copied package dir.  That'll set up a complete and correct
> cygwin installation on the new machine with all the same packages as the
> old one.

You'd have to tell setup to install everything -- otherwise you'll just
get a default set of packages.
	Igor
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