Re: Cygwin playbook?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Date

Sep 7, 2006, 08:07 UTC

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"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> Sorry to ask this... Are you sure? Vanilla base setup with no extra
> packages getting gcc and various -dev packages? Perhaps there is a
> 'developer' profile during install that gets you a reasonable kit?

What I meant was "readily available", not "installed by default". 

> About 5 minutes ago I managed to get limited access (non-root, cannot
> install packages) to a cygwin env using rdesktop. It did have gcc and
> make, but make bombed out with a missing libcurl and openssl header
> files. IIRC, diff3/merge isn't in the base install either.

It is in rcs as usual ;-).

> In debian I can look at apt-cache show git-core to get a quick
> overview of dependencies but here I'm lost :(