From: Hugh S. <hg...@dm...> - 2010-12-01 17:50:25
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I get the impression the installation should be solved, i.e. it should just work, but I'm finding that I don't get a copy of bash or tar no matter what I do. It doesn't appear in C:\MinGW or in C:\Msys\1.0. I'm on Windows XP, I have a working cygwin, but I need a working mingw as well for some other software which has it as a dependency. So I try to install msys-base again, to get a bash in there, or something: C:\MinGW\bin>mingw-get install msys-base Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/package-list.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-package-list.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-autoconf.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-automake.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-basic-bsdtar.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-binutils.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-bzip2.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-cygutils.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-expat.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-gcc3.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-gcc4.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-gdb.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-gendef.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-gettext.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-gmp.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-libarchive.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-libiconv.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-libtool.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-make.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-mingw-get.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-mingw-utils.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-mpc.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-mpfr.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-pdcurses.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-pexports.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-popt.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-pthreads-w32.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-runtime.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-xz.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-zlib.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-base.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw32-autotools.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-package-list.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-autoconf.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-autogen.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-automake.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-bash.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-binutils.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-bison.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-bzip2.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-console.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-core.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-coreutils.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-crypt.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-cvs.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-cygutils.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-dash.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-diffutils.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-expat.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-file.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-findutils.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-flex.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-gawk.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-gcc.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-gdbm.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-gettext.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-gmp.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-grep.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-groff.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-guile.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-gzip.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-inetutils.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-less.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-libarchive.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-libiconv.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-libtool.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-libxml2.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-lndir.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-lpr-enhanced.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-m4.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-make.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-man.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-minires.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-mintty.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-mktemp.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-openssh.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-openssl.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-patch.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-perl.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-popt.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-rebase.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-regex.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-rxvt.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-sed.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-tar.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-termcap.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-texinfo.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-unzip.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-vim.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-w32api.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-wget.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-xz.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-zip.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-zlib.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-base.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/mingw-developer-toolkit.xml Load catalogue: C:\MinGW\var/lib/mingw-get/data/msys-system-builder.xml no change: msysCORE-1.0.16-1-msys-1.0.16-lic.tar.lzma no change: msysCORE-1.0.16-1-msys-1.0.16-doc.tar.lzma no change: msysCORE-1.0.16-1-msys-1.0.16-bin.tar.lzma no change: termcap-0.20050421_1-2-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: libiconv-1.13.1-2-msys-1.0.13-dll-2.tar.lzma no change: libintl-0.17-2-msys-dll-8.tar.lzma no change: coreutils-5.97-3-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: libregex-1.20090805-2-msys-1.0.13-dll-1.tar.lzma no change: libtermcap-0.20050421_1-2-msys-1.0.13-dll-0.tar.lzma no change: less-436-2-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: grep-2.5.4-2-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: diffutils-2.8.7.20071206cvs-3-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: sed-4.2.1-2-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: gawk-3.1.7-2-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: libpopt-1.15-2-msys-1.0.13-dll-0.tar.lzma no change: zlib-1.2.3-2-msys-1.0.13-dll.tar.lzma no change: libmagic-5.04-1-msys-1.0.13-dll-1.tar.lzma no change: liblzma-4.999.9beta_20100401-1-msys-1.0.13-dll-1.tar.gz no change: xz-4.999.9beta_20100401-1-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.gz no change: texinfo-4.13a-2-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: tar-1.23-1-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: make-3.81-3-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: gzip-1.3.12-2-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: file-5.04-1-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: findutils-4.4.2-2-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: cygutils-dos2unix-1.3.4-4-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: msysCORE-1.0.16-1-msys-1.0.16-ext.tar.lzma no change: bzip2-1.0.5-2-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma no change: bash-3.1.17-4-msys-1.0.16-bin.tar.lzma install: msys-base-2010080900-msys-bin.meta C:\MinGW\bin> So what does that actually mean? Did it install the msys-bin-meta somwhere? Did it install the contents of the msys-bin-meta somewhere? None of my files get updated, I get no diagnostics to tell me they don't need updating. I don't mind that it isn't updating the tar files, that's OK, but I do want it to update the installation. I need to be able to run the usual ./configure && make && make check in a MinGW environment. I can only assume that I have missed something obvious, and it is not missing the GUI tool which I used. I ticked [checked] the mingw-base box on thee as well as the compilers I needed. Do I need to completely remove my Msys directory, dating from 2004? Thank you, Hugh |