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[Mingw-users] Error message while installing gcc 6.3.0

[David G. <DGr...@am...>]

I did a fresh install of MinGW on a Windows 7 computer.

I started by selecting everything in Basic Setup.

When I installed, I got a message box when the installer got to Fortran:

"Internal specification error. Can't get 'tarname' for non-release element <<unknown>>
Please report this to the package maintainer"

It doesn't seen to indicate a real problem. Once I had
finished selecting additional things to install and installed them, removing blockers
as documented in the instructions,  Fortran was installed

Re: [Mingw-users] Error message while installing gcc 6.3.0

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

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On 24/07/17 18:07, David Gressett wrote:
> I did a fresh install of MinGW on a Windows 7 computer.
> I started by selecting everything in Basic Setup.

Thanks for testing it!

> When I installed, I got a message box when the installer got to
> Fortran:
> 
> "Internal specification error. Can't get 'tarname' for non-release
> element <<unknown>> Please report this to the package maintainer"
> 
> It doesn't seen to indicate a real problem.

It isn't, but it appears disturbing, (with dependency tracing):

$ mingw-get install --trace=0x0200 gcc-fortran 2>&1 | tee 20170724.log
...
gcc-fortran-4.8.2-mingw32-dev.tar.meta: resolve dependencies
 require: libgfortran-4.8.2-mingw32-dll-3.tar
  considering: libgfortran-6.3.0-1-mingw32-dll-3.tar.xz
  considering: libgfortran-5.3.0-3-mingw32-dll-3.tar.xz
  considering: libgfortran-5.3.0-2-mingw32-dll-3.tar.xz
  considering: libgfortran-4.9.3-1-mingw32-dll-3.tar.xz
  considering: libgfortran-4.8.1-4-mingw32-dll-3.tar.lzma
  considering: libgfortran-4.8.1-3-mingw32-dll-3.tar.lzma
  considering: libgfortran-4.8.1-2-mingw32-dll-3.tar.lzma
  considering: libgfortran-4.8.1-1-mingw32-dll-3.tar.lzma
  considering: libgfortran-4.7.2-1-mingw32-dll-3.tar.lzma
  considering: libgfortran-4.7.0-1-mingw32-dll-3.tar.lzma
  considering: libgfortran-4.6.2-1-mingw32-dll-3.tar.lzma
  considering: libgfortran-4.6.1-2-mingw32-dll-3.tar.lzma
  considering: libgfortran-4.5.2-1-mingw32-dll-3.tar.lzma
  <<<unknown>>>: schedule installation (flags=0x00000242)
mingw-get.exe: *** ERROR *** internal package specification error
mingw-get.exe: *** ERROR *** can't get 'tarname' for non-release element <<<unknown>>>
mingw-get.exe: *** ERROR *** please report this to the package maintainer
mingw-get.exe: *** ERROR *** gcc-fortran-4.8.2-mingw32-dev.tar.meta: requires...
mingw-get.exe: *** ERROR *** libgfortran-%-mingw32-dll-3.tar: unresolved dependency (type 'eq')
mingw-get.exe: *** ERROR *** libgfortran-%-mingw32-dll-3.tar: cannot identify any providing package
mingw-get.exe: *** ERROR *** please report this to the package maintainer

> Once I had finished selecting additional things to install and
> installed them, removing blockers as documented in the instructions,
> Fortran was installed

It is a bogus dependency, arising from the gymnastics involved in the 
attempt to circumvent the legacy of gcc-4.8.1 package malformations.  
Note the version of libgfortran, for which mingw-get was attempting to 
identify a provider; the correct dependency was resolved earlier, and 
is subsequently installed.  Nonetheless, the bogus dependency is a bug, 
so I will follow it up.

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Regards,
Keith.

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Re: [Mingw-users] Error message while installing gcc 6.3.0

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

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On 24/07/17 20:54, Keith Marshall via MinGW-users wrote:
> Nonetheless, the bogus dependency is a bug, so I will follow it up.

Should be fixed now:
https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/mingw-dist/ci/e705fdbb23f97f7c27994b85c8b2b0c9f5d8af86/

Please verify.

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Keith.

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Re: [Mingw-users] Error message while installing gcc 6.3.0

[David G. <DGr...@am...>]

Keith Marshall  wrote:

>On 24/07/17 20:54, Keith Marshall via MinGW-users wrote:
>> Nonetheless, the bogus dependency is a bug, so I will follow it up.

>Should be fixed now:
>https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/mingw-dist/ci/e705fdbb23f97f7c27994b85c8b2b0c9f5d8af86/

>Please verify.

Fixed.