Keith Marshall to Anton Shepelev: > > mingw-get: *** ERROR *** libgomp-4.8.1-4-mingw32-dll-1.tar: invalid manifest; no references > > It's been over 6 years since I last used Windows in > earnest, but IIRC this indicates that you have a local > installation manifest which still records > libgomp-4.8.1-4-mingw32-dll-1 as being installed; that's > an artefact of Earnie's ancient, and critically broken > GCC-4.8.1 release, which you should have gotten rid of, > long ago. > > There is no longer any reference for this broken release, > in the distribution catalogue, (which causes this error, > IIRC; although a back-reference is supposed to be > automatically regenerated, I seem to recall that failure > to do so is a known mingw-get defect; you may need to > manually reinstate a suitable reference, in your local > copy of the mingw32-gcc4.xml catalogue, or manually purge > the manifest reference, to work around this). I am not conversant in the architecture of the MinGW package manager. Is it documented? What is a manifest reference and where is it stored? Anyway, the sstream errors are fixed now, and I can build that project. Thank you very much for help, Keith.
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