I found the following nits with the current setup.exe:
1. setup.exe no longer responds to Windows messages during postinstall.
I noticed this because one of my postinstall scripts did a
SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, ...) which caused a deadlock situation.
I changed to PostMessage() to workaround
The Ghostscript package has been updated to include support for the
libpng and zlib shared libraries, as suggested by Chuck Wilson. In
addition, the package also now has a new setup.hint file included.
This release of Ghostscript is an X-less version, i.e. doesn't
require the cygwin-xfree
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Brian Genisio wrote:
You could always redirect the log file to /dev/null ...
But this can only be done by patching the binary. Replace /tmp/XWin.log
/dev/null\0log (the \0 marks the character with ascii code 0.
bye
ago
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
Why couldn't this be done by putting several
/dev/null in startxwin ?
Because you can't configure where the logfile is opened. The log is not
written to stdout or stderr but to a file opened via fopen(/tmp/XWin.log)
I have some test binaries for
Modifying the code to put the log in /dev/null certainly doesn't seem like an
attractive solution. If I were to go that far, I would rather just search for where
the particular message is output that is causing the problem and disable it.
Do others not have this problem? The only unique
You could always do
rm /tmp/XWin.log
ln -s /dev/null /tmp/XWin.log
That should work and dump to /dev/null.
Alan.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:11:03 -0700, Cary Jamison wrote:
Modifying the code to put the log in /dev/null certainly doesn't seem like an
attractive solution. If I were to go
Cary,
What is the purpose of this message (winCursorOffScreen () -
hmm...)? It seems pretty useless.
The message is mostly useless. The message was put there as sort of a
heads up in case someone every reported seeing the message... then we
would know that we need to implement the function.
From: Harold Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:17 PM
What is the purpose of this message (winCursorOffScreen () -
hmm...)? It seems pretty useless.
The message is mostly useless. The message was put there as sort of a
heads up in case someone
Well, I was wrong. I thought I was getting tons of
winCursorOffScreen () - hmm...
messages in my log file, when actually the culprit is
winShadowUpdateDDNL () - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2
The thing is my log was so big I could not tail or more it. I was using head and
The library has been provided by Harold Hunt who reports that this is a
packaging problem.
--Robert
- Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Red Hat, Inc.
+ Copyright 1998-2002 Red Hat, Inc.
A quick note about changing Copyright years like this... don't do it! The
two are *not* equivalent.
See http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_8.html on the GNU website for more
information, but basically if a
Chris January [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Red Hat, Inc.
+ Copyright 1998-2002 Red Hat, Inc.
A quick note about changing Copyright years like this... don't do it! The
two are *not* equivalent.
No, but need they be? The silly comma separated list will get
Chris January [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since when have common sense and the law gone together.
Hmm, that's a good point. I think there was some logic to what I
said, but that may well be irrelevant.
I would point out that the GCC team have recently changed all their
copyrights from the
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:59:45PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
Well, except that that loop does away with the whole point--eating the
trailing '$'. Here's another go. I tested it with $Revision$,
$Revision:$, $Revision: $ , $Revision: 1.22 $ , and $Revision: 1.2 2 $
(in the unlikely
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
-z, --version output version information and exit
I used -z since -v is --verbose. It could also have no character
option if that would be better.
Why not -V?
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:39:47PM -, Chris January wrote:
1) The copyrights still need to be changed.
Done.
2) The code formatting still is not correct.
Now piped through indent with a few touch-ups.
3) You have a lot of calls to normalize_posix_path. Is that really
necessary? It
Hello,
I have the following problem, or misunderstandig(!) of TZ variable in
cygwin1.dll.
Problem (and my current solution)
When I do not set TZ to a valid value, all times will be showed as GMT (or
UTC) time.
The automatic generated TZ variable in localtime.cc will generate a name
from
--- Warren Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
-z, --version output version information and exit
I used -z since -v is --verbose. It could also have no character
option if that would be better.
Why not -V?
No no no. Makes much too much sense.
--- Warren Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
-z, --version output version information and exit
I used -z since -v is --verbose. It could also have no character
option if that would be better.
Why not -V?
No no no. Makes much too much sense.
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's no need for a loop. There really shouldn't be any need to
accommodate the missing colon but it doesn't hurt too much to add a test
case.
I've checked in a modified version of your patch. I cleaned up some of
the non-GNU formatting,
1) The copyrights still need to be changed.
Done.
2) The code formatting still is not correct.
Now piped through indent with a few touch-ups.
3) You have a lot of calls to normalize_posix_path. Is that really
necessary? It seems to be called a lot. If it is really necessary,
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:39:47PM -, Chris January wrote:
1) The copyrights still need to be changed.
Done.
2) The code formatting still is not correct.
Now piped through indent with a few touch-ups.
3) You have a lot of calls to normalize_posix_path. Is that really
necessary?
Hello Gerrit,
Is it possible, that you had cygrunsrv.exe running at the same time
you were updating your installation ?
Wednesday, February 27, 2002, 8:58:25 AM, you wrote:
GC Hello,
GC When I tried to upgrade to cygrunsrv-0.95-1 this morning I got the
GC following error (probably because
Hallo Gerrit,
Am 2002-02-27 um 08:58 schriebst du:
When I tried to upgrade to cygrunsrv-0.95-1 this morning I got the
following error (probably because cygrunsrvis being used to launch inetd).
Any pratical solution for this ?
[snip]
Uninstalling old cygrunsrv^M
unlink
Hmm. What is the original to the RE:. Am I missing something ?
Is it worth kowing the full thread ?
Kristof Doffing
Lufthansa Systems
Airline Services GmbH, FRA AS/N
FAC, Hugo-Eckener-Ring A.8.02
60549 Frankfurt/Main
Tel.: +49 69 / 696 92630
Fax : +49 69 / 696 92062
-Ursprüngliche
Yes,
Thnx for thw swift replies,
I stopped the cron service and inetd service and performed the upograde again.
Thnx again !
Gerrit.
At 09:50 27/02/2002 +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
Hello Gerrit,
Is it possible, that you had cygrunsrv.exe running at the same time
you were updating your
From: Jon Cast [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:33:11 -0600
CygEmacs will have UNIX APIs for I/O (files and
sockets), and M$Windows APIs for the display and the keyboard. This
is already done (partly) by the Cygwin port of rxvt.
I used to agree with you, but the more I
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From: Paul McFerrin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 4:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Error: init_cygheapetc_changed: Can't open /etc
for checking, Win32 error 50
Folks:
I checked the archives for this error and I've
I have updated cygrunsrv to version 0.95-1.
It adds a --desc option to allow adding a description text
and small changes to the /usr/doc/Cygwin/cygrunsrv.README file.
To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe
Title: Untitled Document
MAGICA
Hi,
It seems that one constructor of the std::string class or the data() method
doesn't work properly.
string::data() and string::c_str() are supposed to be equivalent but don't
always behave the same.
have a look at the following code and its test.
?
Thanks,
Gwenaël
PS: I update
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Karin E. Hacker wrote:
This is because Microsoft introduced the concept of the CLR, or common
language runtime. What that means is two of the languages offered by
Microsoft, VB.Net and C#, both share the same runtime.
- http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-842922.html
Dose
This is my 1st post on the mailing list so don't shout at me if it all goes
wrong !!
I just want to know I can open a .html or .doc file etc from within my C
programme from an option screen where the user types for example H for help
which will then launch my help.htm page.
I want to do this in
when /usr/bin is converted by cygpath -w -p it doubles the number of
backslashes produced
$ cygpath -w -p /usr/bin:/bin
G:\\bin;G:\bin
Not sure if this is a desirable side-effect.
$ mount
G:\\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
G:\\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
c:\tmp on /tmp type
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:23:11PM +, Don Sharp wrote:
when /usr/bin is converted by cygpath -w -p it doubles the number of
backslashes produced
$ cygpath -w -p /usr/bin:/bin
G:\\bin;G:\bin
Not sure if this is a desirable side-effect.
$ mount
G:\\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
$ mount
G:\\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
G:\\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
From this it seems that is a setup.exe issue: you probably installed in
G:\ and it didn't strip last backslach...
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As far as I know, without a /dev/lpt of some sort it won't work with
Cygwin for parallel printers. I hope you can get a net card!
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote:
I've been trying to install Bakkens LPRng port. I can't print to a printer
attached to the parallel port of my
Lapo Luchini wrote:
$ mount
G:\\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
G:\\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
From this it seems that is a setup.exe issue: you probably installed in
G:\ and it didn't strip last backslach...
Lapo has the right of it
TVM
Cheers
Don Sharp
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I am seeing strange behaviour when using dos paths in a gnu make vpath
directive.
The makefile I am using to test this funny is as follows:
---
vpath %.out c:/make_test/out
#vpath %.out /cygdrive/c/make_test/out
#VPATH
Please do not send cygwin related email to me privately. Keep it on the
list.
Tandon, Abhinav wrote:
Hi Chuck
Thanks a lot, I managed to find
ipc.h and msg.h,but still searching
for lock.h.
Could u help me out again.
No, I have no idea what or where lock.h is.
--Chuck
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Seems to be a cygwin feature that the environment will be uppercased, when
called by a none cygwin program.
When puting a variable gar=1 into the environment and call a program
compiled with gcc and cygwin, the result, when printing the environment,
will be
GAR=1
ups, gar != GAR, especially in
Hi,
I'm very familiar with Linux and new to Cywin, but one of my first
priorities is to mobe around the Bash shell. The only really pressing matter
is how to move to the folders under WXP: C:\Documents and settings
I can move to C:\Work or C:\tmp but anything with spaces it balks at. Since
I
Take a look at the source code for Rick Rankin's version of lpr. It is
in the cygutils-0.9.9 package.
--Chuck
Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote:
I've been trying to install Bakkens LPRng port. I can't print to a printer
attached to the parallel port of my system. There was some discussion on
Hi,
Eugene Rosenzweig wrote:
Hmm, it worked for me. I assume out of the documentation that tar will spawn
gzip -d filename and pipe it into itself. So, if 13 is the system error from
tar, which is EACCES, permission denied so maybe there is a problem
accessing the file? The listing shows
I can move to C:\Work or C:\tmp but anything with spaces it balks at. Since
I can't change XP's default, is there a way to get Bash to accept the
space?
cd dir with spaces
-Richard Campbell.
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:56:28 +0100, Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm very familiar with Linux and new to Cywin, but one of my first
priorities is to mobe around the Bash shell. The only really pressing matter
is how to move to the folders under WXP: C:\Documents and settings
I
The gdbm package has been updated to version 1.8.0-4. It is based on
the official GNU Database Manager distribution from the FSF,
gdbm-1.8.0.tar.gz. gdbm is a prerequisite for the cvs package. This
new release has been available as a test release for over a week; given
no complaints, I am
Bash on Cygwin works exactly as Bash on GNU/Linux. If you are very
familiar with Linux, you should know that you have several options.
Thanks all for the help. The few that knocked me for putting in the very
familiar are right. It's just been a while since I was on Linux and it's
amazing how
From: Jonathan Gift [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Subject: Help changing dir with spaces...
I'm very familiar with Linux and new to Cywin, but one of my first
priorities is to mobe around the Bash shell. The only really pressing
matter
is how to move to the folders under WXP: C:\Documents and
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:19:42 +0100, Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, just how cool is Cygwin? First I heard of it was just a short time ago.
Really like having a great shell again?
Cygwin is cool! I'm using it for more than 2 years and it made
my life much easier on M$Windows
At 02:06 PM 2/27/2002, Ehud Karni wrote:
Ehud.
P.S. I saw Larry's email, but I couldn't resist myself.
The more the merrier! ;-)
It's actually worthwhile to have someone enumerate all the possible options
like you did. You're to be commended for your lack of restraint. ;-)
Larry Hall
Is there a utility available that will convert cygwin paths to dos paths and
visa-versa? On the archives I saw that the cygwin dll has functions that do
that, but does there exist a standalone app that will do this?
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It looks to me as though cygwin does not completely close files
it opens in shared folders. The bug could also be in Samba, Linux or
me, but my evidence convinces me the problem is, at least, in cygwin.
There are lots of workarounds, so I am reporting this as a good citizen and
not because I
Hello All,
I want to know, whether ksh is available on cygwin. I am not able to find
ksh. Is it called by some different name in cygwin ?
Thanks
Sanjay
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The Ghostscript package has been updated to include support for the
libpng and zlib shared libraries, as suggested by Chuck Wilson. In
addition, the package also now
How about checking the online User's Guide:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html
Or to go straight to your answer:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#CYGPATH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of Chris Stephens
From: Ehud Karni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:19:42 +0100, Jonathan Gift
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, just how cool is Cygwin? First I heard of it was just
a short time ago.
Really like having a great shell again?
Cygwin is cool! I'm using it for more than
I'm a long-time ksh guy - but I have found bash to be a very workable
substitute. It starts up in an emacs editing mode - if you prefer vi -
do a set -o vi.
Andy
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From: Sanjay Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday,
I'm attempting to build gcc-2.8.1 cross compiler using the following
configuration..
[why such an old compiler?]
This is the suggested version from Sony to program for the IO Processor of
the Playstation 2. Maybe newer versions would be ok, but this is the one
suggested.
Sanjay,
I want to know, whether ksh is available on cygwin. I am not able to find
ksh. Is it called by some different name in cygwin ?
ksh93 for Cygwin will be available soon. The official downloadable source
for ksh in its current state won't compile on Cygwin OOTB.
I am waiting for an
Thanks for information.
I have some Oracle monitoring scripts that have been written for Unix
platforms using ksh. I have one database which is running on NT. I was
trying to port those scripts for cygwin. Since ksh is not available for now,
what I have done is just copy bash.exe to ksh.exe. In
I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities
available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below.
To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Then, run
Has there been any attempt to convert apt-get for Cygwin? That would really
help a lot and would make the setup obsolete.
- URS C. MUFF
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From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:49:07PM -0700, urs muff wrote:
Has there been any attempt to convert apt-get for Cygwin? That would really
help a lot and would make the setup obsolete.
Absolutely not. Ridiculous notion.
cgf
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- Use QueryPerformance* functions for gettimeofday calls. (cgf)
Gh, you did it, no need to send that assignment then 0=)
(but well, there could also be some other idea to implement in the future...)
- Implement socket read/write using recv/send. (corinna)
Wasn't this already in? I actually
I've setup cron on nt40 using cygwin 1.3.9.
Cron setup as a service no problem, using ntsec, made my passwd group files.
I created the crontab while using the id that I wanted the process to
inherit from.
Cron is scheduled to run a perl script every 10 minutes (and it does).
I checked the uid
Hi,
Is there any where I can download cygintl.dll???
lynx and vim keeps asking for this dll file, but I really have no idea
where I can get that. I've reinstalled the current gettext, but it's not
helping.
I've also tried to find solution through search engines,
but couldn't find any solution
Why, I am getting the following error when creating cronjobs.
$ crontab -e
no crontab for Administrator - using an empty one
crontab: installing new crontab
crontab: error renaming tabs/tmp.000107 to tabs/Administrator
rename: Permission denied
crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.107
Sanjay
FWIW, there's a true Cygwin port of XEmacs available now (as well as a
Windows-native port). See http://www.xemacs.org
Jon Cast wrote:
You wrote:
I think that we need a CygEmacs - an emacs that will be compiled
with the real Cygwin ported gcc (i.e. without the
-mno-cygwin).
I
[Matthew Smith, textutils maintainer, please read]
Fun! Two practically identical messages posted within minutes of each
other. Goodie! I get to reuse my reply text! (BUT -- this message
belongs on cygwin, not cygwin-developers. Reply and Reply-To adjusted.)
By searching for
By searching for 'cygintl.dll' on the following page:
http://www.cygwin.com/packages/
I discover that the DLL is found in the following package:
libintl/libintl-0.10.38-3 (e.g. the 'libintl' package)
Stangely enough, the setup.ini entry for lynx and for vim both specify
that it depends on
David Rothenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW, there's a true Cygwin port of XEmacs available now (as well as
a Windows-native port). See http://www.xemacs.org
FWIW, I'm a GNU fanatic who wouldn't touch XEmacs with a ten-foot
pole :)
Seriously, this kind of message is one (although by
There's a memory leak, but I can't work out what is causing it. None of the
processes in Task Manager own up to it, so does that mean it's the OS?
I have been able to reproduce this leak using the scripts included below.
mkfiles creates 1000 files. rmfiles removes those 1000 files. Executing
Jon Cast wrote:
FWIW, I'm a GNU fanatic who wouldn't touch XEmacs with a ten-foot
pole :)
smiley notwithstanding, that doesn't seem all that amusing to me
XEmacs is of course GPL'd, and I'd direct anyone who might wonder
about the source of misguided comments such as the above to:
Hi
Is it possible to get the default terminal emulator to interact with the
mouse the way xterm under UNIX or rxvt under UNIX or Cygwin do, i.e. is it
possible to select text, paste with the middle key, etc.?
Thanks
Alec
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Hi
Under UNIX, I can do xlsfonts to see what fonts are available and then use
those while launching rxvt with the -fn option. Is there any way to find
out which fonts are available to Cygwin rxvt?
Thanks
Alec
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When I run rxvt with rxvt -e bash, and then launch vim, backspace doesn't
work in the command mode, and both backspace and the arrow keys print funny
characters in the input mode instead of moving the cursor or deleting
characters. Is this a bug? Can it be fixed. Is there a work-around?
In your command line for rxvt try
rxvt --backspacekey ^H -e bash
which might help.
Fergus
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