[Ready for test/1.5.0] tiff

2003-07-22 Thread Charles Wilson
tiff-3.6.0-3 libtiff4-3.6.0-3 libtiff-devel-3.6.0-3 This is NOT to be confused with today's non-test release of tiff-3.6.0-2, libtiff3-3.6.0-2, and libtiff-devel-3.6.0-2. The new, curr: release has 'cygtiff3.dll' while the new test: release has cygtiff4.dll. BTW, maintainers: note that this

ATTN maintainers: tetex, emacs, WindowMaker

2003-07-22 Thread Charles Wilson
I have recently split the tiff package into three: tiff libtiff3 (post-1.5.0, libtiff4) libtiff-devel I have taken the liberty of updating the setup.hint files on the server for the following packages: tetex/tetex-bin XFree86/WindowMaker emacs/emacs-X11/ so that they now require:

RE: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

2003-07-22 Thread Morrison, John
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Throwing an exception would indicate a problem actually, if you want to get all by-the-book about it. I'm with Gary here, I'd prefer see an exception thrown for a problem. Unless there's some issues with using exceptions that I don't know about... (which, given

Re: [curr:] guile-1.6.4-1

2003-07-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lilypond also depends on tetex, and tetex is still waiting for tiff and XFree. I'm moving as fast as I can, here...but a warning about tiff. You are being fast indeed. It was not my intention to press you, sorry if I did. tiff depends on jpeg.

Re: [SetupXP] Issue list

2003-07-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Gary, Here is a partial list of issues from your mega-patch. I still bristle at the mega ;-). 43K including the bulk of res.rc ain't even *close* to mega ;-). It it if you think about in terms of number of separate concepts included, instead of byte size :-) *

Re: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

2003-07-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: I'm still letting you guys fight this out, but I'm going to snipe from the sidelines ;-): ... I once again leave you two to fight it out while I get some actual code written. That's not particularly helpful, Gary. Anyway, as per what I said in what I snipped above, I

Re: Review required for whitespace changes?

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:29:45PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: May I apply whitespace changes which are in keeping with the style of surrounding code and the rest of setup without explicit review? Do we have an obvious checkin rule for setup? This is obviously obvious. Are such things supposed to

Re: Waiting for xfree86? [Was: guile-1.6.4-1]

2003-07-22 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 15:54:29 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 08:17:44PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why are we waiting for these libraries? Do they export variables or functions which rely on new 64 bit types? I

Re: joe-2.8 - a new package for review

2003-07-22 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
* Fri 2003-07-04 Gerrit Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.cygwin-apps * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jari schrieb: Project http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/joe.html has been ported. Please review. I personally like joe because it includes 'jmacs', a joe Emacs keybinding emulation. The

Re: Pending package status (11 Jul 2003) [libgc6, chase, dyndns]

2003-07-22 Thread Jari Aalto+list.cygwin-apps
* Fri 2003-07-11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.cygwin-apps * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ cygbuild date : 12 Jun 2003 version: 2003.0612-1 status : not reviewed notes : http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00104.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00105.html

Re: 1.5.0 Test packages status (issue 2)

2003-07-22 Thread William A. Hoffman
What should package maintainers be doing about this? I maintain the cmake package, and although I am subscribed to this list, I rarely follow it closely. I post updates to cmake, but that is about it. However, I just noticed this thread. Should package maintainers being building stuff for

Re: Pending package status (11 Jul 2003)

2003-07-22 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.linux
* Fri 2003-07-11 Nicholas Wourms [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.cygwin-apps * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:34:38PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: @ cygbuild date : 12 Jun 2003 version: 2003.0612-1 status : not reviewed notes :

Re: Waiting for xfree86? [Was: guile-1.6.4-1]

2003-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:25:51PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: I compile the program stuff.exe that depends upon the non-rebuilt dll foo.dll. No interfaces between stuff.exe and foo.dll were changed in 1.5.0, but foo.dll calls lseek. Now, when lseek in foo.dll is resolved at link time with the

Re: Pending package status (11 Jul 2003) [libgc6, chase, dyndns]

2003-07-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Jari Aalto+list.cygwin-apps wrote: * Fri 2003-07-11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.cygwin-apps * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ cygbuild date : 12 Jun 2003 version: 2003.0612-1 status : not reviewed notes : http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg00104.html

Re: Pending package status (11 Jul 2003)

2003-07-22 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.linux
* Fri 2003-07-11 Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.cygwin-apps * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicholas Wourms wrote: Right. Sorry. Just the using cygbuild (as apposed to gbs) is allowed. While technically this is true, I really can't see the difference between the two. For

Re: Review required for whitespace changes?

2003-07-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:29:45PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: May I apply whitespace changes which are in keeping with the style of surrounding code and the rest of setup without explicit review? Do we have an obvious checkin rule for setup? No, not yet. This is the

Re: Corinna Vinschen vinschen at redhat dot com

2003-07-22 Thread Brian Ford
Oops! I swiped the wrong line for the subject. It should have obviously been Re: Waiting for xfree86? [Was: guile-1.6.4-1]. Sorry! -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444

Re: Corinna Vinschen vinschen at redhat dot com

2003-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:59:34PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: Just one last clarification. If stuff.exe also calls lseek, it will get lseek64 at link time, and foo.dll will still use lseek. So, they each operate seperately, but happily, be it in their respective 64 or 32 bit world? Yes. But

Re: Pending package status (11 Jul 2003) [libgc6, chase, dyndns]

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:24:14PM +0300, Jari Aalto+list.cygwin-apps wrote: * Fri 2003-07-11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.cygwin-apps * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ cygbuild date : 12 Jun 2003 version: 2003.0612-1 status : not reviewed notes :

Re: [curr:] guile-1.6.4-1

2003-07-22 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # Strictly, guile does not depend on readline and curses, but if you # want the guile executable, you probably want readline editing. -- jcn requires: cygwin libguile12 libncurses6 libreadline5 ^^^

[setup PATCH] Obsolete next_dialog use.

2003-07-22 Thread Max Bowsher
I've been looking at the current mechanism for moving between pages in setup, in order to be able to extract the correct bits of Gary's patch for the OnAcceptActivation change. I've found that we are actually stuck in the middle of a transition between 2 idioms. Old: The global variable

Re: joe-2.8 - a new package for review

2003-07-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Jari, Good that newer version has been ported. Please include Gerrit's version. I'll drop mine. I'm looking for a maintainer. If you want to maintain joe, take it and contribute it. I do already perl which takes lot of my spare time. It will also need some cleanup, I just compiled it

Re: [setup PATCH] grvs.choose.cc.patch

2003-07-22 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 02:12, Max Bowsher wrote: Approved. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Review required for whitespace changes?

2003-07-22 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 11:46, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd submit that if the motivation for a comment change isn't obvious then the comment change either shouldn't have been made or the comment isn't clear. I agree. Thats why I qualified the rule-of-thumb: comment changes as part of a

Re: Review required for whitespace changes?

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:40:07AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 02:29, Max Bowsher wrote: May I apply whitespace changes which are in keeping with the style of surrounding code and the rest of setup without explicit review? Are such things supposed to be ChangeLogged?

Re: Review required for whitespace changes?

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:52:15AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 11:46, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd submit that if the motivation for a comment change isn't obvious then the comment change either shouldn't have been made or the comment isn't clear. I agree. Thats why I

Re: Review required for whitespace changes?

2003-07-22 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 02:29, Max Bowsher wrote: May I apply whitespace changes which are in keeping with the style of surrounding code and the rest of setup without explicit review? Are such things supposed to be ChangeLogged? Example: -UINT Window::IsButtonChecked (int nIDButton) const

Re: Review required for whitespace changes?

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:17:27PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 12:19, Christopher Faylor wrote: Yeah, but you snipped the part of my mail where I quoted the FSF ChangeLog standard. It implied that the why isn't necessary. In fact, it indicates that you shouldn't be putting

[Ready for test/1.5.0] jbigkit

2003-07-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Also, bumped to latest source release, 1.5 jbigkit-1.5-1 jbigkit-1.5-1-src Yes, I was able to release a package containing a DLL in a single, monolithic package! Hooray! But wait, there's more... -- Chuck

[Ready for test/1.5.0] xpm-nox

2003-07-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Simply recompiled on a cygwin-1.5.0 system. No other changes. (But that makes TWO DLL-positive packages released monolithically!) -- Chuck

Re: X server crashed when Netscape 4 7 visiting sites

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:40:16PM -, Joel Handler wrote: I just downloaded the entire Cygwin package and am experimenting around with it. I am running the cygwin X server and am ssh (tunneling X) to a linux machine and running either Netscape 4 or 7. Both seem to crash the X server

Re: xfree86 cvs

2003-07-22 Thread J S
I'm still stuck on this. Can anyone help me please? I'm just trying to checkout and compile the XFIXES_BRANCH for XFree86 but getting an error about Xfixes.h missing. Thanks, I have just done that but there's not Xfixes.h file in there. JS. Can you make sure you did a: 'cvs update -d -r

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winnt.h in ...

2003-07-22 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-07-22 22:21:27 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: winnt.h winbase.h winsup/w32api/include/ddk: ntapi.h ntifs.h winddk.h Log message: *

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2003-07-22 Thread GÖÇMENLÝK_USA
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src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/objidl.h

2003-07-22 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-07-22 22:48:00 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: objidl.h Log message: * include/objidl.h (PropVariant): Add CHAR cVal field to union.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tiff-3.6.0-2 NEW: libtiff-devel-3.6.0-2, libtiff3-3.6.0-2

2003-07-22 Thread Charles Wilson
The tiff package has been updated to version 3.6.0-2. This is NOT a 64bit, cygwin-1.5.0 test release. It is a cygwin-1.3.22 release; upgrade now. However, the upcoming 64bit release will have a DLL with a new name, because libtiff depends on libjpeg, and because libjpeg's ABI changed, so did

problem with history

2003-07-22 Thread Sanjay Goel
Hi, my cygwin bash does not write anything in .bash_history . I think it was working fine before and some changes done by me has caused it to stop updating this file. rxvt does not have this problem. any pointers where could be the problem. TIA Sanjay -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: GCC Errors - two versions released

2003-07-22 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, William J. Moulton wrote: Has anyone noticed that two versions of GCC were released with the latest versions of cygwin? As always, of course.. I experienced many compile and makefile errors only to discover it was the GCC compiler version. And have watched problem after

Re: GCC: Split it ?

2003-07-22 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
IMHO, this looks like a PTC situation.. packaging issues belong on cygwin-apps, by the way.. rlc On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: The GCC 3.2-3 package is almost 3 times the size of the 2.95.4-10 mainly due to the Java part. Wouldn't it help split it in various packages,

Re: GCC: Split it ?

2003-07-22 Thread Gareth Pearce
IMHO, this looks like a PTC situation.. prehaps more likely MOTC. ;) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: ImageMagick

2003-07-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Bill, You wrote: I thought I had the jpeg lib from cygwin installed and that I needed something more. Your note prompted me to check again and sure enough, I didn't have it installed - DUH!! So after installing that - Imagemagick is now ready to fly with jpeg. Fine. I DL'd your

Re: ImageMagick

2003-07-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo David, o libwmf works too, but isn't distributed with cygwin Wouldn't it be a good idea to find a maintainer who cares about libwmf, littlecms, libmng and some other graphic libraries like GD, libexif, libmnote, jasper, ...? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: problem starting cron as a service

2003-07-22 Thread Bowden, Todd
Bill, The docs should be /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README. The docs should be there. Todd C. Bowden -Original Message- From: Bill McCormick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service Ok, I missed

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expat-1.95.6-1

2003-07-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
expat-1.95.6-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. Expat is an XML parser library written in C. It is a stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for things the parser might find in the XML document (like start tags). Homepage: http://www.libexpat.org/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Test/cygwin-1.5.0 version of Midnight Commander

2003-07-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
The Midnight Commander visual shell has been updated to version 4.6.0a-20030721-1 . This release will _NOT_ work with versions of Cygwin prior to 1.5.0 . Along with the ability to work with large file this new version will bring you a lot of bug fixes and some exciting new features. This release

typo in description of the cmake package

2003-07-22 Thread Joe Buehler
There is a typo in the description of the cmake package as displayed by the setup program: cmake: A cross platform build manger -- Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shells competefor input with user program!

2003-07-22 Thread Sam Steingold
I have a driver.exe program which calls runtime.exe. runtime.exe is an interactive console application, i.e., it will be doing i/o via the stdio. If I make driver.exe exit before runtime.exe, the console interaction is severely broken (both under bash and cmd, both when compiled with and without

X server crashed when Netscape 4 7 visiting sites

2003-07-22 Thread Joel Handler
I just downloaded the entire Cygwin package and am experimenting around with it. I am running the cygwin X server and am ssh (tunneling X) to a linux machine and running either Netscape 4 or 7. Both seem to crash the X server (sometimes netscape crashes with a Bus Error, other times it just

Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shellscompete for input with user program!

2003-07-22 Thread Sam Steingold
* In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] * On the subject of Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shells compete for input with user program! * Sent on Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:57:02 -0400 * Honorable Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:30:52AM -0400,

RE: [SEMI-OFFTOPIC] Request for Ralf Habacker

2003-07-22 Thread Ralf Habacker
Ralf, I appreciate the acknowledgement on your kde-cygwin web site but I really would rather not have my email address available on your acknowledgement page. I know that Corinna probably feels the same way and I suspect that Charles Wilson, Egor Duda, and Robert Collins probably all would

Re: X server crashed when Netscape 4 7 visiting sites

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:40:16PM -, Joel Handler wrote: I just downloaded the entire Cygwin package and am experimenting around with it. I am running the cygwin X server and am ssh (tunneling X) to a linux machine and running either Netscape 4 or 7. Both seem to crash the X server

Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shells compete for input with user program!

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:23:18PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: Under cygwin you'd accomplish this by having the parent process use one of the exec calls. nope. doesn't work either. I get the same input competition when I use exec(). If you are using fork/exec, then sure, you'll get that. If

RE: problem with history

2003-07-22 Thread Chris January
Hi, my cygwin bash does not write anything in .bash_history . I think it was working fine before and some changes done by me has caused it to stop updating this file. rxvt does not have this problem. any pointers where could be the problem. Close bash by typing exit rather than clicking the

Re: make 3.80 and VPATH

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Seawood
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:19:17AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: That example works fine if I do 'make --win32' but fails when just using 'make'. That is a change in behavior from the previous version of make. The testcase works with either of --unix --win32

Re: Postmaster failing 'not enough core'

2003-07-22 Thread Jason Tishler
Kevin, [Sorry for the sluggish response time, but I have been distracted by the impending Python 2.3 release...] On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 02:33:35PM +0100, Kevin Jones wrote: I'm running Cygwin 1.3.22.1 on Windows 2003. Note that I do not have access to Windows 2003, so you will probably have

More 1.5 success

2003-07-22 Thread Gary R Van Sickle
Actually using the 7-10 snapshot, plus everything in [test] as of a few hours ago. Compiling and installing distcc on two machines (one Why2K, one XP) worked with nary a hitch. Using distcc to compile gcc cvs HEAD as a cross-compiler on the two boxes worked fantastically. Distcc was in tcp mode

PTY read/write problems

2003-07-22 Thread Hirsch, Matthew
Hi list, I'm having trouble sending data back and forth between two processes over a pseudo terminal. I'm able to send data from the slave tty to the master pty without any problem. However, no data can be read from the slave side of the pty (tty). I've attached an example program that

Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shellscompete for input with user program!

2003-07-22 Thread Sam Steingold
* In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] * On the subject of Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shells compete for input with user program! * Sent on Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:23:16 -0400 * Honorable Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:23:18PM -0400,

Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shells compete for input with user program!

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:41:18PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: * In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] * On the subject of Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shells compete for input with user program! * Sent on Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:23:16 -0400 * Honorable Christopher Faylor [EMAIL

Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shells competefor input with user program!

2003-07-22 Thread Steve Coleman
Sam Steingold wrote: I am not using fork(). just plain exec(). If thats the case then the exec() you are linking is not behaving as a POSIX exec() call, because if it did you would not still have two processes to even compete for the I/O streams. The first process image would be replaced by

Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shellscompete for input with user program!

2003-07-22 Thread Sam Steingold
* In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] * On the subject of Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shells compete for input with user program! * Sent on Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:27:05 -0400 * Honorable Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If the exec paradigm in cygwin was really

Cygwin Apache hanging problem

2003-07-22 Thread Ajay Nerurkar
Corinna, Do you remember what your fix (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00055.html) was? We are using modified older Cygwin sources and we would like to drop in this fix. Thanks. Ajay __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web

Skipping the /proc filesystem

2003-07-22 Thread David A. Cobb
Maybe this is something any native *nix speaker knows, but I'm stull trudging up the learning curve. If I do a (cygwin) find for some fragment of a filename, I get a whole pile of hits in the /proc/registry area - none of which is relevant. I would wish to tell find not to get involved with

How to resolve a link?

2003-07-22 Thread David A. Cobb
Recently, I was trying to do strace Xemacs . . . First I got a No such file error, so I changed to do strace `which xemacs` -- still a failure. which xemacs returns /usr/local/bin/xemacs.exe.lnk; that is, my normal handle to launch xemacs is a symlink to the executable whose name or location

Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shells compete for input with user program!

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 06:12:53PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: * In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] * On the subject of Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bashcmd): shells compete for input with user program! * Sent on Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:27:05 -0400 * Honorable Christopher Faylor [EMAIL

Re: How to resolve a link?

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:23:13PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote: Recently, I was trying to do strace Xemacs . . . First I got a No such file error, so I changed to do strace `which xemacs` -- still a failure. which xemacs returns /usr/local/bin/xemacs.exe.lnk; that is, my normal handle to launch

Re: How to resolve a link?

2003-07-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
David, Investigate the options to test (the binary or the BASH built-in) that detect symbolic links: -h or -L (they are synonymous) and the command readlink (as in man readlink). Again, this is stock Unix / Linux stuff. Randall Schulz At 18:23 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote: Recently, I was

Re: gdb passes different argv/argc to mingw cygwin

2003-07-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Sam Steingold wrote: args='4 4 ''5 5' What you're seeing is the side-effect of how mingw-compiled programs handle wildcards. mingw-compiled programs automatically link in support for wildcard expansion of arguments passed in via the Windows GetCommandLine(). So you'll often see extra quotes

Re: Skipping the /proc filesystem

2003-07-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
David, At 18:15 2003-07-22, David A. Cobb wrote: Maybe this is something any native *nix speaker knows, but I'm stull trudging up the learning curve. It is entirely non-Cygwin-specific, yes. If I do a (cygwin) find for some fragment of a filename, I get a whole pile of hits in the

Re: How to resolve a link?

2003-07-22 Thread David A. Cobb
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:23:13PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote: Recently, I was trying to do strace Xemacs . . . First I got a No such file error, so I changed to do strace `which xemacs` -- still a failure. which xemacs returns /usr/local/bin/xemacs.exe.lnk; that

Re: How to resolve a link?

2003-07-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, At 18:29 2003-07-22, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:23:13PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote: Recently, I was trying to do strace Xemacs . . . First I got a No such file error, so I changed to do strace `which xemacs` -- still a failure. which xemacs returns

Re: How to resolve a link?

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:56:02PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: Chris, At 18:29 2003-07-22, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:23:13PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote: Recently, I was trying to do strace Xemacs . . . First I got a No such file error, so I changed to do strace

Re: Cygwin's vanilla sed : capabilities and limitations

2003-07-22 Thread Peter S Tillier
Brian Dessent wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Q1. Querying info sed reveals the expression matcher to be greedy, matching the longest possible string. Is there a way to make it match the shortest possible, so that echo aaabbbccc | sed 's/^.*b//' (altered but similar) grabs aaab not aaabbb?

practicing building the cygwin.dll

2003-07-22 Thread Carlo Florendo
Hello, I'm trying to build the cygwin dll from scratch. I downloaded the entire distribution last year including the sources. I've never upgraded any package since then. I have cygwin-1.3.12-4 installed. Attached is the output of cygcheck -svr I assumed that building the cygwin.dll is as

Re: How to resolve a link?

2003-07-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 20:08 2003-07-22, Christopher Faylor wrote: ... What would happen on *nix? The same thing as on cygwin. Really? Since Cygwin strace is not a Cygwin program, it does not get Cygwin symbolic links resolved. Whereas on Unix or Linux, a symlink would be resolved by the kernel if it was used by

Re: Permission problems with recent Cygwin

2003-07-22 Thread luke . kendall
(Sorry this took so long; it's taken me days to find the hours required to investigate.) I've got some more info, below, and have also read through all the permissions threads on the cygwin mailing list I could find, and to read about half the ntsec threads over the last year or so. I don't

Re: practicing building the cygwin.dll

2003-07-22 Thread Carlo Florendo
Oops, sorry! I forgot to attach cygcheck output. Here it is... - Original Message - From: Carlo Florendo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:25 PM Subject: practicing building the cygwin.dll Hello, I'm trying to build the cygwin dll from

How to tell if ntsec is on or off

2003-07-22 Thread luke . kendall
On 23 Jul, I wrote: I was going to qualify this with `when ntsec is defined in CYGWIN' It's not easy to find out if ntsec is turned on, is it? When I wrote the above, I was thinking ntsec turned on means $CYGWIN includes the word ntsec. But I think I've just realised that isn't true, is it?