Re: [UPDATE] apache-1.3.29-2 repackaged (incl. security fix)

2004-02-12 Thread Stipe Tolj
Daniel Reed schrieb: If this is a major difference, you might do better having the package itself be named apache-eapi, and leaving the documentation scheme unmodified (so your documentation would be in usr/share/doc/apache-eapi-1.3.29-1/). The convention is to use

Re: [UPDATE] apache-1.3.29-2 repackaged (incl. security fix)

2004-02-12 Thread Stipe Tolj
Larry Hall schrieb: I'd say if it's important enough to mention in the package name somehow, then it's a new package and so the name (rather the version info) should change. The result would be a new apache-eapi package replacing the traditional apache package. I'm not sure this really

RE: Pending patches for generic build script

2004-02-12 Thread Rafael Kitover
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:07 AM To: Yaakov Selkowitz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pending patches for generic build script locally, mostly to eliminate things that I'm

RE: Pending patches for generic build script

2004-02-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Rafael, Please try to set up your mailer to not quote raw e-mail addresses in your replies. Thanks. More below. On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Rafael Kitover wrote: -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:07 AM To: Yaakov Selkowitz Cc:

Minires-0.98-2, a test package ready to upload

2004-02-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
This is a new version of 0.98, still test for now. It should replace 0.98-1 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/minires-0.98-2/minires-0.98-2.tar.bz2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/minires-0.98-2/minires-0.98-2-src.tar.bz2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/minires-0.98-2/setup.hint

Clipboard related failure

2004-02-12 Thread haro
Hi all, I just had and clipboard related problem, and a Windows notpad like program stopped working (not responsive), along with it. I currently use XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-44 with cygwin-1.5.7. I've included the XWin.log file, if it's of any use. Thanks, Haro

Re: Exclusive window manager for -multiwindow

2004-02-12 Thread Takuma Murakami
Harold, Excellent. I wonder why the commit did not generate an email to the xorg-commit list. I'll try to get this into my local branch soon and make a new release. I'm wondering, too. I saw a message like mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when committed. I believe there was the string

Re: different resolutions on different monitors

2004-02-12 Thread Chad Haynes
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. The command I am using to invoke XWin is just: XWin -multiwindow -multimonitors -Chad Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Chad Haynes wrote: I am using 2 monitors, one with 1280x1024 and the other with 1024x768. When I start the X server using

What/ where is cygXt-6.dll ? A newly made app can't find it!

2004-02-12 Thread Keith Gunderson
Hello. I was taking a crack at building Xephem 3.5.2 on my newly updated Win2000 / cygwin box (with Lesstif.) The program will make just fine, but when I run it the standard path error dialog appears complaining that it can't find cygXt-6.dll From what I've seen, this is the Xt widget set...

Re: remote xemacs and selection problem (using XWin -clipboard)

2004-02-12 Thread Ed Avis
Kris Thielemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a problem running XEmacs remotely. When I press ctrl-space, I do get 'mark set', but when I then press Ctrl-w to cut something, I get 'The region is not active now'. The problem disappears when I remove the -clipboard option from Xwin. I think

Re: What/ where is cygXt-6.dll ? A newly made app can't find it!

2004-02-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Keith Gunderson wrote: error dialog appears complaining that it can't find cygXt-6.dll From what I've seen, this is the Xt widget set... or no? cygXt-6.dll is installed with the XFree86-bin package. Maybe it got somehow deleted. Reinstall the XFree86-bin package. bye

Re: What/ where is cygXt-6.dll ? A newly made app can't find it!

2004-02-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Keith Gunderson wrote: error dialog appears complaining that it can't find cygXt-6.dll From what I've seen, this is the Xt widget set... or no? cygXt-6.dll is installed with the XFree86-bin package. Maybe it got somehow

Duplicate window problem after maximizing Evolution

2004-02-12 Thread Øyvind Harboe
More pieces to the puzzle: I've only seen the duplicate windows on my second monitor and it does seem to be tied to evolution. I've got a JPG snapshot of 25k for anyone interested. Øyvind

problem with remote X connection via XDMCP

2004-02-12 Thread Loren H. Burlingame
Hello all, I assure you, I have scoured the archives for this list, read the FAQ and all the relevant documentation for XDMCP on both cygwin.com and xfree.org and cannot find anything that helps me. anyhoo here is what I am using: Client side: Cygwin 1.5.7-1 on Windows XP Pro XFree86-base

Re: Clipboard related failure

2004-02-12 Thread Ed Avis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just had and clipboard related problem, and a Windows notpad like program stopped working (not responsive), along with it. What did you do to cause the program to stop responding? Others have seen a problem where _pasting_ into a Windows application from the X server

Re: Clipboard related failure

2004-02-12 Thread haro
From: Ed Avis ed at membled dot com Date: 12 Feb 2004 20:39:59 + ::I just had and clipboard related problem, and a Windows notpad like ::program stopped working (not responsive), along with it. :: ::What did you do to cause the program to stop responding? Others have ::seen a problem where

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Re: [PATCH] Thread safe stdio

2004-02-12 Thread Thomas Pfaff
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:08:57AM +0100, Thomas Pfaff wrote: The __sinit call must be done after malloc is initialized, otherwise the mutex creation will fail. I am not comfortable with this part of the patch. I moved the __sinit call where I did for a reason. It

[Patch] rename

2004-02-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
MoveFile on XP Home Edition returns error ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED when the destination file already exists on a remote disk located on a Win98 machine. This leads to the same problem with rename() as that reported in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2000-q2/msg00069.html The patch simply

Re: WML (perl-based program) segfaults

2004-02-12 Thread Wolfgang Schnerring
Hello! Gerrit, thank you very much for looking into this! * Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-11 23:35]: Support for Perl 5.8.0 added in WML 2.0.9 Maybe you should ask the upstream maintainer if it is possible to use WML with perl-5.8.2 or not. Unfortunately, switching to

Re: VIm packaging request/question

2004-02-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 11 18:41, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Hi, Corinna, Whenever you release the next version of VIm, would it be possible to create a /usr/bin/vimless symlink pointing to $VIMRUNTIME/macros/less.sh? Or is this an issue that should be taken up with the upstream people? Yes. It's not part

Re: WML (perl-based program) segfaults

2004-02-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Wolfgang, ./configure --with-openworld --enable-debug runing make ends here: mp4h: ERROR: failed to initialise modules: unknown error This can be circumvented by specifying --without-modules ... :-/ Ok, I'll try this. Two of the executables are broken for me now, I consider to stop

Re: WML (perl-based program) segfaults

2004-02-12 Thread Wolfgang Schnerring
* Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-12 10:24]: ./configure --with-openworld --enable-debug runing make ends here: mp4h: ERROR: failed to initialise modules: unknown error This can be circumvented by specifying --without-modules ... :-/ Forgot to say: The subcomponents (mp4h,

Re: WML (perl-based program) segfaults

2004-02-12 Thread Wolfgang Schnerring
Hello! * Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-12 10:24]: I have a debugging version of perl online[1] (extract it from the cygwin root, you'll need the binary and the srctree package so the debugger may find the sources in the right place) Well, my modem did it. ;-) Now I get this: $

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under Cygwin-1.5.7-1 .

2004-02-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:03 AM 2/12/2004, Peter A. Castro you wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Morris Siegel wrote: My PC is running under Windows XP Professional, and until recently with Cygwin-1.5.5-1 and zsh-4.1.1-1 . I upgraded to Cygwin-1.5.6-1, installing everything available, in particular including

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under cygwin-1.5.7-1 .

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:44:26AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: As I mentioned before, it's better to verify that the current snapshot does address the problem you're seeing locally. Otherwise, if you're seeing a variant or something different than the rest, your problem won't be known until after

RE: xerces - need 2.3.0 src

2004-02-12 Thread Steve Omand
Re: This is by design: setup will not let you install the sources for any other version of a package if you have some version of the binaries installed. There are two ways to go about this: either downgrade to 2.3.0 temporarily, install the sources, and upgrade back, or just download the

Re: 1.5.7: core sump: ls /proc/registry

2004-02-12 Thread Chuck
Pierre A. Humblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:26:59AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:42:24PM +, Chuck wrote: I just upgraded to 1.5.7. When I do ls /proc/registry I get a core dump. $ ls /proc/registry

Re: 1.5.7: core sump: ls /proc/registry

2004-02-12 Thread Chuck
Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 11 18:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 11 11:32, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:26:59AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:42:24PM +, Chuck wrote: I just

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under Cygwin-1.5.7-1 .

2004-02-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Peter A. Castro (2004-02-12 08:03 +0100) On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Morris Siegel wrote: My PC is running under Windows XP Professional, and until recently with Cygwin-1.5.5-1 and zsh-4.1.1-1 . I upgraded to Cygwin-1.5.6-1, installing everything available, in particular including zsh-4.1.1-2 .

Re: 1.5.7: core sump: ls /proc/registry

2004-02-12 Thread Chuck
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:42:24PM +, Chuck wrote: I just upgraded to 1.5.7. When I do ls /proc/registry I get a core dump. $ ls /proc/registry Segmentation fault (core dumped) Works for me

Re: 1.5.7: core sump: ls /proc/registry

2004-02-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 12 16:59, Chuck wrote: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in Should be fixed in CVS now. Does that mean it will be fixed in the next release? Yes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer

Re: 1.5.7: core sump: ls /proc/registry

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 04:58:25PM +, Chuck wrote: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:42:24PM +, Chuck wrote: I just upgraded to 1.5.7. When I do ls /proc/registry I get a core dump. $ ls /proc/registry Segmentation fault

Re: 1.5.7: core sump: ls /proc/registry

2004-02-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:59 AM 2/12/2004, Chuck you wrote: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 11 18:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 11 11:32, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:26:59AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at

What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Jamshid Afshar
I just installed Cygwin. What kind of executable is zcat.exe? It doesn't show up when I dir c:\cygwin\bin\zc* (only zcmp), but I see it's 19 bytes in Explorer. It works fine within bash, but I want UNIX utilities I can use in the regular Windows Command Prompt. Thanks, Jamshid Afshar [EMAIL

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Rolf Campbell
Jamshid Afshar wrote: I just installed Cygwin. What kind of executable is zcat.exe? It doesn't show up when I dir c:\cygwin\bin\zc* (only zcmp), but I see it's 19 bytes in Explorer. It works fine within bash, but I want UNIX utilities I can use in the regular Windows Command Prompt. $ ls -l

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under Cygwin-1.5.7-1 .

2004-02-12 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote: At 02:03 AM 2/12/2004, Peter A. Castro you wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Morris Siegel wrote: My PC is running under Windows XP Professional, and until recently with Cygwin-1.5.5-1 and zsh-4.1.1-1 . I upgraded to Cygwin-1.5.6-1, installing

[Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined RFE, only use / in reg values, not names..?]

2004-02-12 Thread linda w
I'm on an NT compatible (Windows XP) release trying to run the reg utils but I get an error message that IsWinNT is not defined, so they the reg utils fail to install. Presumably IsWinNT is to differentiate between Protected and DOS-based versions of Windows but presumably wouldn't be defined

NTFS links

2004-02-12 Thread Chris Jefferson
Cygwin includes quite a number of symlinks. I personally have changed a number of the cygwin-style symlinks to windows-style ones to fix (as has been mentioned recently) the problem that cygwin-style symlinks don't work from cmd Would it be possible to automagically change all the

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under cygwin-1.5.7-1.

2004-02-12 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:44:26AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: As I mentioned before, it's better to verify that the current snapshot does address the problem you're seeing locally. Otherwise, if you're seeing a variant or something different than

sshd in cygwin

2004-02-12 Thread Rachan Malhotra
Hi, I'm not sure whether this is the right place to ask this question. My apologies if I am intruding into your mailbox. After starting sshd in cygwin on my winXP machine, do I need to setup user accounts? I am unable to ssh into my windows machine (using my regular windows account) from

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under cygwin-1.5.7-1 .

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:06:15AM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: Thanks, Larry, but I've already confirmed the latest snapshot (20040206) fixes the problem. Did you report the fact that the problem was fixed? I don't see it in the archives. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under Cygwin-1.5.7-1 .

2004-02-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:06 PM 2/12/2004, Peter A. Castro you wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote: At 02:03 AM 2/12/2004, Peter A. Castro you wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Morris Siegel wrote: My PC is running under Windows XP Professional, and until recently with Cygwin-1.5.5-1 and zsh-4.1.1-1 . I

Re: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined RFE, only use / in reg values, not names..?]

2004-02-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, linda w wrote: [snip] Speaking of compatibility -- there is only 1 application I know of that uses / in keynames -- Cygwin. Since it's already been noted that this makes it very awkward to access these keys in /proc, perhaps cygwin could op for better windows

Re: sshd in cygwin

2004-02-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Rachan Malhotra wrote: Hi, I'm not sure whether this is the right place to ask this question. My apologies if I am intruding into your mailbox. After starting sshd in cygwin on my winXP machine, do I need to setup user accounts? I am unable to ssh into my windows

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under cygwin-1.5.7-1 .

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:40:58PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: At 01:06 PM 2/12/2004, Peter A. Castro you wrote: Still, I feel it's best for most regular users to wait for the official release instead of possibly compromising their current environment. I guess I'd soften that statement by saying

Re: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined RFE, only use / in reg values, not names..?]

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:44:24PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The only mechanism I can think of that is adversely affected by this convention is /proc/registry, because of its attempt to map the registry onto a filesystem. Because the registry doesn't have the same set of invalid characters

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under cygwin-1.5.7-1.

2004-02-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:21 PM 2/12/2004, Peter A. Castro you wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:44:26AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: As I mentioned before, it's better to verify that the current snapshot does address the problem you're seeing locally. Otherwise, if

Re: NTFS links

2004-02-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:14 PM 2/12/2004, Chris Jefferson you wrote: Cygwin includes quite a number of symlinks. I personally have changed a number of the cygwin-style symlinks to windows-style ones to fix (as has been mentioned recently) the problem that cygwin-style symlinks don't work from cmd Would it be

setup crashes

2004-02-12 Thread james pentland
a crash in setup occurs at install.cc:657 in function md5_one(): void md5_one (const packagesource source) io_stream *thefile = io_stream::open (source.Cached (), rb); the class String constructor String::String (const char *acString) at String++.cc:46 is passed a null argument acString,

Re: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined RFE, only use / in reg values, not names..?]

2004-02-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:44:24PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The only mechanism I can think of that is adversely affected by this convention is /proc/registry, because of its attempt to map the registry onto a filesystem. Because the

Snapshot cygwin1-20040206.dll (was Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under cygwin-1.5.7-1)

2004-02-12 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:16:07 -0500, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are still problems with the latest snapshot that I hope to have fixed today. We'll see. Just to let you know that the Emacs problems (inconsistent behavior and

RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Bakken, Luke
Jamshid Afshar wrote: I just installed Cygwin. What kind of executable is zcat.exe? It doesn't show up when I dir c:\cygwin\bin\zc* (only zcmp), but I see it's 19 bytes in Explorer. It works fine within bash, but I want UNIX utilities I can use in the regular Windows Command Prompt.

Re: Snapshot cygwin1-20040206.dll (was Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under cygwin-1.5.7-1)

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:04:15PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:16:07 -0500, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are still problems with the latest snapshot that I hope to have fixed today. We'll see. Just to let you know that the Emacs problems (inconsistent

RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:22 PM 2/12/2004, Bakken, Luke you wrote: Jamshid Afshar wrote: I just installed Cygwin. What kind of executable is zcat.exe? It doesn't show up when I dir c:\cygwin\bin\zc* (only zcmp), but I see it's 19 bytes in Explorer. It works fine within bash, but I want UNIX utilities I

Re: Snapshot cygwin1-20040206.dll (was Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under cygwin-1.5.7-1)

2004-02-12 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:33:41 -0500, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I say the current snapshot has problems and you send email saying the current snapshot has problems. Doesn't sound like much information is flowing... May be I

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under cygwin-1.5.7-1 .

2004-02-12 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:06:15AM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: Thanks, Larry, but I've already confirmed the latest snapshot (20040206) fixes the problem. Did you report the fact that the problem was fixed? I don't see it in the archives.

RE: [Fwd: Bug: Perl:IsWinNT undefined RFE, only use / in reg values, not names..?]

2004-02-12 Thread Rafael Kitover
Please try installing perl-libwin32 package, and set: export PERL5OPT=-MWin32 in your environment. HTH -- Rafael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of linda w Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd:

RE: localtime_r not returning local time

2004-02-12 Thread Rafael Kitover
Would it be a lot of overhead to have something like tzset be called in the bootstrap code for launching Cygwin programs? Or maybe just have a DLL global default, based on windows time zone, and just allow processes to reset it for themselves (and any children.) -- Rafael -Original

Re: Different executables of the same source

2004-02-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Brian Ford wrote: gcc doesn't create .o or .exe files. as/ld do respectively :). Of course. There *are* gcc ports that don't use binutils, I know - I've done gcc ports. But most regular folks think of gcc as a monolithic compiler suite. Anyway, I'll probably report this on the binutils list

RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Ross Boulet
At 03:22 PM 2/12/2004, Bakken, Luke you wrote: Jamshid Afshar wrote: I just installed Cygwin. What kind of executable is zcat.exe? It doesn't show up when I dir c:\cygwin\bin\zc* (only zcmp), but I see it's 19 bytes in Explorer. It works fine within bash, but I want UNIX

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote: One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partition) involves upgrades. I changed the symlink for ksh.exe - pdksh.exe to a hard link. When an new version of pdksh was installed, it resulted in two non linked

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote: One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partition) involves upgrades. I changed the symlink for ksh.exe - pdksh.exe to a hard link. When an new version of

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:05:30PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote: One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partition) involves upgrades. I changed the symlink for

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote: One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partition) involves upgrades. I changed the symlink for ksh.exe - pdksh.exe to a hard link. When an new version

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: AFAIK, setup has always behaved this way. It first uninstalls the old versions of all packages being upgraded (that's how the old pdksh.exe got unlinked), and then installs the new versions (creating new files, essentially). It never did

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:14:57AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: AFAIK, setup has always behaved this way. It first uninstalls the old versions of all packages being upgraded (that's how the old pdksh.exe got unlinked), and then installs

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under cygwin-1.5.7-1.

2004-02-12 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote: I have to preface this by saying it's quite long and very OT. If you have something better to do, like fixing bugs, by all means skip reading the rest of this. At 01:21 PM 2/12/2004, Peter A. Castro you wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor

Re: localtime_r not returning local time

2004-02-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:10:03PM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote: Would it be a lot of overhead to have something like tzset be called in the bootstrap code for launching Cygwin programs? Or maybe just have a DLL global default, based on windows time zone, and just allow processes to reset it for

RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
A suggestion for another setup feature: When upgrading package foo requires reinstallation of package bar afterwards, figuring that out and then doing it. Thanks for all the good work. - Barry -Original Message- From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February

OpenGL speed problems under bash vs. DOS on Dell m60

2004-02-12 Thread Robert J. Bobrow
Cygwin OpenGL folks, I have been having problems with the latest version of Cygwin on a Dell M60. I have a piece of Java (JOGL) based visualization code that works fine (renders at ~14 frames/second) on other machines, both laptops and desktops. On the M60 with the newest Cygwin the speed drops

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under cygwin-1.5.7-1 .

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:44:18PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: I had though that, perhaps, in a fit of displeasure with my email contents of past, you'd setup a filter specifically to block certain emails from me, but I suppose that's just paranoid delusion on my part :) You give yourself *way*

Re: GNU make and VPATH problems

2004-02-12 Thread Jonathan Hudgins
Pete Flugstad peteflugstad at mchsi.com writes: Greetings, I just recently started having a problem with GNU make. I believe it's related to VPATH, but I'm not sure. The weird part is that I think it just recently started happening after I ran the cygwin update (which did not

Building dll's and executables in same package

2004-02-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, after a lot of time looking at the user guide, FAQ, and Google, I finally figured out (I think) how to get DLLs to build with the autotools. But now I'm having troubles with building the executables from the same package that depend on this

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under cygwin-1.5.7-1 .

2004-02-12 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:44:18PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: I had though that, perhaps, in a fit of displeasure with my email contents of past, you'd setup a filter specifically to block certain emails from me, but I suppose that's just

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under cygwin-1.5.7-1.

2004-02-12 Thread Larry Hall
OK Peter, clearly you feel strongly about your position and I'm not trying to change that. I'm not suggesting that people should be force-fed Cygwin or it's snapshots. I'm not implying that everyone should be using them all the time. I'm just trying to raise awareness generally of their

Cygwin homedirs and roaming profiles.

2004-02-12 Thread Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen
Hi. I've been unable to find information on this in the documentation, the FAQs and on the net: I have a situation where I want to use Cygwin in a multiuser environment where users hop from one computer to the next, with roaming profiles (stored on a Samba server). I have two problems: 1) It

Re: Cygwin homedirs and roaming profiles.

2004-02-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 08:08 PM 2/12/2004, Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen you wrote: Hi. I've been unable to find information on this in the documentation, the FAQs and on the net: I have a situation where I want to use Cygwin in a multiuser environment where users hop from one computer to the next, with roaming profiles

Re: Cygwin homedirs and roaming profiles.

2004-02-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote: At 08:08 PM 2/12/2004, Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen you wrote: Hi. I've been unable to find information on this in the documentation, the FAQs and on the net: I have a situation where I want to use Cygwin in a multiuser environment where users hop from one

Re: Cygwin homedirs and roaming profiles.

2004-02-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:09 PM 2/12/2004, Igor Pechtchanski you wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote: At 08:08 PM 2/12/2004, Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen you wrote: Hi. I've been unable to find information on this in the documentation, the FAQs and on the net: I have a situation where I want to use Cygwin

Re: Building dll's and executables in same package

2004-02-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, after a lot of time looking at the user guide, FAQ, and Google, I finally figured out (I think) how to get DLLs to build with the autotools. But now I'm having troubles with building the executables from the same package

Re: Building dll's and executables in same package

2004-02-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Wilson wrote: | You might want to use automake+autoconf+libtool, instead of just | autoconf+libtool. Do I need to --force these? See below. | 2) I added an empty main function to one of the src .c files: | | +int main () | +{ return 0; } | |

Re: Segfault in _cygwin_dll_entry

2004-02-12 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference, althought it really doesn't matter, is that libzsh-4.1.1.dll was rebased, while cygggi-2.dll isn't. Something in the makeup of cygggi-2.dll causes the same condition as when libzsh-4.1.1.dll is rebased. I found a couple of

Cygwin xemacs 21.4.14 fonts broken

2004-02-12 Thread Edwin Goei
I am installing xemacs on cygwin on a new PC and want to get a smaller font size like my old PC so more text can fit on the screen. I recently installed cygwin 1.5.7 and the xemacs 21.4.14 that came with it, but the fonts are broken. When I select Options-Font Size-, I see a greyed out menu item

Order 8 completed for cygwin-announce@cygwin.com

2004-02-12 Thread Tom Sheets
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