[ITP] re2c (2nd try)

2004-05-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Max, # re2c setup.hint sdesc: Tool for writing fast and flexible lexers ldesc: re2c is a tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular expressions. re2c-based scanners are efficient: for programming languages, given similar specifications, an re2c-based scanner is typically almost

Re: [ITP] re2c (2nd try)

2004-05-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello Max, # re2c setup.hint sdesc: Tool for writing fast and flexible lexers ldesc: re2c is a tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular expressions. re2c-based scanners are efficient: for programming languages, given similar specifications, an

Re: [ITP] re2c (2nd try)

2004-05-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Max, This should work now, with lndir or without lndir. Umm... did you actually try your source package? 1. lnconf.sh is not in it. 2. You are using lnconf.sh incorrectly, such that even if I fetch a copy of it, the build still fails. Hmmpf. You're right, lnconf.sh doesn't work

Re: [ITP] re2c (2nd try)

2004-05-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello Max, This should work now, with lndir or without lndir. Umm... did you actually try your source package? 1. lnconf.sh is not in it. 2. You are using lnconf.sh incorrectly, such that even if I fetch a copy of it, the build still

Re: [ITP] re2c (2nd try)

2004-05-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello Max, This should work now, with lndir or without lndir. Umm... did you actually try your source package? 1. lnconf.sh is not in it. 2. You are using lnconf.sh incorrectly, such that even if I fetch a copy of it, the build still fails. Hmmpf. You're

Re: Problems using Xorg server...

2004-05-17 Thread Holger Krull
Ruth Ivimey-Cook schrieb: started writing its log output to the DOS console I can't get the DOS window to go away. How can I get back to the old behaviour? Try \cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe bash -c -l Xwin.exe -query SOMENAME This is further described in the thread 6.7.0.0 XWin w/out

Re: Xwin removed packages

2004-05-17 Thread Allen Nugent
I recently upgraded my cygwin installation (on a P3 with Win98), and found that the Xfree package was removed from my PC without prompting. As far as I can tell, I no longer have an X-windows system. (The commands startxwin.sh, startxwin.bat, xwin all fail.) What should I do?

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-17 Thread aroushdi
Alexander Gottwald wrote: aroushdi wrote: how is /tmp mounted? With the mount command I realized that /tmp was mounted on \documents and settings . This is a new change . I've a small test program which prints the installed network devices.

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

2004-05-17 Thread Kris Thielemans
Well, on the local xterm, I didn't ssh, su, login or whatever. It's just a local terminal. However, typing 'resize' indeed solves the problem. Thanks for the help! a final note. 'resize' works around the problem on the local (i.e. cygwin) terminal, but not for an xterm on my debian system.

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

2004-05-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Kris Thielemans wrote: Well, on the local xterm, I didn't ssh, su, login or whatever. It's just a local terminal. However, typing 'resize' indeed solves the problem. Thanks for the help! a final note. 'resize' works around the problem on the local (i.e. cygwin)

Re: Problems using Xorg server...

2004-05-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: The second is a bug has resurfaced that was fixed in XFree86/Xwin ages ago: quite frequently I find that a key is autorepeating in the X session when it shouldn't, and wouldn't in a normal Win app. I've never noticed that. Can you give an example

Re: Xwin removed packages

2004-05-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Allen Nugent wrote: I recently upgraded my cygwin installation (on a P3 with Win98), and found that the Xfree package was removed from my PC without prompting. As far as I can tell, I no longer have an X-windows system. (The commands startxwin.sh, startxwin.bat, xwin

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 17 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: aroushdi wrote: how is /tmp mounted? With the mount command I realized that /tmp was mounted on \documents and settings . This is a new change . I've a small test program which prints the installed network devices.

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-17 Thread aroushdi
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: aroushdi wrote: how is /tmp mounted? With the mount command I realized that /tmp was mounted on \documents and settings . This is a new change . I've a small test program which prints the installed

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-17 Thread aroushdi
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: aroushdi wrote: how is /tmp mounted? With the mount command I realized that /tmp was mounted on \documents and settings . This is a new change . I've a small test program which prints the installed

RE: Problems using Xorg server...

2004-05-17 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Hi I've never noticed that. Can you give an example how to reproduce that? For me, it just does it. I have not detected any pattern. Ruth

Re: dysfunctional XWin installation

2004-05-17 Thread Allen H. Nugent
Dear XWinners, It seems Setup _did_ install the new Xorg after all. But, it still won't run. After navigating to the top directory, I tried two ways to invoke XWin and got two bad results: $startxwin.bat == causes a 'Run.exe' window that says: Error: Couldn't find XWin anywhere. I even

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog exceptions.cc fhan ...

2004-05-17 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-05-17 15:27:56 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog exceptions.cc fhandler_console.cc fhandler_tty.cc tty.cc tty.h winsup.h Log message: Change the name

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygwin.din grp.cc ...

2004-05-17 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-05-17 16:06:03 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin.din grp.cc syscalls.cc sysconf.cc thread.cc uinfo.cc winsup/cygwin/include: limits.h

[Patch] To handle Win32 pipe names

2004-05-17 Thread Stephen Cleary
Attached is a patch against the current CVS sources, with a ChangeLog. This patch allows Win32 pipe names to be opened as files. The legal paperwork just got in the mail this morning, but this patch may be small enough that it wouldn't require it anyway. -Steve

Exporting /cygdrive/cd-rom Probelm, was Re: How To Export NFS?

2004-05-17 Thread Jack Polimer
--- Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... One more place to look: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/nfs-server-2.2.47-2.README Igor Excellent! I compiled from source and did not have the above file and was missing some other stuff. Once I installed the binaries I was able to export

Re: error compiling python2-biggles-1.6.4

2004-05-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
iwamae wrote: gcc -shared -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base build/temp.cygwin-1.5.9-i686-2.3/src/libplot/libplot.o -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib/python2.3/config -lplot -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 -lpython2.3 -o

Re: Error compiling glib, help?

2004-05-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jean wrote: Le dim 16/05/2004 à 19:20, Jamil a écrit : I am trying to compile the latest version of glib under a CYGWIN/WinXP using NTFS, but I get errors about function's references. I would appreciate if someone would help me fix this problem; here is an error report that more clearly

Re: How to force Setup.exe to behave?

2004-05-17 Thread Errol Smith
Lex Ein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help me figure out how to get Setup.exe to STOP TRYING TO INSTALL X. Setup.exe won't stop trying to snag unnecessary components. What file(s) to I have to edit manually to make this happen? What can I manually delete? It's a remote system, so I can't

Re: user-specific mounts

2004-05-17 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, Igor! On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 04:14:44PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I did try it. I should have amended the above with on my system, mounts work as expected, with user mounts shadowing the system ones. In fact, mount actually gives a warning that system mount point of '/...' will

Re: user-specific mounts

2004-05-17 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, Igor! I've also tried your at suggestion, but couldn't get it to work: C:\ at 13:24 /interactive g:\cygwin\bin\bash -i Added a new job with job ID = 1 C:\ at 1 Task ID: 1 Status:OK Schedule: Today Time of day: 13:24 PM Interactive: Yes Command:

RE: cygwin problem

2004-05-17 Thread Richard Campbell
Please just email the list directly, not me personally. Redirected to the list. I have just read at http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg01336.html that you had a problem with cygwin like: 28 [main] ? 2608 init_cheap: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win3 2 error 487

Problem with pty allocation code, race condition?

2004-05-17 Thread John P. Rouillard
Hello: I have noticed a problem when I start X windows. As part of my startup, I fire up three xterms, but only one of them actually completes and displays a prompt. I believe there may be a race condition in the pty allocation code as the three bash processes all share the same tty. ps -ef

Re: user-specific mounts

2004-05-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: Hello, Igor! I've also tried your at suggestion, but couldn't get it to work: C:\ at 13:24 /interactive g:\cygwin\bin\bash -i Added a new job with job ID = 1 C:\ at 1 Task ID: 1 Status:OK Schedule: Today Time of day:

RE: user-specific mounts

2004-05-17 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 17 May 2004 14:36 Wow! Yes, this does indeed look suspicious. Since I only have Win2k to play with, can someone with WinXPPro verify this behavior? Hopefully it's a local configuration thing...

sshd as an ordinary user (was: Re: user-specific mounts)

2004-05-17 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, I've created a user lokal_sshd to run sshd. I've used the following command: cygrunsrv -I sshd -p /cygdrive/g/cygwin/usr/sbin/sshd -a -D \ -e CYGWIN=ntsec tty -d CYGWIN sshd -u lokal_sshd -w 123 I had to add lokal_sshd to Administrators and grant it the following privileges: Create a

Re: Problem with pty allocation code, race condition?

2004-05-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 17 May 2004, John P. Rouillard wrote: Hello: I have noticed a problem when I start X windows. As part of my startup, I fire up three xterms, but only one of them actually completes and displays a prompt. I believe there may be a race condition in the pty allocation code as the

Re: user-specific mounts

2004-05-17 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, Igor! On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:35:34AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: A WAG: at runs as LocalSystem (a.k.a. SYSTEM). Does g:\cygwin\bin\bash have execute permissions for everyone? Also, try making the executable name g:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe instead. Yes, thank you! I think, it was

OT: Re: user-specific mounts

2004-05-17 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, Dave! On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 02:45:33PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Wow! Yes, this does indeed look suspicious. Since I only have Win2k to play with, can someone with WinXPPro verify this behavior? Hopefully it's a local configuration thing... Repeatable here. Can you

Re: Fwd:CYGWIN CDRECORD

2004-05-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Baurjan wrote: Could you please keep answers on the list? This would be useful in two ways: 1. Your problems and successes would be archived, perhaps helping the others in the future. 2. The people would know if it worked, and wouldn't waste their time on an already resolved issue.

RE: Re: user-specific mounts

2004-05-17 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Baurjan Ismagulov Sent: 17 May 2004 15:09 Can you also see the garbage after the command line? Looks like a Windows bug... Yep, although not as much of it. Sometimes it appends an 'l' to the -i option, sometimes it appends an

Re: problems running programs with wGui

2004-05-17 Thread Brian Ford
On Sat, 15 May 2004, Pablo Orduña Fernández wrote: Taking out the '-mwindows' parameter and running the program under cmd it gives me this error: 89 [main] ? 2024 init_cheap: Couldn't reserve 9194692 bytes of space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 487 C:\WINDOWS\Escritorio\New

OT: Re: Fwd:CYGWIN CDRECORD

2004-05-17 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, Gabriele, On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 04:26:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried to burn a CD with the command cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,6,0 -data cd_image the process works with no errors, but I can't read data from the CD under Windows OS What are the brand and model names of

Re: CYGWIN 1.5.9-1 - Is vprintf() not thread safe?

2004-05-17 Thread Brian Ford
On Sun, 16 May 2004, John William wrote: I'm having problems with a program that uses vprintf() to show error messages. The program works fine when run as a single-threaded program. When compiled as a multi-threaded program, the console output of vprintf() is interleaved with output from the

Re: Error compiling glib, help?

2004-05-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jamil schrieb: However, I can stop feeling that this would be job of the maintainer of the package. I realize that the product is free, but if the developers have not been able to realize this error, what would be the quality of the product they produce? http://nyckelpiga.de/donate.html

Re: Problem with pty allocation code, race condition?

2004-05-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:29:44AM -0400, John P. Rouillard wrote: Does the last cygwin snapshot contain any code changes in the pty allocation area? Yes, the very latest snapshot attempts to fix this problem. Please give it a try and report the results here. -- Christopher Faylor

function exported from DLL compiled under Cygwin

2004-05-17 Thread Yu, Ted
I exported the following function from DLL produced by Cygwin: extern C int ted( float *data, int rows, int cols ) { return cols; } When I called this function from MSVC, I got exception. When I tried to initialize _impure_ptr in entry function, ld complained:

RE: function exported from DLL compiled under Cygwin

2004-05-17 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Yu, Ted Sent: 17 May 2004 17:47 I exported the following function from DLL produced by Cygwin: extern C int ted( float *data, int rows, int cols ) { return cols; } When I called this function from MSVC, I got exception.

Request for GCC maintainer (DWARF 2)

2004-05-17 Thread Brian Ford
If/When you get around to releasing a new gcc package (presumably 3.4+), please consider including this patch for DWARF 2 support: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-04/msg02004.html which has already been approved and committed to the 3.5 branch. It should apply cleanly with minimal effort

Re: Request for GCC maintainer (DWARF 2)

2004-05-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:39:30PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: If/When you get around to releasing a new gcc package (presumably 3.4+), please consider including this patch for DWARF 2 support: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-04/msg02004.html which has already been approved and committed to

running nmake in rxvt with gnu screen spawns cmd

2004-05-17 Thread Marc Vaillant
Hi, I've recently installed cygwin on an XP box and I am experiencing a problem that never manifested on my 2000 machine. When running rxvt and gnu screen, nmake spawns cmd shells into which stout and sterr are written. Not only is it annoying, but the shells disappear when builds terminate

g++ include string.h

2004-05-17 Thread Christian Rudiger
Hi there, i'm kind of newbee to c++ programming and try to do my first steps with the gcc in delivered with cygwin. I'd like to include the string.h into my little program but it wasn't found as the compiler doesn't accept my string declarations. here's my program and what the compiler sais:

matlab and cygwin on xp

2004-05-17 Thread bruno patin
Hi, I've already sent a mail on this topic (see the joined mail). I can't say I advance a lot. So my new question. I'm now trying to see what can happen inside matlab during the crash. I tried strace but nothing occured. I even try purify but for the time being it is a failure. Do you know a

[OT] RE: g++ include string.h

2004-05-17 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christian Rudiger Sent: 17 May 2004 19:00 Hi there, i'm kind of newbee to c++ programming and try to do my first steps with the gcc in delivered with cygwin. I'd like to include the string.h into my little program but it

Re: NFS server issue with directory permissions (fwd)

2004-05-17 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Good to hear! May I suggest you to post your findings and maybe a patch (if you have coded one) that works around the issue to the cygwin mailing list. This way the cygwin NFS maintainer would be aware of the problem and fix it for the next NFS server release so that everyone including you can get

Re: cygwin/matlab/xp

2004-05-17 Thread Brian Ford
On Sun, 9 May 2004, bruno patin wrote: There you're right. What I'm afraid of is that the cygwin code is not called at all and as it is matlab that calls it I'll be unable to do that debugging (we'll see). If I arrive to some results I'll let the list knows if the problem is related to

binutils 20040312-1 : problem linking 16bit x86 code with ld

2004-05-17 Thread Brice VIDDEAU
when I link 16bit code with ld, strangely enough linking is not doing correctly : some symbols are off by two byte when I make a call. here is an example : one coded with .code16, the other without. Tested on a debian it works fine. first one : working, 32bit mode (ld script is home made), putc

Re: Problem with pty allocation code, race condition?

2004-05-17 Thread Brian Keener
/c bin\login.exe start CMD /c bin\login.exe start CMD /c bin\login.exe exit Prior to the current snapshot depending on system load I might or might not get 4 sessions started as they should be with a login prompt. With the current snapshot 20040517 this has worked successfully repeated times

SSCOP and SRGP for Cygwin

2004-05-17 Thread KevinGPO
Am wondering if it's possible to get SRGP and SSCOP for Cygwin/windows? libSSCOP.a and SRGP.a for Cygwin/windows? Cheers guys -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: xemacs shell problem

2004-05-17 Thread Levent Yilmaz
Dave, As a beginner Xemacs-user with hardly any understanding of lisp (yet) I have to make sure that I understand it correctly. You suggest that I should, - Type M-x eval-expression - Type (setq process-connection-type nil) [return] - Observe that Minibuffer displays: nil - Type M-x shell -