Ready for upload: keychain-2.5.3.1-1

2005-03-10 Thread Hack Kampbjorn
http://cygwin.hackdata.org/keychain-2.5.3.1-1/keychain-2.5.3.1-1-src.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.hackdata.org/keychain-2.5.3.1-1/keychain-2.5.3.1-1.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.hackdata.org/keychain-2.5.3.1-1/setup.hint Note setup.hint has not changed but alot has changed for keychain. It may be safer to set

Re: Ready for upload: keychain-2.5.3.1-1

2005-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:07:36AM +0100, Hack Kampbjorn wrote: http://cygwin.hackdata.org/keychain-2.5.3.1-1/keychain-2.5.3.1-1-src.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.hackdata.org/keychain-2.5.3.1-1/keychain-2.5.3.1-1.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.hackdata.org/keychain-2.5.3.1-1/setup.hint Note setup.hint has not

RE: bad installation ?

2005-03-10 Thread Morrison, John
As maintainer of the package which outputs that message I'm always glad to hear of ways to improve it. Can you suggest a better message? J. -Original Message- From: Matthew Johnson Well, Phil, I read what she posted, and I do NOT think it tells all Banibrata needs to know. The

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:30:35PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:19:18PM -0500, Joseph Miller wrote: I recently received a list entitled 30+ Reasons Why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X. I don't know enough at the moment (though I am learning) about the Cygwin/X

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Joseph Miller wrote: 3-D Hardware Acceleration for OpenGL - I am told that Cygwin/X supports this, but I use XWin_GL.exe. What do they mean by this? XWin_GL links to opengl32.dll from windows and uses hardware acceleration if the video driver support it. Many video drives

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Joseph Miller wrote: Commenting the list: 30+ Reasons Why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X # FeaturesCygwin/XX-Win32 1 3-D Hardware Acceleration for OpenGLNo Yes It is work in progress but it

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-10 Thread Joseph Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 09 March 2005 6:30 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:19:18PM -0500, Joseph Miller wrote: I recently received a list entitled 30+ Reasons Why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X. I don't know enough at the moment

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-10 Thread Joseph Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In case anyone is interested, I will be looking into solutions for remote sound support. I realize that this is not directly an Cygwin/X issue, but it would be something that I have not seen with any other packaged X server. If anyone has some

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Joseph Miller wrote: In case anyone is interested, I will be looking into solutions for remote sound support. I realize that this is not directly an Cygwin/X issue, but it would be something that I have not seen with any other packaged X server. If anyone has some

RE: bad installation ?

2005-03-10 Thread Matthew Johnson
Hi, John- Since I myself have no idea why it is outputting that message, no I cannot suggest a better message. And I notice that when I did a fresh installation of cygwin and cygwin/x on a brand new system yesterday, now I am getting that message too. Do _you_ have any idea why fresh

RE: bad installation ?

2005-03-10 Thread John Morrison (Cygwin)
Hi Matthew, Although the message is from base-files the reason is due to installation. In my experience this only occurs when installing for a domain user although others have reported other reasons for it. For me, the message occurs because the base-passwd (which I also maintain) doesn't and

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-10 Thread Matthew Johnson
First question: is this _really_ on topic for the list? I would have thought not. --- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Joseph Miller wrote: Commenting the list: 30+ Reasons Why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X #

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:57:53PM -0800, Matthew Johnson wrote: First question: is this _really_ on topic for the list? I would have thought not. If someone is talking about implementing features, then sure. cgf

Re: eclipse 3.0.1 input problem

2005-03-10 Thread Mike Starbuck
i don't know. what is xev? --- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Mike Starbuck wrote: no What does xev report on keypress? bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 -- The information contained in this

RE: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-10 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
In case anyone is interested, I will be looking into solutions for remote sound support. I realize that this is not directly an Cygwin/X issue, but it would be something that I have not seen with any other packaged X server. If anyone has some suggestions or comments about this, please

RE: bad installation ?

2005-03-10 Thread Matthew Johnson
--- John Morrison (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Matthew, Although the message is from base-files the reason is due to installation. OK... In my experience this only occurs when installing for a domain user although others have reported other reasons for it. 'Domain'? What kind

Re: startx (still) hangs at startup

2005-03-10 Thread martouf .
I was having the same problem (XWin 'hanging' at the Rules = line) and found it went away if I reverted to cygwin 1.5.12-1 from 1.5.13-1. Same hanging problem occurs when using the snapshot cygwin1-20050309.dll. I haven't tried the -kb option to XWin yet with cygwin 1.5.13-1, but I can report

How to install a locale in cygwin?

2005-03-10 Thread Duong Duong
I ran an application but it told that: Cannot load either en_US.UTF-8 or vi_VN.UTF-8 locale To use this program you must have one of these locales installed. So how to install en_US.UTF-8 or vi_VN.UTF-8 in cygwin. Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!?

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog dcrt0.cc autoload.cc

2005-03-10 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-03-10 14:41:52 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog dcrt0.cc autoload.cc Log message: * autoload.cc (LoadDllprime): Scrap use of .linkonce and just use an ifdef guard

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog autoload.cc

2005-03-10 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-03-10 16:59:56 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog autoload.cc Log message: * autoload.cc (LoadDLLprime): Use nocopy segment or forked processes will not initialize

[PATCH]: autoload.cc: Remove unnecessary data entries from .dllname_info sections

2005-03-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, I've been looking at the contents of the cygwin1.dll image in the last few days and I've noticed that the sections named .dllname_info contain a lot of duplicate entries - one for each autoloaded function from a given dll. Although it doesn't hurt to have it, this information is not really

Re: [PATCH]: autoload.cc: Remove unnecessary data entries from .dllname_info sections

2005-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:42:46PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: I've been looking at the contents of the cygwin1.dll image in the last few days and I've noticed that the sections named .dllname_info contain a lot of duplicate entries - one for each autoloaded function from a given dll. Although it

Re: [PATCH]: autoload.cc: Remove unnecessary data entries from .dllname_info sections

2005-03-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: Thanks for the patch but I'd prefer keeping the current functionality which makes the use of LoadDllprime optional. I didn't know better :( I've checked in a fix for this so that only one .*_info block is loaded for any given DLL. Very nice!

Re: 1.0-1 ping problem

2005-03-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 7 15:13, Paul G Cantalupo wrote: Hello, When I run ping as the administrator on my Win2K box, it works fine but as a regular user, I get the following. ping: socket: operation not permitted I just had a look into the sources. Cygwin's ping is using raw sockets. This only works

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.13-1

2005-03-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Christopher Faylor writes: 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. The following files cygwin-1.5.13-1.tar\usr\share\info\libc.info libm.info also

Typo in how-to-debug-cygwin.txt

2005-03-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, The following text is wrong: set CYGWIN_DEBUG=cat.exe=gdb.exe and should look like this: set CYGWIN_DEBUG=cat.exe:gdb.exe -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: ssh-add hangers -- please try the latest snapshot

2005-03-10 Thread Chuck
Christopher Faylor wrote: Corinna identified a couple of problems and checked in some fixes which may solve the problem with ssh-add hanging. Please try the latest snapshot and report success for failure here. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ cgf Seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks

Re: ssh-add hangers -- please try the latest snapshot

2005-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 08:24:25AM -0500, Chuck wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Corinna identified a couple of problems and checked in some fixes which may solve the problem with ssh-add hanging. Please try the latest snapshot and report success for failure here. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Re: Emacs 21.3.50

2005-03-10 Thread Joe Buehler
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I think the OP is asking whether you plan to move 21.3.50-2 out of [test] and into [curr]. Unless what your actually said meant that 21.2 is the latest official version of GNU Emacs, and once 21.3.50 is released, you'll make that the [curr] version? 21.3.50 is a

Re: coreutils-5.3.0-3

2005-03-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Moving to cygwin list, where this belongs] According to Thomas Wolff on 3/9/2005 2:53 PM: I have rechecked some inconsistencies with the magic .exe suffix handling (see http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=581) with coreutils 5.3.0

Re: /etc/profile.d/lilypond-profile.sh and basename

2005-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:11:15AM -0500, Wheeler, Frederick W (Research) wrote: In Cygwin, when I ssh to my machine, I get the following error from basename % ssh d1 Last login: Thu Mar 10 08:54:40 2005 from caleb.crd.ge.com basename: invalid option -- b Try `basename --help' for more

Possible bug in gas/ld when using .linkonce

2005-03-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, I found this one while playing with Cygwin's code which takes care of seamless loading of dll functions (autoload.cc). It seems that when a symbol in a section marked .linkonce is referenced, wrong relocation info is generated for that symbol. For example if you have several symbols -

ssh-add hangers -- please try the latest snapshot

2005-03-10 Thread Karl M
Hi All... With the latest snapshot, I can not see the problem now. It also seemd to take a long time sometimes with the previous snapshot (March 4) in ssh-add. That also seems better now. But I really don't have enough data to say much here...it just seems better. Thanks, ...Karl --

still alive...

2005-03-10 Thread David Dindorp
Seems harmless, just thought I'd ask. What does this error mean? --- agent.sh: line 1: add_process: pid 592 (rm -f $tmpfile0 /dev/null) is still alive --- (Snapshot 20050309 installed couple of minutes ago.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: ssh-add hangers -- please try the latest snapshot

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 08:24:25AM -0500, Chuck wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Corinna identified a couple of problems and checked in some fixes which may solve the problem with ssh-add hanging. Please try the latest snapshot and report success for failure here.

[Fwd: Re: Emacs 21.3.50]

2005-03-10 Thread Paulo Sequeira
I inadvertently sent the mail only to Joe, so I'm posting it to the list. My apologies for the inconvenience. -- Paulo ---BeginMessage--- Joe Buehler wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I think the OP is asking whether you plan to move 21.3.50-2 out of [test] and into [curr]. Unless what your

Re: coreutils-5.3.0-3

2005-03-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ls x* x.exe [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ cat x bash: x: cannot overwrite existing file -- should have created x which does not exist It works for me on WinXP using bash 2.05b-17 inside a cmd window: $ ls x* x.exe $ cat x.exe x $ ls x* x x.exe You'll need to

Re: Two patches for cygwin build of 1.4.1rc2

2005-03-10 Thread Volker Quetschke
* crossposted to cygwin ml in case my opinion is not shared by the cygwin developers. * that would be either the location of the started executable or everything in the PATH variable. As the and 4 other locations. Windows looks for DLLs this way: 1. The directory from where the current

Re: ssh-add hangers -- please try the latest snapshot

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
Hi All... With the latest snapshot, I can not see the problem now. It also seemd to take a long time sometimes with the previous snapshot (March 4) in ssh-add. That also seems better now. But I really don't have enough data to say much here...it just seems better. You're right-- after

Re: /etc/profile.d/lilypond-profile.sh and basename

2005-03-10 Thread Wheeler, Frederick W \(Research\)
I think that just adding a -- is a better fix: if [ -z $ZSH_NAME -a `basename -- $0` = lilypond-profile ] ; the cgf This also fixes the problem for me and is clearly the better solution. basename --help does not mention this option. Fred Wheeler -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: how to reinstall the same packages on another computer

2005-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: linsong wrote: Now I want to install all cygwin packages that have been installed in Computer A to Computer B. Can I get the installed packages' information file and pass it setup.exe to install them? I search the document of setup.exe and

Re: /etc/profile.d/lilypond-profile.sh and basename

2005-03-10 Thread Eric Blake
I think that just adding a -- is a better fix: if [ -z $ZSH_NAME -a `basename -- $0` = lilypond-profile ] ; the cgf This also fixes the problem for me and is clearly the better solution. basename --help does not mention this option. Actually, all coreutils (and most other

Re: Issue with lpr in cygwin 1.5.13-1

2005-03-10 Thread Gates, Roger
On Mar 8 11:17, Frank Jacobs wrote: If I attempt to run lpr under cygwin 1.5.13-1, I get the following error: lpr: printer error: can't open '' for writing: The printer name is invalid. However, if I downgrade to cygwin 1.5.12-1, lpr works fine. Note that the issue does not appear

Solution For Handling Signals In Non-Cygwin Apps With SetConsoleCtrlHandler

2005-03-10 Thread Derosa, Anthony CIV NAVAIR 2035, 2, 205/214
At work, we use the Cygwin distribution primarily for the SSH server it provides. Almost everyone writes non-cygwin applications (not linked with Cygwin dll), which we spawn remotely through the Cygwin SSH server and bash. Some of these Windows programs need to clean up things when they are

Re: Two patches for cygwin build of 1.4.1rc2

2005-03-10 Thread Volker Quetschke
Thanks, but as the dll location is defined by the cygwin installation (cf. www.cygwin.com) nothing except 1., 2. and 6. is an option. So what you are saying is that cygin passes a full filename to LoadModule and uses its own logic to find that module? Then they should also have a standard

sscanf interprets n and na as floating point numbers

2005-03-10 Thread Peter W. Draper
Hi to all, I'm running Cygwin 1.5.13 under Windows XP Pro and have noticed the following problem with sscanf. If I ask it to parse the strings n and na using %lf%n it returns the value 0.0, and also reports the lengths as 1 and 2 respectively. The following program shows the problem: #include

Re: disk not seen after adminstrative re-install

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Winne
--- Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can still reproduce the behaviour, please drop notraverse from the CYGWIN variable again and call `strace -o mount.trace mount' and send the bzip'd mount.trace file to this list. (should be below 6 or 7K). It reproduces without fail.

Re: Two patches for cygwin build of 1.4.1rc2

2005-03-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:34:48 -0500, Volker Quetschke said: Thanks, but as the dll location is defined by the cygwin installation (cf. www.cygwin.com) nothing except 1., 2. and 6. is an option. So what you are saying is that cygin passes a full filename to LoadModule and uses its own logic to

Proble with the display

2005-03-10 Thread Khaled Jmal
Hello, I'm using the network simulator under windows with cygwin. My problem is that cygwin doesn't detect my display. I'v set the DISPLAY variable but this doesn't help. Help me please. Thanks, Khaled -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Building setup.exe from CVS?

2005-03-10 Thread Linda W
I probably don't know what/where I am looking for what, but it seems the source for the various apps (specifically setup.exe) aren't under winsup in CVS. What path should I be checking out if I want to try to build setup? Any gotcha's or things I should know? (Besides having ming installed).

Re: disk not seen after adminstrative re-install

2005-03-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 10 10:30, Chris Winne wrote: --- Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can still reproduce the behaviour, please drop notraverse from the CYGWIN variable again and call `strace -o mount.trace mount' and send the bzip'd mount.trace file to this list. (should be

Re: Building setup.exe from CVS?

2005-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:49:40PM -0800, Linda W wrote: I probably don't know what/where I am looking for what, but it seems the source for the various apps (specifically setup.exe) aren't under winsup in CVS. What path should I be checking out if I want to try to build setup? Any gotcha's or

/proc/pid/exe points to void

2005-03-10 Thread Sam Steingold
/proc/pid/exe points to foo, not to foo.exe, so it cannot be opened c. argv[0] also lacks .exe extension. is this a feature or a bug? -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k http://pmw.org.il/ http://www.dhimmi.com/ http://www.jihadwatch.org/ http://www.memri.org/

Re: Possible bug in gas/ld when using .linkonce

2005-03-10 Thread Danny Smith
Pavel Tsekov wrote: Hello, I found this one while playing with Cygwin's code which takes care of seamless loading of dll functions (autoload.cc). It seems that when a symbol in a section marked .linkonce is referenced, wrong relocation info is generated for that symbol. For example if you

Re: /proc/pid/exe points to void

2005-03-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 10 16:00, Sam Steingold wrote: /proc/pid/exe points to foo, not to foo.exe, so it cannot be opened c. argv[0] also lacks .exe extension. is this a feature or a bug? Definitely a feature. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails

Re: Building setup.exe from CVS?

2005-03-10 Thread Linda W
Thanks -- I tried looking on the website first, but couldn't find a link to it... Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:49:40PM -0800, Linda W wrote: I probably don't know what/where I am looking for what, but it seems the source for the various apps (specifically setup.exe)

Re: Building setup.exe from CVS?

2005-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Top-post reformatted. On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Linda W wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:49:40PM -0800, Linda W wrote: I probably don't know what/where I am looking for what, but it seems the source for the various apps (specifically setup.exe) aren't under

Re: Building setup.exe from CVS?

2005-03-10 Thread Linda W
Well how do you expect me to find it when it's right in front of me? :-) Actually the link was colored as 'visited', but I don't remember the page... Didn't I remember to tell you my memory isn't so good these days...:-) *sigh* Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Two clicks away: www.cygwin.com - Cygwin

Re: mktime() fails to return

2005-03-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Rich Natale wrote: I have two computers running XP Pro sp2. One has the cygwin development environment installed. I created and tested an application on the development computer which uses mktime(), and it works fine. I then moved the executable, cygwin1.dll, and cygz.dll to the other

Hyperthreaded machine and cygwin

2005-03-10 Thread Earl Chew
I'd like some guidance or suggestions as to how to debug a problem that I suspect has to do with my hyperthreaded cpu machine. The symptom is that I have two build scripts executing. The scripts traverse directories, use make, bash, sh, perl, etc. I have two hyperthreaded cpus running XP, and

Problem with the -r test in Perl 5.8.6-4

2005-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, I'm having trouble with Perl 5.8.6-4 under Cygwin 1.5.12. Some perl script uses the -r test to chech whether a directory is readable. It fails on the following directory: $ perl -e 'exit !(-r $ARGV[0])' /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/ThinkPad/Utilities echo yep $ test -r /cygdrive/c/Program\

running at jobs

2005-03-10 Thread Ravi Ram
is there a linux equivalent of at in cygwin. if so how do i use it. I have a Makefile which i can run it stand alone but couldn't get it working with cron. I am able to run simple jobs in cron. i would like to try at and try cron later thanks. --ravi -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file

2005-03-10 Thread Ricardo Fodra
Does setup have to download mirrors.lst and setup.bz2 every time? Can't it compare the date of the files on the server and on the computer? I have a dial up connection and I can only download a few packages per day, and every day setup downloads those files.

Re: RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file

2005-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:57:00AM -0300, Ricardo Fodra wrote: Does setup have to download mirrors.lst and setup.bz2 every time? Can't it compare the date of the files on the server and on the computer? I have a dial up connection and I can only download a few packages per day, and every day

Re: Issue with lpr in cygwin 1.5.13-1

2005-03-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Chuck, could you have a look into that? I'm not at all familar with lpr and I guess neither is cgf. Not until next week sometime. Sorry...busy busy busy. Hence 2:30am posting. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

UNC within the PATH

2005-03-10 Thread junk
I've been messing around with a PATH like this: PATH=;\\machine\share I then place bash scripts in \\machine\share\ts1.sh and in c:\ts2.sh ts1.sh ts2.sh look like this: #!/bin/sh echo hello world Finally I created a file association for the extension .sh so that it will use