Re: ITP: alternatives

2005-06-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 19:51, Charles Wilson wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: As discussed in this thread: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-06/msg00066.html ftp://cygutils.fruitbat.org/pub/cygutils/alternatives-1.3.20a-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: cygwin packaging approach for atlas3.6 and lapack3

2005-06-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, James R. Phillips wrote: [snip] ...to be replaced if possible by a tuned blas implementation optimized for the machine lapack runs on. Why not include a postinstall script for atlas that would compile and install the executables? Building

Re: cygwin packaging approach for atlas3.6 and lapack3

2005-06-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
James, Wouldn't it be sufficient to release a binary package with optimized versions for i486 which probably works on every AMD/Intel based PC as long as it is not an old 386? BTW, this is the architecture I build gcc for. You could include detailed instructions about rebuilding Atlas with

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR (Was Re: cygwin packaging approach for atlas3.6 and lapack3)

2005-06-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, James R. Phillips wrote: --- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. I use web mail for my cygwin mailing list interactions, so I can access from work or from home. Unfortunately, I don't see a way to

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR (Was Re: cygwin packaging approach for atlas3.6and lapack3)

2005-06-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Brian Dessent wrote: For the record: On the issue of not having future binary packages blow away a source-compiled optimized version, you could do something similar to how the gcc-mingw-* packages work. Those packages unpack to a single .tgz file and postinstall/preremove scripts that

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR (Was Re: cygwin packaging approach for atlas3.6 and lapack3)

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: For the record: On the issue of not having future binary packages blow away a source-compiled optimized version, you could do something similar to how the gcc-mingw-* packages work. Those packages unpack to a single .tgz

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR (Was Re: cygwin packaging approach for atlas3.6 and lapack3)

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, James R. Phillips wrote: --- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. I use web mail for my cygwin mailing list interactions, so I can access

Re: update-alternatives

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Charles Wilson wrote: Your wrap program seems intended for a different audience: the end user -- who might copy the orginal exe away to some other directory, and put the wrap program in the original location -- thus leading to DLL search issues, as you say. Speaking of

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Nikhil Nair
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Nikhil Nair wrote: [...] I'm sorry to say that the chooser is currently not accessible. I'm sure some setup developers have half-baked attempts to decouple the logic from the chooser in their private sandboxes (I do), but

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Nikhil Nair wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Nikhil Nair wrote: [...] I'm sorry to say that the chooser is currently not accessible. I'm sure some setup developers have half-baked attempts to decouple the logic from the

RE: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 27 June 2005 17:27 On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Nikhil Nair wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Assuming you have the ability to edit files, as a temporary workaround you could add the following line to your

RE: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 27 June 2005 17:27 On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Nikhil Nair wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Assuming you have the ability to edit files, as a temporary workaround you could add

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Oh, that reminds me, --no-md5 is broken, I just noticed the other day - gotta look at that too. It's not broken, it doesn't exist any more. Hehe. While we're at it, would you like to make setup print out a list of its command-line options, either in a message

RE: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Brian Dessent Sent: 27 June 2005 18:31 Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Mangled attributions. I wrote this bit. Oh, that reminds me, --no-md5 is broken, I just noticed the other day - gotta look at that too. It's not broken, it doesn't exist any more. So,

RE: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread DePriest, Jason R
On Monday, June 27, 2005 9:44 AM, Nikhil Nair wrote On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Nikhil Nair wrote: [...] I'm sorry to say that the chooser is currently not accessible. I'm sure some setup developers have half-baked attempts to decouple the logic

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Mangled attributions. I wrote this bit. I was replying to both of you, and quoting you through Igor's quote. So, if it doesn't exist anymore, how do we workaround a package validation failure exception? Essentially the operation of

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Hehe. While we're at it, would you like to make setup print out a list of its command-line options, either in a message box or by doing an AllocConsole()? I know the latter approach will pop up a console box if setup

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Nikhil Nair wrote: Am I right in suspecting that, if I were to use this method for another package which had unsatisfied dependencies, setup.exe wouldnt' sort out those dependencies for me? Or would it assume the dependencies had changed since version 0-0, and handle them seamlessly? It

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: One advantage of using the AllocConsole approach is that when starting setup from a console window, the output would appear on that console. If there is a way to check whether AllocConsole actually creates a new console or reuses the existing one (by, say, trying

Re: cygwin packaging approach for atlas3.6 and lapack3

2005-06-27 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The problem with your approach is that if you install both the binary and the source packages, and then upgrade the binary package, the optimized versions will be gone. I'd prefer the postinstall solution, combined with a helper DLL that delegates to either the

Re: STL errors building setup with gcc 3.4.4

2005-06-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/bits/stl_vector.h:715: warning: '__result' might be used uninitialized in this function /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/bits/stl_uninitialized.h:82: warning: '__cur' might be used uninitialized in this

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Nikhil Nair
Dear all, On balance, I've now decided to chicken out and leave the mouse manipulation stuff... Ivor, you were quite right - if nothing else, finding a drawn line between two columns etc. is probably not doable. However, Ivor's trick of inserting package information with a 0-0 version number

Re: STL errors building setup with gcc 3.4.4

2005-06-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: If you can reduce the offending parts down to a testcase that might be helpful. Otherwise for the time being the workarounds of one or more of Here is the reduced testcase: #include vector #include string class OptionSet { OptionSet (); std::vectorstd::string const

Re: STL errors building setup with gcc 3.4.4

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: If you can reduce the offending parts down to a testcase that might be helpful. Otherwise for the time being the workarounds of one or more of Here is the reduced testcase: #include vector #include string class OptionSet

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: One advantage of using the AllocConsole approach is that when starting setup from a console window, the output would appear on that console. If there is a way to check whether AllocConsole actually creates a new console

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 05:50:08PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Right. I did manage to get setup access to its parent console's stdout by compiling setup as a console application instead of a windowed one. Once setup knows that it doesn't need to print out a message, it calls FreeConsole().

Please upload: WindowMaker-0.90.0-2

2005-06-27 Thread Harold L Hunt II
http://homer.starnet.com/~hunth/cygwin/release/X11/WindowMaker/WindowMaker-0.90.0-2.tar.bz2 http://homer.starnet.com/~hunth/cygwin/release/X11/WindowMaker/WindowMaker-0.90.0-2-src.tar.bz2 (Yes, the setup.hint has been updated, please be sure to get it too)

Re: STL errors building setup with gcc 3.4.4

2005-06-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Please do. There is no obvious reason why this should be the correct behavior. I filed PR 22207 with the testcase. Oddly, the gcc-3.4 in Debian unstable does not emit the warnings: $ g++-3.4 spurious_uninitialized_testcase.ii -Wall -Werror -O2 -c $ g++-3.4 -v

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Larry Hall wrote: You can certainly manipulate the state of the console window using the STARTUPINFO structure for CreateProcess() (see the dwFlags and wShowWindow parameters). I've used this in the past to hide a console window that's created by invoking a console app via CreateProcess().

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: Larry Hall wrote: You can certainly manipulate the state of the console window using the STARTUPINFO structure for CreateProcess() (see the dwFlags and wShowWindow parameters). I've used this in the past to hide a console window that's created

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR (Was Re: cygwin packaging approach for atlas3.6 and lapack3)

2005-06-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Since you repackage anyway, this should work. Hmm, yes. I'll try to change it in future releases. Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: STL errors building setup with gcc 3.4.4

2005-06-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Hi, I'm getting weird errors in the bowels of STL code when building setup using the latest GCC (3.4.4-1). Below is a sample of the errors. I'm stumped -- any ideas? Igor This is cygwin-apps, please use the main list;) Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: STL errors building setup with gcc 3.4.4

2005-06-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Hi, I'm getting weird errors in the bowels of STL code when building setup using the latest GCC (3.4.4-1). Below is a sample of the errors. I'm stumped -- any ideas? Igor This is cygwin-apps, please use the main list;) Just kidding, I

Re: Blind people using setup.exe?

2005-06-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:35:35PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I've poked around, and it seems that the console handling design is so retarded, there isn't a way of doing this at all. So, looks like a MessageBox of sorts is the way to go after all. Right. If someone wants to provide help

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR (Was Re: cygwin packaging approach for atlas3.6 and lapack3)

2005-06-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:36:51AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Since you repackage anyway, this should work. Hmm, yes. I'll try to change it in future releases. The reason for the mingw repackaging was to set up a /usr/lib/mingw if one already existed, for backwards

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR (Was Re: cygwin packaging approach for atlas3.6 and lapack3)

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:36:51AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Since you repackage anyway, this should work. Hmm, yes. I'll try to change it in future releases. The reason for the mingw repackaging was to set up a

RE: Changing colours of XTerm

2005-06-27 Thread Reid Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have begun to use Cygwin on Windows and I have tried every technique I could find on the web for changing from the default black-on-white colours of Xterm (and perhaps other X applications) to something that's easier to look at. None of the techniques

Remote Java GUI window decoration in multiwindow mode

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Denk
Hello, I'm running Cygwin/X in multiwindow mode and it works quite fine. However, if I try to start a Java GUI that uses default lookfeel window decoration on a remote box, I get the following error in the shell on the remote host and the application won't start: --- Xlib: unexpected async

WindowMaker bad default values

2005-06-27 Thread Baksik, Frederick (NM75)
Hi, I've just installed WindowMaker for the first time and ran into difficulties with the default Font settings. This is the script I've used to start X. $ diff `which startxwin.sh` startxwmaker.sh 101c101 XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error --- XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error

RE: Changing colours of XTerm

2005-06-27 Thread Baksik, Frederick (NM75)
-Original Message- From: Reid Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 7:06 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Changing colours of XTerm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have begun to use Cygwin on Windows and I have tried every

Re: Numlock and java applications

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Wrong list. Questions about Cygwin/X should be sent to the cygwin-xfree list. Redirecting. On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Casolaro, Didier wrote: Hello, I'm developping and testing java application under KDE (3.4.0) environment trough cygwing running on Windows XP. If numlock key is active, some

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file.cc

2005-06-27 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-06-27 14:18:14 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file.cc Log message: * fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_disk_file::facl): Add missing break. Patches:

How to grant user rights with cygwin

2005-06-27 Thread Oliver Geisen
Hello, for some services to run under user security other than SYSTEM it is neccessary to give the user special windows rights. For now i only now some Windows-Tools (from ResourceKit, or Freeware) to do this. But, is there a cygwin-way for doing this ?! Example: I want to run sshd as user

Re: How to grant user rights with cygwin

2005-06-27 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Am Montag, 27. Juni 2005 08:06 schrieb Oliver Geisen: Hello, for some services to run under user security other than SYSTEM it is neccessary to give the user special windows rights. For now i only now some Windows-Tools (from ResourceKit, or Freeware) to do this. But, is there a cygwin-way

Numlock and java applications

2005-06-27 Thread Casolaro, Didier
Hello, I'm developping and testing java application under KDE (3.4.0) environment trough cygwing running on Windows XP. If numlock key is active, some keys of my keyboard (enter, arrows, numpad keys, backspace) don't work any more with any java application. Is there any patch anywhere to make java

Re: HUGE is missing in math.h

2005-06-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 26 09:37, Humberto Bortolossi wrote: Hi! I'm trying to port a C program written originally in Linux to the Microsoft Windows plataform. I've realized that math.h under cygwin doesn't define the macro HUGE, that is defined in the math.h under linux: /* Declarations for math

bash and make are trapped in an endless loop

2005-06-27 Thread Christian Matuszewski
Hi, if i start a fresh cygwin shell and I enter an asterisk at the prompt: $ * then nothing happens. That's OK, although one could expect a message like: bash: *: command not found. But when i execute the following Makefile: foo: * make will print the following lines to stderr:

RE: bash and make are trapped in an endless loop

2005-06-27 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Christian Matuszewski Sent: 27 June 2005 12:42 Hi, if i start a fresh cygwin shell and I enter an asterisk at the prompt: $ * then nothing happens. That's OK, although one could expect a message like: bash: *: command not found. But when i execute the

Re: NFS errors

2005-06-27 Thread Will Parsons
Larry Hall wrote: At 01:59 PM 6/24/2005, you wrote: After an abortive attempt a few months back, I am trying once more to get NFS working (Windows XP, cygwin 1.5.15). The daemons (portmap, mountd, and Maybe you want to update to current (or snapshot) Cygwin (at least)? Since the nfs

Re: NFS errors

2005-06-27 Thread Will Parsons
Crump, Michael wrote: When I was trying to get NFS working a few months back I found that if you have more than one network connection on the server machine all of the connections have to be enabled and connected to a network. After I did this nfs did work. I am not sure what you mean by

Re: bash and make are trapped in an endless loop

2005-06-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christian Matuszewski on 6/27/2005 5:42 AM: Hi, if i start a fresh cygwin shell and I enter an asterisk at the prompt: $ * then nothing happens. That's OK, although one could expect a message like: bash: *: command not found.

Re: Bash 3.0-2 and kill

2005-06-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Angelo Graziosi on 6/24/2005 3:26 PM: I have noted that when one uses kill -9 process-PID in bash 3.0-2 (test), the command kills the process but also bash (even if one uses /bin/kill...). I have gotten to the point where I

Re: NFS errors

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Will Parsons wrote: Crump, Michael wrote: When I was trying to get NFS working a few months back I found that if you have more than one network connection on the server machine all of the connections have to be enabled and connected to a network. After I did this

Re: bash and make are trapped in an endless loop

2005-06-27 Thread Christian Matuszewski
--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Von: Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Christian Matuszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: cygwin@cygwin.com Betreff: Re: bash and make are trapped in an endless loop Datum: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:50:14 -0600 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: Numlock and java applications

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Wrong list. Questions about Cygwin/X should be sent to the cygwin-xfree list. Redirecting. On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Casolaro, Didier wrote: Hello, I'm developping and testing java application under KDE (3.4.0) environment trough cygwing running on Windows XP. If numlock key is active, some

ps/kill and windows processes

2005-06-27 Thread Jason Pyeron
All this bask/kill thread was making me think. Is there a way to list and/or kill windows process from a bash prompt (over ssh)? Jason Pyeron -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason

Re: find -newer problem

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Allan WIlkins wrote: I must apologise if this is an already known problem but I have been unable to locate any reference to it in the mail archives. Executing a find using the -newer parameter returns files that appear to be of the same age. e.g. $ find XXX -newer YYY

Re: Emacs 21.3.50 problem on XP

2005-06-27 Thread Dharanyava
Sorry - running Cygwin 1.5.7-1 on XPSP2. TERM=cygwin. That was my first thought. If it's useful, info seems to exit perfectly fine. Will run cygcheck -s -v -r and post as soon as possible. Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Dharanyava wrote:

Re: ps/kill and windows processes

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Jason Pyeron wrote: All this bask/kill thread was making me think. Is there a way to list and/or kill windows process from a bash prompt (over ssh)? Yes. /bin/ps -W and /bin/kill -f. See man ps and man kill. Igor --

Re: Emacs 21.3.50 problem on XP

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Ugh. Top-posting. Reformatted. On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Dharanyava wrote: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Also, again, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL. Thanks. On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Dharanyava wrote:

group IDs

2005-06-27 Thread Peter Green
I am new to the list - apologies if this has all been sorted out before, but I couldn't find the solution. Files I create from within Cygwin (e.g. by touch or the output of gcc) have numerical group ID 10545, while those created in Windows applications (e.g. Thunderbird, Notetab) get group ID

Re: ps/kill and windows processes

2005-06-27 Thread Jason Pyeron
my man path was wrong, whoops pulling up a non cygwin version would never of noticed otherwise. thanks -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc.

Re: group IDs

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Peter Green wrote: I am new to the list - apologies if this has all been sorted out before, but I couldn't find the solution. Files I create from within Cygwin (e.g. by touch or the output of gcc) have numerical group ID 10545, while those created in Windows

RE: group IDs

2005-06-27 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Peter Green Sent: 27 June 2005 15:05 I am new to the list - apologies if this has all been sorted out before, but I couldn't find the solution. Files I create from within Cygwin (e.g. by touch or the output of gcc) have numerical group ID 10545, while those

Re: NFS errors

2005-06-27 Thread Will Parsons
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Will Parsons wrote: Crump, Michael wrote: When I was trying to get NFS working a few months back I found that if you have more than one network connection on the server machine all of the connections have to be enabled and connected to a

Re: ls slow on top-level directory (was: NFS errors)

2005-06-27 Thread Will Parsons
snip However, after some more experimentation, I see the ls /xp eventually does return, after about 17 minutes. So it appears as though NFS kind of works, but so slowly as to be useless. There is no problem with other types of network access, e.g., I am logged on to the client machine vai

Trouble finding the package the command watch is in

2005-06-27 Thread John Petritis
I am looking for the command named watch I am trying to find the package it is located in. I haven't had any luck finding it through various search strategies. My trouble is probably due to it being such a common word. So I have 2 questions? 1) Which package do I need to install to get the watch

Re: Trouble finding the package the command watch is in

2005-06-27 Thread thomas . revell
[snip] 1) Which package do I need to install to get the watch command procps 2) Is there some sort of way I can list what is in packages to find which package it is in? http://cygwin.com/packages/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Trouble finding the package the command watch is in

2005-06-27 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: John Petritis Sent: 27 June 2005 16:11 I am looking for the command named watch I am trying to find the package it is located in. I haven't had any luck finding it through various search strategies. My trouble is probably due to it being such a common word.

Re: Trouble finding the package the command watch is in

2005-06-27 Thread Mark Paulus
Generally you can find a certain file by going to the cygwin website, and then selecting Setup Package Search under the Software heading from the main menu on the left hand side. In this particular case, watch is connected to many packages, so from experience, I'll tell you that it is included

RE: Trouble finding the package the command watch is in

2005-06-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: John Petritis Sent: 27 June 2005 16:11 I am looking for the command named watch I am trying to find the package it is located in. I haven't had any luck finding it through various search strategies. My trouble is

Re: ls slow on top-level directory (was: NFS errors)

2005-06-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 27 14:50, Will Parsons wrote: I notice that ls reports: /bin/ls: hiberfil.sys: No such file or directory /bin/ls: pagefile.sys: No such file or directory ls hitab completes to ls hiberfil.sys, and shows the same message. Could this have something to do with the slow response?

ImageMagick: 6.0.4-1 offset in -crop option of convert doesn't work

2005-06-27 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Hi, when using convert with an offset in crop option the image returned is broken: convert foobar.gif -crop 100x150+20+30 result.gif should return a 100x150 picture positioned at 20,30 in the original picture any non zero values for position makes a picture of width and height requested

Re: rxvt 2.7.10-6: bash Control-C exits all backgrounded children rxvt processes as well as foreground process/command

2005-06-27 Thread Wayne Willcox
HOw about using a trap on sig TERM? Have it do something harmless or ignore it On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:47:38AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some wrappers to invoke a telnet or an ssh within an rxvt window so that I can label it with the host I'm connecting to. I love rxvt

Re: rxvt 2.7.10-6: bash Control-C exits all backgrounded children rxvt processes as well as foreground process/command

2005-06-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:47:38AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. a really annoying and quite hazardous artifact of rxvt in cygwin is that it will grab the control-Cs sent from the parent bash session and close down. [snip] Any advice on 1) Whether this is an issue with bash or rxvt or both?

Re: HUGE is missing in math.h

2005-06-27 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:43:19AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 26 09:37, Humberto Bortolossi wrote: Hi! I'm trying to port a C program written originally in Linux to the Microsoft Windows plataform. I've realized that math.h under cygwin doesn't define the macro HUGE,

RE: rxvt 2.7.10-6: bash Control-C exits all backgrounded children rxvt processes as well as foreground process/command

2005-06-27 Thread Reid Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some wrappers to invoke a telnet or an ssh within an rxvt window so that I can label it with the host I'm connecting to. I love rxvt because it has real vt emulation, and also gives me X-like middle mouse cut and paste operations that I'm used to from my Sun

Re: IPv6 Libaries for Cygwin

2005-06-27 Thread Ross MacGillivray
Brian Dessent brian at dessent.net writes: Ross MacGillivray wrote: No, there is no IPv6 support. The mailing list archives have details. ^^^ ... I found the following unofficial IPv6 extension to Cygwin. Is there any plans to incorporate

make fails always on invalid path C:cygwinusrinclude

2005-06-27 Thread Patrick Graebel
Where does this weird include path come from? Is there something misconfigured in my Cygwin environment? Here is the line that is printed by various makefiles: gcc: C:cygwinusrinclude: No such file or directory -Patrick -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

kermit for cygwin?

2005-06-27 Thread mwang
Is kermit, or any serial port communication software (tip, cu) available for cygwin? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: make fails always on invalid path C:cygwinusrinclude

2005-06-27 Thread Ross Smith
Patrick Graebel wrote: Where does this weird include path come from? Is there something misconfigured in my Cygwin environment? Here is the line that is printed by various makefiles: gcc: C:cygwinusrinclude: No such file or directory I'd bet that, somewhere in your setup, you've got

Re: make fails always on invalid path C:cygwinusrinclude

2005-06-27 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:39 PM 6/27/2005, you wrote: Where does this weird include path come from? Is there something misconfigured in my Cygwin environment? Here is the line that is printed by various makefiles: gcc: C:cygwinusrinclude: No such file or directory Please read and follow the problem reporting

Re: kermit for cygwin?

2005-06-27 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:41 PM 6/27/2005, you wrote: Is kermit, or any serial port communication software (tip, cu) available for cygwin? Thanks. Please visit http://cygwin.com/packages/ for answers to questions like this. If you don't find something there, you can be assured that if such a package exists,

Re: HUGE is missing in math.h

2005-06-27 Thread Jeff Johnston
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 26 09:37, Humberto Bortolossi wrote: Hi! I'm trying to port a C program written originally in Linux to the Microsoft Windows plataform. I've realized that math.h under cygwin doesn't define the macro HUGE, that is defined in the math.h under linux: /*

Re: Emacs 21.3.50 problem on XP

2005-06-27 Thread Dharanyava
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Ugh. Top-posting. Reformatted. On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Dharanyava wrote: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Also, again, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL. Thanks. On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Dharanyava wrote:

Re: Build/Compile problems with ApachPHP on Cygwin MS-XP

2005-06-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Chris Oxenreider wrote: Hi, I have been trying to compile Apache and PHP on XP. I have been using the instructions on http://httpd.apache.org/docs/cygwin.html. I have freshly re-installed my cygwin on XP as of 2005-06-17 which should be the latest Cygwin (from Kernel.org). My ld version is

ls when acl() is busy [was: ls slow on top-level directory]

2005-06-27 Thread Eric Blake
[bug-coreutils: posting this cygwin question upstream] On Jun 27 14:50, Will Parsons wrote: I notice that ls reports: /bin/ls: hiberfil.sys: No such file or directory /bin/ls: pagefile.sys: No such file or directory ls hitab completes to ls hiberfil.sys, and shows the same

[ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: alternatives-1.3.20a-1

2005-06-27 Thread Charles Wilson
This package provides mechanisms for maintaining a database of, and managing, other packages which might be in conflict with each other. The end user can easily switch between the desired versions. This implementation was adapted from the version included in Red Hat/Fedora's 'chkconfig'