Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: w32api-3.3-1

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 09:00, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Chris Sutcliffe writes: I've updated the w32api package to version 3.3-1: w32api contains all the headers and libraries required to compile windows based programs. A list of what has changed is attached. Any reason this package is

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-runtime-3.8-1

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 08:56, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Chris Sutcliffe writes: I've made a new version of the mingw runtime headers and libraries available for download. A list of what has changed is attached. This version doens't seem to be stripped. Redirected to cygwin-apps. Corinna --

Re: Please Upload: octave-2.1.71-2

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 14 22:52, James R. Phillips wrote: ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/octave/octave-2.1.71-2-src.tar.bz2 ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/octave/octave-2.1.71-2.tar.bz2 ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/octave/octave-headers-2.1.71-2.tar.bz2

Re: Please Upload: octave-forge-2005.06.13-2

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 14 22:59, James R. Phillips wrote: ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/octave-forge/octave-forge-2005.06.13-2-src.tar.bz2 ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/octave-forge/octave-forge-2005.06.13-2.tar.bz2 ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/octave-forge/setup.hint Uploaded. Corinna --

Re: Please Upload: octave-2.1.71-2

2005-08-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to James R. Phillips on 8/14/2005 11:52 PM: A new octave release has been prepared which: + is linked with the fftw3 libraries + is linked with the --enable-auto-image-base option + fixes the issue with /usr/share/info/dir When using

Re: Please Upload: octave-2.1.71-2

2005-08-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Eric Blake wrote: When using setup.exe this morning, I got complaints from tar when unpacking octave-forge: error: unknown (or unsupported) file type `K'. I believe this is coming from tar, meaning you packaged with a newer version of tar than cygwin's current 1.13.25, using options that the

[PATCH] Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 8/15/2005 2:45 AM: Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as _obsolete First, sh is not a part of coreutils nor its predecessor sh-utils. Until

Re: Please Upload: octave-2.1.71-2

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 05:09, Brian Dessent wrote: Eric Blake wrote: When using setup.exe this morning, I got complaints from tar when unpacking octave-forge: error: unknown (or unsupported) file type `K'. I believe this is coming from tar, meaning you packaged with a newer version of tar than

issue with setup and octave-forge new release (was: Re: Please Upload: octave-2.1.71-2)

2005-08-15 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Eric Blake wrote: issue with /usr/share/info/dir When using setup.exe this morning, I got complaints from tar when unpacking octave-forge: error: unknown (or unsupported) file type `K'. I believe this is coming from tar, meaning you packaged with a newer version of tar than cygwin's

Re: [PATCH] Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Eric Blake wrote: Also, the following patch to setup.exe will solve the problem of bash upgrades. Since bash is guaranteed to exist if the user didn't unselect Base packages, but sh is not, we might as well always use /bin/bash as the Ash is in 'base' too. shell to spawn postinstall

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-runtime-3.8-1

2005-08-15 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
I've made a new version of the mingw runtime headers and libraries available for download. A list of what has changed is attached. This version doens't seem to be stripped. That is correct, they are not stripped (I didn't notice to be honest). Having a look at the Makefile.in

Re: Proposal singular-3.0.0-1 (final directory structure)

2005-08-15 Thread Oliver Wienand
Dear Gerrit Haase, I found the reason for some of the errors I'm seeing. There are CPPFLAGS or CFLAGS missing, in Singular/Makefile.in I needed to add -I. to CPPFLAGS to prevent this error: In file included from extra.cc:52: ../kernel/feOpt.h:28:21: feOpt.inc: No such file or directory This

Re: [PATCH] Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 8/15/2005 7:02 AM: Also, the following patch to setup.exe will solve the problem of bash upgrades. Since bash is guaranteed to exist if the user didn't unselect Base packages, but sh is not, we might as well always use

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-runtime-3.8-1

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 09:15, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: I've made a new version of the mingw runtime headers and libraries available for download. A list of what has changed is attached. This version doens't seem to be stripped. That is correct, they are not stripped (I didn't notice to

Re: FFTW3, Shared Libraries, libtool

2005-08-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, James R. Phillips wrote: I have this attached patch against 3.0.1. I don't know if it is still all needed, however you see where to go. Maybe it applies with some fuzz. After applying the changes run `autoreconf --force --install --verbose` in the top level

Re: Error in g-b-s (line 408: almostall: command not found)

2005-08-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote: According to Marcel Telka on 8/13/2005 4:04 PM: Hi. There is an error in the latest generic-build-script (1.34). Parameter all doesn't work. My bad; I goofed when adding almostall. And mine, for not noticing this when applying the patch. This

Re: [PATCH] Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Eric Blake wrote: But who really WANTS to run postinstall scripts with /bin/ash, when it is non-POSIX compliant? On the other hand, it wouldn't be too hard to replace /bin/sh with /bin/ash as the search order in scripts.cc, rather than deleting /bin/sh altogether; either way the patch is a

Please Upload: new octave-forge binary package

2005-08-15 Thread James R. Phillips
The previously uploaded octave-forge-2005.06.13-2 binary package had some corrupted files near the end of the archive (no idea how that happened). This new package unpacks without errors and is built from the same source.

Re: Please Upload: new octave-forge binary package

2005-08-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:28:40AM -0700, James R. Phillips wrote: The previously uploaded octave-forge-2005.06.13-2 binary package had some corrupted files near the end of the archive (no idea how that happened). This new package unpacks without errors and is built from the same source.

Re: Please Upload: new octave-forge binary package

2005-08-15 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Christopher Faylor wrote: Jim, You really need to bump the version. There is no telling who got the corrupted file so bumping the version is the only way to make sure that people automatically get the clean file. You don't have to announce this if you don't want to, but I think we

Re: [PATCH] Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Eric Blake wrote: But it will obliterate /bin/sh if a user wanted it to be ksh or zsh. The whole reason that 00bash.sh first checks what sh is currently, is because I only want the upgrade to take place if it is ash or an outdated bash, but to not penalize users who like ksh or zsh when

Re: [PATCH] Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: Eric Blake wrote: But who really WANTS to run postinstall scripts with /bin/ash, when it is non-POSIX compliant? On the other hand, it wouldn't be too hard to replace /bin/sh with /bin/ash as the search order in scripts.cc, rather than deleting

Re: [PATCH] Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:20:41AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: However, I just noticed something that will make life a lot easier - it sets the CYGWINROOT environment variable when running a script. This means that we should be able to just

Re: [PATCH] Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 08:30:03AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:20:41AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: However, I just noticed something that will make life a lot easier - it sets the CYGWINROOT environment

Re: Please Upload: new octave-forge binary package

2005-08-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:55:49AM -0700, James R. Phillips wrote: ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/octave-forge/octave-forge-2005.06.13-3-src.tar.bz2 ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/octave-forge/octave-forge-2005.06.13-3.tar.bz2 Uploaded. cgf

Problems with octave-forge-2005.06.13-3

2005-08-15 Thread James R. Phillips
OK, the problems persist in the -3 release. This is embarrassing. AFAICT, the problem is _not_ corrupted files, now, although I believe that may have been a factor in -2. The problem is with the updated build script, which uses a shadow directory of symbolic links to build out-of-tree. A few

Open offer to add donation info to http://cygwin.com/donations.html

2005-08-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
If you are a package maintainer, I'd be happy to add a link to your PayPal account to the http://cygwin.com/donations.html . If you're interested in being listed there, please send me personal email (cgf at cgf dot cx) with some html (either a paypal button or just a link) to add to this page.

Please Upload: octave-forge-2005.06.13-4

2005-08-15 Thread James R. Phillips
Ok, the problems with dead absolute symlinks in the binary package have been solved. Note that there are still some relative symlinks in the binary package- these are designed to be there and do work. As a bonus for the effort, I realized the many of the .oct files needed to be stripped, so the

Re: [ITP] netpbm-10.28

2005-08-15 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Charles (and me) used to use a separate directory for the headers which I still would prefer: But there's no netpbm-config script or the like, so how would a dependant package know to look for the headers there? FWIW,

Re: [ITP] netpbm-10.28

2005-08-15 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yaakov S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Charles (and me) used to use a separate directory for the headers which I still would prefer: But there's no netpbm-config script or the like, so how would a dependant package know to look for the headers

Re: ITP: fftw-3.0.1

2005-08-15 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corinna Vinschen wrote: Since the package is in SuSE and Debian, just go ahead and prepare the package. But I'm wondering why it's useful to drop the single precision calls. Sounds like an unnecessary restriction to me. Gentoo[1] uses an

Re: Please Upload: octave-forge-2005.06.13-4

2005-08-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:00:32PM -0700, James R. Phillips wrote: Ok, the problems with dead absolute symlinks in the binary package have been solved. Note that there are still some relative symlinks in the binary package- these are designed to be there and do work. As a bonus for the effort, I

Re: ITP: fftw-3.0.1

2005-08-15 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Yaakov S wrote: Gentoo[1] uses an interesting technique to build both single- and double-precision libraries (the single-precision libs have an additional 'f' in their name) from the same package. This could be adapted for our purposes (yes, I've actually done it): In the configure

Re: Starting Xwin - Shell Window Remains

2005-08-15 Thread Doug VanLeuven
brett lee wrote: Hi, I'm able to start and use Xwin. However, after the X server is up, I need to manually close the cygwin bash window (the one that started the X server). I've checked the usual places, but have not come up with a solution. This is probably more of a shell scripting

Is this SPAM!?

2005-08-15 Thread Soong, SylokeJ
How is it that is spam could get through cygwin-xfree-owner?? #:- (Grumpingly-Annoyedticon) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL Sent: Mon, August 15, 2005 9:43 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: HELLO. HALIFAX

Re: Is this SPAM!?

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 11:19, Soong, SylokeJ wrote: How is it that is spam could get through cygwin-xfree-owner?? #:- (Grumpingly-Annoyedticon) And you're helping it to spread by FULL QUOTING IT. Congratulation! NEVER reply to spam which got through the filter. And don't reply to this mail.

Re: cygwin-xfree Digest 15 Aug 2005 13:43:08 -0000 Issue 1820

2005-08-15 Thread brett lee
bash --login -i /usr/local/bin/myxwin You might want to try this: bash --login -c /usr/local/bin/myxwin ^^ -i is for an interactive shell Regards, Doug Doug, that sounded like a reasonable idea. However, it didn't work for me. :) I'm thinking that there

Re: Starting Xwin - Shell Window Remains

2005-08-15 Thread Doug VanLeuven
brett lee wrote: 1. C:\cygwin\startxwin.bat exists, and has the following contents: @echo off c: chdir c:\cygwin\bin bash --login -i /usr/local/bin/myxwin bash --login -c /usr/local/bin/myxwin 2. /usr/local/bin/myxwin exists, and has the following contents: #!/usr/bin/bash # # Start

Re: Can I close the startx cygwin shell?

2005-08-15 Thread J. David Boyd
Trebor Sreyb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- J. David Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the startxwin.bat file in the c:\cgywin\usr\X11R6\bin folder. You can modify to open several xterms, or whatever you want, and it works great. I had tried once to customize startxwin.bat for my

Re: Starting Xwin - Shell Window Remains

2005-08-15 Thread Reid Thompson
As info I start X by using a shortcut to open an rxvt window running bash ( see below for contents of shortcut scripts ). (If you do not have rxvt, use setup to get it, it is unbelievable to me that with billions of dollars MS cannot include a decent command prompt.) Then,

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8

2005-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
cygcheck can show a version when the program is not even there (either not installed or missing) Why do you say that the Cygwin man was not installed? From everything you've posted it was installed just fine, but your other version of man was found first in the

RE: FW: Installation Problems with Cygwin on Windows XP

2005-08-15 Thread Vittal Krishnamurthy \(vitkrish\)
One more question.. Wondering where is the default bashrc located (or rc file which is executed when bash is executed). I need to modify to point to my .profile. Thanks -V On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:27:20PM -0700, Vittal Krishnamurthy (vitkrish) wrote: I added /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin to my

Re: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

2005-08-15 Thread Bitmead, Chris
Yes, I know. Unless I implement this *crucial* bit of functionality it is possible that the space time continuum will implode. I see, so any API that you personally have no use for should be mocked. However, since it is not currently implemented, since there is no sign of an implementation on

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: w32api-3.3-1

2005-08-15 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Chris Sutcliffe writes: I've updated the w32api package to version 3.3-1: w32api contains all the headers and libraries required to compile windows based programs. A list of what has changed is attached. Any reason this package is more than twice the size of the last version ?

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-runtime-3.8-1

2005-08-15 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Chris Sutcliffe writes: I've made a new version of the mingw runtime headers and libraries available for download. A list of what has changed is attached. This version doens't seem to be stripped. Chris Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: man, info fail me in cygwin 1.5.18

2005-08-15 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Rolf Maier wrote: If I type 'info man' I get multiple listings to help on fftw3 and Octave, and nothing else. Can anyone tell me what might have happened, and hence what I need to fix? I didn't mention what Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes mentioned as short term solution: Manually run

Problems compiling PerlMagick. Any suggestions...

2005-08-15 Thread John Cavanaugh
Ok, Im no rookie to compiling stuff on linux etc, but Ive encountered a problem Im not sure where to go. I have compiled my own version of perl 5.8.7 and placed it in /opt/perl587 so I can install all kinds of various perl modules etc. I have installed ImageMagick and the associated devel

RE: Chrooted ssh and SFTP in cygwin

2005-08-15 Thread RITTER, Philippe
Hello, My problem is with SFTP server, not with FTP. The environnement seems not to be the same with openssh-4.1. I could make an chroot with openssh 3.8.1. Can I found somewhere the source of this release ? Thanks Philippe RITTER -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 16:52, Bitmead, Chris wrote: Yes, I know. Unless I implement this *crucial* bit of functionality it is possible that the space time continuum will implode. I see, so any API that you personally have no use for should be mocked. However, since it is not currently implemented,

Windows hardening and system paths

2005-08-15 Thread Mikkel Rostock
Hello there, I am trying to install Cygwin on a Windows 2003 server that is hardened, meaning that all Windows resources (DLLs) are moved from their usual location (eg. X:\WINNT\SYSTEM32) to a different location, and that these resources can only be accessed/executed from this location. Cygwin

missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Sigurd Nes
Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as _obsolete Regards Sigurd -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Windows hardening and system paths

2005-08-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Mikkel Rostock wrote: Cygwin uses some DLL-resources in Windows, but in my case, these DLLs reside in another location than the usual Windows system directory, so how can I tell Cygwin to (also) look for Windows resources in a different place than the usual system folder? Cygwin doesn't know

Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Sigurd Nes wrote: Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as _obsolete First, sh is not a part of coreutils nor its predecessor sh-utils. Until recently, /bin/sh has been ash, in the package 'ash'. Now it is a copy of /bin/bash,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: libao-0.8.6-1, libao2-0.8.6-1, libao-devel-0.8.6-1

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have uploaded libao-0.8.6-1, consisting of three packages: - libao - Base package, containing docs and stuff. - libao2 - Runtime package, containing just the libao DLL. - libao-devel - Development package, containing libs and include files. Libao is a Cross-Platform Audio Output

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: vorbis-tools-1.1.1-1

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have uploaded vorbis-tools-1.1.1-1. Vorbis-tools contains oggenc (an encoder) and ogg123 (a playback tool). It also has vorbiscomment (to add comments to vorbis files), ogginfo (to give all useful information about an ogg file, including streams in it), oggdec (a simple command line decoder),

Re: Problems compiling PerlMagick. Any suggestions...

2005-08-15 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:28:49AM -0700, John Cavanaugh wrote: $ make cp Magick.pm blib/lib/Image/Magick.pm AutoSplitting blib/lib/Image/Magick.pm (blib/lib/auto/Image/Magick) /opt/perl587/bin/perl.exe /opt/perl587/lib/5.8.7/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /opt/perl587/lib/5.8.7/Ex

SV: missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Sigurd Nes
From: Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2005-08-15 10:45:59 CEST To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils Sigurd Nes wrote: Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as _obsolete First,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: speex-1.1.10-1, libspeex1-1.1.10-1, speex-devel-1.1.10-1

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have uploaded speex-1.1.10-1, consisting of three packages: - speex - Base package, containing binaries, docs and stuff. - libspeex1 - Runtime package, containing just the speex DLL. - speex-devel - Development package, containing libs and include files. Speex is a patent-free audio

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libvorbis-1.1.1-1, libvorbis0-1.1.1-1, libvor... etc.

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated libvorbis to 1.1.1-1, containing the 1.1.1 upstream release. In my first attempt I used the older 1.1.0 package accidentally. Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, and general-purpose compressed audio format for audio and music at fixed and variable

/usr/bin/manweb from latest netpbm not working

2005-08-15 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi This is from latest netpbm: 12:45 PM [674] /bin/manweb Can't open configuration file '/etc/manweb.conf'. No such file or directory at /bin/manweb line 322. It looks like this could be setup in a postinstall step. Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Problems compiling PerlMagick. Any suggestions...

2005-08-15 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
John Cavanaugh wrote: Ok, Im no rookie to compiling stuff on linux etc, but Ive encountered a problem Im not sure where to go. I have compiled my own version of perl 5.8.7 and placed it in /opt/perl587 so I can install all kinds of various perl modules etc. I have installed ImageMagick and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: vorbis-tools-1.1.1-2

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated vorbis-tools to 1.1.1-2. This package now also has speex support builtin. Vorbis-tools contains oggenc (an encoder) and ogg123 (a playback tool). It also has vorbiscomment (to add comments to vorbis files), ogginfo (to give all useful information about an ogg file, including

Re: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8

2005-08-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Herb Martin on 8/14/2005 10:22 PM: cygwin (like Linux apparently) keeps a database of programs and so deleting an incorrect program on the path may leave the OS complaining about the

Re: $OS vs `uname -s` [Attn: base-files maintainer]

2005-08-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PLEASE fix your mailer to send valid mail. It was difficult to see what you were asking, because your MIME settings are incorrect, and correct mailers only saw a blank message. According to Michael Richardson on 8/14/2005 2:28 PM: I noticed that my

Re: FW: Installation Problems with Cygwin on Windows XP

2005-08-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Vittal Krishnamurthy (vitkrish) on 8/15/2005 12:10 AM: One more question.. Wondering where is the default bashrc located (or rc file which is executed when bash is executed). I need to modify to point to my .profile. man bash,

Re: g++ defines for win32

2005-08-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: Here's the test case. Execute the run.bat file to perform the test. Hmm, it seams that I cannot send zip files as attachments. So you may download the test case from http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~angel/test_case.zip and run run.bat to

Re: $OS vs `uname -s` [Attn: base-files maintainer]

2005-08-15 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Eric Blake wrote: If your setup is like mine, OS is an inherited environment variable, set by Windows before bash is even started. You can set it to whatever you like. Meanwhile, uname -s is not affected by the environment (you really don't want an environment variable changing the uname

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: vorbis-tools-1.1.1-2

2005-08-15 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Corinna Vinschen writes: I have updated vorbis-tools to 1.1.1-2. This package now also has speex support builtin. But it's missing /usr/bin/vcut.exe /usr/share/man/man1/vcut.1 Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: vorbis-tools-1.1.1-2

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 14:06, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: I have updated vorbis-tools to 1.1.1-2. This package now also has speex support builtin. But it's missing /usr/bin/vcut.exe /usr/share/man/man1/vcut.1 Sigh. I missed the fact that vcut only gets build if

RE: Windows hardening and system paths

2005-08-15 Thread Mikkel Rostock
Hello Brian, Thanks for a quick answer! However, I have searched all over to find out where to add the path, and as you state just put it in the path - but where? - In Windows registry or in a Cygwin config file? Mikkel Rostock wrote: Cygwin uses some DLL-resources in Windows, but in my case,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vorbis-tools-1.1.1-3

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated vorbis-tools to 1.1.1-3. This package now also provides the missing vcut tool. Vorbis-tools contains oggenc (an encoder) and ogg123 (a playback tool). It also has vorbiscomment (to add comments to vorbis files), ogginfo (to give all useful information about an ogg file, including

Re: Windows hardening and system paths

2005-08-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Mikkel Rostock wrote: However, I have searched all over to find out where to add the path, and as you state just put it in the path - but where? - In Windows registry or in a Cygwin config file? The path is the path. It doesn't matter how you add it there, as long as the DLLs are in the path

RE: Win64 users, please test snapshot (was Re: cygwin on win x64)

2005-08-15 Thread Oliver Walsh
On Aug 13 16:37, Frank Spies wrote: i have the same problem with the cygwin install spawning 1000s of processes on win x64 reported in a post on 28 july .. i did not see anybody responding with a fix or a workaround does anybody have an idea how to get cygwin up and running on win x64

Re: Win64 users, please test snapshot (was Re: cygwin on win x64)

2005-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 14:09, Oliver Walsh wrote: On Aug 13 16:37, Frank Spies wrote: i have the same problem with the cygwin install spawning 1000s of processes on win x64 reported in a post on 28 july .. i did not see anybody responding with a fix or a workaround does anybody have an idea

Subversion 1.2.0: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL

2005-08-15 Thread Alexey Lyubimov
Hello! I'm running Cygwin on Win98SE and the problem is that I can not even import any project to the successfully created local SVN-repository: $ svnadmin create c:/svnroot/ $ svnadmin verify c:/svnroot/ * Verified revision 0. $ svn import c:/foo/ file:///c:/svnroot/ svn: Unable to open an

non-OLOCA acronym alert (was: Re: Proposal singular-3.0.0-1 (final directory structure))

2005-08-15 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:18:04PM +0200, Oliver Wienand wrote: JFTR: Packages required: gcc, gmp, make, flex, bison, perl, readline, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Michael Schaap
On 15-Aug-2005 10:45, Brian Dessent wrote: Sigurd Nes wrote: Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as _obsolete First, sh is not a part of coreutils nor its predecessor sh-utils. Until recently, /bin/sh has been ash, in

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

2005-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Blake According to Herb Martin on 8/14/2005 10:22 PM: cygwin (like Linux apparently) keeps a database of programs and so deleting an incorrect program on the path may leave the OS complaining about

Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Reinhard Nissl
Hi, Michael Schaap wrote: On 15-Aug-2005 10:45, Brian Dessent wrote: Sigurd Nes wrote: Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as _obsolete First, sh is not a part of coreutils nor its predecessor sh-utils. Until recently,

Re: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

2005-08-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 04:52:16PM +1000, Bitmead, Chris wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:21:41AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:56:44PM +1000, Bitmead, Chris wrote: I've heard of sigstack and sigalstack but cygwin hasn't. Well that's a shame since sigaltstack is

Re: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

2005-08-15 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:11:09AM -0500, Herb Martin wrote: There is a man directory in /usr/bin, i.e., /usr/bin/man -- with man.exe being the program, while manpath gives: What created that directory? Having it is a really bad idea, and probably the source of all your troubles. --

Re: g++ defines for win32

2005-08-15 Thread Angel Tsankov
- Original Message - From: Pavel Tsekov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Angel Tsankov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cygwin mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 3:04 PM Subject: Re: g++ defines for win32 Hello, On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: Here's the test case.

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

2005-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:11:09AM -0500, Herb Martin wrote: There is a man directory in /usr/bin, i.e., /usr/bin/man -- with man.exe being the program, while manpath gives: What created that directory? Having it is a really bad idea, and probably the source of all your troubles. I

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-2.1.71-2

2005-08-15 Thread James R. Phillips
INFO The cygwin octave package has been updated to release 2.1.71-2. Changes: +Rebuilt to link against fftw3 libraries, for faster fft operations. +Links with --enable-auto-image-base flag to reduce need for rebasing dlls. +Fixed packaging error related to /usr/share/info/dir More

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

2005-08-15 Thread Eric Blake
There is a man directory in /usr/bin, i.e., /usr/bin/man -- with man.exe being the program, while manpath gives: This sentence was confusing. Are you telling me that /usr/bin/man exists and is a directory (does it have normal subdirectories like man1?), and that /usr/bin/man.exe exists and is

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

2005-08-15 Thread Eric Blake
man hash and info hash are both worthless (except to admit that hash is exists, i.e., is a built-in. Yes, bash documentation is not the best packaged (I like the Solaris man pages for shell builtins much better). What `man hash' is trying to tell you to do is run `man bash', then search the

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

2005-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Herb Martin; cygwin@cygwin.com man hash and info hash are both worthless (except to admit that hash is exists, i.e., is a built-in. Yes, bash documentation is not the best packaged (I like the Solaris man pages for shell builtins much

Re: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

2005-08-15 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:00:49PM +, Eric Blake wrote: There is a man directory in /usr/bin, i.e., /usr/bin/man -- with man.exe being the program, while manpath gives: This sentence was confusing. Are you telling me that /usr/bin/man exists and is a directory (does it have normal

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

2005-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Blake Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 10:01 AM To: Herb Martin; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome There is a man

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

2005-08-15 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Herb Martin Sent: 15 August 2005 16:03 man hash and info hash are both worthless (except to admit that hash is exists, i.e., is a built-in. Yes, bash documentation is not the best packaged (I like the Solaris man pages for shell builtins much better). What

Re: $OS vs `uname -s` [Attn: base-files maintainer]

2005-08-15 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Eric == Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric PLEASE fix your mailer to send valid mail. It was difficult Eric to see what you were asking, because your MIME settings are Eric incorrect, and correct mailers only saw a blank message. Hmm.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-forge-2005.06.13-3

2005-08-15 Thread James R. Phillips
INFO The cygwin octave-forge package has been updated to release 2005.06.13-3. There was a corrupted version of this upload that existed briefly on the mirrors as octave-forge-2005.06.13-2; if you installed this, you definitely need to update. Changes: +Links with --enable-auto-image-base

Re: g++ defines for win32

2005-08-15 Thread Angel Tsankov
Angel Tsankov [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Angel Tsankov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pavel Tsekov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cygwin mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 5:37 PM Subject: Re: g++ defines for win32 - Original Message - From: Pavel

Re: Installation Problem

2005-08-15 Thread Tom McKenna
Gerrit P. Haase gerrit at familiehaase.de writes: What shows the eventlog? Are there some policies active because 2003 Server is really picky about what is allowed to run. However it should be a relevant information and/or error message in the eventlog. Unfortunately no new event show up in

RE: missing sh.exe in coreutils

2005-08-15 Thread Stephan Mueller
Renaming an in-use file is not a new Windows feature. It's certainly been there since Windows NT and 200, and I'm pretty sure it's in 9x as well. I'd check if I had a 9x box handy, but instead, Reinhard, as the one who raised the concern, maybe you can :-) stephan(); -Original

FW: Cygwin perl hangs with open FH, ... |

2005-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
I received a (welcome) off-list reply to my report of trouble running CygWin Perl and piping the output of an open FILEHANDLE call to capture the output. Interesting his reproduction of the problem uses other programs so it is NOT just netsh (although these could conceivably be unrelated it

patch to fix broken xdr headers

2005-08-15 Thread John Bowman
This patch fixes the broken CYGWIN xdr headers under g++. For an example of C++ usage of the xdr External Data Representation, see http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~bowman/xstream.html diff -ru rpc.broken/auth.h rpc/auth.h --- rpc.broken/auth.h 2005-03-10 14:32:52.0 -0700 +++ rpc/auth.h

RE: patch to fix broken xdr headers

2005-08-15 Thread Robb, Sam
This patch fixes the broken CYGWIN xdr headers under g++. John, Thanks for the effort you put into this - unfortunately, I'm a bit leery of applying such a significant patch without a better understanding of what the exact problem is. Additionally, it looks like there are a lot of

problem running tcl/expect when it lives remotely

2005-08-15 Thread Maloney, Michael
Version being used: 1.5.17(0.129/4/2) OS; Windows 2003 I am trying to get my scripts which live on a remote server running on a test box running Windows 2003. The history is when I had all of this running locally (all scripts on local box, instead of remote using net use...) it was working

Re: Subversion 1.2.0: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL

2005-08-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Alexey Lyubimov wrote: Hello! I'm running Cygwin on Win98SE and the problem is that I can not even import any project to the successfully created local SVN-repository: $ svnadmin create c:/svnroot/ $ svnadmin verify c:/svnroot/ * Verified revision 0. $ svn import c:/foo/ file:///c:/svnroot/

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