Re: [GTG] Re: [ITP] Lyx 1.4.3

2006-09-28 Thread Bo Peng
I just checked the binary package: o /usr/doc should be /usr/share/doc o There is a lyx-1.4.3-1.README in the source package, but it's named lyx1.4.3-1.README in the binary package. I would rename that to be consistent with the rest of the packages. Building from source is fine. GTG

mssing packages for cygwin

2006-09-28 Thread Tom Lee
Hello, I just installed cygwin with full. I find that I miss the command such as size.exe ar.exe, nm.exe, make.exe, awk.exe and strip.exe etc where can I find those packages to insall? thanks. tom _ Share your special

Re: mssing packages for cygwin

2006-09-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tom Lee on 9/28/2006 3:39 PM: Hello, I just installed cygwin with full. I find that I miss the command such as size.exe ar.exe, nm.exe, make.exe, awk.exe and strip.exe etc where can I find those packages to insall? Not on

XWin

2006-09-28 Thread Alan James Caruana
Hi, I have thoroughly searched through the FAQ and could not find any solution to my problem. First, can XWin run directly in Windows (not through Cygxwin) ? If it can, obviously it would have to be compiled again. Secondly, my main problem is that I have compiled XWin under Windows. but it is

Re: WinXP Taskbar Overlaps Maximized xterm

2006-09-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: There's a similar issue with KDE and xterm on RHEL 3. So it could also be is doesn't appear to be the right tense, since RHEL 3 was released a few years ago and is not the

Problem with xterm menu displaying too small

2006-09-28 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi On one of the PCs that I use, I have a problem that the menu that xterm displays if you control-click (left,middle or right), e.g. to change the font-size, is too small. It shows only 2 lines, and not all characters. Anyone knows how to fix this? Thanks Kris PS: I'm pretty up-to-date with

[INFO][ENGINE] Xwin + clipboard nested calls

2006-09-28 Thread romain . r . clement
Hello, I've just noticed something by running the following : # XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -engine 2 -silent-dup-error # export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 # xhost +inet: ... The X/Cygwin X server runs smoothly just as wanted without any warning message anymore. I use W32/XP PRO SP1 on HP Compaq

Re: XWin

2006-09-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Alan James Caruana wrote: Hi, I have thoroughly searched through the FAQ and could not find any solution to my problem. First, can XWin run directly in Windows (not through Cygxwin) ? If it can, obviously it would have to be compiled again. That's Xming. Different project. See

Re: New Bash Release Broken?

2006-09-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Tim Daneliuk wrote: It is my habit to update the entire cygwin installation at least once a week. Earlier today, I updated and got the new version of bash, 3.1.17(8). It appears broken. The .profile I have happily used for years gives it fits (the same .profile works fine if I invoke ksh

Re: New Bash Release Broken?

2006-09-28 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: SNIP Ideas anyone? Is there a change to bash syntax and I just didn't get the memo? That's one way to put it. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-09/msg6.html That was it all right ... guess I better subscribe to -announce ... and thanks for the

xterm does't start

2006-09-28 Thread Christian Lanconelli
Hi all, why xterm can't start anyway after a common update? Startxwin.sh script appears to run the graphic environment, so that programs like, oclock, xclock work correctly. Here is the cygcheck -svr report attached Thank you bye Christian Lanconelli cygcheck.out Description: Binary data --

Re: tcgetattr problem

2006-09-28 Thread ahnkle
On 22:38 Wed 27 Sep , Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:13:36PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: The name of the function is ioctl, not ioctl. _ioctl. I said _ioctl because in cygwin source, at

Re: Problems with archiver ar

2006-09-28 Thread Frank Illenseer
[Sending this to the mailing list also, as my reply only got to eric directly...] Hi Eric, first of all thanks for your reply. Sounds like ar needs to be taught about open(O_BINARY)/fopen(rb) (or be linked with binmode.o). Do I have to post this advice in any other list to get it to note

Re: 1.5.21-1 - Crash on anything using cygwin1.dll

2006-09-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to overlordq AT gmail DOT com on 9/27/2006 11:10 PM: ^ Consider updating your mail account to associate a real name to your email address, so that we don't accidentally quote it raw in replies. All

Re: tcgetattr problem

2006-09-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to ahnkle on 9/28/2006 2:29 AM: I said _ioctl because in cygwin source, at src/newlib/libc/sys/sysvi386/tcgetattr.c the call is to that function. Searching didn't locate any [_]ioctl() function, hence my asking. The linker tends

Re: Problems with archiver ar

2006-09-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Frank Illenseer on 9/28/2006 5:34 AM: Sounds like ar needs to be taught about open(O_BINARY)/fopen(rb) (or be linked with binmode.o). Do I have to post this advice in any other list to get it to note to the correct persons? Nope.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mathomatic-12.6.4-1

2006-09-28 Thread Reini Urban
A new upstream release with minor feature fixes. Fix sign bug for negative factorials (gamma function). The upstream maintainer announced not to work on Mathomatic for a while. Cygwin changes: none Changes: See http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/changes.txt About: Mathomatic is a highly portable,

Re: tcgetattr problem

2006-09-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:29:15AM +0100, ahnkle wrote: On 22:38 Wed 27 Sep , Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:13:36PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: The name of the function is ioctl, not ioctl. I said _ioctl because in cygwin source, at

Re: Problems with archiver ar

2006-09-28 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Eric Blake wrote: According to Frank Illenseer on 9/28/2006 5:34 AM: $ which sh /usr/bin/sh $ ll /usr/bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 illenseer Kein 8 Jul 20 2005 /usr/bin/sh - bash.exe While cygwin doesn't mind a symlink, they won't work if you try to use sh from

RE: tcgetattr problem

2006-09-28 Thread Dave Korn
On 28 September 2006 03:14, Christopher Faylor wrote: [ ... just to add a few more of the implementation details ... ] On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:10:18AM +0100, ahnkle wrote: On 18:36 Wed 27 Sep , Igor Peshansky wrote: #define PORT com1 ... fd = open(PORT, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY );

Problems with GMP in latest Cygwin

2006-09-28 Thread William Hart
I seem to be having some problems with the GMP library in the latest version of Cygwin. I just installed the latest Cygwin along with the latest GMP, however C code that previously worked with GMP+Cygwin no longer does. To try and determine whether this is a Cygwin problem or not, I recompiled

Re: Problems with GMP in latest Cygwin

2006-09-28 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Tim Prince wrote: William Hart wrote: I seem to be having some problems with the GMP library in the latest version of Cygwin. I just installed the latest Cygwin along with the latest GMP, however C code that previously worked with GMP+Cygwin no longer does. This is not such a new

ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory

2006-09-28 Thread Matthew
$ cd /cygdrive/d/ $ ls ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory $ cd /cygdrive/d/Temp/ $ ls Temporyary Internet Files $ cd /cygdrive/ $ ll drwxrwxr-x Administrators root 0 Sep 27 12:17 c drwxrwxr-x Administrators None 0 Sep 27 14:39 d This issue exists for both the c and d drives.

Re: ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory

2006-09-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Matthew wrote: $ cd /cygdrive/d/ $ ls ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory $ cd /cygdrive/d/Temp/ $ ls Temporyary Internet Files $ cd /cygdrive/ $ ll drwxrwxr-x Administrators root 0 Sep 27 12:17 c drwxrwxr-x Administrators None 0 Sep 27 14:39 d This issue exists for both the

RE: reading directory .: No such file or directory

2006-09-28 Thread Dave Korn
On 28 September 2006 15:33, Matthew wrote: This issue exists for both the c and d drives. When I cd to the c or d drive, I can't tab complete, but once I'm in a subdirectory (say d/Temp) tab complete works as well as ls and all that jazz. How can I get cygwin to be able to access the

Re: reading directory .: No such file or directory

2006-09-28 Thread mwoehlke
Lee Maschmeyer wrote: I've never had ls say it can't read ., but I do remember having path completion problems. I think that's why I use symbolic links instead of mount for drives; something like: cd / ln -s /cygdrive/c etc. Then I just cd /c and seldom have to use /cygdrive at all. I'm sure

Re: reading directory .: No such file or directory

2006-09-28 Thread Matthew
Yes, but that thread ended a while ago without a clear solution. My first installation of cygwin worked just fine. Then I installed cygwinX and now I have these problems. I've tried unistalling X and reinstalling plain cygwin, but X keeps coming back instead. I don't feel like cleaning my

Re: 1.5.21-1 - Crash on anything using cygwin1.dll

2006-09-28 Thread OverlordQ
Eric Blake wrote: According to overlordq AT gmail DOT com on 9/27/2006 11:10 PM: ^ Consider updating your mail account to associate a real name to your email address, so that we don't accidentally quote it raw in replies. All others? That sounds fishy

Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-09-28 Thread Wilks, Dan
Apologies that this is being written the day after without real output. I'm now at my desk without easy access to the machine in question. But... We've been using Cygwin with text-mode mounts for a long time without any problems. A new engineer started the other day, installed a

Re: reading directory .: No such file or directory

2006-09-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Matthew wrote: Yes, but that thread ended a while ago without a clear solution. My first installation of cygwin worked just fine. Then I installed cygwinX and now I have these problems. I've tried unistalling X and reinstalling plain cygwin, but X keeps coming back instead. I don't feel like

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-09-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Wilks, Dan wrote: Apologies that this is being written the day after without real output. I'm now at my desk without easy access to the machine in question. But... We've been using Cygwin with text-mode mounts for a long time without any problems. A new engineer started the other day,

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-28 Thread Rolf Campbell
Malcolm Nixon wrote: * Some translate files to a Local format (CR/LF on Windows). FCOL, what on earth does an rcs think it's playing at, tampering with your data? Any rcs that doesn't give you back exactly what you put into it is just plain buggy. Nobody asked for a automatically mangle

ncftp Maintainer?

2006-09-28 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Dear Sir/Madam, Who is the ncftp maintainer? When I run ./ncftp-3.1.7-1.sh all I get the following error configure: error: Your config.cache file is invalid. It was created on cygwin_n t-5.0, but this machine is running cygwin_nt-5.1. Remove the config.cache file if you wish to continue.

RE: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-09-28 Thread Wilks, Dan
Apologies that this is being written the day after without real output. I'm now at my desk without easy access to the machine in question. But... We've been using Cygwin with text-mode mounts for a long time without any problems. A new engineer started the other day, installed a

Re: ncftp Maintainer?

2006-09-28 Thread Brian Dessent
Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, Who is the ncftp maintainer? You'd have to search the cygwin-apps archive to find out. When I run ./ncftp-3.1.7-1.sh all I get the following error configure: error: Your config.cache file is invalid. It was created on cygwin_n t-5.0, but

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-09-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Wilks, Dan wrote: Apologies that this is being written the day after without real output. I'm now at my desk without easy access to the machine in question. But... We've been using Cygwin with text-mode mounts for a long time without any problems. A new engineer started the other day,

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-09-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *There is NO bash 3.1.18* - just 3.1.17 release 8 According to Wilks, Dan on 9/28/2006 11:30 AM: Apologies that this is being written the day after without real output. I'm now at my desk without easy access to the machine in question. But...

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-09-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Wilks, Dan on 9/28/2006 3:59 PM: That was my guess. But since this was the cygwin installer run off of the cygwin site I thought I'd mention it, if for no other reason than tracking purposes. Maybe there's a problem with the

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 9/27/2006 7:14 PM: By the way, there is another option that has not been mentioned in this thread yet: Make the first lines of your script read as follows: #!/bin/sh IFS=' '' '' ' # Yes, that was a space,

Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 9/27/2006 7:02 PM: change the script to ignore whitespace (make the first non-comment line set IFS appropriately, as in this snippet: IFS=' '' '' ' I retract this third suggestion. On investigation of the bash

Updated: mathomatic-12.6.4-1

2006-09-28 Thread Reini Urban
A new upstream release with minor feature fixes. Fix sign bug for negative factorials (gamma function). The upstream maintainer announced not to work on Mathomatic for a while. Cygwin changes: none Changes: See http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/changes.txt About: Mathomatic is a highly portable,