Re: ITP: libAfterImage

2010-01-11 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 11/01/2010 01:24, Charles Wilson wrote: Well, the documentation was wrong. Looking at the AfterStep source code, the libAfterImage code in the AfterStep 2.2.9 tarball is somewhat newer. But it's still not clear whether AfterStep's libAfterImage is suitable for use by other clients. I guess

[ITP] librsvg2

2010-01-11 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
librsvg2 is GNOME's SVG library. As part of the GNOME desktop suite, it is used by a wide variety of GTK+ and GNOME packages, particularly graphics programs and games. It is also used by FVWM, ImageMagick and libAfterImage/AfterStep for SVG support. Already in Debian stable and just about

Re: [1.7] ITP: wcd-5.1.0

2010-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Jari, On Jan 6 11:25, Jari Aalto wrote: [ping] Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/stable/wcd wget \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/wcd/setup.hint \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/wcd/wcd-5.1.0-1-src.tar.bz2 \

Re: ITP: offlineimap 6.2.0

2010-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 9 03:08, Jari Aalto wrote: Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/offlineimap Download: wget \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/offlineimap/offlineimap-6.2.0+nmu1-1-src.tar.bz2 \

Re: [1.7] ITP: wcd-5.1.0

2010-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 11:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Jari, On Jan 6 11:25, Jari Aalto wrote: [ping] Included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/stable/wcd wget \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/wcd/setup.hint \

Re: [ITP] librsvg2

2010-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 03:23, Yaakov S wrote: librsvg2 is GNOME's SVG library. As part of the GNOME desktop suite, it is used by a wide variety of GTK+ and GNOME packages, particularly graphics programs and games. It is also used by FVWM, ImageMagick and libAfterImage/AfterStep for SVG support.

Re: [ITP] librsvg2

2010-01-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: librsvg2 is GNOME's SVG library. As part of the GNOME desktop suite, it is used by a wide variety of GTK+ and GNOME packages, particularly graphics programs and games. It is also used by FVWM, ImageMagick and libAfterImage/AfterStep for SVG support. Already in

Re: ITP: libAfterImage

2010-01-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 11/01/2010 01:24, Charles Wilson wrote: Well, the documentation was wrong. Looking at the AfterStep source code, the libAfterImage code in the AfterStep 2.2.9 tarball is somewhat newer. But it's still not clear whether AfterStep's libAfterImage is suitable for

Re: [1.7] ITP: wcd-5.1.0

2010-01-11 Thread Jari Aalto
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com writes: Packaging looks good. I'm just wondering, is there a reason you added the wcd man page to section 1 instead of to section 7 as on Debian? The packages's Makefile puts manpage to 1 and Debian contains hackery to move it to 7 as wcd is not

Re: [1.7] ITP: wcd-5.1.0

2010-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 17:19, Jari Aalto wrote: Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com writes: Packaging looks good. I'm just wondering, is there a reason you added the wcd man page to section 1 instead of to section 7 as on Debian? The packages's Makefile puts manpage to 1 and Debian contains

Re: [ITP] librsvg2

2010-01-11 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 11/01/2010 05:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm getting a 404 for all of them. Oops, bad copy-and-paste substitution: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwinports/release-2/GNOME/librsvg2/librsvg2-2.26.0-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: [ITP] librsvg2

2010-01-11 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 11/01/2010 08:07, Charles Wilson wrote: Suppose ABI #3 is released It won't be; librsvg follows the standard GNOME pattern of keeping API stability by keeping deprecated features while adding new ones. The next change would be a separate librsvg3, probably later this year when glib and

Re: [ITP] librsvg2

2010-01-11 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 11/01/2010 03:23, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: librsvg2 is GNOME's SVG library. As part of the GNOME desktop suite, it is used by a wide variety of GTK+ and GNOME packages, particularly graphics programs and games. It is also used by FVWM, ImageMagick and libAfterImage/AfterStep for SVG support.

Re: [ITP] librsvg2

2010-01-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: and the /usr/share/doc/librsvg2/* should go into a new package librsvg2-doc along with all of the html/* files from librsvg2-devel. The docs in $pkgdocdir are the standard COPYING/NEWS/README docs that all users should receive, Well, IMO it should be their option

RE: Cannot start xterm

2010-01-11 Thread Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe)
Please ignore this email, anti-virus was killing some of the installation scripts :( -Original Message- From: Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:46 PM To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com' Subject: RE: Cannot start xterm My hard drive crashed and I reinstalled XP SP3

XDMCP connects successfully but freezes shortly thereafter - Was: What is replacement for the -kb Xwin startup parameter

2010-01-11 Thread Bennett, Tony
I thought I'd change the subject and describe the problem in a little better detail and perhaps get a response... Additional info: - On one PC, I have XWin release 1.5.3.0 (20090222) installed and working - That release uses the following command line: XWin -query my_AIX_SERVER_NAME

Re: Cannot start xterm

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Loewenstein
See startxwin(.exe) man page. Run startxwin from a login shell. Paul Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) wrote: Please ignore this email, anti-virus was killing some of the installation scripts :( -Original Message- From: Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:46 PM To:

Questions regarding windows 7 installation

2010-01-11 Thread Jerry Lowry
I have installed Cygwin 1.7 twice on my windows 7 laptop. Each time it installs fine but when I try to run the X server it leaves three different X windows open as well as an Xterm itself. Is this the default behavior on 1.7? I really would like to get just the X icon in the task bar and

Re: Questions regarding windows 7 installation

2010-01-11 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Jerry Lowry wrote: I have installed Cygwin 1.7 twice on my windows 7 laptop.  Each time it installs fine but when I try to run the X server it leaves three different X windows open as well as an Xterm itself.  Is this the default behavior on 1.7?  I really

src/winsup/utils ChangeLog mount.cc

2010-01-11 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-01-11 12:13:55 Modified files: winsup/utils : ChangeLog mount.cc Log message: * mount.cc (do_mount_from_fstab): Allow to change cygdrive prefix, too. Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_proc.cc

2010-01-11 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-01-11 15:10:21 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_proc.cc Log message: * fhandler_proc.cc (format_proc_stat): Use new in_buf. (format_proc_cpuinfo): Replace

src/winsup/doc ChangeLog pathnames.sgml

2010-01-11 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-01-11 18:00:14 Modified files: winsup/doc : ChangeLog pathnames.sgml Log message: * pathnames.sgml (mount-table): Add info that posix=0 is default for the cygdrive prefix.

Re: Update problems

2010-01-11 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/10 6:45 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: So your argument is based on the desire to have *another* package manager application, besides 'setup.exe', that could be used from within Cygwin applications to update Cygwin applications? Something like that, yes. The idea that one should be

Re: Missing documentation on bash

2010-01-11 Thread Chip Panarchy
Paul, it appears for me. Perhaps you haven't install man (or manpages, man-db) On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Cliff Hones cl...@hones.org.uk wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: I can't seemed to find any man pages for bash or other documentation. I'm having terriable problems is getting my

mbox note: Can't open file://L:\ods\rtoy\Cygnus/ for reading: Unrecognisable file format errors whilst executing setup.exe

2010-01-11 Thread Richard Toy
Both at work and home I install Cygwin on several machines and I keep a local cache of the Cygwin install files to reduce the time to update. I always run setup.exe and perform a full install of everything. Since upgrading to the latest version of setup, when performing the local install from

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 10 21:01, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 01/10/2010 06:33 PM, sbre...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to run Cygwin from an NFS drive. Everything works fine as long as no symbolic link executables are invoked: $ awk bash: /usr/bin/awk: Permission denied One option is to

Re: rsync hanging

2010-01-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Kevin Bond (Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:42:19 -0500) No, no tunneling or remote shell.. I am not sure how to run it without ssh. That's the default. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: mount -a has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2010-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 30 12:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 29 16:27, Karl M wrote: From: corinna-cygwin The cygdrive prefix is explicitely ignored when calling mount -a. The problem is, I'm not sure anymore *why* I did it that way. I added it to my TODO list, at least to figure out the reason...

1.7.1: probelms with git

2010-01-11 Thread Jay Heaslip
Some of the git commands don't seem work. I able to init a git repository and check in changes, but commands like git log git diff are not working. When I try to run them, they just return to the shell prompt without any output. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks, Jay -- Problem reports:

Re: 1.7.1: probelms with git

2010-01-11 Thread Eric Blake
According to Jay Heaslip on 1/11/2010 6:10 AM: Some of the git commands don't seem work. I able to init a git repository and check in changes, but commands like git log git diff are not working. When I try to run them, they just return to the shell prompt without any output. Has anyone

'/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Aaron Gray
I have upgraded Cygwin and am trying to build 'llvm-gcc' which is essentially the same as gcc and get the following :-     bash: /home/ang/svn/llvm-gcc/configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Many thanks in advance, Aaron -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: offlineimap 6.2.0+nmu1-1 -- IMAP/Maildir synchronization and reader

2010-01-11 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/offlineimap License : GPL Read the same mailbox from multiple computers, and have your changes (deletions, etc.) be automatically reflected on all computers. CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE ==

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:41:11PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: I have upgraded Cygwin and am trying to build 'llvm-gcc' which is essentially?the same as gcc and get the following :- ?? ?bash: /home/ang/svn/llvm-gcc/configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Many thanks in advance, What

RE: mount -a has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2010-01-11 Thread Karl M
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:15:29 +0100 From: corinna Subject: Re: mount -a has no effect on the cygdrive prefix On Dec 30 12:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 29 16:27, Karl M wrote: From: corinna-cygwin The cygdrive prefix is explicitely ignored when calling mount -a. The problem is,

Re: rsync hanging

2010-01-11 Thread David Christensen
* Kevin Bond (Sat, 9 Jan 2010 10:10:08 -0500) Hello, I am trying to use rsync in cygwin but it seems to be hanging. Right after it asks me for password of my host the 'building file list...' message displays then hangs. I can ssh into the host fine. Any ideas? I was having rsync issues under

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:12:48PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: 2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:41:11PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: I have upgraded Cygwin and am trying to build 'llvm-gcc' which is essentially?the same as gcc and get the

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Aaron Gray
2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:12:48PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: 2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:41:11PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: I have upgraded Cygwin and am

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:33:20PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: 2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor: Have you tried reinstalling bash via setup.exe? Okay, working now after 2 bash reinstalls ! Many thanks Christopher, You're welcome but it still raises the question of why this was needed. Do you possibly

Re: 1.7.1: probelms with git

2010-01-11 Thread Jay Heaslip
After setting GIT_TRACE to1, I get the following when running git log: trace: run_command: 'sh' '-c' 'less' trace: exec 'sh' failed: No such file or directory I've attached my cygcheck output. Thanks, Jay Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Mon Jan 11 11:00:38 2010

Re: 1.7.1: probelms with git

2010-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:39:42AM -0500, Jay Heaslip wrote: After setting GIT_TRACE to1, I get the following when running git log: trace: run_command: 'sh' '-c' 'less' trace: exec 'sh' failed: No such file or directory I've attached my cygcheck output. Wow, an epidemic. See:

Re: mount -a has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2010-01-11 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2010-01-11 16:16Z, Karl M wrote: I just reviewed chapter 3 of the user guide and found no mention of posix=0 as the default for /cygdrive. http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html | To ease the pain, the /cygdrive path is case-insensitive by default | and you have to

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Aaron Gray
2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:33:20PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: 2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor: Have you tried reinstalling bash via setup.exe? Okay, working now after 2 bash reinstalls ! Many thanks Christopher, You're

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Aaron Gray
2010/1/11 Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@googlemail.com: 2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: Also, you have c:\cygwin\bin in your path three times.  One is sufficient.   :-) Right thanks for pointing that out, they left over from the older installs. They

ntEmacs has trouble with cygwin terminal...

2010-01-11 Thread aputerguy
Here is the situation: Running from a cygwin 1.7 bash terminal: $ emacs -nw opens up terminal-based emacs session in current cygwin terminal $emacsclient -nw *ERROR*: Not using an ASCII terminal now; cannot make a new ASCII frame $echo $TERM cygwin Running from within screen within cygwin: $

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-01-11 Thread Kevin Layer
Eric Blake e...@byu.net wrote: According to Kevin Layer on 1/8/2010 11:01 AM: Has anyone in the cygwin group reproduced this? Yes, as maintainer of the git package on cygwin, I've seen sporadic failures of the git protocol, which I have always ended up working around by switching over to

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:45:58PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: 2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:33:20PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: 2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor: Have you tried reinstalling bash via setup.exe? Okay, working now after 2

Re: HOME environment variable set in Windows

2010-01-11 Thread WeyHan
dsula1 wrote: Howevever I wasn't able to find any reference to a HOME variable in windows. I don't know why and whre it get's set. And it's for sure not to be seen in My Computer Properties Advanced Environment Variables. It looks like my problem is beyond advanced. *smile*. Try

RE: mount -a has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2010-01-11 Thread Karl M
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:45:28 + From: gchicares Subject: Re: mount -a has no effect on the cygdrive prefix On 2010-01-11 16:16Z, Karl M wrote: I just reviewed chapter 3 of the user guide and found no mention of posix=0 as the default for /cygdrive.

Re: 1.7.1: problem with public key authentication on domain accounts

2010-01-11 Thread Greg Fury
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Thomas Nisbach nisb...@cityweb.de wrote: Here is my SOLUTION and what I additionally found: Using LSA-package (running cyglsa-config script and reboot) is (the only?) solution (Larry recommended, too)! I read Corinna's message (also linked by CYGWIN User's

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-01-11 Thread Kevin Layer
Eric Blake e...@byu.net wrote: Yes, as maintainer of the git package on cygwin, I've seen sporadic failures of the git protocol, which I have always ended up working around by switching over to an http protocol. I'm assuming that it might either be BLODA or an actual bug in cygwin1.dll

Re: mount -a has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2010-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 09:46, Karl M wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:45:28 + From: gchicares Subject: Re: mount -a has no effect on the cygdrive prefix On 2010-01-11 16:16Z, Karl M wrote: I just reviewed chapter 3 of the user guide and found no mention of posix=0 as the default for

Re: HOME environment variable set in Windows

2010-01-11 Thread dsula1
I don't have sysedit. Where is that supposed to be? I'm running vista x64 and searched the complete HD. Does it need to be installed seperatly. WeyHan wrote: dsula1 wrote: Howevever I wasn't able to find any reference to a HOME variable in windows. I don't know why and whre it get's

Re: Update problems

2010-01-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/11/2010 03:23 AM, Steven Monai wrote: I will do that. Thanks for your time. I think this will give you a good background for understanding why 'setup.exe' exists and some of the history for its initial and continued development and the alternatives that have been discussed over time.

Re: HOME environment variable set in Windows

2010-01-11 Thread WeyHan
dsula1 wrote: I don't have sysedit. Where is that supposed to be? I'm running vista x64 and searched the complete HD. Does it need to be installed seperatly. As far as I know, it comes with Windows since 3.0 and Google tells me that MS have a version of it in Vista as well. However,

Re: Combined tree fails to build -- libtool version mismatch?

2010-01-11 Thread DJ Delorie
DJ, can you add these files to the list that we get email about? Added: ltgcc.m4 ltmain.sh ltoptions.m4 ltsugar.m4 ltversion.m4 lt~obsolete.m4 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 10 21:01, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: snip No. If the R/O attribute is supported, then a fourth option would It isn't. NFS only handles POSIX permissions. However, if you're using the Microsoft NFS client, you can convert the Cygwin

Re: ntEmacs has trouble with cygwin terminal...

2010-01-11 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/11 aputerguy Here is the situation: Running from a cygwin 1.7 bash terminal: $ emacs -nw opens up terminal-based emacs session in current cygwin terminal $emacsclient -nw *ERROR*: Not using an ASCII terminal now; cannot make a new ASCII frame $echo $TERM cygwin Running from

Re: 1.7.1: probelms with git

2010-01-11 Thread Jay Heaslip
On 01/11/10 11:43 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:39:42AM -0500, Jay Heaslip wrote: After setting GIT_TRACE to1, I get the following when running git log: trace: run_command: 'sh' '-c' 'less' trace: exec 'sh' failed: No such file or directory I've attached my

Re: ntEmacs has trouble with cygwin terminal...

2010-01-11 Thread aputerguy
Andy Koppe writes: 2010/1/11 aputerguy Note though that there are good reasons why I use ntEmacs and not cygwin Emacs Such as? Well 2 main reasons. First, I use emacs all the time and keep it open my whole session long. Now sometimes when upgrading cygwin, I have found myself locked out of

Cygwin upgrade

2010-01-11 Thread Tod
I'm upgrading to 1.7.1 from the previous version which I was pretty good at keeping up to date. I ran into a problem installing openssh which locked the install forcing me to cancel. I stopped the openssh service and cygwin service and tried again. It completed with me ok'ing past pointer

Re: Cygwin upgrade

2010-01-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/11/2010 03:46 PM, Tod wrote: I'm upgrading to 1.7.1 from the previous version which I was pretty good at keeping up to date. I ran into a problem installing openssh which locked the install forcing me to cancel. I stopped the openssh service and cygwin service and tried again. It

scrotwm on cygwin

2010-01-11 Thread Marco Peereboom
I ported scrotwm to cygwin. Instructions at: http://scrotwm.org/cygwin.html Enjoy. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: scrotwm on cygwin

2010-01-11 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/11 3:22 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: I ported scrotwm to cygwin. Nice package. -SM -- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Tried out cygwin-inst-20100111.tar.bz2

2010-01-11 Thread Karl M
Hi All... I just tried out the latest snapshot and had two problems on a Vista Business SP2 machine. The first problem was that in bash shell launched from the cygwin.bat file in a console window, the backspace did nothing. I also received the following error from find: $ find / -name

Redirecting $TEMP or a certain directory to /tmp

2010-01-11 Thread Thomas Wiedmann
Hello, how can in Cygwin the directory, which is in Windows configured as $TEMP, or a certain other directory, be redirected to /tmp? Thomas Wiedmann -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: