Re: ITP: pkgconfig

2002-03-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Anybody else want to weigh in, here? So far I've got one 'yay' vote from Robert (but putting pkgconfig into contrib instead of latest) Fine by me Any other votes? --Chuck Charles Wilson wrote: I've got pkgconfig ready for contribution to the cygwin distribution Since we're starting to

RE: ITP: pkgconfig

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Anybody else want to weigh in, here? So far I've got one 'yay' vote from Robert (but putting pkgconfig into contrib instead of latest). Fine by me. Any other votes? 'Yay' :}. Lol.

Re: ITP: pkgconfig

2002-03-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
Yay Earnie Charles Wilson wrote: Anybody else want to weigh in, here? So far I've got one 'yay' vote from Robert (but putting pkgconfig into contrib instead of latest) Fine by me Any other votes? --Chuck Charles Wilson wrote: I've got pkgconfig ready for contribution to the

Re: ITP: pkgconfig

2002-03-01 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Charles, Am 2002-03-01 um 12:47 schriebst du: Anybody else want to weigh in, here? So far I've got one 'yay' vote from Robert (but putting pkgconfig into contrib instead of latest). Fine by me. Any other votes? yep;) -- =^..^=mailto:[EMAIL

xdvi/xfree86/cygwin error ...

2002-03-01 Thread Nicolae Santean
Has anybody given a solution to the problem below? I am running into the same problem and I would greatly appreciate any guidance. -- Nick, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've just setup Cygwin/Latex/XFree86 and am trying to setup xdvi. I

problem with xterm with 4.2.0 and w2k sp2 current security patches

2002-03-01 Thread Benson Margulies
most attempts to start xterms on my W2K SP2 with current security patches fail with the following Starting from a non-X cygwin window succeeds 0 [main] xterm 1456 sync_with_child: child 1492(0x388) died before initial ization with status code 0x18B00 163 [main] xterm 1456

Re: Terminal input processing fix

2002-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:24:40PM +0100, Christian LESTRADE wrote: At 18:14 25/02/02 +0100, you wrote: So we could go ahead and apply your patch but... actually I would like to ask you to change it. The reason is that the _POSIX_VDISABLE constant is typically defined in some header file in

Re: automatic TZ env-variable in localtime problem with W2000-germa n

2002-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
This is not a patch You'd be well-advised to peruse past messages in this mailing list and also look at the Contributing link of the cygwin web page so that you can see how this is supposed to be done Who knows? Your rebuild problems might actually be mentioned in the archives, too cgf On

RE: CVS Problems: Updated: gdbm-1.8.0-4

2002-03-01 Thread Peter Ring
I don't currently host any cvs repository on a cygwin port of cvs, and nevertheless, in the Linux-based repository, I have history files ( ,v files) with CR/LF rather than just LF. This is as it should be: those files are meant to be used by silly Win32 applications that expect CR/LF as

local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, after reading the docs on the web site and searching the list archive on MARC a bit, there appears to be no supported way to install while being offline Eg I will soon have a W2k box that I want to install on, but certainly won't connect this box to the Internet to do it So my current

Re: 1.3.10 and setgid

2002-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 06:26:59PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: I re-created that just before writing the message... Administrator@CYBERONE ~ $ mkgroup -l Everyone:S-1-1-0:0: SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: At that point, None should appear. That's a valid group on all NT systems since it's the

status gcc-3

2002-03-01 Thread Ildar Mulyukov
Hello, cygwin hackers! Would you please inform me about gcc-3.x status regarding to Cygwin project? I mean * status of gcc-3 ability at cygwin platform (I suggest 99%; when I tried it out 2month ago everything seemed to be allright except spec - it was ugly) * plans of

Re: Next version of setup.exe

2002-03-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: We've branched the next version of setupexe, and created a snapshot for anyone willing to be our guinea pigs It is accessible via http://wwwcygwincom/setup-snapshots/setup-20020225exe; Please use this, and report any bugs back to us We know of one with large fonts,

Re: Parallel Port LPRng

2002-03-01 Thread Walter Garcia-Fontes
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:06:16PM -0500 * Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020227 19:15]: Take a look at the source code for Rick Rankin's version of lpr. It is in the cygutils-0.9.9 package. --Chuck Thanks, but I looked at

problem about postgresql and jdbc

2002-03-01 Thread Yousry Abdallah
Hi, i have trouble using PostgreSQL7.1.3 via jdbc on my Windows XP System (using the actual cygwin distribution and j2sdk1.4.0). The Database sends following error message after connection: PacketReceiveFragment: read() failed: Connection reset by peer The Java Program prints following stack

RE: Is the Cygwin 1.3.2 DLL Win 2000 compatible?

2002-03-01 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Thursday 28 Feb 02, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes: David (Starks-Browning), do you think it's necessary to update this FAQ entry so that it's clear that the Cygwin DLL has historically supported the then released versions of Windows? Larry, I don't understand what's wrong with

Re: mkshortcut debugging problem

2002-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:03:34PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: The code that produces this error is: MultiByteToWideChar (CP_ACP, 0, lname, -1, widepath, MAX_PATH); hres = pf-lpVtbl-Save (pf, widepath, TRUE); if (!SUCCEEDED(hres)) {

install freeze in win2k

2002-03-01 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Thursday 28 Feb 02, Ling F Zhang writes: I am just try to install cygwin in my win2k machine I selected everything after some serious mouse-clickingand after it downloaded everything, it starts to install and my computer is dead frozen when it try to install gcc-lib*anyone has similar

RE: Enviroment always uppercased; Help me, please

2002-03-01 Thread Markus K. E. Kommant
Idea: It would be better to support an evironment variable CYGWIN_ENV_UPPERCASE=0, 1, 2 or a list var1 var2 var3. The list could be, to work correctly in most cases (I used in my pdksh port) SHELL, EXECSHELL, PATH, HOME, INCLUDE, LIB, HOMEPATH, PATHEXT, TMP, TMPDIR, TEMP, WINDIR, SYSTEMDRIVE,

Re: status gcc-3

2002-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:57:14PM +0300, Ildar Mulyukov wrote: Hello, cygwin hackers! Would you please inform me about gcc-3x status regarding to Cygwin project? I mean * status of gcc-3 ability at cygwin platform (I suggest 99%; when I tried it out 2month ago everything

Re: Child died with signal 13

2002-03-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Volker, I don't think there's a problem here, actually I occasionally get these diagnostics, too, but there's never a problem extracting the files from the archive Apparently tar knows it's seen the last TOC entry and closes the pipe from the gunzip sub-process Then it waits for that process

Re: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Markus, At 07:31 2002-03-01, Markus Hoenicka wrote: Hi, Toni Mueller writes: So my current guess is that I can download some stuff using eg my Linux workstation, put them on CD and then move the CD to the W2k box for local installation there Can anyone please confirm that? Can anyone

Re: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Randall, the original poster's suggestion was not to use setup.exe to download the packages, but rather a linux box. This way you lose the dependency tracking in setup.exe (it does not run on Linux afaik), and to make sure you don't miss a dependency and thus waste a CD you'd have to download

RE: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Mark Sheppard
Surely if you were bothering to make a CD you'd want to include everything anyway, thus you wouldn't need dependency checking. Mark. -Original Message- From: Markus Hoenicka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 March 2002 15:51 To: Randall R Schulz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: local

Re: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Randall R Schulz wrote: I don't understand this You get maximum flexibility by separate Download from Internet and Install from Local Directory operations That way you can download sources and have them at hand without unconditionally installing them By copying my local installation

sunRPC on V1.3.x

2002-03-01 Thread Stéphane Corbé
Hello, I use Cygwin 1.3.10-1 on NT4.0 and I tried to use sunRPC. I found the Corinna's port for B20. On my box, this port seems to have problem : With the binaries.tar.gz : portmap didn't stay alive and rpcinfo complains about enable to receive With the sources.tar.gz : portmap exit on an

Re: Parallel Port LPRng

2002-03-01 Thread Walter Garcia-Fontes
I actually solved the problem in this recent thread by doing the following workaround: 1) share the printer, 2) in the printcap refer to the printer with the path, ie lp=ine/printer Now I have to figure out how to send a linefeed at the end of the jobs, otherwise the last page requires manual

Re: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chuck, I cannot get setupexe to permit multiple selection of mirrors, so how is this magical seamless multi-mirror integration achieved? Can it be done without running setupexe more than once? If not, what's the advantage over separate download and install? Furthermore, why doesn't the

RE: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Mark Sheppard writes: Surely if you were bothering to make a CD you'd want to include everything anyway, thus you wouldn't need dependency checking. Thus qoth the man behind a fat pipe. I don't know about the original poster's situation, but if you use a modem connection the dependency

Re: Parallel Port LPRng

2002-03-01 Thread Walter Garcia-Fontes
* Walter Garcia-Fontes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020301 16:55]: I actually solved the problem in this recent thread by doing the following workaround: 1) share the printer, 2) in the printcap refer to the printer with the path, i.e lp=ine/printer Sorry, this should read lp=//machine/printer Now I

RE: Is the Cygwin 1.3.2 DLL Win 2000 compatible?

2002-03-01 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 07:59 AM 3/1/2002, David Starks-Browning wrote: On Thursday 28 Feb 02, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes: David (Starks-Browning), do you think it's necessary to update this FAQ entry so that it's clear that the Cygwin DLL has historically supported the then released versions of

rxvt double width!

2002-03-01 Thread Philip Le Riche
I've got rxvt working under win98, but on another machine running w95, the window is double width, and text comes out double-spaced (horizontally). I'm using a recent rxvt downloaded only a couple of weeks ago. Looks like it thinks I'm using a 16 bit char code or something? Tried reinstalling

Re: Child died with signal 13

2002-03-01 Thread Volker Quetschke
Randall, thanks for having a look at this topic I don't think there's a problem here, actually I occasionally get these diagnostics, too, but there's never a problem extracting the files from the archive Apparently tar knows it's seen the last TOC entry and closes the pipe from the

Re: CVS Problems: Updated: gdbm-1.8.0-4

2002-03-01 Thread Jason Tishler
Chuck, On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:18:35PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Well, the current cygwin port of CVS seems to store all 'normal' files in the repository in LF/CR mode On checkout (from a local repository) all 'normal' files are created in LF/CR mode This is *regardless* of

Re: CVS Problems: Updated: gdbm-1.8.0-4

2002-03-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Jason Tishler wrote: Chuck, On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:18:35PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Well, the current cygwin port of CVS seems to store all 'normal' files in the repository in LF/CR mode On checkout (from a local repository) all 'normal' files are created in LF/CR mode This

RE: Enviroment always uppercased; Help me, please

2002-03-01 Thread Markus K. E. Kommant
Was an idea for a big bug solution. No thanx is the worst solution ever... And to fix it in cygwin1.dll itself... At the moment cygwin no thanx if I see this errors, because (..) We're only using cygwin to prototype some stuff, not to make any viable product as it just isn't

Re: Strange behaviour of vpath with dos paths

2002-03-01 Thread Soren Andersen
On 28 Feb 2002 at 11:24, Colm Aengus Murphy wrote: Hi Johan, I took a quick look at source code for make 3791-5 It looks to me like vpathc (build_vpath_lists) does conversion of Win32 paths to posix ones for the VPATH variable but not for vpath Not being a software programmer I'm not in

Re: Too many open files

2002-03-01 Thread Kirk Erickson
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 06:28 PM 2/26/2002, Kirk Erickson wrote: I love cygwin I've had no problems at home (running under XP), but I'm experiencing a problem reported earlier by Benoit Rochefort http://sourcesredhatcom/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00791html under Windows 2000

Re: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Randall R Schulz wrote: Chuck, I cannot get setupexe to permit multiple selection of mirrors, so how is this magical seamless multi-mirror integration achieved? Can it be done without running setupexe more than once? Yes -- you should be able to shift-click or ctrl-click select

rxvt under X11 does not process dead accents.

2002-03-01 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi ! This comment is about the behavior of rxvt under X11, so I am not sure if this is the proper mailing list (as rxvt is distributed with cygwin, I assume it's OK). Under Windows, rxvt-2.7.2-10 properly handles the dead-accents, and that is its big advantage over the cygwin-term. But under

Re: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin

2002-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:19:11PM +, Jonathan Larmour wrote: max rtos wrote: 4)in Cygwin mount -f -b ///a: /dev/fd0 dd conv=sync if=install/bin/redbootbin of=/dev/fd0 then I got /dev/fd0: can not find the file or directory What do I need to check Erk Perhaps this went away in

telnet to vi

2002-03-01 Thread David
Hello, I telnet from my sun cmdtool to my winNT pc on intel Then, type 'vi fname' which will then clear the screen and show me the file Unfortunately, when I type :q to exit vi, the session is killed The same result if I run rxvt, and then vi, and then :q Has anyone else seen this result? Is

Perl reports different cwd() value

2002-03-01 Thread Timothy Canham
If you are in: c:/temp (alternate way to address drives under cygwin) and you perform perl -e use Cwd; cwd(); you get: /cygdrive/c/temp. Any way to work around this? Version 1.3.9 -- Timothy K. Canham Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] MDS Flight Software --

rxvt cursor corruption under WinXP/ClearType

2002-03-01 Thread Rui Carmo
Hello there, I've been searching the mailing-list archives for posts concerning the vertical cursor trails bug that rxvt exhibits under Windows XP with ClearType, but have found nothing Steps to reproduce the bug: - Under Windows XP, activate ClearType (Display

Re: rxvt cursor corruption under WinXP/ClearType

2002-03-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Rui Carmo wrote: Hello there, I've been searching the mailing-list archives for posts concerning the vertical cursor trails bug that rxvt exhibits under Windows XP with ClearType, but have found nothing Steps to reproduce the bug: - Under Windows XP, activate ClearType (Display

Re: install freeze in win2k

2002-03-01 Thread Ling F. Zhang
I figured out the problem already...it was because my anti-virus software was on. --- David Starks-Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 28 Feb 02, Ling F. Zhang writes: I am just try to install cygwin in my win2k machine. I selected everything after some serious

RE: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Can you tell me some functionality only available when one uses Install from Internet? Sure: merging multiple mirrors into a seamless single-view installation. (Or, merging an official mirror site +

RE: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I cannot get setup.exe to permit multiple selection of mirrors, so how is this magical seamless multi-mirror integration achieved? Can it be done without running setup.exe more than once? If not, what's

RE: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Perhaps the Emacs folks (NOT XEmacs -- they already have a different solution) will create a cygwin-setup dirtree once their cygwin port is complete. Perhaps folks who have ported a package and want to

Re: 1.3.10 and setgid

2002-03-01 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Corinna, Am 2002-03-01 um 11:44 schriebst du: On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 06:26:59PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: I re-created that just before writing the message... Administrator@CYBERONE ~ $ mkgroup -l Everyone:S-1-1-0:0: SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18: At that point, None should appear.

Re: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Charles Wilson
[please don't send me personal email related to cygwin Keep it on the list] Randall R Schulz wrote: I tried the NEW setup Let's say it has some problems still I'll switch when the kinks are worked out Okay, so when you said how can I you meant I know it's supposed to work, but it

Re: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 16:33 2002-03-01, you wrote: [please don't send me personal email related to cygwin Keep it on the list] Just following your lead -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwincom/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwincom/bugshtml Documentation:

launch a win32 process from bash?

2002-03-01 Thread Jonathan Simms
Hello all, I was wondering if it were possible to launch a win32 process from within cygwin (ie run a windows program in windows, but invoke it from bash) Thanks! -Jonathan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwincom/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwincom/bugshtml

Re: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Randall R Schulz wrote: At 16:33 2002-03-01, you wrote: [please don't send me personal email related to cygwin Keep it on the list] Just following your lead Huh? Wha??? Oh, I see My earlier messages were reply to all -- which meant they were sent (a) directly to you, and also

fetchmail 5.9.8 and maildrop 1.3.7

2002-03-01 Thread Rui Carmo
Hello again, Just to report that fetchmail 598 compiles cleanly on cygwin, and that we seem to be heading towards a fully functioning e-mail solution (well, with ssmtp to forward mail to a smarter MTA, at least) Just grab the sources and do: /configure --with-ssl make make install (I did

Re: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chuck, At 16:33 2002-03-01, you wrote: [please don't send me personal email related to cygwin Keep it on the list] Randall R Schulz wrote: I tried the NEW setup Let's say it has some problems still I'll switch when the kinks are worked out Okay, so when you said how can I you meant I know

Re: mkshortcut debugging problem

2002-03-01 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:03:34PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: The code that produces this error is: MultiByteToWideChar (CP_ACP, 0, lname, -1, widepath, MAX_PATH); hres = pf-lpVtbl-Save (pf, widepath, TRUE); if (!SUCCEEDED(hres)) {

Re: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Collins
Sorry about the length, just wanted to be really clear... === - Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Basically, the reason we've been harping that setup is not a mirroring tool is to preserve the freedom to change setup's on-disk database and operational behavior

Re: local install?

2002-03-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Rob, [ Our mails are crossing, so just know that I've read both the post I'm replying to directly here and the subsequent amplification. I think we are mostly just agreeing, albeit loudly. ] It did *what* ? How do you reproduce it? Grumble. That must be an even-day bug, because when I went

Re: rxvt double width!

2002-03-01 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi Philip, I also have found in my Windows95 machine that rxvt puts a space (in some cases 2 spaces) after each character for most of the fonts. I have found that rxvt functions properly only with some fonts like the default font ( no -fn option), or with fonts like 8x16, or courier-14 or

Error when starting Cygwin shell: init_cygheap error

2002-03-01 Thread Stan Berka
Hi, I have the same problem as in the January thread cited below: when starting the Cygwin shell I'm getting an error: 9 [main] bash 2040 init_cygheap::etc_changed: Can't open /etc for checking, Win32 error 1 I have checked that I don't have two cygwin1.dll in my PATH. When I rename the

Re: launch a win32 process from bash?

2002-03-01 Thread Ryan T. Sammartino
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:37:20PM -0500, Jonathan Simms wrote: Hello all, I was wondering if it were possible to launch a win32 process from within cygwin (ie run a windows program in windows, but invoke it from bash) Yes -- Ryan T Sammartino http://membersshawca/ryants/ Your job is

Re: Enviroment always uppercased; Help me, please

2002-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Markus K E Kommant wrote: At the moment cygwin no thanx if I see this errors, because () We're only using cygwin to prototype some stuff, not to make any viable product as it just isn't stable/reliable/secure enough unfortunately () and slow and not bug

Re: Perl reports different cwd() value

2002-03-01 Thread Michael A Chase
- Original Message - From: Timothy Canham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 13:38 Subject: Perl reports different cwd() value If you are in: c:/temp (alternate way to address drives under cygwin) and you perform perl -e use Cwd; cwd(); you get:

Re: launch a win32 process from bash?

2002-03-01 Thread Michael A Chase
- Original Message - From: Jonathan Simms [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 16:37 Subject: launch a win32 process from bash? I was wondering if it were possible to launch a win32 process from within cygwin. (i.e. run a windows program in windows,

Re: Perl reports different cwd() value

2002-03-01 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Not really sure why you want to work around a standard way to express paths but, if you need to, maybe something like this? perl -e 'use Cwd;$path=cwd();print [,$path,]\n;$winpath = `cygpath -w $path`;print [,$winpath,]\n;$winpath=~ tr/\\/\//;print [,$winpath,]\n;' Excuse any bad perl, I am at

1.3.10

2002-03-01 Thread Hanzo
There's no announcement for 1.3.10 ? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

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Re: 1.3.10

2002-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:29:00PM +0700, Hanzo wrote: There's no announcement for 1310 ? http://cygwincom/ml/cygwin-announce/2002/msg00063html cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwincom/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwincom/bugshtml Documentation:

Printing locally.

2002-03-01 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
Gygwin is a great product and it allows me to do much unix work but on top of windows. I am essentially a unix person. Now I am trying to simply print text mutt mail messages to a local printer plugged into the back of my machine, which is running Windows2000. I have read the FAQ and searched

Re: Printing locally.

2002-03-01 Thread Paul McFerrin
Brian: I used to be able to print from cygwin by refering to /dev/lpt1 -paul mcferrin Brian Salter-Duke wrote: Gygwin is a great product and it allows me to do much unix work but on top of windows. I am essentially a unix person. Now I am trying to simply print text mutt mail messages