Re: [avail for test] readline-4.1-1

2000-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:48:02PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: 3 Dec 2000, 18:25 Uhr wars, als Charles S. Wilson folgendes schrub: [avail for test] readline-4.1-1 I've just uploaded readline-4.1-1 to sourceware. Readline is a library that provides user-input functions complete with

Re: [avail for test] readline-4.1-1

2000-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:37:20AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: 10 Dec 2000, 17:49 Uhr wars, als Christopher Faylor folgendes schrub: Re: [avail for test] readline-4.1-1 Is it possible, that this behaviour was o.k. since last week? I don't know what shell you're talking about but bash

Re: Reproduced it finally

2000-12-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:32:14PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Monday 11 December 2000 15:45, Charles Krug wrote: On Sunday 10 December 2000 23:09, Christopher Faylor wrote: Sounds like this problem: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q196/0/69.ASP which

Re: Why does scp leave ssh running? -- select() never returns

2000-12-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:20:14PM -0500, Patrick Doyle wrote: So far, the most elegant solution I have come up with is to reimplement 'select()' so that it calls 'ReadFileEx()' with a suitable 'OVERLAPPED' structure, thus eliminating the separate thread that wakes up every 10 ms. Of course, if

Re: Why does scp leave ssh running? -- select() never returns

2000-12-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:57:23PM -0500, Patrick Doyle wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:20:14PM -0500, Patrick Doyle wrote: So far, the most elegant solution I have come up with is to reimplement 'select()' so that it calls 'ReadFileEx()' with a suitable

Re: How to mount a drive in cygnus?

2000-12-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:56:45PM -0500, Jeff Lu wrote: I want to be able to access my other hard drives in cygnus shell. How can I mount in? /cygdrive/c /cygdrive/d /cygdrive/e etc. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kill and Windows applications

2000-12-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:20:13PM -0800, Paul Garceau wrote: Hi folks, On 9 Dec 2000, at 23:38, the Illustrious Scott Glenn wrote: kill does not work with Windows PID's as far as I can tell. Is there a flag option (ps -W gives you the Windows pids, but that doesn't work on kill)?

Re: [long] Re: signals?

2000-12-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 12:54:02AM -0600, Chris Abbey wrote: At 00:27 12/12/00 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:21:05PM -0600, Chris Abbey wrote: At 11:56 11/13/00 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Dunno. Probably, you're sending more than one CTRL-BREAK. It works

Re: help

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 05:30:35PM +0100, M@ikel Gloudemans wrote: Hi again, Thanks for your effort, i shall subscribe, i kinda had a hard time finding info, since the cygnus site is now redhat... Yeah, www.cygwin.com is really a stretch, isn't it...? cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this

Re: globbing FAQ entry -- up to date?

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 05:13:16PM +, David Starks-Browning wrote: The FAQ has this entry, but it's marked "not yet updated for the latest net release". I suspect it still applies. Can I remove the warning? A. How does wildcarding (globbing) work? Q. If an application using CYGWIN.DLL

Re: Contributing condition variables to Cygwin pthreads -- How do I start?

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:07:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. As the subject says, I'd like to volunteer to add condition variables (pthread_cond_t, etc.) to the Cygwin pthread library, but I've never hacked Cygwin before and I really don't know what steps are required to start. Is

Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 01:38:35PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 01:30 PM 12/12/2000, John F. Davis wrote: Any particular reason why I can't mount a filesystem in /home? i.e., cd /home/davis mkdir progs mount c:/progs /progs The mount says, "mount: progs: Invalid argument The

Re: KDE for Cygwin?

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 05:07:37PM -0500, Julia A . Case wrote: Has anyone tried to compile KDE under Cygwin? I'm guessing it isn't an easy task... But, I just want a few of the programs (kMail, konsole, etc) Since KDE is an X application, you'll probably have more luck on the cygwin-xfree

Re: missing gmtime_r localtime_r in .a files

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:12:59PM -0800, Joseph Heled wrote: While I see the prototype for gmtime_r localtime_r in /usr/include/time.h, the linker reports they are not found. I tried 'nm *.a | grep gmtime_r' in /usr/lib, which gave no hits. I am using cygwin version 1.15. gcc version is

Re: missing gmtime_r localtime_r in .a files

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:05:09PM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: --- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:12:59PM -0800, Joseph Heled wrote: While I see the prototype for gmtime_r localtime_r in /usr/include/time.h, the linker reports they are not found. I tried

Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin

2000-12-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:53:53AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: 12 Dec 2000, 15:58 Uhr wars, als Christopher Faylor folgendes schrub: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cy In that case you were using backslashes in bash. For the 1th time: a backslash is a quoting

Re: Typing trouble?

2000-12-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:24:36PM +, Richard Dixon wrote: A novice's question here - just got Cygwin running using an older version (a 10MB-or-so executable containing all the relevant files). It seems to be OK in terms of running but when typing in the bash shell, there are lots of beeps

Appreciation of FAQ maintainer

2000-12-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've expressed appreciation to our FAQ maintainer, David Starks-Browning, in another message, but I thought that it probably was somewhat buried in the discussion. So, I just wanted to formally express my appreciation here. David is doing an unbelievable job at maintaining the FAQ. Under his

Re: Makeinfo step in installations

2000-12-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:28:49PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote: [ I've got my asbestos undies on tight! Yes, I scanned my own archive back to 9/1/2000 ] Someone, I believe it was Charles, mentioned that the make process does not do the makeinfo. [Always? or just sometimes?] Anyway, he included

Re: Not a full install

2000-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 06:25:33PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thursday 14 December 2000 17:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, thanks. I'll see how far we get and will let you know. What about the problem with the ps command ? Any idea why i don't get to see the windows processes if i use

Re: Possible Bug in file length calculation in normalize_posix_path

2000-12-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:57:33PM -0800, Alex Tang wrote: Hello. I'm running the latest Cygwin 1.1.6 on a Windows NT (and Win2K) machine. (cygcheck information is located at the end of this mail). I have a test program which looks like this: #include stdlib.h #include unistd.h

Re: problem building perl module Compress::Zlib 1.08 from inside cygwin

2000-12-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:35:58AM -0500, Soren Andersen wrote: Steve asks about: I'm having problems building the Compress::Zlib 1.08 perl module from inside cygwin. It appears to be a C compiler problem. The (knowlegable) author of Compress says it looks like a cygwin problem. I've

Re: Not a full install

2000-12-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:25:02PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thursday 14 December 2000 21:05, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 06:25:33PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thursday 14 December 2000 17:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, thanks. I'll see how far we get

Re: CONFIRM subscribe to cygwin-deny@cygwin.com

2000-12-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:56:06PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. I respectfully request your permission to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the subscribers of the cygwin-deny mailing list. This request either came

Call for volunteers -- updating the Cygwin documentation

2000-12-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
A lot of what is in the FAQ could probably be moved into the Cygwin documentation. And, there are other sections of the documentation which need to be updated and augmented. Is anyone willing to volunteer to take on this activity? cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to

Re: Call for volunteers -- updating the Cygwin documentation

2000-12-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:12:58PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote: I will take a look at what I can find, Chris. My "C, plus, minus, sharp, flat, or vanilla" may be rusty but my English is still quite good. I've been involved in this end of things several times. What are your parameters -- .sgml

Re: delete old version?

2000-12-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 09:06:47PM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: --- DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I can see objectionable would be the time limit for source distribution; but, you would know better about that than I would. There is no minimum time limit when you

Re: Problems compiling perl module Compress-Zlib with perl

2000-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:01:27AM -0800, Steve Kelem wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Because of the problems I'm having compiling the perl module Compress-Zlib 1.08 and because the cygwin page (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ported.html) lists a port of gcc2.95.2 (ftp

Re: delete old version?

2000-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:27:16PM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: --- Chris Abbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: smashing good idea. anyone have an idea how that same mentality can be pushed to some of the vendors that are still shipping B20? i.e. mySQL? Flood their mail list? ;) Just kidding.

Available for test: tar 1.13.8-1

2000-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
At Corinna's request, I've put up a new version of tar on sources.redhat.com. This version fixes a bug with excluding files. It also incorporates a native '-j' switch which causes tar to use bzip to compress and uncompress. This replaces the previous -y option. Otherwise, this version has all

Re: Available for test: tar 1.13.8-1

2000-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:27:51PM -0600, Chris Abbey wrote: At 21:13 12/17/00 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: This version fixes a bug with excluding files. It also incorporates a native '-j' switch which causes tar to use bzip to compress and uncompress. This replaces the previous -y option

Re: Re : Re: Process Freezes with Cygwin 1.1.6 / Windows 98 SE

2000-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:07:49PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re : Re: Process Freezes with Cygwin 1.1.6 / Windows 98 SE To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:07:49 +0100 I don't know if it is a Windows 9x problem. But notice that I am using

Re: Tag for 1.1.6?

2000-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:50:32AM -0800, Alex Tang wrote: i was wondering...is there a CVS tag that I can use to check out the entire tree that's used for the cygwin 1.1.6 dll? I tried using "cygwin-1-1-6", however it only checked out the winsup directory. That's the only thing that I tagged.

Re: [Fwd: [21.1] work around cygwin readlink bug]

2000-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:21:06PM -0500, Charles S. Wilson wrote: Saw this message on the xemacs-nt mailing list. Is this a known bug in cygwin-1.1.6 ? READLINK(2) Linux Programmer's Manual READLINK(2) NAME readlink - read value of a symbolic link SYNOPSIS

Re: CVS permissions problem with network drive

2000-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:08:45PM +1300, Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From: "Charles S. Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Corinna Vinschen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corinna Vinschen wrote: Sounds reasonable to me. CYGWIN=smbfakeperm ? CYGWIN=nodomain ? CYGWIN=SMBisBroken

Re: CVS permissions problem with network drive

2000-12-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 01:52:33PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2000 03:42, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:08:45PM +1300, Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From: "Charles S. Wilson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Corinna V

Re: Xfree86 info and manual pages tar.gz?

2000-12-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:46:07AM +0200, Jari Aalto+list.cygwin wrote: The cygwin Xfree page seems to have only binaries and I'm able to run rxvt with Exceed (I haven't yet tries xfree server). Does anyone know where are the info and manual pages? In some CVS tree location? I'm not sure how

Re: Could You Please Help Me !!

2000-12-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
Check out http://sources.redhat.com/ . There are no guarantees that anyone will automatically answer your questions, though. This is free software and anyone involved in helping out on external mailing lists is a volunteer. On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:42:55PM -, ravi a wrote: Respectecd

Re: AW: documentation archive

2000-12-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:37:01PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2000 20:18, Vladimir G Ivanovic wrote: EB 2) Don't use Winzip to explore a cygwin archive file. I do this as well without problems, although it's not my preferred way of exploring a gzipped tar gile.

Re: new install of cygwin with pdksh doesn't work

2000-12-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:39:08PM -0800, David M. Karr wrote: I have a relatively recent install of cygwin, along with pdksh-2.14. I have scripts that reference "/bin/ksh" that work fine. Today I've been setting up these tools on another PC, and now when I execute "ksh", I get the following:

Re: Is there any way link to cygwin library using Visual C++ compiler ?

2000-12-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:21:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To use the Cygwin API, do I have to use the gcc compiler? Is there any way in cygwin so I could statically link the Library which include fork(), socketpair() etc to Visual C++ compiler? If I could, would you please give me some

Re: new install of cygwin with pdksh doesn't work

2000-12-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:49:32PM -0800, David M. Karr wrote: "Christopher" == Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christopher On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:39:08PM -0800, David M. Karr wrote: I have a relatively recent install of cygwin, along with pdksh-2.14. I ha

Re: AW: documentation archive

2000-12-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:12:13PM +1300, Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:40 AM Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive snip That's it and these are t

volunteers gratefully accepted

2000-12-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
ing directly towards improving the project itself by working on some of the parts of its infrastructure whether that is the web page, the source code, or the documentation. Christopher Faylor Cygwin Engineering Manager -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: AW:

2000-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 04:36:35PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thursday 21 December 2000 15:32, Patrick Doyle wrote: Well, this is very definitely off topic, so stop reading now if OT items really bug you, but is "AW" German for "FW"? No. It's German for "Re" (it's "Antwort" == "Reply").

Re: new install of cygwin with pdksh doesn't work

2000-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:22:27AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Friday 22 December 2000 01:11, Jari Aalto+mail.emacs wrote: I would appreciate if bash could tolerate ^M in the end of lines. It does. Corinna LOL. I responded almost exactly the same way before I read your email. cgf --

Re: bash wildcard expansion

2000-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:06:45PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:53:49PM -0500, Puttkammer, Roman wrote: -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:31 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: [EMAIL

Re: pwd problem with GNU make

2000-12-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:31:55PM -0800, Richard Y. Kim wrote: I have updated all my cygwin packages as of 13:00 PST on December 21, 2000 from freesoftware.com. It seems like GNU make gets confused about the current working directory (indicated by the fact that included files are not found)

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-20001221-1.tar.gz

2000-12-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:43:18PM +0930, Trevor Forbes wrote: - Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, there is one potentially useful change. I've resurrected the /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin directory. This directory now conta

Re: volunteers gratefully accepted

2000-12-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
et me know. reid --- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time I do a google search for "cygwin" to see what kind of links are out there referring to the project. I'm always somewhat shocked by the number of pages which reference cygwin. I'm almost equally shoc

Re: volunteers gratefully accepted

2000-12-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
luded cygwin, and ash, a "shell package" that included "bash", "fileutils", "textutils", etc. If you find this interesting, please discuss it in the public mailing lists. I want any discussion to be public. cgf On 25 Dec 2000, at 22:31, Christopher Faylor wrote

Re: [Fwd: Re: Web2C: CYGWIN is not DOSISH]

2000-12-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:23:27PM +0100, Jerome Benoit wrote: I have done some fix in view to build web2c-7.3.3 under cygwn-1.1: the main idea is that CYGWIN is _NOT_ DOSISH Is CYGWIN supposed to understand DOS-style pathnames (e.g, C:\dir)? If so, then it definetely is DOSISH. If not,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.1.17-1

2000-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
ubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christopher Faylor Cygwin Engineering Manager (and Developer) Red Hat, Inc. Changes in this release: - Fix for non-blocking serial reads. (Dan Morris) -

Re: Clueless about install

2000-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 04:19:09PM -0800, Chris Fogelklou wrote: I downloaded the whole thing.. (I think... The full/part button would go bold/not bold depending on how many times I clicked it, so I assumed that bold meant full) The net install of cygwin should require running setup and: Next

Re: Clueless about install

2000-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:28:22PM -0800, Chris Fogelklou wrote: Hi Chris, "The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools and utilities for Windows 95, 98, and NT. They function by using the Cygwin library which provides a UNIX-like API on top of the Win32 API." Notice that

Re: How do I create the locatedb??

2000-12-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:30:41PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 31 Dec 2000, 14:50 Uhr wars, als Andrew Markebo folgendes schrub: Re: How do I create the locatedb?? Thanx! Uhm, any special reason for it not to be included in the cygwin dist?

Re: why not use root as root?

2001-01-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 05:02:36AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi cygwinners, I found this entry in the faq: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC52 So there is no explanation, what is the problem with that issue. I only read, that it is not

Re: Getting GCC's testsuite, i.e., dejagnu, under cygwin-1.1.7

2001-01-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
tcl is not a cygwin application so tcl+dejagnu don't understand cygwin mounts. cgf On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:09:52AM +0100, Christian J?nsson wrote: This is indeed a mystery to me. Perhaps the people working with cygwin and related matters, such as tcl/tk and dejagnu thereunder, on cygwin list

Re: why not use root as root?

2001-01-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:57:29AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Ah, so you see the future? Seriously, there are programs that CANNOT change where their files go and still operate - and when they collide with cygwin, goodbye cygwin | goodbye those programs. Are you saying the FAQ entry is wrong

Re: why not use root as root?

2001-01-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:12:11PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: At last i thought, if it would not work with cygwin on root, then the setup.exe would not allow to install in root:-) It does work. But there _may_ be gotchas. There _are_ gotchas with other products. What benefits does

Re: Getting GCC's testsuite, i.e., dejagnu, under cygwin-1.1.7

2001-01-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 07:20:30PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: tcl is not a cygwin application so tcl+dejagnu don't understand cygwin mounts. cgf However, the unix version of tcl will build with Cygwin and therefore understand Cygwin's mounts. You can also build

Re: SEGV running programs under GDB 5.0

2001-01-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:14:14PM -0800, Michael Eager wrote: I installed Cygwin 1.1.7. Running even trivial programs under GDB get a SEGV before reaching main(). Any suggestions on what is going on? This doesn't seem to be the latest cygwin release version of gdb. Updating the Cygwin DLL

Re: Getting GCC's testsuite, i.e., dejagnu, under cygwin-1.1.7

2001-01-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:51:08PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: 1 Jan 2001, 21:54 Uhr wars, als Christopher Faylor folgendes schrub: Re: Getting GCC's testsuite, i.e., Yep. DJ actually got a version of dejagnu/tcl working some time ago but we haven't had the cycles to make a release

Re: Getting GCC's testsuite, i.e., dejagnu, under cygwin-1.1.7

2001-01-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 06:14:54PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:51:08PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: 1 Jan 2001, 21:54 Uhr wars, als Christopher Faylor folgendes schrub: Re: Getting GCC's testsuite, i.e., Yep. DJ actually got a version of dejagnu/tcl working

Re: new function suggestion fsetmode

2001-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:21:36AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Hi, I'd like to suggest a function for working on FILE* handles int fsetmode(FILE* fhandle, int mode) { if (fhandle) return setmode(fhandle-_file, mode); else return EOF; } I wasn't sure where in cygwin

Re: new function suggestion fsetmode

2001-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
to include it. There are also new 'binmode.o', 'textmode.o', and 'automode.o' object files available for changing the defaults on a per-binary basis. automode.o (probably misnamed) changes the default to 'read text'/'write binary'. cgf Rob - Original Message - From: "Christopher F

Re: Error in sem_init (cygwin-1.1.7-1)

2001-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've checked in this change. Thanks. cgf On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:37:01PM +0100, Torben Nielsen wrote: Hi! The following code sequence fails (does not wait): sem_t sem; sem_init(sem, 0, 0); sem_wait(sem); I believe the reason is found in ./winsup/cygwin/thread.cc line

Re: Problem running gcc

2001-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:46:20PM -0600, Tim Bolshakov wrote: Hi! I download latest cygwin installation today and try to compile very simple example like the "creating relocatable dll". Suprisingly gcc does not work. Here is error report from the gcc:

Re: Using large memory segments with a telnet session

2001-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:54:04AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: Any ideas? Using the source I find: /* Note that reserving a huge amount of heap space does not result in swapping since we are not committing it. */ /* FIXME: We should not be restricted to a fixed size heap no matter what the

Re: values.h / 2

2001-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:42:15PM -0800, J. J. Farrell wrote: values.h is an old UNIX standard file for these things - it was documented in issues 1 and 2 of the X/Open Portability Guide. float.h was standardized in ANSI C in 1989 and had become widely used before then. values.h was withdrawn

Re: #includes not being processed across network (revised)

2001-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:48:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earnie: The only other thing I can think of is to use gdb. You'll need to get the source and build a debug version of cygwin1.dll so you can step into the functions. While I can do the debug, I'm afraid that building debuggable

Re: How to create tty/pty pair ?

2001-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 11:19:17PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote: I do not know how to make a tty/pty pair with Cygwin. /dev/ptmx is the mechanism. Here is some sample code: char *slave; int om = open ("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR); if (om 0) die ("/dev/ptmx", 1); if (grantpt (om) 0)

Re: First Cygwin Installation

2001-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:52:58PM -0800, David M. Karr wrote: "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Earnie "David M. Karr" wrote: Unless I'm misunderstanding something, the public domain Korn shell is another application that can't deal with Unix line endings. For some

Re: #including tchar.h using gcc on Cygwin

2001-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:54:52PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 05:43 PM 1/4/2001, Dave Brolley wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use gcc to compile an application on Cygwin which #includes tchar.h. In searching my system, I see a tchar.h in /usr/include/mingw32, but the compiler

Re: Porting Cygwin

2001-01-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 08:36:57AM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: Thanks, I'm on the list. Now, am I correct in my assumption that porting the cygwin dll to WinCE will let me compile, GCC source and the link/run it using the EVT c compiler with not a whole lot of editing? If so, where can I

Re: Porting Cygwin

2001-01-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:19:32PM -0500, David Feustel wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 08:36:57AM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: Now, am I correct in my assumption that porting the cygwin dll to WinCE will let me compile, GCC source and the link/run it using the EVT c compiler with not a whole lot of

Re: Porting Cygwin

2001-01-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:33:39PM -0500, David Feustel wrote: I don't want to port the entire Cygwin Toolchain to Wince. I just want to get the cygwin dll ported so that when calls are made to the cygwin functions from programs like M4 and VI, the EVT 3.0 linker will be able to resolve them. I

Re: Porting Cygwin

2001-01-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 01:03:32PM -0500, David Feustel wrote: WinCE 2.11 has a console window. I am using it in my ports of Teco and Snobol4 to my Jornada 820. Teco is essentially done. Snobol4 runs but needs work. I have a Windows 2000 version running from essentially the same codebase

Re: new Win98 install -- can't resolve std::cout

2001-01-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:26:04AM -0800, Dave wrote: I apologize for such a basic question. I've installed binaries for gcc ports to Windows several times in past few years and I've always had the whole system come up easily. Yesterday I used the new setup.exe program to install all the

Re: dev/null

2001-01-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 6 Jan 2001, 19:11 Uhr wars, als Melvyn Sopacua folgendes schrub: Re: dev/null Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I created a dev/null, but then i got this error: # of unexpected

Re: dev/null

2001-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:09:03AM -0500, Soren Andersen wrote: On 6 Jan 2001, an entity purporting to be Gerrit P. Haase [Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote [regarding Re: dev/null] Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I created a dev/null, but then i got this error: # of unexpected failures

Updated the Contributing link on the cygwin site

2001-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
I have just updated the "Contributing" or "How do I help out?" link at http://cygwin.com/contrib.html . I've added more words about what is expected for ChangeLog entries and diffs, removed some somewhat obsolete info, and most importantly, changed all of the "Cygnus" entries to "Red Hat".

Re: perl-5.6.1 DB_file support

2001-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:48:25AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: AARRGHH. No no no. Cygwin is not WIN32. While some packages, when ported to cygwin, do rely on code within #ifdef _WIN32 blocks, this is a mistake. If you want to use code for WIN32 and for cygwin, then do: Well, I'm perplexed

Re: dev/null

2001-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:37:03AM -0500, Soren Andersen wrote: On 7 Jan 2001, an entity purporting to be Christopher Faylor [Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote [regarding Re: dev/null] soren: But manually, I just use 'nul'. Chris: /dev/null in cygwin eventually translates

Re: perl-5.6.1 DB_file support

2001-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:58:27AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: As I said, I would support wholeheartedly such a change, however Chris Faylor and Red Hat would have the final say. I do think that the WIN32 definitions get in the way of porting UNIX code to Cygwin especially when Win32 porting is

Re: about cygwin

2001-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:03:42AM -0800, hammouda mohamed wrote: i have an error message each time i want to excute cygwin the message indicate that there is no cygwin1.dll. I don t now how can I get this file? The cygwin web site is http://cygwin.com/ . There is a link called "Install Cygwin

Re: [BUG] GCC specs ignored [WAS: Re: perl-5.6.1 DB_file support]

2001-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:24:09AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: If you are saying that gcc is somehow ignoring the specs file, then that is a bug. Yes, I changed -mno-win32 to -mwin32 and received an error message from one of the subprocesses, I don't remember now

Re: perl-5.6.1 DB_file support

2001-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:40:21AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: Well, it is a MS Windows standard. And if _WIN32 is defined shouldn't I expect to find a Win32 standard definition such as MAX_PATH and _MAX_PATH defined? Even Cygwin itself uses MAX_PATH, E.G.: /usr/include/sys/cygwin.h. Cygwin

Re: cygwin 1.1.7

2001-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:56:09AM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 11:54 AM 1/8/2001, Craveiro, Marco wrote: Well, I've just upgraded from B20 to the latest cygwin with the graphical installer and I *have* to say this: cygwin rocks! Its fast, its stable, and its more and more like

Re: perl-5.6.1 DB_file support

2001-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:25:20PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:40:21AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: Well, it is a MS Windows standard. And if _WIN32 is defined shouldn't I expect to find a Win32 standard definition such as MAX_PATH

Re: perl-5.6.1 DB_file support

2001-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:33:46PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:25:20PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:40:21AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: Well, it is a MS Windows standard. And if _WIN32 is defined shouldn't I

Re: cygwin 1.1.7

2001-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
It's interesting how quickly this thread changed from "Cygwin is great" to "Cygwin is great but" to "I have a problem and need help! Could somebody please help me" Sigh. Business as usual. cgf On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:38:00PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 04:29 PM

Re: mail list problems

2001-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:36:05PM -0500, Patrick Doyle wrote: It seems to work fine for me. Perhaps your mail client "blows". Something certainly blows if one can't look at the header of the messages coming from the cygwin mailing list and find something reliable to filter on. It's either the

Re: learn to email

2001-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:06:37PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:26:26PM -0500, Noel L Yap wrote: When replying to an email list, the replyer cannot assume that the replyee is on the email list (and therefore will get duplicates). Neither can

Re: getcwd() in cygwin 1.1.7 doesn't work properly in IIS web application

2001-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:23:05PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: I haven't checked the code to see what is the hard-coded default path for unmounted drives The default is /cygdrive, of course. There should be no reason to set anything to /cygdrive since that is the default. If

Re: getcwd() in cygwin 1.1.7 doesn't work properly in IIS web application

2001-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:07:44PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 04:04 PM 1/10/2001, Christopher Faylor wrote: If somone does use --change-cygdrive-prefix then the default should be You mean doesn't, right? Yes. The hazards of typing while on conference calls

make -mno-win32 the gcc default?

2001-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
So, what does everyone think about making -mno-win32 the default for Cygwin? This would mean that WIN32 variables would not be defined by gcc by default. It would require a -mwin32 switch for these to be activated. Earnie has been proposing this and I sort of like the idea but dread the

Re: make -mno-win32 the gcc default?

2001-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:36:41PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 04:31 PM 1/10/2001, Christopher Faylor wrote: So, what does everyone think about making -mno-win32 the default for Cygwin? This would mean that WIN32 variables would not be defined by gcc by default. It would

Re: make -mno-win32 the gcc default?

2001-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:54:26PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Earnie has been proposing this and I sort of like the idea but dread the potential hue and cry that could result. I also like the idea, but am terrified of the torrent of "It worked with gcc-2

Re: make -mno-win32 the gcc default?

2001-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
e to decide how you wanted cygwin (make, really) to behave. On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:54:26PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Earnie has been proposing this and I sort of like the idea but dread the potential hue and cry that could result. I also like t

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