Re: request: change mount behaviour

2001-12-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo, I am sure that this was discussed, I didn't searched the archives, but I want to make this request (again if it is so): Change the default mount behaviour to create binmode user mounts if called without options. Example: $ mount C:/some/drive /mydrive

Re: whois package

2001-12-07 Thread Jonathan Kamens
From: Mark Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:04:27 -0500 Just took a look at the bw.org version and realised that it's perl based. I'd really rather support one that can be compiled. Why? jik

Re: whois package

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:08:18AM -0500, Jonathan Kamens wrote: Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 09:55:02 +0100 From: Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which whois do you want to maintain? http://www.gnu.org/gnulist/production/jwhois.html http://www.gnu.org/gnulist/production/whois.html Don't forget

Re: Figlet-2.2 Experimental

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:51:12AM -, Ebrey, Carl wrote: I'm interested in being the package maintainer for figlet. The latest version is 2.2 and was released in 1996 (and so I can't realistically see it being updated again). I have already compiled the source and created a tar.bz2 of the

RE: whois package

2001-12-07 Thread Mark Bradshaw
Going back to dig and host, I'm guessing that the maintainer would need to actually be a maintainer for the whole bind package? Am I right in assuming that having bind as a cygwin package would provide libresolv functionality, or would more be required. BTW, I can get bind 9.2 to compile with

Re: new cygwin-cross-1.3.6.1

2001-12-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:30:12PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Some people promised to have a look at my cross build scripts package so I've made some fixes. It should generate fully Cygwin compliant binary and source packages now, I hope. I wonder if these

Re: Figlet-2.2 Experimental

2001-12-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:31:28AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: __ _ ___ _ _ _ _(_) |_ / _` / -_) '_| '_| | _| \__, \___|_| |_| |_|\__| |___/ Was there something you wanted to say, here? Just quoting

X Server

2001-12-07 Thread Attila Szomor
Hi All, I downloaded CigWin, but how can I get XFree for it ? Thanks, Attila.

cygwin font fixed not found

2001-12-07 Thread epstein monique
Hi to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! I saw your answer on the mailing list CYGWIN XFREE86 You answer to Marius Gita that he should try using binary instead of text while installing but the new installation gives only the possibility of choosing default text file type : DOS or UNIX So which one would be the

Re: xdm

2001-12-07 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Janos Sebestyen (ETH) wrote: Hi, My name is Janos and I am trying to use cygwin and Xfree under win2k, it is working fine, but I have a question! How can I use xdm and chooser, because it is allways said Only root wants to run xdm? There is no such user root on winnt.

Re: bunzip2 - Where to locate utility?

2001-12-07 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
Gary Samuels wrote: To whom it may concern, I have downloaded Cygwin/XFree86 and the xc-4-binaries. However, I can't find the bunzip2 utility to uncompress the extract utility. Where can I locate this? Use 'bzip2 -d' to unzip '.bz2' files. -- Eyal Lebedinsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

RE: install question

2001-12-07 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
program error cygwin.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows, you will need to restart the program. This is the setup log 2001/12/06 11:27:53 Starting cygwin install, version 2.125.2.10 Current Directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My

Re: why does cygwin default security setup give EVERYONE access everywhere?

2001-12-07 Thread Gene C. Ruzicka
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RE: install question

2001-12-07 Thread Lester Ingber
No, the download goes OK, but then setup.exe bombs with: The exception unknown software exception (0xc0fd) occurred in the application at location 0x77f8e621. I've had this problems for weeks. My setup.log looks similar to that reported by others: 8 top cut -

Re: problem with Rational Suite Enterprise installation

2001-12-07 Thread John Peacock
Scott Wingo wrote: Hello, I am running Windows 98, and I've recently installed Rational Suite Enterprise. The other day, when I ran Cygwin, I the 'pwd' command returned /cygdrive/d/RATIONAL/RATION~1/NUTCROOT How can I get it back to normal? I saw a posting regarding a similar problem

Re: ghostscript binmode weirdness

2001-12-07 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 11:56 PM 12/6/2001, Gregory W. Bond wrote: i cannot get ghostscript to generate non-corrupted pdf files unless everything is happens on binmode mounts - is there no way that i can force binmode treatment on a text mount? i've read and re-read the cygwin manual and experimented with a zillion

Re: install question

2001-12-07 Thread Brian Keener
Please download the new setup from the web page - I believe the version you are running had a problem parsing the setup.ini file because of some single quotes and also mutual dependencies. Just go to the web page and download the newest or get the source from the cvs and make. bk --

Re: install question

2001-12-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Lester, 2001-12-07 15:43:26, du schriebst: No, the download goes OK, but then setup.exe bombs with: The exception unknown software exception (0xc0fd) occurred in the application at location 0x77f8e621. I had similar problems after removing a herddisk from my box. I had some

Re: latest snapshot fixes xemacs problems

2001-12-07 Thread Jochen Küpper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bingo:) the 20011207 snapshot fixes the problems with cydrive prefixes I had. Thank you very much Christopher for the responsiveness! On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 00:10:57 -0500 Christopher Faylor wrote: Christopher Bingo. CYGWIN=check_case:adjust

Re: Fwd: Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues (was Re: [ python-Bugs-489709 ] Building Fails ...)

2001-12-07 Thread Jason Tishler
Michael, On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:12:48PM +, Michael Hudson wrote: Michael Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your patch helps by the way. I tried building without threads -- that didn't. OTOH, some tests crash: 3 tests failed: test_popen2 test_pty test_socket I know, I

Re: ghostscript binmode weirdness

2001-12-07 Thread Gregory W. Bond
thanks for the reply larry - i realize that fixing the ghostscript port would be a solution, but my impression from reading the cygwin user manual is that setting CYGWIN to binmode could serve as a workaround - in my case it didn't and i don't understand why - i'm beginning to suspect that cygwin

Re: ghostscript binmode weirdness

2001-12-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:43:11AM -0500, Gregory W. Bond wrote: thanks for the reply larry - i realize that fixing the ghostscript port would be a solution, but my impression from reading the cygwin user manual is that setting CYGWIN to binmode could serve as a workaround - in my case it

ftp can't set uid

2001-12-07 Thread Don Sharp
I found the following message during a google search, but no resolution. www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-05/msg01199.html Today I stopped inetd, removed as service, reinstalled inetutils, installed as service but am still seeing all the same things Gerrit reported. Cygwin bang up to date with

problems with dlopen

2001-12-07 Thread Henning Moll
Hello! Why does this code fail with segfault? I think the problem is that dlopen calls malloc itself? Is that right? Any suggestions how to fix it? --snip-- #include stdlib.h #include dlfcn.h static void *(*orig_malloc) (size_t) = 0; void * malloc(size_t p) { static int state = 0;

Re: ftp can't set uid

2001-12-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:14:08PM +, Don Sharp wrote: I found the following message during a google search, but no resolution. www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-05/msg01199.html Today I stopped inetd, removed as service, reinstalled inetutils, installed as service but am still seeing all the

Re: problems with dlopen

2001-12-07 Thread Cliff Hones
Why does this code fail with segfault? I think the problem is that dlopen calls malloc itself? Is that right? Any suggestions how to fix it? If your suspicion is correct, then simply moving state = 1 to before the call of dlopen should do the trick, i.e.: case 0:

cygwin-1.3.6-5 released

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've released a new version of cygwin that just might fix the reported xemacs problems. It will be a while before it shows up on mirrors, but I thought I'd do this before I leave for a few hours. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re[2]: problems with dlopen

2001-12-07 Thread Henning Moll
Hallo Cliff, Friday, December 07, 2001, 5:26:33 PM, you wrote: If your suspicion is correct, then simply moving state = 1 to before the call of dlopen should do the trick, i.e.: case 0: state = 1; handle = dlopen(cygwin1.dll,

Re: problems with dlopen

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:56:43PM +0100, Henning Moll wrote: Again, any suggestions? Look at the cygwin source code? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: ftp can't set uid

2001-12-07 Thread Don Sharp
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:14:08PM +, Don Sharp wrote: I found the following message during a google search, but no resolution. www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-05/msg01199.html Today I stopped inetd, removed as service, reinstalled inetutils, installed as

Autotools

2001-12-07 Thread Stephano Mariani
With the release of the new autotools build system I was under the impression that with libtool, automake supported building dlls under cygwin. I seem not to be able to do this, no dlls are produced and despite --disable-static, I get .a .la. I am able to build dlls manually perfectly, and yet

creating shortcuts.. question

2001-12-07 Thread Laszlo Vecsey
I'm using the CreateLink example from the platform sdk but I'm having trouble getting it to work. I checked the archives and there were three posts related to this but not enough to help me, I need some clarification on one of them too. I've made a short example of where I'm left running into

Re: creating shortcuts.. question

2001-12-07 Thread Laszlo Vecsey
- Original Message - From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why don't you look at the Cygwin DLL source and see how it's done there? Theres really no place in the cygwin dll where it would exist, and I just checked to be sure. I'm looking to create the ~700byte

New Cygwin DLL 1.3.6 release tapes ??

2001-12-07 Thread Manfred Drechsel
hi chris, first, many thanks for cygwin. i could not survive without it. sorry to send you a mail directly. am i doing something wrong or why does tar not work on my dat-tape? here's more info: # mount ... \\.\tape0 on /dev/st0 type system (binmode)

Bug Report: CVS and gdbm-1.8.0-3

2001-12-07 Thread Joseph M. Reagle Jr.
An easy one: the latest version of CVS [1] is still expecting to find libgdbm.dll . If you copy cyggdbm.dll to that name, it works, but folks new to cygwin won't know that nor recall [2]. Thanks! [1] AEON: /home/reagle/data/2web/WWW/Team/Reagle cvs -v Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.10.8

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Re: Segmentation fault when using gdb pthreads

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Collins
Try continuing. There is some memory access checks in place, that will return a error to the app, but under a debugger throw a segv. Rob === - Original Message - From: Evan Pollan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 2:23 PM Subject: Segmentation fault

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updates mingw-runtime-1.2-1

2001-12-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --2711B6E3D027A784FA3D1C60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've made a new version of the MinGW Runtime headers and import libraries. I've attached the portion of the ChangeLog between 1.1 and

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Installer Problem

2001-12-07 Thread Nordques001
I tried to install Cygwin from a local directory but had to stop because of an error. When I tried again, the installer no longer showed development or anything else but misc packages. I deleted all the logs I can find but I can't get the installer to install all the packages I want (and

Re: cygwin-1.3.6-5 released

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:58:38PM -0600, Eduardo R Larranaga wrote: Please send important notices like this to cygwin-announce - sometimes it is hard keeping up with all the discussions in cygwin and an important item like this could be overlooked. No thanks. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

login and ssh: can't authenticate

2001-12-07 Thread Ryan T. Sammartino
Yes, I have read everything in /usr/doc/Cygwin, and searched this mailing list, and read all of Corinna's well-written posts, and yet login and ssh refuse to log me in. My /etc/passwd looks very similar to the examples in /usr/doc/Cygwin/login.README and

Re: Bug Report: CVS and gdbm-1.8.0-3

2001-12-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote: An easy one: the latest version of CVS [1] is still expecting to find libgdbm.dll . If you copy cyggdbm.dll to that name, it works, but folks new to cygwin won't know that nor recall [2]. Nope. That's not the newest version of cvs. The newest version is

Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues (was Re: [ python-Bugs-489709 ] Building Fails ...)

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:54:32PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Anyway, they had a problem after upgrading to a new cygwinish dll (cygncurses?? I think) w.r.t. load-on-fork. There's no way setup/rebase can be used to avoid that problem a_priori...is there? (As I recall, the person did a 'hand

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Collins wrote: Non-public code bug reports do belong here you mean, bug reports for non-public code belong on ***cygwin-apps@***, right? This thread is on cygwin@ (originally because of the texmf thing, and

RE: javac compiler

2001-12-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
Well, assuming you already have the JDK installed in Windows, just use it! :) If you don't have it installed, then first install it and follow the directions for updating your path. Once you've done that you'll be able to call it from within cygwin with no problem. -Alex -Original

RE: javac compiler

2001-12-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
Kevin, Just realize that the Sun javac is a Windows application, so it needs a Windows-style CLASSPATH variable (or -classpath argument) and file name path syntax. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 18:58 2001-12-07, Alex Malinovich wrote: Well, assuming you already have the JDK

Re: cygwin-1.3.6-5 released

2001-12-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: I've released a new version of cygwin that just might fix the reported xemacs problems. It will be a while before it shows up on mirrors, but I thought I'd do this before I leave for a few hours. 1.3.6-5 mistakenly contains the mingw files:

Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues (was Re: [ python-Bugs-489709 ] Building Fails ...)

2001-12-07 Thread Jason Tishler
The ASSume principle applies once again... On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:44:26PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: I have just reproduced this build problem with Python 2.2b2 too. However, I don't believe that it is related to the particular Python version one attempts to build. Actually, setup.py

Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues (was Re: [ python-Bugs-489709] Building Fails ...)

2001-12-07 Thread Michael Hudson
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Charles Wilson wrote: Jason Tishler wrote: building 'gdbm' extension gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DUSE_DL_IMPORT -I. -I/cygdrive/e/Python-2.2b2/./Include -I/usr/local/include -IInclude/ -c /cygdrive/e/Python-2.2b2/Modules/gdbmmodule.c -o

Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues (was Re: [ python-Bugs-489709 ] Building Fails ...)

2001-12-07 Thread Jason Tishler
Dave, On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:03:24AM -0500, David Abrahams wrote: FWIW, Jason's patch worked for me, Thanks for the feedback. except for curses of course which seems to be broken in cygwin. The above is a known problem, see the following for details:

Re: dll_list::load_after_fork() blues (was Re: [ python-Bugs-489709 ] Building Fails ...)

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The above occurs during Cygwin's fork() when the Cygwin DLL cannot load a DLL to the same address in the child that it had in the parent. I have seen this during Python 2.1.1 regression tests with threads enabled. Part