remove separate xfree directories from ftp download?

2002-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
Would it be possible to remove the xfree directory in the ftp area on sources.redhat.com? Can't we just use the mechanisms available with cygwin's setup and put test releases in the setup hierarchy? At the very least could we get rid of some of the older files from that directory? cgf

Re: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP

2002-12-22 Thread Gareth Pearce
This is a BAD idea (TM). Gareth Just stick cygwin1.dll in your windows\system32 folder. -Original Message- From: John Seeliger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 6:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP How do

RE: permission denied for NTFS network shares

2002-12-22 Thread Chris January
I have some problem using rsh under cygwin. It works fine for local disks and local disks of remote computers (both UNIX and NT/2000). But if I am trying to access NTFS network share (that is on file server), I receive permission denied. Here is an example: From unix machine:

Re: permission denied for NTFS network shares

2002-12-22 Thread Genady Veytsman
Unix/Linux systems are much more secure then NT but they do allow RSH without password (using .rhosts). Are you saying that there is no way whatsoever to have RSH without passwords? I need it for running scripts/programs on different NT machines. Interactive behaviour (login/password) will not

RE: permission denied for NTFS network shares

2002-12-22 Thread Chris January
Unix/Linux systems are much more secure then NT but they do allow RSH without password (using .rhosts). Are you saying that there is no way whatsoever to have RSH without passwords? I need it for running scripts/programs on different NT machines. Interactive behaviour (login/password) will

Re: trying to complibe glib 2.0.7

2002-12-22 Thread Charles Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: made some progress. was complaining about unresolved libuser32 and libkernel32.\ I found the libraries under /usr/lib/win32 and did a symbolic link in /usr/lib Now it has come to the point of linking and now it complains /usr/lib/libcygwin.a(libcmain.o)(.text+0x7c):

RE: [PATCH] exclude runtime-pseudo-reloc symbols from auto-export

2002-12-22 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Chris, 1. I don't see how you could do that since the symbol is associated with an existing place in memory. We could put the whole function in a different segment but that's not the kind of solution I was thinking of. 2. I was thinking that there might be an unused attribute that could be

Re: permission denied for NTFS network shares

2002-12-22 Thread Genady Veytsman
It seems you are right. I tried to use RSH without .rhosts, supplying password and then all the shares were accessible. Now I just need to find a way to supply a password noninteractivly. I know that rexec allows to do it on unix, but there is no rexec in cygwin. Thanks Genady Chris January

Re: permission denied for NTFS network shares

2002-12-22 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Genady Veytsman wrote Are you saying that there is no way whatsoever to have RSH without passwords? I need it for running scripts/programs on different NT machines. Interactive behaviour (login/password) will not allow that since you can't hardcode your passwords in scripts. If you are the

What's wrong? gcc brain-damaged on cygwin?

2002-12-22 Thread Dockeen
Looking at your post I see that you compiled your code as follows: gcc testnewchar.cpp: You should use g++ to compile c++ code. I was able to replicate your errors and eliminate them by using g++, which, accoriding to a post I saw yesterday on the gcc-help board, has been the preferred way to

Re: What's wrong? gcc brain-damaged on cygwin?

2002-12-22 Thread Dockeen
Could it be that when compiling and installing gcc with --enable-languages=c++ only gcc doesn't install some essential libs? Why in the world are you creating your own gcc? I used to do it just because I wanted to use the gcc-3.1 code, but it is darn tricky and completely unneccessary now, as

Re: What's wrong? gcc brain-damaged on cygwin?

2002-12-22 Thread Dockeen
When I built my own, I built it with C,C++ and f77 enabled. The configure (I had a number of options added, it was not just ./configure) and the make bootstrap part of the process took an hour on P4 type machines, 10 hours on this old P2. (make install was quick). But back to the fundamental

rxvt, once again...

2002-12-22 Thread [mn]
Hi, I'd like to automatically center the rxvt console rather than letting it pop up in the upper left quarter of my screen, any hints how to influence this? best wishes, svartsjel -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/

Re: rxvt, once again...

2002-12-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
Svartsjel, I like to launch things via Windows shortcuts where ever possible. Windows shortcuts that target executables have some of the characteristics of scripts in that you can program not only the executable to invoke, but most notably its arguments, initial working directory and window

expat-1.95.5: undefined reference to `XML_ParserCreate'

2002-12-22 Thread Ross Smith II
I'm trying to compile a simple expat program: #include stdio.h #include expat.h int main() { XML_ParserCreate(NULL); return 0; } but I get: $ gcc -lexpat -L/lib expattest.c /cygdrive/...:expattest.c: undefined reference to `XML_ParserCreate' yet: $ nm /lib/libexpat.a | grep XML_ParserCreate

Re: expat-1.95.5: undefined reference to `XML_ParserCreate'

2002-12-22 Thread Norman Vine
Ross Smith writes: I'm trying to compile a simple expat program: #include stdio.h #include expat.h int main() { XML_ParserCreate(NULL); return 0; } but I get: $ gcc -lexpat -L/lib expattest.c /cygdrive/...:expattest.c: undefined reference to `XML_ParserCreate' try % gcc -o

Re: What's wrong? gcc brain-damaged on cygwin?

2002-12-22 Thread Florin Jurcovici
Hello. Why in the world are you creating your own gcc? :-) Just a reflex - I use to build everything from sources, no matter if on Linux directly or on cygwin, so from time to time I just get fresh sources from the gnu site or one of the mirrors, and build the new vers. Since ./configure,

semaphores

2002-12-22 Thread antreas z
hi.I'm new to this project and i have much more to learn about it.But i have a very urgent question.When i try to compile the following code which is compiled succesfully on a Sun Unix maschine i get the following error synch.h no such file sys/ipc.h no such file sema_t undeclared. Can u tell

Re: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP

2002-12-22 Thread John Seeliger
Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, John Seeliger wrote: How do I run a program that I built with gcc under Cygwin in Windows? When I try to run them, it says it can't find cygwin1.dll. Make sure

RE: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP

2002-12-22 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Anyone who decides they want to do this is free to but it will invalidate their installation and make it unstable. Future problems they may run into as a result will not be seriously entertained by this list (assuming said persons post to this list for help in those cases) until cygwin1.dll is

Re: sshd and launching e.g. word.exe - no GUI screen shows up

2002-12-22 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:56 PM 12/21/2002, Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: Hi, I log in fine, and get my prompt and everyting. sshd rocks! I'm trying to do e.g.: me@othermachine : ssh winmachine word.sh some.doc And have the word GUI appear on the machine it is actually running. I'm aware, of course that X-forwarding

python-2.2.2-1 Tkinter unsable with tcltk-20021218-1

2002-12-22 Thread SUZUKI Hisao
Tkinter of python-2.2.2-1 is unsable with the recent tcltk-20021218-1. Python 2.2.2 (#1, Nov 15 2002, 07:49:04) [GCC 2.95.3-5 (cygwin special)] on cygwin Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import Tkinter Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ?

Re: python-2.2.2-1 Tkinter unsable with tcltk-20021218-1

2002-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 06:54:38AM +0900, SUZUKI Hisao wrote: Tkinter of python-2.2.2-1 is unsable with the recent tcltk-20021218-1. FYI (not that it will matter because there will be 27 other reports of this), I alerted Jason Tishler to the fact that my release of tcltk would break the use of tk

Re: semaphores

2002-12-22 Thread Jim
not supported in official lines, and rumor has it there's a replacement in the works, but noone's claiming ownership of said project. http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/cygipc/ - Original Message - From: antreas z [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday,

checksum error on install

2002-12-22 Thread Timothy Sullivan
Hi folks, I just picked up a setup.exe for cygwin-1.3.17-1 and did a net install. Everything downloads fine from planetmirror.com, but when setup starts installing the packages, I get an installation error for the file cygwin-1.3.17-1.tar.bz2, which I guess is a pretty important file. What should

Re: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP

2002-12-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:27:18 -0600 John Seeliger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, John Seeliger wrote: How do I run a program that I built with gcc under Cygwin in Windows? When I

Re: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP

2002-12-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:27:18 -0600 John Seeliger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, John Seeliger wrote: How do I run a program that I built with gcc under Cygwin in Windows? When I

Re: sshd and launching e.g. word.exe - no GUI screen shows up

2002-12-22 Thread Peter Valdemar Mørch
Thanks a million for your reply to my post. I tried what you suggested, and sure enough, it allows me to do exactly as I want. However, when use these settings and the service is started, a terminal (or dos box) appears with absolutely nothing in it. ps -ef shows that sshd is running. If I close

Tip: Running a bash script without the terminal window...

2002-12-22 Thread Peter Valdemar Mørch
This is just a little tip I'd like to share. It annoyed me for some time, that whenever I ran a bash script, I got a terminal window whether or not my script needs it. Here is a Visual Basic snippet that works for me on W2K and XP, and that runs a bash script without the terminal. I use it to

Re: python-2.2.2-1 Tkinter unsable with tcltk-20021218-1

2002-12-22 Thread Jason Tishler
SUZUKI Hisao, On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 05:00:56PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 06:54:38AM +0900, SUZUKI Hisao wrote: Tkinter of python-2.2.2-1 is unsable with the recent tcltk-20021218-1. Thanks for the above, but... FYI (not that it will matter because there will

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expect-20021218-1, gdb-20021218-1,tcltk-20021218-1

2002-12-22 Thread Jason Tishler
Chuck, On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 06:44:43PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Python itself needs to be recompiled to use the new tcl/tk dlls, because /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/_tkinter.dll depends on cygtcl80.dll and cygtk80.dll, which are no longer present. Jason, oh Jssoon Sigh...

Re: python-2.2.2-1 Tkinter unsable with tcltk-20021218-1

2002-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 09:00:27PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: SUZUKI Hisao, On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 05:00:56PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 06:54:38AM +0900, SUZUKI Hisao wrote: Tkinter of python-2.2.2-1 is unsable with the recent tcltk-20021218-1. Thanks for the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expect-20021218-1, gdb-20021218-1, tcltk-20021218-1

2002-12-22 Thread Norman Vine
Jason Tishler writes: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 06:44:43PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Python itself needs to be recompiled to use the new tcl/tk dlls, because /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/_tkinter.dll depends on cygtcl80.dll and cygtk80.dll, which are no longer present. Jason, oh

Re: what to use in g++ instead of GetOpt?

2002-12-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Umm, Randy, not to downplay the humor or the valid points in your soliloquy, but he did say well-dressed C++ programmers, and everybody knows (tm) that Real Programmers aren't well-dressed (they also don't use C++, it's for the wavering who can't decide between C and Java [to paraphrase]). Of

Re: sshd and launching e.g. word.exe - no GUI screen shows up

2002-12-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Peter, For a non-visual basic solution take a look at the 'run' program at http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/run/ Incidentally, a similar program also comes with an XFree86 distribution. Igor On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-1] Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: Thanks a

Re: Tip: Running a bash script without the terminal window...

2002-12-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
For the archives: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg01208.html Igor On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-1] Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: This is just a little tip I'd like to share. It annoyed me for some time, that whenever I ran a bash script, I got a terminal window whether or not

Re: what to use in g++ instead of GetOpt?

2002-12-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
Howdy, Igor, Yes. I guess the oxymoron confused me, especially since I always program in the buff. Randy (why not?) At 19:12 2002-12-22, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Umm, Randy, not to downplay the humor or the valid points in your soliloquy, but he did say well-dressed C++ programmers, and

Re: what to use in g++ instead of GetOpt?

2002-12-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Randall, You'd pretty much have to, being an AI ;-) Igor P.S. Sorry for the familiarity... On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote: Howdy, Igor, Yes. I guess the oxymoron confused me, especially since I always program in the buff. Randy (why not?) At 19:12 2002-12-22, Igor

RE: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP

2002-12-22 Thread Pharas
I meant to just copy it not move it outright, as far as unstability I have been using cygwin for quite a long time and have had no probs with this. Even when you upgrade the cygwin package and install it, it will ask you if you would like to remove the old dll from the system32 folder. Then you

RE: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP

2002-12-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
Pharas, Larry is correct. You are not. Problems do occur with multiple copies of Cygwin1.dll on a system. We see it here all the time. Cygwin relies on a shared memory segment and when there's more than one copy of the DLL on a given system, eventually a second one will get loaded, try to

Chang Shen is out of the office.

2002-12-22 Thread Chang_Shen
I will be out of the office starting 12/20/2002 and will not return until 12/30/2002. I will respond to your message when I return. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: Please help

2002-12-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ramon, I took a quick look at the Cygwin support page (http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/cygwin.html) on the Web site you mentioned (I trust you did the same, right?). Ghemical is a X-based application, which means that before you'll be able to either compiler or run this software you'll

Re: Glib2

2002-12-22 Thread S . L .
[...] Anyway, thanks for bringing up this issue; it appears that the current libtool is not quite ready for absolutely every possible use that people want...Looks like there are a few things I need to do over Christmas break... :-) [...] Anyway, your post should find it's place somewhere