Re: proposal: ioperm support for Cygwin

2003-01-27 Thread Marcel Telka
Napísané dňa 2003.01.24 14:54, (autor: Nicholas Wourms): I don't think this has come up before, but is there any reason why this couldn't be added to the Cygwin dll [either now or at some later It depends on cygwin1.dll maintainer. :-) date]? The framework appears to be somewhat similar to

Re: Proposing TCM as a cygwin package

2003-01-27 Thread Daniel Bößwetter
Hi *, TCM 2.20 has been released last week (see http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~tcm/) and I have made source and binary packages for Cygwin now. At http://home.in.tum.de/~boesswet/tcm_cygwin.html you'll find the setup.hint, source and binary packages (marked as test in setup.hint). I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available (fwd)

2003-01-27 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, When I've uploaded the new emacs package (21.2-12) to sources.redhat.com some days ago I didn't touch the setup.hint files. I know that the script whichs builds setup.ini should take care of the version information. It seems it did his job well for the main emacs package, but didn't

Re: Proposing TCM as a cygwin package

2003-01-27 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Daniel Bößwetter wrote: I successfully tested on two different machines, but more testers are (of course) welcome. There is one known bug right now that cannot easily be fixed: TCM relies upon fig2dev for printing and there is AFAIK no precompiled version for cygwin

Re: Unusual request: get bison 1.35 back as prev version

2003-01-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
Volker Quetschke wrote: Hi! (This request is directed to the bison maintainer, propably Christopher) The reason why I would like to get back access to the old bison 1.35 version is, that it is a prerequisite for the build of OpenOffice 1.0.2. And you're uncapable of building this version

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available (fwd)

2003-01-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Pavel Tsekov wrote: When I've uploaded the new emacs package (21.2-12) to sources.redhat.com some days ago I didn't touch the setup.hint files. I know that the script whichs builds setup.ini should take care of the version information. Unless you explicitly override it in setup.hint. It

Re: Unusual request: get bison 1.35 back as prev version

2003-01-27 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! Earnie Boyd wrote: (This request is directed to the bison maintainer, propably Christopher) The reason why I would like to get back access to the old bison 1.35 version is, that it is a prerequisite for the build of OpenOffice 1.0.2. And you're uncapable of building this version from

Re: Proposing TCM as a cygwin package

2003-01-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Daniel Bößwetter wrote: [snip] Anyone willing to become maintainer of fig2dev? :-) FYI, fig2dev is part of the xfig package. I have that installed. Browsing through my setup.log indicates that the binary package for xfig-3.2.3d (as well as the source) is

Re: Proposing TCM as a cygwin package

2003-01-27 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Daniel Bößwetter wrote: [snip] Anyone willing to become maintainer of fig2dev? :-) FYI, fig2dev is part of the xfig package. I have that installed. Browsing through my setup.log indicates that the binary package for

Re: [ITP] rebase

2003-01-27 Thread Jason Tishler
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:23:55AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:47:00PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:01:45PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: I second this. In fact, IMO this vote should really be a formality - this is core infrastructure

Re: [ITP] rebase

2003-01-27 Thread Jason Tishler
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:27:54AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:13:52PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: Should this rebase maybe be a Cygwin, not MinGW version? (So that we can use POSIX paths with it?) My very first version was a Cygwin app. I converted it to

Re: [ITP] rebase

2003-01-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Jason Tishler wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:27:54AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:13:52PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: Should this rebase maybe be a Cygwin, not MinGW version? (So that we can use POSIX paths with it?) My very first version was a Cygwin app.

Re: Proposing TCM as a cygwin package

2003-01-27 Thread Daniel Bößwetter
Thank you, Pierre and Igor. But: can I put something like xfig into my setup.hint and setup.exe will find it? The package search finds lots of TeX-stuff when searching for xfig, but not xfig itself. BTW: transfig 3.2.4 compiles without errors, but with some warnings. Best Regards, Daniel

Re: [ITP] rebase

2003-01-27 Thread Jason Tishler
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:21:57PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Jason Tishler wrote: What is the consensus on Cygwin vs. Mingw? We already have 2.75 votes for Cygwin. :,) I won't mind replacing getopt() with popt anyway. Problem: If it was Cygwin, it couldn't use any other Cygwin dll -

Re: [ITP] rebase

2003-01-27 Thread Nicholas Wourms
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Tishler wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:27:54AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:13:52PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: Should this rebase maybe be a Cygwin, not MinGW version? (So that we can use POSIX paths with it?) My very

Re: [ITP] rebase

2003-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:21:57PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Problem: If it was Cygwin, it couldn't use any other Cygwin dll - like cygpopt-0.dll (it might need to rebase them). It's somewhat an unanswered question whether rebasing cygwin1.dll is necessary/useful/harmful. Necessary? Unlikely.

Re: Unusual request: get bison 1.35 back as prev version

2003-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:09:12PM +0100, Volker Quetschke wrote: Unfortunately the OpenOffice 1.0.2 is a stable release and not all changes made it into the codebase, therefore my request to get an official (previous) bison 1.35 back. Then the build instructions could state that you need a bison

Re: proposal: ioperm support for cygwin

2003-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:08:53AM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote: Nap??san?? d??a 2003.01.24 14:54, (autor: Nicholas Wourms): I don't think this has come up before, but is there any reason why this couldn't be added to the Cygwin dll [either now or at some later It depends on cygwin1.dll

Re: Unusual request: get bison 1.35 back as prev version

2003-01-27 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! The problem with this scenario is that it requires that a user revert their version of bison just for this package. It also assumes that bison is not going to change. That is not the case. There is a new version of bison coming soon. So the old version will soon be 1.75. So, if I put

Re: Unusual request: get bison 1.35 back as prev version

2003-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:09:24PM +0100, Volker Quetschke wrote: Can I suggest that a much less intrusive solution would be to provide patches to the affected .y files to get them to work with the latest version of bison? Then people just have to apply a patch and move on, rather than having to

Re: Unusual request: get bison 1.35 back as prev version

2003-01-27 Thread Volker Quetschke
Can I suggest that a much less intrusive solution would be to provide patches to the affected .y files to get them to work with the latest version of bison? Then people just have to apply a patch and move on, rather than having to download an executable and figure out what to do with it. Hmm,

Re: proposal: ioperm support for cygwin

2003-01-27 Thread Marcel Telka
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:20:15PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:08:53AM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote: Nap??san?? d??a 2003.01.24 14:54, (autor: Nicholas Wourms): I don't think this has come up before, but is there any reason why this couldn't be added to the

Re: Unusual request: get bison 1.35 back as prev version

2003-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:23:55AM +0100, Volker Quetschke wrote: Can I suggest that a much less intrusive solution would be to provide patches to the affected .y files to get them to work with the latest version of bison? Then people just have to apply a patch and move on, rather than having to

Re: Unusual request: get bison 1.35 back as prev version

2003-01-27 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, it's funny to see the bison story here endless as well :(. since bison development went back to live again, I think it was with version 1.28 we saw lots of regressions with bison on OpenOffice.org. This is not what I expected if the major release number is not changing. Volker, wouldn't

Re: Unusual request: get bison 1.35 back as prev version

2003-01-27 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi Martin, this is going to be very Off-Topic here, I crossposted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please answer only there.) it's funny to see the bison story here endless as well :(. since bison development went back to live again, I think it was with version 1.28 we saw lots of regressions with

Re: Can't Get XDMCP Login on Mandrake 9.0 Box from XP

2003-01-27 Thread John Buttery
* Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-25 15:08:38 -0500]: I don't know that Port=177 and Willing=[anything] are necessary. But then, I do not know much about that. No, they're not necessary; you should probably comment Willing= out until you know what it does, and 177 is the default

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 75

2003-01-27 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander, Heh... oh well, at least we fixed part of the problem. Let me know when you find the next NULL derefernce. Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 7:29 AM To: cygx Subject: Re:

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 75

2003-01-27 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi Fixed my inconsistent cursor (pointer?) problem in multiwindow etc use: xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr Thanks Colin

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 75

2003-01-27 Thread Virgilio, Vincent
Hi Harold, Here's some data for what it's worth. When I start X with the below startxwin.sh, I get usable, but flickering, windows. It looks like each is being selected in turn, very rapidly. Beside that, it all works. With multiwindow off, all works perfectly to my eyes. I'll go out on a

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 75

2003-01-27 Thread Virgilio, Vincent
Apologies. Outlook wrapped the startxwin.sh included in the below message. Here it is adjusted. -Original Message- From: Virgilio, Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 9:03 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 75 Hi

RE: Can't Get XDMCP Login on Mandrake 9.0 Box from XP

2003-01-27 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Curt Lindner wrote: I think I never asked one of the questions that I started with this list for. Since I have to do an xhost + to get through security, where in the cygwin-xfree directories can I set this as the default behavior? I'm behind a router that is reasonably

RE: Can't Get XDMCP Login on Mandrake 9.0 Box from XP

2003-01-27 Thread Curt Lindner
John, I did the netstat command, and here's the response: # netstat -plun | grep 177 udp0 0 0.0.0.0:177 0.0.0.0:* 2553/kdm # kdm is listening, but I wonder if the udp line might be indicative of a problem. Thanks, -Curt From: John Buttery john at io dot com To:

RE: ssh x forwarding

2003-01-27 Thread Richard Campbell
This probably should have been on the xfree list. From: Patrick Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] In ssh you get x forwarding. But, I can't seem to get it working. A command like: ssh -l user system x app always responds with something like: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Is there

Re: Can't Get XDMCP Login on Mandrake 9.0 Box from XP

2003-01-27 Thread John Buttery
* Curt Lindner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-27 11:20:38 -0500]: John, I did the netstat command, and here's the response: # netstat -plun | grep 177 udp0 0 0.0.0.0:177 0.0.0.0:* 2553/kdm # Looks good... kdm is listening, but I wonder if the udp line might be

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog passwd.cc

2003-01-27 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-01-27 17:00:17 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog passwd.cc Log message: * passwd.cc (pwdgrp::parse_passwd): Be more unforgiving about non-numeric fields. Patches:

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/mmsystem.h ...

2003-01-27 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-01-27 23:11:13 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: mmsystem.h winsup/w32api/lib: largeint.c Log message: 2003-01-27 Krzysztof Nikiel [EMAIL

Re: snapshots R us

2003-01-27 Thread Pavel Holejsovsky
I've similar experience, but I believe even stranger one. After installing 1.3.19, I saw the message about shared version mismatch, but the numbers were different, unfortunately I didn't write them down:-(. I made sure that I have really only one cygwin1.dll in the system. I also used

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:19:47PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: This has nothing to do with each other. The mount -E flag doesn't influence the permission bits. Then what is it supposed to do? I mean, if the man page says it makes It handles the way executables are recognized.

Re: Updated: cygwin-1.3.19-1

2003-01-27 Thread Marcel Telka
Napísané dňa 2003.01.24 12:19, (autor: Pavel Tsekov): On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Marcel Telka wrote: Napísané d??a 2003.01.24 04:16, (autor: Christopher Faylor): I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available

2003-01-27 Thread Dan Holmsand
Joe Buehler wrote: GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available. Actually, it seems to be only partially available. According to setup, only the emacs package has been updated, not emacs-el and emacs-X11 (both still at 21.2-11). /dan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU emacs 21.2-12 is available

2003-01-27 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, Dan Please, try again in some hours. The setup.hint file that accompanies each Cygwin package contained incorrect version information for emacs-X11 and emacs-el. I've fixed this manually and once the setup.ini file is updated, you should be able to get the new versions. Thanks for the

AW: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%

2003-01-27 Thread Schaible, Jörg
Hi David, something broke your HOME environment variable. While the value is basically OK, it seems that the variable itselft has not longer the correct type. To use system environment variables in another environemnt variable (or any other registry entry), the type of the string

SSH and Home

2003-01-27 Thread Kevin Jones
I've just started using the cygwin SSH, mostly to do CVS, and I have a problem with %HOME% I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' and my home env variable is set to d:\home\kevinj. Whenever I use ssh I get a message that says Could not create directory '/home/Kevin Jones/.ssh' I assume

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-27 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:19:47PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: This has nothing to do with each other. The mount -E flag doesn't influence the permission bits. Then what is it supposed to do? I mean, if the man page says it makes

Re: Making zsh the default

2003-01-27 Thread cygwin
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Virginia Mann wrote: Larry Hall kindly advised: I don't have zsh installed otherwise I might give you a clue. ;-) Are you kidding? That was the best clue you could have given! My mental model was wrong. I was looking inside the system for something that was in a DOS

CD for installation

2003-01-27 Thread Raimund Hook
Hi I have just downloaded the entire package directory from a cygwin mirror site, with the aim to get cygwin onto a CD for installation. Setup.exe recognises everything great, and I can run the installation off my hard drive using a local package install. However, the entire size of the package

Problems with NT user acount under Cygwin

2003-01-27 Thread Mercurio, Michael
Hi Cygwin users, Does anyone know of any tricks or gotcha's when setting up cygwin with Windows NT such that Cygwin can authenticate using an NT username and password for things like ssh password authentication, telnet, etc? I've gone through the section on ntsec and read the info on the

RE: problem accessing tape with tar on NT

2003-01-27 Thread Kris Thielemans
Dear Corinna, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the blocksize. I've upgraded my cygwin installation to the very latest, and the problem seems to have disappeared. So, no worries anymore (I hope). (The tapes were generated with block size 20. Does that happen to be the default?). By

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: In any case, seeing the behaviour of the exec-permission bits, I have a wouldn't it be nice if...: wouldn't it be nice if the executable permission bits would actually correspond to the executability of a file? I mean,

Re: problem accessing tape with tar on NT

2003-01-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:09:50PM -, Kris Thielemans wrote: (The tapes were generated with block size 20. Does that happen to be the default?). Once the typical blocksize was 5120 bytes on tapes. Today it's varying but many drive types support different block sizes. - This version

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

2003-01-27 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: In any case, seeing the behaviour of the exec-permission bits, I have a wouldn't it be nice if...: wouldn't it be nice if the executable permission bits would actually

Re: SSH and Home

2003-01-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Kevin Jones (03-01-27 11:54 +0100) I've just started using the cygwin SSH, mostly to do CVS, and I have a problem with %HOME% No, you've got a problem with $USER/%USERNAME%. I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' [...] Don't do that, it's going to bring you nothing but trouble.

Re: SSH and Home

2003-01-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Kevin Jones (03-01-27 11:54 +0100) I've just started using the cygwin SSH, mostly to do CVS, and I have a problem with %HOME% No, you've got a problem with $USER/%USERNAME%. I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' [...] Don't do

Re: SSH and Home

2003-01-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Please do not send email to me and to the list. Thanks. * Igor Pechtchanski (03-01-27 16:37 +0100) On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Kevin Jones (03-01-27 11:54 +0100) I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' [...] Don't do that, it's going to bring you nothing but trouble.

Who??

2003-01-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, Since I got a little cranky about the problem with very slow pipe I/O when there was background CPU load (e.g., SETI@home), I thought I'd confirm that Cygwin 1.3.19 cures this problem (and, not incidentally, to leave a little something in the archive that should be easy for the next guy

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread William A. Hoffman
What I am suggesting is taking the same approach as Debian. Each package in Debian is in one of these states: Stable, Testing, or Unstable. Stable packages - should work. Testing packages - working on becoming the next stable version Unstable packages - all other packages, might be working

noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities

2003-01-27 Thread Heitzso
I'm trying to work with a 22G (yes, gigabyte) and have noticed problems with ls (wrong file size, significant over report) tail(doesn't catch end of file) I don't know about other utilities, but I wanted to get these reported BTW, I greatly

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread Max Bowsher
William A. Hoffman wrote: What I am suggesting is taking the same approach as Debian. Each package in Debian is in one of these states: Stable, Testing, or Unstable. Stable packages - should work. We have this. Its called [curr] Testing packages - working on becoming the next stable

Re: noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities

2003-01-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Heitzso wrote: I'm trying to work with a 22G (yes, gigabyte) and have noticed problems with ls (wrong file size, significant over report) tail (doesn't catch end of file) I don't know about other utilities, but I wanted to get these reported BTW, I greatly appreciate CYGWIN. Well

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill, This subject has been discussed before on this list. May I suggest you review the email archives if you plan to further pursue the discussion here? It would be a great help if any discussion of this topic covered some new ground. As it stands, the Cygwin distribution as available

RE: noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities

2003-01-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a good question for the email archives. It's been asked and answered more than once. Cygwin curently supports only 32 bit word sizes. The tools will have trouble with file sizes larger than 4GB. Larry Original Message: - From: Heitzso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 27 Jan

RE: noting problems with VERY large files w/ some utilities

2003-01-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry. Better said as 2GB files. If this caused any confusion for you, check the email archives for the definitive answer! ;-) Larry Original Message: - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:15:35 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with NT user acount under Cygwin

2003-01-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Mercurio, Michael wrote: Hi Cygwin users, Does anyone know of any tricks or gotcha's when setting up cygwin with Windows NT such that Cygwin can authenticate using an NT username and password for things like ssh password authentication, telnet, etc? Its supposed to be just: - Set up

tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh83.exe

2003-01-27 Thread William A. Hoffman
I recently ran setup, and one of the new packages, I think gdb, caused a tclsh83.exe to be installed into /usr/bin. It would be nice if this were a full working tclsh83.exe, but it is not.However, it conflicted with the working tclsh83.exe I already had in my path. Shouldn't the name of

ssh x forwarding

2003-01-27 Thread Patrick Nelson
In ssh you get x forwarding. But, I can't seem to get it working. A command like: ssh -l user system x app always responds with something like: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Is there some configuration that needs to take place in cygwin first? Yes I can log in by dropping the x

Re: ssh x forwarding

2003-01-27 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
Not that this is sure to solve your problem, but it's a possibility: ssh daemons can be configured to prohibit X forwarding. Try ssh -v -l user system x app to see what ssh reports regarding whether X forwarding was actually established, and/or check the sshd_config file on the remote

20030126 and bleadperl

2003-01-27 Thread H.Merijn Brand
PC09:/P/perl-current 521 $ ( mktest.pl 21 ) mktest.log [1] 1716 PC09:/P/perl-current 522 $ C:\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** WFSO timed out for after longjmp. I've not seen this one before. -- H.Merijn BrandAmsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0 633 on

RE: SSH and Home

2003-01-27 Thread Kevin Jones
You're absolutely right - I've gone through the process of changing to a name with no spaces but the problem persisted. After reading this I changed my etc/passwd file so that home was /cygdrive/d/home/kevinj and I'm golden Thank you, Kevin Jones Developmentor www.develop.com -Original

RE: ssh x forwarding

2003-01-27 Thread Patrick Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Not that this is sure to solve your problem, but it's a possibility: ssh daemons can be configured to prohibit X forwarding. Try ssh -v -l user system x app to see what ssh reports regarding whether X forwarding was actually established, and/or check

RE: ssh x forwarding [SOLVED]

2003-01-27 Thread Patrick Nelson
Patrick Nelson wrote: - My other Linux systems can connect to the remote sshd. Here is the output of a call: ---snip-- debug1: Sending command: evolution debug1: channel request 0: exec debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768 debug1: channel 0: rcvd eof

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread William A. Hoffman
The new View:Partial does help. I can now easily see what will get updated. It would be nice if there was a button, that set all of them to keep. Often times, I want to update only a single package, and that makes it easier. So, from the feedback I am getting, it really boils down to a not

cygwin path problems

2003-01-27 Thread Scott Purcell
I am having a hard time understanding the cygpath. I don't know why... But anyway. I am running Win2000. I have created a executable jar file that lives at /usr/local/ags/libs/test.jar And jar is good and runs from a dos window if I move the test.jar to C:/ Anyway, I am trying to run it through

gcc linking

2003-01-27 Thread David Meggy
Hi, I've run into some difficulties with gcc/ld on the latest cygwin (downloaded friday). Below is an example. $ cat prog.c #include stdio.h int main() { char ** string; asprintf(string, Sfsdf); return 0; } david@DURON1000 ~ $ gcc -O2 prog.c -o prog david@DURON1000 ~ $ ./prog.exe

ftp server showing date as part of the file/directory name

2003-01-27 Thread Rob Siklos
Hello all, I'm running cygwin with dll v1.3.19. I have the ftp server running under inetd, and have the following behaviour: When I log in to the ftp server from a win32 client such as ws_ftp or cute ftp, the file and directory names include the dates. For example, the directory /var appears

jar.exe (part of Gcc) crash if started from non-cygwin shell

2003-01-27 Thread Shankar Unni
Jar.exe (now part of GCC!) crashes on *some* jar files, if it's started from a non-cygwin shell (e.g. CMD). Don't think it's a problem in jar per se, however. It works if it's started from another cygwin program (even env). And it works on many jar files (including all the Jars shipped with

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Bill, The Keep button is in the setup CVS already. Try a setup snapshot. ;-) There does seem to be a tendency that most of the problems are introduced when a major new version of a package (*-1) is released. The *-[2-9] versions are usually bugfixes applied specifically to the Cygwin port of

Save typing /cygdrive/c?

2003-01-27 Thread Scott Purcell
Hello, I hope I am not asking pre-posted question. But I love the cygwin product. It makes life nice. But I am tiring a little of always typing: /cygdrive/c everytime I want to start at c: eg: cp fun.class /cygdrive/c/make_lr/updates/. Is there a way to do something so I can type the above but

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The Keep button is in the setup CVS already. Try a setup snapshot. These aren't auto-generated. The latest one doesn't have this in, yet. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread Max Bowsher
William A. Hoffman wrote: So, from the feedback I am getting, it really boils down to a not enough people to maintain the feature issue. I don't think that people don't think that a stable release of cygwin would be a bad thing, it is just that there is no one to maintain it. The least

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

2003-01-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Scott Purcell wrote: Hello, I hope I am not asking pre-posted question. But I love the cygwin product. It makes life nice. But I am tiring a little of always typing: /cygdrive/c everytime I want to start at c: eg: cp fun.class /cygdrive/c/make_lr/updates/. Is there

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

2003-01-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Scott Purcell wrote: Hello, I hope I am not asking pre-posted question. But I love the cygwin product. It makes life nice. But I am tiring a little of always typing: /cygdrive/c everytime I want to start at c: eg: cp fun.class /cygdrive/c/make_lr/updates/. Is there a way to do

Re: gcc linking

2003-01-27 Thread Max Bowsher
David Meggy wrote: $ cat prog.c #include stdio.h int main() { char ** string; asprintf(string, Sfsdf); return 0; } david@DURON1000 ~ $ gcc -O2 prog.c -o prog david@DURON1000 ~ $ ./prog.exe When I run the program I get a message from MS-Windows titled prog.exe - Entry Point

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread William A. Hoffman
Well, if I am the only person with this opinion, then you are right. I should stop complaining and burn a CD. However, I suspect that I am not alone in wanting a more stable cygwin.It will be hard to prove my case, as the folks that read this list and post to it, tend to be more developer

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

2003-01-27 Thread Rob Siklos
running mount --change-cygdrive-prefix / will make all your drives be subdirectories of / instead of /cygdrive. there is plenty about this if you search on google. I also suggest reading the cygwin faq from top to bottom - you'll find useful stuff that you weren't even looking for. Rob. -

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And, at the risk of raising tempers of those in the current round of this thread, can we please not cover old ground on this one? If you're not willing to look up in the email archives and review the old thread to make sure you're not interjecting the same arguments for and against, the result

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

2003-01-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Rob Siklos wrote: running mount --change-cygdrive-prefix / will make all your drives be subdirectories of / instead of /cygdrive. And then when you run some script which expects /cygdrive, it will break. OK, the script is what is broken, but the path of least resistance is to use symlinks

re: dup(/dev/pipew) failed, handle 3C, Win32 error 6

2003-01-27 Thread Sandy Currier
To whom it may concern, (tried to find a bug list for cygwin, but this is the best I could do - apologies if it is the wrong place.) When I install the following (the latest?) cygwin release: C:\cygwin.new\binuname -a CYGWIN_NT-4.0 WKSTN000Y 1.3.18(0.69/3/2) 2002-12-25 15:37 i686 unknown

Re: dup(/dev/pipew) failed, handle 3C, Win32 error 6

2003-01-27 Thread Elfyn McBratney
When I install the following (the latest?) cygwin release: C:\cygwin.new\binuname -a CYGWIN_NT-4.0 WKSTN000Y 1.3.18(0.69/3/2) 2002-12-25 15:37 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin The latest version of the cygwin1.dll is 1.3.19 . Perhaps you could upgrade to the latest dll (cygwin package in setup)

Re: dup(/dev/pipew) failed, handle 3C, Win32 error 6

2003-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:57:38PM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: When I install the following (the latest?) cygwin release: C:\cygwin.new\binuname -a CYGWIN_NT-4.0 WKSTN000Y 1.3.18(0.69/3/2) 2002-12-25 15:37 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin The latest version of the cygwin1.dll is 1.3.19 . Perhaps

RE: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

2003-01-27 Thread Scott Purcell
Hello Igor, Do I need a package to make the mount work? I typed in man mount, but it says notavailable, but I know i have installed most of the man pages for what I own? Thanks, Scott -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003

Re: libpcap cygwin....

2003-01-27 Thread Elfyn McBratney
yes but how other programs(programs:hping,libnet...) that depend on libpcap(and compile under cygwin)can understand where libpcap is sorry i'm not a programmer. libpcap requires headers and libraries that are not a part of cygwin and cant be compiled with out them. If all you need are the

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread Robert Collins
Bill, IMO you are missing a key point: Cygwin is volunteer maintained. No release manager volunteer, and no stable release maintainer (who will maintain stable packages after they become stale) have stepped up. The *only* way you will get a stable release is to: 1) offer to take on all the

Snapshot: Redhat's Source Navigator version 5.2.0 native Win32 build

2003-01-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
I've just uploaded a release of Redhat's Source Navigator now maintained at http://sourcenav.sf.net to the MinGW project. Binary release: http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/snavigator-5.2.0-2003.01.27-1.exe Source release: http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/snavigator-5.2.0-2003.01.27-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:15:01AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Bill, IMO you are missing a key point: Cygwin is volunteer maintained. No release manager volunteer, and no stable release maintainer (who will maintain stable packages after they become stale) have stepped up. The *only* way you

Re: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread William A. Hoffman
I realize it is a volunteer effort, and a good one, it really makes windows much nicer to work with! I am not demanding or expecting anything. I am only trying to start a discussion that could lead to a possible solution. I think that this could be done without much effort, or the work of a

RE: Cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread Scott Prive
William, The ntsec problem by all accounts was a one-time switch that burned a lot of people. It seems like a great feature (not completely using it myself), and when I upgraded to it I had NO idea of the impending change. I should have known better than to perform blind upgrades. I've been

RE: anyone have implicit linkage of gcc DLLs working in Visual C?

2003-01-27 Thread Todd West
lib /DEF:foo.def /OUT foo.lib Hey, thanks! After a little reverse engineering to verify VC's lib.exe produces .libs which reference a DLL of the same name as the .def (e.g. foo.dll) I've got this working. For reference, the syntax I'm using to build and link Atlas is gcc -mno-cygwin -shared

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

2003-01-27 Thread Randall R Schulz
Max, If one took the change-cygdrive-prefix approach, could not one achieve backward- or convention- compatibility with the symlink /cygdrive - /changedCygdrivePrefix? Myself, I have a bunch of symlinks for all the Windows drives, including my CD drives and diskette. Randall Schulz At

Re: cygwin Release process

2003-01-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:54:25PM -0500, Scott Prive wrote: William, The ntsec problem by all accounts was a one-time switch that burned a lot of people. It seems like a great feature (not completely using it myself), and when I upgraded to it I had NO idea of the impending change. I should

Re: tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh83.exe

2003-01-27 Thread Charles Wilson
William A. Hoffman wrote: I recently ran setup, and one of the new packages, I think gdb, caused a tclsh83.exe to be installed into /usr/bin. It would be nice if this were a full working tclsh83.exe, but it is not.However, it conflicted with the working tclsh83.exe I already had in my path.

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