Re: [PATCH] Postinstall script ordering in setup - take 2

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 10 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 11:41, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On 5 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 08:19, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On 5 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: Using the packages as dependencies we can build the same

Re: Pending setup patches (issue 6)

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 15:33, Robert Collins wrote: * Going back, changing the local cache dir, and going forward again does not correctly reparse inis in the new dir. Reproduction: Choose an incorrect cache dir, go back, correct it. Chooser shows all packages in Misc. Fixed,

Not^H^H^HWilling to maintain man

2003-03-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Oh poo, I used the wrong subject didn't I? ;-) On a serious note, I am willing to take over maintainership of this cygwin package. Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk

From the TODO

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
* Toggling from All Default to All Install takes *way* too long. This takes under 1/10th of a second on my PC. I need a testcase, or more info. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH] Postinstall script ordering in setup - take 2

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:18, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Sure they can. All it takes is two maintainers marking the other script as a requirement. Oh, of course you can *have* circular dependences, but you can't *honor* them. Script dependences mean that some script has to be run before

/etc/setup.conf

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
Ok, a few pragmatic thoughts: * When do we parse it? It's not trivial: - if we parse on startup, and the user changes the cygwin / path during runtime, should we revert to defaults? - if we wait for the / path to be chosen, we can't store any pre- / dialog settings. - if we parse on startup, and

Re: Setup cvs HEAD build problems

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 15:48, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Rob, There was a follow-up message: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-10/msg00152.html That eliminates #1. I don't know how to fix #2 -- could have something to do with cvs checkout timestamps. I don't believe it was addressed,

starter for usersettings persistence

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
I've observed that dynamic registration always seems to give folks pause, so I've added a couple of classes to setup to begin the user persistence codefest... UserSettings: Registry of UserSetting. UserSetting: A user setting. should be the entry point for the logic of the parser and

Release candidate snapshot

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
Ok, I've fixed * compress_bz::error called appears in the log every time a package is installed, even if everything works. So, setup-3.324 (now 325 due to the UserSetting addition) (snapshot uploading :}) should be considered a release candidate. Pending confirmation of the correctness of the

Re: Pending setup patches (issue 2)

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 10 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 11:52, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On 5 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: Other than that, please expand to address all scripts. Rob Rob, There is a design issue here that I'd like to address before I work more on this. I

Re: Pending setup patches (issue 2)

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:03, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Sounds fine. I got the first part mostly done (it'll be a run script, output to file idiom). The second might take some time... I'll probably have to use mktemp() or something similar. Just use the postinstall.log you where planning to

[Approval?] Revert whitespace-only 20000401 change to setup/zlib

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
On 2401, there was a commit to setup/zlib, log message Eliminate \r in line endings. I hypothesize that the repository files might have been d2u-ed at some point, because there are *no* \r's in any revision. This change also stripped whitespace at the end of lines across many files. I'd like

Pending packages status (10 Mar 2003)

2003-03-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
1. grace date : 25 Nov 2002 version: 5.1.12-1 status : updated package available for review notes : http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-11/msg00322.html reviews: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-03/msg00254.html votes : 2 (Lapo and Robert) url:

Re: [Approval?] Revert whitespace-only 20000401 change tosetup/zlib

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 21:30, Max Bowsher wrote: On 2401, there was a commit to setup/zlib, log message Eliminate \r in line endings. I hypothesize that the repository files might have been d2u-ed at some point, because there are *no* \r's in any revision. This change also stripped

Re: [Approval?] Revert whitespace-only 20000401 change to setup/zlib

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 21:30, Max Bowsher wrote: On 2401, there was a commit to setup/zlib, log message Eliminate \r in line endings. I hypothesize that the repository files might have been d2u-ed at some point, because there are *no* \r's

Re: [Approval?] Revert whitespace-only 20000401 change tosetup/zlib

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:04, Max Bowsher wrote: NB: I have verified this will NOT introduce \r characters into the files. MM, it would be easier for you to use patch -l :]. 1) patch won't be involved in the process at all Huh? Then I've misunderstood. 2) I think gratuitous

Re: /etc/setup.conf

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 10 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: Ok, a few pragmatic thoughts: * When do we parse it? It's not trivial: - if we parse on startup, and the user changes the cygwin / path during runtime, should we revert to defaults? - if we wait for the / path to be chosen, we can't store any pre-/

Re: From the TODO

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: * Toggling from All Default to All Install takes *way* too long. This takes under 1/10th of a second on my PC. I need a testcase, or more info. I can no longer reproduce. Suggest deleting from TODO, on the assumption it has been fixed by coincidental changes to setup.

Re: /etc/setup.conf

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On 10 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: Ok, a few pragmatic thoughts: * When do we parse it? It's not trivial: - if we parse on startup, and the user changes the cygwin / path during runtime, should we revert to defaults? - if we wait for the / path to be chosen, we

Checkin went awry - need someone to run cvs admin for me

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Just botched the log message on a checkin. Please could a member of cvsadmin do the following in setup: cvs admin -m 2.89:Regenerate after adding foreign to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS Makefile.in cvs admin -m 2.29:Add wishlist item: hold version README Thanks, Max.

Re: setup wishlist -- a 'hold' options

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: With the talk of a /etc/setuprc file and the email below on cygwin@, I thought I'd suggest a 'hold' option for the setup.exe wishlist. There are certain packages (like postgresql in this case) that some users *never* want to upgrade as long as the old version

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to store for setup. I'm proposing an Xdefaults-style setup.cfg in /etc/setup. If we compile a

Re: [Approval?] Revert whitespace-only 20000401 change tosetup/zlib

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:04, Max Bowsher wrote: NB: I have verified this will NOT introduce \r characters into the files. MM, it would be easier for you to use patch -l :]. 1) patch won't be involved in the process at all Huh? Then I've misunderstood. cvs import cvs

Re: Setup cvs HEAD build problems

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 15:48, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Rob, There was a follow-up message: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-10/msg00152.html That eliminates #1. I don't know how to fix #2 -- could have something to do with cvs checkout timestamps. I don't

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to store for setup. I'm proposing an Xdefaults-style setup.cfg in

Re: Pending setup patches (issue 2)

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Brian Keener wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Still: * Not tested on Win95. It's a fairly low level change, and I have 'this much' (holds thumb and forefinger very close together) confidence that we won't get surprised. Uh, can someone test this on Win95? I

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to store for setup. I'm

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There have been bits of persistent state that people wanted to

Re: Not^H^H^HWilling to maintain man

2003-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 07:24:17AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: Oh poo, I used the wrong subject didn't I? ;-) Mail to me, to some other mailing list, or use of a different subject will immediately disqualify you from this special offer. Maybe you thought I was kidding. I wasn't, really. This

Re: [Approval?] Revert whitespace-only 20000401 change tosetup/zlib

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 03:36, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:04, Max Bowsher wrote: NB: I have verified this will NOT introduce \r characters into the files. MM, it would be easier for you to use patch -l :]. 1) patch won't be involved in the

Re: From the TODO

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:28, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: * Toggling from All Default to All Install takes *way* too long. This takes under 1/10th of a second on my PC. I need a testcase, or more info. I can no longer reproduce. Suggest deleting from TODO, on the

Re: Setup cvs HEAD build problems

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 03:37, Max Bowsher wrote: Ok, well I'm going to practice delegation here: Max - when you look at zlib, can you ensure that the timestamps on zlib's autotool files are correctly ordered? Delegation accepted, but I think it's potentially more complicated than that.

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 03:54, Max Bowsher wrote: Either we disallow comments, or we keep the order, IMO. ^^^ My vote. Ok, we are starting down a rabbit hole. Whomever puts the time in can decide whether it's user editable or not. I've already listed the

Re: /etc/setup/setup.cfg ?

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 07:39, Robert Collins wrote: I'll add another incentive: I'll accept 'progress' patches, that refactor the code to use the emerging framework, as long as the current *behaviour* doesn't change. (i.e. we still use last-mirror etc). The first patch that starts to use

Re: From the TODO

2003-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:24:17AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:28, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: * Toggling from All Default to All Install takes *way* too long. This takes under 1/10th of a second on my PC. I need a testcase, or more info. I can

Re: From the TODO

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 07:50, Christopher Faylor wrote: Yep, please move to done. (I'm assuming that until the cvsadmin commands you requests, I shouldn't commit stuff?) Ok. I've made this crucial change. For the record, I don't want to get involved whenever people screw up their commit

Re: From the TODO

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:24:17AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:28, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: * Toggling from All Default to All Install takes *way* too long. This takes under 1/10th of a second on my PC. I need a testcase,

Re: From the TODO

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:28, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: * Toggling from All Default to All Install takes *way* too long. This takes under 1/10th of a second on my PC. I need a testcase, or more info. I can no longer reproduce. Suggest deleting from

Re: From the TODO

2003-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:31:49PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Thanks Chris, and yes, I'm sufficiently embarrased to remember very clearly not to do that again! There's no need to be embarrassed, IMO. I do this all the time. I think the ChangeLog is more important that the checkin messages,

Re: Pending setup patches (issue 2)

2003-03-10 Thread Brian Keener
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Thanks a lot for testing! Most postinstall scripts run silently, so what you're seeing is the output of printf's. If you could try it with scripts that actually output something (e.g., iu-config.sh, gcc-mingw.sh, post-texmf.sh, profile.sh), you'd see if the output is

Re: Pending setup patches (issue 2)

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Brian Keener wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Thanks a lot for testing! Most postinstall scripts run silently, so what you're seeing is the output of printf's. If you could try it with scripts that actually output something (e.g., iu-config.sh, gcc-mingw.sh,

[Meta-info (non-cyg specific)] (RE: /dev/stderr broken in /bin/sh?, makewhatis unhappy, apropos confused, or just me?)

2003-03-10 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
Replies inline below. Incidentally, why did your message arrive twice from two different From: addresses? And which should the replies go to? --- One address is subscribed to the list, the other is not. Normally, if one responds to 'all', it goes to the OP and the list. If one just

Re: Windows based app.server

2003-03-10 Thread Franz Wolfhagen
You could check out UltraVNC http://ultravnc.sourceforge.org - it is currently beta code, but one of the main interesting points is that the developers has provided a xdmcp wrapper. It also provides some very interesting hooking/display drivers - with some efforts it should be possible to

How does AltGr Work ?

2003-03-10 Thread Laurent Marzullo
Hello, I've just install cygwin and XFree86 and got some problem for AltGr to work. I've take an xmodmap file that work correctly on Solaris 8 (intel), named belgian.map. It's the belgian (french) layout. I've made a lot of change because of the UK physical keyboard. All the key work except all

Re: Remote Session mouse problems

2003-03-10 Thread Thomas Chadwick
Most likely NumLock is on. Here's a google search of the cygwin ML archives for numlock, where you'll find plenty of discussion on why this causes problems. http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=numlock+site%3Acygwin.combtnG=Google+Search From: Nikolai Lusan [EMAIL

Re: Problem with Windows ME and InfoExpress VSClient VPN Softrware

2003-03-10 Thread Stephen Seal
Hi Karel: We were just alerted to this issue by another customer. I believe the problem relates to method used to create the dancing icon in the systray when the VPN is established. If you set your application task bar to auto-hide, you should see performance increase, when the dancing icon is

Re: Problem with Windows ME and InfoExpress VSClient VPN Softrware

2003-03-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Steve, That's great, but you forgot to describe the problem. Harold Stephen Seal wrote: Hi Karel: We were just alerted to this issue by another customer. I believe the problem relates to method used to create the dancing icon in the systray when the VPN is established. If you set your

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog security.cc sec_acl.cc

2003-03-10 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-10 16:25:48 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog security.cc sec_acl.cc Log message: * sec_acl.cc (setacl): Don't handle DELETE flag specially. * security.cc (alloc_sd):

src/winsup/mingw ChangeLog include/stdlib.h

2003-03-10 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-11 03:00:50 Modified files: winsup/mingw : ChangeLog winsup/mingw/include: stdlib.h Log message: * include/stdlib.h (qsort): Remove const from first parm. Thanks to:

A patch for the cygwin1.dll console handler

2003-03-10 Thread COTTO Daniel FTRD/DMI/CAE
Hello, I have made a patch to the cygwin1.dll . Its main purpose is to allow a nul character to be input from a french keyboard. Also this patch adds some othre functions keys. If you are interrested you have the diff -up file from the last cvs 03/03/2003 05:00 fhandler_console.cc the binding

Re: libtool 20030216: problem recognizing import libraries

2003-03-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Okay, the patch I posted to libtool-patches works on my system (of course, the UNpatched libtool works on my system) -- but the patch ought to fix this problem. It hunts specifically for head.exe and uses that, if found, falling back to 'head' only if 'head.exe' is not found in the path. I'd

cygpath $@ in a script: bug?

2003-03-10 Thread Ralf Hauser
in http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg01707.html I thought to see how I should do this. The example works fine. But if I create a script that does the same echo $@ | cygpath -w -f - and call it with testscript `/bin/ls /bin/ch*` I get C:\cygwin\bin\checkgid.exe \bin\chgrp.exe

2003 Apartment Trade Show

2003-03-10 Thread Trade show committee
Attached is an invitation to the 2003 Philadelphia Metro Apartment Trade Show Both attachments are identical, just different formats. If you need adobe acrobat, click below to download. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html To remove your name from this mailing list, just

RE: sudo and runas

2003-03-10 Thread Jon Ewing
Is this any use? http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/CygwinSu Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] (.../jon/tmp) % su root Password: su: cannot run /bin/bash: Permission denied Make sure /bin/bash is world executable. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 596480 Nov 22 19:32

mc-4.6.0-1 slow startup in rxvt was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated:mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Pavel Tsekov (03-03-09 15:34 +0100) On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Unfortunately there are now some new ones: 1. It takes more than 5 seconds to start mc in a rxvt window - in a normal console window mc starts immediately.

FW: /dev/stderr broken in /bin/sh?, makewhatis unhappy, apropos confused, or just me?

2003-03-10 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
-Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A couple of points to note: 1) In Cygwin, /bin/sh != bash. /bin/sh == ash, and it doesn't support bash'isms like /dev/stderr. Use 2 and 1 in /bin/sh. - Bashism? From Oreillynet: Some UNIX

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, S. L. wrote: The Midnight Commander visual shell has been updated to version 4.6.0-1. This is major upgrade and the result of more then one and a half year of bugfixing and code cleanup. [...] Thanks, and, of course another item on the wishlist (although it could

RE: sudo and runas

2003-03-10 Thread Chris January
Is this any use? http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/CygwinSu Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] (.../jon/tmp) % su root Password: su: cannot run /bin/bash: Permission denied Make sure /bin/bash is world executable. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 596480 Nov 22

Re: sudo and runas

2003-03-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:56:11AM -, Chris January wrote: The su binary on my webpage seems to need more privileges than I remember. Try assigning yourself the Replace a Process Level Token right. I am You're opening up the security hole par excellence by doing this. Corinna -- Corinna

1.3.20: cdda2wav -paranoia crashes 2000/XP

2003-03-10 Thread frederick . page
Hi everybody, could somebody with Win2K/XP and cygwin1.dll 1.3.20 please try this: insert an audio-cd into your cd-rom/cd-writer enter the following: cd /tmp (or whatever) cdrecord -scanbus (gives you a list of devices) cdda2wav dev=1,5,0 -paranoia -B (modify dev) Be warned: your Win2K or

XOpenDisplay() in libW11 causes a SIGSEGV if called with NULL displayname.

2003-03-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
This message is intended for the rxvt maintainer. From the manpage of XOpenDisplay(): display_name Specifies the hardware display name, which determines the display and communications domain to be used. On a POSIX-conformant system, if the display_name is NULL, it defaults to the value of the

Re: [PATCH] libtool patch for direct-linking-to-dll

2003-03-10 Thread Charles Wilson
[Oops. I replied to Ralf's message without changing the To: address. And since Ralf's message was originally sent to cygwin-apps (where it didn't belong: bad Ralf); my reply went there too: bad Chuck. No cookie.) Okay, I've actually looked at the patch now. Apparently I misunderstood. I

Re: cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behavior weirdness

2003-03-10 Thread Richard H. Broberg
Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 01:17:25 - [snip] Richard H. Broberg wrote: From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] An unfortunate consequence of how Windows handles console windows.

Re: patch to cygwin1.dll

2003-03-10 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:39:28 +0100 COTTO Daniel FTRD/DMI/CAE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want, you can use this patch and you can add it to a next version of cygwin1.dll. Please read http://cygwin.com/contrib.html . -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-7

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Tishler
New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.2.2-7. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:18:07PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: Otherwise, this package should be identical to the previous one. I knew when I wrote the

Re: chmod not working on Win98

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Tishler
Greg, On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 10:18:29PM +0800, Greg Matheson wrote: When I installed fetchmail-6.2.2.1, fetchmail started refusing to use my .fetchmailrc. I think the requirement that permissions be 600 on it is new. No, I've been patching fetchmail to skip this permissions check due to the

Re: cygwin archive? (previous versions for fallback)

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Tishler
Guenter, On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 04:15:29AM -0600, günter strubinsky wrote: I need to go back to a version that contains PostgreSQL 7.2.x or my data is lost. Don't you have a copy of PostgreSQL 7.2.3 in the Cygwin setup.exe cache? Jason -- PGP/GPG Key:

Re: Problem compiling Numeric-23.0 with latest python-2.2.2-6

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Tishler
Volker, On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 03:15:55PM +0100, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Yes there is one on SF. I just tried Numeric-23.0 -- still works for me. Do you know where the -L stuff is generated IIRC, distutils greps this out of /usr/lib/python2.2/config/Makefile. However, I haven't been in this

RE: /dev/stderr broken in /bin/sh?, makewhatis unhappy, apropos confused, or just me?

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Linda, Replies inline below. Incidentally, why did your message arrive twice from two different From: addresses? And which should the replies go to? On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, LA Walsh wrote: -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, Mar 09, 2003

Re: cygpath $@ in a script: bug?

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Ralf Hauser wrote: in http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg01707.html I thought to see how I should do this. The example works fine. But if I create a script that does the same echo $@ | cygpath -w -f - and call it with testscript `/bin/ls /bin/ch*` I

Re: patch to cygwin1.dll

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, COTTO Daniel FTRD/DMI/CAE wrote: Hi , I have made a patch to the cygwin1.dll . Its main purpose is to allow a nul character to be input from a french keyboard. Also this patch adds some othre functions keys. If you are interrested you have the diff file from the

Re: cygpath $@ in a script: bug?

2003-03-10 Thread Tino Lange
Then you will call cygpath x-times, which is quite inefficient for large globbing with wildcards. Better do something like *** snip *** #! /bin/sh for file in $@; do memfile=${memfile:-}$file\n done application $(echo -e $memfile | cygpath -w -f -) *** snip *** which results in just one

RE: cygpath $@ in a script: bug?

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Ralf, Please keep replies on-list... And please honor the Reply-To:... On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Ralf Hauser wrote: Thanks for the help, someone else suggested out of the mailing list to do it with for file in $@; do memfile=${memfile:-}$file\n done mycommand $(echo -e $memfile | cygpath

Re: setup.exe is too small

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Dufair
I can't agree. Take it in context with what was written. The fix it yourself response was in response to a somewhat rude request that a problem be fixed. It had words like For the love of open source what is the hold up? and I'm dying here. I don't think newbie should necessarily mean

Re: cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behavior weirdness

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Richard H. Broberg wrote: In the meantime I'll happily use rxvt in place of bash, since it does what I need. You are confused. rxvt is a terminal. bash is a shell. You are very likely running bash in rxvt. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug

Emacs occassionally hangs

2003-03-10 Thread Robert Mecklenburg
I'm running emacs under X with the -rootless option and emacs occassionally hangs. In this instance the emacs process is using no cpu and does not respond to keyboard events such as control-g. Interestingly, this time attaching with gdb and detaching restored responsiveness. This didn't happen

RE: man problems - how to get a pre 1.5g-2 binary?

2003-03-10 Thread Shankar Unni
Please reply to the list. Anyway, the only fishy thing I saw was: adding /cygdrive/c/data/MyDocRalf/bin/cgywin/usr/man to manpath adding /cygdrive/c/data/MyDocRalf/McKBrC/man to manpath Is this a cut-and-paste error from your screen? In any case, it looks like man normally uses a built-in

omniORB cygwin port?

2003-03-10 Thread Nikolas Kauer
Hi, has anyone successfully compiled omniORB for Cygwin, i.e. created libraries that can be used with code compiled using a Cygwin gcc installation? Thanks for any hints! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html

Re: 1.3.20: cdda2wav -paranoia crashes 2000/XP

2003-03-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Frederick, I confirmed the cdda2wav-induced hang on my Windows 2K Pro (SP3 and all patches and driver updates currently available installed). The CD drive in my case is on the IDE bus and is the only hardware on an IDE bus in this system. The symptoms was a hang (mouse stopped tracking and

Re: [PATCH] libtool patch for direct-linking-to-dll

2003-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:13:16AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: I didn't realize it was a patch to rip out all of the import-lib building stuff, and replace it with the new link-to-dll support. I've been blissfully trying to avoid libtool discussions but I have to ask my standard question of

Re: patch to cygwin1.dll

2003-03-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Daniel, I don't know if this is obsolete information or not, but back in the old Vi (not Vim) days, one could type NUL while in input mode to repeat the most recently typed input sequence. Ever since the days of real terminals has passed (at least for use in everyday programming work) I've

Re: patch to cygwin1.dll

2003-03-10 Thread wayne
Try using esc . that says repeat the last command. if you want to repeat it more then once then use esc 10 . That is dot not a period by the way. This is the way all current varents of vi work that I have found. This will repeat either commands or text input.. depends on what your last keys

Re: cygpath $@ in a script: bug?

2003-03-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ralf, Yes. Well, no. Cygpath isn't chok[ing]. It's operating correctly. It accepts one input name per line when used in filter mode. You can use tr or sed to insert newlines where appropriate, but it's not feasible to have cygpath interpret spaces as separators between input names. Since

Re: patch to cygwin1.dll

2003-03-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
Wayne, I'm not talking about repeating a command (and it's period / dot / . that does that, not ESC), I'm talking about repeating (while in input mode) the sequence entered the last time you were in input mode. Of course, ESC terminates input mode and takes you back to command mode. Randall

Re: cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behavior weirdness

2003-03-10 Thread Richard H. Broberg
Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] Richard H. Broberg wrote: In the meantime I'll happily use rxvt in place of bash, since it does what I need. You are confused. rxvt is a terminal. bash is a shell.

Basic POSIX support question

2003-03-10 Thread paul . herbert
Hi Christopher; Does CYGWIN support POSIX.1, 1B and 1C? I need to pick up message queues supported by the latter POSIX version. Thanks Paul -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: /dev/stderr broken in /bin/sh?, makewhatis unhappy, apropos confused, or just me?

2003-03-10 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
At 07:18 PM 3/9/2003 -0800, linda w \(cyg\) wrote: I normally use bash and this works in bash: echo hello stderr /dev/stderr echo hello stdout /dev/stdout But in /bin/sh: $ echo hello stderr /dev/stderr cannot create /dev/stderr: directory nonexistent $ echo hello stdout /dev/stdout cannot

Re: setup.exe is too small

2003-03-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
David Robinow wrote: Andrew DeFaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is indeed a natural assumption that the phrase to demand that something be done is addressed to me, that I was demanding that something be done. Andrew, relax. And pay attention. I was paying attention. He addressed me. The

Re: setup.exe is too small

2003-03-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Andrew, I ought to re-read my messages before I send them (I started out addressing you and drifted off on a tangent). What can I say except I apologize? Apology accepted. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

RE: [PATCH] libtool patch for direct-linking-to-dll

2003-03-10 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:13:16AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: I didn't realize it was a patch to rip out all of the import-lib building stuff, and replace it with the new link-to-dll support. I've been blissfully trying to avoid libtool discussions but I have to ask my standard question of

Re: [Meta-info (non-cyg specific)] (RE: /dev/stderr broken in /bin/sh?, makewhatis unhappy, apropos confused, or just me?)

2003-03-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, linda w (cyg) wrote: Replies inline below. Incidentally, why did your message arrive twice from two different From: addresses? And which should the replies go to? --- One address is subscribed to the list, the other is not. Normally, if one responds to

Re: [Meta-info (non-cyg specific)] (RE: /dev/stderr broken in /bin/sh?, makewhatis unhappy, apropos confused, or just me?)

2003-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:59:29PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: FYI, both went to the list, hence the question. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00655.html and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00646.html. Igor P.S. There is no need to Cc: cygwin-apps@, the original

RE: [PATCH] libtool patch for direct-linking-to-dll

2003-03-10 Thread Ralf Habacker
Okay, I've actually looked at the patch now. Apparently I misunderstood. I thought this was a patch to enable using libtool to link against an outside shared library in which the implib was actually a symlink to a DLL -- which I didn't think would require much if any hacking with libtool,

Error trying to build, after getting the latest cygwin changes

2003-03-10 Thread Bob Cassels
I've been building Cygwin from the sources successfully for a week or so now. This morning I updated from CVS, and built. But using the resulting new-cygwin1.dll (copied to /bin and renamed to cygwin1.dll,of course) no longer lets me build. I get this error: ar: cygdll.a: File format

New user / CD installation problems

2003-03-10 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
Dear list members, I have installed Cygwin on Windows 98 and want to do a CD installation onto Windows 95. I would just like to compare notes on the problems I have encountered. I normally use Linux. I need to install TeX and friends at work to correct reports that I write at home. I am paid

Re: Problem compiling Numeric-23.0 with latest python-2.2.2-6

2003-03-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Jason == Jason Tishler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason Volker, Jason On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 03:15:55PM +0100, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Yes there is one on SF. Jason I just tried Numeric-23.0 -- still works for me. Do you know where the -L stuff is generated Jason

Re: Python Tkinter module problem: pydog -g doesn't work

2003-03-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Jason == Jason Tishler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason Volker, Jason IMO, this post is more appropriate for cygwin@ than [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 12:51:36PM +0100, Volker Zell wrote: ImportError: No module named _tkinter Jason Sorry, the above was

Re: New user / CD installation problems

2003-03-10 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- From: Michael Talbot-Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:52:45 +1030 (CST) Subject: New user / CD installation problems 1. Cygwin is very slow. Remarkably so. I guess this might be just how it is when a

Re: Error trying to build, after getting the latest cygwin changes

2003-03-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Bob Cassels wrote: I've been building Cygwin from the sources successfully for a week or so now. This morning I updated from CVS, and built. But using the resulting new-cygwin1.dll (copied to /bin and renamed to cygwin1.dll, of course) no longer lets me build. I get this error: ar:

RE: /dev/stderr broken in /bin/sh?, makewhatis unhappy, apropos confused, or just me?

2003-03-10 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Linux, /bin/sh == bash. On my system, at least, it's not dependant on bash -- they show up as softlinks to /proc/self/fd/{0|1|2}. Maybe Cygwin should be renamed CyNUX: Cygwin is Not Unix or Linux? :-) Pronounced cynics?

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