Redistributing cygwin1.dll on a site turns out to be a bad idea

I distribute some binaries since 1 1/2 year, and was also always redistributing the latest cygwin1.dll (and making the sources available from the same sites due to the license) to make people's life easier, but it turns out a lot of people were only downloading it, mainly because one of my pages is

Perl, the GMP library, and the Math::BigInt::GMP module

I have installed the latest versions of Perl and the GMP library, and want to install the Math::BigInt::GMP Perl module which makes use of this GMP library, but I can't make them play together. There is a complaint "No library found for -lgmp", but I know the library is installed. I can also see

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 11:16, Perry Pupp wrote: > Now it configures & builds perfectly for me, out of > the box pulled anew from cvs, with no switches or > options to configure or make. You *need* to follow the switches on http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html to get a full build. What y

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

Now it configures & builds perfectly for me, out of the box pulled anew from cvs, with no switches or options to configure or make. Thanks! Cordially, perry __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- Un

Re: Unsubscription doesn't work

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:05:15PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Cast your eyes to the bottom of this message where unsubscribe >>information is given. > >Ah, something seems to be broken in that regard - what happened to the >list-generated signature (or postscript) with

Re: Unsubscription doesn't work

Christopher Faylor wrote: > Cast your eyes to the bottom of this message where unsubscribe information > is given. Ah, something seems to be broken in that regard - what happened to the list-generated signature (or postscript) with all that info? -- Shankar. -- Unsubscribe info: http://

Re: cygwin-1.5.4-1 breaks fetchmail on Win9x (Pierre can you comment?)

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:38:08PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >This is what I see on Win98/Me: >- DELETE_ON_CLOSE works if the file is not yet opened. >- If it is opened for writing, CreateFile (DELETE_ON_CLOSE) fails and the > file is eventually put on the delete queue, at least if it is loc

Re: cygwin-1.5.4-1 breaks fetchmail on Win9x (Pierre can you comment?)

At 11:32 AM 10/7/2003 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:49:14AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:19:05AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >>>On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:58:37PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:13:00PM

Re: 1.5.4-1: Problem with XEmacs, fonts, and subprocesses.

Yadin Y. Goldschmidt wrote: It is true that making a xemacs.bat file which contains c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe /bin/bash -c "/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/xemacs" makes XEmacs run correctly under cygwin 1.5.5. (Actually one needs to add a line 'set cygwin=tty ' before that line if one does no

2.415-1 setup.exe is crashing on defected package

Hi, It happens to me that after updating “setup.exe” (setup-2.415-1-src.tar.bz2) I was not able to install Cygwin anymore. The setup.exe program has always crashed during Installation progress. After analysing the problem I have discovered following possible issues in the setup program. 1) Mi

Re: Moving devices from 98SE to XP and back again

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is a file-handling problem that I have noticed in other contexts too. > > Windows 98/SE is good (faultless?) at preserving upper case and lower case > in filenames, whether long or short or with spaces. However, I have noticed > when moving device

Re: 1.5.4-1: Problem with XEmacs, fonts, and subprocesses.

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > > > >> Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > >> > >> >> If you're _really_ obsessive (like me :-( about launching from an > >> >> i

Re: Setup program hanging

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:53, will ryder wrote: > I see that other people have had problems with installing cygwin due to > the setup program hanging. > > Is there a solution to this yet ? Or is it possible to get an older > version of the setup program What version are you running? Where does i

RE: What Linux version corresponds to a specific cygwin version?

> From: Uwe Galle > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 6:03 PM > Some applications, e.g. C-Kermit 8.0 > (http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80binaries.html#linux), offer a > variety of > binary versions, e.g. Red Hat 7.0, Red Hat 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9, *** You *can't* run foreign binari

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

> From: Christopher Faylor > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 10:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like > $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise > > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:55:12PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > >I've got one idea lef

RE: cygwin problem

> From: Jason Tishler > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 10:45 PM > > I have a problem installing cygwin on XP pro .. it ALWAYS hangs at 99% > > complete on the "xfree32-icons" component, and when I cancel the > > install it always says "installation complete" in a popup. > > > > Ok I can't uninsta

Re: Unsubscription doesn't work

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:07:36PM +0200, Fermin Sanchez wrote: >Hello > >Unfortunately, unsubscription to [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't seem >possible. I've tried twice - the first time, about 2 days ago, I got a >reply from the automated list manager that the unscubscription had >succeeded. Today (

Re: cygwin problem

Conrad, Please post instead of sending private email. On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:21:47PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I saw you are active on XP questions on the unoffical cygwin > newsgroup. I hope you dont mind me emailing you direct, but I dont > know who to ask! Ask the Cygwin mailing l

Re: cygwin sh crash on Windows 98 SE

Vít Reichel writes: [redirected to lilypond-user again; you may want to check that your mailer's Reply button respects the Mail-Followup-To header] > What I called "sh crash" is a standard windows program crash alert > (something like "Program sh made a wrong operation and will be terminated).

Re: 1.5.4-1: Problem with XEmacs, fonts, and subprocesses.

It is true that making a xemacs.bat file which contains c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe /bin/bash -c "/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/xemacs" makes XEmacs run correctly under cygwin 1.5.5. (Actually one needs to add a line 'set cygwin=tty ' before that line if one does not already have it in the win

Unsubscription doesn't work

Hello Unfortunately, unsubscription to [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't seem possible. I've tried twice - the first time, about 2 days ago, I got a reply from the automated list manager that the unscubscription had succeeded. Today (about noon CET), it didn't even reply. The mail was sent to [EMAIL P

Setup program hanging

I see that other people have had problems with installing cygwin due to the setup program hanging. Is there a solution to this yet ? Or is it possible to get an older version of the setup program Will Ryder -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Control-C terminates ssh session

I'm using OpenSSH_3.7.1p2 under cygwin 1.5.5-1. ssh works fine, except that whenever I use Control-C to interrupt a running process, my ssh session is terminated instead. It's a real pain. Does anyone know why this happens, or how I can make it stop? I want Control-C to be interpreted by th

Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:54:51PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > The problem recently reported by Tim Dierks in > > turns out to be identical to the one investigated in > > > The scr

Re: Is multithreaded profiling on cygwin possible?

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > Flat profiles are usually what I want also. For per thread cpu see: > Sorry, I forgot the reference. Here it is: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/pstat-o.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/exi

Re: What Linux version corresponds to a specific cygwin version?

First: Cygwin != Linux On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:03:05PM +0200, Uwe Galle wrote: > after some research this question remained unresolved, that's why I want to > post it to the list. > > Some applications, e.g. C-Kermit 8.0 > (http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80binaries.html#linux), offer a variet

Re: Is multithreaded profiling on cygwin possible?

peter garrone wrote: >Brian Ford wrote: > >>peter garrone wrote: >> >Sorry for the delay, or the repeat information, my original reply is >lost. > No problem. >>>If I profile my multi-threaded application, it appears that only the >>>main thread is profiled. >>> >>Currently, yes. >> >Actually, I

What Linux version corresponds to a specific cygwin version?

Hi, after some research this question remained unresolved, that's why I want to post it to the list. Some applications, e.g. C-Kermit 8.0 (http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80binaries.html#linux), offer a variety of binary versions, e.g. Red Hat 7.0, Red Hat 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9, AS2.1 and much m

Re: cygwin-1.5.4-1 breaks fetchmail on Win9x (Pierre can you comment?)

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:49:14AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:19:05AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >>On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:58:37PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:13:00PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: BTW, there seemed to be som

dpkg --info crashes / dpkg-deb --info hangs

I ran into a problem using dpkg, like this: $ dpkg --info dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb Segmentation fault (core dumped) I can send the .stackdump file if it's interesting, but I'm running into the 100K limit. Since dpkg --info is pretty close to dpkg-deb --info, I tried that next. $ dpkg-deb --info dpk

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: proftpd-1.2.9rc2p-1

New News: === I have updated the version of ProFTPD to 1.2.9rc2p-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. Users are urged to upgrade to this version due to a remote exploit vulnerability. See the following for the details: http://www.proftpd.org/index.ht

Re: cygwin-1.5.4-1 breaks fetchmail on Win9x

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:19:05AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >Chris, > >On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:58:37PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:13:00PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >> >BTW, there seemed to be some gyration regarding this section of >> >unlink() during tha

Re: Problems with Cygwin and Procmail..

Billy, Please keep your replies on-list. On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:53:17PM -0400, Billy Huddleston wrote: > > How are you driving procmail? Via fetchmail? Or, by some other > > means? What version of Windows? What version of procmail (and > > fetchmail)? > > > > Calling procmail via perl sc

Re: cygwin-1.5.4-1 breaks fetchmail on Win9x

Chris, On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:58:37PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:13:00PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > >BTW, there seemed to be some gyration regarding this section of > >unlink() during that time period: > > ...which might be illuminated by reading the arch

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mhash-0.8.18-1

I have packaged the mhash library. This is a library that provides a uniform interface to several hash algorithms. It supports the basics for message authentication by following rfc2104 (HMAC). It also includes some key generation algorithms which are based on hash algorithms. Separate runtime

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libmcrypt-2.5.7-2

I have updated the cygwin port of the libmcrypt encryption library. Libmcrypt is a library that provides access to several symmetric block and stream encryption algorithms. The following algorithms are implemented: 3-Way, Arcfour, Blowfish, Cast-128 (known as Cast5), Cast-256, DES, Enigma, Gost

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> Robert Collins wrote: >>> On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 18:07, Max Bowsher wrote: >>> Ah. Looks like we have found the problem. bootstrap.sh isn't executable in the repository. Also, a number of header files *are* executable.

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 18:07, Max Bowsher wrote: > > > >> Ah. Looks like we have found the problem. bootstrap.sh isn't executable > in > >> the repository. Also, a number of header files *are* executable. > >> > >> Robert, I'll do s

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 18:07, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> Ah. Looks like we have found the problem. bootstrap.sh isn't executable in >> the repository. Also, a number of header files *are* executable. >> >> Robert, I'll do some chmodding, shall I? > > Please. I've "chmod +x"ed t

Re: 1.5.4-1: Problem with XEmacs, fonts, and subprocesses.

Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > >> Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> >> >> If you're _really_ obsessive (like me :-( about launching from an >> >> icon, compile the following and point the icon at it. >> >> >> >>

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 18:07, Max Bowsher wrote: > Ah. Looks like we have found the problem. bootstrap.sh isn't executable in > the repository. Also, a number of header files *are* executable. > > Robert, I'll do some chmodding, shall I? Please. Rob -- GPG key available at:

xemacs, psgml, docbook xml v4.2

Uups, here is the rest... On my Debian Woody box everthing works fine, but on Cygwin 1.5.5. nothing happens. Anybody a hint, what I'm doing wrong? Regards Oliver -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentati

xemacs, psgml, docbook xml v4.2

Hi, I'm trying to parse (C-c C-p) the DTD, but it doesn't work. My document starts with: http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";[ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: htt

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

Perry Pupp wrote: > --- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > ... > >>> -rw-rw-rw-1 usernamemkgroup 925 Mar >> 8 2003 bootstrap.sh >> ^^ >> This is your problem right here -- bootstrap.sh is >> invoked directly, not >> via "sh". Since it doesn't have executable >> permission, it is

Re: Setup disabling of nonexistent virus scanners

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 11:32, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Hmmm, yeah, I'll look at this. I wonder why I don't get this and (I assume) > others don't Incorrect const clause on wantsActivation in the base class lead to inconsistent method signatures. I fixed this this morning, but have been rus