Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-12-19

2003-12-29 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Charles == Charles Wilson writes: Charles Reini Urban wrote: ITP: xemacs [2003-12-12] Description: A powerful, highly customizable open source text editor and application development system Proposer: Dr. Volker Zell ITP:

Re: [ITP] libwin32-perl-0.191 (ready for upload and testing)

2003-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 03:26:16PM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote: These modules are built against Perl 5.8.2, which is in testing for some reason right now, so I marked this package as testing as well. I vote +1 for this but 5.8.2 is not marked as testing so this doesn't have to be either.

xserv 4.3.0-29

2003-12-29 Thread Christoph Leser
Hi, last week I installed ( first time installation ) Cygwin on a winows xp professional sp1. I had XWin.exe ( xserv 4.3.0-28 ) running with AIX and Linux Clients w/o modifying an config files, but I experienced similar ALT-Gr problems as described in the postings regarding xserv 4.3.0-29.

Re: xserv 4.3.0-29

2003-12-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Christoph, Send in /tmp/XWin.log. Harold Christoph Leser wrote: Hi, last week I installed ( first time installation ) Cygwin on a winows xp professional sp1. I had XWin.exe ( xserv 4.3.0-28 ) running with AIX and Linux Clients w/o modifying an config files, but I experienced similar ALT-Gr

Re: XFree86 4.3.0 and AltGr

2003-12-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Can somebody confirm for me whether or not this fixes the AltGr problems for them with TweakUI? Harold Harold L Hunt II wrote: Okay, XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-29 has just been posted. Please try it and somebody please tell me whether it fixes the problem for them or not. Harold Harold L Hunt II

xserv 4.3.0-29

2003-12-29 Thread Christoph Leser
thanks for pointing me to /tmp/XWin.log This shows, that the font directory is not properly installed. When I try to reinstall, the installer hangs when trying to create the sub drirectories. ( As a matter of fact I cannot create /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts in bash,, gives 'mkdir: cannot create

Re: xserv 4.3.0-29

2003-12-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Run 'mount' in a Cygwin bash shell. You should see something that includes a line like the following: C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) If you see type system in that line, then run the following in your Cygwin bash shell: umount

FAQ Update

2003-12-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I just posted an updated FAQ. The primary focus of the updates was to remove old entries regarding Xinstall.sh and the perils of downloading our binaries from a web browser and/or extracting them with WinZip; none of these are issues anymore. I also removed out-dated information about

Not getting login using xdmcp

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Now that Christmas is over I'd like to address this problem again. Let's recap. I have a SuSE 8.2 installation. I am attempting to use Cygwin/XFree86 to start an X session using XDMCP. XDMCP is not on by default so I have performed the following changes: * Enabled XDMCP in

Re: Not getting login using xdmcp

2003-12-29 Thread Greg Freemyer
I had a similar problem last summer with SUSE 8.2 and then current cygwin/XFree86. In my case I upgraded to a then current cygwin/XFree86 setup. XDMCP seemed broken 2 weeks later I upgraded again. (Several related updates.) XDMCP was working I have since upgraded to SUSE 9.0, so I

cygpcre-0.dll missing from default install

2003-12-29 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hello and thanks in advance! I installed cygwin using www.cygwin.com/setup.exe and default packages selected on a computer running Windows 2000 that has never had Cygwin installed on it. tried running less after and --- less.exe - Unable To Locate DLL

Re: Not getting login using xdmcp

2003-12-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Andrew, Did you see my email about the Internet Connection Firewall? Check out this email: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-12/msg00318.html Let me know if any of those things applies. Harold Andrew DeFaria wrote: Now that Christmas is over I'd like to address this problem again.

Re: cygpcre-0.dll missing from default install

2003-12-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jean-Claude, 'less' is not an X program, thus, problems with its dependencies are not problems that can be fixed on this mailing list. Please send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. In fact, you didn't even have any XFree86-* packages installed, so this has nothing to do with Cygwin/X.

RE: Is perl-5.8.2 canonized for use on cygwin yet?

2003-12-29 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Blair P. Houghton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I've found the problem. By more careful use of the -d=flags option to make, I traced it down to the second of two subdirs targets, and then turned off the NOECHO command (by taking it out of the script line in the Makefile under the

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Dario Alcocer
Peter Seebach wrote: I know this is a pseudo-FAQ, but I haven't been able to find a clear enough answer in the archives. 1. Is it not the case that POSIX provides a specification for the getopts builtin? 2. Doesn't ash, as originally written, implement getopts? I'm trying to figure out why this

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dario Alcocer writes: Peter Seebach wrote: I know this is a pseudo-FAQ, but I haven't been able to find a clear enough answer in the archives. 1. Is it not the case that POSIX provides a specification for the getopts builtin? 2. Doesn't ash, as originally written,

Re: Executing Perl scripts w/o the .pl

2003-12-29 Thread Shaffer, Kenneth
If using Active Perl with cygwin, put the following as the first line of your perl scripts: eval 'exec perl -S `cygpath -w $0`' if 0; -- Ken Shaffer - - - - - - - Appended by Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. - - - - - - - This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is

Re: bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap

2003-12-29 Thread Jason Tishler
Kimberlie, On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:48:06AM -0500, Kimberlie S wrote: Thanks, Jason, for your help. You are welcome. [snip] Am I doing something wrong? I don't think so. Thanks for any other suggestions you might have! I'm sorry but I don't know how to help you further. Jason --

Re: ImageMagick packaging problem

2003-12-29 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 04:39:50 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not an answer to the problem posted, but it reminds me to ask as to where can a version of ImageMagick for cygwin is available for download ? I have the same question, assuming you mean a binary version. (Actually I'm just

RE: Is perl-5.8.2 canonized for use on cygwin yet?

2003-12-29 Thread Blair P. Houghton
The trailing backslashes aren't necessary. I've removed them in my LIB and INCLUDE environment variables and VC works just fine. You could try removing them and see if that fixes the perl build. Well, you can remove them manually; but this is a computer and it should do the work. The next time,

RE: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Blair P. Houghton
Peter Seebach wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dario Alcocer writes: Use the set -- `getopt` idiom instead: Yes, but *why*? == % cygcheck --version cygcheck version 1.30 System Checker for Cygwin Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Red Hat, Inc. Compiled on Feb 8 2003 % cat

Re: 'man' shows escape sequences after updating to docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1

2003-12-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Lynn Wilson (2003-12-23 19:40 +0100) It seems that a few months ago the man pages were showing the ESC[1m etc. escape sequences in a bash shell. The problem was quickly fixed. I downloaded docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1 yesterday and the problem is back. I also downloaded a few X-modules. One of

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Blair P. Houghto n writes: So I take it this idiom is only supposed to work in newer cygwin versions? I dunno. It's a very, very, odd idiom, that leaves you stuck with a great deal of manual parsing anyway. And I too am puzzled why someone would defeature a shell

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:00 PM 12/29/2003, Peter Seebach you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Blair P. Houghto n writes: So I take it this idiom is only supposed to work in newer cygwin versions? I dunno. It's a very, very, odd idiom, that leaves you stuck with a great deal of manual parsing anyway. And I too

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Larry Hall writes: If you're curious, I suggest you run some timings on ash with and without getopts enabled using a few configure scripts from some of Cygwin's packages, large and small. It was the slowness of configure scripts that prompted the streamlining of

Re: 'man' shows escape sequences after updating to docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1

2003-12-29 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:48 PM 12/29/2003, Thorsten Kampe you wrote: * Lynn Wilson (2003-12-23 19:40 +0100) It seems that a few months ago the man pages were showing the ESC[1m etc. escape sequences in a bash shell. The problem was quickly fixed. I downloaded docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1 yesterday and the problem is

RE: Is perl-5.8.2 canonized for use on cygwin yet?

2003-12-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Blair P. Houghton wrote: The trailing backslashes aren't necessary. I've removed them in my LIB and INCLUDE environment variables and VC works just fine. You could try removing them and see if that fixes the perl build. Well, you can remove them manually; but this is a

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:20 PM 12/29/2003, Peter Seebach you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Larry Hall writes: If you're curious, I suggest you run some timings on ash with and without getopts enabled using a few configure scripts from some of Cygwin's packages, large and small. It was the slowness of

RE: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Blair P. Houghton wrote: Peter Seebach wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dario Alcocer writes: Use the set -- `getopt` idiom instead: Yes, but *why*? == % cygcheck --version cygcheck version 1.30 System Checker for Cygwin Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000,

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Igor Pechtcha nski writes: I'm sure this discussion is in the archives somewhere. A first run of casual searching hasn't turned it up. However, since I happen to have an unmunged ash source around, I removed getopts from it. # Without getopts $ ls -l obj/sh

Re: Can't build gcc [tree-ssa] 20031222 on cygwin: libmudflap/mf-hooks2.c:1618 syntax error for ipc...

2003-12-29 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Christian Joensson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] In file included from /usr/local/src/branch/gcc/libmudflap/mf-hooks2.c:1618: /usr/include/sys/ipc.h:59: error: syntax error before ushort /usr/include/sys/ipc.h:61: error: syntax error before cuid /usr/include/sys/ipc.h:62: error: syntax

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:54 PM 12/29/2003, Peter Seebach you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Igor Pechtcha nski writes: I'm sure this discussion is in the archives somewhere. A first run of casual searching hasn't turned it up. However, since I happen to have an unmunged ash source around, I removed getopts

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Larry Hall writes: OK, sounds to me like you've convinced yourself that ash should contain getopts. Does that mean that you no longer have a need to keep this thread going? I'm not sure I see the discussion providing any useful benefit beyond you becoming more

Re: Is perl-5.8.2 canonized for use on cygwin yet?

2003-12-29 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Blair, Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2003 um 04:51 schriebst du: I think I've found the problem. By more careful use of the -d=flags option to make, I traced it down to the second of two subdirs targets, and then turned off the NOECHO command (by taking it out of the script line in the

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:19 PM 12/29/2003, Peter Seebach you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Larry Hall writes: OK, sounds to me like you've convinced yourself that ash should contain getopts. Does that mean that you no longer have a need to keep this thread going? I'm not sure I see the discussion

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Larry Hall writes: I see. So how does this thread differ from previous ones on this subject? Well, first off, I've done the obvious test, and verified that there is no 13k space saving. There might be 1/2k. As far as I can see, you simply want to state your case

A suggestion

2003-12-29 Thread Leandro
Cygwin.bat __ REGEDIT4 @echo off if %1== goto login bash -c $( cygpath -u %1 ) goto fim :login C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin bash --login -i :fim cygwin.reg __ REGEDIT4

RE: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Robb, Sam
Well, first off, I've done the obvious test, and verified that there is no 13k space saving. There might be 1/2k. There is no 13k space saving *now*. There may well have been with a previous set of sources and build tools. I can indeed run tests, but right now, no one has offered even a

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Peter Seebach wrote: But, most importantly, it's in POSIX. I can see no reason for /bin/sh to not be at least reasonably close to a POSIX shell, when the code is already written. I was looking at the POSIX specs, and while getopts is listed as a required utility[1], and it is listed in the

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robb , Sam writes: Well, first off, I've done the obvious test, and verified that there is no 13k space saving. There might be 1/2k. There is no 13k space saving *now*. There may well have been with a previous set of sources and build tools. I don't think

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Dessent writes: Peter Seebach wrote: But, most importantly, it's in POSIX. I can see no reason for /bin/sh to not be at least reasonably close to a POSIX shell, when the code is already written. I was looking at the POSIX specs, and while getopts is listed

Re: 'man' shows escape sequences after updating to docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1

2003-12-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Larry Hall (2003-12-29 20:18 +0100) At 01:48 PM 12/29/2003, Thorsten Kampe you wrote: * Lynn Wilson (2003-12-23 19:40 +0100) It seems that a few months ago the man pages were showing the ESC[1m etc. escape sequences in a bash shell. The problem was quickly fixed. I downloaded docbook_xsl

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:48 PM 12/29/2003, Peter Seebach you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Larry Hall writes: I see. So how does this thread differ from previous ones on this subject? Well, first off, I've done the obvious test, and verified that there is no 13k space saving. There might be 1/2k.

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Larry Hall writes: Perhaps. By your own admission, you used different source though so the results of the space savings are inconclusive, or more precisely, incompatible given the historical base. I can't imagine that the ash source varies that widely. But I

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Seebach
Okay, some real data. This is done using ash as of 20031007. The only change made is this: *** builtins.def.orig Mon Dec 29 17:23:28 2003 --- builtins.defMon Dec 29 17:23:33 2003 *** *** 66,72 falsecmd false histcmd -hfc fgcmd -j fg ! getoptscmd -j

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Seebach writ es: Can we just kill this now? Take out the -j, leave the support for getopts in the shell, and all the shell scripters will be happy. The configure scripts will run at exactly the same speed, and I will happily join in defending the decision to

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:46 PM 12/29/2003, Peter Seebach you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Seebach writ es: Can we just kill this now? Take out the -j, leave the support for getopts in the shell, and all the shell scripters will be happy. The configure scripts will run at exactly the same speed, and I

[1.5.5] sshd error on local machine. [the return of sshd nightmare]

2003-12-29 Thread dominix
I've tryed this advice from Corinna: - Deinstall the sshd service: cygrunsrv -R sshd - Edit /etc/passwd and remove the sshd account entry. - Remove the sshd account: net user sshd /delete - If you didn't change much in your /etc/ssh_config and /etc/ssdh_config files, remove them. - Run

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Larry Hall writes: Indeed. That it would be. Of course, like I said, lot's of things have changed so the results today don't necessarily conflict with the findings of yesteryear. It's possible. My guess is that the big improvement was nuking the history and job

Re: Apache 2.0.48 installation

2003-12-29 Thread Stipe Tolj
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: The Makefiles need to be modified, look for the install targets, they do things like: `cp httpd /target/path/httpd' which doesn't work without patched versions of the fileutils. Change the Makefiles to include the suffixes (`cp httpd.exe /target/path/httpd.exe').

Re: Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Seebach
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Larry Hall writes: Would you be willing to take this a step further and provide some configuration timings for some of the existing Cygwin packages? Of particular interest would be the larger packages, like binutils, gcc, and gdb. If these have favorable results, I

Re: Please try the latest snapshot -- it is close to cygwin 1.5.6

2003-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 12:26:32PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 12:46 PM 12/27/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I missed the 'sh -c' clue in your previous message. Since sh uses vfork, that indicates a vfork problem. I've checked in some more changes to deal

Re: Please try the latest snapshot -- it is close to cygwin 1.5.6

2003-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 06:28:09PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: ...when I launch inetd from an rxvt window running bash, or from a Dos window running cygwin.bat with tty, I still see tty handles in inetd. I fixed some more problems with both vfork and with fork recently. The fixes are

Re: Please try the latest snapshot -- it is close to cygwin 1.5.6

2003-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:04:01PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 12:26:32PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 12:46 PM 12/27/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I missed the 'sh -c' clue in your previous message. Since sh uses vfork, that

Problem searching archives of this list.

2003-12-29 Thread Greg Smith
I'm trying a very simple search: cygpcre-0.dll It doesn't work, I get all the hits for cygpcre and dll, even if it's in quotes. As a result, I am probably about to submit a duplicate report. I know, it's probably because that's the way it's indexed. Still, it turns what could be a very narrow,

Re: Problem searching archives of this list.

2003-12-29 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:03 PM 12/29/2003, Greg Smith you wrote: I'm trying a very simple search: cygpcre-0.dll It doesn't work, I get all the hits for cygpcre and dll, even if it's in quotes. As a result, I am probably about to submit a duplicate report. I know, it's probably because that's the way it's indexed.

Re: 1.5.6-pre: Occasional bad memory accesses within cygwin1.dll

2003-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 03:52:33PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: I installed a self-built cygwin HEAD version - mostly it works fine, but it causes odd failures during builds (speculation: race when many processes being created and destroyed?) The most common failure is a Windows error box: The

Re: 1.5.6-pre: Occasional bad memory accesses within cygwin1.dll

2003-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 03:52:33PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Less common failures include shell scripts receiving terminating with a Hangup message, or locking up entirely. Debugging suggestions welcome. Forgot to add that the obvious thing to try here is attaching to the process in the locking

'Can't find X library'

2003-12-29 Thread Janice Levenhagen
Hey, So when I run ./configure I get that it cannot find the X library. I have searched everywhere for an answer for this question and I actually found one. It says to change the configure script to search not only for $i/libX11.a and $i/libX11.so, but also for $i/libX11.dll.a. Unfortunately,