Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: There are also some patches I'm considering adding from fileutils-4.1-2 (proposed-fileutils-patches.txt). I got these by diffing fileutils-4.1 with the src package for fileutils-4.1-2. I was hoping that the previous maintainer could comment on these patches so I

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:45:44AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: There are also some patches I'm considering adding from fileutils-4.1-2 (proposed-fileutils-patches.txt). I got these by diffing fileutils-4.1 with the src package for fileutils-4.1-2. I was hoping that

.rdata section in Cygwin executables?

2004-03-12 Thread Joe Buehler
The emacs recompile fails because there is a section in the initially built emacs.exe named .rdata that the unexec() code for Cygwin is not expecting. The section appears to have something to do with exception handling and is only 1k in size. I'm reading up on this at the moment, but a couple

Pending PPL

2004-03-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, all, FYI, I'm still working on the PPL, but doing it properly is taking more time than I anticipated. I now appreciate Dan's efforts even more... :-) The PPL *is* coming, just not as soon as I expected. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\

Re: .rdata section in Cygwin executables?

2004-03-12 Thread Egor Duda
Joe Buehler wrote: The emacs recompile fails because there is a section in the initially built emacs.exe named .rdata that the unexec() code for Cygwin is not expecting. The section appears to have something to do with exception handling and is only 1k in size. .rdata is a section where read-only

Re: .rdata section in Cygwin executables?

2004-03-12 Thread Joe Buehler
Egor Duda wrote: You may write your own linker script so that all rdata section will be put to .data when emacs.exe is linked, but again, it doesn't look as the proper way to deal with the problem. According to objdump, there is no readonly flag set for .rdata. Does Windows know about the name

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-12 Thread Mark Blackburn
So I will delete the following: usr/bin/uptime.exe usr/bin/kill.exe usr/share/man/man1/uptime.1.gz usr/share/man/man1/kill.1.gz I will include the fileutils patches except the ones to src/copy.c and lib/regex.c since they have no apparent effect. One final question: for now do I rename

Re: .rdata section in cygwin executables?

2004-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:28:02AM -0500, Joe Buehler wrote: Egor Duda wrote: You may write your own linker script so that all rdata section will be put to .data when emacs.exe is linked, but again, it doesn't look as the proper way to deal with the problem. According to objdump, there is no

Re: Pending PPL

2004-03-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:38:40AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Hi, all, FYI, I'm still working on the PPL, but doing it properly is taking more time than I anticipated. I now appreciate Dan's efforts even more... :-) The PPL *is* coming,

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-12 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Mark Blackburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I will delete the following: usr/bin/uptime.exe usr/bin/kill.exe usr/share/man/man1/uptime.1.gz usr/share/man/man1/kill.1.gz I will include the fileutils patches except the ones to src/copy.c and lib/regex.c since they have no

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: --- Mark Blackburn marklistatfangorndotca wrote: So I will delete the following: usr/bin/uptime.exe usr/bin/kill.exe usr/share/man/man1/uptime.1.gz usr/share/man/man1/kill.1.gz I will include the fileutils patches except

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:54:00PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: textutils. Those three have been combined into a single set of utilities called the coreutils. category: Base requires: cygwin libiconv2 libint ^^^ This is fine for testing, but don't

Re: .rdata section in Cygwin executables?

2004-03-12 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Friday 12 March 2004 15:51, Egor Duda wrote: Joe Buehler wrote: The emacs recompile fails because there is a section in the initially built emacs.exe named .rdata that the unexec() code for Cygwin is not expecting. The section appears to have something to do with exception handling

Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1 [again]

2004-03-12 Thread Mark Blackburn
Here's what's changed since my last packaging attempt: 1) The following files are deleted from the distribution: usr/bin/uptime.exe usr/bin/kill.exe usr/share/man/man1/uptime.1.gz usr/share/man/man1/kill.1.gz 2) Fileutils patches have been included. Package is available at the same location:

Ready for test: patchutils 0.2.28

2004-03-12 Thread Max Bowsher
A long time ago, I packaged patchutils 0.2.26, uploaded them to personal webspace for testing, and... forgot to tell anyone about it. Oops! I've just updated to the latest upstream version (0.2.28). Packages are available here: Setup URL: http://centaur.robinson.cam.ac.uk/~mob22/cygwin

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: + /usr/lib/charset.alias I don't think this should be installed (neither by the current fileutils). Maybe Charles Wilson can comment. That's correct. /usr/lib/charset.alias SHOULD only be installed by the gettext package (since all the other projects which

[GTG] Re: Ready for test: patchutils 0.2.28

2004-03-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Max Bowsher wrote: A long time ago, I packaged patchutils 0.2.26, uploaded them to personal webspace for testing, and... forgot to tell anyone about it. Oops! I've just updated to the latest upstream version (0.2.28). Packages are available here: Setup URL:

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-12 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Mark Blackburn wrote: + /usr/lib/charset.alias I don't think this should be installed (neither by the current fileutils). Maybe Charles Wilson can comment. BTW, did you run make check ? Last time I tried it didn't run at all. -- http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1 [again]

2004-03-12 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Just now that 5.2.1 has been released ! On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Mark Blackburn wrote: Here's what's changed since my last packaging attempt: 1) The following files are deleted from the distribution: usr/bin/uptime.exe usr/bin/kill.exe usr/share/man/man1/uptime.1.gz

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-12 Thread Mark Blackburn
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: --- Mark Blackburn marklistatfangorndotca wrote: So I will delete the following: usr/bin/uptime.exe usr/bin/kill.exe usr/share/man/man1/uptime.1.gz usr/share/man/man1/kill.1.gz I will include the fileutils

RE: Solaris CDE 1.3 and cygwin

2004-03-12 Thread FARGES Christophe
Hello, Thanks for your message but it doesn't work with me. My pointer still freezes and I have to kill the X window. I tried your command line: xinit -n xterm-1 -j -ls -sb -sl 500 -rightbar -geometry +361+0 -e bash -- -clipboard -scrollbars -engine 4 -ac -query server address -lesspointer -fp

Garbled task-bar icon

2004-03-12 Thread haro
Hi all, After the recent update to X startup icon change, I get garbled icon on the task-bar, task-tray and 'Toggle' window (window that shows up when Alt-Tab is pressed). It seems as though, 'simple X' icon and 'Black and white X' icon showing up with in the same frame. I've included the bitmap

Questions on xhost, local display, etc.

2004-03-12 Thread Chris Green
You may remember a long thread about this around the new year, the specific issue then (trying to run the external xwinclip program) is no longer with us but since having to do a complete re-install due to a disk optimiser destroying the data on my disk I have a few things that still aren't quite

Re: Questions on xhost, local display, etc.

2004-03-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Chris Green wrote: Is it possible to run any of the cygwin/X programs that require to display something other than in the console window without running a local X server of some sort? If it isn't possible with the default set up is there any workaround? It would be good

Re: It works!

2004-03-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
I'm taking this to the list so takuma and kesuke may comment it too. On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: http://msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/CygwinX-Accelerated-OpenGL-Support-20040311-2030.png (24 KiB) The only problem

SNNS Problem

2004-03-12 Thread COLLETTE Yann
Hello, Some months ago, I sent a mail describing a problem with a SNNS popup dialog: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-01/msg00221.html I have looked inside the source code of SNNS, and I found that maybe the XawListChange(Widget w, String * list, int nitems, int longest, int

Re: It works!

2004-03-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Alexander, Nice work: http://msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/CygwinX-Accelerated-OpenGL-Support-20040311-2030.png (24 KiB) The only problem with it that I noticed was minor and obvious: It allocates the OpenGL surface according to the

Re: It works!

2004-03-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/glxgears.png Some numbers: taken on athlon 1800 with Matrox G550 Accelerated OpenGL from XWin-CVS [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pub/packages$ DISPLAY=cyghost:1.0 glxgears 5241 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1048.200 FPS

Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal

2004-03-12 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Nahor, Alexander Gottwald wrote: It was (is) in CVS and I really like it. Even much better than the new one. Nahor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe one can add yet-another-option on the commandline and have several icons in the exe (or on a special library or whatever). Hm, is the full

Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal

2004-03-12 Thread Nahor
Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote: Hm, is the full alpha channel independent of the 1-bit transparency mask that we have on older Windows version? If so, couldn't we combine both icons into one? On XP, the white background and black border would be hidden through the alpha mask. On older systems the

Re: Garbled task-bar icon

2004-03-12 Thread Nahor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the recent update to X startup icon change, I get garbled icon on the task-bar, task-tray and 'Toggle' window (window that shows up when Alt-Tab is pressed). Can you look at this icon, does it look garbled? Can you swith your screen resolution to 256 and 16 colors

Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal

2004-03-12 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Nahor, Nahor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, I don' think it would work. I don't know the details but right now, the icon is not a white square on older system. Older systems use a 1-bit transparency mask (I forgot how this works in detail). I am pretty sure that this is a separate item from

Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal

2004-03-12 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Alexander, Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was (is) in CVS and I really like it. Even much better than the new one. Thanks. I got it from CVS and noticed that the original version is in there. Harold had mentioned a bug with the 24x24 image and I had sent a new version

Re: XWin 4.3.0-50 crashes with -multiwindow

2004-03-12 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Fabrizio, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Harold, I installed your package, and it crashes as well with -multiwindow :( . Hmm... leads me to suspect some other problem on your system. I will investigate further, for example by rebuilding XWin from sources and running it through GDB. Another difference

Re: Garbled task-bar icon

2004-03-12 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I don't have any ideas. Jehan --- is the order of the icon formats within the icon file importatnt in some locales? Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, After the recent update to X startup icon change, I get garbled icon on the task-bar, task-tray and 'Toggle' window (window that shows

Re: Fontpath and IPC problems when switching from XWin-44 to 54 under latest cygwin

2004-03-12 Thread Brian Ford
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi all Because lack of time I tried switching from XWin-44 to XWin-54 today and got the following errors in my XWin.log which were not present in XWin-44 (see logfile below), 2 font paths could not be initialized and IPC support was disabled

Re: Fontpath and IPC problems when switching from XWin-44 to 54 under latest cygwin

2004-03-12 Thread Harold L Hunt II
4.3.0-45 change log: # xc/lib/font/fontfile/dirfile.c, encparse.c, fontfile.c - Some more font path checks. (David Dawes) # xc/lib/font/fontfile/dirfile.c - Fix an exploitable buffer overflow. (Greg MacManus (iDEFENSE Labs)) That helps to explain at least part of it... but I don't understand

Re: x-start-menu-icons doesn't install on a W2K german OS

2004-03-12 Thread Harold L Hunt II
[Let's try this again, this time without passing on the false-positive from SpamAssassin] Volker, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi see subject. Following is a dir listing (inclusive control-chars) from my Documents and Settings directory on a german W2K system. Had you ever installed the

Re: x-start-menu-icons doesn't install on a W2K german OS

2004-03-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: [Let's try this again, this time without passing on the false-positive from SpamAssassin] Volker, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi see subject. Following is a dir listing (inclusive control-chars) from my Documents and Settings directory on a

Re: Cygwin X server crashes when a remote Xemacs is run

2004-03-12 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I still get this crash with the latest server (4.3.0-54). Unfortunately I am not able to access cvs repositories outside of our company's network, so I cannot build a debug version. I'd be happy to run a debug version that someone builds for me, or I can build it if the source could be

Re: Garbled task-bar icon

2004-03-12 Thread Nahor
Harold L Hunt II wrote: I don't have any ideas. Jehan --- is the order of the icon formats within the icon file importatnt in some locales? I have no idea. I would think not. But I would not be surprised if it uses a better icon (higher bit depth) if it can't find one that matches the screen

x-start-menu-icons doesn't install on a W2K german OS

2004-03-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi see subject. Following is a dir listing (inclusive control-chars) from my Documents and Settings directory on a german W2K system. 11:13 AM [513] pwd /c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/All Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/All Users 11:13 AM [514] ls -lat --show-control-chars

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog exceptions.cc

2004-03-12 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-03-12 08:22:23 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog exceptions.cc Log message: * exceptions.cc (sigpacket::process): Simplify code slightly. Patches:

winsup/mingw ChangeLog include/process.h

2004-03-12 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-03-12 16:39:37 Modified files: mingw : ChangeLog mingw/include : process.h Log message: * include/process.h: Remove the #endif associated with removal of

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog wait.cc

2004-03-12 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-03-12 22:03:33 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog wait.cc Log message: * wait.cc (wait4): Initialize pointer on entry. Avoid calling call_signal_handler twice since that

src/winsup/mingw ChangeLog include/malloc.h

2004-03-12 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-03-13 01:03:31 Modified files: winsup/mingw : ChangeLog winsup/mingw/include: malloc.h Log message: * include/malloc.h: Remove __STRICT_ANSI__ guard. Patches:

Patch for /proc/meminfo handler

2004-03-12 Thread Andrew Klopper
With the Cygwin 1.5.7-1 DLL, 'cat /proc/meminfo' returns an incorrect value for free swap space. This is most noticeable when the free virtual memory is less than the total physical memory, in which case the calculated free swap space is a negative value. This value is then converted to an

Re: [Patch] src/winsup/mingw/include/process.h __STRICT_ANSI__

2004-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:23:37PM -0500, Brian Keener wrote: I notice when trying to compile the #endif got left behind. Sure you found it by now. 2004-03-11 Brian Keener [EMAIL PROTECTED] * include/process.h: Remove the #endif associated with removal of __STRICT_ANSI__

Re: cygutils - mkshortcut - Patch for --desc option for description/tooltip text - Needed for new Cygwin/X package

2004-03-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Looks good to me. I'd rather the --help output be kept under 80 chars, but it's already too late for the --workingdir option too. Oh well. okay... Before you release another cygutils package, note that 'readlink' may conflict with the proposed coreutils. Might be a

Re: Xemacs Beta Build 21.5-b16

2004-03-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
David == David A Cobb writes: David I tried to bring up the beta build of xemacs-21.5-b16 today and got David a bit of a surprise. David The gamma or mainline version: launching with $DISPLAY unset comes David up using MS Windows - as advertised. David The 21.5-b16, as

RE: Difference between just having cygwin1.dll and running under cygw in

2004-03-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Larry Hall Sent: 11 March 2004 20:28 At 03:17 PM 3/11/2004, you wrote: What's the difference between running an executable in the cygwin environment and running it in a Win2K DOS shell on the same machine(which obviously has

GVIM

2004-03-12 Thread Crescioli, Phil
Hello all, Why is only VIM and not GVIM included with the Cygwin package? I'd love to use GVIM straight from a Cygwin install. Phil Crescioli [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Also 20040306 snapshot crashes in Win95

2004-03-12 Thread Rodrigo Medina
On 11 Mar 2004 14:37:33 Christopher Faylor wrote: I no longer have a Win95 or Win98 system to check this type of thing with so, the lowest common denominator of problem that *I* will be able to investigate is WinME. Sorry, but if you want this solved you'll probably have to solve it yourself.

Re: Problems running Jabberd v1.4.3 under cygwin v1.5.7 (or latest snapshot), and heap allocation error caused by fork()

2004-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:28:02AM -0500, Frank Seesink wrote: Basically, no, I haven't been able to reproduce it outside of Jabberd. Then again, I don't have a lot of custom source to compile/use. My simple test program (the one which loaded a DLL which in turn did a fork()) worked fine, but

Re: GVIM

2004-03-12 Thread gene
Crescioli, Phil Phil.Crescioli at gd-ais.com writes: Hello all, Why is only VIM and not GVIM included with the Cygwin package? I'd love to use GVIM straight from a Cygwin install. Phil Crescioli Phil.Crescioli at gd-ais.com I think it is because gvim for unix requires X11 while vim

Re: GVIM

2004-03-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 12 08:37, Crescioli, Phil wrote: Hello all, Why is only VIM and not GVIM included with the Cygwin package? I'd love to use GVIM straight from a Cygwin install. Then, why don't you just step forward as package maintainer for a Cygwin version of gvim? See http://cygwin.com/setup.html.

RE: GVIM

2004-03-12 Thread Crescioli, Phil
Thanks for the info. I currently have a standalone gvim that works fine on Win XP. For now I'm just curious. I have other pressing Cygwin things to dive into before the gvim thing, but when the time is right, I will gladly contribute to the gvim deal since I am a very content Cygwin user :)

nfs-server re-exporting mapped network drives

2004-03-12 Thread Smith, Gene
The file nfs-server-2.2.47-2.README states: If you want your mount and NFS daemons to re-export mapped network drives, you will need to run them under an account other than Local System, and start both daemons with the '-r' option to enable re-exporting. I was able to install the daemons using

RE: nfs-server re-exporting mapped network drives

2004-03-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Smith, Gene Sent: 12 March 2004 15:38 The file nfs-server-2.2.47-2.README states: If you want your mount and NFS daemons to re-export mapped network drives, you will need to run them under an account other than Local System,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1

2004-03-12 Thread Jason Tishler
New News: === I have updated the version of rebase to 2.3-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The notable changes since the previous release are: 1. enhance rebaseall to support a -T option which allows users to specify additional DLLs to

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1

2004-03-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jason Tishler Old News: === WARNING It is *strongly* recommended that users only use rebaseall unless they *really* know what they are doing or are instructed by one of the Cygwin developers. /WARNING IDTYRMTST :-)

Missing /include/sys/stropts.h?

2004-03-12 Thread Shawn Legrand
I am trying to compile SWI-Prolog under CygWin and am receiving a message that stropts.h is missing from /include/sys. I checked and there is no such file there or in any directory off of root or in the CVS source tree. I placed a bug report with SWI-Prolog and received the following response:

Missing /include/sys/stropts.h?

2004-03-12 Thread Shawn Legrand
That of course should have been /usr/include/sys :( = Shawn Legrand Carpe Noctem! Carpe Diem! Hieros Gamos! [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1

2004-03-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Following up a thread in comp.lang.python... * Jason Tishler (2004-03-12 17:00 +0100) Old News: === WARNING It is *strongly* recommended that users only use rebaseall unless they *really* know what they are doing or are instructed by one of the Cygwin developers. /WARNING This

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1

2004-03-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jason Tishler Old News: === WARNING It is *strongly* recommended that users only use rebaseall unless they *really* know what they are doing or are instructed by one of the

TCLTK:Re: couldn't load library ../libitcl32.a:invalid argument ...

2004-03-12 Thread Christian Montanari
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:22:21AM +, Christian Montanari wrote: Hi, Any updates on this issue on package tcltk-20030901-1 ? Redhat stuff seems to work better (ie. like with the snavigator package). what is the difference with this installation ? replying to my own-self, to whom it

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1

2004-03-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 March 2004 16:54 To: Dave Korn Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1 On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From:

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1

2004-03-12 Thread Hughes, Bill
I didn't Think You Really Meant To Say That. But I think he meant exactly what he said - If you *DON'T* *REALLY* know what you're doing, only use rebaseall. If you do know the implications (or you've been told to by One Who Knows), then you can use rebase, but still be careful. -Original

RE: Missing /include/sys/stropts.h?

2004-03-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Shawn Legrand Sent: 12 March 2004 16:08 Should the file stropts.h exist on CygWin? You already answered that one yourself: I checked and there is no such file there or in any directory off of root or in the CVS source tree.

RE: GVIM

2004-03-12 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Phil Crescioli wrote: [...] For now I'm just curious. I have other pressing Cygwin things to dive into before the gvim thing, but when the time is right, I will gladly contribute to the gvim deal since I am a very content Cygwin user :) It's been a while since I've done it, but gvim used

Re: Missing /include/sys/stropts.h? [gold star alert]

2004-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 05:19:35PM -, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Shawn Legrand Sent: 12 March 2004 16:08 Should the file stropts.h exist on CygWin? You already answered that one yourself: I checked and there is no such file there or

Re: Missing /include/sys/stropts.h? [gold star alert]

2004-03-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 05:19:35PM -, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Shawn Legrand Sent: 12 March 2004 16:08 Should the file stropts.h exist on CygWin? You already answered that one

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1

2004-03-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 March 2004 16:54 To: Dave Korn Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1 On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Dave Korn wrote:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-20040312-1

2004-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This version is a refresh from CVS on sources.redhat.com. Binutils undergoes active development so there have been a number of fixes, many related to windows. If you have been experiencing problems with programs like dlltool, ld,

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1

2004-03-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 12 March 2004 18:43 On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 12 March 2004 16:54 To: Dave Korn Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1

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2004-03-12 Thread inge . osdalen
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CYGWIN 1.5.7: rmdir of cwd with open file crashes process

2004-03-12 Thread Niel Markwick
Hi. Problem: If an attempt is made to rmdir the currwnt working directory when a file is open in that irectory, the process will apparantly crash! This was first noticed in Perl, with the following simple test case always exiting with status 128 use File::Temp; my

Subshell

2004-03-12 Thread Gregory Borota
#/bin/bash echo Silly ( sleep 50 ( sleep 50 ) ) wait each subshell is sh.exe. I want to be be bash.exe. How do I force that without having to write bash -c Thanks, Greg P.S. Looked at cygwin faq, archive, didn't find the answer although this I would think has been brought up before. --

Re: Subshell

2004-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:49:27PM -0600, Gregory Borota wrote: #/bin/bash echo Silly ( sleep 50 ( sleep 50 ) ) wait each subshell is sh.exe. Why would bash arbitrarily choose sh.exe as the subshell? I want to be be bash.exe. How do I force that without having to write bash -c P.S.

Re: nfs-server re-exporting mapped network drives

2004-03-12 Thread Smith, Gene
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Smith, Gene Sent: 12 March 2004 15:38 The file nfs-server-2.2.47-2.README states: If you want your mount and NFS daemons to re-export mapped network drives, you will need to run them under an account other than Local

Re: Some help with [re-]installation please

2004-03-12 Thread Brian Ford
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Chris Green wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:10:18AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: Since none of this is really specific to Cygwin/X, I've redirected this thread to the main cygwin list. You really should configure your mailer to honor the Reply-To header. I set it to

Re: nfs-server re-exporting mapped network drives

2004-03-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Smith, Gene wrote: Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Smith, Gene Sent: 12 March 2004 15:38 The file nfs-server-2.2.47-2.README states: If you want your mount and NFS daemons to re-export mapped network drives, you will need to

Re: Subshell

2004-03-12 Thread Gregory Borota
Sorry, it should have been #! (beginners mistake, I guess) Thanks, Greg On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:49:27PM -0600, Gregory Borota wrote: #/bin/bash echo Silly ( sleep 50 ( sleep 50 ) ) wait each subshell is sh.exe. Why would bash

Re: nfs-server re-exporting mapped network drives

2004-03-12 Thread Smith, Gene
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Event Type: Error Event Source: nfsd Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 3/12/2004 Time: 2:07:26 PM User: SEA\SMITED Computer: 04J005 Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( nfsd ) cannot be found. The

Re: nfs-server re-exporting mapped network drives

2004-03-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Smith, Gene wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Event Type: Error Event Source: nfsd Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 3/12/2004 Time: 2:07:26 PM User: SEA\SMITED Computer: 04J005 Description: The

Re: nfs-server re-exporting mapped network drives

2004-03-12 Thread Smith, Gene
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Smith, Gene wrote: You are right! That fixed it. There was already a w for the user SYSTEM but not on group and other. Guess that's what it needs. This fact should definitely be added to the readme or changed in the default install. I changed it on

Re: nfs-server re-exporting mapped network drives

2004-03-12 Thread Smith, Gene
One other related question. When I setup my nfs-server that re-exports shares and enter my network password to get it going, will I need to restart the nfs daemons every few months when I am required to change my password? Or will the nfs daemons (services) keep going without requiring me to

Re: Difference between just having cygwin1.dll and running under cygw in

2004-03-12 Thread George Hester
This coming from a whipper-snapper I don't expect a response. But you sure have a famous name. Now if I could just get the Korn Shell in cygwin or integrate UWin into cygwin that would be really neat. George Hester __ Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1

2004-03-12 Thread Jason Tishler
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 05:09:41PM -, Hughes, Bill wrote: I didn't Think You Really Meant To Say That. Hmm... I didn't have any problems with this warning all of the previous times I used it... :,) But I think he meant exactly what he said - Thanks for parsing the warning as I intended.

Re: zsh 4.1.1-3 on W2000 hangs with command not found

2004-03-12 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Hi Thorsten, * Peter A. Castro (2004-03-08 20:39 +0100) On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Also, for the record, I've just tried the latest snapshot, 20040306, and running missing commands do not hang or have any other strange behaviour

Problem when compiling signal.h in GCC with strict ISO C options turned on

2004-03-12 Thread Bart van der Werf \(Bluelive\)
I get this message a few times when I use gcc with strict settings. On my own installation I gave the unnamed structs and unions an name and this seemed to resolve this. Although this doesn't do more then generate a warning when using a very strict c compiler it should be resolved i think :)

Re: Difference between just having cygwin1.dll and running under cygw in

2004-03-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* George Hester (2004-03-13 01:24 +0100) This coming from a whipper-snapper I don't expect a response. But you sure have a famous name. Now if I could just get the Korn Shell in cygwin or integrate UWin into cygwin that would be really neat. George Hester

minor bug in cygrunsrv-0.98 help function

2004-03-12 Thread tony_silva
Hi: The option --neverexits is mispelled as --neverexists in the help function: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cygrunsrv --help | fgrep neverexi -n, --neverexists Service should never exit by itself. [EMAIL PROTECTED] strings - /usr/bin/cygrunsrv.exe | fgrep neverexi neverexits

x-start-menu-icons doesn't install on a W2K german OS

2004-03-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi see subject. Following is a dir listing (inclusive control-chars) from my Documents and Settings directory on a german W2K system. 11:13 AM [513] pwd /c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/All Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/All Users 11:13 AM [514] ls -lat --show-control-chars

Re: Some help with [re-]installation please

2004-03-12 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:10:18AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: I had all the ftp'ed files left from installing cygwin previously sitting in a directory on a networded drive, could I have used these to re-install cygwin rather than downloading everything again? If so, how does one do it?

Updated: cygutils-1.2.5-1

2004-03-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Cygutils is a collection of useful(?) tools for the cygwin platform. This release provides an enhanced mkshortcut tool, as well as fixing a few bugs. Changes since 1.2.4-1 * mkshortcut has two new options, -s (startup norm|max|min mode) -d|--desc string to control the description field of