Re: Two new categories created. Comment needed

2004-04-09 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:01:48 +1000 schreef Robert Collins rbcollins der cygwin.com in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] : I offered to review patches - where are they? [EMAIL PROTECTED] L8r, Buzz. -- ) | | ---/ ---/ Yes, this | This message consists of true | I do not -- | | // really is

Re: .xinitrc ?

2004-04-09 Thread Danilo Turina
Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: twm: another window manager is already running on screen 0? twm: unable to find any unmanaged screens If I use .xinitrc with exec twm, startx reports the above. If you use startx, by default, the multi-window mode is used (startx passed -multiwindow to XWin.exe)

Re: .xinitrc ?

2004-04-09 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Danilo Turina wrote: Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: twm: another window manager is already running on screen 0? twm: unable to find any unmanaged screens If I use .xinitrc with exec twm, startx reports the above. If you use startx, by default, the multi-window mode

XWin options lack of documentation.

2004-04-09 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi all, I am working to update XWin.man. I have found that: 1)The following options of XWin are active but ARE NOT documented either in the X-UG or in the -help option of XWin. OptionX-UG -help option -helpNO Yes -logfile NO NO

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-04-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 3 22:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 30 09:30, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: I just tried your fix which seems to be in the 20040329 snapshot. But now /usr/sbin/cygserver doesn't start anymore. I installed it as a service with cygrunsrv. The same happens for my other cygwin service

Re: X server with GLX acceleration

2004-04-09 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Colin Harrison wrote: This works for me, glxgears results:- Nice to hear. There is still much to do but at least the framework is running. $ glxgears 3177 frames in 5.0 seconds = 635.400 FPS 3273 frames in 5.0 seconds = 654.600 FPS Pentium 800 with ATI Rage Pro (Windows XP) Nice work,

Re: XWin options lack of documentation.

2004-04-09 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Rodrigo Medina wrote: Hi all, I am working to update XWin.man. I have found that: 1)The following options of XWin are active but ARE NOT documented either in the X-UG or in the -help option of XWin. OptionX-UG -help option -helpNO Yes

Re: 6.7.0.0 XWin w/out -nodecoration running in background doesn't display anything

2004-04-09 Thread Holger Krull
As cygwin provides a *nix-like environment, there IS a (shell) solution. Would be the first problem which couldn't worked around :-) I'm not so shure about this. At least i didn't find a solution to get rid of the additional window, maybe someone else knows the trick. Starting in bash with

Re: 6.7.0.0 XWin w/out -nodecoration running in background doesn't display anything

2004-04-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Holger Krull wrote: As cygwin provides a *nix-like environment, there IS a (shell) solution. Would be the first problem which couldn't worked around :-) I'm not so shure about this. At least i didn't find a solution to get rid of the additional window, maybe someone

Re: 6.7.0.0 XWin w/out -nodecoration running in background doesn't display anything

2004-04-09 Thread Holger Krull
Sure. Call CreateProcess with appropriate flags, just like run.exe does... Thank you, that's the solution. I didn't know this program. I now can call Xwin without having an additional shell window. The needed command for me is : E:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c -l 'run bash -c -l CYGWIN=server

Re: 6.7.0.0 XWin w/out -nodecoration running in background doesn't display anything

2004-04-09 Thread Rudolf Kollien
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Great! Just did it with the solution mentiond by David Rothenberger. With sending XWin in the background with i managed it to only get the XWin server window. But i need to command files: a DOS batch and a sh batch. Now it run's with only on

Windows keys in the keymap?

2004-04-09 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Some of you may have noticed that Takuma and I added a -keyhook option to XWin.exe that allows Alt+Tab to be trapped on NT-based OSes and passed to X apps as a normal key event. We can also do the same for the Windows keys on the keyboard, but there are a few problems at this time: 1)

Re: mkfontdir and mkfontscale segfault

2004-04-09 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Look at the latest release notes that I sent this morning. Harold Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: When I run 'mkfontscale .' or 'mkfontdir .' in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts, both segfault: $ mkfontdir . Couldn't determine full name for 8514fix.fon Couldn't determine slant for 8514fix.fon Couldn't determine

Website changed from HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.0

2004-04-09 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I have translated all of the hand-generated files on the Cygwin/X website (http://x.cygwin.com/) from HTML 4.01 Transitional to XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I used Tidy UI to do this. Tidy UI just provides a nice interface in Windows to HTML Tidy, which cleans up and translates HTML. Tidy UI can

ttmkfdir no longer needed

2004-04-09 Thread Harold L Hunt II
It looks like we no longer need ttmkfdir in order to expose the fonts installed with Windows to X11. The mkfontscale utility that is included with out distribution was inspired by ttmkfdir and essentially replaces it: http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.7.0/doc/mkfontscale.1.html You can do

Pamepb 0n1ine Doctors.

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XWin glitch: cut-and-paste

2004-04-09 Thread Keith Thompson
When I highlight a range of text in an xterm or rxvt window running under XWin, the text is highlighted only for a fraction of a second. It still seems to work (I can still paste the selected text into the same or another window), but it would be nice if it stayed highlighted as it does with every

XWin glitch: alt-tab menu

2004-04-09 Thread Keith Thompson
When I run the XWin server on Windows XP, its icon is always the first in the alt-tab menu that's used to switch between Windows applications. To go back to XWin, I have to either use alt-shift-tab or cycle through the entire menu. I've never seen another Windows application that does this. --

Re: XWin glitch: cut-and-paste

2004-04-09 Thread Harold L Hunt II
In response to both of your messages, I will use my psychic powers to figure out: 1) your command-line options, 2) the version of xorg-x11-xwin that you have installed, 3) whether or not you are running xwinclip (you should not be), and 4) the method you are using to start XWin.exe. Get it?

Neve mind (Re: XWin glitch: cut-and-paste)

2004-04-09 Thread Keith Thompson
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 07:30:40PM -0700, I wrote: When I highlight a range of text in an xterm or rxvt window running under XWin, the text is highlighted only for a fraction of a second. It still seems to work (I can still paste the selected text into the same or another window), but it would

Re: XWin glitch: alt-tab menu

2004-04-09 Thread Keith Thompson
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 07:33:18PM -0700, Keith Thompson wrote: When I run the XWin server on Windows XP, its icon is always the first in the alt-tab menu that's used to switch between Windows applications. To go back to XWin, I have to either use alt-shift-tab or cycle through the entire

Re: 6.7.0.0 XWin w/out -nodecoration running in background doesn't display anything

2004-04-09 Thread Dave Howes
I found the exact same issue and didn't want to waste time trying to find a solution that wasn't there, so quickly coded up a nice little program to do the job for me. http://insanity.veil.co.nz/RunHidden.exe Just save it somewhere in the path (like C:\Windows or something) and change start

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog security.cc

2004-04-09 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-04-09 07:55:57 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog security.cc Log message: * security.cc (get_file_attribute): Fix conditional. Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler.h fhandle ...

2004-04-09 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-04-09 12:09:45 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler.h fhandler_console.cc fhandler_socket.cc fhandler_termios.cc tty.h winsup.h

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler.h fhandle ...

2004-04-09 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-04-09 20:39:19 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler.h fhandler_floppy.cc fhandler_raw.cc fhandler_tape.cc mtinfo.h Log message: * fhandler.h (class

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog thread.cc thread.h

2004-04-09 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-04-10 00:53:25 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog thread.cc thread.h Log message: * thread.h (pthread::init_mainthread): Remove parameter forked.

Re: [PATCH] thread self handling revised

2004-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:58:45AM +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote: Rethinking the changes to pthread::init_mainthread i came to the conclusion that this stuff can be made simpler and cleaner. The changes to init_maintread are reverted, the thread self pointer for an unknown thread is now set in

check and libncurses5: minor packaging problem

2004-04-09 Thread fergus
Trying bzip2 -tv yields bad magic numbers for both of release/check/check-0.8.4-1-src.tar.bz2 release/ncurses/libncurses5/libncurses5-5.2-1-src.tar.bz2 The md5sums for these files are as reported in setup.ini. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Gold stars for an anonymous contributor

2004-04-09 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Friday 09 April 2004 02:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: You know how I always whine about how I can't debug 64 bit windows without a 64 bit system and have asked (not entirely seriously) for the contribution of a system? Well, I now have a brand new 64 bit windows system, contributed by an

Re: Gold stars for an anonymous contributor

2004-04-09 Thread Mark Thornton
Christopher Faylor wrote: Not to sound ungracious, but I still need to find a 64 bit version of Windows to run on this beauty. I'll be checking with some contacts to see if I can come up with that. If I can, the first thing that I'll try is the work around that was posted here recently to see

Re: Gcc/ld and long command lines ( 32k)

2004-04-09 Thread Johan Holmberg
Ross Ridge wrote: You can try using an implicit linker script. Create a file, call it something like my-ld-script, with lines like the following: INPUT(obj1.o obj2.o obj3.o) INPUT(obj4.o, obj5.o, obj6.o) INPUT(obj7.o) And then instead of linking with a command

Re: broken built of cygwin compiled OpenGL/Mesa application

2004-04-09 Thread Andre Bleau
Theo Verelst wrote: Readers, Maybe I'm facing a known problem, but I at a glance saw no posts or README's about this subject of OpenGL includes suddenly generating errors after a relatively recent cygwin upgrade. Well, if you looked for posts, you didn't look very thoroughly, because you would

Re: Gcc/ld and long command lines ( 32k)

2004-04-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:00 AM 4/9/2004, you wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:07:19PM +0200, Johan Holmberg wrote: A short description of my enironment: - the programs I'm building are C/C++ compilers - I use GCC in Cygwin to get a second opinion from another

RE: reentrant functions

2004-04-09 Thread Richard Campbell
For a reference of what is acceptable, you can use The Single Unix Specification v3: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm All System Interfaces from that specification ending in _r: asctime_r ctime_r getgrgid_r getgrnam_r getlogin_r getpwnam_r getpwuid_r gmtime_r localtime_r

Re: Is Patch broken?

2004-04-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Larry Hall wrote: At 05:20 PM 4/8/2004, you wrote: ...is my usage broken? I haven't used Patch in a while, but I've been trying to patch DBD::Oracle1.15, and the seemingly innocuous patch is being totally rejected: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/c/temp/DBI/patched-DBDO1.15

Re: reentrant functions

2004-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 10:12:56AM -0400, Richard Campbell wrote: For a reference of what is acceptable, you can use The Single Unix Specification v3: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm All System Interfaces from that specification ending in _r: [snip] rand_r [snip] This

RE: Gcc/ld and long command lines ( 32k)

2004-04-09 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
For the record, the immediate parent can be a DOS/Windows program that is itself called by a Cygwin program (in this example, bash). /tmp wc t 1 11850 404970 t /tmp /bin/echo @t @t /tmp /bin/echo @t | wc 1 1 3 /tmp $(cygpath -u ${COMSPEC}) /c $(cygpath -w /bin/echo) @t

RE: reentrant functions

2004-04-09 Thread Richard Campbell
Intersection of (newlib _r listing from CGF) and (the union of the opengroup and libc _r functions) (remove leading _): asctime_r ctime_r gmtime_r hcreate_r hdestroy_r hsearch_r jrand48_r lcong48_r lrand48_r localtime_r mrand48_r nrand48_r rand_r seed48_r srand48_r strerror_r strtok_r tmpnam_r

RE: reentrant functions

2004-04-09 Thread Richard Campbell
Corrected, missed the gammas, although they are already exported. Interestingly, libc doesn't seem to have a gamma_r or gammaf_r in the documentation, although an lgamma_r and an lgammaf_r; I am assuming a documentation bug. Intersection of (newlib _r listing from CGF) and (the union of the

RE: Gcc/ld and long command lines ( 32k)

2004-04-09 Thread Larry Hall
Right. I think that goes along with the notion that the '@' stuff is enabled for Cygwin processes invoked from non-Cygwin ones. But perhaps I was unclear about what I was looking for. Peter's response seemed to indicate that he tried *both* the suggested mount option and the '@file' option

Re: Gcc/ld and long command lines ( 32k)

2004-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 11:28:54AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Right. I think that goes along with the notion that the '@' stuff is enabled for Cygwin processes invoked from non-Cygwin ones. But perhaps I was unclear about what I was looking for. Peter's response seemed to indicate that he tried

observation on cygwin file locking, just an FYI

2004-04-09 Thread Tom Rodman
Assume you have two hosts w/cygwin installed: one that sees script foobar as a local file and one that is running this same foobar but through a network drive. Based on tests, if bash is running the script foobar, w/foobar on a remote drive; then while foobar is running on this remote box,

Re: Gcc/ld and long command lines ( 32k)

2004-04-09 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Larry Hall wrote: At 12:00 AM 4/9/2004, you wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:07:19PM +0200, Johan Holmberg wrote: A short description of my enironment: - the programs I'm building are C/C++ compilers - I use GCC

RE: Gcc/ld and long command lines ( 32k)

2004-04-09 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Larry Hall wrote: Hi Larry, Right. I think that goes along with the notion that the '@' stuff is enabled for Cygwin processes invoked from non-Cygwin ones. But perhaps I was unclear about what I was looking for. Peter's response seemed to indicate that he tried *both*

Re: observation on cygwin file locking, just an FYI

2004-04-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Tom Rodman wrote: Assume you have two hosts w/cygwin installed: one that sees script foobar as a local file and one that is running this same foobar but through a network drive. Based on tests, if bash is running the script foobar, w/foobar on a remote drive; then while

Re: reentrant functions

2004-04-09 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Fri, 9 Apr 2004 00:01:56 -0400 schreef Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please uit cygwin.com in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: : On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 04:33:26AM +0200, Bas van Gompel wrote: [don't export _r functions which are only in newlib and in no UNIX] : Yeah, sure. But this means I

RE: Gcc/ld and long command lines ( 32k)

2004-04-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:44 PM 4/9/2004, you wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Larry Hall wrote: Hi Larry, Right. I think that goes along with the notion that the '@' stuff is enabled for Cygwin processes invoked from non-Cygwin ones. But perhaps I was unclear about what I was looking for. Peter's response seemed

Re: Gcc/ld and long command lines ( 32k)

2004-04-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:57 AM 4/9/2004, you wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 11:28:54AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Right. I think that goes along with the notion that the '@' stuff is enabled for Cygwin processes invoked from non-Cygwin ones. But perhaps I was unclear about what I was looking for. Peter's response

Re: reentrant functions

2004-04-09 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Fri, 9 Apr 2004 10:45:38 -0400 schreef Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please te cygwin.com in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] : newlib does produce a 'rand_r' function, so Buzz's list is incomplete. FWIW, I only listed the _function_r functions, not the functon_r functions. L8r, Buzz. --

Re: mv directories

2004-04-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:25 PM 4/7/2004, you wrote: Is VMWare a significant component or is it just the fact that you have a shortcut? no, vmware probably isn't significant (just giving the system rundown), Is your shortcut created via Cygwin's ls -s or via Windows? and it wasn't a windows 'shortcut'

Re: Will using cygwin help with back-linking?

2004-04-09 Thread Frank Seesink
Jay, You're not the first to run into this. From all I've gathered/read, the short answer to your question whether Cygwin supports backlinking as you expect in most *nix environments is _no_. True, Windows does not support backlinking. True, you can play the libtools game, build a stub

1.5.9: tcsh 6.12.00 parses scripts wrong with DOS line endings

2004-04-09 Thread David Mastronarde
When csh scripts have DOS line endings, tcsh 6.12.00 sometimes parses them incorrectly. This seems to happen with scripts that have while loops, once the scripts get big enough. Converting the script to unix line endings fixes the problem. The attached script, cshbug, is about as small as it