RE: Comparative Performance of C++ Compilers (including gcc cygming special)

2004-04-20 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
[snip] > > New copying methods have been added and checked: > > Test file modes : text, binary > -- > > Testsuites > -- > C-01 : Functions getc() and putc() > C-02 : Functions fgetc() and fputc() > C-03 : Functions fr

RE: Maildir and Cygwin

2004-04-20 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
> Hello, > >I have been trying to fix a patch for maildir for Pine, and while > thinking about this I recalled that support for Maildir in Cygwin (e.g > Mutt) has been discussed a couple of times. It seems to be that the only > thing stopping people from being able to use it is a agreement on

Re: lseek returning 2**32-1 on error instead of -1

2004-04-20 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:18:33PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > I believe this to be the cause of perl's op/sysio.t test 39 failing. This would have been easier to pin down if the strace had been correct (patch untested): --- winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc.orig 2004-04-16 14:42:20.00

Maildir and Cygwin

2004-04-20 Thread Eduardo Chappa
Hello, I have been trying to fix a patch for maildir for Pine, and while thinking about this I recalled that support for Maildir in Cygwin (e.g Mutt) has been discussed a couple of times. It seems to be that the only thing stopping people from being able to use it is a agreement on the forma

How to let orginal header file & w32api header file compatible

2004-04-20 Thread PC51 CYLiang
Hi, I installed cygwin_nt-5.0 , gcc version 3.3.1, and also installed win32api & mingw lib on win2000 env. I met the complier error cause some function or type re-defined in another header file. I can't get the proper answer from FAQ, please kindly tell me how to solve t

AW: how to get IP with a shell command?

2004-04-20 Thread Pach Roman (GS-EC/ESA4) *
To set the environment variable DISPLAY for XFree I use the following command export DISPLAY=`\ ipconfig | grep 'IP-Adresse' | \ sed 's/\(.*: \)\([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\)\(.*\)/\2/g'`:0.0 'IP-Adresse' must be replaced with the proper version according to you language. Roman

Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

2004-04-20 Thread A . Alper Atici
{Too bad you guys are all top-posting. I hope I don't have to go through moving chunks of text again.} Comments are inlined: >> > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> > > 2) Alternatively, upon creating the first hard link the file could be >> > > renamed to some internal name (that sh

Re: LGPL

2004-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:51:15PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >At 08:17 PM 4/20/2004, you wrote: >>Will the cygwin.dll become LGPL at one time in the future? > >Anything is possible but there is no plan to do this. I have little say in the matter anymore but I'd say that this is about as possible as

write hangs on socket shut down for writing

2004-04-20 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
erces-c23.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/10/11 19:36 3520k 2003/12/16 C:\cygwin\bin\cygxerces-c24.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygxerces-c24.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/12/16 11:45 3416k 2004/02/21 C:\cygwin\bin\cygxerces-c25.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygxerces-c

Re: LGPL

2004-04-20 Thread Larry Hall
At 08:17 PM 4/20/2004, you wrote: >Will the cygwin.dll become LGPL at one time in the future? Anything is possible but there is no plan to do this. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington St

Re: placing ~ on a network mapped drive.

2004-04-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Ray wrote: Hi, I've been reading the FAQ's and searching through the archives, but am not able to find a way to make the current user's home directory go outside of \cygwin\home. More specifically, I would like to have more control of user home locations for backup and recovery puposes. Could

Re: LGPL

2004-04-20 Thread Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Bart van der Werf (Bluelive) wrote: > Will the cygwin.dll become LGPL at one time in the future? > The viral GPL clause really makes me not want to use it with my BSD > licensed application. (Furthering the FUD about the GPL being "viral" could cause a lot of people to buy in

lseek returning 2**32-1 on error instead of -1

2004-04-20 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Using the latest snapshot 20040420 (though I think it may have been this way since at least 1.5.2): $ cat lseeker.c #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { off_t offset = -1, result; printf ("offsets are size %d.\n", sizeof (off_t)); printf

LGPL

2004-04-20 Thread Bart van der Werf \(Bluelive\)
Will the cygwin.dll become LGPL at one time in the future? The viral GPL clause really makes me not want to use it with my BSD licensed application. Grtz, Bart -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines.

2004-04-20 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Brian Ford wrote: > Here is the stack dump: BTW, stack traces lately have been showing the return address instead of the calling one. That makes this trace a bit harder to read. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety

Re: placing ~ on a network mapped drive.

2004-04-20 Thread The Persico Family
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:40:15 -0700 (PDT), Ray typed: > Hi, > I've been reading the FAQ's and searching through the archives, but > am > not able to find a way to make the current user's home directory go > outside of \cygwin\home. > > More specifically, I would like to have more control of user hom

Re: cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines.

2004-04-20 Thread Brian Ford
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Brian Ford wrote: > On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:45:50PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Apr 16 17:03, Chuck McDevitt wrote: > > >>Has anyone had a chance to try reproducing my problem with Cygwin1.dll > > >>and Hyperth

placing ~ on a network mapped drive.

2004-04-20 Thread Ray
Hi, I've been reading the FAQ's and searching through the archives, but am not able to find a way to make the current user's home directory go outside of \cygwin\home. More specifically, I would like to have more control of user home locations for backup and recovery puposes. Could anyone give so

Re: Updated: exim-4.32-1

2004-04-20 Thread tevfik
Hi, I maintain a log analysis program called logrep (http://logrep.sourceforge.net). I wonder if you have some exim log files that I can use to develop logrep exim module. Full discretion is guarenteed. Rgrds Tev > I have updated Exim, the Mail Transfer Agent, to exim-4.32-1. > It is the first s

Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

2004-04-20 Thread Bill C. Riemers
I stand corrected. Only some flavors of Unix allow hardlinks to carry separate permissions. I believe I became confused, because hardlinks always allow separate path permissions. i.e. mkdir /tmp/fi mkdir /tmp/bar touch /tmp/fi/foo.txt ln /tmp/fi/foo.txt /tmp/bar/foo.txt chmod 000

Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

2004-04-20 Thread Bill C. Riemers
I stand corrected. Only some flavors of Unix allow hardlinks to carry separate permissions. I imagine the list of UNIX platforms which support this *feature* have greatly reduced in recent years since this trick was commonly used to cheat quota systems. Bi

Re: telnet(ssh) to cygwin from linux

2004-04-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Mike Gall wrote: > What is the proper procedure to telnet into cygwin(running on Windows > XP) from a linux machine on LAN. Very simple. "telnet cygwinmachinename" at the prompt. :-) > I have been searching the mail lists and googling this but I haven't > found an answer.

Re: telnet(ssh) to cygwin from linux

2004-04-20 Thread Brian Chase
http://eudyptula.freezope.org/ms/Cygwin-SSH-VNC-HowTo.html I would try this entire howto, then you could do more than just a terminal. Telnet is obsolete, best you don't use it at all. BC Mike Gall wrote: What is the proper procedure to telnet into cygwin(running on Windows XP) from a linux m

RE: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

2004-04-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > At 03:02 PM 4/20/2004, you wrote: > >Replying to myself -- bad habits die hard... Just to dot all the "i"s and > >cross all the "t"s. > > > >One thing I forgot to mention is how to handle link counts. Those could > >be stored in, for example, the NTEA att

Re: how to get IP with a shell command?

2004-04-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: How about: /c/tmp> ipconfig /all | gawk '/IP Address/ { print $NF }' Why /all when the IP address comes out without it? Why gawk when awk is simply a symlink to gawk anyway? -- SENILE.COM found . . . Out Of Memory . . . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

RE: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

2004-04-20 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:02 PM 4/20/2004, you wrote: >Replying to myself -- bad habits die hard... Just to dot all the "i"s and >cross all the "t"s. > >One thing I forgot to mention is how to handle link counts. Those could >be stored in, for example, the NTEA attributes file for the original (or >the corresponding

telnet(ssh) to cygwin from linux

2004-04-20 Thread Mike Gall
What is the proper procedure to telnet into cygwin(running on Windows XP) from a linux machine on LAN. I have been searching the mail lists and googling this but I haven't found an answer. Both machines are located on an isolated LAN so telnet should be ok for testing purposes. Any help on t

Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

2004-04-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 20 15:00, Bill C. Riemers wrote: > One obvious thing hard links allow is a way to have the same file with > different permissions. With a symbolic link you need both access > permissions for the symbolic link and actual file. i.e. > > ln -s /tmp/foo.exe /home/bcr/foo.exe > chmod ugo-x

Re: Setup changes paths

2004-04-20 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:18 PM 4/20/2004, you wrote: >My work pc is set up so that the c drive is too small for anything useful >and all applications go on the d drive. The standard build of the pc is set >up with Cygwin already installed. My issue is that the standard build >doesn't have some components I need.

Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

2004-04-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
I agree with your points. Approach #1 below would require modifications to the move implementation as well. Also, interaction with Windows tools is important, and if you can only access hard-linked files through Cygwin, their usefulness will be somewhat limited. Approach #2 is more uniform, but

Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

2004-04-20 Thread Bill C. Riemers
Hmmm. I forgot one other advantage of symbolic links. They are independent of the locations of each other. i.e. touch /tmp/foo.txt ln /tmp/foo.txt /home/bcr/foo.txt mkdir /home/bcr/tmp mv /tmp/foo.txt /home/bcr/tmp/foo.txt Both versions of foo.txt are still valid, even though they woul

Re: zsh & lilypond

2004-04-20 Thread zzapper
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:37:49 -0700 (PDT), wrote: >On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, zzapper wrote: > >Alternatively, you could ask the LilyPond maintainer to have this fixed. >They have some code which uses $0 to check the name of the script being >run and think zsh doesn't set $0 correctly for shell scripts

RE: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Sam Steingold > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 6:54 PM > > * chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-20 16:04:50 +0100]: > > > > Personally I would perfer a system where the setup program simply > > kept a central cache, rather than a seperate cache for each mirror > > Indeed! > While I can eas

Setup changes paths

2004-04-20 Thread Latham, Justin
My work pc is set up so that the c drive is too small for anything useful and all applications go on the d drive. The standard build of the pc is set up with Cygwin already installed. My issue is that the standard build doesn't have some components I need. However, setup.exe always installs up

RE: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-20 Thread Karl M
B20 was great back then wasn't it! ...Karl From: "Frank Slootweg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode? Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:24:11 +0200 How can I set the colors of terminfo's standout (smso, so) mode? I have a terminfo

RE: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

2004-04-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Replying to myself -- bad habits die hard... Just to dot all the "i"s and cross all the "t"s. One thing I forgot to mention is how to handle link counts. Those could be stored in, for example, the NTEA attributes file for the original (or the corresponding special) filename. I don't see anythin

Re: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

2004-04-20 Thread Bill C. Riemers
One obvious thing hard links allow is a way to have the same file with different permissions. With a symbolic link you need both access permissions for the symbolic link and actual file. i.e. ln -s /tmp/foo.exe /home/bcr/foo.exe chmod ugo-x /tmp/foo.exe chmod ugo+x /home/bcr/foo.exe With

RE: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

2004-04-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
A hard link is made to a file on disk, whereas a symbolic link is made to a directory entry. Once a hard link is made, it's indistinguishable from the original file. Essentially, *each* directory entry is a hard link to the contents of the corresponding file, and the link count of any hard link t

Re: Application failed to initialize (0xc0000022)

2004-04-20 Thread Eric Hanchrow
This has burned me often enough that I've made a little shell function that reminds me: if [ "$OSTYPE" = "cygwin" ]; then unzip () { command unzip "$@" echo If you are unzipping DLLs, be sure to make them executable. > /dev/stderr } fi -- If you can't change your unde

Re: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....

2004-04-20 Thread Noel Yap
Paul D. Smith wrote: %% "Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The problem is that in many makefiles you tend to get a lot of "false positives". For example, many makefiles leave certain variables to be set by the user, like CPPFLAGS or CFLAGS. If you do that in your makefiles, and the user has

Re: zsh & lilypond

2004-04-20 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, zzapper wrote: > Hi Y'all > > Just did my daily update (followed by PC reset). When I run a new > Dos-Window shell I get the following message > > (failed to source lilypond-profile) > You are running this script under zsh. Edit this script by hand. > > I don't use LilyPond so

RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....

2004-04-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dk> [ This is getting off topic for the cygwin list, and unless I've dk> managed to spot any *real* bugs yet, it's not very OT for the dk> bug-make list either; if we want to carry on further we should dk> perhaps take it to private mail or to the

RE: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

2004-04-20 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
If you do this, remember that it shouldn't be limited to FAT file systems. Even though one's version of Windows may be capable of making hard links, one may not have the permission level (Administrator) to do so. But I'm not sure that I see the point of emulating hard links. It seems to me that y

Re: incorrect dos version

2004-04-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Wrong list. All X-related questions should be addressed to the cygwin-xfree list. Redirecting. More below. On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Daniel Senderowicz wrote: > Hi, > > >>> I'm new to this list. I read the FAQ but I couldn't find an answer > >>> nor a fix for my problem. I just installed the latest

gnatmake's ada TASKING problem

2004-04-20 Thread Powerful Mekko
i've got cygwin running under windows xp. when i try to run an ada program compiled without errors by gnatmake, i get the run-time error message that says: "tasking not implemented on this configuration". is it really a gnat bug or am i simply too stupid to configure cygwin the right way?? i fo

RE: Application failed to initialize (0xc0000022)

2004-04-20 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Olof Lagerkvist > Sent: 20 April 2004 17:23 > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:52:07AM +0600, ronwo wrote: > > > >>Please I need urgent help > >> > >>[snip] > >> > >>This is affecting my application from running very well . I > have been

RE: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: 20 April 2004 17:16 > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:57:21PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Igor Pechtchanski > >> Sent: 20 April 2004 16:23 > > > >> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave

Re: df reports negative values on Network Shares

2004-04-20 Thread Carl Peto
Reini - There is 35GB free on the C: drive of our Windows 2003 server. The 37MB readout is a bug, as is the -64Z used, as is the 1.0G Size. However I have just tested copying a 995MB file into c:\cygwin\bin and it was fine. There is no limit to the files I'm able to install into other directories

Re: incorrect dos version

2004-04-20 Thread Daniel Senderowicz
Hi, >>> I'm new to this list. I read the FAQ but I couldn't find an answer >>> nor a fix for my problem. I just installed the latest cygwin version >>> (1.5.9) on a PC running windows NT-4.0. Everything went OK, and I >>> can run programs from the console. However when I try to 'startx' >>> it com

RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....

2004-04-20 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Smith On Behalf Of Paul D. Smith > Sent: 20 April 2004 16:44 [ This is getting off topic for the cygwin list, and unless I've managed to spot any *real* bugs yet, it's not very OT for the bug-make list either; if we want to carry on further we should perh

Re: reentrant functions

2004-04-20 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:16:24PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 20 01:37, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > As of the 20040416 snapsnot, ttyname_r seems to be exported, but the > > prototype is missing from unistd.h. > > I've added a prototype to unistd.h. Thanks.

Re: problems with mutt and 20040416 snapsnot

2004-04-20 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
en > > trying to view a message. [...] > > because the inode numbers no longer seem to match. Commenting out the > > return -1; works as a workaround. > > That should be fixed. Works in the 20040420 snapshot. > > After doing so, and building my own mutt I am spora

Re: incorrect dos version

2004-04-20 Thread Daniel Senderowicz
>> I'm new to this list. I read the FAQ but I couldn't find an answer >> nor a fix for my problem. I just installed the latest cygwin version >> (1.5.9) on a PC running windows NT-4.0. Everything went OK, and I >> can run programs from the console. However when I try to 'startx' >> it comes back wi

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread Sam Steingold
> * chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-20 16:04:50 +0100]: > > Personally I would perfer a system where the setup program simply kept > a central cache, rather than a seperate cache for each mirror Indeed! While I can easily think of some reasons to keep per-mirror caches (e.g., what if the mirror

Re: how to get IP with a shell command?

2004-04-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, electa wrote: > because i notice that 'hostname -i' doesn't work (inexistant -i option!) I can think of a few ways, but all of them involve either non-cygwin programs or writing your own. The simplest (on Win2k) is to parse the output of either "nslookup `hostname`" or "ipco

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:40 PM 4/19/2004, you wrote: >From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe > > >> "All Users" creates all the necessary default mount points for all users. >> "Just Me" creates them just for the user that

RE: how to get IP with a shell command?

2004-04-20 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
How about: /c/tmp> ipconfig /all | gawk '/IP Address/ { print $NF }' -Original Message- From: electa Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to get IP with a shell command? because i notice that 'hostname -i' doesn't work (inexistant -i option!) -- Unsu

Re: how to get IP with a shell command?

2004-04-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
ipconfig | grep 'IP Address' | sed -e 's/.* //' -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

how to get IP with a shell command?

2004-04-20 Thread electa
because i notice that 'hostname -i' doesn't work (inexistant -i option!) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Application failed to initialize (0xc0000022)

2004-04-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Jason Tishler wrote: > Richard, > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:52:07AM +0600, ronwo wrote: > > Please I need urgent help > > > > [snip] > > > > This is affecting my application from running very well . I have been > > looking for solution for too long untill i came accross yo

Re: Application failed to initialize (0xc0000022)

2004-04-20 Thread Olof Lagerkvist
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:52:07AM +0600, ronwo wrote: Please I need urgent help [snip] This is affecting my application from running very well . I have been looking for solution for too long untill i came accross your email address. Please kindly reply this as am on my kneel begging First che

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:57:21PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Igor Pechtchanski >> Sent: 20 April 2004 16:23 > >> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > >> > To be fair, the title bar says "Choose Download Site(s)", >> but that really >> > doesn't override t

Re: Application failed to initialize (0xc0000022)

2004-04-20 Thread Jason Tishler
Richard, On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:52:07AM +0600, ronwo wrote: > Please I need urgent help > > [snip] > > This is affecting my application from running very well . I have been > looking for solution for too long untill i came accross your email > address. Please kindly reply this as am on my

RE: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: 20 April 2004 16:23 > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > To be fair, the title bar says "Choose Download Site(s)", > but that really > > doesn't override the clear and explicit instruction > immediately above the > > choos

RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....

2004-04-20 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I would've expected it to complain about a bad substition reference, >> ie. it's missing an "=". dk> Or at least do anything, rather than nothing! If you enable --warn-undefined-variables then you'll get a warning. dk> Great. So for the b

RE: CVS + SSH + Binary File = ^M

2004-04-20 Thread Kelly Grizzle
> At this point you should have tried mounting a directory on the *client* in > binmode, and adding a file from *that* directory. As it is, you seem to have > shown (both by adding files locally on the server and having no problem, and by > adding them remotely but to a known binmode fs and seeing

RE: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Collins > > Sent: 20 April 2004 15:53 > > See, now all the secrets are coming out! > > > That is why the choose mirror dialog allows you to choose multiple > > mirrors. Setup will the

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread chris
Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 22:11, Rodrigo Medina wrote: Hi all, Rodrigo Medina (myself) wrote: 2- When you are downloading into a temporal directory, SETUP downloads the packages even if they are already in the temporal directory but are still not installed. I have

RE: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Collins > Sent: 20 April 2004 15:53 See, now all the secrets are coming out! > That is why the choose mirror dialog allows you to choose multiple > mirrors. Setup will then use cached copies from any of the chosen > mirrors.

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 22:11, Rodrigo Medina wrote: > Hi all, > > Rodrigo Medina (myself) wrote: > >2- When you are downloading into a temporal directory, SETUP > >downloads the packages even if they are already in the temporal > >directory but are still not installed. > > I have to be more precis

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
How about command-line switches for unattended installation? This would be useful for deploying Cygwin in any non-toy environment. It should be as simple as applying Edward Peschko's patches: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00261.html The "-a" option is the vital one. Downloadin

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Rodrigo Medina wrote: > Hi all, > > My whishes for SETUP: > > 1- In the list of packages include its size. It is very important > for people with slow connexions, so they can easily program > what to download and in which order. For example you may decide > not to download an

Re: TCL Signal Handling

2004-04-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, GregMo wrote: > Okay, I'm prepared to be chastised as I'm fubbling in the dark here, but > does anyone know much about signal handling in TCL? From what I have > gathered on the subject, TCL doesn't inheritly have any handling functions > but one can obtain extentions to add

Re: Comparative Performance of C++ Compilers (including gcc cygming special)

2004-04-20 Thread Alex Vinokur
Hans Horn writes: > > Quite interesting indeed! > > Are there other benchmarks around that compare gcc3.x, gcc3.x (cygwin), etc > against the gcc2.9x vintage? > > H. > "chris" cs.york.ac.uk> wrote in message > news:407C0198.4000707 cs.york.ac.uk... > > Alex Vinokur wrote: > > > > >===

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi all, Rodrigo Medina (myself) wrote: >2- When you are downloading into a temporal directory, SETUP >downloads the packages even if they are already in the temporal >directory but are still not installed. I have to be more precise: SETUP does check if the package has been already downloaded but

RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....

2004-04-20 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Ross Ridge > Sent: 20 April 2004 02:41 [ Cc'd to the gmake bug reporting list; the actual bug report is at the end of this post, and is not what the topic of this thread was originally about. ] > > Possibly a bug in make, as I'd exp

zsh & lilypond

2004-04-20 Thread zzapper
Hi Y'all Just did my daily update (followed by PC reset). When I run a new Dos-Window shell I get the following message (failed to source lilypond-profile) You are running this script under zsh. Edit this script by hand. I don't use LilyPond so how do i get rid of this message??? zzapper (vim,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-3.8.1p1-1

2004-04-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 3.8.1p1-1. This is an official new release, based on the vanilla sources. There's a Cygwin related patch in it, not noted below, which allows pubkey authentication also on Cygwin systems running with CYGWIN=nontsec. The official release message as of t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: LilyPond-2.2.0-1

2004-04-20 Thread Bertalan Fodor
The version of GNU LilyPond is updated to 2.2.0-1. This is the new official stable release. There is a little workaround in it for cygwin-related problems (unable to remap python...) which seem to be corrected in the latest Cygwin snapshot. The official release message: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3

Re: reentrant functions

2004-04-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 20 01:37, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > As of the 20040416 snapsnot, ttyname_r seems to be exported, but the > prototype is missing from unistd.h. I've added a prototype to unistd.h. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-

Re: problems with mutt and 20040416 snapsnot

2004-04-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 20 01:49, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > After switching from 1.5.9 to the 20040416 snapsnot, mutt > starts complaining "Could not create temporary file!" when > trying to view a message. [...] > because the inode numbers no longer seem to match. Commenting out the > return -1; works as

Re: problems with mutt and 20040416 snapsnot

2004-04-20 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:49:53AM -0700, I wrote: > After switching from 1.5.9 to the 20040416 snapsnot, mutt > starts complaining "Could not create temporary file!" when > trying to view a message. The problem seems to be in the > code checking if a created temp file is a symlink: > > > static

Re: 2nd Try 1.57 on Win2k or WinXP. Not more than 16 com ports. Differences between //./comX and /dev/comX

2004-04-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 20 09:58, Lutz H?rl wrote: > May I additionally ask? > - is there a reason on limiting to 16 supported serial interfaces in Cygwin? > - if no, is it an idead to increase this number? I don't know. I guess it shouldn't be a problem to raise the number. > - I used the POSIX functions read()

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-20 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:46:08AM -0400, Rodrigo Medina wrote: > 1- In the list of packages include its size. It is very important > for people with slow connexions, so they can easily program > what to download and in which order. For example you may decide > not to download an updated 16MB fonts

problems with mutt and 20040416 snapsnot

2004-04-20 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
After switching from 1.5.9 to the 20040416 snapsnot, mutt starts complaining "Could not create temporary file!" when trying to view a message. The problem seems to be in the code checking if a created temp file is a symlink: > static int compare_stat (struct stat *osb, struct stat *nsb) > { > i

Re: reentrant functions

2004-04-20 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:18:24PM +0200, Bas van Gompel wrote: > Op Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:12:14 +0200 > schreef Corinna Vinschen: > : > ttyname_r appears to be implemented only for linux > : > (in newlib/libc/sys/linux/ttyname_r.c). > : > > : > ctime_r, asctime_r, getpwnam_r, getpwuid_r, gmtime_r, l

RE: [OT?] make bash script wait for called program to finish?

2004-04-20 Thread Hughes, Bill
> Sent: 19 April 2004 17:35 From: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) > For me (XP Pro) from cmd.exe, both notepad and write detach but from > command.com only write detaches, notepad does not. > ..snip.. > Yep, it certainly seems that some windows gui apps have the > behaviour of > detaching from

Re: Cygwin (december 2003 version) and strcat

2004-04-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 19 23:49, Martin Johansen wrote: > Hi. > > I am experiencing problems using strcat and strncat. > > For some reason, these functions do not appent a zero. $ cat > str.c << EOF ? #include ? #include ? ? int ? main () ? { ? char c1[100], c2[100]; ? ? memset (c1, 0xff, 100); ? mems

How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

2004-04-20 Thread Frank Slootweg
How can I set the colors of terminfo's standout (smso, so) mode? I have a terminfo application (tin, the newsreader) which, as far as I can tell, uses standout mode to highlight things. I first used this on the old Cygwin B20 release and that gave white text on a black background (normal te

2nd Try 1.57 on Win2k or WinXP. Not more than 16 com ports. Differences between //./comX and /dev/comX

2004-04-20 Thread Lutz Hörl
Hello, thank you Corinna, your message removed some of my headache. May I ask to confirm and eventually add to documentation? 1. cygwin does support 16 serial deviecs with 'dev/com1' to '/dev/com16' 2. By using Windows names like '//./com1' cygwin does not recognize the interfaces as interfa

TCL Signal Handling

2004-04-20 Thread GregMo
Okay, I'm prepared to be chastised as I'm fubbling in the dark here, but does anyone know much about signal handling in TCL? From what I have gathered on the subject, TCL doesn't inheritly have any handling functions but one can obtain extentions to add these in. Has anyone done this on cygwin?