Re: setup - Display location info in download sites list

2004-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Rajesh Balakrishnan wrote: Hi, During setup, the location information of the download (mirror) sites can be displayed too. This will be useful for first-time users of Cygwin. The location data is anyway available in the mirrors.lst. I can try to provide a patch for

Re: and now, for gmp-4.1.4... [Was: Updated: gmp-4.1.3]

2004-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Lapo Luchini wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: And not all info files are gzipped, change this in the install() like so: if [ -d ${instdir}${prefix}/share/info ] ; then \ find ${instdir}${prefix}/share/info -type f | xargs gzip -q ; \ fi \ I guess this would

[ITP] libgpg-error-1.0-2

2004-09-30 Thread Volker Quetschke
I would like to maintain the cygwin-port of the libgpg-error library. This is a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components. Among these are GPG, GPGSM, GPGME, GPG-Agent, libgcrypt, Libksba, DirMngr, Pinentry, SmartCard Daemon and possibly more in the future. This package

Re: [ITP] libgpg-error-1.0-2

2004-09-30 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Quetschke wrote: I would like to maintain the cygwin-port of the libgpg-error library. This is a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components. It's basically some refactoring-as-a-lib of code common to all those

Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies

2004-09-30 Thread Yang Guilong
Just try the small test program attached below $ gcc -o localetest localetest.c $ ./localetest fr_FR changed to: (null) current LC_ALl: C current LC_CTYPE: C $ gcc -o xlocaletest -DX_LOCALE -I/usr/X11R6/include localetest.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 $ ./xlocaletest fr_FR changed to: fr_FR current

Re: and now, for gmp-4.1.4... [Was: Updated: gmp-4.1.3]

2004-09-30 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Lapo schrieb: Here it is: URL: http://www.lapo.it/cygwin/gmp-4.1.3-3-src.tar.bz2 http://www.lapo.it/cygwin/gmp-4.1.3-3.tar.bz2 Uploaded. Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: [ITP] libgpg-error-1.0-2

2004-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi Lapo, Is a review really needed if the package is based on Gerrit's work? It's HIM that corrected my last packages actually ;-) Nobody is perfect! Nobody Hi, Nobody, Did you switch to the main list as a sign of your [im]perfection? ;-)

Re: [ITP] libgpg-error-1.0-2

2004-09-30 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Igor schrieb: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi Lapo, Is a review really needed if the package is based on Gerrit's work? It's HIM that corrected my last packages actually ;-) Nobody is perfect! Nobody Hi, Nobody, Did you switch to the main list as a sign of your

Re: How can you change the DLL name in the .idata section header of a DLL?

2004-09-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 29 17:20, Charles Wilson wrote: Reini Urban wrote: Spoofing is a good point. But I might prefer to be able to update dynamic dependencies without breakage. openssl usually gets updated with an security issue. e.g curl or postgresql cannot deal with an openssl update which deletes

[GTG Review] Re: [ITP] libgpg-error-1.0-2

2004-09-30 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Volker Quetschke writes: I would like to maintain the cygwin-port of the libgpg-error library. This is a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components. Among these are GPG, GPGSM, GPGME, GPG-Agent, libgcrypt, Libksba, DirMngr, Pinentry, SmartCard Daemon

Re: Please upload: gv-3.5.8-2

2004-09-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 30 12:48, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: wget http://cygwin.dev.wapme.net/packages/vzell/cygwin/release/gv/setup.hint wget http://cygwin.dev.wapme.net/packages/vzell/cygwin/release/gv/gv-3.5.8-2-src.tar.bz2 wget http://cygwin.dev.wapme.net/packages/vzell/cygwin/release/gv/gv-3.5.8-2.tar.bz2

Re: How can you change the DLL name in the .idata section header of a DLL?

2004-09-30 Thread Reini Urban
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: On Sep 29 17:20, Charles Wilson wrote: Reini Urban wrote: Spoofing is a good point. But I might prefer to be able to update dynamic dependencies without breakage. openssl usually gets updated with an security issue. e.g curl or postgresql cannot deal with an openssl

[ITP] libgcrypt-1.2.0-2

2004-09-30 Thread Volker Quetschke
As advertised, I would like to maintain the cygwin-port of the libgcrypt library. Libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG. It provides functions for all cryptographic building blocks: symmetric ciphers, hash algorithms, MACs, public key algorithms, large

Re: [ITP] libgpg-error-1.0-2

2004-09-30 Thread Volker Quetschke
I would like to maintain the cygwin-port of the libgpg-error library. This is a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components. It's basically some refactoring-as-a-lib of code common to all those projects? In which version do they begin to need it? I didn't check thorougly, but

PATCH: generic-build-script: Make output of depend function unique

2004-09-30 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi 2004-09-30 Dr. Volker Zell [EMAIL PROTECTED] * generic-build-script: Make output of depend function unique diff -u -p /usr/local/src/generic-build-script.orig /usr/local/src/generic-build-script --- /usr/local/src/generic-build-script.orig2004-09-30 19:09:20.639184000 +0200

Re: [ITP] libgcrypt-1.2.0-2

2004-09-30 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Volker Quetschke writes: As advertised, I would like to maintain the cygwin-port of the libgcrypt library. +1 Ciao Volker

Re: [ITP] libgcrypt-1.2.0-2

2004-09-30 Thread Reini Urban
monster patch (gerrit-style) but +1 I'd rather run ./autogen.sh style scripts in the conf step. -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

(key verification) Re: [ITP] libgcrypt-1.2.0-2

2004-09-30 Thread Reini Urban
Volker Quetschke schrieb: As advertised, I would like to maintain the cygwin-port of the libgcrypt library. I know it's off-topic, but it might be useful, for the archives. sig: PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35

netpbm?

2004-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, There is a netpbm binary distributed on Pierre Humblet's ftp area at ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/V1.1/. Any particular reason why it's not part of the Cygwin distribution (other than nobody bothered to make it into a package)? Igor --

Re: netpbm?

2004-09-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There is a netpbm binary distributed on Pierre Humblet's ftp area at ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/V1.1/. Any particular reason why it's not part of the Cygwin distribution (other than nobody bothered to make it into a package)?

Re: PATCH: generic-build-script: Make output of depend function unique

2004-09-30 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: (cd ${instdir} \ find ${instdir} -name *.exe -o -name *.dll | xargs cygcheck | \ sed -e '/\.exe/d' -e 's,\\,/,g' | sort -bu | xargs -n1 cygpath -u \ - | xargs cygcheck -f | sed 's%^% %' ; \ + | xargs cygcheck

Re: netpbm?

2004-09-30 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 04:58 PM 9/30/2004 -0400, you wrote: Hi, There is a netpbm binary distributed on Pierre Humblet's ftp area at ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/ V1.1/. Any particular reason why it's not part of the Cygwin distribution (other than nobody bothered to make

Re: PATCH: generic-build-script: Make output of depend function unique

2004-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Lapo Luchini wrote: Dr. Volker Zell wrote: (cd ${instdir} \ find ${instdir} -name *.exe -o -name *.dll | xargs cygcheck | \ sed -e '/\.exe/d' -e 's,\\,/,g' | sort -bu | xargs -n1 cygpath -u \ - | xargs cygcheck -f | sed 's%^% %' ; \ + | xargs cygcheck

Re: netpbm?

2004-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Charles Wilson wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There is a netpbm binary distributed on Pierre Humblet's ftp area at ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Humblet_Pierre_A/V1.1/. Any particular reason why it's not part of the Cygwin distribution

Re: netpbm?

2004-09-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Chuck, if you could dig it up, that'd be great. Did you adapt it to use the generic-build-script? If so, how did you deal with the weird configure? It uses a variant of the gbs, IIRC. I'm on dailup right now, so I'll let you download it...

Re: spelling correction

2004-09-30 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Thomas Munro wrote: Hi, On this page: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html there is a heading: 11.4. Whom holds the copyright on the Cygwin/X source code? It should of course be Who. Sorry to send such trivial feedback to this list but your index

Re: Strange window redraw problem - solved

2004-09-30 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Dave Carrigan wrote: I fixed our startup scripts to ensure that proper .Xauthority files would get generated and it has solved the problem. nice to hear. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: xemacs: segmentation fault after ctrl-xctrl-c

2004-09-30 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Sven Severus writes: After installatioin of sumo packages 2004-08-18: If I start xemacs without a filename on the command line, the Message Log buffer is empty. After typing ctrl-xctrl-c I get the output described by Siegmar Gross with the

Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict

2004-09-30 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Jack Tanner wrote: A while back I mentioned I was experiencing slowdowns under X. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-09/msg00010.html I think the slowdowns may have to do with Symantec Antivirus. I'll add this to the FAQ. Does Symantec Antivirus has an option to disable scanning

Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict

2004-09-30 Thread Jack Tanner
Alexander Gottwald wrote: I'll add this to the FAQ. Does Symantec Antivirus has an option to disable scanning for certain programs? Try adding XWin.exe to that list. Good idea, but no dice. I added the entire c:\cygwin\ tree to the Symantec exclusion list, but the slowdown is still there. There's

Re: need GUI connect-to-host client

2004-09-30 Thread george young
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:52:24 -0400 Thomas Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] threw this fish to the penguins: I'd think a perfectly acceptable solution would be to create individual Windows shortcuts that run the types of clients you're talking about. For instance, if you put the following in a

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winbase.h ...

2004-09-30 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-09-30 09:08:17 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: winbase.h winuser.h Log message: * include/winbase.h (WINBASEAPI): Define as DECLSPEC_IMPORT only

src/winsup/doc ChangeLog how-using.texinfo

2004-09-30 Thread joshuadfranklin
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-09-30 19:58:07 Modified files: winsup/doc : ChangeLog how-using.texinfo Log message: * how-using.texinfo: Fix typo. Add note about Install For All Users Patches:

Setup.hint for base-passwd is incorrect

2004-09-30 Thread Doug Wyatt
I've just investigated an anomaly with the base-passwd package, which turns out to be an incorrect setup.hint file in the repository. repository base-passwd directories contain base-passwd-2.0-1.tar.bz2 30-Nov-2003 07:16 1k base-passwd-2.1-1.tar.bz2 21-Aug-2004 11:48 1k

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

2004-09-30 Thread Patrick Samson
--- Patrick Samson wrote: --- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Patrick Samson wrote: I use a dll which have references to both cygwin and m$: $ cygcheck /usr/share/tcl8.4/dp4.0/win/dp40.dll D:/cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/dp4.0/win/dp40.dll D:\cygwin\bin\tcl84.dll

Re: How can you change the DLL name in the .idata section header of a DLL?

2004-09-30 Thread Reini Urban
[ I switched from cygwin-apps, where it is not appropriate ] Charles Wilson schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: Spoofing is a good point. But I might prefer to be able to update dynamic dependencies without breakage. openssl usually gets updated with an security issue. e.g curl or postgresql cannot deal

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

2004-09-30 Thread Patrick Samson
--- Patrick Samson wrote: --- Patrick Samson wrote: Since my post I found a way to reproduce on development the problem I have on production. At some point cygserver hits 100%CPU and Postgres backends are no more able to serve requests. Now I must narrow the number of components

Re: cygserver won't start (FAQ alert)[SOLVED]

2004-09-30 Thread Michael Hipp
Larry Hall wrote: True but you won't see a difference. When you say Task Scheduler, you mean the Windows service/utility, right? Just curious. There's the same issue with 'cron' and any service that runs under SYSTEM. It has no access to shares that require authentication to access. So you

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

2004-09-30 Thread Patrick Samson
Special note for Postgresql users: So far I can only reproduce this problem if these 3 conditions are met: - many connections (20, 25, 27) doing a simple SELECT - a script running SELECT, CREATE/DROP TABLE/INDEX ... - a pgAdmin III connected (but without activity) (Postgresql version

Re: Cygwin df -l option has wrong sense?

2004-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, luke.kendall wrote: According to df --help, the -l option means to list only local drives. But in practice it seems to do the exact opposite: $ df -k /cygdrive/c/cygwin Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on C:\cygwin

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

2004-09-30 Thread Patrick Samson
Sigh, Just after this post, I ran into the hang. So pgAdmin II is no better, may be just a little more difficult to fire the hang. Still searching ... --- Patrick Samson wrote: Special note for Postgresql users: So far I can only reproduce this problem if these 3 conditions are met: -

RE: win95 pipe problems -- report + testcase + patch

2004-09-30 Thread Donald Wallace Rouse II
This patch is not in the current release (1.5.11-1). I can't compile it myself, because ./config fails (because it uses pipes). Can someone give me some kind of timeframe when the next version will be released (with this patch in it)? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: win95 pipe problems -- report + testcase + patch

2004-09-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Donald Wallace Rouse II wrote: This patch is not in the current release (1.5.11-1). I can't compile it myself, because ./config fails (because it uses pipes). Can someone give me some kind of timeframe when the next version will be released (with this patch in it)?

seg-vios from gcc program at execv() on Windows XP

2004-09-30 Thread Richard Troy
Hello Cygwiners, I'm a long-time user of Cygwin - love it, depend on it... and rarely have a problem, but I really need some help with this one particular problem. I've already tapped into my other technical resources on this and haven't gotten anywhere at all. It isn't clear this is a Cygwin

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU (was: References to both cygwin1.dll and msvcrt.dl

2004-09-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 30 00:12, Patrick Samson wrote: I built the DLL another way, and now have: $ cygcheck ./dp40.dll .\dp40.dll D:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.DLL C:\WINNT\System32\ntdll.dll C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll

Re: [ITP] libgpg-error-1.0-2

2004-09-30 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Lapo, Is a review really needed if the package is based on Gerrit's work? It's HIM that corrected my last packages actually ;-) Nobody is perfect! Nobody -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Problems on Itanium: Found the Cause, What's Next?

2004-09-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 30 09:01, Alex Alexandrov wrote: Hi, Alex Alexandrov, you wrote I've posted the bug report to public.win32.programming.kernel and private.windowsserver_64bit msft mailing lists - no answer so far... OK, there is a reply from msft: The problem is being checked out. Does it mean

Re: seg-vios from gcc program at execv() on Windows XP

2004-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Richard Troy wrote: Hello Cygwiners, I believe the technical term is cygwinners (unless you really mean cygwhiners? ];-) I'm a long-time user of Cygwin - love it, depend on it... and rarely have a problem, but I really need some help with this one particular problem.

Re: [PATCH] cygrunsrv --recovery action

2004-09-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 29 18:31, Rainer Hochreiter wrote: the attached patch implements the options -r or --recovery to set service failure actions. allowed actions are 'none', 'boot' or 'restar'. not implemented are actions for running commands on failed actions, like supported by the windows SCM. the

cygwin locale broken? (was: Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies)

2004-09-30 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Yang, I switched this thread over to the main list. Just try the small test program attached below $ gcc -o localetest localetest.c $ ./localetest fr_FR changed to: (null) current LC_ALl: C current LC_CTYPE: C $ gcc -o xlocaletest -DX_LOCALE -I/usr/X11R6/include localetest.c

[OT] Re: seg-vios from gcc program at execv() on Windows XP

2004-09-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: (BTW ping and dig utilities would be nice!) FWIW, XP (and 2k) come with `cygpath -S`/ping.exe and `cygpath -S`/nslookup.exe. There were also some threads on porting ping to Cygwin -- search the list archives. I know this is heading off topic... I like to install

CVS cygserver compile errors w/gcc 3.4.3

2004-09-30 Thread Brian Ford
My own, compiled from CVS: gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 20040928 (prerelease) ../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygserver/sysv_sem.cc:179: error: `__offsetof__' was not declared in this scope ../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygserver/sysv_sem.cc: In function `void seminit()':

Re: [PATCH] cygrunsrv --recovery action

2004-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 29 18:31, Rainer Hochreiter wrote: the attached patch implements the options -r or --recovery to set service failure actions. allowed actions are 'none', 'boot' or 'restar'. not implemented are actions for running commands on failed

Re: [PATCH] cygrunsrv --recovery action

2004-09-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 30 12:06, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And when you resubmit, please use diff -u instead of diff -c -- the patch is much more readable that way. ACK. One immediate change I noticed was that the description parameter migrated from calls to

Re: CVS cygserver compile errors w/gcc 3.4.3

2004-09-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 30 10:57, Brian Ford wrote: My own, compiled from CVS: gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 20040928 (prerelease) ../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygserver/sysv_sem.cc:179: error: `__offsetof__' was not declared in this scope ../../../../cygwin/winsup/cygserver/sysv_sem.cc: In function `void seminit()':

parse errors using setup

2004-09-30 Thread Marco Bruschi
Hallo, The setup.exe stopped working properly from one day to the other (literally). Now I get parse error (null) line 7449:syntax error, unexpected STRING (null) line 7449:unrecognized line 7449 (do you have the latest setup ?) (null) line 7449:unrecognized line 7449 (do you have the latest

libtool convenience libs problem

2004-09-30 Thread Reini Urban
I don't where to direct libtool cygwin specific questions to, so I try it here. I have an already libtoolized library, which should produce a DLL, where several subdirs are just convenience libs. $ pinfo libtool Node: Static libraries Such a convenience lib (a bastard between a real shared and

Re: libtool convenience libs problem

2004-09-30 Thread Reini Urban
sorry for repating to myself. But others had the same concerns this week http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-09/msg00124.html And I'm also not convinvced that the given answer is practical. The static lib uses probably non-PIC code so it cannot be linked in. Convenience libs should be

find - core dump on faulty arg

2004-09-30 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
Unintentionally I used %H in the 'find -printf' format string and ended up with a core dump. I'm not entirely sure what %H is supposed to print; (as it seems to me; nothing, when used this way) man find/-printf format codes; %H Command line argument under which file was found.

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
you wrote: Thanks for responding, Gary. Regardless, 3.7Mb/second seems like something's wrong somewhere. Are you running USB2.0 hub-to-device? I dunno. I'm not very knowledgable about hardware esp. USB. How would I tell? dar Sorry for butting in... I'd say it should've read USB 2.0

Re: Problems on Itanium: Found the Cause, What's Next?

2004-09-30 Thread Alex Alexandrov
Hi, Corinna Vinschen, you wrote That's a good question. I'd translate this as we have tested it and verified that the problem exists, but I wouldn't bet on this. After all I'm also not a native speaker. Yes, it seems you got them right. Today I've received the following message: BEGIN OF MSG

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread David A. Rogers
Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. I don't think caching is the difference. I was able to unzip the .zip file right after xcopy had copied

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gv-3.5.8-2

2004-09-30 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'gv' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d Athena Widgets CYGWIN NEWS: o Changed gv so that is calls out to gs-x11 (which is a symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/bin/gs) to quiet the cygwin

Re: Setup.hint for base-passwd is incorrect (setup.exe question)

2004-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:04:56AM -0500, Doug Wyatt wrote: I've just investigated an anomaly with the base-passwd package, which turns out to be an incorrect setup.hint file in the repository. repository base-passwd directories contain base-passwd-2.0-1.tar.bz2 30-Nov-2003 07:16 1k

Re: Problems on Itanium: Found the Cause, What's Next?

2004-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:11:45PM +0400, Alex Alexandrov wrote: Hi, Corinna Vinschen, you wrote That's a good question. I'd translate this as we have tested it and verified that the problem exists, but I wouldn't bet on this. After all I'm also not a native speaker. Yes, it seems you got them

Re: cygwin locale broken? (was: Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies)

2004-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 05:36:28PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi Yang, I switched this thread over to the main list. Just try the small test program attached below $ gcc -o localetest localetest.c $ ./localetest fr_FR changed to: (null) current LC_ALl: C current LC_CTYPE: C $ gcc -o

Re: parse errors using setup

2004-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 06:24:46PM +0200, Marco Bruschi wrote: Hallo, The setup.exe stopped working properly from one day to the other (literally). Now I get parse error (null) line 7449:syntax error, unexpected STRING (null) line 7449:unrecognized line 7449 (do you have the latest setup ?)

Re: parse errors using setup

2004-09-30 Thread Marco Bruschi
You mean in the setup.ini or the setup.bz2 ? In the setup.ini: 7446: ### 7447: # KDE-3 internationalisation 7448: ### 7449: @ kde3-i18n-af 7450: category: KDE3-i18n 7451: requires: kdelibs-3 7452: version:

Re: Crontab issue

2004-09-30 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:53 AM 9/30/2004, you wrote: On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:29:16 -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Access to network shares seems to come up allot in the context of Cygwin services. Maybe it would be good to add something to the FAQ on this. What do you think Joshua? See how this does: Some Cygwin

Re: parse errors using setup

2004-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:13:54PM +0200, Marco Bruschi wrote: You mean in the setup.ini or the setup.bz2 ? In the setup.ini: 7446: ### 7447: # KDE-3 internationalisation 7448: ### 7449: @ kde3-i18n-af 7450:

Re: cygserver won't start (FAQ alert)

2004-09-30 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:43:26 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski wrote: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#SEC30 Umm, a couple of minor nits. First off, I think mentioning the option of re-running setup.exe and selecting Install For All Users would be helpful to those who don't like random scripts

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
you ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on : Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. Right, then we know. ;-) I don't think caching is the

Re: Setup.hint for base-passwd is incorrect (setup.exe question)

2004-09-30 Thread John Morrison
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:04:56AM -0500, Doug Wyatt wrote: I've just investigated an anomaly with the base-passwd package, which turns out to be an incorrect setup.hint file in the repository. repository base-passwd directories contain base-passwd-2.0-1.tar.bz2 30-Nov-2003 07:16 1k

Home Typists Required.

2004-09-30 Thread Arjun
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Re: Excessive CPU load (cygrunsrv.exe, tail.exe, etc)

2004-09-30 Thread Steve B
I do not believe that I am using Process Explorer. Today, after contemplating my problem for a while, I noticed some pertinent details that I would like to share: This CPU load overload can reliably be triggered by Enemy Territory. Guaranteed, every time I run Enemy Territory, a cygwin process

Re: parse errors using setup

2004-09-30 Thread Marco Bruschi
Any idea on how uniquely identify the setup.ini file effectively used by setup.exe? Thanks Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:13:54PM +0200, Marco Bruschi wrote: You mean in the setup.ini or the setup.bz2 ? In the setup.ini: 7446: ###

Re: parse errors using setup

2004-09-30 Thread Marco Bruschi
Hi, maybe the problem is that in my downloading site (kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/install) they changed the setup.ini today (30 september at 6:41). On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:13:54PM +0200, Marco Bruschi wrote: You mean in the setup.ini or the

Re: parse errors using setup

2004-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:52:16PM +0200, Marco Bruschi wrote: Hi, maybe the problem is that in my downloading site (kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/install) they changed the setup.ini today (30 september at 6:41). Possibly. Until you rule that out, it doesn't sound like this is a setup.exe problem.

RE: Excessive CPU load (cygrunsrv.exe, tail.exe, etc)

2004-09-30 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Steve B Sent: 30 September 2004 22:00 I do not believe that I am using Process Explorer. Well, it wasn't cygrunsrv.exe that was crashing immediately after its kill. Immediately after I kill cygrunsrv.exe it was UmxCfg.exe that

group name problem

2004-09-30 Thread Jacob Kitzman
Hi, This cygwin stuff is pretty slick! I'm hitting one snag, though, as I am trying to setup sshd for remote access by limited users. I've made a user dnr which is a member of the group Limited SSHD users (gid 1006). After mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l'ing, I've manually set the gid of user dnr

RE: cp to flash drive very slow

2004-09-30 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0 with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP. Ok, like Hannu said, it's a USB 2.0 connection then, as long as you don't have any USB 1.1 hubs

Re: group name problem

2004-09-30 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:16:46PM +, Jacob Kitzman wrote: Hi, This cygwin stuff is pretty slick! I'm hitting one snag, though, as I am trying to setup sshd for remote access by limited users. I've made a user dnr which is a member of the group Limited SSHD users (gid 1006). After

Re: Cygwin df -l option has wrong sense?

2004-09-30 Thread luke . kendall
On 30 Sep, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: This is a problem with how fileutils tests for drives being local. And, it has been reported before (with a patch to fix it) -- see the thread starting at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00945.html. Igor -# ifdef __CYGWIN__ -# define

Re: cygwin locale broken? (was: Re: gnome 2.8.0 and external dependencies)

2004-09-30 Thread Yang Guilong
Hi, Gerrit On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:36:28 +0200, Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Yang, I switched this thread over to the main list. If there is no one fixing it then it will stay as it is, why is cygwin locale broken, what is broken, how to fix it? I don't want to patch 50

Re: seg-vios from gcc program at execv() on Windows XP

2004-09-30 Thread Richard Troy
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Note that the code is _rock_solid_ on Linux/Unix/Mac OSX, and on all earlier versions of Windows we've ever tried it on. We've _never_ seen it seg-vio before. Please provide a complete (hopefully simple) testcase, along with the compilation

A good way to test if Cygwin isn't installed?

2004-09-30 Thread luke . kendall
I just wanted to run an idea past the list. I want to write a shell script to test if Cygwin has been installed on the machine running the shell script. I do this by running a shell (from a network install of Cygwin if necessary). If Cygwin is installed on the local machine, then cygpath -w /

Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-09-30 Thread David Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Per the Cygwin FAQ (http://cygwin.com/faq.html): If you are looking for the version number for the whole Cygwin release, there is none. Each package in the Cygwin release has its own version. The packages in Cygwin are continually improving, thanks to the efforts of

Mirror site goodness

2004-09-30 Thread luke . kendall
I've made some improvements to my md5cygchk script, to solve the problem of knowing when to trust our local mirrors. Basically, we have a stable mirror - tried and tested, and known to be complete and good. And we have a latest mirror, which is updated nightly via rsync from a single mirror

Re: [ITP] libgpg-error-1.0-2

2004-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi Lapo, Is a review really needed if the package is based on Gerrit's work? It's HIM that corrected my last packages actually ;-) Nobody is perfect! Nobody Hi, Nobody, Did you switch to the main list as a sign of your [im]perfection? ;-)

Updated: gv-3.5.8-2

2004-09-30 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'gv' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d Athena Widgets CYGWIN NEWS: o Changed gv so that is calls out to gs-x11 (which is a symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/bin/gs) to quiet the cygwin