RE: setup size prefs

2004-11-05 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
My main point: /EMPHASIZING/ What I tried to say, in an obviously too short way, in my initial posting was this; Allow installing cygwin in a scripted way by allowing predefinition of all settings - that are indeed variable - in a file that is EASY to handle. This would IMO be very convinient,

Re: setup size prefs

2004-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:44:49PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Yes and that's how it should be done. Store the size and position in the registry. That's what it's there for, that's what well-behaived programs do. Like it or hate it, that's how windows is designed and making up some brain dead

Re: [ITP] unison-gtk2-2.10.2-1

2004-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:42:54AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: I want to package and maintain unison-gtk2 for Cygwin. Unison is a file synchronizer for Unix and Windows. It comes in two interfaces: text and GTK2. The text-mode version is already packaged for Cygwin in the unison package.

Re: setup size prefs

2004-11-05 Thread Reini Urban
Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 05:44:49PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Yes and that's how it should be done. Store the size and position in the registry. That's what it's there for, that's what well-behaived programs do. Like it or hate it, that's how windows is designed and

Re: setup size prefs

2004-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:35:53PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Christopher Faylor schrieb: Just please don't use the Cygnus Solutions hierarchy in the registry, please. :-) What else? HKCU/Software/Cygwin Setup or HKCU/Software/Cygwin/Setup instead of HKCU/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Setup We know

Re: setup size prefs

2004-11-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: Windows style isn't always the best. Cygwin isn't much Windows in other ways, why should it be in this regard? Inventing things to get around windows design is poor practice. When the operating system provides well-defined and documented ways for storing program

Newbie Question

2004-11-05 Thread Andy Wagoner
Hi, How do I set up startxwin.bat to use wmaker? I've got every possible package installed, I'm sure its just a quick config in the bat file. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Andy

Re: mysql-4.x.x with gcc-3.4.1, compile error on cygwin, all fixes to get it compiled

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Charles Churchill wrote: Mr. Haase, You have my most profound thanks. The main things I really needed was to be able to get a client up under cygwin and to get libmysql working. I'm using the Windows build of mysql and connecting from cygwin, but because of tricky things with tty's the Windows

Re: rebaseall failed

2004-11-05 Thread Jason Tishler
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 02:41:55PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: That DLL is in use. It cannot be written while it's in use. You must have a cygwin program still running that uses that DLL. You must stop ALL Cygwin programs and services, and you cannot run the command from rxvt or anything

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: libbonobo2-2.8.0-1

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
libbonobo2-2.8.0-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. Bonobo CORBA interfaces library Bonobo is a set of language and system independent CORBA interfaces for creating reusable components, controls and creating compound documents. The Bonobo distribution includes a Gtk+ based

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: GConf2-2.8.0.1-1

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
GConf2-2.8.0.1-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. GConf is the GNOME Configuration database system. INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: libbonoboui2-2.8.0-1

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
libbonoboui2-2.8.0-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. GUI library for the GNOME component and compound document system. INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: libgnome2-2.8.0-1

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
libgnome2-2.8.0-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. This is the non-gui part of the GNOME library. INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: libgnomeui2-2.8.0-1

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
libgnomeui2-2.8.0-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. This is the GUI part of the GNOME library. INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: gnome-vfs2-2.8.0-1

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
gnome-vfs2-2.8.0-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. GNOME Virtual File System. INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the

Cannot start sshd service

2004-11-05 Thread Walter Garcia-Fontes
I'd appreciate any hint to solve the following problem: I get the Could not start sshd service on Local Computer. Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly. I've seen some reports on this in the archives, but none of the solutions suggested worked for me. Here is the status of my

Re: Cannot start sshd service

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote: I'd appreciate any hint to solve the following problem: I get the Could not start sshd service on Local Computer. Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly. I've seen some reports on this in the archives, but none of the solutions suggested worked for me. Here is

Re: Cannot start sshd service

2004-11-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote: I'd appreciate any hint to solve the following problem: I get the Could not start sshd service on Local Computer. Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly. I've seen some reports on this in the archives, but none of the solutions

Re: Cannot start sshd service

2004-11-05 Thread Walter Garcia-Fontes
* Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041105 15:05]: On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote: I'd appreciate any hint to solve the following problem: (rest of questions snipped) Is there a reason you're reposting this after it's already been replied to in

Reinstall: Choice: DON'T install X - quirks in postinstall

2004-11-05 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
I chose to NOT install the X category of software (right now), thus all X-requiring stuff should have been deselected. I assume this means there should be a Requires: line containing some X-Basic package. I got this; 99% - Cygwin Setup Running /etc/postinstall/gtk2-x11.sh

RE: Cron malfunction after date change

2004-11-05 Thread Harig, Mark
cron.log, crontab.txt and cygcheck.txt attached. Stopping and starting cron is workaround that does resume correct cron behaviour, up until next date change. I've been able to reproduce this (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00153.html) problem also on WinXP with slightly older

Re: Cron malfunction after date change

2004-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:26:05AM -0500, Harig, Mark wrote: cron.log, crontab.txt and cygcheck.txt attached. Stopping and starting cron is workaround that does resume correct cron behaviour, up until next date change. I've been able to reproduce this

Re: Binary read on textmode mount

2004-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:26:31AM -0500, Shaffer, Kenneth wrote: I have a program doing a binary read on a file which happens to exist on a textmode mount and find that once a ctrl-Z (0x1a) byte is read, it doesn't read the rest of the file since ctrl-Z is a DOS EOF. The program is compiled with

Re: Binary read on textmode mount

2004-11-05 Thread Shaffer, Kenneth
I'm using the cygwin development environment and so thought this was the correct place to post a problem. But you make a good point, so I copied the file to /tmp, mounted as binary, and got the same results. So, I guess the gcc libraries are at fault? Is this the right list? -- Ken Shaffer On

RE: INFO Death

2004-11-05 Thread Arthur I Schwarz
Thanks. You guys are great and, of course, your suggestions worked. art I just noticed that 'INFO' is no longer operational. I've been trying to find out why from the mailing list and from looking at my site. No luck. Can anyone offer a suggestion as to where to look for the answer (most

Re: Cygwin setup 2.427 on Win2K

2004-11-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:38 PM 11/4/2004, you wrote: I originally reported that setup.exe would let me choose packages to install, but the next button was always disabled so I couldn't actually install anything. One suggestion I received was to run setup.exe with the -5 command-line option (suppress MD5

RE: New package: gnome-vfs2-2.8.0-1

2004-11-05 Thread DFong
I need to unsubscribe but cannot unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not work. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 2:43 AM To: Cygwin Announce Subject: New package: gnome-vfs2-2.8.0-1

Re: Binary read on textmode mount

2004-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:48:31AM -0500, Shaffer, Kenneth wrote: I'm using the cygwin development environment and so thought this was the correct place to post a problem. But you make a good point, so I copied the file to /tmp, mounted as binary, and got the same results. You are running a

Re: New package: gnome-vfs2-2.8.0-1

2004-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:08:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to unsubscribe but cannot unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not work. If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple PLEASE READ *ALL* OF THE

Re: Binary read on textmode mount

2004-11-05 Thread Shaffer, Kenneth
I see the problem now... O_BINARY is 0x8000 on mingw and 0x1 in cygwin and I needed a header file from cygwin and use the -I option which brought in the wrong fcntl.h Sigh. -- Ken Shaffer - - - - - - - Appended by Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. - - - - - - - This e-mail and any

Re: Cannot start sshd service

2004-11-05 Thread Walter Garcia-Fontes
Here I answer to all the suggestions of Gerrit and Igor: Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu [041105 10:23]: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote: I'd appreciate any hint to solve the following problem: I get the Could not start sshd service on Local Computer. Error

Re: Binary read on textmode mount

2004-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:00:03PM -0500, Shaffer, Kenneth wrote: I see the problem now... O_BINARY is 0x8000 on mingw and 0x1 in cygwin and I needed a header file from cygwin and use the -I option which brought in the wrong fcntl.h Sigh. You are really asking for trouble. The fact

Re: Binary read on textmode mount

2004-11-05 Thread Shaffer, Kenneth
I need a.out.h apparently not available with the -mno-cygwin compile option. -- Ken Shaffer On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: You are really asking for trouble. The fact that you needed to go out of your way to include a cygwin header file in a windows program should be a clue

Re: Binary read on textmode mount

2004-11-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:11 PM 11/5/2004, you wrote: I need a.out.h apparently not available with the -mno-cygwin compile option. And now you know why. ;-) -- Ken Shaffer On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: You are really asking for trouble. The fact that you needed to go out of your way to

Re: Binary read on textmode mount

2004-11-05 Thread Shaffer, Kenneth
Now, now, it seems perfectly legitimate to write a windows program which can access files created by gcc to run under cygwin. The structure of the a.out shouldn't depend on whether I'm compiling under windows, cygwin, linux, solaris, whatever. I just need the a.out.h file for the system on which

Re: Cannot start sshd service

2004-11-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote ([snip]ped): Here I answer to all the suggestions of Gerrit and Igor: Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu [041105 10:23]: On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote: I'd appreciate any hint to solve the following problem:

RE: Binary read on textmode mount

2004-11-05 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Shaffer, Kenneth Sent: 05 November 2004 18:53 To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: Binary read on textmode mount Now, now, it seems perfectly legitimate to write a windows program which can access files created by gcc to run under

Re: Binary read on textmode mount

2004-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:52:34PM -0500, Shaffer, Kenneth wrote: Now, now, it seems perfectly legitimate to write a windows program which can access files created by gcc to run under cygwin. Of course, if you know *exactly* what you're doing, you can get away with all sorts of stuff in any walk

Using a.out.h from Cygwin with Mingw gcc - was Re: Binary read on textmode mount

2004-11-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:52 PM 11/5/2004, you wrote: Now, now, it seems perfectly legitimate to write a windows program which can access files created by gcc to run under cygwin. I'm not sure what you're saying here actually says what you mean so I'm not going to agree, disagree, or otherwise. Anyway, I don't

Re: Using a.out.h from Cygwin with Mingw gcc - was Re: Binary read on textmode mount

2004-11-05 Thread Shaffer, Kenneth
I now include a.out.h via #include /usr/include/a.out.h and don't use the -I /usr/include which burned me. Fortunately, a.out.h has no #includes within it. More comments within yours below. -- Ken Shaffer On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Larry Hall wrote: But how appropriate it is to use 'a.out.h' or

Re: Using a.out.h from Cygwin with Mingw gcc - was Re: Binary read on textmode mount

2004-11-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:33 PM 11/5/2004, you wrote: I now include a.out.h via #include /usr/include/a.out.h and don't use the -I /usr/include which burned me. Fortunately, a.out.h has no #includes within it. Well I'm glad you were able to find a suitable resolution to your issue, at least this time. -- Larry

Re: Reinstall: Choice: DON'T install X - quirks in postinstall

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: I chose to NOT install the X category of software (right now), thus all X-requiring stuff should have been deselected. This is a feature that is not available in setup.exe. I got this; 99% - Cygwin Setup Running /etc/postinstall/gtk2-x11.sh ---

Re: cannot rebaseall. please give me a hint

2004-11-05 Thread Jason Tishler
Daniel, Please post instead of sending private email. On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:44:58PM +, DANIBULDANIBUL wrote: Hello, I have tried to start idlelib from cygwin but I got the following. I have tried to solve it with the rebase procedure but it is still not working. this is what I got:

setup.exe won't unpack the download

2004-11-05 Thread E Shon
I'm a lowly newbie and have been trying to install Cygwin in Windows XP for the past 4 days to no avail and am about to throw in the towel... Using the latest version of setup.exe 2.427 I can't even get bash started. The setup.exe seems to complete normally but none of the zipped packages

Help required, Debug Dll using cygwin GDB with an exe compiled with MSVC .NET

2004-11-05 Thread Sheraz Attari
I need some help regarding gdb! I've a dll which is build with cygwin g++ with -g option, I want to debug that dll and the application that is using this dll is compiled with MSVC 7, any way to achieve that ? What I get till now is: Start gdb.exe to debug dll as: gdb.exe Script1.dll put

Re: setup.exe won't unpack the download

2004-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:32:07PM -0800, E Shon wrote: I'm a lowly newbie and have been trying to install Cygwin in Windows XP for the past 4 days to no avail and am about to throw in the towel... [snip] - downloaded the default packages to C:\cygwin using setup.exe five separate times after

Re: Help required, Debug Dll using cygwin GDB with an exe compiled with MSVC .NET

2004-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 07:40:40AM +0500, Sheraz Attari wrote: I need some help regarding gdb! I've a dll which is build with cygwin g++ with -g option, I want to debug that dll and the application that is using this dll is compiled with MSVC 7, any way to achieve that ? No. There's no way to

Re: Need help compiling gaim-1.0.2

2004-11-05 Thread Reid Thompson
Doug Poland wrote: checking for GTK+ - version = 2.0.0... gnome-config: not found gnome-config: not found no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file *** config.log for the exact error that occured. This usually *** means

New package: libbonobo2-2.8.0-1

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
libbonobo2-2.8.0-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. Bonobo CORBA interfaces library Bonobo is a set of language and system independent CORBA interfaces for creating reusable components, controls and creating compound documents. The Bonobo distribution includes a Gtk+ based

New package: GConf2-2.8.0.1-1

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
GConf2-2.8.0.1-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. GConf is the GNOME Configuration database system. INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup,

New package: libbonoboui2-2.8.0-1

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
libbonoboui2-2.8.0-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. GUI library for the GNOME component and compound document system. INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system.

New package: libgnome2-2.8.0-1

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
libgnome2-2.8.0-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. This is the non-gui part of the GNOME library. INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup,

New package: libgnomeui2-2.8.0-1

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
libgnomeui2-2.8.0-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. This is the GUI part of the GNOME library. INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup,

New package: gnome-vfs2-2.8.0-1

2004-11-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
gnome-vfs2-2.8.0-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. GNOME Virtual File System. INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions