Re: RFC: update-alternatives

2005-06-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: My only concern is that update-alternatives in any incarnation might cause confusion for cygwin users, especially for something like /bin/sh, since it, AFAIK, relies on symlinks. That means that /bin/sh won't be runnable from the Windows command prompt. Good point.

RE: update-alternatives

2005-06-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Wilson Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 3:06 PM To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: RFC: update-alternatives It seems there may be a need for a Debian-like update-alternatives system on cygwin

[ITP] Apache 2.0

2005-06-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Recent demand for Apache 2.0 on cygwin@ has encouraged me to tidy up the loose ends and submit this package that I've had half-finished for a while. I have explicitly verified that there are no file conflicts with the current Apache 1.3 package. There doesn't seem to be any particular

Re: ITP: graphviz

2005-06-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Vlad wrote: Official word from the developers is that the package doesn't come compile right out of the box, but various people have reported success in doing so after some tweaking.So if this package is approved I will attempt to track down all the missing dependencies and create a

Re: [PATCH] setup: add Size column to chooser (take 2)

2005-06-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Here's a new iteration of this patch. It incorporates Max's review and adds comments in the size computation logic. The size is now computed as follows: if the binary or the source package is selected, the total size of the selected packages is used. Otherwise, the

Re: [PATCH] setup: add Size column to chooser (take 2)

2005-06-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Here's a new iteration of this patch. It incorporates Max's review and adds comments in the size computation logic. The size is now computed as follows: if the binary or the source package is selected, the total size of

Re: Xorg DMX functionality in the Cygwin X Server?

2005-06-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Lucractius wrote: After reviewing the Xorg archives ive discovered that the DMX extentions have been apart of the main Xorg tree since 6.8.0, Are these extentions ( XDMX ) incorporated into the current Cygwin X server or were they left out at some point? perhaps due to porting problems.

6.8.2.0-2: Shift and control keys don't operate

2005-06-19 Thread Ed Greenberg
I am running Cygwin/X ver 6.8.2.0-2 under Windows XP SP2 In xterm, or anything else that takes readline input, neither the shift, nor control keys do anything. Echoed output is lower case no matter whether the shift key or control key is pressed. No capital letters, and no control keys are

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winldap.h

2005-06-19 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-06-19 07:25:11 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: winldap.h Log message: * include/winldap.h (ldap_simple_bindW, ldap_simple_bind_sW,

Compiling memtest from sources on cygwin

2005-06-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Gurus. I try to make memtest86 from sources on cygwin and have the following error: $ make as -32 -o head.o head.s head.s: Assembler messages: head.s:623: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.previous' head.s:694: Error: can't handle non absolute segment in `ljmp' head.s:917: Error: unknown

Re: Compiling memtest from sources on cygwin

2005-06-19 Thread Cliff Hones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try to make memtest86 from sources on cygwin and have the following error: $ make as -32 -o head.o head.s head.s: Assembler messages: head.s:623: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.previous' head.s:694: Error: can't handle non absolute segment in `ljmp' head.s:917:

Re: Compiling memtest from sources on cygwin

2005-06-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cliff Hones wrote: Not really on topic, and a quick google finds this: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5477/6mkuavhre?a=view so .previous is accepted by Sun's x86 assembler. I can't see any reference to .prefix in the Gnu assembler manual however (google for gnu gas manual) - so I

Re: Compiling memtest from sources on cygwin

2005-06-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for prompt response. I have just installed my ancient copy of Fedora and there 'make all' of memtest works OK. I also found '.previous' in 'info as' (on cygwin): `.previous' === This is one of the ELF section stack manipulation directives.

Re: Compiling memtest from sources on cygwin

2005-06-19 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And since cygwin works under Windows I suspect, that cygwin people setup the 'as' program to support windows loader. Now I am thinking -- should I go to linux, or stay with cygwin. Actually I need to write a small program, which works on bare metall w/o any o/s. You

Re: Compiling memtest from sources on cygwin

2005-06-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Windows binary format differs from ELF. You need to port the program. In this case, memtest86 is a self-standing binary that you stick on a floppy and boot from, so it doesn't care what the OS is. But it appears that their build setup uses ELF-specific assembler

Re: Compiling memtest from sources on cygwin

2005-06-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian Dessent wrote: You could probably get what you want by building a cross-binutils. Get the binutils source and build with ./configure --host=i686-pc-cygwin --target=i686-pc-linux. Then build memtest with ./configure --target=i686-pc-linux which should cause it to use the

Re: Any chance to get Apache 2.0.xx working on cygwin?

2005-06-19 Thread Andreas Eibach
Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 18.06.05 02:22:11: Andreas, may I point you to the thread with the subject: Date: 04-10-31 14:37 Subject: httpd-2.0.52 (Apache2) testers wanted / maintainer searched - http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg01447.html My server is

Re: Any chance to get Apache 2.0.xx working on cygwin?

2005-06-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Andreas Eibach wrote: Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 18.06.05 02:22:11: Andreas, may I point you to the thread with the subject: Date: 04-10-31 14:37 Subject: httpd-2.0.52 (Apache2) testers wanted / maintainer searched - http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg01447.html

Re: Any chance to get Apache 2.0.xx working on cygwin?

2005-06-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Andreas Eibach wrote: *Please ANYONE*: anyone who has this 2.0.xx thing running _successfully_ on cygwin, please report back here. Maybe I can learn a bit of nifty tricks from you :) As I said in the recent thread Apache DSO modules under Cygwin, I'm quite happily running Apache 2 under

Re: Any chance to get Apache 2.0.xx working on cygwin?

2005-06-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Andreas Eibach wrote: I thought it was sooo simple (as Apache originates from the Unix world), but isn't. The most important thing I want to get working at first place is this damn LOGGING!! If I have logs, I can usually find bugs and/or problems myself, since I know WHERE to search for them.

Re: Any chance to get Apache 2.0.xx working on cygwin?

2005-06-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I found the source / build tree, it is still around anyway. The compressed tarball with the patch is about 400k. May I send you the patchfile and script (as PM)? Eep! How did you get a patch that big? My actual upstream modifications patch is about 10k. (that's

Re: Any chance to get Apache 2.0.xx working on cygwin?

2005-06-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Max Bowsher wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I found the source / build tree, it is still around anyway. The compressed tarball with the patch is about 400k. May I send you the patchfile and script (as PM)? Eep! How did you get a patch that big? My actual upstream modifications patch is

Re: Any chance to get Apache 2.0.xx working on cygwin?

2005-06-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I found the source / build tree, it is still around anyway. The compressed tarball with the patch is about 400k. May I send you the patchfile and script (as PM)? Eep! How did you get a patch that big? My actual upstream

Re: Any chance to get Apache 2.0.xx working on cygwin?

2005-06-19 Thread Carlo Florendo
Max Bowsher wrote: Andreas Eibach wrote: *Please ANYONE*: anyone who has this 2.0.xx thing running _successfully_ on cygwin, please report back here. Maybe I can learn a bit of nifty tricks from you :) As I said in the recent thread Apache DSO modules under Cygwin, I'm quite happily

Re: Any chance to get Apache 2.0.xx working on cygwin?

2005-06-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Carlo Florendo wrote: The thing is, libs/libphp4.so does not exist but only libs/libpp4.a I remember someone saying before that there is a problem in libtool. However, I don't quite understand how libtool works. Here's what the make warning says: libtool: link: warning: undefined