HEADSUP: mutt security advisory

2005-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0594.html Gary? Could you please have a look if there's a patch around already? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red

Re: Please upload: multiple packages

2005-08-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yaakov S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please upload the following updated packages: ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/GNOME/gnome-icon-theme/gnome-icon-theme-2.10.1-1-src.tar.bz2

note to whois maintainer

2005-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
While searching for something else, I found a security advisory for whois at http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2004/May/0243.html . I can't duplicate the problem myself (and at least one respondent was also unable to duplicate it) but I thought it might bear some looking into. It has been

Do we still have a whois maintainer? (was Re: note to whois maintainer)

2005-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
My mail to Mark Bradshaw bounced. Is it possible that we don't have a whois maintainer anymore? That would make whois a pretty unlucky package. I think it has had two maintainers so far. cgf On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:44:56AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: While searching for something

Is setup-2.506 ready to release?

2005-08-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
I've been pointing people to setup-2.506-alpha.exe for a while now, with no problem reports. It's been repeatedly dubbed a release candidate by various developers. Any reason why it hasn't been released yet? The reason I'm asking is that there are a few pending patches to setup, which, I

Re: Is setup-2.506 ready to release?

2005-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:42:23AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I've been pointing people to setup-2.506-alpha.exe for a while now, with no problem reports. It's been repeatedly dubbed a release candidate by various developers. Any reason why it hasn't been released yet? The reason I'm

Re: Is setup-2.506 ready to release?

2005-08-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I've been pointing people to setup-2.506-alpha.exe for a while now, with no problem reports. It's been repeatedly dubbed a release candidate by various developers. Any reason why it hasn't been released yet? The reason I'm asking is that there are a few pending

Re: Is setup-2.506 ready to release?

2005-08-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I've been pointing people to setup-2.506-alpha.exe for a while now, with no problem reports. It's been repeatedly dubbed a release candidate by various developers. Any reason why it hasn't been released yet? The

Re: Is setup-2.506 ready to release?

2005-08-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Would you mind summarizing these if you have them handy? I could probably find them in the archives, but searching for setup issues is notoriously hard to get right... :-) The main one that I wanted to knock out is the fact that the scroll-bar logic for the custom

[PATCH] Update of size column patch for setup (Was Re: Is setup-2.506 ready to release?)

2005-08-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: WRT to your patch that adds the size column, I would like to apply it but I was hoping for a version that used MB instead of bytes, so that the column is a little easier to read. If you already posted

[PATCH] Propagate exit codes of scripts to setup

2005-08-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
As promised, here's a patch that makes Script::run() (and try_run_script()) return the exit code of the script. This just sets up the infrastructure -- the exit code is currently ignored (well, logged), but that could be changed later in both Installer::preremoveOne(), packagemeta::uninstall(),

The ANNOUNCEMENTs are not going through - is it just me?

2005-08-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
The last announcements I saw after pango were netpbm tar, never saw gtk2-x11, diffstat, rsync, typespeed at the main list. Is it just me, is my spam filter eating the mails randomly? Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: Not GTG (was Re: PING: Proposal for Boost 1.33.0 package)

2005-08-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I just had a look into the boost packages and from my point of view they are not GTG, for various reasons. - The Cygwin naming convention of DLLs is not used: - The DLLs are not versioned. They are on Linux: - The naming convention for static and dynamic link libs is

RE: HEADSUP: mutt security advisory

2005-08-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
From: Corinna Vinschen Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 6:10 AM To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Cc: Gary R. Van Sickle Subject: HEADSUP: mutt security advisory http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08 /0594.html Gary? Could you please have a look if there's a patch

Second monitor and screen resolution

2005-08-19 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi all, I've got a laptop that supports an external monitor. The windows desktop can be extended to that monitor, so I effectively have 2 displays. I'm running my X-server on that second monitor using -screen 0 @2. Sofar so good. The second monitor can run in a different resolution than the

Re: Using xauth with Cygwin-X

2005-08-19 Thread Larry Griffith
Frodak, thanks for the message. Sorry for the slow reply, but I've been out of town. I was aware of all the information in the User's Guide. Using the xhost commands as recommended actually caused problems with the Xserver on Solaris. I tried the solution you recommended. I didn't get any

RE: Second monitor and screen resolution

2005-08-19 Thread Soong, SylokeJ
XWin -multimonitor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Maarten Boekhold Sent: Fri, August 19, 2005 5:06 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Second monitor and screen resolution Hi all, I've got a laptop that supports an external monitor.

RE: Second monitor and screen resolution

2005-08-19 Thread Soong, SylokeJ
Earlier mail sent inadvertently. Actually, this is what I did, XWin -screen 0 1500 1150 -multiplemonitors -emulate3buttons -scrollbars -clipboard -silent-dup-error The scrollbars option somehow allowed X server to use to the extents of the second monitor attached to my XP laptop. -Original

RE: Dealing with screen resolution changes?

2005-08-19 Thread Soong, SylokeJ
Coincidentally, I had cygwin/X connecting with our solaris server and I was playing around with the resolution of second diplay attached to my XP laptop, just before I read this email. I was running statistical and graphical software on solaris thrown to my cygwin wmaker display. My cygwin/X

loosing mouse

2005-08-19 Thread Carson Wilcox
Sometimes when I an running CygwinX on windoze 2000 the mouse begins behaving badly. I can move it but when I move it over an x-window the window goes to focus, but the mouse pointer does not display on the window. The only way I have been able to recover is to kill the xserver and restart it

Cut/paste stops working after windows in standby mode

2005-08-19 Thread Chris Green
I have just started shutting my Windows 2000 box down to standby mode rather than doing a full power down. When I do this it seems that the Cygwin cut/paste stops working, i.e. when I try and cut and paste on the Linux desktop I'm displaying with Cygwin it simply doesn't cut and paste. It works

RE: Using xauth with Cygwin-X

2005-08-19 Thread Baksik, Frederick (NM75)
-Original Message- Subject: Re: Using xauth with Cygwin-X Frodak, thanks for the message. Sorry for the slow reply, but I've been out of town. I was aware of all the information in the User's Guide. Using the xhost commands as recommended actually caused problems with

Re: MOUSE MOVE EVENT + CTRL + LEFT CLICK not recognized?

2005-08-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, jason cafarelli wrote: I've recently started using cygwin in place of XVision. One of my programs uses ctrl + left click to move a mouse cursor around the screen. For some reason CYGwin does not seem to recognize the ctrl key being held down. Is this a newb

Re: MOUSE MOVE EVENT + CTRL + LEFT CLICK not recognized?

2005-08-19 Thread Cary Jamison
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, jason cafarelli wrote: I've recently started using cygwin in place of XVision. One of my programs uses ctrl + left click to move a mouse cursor around the screen. For some reason CYGwin does not seem to recognize the ctrl key being held down.

Re: loosing mouse

2005-08-19 Thread Cary Jamison
Carson Wilcox wrote: Sometimes when I an running CygwinX on windoze 2000 the mouse begins behaving badly. I can move it but when I move it over an x-window the window goes to focus, but the mouse pointer does not display on the window. The only way I have been able to recover is to kill the

RE: MOUSE MOVE EVENT + CTRL + LEFT CLICK not recognized?

2005-08-19 Thread Soong, SylokeJ
I had similar problems until I found out that my numlock was on. I run SAS on solaris and it had its own keyboard mapping start-up init. SAS maps every key with what I think might be the exhaustive modifier keys combination. For example, For [INSERT] SAS maps none:osfInsert - SASInsert();

Re: MOUSE MOVE EVENT + CTRL + LEFT CLICK not recognized?

2005-08-19 Thread jason cafarelli
--- Cary Jamison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, jason cafarelli wrote: I've recently started using cygwin in place of XVision. One of my programs uses ctrl + left click to move a mouse cursor around the screen. For some reason CYGwin does

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog miscfuncs.cc winsup.h

2005-08-19 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-08-19 14:56:49 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog miscfuncs.cc winsup.h Log message: * winsup.h (create_pipe): Declare new function. (CreatePipe): New define.

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler.h fhandler_di ...

2005-08-19 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-08-19 16:29:43 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler.h fhandler_disk_file.cc Log message: * fhandler.h (dirent_states): Add dirent_saw_proc. *

Re: [OT] Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2005-08-19 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Jason Pyeron wrote: I recently upgraded to XP on my laptop from 2000. It seems I can run only about a hundred processes instead of 200-300. Why is the limit so low? Is it adjustable? support and msdn don't seem to say. I can run about 300 processes on my XP SP2 laptop no problem. $ ps

Re: is there a cygwin maintainer for gnu emacs?

2005-08-19 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: emacs user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:45:21 -0400 Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org some more diagnostics of the GC problem, with the help of some advice from eliz. does this help? It's a beginning. Thanks. Breakpoint 1, abort () at emacs.c:461 461

Broken link at http://cygwin.com/faq.html

2005-08-19 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
http://cygwin.com/faq.html has one (I believe actually more than one) link to http://www.redhat.com/software/tools/cygwin/ which is broken. I don't have the current URL at redhat.com, but thought you might want to know; it's kind of critical, since that's the pointer to the license information

Re: Broken link at http://cygwin.com/faq.html

2005-08-19 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 8/19/05, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: http://cygwin.com/faq.html has one (I believe actually more than one) link to http://www.redhat.com/software/tools/cygwin/ which is broken. I don't have the current URL at redhat.com, but thought you might want to know; it's kind of critical, since that's

Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
[I would of course love a solution for this, but even hints on how to approach such a problem will be greatly appreciated.] Trying to install current version of crm114 (crm114-20050721-BlameNeilArmstrong.src) under cygwin 1.5.18 without success (see relevant output below).

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Herb Martin wrote: [I would of course love a solution for this, but even hints on how to approach such a problem will be greatly appreciated.] Trying to install current version of crm114 (crm114-20050721-BlameNeilArmstrong.src) under cygwin 1.5.18 without success (see relevant output below).

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Gerrit P. Haase Sent: 19 August 2005 13:15 The above error just means that you'r missing libintl at your link command, try to add -lintl to the Makefile where appropriate. Or perhaps giving the --disable-nls option to configure would also fix it?

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Herb Martin Sent: 19 August 2005 12:56 [I would of course love a solution for this, but even hints on how to approach such a problem will be greatly appreciated.] /usr/local/lib/libtre.a(regerror.o): In function `regerror':

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Herb Martin wrote: Just prior to the error the make file outputs a warning that if TRE (the regex library) is not installed you will get an error AND that to fix this you must edit /etc/ld.so.conf to include /usr/local/lib, and then run ldconfig. ld.so.conf and ldconfig are aspects of the

Re: Virtual drives should not be pies in the sky

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE] [http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - reformatted accordingly] -Original Message- From: Eric Blake [mailto:ebb9 AT byu.net]

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Brian Dessent wrote: detected. You might try an autoreconf --install --force --verbose (or run the equivalent bootstrap.sh if included) before trying anything else. Hey, crm114 was autoconfiscated, really nice to see that. OT: Why in the hell are you compiling source code under /etc?

csrss.exe - 200mo in memory

2005-08-19 Thread Nicolas Gasset
Hi Folks, I updated my cygwin version 2 weeks ago and since that time when I launch cygwin the process csrss.exe takes 200mo in the memory !! Thanks in advance for your help, Nico -- Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Aug 19

can't ssh my cygwin host

2005-08-19 Thread Damián Rodríguez Sánchez
Hi. I've been trying to set up a ssh server on a Windows XP machine with cygwin. I followed the instructions at http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html but keep getting: ssh: connect to host xx port 22: Connection refused when I try to connect. I tried including port 22 (tcp) in my

Re: can't ssh my cygwin host

2005-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 10:26, Dami?n Rodr?guez S?nchez wrote: Hi. I've been trying to set up a ssh server on a Windows XP machine with cygwin. I followed the instructions at http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html Ask them what's wrong with their instructions. People using the official

Re: Broken link at http://cygwin.com/faq.html

2005-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:26:51AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On 8/19/05, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: http://cygwin.com/faq.html has one (I believe actually more than one) link to http://www.redhat.com/software/tools/cygwin/ which is broken. I don't have the current URL at redhat.com, but

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tar-1.15.1-2

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of tar, 1.15.1-2, is available. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, with a new maintainer. Upstream changes since the previous version, 1.13.25-7, are listed below, and can be found in /usr/share/doc/tar-1.15.1/NEWS.

rsh , $HOME environment variable

2005-08-19 Thread Ramón
Hi to all, when I do: # rsh -l Administrator MYHOST set | grep HOME I obtain: HOME=/ HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH='\cygwin\home\Administrator' $HOME must be /home/Administrator With ssh $HOME is correctly declarated: # ssh -l Administrator MYHOST set | grep HOME

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
Thanks to everyone who offered a suggestion -- I don't have crm114 building yet, but I at least feel like I am BEGINNING to understand the link (not well enough however.) From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] regerror.c:68: undefined reference to `_libintl_gettext' collect2: ld

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Herb Martin wrote: If I change -L/usr/local/lib to -L/usr/local/lib:/lib -L takes a single path, no colon. You specify it multiple times to add multiple paths. But /lib is already be in the search path so this is redundant and unnecessary. gcc -static -L/usr/local/lib:/lib -lintl -liconv

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2005-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:01:33AM -0700, David Arnstein wrote: Frequently (but not always) I will launch a Cygwin command window running bash; the new command window prints a message from bash: -- 10 [main] bash 1880

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Brian Dessent wrote: Now you've got the order wrong. The objects must be specified in dependent order, which generally means libraries after objects. I.e.: gcc -o crm114 *.o -L/usr/local/lib -ltre -lintl -liconv -lcygwin (== -lm) is automatically added at the end when linking. Gerrit --

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: -lcygwin (== -lm) is automatically added at the end when linking. ^^ Umm, Gerrit, I don't think the underlined part is true anymore: $ cd /usr/lib ls -li libm.a libcygwin.a 1407374883609665 -r-xr-xr-x+ 1 igor Users 956656 Jul 2 20:30

Fwd: rsh , $HOME environment variable

2005-08-19 Thread Ramón
Hi to all, when I do: # rsh -l Administrator MYHOST set | grep HOME I obtain: HOME=/ HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH='\cygwin\home\Administrator' $HOME must be /home/Administrator With ssh $HOME is correctly declarated: # ssh -l Administrator MYHOST set | grep HOME

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
From Behalf Of Brian Dessent -L takes a single path, no colon. You specify it multiple times to add multiple paths. But /lib is already be in the search path so this is redundant and unnecessary. Ok, so I just dropped the -L/lib (and :/lib) and even tried adding the TRE lib directory

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: -lcygwin (== -lm) is automatically added at the end when linking. ^^ Umm, Gerrit, I don't think the underlined part is true anymore: $ cd /usr/lib ls -li libm.a libcygwin.a 1407374883609665 -r-xr-xr-x+ 1

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Umm, Gerrit, I don't think the underlined part is true anymore: $ cd /usr/lib ls -li libm.a libcygwin.a 1407374883609665 -r-xr-xr-x+ 1 igor Users 956656 Jul 2 20:30 libcygwin.a* 1407374883609668 -r-xr-xr-x+ 1 igor Users 92616 Jul 2 20:30 libm.a* $ uname -a

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Herb Martin wrote: ...in the thought that maybe the supposedly installed tre libs were not getting picked up -- no joy. Didn't help. It's finding the library just fine. If you specify a -lfoo and it can't find libfoo then you get an error about not being able to find libfoo. But that's not

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote: From Behalf Of Brian Dessent gcc -static -L/usr/local/lib:/lib -lintl -liconv crm_main.o crm_compiler.o crm_errorhandlers.o crm_exec_engine.o crm_p snip a bunch of .o references -lm -ltre -o crm114_tre

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:48:43AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Umm, Gerrit, I don't think the underlined part is true anymore: $ cd /usr/lib ls -li libm.a libcygwin.a 1407374883609665 -r-xr-xr-x+ 1 igor Users 956656 Jul 2 20:30 libcygwin.a* 1407374883609668

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: As far as I know this is only done for link efficiency, as these sub-libs are never distributed and probably don't work as standalone libraries. ... Apparently I don't know that much since I just checked and they are distributed. But all the imports in libm should be in

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2005-08-19 Thread David Arnstein
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:13:51AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've created a new snapshot which may work around this problem by trying again when this error is presented. Could you give it a try? Thank you Mr. Faylor. I have installed the cygwin1.dll dated August 19. If I see any

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
I have no idea how this makefile is structured and since it apparently doesn't use autotools (ggghhh!!) then you'll probably have to hack it up. This is precisely why using home-made Makefiles is a terrible idea. You need to find where the actual gcc link command is constructed and

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Herb Martin wrote: crm114_tre: $(OFILES) crmregex_tre.o # # Note: if you haven't installed TRElib, the next step # will get an error. # For TRElib, look in the TRE sub-directory of this kit. # Remember to use ./configure --enable-static

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Herb Martin wrote: cannot find -ltre collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [crm114_tre] Error 1 LDFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib LIBS += -ltre -lintl -liconv (and trying -ltre at the end; is THIS the order you were referencing?) The dependency tha that is failing looks

Re-entrant versions of functions

2005-08-19 Thread syphon
Hi all, I'm trying to build some example code from 'Programming with POSIX Threads' by David Butenhof, and have run into an error because one of the programs calls readdir_r. From googling and searching the mailing lists, it looks like there has been some work done on the re-entrant

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
How does that fix anything? Where do -ltre and -lintl come from? Are you adding them to $LIBS? If so then that's not going to work as you've still got the wrong order. It didn't help -- I am nearly illerate at make (I have some other system knowledge of linking objects and library's etc

building device drivers

2005-08-19 Thread Jason Pyeron
I am building a windows device driver (libraw1394), now I want to do it using cygwin (port of Linux device driver). I assume I will need to statically link to cygwin libs. I am assuming the windows device drivers cannot have DLL dependencies. So can things be linked statically? If so an

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote: How does that fix anything? Where do -ltre and -lintl come from? Are you adding them to $LIBS? If so then that's not going to work as you've still got the wrong order. It didn't help -- I am nearly illerate at make (I have some other system

Re: building device drivers

2005-08-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Jason Pyeron wrote: I am building a windows device driver (libraw1394), now I want to do it using cygwin (port of Linux device driver). I assume I will need to statically link to cygwin libs. I am assuming the windows device drivers cannot have DLL dependencies. So can things be linked

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Brian Dessent wrote: Full original make file (it you care to see it, it's here): #Makefile for CRM114 Wow. Just. Wow. That makefile is just unbelievable. (Unbelievably bad that is.) I wonder if the author was molested by automake as a kid and was scarred for life. Nothing else

Re: building device drivers

2005-08-19 Thread Jason Pyeron
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: I don't think that's really going to work. Cygwin cannot be linked statically and even if it could, it was not designed to run in kernel space at all. Cygwin does not try to emulate the linux kernel, just a POSIX api. So low level things like device

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Herb Martin wrote: How does that fix anything? Where do -ltre and -lintl come from? Are you adding them to $LIBS? If so then that's not going to work as you've still got the wrong order. It didn't help -- I'm not going to build crm114 now. Yaakov already did so. Go fetch his

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote This is wrong. Try this instead: $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OFILES) \ crmregex_tre.o \ -ltre $(LIBS) -o crm114_tre My tre libs looks like this: $ d /usr/local/lib/*tre* rw-r--r-- herbm:None 349K Aug 18 21:29 libtre.a

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
I'm not going to build crm114 now. Yaakov already did so. Go fetch his binaries: ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/crm114/ ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/tre/ You may take a look at the source package to see how packages are created and what changes were

Re: can't ssh my cygwin host

2005-08-19 Thread Damián Rodríguez Sánchez
I reinstalled cygwin, this time for all users, not just me. That solved it. Damian. On Aug 19 10:26, Dami?n Rodr?guez S?nchez wrote: Hi. I've been trying to set up a ssh server on a Windows XP machine with cygwin. I followed the instructions at

sftp a big file

2005-08-19 Thread Jack Offerman
Last night I tried to sftp a really big file and it failed at about 90 percent done. I saw an error message that's somewhat similar to Message received too big. It is my daily practice to download big files using sftp and I have never seen that before. The size is usally about 500MB to 1GB and I

xmlroff works on Cygwin

2005-08-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Tony, Just fetched the 0.3.5 release with pangoxsl-1.6.0.1. It is actually working and producing a real PDF! I needed only two minor changes in Makefile.am to get a clean build (and of course reconfigury with the Cygwin autotools). Very good work! Gerrit -- http://xmlroff.org/ --

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Herb Martin wrote: I'm not going to build crm114 now. Yaakov already did so. Go fetch his binaries: ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/crm114/ ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/tre/ You may take a look at the source package to see how packages are created and what

bash test -n test -z return tru

2005-08-19 Thread Poor Yorick
from reading the bash man pages, I would have thought the -n and -z were mutually exclusive. Therefore I don't understand this result: ~$ [ -n $(which nonexisingfilename 2/dev/null) ] [ -z $(which nonexistingfilename 2/dev/null) ] echo hello hello ~$ can anyone help explain this? --

Re: bash test -n test -z return tru

2005-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 03:01:19PM -0400, Poor Yorick wrote: from reading the bash man pages, I would have thought the -n and -z were mutually exclusive. Therefore I don't understand this result: ~$ [ -n $(which nonexisingfilename 2/dev/null) ] [ -z $(which nonexistingfilename 2/dev/null) ]

Re: rsh , $HOME environment variable

2005-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 17:33, Ram?n wrote: # rsh -l Administrator MYHOST set | grep HOME [...] HOME=/ HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH='\cygwin\home\Administrator' [...] WHY ?? I need ~ and $HOME correctly declarated !! I'm moved to tears. The reason was an incorrect (better: missing) handling of $HOME in rshd

Re: bash test -n test -z return tru

2005-08-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Poor Yorick wrote: from reading the bash man pages, I would have thought the -n and -z were mutually exclusive. Therefore I don't understand this result: ~$ [ -n $(which nonexisingfilename 2/dev/null) ] [ -z $(which nonexistingfilename 2/dev/null) ] echo hello

Re: bash test -n test -z return tru

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Blake
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 03:01:19PM -0400, Poor Yorick wrote: from reading the bash man pages, I would have thought the -n and -z were mutually exclusive. Therefore I don't understand this result: ~$ [ -n $(which nonexisingfilename 2/dev/null) ] [ -z $(which nonexistingfilename

Permissions, again

2005-08-19 Thread Christopher Benson-Manica
So I'm using smbntsec as the security setting, and it worked like a charm. I've still got a problem, though - the files I create are losing the inherit permissions attribute, and I don't know how to get that attribute back without using the XP file dialog window. Can I get chmod (or some other

Re: bash test -n test -z return tru

2005-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 07:27:55PM +, Eric Blake wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 03:01:19PM -0400, Poor Yorick wrote: from reading the bash man pages, I would have thought the -n and -z were mutually exclusive. Therefore I don't understand this result: ~$ [ -n $(which nonexisingfilename

Re: (XP) cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: Permission denied

2005-08-19 Thread Shankar Unni
Greg Jones wrote: cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: Permission denied This is a symptom of something else having that file open. * What Antivirus software do you have? They sometimes take a few seconds to do their check, during which time the

Re: Permissions, again

2005-08-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Christopher Benson-Manica wrote: So I'm using smbntsec as the security setting, and it worked like a charm. I've still got a problem, though - the files I create are losing the inherit permissions attribute, and I don't know how to get that attribute back without using

Re: Permissions, again

2005-08-19 Thread Christopher Benson-Manica
chmod, and other POSIX programs know nothing about ACLs (which is where inheritance is specified). You should, however, be able to use getfacl/setfacl to do what you want. Hm... It seems that (get|set)facl do allow detailed permissions to be set, but what I really need is the inherited

Re: /usr/bin/manweb from latest netpbm not working

2005-08-19 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: This is from latest netpbm: 12:45 PM [674] /bin/manweb Can't open configuration file '/etc/manweb.conf'. No such file or directory at /bin/manweb line 322. It looks like this could be setup in a postinstall step.

Re: Permissions, again

2005-08-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Christopher Benson-Manica wrote: chmod, and other POSIX programs know nothing about ACLs (which is where inheritance is specified). You should, however, be able to use getfacl/setfacl to do what you want. Hm... It seems that (get|set)facl do allow detailed

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1 SUCCESS

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
Thanks again folks. crm114 now passes even the megatest.sh script that accompanies it. Using merely these (changed) settings: LDFLAGS += -L/usr/local/lib LIBS += -lintl -liconv $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OFILES) \ crmregex_tre.o \ -ltre $(LIBS) -o crm114_tre This is the current

RE: building device drivers

2005-08-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
From: Jason Pyeron Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 12:00 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: building device drivers On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: I don't think that's really going to work. Cygwin cannot be linked statically and even if it could, it was not designed to

XP x64 steps?

2005-08-19 Thread Mike Miller
of the installer just work with XP x64? I used the 8/19 versions of the snapshots of cygwin1-20050819.dll.bz2 and cygwin-inst-20050819.tar.bz2, but I might not have used them correctly (I just overwrote old files with new ones midway through the install). I appreciate any help you can offer

Updated: tar-1.15.1-2

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of tar, 1.15.1-2, is available. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, with a new maintainer. Upstream changes since the previous version, 1.13.25-7, are listed below, and can be found in /usr/share/doc/tar-1.15.1/NEWS.