Re: generic-build-script extension to update version numbers in README

2005-11-19 Thread Christian Franke
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [...] P.S. It'd be a different story if we were using an 'engine' with external overrides, like mingwports or cgf's netrel(?) -- then mods to the engine to provide new features would be distinct from the package-specific overrides. But gbs ain't like that.

Re: [ITP] cadaver: Command-line WebDAV client

2005-11-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Max Bowsher writes: Dr. Volker Zell wrote: I would like to contribute and maintain the cadaver package: * http://www.webdav.org/cadaver/ (Homepage) Max, would it be possible to recompile neon so that it picks up the new openssl package ? Refreshing

Re: [ITP] cadaver: Command-line WebDAV client

2005-11-19 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Max Bowsher writes: Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Max, would it be possible to recompile neon so that it picks up the new openssl package ? Refreshing neon is of course, not a problem. Thanks. No

Re: Concern about new g-b-s logging change - loss of error detection

2005-11-19 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This thread seems to have gone to sleep. Summary: The addition of the 'logging' g-b-s feature introduced a bug: Errors during phases of package building do not halt the build, so that an error during 'make' or 'make install' would not prevent the

Re: generic-build-script extension to update version numbers in README

2005-11-19 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Franke wrote: What would you think about an autoconf-like approach generating a package-VER.sh script from some package.sh.in (yes, no version). Then fixes and new features will be added to only one generation tool (autogbs ?-)) which

Re: [ITP] perl-Tk

2005-11-19 Thread Tacvek
Yaakov S said: Note that Perl/Tk is a Tk *implementation*, and does not depend on tcltk. .. ldesc: Complete Perl interface for Tk, built against Cygwin/X. Well that ldesc is confusing considering that. I think some of the confusion stems from the fact that tk is too closely associtated with

Re: generic-build-script extension to update version numbers in README

2005-11-19 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Charles Wilson wrote: I'd like to make a request: gbs is getting out of control with this feature and that feature added. Some of these tasks are NEVER going to be performed by anyone other than the primary maintainer: has anyone actually used 'foo.sh list' or 'foo.sh depends'? I use these

Re: [ITP] perl-Tk

2005-11-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:40:28PM -0600, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: At the risk of incurring Corinna's wrath, I second the request. I'd like to see someone submit an X-less perl-Tk package too, with support in both for alternatives. Here are the

Re: [ITP] perl-Tk

2005-11-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Hence the suggestion of using the features provided by the alternatives package. Am I correct in assuming this works even for dynamically loaded dlls? No. It works for .so's on Linux, because the Linux loader understands symlinks. Cygwin piggybacks on the

FIXED my freeze on startup problem

2005-11-19 Thread Andy Schmidgall
A few months ago I wrote asking for help with my freeze on startup problem. I just now figured out what the problem was. I did some more looking at the log files, and XWin was waiting for a hung sh process that was doing something with keyboard maps. I found a post that suggested adding a -kb

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: file-4.16-1

2005-11-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of file to 4.16-1. This version is an update to the official version 4.16, mainly improved magic value recognition and bug fixes. The necessary Cygwin specific patches are now included upstream so this version is entirely build from the vanilla sources. To update your

Complex.h file

2005-11-19 Thread John Coppens
Hi guys gals. I'm tying to port a program of mine to cygwin, and have the following problem: complex.h is not found. A search in the cygwin tree reveals: /usr/lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/backward/complex.h /usr/lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/include/c++/backward/complex.h

Re: Complex.h file

2005-11-19 Thread René Berber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Coppens wrote: [snip] complex.h is not found. A search in the cygwin tree reveals: /usr/lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/include/c++/backward/complex.h /usr/lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/include/c++/backward/complex.h /usr/include/mingw/complex.h

Re: vsftpd on cygwin

2005-11-19 Thread Jason Tishler
Yao, See the following: http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPIOSPE On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:48:20PM +0800, Yao G. Zhan wrote: I read the mailing list at cygwin.com and found that you made vsftpd working on cygwin. However, when I tried to compile vsftpd source 2.0.3 downloaded from

Re: Complex.h file

2005-11-19 Thread Tony Richardson
John Coppens john at jcoppens.com writes: I'm tying to port a program of mine to cygwin, and have the following problem: complex.h is not found. The compiler complains about the missing complex.h and about the complex type in a file, even though I read gcc has complex C-99 support

Re: Getting 'bad port number' and such, all the time

2005-11-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/19/2005, Daniel Callejas Sevilla wrote: This has happened for one week now, but as far as I remember, there were no changes to my installation one week ago. Everything was working fine before. Sorry, there's nothing obviously wrong that I can see. But if this truly was working a week

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gettext-0.14.5-1, libintl3-0.14.5-1, gettext-devel-0.14.5-1, libgettextpo0-0.14.5-1

2005-11-19 Thread Charles Wilson
gettext is the GNU package which provides 'national language support' for other programs. It includes a number of utility programs. This is a routine update to the latest upstream release. -- Chuck *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libiconv-1.9.2-2, libiconv2-1.9.2-2, libcharset1-1.9.2-2

2005-11-19 Thread Charles Wilson
The GNU libiconv package provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. Changes since libiconv-1.9.2-1 * non-user visible maintainance update * recompiled against recent gettext release -- Chuck ***

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: alternatives-1.3.20a-2

2005-11-19 Thread Charles Wilson
alternatives provides a framework for managing installation of multiple packages that provide similar features, and selecting between them. Changes since 1.3.20a-1 * bug fix to handle DOS line endings in the /var/lib/alternatives/ database * bug fix for race condition when reading

Re: PerlTk under Cygwin?

2005-11-19 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Maybe I was using the wrong wndow manager? Will try again later, need to test metacity anyway. I was just using the XWin multiwindow mode. Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Using

Re: Complex.h file

2005-11-19 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:55:33 + (UTC) Tony Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: _Complex double x = 7 + 8i; x += -3 - 4i; x *= 2 + 5i; x /= 3 - 4i; printf((%f,%f)\n, creal(x), cimag(x)); but it does not have built-in support for all of the complex functions that are

Re: Complex.h file

2005-11-19 Thread Tony Richardson
John Coppens john at jcoppens dot com writes: Tony Richardson ar63 at evansville.edu wrote: _Complex double x = 7 + 8i; but it does not have built-in support for all of the complex functions that are declared in complex.h. I would assume the problem is more of newlib issue than a

Updated: file-4.16-1

2005-11-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of file to 4.16-1. This version is an update to the official version 4.16, mainly improved magic value recognition and bug fixes. The necessary Cygwin specific patches are now included upstream so this version is entirely build from the vanilla sources. To update your

Updated: gettext-0.14.5-1, libintl3-0.14.5-1, gettext-devel-0.14.5-1, libgettextpo0-0.14.5-1

2005-11-19 Thread Charles Wilson
gettext is the GNU package which provides 'national language support' for other programs. It includes a number of utility programs. This is a routine update to the latest upstream release. -- Chuck *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce

Updated: alternatives-1.3.20a-2

2005-11-19 Thread Charles Wilson
alternatives provides a framework for managing installation of multiple packages that provide similar features, and selecting between them. Changes since 1.3.20a-1 * bug fix to handle DOS line endings in the /var/lib/alternatives/ database * bug fix for race condition when reading