Re: Cygwin problems under Vista (please reply to Vinod)

2008-03-31 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello Thank you Larry. Your explanations are quite comprehensive. I have to polish my English writing as good as you have wriiten. :-) I have gottten a lot of thing from the cygwin so I would like everyone to be happy with cygwin. Regards Tatsuro --- "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {mingw-bzip2/mingw-libbz2_1}-1.0.5-2

2008-03-31 Thread Charles Wilson
mingw-bzip2 provides the static library, DLL import library, and header files for building non-cygwin applications (like setup.exe) which need access to bzip2 compression algorithms. mingw-libbz2_1 provides the corresponding DLL. The libraries in the mingw-* packages are built using the stand

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {bzip2/libbz2_1/libbz2-devel}-1.0.5-2

2008-03-31 Thread Charles Wilson
bzip2 provides the bzip2.exe / bunzip2.exe executables, a patent-unencumbered but highly effective compression tool. CHANGES: * Update to new upstream release addresses security issues CAN-2005-1260, CAN-2005-0953 -- Charles Wilson bzip2 volunteer maintainer for cygwin To update your instal

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sysvinit-2.86-2: A System-V Init Clone

2008-03-31 Thread Charles Wilson
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: o Switched /usr/bin/init-config to use CSIH_SCRIPT BTW, in the new init-config script: # == # Action! # == csih_enable_color color i

Compiling Cygwin on Linux

2008-03-31 Thread Robert Eckhoff
Hi, I was wondering how one would compile cygwin-src on linux. I currently have a binutils and stage 1 gcc (a.la. "make all-gcc; make install-gcc") targeted for i686-pc-cygwin. I have tried the following ~/build_cygwin$ uname -a Linux gcc14 2.6.18-6-vserver-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Feb

Re: Cygwin problems under Vista (please reply to Vinod)

2008-03-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: Dear Larry Hall Thanks to Larry for your immdiate reply. --- "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think it's great that you attempted to work with Vinod to help him get a better understanding of things. But I think you're missing a point here yourself.

Re: Cygwin problems under Vista (please reply to Vinod)

2008-03-31 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Dear Larry Hall Thanks to Larry for your immdiate reply. --- "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it's great that you attempted to work with Vinod to help him get a > better understanding of things. But I think you're missing a point here > yourself. No one is "ignoring"

Re: postinstall hang

2008-03-31 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Popper, Samuel (US SSA) on 3/31/2008 2:48 PM: |> I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the | postinstall |> always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at different places. Sounds like the classic symptoms of http://cy

Re: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-31 Thread Morgan gangwere
Stepp, Charles wrote: > Yeah...I use shell scripts to rename and rearrange music and podcasts on > my MP3 Players. I just don't understand why the original namers can't > get the Year before Month before Day concept. > > Charles Stepp > Meskimen's Law: > There's never time to do it rite, but there

Re: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-31 Thread Morgan gangwere
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Morgan gangwere <> wrote: Without cygwin, i wouldnt have my directory sorting algorithm running on windows. DOS has no way of (easily) sorting files into c:\{YEAR}\{MONTH}\{MIMETYPE}\ (where Year Month and Mimetype are the year month

Re: Cygwin problems under Vista (please reply to Vinod)

2008-03-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: Hello I'm not always agreement with Vinod's opinion but I cannot understand why others ignore him. Only I have made replies to him. I am a mere user of cygwin. In addition I'm a XP user so that I do not understand what is the problem about the cygwin on the VISTA. I thi

Re: Cygwin problems under Vista (please reply to Vinod)

2008-03-31 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello I'm not always agreement with Vinod's opinion but I cannot understand why others ignore him. Only I have made replies to him. I am a mere user of cygwin. In addition I'm a XP user so that I do not understand what is the problem about the cygwin on the VISTA. I think that the purpose o

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {freeglut/libglut3/libglut-devel}-2.4.0-1: Open Source GLUT implementation

2008-03-31 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'freeglut/libglut3/libglut-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Maintainer change o Switched to cygport build framework o Package split in main, library and devel package o Changed layout from /usr/X11R6 to /usr hierarchy jasper

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libfpx/libfpx1/libfpx-devel}-1.2.0.13-1: FlashPIX image library

2008-03-31 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libfpx/libfpx1/libfpx-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Maintainer change o Switched to cygport build framework o Package split in main, library and devel package NOTE: Due to the monolithic nature of Gerrit's old package the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libwmf/libwmf027/libwmf-devel/libwmf-doc/gdk-pixbuf2-wmf}-0.2.8.4-2: Windows Metafile library

2008-03-31 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libwmf/libwmf027/libwmf-devel/libwmf-doc/gdk-pixbuf2-wmf' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Maintainer change o Switched to cygport build framework o Package split in main, library, devel, doc and gdk-pixbuf2-wmf package NOTE: Due to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {lcms/liblcms1/liblcms-devel/python-lcms}-1.17-1: Little color management engine

2008-03-31 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'lcms/liblcms1/liblcms-devel/python-lcms' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Maintainer change o Switched to cygport build framework o Package split in main, library, devel and python binding package NOTE: Due to the monolithic nature of

RE: Changing cygwin account name (cygwin only)

2008-03-31 Thread Hussein Patwa
> Subject: RE: Changing cygwin account name (cygwin only) > > > --- Hussein Patwa ha scritto: > > > One more question though, how can I change the way bash > (and tcsh as I > > sometimes use it for a change) display the type prompt? I use a > > screen reader and it can get tedious hearing it

ssh-host-config found in 4.9p1 is broken

2008-03-31 Thread Ehab Teima
Hi, ssh-host-config found in 4.9p1 is broken. Running the script dies with the message "Unexpected end of file at line 624". By inspecting the code, I found that there is an non-closed if near line 191. There is an open if that was never closed. Ehab Teima Software Developer _

Re: cron with gnuplot

2008-03-31 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Nadi, >From the log you sent in cronbug.txt it looks like the script is running, >confirming what you write. What do you expect it will produce? Note that the filename cron.log in your home directory conflicts with a file created by /bin/cronlog, which is run by the cron daemon to save the cr

RE: postinstall hang

2008-03-31 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the postinstall > always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at different places. I am still having this problem (as evidenced by previous messages). I've come up with a bash script "test case" that demonstrates the problem: $ NUM=1; whi

Setup command-line argument support

2008-03-31 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Does the "setup.exe" home page at "http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html"; need to be updated? It says that CLI arguments are "an under-development feature", and the link it references says: "'Does the current http://cygwin.com/setup.exe have any [CLI arguments]?' No, or at least,

Re: Cygwin problems under Vista

2008-03-31 Thread Vinod Gupta
So, I guess every one in Cygwin community is happily running Cygwin and Cygwin-X under Windows Vista. That is a great news! It seems only I missed the train :-( Vinod On 2008-03-20 15:50, Vinod Gupta wrote: I see that quite a few people have experienced problems running cygwin and application

postinstall hang

2008-03-31 Thread David Johnstone
OK, I've found one or two posts on this topic but no useful replies. I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the postinstall always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at different places. I have disabled my antivirus software. I have WinXP on a dual core AMD machine with 2,8GH

Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-31 Thread Scott Wegner
Kurt Franke wrote: Scott Wegner hdfgroup.org> writes: Greg Chicares wrote: On 2008-03-25 13:30Z, Scott Wegner wrote: I am trying to create a "wrapper" Cygwin bash script to add functionality to an existing Windows batch script. In my Cygwin script, I would like to call the batch file with

Re: CMake: CPack dumps core

2008-03-31 Thread Bill Hoffman
Václav Haisman wrote: Hi, I am using CMake for one of my projects and I also want to use CPack but CPack dumps core for anything except cpack --help. This is most likely a better topic for the cmake mailing list. I have recently made a few fixes in this area. The current 2.4.8 cpack can

RE: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-31 Thread Stepp, Charles
Yeah...I use shell scripts to rename and rearrange music and podcasts on my MP3 Players. I just don't understand why the original namers can't get the Year before Month before Day concept. Charles Stepp Meskimen's Law: There's never time to do it rite, but there's always time to do it over. -O

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnupg-1.4.9-1

2008-03-31 Thread Gergely Budai
Version 1.4.9-1 of "gnupg" has been uploaded. The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. What's New === * Improved AES encryption performance by more than 20% (on ia32). Decryption is also a bit faster. * Fixed possible memory corruption bug in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-4.9p1-1

2008-03-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 4.9p1-1. This is a new major upstream release. The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla sources. The official release message of 4.9p1: OpenSSH 4.9 has just been released. It w

Re: using Windows backup API?

2008-03-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 31 13:59, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schrieb: >> This is partly already done in the current Cygwin release, but it >> will only be done consequently in the next major release 1.7.0. >> No, we don't have a release date yet. > > Is there a release date yet? ;) > > >> Feel fre

Re: using Windows backup API?

2008-03-31 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: On Mar 31 11:37, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Traditionally, in UNIX, a root user can access any file in the system without doing anything special. This contrasts with Windows, where even Administrator user can't read files for which he has not access permissions (i.e.,

Re: using Windows backup API?

2008-03-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 31 11:37, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Traditionally, in UNIX, a root user can access any file in the system > without doing anything special. > > This contrasts with Windows, where even Administrator user can't read files > for which he has not access permissions (i.e., a file with all per

using Windows backup API?

2008-03-31 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Traditionally, in UNIX, a root user can access any file in the system without doing anything special. This contrasts with Windows, where even Administrator user can't read files for which he has not access permissions (i.e., a file with all permissions removed)[1]. To access such files in Wi