Re: [ITA] libXft/libXft2/libXft-devel-2.1.7: A client-side font API for X applications

2008-04-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Brian Dessent writes: Brian Dessent wrote: As Angelo tried to report on the wrong mailing list, this is totally broken. How are you supposed to compile any X11 apps after installing this package, without manually adding -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 to CPPFLAGS? Simply

setup.exe missing mgwbz2-1.dll?

2008-04-10 Thread Dr. Frank Lee
Building from CVS goes cleanly but I am unable to run the resulting binary from cmd.exe: setup.exe - Unable to Locate Component This application has failed to start because mgwbz2-1.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this If I run this from cygwin itself the application

Re: setup.exe missing mgwbz2-1.dll?

2008-04-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Dr. Frank Lee wrote: Building from CVS goes cleanly but I am unable to run the resulting binary from cmd.exe: setup.exe - Unable to Locate Component This application has failed to start because mgwbz2-1.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this If I run this from

Re: Patch for unattended setup (updated)

2008-04-10 Thread Dr. Frank Lee
I will provide an updated patch based on the current CVS with appropriate GNU coding style and using '-s' for the software package switch. I attach an updated patch which I believe conforms to the guidelines. Yours, Frank (Brief summary: exit code 118 - reboot needed; command line option '-s

Re: Patch for unattended setup (updated)

2008-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:31:57PM +0100, Dr. Frank Lee wrote: I will provide an updated patch based on the current CVS with appropriate GNU coding style and using '-s' for the software package switch. I attach an updated patch which I believe conforms to the guidelines. Yours, Frank

[RFU] atool-0.34.0-1

2008-04-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
This is a new upstream release of atool. It adds lzma support. Please upload. Thanks, Andrew. wget \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/atool/atool-0.34.0-1.tar.bz2 \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/atool/atool-0.34.0-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: Patch for unattended setup (updated)

2008-04-10 Thread Dr. Frank Lee
The above ChangeLog is not standard. Just take a look at all of the other entries in this file and you'll see things like it's missing a blank line after the initial entry, it's missing filenames, and it is missing function names. Also the voice used is supposed to be active not passive, i.e.,

Re: [RFU] atool-0.34.0-1

2008-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 12:28, Andrew Schulman wrote: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/atool/atool-0.34.0-1.tar.bz2 \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/atool/atool-0.34.0-1-src.tar.bz2 Uploaded. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to

Re: [ITA] transfig: Tools for creating TeX documents with graphics

2008-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 8 00:00, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi I would like to adopt and maintain the 'transfig' package from Harold Hunt: Here is the setup.hint file: --- ./setup.hint sdesc: Tools for creating TeX

Re: [ITA] transfig: Tools for creating TeX documents with graphics

2008-04-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Corinna Vinschen writes: On Apr 8 00:00, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi I would like to adopt and maintain the 'transfig' package from Harold Hunt: Here is the setup.hint file:

Re: [RFU] Astyle-1.22-1

2008-04-10 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Hey All, Sorry for the noise, but I've noticed other packages have been uploaded, so I was thinking that perhaps my original email was missed... Chris 2008/4/7 Chris Sutcliffe: Please upload: http://emergedesktop.org/cygwin/astyle-1.22-1.tar.bz2

Re: [ITA] xfig/xfig-lib: An interactive drawing tool

2008-04-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Volker Zell writes: Hi I would like to adopt and maintain the 'xfig/xfig-lib' packages from Harold Hunt. New versions to download and test/check. See also: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-04/msg00306.html cut here

[ITP] xmds-1.6.5

2008-04-10 Thread Paul Cochrane
Hi, I would like to recommend the xmds package for inclusion into cygwin. xmds is the eXtensible Multi-Dimensional Simulator and is way to quickly and easily solve differential equations in any arbitrary dimension. It is used frequently in physics and has wider utility in fields such as

Re: [wwwdocs patch] mention cygport as method three

2008-04-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Thanks, please apply. I checked in the change a day or two ago (http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/htdocs/setup.html?cvsroot=cygwin) but the live copy (http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html) still has not updated. Is the automatic trigger script broken? Brian

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygwin.din syscall ...

2008-04-10 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-04-10 09:27:59 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin.din syscalls.cc winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin: version.h Log message: * cygwin.din (wprintf): Remove.

-11: Problem at 1st start when cygwin.bat is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Christoph Herdeg
Hello List, We have made up an unattended installer package for cygwin using Nullsoft Installer. This package works on all x32 and x64 versions of Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003. Testing with Windows Server 2008 we discovered a problem: At the end of the installation, cygwin.bat is executed by

Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
I have a power user file that has go-rwx. However, the administrator account can less the contents from a bash command line. This is both logging onto Windows 2000 as admin, as well as ssh'ing in (loopback) from the power user log-in session. The administrator can also mv the file to a

Yaakov? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.3-1)

2008-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 00:55, Charles Wilson wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: And that was really very nice. I'm not trying to critizise the general approach. I just think we (that is: I) should get rid of the entire message and the setfacl in ssh-user-config. Well, that will certainly simplify things.

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Gmane User wrote: CACLS shows an extensive set of permissions for the power user owner, but only READ_CONTROL, FILE_READ_EA, FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES for LaptopName\None and Everyone. I've come across nothing on the web (yet) about a special privilege that allows administrators the level of

Perl script vs. Program Files

2008-04-10 Thread spambouncer
Hi everyone! I'm using cvsnt via cygwin command line. When I'm trying to reformat log output with cvs2cl.pl (http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl), I get the following error message: Can't open perl script /cygdrive/c/Program: No such file or directory Apparently the script is looked for in

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 04:19, Gmane User wrote: I have a power user file that has go-rwx. However, the administrator account can less the contents from a bash command line. This is both logging onto Windows 2000 as admin, as well as ssh'ing in (loopback) from the power user log-in session. The

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when cygwin.bat is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 09:48, Christoph Herdeg wrote: Hello List, We have made up an unattended installer package for cygwin using Nullsoft Installer. This package works on all x32 and x64 versions of Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003. Testing with Windows Server 2008 we discovered a problem: At the end

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when cygwin.bat is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Christoph Herdeg
Adding the following lines to /etc/profile to delet the variables didn't help anything: TMP= TEMP= TMPDIR= The same error occured a the same place, so it's neither a solution nor even a workaround for our problem. Christoph

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when cygwin.bat is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Christoph Herdeg
Hello List, Corinna, thank you for your answer so far. Regarding your hints: - The cygwin installer runs normally and creates registry entries as well runs the postinstall scripts - As you can see in the subject line, we currently use version -11 aka 1.5.25-11 - I will try to workaround our

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when cygwin.bat is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 12:50, Christoph Herdeg wrote: Adding the following lines to /etc/profile to delet the variables didn't help anything: TMP= TEMP= TMPDIR= man bash The above doesn't remove the variables. Use unset. The same error occured a the same place, so it's neither a solution nor

Re: cron and Windows 2000

2008-04-10 Thread noreply
- Original Message - From: Vince LaMonica To: cygwin Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:08 PM Subject: cron and Windows 2000 | Hi all, | | I recently updated cygwin on a Windows 2000 server box and I am now | getting errors when running cron. It is the famous, can't switch user |

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: Gmane User wrote: CACLS shows an extensive set of permissions for the power user owner, but only READ_CONTROL, FILE_READ_EA, FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES for LaptopName\None and Everyone. I've come across nothing on the web (yet) about a special privilege that allows

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 10 04:19, Gmane User wrote: I have a power user file that has go-rwx. However, the administrator account can less the contents from a bash command line. This is both logging onto Windows 2000 as admin, as well as ssh'ing in (loopback) from the power user log-in

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
Gmane User wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: Gmane User wrote: CACLS shows an extensive set of permissions for the power user owner, but only READ_CONTROL, FILE_READ_EA, FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES for LaptopName\None and Everyone. I've come across nothing on the web (yet) about a special privilege that

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when cygwin.bat is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:59:06AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 10 09:48, Christoph Herdeg wrote: - Is it possible that Cygwin's mapping of c:\Users\ADMINI~1/AppData/Local/Temp to /cygdrive/c/Users/ADMINI~1/AppData/Local/Temp doesn't yet exist at the time the error occurs? No. The

RE: Perl script vs. Program Files

2008-04-10 Thread Gerald.Williams
Andreas wrote: I'm using cvsnt via cygwin command line. When I'm trying to reformat log output with cvs2cl.pl (http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl), I get the following error message: Can't open perl script /cygdrive/c/Program: No such file or directory The script is wrong. Edit the file and

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when cygwin.bat is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... It's nice that people have found other uses for cygwin1.dll and the packages which go into the distribution found at http://cygwin.com/ but I think it is unrealistic to expect that people here will be cheerfully

Re: [ITA] xfig/xfig-lib: An interactive drawing tool

2008-04-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Dr. Volker Zell ha scritto: I would like to adopt and maintain the 'xfig/xfig-lib' packages from Harold Hunt. The procedure of installing 3.2.4-7 removes the previous 3.2.4-6, so the link app-defaults - /etc/X11/app-defaults in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ is lost and the

Re: [ITA] xfig/xfig-lib: An interactive drawing tool (patch)

2008-04-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Angelo Graziosi writes: Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: Dr. Volker Zell ha scritto: Angelo Graziosi writes: But why still 3.2.4 version? A new release 3.2.5 with several bug fixes has been released [1]. The problem is it does not compile due to dependency on

Re: [ITA] xfig/xfig-lib: An interactive drawing tool (patch)

2008-04-10 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Dr. Volker Zell ha scritto: Did you try sending the patch upstream ? No. I do not know where one should send. If you know, you can. Volker Thanks, Angelo. --- Facesti come quei che va di notte, che porta il lume dietro e se' non giova, ma dopo se' fa le persone dotte. -

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: atool-0.34.0-1

2008-04-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of the atool package is now available in the Cygwin distribution. Changes in this release: * New upstream release: adds lzma support. About atool: atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar, tar+gzip, zip, bzip2, rar, 7zip, ...). atool is called under

Re: [ITA] transfig... Problems?

2008-04-10 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have installed transfig-3.2.5-1+xfig-3.2.4-7* (all candidate) Then $ xfig -specialtext -latexfonts -startlatexFont default creating a simple figure (demo.fig) saved, then File | export Combined PS/Latex (both part) and XFig Error message: Error during EXPORT:

Re: Updated chere-1.0-1

2008-04-10 Thread Peter Lowe
On 23-09-2007 Sun 14:31, Dave wrote: PROBLEMS: If you encounter a problem with chere, please report it to the cygwin mailing list. In addition to the usual reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html please include the output of chere -r What about suggestions for

Restoring text mode on a mount. How?

2008-04-10 Thread Andrey Tarasevich
Hello I'm having a strange problem with my Cygwin installation and would appreciate any help. It was originally installed to use DOS text mode by default ('\r\n' line endings). A 'mount' command after the installation shows /cygwin/c as mounted in text mode c: on /cygwin/c type user

Re: Restoring text mode on a mount. How?

2008-04-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Andrey Tarasevich wrote: So the question that I'm trying to ask is why doesn't it work without re- installation of Cygwin? Why does it interpret scripts from re-mounted textmode mount as binary files? Is there a way to get back to the original freshly- installed Cygwin textmode behavior

Permission Problem with crontab

2008-04-10 Thread Adi B Treiner (abt Account)
Hi, Maybe you are determining something within my cygwin configuration which causes the issue. The issue is, when I'm starting jobs from crontab which should transfer backup archives from a local depot to a network depot, I'm determining always no write access to the net share and therefore

Updated: atool-0.34.0-1

2008-04-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of the atool package is now available in the Cygwin distribution. Changes in this release: * New upstream release: adds lzma support. About atool: atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar, tar+gzip, zip, bzip2, rar, 7zip, ...). atool is called under