Re: [RFU cygwin 1.7] : gsl-1.11-2

2008-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 9 21:15, A.R. Burgers wrote: wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=4 \ http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/ar.burgers/cygwin17/gsl/gsl-1.11-2-src.tar.bz2\ http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/ar.burgers/cygwin17/gsl/gsl-1.11-2.tar.bz2\ http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/ar.burgers/cygwin17/gsl/setup.hint\

Re: wamp cygwin php. Files with acl, setfacl, issue

2008-12-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Tim Oxley wrote: I'm running wamp/cygwin as a testing environment, and php doesn't want to recognise any files I create under cygwin (eg vim/touch etc) as they don't have the additional permissions (no + at the end of an ls -l command) . For example, a php 'is_file()' returns false on a

Re: AltGr works with only one key

2008-12-10 Thread gropius365
Hello, I am experiencing what appears to be the same problem as described below. I am attaching my own copy of XWin.0.log and the output of xev which I hope will be helpful. It appears that for every keypress that fails we have the xev output: XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (00) instead of

Re: xterm-237-2 still has no UTF-8 support

2008-12-10 Thread neomjp
On 2008/12/10 0:39, Yongwei Wu wrote: 1. xterm +lc -u8 I got these messages: Warning: Cannot convert string -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct These are the default fonts specified in

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-12-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: * Always enable built-in fonts; disable other FPEs if --enable-builtin-fonts I've reworked this last one slightly from the form you had it in, but I've just realized now that your version was actually correct. If BUILTIN_FONTS is defined, we want to disable the other FPE

cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. If anyone has a compelling reason why this should not happen please send it to one of the two lists. If I don't hear a coherent argument against doing this,

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-12-10 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, I thing that's what the static last_pf stuff in my dixfonts patch does? http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingCode/patch13/dixfonts.c.patch Colin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread jose isaias cabrera
I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:49 PM Subject: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

Re: xterm-237-2 still has no UTF-8 support

2008-12-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
neomjp wrote: On 2008/12/10 0:39, Yongwei Wu wrote: 1. xterm +lc -u8 I got these messages: Warning: Cannot convert string -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct These are the default fonts

X package font requires need tidying-up

2008-12-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov, There's a few packaging oddities with regards to X fonts requirements, which could probably do with tidying up. I guess for dependency purposes we are assuming that any installed client is going to be run on a local X server, in which case it needs to ensure that fonts it needs are

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 02:45:17PM -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote: I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. You have my mild sympathy. - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread sowiso
I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. There IS traffic on xfree? Looks this has escaped me then. :P -a -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
I applaud the change! And while some hippos may not be sanguine, Elephant\Rhinos (Elifinos!, as in, 'El-if-i-no which list to send it to') are ecstatic! ;-) Lee sowiso wrote: I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. There IS traffic on xfree? Looks

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Exactly. .-) - Original Message - From: sowiso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:07 PM Subject: *SPAM* Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Andreas Eibach
Will Parsons wrote: You may not consider it a compelling argument, but I find the traffic on the cygwin list more than enough already, and am glad I don't have to bother about the cygwin-xfree traffic. I'd prefer to keep things as is. But on xfree, there IS NO traffic! Just check the

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Andreas Eibach wrote: But on xfree, there IS NO traffic! This is ridiculously few compared to 2 years ago when Harold L Hunt put more work into this _per week_ than all people together summed up from summer to end of this year! That may have

Re: wamp cygwin php. Files with acl, setfacl, issue

2008-12-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Tim Oxley wrote: I'm running wamp/cygwin as a testing environment, and php doesn't want to recognise any files I create under cygwin (eg vim/touch etc) as they don't have the additional permissions (no + at the end of an ls -l command) . For example, a php 'is_file()' returns false on a

Re: POSIX 2008 available

2008-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 9 21:58, Eric Blake wrote: For those who would like help modernize cygwin to the latest POSIX standard, POSIX 2008 is now freely available at: http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/c082.htm Thanks for letting us know. which, once you accept a cookie, redirects to:

Re: Setup.exe (v2.609) Primary Group Problem

2008-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 9 14:14, Matt Rice wrote: My understanding was that when I ran setup.exe, new files would have my primary group (the way I had it set up in /etc/passwd). I was eager to try it out since the current stable version of setup.exe (v2.573.2.3) would always use users as the group. However,

Re: Ghostscript 8.63-2: contains gs.exe version 8.62

2008-12-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
A R Burgers writes: LS, Today I noticed that I could not run the gs.exe from 8.63. gs.exe --version says it is 8.62, hence it can't work with the 8.63 files in /usr/share/ghostscript/8.63. 11:14 AM [500] cygcheck -cd | grep ghostscript ghostscript 8.63-2

Re: POSIX 2008 available

2008-12-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/10/2008 2:34 AM: Do you know, by any chance, how I can get the Mozilla search feature to work with SUSv4? I think the web pages are still a work in progress:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libxml2-2.7.2-1 [SECURITY]

2008-12-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** libxml2-2.7.2-1 *** libxml2-devel-2.7.2-1 *** libxml2-doc-2.7.2-1 *** python-libxml2-2.7.2-1 This is the latest upstream version, with a patch for CVE-2008-4225/6. Yaakov

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: esound-0.2.40-1

2008-12-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** esound-0.2.41-1 *** libesd0-0.2.41-1 *** libesd-devel-0.2.41-1 This is an upstream version bump; see NEWS for changes. The library packages have been renamed, and will

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi all, after a rather long period of time of development, we're proud to start public testing of the upcoming new major release of Cygwin. The version number is 1.7.0 for the current test release and will be 1.7.x with some x yet to be chosen for the final release. As of today, the planning

Re: Re: Setup.exe (v2.609) Primary Group Problem

2008-12-10 Thread Matt Rice
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 9 14:14, Matt Rice wrote: My understanding was that when I ran setup.exe, new files would have my primary group (the way I had it set up in /etc/passwd). I was eager to try it out since the current stable version of setup.exe (v2.573.2.3) would always use users

cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. If anyone has a compelling reason why this should not happen please send it to one of the two lists. If I don't hear a coherent argument against doing this,

Length of Command Line?!!!

2008-12-10 Thread Lee D.Rothstein
I remember that in past versions of Windows, 'cmd.exe' imposed a draconianly short command line on Cygwin console. I was wondering whether the limitation applied to Xterm windows, as well. I have become quite adept at using xargs to avoid this limit. However, I was writing something about

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Will Parsons
Christopher Faylor wrote: The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. If anyone has a compelling reason why this should not happen please send it to one of the two lists. If I don't hear a coherent

Re: Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-10 Thread Colin Ingarfield
Corinna, I just want to take second to thank you for all the work you've done on Cygwin. Cygwin has kept me sane in Windows environments for ?? years now, and I can only guess at the amount of time you've spent on it. It's a great tool and I really appreciate it. thanks, Colin Ingarfield

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread sowiso
I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. There IS traffic on xfree? Looks this has escaped me then. :P -a -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
I applaud the change! And while some hippos may not be sanguine, Elephant\Rhinos (Elifinos!, as in, 'El-if-i-no which list to send it to') are ecstatic! ;-) Lee sowiso wrote: I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. There IS traffic on xfree? Looks

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Andreas Eibach
Will Parsons wrote: You may not consider it a compelling argument, but I find the traffic on the cygwin list more than enough already, and am glad I don't have to bother about the cygwin-xfree traffic. I'd prefer to keep things as is. But on xfree, there IS NO traffic! Just check the

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Andreas Eibach wrote: But on xfree, there IS NO traffic! This is ridiculously few compared to 2 years ago when Harold L Hunt put more work into this _per week_ than all people together summed up from summer to end of this year! That may have

Re: rsync restore the file owner but rsyncd do it not

2008-12-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 11:47:51AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 04:51:29PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: :-) Yes it works! Three important things are going wrong in my past: 1. /etc/passwd as well as /etc/group are necessary in windows to

Problem Running protoize

2008-12-10 Thread Bob Smith
On Windows XP running Cygwin, I'm trying to run the following file through protoize (3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)): C:\footype foo.c void foo () { } C:\fooprotoize -k foo.c protoize: compiling `/cygdrive/c/foo/foo.c' protoize: /c/cygdrive/c/foo/foo.c: can't get status:

Re: Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-10 Thread Warren Young
Corinna Vinschen wrote: after a rather long period of time of development, Is this going to change for the next major release? There's an awful lot to absorb in this one. - No more support for Windows 95/98/Me. Awesome. Can you talk about the positive consequences? Obviously there's

Re: Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:41:38PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: after a rather long period of time of development, Is this going to change for the next major release? There's an awful lot to absorb in this one. If you mean for 1.9.x then there is no way to predict

Re: Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-10 Thread Warren Young
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:41:38PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: after a rather long period of time of development, Is this going to change for the next major release? There's an awful lot to absorb in this one. If you mean for 1.9.x then

ssh-host-config produces script warning

2008-12-10 Thread Robert Pendell
NOTE: Resending below message once. It got flagged as html the first time around. Not sure if it made it though as it wasn't archived yet. While setting up sshd using ssh-host-config it produces a script error when working with the mount command but still continued to process through to

Re: ssh-host-config produces script warning

2008-12-10 Thread Robert Pendell
I forgot to mention the cygwin version so here is the whole setup as needed. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 Shinji-Winxp 1.7.0(0.189/5/3) 2008-12-09 14:20 i686 Cygwin I also attached a cygcheck.out file. -- Robert Pendell [EMAIL PROTECTED] A perfect world is one of chaos. Thawte Web of Trust

cron_diagnose reporting errors while using cron-config

2008-12-10 Thread Robert Pendell
While running cron-config I chose to run as a privileged user. Here is the output from the script. $ cron-config Do you want to install the cron daemon as a service? (yes/no) yes Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: [ntsec smbntsec] ntsec smbntsec The service can run either as yourself or

Re: Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-10 Thread Matt Wozniski
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Warren Young wrote: Can you talk about the positive consequences? Obviously there's a lot of backwards compatibility stuff you can now ignore, and undoubtedly a lot of compatibility code that you were able to remove. I see some features in the following list

Re: Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

2008-12-10 Thread Warren Young
Matt Wozniski wrote: to have a list of what we get for being able to drop this cursed loadstone. ^^^ I lol'ed at the reference Glad someone got it. :) Why don't you

Updated: gtk-doc-1.11-1

2008-12-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** gtk-doc-1.11-1 This is a version bump for GNOME 2.24. Yaakov DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to

Updated: esound-0.2.40-1

2008-12-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** esound-0.2.41-1 *** libesd0-0.2.41-1 *** libesd-devel-0.2.41-1 This is an upstream version bump; see NEWS for changes. The library packages have been renamed, and will