Re: [ITP] OpenSceneGraph-2.8.1-1

2009-06-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 10/06/2009 10:41, Alberto Luaces wrote: It makes sense. Since this package is useless without hardware acceleration, I will have to take away my proposal until X goes accelerated. I'm not sure why you believe so. The OpenGL API is designed to be implementation-agnostic, and Mesa (which

Re: [ITP] OpenSceneGraph-2.8.1-1

2009-06-17 Thread Alberto Luaces
(I hope not to break the threading. I just unsubscribed from this list some days ago and just found Yaakov's reply to my mail by pure luck in the archives, so I'm using the mail provided by the archive.) First of all, I have to tell you, Yaakov, that I do really appreciate the effort you have

[ITP] task-1.7.1-1

2009-06-17 Thread Federico Hernandez
Hi! I want to introduce task into cygwin and let it become an official cygwin package. task is a todo list manager for the command line and supports the gtd methodology. I have read through http://cygwin.com/setup.html and subscribed to the corresponding mailing lists. The upstream project's

[ITP] task-1.7.1-1

2009-06-17 Thread Federico Hernandez
Hi! I want to introduce task into cygwin and let it become an official cygwin package. task is a todo list manager for the command line and supports the gtd methodology. I have read through http://cygwin.com/setup.html and subscribed to the corresponding mailing lists. The upstream project's

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-10

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Ken Brown wrote: Since no one objected to my proposal for promoting emacs-23 to current (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-06/msg00090.html), I've prepared new emacs packages for cygwin 1.7. I've bumped the package version to -10, following Chuck's model for distinguishing 1.7 packages

Re: [ITP] OpenSceneGraph-2.8.1-1

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Alberto Luaces wrote: I really like X, but the issue here is the acceleration. Not having acceleration will make the Cygwin port a second class citizen, with the following consequences: Since this has come up, I should perhaps offer up a hostage to fortune and mention that I am working on

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-10

2009-06-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ken Brown on 6/17/2009 7:07 PM: On 6/17/2009 6:22 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Sorry for not mentioning this before you did the packaging, but can I suggest that emacs-X11 package setup.hint should have font-adobe-dpi75 and font-misc-misc

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-10

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:22:33PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: According to Ken Brown on 6/17/2009 7:07 PM: On 6/17/2009 6:22 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Sorry for not mentioning this before you did the packaging, but can I suggest that emacs-X11 package setup.hint should have font-adobe-dpi75 and

Problem starting X as user

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Winkler
Hi, I installed cygwin today and I have problems is starting X as a user. Installation was done as Admin - and I can open X-Windows shells and programs as administrator. But when I try the same as Windows user I get error messages. Unfortunately, my UNIX knowledge is quite outdated - but I

Re: Problem starting X as user

2009-06-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Michael Winkler wrote: Hi, I installed cygwin today and I have problems is starting X as a user. Installation was done as Admin - and I can open X-Windows shells and programs as administrator. But when I try the same as Windows user I get error messages. Unfortunately, my UNIX knowledge is

Re: WORKAROUND: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Forwarded to list, unread Please read http://cygwin.com/problems.html#personal-email linked_puffb...@comcast.net wrote: Dear Jon Turney, Today I installed cygwin from scratch on a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. I have gotten the Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font. message when

Re: XWin Server shortcut broken

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Frank Mori Hess wrote: I did an install of cygwin/x and the xwin server shortcut it installs in the start menu didn't work. I had to go into its properties and set the Start in: field to C:\ This may be due to the fact that my home directory is at H:\ Running the command

Re: Xwin does not start because CYGWIN_ROOT is wrong in startxwin.bat

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Frédéric Bron wrote: This bug is valid for 1.5 and 1.7: I have installed cygwin in D:\cygwin-1.5 but startxwin.bat contains SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin It should be updated to SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin-1.5 Can someone change this in the installation process? Also the Start in directory should also

Re: XWinrc suggestion

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
It would be perhaps better to teach startxwin.bat to use .xserverrc for this purpose, just like startx does. This could probably be achieved by changing startxwin.bat to use startx to start the server, rather than starting it directly :-) There are a few ancillary issues with doing this,

Re: can't open Xterm

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
dingyang wrote: Hi, All: I just installed cygwin using setup.exe under WinXP operation system, but I can't start X Windows. I've checked and even reinstall X11 again. When I try, I get a pop-up that says: A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/XWin.log for

Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Ken Brown wrote: I recommend that the xorg-server maintainers consider the following patch to system.XWinrc: --- system.XWinrc.orig 2009-02-22 12:27:28.0 -0500 +++ system.XWinrc 2009-06-09 11:57:50.328125000 -0400 @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ // Make some menus... menu apps { -

Re: XWin Server shortcut broken

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 06:32:26PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: Frank Mori Hess wrote: I did an install of cygwin/x and the xwin server shortcut it installs in the start menu didn't work. I had to go into its properties and set the Start in: field to C:\ This may be due to the fact that my

Re: Singular CAS: why not in Cygwin menu?

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
(following up to a mail to the main cygwin list) Frédéric Bron wrote: Why the need to have Singular CAS outside the Cygwin menu? It makes 3 menus for cygwin: Cygwin, Cygwin-X and Singular CAS. In terms of folders for people who do not have administrator privileges, it makes 4 folders: -

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_socket.cc

2009-06-17 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-06-17 08:23:18 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_socket.cc Log message: * fhandler_socket.cc (fhandler_socket::recv_internal): Mark WSARecvMsg as NO_COPY.

cmake: Cygwin patches

2009-06-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Bill, I have a several patches for cmake which I ship in Ports but should really be moved into the distro. I have used these to build dozens of packages, including KDE4. The current patchset is in Ports SVN:

Re: Possible bug in passwd cygwin 1.7, you may not change the password for

2009-06-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 16 16:52, Jerry A wrote: Hi, I am a local administrator on an otherwise locked down corporate laptop that is running XP and currently, cygwin 1.7, the beta. I was running the released version of cygwin and having problems installing sshd and passwd. I found a thread from back in

Re: Optimize cygwin on recent windows version (Vista and Seven)

2009-06-17 Thread Vincent R.
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:52:56 +1000, Sisyphus sisyph...@optusnet.com.au wrote: - Original Message - From: Chris Sutcliffe ir0nh...@gmail.com Times taken were: Linux : 1.5 mimutes XP (mingw): 6.5 minutes Vista (mingw): 16.5 minutes Vista (cygwin): 23.25 minutes If UAC is

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Fergus
Assume your local Cygwin repository is under some /pathname/ for example: /g/users/yourname/cygfiles/setup.ini AND /g/users/yourname/cygfiles/release/* or you can have spaces if you like: /h/my name/cygnus solutions/setup.ini AND /h/my name/cygnus solutions/release/* As setup.ini advances

time for docbook-xml45?

2009-06-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While building git, I'm getting lots of these messages: XMLTO git-verify-tag.1 I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd/usr/src/git-1.6.3.2-1/build/Documentation/git-verify-tag.xml:2:

RE: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Hello, Our requirement was to enable our users to be able to connect to Windows XP machine via SSH access. Once connected they should be able to go into their home directory. Their respective home directory should be Samba mounted onto WinXP machine so that users can simply cd to their

Re: Garbage man pages

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Korn
Bill McCormick wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Haojun Bao wrote: Bill McCormick wrote: Bill McCormick wrote: Bill McCormick wrote: Hello, There's something wrong with my man pager; it's producing garbage output. My ~/.bashrc has these entries: export MANPAGER='less -isrR' export PAGER='less

Re: job control Bad address error

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Blake wrote: I'm not quite sure how to strace this, since you can't use ^Z to suspend an active strace. Attach GDB during sleep 100. Set strace variables in DLL using 'set' command if needed, or just debug. cheers, DaveK -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Optimize cygwin on recent windows version (Vista and Seven)

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Korn
Vincent R. wrote: The next step would be to do some profiling but I am not expert with gprof. I think that Dave Korn already did something like that, I hope he will comment. I'm afraid you may have misremembered, or anyway, I don't recall the occasion you're talking about. As far as I

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christopher Faylor wrote: That's what I meant, yes. I think many people don't understand that those files don't need to be there and since we advocate using just the straight install from internet, we probably should be nice and delete the files. Whenever the next round of changes to setup

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 06:16:17PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: duck Wouldn't it be nice if setup knew enough to remove the bz2 files for packages that were no longer current? /duck No need to duck. I think setup really should just

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: git-1.6.3.2-1, git{k,-gui,-completion,-svn}-1.6.3.2-1

2009-06-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of git, 1.6.3.2-1, has been uploaded to the cygwin 1.7 release area. This replaces 1.6.3.1-1 as current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream major release. It also changes the location of library executables from /usr/sbin/git-core to

Re: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: Hello, Our requirement was to enable our users to be able to connect to Windows XP machine via SSH access. Once connected they should be able to go into their home directory. Their respective home directory should be Samba mounted onto WinXP machine so that users

RE: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Hello, The SAMBA server is SuSE linux and home directories are samba shared and are in use with proper permissions. What permissions are you talking about here? The permissions of the home directories are already been set on Linux Server. There is not problem with that. Am I missing anything

Re: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Jakob Curdes
Holikar, Sachin (ext) schrieb: Hello, The SAMBA server is SuSE linux and home directories are samba shared and are in use with proper permissions. What permissions are you talking about here? If you are running SAMBA on cygwin this is not Suse Linux. Samba relies on the ACL management of

RE: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Yes Jakob. We have ssh server configured onto windows XP alongwith Cygwin. After this configuration, we did a samba mount from a Linux Server of lets say my home directory ( the user name is again from a windows Domain Server ). -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com

Re: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Jakob Curdes
Holikar, Sachin (ext) schrieb: Yes Jakob. We have ssh server configured onto windows XP alongwith Cygwin. After this configuration, we did a samba mount from a Linux Server of lets say my home directory ( the user name is again from a windows Domain Server ). I never tried such a setup

Re: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 17 14:22, Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: Hello, Our requirement was to enable our users to be able to connect to Windows XP machine via SSH access. Once connected they should be able to go into their home directory. Their respective home directory should be Samba mounted onto WinXP

RE: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Yes you are again right. We tried that option, created 2 different users onto WinXP and made them login and map their individual home directories in their respective logins. But then the problem is , when that user connects to Win XP via SSH , he is not able to see his mapped drive , ( df

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:39:05AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: That's what I meant, yes. I think many people don't understand that those files don't need to be there and since we advocate using just the straight install from internet, we probably should be nice and delete

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 01:54:07PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 06:16:17PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: duck Wouldn't it be nice if setup knew enough to remove the bz2 files for packages that were no longer current? /duck No

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:34:24AM +0100, Fergus wrote: Assume your local Cygwin repository is under some /pathname/ for example: /g/users/yourname/cygfiles/setup.ini AND /g/users/yourname/cygfiles/release/* or you can have spaces if you like: /h/my name/cygnus solutions/setup.ini AND /h/my

Re: job control Bad address error

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:48:11AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Eric Blake wrote: I'm not quite sure how to strace this, since you can't use ^Z to suspend an active strace. Attach GDB during sleep 100. Set strace variables in DLL using 'set' command if needed, or just debug. This has already been

RE: SSH SAMBA

2009-06-17 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Tried to configure ssh for different users in XP. But the error says User is not having administrative privilege rights. So nto able to start the sshd service inside their logins. We included both these users in the Administrative Group via compmgmt.msc. What are we missing out here??

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:39:05AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: Whenever the next round of changes to setup happens, and the talk gets around to Removing the Download to Local Directory or Should we Delete the Downloaded Files, please consider saying No to both

Re: w32-shell-execute function definition is void

2009-06-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/16/2009 4:34 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/16/2009 2:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:49:14 -0400 From: Ken Brown kbrown at cornell dot edu Finally, still in cygwin-init.el, I slightly modify browse-url-of-file: ;; browse-url-of-file doesn't work right under cygwin; I'll

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Fergus
Are you paying attention? It can be cleaned up by: rm -rf /h/my name/cygnus solutions/* Yes, yes. I know. Your internet connection is only 1 byte per second so you desperately need to keep useless files around on disk for when you accidentally type rm -rf /bin. For Goodness sake. There really

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:30:38AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:39:05AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: Whenever the next round of changes to setup happens, and the talk gets around to Removing the Download to Local Directory or Should we Delete the

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christopher Faylor wrote: I think setup really should just delete the files when it is done with them if you choose install from internet install from internet != install from local directory Ah, now I understand why I was jumping to conclusions. Thanks for clearing that up. And contrary to

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:59:09PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I think setup really should just delete the files when it is done with them if you choose install from internet install from internet != install from local directory Ah, now I understand why I was jumping to

Re: Is there a script to remove old packages from local disk

2009-06-17 Thread Keith Christian
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Fergusfer...@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote: #! /bin/sh #  clean cat $1setup.ini | sed -n '/release\//p' | sed 's/^.*release\///g' |\ I used Fergus' script referenced above, with the safety feature of executing setup.4 independently, as the search and destroy

Re: Garbage man pages

2009-06-17 Thread Haojun Bao
Dave Korn dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com writes: I said I'd check: there doesn't seem anything wrong with the packaging, which hasn't changed in a couple of years now; the most likely thing is that you and Bao experienced some kind of failure during running the postinstall scripts.

Re: Garbage man pages

2009-06-17 Thread Haojun Bao
Dave Korn dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com writes: I said I'd check: there doesn't seem anything wrong with the packaging, which hasn't changed in a couple of years now; the most likely thing is that you and Bao experienced some kind of failure during running the postinstall scripts.

[1.7] Updated: git-1.6.3.2-1, git{k,-gui,-completion,-svn}-1.6.3.2-1

2009-06-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of git, 1.6.3.2-1, has been uploaded to the cygwin 1.7 release area. This replaces 1.6.3.1-1 as current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream major release. It also changes the location of library executables from /usr/sbin/git-core to