Re: [RFC] should cygport use peflags?

2010-01-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 17 01:21, Yaakov S wrote: Is there any harm in running peflags (-d1 for DLLs, and -t1 for EXEs) on Windows pre-Vista? If not, should I have cygport automatically do this for all packages? The latest gcc package at least sets the TS-aware flag for all

Re: ITP: libAfterImage

2010-01-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 05/01/2010 22:46, Charles Wilson wrote: libAfterImage is a prereq for rxvt-unicode-9.x. It is part of gentoo, fedora, and debian. BTW, were you aware that PATCH_URI supports remote locations just like SRC_URI, and will download such remote patches during the

libAfterImage-devel errors

2010-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
upset: *** setup.ini: warning - package libAfterImage-devel requires non-existent package libXM-devel

Re: ITP: libAfterImage

2010-01-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 18/01/2010 17:32, Charles Wilson wrote: Sure, I do it that way for many of my packages. These patches, I think, were derived from Fedora's .src.rpm. AFAIK, I can't yet specify a download path that says go look inside this tarball/rpm/deb and grab a specific file. But you can get them from

upset error: package libAfterImage-devel requires non-existent package libXM-devel

2010-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
cgf

Re: upset error: package libAfterImage-devel requires non-existent package libXM-devel

2010-01-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: cgf It was a typo: should have been libSM-devel. I've added the correct value on sourceware. (Sorry it took so long to fix; I was out for the evening). -- Chuck

using of recent qt4 after update of XWin server

2010-01-18 Thread Andrey Gursky
Hi! Some month ago I used successfully qt4 and XWin server. Now I've installed a fresh version of cygwin on an another PC and qt4 applications couldn't be linked because of missing Xi library. OK, after removing this obsolete dependency from /usr/lib/qt4/lib/libQtGui.prl a qt4 app can be

Re: using of recent qt4 after update of XWin server

2010-01-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 18/01/2010 11:52, Andrey Gursky wrote: OK, after removing this obsolete dependency from /usr/lib/qt4/lib/libQtGui.prl a qt4 app can be coompiled, but not executed. Now the cygxi-6.dll is missing. Is qt4 now still compiled with dependency on it but XWin doesn't support it anymore? Or I'm just

Re: Can't start X after upgrading to cygwin1.7

2010-01-18 Thread Andrew Senior
Getting the latest cygwin installer (2.677) didn't seem to help with any of my problems. Is there somewhere other than /var/log/Xwin.0.log that I can see some logs for startxwin? I don't see any command line arguments for startxwin that might give me verbose output. Andrew On Sat, Jan 16, 2010

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog strfuncs.cc

2010-01-18 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-01-18 16:07:22 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog strfuncs.cc Log message: * strfuncs.cc: Remove needless includes. Patches:

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-01-18 Thread ol42
But obviously the environment variable has still an effect! Without binmode I get the following error $ git clone ssh://o...@simulacron/home/git/gen-dsp.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/ol/tmp/gen-dsp/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 979, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100%

Re: -z option of ld.exe

2010-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
David Arnstein wrote: However, the cygwin man page for ld.exe does reference the -z option. The man page for ld, as for the other binutils, is quite generic, and lists all the options supported on all the systems that binutils can be targeted against. I would like to know if the cygwin

Gitk issue post 1.7.1 upgrade

2010-01-18 Thread Jeenu V
Hi, I'm using Gitk from Cygwin and I come across this problem quite frequently post upgrade to 1.7.1. While I'm viewing commits a pop-up appears saying writing to stdout fails. I'm able to consistently reproduce it by making quick random clicks on the commit graph. And I don't remember seeing

Re: Java alternatives (was Re: Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-3)

2010-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 10/01/2010 21:37, Dave Korn wrote: BTW I'm going to ship AWT with the next GCJ, if that's of any interest to anyone. It builds and appears to be passing the mauve testsuite, so that's probably worth chucking over the wall and letting people start playing with.

Re: missing setup command line arguments in the FAQ.

2010-01-18 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hello again, On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 several of us wrote: 73, Ged. Now I'm confused. Is that your high-score, your shoe size, or your age? It's a relic from the days of morse code; just over my weight, and half my IQ; and uncomfortably close to my age. BTW, if you run setup.exe --help, it

Re: Gitk issue post 1.7.1 upgrade

2010-01-18 Thread Reini Urban
2010/1/18 Jeenu V: I'm using Gitk from Cygwin and I come across this problem quite frequently post upgrade to 1.7.1. While I'm viewing commits a pop-up appears saying writing to stdout fails. I'm able to consistently reproduce it by making quick random clicks on the commit graph. And I don't

Using WinPcap in a cygwin application

2010-01-18 Thread Jon Beniston
Hi, I'm trying to use WinPcap 4.1.1 in a program that links with cygwin1.dll 1.7.1-1. The program I have built runs successfully on Vista and Windows 7, but fails with a SIGSEGV seemingly before it calls WinMainCRTStartup on Windows XP SP3. The stack trace from insight is:

Re: missing setup command line arguments in the FAQ.

2010-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
G.W. Haywood wrote: BTW, if you run setup.exe --help, it will (depending on OS version) either display the usage instructions to the screen, or dump them to a setup.log file in the directory where you run it. That's not correct (*): laptop:~$ ./setup.exe -bash: ./setup.exe: cannot

RE: Man pages garbled in 1.7.1

2010-01-18 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Jeenu V Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 02:48 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Man pages garbled in 1.7.1 I'm now using UTF-8 encoding on PuTTYCyg and the man pages look fine. Could somebody tell me how to search for '-' on the man page, so that I can quickly jump to a known

RE: Man pages garbled in 1.7.1

2010-01-18 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Nellis, Kenneth Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 09:06 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Man pages garbled in 1.7.1 The problem is how to enter the Unicode MINUS sign, which man is using for the option prefix. The code point for this character (in decimal) is 8722, so press ALT and

Re: Redirecting $TEMP or a certain directory to /tmp

2010-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 08:10:56AM +0100, Thomas Wiedmann wrote: In that case you probably are not running Cygwin 1.7.1. That's true, I still run version 1.5.25-11. Is there a way to use fstab in version 1.5.25-11? No. What's to do? Follow the information at this link:

Re: missing setup command line arguments in the FAQ.

2010-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:18:13PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: I wasn't joking about the professional help. There's clearly some deep seated need there to dominate people. Unfortunately it won't work with everyone. Please question my sanity in the cygwin-talk mailing list. While it may be

Re: missing setup command line arguments in the FAQ.

2010-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:23:27PM +, Dave Korn wrote: G.W. Haywood wrote: Yes, one could just *try it*, if he had a Windows machine on which to try it. *koff* Prepare to be shocked, amazed, awed and astounded! This thread was started because Barry Buchbinder noticed a discrepancy between

Re: Cygwin 1.7.1-1 Setup.exe version 2.676 fails to install on Windows 7 x64

2010-01-18 Thread Clinton Goudie-Nice
Thanks. It is fixed now. Try again with 2.677. It's out now. If you don't get it when you download from cygwin.com, make sure none of your servers are caching an old copy. Right. There was a bad version of setup.exe installed (by me) which failed to install zero-length files like what you see

Re: Gitk issue post 1.7.1 upgrade

2010-01-18 Thread David Antliff
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 23:52, Jeenu V jee...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using Gitk from Cygwin and I come across this problem quite frequently post upgrade to 1.7.1. While I'm viewing commits a pop-up appears saying writing to stdout fails. I'm able to consistently reproduce it by making quick

I suggest changing cygwin bug reporting to use bugzilla, or a similar tool

2010-01-18 Thread Clinton Goudie-Nice
Greetings, I recently had to report my first bug to Cygwin, and I would like to suggest you change to use bugzilla for bug reporting. Here was my experience for bug reporting. --- I started at cygwin.com, and clicked reporting problems. I then read the 3 pages of text. I searched the FAQ for

Re: I suggest changing cygwin bug reporting to use bugzilla, or a similar tool

2010-01-18 Thread Dave Korn
Clinton Goudie-Nice wrote: I received a two page welcome email that I read looking for what email address to submit issues to. Next, I had to make a guess as to where to send an email to send it to the list because none of the welcome emails stated where to send it. You must have missed

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-18 Thread John Morrison
On Tue, January 12, 2010 8:55 am, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Jari, Could you please update your units package, at the same time fixing the location of the data file to be FHS compliant by passing --datadir=/usr/share/units/ (including the trailing slash) to configure? Hi Yaakov, I originally

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 18/01/2010 12:59, John Morrison wrote: I originally did the units package, Oops, misread the maintainer list. Sorry about that. but, free time being what it isn't I've not really been tracking. I have however noticed that you have units in your cygports; would it be a terrible

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:36:06PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Given the normal pace of the ITP process, moving *all* of Ports into the distro might take years. :-) But my short-term goal is remove the overlaps between the distro and Ports in order to simplify the installation procedure for

Unable to extract /etc/ -- the file is in use

2010-01-18 Thread Blackwell, Bryan S
I've seen lots of reports of this problem, but no solutions.  It occurs during the install/upgrade of 1.7. It is detailed more here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00607.html But this is not just a Windows 7 issue.  I'm trying to install on Server 2003 and getting it.  This machine

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 18/01/2010 13:38, Christopher Faylor wrote: I think we could relax the ITP process if you wanted to do some bulk moves but I would hate to have anyone have to support so many packages. Even if I wasn't just concerned about your free time and sanity, I'd be worried what would happen if you

Re: slowdown in mv operation

2010-01-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
Since I've already opened my mouth on this subject, I thought I would elaborate some on this subject: performance. I have setup two tests to execute on each of 1.5 and 1.7 cygwin systems. In each of these tests, they are not exhaustive as they should be. I developed these tests based upon a

Re: Unable to extract /etc/ -- the file is in use

2010-01-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/18/2010 03:01 PM, Blackwell, Bryan S wrote: I've seen lots of reports of this problem, but no solutions. It occurs during the install/upgrade of 1.7. It is detailed more here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00607.html But this is not just a Windows 7 issue. I'm trying to

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Given the normal pace of the ITP process, moving *all* of Ports into the distro might take years. :-) But my short-term goal is remove the overlaps between the distro and Ports in order to simplify the installation procedure for Ports' users, see here for details:

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 18/01/2010 12:59, John Morrison wrote: I have however noticed that you have units in your cygports; would it be a terrible imposition of me to ask you to move it into the main cygwin release? Done (1.87-1); you'll send the announcement? Yaakov -- Problem reports:

Can't find any info on eventvwr or syslog-ng or eventlog

2010-01-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
I discovered that cygwin has both packages for eventlog and syslog-ng. I searched for cygwin documentation in man, info, and the command itself. I have them both installed, (says setup.exe) but I can only find the command itself for syslog-ng. With both packages installed, I can find

Re: Can't find any info on eventvwr or syslog-ng or eventlog

2010-01-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
Subject should read: Can't find any info on eventlog and syslog-ng Paul McFerrin wrote: I discovered that cygwin has both packages for eventlog and syslog-ng. I searched for cygwin documentation in man, info, and the

Re: R: Cygwin-1.7.1 perlMagick incompatible with perl

2010-01-18 Thread Wes Barris
Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Mer 6/1/10, Wes Barris ha scritto: I just installed Cygwin 1.7.1. I noticed that the available version of perlMagick is incompatible with the available version of perl. The perlMagick package is built against perl 5.8 but the perl package is 5.10.

RE: Man pages garbled in 1.7.1

2010-01-18 Thread Wes Barris
From: Jeenu V Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 02:48 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Man pages garbled in 1.7.1 I'm now using UTF-8 encoding on PuTTYCyg and the man pages look fine. Could somebody tell me how to search for '-' on the man page, so that I can quickly jump to a

Re: R: Cygwin-1.7.1 perlMagick incompatible with perl

2010-01-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/18/2010 11:44 PM, Wes Barris wrote: Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Mer 6/1/10, Wes Barris ha scritto: I just installed Cygwin 1.7.1. I noticed that the available version of perlMagick is incompatible with the available version of perl. The perlMagick package is built against perl 5.8 but the

rxvt ctrl-c killing process

2010-01-18 Thread David Smiley @MITRE.org
Greetings folks. I have been fed-up with the default GUI shell on Cygwin, being used to the great Terminal that comes with Mac OS X. Some googling around uncovered that I should try rxvt. My experience with rxvt is pretty good, after reading online some basic configuration tips. But