[RFU] screen-4.0.3-5

2010-01-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
New Cygwin build of screen. Please upload, including setup.hint since the dependencies have changed (libncurses10 instead of libncurses9). Thanks, Andrew. wget \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/screen/setup.hint \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/screen/screen-4.0.3-5.tar.bz2 \

Re: [RFU] screen-4.0.3-5

2010-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:31:19PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: New Cygwin build of screen. Please upload, including setup.hint since the dependencies have changed (libncurses10 instead of libncurses9). Thanks, Andrew. wget \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/screen/setup.hint \

Re: xserver bug?

2010-01-20 Thread Sylvain RICHARD
Charles Wilson wrote: I've noticed that with XWin 1.7.3 (and perhaps earlier versions; not sure), the key combination CTRL-SHIFT-0 (zero) doesn't generate any events. CTRL-SHIFT-1 thru -9, alphabetic keys, no problem -- just not zero. snip Is this a bug, or a designed behavior, in XWin?

Re: xserver bug?

2010-01-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 20/01/2010 09:13, Sylvain RICHARD wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: I've noticed that with XWin 1.7.3 (and perhaps earlier versions; not sure), the key combination CTRL-SHIFT-0 (zero) doesn't generate any events. CTRL-SHIFT-1 thru -9, alphabetic keys, no problem -- just not zero. I'm afraid I

Re: Gtk+ cygwin problem

2010-01-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 20/01/2010 16:36, Richard Dickinson wrote: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Some googling would have shown you what this means. You need to be running an X server and set the DISPLAY variable in order to use GTK+ (or any other X11 GUI). This being a Cygwin/X question, it really

Re: xserver bug?

2010-01-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Jon TURNEY wrote: On 20/01/2010 09:13, Sylvain RICHARD wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: I've noticed that with XWin 1.7.3 (and perhaps earlier versions; not sure), the key combination CTRL-SHIFT-0 (zero) doesn't generate any events. CTRL-SHIFT-1 thru -9, alphabetic keys, no problem -- just not

Re: Nedit unstable after 1.7.0-56 update -- clipboard copy segfault

2010-01-20 Thread Jim Weisert
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 03/08/2009 10:49, Rob Gillen wrote: After updating my 1.7 installation to the latest cygwin DLL, my xterms were finally able to exec bash (with some issues from bash as well), but I immediately ran into segfault when copying to the clipboard from nedit. I.e. as soon

Re: Your email has been returned by MAPS (was why does no one talk to me about FLOSS weekly?)

2010-01-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/19/2010 11:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Please try to avoid sending knee-jerk complaints about non-cygwin matters to the cygwin list. Indeed. I use spam filters. Imagine that! Oh horrors... Heard of Spam Assassin? Yes. Decided to write my own anyway. They work very, very well. In

units: update FHS compliance

2010-01-20 Thread John Morrison
With many thanks to Yaakov, units has been brought up to date (1.87) and brought into line with FHS. All credit should go to Yaakov for his continuing (herculean!) efforts. J. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-20 Thread John Morrison
On Mon, January 18, 2010 8:39 pm, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: 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

Re: POSIX regex libraries?

2010-01-20 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:41 AM, brian wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me if cygwin has and if it does,  how to get the POSIX regex libraries in cygwin ? It does. It is part of the base package, so if you've installed Cygwin, you've got it: cygcheck.exe -f /usr/include/regex.h cygwin 1.7.1-1

Re: Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 19 21:39, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/19/2010 09:18 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: I think the bottom line is that the the core cygwin developers are good at their jobs because they are strongly technically oriented and, *usually*, people focusing all their energy on their craft don't have

Re: POSIX regex libraries?

2010-01-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 19 16:41, brian wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me if cygwin has and if it does, how to get the POSIX regex libraries in cygwin ? #include regex.h Cygwin's regex isn't yet multibyte-aware. That's on my TODO list. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: units-1.87-1

2010-01-20 Thread John Morrison
Version 1.87-1 of units has been uploaded. The Units program converts quantities expressed in various scales to their equivalents in other scales. The units program can handle multiplicative scale changes as well as nonlinear conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius or wire gauge. Units comes

1.7.1: /usr/bin/more.exe

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Koch
Hi! Running 1.7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 i experience problems with more.exe (which is a copy of less.exe). Specifically, if i view a file with less lines as the cygwin shell can show, NOTHING is displayed. $ echo a $cat a aaa $ more a $ less a aaa a (END) Ciao peter prosozial GmbH

1.7.1: /usrb/bin/tail.exe

2010-01-20 Thread Peter Koch
Hi! Running 1.7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 some of my shell scripts stopped working. The culprint is tail.exe 1. tail +N does not work anymore. Obsolete? How can i re-enable this? 2. tail overwrites redirected files! $ echo 1 a $ echo 22 a $ echo 333 a $ cat a 1 22 333 echo x x $ tail -1 a x $

Re: 1.7.1: /usrb/bin/tail.exe

2010-01-20 Thread Eliot Moss
WJFFM on Windows 7. I wonder about your LANG or DOS vs Unix end-of-line settings Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: 1.7.1: /usrb/bin/tail.exe

2010-01-20 Thread Eric Blake
According to Peter Koch on 1/20/2010 3:40 AM: The culprint is tail.exe 1. tail +N does not work anymore. Obsolete? How can i re-enable this? http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Old-tail-plus-N-syntax-now-fails 'tail +2' is not portable. Use 'tail -n +2'. 2. tail

Re: Problem with compiling Perl Curses.pm

2010-01-20 Thread Reini Urban
2010/1/20 Charles Wilson: Reini Urban wrote: Then CursesVar.c is regenerated by gen\make.CursesVar.c It looks like this generation got triggered somehow and gets it wrong. Because the DLL exporting part of ncurses/ncurses_dll.h does: /*  * For reentrant code, we map the various global

Re: Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/20/2010 12:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Interviews in English? Would you rather it in say C? ;-) Live? No, not really live. With actual listeners? Uh, no, thanks. Interesting. I guess you're not interested then. What a shame. Actually I rarely use Cygwin anymore as I now use Linux

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:40:14AM -, John Morrison wrote: Ok, thoughts. If Yaakov brought lots (most?) of the packages into the main distro; 1) Yaakov could continue to support the packages as he currently does on cygports, but everyone would benefit from better integration Everyone would

Re: 1.7.1: /usr/bin/more.exe

2010-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:34:23AM +0100, Peter Koch wrote: Running 1.7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 i experience problems with more.exe (which is a copy of less.exe). Specifically, if i view a file with less lines as the cygwin shell can show, NOTHING is displayed. $ echo a $cat a aaa $ more a $

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-20 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Mer 20/1/10, Christopher Faylor ha scritto: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:40:14AM -, John Morrison wrote: Ok, thoughts.  If Yaakov brought lots (most?) of the packages into the main distro; 1) Yaakov could continue to support the packages as he currently does on cygports, but

Re: Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-20 Thread Reini Urban
2010/1/20 Corinna Vinschen: Randall's standard question to develops with tongue firmly in cheek is OK, Emacs or vi?. Interviews in English?  Live?  With actual listeners?  Uh, no, thanks. From http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/FLOSS_Weekly Most episodes feature the primary developer or developers of

Re: Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
A 55 min Skype interview live! Indeed frightening. Almost like an unprepared conference talk. Surely our esteemed project leaders have all of the knowledge they'd need to answer questions about Cygwin for 55 minutes. But whether they'd want to do so is of course up to them. -- Problem

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 20 16:00, Marco Atzeri wrote: I think we should start a package adoption campaign, to avoid additional workload to Yaakov. *P*ackage *A*doption *C*ampain? So a guy, who adopts one of Yaakov's package is a PACman? We have not only Yaakov's packages, but also a couple of orphaned

highlight keywords

2010-01-20 Thread indrek
Hi I'm using make/gcc for compiling applications. It generates a lot of output. I need to highlight some keywords (show red text), in example error. Is it possible with Cygwin. My OS is Windows XP. -- View this message in context:

Re: highlight keywords

2010-01-20 Thread Edward McGuire
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:56, indrek ho...@hot.ee wrote: I'm using make/gcc for compiling applications. It generates a lot of output. I need to highlight some keywords (show red text), in example error. Is it possible with Cygwin. My OS is Windows XP. Use grep(1). It has the color option you

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-20 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Mer 20/1/10, Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: On Jan 20 16:00, Marco Atzeri wrote: I think we should start a package adoption campaign, to avoid additional workload to Yaakov. *P*ackage *A*doption *C*ampain?  So a guy, who adopts one of Yaakov's package is a PACman? We have not

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {rxvt-unicode-X/rxvt-unicode-common}-9.07-1

2010-01-20 Thread A.R. Burgers
I installed rxvt-unicode-X and rxvt-unicode-common. The postinstall script has run, /etc/termcap has been updated. /usr/share/terminfo as well: $ find /usr/share/terminfo -mtime -1 /usr/share/terminfo/72 /usr/share/terminfo/72/rxvt-unicode /usr/share/terminfo/72/rxvt-unicode256 However I get

Re: highlight keywords

2010-01-20 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-01-20, indrek wrote: Hi I'm using make/gcc for compiling applications. It generates a lot of output. I need to highlight some keywords (show red text), in example error. Is it possible with Cygwin. My OS is Windows XP. make | grep --color=always -C error HTH, Gary --

Re: highlight keywords

2010-01-20 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/20 indrek: I'm using make/gcc for compiling applications. It generates a lot of output. I need to highlight some keywords (show red text), in example error. Is it possible with Cygwin. Have a look at the colorgcc package as well. (Unfortunately its default config is broken, looking for

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 20 18:11, Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Mer 20/1/10, Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: list of orphaned packages:   apache2   boost these 2 scare me :-) Me, too :)   ping I will look at this, but it seems a bit tricky... It just needs a Windows hack for non-Admin users, starting

Issues with terminal freezing after scp in expect script.

2010-01-20 Thread Damo, David
Hi, I have interesting problem. I have bash script that calls an expect script that works fine and does an scp. However after the scp the terminal freezes. It is stuck on the bash prompt, however the prompt is not the original prompt. After I do ctrl C it continues to process. I tried to do

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-20 Thread John Morrison
On Wed, January 20, 2010 4:52 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 20 16:00, Marco Atzeri wrote: I think we should start a package adoption campaign, to avoid additional workload to Yaakov. *P*ackage *A*doption *C*ampain? So a guy, who adopts one of Yaakov's package is a PACman? We have not

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 20/01/2010 10:00, Marco Atzeri wrote: I was thinking to take his fltk-X11 package as I need fltk for octave and the current package don't work at all for my need as Octave is X11 oriented. At least officially, Teun Burgers is still a maintainer for the Cygwin FLTK package, so you need to

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 20/01/2010 10:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It would be nice if people who are interested in becoming package maintainer would pick up the occasional package. Here's the current list of orphaned packages: docbook-xml docbook-xsl openjade opensp These are all part of Ports'

orpie setup.hint problem

2010-01-20 Thread David Rothenberger
The requires: line for orpie mentions lapack. I think this should be liblapack0? For some reason, setup never believes that lapack is installed. It keeps listing it for installation in the Preview pane. I install it each time, but it is never listed as an installed package by cygcheck. orpie

Re: units: update, FHS compliance

2010-01-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 20/01/2010 12:11, Marco Atzeri wrote: plotutils From http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/ The current version is 2.4.1, released July 2000. I should say not very active, is used somewhere ? Actually, the website just hasn't been kept current. I see now that plotutils 2.6 was

Re: ATTN: perl-Tk maintainer RE: perl-Tk is broken

2010-01-20 Thread Reini Urban
Thrall, Bryan schrieb: RE: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00890.html Reini Urban wrote: 2009/7/24 Wolfgang Goetz: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Tk+804.028_501 ohjeh.. perl 5.8.8 is yellow for cygwin. there seems to be no interest at all for the moment. I had some spare time

Re: cpan can't find its own tempfile

2010-01-20 Thread Reini Urban
Andrew Schulman schrieb: Andrew Schulman schrieb: I'm trying to use cpan (perl 5.10.1-2) to install Spreadsheet::Read. When I try, I get a whole bunch of errors like e.g. Warning: expected file [/home/ASchulma/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp6012] doesn't exist Error while trying to

Re: orpie setup.hint problem

2010-01-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
The requires: line for orpie mentions lapack. I think this should be liblapack0? Hm, you seem to be right. I just uninstalled lapack and liblapack, leaving just liblapack-devel and liblapack0. I quit and restarted orpie, and it runs fine. (If you try to start orpie without any *lapack*

Gtk+ cygwin problem

2010-01-20 Thread Richard Dickinson
Hi I am trying to compile run gtk+ code/apps on my Vista computer with ho success so far. I have compiled a gtk+ c code simple helloworld app(exe) but it won't run-here is the error: d...@dad-pc /cygdrive/c/RPD_Programming/RPD_Gtk+Gimp_toolkit/Gtk+_www.gtk.org_tut

RE: Issues with terminal freezing after scp in expect script.

2010-01-20 Thread Damo, David
Okay the issue was with expect. The weird thing is I tried break before and it froze so I assumed it was not the issue. After restarting the terminal break worked: Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? {exp_send yes\r} *assword: { send $unixpass\r; }

Re: 1.7.1: /usr/bin/more.exe

2010-01-20 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Peter Koch a écrit : Hi! Running 1.7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 i experience problems with more.exe (which is a copy of less.exe). Specifically, if i view a file with less lines as the cygwin shell can show, NOTHING is displayed. $ echo a $cat a aaa $ more a $ less a aaa a (END) more behave

Re: Gtk+ cygwin problem

2010-01-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 20/01/2010 16:36, Richard Dickinson wrote: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Some googling would have shown you what this means. You need to be running an X server and set the DISPLAY variable in order to use GTK+ (or any other X11 GUI). This being a Cygwin/X question, it really

Re: ATTN: perl-Tk maintainer RE: perl-Tk is broken

2010-01-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 20/01/2010 15:39, Reini Urban wrote: Do you need Win32 native Tk or just x Tk? My patch was just to support Win32 Tk. I have no time for this in the next month. Nor should you need to. I maintain the perl-Tk package, and we use the X11 interface because this is Cygwin, not ActivePerl.

Design issue with new MS-DOS style path warning?

2010-01-20 Thread Batson, Chuck
Hello folks, I am aware it is possible to disable the MS-DOS style path detected warning with the 'nodosfilewarning' option. But this message raises the question of, What is the Cygwin ideal? That is, how to avoid the warning in a clean way without resorting to the 'nodosfilewarning' option?

Re: Design issue with new MS-DOS style path warning?

2010-01-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 20/01/2010 19:11, Batson, Chuck wrote: Or perhaps I'm completely missing something fundamental and you're about to set me straight. :-) Exactly. Bottom line: it doesn't matter how you launch the command. If you're running a Cygwin command, then use Cygwin paths. You have been (and

Re: Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-20 Thread Brian Wilson
I think it would be a great idea and might interest someone in joining the esteemed support team. That would be a nice bonus. Sincerely, Brian S. Wilson === Home: (678) 376-9258 Cell: (678) 232-9357 wil...@ds.net

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {rxvt-unicode-X/rxvt-unicode-common}-9.07-1

2010-01-20 Thread Charles Wilson
A.R. Burgers wrote: I installed rxvt-unicode-X and rxvt-unicode-common. The postinstall script has run, /etc/termcap has been updated. /usr/share/terminfo as well: $ find /usr/share/terminfo -mtime -1 /usr/share/terminfo/72 /usr/share/terminfo/72/rxvt-unicode

[Fwd: Dave Korn appointed Cygwin maintainer]

2010-01-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Congratulations, Dave! Well deserved. -- Chuck ---BeginMessage--- It is my pleasure to announce that with strong support by the three existing maintainers in this area, the steering committee has appointed Dave Korn Cygwin (actually windows, cygwin, mingw) maintainer. Thanks for your

Re: [Fwd: Dave Korn appointed Cygwin maintainer]

2010-01-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: Congratulations, Dave! Well deserved. Aw, geez. Sorry guys. I didn't realize forwarding would expose email addresses like that. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Design issue with new MS-DOS style path warning?

2010-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:11:28PM -0800, Batson, Chuck wrote: Hello folks, I am aware it is possible to disable the MS-DOS style path detected warning with the 'nodosfilewarning' option. But this message raises the question of, What is the Cygwin ideal? That is, how to avoid the warning in a

path not found - fstab problem?

2010-01-20 Thread Russ
Hello, I have cygwin installed in the default c:\cygwin location... I cannot get cygwin to see an executable in my path -- unless I change dirs down to the application location or run it with the absolute path. This works: r...@mycomputer ~ $ /c/Apps/apache-ant-1.8.0RC1/bin/ant -version

Re: Design issue with new MS-DOS style path warning?

2010-01-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 21/01/2010 01:11, Batson, Chuck wrote: That is, how to avoid the warning in a clean way without resorting to the 'nodosfilewarning' option? Say, for example, you create a Windows batch file containing the line: touch C:\foo.txt Well, don't do that then. cheers, DaveK --

Re: path not found - fstab problem?

2010-01-20 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/21 Russ: Hello, I have cygwin installed in the default c:\cygwin location... I cannot get cygwin to see an executable in my path  -- unless I change dirs down to the application location or run it with the absolute path. This works: r...@mycomputer  ~ $  

Re: undefined reference to `___real__Znwj'

2010-01-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 18/12/2009 20:01, Dave What part of PCYMTNQREAIYR isn't obvious? ;-) Korn wrote: The problem is a bug in the linker, so you'll need to check out binutils from sourceware.org cvs and apply the attached weaksyms-vs-undefs-order-of-ref-fix-take-2.diff patch. I misunderstood this problem,