xfig packaging dependency

2019-03-09 Thread Lloyd Wood via cygwin
to go on... thanks Lloyd Wood http://savi.sf.net/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

cygwin Tcl oddity

2018-09-04 Thread Lloyd Wood via cygwin
and print floating point nos at the command line, it seems to hang eventually as well. Ideas? thanks Lloyd Wood http://savi.sf.net/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

relationship between Cygwin and Redhat / Fedora packages?

2017-06-22 Thread Lloyd Wood via cygwin
What is the relationship between Cygwin packages and Red Hat rpms at this point? If something gets picked up for Cygwin, is it likely to make its way into e.g. Fedora, or vice versa? thanks Lloyd Wood http://savi.sf.net/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: configure fails on checking ino_t

2017-06-10 Thread Lloyd Wood via cygwin
Ken, you're right; I'm so used to seeing those modules listed that I forgot that how they get there recently changed. (Well, recently in Geomview terms...) Separate modules from base Geomview now, xforms is no longer a dependency, which is good. So, the base Geomview is good to go into Cygwin

Re: configure fails on checking ino_t

2017-06-09 Thread Lloyd Wood via cygwin
: whhhi: command not found regards Lloyd Wood lloyd.w...@yahoo.co.uk http://about.me/lloydwood From: Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Lloyd Wood <lloyd.w...@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Saturday, 10 June 2017, 6:39 Subject: Re: con

Re: configure fails on checking ino_t

2017-06-07 Thread Lloyd Wood via cygwin
$ ./configure thanks for the hint, but still puzzled as to why this starts failing now. Lloyd Wood lloyd.w...@yahoo.co.uk http://about.me/lloydwood ________ From: Lloyd Wood <lloyd.w...@yahoo.co.uk> To: Csaba Raduly <rcs...@gmail.com>; cygwin list <cygwin@c

Re: configure fails on checking ino_t

2017-06-07 Thread Lloyd Wood via cygwin
n Cygwin setup in case it breaks your setup, is my thought... thanks Lloyd Wood lloyd.w...@yahoo.co.uk http://about.me/lloydwood From: Csaba Raduly <rcs...@gmail.com> To: Lloyd Wood <lloyd.w...@yahoo.co.uk>; cygwin list <cygwin@cygwin.com> S

configure fails on checking ino_t

2017-06-07 Thread Lloyd Wood via cygwin
#define HAVE_DEV_T 1 #define HAVE_INO_T 1 #define HAVE_TIME_T 1 #define SIZEOF_DEV_T 4 configure: exit 77 Okay, so what changed in Cygwin? (No, Mario, this is not an antivirus thing...) thanks Lloyd Wood http://savi.sf.net/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

two installer questions

2017-05-30 Thread Lloyd Wood via cygwin
while everything else updates, and know about it, seems useful to me. thanks Lloyd Wood lloyd.w...@yahoo.co.uk http://about.me/lloydwood -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

ino_t and d_ino now a thing again?

2017-05-30 Thread Lloyd Wood via cygwin
If HAVE_INO_T is 1, getting sizeof should be a non-problem. Is this a reoccurrence of the 2006 d_ino problems that were an issue for Cygwin 1.5.19, and discussed with Eric Blake? thanks and regards Lloyd Wood http://savi.sf.net/ http://www.geomview.org/ -- Problem reports: http

Re: Installed Cygwin 1.7 - no X?

2009-07-08 Thread Lloyd Wood
\bin\idle -display 127.0.0.1:0.0'. But startxwin.bat works as you'd expect.) On 7 Jul 2009, at 17:08, Lloyd Wood wrote: Installed Cygwin 1.7 beta on a new clean machine - figured I may as well get with the 1.7 program. Let it install all defaults plus a few packages I knew I'd need. Added

Installed Cygwin 1.7 - no X?

2009-07-07 Thread Lloyd Wood
Installed Cygwin 1.7 beta on a new clean machine - figured I may as well get with the 1.7 program. Let it install all defaults plus a few packages I knew I'd need. Added to default list, didn't remove anything. Installed on C:\cygwin under Windows XP SP2. How to start X? No XWin Server icon

Re: X.org 7.4 dying under Geomview

2009-02-22 Thread Lloyd Wood
in mwm and fvwm2? The startx fix is handy here; thanks.) At Saturday 2/21/2009 08:28 AM +, Lloyd Wood wrote: I should add that after doing startx 21, the console error I'm seeing once I launch geomview from an xterm with ./geomview -run ../savi1.4.2/savi and the local Cygwin/X display crashes

Re: X.org 7.4 dying under Geomview

2009-02-21 Thread Lloyd Wood
xinit: connection to X server lost. /var/log/XWin.0.og doesn't show anything beyond 'XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display'. At Thursday 2/19/2009 09:11 AM +, Lloyd Wood wrote: I have also noticed that, in -multiwindow mode, graphical updates for Geomview's camera

X.org 7.4 dying under Geomview

2009-02-19 Thread Lloyd Wood
I have also noticed that, in -multiwindow mode, graphical updates for Geomview's camera window now only happen for the area covered by the original camera position. That is, if you move the Windows window on screen, only the area of that window that overlaps with the area of original window

Re: /usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?

2009-02-18 Thread Lloyd Wood
Message- From: Jon TURNEY [mailto:jon.tur...@dronecode.org.ukmailto:jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk] Sent: Wed 2009-02-18 16:23 To: cc Cc: Wood L Dr (Electronic Eng) Subject: Re: /usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install? Lloyd Wood wrote: Lloyd Wood wrote: XWin was started with the following

Re: /usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?

2009-02-17 Thread Lloyd Wood
Lloyd Wood wrote: XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/lwood/.serverauth.3000 ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1400 h 1050 winInitializeDefaultScreens

/usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?

2009-02-16 Thread Lloyd Wood
I updated Cygwin and got the new x.org server. I have a couple of problems: 1. /usr/bin/startx can no longer be used to launch X in multiwindow mode. Instead, it creates the auth file, prints a dialog telling me to read /var/log/XWin.0.log, and that I'm running the Cygwin/X project version

new x.org server - startx and xinit fail?

2009-02-16 Thread Lloyd Wood
I've just updated my Cygwin installation (1.5.25), and got the new x.org xserver. startx has stopped working. After xauth creates a new authority file, it throws up a dialog saying it's put help text in /var/log/XWin.0.log Perusing /var/log/XWin.0.log shows: XWin was started with the

Re: new x.org server - startx and xinit fail?

2009-02-16 Thread Lloyd Wood
with spaces in path names, as outlined below. On 16 Feb 2009, at 13:20, Lloyd Wood wrote: I've just updated my Cygwin installation (1.5.25), and got the new x.org xserver. startx has stopped working. After xauth creates a new authority file, it throws up a dialog saying it's put help text in /var

rm behaviour when file in use by Windows app?

2008-09-01 Thread Lloyd Wood
I have a question about rm behaviour when the file rm'd is already in use by a Windows app. I've looked through the rm manpage/info, but that's just the usual GNU stuff; nothing cygwin-specific. Let's say I'm using the cygwin bash shell to tidy up a directory of Acrobat pdfs. I do rm

Geomview and Cygwin

2006-04-29 Thread Lloyd Wood
So, that means that Geomview will either have to use what we provide or decide not to support Cygwin. I suspect Geomview will just wait for Cygwin to return its support for d_ino in 1.5.20. Thanks to Eric Blake for an informative message. (How to download snapshots? There's nothing newer

Re: Geomview Cygwin setup

2006-04-28 Thread Lloyd Wood
(adding in the geomview and cygwin lists.) Chris, Looking at the changes in: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/geomview/geomview/src/bin/animate/glob.c there are specific fixes for Cygwin portability that have been included in Geomview 1.8.2 alpha that affect d_ino use; try changing the

Re: Geomview Cygwin setup

2006-04-28 Thread Lloyd Wood
/lloyd $ gcc -o cygtest cygwin.c [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/lloyd $ ./cygtest hello. Testing defines. __CYGWIN__ (Why #define says __CYGWIN__ and gcc -v says something else is silly.) I suspect something has changed affecting the CYGWIN test in glob.c L. At Friday 2006-04-28 12:29 +0100, Lloyd Wood

RE: Geomview Cygwin setup

2006-04-28 Thread Lloyd Wood
At Friday 2006-04-28 12:46 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: cygming, not cygwin? ('ming' is a strong insult in the UK. Yes, and we also do tongue-in-cheek humour quite well. Well, at least some of us do. humour is intended to generate an emotional response - laughter. I get the impression the

RE: Geomview Cygwin setup

2006-04-28 Thread Lloyd Wood
At Friday 2006-04-28 15:17 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: If you want people to use the information you provide rationally, do not colour that information with irrational attempts at humour to provide misinformation that causes doubt. We need to trust the output of gcc -v. No, this is

RE: Geomview Cygwin setup

2006-04-28 Thread Lloyd Wood
At Friday 2006-04-28 15:11 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: perhaps we can answer some questions for you about the recent changes to d_ino under cygwin? So, something has changed after all? Perhaps you could just point me at a document detailing those changes to d_ino that you mention? L. --

RE: Geomview Cygwin setup

2006-04-28 Thread Lloyd Wood
At Friday 2006-04-28 15:17 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: __CYGWIN__ is defined for gcc; gcc -v should report 'cygwin special'. I do not recommend changing the environment to __CYGMING__ to match in a further attempt at humour. If you want people to use the information you provide rationally, do

RE: Geomview Cygwin setup

2006-04-28 Thread Lloyd Wood
At Friday 2006-04-28 16:01 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 28 April 2006 15:45, Lloyd Wood wrote: At Friday 2006-04-28 15:11 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: perhaps we can answer some questions for you about the recent changes to d_ino under cygwin? So, something has changed after all? If you don't

RE: Geomview Cygwin setup

2006-04-28 Thread Lloyd Wood
on a cygwin-specific flag like this is.. insane. Doing the former (which is what you'd expect) makes you none the wiser about mingw. The latter is a special case where you already have some idea what the target may be, so why would you issue the command? Begs the question. Lloyd Wood wrote

RE: Geomview Cygwin setup

2006-04-28 Thread Lloyd Wood
At Friday 2006-04-28 17:44 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 28 April 2006 17:07, Lloyd Wood wrote: At Friday 2006-04-28 11:45 -0400, Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\) wrote: If you need to find out what gcc is targeting, perhaps you should use -dumpmachine instead. $ gcc -dumpmachine i686-pc

RE: Geomview Cygwin setup

2006-04-28 Thread Lloyd Wood
At Friday 2006-04-28 18:16 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 28 April 2006 18:04, Lloyd Wood wrote: At Friday 2006-04-28 17:44 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 28 April 2006 17:07, Lloyd Wood wrote: At Friday 2006-04-28 11:45 -0400, Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\) wrote: If you need to find out what gcc

RE: Geomview Cygwin setup

2006-04-28 Thread Lloyd Wood
At Friday 2006-04-28 17:44 +0100, you wrote: On 28 April 2006 17:07, Lloyd Wood wrote: At Friday 2006-04-28 11:45 -0400, Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\) wrote: If you need to find out what gcc is targeting, perhaps you should use -dumpmachine instead. $ gcc -dumpmachine i686-pc-cygwin

Cygwin preserving filenames ending in period

2005-02-25 Thread Lloyd Wood
Hello, I've just discovered that Cygwin does not preserve filenames ending in a period, and treats the filenames with and without the period as identical. This is contrary to other linux systems. http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/software/SaVi/building-1.2/ describes the problem; a

1.5.5-1: Tk support for 'plot' command and widget?

2004-01-18 Thread Lloyd Wood
I've been maintaining and enhancing Tcl/Tk code that uses a plot command for a creating and manipulating a vector plot widget (rather than a canvas bitmap or image widget). That code has worked fine under Tcl/Tk 7/4 and 8.x on e.g. Solaris and Linux for the past eight years, but I find that just