setup.exe Runtime terminates on corrupt setup.rc file

2012-08-01 Thread Mark Blackburn
I've been getting the following message when downloading the mirror list: === Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library: This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for

Re: cygheap problems, 20040326 snapshot

2004-04-06 Thread Mark Blackburn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:16:06AM -0500, Mark Blackburn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 08:27:32PM -0500, Mark Blackburn wrote: Brian Ford wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Mark Blackburn wrote: No it isn't. I recently tried my own build

Re: cygheap problems, 20040326 snapshot

2004-04-03 Thread Mark Blackburn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 08:27:32PM -0500, Mark Blackburn wrote: Brian Ford wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Mark Blackburn wrote: No it isn't. I recently tried my own build of cygwin: Could you possibly build it with the attached patch and report the strace output? Also

Re: Status on coreutils?

2004-04-02 Thread Mark Blackburn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 1 15:18, Mark Blackburn wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: [...] Ask Mark what's the problem. He was already as far as removing su, kill and uptime from the binary package but then... Corinna I was trying to get make check to finish completely but it looks like

Re: Status on coreutils?

2004-04-02 Thread Mark Blackburn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:12:22PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 2 08:02, Mark Blackburn wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Huh? What should be the reason for this? The recursive commands from fileutils are runnning fine under 1.5.9. And I have a local build

Re: cygheap problems, 20040326 snapshot

2004-04-02 Thread Mark Blackburn
Brian Ford wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Mark Blackburn wrote: No it isn't. I recently tried my own build of cygwin: Could you possibly build it with the attached patch and report the strace output? Also, if you could scan cygwin/winsup/cygwin/how-to-debug-cygwin.txt, it will tell you how

Re: Status on coreutils?

2004-04-01 Thread Mark Blackburn
. If I released coreutils now we would end up with a lot of (former) fileutils commands which would fail when doing recursion and a lot of unhappy people on the mailing list. Mark Blackburn. -- If it's not POSIX... it's CRAP!

Re: Would like to release 1.5.10 soon -- please try latest snapshot: Win95, make fixes

2004-03-26 Thread Mark Blackburn
Buzz wrote: [...] begin 644 cygcheck.out Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Mar 26 06:37:12 2004 [...] 653k 1998/10/30 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\cygwinb19.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 cygwinb19.dll v0.0 ts=1998/7/15 19:50

cygheap problems, 20040326 snapshot

2004-03-26 Thread Mark Blackburn
): *** m.AllocationBase 0x0, m.BaseAddress 0x616B, m.RegionSize 0x1AD, m.State 0x1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 althor 1.5.10s(0.112/4/2) 20040326 13:21:11 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin Mark Blackburn Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Mar

Re: procps Unknown HZ value question

2004-03-23 Thread Mark Blackburn
Richard Duran wrote: Does anyone know what to do (what argument to pass) so that procps doesn't display the Unknown HZ value... error message? You didn't provide any information about your system, but I'm guessing the --replace-win9x-with-win2k option will do it :) Mark Blackburn -- If it's

Re: How do you fstat an open directory?

2004-03-23 Thread Mark Blackburn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [...] No, it's a bug in Cygwin's fstat implementation which happens to go wrong for directories. Thanks for catching this. Corinna Has this been fixed? If so a snapshot would be real handy... Mark Blackburn -- If it's not POSIX... it's CRAP! -- Unsubscribe info

How do you fstat an open directory?

2004-03-22 Thread Mark Blackburn
:17489383932880356520 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -id d 3659174697343209 d/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Notice that the inodes don't match from ls -id and from my test program. Am I doing something wrong? Mark Blackburn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

Re: cp.exe bug

2004-03-15 Thread Mark Blackburn
://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg00017.html Mark Blackburn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: cp.exe bug

2004-03-15 Thread Mark Blackburn
Mark Blackburn wrote: Ross Boulet wrote: [...] Above is the makefile which produced the error. The cause seems to be cp's handling of a .exe file. A simple way to get what I now see as a misleading error message from cp is: $ touch foo.exe $ cp foo bar# note the absence of the .exe

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1 [again]

2004-03-14 Thread Mark Blackburn
are to be bzipped instead of gzipped then maybe a patch should be made to generic-build-script. AFAIK no cygwin package currently bzips its man pages. Cheers, Nicholas Mark Blackburn

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-12 Thread Mark Blackburn
, and textutils. Those three have been combined into a single set of utilities called the coreutils. category: Base requires: cygwin libiconv2 libint Mark Blackburn Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:45:44AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote

Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1 [again]

2004-03-12 Thread Mark Blackburn
.tar.bz2 Mark Blackburn

Re: Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-12 Thread Mark Blackburn
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: --- Mark Blackburn marklistatfangorndotca wrote: So I will delete the following: usr/bin/uptime.exe usr/bin/kill.exe usr/share/man/man1/uptime.1.gz usr/share/man/man1/kill.1.gz I will include the fileutils

Ready for test coreutils-5.2.0-1

2004-03-11 Thread Mark Blackburn
comment on these patches so I could figure out if they are relevant for the coreutils package. Mark Blackburn diff -Naur fileutils-4.1/lib/regex.c fileutils-4.1-2/lib/regex.c --- fileutils-4.1/lib/regex.c 2001-04-02 04:26:14.0 -0400 +++ fileutils-4.1-2/lib/regex.c 2003-07-13 11:21

Re: Advice needed: Scheduled rsync via SSH with ssh-agent...

2004-03-10 Thread Mark Blackburn
You should be able to use rsync -e ssh and call it from system agent Don Littlefield II wrote: Hi there folks, I need some advice on how to do what I initially thought would be a simply thing. Basically, on a scheduled basis, I need to rsync some files between hostA to hostB. I have to make use

Coreutils musings...

2004-03-09 Thread Mark Blackburn
who.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4 whoami.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4 yes.exe : sh-utils-2.0.15-4 Mark Blackburn

Re: Coreutils musings...

2004-03-09 Thread Mark Blackburn
Mark Blackburn wrote: I tried compiling coreutils-5.2.0 and I didn't see many problems with that. Another problem I see is that coreutils will cause conflicts with other packages: textutils, sh-utils and fileutils. Obviously coreutils is intended to replace these packages so these packages

Re: Coreutils musings...

2004-03-09 Thread Mark Blackburn
I'm going to poke around in the coreutils source for a bit to make sure I'm not biting off more than I can chew before I volunteer. I don't expect any further discussion until I post an ITP and I'm sure that I'm competent enough to discuss things. Mark Blackburn

Re: sshd vs. lftp

2004-03-05 Thread Mark Blackburn
PROTECTED]) Mark Blackburn, lftp cygwin port maintainer. I wasn't able to find anything about this in the online docs, FAQ, or mailing list archives... any clues? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: lftp 2.6.10-2

2004-02-28 Thread Mark Blackburn
questions or comments, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I would appreciate it if you would use this address rather than emailing me directly. Thanks. Mark Blackburn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Update: lftp 2.6.10-2

2004-02-27 Thread Mark Blackburn
d5c9a94cadf3944bf5253ed027563d9b *lftp-2.6.6-2-src.tar.bz2 42cb1a647fae2dfc1d001ad7f18a62ec *lftp-2.6.6-2.tar.bz2 Thanks. Thanks. Mark Blackburn

Re: LFTP 2.6.10-1 missing SSL support and with wrong dependency

2004-01-21 Thread Mark Blackburn
d:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll d:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll Mark Blackburn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Why 2 DLL names?

2003-12-22 Thread Mark Blackburn
Roy Clemmons wrote: Greetings, Using Cygwin 1.5.5-1, I am porting a Unix shared library to Windows. After making and linking the library with libtool, two DLLs were created: libxx.dll.a cygxx-1.dll libxx.dll.a is the import library cygxx-1.dll is the dll Read

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: lftp 2.6.10-1

2003-12-16 Thread Mark Blackburn
general questions or comments, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I would appreciate it if you would use this address rather than emailing me directly. Thanks. Mark Blackburn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Update: lftp 2.6.10

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Blackburn
version (2.6.9) which contains a security fix. Thanks. Mark Blackburn

Re: Update: lftp 2.6.10

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Blackburn
Daniel Reed wrote: On 2003-12-15T14:59-0500, Mark Blackburn wrote: ) I have updated the lftp package to the new vendor version 2.6.10. Please ) upload at your earliest convenience. ... ) http://blackburn.homeip.net/cygwin-packages/release/lftp/lftp-2.6.10-1.tar.bz2 ) http://blackburn.homeip.net

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: lftp 2.6.9-1

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Blackburn
general questions or comments, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I would appreciate it if you would use this address rather than emailing me directly. Thanks. Mark Blackburn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Update: lftp 2.6.9-1

2003-12-14 Thread Mark Blackburn
version (2.6.9) -Add fix to allow DOS text files to be used as scripts Thanks. Mark Blackburn

Update: lftp 2.6.9-1

2003-12-14 Thread Mark Blackburn
(2.6.9) -Add fix to allow DOS text files to be used as scripts Thanks. Mark Blackburn

Re: [ITP] ddd-3.3.8

2003-12-08 Thread Mark Blackburn
Harold, How do you generate setup.ini? Is there a script somewhere or do you generate it by hand? Mark Blackburn Harold L Hunt II wrote: I would like to contribute and maintain ddd: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ GNU DDD is a graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB

Re: lftp 2.6.8 does not support dos file format

2003-11-28 Thread Mark Blackburn
Hi Didrik, Could you send me (or the list) a script file as an attachment so I can test with it. I'm not too familiar with lftp scripts. Thanks. Mark Blackburn (lftp cygwin port maintainer) Didrik Pinte wrote: Hi everybody, I've just tried to use lftp under Cygwin and encounter the following

Re: Problem making rxvt

2003-11-27 Thread Mark Blackburn
Did you read /usr/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-2.7.10.README ? It says to configure like so: ./configure --enable-utmp --enable-wtmp --enable-lastlog \ --enable-xpm-background --enable-menubar --enable-rxvt-scroll \ --enable-next-scroll --enable-xterm-scroll --enable-frills \ --enable-linespace

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp-2.6.8-3

2003-11-13 Thread Mark Blackburn
. * readline updated to version 4.3. Mark Blackburn, lftp maintainer. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Updated: lftp-2.6.8-3

2003-11-13 Thread Mark Blackburn
to version 4.3. Mark Blackburn, lftp maintainer.

[Update] lftp-2.6.8-3 and lftp-2.6.6-2

2003-11-11 Thread Mark Blackburn
-packages/lftp/lftp-2.6.8-3-src.tar.bz2 http://cauthon/cygwin-packages/lftp/lftp-2.6.8-3.tar.bz2 http://cauthon/cygwin-packages/lftp/setup.hint http://cauthon/cygwin-packages/lftp/lftp-2.6.6-2-src.tar.bz2 http://cauthon/cygwin-packages/lftp/lftp-2.6.6-2.tar.bz2 Mark Blackburn

[Warning] lftp hangs on install

2003-11-08 Thread Mark Blackburn
through task manager on W2K or CTRL-ALT-DEL on Win98. This sh.exe process will fill up your hard drive otherwise. The lftp-2.6.8-1.tar.bz2 has been removed from cygwin.com and should dissappear from the mirrors soon. This is to alleviate this problem. Sorry for this inconvenience. Mark Blackburn

Re: problem with lftp 2.6.8-1 postinstall script

2003-11-07 Thread Mark Blackburn
package. I also ask that this package be removed from the cygwin.com ftp server until I can package a 2.6.8-2 version. Mark Blackburn Andrew Waltman wrote: For me when installing lftp 2.6.8-1 the postinstall script at /etc/postinstall/lftp.sh gets stuck in an infinite loop on lines 23-27 if you

Re: problem with lftp 2.6.8-1 postinstall script

2003-11-07 Thread Mark Blackburn
package. I also ask that this package be removed from the cygwin.com ftp server until I can package a 2.6.8-2 version. Mark Blackburn Andrew Waltman wrote: For me when installing lftp 2.6.8-1 the postinstall script at /etc/postinstall/lftp.sh gets stuck in an infinite loop on lines 23-27 if you

[Update] lftp

2003-11-06 Thread Mark Blackburn
is received after QUIT is sent. * readline updated to version 4.3. Mark Blackburn

Re: Moving lftp out of test [upload]

2003-10-31 Thread Mark Blackburn
Never mind... apparently this was already taken care of on Oct 23. Mark Blackburn wrote: Well I guess lftp has been sitting in test for long enough. As I mentioned previously lftp will hang when sending files with sftp. I'm hoping I'll get time to fix it later. Please upload the updated

Moving lftp out of test [upload]

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Blackburn
requires: cygwin libreadline5 libncurses7 openssl crypt fileutils libiconv2 libintl2 Mark Blackburn

Re: move lftp out of test?

2003-10-22 Thread Mark Blackburn
Christopher Faylor wrote: lftp has been in test state for a while. Can it be switched over into curr now? cgf lftp crashes when sending a file over the fish protocol (for me at least). I haven't been able to isolate the problem. Besides that I guess its OK to switch into curr. Mark

Re: Gtk+-2.0

2003-10-14 Thread Mark Blackburn
should read http://cygwin.com/setup.html to find out how to submit it. You should read over the whole page to make sure that you packaged it correctly. Also, if you need further help with packaging and submitting a package [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a better place to ask. Mark Blackburn -- Unsubscribe

Package for upload: lftp

2003-08-29 Thread Mark Blackburn
-2.6.6-1-src.tar.bz2 http://blackburn.homeip.net/cygwin-packages/lftp/lftp-2.6.6-1.tar.bz2 http://blackburn.homeip.net/cygwin-packages/lftp/setup.hint Thanks Mark Blackburn

Re: Package for upload: lftp

2003-08-29 Thread Mark Blackburn
hint btw, I just didn't want to forget before leaving the internet for the weekend. Mark Blackburn

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Available for test: lftp-2.6.6-1

2003-08-29 Thread Mark Blackburn
protocol, lftp causes a segfault when copying a file to the host (put operation). Smaller files (6k) will work OK. But anything larger causes a segfault for me. -lftp won't store the file time from the server. (reported by: Frédéric L. W. Meunier). Mark Blackburn, lftp maintainer

Re: [ITP] lftp

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Blackburn
Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Mark Blackburn wrote: As per cgf's suggestion, I intend to maintain lftp. I downloaded your package and have a suggestion. 1- Install more documentation files. The following seem to be important: FAQ FEATURES NEWS README.debug-levels

Re: [ITP] lftp

2003-08-24 Thread Mark Blackburn
As per Igor's suggestions I have moved the /etc/ltpd.conf to the postinstall script using the inetd postinstall as a template. I have also removed the unused /usr/lib/lftp/2.6.6 directory tree for this release. b266b1913cf4704760627986a7049cf8 lftp-2.6.6-1-src.tar.bz2

[ITP] lftp

2003-08-23 Thread Mark Blackburn
/setup.hint sdesc: An FTP client that supports sftp (fish protocol) ldesc: A command line file transfer program. It supports ftp, ftps, http, https, hftp, fish and file protocols. It also supports tab-completion, command histories and more. Mark Blackburn

Re: auto tab complete

2003-08-23 Thread Mark Blackburn
an email to cygwin-apps. Mark Blackburn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Building setup.exe

2003-08-20 Thread Mark Blackburn
Where are the instructions for building setup? Are they in a FAQ somewhere or in the source tree? For that matter how do you figure out to get the source from cvs? I already know some of these answers ie: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin-apps co setup cd setup ./bootstrap.sh cd ..

Re: [PATCH] : make cygpath use multiple filename arguments

2003-07-18 Thread Mark Blackburn
Randall R Schulz wrote: Mark, Cygpath will process multiple names when it's operating as a filter. I suggest that your patch be changed to print each converted argument on a separate line. Randall Schulz At 13:53 2003-07-17, Mark Blackburn wrote: Dunno if anybody will find this useful

Re: Problem with cygwin.dll ver 1.5.0-1

2003-07-18 Thread Mark Blackburn
Gene Livshits wrote: Here is a more detailed description of the problem: + /usr/bin/rsync -arvzu -e /usr/bin/ssh --delete --force --stats -- progress --rsync-path /usr/bin/rsync z floyd.orangeblues.com:/tmp Failed to dup/close : Socket operation on non-socket rsync error: error in IPC code (code

[PATCH] : make cygpath use multiple filename arguments

2003-07-17 Thread Mark Blackburn
Dunno if anybody will find this useful or not: Currently if you say: # cygpath -w /usr /lib you get a usage error. With my patch you get: # cygpath -w /usr /lib c:\cygwin\usr c:\cygwin\lib Mark. Index: utils/cygpath.cc === RCS

Re: [PATCH] : make cygpath use multiple filename arguments

2003-07-17 Thread Mark Blackburn
Picky, picky... Rolf Campbell wrote: What about filenames with spaces in them? Wouldn't the output be ambiguous? Mark Blackburn wrote: Dunno if anybody will find this useful or not: Currently if you say: # cygpath -w /usr /lib you get a usage error. With my patch you get: # cygpath -w

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-2.7.10-1

2003-04-01 Thread Mark Blackburn
,console \ --enable-languages --with-encoding=noenc \ CFLAGS=-O -g -W -I`pwd`/W11 This also seems to fix the default icon problem Mark Blackburn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http

Re: Cygwin 'bell' not working

2003-04-01 Thread Mark Blackburn
Jerry D. Hedden wrote: The following command is supposed to sound a 'bell', but does not produce any sound output on my machine: echo -e '\a' If I output a ^G using Window's echo command, I do get a beep. I am not using X-Windows. I am using Windows 'command prompt' window running bash. Does

Re: Cygwin 'bell' not working

2003-04-01 Thread Mark Blackburn
to the soundcard if available. If your speakers are turned down you won't hear it. Mark Blackburn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

windres and RCDATA sections

2003-02-03 Thread Mark Blackburn
windres seems to choke on multiline strings. With the following exerpt from a .rc file 83 IDR_DEVICES RCDATA 84 BEGIN 85 mswinpr2,\0 /* can't set resolution in device dialog box */ 86 djet500,300x300,150x150,100x100,75x75\0 87 \0 88 END I get: windres:

Grep says file exists and then doesn't grep it

2002-12-19 Thread Mark Blackburn
If I type: $ grep -e hello -r . I get: grep: .: File exists and grep doesn't search the contents of any files If I try compiling it myself from the setup source package (grep-2.5-1) this doesn't happen anymore. Grep behaves as expected. Has anybody else seen this behaviour? uname -a

Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't grep it

2002-12-19 Thread Mark Blackburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works fine here but I'm on W2K. Does 'grep -r -e hello .' or 'grep -r hello .' work? No and No. Same result as before. Maybe compiling on Win98 makes some sort of difference? I assume it was originally compiled on W2K. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: /bin/shutdown on ME

2002-11-18 Thread Mark Blackburn
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Quoting from the ExitWindowsEx page on MSDN: Windows 95/98/Me: ExitWindowEx does not work from a console application. (the typo is theirs) One solution I tried, consequently, is making shutdown into a window (WinMain) application, using the run program as a template.

Re: Possible error in cygpath

2002-05-16 Thread Mark Blackburn
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Joerg R. Schaible wrote: Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:44:51AM +0200, Schaible, Jorg wrote: The reason why I just implemented -s (in 1999) was that

Re: bash question

2002-05-16 Thread Mark Blackburn
You asked this in the wrong place btw, (I think its a bash specific questing) but here goes anyways: #!/bin/bash i=0 for x in 1 2 3; do let i=i+1 echo item $x done echo Processed $i items cat /tmp/file END item 1 item 2 item 3 END cat /tmp/file | { export i=0; while read item; do \ let

Possible error in cygpath

2002-05-14 Thread Mark Blackburn
In cygpath.cc there is a function that goes like this: static char * get_short_name (const char *filename) { char *sbuf; DWORD len = GetShortPathName (filename, NULL, 0); if (len == ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER) { fprintf (stderr, %s: cannot create short name of %s\n, prog_name,