[PATCH suggestion] aclocal wrapper script loops forever if automake-devel or automake-stable is missing

2002-03-12 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hey, there! :) Does the attached patch make any sense ? It prevents an infinite loop if either automake-devel or automake-stable is missing. aclocal.PATCH Description: Binary data

[Possible BUG] VIM and execution of external commands which accept filename as parameter

2002-03-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hey, there! :) I have noticed the following behaviour of VIM and thought it is worth reporting it to the list Trying to execute an external command from vim and passing it a file name parameter from my home directory using the tilde character fails: sha1sum: ~/gdbtkini: No such file or

Re[2]: JDK 1.4

2002-03-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, cygwiners! :) Just to let you know that this message was sent to the list unintentionally :( It was my fault that my colleague sent this mail to the list - I had the Reply-To field set to the ml adress :( Sorry for any inconvinience Pavel Tsekov -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re[2]: [Possible BUG] VIM and execution of external commands which accept filename as parameter

2002-03-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Thanks, Luke! This explains it all! I'm sorry for the false alarm :( Monday, March 04, 2002, 5:19:29 PM, you wrote: LB /bin/sh on Cygwin doesn't understand the ~ character It's a rather LB limited shell LB try this: LB :set shell=/bin/bash LB Luke LB On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Pavel Tsekov wrote

Re: Unable to install file C:/cygwin/bin/cygrunsrv.exe

2002-02-27 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Gerrit, Is it possible, that you had cygrunsrv.exe running at the same time you were updating your installation ? Wednesday, February 27, 2002, 8:58:25 AM, you wrote: GC Hello, GC When I tried to upgrade to cygrunsrv-0.95-1 this morning I got the GC following error (probably because

Re: Cygwin 1.3.9 - gcc isn't working!

2002-02-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello isaque, Try to be more specific, please. What exactly doesn't work ? Output of gcc execution (if any) would be usefull Friday, February 22, 2002, 3:14:53 PM, you wrote: iucb Well, that's it, I've updated my cygwin environment and gcc isn't working any more! iucb Any help? --

Re[2]: Cygwin 1.3.9 - gcc isn't working!

2002-02-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello isaque, Please, supply the output of 'cygcheck -r -s -v -c', and also the output of 'gcc -v -o teste teste.o' Friday, February 22, 2002, 3:42:29 PM, you wrote: iucb OK, here goes what is happening... iucb root@SAO-IA7153149 ~/tmp iucb $ ls -la iucb total 1 iucb drwxr-xr-x2 root

Re[2]: Cygwin 1.3.9 - gcc isn't working!

2002-02-22 Thread Pavel Tsekov
: iucb On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:50:29PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Please, supply the output of 'cygcheck -r -s -v -c', and also iucb Cygwin Package Information [snip] iucb 701k 2001/12/04 C:\WINNT\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 iucb cygwin1.dll v0.0 ts=2001/9/13 0:54 iucb

Re: No home directory on fresh setup

2002-02-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Jan, Thursday, February 21, 2002, 2:50:36 PM, you wrote: VJvd A fresh installation of the latest cygwin results in no home directory. One VJvd enters in /usr/bin/user. This problem is not new and it's already fixed in CVS sources. It's specific to Win9x/ME installations only. For more

Re: tar 1.13.19-1: extraction of a .tar.gz file with -xvz ends with tar: Archive value 4178575360 is out of off_t range 0..2147483647

2002-02-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Peter, Thursday, February 21, 2002, 3:06:58 PM, you wrote: PFhd Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PFhd Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PFhd Received: (qmail 26332 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2002 15:12:28 - PFhd Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PFhd Received: (qmail 26323 invoked by uid 8);

Re[2]: Core dumped just only with strcat!

2002-02-19 Thread Pavel Tsekov
list, and by now, I'm not suscribed (yet). DP Thanks, DP Dani P. DP - Original Message - DP From: Pavel Tsekov [EMAIL PROTECTED] DP To: Dani P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] DP Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DP Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:57 AM DP Subject: Re: Core dumped just only with strcat! Just

Fwd: Re: Core dumped just only with strcat!

2002-02-19 Thread Pavel Tsekov
This is a forwarded message From: Dani P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pavel Tsekov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, February 18, 2002, 9:45:51 PM Subject: Core dumped just only with strcat! ===8==Original message text=== I've trying lots of things and after 1 day with it, I've

Re: Core dumped just only with strcat!

2002-02-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Just tried it - it doesn't dump core here. Is this snippet taken from a larger source ? If so maybe it would be usefull to paste it all. Maybe the core happens somewhere else... Still you can try to debug this by yourself - compile with -g option and launch gdb. Then come back to the list if you

Re[2]: Sprintf issue

2002-02-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Jorge, Please, can you check the return value of the system () call ? Also are you trying to run the compiled program from the cygwin shell or from the windows command prompt ? Output of cygcheck -r -s -v would be vuseful too. This is a problem which was brought to the mailing list some

Re: setup w/char* eliminated is big

2002-02-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Robert Collins wrote: Ok, finally got some breathing time. Setup with char * eliminated is ~350K. Ouch. This is why I've not committed my patch yet (I've been trying to see *where* the extra 100K appeared from). You have four 'inline' - I know they're small in size, but three of

Re: /proc (was: Re: /dev/registry)

2002-02-07 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Is the source code for this functionality accessible for download somewhere ? Chris January wrote: 1. it's difficult to accidentally cat to a key considering the length of the names - /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/S hell\

Re: Passing double quotes to DOS

2002-02-07 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Richard Gilbert wrote: I need to be able to pass double quotes to a program running under NT4/DOS but I cannot find a way of doing so. To illustrate the problem I have written a trivial BAT file called e.bat which contains the single line echo %1 If I run it from a DOS shell with a

Re: CHMOD - Still having problems !!

2002-02-07 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Do you use NTFS or FAT ? Turner, Nicholas wrote: Hi, I have checked the cygwin mailing lists and read the relevant docs but still have problem getting chmod to work on my NT4 SP6 PC. I have set the cygwin environment variable as below: $ cat cygwin.bat @echo off D: chdir

Re: CHMOD - Still having problems !!

2002-02-07 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Umm... Are you sure you're not running any other cygwin application before you start cygwin.bat ? Something like OpenSSH ? Can you provide the output of cygcheck -r -s -v ? Turner, Nicholas wrote: Hi, I'm using NTFS -Original Message- From: Pavel Tsekov [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DirectX8/DirectInput + cygwin

2002-02-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:11:58PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Dylan Cuthbert wrote: I am linking directly with the .lib files supplied by Microsoft, and all the Directx8 GUID references seem to link fine so does anybody have any idea what the problem might

Re: gcc broken in 1.3.9 ?

2002-02-01 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Maybe you haven't installed the gcc or binutils package. To bring everything back to normal just run again the setup.exe program and make sure you select both binutils and gcc packages. If the problem still persists you have to attach the output of the failing build and send it to the list.

Re: Install problems

2002-01-31 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Quoted from the BASH man page: -z string True if the length of string is zero. This means that you have your HOME environment variable already set. Arek wrote: I just installed cygwin today (after a long while of not having it installed...) and when I started up bash I

Re: Fw: After new install, start in /usr/bin/{myname} not in /home/{myname}

2002-01-31 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, Robert :) I've just tracked this problem. Here is what I've found: First of all the problem will appear on Win9x/ME only. In version 1.18 of mkpasswd.c the following change was made: - - if (passed_home_path[0] == '\0') - strcpy (passed_home_path, /home/); /* This takes

[PATCH suggestion] mkpasswd: was Re: Fw: After new install, start in /usr/bin/{myname} not in /home/{myname}

2002-01-31 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Pavel Tsekov wrote: Hello, Robert :) I've just tracked this problem. Here is what I've found: First of all the problem will appear on Win9x/ME only. In version 1.18 of mkpasswd.c the following change was made: - - if (passed_home_path[0] == '\0') - strcpy (passed_home_path

Re: Syntax error on compile

2002-01-30 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Ben Miller wrote: I am haveing trouble compiling anything on a new install of Cygwin. I have also installed MinGW (not sure if that is relevant). It was suggested that I run cygcheck -r -s -v and forward the log to this address. Can you help? So far so good. Still you don't provide

Re: Cannot starting X Server

2002-01-30 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hey, Nikolay :) Please, contact the appropriate mailing list for cygwin XFree86 related questions - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nikolay wrote: I have installed The latest Cygwin and then installed XFree86 version 4.2.0 and attempted to start the X server but no matter which method I used to start the

Re: call matlab from C

2002-01-29 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Earnie Boyd wrote: Wrong list!! Tamer Samy abdelazim wrote: Hi All ; i am using cygwin for windows. I tried to call matlab engine from C under cygwin under win2K ... I am always get errors from gcc compiler (the error is under) I do not know which libmat.a or which

Re: cygwin Digest 28 Jan 2002 07:40:28 -0000 Issue 1720

2002-01-28 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Please, next time reply to the list. David wrote: I would like to assign a tcp port number to an application. Just as ssh is assigned a port number and is listened for on a particular port. Does that clarify ? Not much. Do you want to code you application to listen on port 1234, or you

Re: The Question

2002-01-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Well, no one can show you the problem since you haven't included the fragment with the problematic #include. Just a hint - maybe you not using the right condition when you check, if you have to include values.h. Nguyen Le Minh wrote: Hi all, I have a question as follows; I have a program

Re: The Question

2002-01-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
values.h in my source code (in your letter I wrote wrong) make file in linux is true,but in cygwin is false. Does cygwin hasn't values.h? Could you show me the problem? Best, Nguyen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pavel Tsekov Sent

Re: dynamic link library /dev/null could not be found

2002-01-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
This looks rather bizzare! :) Can you show the link line which was used ? Do you have a tool which show PE imports/exports ? Something like PEDUMP ? This can help to find out which is the dll that is being replaced by /dev/null. David Starks-Browning wrote: Greetings, Before cygwin-1.3.7,

Re: Rules.make

2002-01-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Well, this looks much like using the shotgun approach. Why are you making this substitution ? What do you expect to happen - there is nothing common between /usr/src/linux and /usr/src/inetutils-1.3.2-16. Try to explain the problem with more details (for exmaple which is the program, the error

Re: dynamic link library /dev/null could not be found

2002-01-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
David Starks-Browning wrote: Oops, I forgot to provide an important clue! If I remove -lpthread from the link line, the executable is OK. On Monday 21 Jan 02, Pavel Tsekov writes: This looks rather bizzare! :) Can you show the link line which was used ? Just a simple test I've done

Re: wildcard for tcsh

2002-01-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Heyho! :) Tom Broadbent wrote: hi first off, i love using cygwin. now for the question... i am using a tcsh and the wildcard character ' * ' doesn't seem to work. if i type something like: grep foo * i get the following error: grep: *: No such file or directory what is the

Re: dynamic link library /dev/null could not be found

2002-01-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Scott Collis wrote: I am having the same problem. I switched to 1.3.8 and now when I compile my in-house code I get the same popup window that David sees referring to /dev/null I do not use -lpthread but do use -lm on my link line: Yes! In my previous mail I pasted from the 1.3.7-1

Re: System API problem

2002-01-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Well, you post this again. Do you think that if you post numerous times you'll force someone on the list to answer your question ? Better launch a debugger and find the source of your problem. FYI - this was reported a while back (2 times i think). As far as I remember no one else on the list

Re: System API problem

2002-01-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
And another thing - by posting erronous information you're not helping anyone to find the solution to your problem. You're just fooling the people. What I mean is that if the system() call returns 127 (0x7f) the error meaning is exec*() call failed not ERROR_PROC_NOT_FOUND as you state below.

Re: sshd and fstat

2002-01-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Guy Harrison wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:49:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Harrison) wrote: [snip] Could someone enlighten me about 'allow_ntsec'. How does CygWin turn this on? When you add ntsec to the environment variable CYGWIN. Check FAQ and documentation for more info.

Re: Bug Report: wrong file size displayed in bash for files over 2Gb (Windows 2k, Cygwin 2.78.2.13)

2002-01-16 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hey, Bruno :) CHARTIER,BRUNO (HP-Cupertino,ex1) wrote: I checked in the FAQs and mailing list archives and did not find the bug, please ignore if I was blind enough to bypass it! I didnt check hard enough then :) - Look this thread:

Re: How to stop ftp in Cygwin

2002-01-16 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Comment the coresponding line in the inetd configuration file and restart inetd. Read inetutils documentation in /usr/doc/. Tiffany Chan wrote: Hi, I want to use Microsoft FTP Service, so I would like to stop the Ftp in Cygwin (inetd), of course, i use cygwin for telnet. How to stop

Re: Re: error trying to compile anything

2002-01-16 Thread Pavel Tsekov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Uao!!! you are quick. Thank you for respoding. I have attached the output file if someone can have look at it. Well, I don't see the attachment :) Thanx again BiLo -- Original Message -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there,

Re: Re: error trying to compile anything

2002-01-16 Thread Pavel Tsekov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ops..the output file.. I have enclosed the file now Thanx again BiLo -- Original Message -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there, I tried to search in the archive for this but no result. I am sure that it is a configuration problem but I don't know

Re: Re: Re: error trying to compile anything

2002-01-16 Thread Pavel Tsekov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes...It works.. Thank you m8 np :) I was using the ls in the winnt because when I am in the win prompt then I always get confused with dir and ls. You can use all the cygwin utilities from the command prompt just by adding the cygwin bin directory in your

Re: Kylix Installation???

2002-01-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Whoa - you're trying to run a linux application on windows! Maybe you need to visit http://cygwin.com and see what's the aim of the project... Marcus Vinicius Eiffle Duarte wrote: Hi, folks! has anybody installed Kylix under Cygwin/XFree? I tried running the installer, but it doesn't seem

Re: Quick question on setup.exe

2002-01-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hey, Vincent! :) First of all - this is _NOT_ a download application. This is an installer. Now to answer you question - No! The package selection is not based on the OS, on which setup.exe is currently running. Vincent Arnoux wrote: Hello, Does this download application for cygwin takes in

Re: Error after ./configure

2002-01-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
You have installed the source bundle of the w32api package. Run setup.exe again and install the missing package. Btw when you're missing a file, you can always go to http://cygwin.com/packages/ and use the search engine to find out which package contains the missing file. Frank Wagner wrote:

Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project

2002-01-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Well, I just want to know - what's the thing that prevented the db package from being ported so long ? Is it extremly difficulk or it's just a matter of no one having the time/interest of doing it ? I may be interested in maintaing this package but what some details first :) Charles Wilson

Re: possible patch for cygwin.bat

2002-01-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hey, Joshua :) Joshua Franklin wrote: Here's a possible patch to include a couple rxvt lines REMed out. No changelog yet since I figure it needs comments. Anyone? --- desktop.cc-orig Fri Jan 11 10:38:12 2002 +++ desktop.cc Fri Jan 11 10:46:18 2002 @@ -199,6 +199,9 @@

Re: Scrolling Console?

2002-01-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
1) Try using rxvt. 2) Don't forget to check the mailing list arcvhive Rob wrote: Hi all! Is there a console app out there that will allow for scrolling with an unlimited buffer? Win 2k's DOS prompt has this and I want it very badly on my WinME machine running cygwin.. -- Unsubscribe

Re: [Q]Windows PATH is not working..

2002-01-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Heyho :) Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: Well, I felt the same way - I thought I should investigate this but not until the weekend. I hoped that someone will shed some light in the meantime :) I must say I'm a bit puzzled; I never look at it, but WIN32 path work very well for arguments to

Re: [Q]Windows PATH is not working..

2002-01-09 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Please, stick to posting to the list - I and many others read it. S.B.(SangBum) LEE wrote: It didn't fix, as you see below.. leesb@leesb-kr ~ $ c:\\WINNT\\system32\\notepad.exe bash: c:\WINNT\system32\notepad.exe: command not found Pavel Tsekov wrote: S.B.(SangBum) LEE wrote: Hi

Re: w32api header problems

2002-01-09 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Jean le Roux wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:07:47PM +0300, egor duda wrote: Hi! Wednesday, 09 January, 2002 Jean le Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JlR I need to include /usr/include/w32api/winbase.h in order to use the JlR GetVolumeInformation(...) system call under windows. JlR However,

Re: w32api header problems

2002-01-09 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Jean le Roux wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:40:02PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Jean le Roux wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:07:47PM +0300, egor duda wrote: Hi! Wednesday, 09 January, 2002 Jean le Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JlR I need to include /usr/include/w32api/winbase.h

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hey, John :) John Peacock wrote: David Starks-Browning wrote: On Tuesday 8 Jan 02, Gerrit P. Haase writes: I think `rxvt' should be the default shell for Cygwin after a fresh setup. At least for Win98 users. I fully agree, but who is going to do the work? The change is truly trivial:

Re: linking problem

2002-01-07 Thread Pavel Tsekov
You won't be able to do this (at least ATM). MSVC and gcc use different ways to describe the C++ symbols. Guenther Sohler wrote: Hallo Group, I downloaded the qt-2.3 library for windows. these have visual studio 6.0 library format., and i want to link the libraries to my object files to

Re: CHMOD propblem !!!

2001-12-31 Thread Pavel Tsekov
I'm out of ideas :( Have you tried chmod-ing from the bash shell ? Can you post the output of cygcheck -r -s -v ? JOSE (GRI) wrote: What is your file systemfilesystem - NTFS or FAT ? NTFS Can you attach an output of sample session in which you cant change the file permissions ?

Re: new setup snapshot

2001-12-21 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Robert Collins wrote: I've uploaded a new setup snapshot for the adventurous. w32api also has been updated, and the update is needed to build the setup HEAD code. Feedback welcome. remaining features to next release: 1) Gary's layout changes. 2) Clickable categories. 3) Pavel

Re: sscanf %as broken (was: linking with glut32.lib?)

2001-12-20 Thread Pavel Tsekov
The man page of the glibc sscanf explains it all - see this: a Indicates that the conversion will be s, the needed memory space for the string will be malloc'ed and the pointer to it will be assigned to the char pointer variable, which does not have to be initialised

Re: cygwin problem

2001-12-20 Thread Pavel Tsekov
AChan wrote: Hi, I have just downloaded all files from the nasa site. A shortcut was created on my desktop but when I click on it, the window says Bad command or file. I could not open any downloaded file. This indicates that you haven't downloaded all the files :) Run setup.exe and

Re: Make Problem!!!!

2001-12-17 Thread Pavel Tsekov
This is an inidcation that c++.exe is not in the list of paths of your PATH environment variable. JOSE (GRI) wrote: Hi: I have got an environment problem with make: D: \make -f mcyg32 c++.exe -c /comun/src/cacheb.cpp -o /client/mcc_cyg/debg/cacheb.obj -DLIBRERIA - DDOS_SOURCE

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-3.0.2p1-2

2001-12-17 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 04:45:09PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Check your setup.log and setup.log.full for any error messages - perhaps the tarball is broken (paritally downloaded). I have just used setup myself to update one of my Cygwin boxes. I had

Re: Problem using pthreads with GCC under CygWin

2001-12-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
You dont need to add neither -pthread nor -pthreads to the gcc command line. pthreads is part of the cygwin libc. Kay M wrote: I have win98 Have installed Cygwin B20.1 and also have installed version 1.3.3. I have a simple .c file that is a pthreads example. Problem is When I compile

Re: string.h vs string.h usage

2001-12-05 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Earnie Boyd wrote: Yes but it gives various include paths from cygwin build and newlib build - this means that you compile only in this environment (i.e. winsup env). If you try only mingw it wont work :) However I've fixed that for me locally There should be nothing to fix.

Re: string.h vs string.h usage

2001-12-05 Thread Pavel Tsekov
egor duda wrote: Hi! Wednesday, 05 December, 2001 Pavel Tsekov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SUSv2 mandates both strings.h and string.h mingw declares strcasecmp() in string.h while SUSv2 says it should be in strings.h Afaik str[n]case is and BSD-ism :) Btw here is what glibc on redhat

Re: Can't run any executable from cygwin/bin

2001-12-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Can you post the output of cygcheck -r -v -s ? Ivan Dobrianov wrote: Well, nothing works indeed :-! The executables in cygwin/bin fall into those categories: (a) Print nothing and hang, e.g.: D:\bin\cygwin\bin.\ls D:\bin\cygwin\bin.\bash.exe D:\bin\cygwin\bin.\sort --help (b)

Re: Can't run any executable from cygwin/bin

2001-12-03 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, Ivan :) What you mean ntohing runs ? Does any of the executables, you've tried to run, print an error message ? What does it say ? Ivan Dobrianov wrote: It's a strange problem: there was a Windows Whistler Server machine (from what I understand this is a beta version of the Windows

Re: trying to compile jni lib under win2k

2001-12-03 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, Stewart :) Check this: http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ Stewart Allen wrote: I'm trying to compile a small jni lib under win2k, but I'm getting a LOT of errors like this: -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

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