Re: [PATCH] make handle_sigsuspend a cancellation point

2003-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 19:57, Thomas Pfaff wrote: This patch will make handle_sigsuspend (used by pause, sigpause and sigsuspend) a pthread cancellation point. Also looks good. Again, please do a scriptable testcase for these. Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: Setup command-line interface

2003-01-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 21:46, Max Bowsher wrote: Will the engine have any command line parsing capability? Or will the GUI/CLI parse the parameters, and make a call to the engine API to tell it about them? I am undecided what is better. Likewise. Given the wonderful, distributed GetOpt++, we

RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

2003-01-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 19:08, LA Walsh wrote: Ok, did I mention POSIX? Posix != Unix. So what's your point? Cygwin targets POSIX compatability wherever posible. Any discussion about paths that ignores the POSIX standards will need to be reviewed with POSIX in mind. It's easier to do

RE: Setup.exe

2003-01-08 Thread Robert Collins
The core requirements are: win95 ie4 thats all we can assume will be present. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Setup command-line interface

2003-01-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 17:25, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Agree/Disagree/Flame? Agree but: There are two sets of command line parameters. 1) Drive the 'engine' 2) Drive the GUI. I.e. if I want the GUI to skip site selection, that is not an engine change, it is a GUI change. I do want us to get

Re: Setup.exe

2003-01-08 Thread Robert Collins
Gah. Sorry about the half-backed reply there. On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 04:24, Dave Hooper wrote: (I believe Windows will by default wait until setup.exe has exitted before closing the dialup connection) unless setup.exe gives Windows a hint. I'm almost utterly convinced that a sequence in

RE: Setup.exe

2003-01-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 16:15, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] You can assume IE4 is present on the system, thats already a requirement for setup to operate. GAH! NOW he tells me! ;-) Heh, you told me! (It's a requirement for the GUI update you implemented). Rob -- GPG key

RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

2003-01-08 Thread Robert Collins
Sorry for butting in again, but you have a factual error that needs highlighting. On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 13:18, linda w (cyg) wrote: Understanding that double slashes at the beginning of a path are special is good sense for any portable program. --- There you go again, making

RE: Setup.exe

2003-01-08 Thread Robert Collins
The core requirements are: win95 ie4 thats all we can assume will be present. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 05:07, Christopher Faylor wrote: That is basically asking 27 package maintainers to change the way they do things rather than just changing setup.exe. Did I miss something? I didn't think setup.exe needed to change in either case? Rob -- GPG key available at:

RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, Cygwin, Syntactic vs.Semantic path analysis

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 20:52, LA Walsh wrote: Do you think this is proper behavior? Do you think a win32 person being introduced to posix/gnu utils would find this beneficial? Do you think a linux person who uses some combination of cygwin and Win utils would find this beneficial?

Re: [Mostly to Charles Wilson] Upgrading Cygwin's CVS

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 01:08, Jason Tishler wrote: On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:58:48PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Because of all that, I'd pretty much decided that the next time I update the 'cvs' package, I'm going to use the cvsnt codebase Well, there's always Subversion:

Re: Setup Prop: Change percent to underscore

2003-01-05 Thread Robert Collins
Answering for the archives, so future enquirers don't get a distorted view. On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 05:27, M. Evans wrote: Max, There are more flavors of wrongness than legal/factual. These include moral, ethical, and software-horse-sense. This is a straw man. Neither Max nor I restricted the

Re: Setup Prop: Change percent to underscore

2003-01-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 07:42, Robert Collins wrote: This is a straw man. Neither Max nor I restricted the discussion insert to being only legally or factually wrong. -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description

Re: Setup Prop: Change percent to underscore

2003-01-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 10:09, M. Evans wrote: The percent (%) character in the setup.exe download file paths is a problem for many Windows file managers. These include Directory Toolkit and 2xExplorer. The proposal is to change setup.exe to use underscores or some similarly innocuous

Re: Setup Prop: Change percent to underscore

2003-01-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 10:48, M. Evans wrote: Yep. Why not contact the authors of the programs you mention and get them to fix their bugs. Already done that. I agree with you that it's legal but also think what is legal is not always what is ethical. It would be better for Cygwin to

Re: Setup Prop: Change percent to underscore

2003-01-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:17, M. Evans wrote: I admire Cygwin a great deal but that's bull. Nobody but Cygwin uses the % sign. Thats a hasty generalization http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/hasty-generalization.html. And even if you guys were right (which you are not) You haven't

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 12:33, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:24:53PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 08:50 2003-01-04, John Morrison wrote: Please find for you perusal and review... (long links, will wrap!) Why don't you enclose all URLs in email within angle brackets

Re: File::Spec, Cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis is.

2003-01-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 12:27, linda w (cyg) wrote: A bit late to the party, I know, but wanted to chime in on the Cygwin File::Spec discussion. I'm 'cc'ing the cygwin list as a heads up for any interested parties. A more satisfactory mapping is to base Cygwin on Win32, not Unix. Cygwin,

RE: Integrating Ralf's rebase into setup.exe

2003-01-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 20:27, Ralf Habacker wrote: Rob suggested libcygimagehlp.a for the library. Should we leave the names as is, but use -L and -I to find the right files instead? If I remember right, this lib will be used for a cygwin based rebase and later in the cygwin's setup

RE: Integrating Ralf's rebase into setup.exe

2003-01-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 20:31, Ralf Habacker wrote: Thats orthogonal (but IIRC is possible now/soon). The build within setup.exe will be a .a library, not a .dll. You could always use a compile flag to choose between cout error reporting and exceptions. What about the following: Step 1:

RE: Integrating Ralf's rebase into setup.exe

2003-01-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 20:50, Ralf Habacker wrote: You have already stated - libcygimagehlp (for cygwin applications like rebase) Do you mean - libmingwimagehlp for setup.exe ? I really don't care, as long as it doesn't comflict with the real imagehlp library. What about the

RE: Integrating Ralf's rebase into setup.exe

2003-01-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 22:35, Ralf Habacker wrote: And heres a show stopper. The library should not use cout at all. It should throw an exception, and let the user interface handle it. Does this work also, if this library is compiled as a dll ? Thats orthogonal (but IIRC is possible

Re: pthread support ... broken in the past .. fixed now?

2003-01-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 04:11, H. Henning Schmidt wrote: I am porting the omniORB CORBA-framework to cygwin. It makes heavy use of pthreads, I do not see a way to work around that ... so I need pthreads working in cygwin. I have found a number of messages in the the mailing-list archives

Re: Heads up: *possible* bug in cygwin

2003-01-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 10:31, Charles Wilson wrote: 1) valgrind hasn't been ported to cygwin AFAIK. But it was fairly easy to compile efence, given that helpful folks had previously posted patches to the list. I've updated them to Bruce's 2.2.2 release, and will publish them soon.

Re: Integrating Ralf's rebase into setup.exe

2002-12-31 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 02:17, Charles Wilson wrote: I needed to make the following changes before this would compile. Mostly namespace errors, but also a typo and main() void vs. int. I figured the library files should explicitly call std::cout friends, but the executables could go ahead

Re: xinetd and chkconfig - ok to upload ?

2002-12-30 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 09:50, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: BTW, shouldn't setup remove/install the packages one by one? Currently if several packages are upgraded at the same time setup removes _all_ the packages to be upgared first and installs all the upgrade packages after that. Because of file

Re: Burning cygwin distribution CDs

2002-12-30 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 22:08, Laurynas Biveinis wrote: However this is not exactly what I need - I have to burn all the 1GB stuff to CDs. Why? You do realize that that includes multiple versions of just about every package? Yes, I do. In fact, if I was creating such CD for my own

Re: Setup proposal: Maintainer Features #define and AC_ARG_ENABLE

2002-12-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 10:45, Robert Collins wrote: Secondly, maintainer only features should not be visible as configure arguments - add them to your CXXFLAGS command line parameter, or tweak Makefile.am. The reason for this is that users *will* turn on configure parameters in the assumption

Re: Setup proposal: Maintainer Features #define and AC_ARG_ENABLE

2002-12-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 11:02, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: I suggest it be used for enabling the existence of the alternate registry name command line option and any other future additions of this sort. It is different from DEBUG, because DEBUG features impede the use

Re: [PATCH] exclude runtime-pseudo-reloc symbols from auto-export

2002-12-21 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 04:55, Christopher Faylor wrote: Didn't you suggest that anything in a library residing in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib be excluded? That's not quite the same thing as what I was musing about. I was talking about marking individual symbols. Ah, ok. oops. (goes and

Re: [PATCH] exclude runtime-pseudo-reloc symbols from auto-export

2002-12-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 15:39, Christopher Faylor wrote: Maybe the horse has left the barn already but it would have been nice (tm) if these type of symbols were marked in some generic way so that we wouldn't have to keep remembering to extend this table. I recall commenting on this aspect in a

RE: Individual vs. list-only replies (Was Re: Force bash to startas administrator)

2002-12-16 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:18, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion how Outlook can be configured to reply to the list instead of replying to sender? Uhmm reply-to-all. Or write a macro (and ideally, GPL it :]) . Rob -- --- GPG key available at:

Re: How did I get it?

2002-12-16 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 23:19, Michael Schaap wrote: And this could indeed be a virus or worm. There is at least one that includes cygwin1.dll: http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99529 I'd certainly check your PC carefully for viruses, if I were you. I wonder if they included

Re: Individual vs. list-only replies (Was Re: Force bash to startas administrator)

2002-12-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:50, Andrew DeFaria wrote: But the issue is not only are people who reply busy but so are the readers. With your software's defaults I get a message in my email AND see it and have to skip it later when I read the list. Thus it is more work for me, hence the

Re: setup.exe and HTTP Host header

2002-12-11 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 02:22, Max Bowsher wrote: Been digging through some back email... Robert: This seems to have been slipped past unnoticed. As it is both sensible and simple, shall I commit it? Yes. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---

Re: [setup] Is it safe to use endl instead of endLog?

2002-12-11 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 06:01, Max Bowsher wrote: Even if it is, shouldn't we use endLog for consistency? Request approval to change the 2 occurences (one each in package_{meta,version}.cc), and commit to cvs. Go ahead. And yes, it's safe but deprecated. Rob -- --- GPG key available at:

Re: Individual vs. list-only replies (Was Re: Force bash to startas administrator)

2002-12-11 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 11:21, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Again, I don't appreciate getting email that's a copy of what I'll be reading on the list shortly anyway. This needs a note: Emails have a unique message ID, that mail de-dupers can remove. I don't get duplicates, even when something

Re: Latest setup.exe

2002-12-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 03:56, Joseph Davida wrote: I got around the problem by removing the old C:\cygwin (actually by renaming it to cygwin.old) and restarting the setup.exe. So it appears current setup.exe will cause this problem on Win2K if it installs on top of an exsisting

RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete

2002-12-06 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 20:57, Kris Thielemans wrote: well, I did have multiple copies of the same file. I've been using 3 mirrors. In the list of mirrors, did you ctrl-click to select the 3, or did you single click, thus choosing a single, different mirror. Setup only prevents duplicates

RE: rebase-0.4 patch

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 19:15, Ralf Habacker wrote: 3. reformat via indent Which indent command line you will use. I can do it before, do simplifiy applying backward to the kde-cygwin archive. Just 'indent'. However for C++, astyle --gnu does a better job of meeting the GNU standards,

Re: strtof is missing

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 20:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Removing the symbol might break these applications (though I assume there aren't that much apps using strtodf). We can just export it twice from cygwin.din. That + Jeff's patch will keep backwards compatability and provide the right API

RE: rebase-0.4 patch

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 19:50, Ralf Habacker wrote: astyle --gnu does not work. It must be astyle --style=gnu. What about spaces and tabs. Tabs would make big files smaller as using tabs, but the problem is with the indention, which isn't equal for all users and all editors. For example I'm

RE: rebase-0.4 patch

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 19:43, Ralf Habacker wrote: BTW: What means FWICT, I haven't found an explanation of this in google. From What I Can Tell. -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

RE: [Mingw-users] Cygwin Full download in one big archive ?

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 01:39, Richard Campbell wrote: Impractical. As I said, almost 100% of people won't want 100% of packages. It might be interesting to poll in some way, considering how often this comes up. I suspect more than almost 0% might want a 1-button, overnight-style install.

Re: [FAQ?] Re: [Mingw-users] Cygwin Full download in one bigarchive ?

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 10:30, Charles Wilson wrote: Seems pretty clear to me, that for anyone on a slow link, or anyone charged by volume, that the modular install is much more efficient. Faulty analogy. Most users would probably only download the monolithic tarball once, for their

Re: [FAQ?] Re: [Mingw-users] Cygwin Full download in onebig archive ?

2002-12-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:09, Charles Wilson wrote: Sortof. I assumed ia priori/i that a 557MB tarball is a bad idea. Yep. And the original poster, was asserting that such a tarball is a good idea. Thus my figures to show that it ain't - for the common case. I was not, in any way,

RE: pthread_mutex_trylock does not lock

2002-12-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 08:33, Christophe Galerne wrote: This www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/pthread_mutexattr_settype.html seems to explain that a PT_MUTEX_NORMAL mutex should behave the way Chris expect. NB: PT_MUTEX_NORMAL is not a posix mutex type - it's PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL

RE: pthread_mutex_trylock does not lock

2002-12-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 08:33, Christophe Galerne wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 23:06, Chris Knight wrote: Hello Rob, I have changed the code, see below. I now set the type to PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL but that also does not block. The only documentation

Re: pthread_mutex_trylock does not lock

2002-12-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 10:47, Christophe Galerne wrote: Or you could check the return value from pthread_mutexattr_settype and see that it returns EINVAL. The thing is it's not really an invalid value for 'type' in the call. Maybe it would be better to break the compilation of programs

Re: pthread_mutex_trylock does not lock

2002-12-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 10:52, Christophe Galerne wrote: Robert Collins wrote: I never said that PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL does not block, I was challenging the apparent 'cygwin threads' documentation. Right, in a way my remarq was OT... =:-D On-Topic for Cygwin, but yes, may have been worth

RE: setup feature request

2002-12-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 19:03, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Recently I've been thinking tab control. Well, actually I was thinking that for the view type. Then again, I just now thought of the best idea yet: drop-down list boxes for both. Let me say this: Anything that is more intuitive will

Re: pthread_mutex_trylock does not lock

2002-12-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 20:37, Chris Knight wrote: Hello, I think I have found a problem in the pthread_mutex_trylock call. When I run the following code both the trylock and lock return immediately. If I compile this under RedHat 8 it works as I would expect with the trylock locking the

RE: pthread_mutex_trylock does not lock

2002-12-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 23:06, Chris Knight wrote: Hello Rob, I have changed the code, see below. I now set the type to PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL but that also does not block. The only documentation on cygwin threads say this is the same as PTHREAD_MUTEX_FAST_NP What documentation says that?

Re: Nevermind (was: RE: Rob: Setup build Q)

2002-12-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 16:27, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: make 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g' 'CXXFLAGS=-O0 -g' Yep. And configuring with that should work too. The Makefile sets warning flags, not optimisation levels or debug. It does that via AM_CFLAGS. Cheers, Rob -- --- GPG key available at:

Re: cygwin's autoconf?

2002-12-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 11:36, Soren A wrote: At the very LEAST, something that does what AM_MAINTAINER_MODE causes, should have been the *default* for all autotool'd packages, and only by significant contortions should it have been made possible to cause all that default behavior to get

Re: problem with mutexattr initialisation

2002-12-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 12:28, Ralf Habacker wrote: Hi, while porting the threaded qt-3 release to cygwin, it seems to me, that there is a bug in the current pthread implementation. What version of cygwin? Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---

Re: [Patch] Keep Button

2002-11-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 09:28, Max Bowsher wrote: 1) The prev trust level hasn't been removed as a group decision. You need to keep that for now at least. I'm confident it will be shortly. Does that change my statement? 2) You are not checking requirements for packages, so if the user

Re: Request approval to add stuff to .cvsignores

2002-11-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 09:22, Max Bowsher wrote: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mind if I add stuff to .cvsignore files? Do I need to ChangeLog that? I should probably say what I want to add: ? libgetopt++/Makefile.in ? libgetopt++/aclocal.m4 D

RE: setup feature request

2002-11-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 02:15, Kris Thielemans wrote: - what's the difference between 'default' and 'install'? ok, now I know there's no a difference for Base and Misc, but I still don't know what the difference is for the others ... (I guess I'm missing something obvious here) Ah

Re: [Draft Patch] Debug-Personality

2002-11-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 04:32, Max Bowsher wrote: A number of the setup.exe bugs being reported require a clean install to reproduce. This patch allows an alternate registry key to be used for the mount table, so enabling setup to simulate a clean install without interfering with your real

Re: [Draft Patch] Debug-Personality

2002-11-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 09:48, Max Bowsher wrote: DEBUG already has meaning to dlmalloc.c and IniDBBuilderPackage.cc. Can we choose another #define? IniDBBuilderPackage.cc DEBUG puts so much to the log, that its hard to see anything else, and I'm not sure I want a debug malloc unless thats

Re: pipe performance problem

2002-11-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 13:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: Of course, it is entirely possible that there is something wrong with the logic in cygwin and that a pipe is waiting 10ms for every read or something like that. I don't know. I don't see how that's possible from the code in

Re: [ITP] grace 5.1.10

2002-11-28 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 20:19, Volker Quetschke wrote: Hi! As I needed this program for my work anyway I packaged grace for cygwin. Grace is great for data analysis/presentation and it compiled OOTB. Ok, I support this being in the distro, but don't have time to review (behind on 3 projects

Re: setup feature request

2002-11-28 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 06:54, Max Bowsher wrote: From: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's already in place. Just click 'default' beside 'all' twice and you should get 'keep'. Default - Install - Reinstall - Uninstall - Default Ah. Well seems to me this is the appropriate place to put

Re: Request approval to add stuff to .cvsignores

2002-11-28 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 09:19, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert, Do you mind if I add stuff to .cvsignore files? Do I need to ChangeLog that? Yes, and what stuff? Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: ObjectiveC

2002-11-28 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 00:34, Roland Schwingel wrote: Hi... Does anybody know when ObjectiveC is going to make it back into the gcc distribution? It seems to be working fine on Unix platforms, and I'm just wondering what the problems are with gcc 3 that prevent it from running

Re: ObjectiveC

2002-11-28 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 14:38, Steve Núñez wrote: Great, so at last we know the situation. My question is What has changed?. I seem to recall ObjcC as part of the 2.95 gcc release, and I'm just wondering if there's is some fundamental difficulty in gcc3 that has caused it's removal?

Re: New setup.exe beta.

2002-11-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:54, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has the timestamp definition changed? No, but the entry to the packages area has, your trailing linefeed Leading. I meant leading (line 1). Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http

RE: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

2002-11-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 19:10, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Are things to the point where we could make rxvt the default installed terminal emulator instead of the DOS box? I can't imagine any Win9x user could possibly complain, and any NT+ user that would is simply misguided ;-). Well, it's

Re: nice really nice?

2002-11-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 21:15, thomas wrote: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert, I hope you don't mind that i send this question to you in private but i think the list in general is not really interested in this. Well, its on topic for the list, I'd really rather you sent

New setup.exe beta.

2002-11-26 Thread Robert Collins
We're at that time again, where your testing directly influences the quality of setup.exe that you get to run. So, at http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/ there is a new setup.exe snapshot, that is (as far as we know) devoid of major bugs. It has many many new features. They include: * More

Re: Missing getopt.h for MinGW is not a bug.

2002-11-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 23:58, Earnie Boyd wrote: We purposefully do not give GPLed interfaces to the MinGW user community, even though we do supply the libraries for those who are aware of the GPL issues. You'll have to supply your own declarations for getopt. There are BSD getopt's

Re: New setup.exe beta.

2002-11-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 00:26, John Morrison wrote: Congratulations to all :) I've tried it and a couple of collegues (I ran the net installation they ran local). Nobody found anything wrong. There was, however, one suggestion; they liked the progress for MD5 but they wanted an overall

Re: New setup.exe beta and the elusive MD5 sum (Re: New setup.exebeta)

2002-11-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 05:03, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: This question has come up more than once already, so I'll take a stab at the answer: The explicit MD5 sum check, IIUC, is performed only when doing Install from Local Directory to make sure the external tools did not corrupt the downloads.

Re: New setup.exe beta.

2002-11-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 01:33, John Morrison wrote: Can't you get the number of files from setup.ini? Not if there isn't one, which is still (grudglingly) supported. Also, for *any* sort of accuracy, how many files are there is needed, otherwise my 8000 entry test file will spend more time

Re: nice really nice?

2002-11-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 00:25, thomas wrote: Where do the -15 and +15 come from and what do they actually map to? They are windows priorities. They come from the win32 headers. We don't map to *either* of them, because Cygwin is not suitable for running programs at realtime priority and IIRC

Re: New setup.exe beta.

2002-11-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:09, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has the timestamp definition changed? No, but the entry to the packages area has, your trailing linefeed is the likely culprit. I had some hairy stuff happening at one point, and the unlimited \n

Re: compressing cygcheck output considered harmful?

2002-11-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:23, Christopher Faylor wrote: Does it make sense not to send cygcheck output in compressed format? Yes. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Comments in setup.exe ?

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 21:10, Yann Crausaz wrote: Hello, As I'm working on setup.exe (see former messages), I'm wondering if a commented version of this program would exist anywhere ? If so, where ? Some functions are quite difficult to understand, unless for me... Just ask about the

Re: [patch] Help Option

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 19:26, Max Bowsher wrote: I'm strongly tempted to just dump the current output into a MessageBox, though. Sure. I'll wager that there will be less code doing what I suggested that fiddling with string reparsing. I wasn't suggesting the output be fancy after all :}. Rob

other setup issue (HEAD)

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
The sort order is kinda weird. Try looking in the full list for a non installed package. Just a note to prevent it being forgotten.. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

default version logic fixed (really!)

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
Uhmm, consider it a typo. Yeah, that'll do. New snapshot uploaded now. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: other setup issue (HEAD)

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 23:16, Robert Collins wrote: The sort order is kinda weird. Try looking in the full list for a non installed package. (I know what the issue is here, just haven't fixed it yet). Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt

setup now ready for a release?

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
I've fixed the sort bug and uploaded a snapshot. Max, what letter is free for the antivirus to use as a shortcut? Other than that, does anyone (Pavel? Gary? Max? ...) have any specific enhancements or bugfixes to be included. If not, once that letter is fixed, I'll announce to the cygwin list

RE: setup now ready for a release?

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 08:27, John Morrison wrote: Rob, Have you removed the passwd.bat file setup (used?) to create? Oh, Frabjous joy. No, I hadn't. You do both /etc/passwd and /etc/group now don't you? Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---

Re: setup now ready for a release?

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 08:34, Marcel Telka wrote: Please add my FTP related patch. Thanks. Done, and thanks. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

RE: setup now ready for a release?

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 08:52, John Morrison wrote: Yep :) And the script to add /etc/hosts, network, protocol and services which was sent to the list :) And /etc/profile?, please say yes :}. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc

Re: setup now ready for a release?

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 08:58, Marcel Telka wrote: Sorry, but your commit is different from my patch and probably will break FTP support in setup.exe. Your: - sscanf (paren + 1, %d,%d,%d,%d,%d,%d, i1, i2, i3, i4, p1, p2); + sscanf (digit + 1, %d,%d,%d,%d,%d,%d, i1, i2, i3, i4, p1, p2);

Re: Remaining setup bug

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:01, Max Bowsher wrote: 2.299 allows you to select a version that you don't have on disc, and then proceeds to remove your current version, and replace it with nothing, with no error, either. (This is install from local directory mode.) Max, I need a how-to-reproduce at

RE: setup now ready for a release?

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:01, John Morrison wrote: From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 08:52, John Morrison wrote: Yep :) And the script to add /etc/hosts, network, protocol and services which was sent to the list :) And /etc/profile?, please say

Re: setup now ready for a release?

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 08:53, Max Bowsher wrote: It would be nice to get my Categories patch in. The sources new account form didn't like my ssh public key (must it be a version 1 rsa key? Discussion here seemed to suggest version 2.), so I doubt I'll be up and running before you want to

Re: Remaining setup bug

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:10, Max Bowsher wrote: Sorry. setup-HEAD (2.301, now ;-) ) Run. Install from Local directory mode. Choose a package version that is *not* in your local cache dir. (Personally, I don't keep [prev] packages past a few days.) Setup uninstalls it, and announces

Re: Remaining setup bug

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:19, Max Bowsher wrote: Maybe its my quirky way of downloading stuff. Call this non-critical, at least to a snapshot, and I'll investigate. 'K. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is

RE: Are there any resizable setup works-in-progress out there?

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 14:32, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Actually, yeah. I've made some changes to window.{h,cc} that shouldn't wreck anything, and get rid of that horrific HWND-this cobble I had before. I'll do a quick changelog and post the diff to -patches. To here please. -patches is for

RE: setup now ready for a release?

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 15:49, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: I've fixed the sort bug and uploaded a snapshot. Max, what letter is free for the antivirus to use as a shortcut? Other than that, does anyone (Pavel? Gary? Max? ...) have any specific enhancements or bugfixes to be included.

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 15:43, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: I recall being unhappy about having the list of pages in two places, and it's obvious why now. List of pages in two places? In main.cc we list the pages, create instances, and add to the propery sheet. So there is one list. The

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 03:53, Daniel Armbrust wrote: Where can I get this? If the NT 4 machine crashes every time, would you be willing to run a special debug version of setup, that will write it's log entries to the event log? They should be visible post install then, and you can tell

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 02:09, Daniel Armbrust wrote: One further clarification. It happens well before the Installation complete [OK] step. It actually happens before any of the post download scripts run. It happens when it is at (or nearly at) the very end of

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 08:56, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't have McAfee installed, then I'll roll an Event Log based setup for you. Why not just flush the logs to disc after each line? I've got a patch lying around here somewhere to do that. I'll

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