newbie question

2007-07-03 Thread Murali Vemuri
Hi I am a newbie using Cygwin and I have 2 problems: Problem 1: I am trying to compile CSCOPE for Cygwin (essentially for windows) and when I try ./configure, I am getting this error: checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See

Re: newbie question

2007-07-03 Thread Carlo Florendo
Murali Vemuri wrote: Hi Murali, It would be best if you first read Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html and note the part that talks about cygcheck. Otherwise, we will just end up guessing what's wrong with your system. -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lgcc

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

2007-07-03 Thread fergus
The new version of setup fails to accommodate the following approved practice (ie. recommended on this list). A user who has iterated to a bespoke system and who wishes to build it elsewhere (or who just wants to build a tailored system from scratch) need not follow the painful process of

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-07-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 3 01:32, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hi, Samuel Thibault, le Thu 07 Jun 2007 19:59:25 +0800, a écrit : Phil Betts, le Thu 07 Jun 2007 12:14:33 +0100, a écrit : Might I suggest a compromise? Create a new Accessibility group in setup. It would (at least for now) be the first group

RE: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

2007-07-03 Thread Pavel Kudrna
* /From/: Dave Korn dave dot korn at artimi dot com They are legal, but there's no possible way to convert them to POSIX, which has no notion of a per-drive current directory. Ok, but Cygwin != POSIX :-) Cygwin application has environment variable for each drive letter to remember

RE: newbie question

2007-07-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 July 2007 12:57, Murali Vemuri wrote: Hello there, I was trying to compile Cscope for Cygwin. My cygcheck output is attached here. Also, when I try to ./configure for cscope, the output appears to be normal. Please find the configure output below. And when I try to compile, I get

Re: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

2007-07-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 07/03/2007, Pavel Kudrna wrote: * /From/: Dave Korn dave dot korn at artimi dot com They are legal, but there's no possible way to convert them to POSIX, which has no notion of a per-drive current directory. Ok, but Cygwin != POSIX :-) Cygwin application has environment

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-07-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Corinna Vinschen, le Tue 03 Jul 2007 09:54:24 +0200, a écrit : I'm still not happy with the dependency to ws2_32. It should still go away and I don't see any reason to keep it. Yes, we did agree on that in the thread. I will also split the package, into brltty, xbrlapi, libbrlapi,

ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
Unison users on Cygwin: I'm preparing a new unison2.27 package, to be released shortly. As I do that, I'm looking over the old Unison packages in Cygwin: unison2.9.1 unison2.9.20 unison2.10.2 unison2.12.0 unison2.13 unison2.17 and I'm thinking that it's time for me to abandon the first four of

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

2007-07-03 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, fergus wrote: Thank you for all the improvements. Don't want to repeat the long description at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-06/msg00658.html so can I just comment: the new 2.573.2.2 fails to spot an up-to-date but unmounted Cygwin system so, instead of merely

RE: Cygwin installation hanging during post-install shell scripts

2007-07-03 Thread Kyle Getz
If anyone is interested, this issue was resolved with the new Cygwin installer that was released yesterday. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Getz Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 2:16 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Cygwin installation

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

2007-07-03 Thread fergus
Knowing setup.exe as I do, I'm guessing (and this is only a guess) that you start setup on the system and manually specify the system root to be the root of your unmounted filesystem instead of the default 'C:\cygwin'. You're absolutely right. My system is located at h:/ where h: is a

Re: ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

2007-07-03 Thread morgan gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Schulman wrote: Unison users on Cygwin: I'm preparing a new unison2.27 package, to be released shortly. As I do that, I'm looking over the old Unison packages in Cygwin: unison2.9.1 unison2.9.20 unison2.10.2 unison2.12.0 unison2.13

RE: ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

2007-07-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 July 2007 18:15, morgan gangwere wrote: I am _not_ the maintainer Well, duh. You know the person who you're replying to? You know, the person who is asking whether he should carry on maintaining so many versions? He'd be the maintainer. Are you /quite/ sure you're actually

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

2007-07-03 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, fergus wrote: Knowing setup.exe as I do, I'm guessing (and this is only a guess) that you start setup on the system and manually specify the system root to be the root of your unmounted filesystem instead of the default 'C:\cygwin'. You're absolutely right. My system

Re: ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
I am _not_ the maintainer I'm the Cygwin maintainer for Unison. but 2.9.1 is the only version I have that will talk to a current development machine -- a current debian machine too. My Debian host has $ apt-cache policy unison unison: Installed: 2.13.16-6 Candidate: 2.13.16-6 Version

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

2007-07-03 Thread fergus
I asked was whether you could make a stock Cygwin system on *your* machine and reproduce the issue, just to figure out if this is an issue in setup because of the non-default Cygwin location, or there are other things different about your system. I did this. I built a brand new Cygwin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe updated to version 2.573.2.2

2007-07-03 Thread fergus
And, absolutely the last word tonight, here is a hitherto undiscovered way in which old setup misbehaves and new setup does not. It might help locate any current procedural flaw in new setup. Unmount everything. Build a new directory c:\Cygwin\etc\setup and locate an up-to-date installed.db

Slow directory listing

2007-07-03 Thread Anton Ivanov
Hi, I experience a problem whereby 'ls' of a directory takes upwards of 20 seconds. I've searched around the archives and found reports of issues that could be similar (i.e. slow bash completion) but it didn't seem like any action was taken. Anyways, the directory is strictly on cygwin's root

Carriage-return problem with ssh, hostname command

2007-07-03 Thread David Menestrina
Hi, I have a strange problem with carriage-return (CR, \r, ^M) handling on Cygwin (DLL version: 1.5.24). The problem is only exposed when running the hostname command via ssh. Here is a sample session that demonstrates the bug: -- $ hostname | cat -v myhost

Re: Slow directory listing

2007-07-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Anton Ivanov wrote: I experience a problem whereby 'ls' of a directory takes upwards of 20 seconds. I've searched around the archives and found reports of issues that could be similar (i.e. slow bash completion) but it didn't seem like any action was taken. Cygwin is slow. This is by

Re: Carriage-return problem with ssh, hostname command

2007-07-03 Thread Brian Dessent
David Menestrina wrote: -- $ ssh localhost 'hostname | cat -v' myhost^M -- You're probably running a different hostname command here due to a different PATH setting. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-06/msg00432.html. Brian -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Slow directory listing

2007-07-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Anton Ivanov wrote: Neither does coLinux when accessing it over smb mount. Oh and I forgot to mention that this is not a fair comparison either, because when accessing a windows filesystem over SMB symlinks are not supported and all files are owned by root with permissions 0644 (or 0755 for

RE: Slow directory listing

2007-07-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 04 July 2007 00:57, Brian Dessent wrote: Anton Ivanov wrote: Neither does coLinux when accessing it over smb mount. Oh and I forgot to mention that this is not a fair comparison either, because when accessing a windows filesystem over SMB symlinks are not supported and all files are

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

2007-07-03 Thread Jeremy Davis-Turak
Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. Does anyone know why it isn't working for me? Firewall issue? Thanks a lot, Jeremy -- Unsubscribe

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

2007-07-03 Thread Carlo Florendo
Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. You forgot to try one thing. Have you tried downloading from another

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

2007-07-03 Thread Carlo Florendo
Carlo Florendo wrote: Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: snipped No, unless you provide more details. Perhaps it's a firewall issue. In any case, downloading setup.exe WJJFM. ^ Sorry, I meant, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM Thank you very much. Best

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

2007-07-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. Does anyone know why it isn't working for me? Firewall issue? Make sure

Re: Preparing for a new computer

2007-07-03 Thread Mike Fahlbusch
Bob McConnell wrote: I have installed four different variations of Cygwin on my current computer. The first was B.20, my initial exposure to this tool kit. The next one was buried in an SDK for Systech RCS port servers, and I didn't know it was there until after it began installing. The target

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

2007-07-03 Thread Carlo Florendo
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. Does anyone know why it isn't working for me?

Re: GPLv3

2007-07-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 2 15:09, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: There are no short-term plans to change the license of Cygwin, rather we just wait until the OSI certifies the GPLv3 as open source license according to the definitions. As Brian already noted, as soon as the OSI

Maintainer newbie questions

2007-07-03 Thread Steffen Sledz
My work at the new emacs packages makes good progress. The cygport stuff is really comfortable. I hope, that I can present a new version in the next days for testing. But also after reading all the documentation there are some last questions (if I've overlooked something please forgive me): 1.

RE: GPLv3

2007-07-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 July 2007 08:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And there I was trying to TITTLL the thread. Oh well, anyone for hippos? ;-) BTW, I just noticed the link to the OSI site is 404. It could be that it's one of those sites that just don't work if you disable scripts and cookies, but it's

Re: GPLv3

2007-07-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 3 18:43, Dave Korn wrote: BTW, I just noticed the link to the OSI site is 404. It could be that it's one of those sites that just don't work if you disable scripts and cookies, but it's more likely the link is just out-of-date. Fixed. Thanks for the hint, Corinna -- Corinna

[RFU] lftp-3.5.11

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
I've updated the lftp package for a new upstream release. Please upload. Thanks, Andrew. wget \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/lftp/lftp-3.5.11-1.tar.bz2 \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/lftp/lftp-3.5.11-1-src.tar.bz2

Fixed brltty packaging (was: New package: brltty 3.8)

2007-07-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Corinna Vinschen, le Wed 06 Jun 2007 12:26:54 +0200, a écrit : - There's an executable xbrlapi.exe in the package which depends on X. - cygbrlapi-0.5.dll depends on WS2_32.DLL. These are fixed in version 3.8-2 of the brltty package in http://brl.thefreecat.org/brltty/cygwin/ I also

Re: Maintainer newbie questions

2007-07-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Steffen Sledz wrote: 1. What's the best way to find all the dependency information needed for hint files if multiple binary packages (with own hint files) are made from the same source? Calling cygport with the deps parameter does not split the dependencies to different packages. By running

Re: regarding updated lighttpd and upx

2007-07-03 Thread Lapo Luchini
Igor Peshansky wrote: Umm, VMware? Or is it a disk space issue? No (recent) VMware for FreeBSD unfortunately, I'll take a look at qemu... Anyway, this evening I gave a stab at lighttpd and it now compiles correctly, I only have to test it a bit better and it should be ready for release. --

Xwin Segmentation Fault on XP

2007-07-03 Thread Tom Lloyd
Hi Guys, Summary : I am running on an old 700mhz intel Celeron machine with an intel motherboard. I have Windows XP Pro installed. I have just downloaded the latest cygwin packages first the default then the full install of the x11, gnome and all the libraries. I am using openssh to