RE: [ITP] rebase

2003-02-15 Thread Ralf Habacker
Just out of curiosity, why has this discussion suddenly moved to cygwin at cygwin dot com from cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com? It was my error, an little accident. Sorry Ralf

Re: LPRng and ifhp packages ready

2003-02-15 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:27:21PM -0500, Brian Gallew wrote: I've added a couple more paragraphs at the beginning that should be enough to at least get you pointed in the right direction. I've wrangled with this a bit, but unfortunately the only printer I have is not PS or one supported by

NFS server issue with directory permissions

2003-02-15 Thread Pavel Tsekov
I've been playing again with the nfs server and found another problem. I still mount my Cygwin home under my home dir on a Linux workstation. The only thing I've changed and seems to be the one that triggers the problem is, that on the Cygwin machine I've changed the permissions for my home dir

Latest rev of NFS server

2003-02-15 Thread Robb, Sam
This version re-enables the checks for owner/group of the exports file, and updates the nfs-server-config script to set the owner/permissions on the default exports file to the expected values. If you already have an existing exports file, you will need to explicitly change owner/permissions on

Attention!!

2003-02-15 Thread RJS
REQUEST I am MR REUBEN SAVIMBI one of the favorite sons of Mr.JONAS SAVIMBI (The Rebel leader) and also the head of the Unita Forces of Angola who was killed in the Struggle between Angolan arm forces and his unita rebels On Friday the 22nd of February 2002. I am from Angola but currently I am

I tried to login

2003-02-15 Thread arasu
I tried to login to remote unix machine using the following command. $ ssh -X -l username remote_hostname_or_ip_address by giving my username and host name. I have successfully installed Cygwin/XFree. All it says is command not found. I am not sure whether the path name was to be given in this

Re: I tried to login

2003-02-15 Thread Rasjid Wilcox
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 4:10 pm, arasu wrote: I tried to login to remote unix machine using the following command. $ ssh -X -l username remote_hostname_or_ip_address by giving my username and host name. I have successfully installed Cygwin/XFree. All it says is command not found. I am not sure

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygwin.din include/cyg ...

2003-02-15 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Branch: cgf-dev-branch Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-15 22:05:06 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin.din cygwin/include/cygwin: version.h Log message: merge from trunk Patches:

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:34:30PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:42:19AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: I suppose so, but, again, it seems like many people *recently* are unaware of the setup program entirely.

Re: Group name getting set to 'mkpasswd'

2003-02-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:33:47AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: Also this was in the strace output that Peter sent in, I withheld this bit, as I didn't quite know whether this was intended (from mkpasswd's side) 65 19353 [main] mkpasswd 1148 pwdgrp::read_group: Completing /etc/group:

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:34:30PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:42:19AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: I suppose so, but, again, it seems like many people *recently* are unaware of the setup program

Re: Group name getting set to 'mkpasswd'

2003-02-15 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:33:47AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: Also this was in the strace output that Peter sent in, I withheld this bit, as I didn't quite know whether this was intended (from mkpasswd's side) 65 19353 [main] mkpasswd 1148 pwdgrp::read_group: Completing

Get it sorted! (was Re: Group name getting set to 'mkpasswd')

2003-02-15 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:33:47AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: Also this was in the strace output that Peter sent in, I withheld this bit, as I didn't quite know whether this was intended (from mkpasswd's side) 65 19353 [main] mkpasswd 1148 pwdgrp::read_group: Completing

mutt lock count exceeded

2003-02-15 Thread news
I noticed the thread here starting at http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg01010.html. Did the patch in that thread ever get into the Cygwin Mutt package? I am getting the same errors mentioned in that thread. The patch does not seem to be included the mutt source package that I have.

Re: Win 2000 : Open Files With Word Excel From The Command Line

2003-02-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Steve (03-02-15 04:55 +0100) I put script files called word and excel in my /usr/local/bin. These files have the path to the ms word and ms excel executables. They work, they bring up the apps, but I can't get the apps to take command line arguments to open remote files. For example:

sed problem

2003-02-15 Thread Kei Tsuji
I'm using sed on cygwin. I have a problem with -i option. - - - - - kei@cygwin% cat test apple kei@cygwin% ls test kei@cygwin% cat test apple kei@cygwin% sed -i s/apple/orange/g test kei@cygwin% cat test apple kei@cygwin% ls sed003980 test kei@cygwin% cat sed003980 orange

sed problem solved...

2003-02-15 Thread Kei Tsuji
I just found the new version of sed, so I installed it. I tried the same thing and the problem did not occur. I think the problem was solved... Sorry to bother. kei@cygwin% sed -V GNU sed version 4.0.5 -- Kei Tsuji -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug

Re: sed problem

2003-02-15 Thread Elfyn McBratney
I'm using sed on cygwin. I have a problem with -i option. - - - - - kei@cygwin% cat test apple kei@cygwin% ls test kei@cygwin% cat test apple kei@cygwin% sed -i s/apple/orange/g test kei@cygwin% cat test apple kei@cygwin% ls sed003980 test kei@cygwin% cat

Adding new user

2003-02-15 Thread David Rasmussen
I can imagine that this must get asked all the time, yet I wasn't able to find anything useful on Google or anywhere else. How do I create a new user account? I know that it probably has to exist as a Windows user first. So I created a new Windows user. But then what? How do I get cygwin to make

Re: sed problem

2003-02-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Kei Tsuji (03-02-15 12:32 +0100) I'm using sed on cygwin. I have a problem with -i option. [...] Does anybody have the same problem with me? Works for me... And how can I fix this problem? kei@cygwin% sed -V GNU sed version 4.0.1 Thorsten@freki% sed -V

Re: Adding new user

2003-02-15 Thread Elfyn McBratney
I can imagine that this must get asked all the time, yet I wasn't able to find anything useful on Google or anywhere else. How do I create a new user account? I know that it probably has to exist as a Windows user first. So I created a new Windows user. But then what? How do I get cygwin

Re: Adding new user

2003-02-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* David Rasmussen (03-02-15 12:47 +0100) How do I create a new user account? I know that it probably has to exist as a Windows user first. So I created a new Windows user. But then what? How do I get cygwin to make a /home/newuser dir This is done automatically when the login shell for that

Re: Trouble installing Perl module under cygwin

2003-02-15 Thread Greg Matheson
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: 12608240 [main] perl 934555 sync_with_child: child -50248815(0x154) died before initialization with status code 0x1 12608301 [main] perl 934555 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading dlls C:\CYGWIN\BINERL.EXE: *** couldn't

Re: Trouble installing Perl module under cygwin

2003-02-15 Thread dale henderson
The only thing I can think of is that these error's are due to perl-5.8 still being in it's cygwin experimental phase. Do you get error's from perl-5.6? I get the same errors after using perl-5.6 from cygwin mirror sites or compiling it on my pc, as well as perl-5.8. The page faults have been

ecasound 2.2.1 on cygwin

2003-02-15 Thread Kai Vehmanen
Hi, ecasound 2.2.1, which was just released a few moments ago, now cleanly compiles and runs under Cygwin. I must say I was suprised how easy the porting job was and how well it runs. Ecasound contains a lot of tricky stuff (lots of threads, fork()s from threads, use of POSIX real-time features

Re: The humble DEL and other editing keys

2003-02-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:31:38PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: Elfyn McBratney wrote on 14 Feb 2003 18:18:47 - In bash you can add the following # DEL key in bash \e[3~: delete-char to your ~/.inputrc or your /etc/inputrc file to get a functioning DEL ke. Thanks! I've

procmail and NTSEC

2003-02-15 Thread Ajay Simha
Hi, When I had NTSEC on I'd get: $ procmail VERBOSE=yes .procmailrc testmail procmail: [3936] Wed Feb 12 00:39:58 2003 procmail: Suspicious rcfile /home/asimha/.procmailrc procmail: Couldn't read /home/asimha/.procmailrc procmail: Locking /var/spool/mail/asimha.lock procmail: Assigning

Re: procmail and NTSEC

2003-02-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Ajay Simha wrote: Hi, When I had NTSEC on I'd get: $ procmail VERBOSE=yes .procmailrc testmail procmail: [3936] Wed Feb 12 00:39:58 2003 procmail: Suspicious rcfile /home/asimha/.procmailrc procmail: Couldn't read /home/asimha/.procmailrc ls -l /home/asimha/.procmailrc (with ntsec on).

Re: procmail and NTSEC

2003-02-15 Thread Ajay Simha
On Sat Feb 15 15:21:30 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Ajay Simha wrote: Hi, When I had NTSEC on I'd get: $ procmail VERBOSE=yes .procmailrc testmail procmail: [3936] Wed Feb 12 00:39:58 2003 procmail: Suspicious rcfile /home/asimha/.procmailrc procmail: Couldn't read

Re: The humble DEL and other editing keys

2003-02-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
David, Key sequence generation is not a shell issue, it's defined by the terminal emulator which gets key-codes from the OS and generates sequences of bytes to send through a pseudo-tty to whatever application (shell or otherwise) that's reading. Likewise, it interprets things like

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 15 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 10:53, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On 15 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 09:28, Christopher Faylor wrote: [snip] I was also thinking of creating a '/dev/tty' file in the archive which was just

Re: ecasound 2.2.1 on cygwin

2003-02-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:29:24PM +0200, Kai Vehmanen wrote: ecasound 2.2.1, which was just released a few moments ago, now cleanly compiles and runs under Cygwin. Nice to hear. to run just fine under Cygwin. Only placed I needed __CYGWIN32__ was for Please use __CYGWIN__, since

Re: procmail and NTSEC

2003-02-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Ajay Simha wrote: On Sat Feb 15 15:21:30 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Ajay Simha wrote: Hi, When I had NTSEC on I'd get: $ procmail VERBOSE=yes .procmailrc testmail procmail: [3936] Wed Feb 12 00:39:58 2003 procmail: Suspicious rcfile /home/asimha/.procmailrc procmail: Couldn't read

Re: Get it sorted! (was Re: Group name getting set to 'mkpasswd')

2003-02-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:33:47AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: Also this was in the strace output that Peter sent in, I withheld this bit, as I didn't quite know whether this was intended (from mkpasswd's side) 65 19353 [main]

Re: The humble DEL and other editing keys

2003-02-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:31:38PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: Elfyn McBratney wrote on 14 Feb 2003 18:18:47 - In bash you can add the following # DEL key in bash \e[3~: delete-char to your ~/.inputrc or your /etc/inputrc file

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Robb, Sam
After the install completes.. Your cygwin install is now ready to use. Please run setup.exe again if you want to Install new packages, Remove installed packages, or Update your install with the latest versions of your installed packages. I like it. Apparently it is extremely confusing

Re: Win 2000 : Open Files With Word Excel From The Command Line

2003-02-15 Thread Michael Schaap
On 15-Feb-2003 06:14, Randall R Schulz wrote: Steve, Double damn! Or maybe... Third time's the charm. Yeah, that's it! -==- #!/bin/bash wwArgs=() for arg; do wwArgs[${#wwArgs[@]}]=$(cygpath -m $arg) done exec /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/winword.exe ${wwArgs[@]}

Re: Win 2000 : Open Files With Word Excel From The Command Line

2003-02-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Michael, All right, all right. One is enough. However, your solution is missing quoting of $arg in the cygstart invocation, and that's a Unix-centric practice we like to discourage around here because of the much greater likelihood of failure under Windows. Also, cygstart resides in the

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:34:30PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:42:19AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: I suppose so, but, again, it seems like many people

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:00:51AM -0800, Rick Rankin wrote: --- Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:34:30PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:42:19AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] Well, guess what comes up first on a Google search for cygwin install? See for yourself: http://google.com/search?q=cygwin+install (just in case, the first match I get is http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/basic.htm, last updated on March 24, 2000). :-( That page worked a lot better

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] Unfortunately, if you just want to install a single package, and newer versions of other packages that you already have installed have been released, it's cumbersome to tell Setup not to upgrade those other packages (ie. mark them all as Keep), because you have to scroll through the

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: I suppose so, but, again, it seems like many people *recently* are unaware of the setup program entirely. Hmm, I think we should add a new screen to setup.exe. After the install completes.. Your cygwin install is now ready to use.

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
At 10:34 2003-02-14, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: ... Can anyone offer any explanation about this? Or maybe convince me that I'm wrong in noticing this trend? I suppose that it is possible that we are now hitting a newer stupider

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:34:30PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:42:19AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: I suppose so, but, again, it seems like many people *recently* are unaware of the setup program

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:21:46PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: I think something's wildly wrong with the world when my handful of crusty old pages end up as the #1 Cygwin hit on Google. ;-) I can assure everybody that I've done nothing to try to make that the case. I think it's part of the

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:57:23PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Isn't it, in the first place the Cygwin Package Manager? cpm? Even the suffix of the archive files could be cpm... It's not at all unprecedented for Windows installers to be dual-use like Cygwin Setup is. The control panel API

RE: mutt lock count exceeded

2003-02-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
I noticed the thread here starting at http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg01010.html. Did the patch in that thread ever get into the Cygwin Mutt package? I am getting the same errors mentioned in that thread. The patch does not seem to be included the mutt source package that I

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 11:21 2003-02-15, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Wow. Classic Cygwin humor, number 1 on Google! I think something's wildly wrong with the world when my handful of crusty old pages end up as the #1 Cygwin hit on Google. ;-) I can assure everybody that I've done nothing to try to make that the

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:21:46PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: I think something's wildly wrong with the world when my handful of crusty old pages end up as the #1 Cygwin hit on Google. ;-) I can assure everybody that I've done nothing to try to make that the case. I think it's part

[Problem] mempcpy is missing?

2003-02-15 Thread Roger Sayle
I apologise if this is the wrong list to report bugs. I have searched the archive and haven't been able to find a reference to mempcpy. To summarise, /usr/lib/libc.a doesn't currently define the function mempcpy even though its prototyped in /usr/include/string.h, and its described in cygwin's

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing?

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:35:56PM -0700, Roger Sayle wrote: I apologise if this is the wrong list to report bugs. I have searched the archive and haven't been able to find a reference to mempcpy. As you have discovered, mempcpy is not provided. If a configure script detects it, the configure

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
At 11:21 2003-02-15, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Wow. Classic Cygwin humor, number 1 on Google! I think something's wildly wrong with the world when my handful of crusty old pages end up as the #1 Cygwin hit on Google. ;-) I can assure everybody that I've done nothing to try to make that

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:11:09PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:21:46PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: I think something's wildly wrong with the world when my handful of crusty old pages end up as the #1 Cygwin hit on Google. ;-) I can assure everybody that I've

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing?

2003-02-15 Thread Roger Sayle
As you have discovered, mempcpy is not provided. If a configure script detects it, the configure script is broken. Thanks for the fast response. Unfortunately in your haste you may have missed the point of the e-mail. Cygwin's /usr/include/string.h prototypes mempcpy. If cygwin doesn't

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing?

2003-02-15 Thread Max Bowsher
bChristopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:35:56PM -0700, Roger Sayle wrote: I apologise if this is the wrong list to report bugs. I have searched the archive and haven't been able to find a reference to mempcpy. As you have discovered, mempcpy is not provided. If a configure

Spies on Your PC HDrv

2003-02-15 Thread Mr . Day
Hello, We wanted to contact you today to inform you that there is a strong likelihood your PC's hard drive is infected with SpyWare. Spyware is a common term for files that are installed on your system without your knowledge that allow companies to monitor your Internet activity. What they

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread John Morrison
Why not have two links on the page... 1) Cygwin Setup 2) Cygwin Package Maintainer both of which are symb-links to setup.exe ;) J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:22:49PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: bChristopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:35:56PM -0700, Roger Sayle wrote: I apologise if this is the wrong list to report bugs. I have searched the archive and haven't been able to find a reference to mempcpy. As you

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing?

2003-02-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Roger Sayle wrote: As you have discovered, mempcpy is not provided. If a configure script detects it, the configure script is broken. Thanks for the fast response. Unfortunately in your haste you may have missed the point of the e-mail. Cygwin's /usr/include/string.h prototypes mempcpy.

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:22:49PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:35:56PM -0700, Roger Sayle wrote: I apologise if this is the wrong list to report bugs. I have searched the archive and haven't been able to find a

Re: procmail and NTSEC

2003-02-15 Thread Ajay Simha
On Sat Feb 15 16:09:20 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Ajay Simha wrote: On Sat Feb 15 15:21:30 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Ajay Simha wrote: Hi, When I had NTSEC on I'd get: $ procmail VERBOSE=yes .procmailrc testmail procmail: [3936] Wed Feb 12 00:39:58 2003 procmail: Suspicious

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:19:05PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Yes, in an ideal world, configure would deal with this - but unless you have a better idea, the only way I can think of dealing with it is to copy the problem header to the compilation directory, parse out the problem declaration

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:19:05PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Yes, in an ideal world, configure would deal with this - but unless you have a better idea, the only way I can think of dealing with it is to copy the problem header to the compilation directory, parse out

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: So, the cygwin bug report is noted and appreciated. We'll fix this eventually. However, the correct fix is to modify the configury mechanism which trips up on this in libintl. I guess I can't get by without giving the long answers to reports like this... We should

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Roger Sayle
Many thanks to cgf for checking in the solution for mempcpy. I'm now more than happy. However you might also consider that there still remain a significant number of potentially problematic function prototypes from cygwin's header files: strndup, exp2, scalbln, tgamma, nearbyint, lrint, round,

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: Of course we're going to fix cygwin. I just checked in a fix. While I assume this will probably be the end of it since no one will go to the effort of trying to fix libintl's configury and, if they did, there would probably be no official response anyway, the

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Roger Sayle wrote: Might I suggest that if keeping cygwin and newlib in sync is logistically very complicated, and you don't wish to provide cygwin-specific headers, you might ask the newlib folks to incorporate #ifndef __CYGWIN__ tags in their upstream headers. This approach makes it far

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Roger Sayle
for cygwin's build machinery (as suggested by Max) to correct newlibs headers for use on cygwin, removing all the unexported function prototypes. Umm... no. I didn't say that. Doh, I apologise. I misread the text before unless you have a better idea, the only way I can think of

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Of course we're going to fix cygwin. I just checked in a fix. While I assume this will probably be the end of it since no one will go to the effort of trying to fix libintl's configury and, if they did, there would probably be no official

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Max Bowsher wrote: Fix how? Unless I'm very much confused, this would require configure to create 2 new headers, containing lines like those below for every function that was in a header but did not link, AND then wrapping every include of system headers in every source file with #include

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Charles Wilson wrote: No. I'm going to fix memcpy. If it ain't broke, don't mess with it. memcpy is broken. I'll fix *that*. Isn't this the first time anyone has reported these problem prototypes messing up a compile? Nope; I've done it several times. 'course, my solution at those times

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:10:38PM -0700, Roger Sayle wrote: However you might also consider that there still remain a significant number of potentially problematic function prototypes from cygwin's header files: strndup, exp2, scalbln, tgamma, nearbyint, lrint, round, lround, trunc, remquo,

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Peter A. Castro
On 15 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:23, Christopher Faylor wrote: Or have web crawlers changed such that this doesn't work anymore? I'll try that. Thanks. I wouldn't: google actively lowers your page ranking when it sees such garbage. Where, exactly,

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:25:06PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: For other newlib platforms (e.g. embedded systems?) if the header declares the function, then the function is there. 'Nuff said. I don't think that can be true with newlib. I'm sure that there are some embedded systems which don't

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 10:41, Peter A. Castro wrote: Where, exactly, did you read this (a link to some doc would be enightening)? I see nothing about this in Googles documentation of Page Ranking. And, google isn't the only search engine out there. I'd think you'd want to try and get as

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:41:37PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: On 15 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:23, Christopher Faylor wrote: Or have web crawlers changed such that this doesn't work anymore? I'll try that. Thanks. I wouldn't: google actively

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Max Bowsher wrote: 3 things: - The issue here was mempcpy, not memcpy okay, fine... - Cygwin *doesn't* have a memcpy.h It was simply an example. sure, memPcpy is declared in string.h. The point is, the declaration is found, but the (test) link fails (during configury). and because it

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Charles Wilson wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: 3 things: - The issue here was mempcpy, not memcpy okay, fine... - Cygwin *doesn't* have a memcpy.h It was simply an example. sure, memPcpy is declared in string.h. The point is, the declaration is found, but the (test) link fails (during

Re: procmail and NTSEC

2003-02-15 Thread Greg Matheson
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Ajay Simha wrote: When I had NTSEC on I'd get: $ procmail VERBOSE=yes .procmailrc testmail procmail: [3936] Wed Feb 12 00:39:58 2003 procmail: Suspicious rcfile /home/asimha/.procmailrc procmail: Couldn't read /home/asimha/.procmailrc I don't know about

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Peter A. Castro
On 16 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 10:41, Peter A. Castro wrote: Where, exactly, did you read this (a link to some doc would be enightening)? I see nothing about this in Googles documentation of Page Ranking. And, google isn't the only search engine out there.

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 11:48, Peter A. Castro wrote: On 16 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 10:41, Peter A. Castro wrote: Where, exactly, did you read this (a link to some doc would be enightening)? I see nothing about this in Googles documentation of Page

Big fortran arrays: is this behavior expected?

2003-02-15 Thread Charles D. Russell
There is still a problem with big fortran arrays even after resetting heap_chunk_in_mb 1024. The subsequent test program exits with no output and no error message. When run in gdb, a segmentation fault is reported. Following a suggestion from comp.lang.fortran, I increased the stack size using

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: Breaking up the headers or adding a OS-specific capability.h, or something similar, which defines __HAVE_CLOCK would probably be the best way to deal with this. Assuming that this was a major issue -- which I don't think it is. You mean, if it ain't broke don't mess

kudos!

2003-02-15 Thread Alec Effrat
Just wanted to drop a note... kudos on a great thing for those of us enslaved on a wintendo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: [Problem] mempcpy is missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:50:02PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Breaking up the headers or adding a OS-specific capability.h, or something similar, which defines __HAVE_CLOCK would probably be the best way to deal with this. Assuming that this was a major issue -- which

Re: procmail and NTSEC

2003-02-15 Thread Ajay Simha
On Sun Feb 16 08:54:49 2003, Greg Matheson wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Ajay Simha wrote: When I had NTSEC on I'd get: $ procmail VERBOSE=yes .procmailrc testmail procmail: [3936] Wed Feb 12 00:39:58 2003 procmail: Suspicious rcfile /home/asimha/.procmailrc procmail:

forward incompatibility?

2003-02-15 Thread Charles Wilson
patch-2.5.8-3 requires the new symbol strerror_r, which is not provided by cygwin-1.3.19; it was added in 1.3.20. Therefore, if you've updated 'patch' but not 'cygwin', you get a missing symbol popup. I'm not complaining; this is not abnormal behavior. We guarantee backward compatibility,

Re: kudos!

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:05:29PM -0500, Alec Effrat wrote: Just wanted to drop a note... kudos on a great thing for those of us enslaved on a wintendo. but...? but...? Come on. It's a great thing, but... It's too hard to set up? The people are too mean? You can't allocate 27G of memory?

Re: forward incompatibility?

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:05:31PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: patch-2.5.8-3 requires the new symbol strerror_r, which is not provided by cygwin-1.3.19; it was added in 1.3.20. Therefore, if you've updated 'patch' but not 'cygwin', you get a missing symbol popup. I'm not complaining; this is

Re: kudos!

2003-02-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
Alec, There appears to have been an error in the delivery your message. All that got through was a simple thank-you and a compliment. Apparently lost in the transmission of your message was the part following the complimentary thank-you in which you complain about the idiotic way in which

Re: kudos!

2003-02-15 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
I think Randall R Schulz wrote: Alec, There appears to have been an error in the delivery your message. All that got through was a simple thank-you and a compliment. Boy, I can just see poor Alec scratching his head... - Ernest

Gdb -w in gdb-20030214

2003-02-15 Thread Topas
I have problem to use the new gdb (20030214) Just upgrade the gdb-20030214. But, the error message shown in runing %gdb -w a.out GNU gdb 2003-02-15-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are

Re: Gdb -w in gdb-20030214

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:02:21PM +0800, Topas wrote: I have problem to use the new gdb (20030214) Just upgrade the gdb-20030214. But, the error message shown in runing %gdb -w a.out Use 'insight'. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Gdb -w in gdb-20030214

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:04:30PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:02:21PM +0800, Topas wrote: I have problem to use the new gdb (20030214) Just upgrade the gdb-20030214. But, the error message shown in runing %gdb -w a.out Use 'insight'. Sorry. A little to quick

Re: Gdb -w in gdb-20030214

2003-02-15 Thread Topas
Sorry, forget to mention insight doesn't work too. Use 'insight'. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Peter A. Castro
On 16 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 11:48, Peter A. Castro wrote: On 16 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 10:41, Peter A. Castro wrote: Where, exactly, did you read this (a link to some doc would be enightening)? I see nothing about

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-15 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
At 08:47 PM 2/15/2003 -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: On 16 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 11:48, Peter A. Castro wrote: On 16 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 10:41, Peter A. Castro wrote: Where, exactly, did you read this (a link to some

RE: kudos!

2003-02-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
I think I can turn this into an awk script and get my Cyppy auto-answer system on line in no time! Lesse if I remember: /It's too hard to set up/ { print ASCIICyppy; print FAQSetup; } /You can't read your man pages/ { print ASCIICyppy; print FAQman; } It's so crazy it just might

RE: kudos!

2003-02-15 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
You know, I've been 'round these parts for a long time now, and I recall very few instances of the Cygwin sucks type of messages you describe. Like one guy in fact. Yeah, I know it's meant in jest, but lordy, learn how to take a compliment guys, sheesh. Then again, maybe I just haven't listened

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