Shouldn't the dependency part of setup.exe be back end driven? That
is, when setup.exe goes to install tar, shouldn't it complain if gzip
isn't installed or going to be installed?
If not, maybe we need a utility which can be run (cygcheck?) to check
package dependencies. Then we can just tell
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Robb, Sam wrote:
Oh, Bother, said Pooh. I'll try to resolve this - it's working
on my system, so I may just have transposed some numbers :-/
If you already have an existing exports file, you will need
to explicitly change owner/permissions on the file
I found another bug (most likely introduce by me in a previous patch)
when rebasing up and the DLL is already based at the requested address.
The attached patch is one way to correct this problem.
Applied and checked in.
Ralf
Dear Cygwin/XFree86 users:
I finally downloaded files and installed all files, I
thought. When I typed $startx, it gave me following
error messages:
[:hostname/.xinitrc:unknowm operand
[:hostname/.xserverrc:unknown operand
export: /hostname/.Xauthority: bad variable name
giving up.
xinit:
Hello, cygwin-xfree! How are you?
How I specify this XKB config:
Section InputDevice
Identifier RuKeyboard
Driver Keyboard
Option XkbRules xfree86
Option XkbModel pc101
Option XkbLayout ru
Option XkbOptions grp:ctrl_shift_toggle
EndSection
If I prepare /etc/X11/XF86Config
Lev Serebryakov wrote:
Hello, cygwin-xfree! How are you?
How I specify this XKB config:
Section InputDevice
Identifier RuKeyboard
Driver Keyboard
Option XkbRules xfree86
Option XkbModel pc101
Option XkbLayout ru
Option XkbOptions grp:ctrl_shift_toggle
EndSection
UNIX has a method for producing sparse files. If this is desired functionality,
Cygwin should mimic that not invent a new way of doing things.
cgf
Hi,
I have prepared another patch that implements parse files for Cygwin. It is
smaller and, I think, even better than the previous. No new
Is it wise to set *all* new files to sparse? Surely if this was actually
advantageous, Windows would do it anyway? From MSDN: Note It is up to the
application to maintain sparseness by writing zeros with
FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA. I.e., this will gain nothing unless the application
knows about
Vaclav Haisman wrote:
Is it wise to set *all* new files to sparse? Surely if this was
actually advantageous, Windows would do it anyway? From MSDN: Note
It is up to the application to maintain sparseness by writing zeros
with FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA. I.e., this will gain nothing unless the
Corinna,
I believe this will take care of Re: uh oh [[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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Hi all,
I was going through all this thread wondering if noone
would see the (to me as a late Un*x guy) obvious:
Consider a slow net connection, e.g by
14.4 K Modem, or as Hannu does,
several hosts to be updated. The natural thing to me
On Saturday 15 Feb 03, andrew clarke writes:
...
Section 2 of the FAQ might also put people off using Setup because it's
described as a work-in-progress and seemingly a bit of a moving target.
I'll see if I can make this sound less off-putting.
But I also agree with Chris, that the people who
On Friday 14 Feb 03, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) writes:
We need an entry in the FAQ about the inaccessiblity of network shares
from Cygwin run services.
FWIW, it's in the User's Guide:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.3.3
Igor
Thanks Igor. I'll
Hey folks,
Two things - first of all, as of 00:00 GMT Cygwin.com appears to be
down. Hope it's nothing too serious.
Secondly, can you please tell me how to obtain, via the setup installer,
a prior version of the Cygwin base installation? I'm using some 3rd
party software tools that were
I can't really offer much comment on this, as I do still use setup.exe to
actually install the packages. But one thing I have noticed recently, and
I'm sure someone reported it as a bug, is that setup regularly fails to
download all packages successfully. Once download is completed and we move
At the risk of yet another torrent of sarcasm, I fully concur with Alec.
Cygwin
ROCKS THE CASBAH! Warts and all. Everybody involved should be proud of
what's
been done here. In my work alone, you've directly contributed to saving
untold
numbers of lives (we build heart diagnostic
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:55:26AM +1000, John Williams wrote:
Hey folks,
Two things - first of all, as of 00:00 GMT Cygwin.com appears to be
down. Hope it's nothing too serious.
Secondly, can you please tell me how to obtain, via the setup installer,
a prior version of the Cygwin base
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:55:26AM +1000, John Williams wrote:
Hey folks,
Two things - first of all, as of 00:00 GMT Cygwin.com appears to be
down. Hope it's nothing too serious.
Secondly, can you please tell me how to obtain, via the setup installer,
a prior version of the Cygwin base
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Charles Wilson wrote:
Max Bowsher wrote:
Neither will work. The compiler is already perfectly happy. libtool decides
it knows better, though, and intervenes, breaking the build. I wouldn't
worry too much about this now. There's already a hardcoded
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Charles Wilson wrote:
Max Bowsher wrote:
Besides, this means altering the platform to suit libtool. Talk about the
tail wagging the dog!
see below
The only alternatives for this particular problem seem to be:
1) punt.
Well, it's not like we've got many
I'm just wondering, because I got 0 replies for my
bugreport on this mailing list last week.
cheers,
dalibor topic
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Charles Wilson wrote:
Ralf Habacker wrote:
BTW: Do you know which libraries are also hybrid execpt of
cygwin1.dll ?
There are about a half-dozen in /usr/lib/w32api -- and worse, the
static
members are bad variable types; if you make the static members
part of the DLL, then these vars
I notice that when I do a find C:\\, or a find /cygdrive/c,
I don't get files under my cygwin dir. Why is that? I could
imagine that it might judge them as separate file systems and might
exclude them if I used find -xdev..., but seems that /cygdrive/c
or C:\\ should give whole disk?
I
Max Bowsher wrote:
Neither will work. The compiler is already perfectly happy. libtool decides
it knows better, though, and intervenes, breaking the build. I wouldn't
worry too much about this now. There's already a hardcoded
sys_lib_search_path_spec for cygwin. It only affects building for
Christopher Faylor wrote ...
I tried an experiment recently where I turned on ftp access to the
cygwin download directory on sources.redhat.com. The result seemed
to be that people started downloading cygwin's package .tar.bz2 files
directly and (somehow) used tar to extract files rather than
Charles Wilson wrote:
I think that in some cases, libtool tries to do too much. I've run into a
number of cases which would have just worked if libtool had passed the
arguments to gcc without modification, but it insists on filtering
stuff in
complex ways. For example, gcc -print-search-dirs
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 01:36:04AM -0800, Dalibor Topic wrote:
I'm just wondering, because I got 0 replies for my
bugreport on this mailing list last week.
It's supported, but, like everything, unless you can demonstrate with
a *simple* test case that there is actually a gcc problem (which is
hi,
I tried to run configure on a2ps-4.13 and get this error:
[asimha@ASIMHA-W2K /tmp/a2ps-4.13]$ ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for mawk... no
checking for gawk...
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's supported, but, like everything, unless you can
demonstrate with
a *simple* test case that there is actually a gcc
problem (which is
unlikely) rather than a programming error (which is
more likely), you
aren't apt to get much help.
Dalibor,
At 01:36 2003-02-17, Dalibor Topic wrote:
I'm just wondering, because I got 0 replies for my bugreport on this
mailing list last week.
Install the gcc2 package.
However, the GCC 3.2.x compiler almost certainly did not introduce
optimizer bugs as your report suggests. Far more likely
--- Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dalibor,
At 01:36 2003-02-17, Dalibor Topic wrote:
I'm just wondering, because I got 0 replies for my
bugreport on this
mailing list last week.
Install the gcc2 package.
Actually, the bugreport I've sent, has an attachment,
generated by
On Monday 17 Feb 03, Ajay Simha writes:
hi,
I tried to run configure on a2ps-4.13 and get this error:
[asimha@ASIMHA-W2K /tmp/a2ps-4.13]$ ./configure
...
checking for flex... no
checking for lex... no
checking for flex... ${SHELL} /tmp/a2ps-4.13/auxdir/missing --run flex
checking for
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:57:48AM -0800, neal somos wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote ...
I tried an experiment recently where I turned on ftp access to the
cygwin download directory on sources.redhat.com. The result seemed to
be that people started downloading cygwin's package .tar.bz2 files
Hmm... reply/follow-up-to: is not set to cygwin ML... :-7
May I guess that you occasionally get personal mail? ;-)
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Of Randall R Schulz
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I don't know Pico,
but I gave it a try (running in a Cygwin console
Charles Wilson wrote:
Charles Wilson wrote:
I think that in some cases, libtool tries to do too much. I've run
into a number of cases which would have just worked if libtool had
passed the arguments to gcc without modification, but it insists on
filtering
stuff in
complex ways. For
Does this mean that Cygwin is not ready for production??
Darn!! and I was just getting ready to roll it out to my biggest
client - Randy's Pizza and Bait. ( sorry - not realation )
Brian Kelly
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Dieter Meinert wrote:
I was going through all this thread wondering if noone
would see the (to me as a late Un*x guy) obvious:
Consider a slow net connection, e.g by
14.4 K Modem, or as Hannu does,
several hosts to be updated. The natural thing to me
appears to download
I would like to be able to remotely upgrade a cygwin environment.
Does setup.exe support a non graphical environment.
Can it be run from a bash shell, or does an X version exist?
Thanks for any help.
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I have old (about 3-4 months old) installation of some cygwin
packages (gcc, XFree86, some other).
I've downloaded last cygwin (full tree: about 1Gb) on my work
computer and bring it at computer with old cygwin. I run
`setup.exe' (2.249.2.5, 171008
On Mon Feb 17 16:25:37 2003, David Starks-Browning wrote:
On Monday 17 Feb 03, Ajay Simha writes:
hi,
I tried to run configure on a2ps-4.13 and get this error:
[asimha@ASIMHA-W2K /tmp/a2ps-4.13]$ ./configure
...
checking for flex... no
checking for lex... no
checking for
Cary Lewis wrote:
I would like to be able to remotely upgrade a cygwin environment.
Does setup.exe support a non graphical environment.
Can it be run from a bash shell, or does an X version exist?
No.
There's been a little work in this direction, but it's nowhere near
finished.
Max.
Randall R Schulz rrschulz at cris dot com wrote:
A couple of months ago, someone reported on how local (stack)
allocations larger than a certain threshold were allocated on the heap.
In fact, you, Danny, contributed materially to that thread: Subject
Strange behaviour of gcc starting with a
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of Christopher Faylor
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:36 PM
I was asking why there was recently a number of people installing
without setup and then complaining when things don't work.
And you got told about *one* reasonable
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:55:26AM +1000, John Williams wrote:
Hey folks,
Two things - first of all, as of 00:00 GMT Cygwin.com appears to be
down. Hope it's nothing too serious.
Secondly, can you please tell me how to obtain, via the setup installer,
a prior
John Williams wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:55:26AM +1000, John Williams wrote:
Hey folks,
Two things - first of all, as of 00:00 GMT Cygwin.com appears to be
down. Hope it's nothing too serious.
Secondly, can you please tell me how to obtain, via the
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:40:39PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of Christopher Faylor
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:36 PM
I was asking why there was recently a number of people installing
without setup and
Max Bowsher wrote:
John Williams wrote:
They have a cross compiler that uses the cygwin compatability layer.
They have modified and distribute a version of this layer, which is
built upon cygwin1.dll version 1.3.13. However, they distribute with
their tools only a minimal subset of cygwin
John Williams wrote:
Max Bowsher wrote:
John Williams wrote:
They have a cross compiler that uses the cygwin compatability layer.
They have modified and distribute a version of this layer, which is
built upon cygwin1.dll version 1.3.13. However, they distribute
with their tools only a
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:45:20PM -, Max Bowsher wrote:
Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin.
Correct.
I don't suppose you'd be willing to make the modified sources available,
would you? I'm interested in what these people have done to cygwin.
cgf
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Thats very bad.
Yeah. I don't know why these implibs need to declare these static
structures; it's possible that w32api is just following the lead of the
corresponding .lib files in the MSVC distribution.
But, that's neither here nor there. IF these crossbreed implibs are
detected as
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:45:20PM -, Max Bowsher wrote:
Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin.
Correct.
I don't suppose you'd be willing to make the modified sources available,
would you? I'm interested in what these people have
Max Bowsher wrote:
OK, *now* its pretty obvious what the problem is. Cygwin 1.3.20 is backward
compatible with Cygwin 1.3.13, but Cygwin is not and never will be sideways
compatible with other slightly modified versions of Cygwin.
Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:45:20PM -, Max Bowsher wrote:
Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin.
Correct.
I don't suppose you'd be willing to make the modified sources available,
would you? I'm interested in what these people have
John Williams wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:45:20PM -, Max Bowsher wrote:
Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin.
Correct.
I don't suppose you'd be willing to make the modified sources
available, would you? I'm interested in
John Williams wrote:
Max Bowsher wrote:
OK, *now* its pretty obvious what the problem is. Cygwin 1.3.20 is
backward compatible with Cygwin 1.3.13, but Cygwin is not and never
will be sideways compatible with other slightly modified versions of
Cygwin.
Compile your own EDK toolchain against
Max Bowsher wrote:
John Williams wrote:
Max Bowsher wrote:
OK, *now* its pretty obvious what the problem is. Cygwin 1.3.20 is
backward compatible with Cygwin 1.3.13, but Cygwin is not and never
will be sideways compatible with other slightly modified versions of
Cygwin.
Compile your own EDK
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:17:02PM -, Max Bowsher wrote:
John Williams wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:45:20PM -, Max Bowsher wrote:
Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin.
Correct.
I don't suppose you'd be willing to make the
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:32:07PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:17:02PM -, Max Bowsher wrote:
John Williams wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:45:20PM -, Max Bowsher wrote:
Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Ok. This version just changes the name of the DLL from cygwin1.dll
to xygwin1.dll.
What surprises me though is that if I duplicate xygwin1.dll to
cygwin1.dll, it doesn't work???
Am I missing something here?
Cheers,
John
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seems to have broken it. Now when I type make it tells me:
/c: Can't open /c: No such file or directory
If I create a /c then make works. It never did that before the upgrade
though. Also, man and which don't seem to work
John Williams wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Ok. This version just changes the name of the DLL from cygwin1.dll
to xygwin1.dll.
What surprises me though is that if I duplicate xygwin1.dll to
cygwin1.dll, it doesn't work???
Am I missing something here?
Impossible to answer fully
John Williams wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Ok. This version just changes the name of the DLL from cygwin1.dll
to xygwin1.dll.
What surprises me though is that if I duplicate xygwin1.dll to
cygwin1.dll, it doesn't work???
What doesn't work? The Cygwin provided utilities or the
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote:
What doesn't work? The Cygwin provided utilities or the Xygwin1 versions?
Neither. I can't run either Cygwin utilities under Xygwin, nor the
Xygwin utilities under Cygwin. Full error messages were posted earlier
in the thread.
I wouldn't necessarily
John Williams wrote:
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote:
What doesn't work? The Cygwin provided utilities or the Xygwin1
versions?
Neither. I can't run either Cygwin utilities under Xygwin, nor the
Xygwin utilities under Cygwin. Full error messages were posted
earlier in the thread.
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, John Williams wrote:
Max Bowsher wrote:
John Williams wrote:
They have a cross compiler that uses the cygwin compatability layer.
They have modified and distribute a version of this layer, which is
built upon cygwin1.dll version 1.3.13. However, they distribute with
John Williams wrote:
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote:
What doesn't work? The Cygwin provided utilities or the Xygwin1
versions?
Neither. I can't run either Cygwin utilities under Xygwin, nor the
Xygwin utilities under Cygwin. Full error messages were posted earlier
in the thread.
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
John,
FYI, if you simply copy the DLL, the programs will try to load it
twice (once for each name). As I see it, you have the following
choices:
1) Check out from CVS with the cygwin-1-3-13-1 or cygwin-1-3-13-2
tag (depending on the version they used) and
Danny,
At 12:55 2003-02-17, Danny Smith wrote:
Randall R Schulz rrschulz at cris dot com wrote:
A couple of months ago, someone reported on how local (stack)
allocations larger than a certain threshold were allocated on the heap.
In fact, you, Danny, contributed materially to that thread:
Ralf Habacker wrote:
the negative: Ralf, you keep trying to assume things based on filenames.
Filenames LIE. Whether it is the name of the archive (foo.dll.a) or
the name of an object in the archive (dxx.o), it's gonna fail -- and
it will fail in EXTREMELY hard-to-track-down ways.
You
I've updated libtool-devel to the 20030216 CVS, plus a rewritten
win32_libid() function that should speed up linking libraries that have
many dependencies.
So, test and enjoy; I will probably make this the official cygwin
libtool-devel very soon. Unless there are significant bugs reported, I
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
John,
FYI, if you simply copy the DLL, the programs will try to load it
twice (once for each name). As I see it, you have the following
choices:
1) Check out from CVS with the cygwin-1-3-13-1 or cygwin-1-3-13-2
Hey everyone,
Thanks all for your input and comments on this thread. If nothing else
I've learned a little more about the mechanics of Cygwin, which can't be
a bad thing.
I have re-assessed my needs and decided I am, in fact, better off
running with Cygwin and Xygwin side-by-side, completely
So I have exim working fantastically with various user agents. However,
I'm having an intermittent problem with Outlook where it hangs while
trying to send mail out through exim. I don't want to go off-topic by
talking about Outlook but I figure that enough people must use exim out
there that
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:03:14AM -, Max Bowsher wrote:
John Williams wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Ok. This version just changes the name of the DLL from cygwin1.dll to
xygwin1.dll.
What surprises me though is that if I duplicate xygwin1.dll to
cygwin1.dll, it doesn't work???
Am I
Christopher Faylor wrote:
The sources available for download are for 1.3.2. The differences are
below. Basically, it seems like they made a few changes without really
thinking too hard about what they did. So, the cygwin mount table will
be found in another registry entry but it will end up in
* linda w (cyg) (03-02-17 02:59 +0100)
I notice that when I do a find C:\\, or a find /cygdrive/c,
I don't get files under my cygwin dir. Why is that? I could
imagine that it might judge them as separate file systems and might
exclude them if I used find -xdev..., but seems that /cygdrive/c
Hi Gang
First post here:)
I would like to ask that whether it is possible to use Cygwin as X Emulator?
I am connecting to a RH 7.2 box and would like to run X apps. The
functionality I have in mind is that of EXceed but EXceed is atrociously
costly.
In case it is not possible using Cygwin,I'll
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:42:13AM +0530, Manu Anand wrote:
I would like to ask that whether it is possible to use Cygwin as X
Emulator?
Go to http://cygwin.com/ and look at the table on the left, under
Software.
cgf
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Manu,
Yes.
Now that was a short answer.
Just install cygwin with the X packages and type startx its that easy.
I could be wrong by saying that you won't be able to have modulair windows like with
Exceed but you do get 1 MS-Windows window with all your X-Windows.
You could also run a window
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 07:29:44AM +0100, Bart Lamot wrote:
I could be wrong by saying that you won't be able to have modulair
windows like with Exceed but you do get 1 MS-Windows window with all
your X-Windows.
You could be wrong and you are wrong. Cygwin's XFree86 project has had
this for
Jim - Try the following solution. it worked for me. Write back if it doesn't work
and I'll generate a more explicit example from my ant build script.
Alan Thompson
From: Mike Bresnahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Using cygwin and JAVA/JNI
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003
Chuck Ocheret wrote:
So I have exim working fantastically with various user agents.
However, I'm having an intermittent problem with Outlook where it
hangs while trying to send mail out through exim. I don't want to go
off-topic by talking about Outlook but I figure that enough people
must
Manu Anand wrote:
I would like to ask that whether it is possible to use Cygwin as X
Emulator?
XFree86 runs under Cygwin.
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