Cannot quit Emacs

2003-03-08 Thread Daniel Keep
Hey. I've just downloaded and installed cygwin, and I'm trying to use emacs. I quite like all the cool stuff it does, but I have a slight problem... I can't quit. I'm running it under Windows 98SE via the cygwin bash shell, and when I try to quit, all I get is a bell. I hit Ctrl-X Ctrl-C and

[Patch] Enhance bootstrap.sh in setup and libgetopt++

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Requesting approval to apply this patch. BEGIN_PATCH Index: bootstrap.sh === RCS file: /home/max/cvsmirror/cygwin-apps-cvs/setup/bootstrap.sh,v retrieving revision 2.2 diff -u -r2.2 bootstrap.sh --- bootstrap.sh 27 Apr 2002 00:00:04

Re: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 8 Mar 2003, vijay kiran kamuju wrote: hi, when is it going to be the next release of the the setup.exe with all the CURRENT PATCHES, i need it asap. as for downloading the source frm cvs, i dont have vc++, r a cvs client installed at my office. so when r u releasing the new version of

RE: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
-Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski Cygwin setup compiles fine with Cygwin gcc. --- Pardon me, kind sir, but I have a itty bitty teensie weensie problem with this: make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/setup-0' Making all in bz2lib make[2]:

RE: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread Pavel Tsekov
You've obviously compiling from a branch. Branched setup is not gcc3 ready. Install gcc-2 package and use gcc-2 + g++-2 to compile setup.exe. On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, linda w (cyg) wrote: -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski Cygwin setup compiles fine with Cygwin gcc. ---

LPRng was Re: Pending packages status

2003-03-08 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: 3. LPRng date : 21 Jan 2003 version: 3.8.19-1 status : reviewed; updated package available notes : http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-01/msg00215.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00172.html

Re: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Pavel Tsekov wrote: You've obviously compiling from a branch. Branched setup is not gcc3 ready. Install gcc-2 package and use gcc-2 + g++-2 to compile setup.exe. Unfortunately, that won't work either. 2.249.2.5 isn't even gcc-2 ready. Max.

ITP: proj-4.4.6-1

2003-03-08 Thread Charles Wilson
The PROJ Cartographic Projections library (and utilities) originally written by Gerald Evenden then of the USGS. It is used by libgeotiff, among other things, for manipulating images of maps. The package consists of 3+1 separate cygwin packages: The main utilities and cartographic

Re: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
linda w (cyg) wrote: Compiling from a branch? How did I manage that? The setup source tarball you are using originated from the setup-200206 branch. I just have 'gcc' downloaded -- If I install the gcc2 package will the ./configure script just 'do the right thing' and select the compiler it

Re: LPRng was Re: Pending packages status

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
3. LPRng date : 21 Jan 2003 version: 3.8.19-1 status : reviewed; updated package available notes : http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-01/msg00215.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00172.html reviews:

RE: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
The problem is, way back then when 2.249.2.5 was release, gcc3 didn't exist yet. The setup code from then didn't comply strictly enough to C++ standards === Heresy!! Not compliant with standards...how could they?! I'm ashamed to be hobnobbin' with such types...ignoring

RE: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, linda w (cyg) wrote: Compiling from a branch? How did I manage that? I am a mindreader isn't it that what you've expected ? To answer the question - I didn't read your email till the end because I recognized the problem when I looked at the error messages. It is not a

RE: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, linda w (cyg) wrote: The problem is, way back then when 2.249.2.5 was release, gcc3 didn't exist yet. The setup code from then didn't comply strictly enough to C++ standards === Heresy!! Not compliant with standards...how could they?! I'm ashamed to be

Re: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
linda w (cyg) wrote: The problem is, way back then when 2.249.2.5 was release, gcc3 didn't exist yet. The setup code from then didn't comply strictly enough to C++ standards === Heresy!! Not compliant with standards...how could they?! I'm ashamed to be hobnobbin' with such types...ignoring

Re: I think I've GOT IT! The Cannot open (null) for readingbug!!!

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 07:41, Max Bowsher wrote: I traced it to this curious condition: pkg.desired.sourcePackage() == false pkg.desired.sourcePackage().picked() == true How? Well, it turns out that the defaultversion placeholder object used, amongst other circumstances, when a

Re: [Patch] Enhance bootstrap.sh in setup and libgetopt++

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 22:44, Max Bowsher wrote: Requesting approval to apply this patch. If you create a changelog entry, yes. Will do, tomorrow. Max.

Re: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: linda w (cyg) wrote: Compiling from a branch? How did I manage that? The setup source tarball you are using originated from the setup-200206 branch. I just have 'gcc' downloaded -- If I install the gcc2 package will the ./configure script just

Re: LPRng was Re: Pending packages status

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Earnie Boyd wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: IMO, a simple bootstrap.sh containing the appropriate autotool commands would be better. A source release for a binary package isn't supposed to require autotools. IIRC, this is GNU standards mandated; if not it certainly is autoconf mandated.

Re: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: linda w (cyg) wrote: Compiling from a branch? How did I manage that? The setup source tarball you are using originated from the setup-200206 branch. I just have 'gcc' downloaded -- If I install the gcc2 package will the

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:13:43AM +1100, Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: === - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin (Robert Collins) [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE:

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release ofsetup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 11:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: So, for you to get snapshot access, ask Chris for a) scp upload access b) write access to the setup-snapshots directory. Don't ask Chris. Go to http://sourceware.org/ and fill out the form referenced on that page. List [EMAIL

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
(Robert Collins) wrote: I have a symlink in my home dir called setup-snapshots, which is a link to the actual dir for http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots. To make a snapshot, I use: make snapshot [EMAIL PROTECTED] voila. So, for you to get snapshot access, ask Chris for a) scp

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:04:12AM -, Max Bowsher wrote: (Robert Collins) wrote: I have a symlink in my home dir called setup-snapshots, which is a link to the actual dir for http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots. To make a snapshot, I use: make snapshot [EMAIL PROTECTED] voila.

Pending setup patches (issue 5)

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Patches/changes queued for review: * Add foreign to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS (both setup and libgetopt++) * Remove autotool-generated files from CVS Patches being worked on: * Fix the Cannot open (null) for reading bug (Max) No patch yet.

Re: queue semi-flushed

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: Well, I've reviewed / applied the bulk of the queue. There is a new snapshot of HEAD being uploaded as I type. To get this released we need to work through the bugs in README. Given the number of features already added to HEAD, I consider new feature

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: That is the right way to do it but since we're discussing this here, it's silly to bother overseers. It's a manual step that I have to do so I'll just remove the CVS-only restriction. Thanks Chris! Robert: Shall I keep a snapshot of HEAD up-to-date? If so, what

ChangeLog README changes?

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert: Should I write ChangeLog entries for README changes? I was thinking no, but then I noticed you did, today. Max.

Re: ChangeLog README changes?

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 13:42, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert: Should I write ChangeLog entries for README changes? I was thinking no, but then I noticed you did, today. Up to you. I thought importing the list of bugs was worthy. Rob -- GPG key available at:

[setup TODO] Proposed reshuffle of items

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Here is the contents of the setup TODO, and some comments on how I think the items should be dealt with. * Mirrors list orer is snafued. It's the same order as in the release (2.249.2.5) setup. Therefore I propose deleting this item, and add Improve mirror selection to WISHLIST. * Chooser

Re: [setup TODO] Proposed reshuffle of items

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 13:58, Max Bowsher wrote: Here is the contents of the setup TODO, and some comments on how I think the items should be dealt with. * Mirrors list orer is snafued. It's the same order as in the release (2.249.2.5) setup. Therefore I propose deleting this item, and add

Re: [setup TODO] Proposed reshuffle of items

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 13:58, Max Bowsher wrote: Here is the contents of the setup TODO, and some comments on how I think the items should be dealt with. Robert Collins wrote: (condensed) ACK to some items. Done all ACKs. (condensed) No, still a TODO. (to many items) OK. Perhaps we need

RE: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
Igor helpfully said: The CVS version is trivial to compile - just follow the instructions at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html. Igor --- Ever had someone give you directions and tell you you can't miss it?...:-) Then max chimed in with some more details... cvs

RE: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Try --disable-shared -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of linda w (cyg) Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 9:59 PM To: 'Max Bowsher'; 'Igor Pechtchanski' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: when is next release of setup.exe Igor helpfully said: The

RE: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
Oh...*doh*...how'd I cut and paste that wrong? I tried it with eliminating the argument...seems to run... Now I'm worried...why'd it work?cause I happen to havea ll the write libraries in place and a generic new-user wouldn't have them? ok... tnx... -l -Original Message-

RE: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Linda, reconfigure your program and include --disable-shared in with it /path/to/setupsources/configure --disable-shared. I was not sure if you'd respond. I'm going to try this after the hard drive is defragmented here. Later Robert McNulty Junior. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Pending setup patches (issue 4)

2003-03-08 Thread Elfyn McBratney
* Preliminary colour-coding patch (from me) http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-01/msg00361.html Code design feedback received from Robert. GUI feedback appreciated from *anyone*. I *really* liked this addition. Having to go through that entire list of packages in the chooser can

Re: Preliminary colour-coding patch (was: Pending setup patches (issue 2))

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had anticipated some change in the design though (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-01/msg00362.html) I was anticipating the need to customize the colours. Re-designing would be premature until that has been

Re: Setup Bug Collation

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
I've merged this into the README. Thanks Max, Rob === - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 6:06 AM Subject: Setup Bug Collation The new setup snapshot 2.303 has been out a while now, and there have been a

Re: Removing concat.cc/h

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is policy for setup? Should we regenerate Makefile.in (and aclocal.m4, and any other relevent files) with the current Cygwin release of automake, since we are changing it at all, or would you prefer to keep it at the

Re: Pending setup patches (issue 3)

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:25 PM Subject: Pending setup patches (issue 3) Updated: * Remove concat.* In http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00022.html Applied. Rob

Re: Removing concat.cc/h

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: === - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is policy for setup? Should we regenerate Makefile.in (and aclocal.m4, and any other relevent files) with the current Cygwin release of automake, since we are changing it at all, or

Re: Removing concat.cc/h

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Max Bowsher wrote: Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: === - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is policy for setup? Should we regenerate Makefile.in (and aclocal.m4, and any other relevent files) with the current Cygwin release of automake, since we are

Re: Pending setup patches (Re: [PATCH] Re: Removing concat.cc/h)

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Igor's error message patch http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00017.html Commited. I still suspect we need a = rather than == - but we'll see :}. Rob

Re: Pending setup patches (Re: [PATCH] Re: Removing concat.cc/h)

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Pavel's patch for Exceptions freeing their messages too early http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00176.html Applied. Rob

Re: Pending setup patches (Re: [PATCH] Re: Removing concat.cc/h)

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Pavel's Do not uninstall if upgrade package fails md5 patch http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00178.html Pavel, This patch was missing IDS_CRC_ERROR definitions, even though it used it. Tsk! I've

queue semi-flushed

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
Well, I've reviewed / applied the bulk of the queue. There is a new snapshot of HEAD being uploaded as I type. To get this released we need to work through the bugs in README. Given the number of features already added to HEAD, I consider new feature patchs lowest priority, and patches solving

Re: I think I've GOT IT! The Cannot open (null) for readingbug!!!

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:08 AM Subject: Re: I think I've GOT IT! The Cannot open (null) for readingbug!!! Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 07:41,

Re: I think I've GOT IT! The Cannot open (null) for readingbug!!!

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: I've tweaked packageversion to use a mutator function, and overriden it in defaultversion. You can equally trip an Exception in _defaultversion::pick(bool) if you want to find where it was being set. I'll be interested to know if this solves the problem ( I

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: linda w (cyg) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't know it was in reference to the CVS...I just tried current released source for current released setup with current released tools -- which I realize (now) was completely naive of me. :-/ Naive, yes. Foolish no.

Re: when is next release of setup.exe

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: vijay kiran kamuju [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 6:00 PM Subject: when is next release of setup.exe hi, when is it going to be the next release of the the setup.exe with all the CURRENT PATCHES, i need it asap.

Re: LPRng was Re: Pending packages status

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
Max Bowsher wrote: IMO, a simple bootstrap.sh containing the appropriate autotool commands would be better. A source release for a binary package isn't supposed to require autotools. IIRC, this is GNU standards mandated; if not it certainly is autoconf mandated. The configure script

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: I'd really have loved to have a new setup release, oh, 8 months back. And that would compile out of the box with the current gcc. However whats released has been very stable, and the time to finish releasing HEAD keeps getting away from us. HEAD has lots of

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin (Robert Collins) [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe) Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote:

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin (Robert Collins) [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe) Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote:

Re: Pending setup patches (Re: [PATCH] Re: Removing concat.cc/h)

2003-03-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: === - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Igor's error message patch http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00017.html Commited. I still suspect we need a = rather than == - but we'll see :}.

Re: Pending setup patches (Re: [PATCH] Re: Removing concat.cc/h)

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] I still suspect we need a = rather than == - but we'll see :}. Rob Only if files is traversed in order of decreasing minlevel. Otherwise we'd have to traverse the whole set before we can find the right log file.

Where did X11R6

2003-03-08 Thread chuck
I did the [- Install Cygwin now. Ran setup and Ta-Da working like a charm ..except /usr/X11R6 - not there. To include xhost - very imprortant to me :-( What'da I miss? Tks

Re: Windows based app.server

2003-03-08 Thread Rasjid Wilcox
Chris Howells wrote: With an X server running on a Win32 machine, it's possible to run X applications (e.g. on Linux) and have them sent over the network to appear on the Win32 machine. However, has anybody tried the other way around -- having Windows applications appearing on a Linux desktop,

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog external.cc fhandl ...

2003-03-08 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-08 17:56:13 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog external.cc fhandler_proc.cc fhandler_process.cc pinfo.h Log message: Revert below changes regarding

src/winsup/cygwin pinfo.cc

2003-03-08 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-08 19:22:08 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : pinfo.cc Log message: missed in last checkin Patches:

RE: rpm-4.1 successful compile on Cygwin

2003-03-08 Thread Ralf Habacker
Max Bowsher wrote: I'm not quite sure rpm really is desirable for the Cygwin dist, unless it was decided to transition to rpm packages exclusively once setup was suitably adapted. Well, there are grand designs eventually to generalize setup so that it can accept tar.bz2 (or .cyg?)

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-20030307-1

2003-03-08 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This version is a refresh from CVS on sources.redhat.com. This release has one minor change from Chuck Wilson to make --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc the default for `ld'. Are there no more changes in this release ? Wenn I

Re: setup.exe - 2.249.2.5 - Cannot get other packages not included in base install

2003-03-08 Thread Joseph Colton
--- Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please keep replies on the list. Joseph Colton wrote: --- Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are your Windows DPI/font size settings non-default? (In the Display control panel) My font sizes are all default. I tried changing the

RE: sudo and runas

2003-03-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
At 14:22 2003-03-06, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: To Whom It May Concern, Beware programmers named after Roman gods with eyes (and faces) on both sides of their head bearing pre-compiled software. He sees the outside _and_ inside! Get it? He's trying to see inside your

Resore my settings after reinstalling windows

2003-03-08 Thread Yongtao Yang
Hello, list, This is my first message to the list, if it is just a FAQ, please forgive me and kindly point me to the link. BTW, I have briefly browsed the cygwin FAQ. I have a copy of cygwin/xfree86 installed and worked fine for a couple of months. But last week my windows became unbootable and

RE: Testsuite

2003-03-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
I'll go you one better Max: a combined bat/perl script that downloads and installs a snapshot. Attached is what I use to install the latest snapshots; put it anywhere (rename it to .bat, I had to get it through Outlook), MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CYGWIN THINGS RUNNING, run it, and you're set.

RE: Testsuite

2003-03-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
I'll go you one better Max: a combined bat/perl script that downloads and installs a snapshot. Attached is what I use to install the latest snapshots; put it anywhere (rename it to .bat, I had to get it through Outlook), MAKE ^^

Re: Testsuite

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: I'll go you one better Max: a combined bat/perl script that downloads and installs a snapshot. Attached is what I use to install the latest snapshots; put it anywhere (rename it to .bat, I had to get it through Outlook), MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CYGWIN THINGS

Re: Resore my settings after reinstalling windows

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Yongtao Yang wrote: Hello, list, This is my first message to the list, if it is just a FAQ, please forgive me and kindly point me to the link. BTW, I have briefly browsed the cygwin FAQ. I have a copy of cygwin/xfree86 installed and worked fine for a couple of months. But last week my

RE: Testsuite

2003-03-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: I'll go you one better Max: a combined bat/perl script that downloads and installs a snapshot. Attached is what I use to install the latest snapshots; put it anywhere (rename it to .bat, I had to get it through Outlook), MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CYGWIN

Re: Resore my settings after reinstalling windows

2003-03-08 Thread Yongtao Yang
Max Bowsher wrote: Yongtao Yang wrote: Hello, list, This is my first message to the list, if it is just a FAQ, please forgive me and kindly point me to the link. BTW, I have briefly browsed the cygwin FAQ. I have a copy of cygwin/xfree86 installed and worked fine for a couple of months. But

chmod not working on Win98

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Matheson
When I installed fetchmail-6.2.2.1, fetchmail started refusing to use my .fetchmailrc. I think the requirement that permissions be 600 on it is new. However when I tried chmodding it to 600, it stays at 644 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -al .fetchmailrc -rw-r--r--1 greg unknown 864 Feb

chmod not working on Win98

2003-03-08 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Saturday 8 Mar 03, Greg Matheson writes: When I installed fetchmail-6.2.2.1, fetchmail started refusing to use my .fetchmailrc. I think the requirement that permissions be 600 on it is new. However when I tried chmodding it to 600, it stays at 644 This is in the FAQ. David --

RE: sudo and runas

2003-03-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
Gar-Gar, At 03:04 2003-03-08, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: At 14:22 2003-03-06, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: To Whom It May Concern, Beware programmers named after Roman gods with eyes (and faces) on both sides of their head bearing pre-compiled software. He sees the

Re: Newbie Question: Tcl/tk undefined reference

2003-03-08 Thread Eric L T Tan
In fact, I got away with adding -ltcl -ltk to the gcc -o ... line in the Makefile. Somehow the ./configure didn't do this for me. Thanks anyways.. Eric On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Andrew Markebo wrote: Hi! Just a quick thought, throw us the command-line that gives the error too.. And there are a

PET scrap

2003-03-08 Thread Samuel
To whom it may concern, It is a harmless email. If we have bothered you, please ingore this message and accept our appology. Our aim is to looking for a partner for long term only. We are a leading plastic scrap importer in China. With own reprocessing facilities, import license, we are

Re: setup.exe is too small

2003-03-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Andrew, I was not accusing anyone of anything; I was simply commenting on the general statements made by people in this thread. I'm sorry if it seems to you that you were accused. You did read the P.S., right? The PS

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-20030307-1

2003-03-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf Habacker wrote: Hi I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This version is a refresh from CVS on sources.redhat.com. This release has one minor change from Chuck Wilson to make --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc the default for `ld'. Are there no more changes in this

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-08 Thread Pavel Tsekov
The Midnight Commander visual shell has been updated to version 4.6.0-1. This is major upgrade and the result of more then one and a half year of bugfixing and code cleanup. You can find the official announcement here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2003-February/msg00043.html Full

Re: Problem compiling Perl Tk800.024

2003-03-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Volker, Am Mittwoch, 5. März 2003 um 11:03 schriebst du: Gerrit == Gerrit P Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerrit Hallo Dr. Zell, By the way I'm using perl-5.8.0. (Does anyone know why all the man pages and perl scripts in /bin have CRLF's ?) Gerrit You're the

Is there a way to increase SOMAXCONN ?

2003-03-08 Thread Rani Pinchuk
Hi all, Hopefully someone here can give me a pointer/explanation of how to increase SOMAXCONN. In the last Cygwin I setup, it is defined as 5: In /usr/include/cygwin/socket.h: ... /* Maximum queue length specificable by listen. */ #define SOMAXCONN 5 ... I need it to be higher (a daemon

RE: setup.exe is too small

2003-03-08 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
-Original Message- Subject: Re: setup.exe is too small It is indeed a natural assumption that the phrase to demand that something be done is addressed to me, that I was demanding that something be done. , relax. And pay attention. The whole thread was about people who did seem

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pkgconfig-0.15.0-1

2003-03-08 Thread Charles Wilson
pkgconfig is a tool used for managing the configuration information of OTHER packages. This is a routine update to the latest upstream version, 0.15.0. --Chuck To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:13:43AM +1100, Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: === - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin (Robert Collins) [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE:

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release ofsetup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 11:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: So, for you to get snapshot access, ask Chris for a) scp upload access b) write access to the setup-snapshots directory. Don't ask Chris. Go to http://sourceware.org/ and fill out the form referenced on that page. List [EMAIL

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bison-20030307-1

2003-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of 'bison' available for download. This updates the package to the latest version available from CVS. It seems to fix the problem that some people have had with some .y files, most notably the ones in the cygwin setup sources. For a brief descripton of this package, see

New setup.exe snapshot available.

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Collins
There is a new setup.exe snapshot. It's a minor increment over the current setup. Specifically it should address the problems with ntsec being on by default, and a recent bug report where proxies that need a username and an empty password couldn't be used. You can download the snapshot from

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: unzip-5.50-2

2003-03-08 Thread Charles Wilson
The 'unzip' package has been updated to version 5.50-1. UnZip is an open-source, command-line alternative to other zip-format archives such as WinZip, etc. unzip-5.50 is the latest release from Info-Zip, http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html. CHANGES from 5.50-1 o Add fix for an

Re: New setup.exe snapshot available.

2003-03-08 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 11:23 AM 3/9/2003 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: There is a new setup.exe snapshot. It's a minor increment over the current setup. From an ntsec point of view it tries to insure that the file permissions *displayed* by ls -l allow at least rx access. When running the new snapshot, please be on

Re: Removing concat.cc/h

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: === - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is policy for setup? Should we regenerate Makefile.in (and aclocal.m4, and any other relevent files) with the current Cygwin release of automake, since we are changing it at all, or

Re: Removing concat.cc/h

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Max Bowsher wrote: Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: === - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is policy for setup? Should we regenerate Makefile.in (and aclocal.m4, and any other relevent files) with the current Cygwin release of automake, since we are

Re: I think I've GOT IT! The Cannot open (null) for readingbug!!!

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: I've tweaked packageversion to use a mutator function, and overriden it in defaultversion. You can equally trip an Exception in _defaultversion::pick(bool) if you want to find where it was being set. I'll be interested to know if this solves the problem ( I

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: I'd really have loved to have a new setup release, oh, 8 months back. And that would compile out of the box with the current gcc. However whats released has been very stable, and the time to finish releasing HEAD keeps getting away from us. HEAD has lots of

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin (Robert Collins) [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe) Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote:

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin (Robert Collins) [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe) Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote:

Re: Pending setup patches (Re: [PATCH] Re: Removing concat.cc/h)

2003-03-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: === - Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Igor's error message patch http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00017.html Commited. I still suspect we need a = rather than == - but we'll see :}.

Updated: unzip-5.50-2

2003-03-08 Thread Charles Wilson
The 'unzip' package has been updated to version 5.50-1. UnZip is an open-source, command-line alternative to other zip-format archives such as WinZip, etc. unzip-5.50 is the latest release from Info-Zip, http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html. CHANGES from 5.50-1 o Add fix for an