[Ready for test/1.5.0] gdbm-1.8.3-4, libgdbm4

2003-07-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Okay, thanks to Pierre's contributions, we may have a solution for gdbm... I've just posted an *official* new release of gdbm to the main list. I reverted my entire system to 1.3.22 status (no test packages at all), and rebuilt gdbm with Pierre's programs. That's the new, curr: release

ccdoc is now part of the Cygwin net release

2003-07-20 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Hi Joe, I wasn't too sure whether you are or still are watching the cygwin-apps mailing list, so I'm mailing you directly just in case. I uploaded ccdoc to the Cygwin mirror system (11th July) and it's now available via setup.exe . If you're still interested in maintaining it for us, could you

RE: SetupXP

2003-07-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
First, please drop -r HEAD from your diff command. All that accomplishes is to make the generated patch *revert all changes to HEAD that you haven't merged into your local copy*. Ouch, ok, important safety tip. I thought I had gotten all the changes to HEAD, but as you discovered

Re: Pending package status (20 Jul 2003)

2003-07-20 Thread Elfyn McBratney
[ Please send mail to list instead of mailing moi directly ] On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Daniel Reed wrote: On 2003-07-20T00:48+0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: ) @ TCM ) ) date : 27 Jan 2003 ) version: 2.20-1 ) status : updated packages are available for review ) notes :

RE: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

2003-07-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 23:40, Max Bowsher wrote: Gary's current SetupXP patchset calls 2 member functions on page activation: OnActivate (returns void), and OnAcceptActivation (returns bool). I think this is unnecessarily messy. AFAICS, OnAcceptActivation only exists

RE: [SetupXP] Minor res.rc changes.

2003-07-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
| * res.rc | (IDD_SPLASH): Move icon. Actually, you just changed the width. Indeed. Not sure what happened there. Remember that those entries are a bit old, I may have un-changed things in the interim. Widths of 21 and 20 are used at various places in res.rc. I don't know why. If you can

RE: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

2003-07-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
I cannot think of one. It exists soley to give OnActivate a default return code. It *can't* be called anywhere else, since in the general case, OnAcceptActivation won't know if it needs to refuse activation until after OnAccept is called. OnActivate -- Gary R. Van Sickle

RE: [SetupXP] Minor res.rc changes.

2003-07-20 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: | (IDD_DESKTOP): Move controls. Add Cygwin icon. Actually you moved, not added, the Cygwin icon. Also, though I really like the idea of a Finished page, I'm not entirely convinces that it should be merged with the Create Icons page. What

RE: [SetupXP] PropertyPage::OnInit

2003-07-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
I would like to propose NOT moving the global font settings into PropertyPage::OnInit, and consequently not requiring Call base class OnInit() changes in all derived classes. Don't quite follow the former, agree with the latter if there's another way to do it. The pages themselves are

Re: [SetupXP] Minor res.rc changes.

2003-07-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: * res.rc (IDD_SPLASH): Move icon. Actually, you just changed the width. Indeed. Not sure what happened there. Remember that those entries are a bit old, I may have un-changed things in the interim. OK, but please work out what you actually want to change, or

Re: [SetupXP] PropertyPage::OnInit

2003-07-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: I would like to propose NOT moving the global font settings into PropertyPage::OnInit, and consequently not requiring Call base class OnInit() changes in all derived classes. Don't quite follow the former, agree with the latter if there's another way to do it. The

Re: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

2003-07-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Gary's current SetupXP patchset calls 2 member functions on page activation: OnActivate (returns void), and OnAcceptActivation (returns bool). I think this is unnecessarily messy. AFAICS, OnAcceptActivation only exists to prevent the need to change the return type of

Re: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

2003-07-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 23:40, Max Bowsher wrote: Gary's current SetupXP patchset calls 2 member functions on page activation: OnActivate (returns void), and OnAcceptActivation (returns bool). I think this is unnecessarily messy. AFAICS,

improving setup design as we go

2003-07-20 Thread Robert Collins
Responding out of thread, as I want to make a generic point about what API changes in setup will be approved, and what won't be, and the process I use internally when reviewing one - like the OnActivate change some time ago. setup has an improving design. We are slowly separating processing from

RE: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

2003-07-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 04:17, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Unless there will ever be a need to ask a page whether it would take activation in the future, but not activate it immediately, even if it is possible to do so, I think the 2 calls should be merged. Will there ever be such a case?

Re: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

2003-07-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 06:44, Max Bowsher wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: On unknown, Max Bowsher wrote: I would very much prefer changing OnActivate to return bool, combining the purpose of both functions. Yes, this does require changes in all derived classes, but the changes are

RE: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

2003-07-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Gary's current SetupXP patchset calls 2 member functions on page activation: OnActivate (returns void), and OnAcceptActivation (returns bool). I think this is unnecessarily messy. AFAICS, OnAcceptActivation only exists to prevent the need to change the return

RE: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

2003-07-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] Gary, I don't think the clarity of setup's code is trivial. And, I can't imagine that any project would accept a monolithic patch encompassing multiple concepts. I'm not referring to multiple concepts, I'm referring to this OnAcceptActivation() thing. Like I

RE: [SetupXP] The two styles for handling activation refusal

2003-07-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] I cannot think of one. It exists soley to give OnActivate a default return code. It *can't* be called anywhere else, since in the general case, OnAcceptActivation won't know if it needs to refuse activation until after OnAccept is called. Hmm. My intention when I suggested a

Re: xfree86

2003-07-20 Thread Dirk Schlatterbeck
On 2003-07-19 I wrote Thanks, works fine. But 1.) Where are those mounting options are fixed for startup of cygwin? 2.) How do I get a german keyboard for remote-login on my linux-host? It runs with gdm, local login on the linux host works with german keyboard (so XF86Config-4 is set

Re: xfree86

2003-07-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Dirk Schlatterbeck wrote: Thanks, works fine. But 1.) Where are those mounting options are fixed for startup of cygwin? run mount and look for an entry /tmp (or / if no /tmp entry exists) which is either mounted in binmode or textmode. If it's mounted in textmode remount it with mount

Re: xfree86

2003-07-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Dirk Schlatterbeck wrote: I started XWin with the parameter -xkbmap de which caused the us-keyboard layout. Though I don't understand why This loads a precompiled map from /tmp/de. This has a lot of sideeffects and i discourage the use of this switch and encourage you to use the XF86Config

Installing XFree

2003-07-20 Thread Hai Hong
Hi, Does the XFree installation requires the Windows registry or any of the Windows system directories (i.e. /Windows/system32, ...)?I'm not sure if it's possible, but I want to install just the X Server on either my USB Jumpdrive or a CD-ROM and start it without any depency on Windows.

Bug: XFree86-etc-4.2.0-1 - /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/us_intl ismissing commas.

2003-07-20 Thread Hans Deragon
Greetings. I am reporting a bug in the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/us_intl of package XFree86-etc-4.2.0-1. When one runs: $ setxkbmap.exe -rules xfree86 -model pc104 -layout us_intl Error loading new keyboard description This is caused by commas missing in the file. When I copy

Re: Bug: XFree86-etc-4.2.0-1 - /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/us_intlis missing commas.

2003-07-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Hans Deragon wrote: I am reporting a bug in the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/us_intl of package XFree86-etc-4.2.0-1. When one runs: This is a known problem. The us_intl file from the XFree 4.2 release includes this broken file. The next release will include the corrected version. The

RE: RE: qt3 on cygwin

2003-07-20 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, I tried to compile qt3 from kdesygwin.sf.net but i've maybe done a mistake while retrieving the files from cvs indeed in my package (retrieved with cvs) there's no header in include in a normal qt x11 there are sym links for ex : include/qmap.h - ../src/tools/qmap.h

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gdbm-1.8.3-3, libgdbm-devel-1.8.3-3,libgdbm3-1.8.3-3

2003-07-20 Thread Charles Wilson
The gdbm package has been updated to version 1.8.3-3. It is based on the official GNU Database Manager distribution from the FSF, gdbm-1.8.3.tar.gz. These packages are compiled against the cygwin-1.3.22 kernel, NOT the cygwin-1.5.0 testing distribution. They were built on a pure, non-test

RE: perl with cygwin 1.5 doesn't fly.

2003-07-20 Thread George Njoku
Check u're perl code again Use strict; # that way you must use 'my' to define all scalars My %module = ( 'cygwin'='Cygwin' ); # note 'cygwin' My $var = $module{$^0} || 'Unix' # can't remember what special variable = # $^0 but note that since %module and # $var are in the same scope you should

codepage:none

2003-07-20 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, what is the status of the patch mentioned in http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cygwinm=103634413114501w=2 ? I've tried setting CYGWIN=codepage:none and CYGWIN=codepage:asis, and the characters were still transliterated (I use 1251/866 as default and want to type in 1254 after chcp).

Re: bash: cat EOF

2003-07-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Le sam 19 jui 2003 23:32:58 GMT, Larry Hall wrote: You may want to try setting 'nosmbntsec' and see if that helps. it doesn't. Peter A. Castro wrote: I think it's time you gave us more information about your machine configuration. Well, I wished we knew ourselves... Christopher Faylor

Re: codepage:none

2003-07-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:26:14AM +0300, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: what is the status of the patch mentioned in http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cygwinm=103634413114501w=2 ? I've tried setting CYGWIN=codepage:none and CYGWIN=codepage:asis, and the characters were still transliterated (I use

Problem with xinetd as a service

2003-07-20 Thread Jonathan T Wang
I'm trying to run cvs pserver using xinetd on a Win2k server box with Cygwin. If I run xinetd manually with /usr/sbin/xinetd.exe I don't have any problems. However, if I install it as a service and try to start the service, I get an error: $ cygrunsrv -S xinetd cygrunsrv: Error starting a

Re: Problem with xinetd as a service

2003-07-20 Thread Martin Gainty
verify [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/] native=C:\\local\\cygwin regards, Martin To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity. - John Nash PhD MIT/Princeton - Original Message - From: Jonathan T Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with xinetd as a service

2003-07-20 Thread Jonathan T Wang
Thanks, that fixed it. Jonathan On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Martin Gainty wrote: verify [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/] native=C:\\local\\cygwin regards, Martin To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity. - John Nash PhD MIT/Princeton -

gdb passes different argv/argc to mingw cygwin

2003-07-20 Thread Sam Steingold
#include stdio.h int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { printf( * argc=%d\n,argc); while (argc--) printf([%s]\n,*argv++); return 0; } #!/bin/sh args='4 4 ''5 5' echo $args ./argtest-cygwin.exe ${args} ./argtest-mingw.exe ${args} -- Unsubscribe info:

mingw execv() bug bites cygwin gdb

2003-07-20 Thread Sam Steingold
#include stdlib.h #include stdio.h #include unistd.h int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { printf( * argc=%d\n,argc); for (int i=0; iargc; i++) printf([%s]\n,argv[i]); if (argc1) { argv[argc-1] = NULL; execv(argv[0],argv); perror(argv[0]); return 1; } else return 0; }

Using Cron?

2003-07-20 Thread Linden Glen
Hi all,   Is there anywhere I can get some detailed documentation about using Cron? ie. examples, explanations, etc better than crontab --help   Also, if I setup a Cron job, does it require that the server be logged in? or does it run as a service?   Any help would be greatly appreciated.  

Re: Problem with xinetd as a service

2003-07-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 07:41:42PM -0700, Martin Gainty wrote: verify [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/] native=C:\\local\\cygwin What's the opposite of a gold star? A raspberry? A piece of coal? I think I have to start giving out something to anyone who

Re: Using Cron?

2003-07-20 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Linden Glen wrote: Hi all,   Is there anywhere I can get some detailed documentation about using Cron? ie. examples, explanations, etc better than crontab --help   Also, if I setup a Cron job, does it require that the server be logged in? or does it

Re: Using Cron?

2003-07-20 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Linden Glen wrote: Hi all,   Is there anywhere I can get some detailed documentation about using Cron? ie. examples, explanations, etc better than crontab --help   Also, if I setup a Cron job, does

Re: gdb passes different argv/argc to mingw cygwin

2003-07-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 08:20:47PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: gdb does not make a distinction between arguments cygwin and non-cygwin programs. It just passes the arguments to CreateProcess. http://cygwin.com/problems.html Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal

Re: Using Cron?

2003-07-20 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Linden Glen wrote: Hi all,   Is there anywhere I can get some detailed documentation about using Cron? ie. examples, explanations, etc better than

RE: Using Cron?

2003-07-20 Thread Bill McCormick
Or even try ... $man cron $man crontab $man 5 crontab -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Elfyn McBratney Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linden Glen Subject: Re: Using Cron? On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Elfyn

ImageMagick

2003-07-20 Thread Bill McCormick
Hi all, Anybody have ImageMagick installed? I'm having installation problems with some of the required libs (the ones I want), specifically, the IJG jpeg lib and libexif. When running ./configure --enable-shared for the IJG jpeg lib, shared lib build doesn't appear to happen, however it does

RE: ImageMagick

2003-07-20 Thread Billinghurst, David (CRTS)
I have IM installed. Busy right now but I will have a look at it tonight and report back. -Original Message- From: Bill McCormick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 21 July 2003 3:39 PM To: Cygwin Subject: ImageMagick Hi all, Anybody have ImageMagick installed? I'm having