Re: new package proposal: suite3270

2003-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:02:56PM -0700, Peter A. Castro wrote: Hi All! I've create packages for Paul Mattes's 3270 emulator suite. These are Cool! Has my vote (even though I don't have any mainframe to access). Is it actually necessary to create a package for each emulator? Are they

Re: Updated: libxmls-2.5.11-1 libxslt-1.0.33-1

2003-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:28:04PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: http://anfaenger.de/cygwin-1.5/libxml2/libxml2-2.5.11-1-src.tar.bz2 http://anfaenger.de/cygwin-1.5/libxml2/libxml2-2.5.11-1.tar.bz2 http://anfaenger.de/cygwin-1.5/libxml2/setup.hint

Re: [ITP] sgrep-1.99.1 - new package for review

2003-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 02:19:17AM +0300, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: sgrep project from http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jjaakkol/sgrep.html has been ported, please review. /Jari http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/sgrep/sgrep-1.92.1-1.tar.bz2

HEADSUP: Please resend all open ITPs, please review packages

2003-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi, I've lost track entirely. Since Elfyn stepped back from this job, I'd like to make some sort of cut at this point and have a new start. Below you'll find a list of 9 (nine!) packages, of which I know they are still open ITPs. Every other package is treated lost, unless the maintainer steps

Re: [ITP] Check: A unit test framework for C

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
This has my vote, but: * the binary package doesn't follow the now-canonical directory layout (i.e. the docs are not in usr/share/doc * it might be a good idea to convert tutorial.lyx to something more readable (like plain text) * AFAIK, source packages (like binary packages) should be bzip2

Re: HEADSUP: Please resend all open ITPs, please review packages

2003-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:37:57AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi, I've lost track entirely. Since Elfyn stepped back from this job, I'd like to make some sort of cut at this point and have a new start. Below you'll find a list of 9 (nine!) packages, of which I know they are still

RE: graphviz (and doxygen?)

2003-09-25 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Gareth, Gareth Pearce wrote on Thursday, September 25, 2003 2:05 PM: Also - I'm willing to (try to)update (and maintain there after) - doxygen Preferably with graphviz to go with it. This is assuming that the position is open. I've built 1.3.4 - and run it over a 90thousand line project -

Re: HEADSUP: Please resend all open ITPs, please review packages

2003-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:39:29PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Package: trie-gen 1.1 Sdesc: Minimal-prefix trie generator Maintainer: Igor Pechtchanski Votes: 0 Reviewed:no Open because:No votes, no review Urls:

re: graphviz (and doxygen?)

2003-09-25 Thread Gareth Pearce
Gareth Pearce wrote on Thursday, September 25, 2003 2:05 PM: Also - I'm willing to (try to)update (and maintain there after) - doxygen Preferably with graphviz to go with it. This is assuming that the position is open. I've built 1.3.4 - and run it over a 90thousand line project - using

please use consistent announce messages

2003-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
If you are releasing a package, please use an announce message that is consistent with other announce messages. If you're updating, the subject should be: Updated: foo-1.3.1-1 If you are offering a new package, the subject should be: New package: bar-1.3.1-1 or New: bushwa-1.3.1-1 I don't

Re: HEADSUP: Please resend all open ITPs, please review packages

2003-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:39:29PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Package: trie-gen 1.1 Sdesc: Minimal-prefix trie generator Maintainer: Igor Pechtchanski Votes: 0 Reviewed:no Open because:

Re: HEADSUP: Please resend all open ITPs, please review packages

2003-09-25 Thread Daniel Boesswetter
Hi Corinna, if this is the new pending packages list, I've got an addition: Package: tcm-2.20-1 Sdesc:Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM) Maintainer: Daniel Boesswetter Votes:2 (Christopher and Lapo) Reviewed: yes Open because: Bugs in the distro. Fixed 'em all :))

Re: [ITP] Check: A unit test framework for C

2003-09-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Ronald schrieb: This has my vote, but: * the binary package doesn't follow the now-canonical directory layout (i.e. the docs are not in usr/share/doc Ah, yes, I packaged it up before the switch. * it might be a good idea to convert tutorial.lyx to something more readable (like plain

Re: [ITP] Check: A unit test framework for C

2003-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Ronald schrieb: [snip] * it might be a good idea to convert tutorial.lyx to something more readable (like plain text) I'll try to figure out how to do it. Gerrit, FWIW, I use the following scheme to convert LaTeX files to plain text: use

Re: please use consistent announce messages

2003-09-25 Thread Jason Tishler
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:04:40AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: If you are releasing a package, please use an announce message that is consistent with other announce messages. If you're updating, the subject should be: Updated: foo-1.3.1-1 If you are offering a new package, the

Re: please use consistent announce messages

2003-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:00:41AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:04:40AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: If you are releasing a package, please use an announce message that is consistent with other announce messages. If you're updating, the subject should be:

RE: graphviz (and doxygen?)

2003-09-25 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Gareth, Gareth Pearce wrote on Thursday, September 25, 2003 6:18 PM: Somewhat amusing little bug - the code correctly supports textmode - if the #define had of been in the file with the #ifdef that dependend on it... It appears I have a nice working version, works on text/binary mounts

Re: [ITP] editrights

2003-09-25 Thread Chris Rodgers
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:51:29PM +0100, Chris Rodgers wrote: [editrights-1.01-1.tar.bz2] usr/ usr/bin/ usr/bin/editrights.exe usr/doc/ usr/doc/Cygwin/ usr/doc/Cygwin/editrights-1.01-1.README Just a minor nit, could you repackage so that the documentation is under usr/share/doc

Re: [ITP] editrights

2003-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 05:53:41PM +0100, Chris Rodgers wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:51:29PM +0100, Chris Rodgers wrote: [editrights-1.01-1.tar.bz2] usr/ usr/bin/ usr/bin/editrights.exe usr/doc/ usr/doc/Cygwin/ usr/doc/Cygwin/editrights-1.01-1.README Just a minor

ITPs in Bugzilla?

2003-09-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I'm an idiot and no one likes suggestions from someone that isn't involved in the actual process... but it sure seems like it would be a he*l of a lot easier to track ITPs through Bugzilla. Just a thought... feel free to leave it completely without any discussion. Harold Igor Pechtchanski

Re: ITP: graphviz (and doxygen?)

2003-09-25 Thread Hack Kampbjorn
Gareth Pearce wrote: One thing to note is that in debian it is distributed under non-free. So perhaps someone might like to comment on if the license is valid for setup.exe distribution. If Debian has put it under non-free it does not meet Debian's poliy for main. It's problamy not compatible

Re: ITP: graphviz (and doxygen?)

2003-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Hack Kampbjorn wrote: Gareth Pearce wrote: One thing to note is that in debian it is distributed under non-free. So perhaps someone might like to comment on if the license is valid for setup.exe distribution. If Debian has put it under non-free it does not meet

[ITP] cocom 0.995-1

2003-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Well, I just had some time on my hands, so I downloaded and built cocom (http://cocom.sourceforge.net/). FWIW, it did build OOTB. Please review the packaging and operation (it seems pass its internal testsuite, albeit with some warnings which are probably due to gcc 3.2 being stricter, but I

Updated: Pine-4.58-1

2003-09-25 Thread Eduardo Chappa
Hello, I have packaged a new version of Pine. Version 4.58 fixes a security bug reported about 2 weeks ago, present in all previous versions. The current release is possible mostly due to a patch provided my Marc Crispin of the Pine team. His patch fixes the issues found in the uw-imap

Re: AltGr is CTRL on Norwegian/German keyboard

2003-09-25 Thread Heiko Nardmann
Hi again! Further facts on keyboard problems: - after removal of XF86Config nothing changes - connecting to a Solaris machine running CDE inside the session works fine but the Linux machine running KDE still has problems - on the Linux machine: when pressing AltGr then the following appears

Failure to make grap 1.30 under cygwin 1.5.5

2003-09-25 Thread fergus
A configure / make /make install that has been working successfully oob for a long time recently failed. the relevant .tgz is unaltered, only Cygwin has changed. Does the following output from make, throw any light on this? The configure worked fine. I attach cygcheck.out. Fergus ~/tmp/grap-1.30

Re: Failure to make grap 1.30 under cygwin 1.5.5

2003-09-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Fergus, This is a general Cygwin question, not a Cygwin/XFree86 question. It should have been sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I happen to know the answer you want to hear. The problem is that 'flex' 2.5.31-1 sucks; it can't build anything in the XFree86 tree.

Yellowish color on certain java applications

2003-09-25 Thread amr roushi
I use XDM and it works fine however in certain Java application I get a yellowish color on certain areas the rest is ok . Running natively or with VNC I do not have this behaviour . if uneed I can send u screen captures to show u what I mean thks for ur help .

startxwin.bat - how to use an .xinitrc file

2003-09-25 Thread Mike Campbell
I have several things that I like to have run when I start an xsession and normally I would put these into a ~/.xinitrc file to have them run at X startup time. However, when I run startxwin.bat it does not appear to execute the .xinitrc file automatically. Therefore I have had to manually

ssh hangs with solaris 8 again

2003-09-25 Thread tulitanssi
Hi all, I found that writing 'run' in front of xterm command in file .XWinrc seems to solve the Solaris 8 hanging problem: menu root { // for an unknown reason, solaris needs 'run' in the beginning of the command... solaris exec run xterm -sb -e ssh -X solarisbox

connecting to rh gdm

2003-09-25 Thread Bill McCormick
I'm able to successfully connect to gdm Xserver on my RH Linux box but I see this ... $ XWin -query 192.168.212.1 -lesspointer -clipboard -xf86config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86config Xlib: connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Xlib: connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0

Re: connecting to rh gdm

2003-09-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Bill, Bill McCormick wrote: I'm able to successfully connect to gdm Xserver on my RH Linux box but I see this ... $ XWin -query 192.168.212.1 -lesspointer -clipboard -xf86config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86config Xlib: connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Xlib:

RE: connecting to rh gdm

2003-09-25 Thread Richardson, Anthony
Bill McCormick wrote: Also, I'd rather not use the resources on the Linux Box yet still have this functionality. So, is there a way I can accomplish this without actually being in runmode 5 on the Linux box? Do you mean that you don't want to run an X server on the remote server, but allow

Re: startxwin.bat - how to use an .xinitrc file

2003-09-25 Thread Thomas Chadwick
Sounds like I've got my Cygwin/Xfree setup the way you'd like. You can do it, too, in 3 easy steps... 1) Edit the file .bash_profile in your home directory and make sure the X11R6/bin directory gets added to your path. e.g.: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin 2) Put your .xinitrc file in

Re: Xfree86 is slow! with software like MATLAB

2003-09-25 Thread g . macaulay
Harold Mark, To contribute to the discussion: I see the same problem when running Matlab. In my case Matlab is run on a Compaq/HP Tru64 computer with the GUI displayed on my Windows PC running cygwin/xfree in multiwindow mode. I also have a commercial X server (xwin32) available on my PC.

Re: Failure to make grap 1.30 under cygwin 1.5.5

2003-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:58:23AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Fergus, This is a general Cygwin question, not a Cygwin/XFree86 question. It should have been sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I happen to know the answer you want to hear. The problem is that 'flex'

Re: Failure to make grap 1.30 under cygwin 1.5.5

2003-09-25 Thread fergus
flex 2.5.31-1 sucks ... ... upgrade to 2.5.4-2. Well this worked just fine. Thank you very much for this pragmatic help. Fergus

Re: Xfree86 is slow! with software like MATLAB

2003-09-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Gavin, I forgot to mention something that is becoming apparent now: Matlab may be using OpenGL, which is implemented in software in Cygwin/XFree86. Thus, OpenGL is extremely slow in Cygwin/XFree86. Some of the commercial X Servers for Windows have an accelerated implementation of OpenGL

Re: Failure to make grap 1.30 under cygwin 1.5.5

2003-09-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:58:23AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Fergus, This is a general Cygwin question, not a Cygwin/XFree86 question. It should have been sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I happen to know the answer you want to hear.

Re: Failure to make grap 1.30 under cygwin 1.5.5

2003-09-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Fergus, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: flex 2.5.31-1 sucks ... ... upgrade to 2.5.4-2. Well this worked just fine. Thank you very much for this pragmatic help. Fergus No problem. Of course, we will both be out of luck when 2.5.4 is no longer available. I was thinking that 2.5.4 was newer, but

Re: Failure to make grap 1.30 under cygwin 1.5.5

2003-09-25 Thread Earle F. Philhower III
Howdy, At 03:48 PM 9/25/2003 -0400, CGF wrote: ...Just so it's clear: I don't care to get involved in fixing issues where the bug report is something is horribly wrong with it, either, so if you do actually want to work on fixing it, then I'll need more to go on than I have been given and I'll

Re: Failure to make grap 1.30 under cygwin 1.5.5

2003-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 05:22:10PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:58:23AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Just so it's clear: I don't care to get involved in fixing issues where the bug report is something is horribly wrong with it, either, so if

Re: xfree86 cut/copy/paste

2003-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Redirecting to the correct list and replying. Please remove cygwin at cygwin dot com from further discussion on this topic. On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Bill McCormick wrote: Hello, Is there cut/copy/paste functionality with xfree86 (using windows clipboard) like there is with rxvt? I'm sure this

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winuser.h ...

2003-09-25 Thread papadopo
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-09-25 07:53:44 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: winuser.h winable.h Log message: * include/winuser.h [WINVER = 0x0500] (GetGUIThreadInfo,

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winuser.h

2003-09-25 Thread papadopo
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-09-25 08:04:30 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: winuser.h Log message: * include/winuser.h [WINVER = 0x0500] (AW_SLIDE, AW_ACTIVATE,

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winuser.h ...

2003-09-25 Thread papadopo
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-09-25 08:26:00 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: winuser.h winsup/w32api/lib: user32.def Log message: * include/winuser.h [WINVER = 0x0500]

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog spawn.cc

2003-09-25 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-09-25 13:49:21 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog spawn.cc Log message: * spawn.cc (spawn_guts): Move system signal handling stuff after CreateProcess error check. Patches:

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winuser.h ...

2003-09-25 Thread papadopo
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-09-25 14:11:47 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: winuser.h winsup/w32api/lib: user32.def Log message: * include/winuser.h

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog lib/version.def

2003-09-25 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-09-25 20:24:05 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/lib: version.def Log message: * lib/version.def (LIBRARY): Quote name. Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog spawn.cc

2003-09-25 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-09-26 02:23:34 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog spawn.cc Log message: * spawn.cc (spawn_guts): Catch potential error from pinfo.remember. Change debug messages to make

Re: {Patch]: Giving access to pinfo after seteuid and exec

2003-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:47:48PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: This patch sets the _pinfo acl in order to allow access after seteuid and exec. While looking at spawn.cc I also noticed oddities in pinfo related error handling, and reworked them. I also restored impersonation in case of

Re: {Patch]: Giving access to pinfo after seteuid and exec

2003-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:17:22PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: I was looking at the above today. Don't you have to reimpersonate regardless of whether the CreateProcess succeeded? Nevermind. That's exactly what you're doing. I'm always briefly 10% more brilliant after I hit 'y' to send

Re: {Patch]: Giving access to pinfo after seteuid and exec

2003-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:17:22PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'll check in the rest of the spawn.cc stuff with some modifications. I see I missed some cases with the addition of _P_SYSTEM. I'm sorry. Long day. I'm checking in the non-acl related stuff. I'll leave the rest for Corinna's

Re: {Patch]: Giving access to pinfo after seteuid and exec

2003-09-25 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 10:23 PM 9/25/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:17:22PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'll check in the rest of the spawn.cc stuff with some modifications. I see I missed some cases with the addition of _P_SYSTEM. I'm sorry. Long day. I'm checking in the non-acl related

Re: {Patch]: Giving access to pinfo after seteuid and exec

2003-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:56:41PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 10:23 PM 9/25/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:17:22PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'll check in the rest of the spawn.cc stuff with some modifications. I see I missed some cases with the addition of

how to decide the system config

2003-09-25 Thread Jiang zhou
I want to compile a software bird under cygwin. When I configure it said: $ ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin32 checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a

Don't seem to be able to use CPAN after recent Cygwin updates (ma ybe)

2003-09-25 Thread Wardman_Michael
Hello all I used to be able to use CPAN (only a week or so ago) but now it seems to time out. I thought it might be a network / firewall type thing but I can use ncftp ok. See below ... $ cpan Perl::Tokenizer CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /home/wardmm/.cpan/Metadata Database was

Error while running a .exe file in bash

2003-09-25 Thread Kishen Bahudhanam
I see a couple of messages on this topic, but couldn't figure out what to do. So sending the question again: I compiled my code using gcc, and created a .exe file. However, when I try to execute it, I get the following error: MZ?: command not found. However, I can open a 'cmd' window, and run the

Re: Poor network performance with cygwin utilities

2003-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 06:19:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ scp build/ams.war [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ams.war 100% 22MB 155.2KB/s 02:21 Neither machine showed significant CPU load during either test. (both machines 10%) Has anyone seen similar problems? scp somefile linuxbox: somefile

RE: Strange make [Error 255] (cygwin bug?)

2003-09-25 Thread Fodor Bertalan
$ perl -e 'print all:;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \\\n; foreach $i (..) { print \techo -n $i \\\n; } print \ttrue\n;' | make -f - make: *** [all] Error 255 Yes, that fails from 1990. Is that a good bug report? Where should it be posted? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Don't seem to be able to use CPAN after recent Cygwin updates (ma ybe)

2003-09-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Michael, you wrote: I used to be able to use CPAN (only a week or so ago) but now it seems to time out. I thought it might be a network / firewall type thing but I can use ncftp ok. See below ... $ cpan Perl::Tokenizer CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read

Re: disabling all forms of autoindentation in cygwin's vim

2003-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:49:07AM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote: Hello, The cygwin version of vim, when installed, works well. However, autoindentation is forced on the user by default. I've mailed the vim mailing list and asked about this. Vim's creator answered and said that

Fw: Failure to make grap 1.30 under cygwin 1.5.5

2003-09-25 Thread fergus
Sorry, sent first to cygwin-xfree list in error A configure / make /make install that has been working successfully oob for a long time recently failed. the relevant .tgz is unaltered, only Cygwin has changed. Does the following output from make, throw any light on this? The configure worked

Re: how to decide the system config

2003-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:05:47PM +0800, Jiang zhou wrote: I want to compile a software bird under cygwin. When I configure it said: $ ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin32 checking for gcc... gcc [...] checking for m4... m4 configure:

Re: Error while running a .exe file in bash

2003-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:17:59AM -0700, Kishen Bahudhanam wrote: I see a couple of messages on this topic, but couldn't figure out what to do. So sending the question again: I compiled my code using gcc, and created a .exe file. However, when I try to execute it, I get the following

Re: No support for wchar_t in latest Cygwin?

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
AFAIK, this is a PTC situation.. http://cygwin.com/contrib.html rlc On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:59:14PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: Hi, it's me again :) I've been developing some software in C++ and have tested it on Linux and FreeBSD, so I decided yesterday to test it on my Cygwin

cp /dev/zero filename creates large files

2003-09-25 Thread Don Sharp
Hi I carried out the following sequence of commands $ for i in `cat /tmp/d`; do if [ -f $i.idx ]; then ls -l ${i}*; fi; done -rw-r--r--1 don None0 Jun 17 1998 dtaq -rw-r--r--1 don None 3072 Jun 17 1998 dtaq.idx $ cp /dev/zero dtaq.idx The cp appeared to

Re: cp /dev/zero filename creates large files

2003-09-25 Thread jurgen . defurne
Don, The functionality you need is /dev/null. Indeed, the function of /dev/zero is to provide a file which you can read indefinitely. You should use it like this : dd if=/dev/zero of=whatever bs=1024 count=number_of_blocks Regards, Jurgen Don Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:

Re: Fatal Flex Bug

2003-09-25 Thread Ian Badcoe
Hi, I only just joined this list so please excuse aberrant behaviour. I am also in the same situation as Matt, but I have more information about it. First, you can easily work around it by telling devstudio to invoke flex through bash: c:\cygwin\bin\bash

new release of setup.exe.

2003-09-25 Thread Robert Collins
I've updated setup.exe to the current snapshot... The critical fix here is the terrible performance problem on new installs. Thanks as usual to the net contributors. Enjoy. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a

RE: cp /dev/zero filename creates large files

2003-09-25 Thread Peter J. Acklam
Don Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I carried out the following sequence of commands $ for i in `cat /tmp/d`; do if [ -f $i.idx ]; then ls -l ${i}*; fi; done -rw-r--r--1 don None0 Jun 17 1998 dtaq -rw-r--r--1 don None 3072 Jun 17 1998 dtaq.idx $ cp

Re: cp /dev/zero filename creates large files

2003-09-25 Thread Don Sharp
Thanks to everyone that replied pointing out that it was /dev/null that I needed NOT /dev/zero. Thanks again Don Sharp Peter J. Acklam wrote: Don Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I carried out the following sequence of commands $ for i in `cat /tmp/d`; do if [ -f $i.idx ]; then ls -l

RE: Strange make [Error 255] (cygwin bug?)

2003-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Fodor Bertalan wrote: $ perl -e 'print all:;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \\\n; foreach $i (..) { print \techo -n $i \\\n; } print \ttrue\n;' | make -f - make: *** [all] Error 255 Yes, that fails from 1990. Is that a good bug report? Where should it be posted? Try

Re: Don't seem to be able to use CPAN after recent Cygwin updates (maybe)

2003-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I used to be able to use CPAN (only a week or so ago) but now it seems to time out. I thought it might be a network / firewall type thing but I can use ncftp ok. See below ... $ cpan Perl::Tokenizer CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to

Re: Strange make [Error 255] (cygwin bug?)

2003-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:34:25AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Fodor Bertalan wrote: $ perl -e 'print all:;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \\\n; foreach $i (..) { print \techo -n $i \\\n; } print \ttrue\n;' | make -f - make: *** [all] Error 255 Yes, that

RE: How about a TWIKI page?

2003-09-25 Thread Dawson, David W
Just wondering, but Is the current home of TWiki.Cygwin. at http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/twiki/bin/view/Cygwin/WebHome what you are looking for? Or are you looking for something different? -David. - David Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 703-367-3885 -Original

Re: Strange make [Error 255] (cygwin bug?)

2003-09-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:14:09AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: make bug? I'm getting this on Linux: make: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long make: *** [all] Error 127 Doesn't look like a bug at all to me. Corinna Urp. What

xfree86 cut/copy/paste

2003-09-25 Thread Bill McCormick
Hello, Is there cut/copy/paste functionality with xfree86 (using windows clipboard) like there is with rxvt? I'm sure this has come up before but I can't seem to find it. Thanks, Bill --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version:

Make error 255 bug

2003-09-25 Thread Fodor Bertalan
So it looks like a bug either in cygwin or in cygwin make. * Test command: $ perl -e 'print all:;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \\\n; foreach $i (..) { print \techo -n $i \\\n; } print \ttrue\n;' | make -f - * Cygwin 1.5 Make 3.80 Works only if number is not larger than 1989, otherwise make: ***

RE: How about a TWIKI page?

2003-09-25 Thread Mark Paulus
That could very well be the page I want(ed). But, I think it should have a link off of the Cygwin Home Page, If it were there, then maybe others would more willing to contribute to it. For Example, I do believe that Mark J. de Jong's instructions on how to set up an SSHD server would be good

Re: Strange make [Error 255] (cygwin bug?)

2003-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 03:40:36PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:14:09AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: make bug? I'm getting this on Linux: make: execvp: /bin/sh: Argument list too long make: *** [all] Error 127

Re: No support for wchar_t in latest Cygwin?

2003-09-25 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:53:19AM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: AFAIK, this is a PTC situation.. I take this as a 'no' then? What you've just said applies to everything not done in Cygwin, but I was soliciting information on whether this *had* been done, or intelligently worked around.

Re: g77 -mno-cygwin failed

2003-09-25 Thread Teun Burgers
TX wrote: Hi All G77 in the latest GCC-3.3.3-1 doesn't work: g77 -mno-cygwin foo.f g77: installation problem, cannot exec 'f771': No such file or directory Can anyone help? Compiling a Hello world fortran program with g77 -v reveals that g77 -v -o hello hello.f calls

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: aspell version 0.50.3-1

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On behalf of the aspell maintainer, Gareth Pearce: New News: = Version 0.50.3-1 of the aspell package is now available for download. This corresponds to the latest official release (0.50-3). To update your installation: === Run the Setup utility from

Re: No support for wchar_t in latest Cygwin?

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:54:43AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:53:19AM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: AFAIK, this is a PTC situation.. I take this as a 'no' then? What you've just said applies to everything not done in Cygwin, but I was soliciting information

RE: How about a TWIKI page?

2003-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
The reason there is no link from the main Cygwin page is that tWiki is notoriously unfiltered, so there is no way to know whether the information is correct. The FAQ does pass through this filter (i.e., only the items approved or confirmed by actual developers usually get into the FAQ). With

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: aspell-en version 0.51.0-1

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
New News: = Version 0.51.0-1 of the aspell-en package is now available for download. This corresponds to the latest official release (0.51-0). To update your installation: === Run the Setup utility from http://cygwin.com/setup.exe and pick up the proper packages.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: gmp-4.1.2-1

2003-09-25 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gmp-4.1.2-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There is no practical limit to the precision except

Re: g77 -mno-cygwin failed

2003-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Teun Burgers wrote: TX wrote: Hi All G77 in the latest GCC-3.3.3-1 doesn't work: g77 -mno-cygwin foo.f g77: installation problem, cannot exec 'f771': No such file or directory Can anyone help? Compiling a Hello world fortran program with g77 -v reveals

gcc -mno-cygwin fails

2003-09-25 Thread Gregory C. Sharp
Following up with recent problems noted about g77 -mno-cygwin, the same problem occurs for gcc. I am using the newest packages: gcc-3.3.1-2, gcc-mingw-20030911-2 $ gcc foo.c $ gcc -mno-cygwin foo.c gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory $ Any workaround is

Re: gcc -mno-cygwin fails

2003-09-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gregory schrieb: Following up with recent problems noted about g77 -mno-cygwin, the same problem occurs for gcc. I am using the newest packages: gcc-3.3.1-2, gcc-mingw-20030911-2 $ gcc foo.c $ gcc -mno-cygwin foo.c gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory

Re: g77 -mno-cygwin failed

2003-09-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Roman schrieb: Teun Burgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: g77 -v -mno-cygwin -o hello hello.f calls f771.exe and can't find f771.exe along the path. A problem with the specs file? f771 is not included in gcc-mingw package, so I guess it's a problem with distribution. Make some symlinks in

Re: g77 -mno-cygwin failed

2003-09-25 Thread Teun Burgers
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: g77 -mno-cygwin will most likely call /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw/3.3.1/f771.exe, which should be part of the gcc-mingw package. Unfortunately, gcc-mingw uses a weird packaging scheme (a tarball inside a tarball), so you couldn't have used the package search page

Re: g77 -mno-cygwin failed

2003-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Teun Burgers wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: g77 -mno-cygwin will most likely call /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw/3.3.1/f771.exe, which should be part of the gcc-mingw package. Unfortunately, gcc-mingw uses a weird packaging scheme (a tarball inside a tarball), so

Re: gcc -mno-cygwin fails

2003-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Gregory C. Sharp wrote: Following up with recent problems noted about g77 -mno-cygwin, the same problem occurs for gcc. I am using the newest packages: gcc-3.3.1-2, gcc-mingw-20030911-2 $ gcc foo.c $ gcc -mno-cygwin foo.c gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1':

Re: g77 -mno-cygwin failed

2003-09-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There is a softlink missing in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.3.1 and hence missing in gcc-mingw-3.3.1-20030804.tar Making this softlink from within this subdir fixes the problem: ln -s ../../i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/f771.exe f771.exe No, no, no! This will produce

Re: g77 -mno-cygwin failed

2003-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Teun Burgers wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: g77 -mno-cygwin will most likely call /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw/3.3.1/f771.exe, which should be part of the gcc-mingw package. Unfortunately, gcc-mingw uses a weird

Re: g77 -mno-cygwin failed

2003-09-25 Thread Teun Burgers
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There is a softlink missing in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.3.1 and hence missing in gcc-mingw-3.3.1-20030804.tar Making this softlink from within this subdir fixes the problem: ln -s ../../i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/f771.exe f771.exe Teun No, no, no!

Re: gcc -mno-cygwin fails

2003-09-25 Thread Greg Sharp
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Gregory C. Sharp wrote: Following up with recent problems noted about g77 -mno-cygwin, the same problem occurs for gcc. I am using the newest packages: gcc-3.3.1-2, gcc-mingw-20030911-2 $ gcc foo.c $ gcc -mno-cygwin foo.c gcc: installation problem,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-3.3.1-2

2003-09-25 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I've made a new version of gcc available for download. This is a very minor refresh from the 3.3.1-1. The only noticeable change from the last release was an attempt to correctly define mbstate_t. Thanks for the quick fix Chris. This fixed the problem in my original report

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