Re: Urgent wording change needed for setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: For the next setup release, can we change Download from Internet to Download from Internet Without Installing? Agreed - how about Download Only - Do Not Install, though? I think that is a bit more attention grabbing, and from Internet is just a bit redundant! Also,

Re: Setup.exe Keep mode bug

2004-11-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Hi, The setup version currently on the Cygwin web site exhibits the following behavior: in Keep mode, it was impossible to select the new version of the Cygwin package for the upgrade. I'm somehow not surprised. Those horribly twiddly-cycle controls in setup are

Re: Packages that change without incrementing the version/release

2004-11-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:27:47PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Anyway, this means many users are likely to have old 'invalid' versions of these packages. Which means, that before I can release a new setup, I need to make setup recover gracefully, rather than exiting at

Re: Urgent wording change needed for setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:05:35PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: For the next setup release, can we change Download from Internet to Download from Internet Without Installing? Agreed - how about Download Only - Do Not Install, though? I think that is a bit more attention

Re: Setup.exe Keep mode bug

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:07:17PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The setup version currently on the Cygwin web site exhibits the following behavior: in Keep mode, it was impossible to select the new version of the Cygwin package for the upgrade. I'm somehow not surprised.

Looking for a ghostscript maintainer

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:07:20AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:00:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I notice that there hasn't been a new release of ghostscript in some time. We need a new release to eliminate some of the lurking dependencies on the deprecated

Re: Packages that change without incrementing the version/release

2004-11-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:14:52PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: And one important consequence of this is that packagers must *never* change files without changing the release number, once they have gone to the mirrors - because setup.exe will be telling users that something

Re: Urgent wording change needed for setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:05:35PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: For the next setup release, can we change Download from Internet to Download from Internet Without Installing? Agreed - how about Download Only - Do Not Install, though? I think that

Re: Packages that change without incrementing the version/release

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 05:10:53PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:14:52PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: And one important consequence of this is that packagers must *never* change files without changing the release number, once they have gone to the

Re: Urgent wording change needed for setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 05:17:33PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:05:35PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: For the next setup release, can we change Download from Internet to Download from Internet Without Installing? Agreed - how

Re: Packages that change without incrementing the version/release

2004-11-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: setup.ini is always correct. If the package changed in setup.ini, that should not trigger a download unless the user specifically asks for it. I don't see any reason to check md5sums for packages that aren't being installed. When a package is specifically requested for

Re: Packages that change without incrementing the version/release

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 05:39:26PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: setup.ini is always correct. If the package changed in setup.ini, that should not trigger a download unless the user specifically asks for it. I don't see any reason to check md5sums for packages that aren't

Re: Packages that change without incrementing the version/release

2004-11-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 05:39:26PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: setup.ini is always correct. If the package changed in setup.ini, that should not trigger a download unless the user specifically asks for it. I don't see any reason to check md5sums

Copyright year, year, ... statements in setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Max Bowsher
The Copyright year, year, ... have been somewhat neglected so far as adding additional years in concerned. Additionally, some are Red Hat, Inc., and others are individual contributors. I could use some advice on whether it is acceptable to just have a single identical copyright header for

Re: Copyright year, year, ... statements in setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:23:51PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: The Copyright year, year, ... have been somewhat neglected so far as adding additional years in concerned. Additionally, some are Red Hat, Inc., and others are individual contributors. I could use some advice on whether it is

Re: Copyright year, year, ... statements in setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:23:51PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: The Copyright year, year, ... have been somewhat neglected so far as adding additional years in concerned. Additionally, some are Red Hat, Inc., and others are individual contributors. I could use some advice on

Re: Copyright year, year, ... statements in setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 07:31:29PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:23:51PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: The Copyright year, year, ... have been somewhat neglected so far as adding additional years in concerned. Additionally, some are Red Hat, Inc., and

Re: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout

2004-11-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Dave wrote: Definitely go for a dialog box. Revised patch attached. Sorry, but I have to reject this patch. The MessageBox output takes no account of the fact that it is being displayed in a proportional-width font, and as a result comes out impressively mangled. As the reality is that the

Re: Urgent wording change needed for setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 05:17:33PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:05:35PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: For the next setup release, can we change Download from Internet to

Re: Urgent wording change needed for setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert McNulty Junior wrote: Change the behavior so Setup does not install immieadly after you download the Distribution. I see this in every scenario since it first came out. That dang Install from Internet is there every time. Its installing right after downloading. I hate that. Look what

updated package: gnugo-3.6

2004-11-20 Thread a.rburgers
Hello, I've uploaded binary and source packages of the recently announced version 3.6 of gnugo. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnugo-announce/2004-11/msg1.html for the announcement. This version is an update of the current 3.4. 3.6 depends on the libncurses8 package (instead of

Re: updated package: gnugo-3.6

2004-11-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
a.rburgers wrote: Hello, I've uploaded binary and source packages of the recently announced version 3.6 of gnugo. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnugo-announce/2004-11/msg1.html for the announcement. This version is an update of the current 3.4. 3.6 depends on the libncurses8 package

Re: Urgent wording change needed for setup.exe

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 09:20:32PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert McNulty Junior wrote: Change the behavior so Setup does not install immieadly after you download the Distribution. I see this in every scenario since it first came out. That dang Install from Internet is there every time. Its

is there a mailinglist for setup.exe CVS commits?

2004-11-20 Thread Brian Dessent
I really like the cygwin-cvs and newlib-cvs lists for keeping track of what changes are being made to the DLL and newlib. Setup is in a different repository, however, correct? Is there a list to which I can subscribe to see commits? Brian

Do we have this in our version?

2004-11-20 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
I was reading through the daily report from Zone Alarm. It talked about Gentoo Linux's fcron. Do we have fcron? Because if we do, I think I know what is going on here. On Halloween, November 6, and November 9 of this month, I found that only I had no internet connection. I had xorg and the

More X11 error messages

2004-11-20 Thread Daniel Newhouse
I'm cross posting since the X11 developers blame everything on the cywin setup.exe When I try to install it is at 94%(installing everything) and the file that I get a hangup at is etc/postinstall/xorg-x11-fnts.sh When I click cancel on the installation I am then given another error Cannot open

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygheap.h registry ...

2004-11-20 Thread phumblet
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-11-20 19:09:19 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygheap.h registry.h registry.cc uinfo.cc shared.cc syscalls.cc Log message: 2004-11-20 Pierre Humblet

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler.cc pipe.cc

2004-11-20 Thread phumblet
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-11-20 23:42:36 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler.cc pipe.cc Log message: 2004-11-20 Pierre Humblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] * fhandler.cc (fhandler::write):

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygheap.h pinfo.cc ...

2004-11-20 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Branch: noreparent Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-11-21 04:39:13 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygheap.h pinfo.cc pinfo.h spawn.cc Log message: * cygheap.h (init_cygheap::pid_handle): New element.

Re: [Patch] Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole.

2004-11-20 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 01:23 AM 11/20/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Here's the good news/bad news. On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:56:40AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: The simplification of the code from removing all of the reparenting considerations is not something that I'm going to give up on easily.

[Patch] debug_printf edits

2004-11-20 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Here are minor changes that facilitate grepping traces. Pierre 2004-11-20 Pierre Humblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] * fhandler.cc (fhandler::write): Remove debug_printf. * pipe.cc (fhandler_pipe::create): Edit syscall_printf format. Index: fhandler.cc

Re: [Patch] debug_printf edits

2004-11-20 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 02:20 PM 11/20/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 01:51:16PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Here are minor changes that facilitate grepping traces. Pierre 2004-11-20 Pierre Humblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] * fhandler.cc (fhandler::write): Remove debug_printf.

Re: [Patch] debug_printf edits

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 02:27:37PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 02:20 PM 11/20/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 01:51:16PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Here are minor changes that facilitate grepping traces. Pierre 2004-11-20 Pierre Humblet [EMAIL

Re: flex and dos source files. How is flex built for cygwin

2004-11-20 Thread Reini Urban
Peter Rehley schrieb: Peter Rehley wrote: Larry Hall wrote: We have a customer that is using flex under a custom version of cygwin that we provided them (with source). The customer is having problems when their *.l files are in dos format. Flex is taking the lines from the file and adding

Re: pax available?

2004-11-20 Thread Reini Urban
Chuck schrieb: I'm actually referring to pax format archives (ustar). I want to be able to unarchive files - many files - but changing one string in the name to another. I typically use it to clone databases on Solaris. I may have 15 mount points all with a subdirectory named DB1. When I extract

Re: [OT now] RE: cygwin sshd will not run under McAfee VirusScan 8.0i

2004-11-20 Thread Reini Urban
Dave Korn schrieb: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Michael Hipp Sent: 19 November 2004 19:06 I thought I was the only one with that opinion of McNorton. We are not alone! http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=norton+%2Bsucks Results 1 - 10 of about 87,900 for norton

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-20 Thread Reini Urban
Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: Sam Steingold wrote: when will 3.4 become the default version? I'm currently preparing an gcc update to gcc-3.4.2, if this is usable I will make this the default. So you may expect it to be released before Christmas 2004. with dwarf2? -- Crime does not pay ... as well as

Re: Clapack on Cygwin revisited

2004-11-20 Thread kele
Hi! Thanks a lot for your reply! Quoting Mark Paulus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sounds like you might need a -L option gcc -o testclapack testclapack.c -Ldir to library lapack.a -cblaswr -lblas.a tmglib.a -latlas -lg2c If I understand well, this tells gcc to access a certain directory (with the -L

Re: flex and dos source files. How is flex built for cygwin

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 09:07:21AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Peter Rehley schrieb: Peter Rehley wrote: Larry Hall wrote: We have a customer that is using flex under a custom version of cygwin that we provided them (with source). The customer is having problems when their *.l files are in dos

Re: Executing ssh from perl

2004-11-20 Thread Stephen Studley
At 1:28 AM +0100 11/20/04, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Stephen Studley wrote: At 4:30 PM -0500 11/18/04, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: perl -we 'my $str=`ssh -n [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls`;print [$str]\n' good idea, however same results, at least from my Windows machine. The command-line perl works fine from my

Re: getting the entire x remote server to run locally

2004-11-20 Thread Marcel Telka
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:31:19AM +, PJ wrote: I have X/cygwin running and know about ssh tunneling, but that's not quite what I'm looking for. What I want to do is basically ssh to the remote machine and actually have a full X desktop from that machine running in cygwin, not just apps

Re: flex and dos source files. How is flex built for cygwin

2004-11-20 Thread Reini Urban
Peter Rehley schrieb: On Nov 20, 2004, at 12:07 AM, Reini Urban wrote: Peter Rehley schrieb: Peter Rehley wrote: Larry Hall wrote: We have a customer that is using flex under a custom version of cygwin that we provided them (with source). The customer is having problems when their *.l files are

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-20 Thread Reini Urban
Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: Sam Steingold wrote: when will 3.4 become the default version? I'm currently preparing an gcc update to gcc-3.4.2, if this is usable I will make this the default. So you may expect it to be released before Christmas 2004. with

Re: flex and dos source files. How is flex built for cygwin

2004-11-20 Thread Peter Rehley
On Nov 20, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Reini Urban wrote: Peter Rehley schrieb: On Nov 20, 2004, at 12:07 AM, Reini Urban wrote: Peter Rehley schrieb: Peter Rehley wrote: Larry Hall wrote: We have a customer that is using flex under a custom version of cygwin that we provided them (with source). The

bugs in autotools wrapper scripts

2004-11-20 Thread Eric Blake
The autotools wrappers (automake 1.7.9-1, autoconf 2.59-1, and libtool 1.5b-1) all have argument parsing bugs. They are trying to parse every option known to either autotool-stable or autotool-devel, but fail in several respects. First, the wrappers are not robust to new options being added. For

Re: Undelete

2004-11-20 Thread Peter Rehley
On Nov 20, 2004, at 11:20 AM, kent morris wrote: I installed cygwin and found it does not meet my needs. How do I un-install it? WIN XP Control Panel does not show it in the add/remove window. I have not found any documentation on how to remove the program. Did you see this?

Re: Undelete

2004-11-20 Thread Brian Dessent
kent morris wrote: I installed cygwin and found it does not meet my needs. How do I un-install it? WIN XP Control Panel does not show it in the add/remove window. I have not found any documentation on how to remove the program. http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC19 Brian -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: flex and dos source files. How is flex built for cygwin

2004-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 07:19:17PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: so cgf should repackage it. it's obviously a bug. From the description of the behavior of the released flex binary, it sounds like it is working just fine. If you are saying that I should repackage the source files because you

Re: bugs in autotools wrapper scripts

2004-11-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Eric Blake wrote: The autotools wrappers (automake 1.7.9-1, autoconf 2.59-1, and libtool 1.5b-1) all have argument parsing bugs. They are trying to parse every option known to either autotool-stable or autotool-devel, but fail in several respects. True. First, the wrappers are not robust to new

Re: Printed installation report?

2004-11-20 Thread wszumera
On 20 Nov 2004 at 16:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: s there any way to get a hardcopy printout of the modules installed by setup.exe (the Cygwin installer)? Thanks! kj cygcheck -c prn Sending this to you direct and to list. List keeps bouncing me stating I am sending html. NOT! Wes

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Reini Urban wrote: Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: I'm currently preparing an gcc update to gcc-3.4.2, if this is usable I will make this the default. So you may expect it to be released before Christmas 2004. with dwarf2? I don't know yet. Probably many packages need to be rebuild with this change?

[ANNOUNCEMENT] update: gnugo-3.6

2004-11-20 Thread Teun Burgers
I've packaged the recently released gnugo-3.6 for cygwin. The announcement of gnugo-3.6 can be found here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnugo-announce/2004-11/msg1.html Gnu Go is a state of the art go playing program. Go is an ancient boardgame originating from Asia, that becomes

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: No, it will be enabled, or better sjlj will not be enabled and the build defaults to dwarf2. I was wrong with this statement. To clarify this: gcc-3.4 has DWARF2 debug informations enabled, but exception handling will stay to be SjLj exceptions and not be DWARF2, because:

Re: Perl-tk?

2004-11-20 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dwycoff wrote: | I tried using a perl-tk script in cygwin that I wrote more than | a year ago. Whenever I run it it dies at: | | Can't locate Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5... | | I did a search and couldn't find Tk.pm. So I looked