Re: 1.0 - question about openning Cygwin/X on a secondary display

2005-04-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Adam Hutchison wrote: I'm trying to get Cygwin/X to open on a secodary display of a dual-monitor system. Cygwin is running on Windows XP SP2 and is connecting to a Solaris box using XDMCP. It opens with no problems on the primary display, and will also open using both

xwin.org domain expires soon

2005-04-06 Thread Keith Packard
the 'xwin.org' domain that I registered a few years ago is up for renewal in 5 days; if anyone would like to use it for cygwin, please let me know and we can transfer it instead of letting it expire. -keith

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog grp.cc security.h

2005-04-06 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-04-06 12:35:53 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog grp.cc security.h Log message: * security.h (cygsidlist::addfromgr): Avoid duplicate entries. * grp.cc (initgrousp): Add

Re: [patch] dup_ent does not set dst when src is NULL

2005-04-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: Thanks for the patch, but I went out of my way to avoid freeing the buffer when I maded changes to dup_ent a couple of weeks ago. I don't want to revert to doing that again, so I've just used the return value in all cases. Thanks for taking care of that. My

Regarding error which i am facing..cygpath: error converting : --filename too long

2005-04-06 Thread basuki dubey
hi all, i have been struggling with this error which i am facing..cygpath: error converting : --filename too long ...could any body help me how to get rid of this error... Please give me the solution for this problem .. i am working on cygwin on windows xp platform.. Yours sincerely Basuki

RE: Unusual new look to symlinks to executables

2005-04-06 Thread fergus
Thank you for responding so quickly and so fully. Also, did you upgrade to cygwin 1.5.14 at the same time? It might be a change in the cygwin path handling. Not at the same time, but it may be that this was the first time I used the link-checking script since upgrading to 1.5.14. Certainly

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-5.3.0-4

2005-04-06 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 5.3.0-4, is available. NEWS This is a minor patch release. The overall 5.3.0 series was designated unstable by the upstream author (compared to the stable 5.2.1), because it introduces some POSIX-compliance fixes for

Re: 1.5.14: strange sshd error (openssh-3.9p1-2)

2005-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 5 20:30, Greg Kempe wrote: $ id uid=1005(Greg) gid=513(None) groups=0(root),513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users),1008(Debugger Users) But it's not listed as a group in the User and Groups snap-in in Computer Management, I don't know if it should be. That'll teach me to fiddle

1.5.14-1 cygwin1.dll could not be found

2005-04-06 Thread Danny Ng
Hi, I've recently downloaded the latest version of cygwin, and reinstalled the whole thing. Previously I had a compiling error with gcc, but now that has been fixed. After having successfully compiled my C program, I tried to run the exec file of my compiled program and gave me an error. I have

Re: cygwin programs called from non-cygwin programs mauling \ in args

2005-04-06 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:26:13AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Yitzchak, On Jan 19 15:34, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: $ ./nocygparent cygchild [a\bc] Can anybody else confirm this? I can. I already had a look into this. The command line handling in Cygwin is different

RE: 1.5.14-1 cygwin1.dll could not be found

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Danny Ng Sent: 06 April 2005 09:45 Hi, I've recently downloaded the latest version of cygwin, and reinstalled the whole thing. Previously I had a compiling error with gcc, but now that has been fixed. After having successfully compiled my C program, I tried

Large update of Cygwin

2005-04-06 Thread zzapper
Hi, Just to warn you, there's a large update of Cygwin ; tetex,coreutils,cygwin,sed, etc , you may care to start it when you go to lunch!! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

setup.exe troubles

2005-04-06 Thread Bernhard Ege
I have accidently overwritten some of the mirrors that setup.exe offers and I would like it to start out fresh. My problem is however that I cannot see anyway to reset the list. So, how do I make setup.exe reinitialise the offered mirror list? Thanks, Bernhard -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: 1.5.14-1 cygwin1.dll could not be found

2005-04-06 Thread Morche Matthias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message From: Danny Ng Sent: 06 April 2005 09:45 Hi, I've recently downloaded the latest version of cygwin, and reinstalled the whole thing. Previously I had a compiling error with gcc, but now that has been fixed. After having successfully

Re: ipc, sockets and windows sp2

2005-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 4 18:05, Vincent Dedun wrote: grepping cygserver debug output, show that, with 2 child process sharing mutex, wakeup is called first, then 2 msleep are called. So when msleep is called, wakeup has already been called, and msleep has to sleep forever. What you see is intermixed

Re: cygwin programs called from non-cygwin programs mauling \ in args

2005-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 6 02:09, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Corinna, have you a chance to think about this? I've come to think that using the MinGW rules makes most sense. I didn't think any further about this. It's not that important since it's easily workaroundable. I also fear we get the usual

1.5.13/14: Problems with Service running under SYSTEM account

2005-04-06 Thread Kevin Walker
I'm having problems running my service under CYGWIN 1.5.13/14. The service runs under the local system account and takes a filename via the service's command line. This filename is then opened using fopen. If I revert to CYGWIN 1.5.12, fopen can read the file. However when I try using 1.5.13/14

RE: 1.5.14-1 cygwin1.dll could not be found

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Morche Matthias Sent: 06 April 2005 12:10 Original Message From: Danny Ng Sent: 06 April 2005 09:45 I've recently downloaded the latest version of cygwin, and reinstalled the whole thing. Previously I had a compiling error with gcc, but now that has

Re: apache; rebaseall - tclpip84.dll: skipped because not rebaseable

2005-04-06 Thread Jason Tishler
Rainer, On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:38:13AM +0200, Rainer Kirsch wrote: I am trying to get my apache running again. tail /var/log/apache/error.log returns: C:\z_cygwin\usr\sbin\httpd.exe (4080): *** unable to remap C:\z_cygwin\lib\apache\mod_vhost_alias.dll to same address as

Re: apache; rebaseall - tclpip84.dll: skipped because not rebaseable

2005-04-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Rainer Kirsch wrote: rebaseall -T /home/Rainer_Kirsch/dll.lst -v dll.out and get the error message: There should be no need to use -T unless you have DLLs for things that were installed outside of setup.exe. Normally rebaseall finds all installed DLLs. The tclpip84.dll shouldn't cause an

Re: 1.5.14: strange sshd error (openssh-3.9p1-2)

2005-04-06 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 4/6/2005 2:04 AM: In Cygwin you can change the primary group to any group you're member of by changing the pw_gid entry (e.g. 545 for Users). Is there any way in cygwin to implement the POSIX-required utility

Re: 1.5.13/14: Problems with Service running under SYSTEM account

2005-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 6 23:22, Kevin Walker wrote: I'm having problems running my service under CYGWIN 1.5.13/14. The service runs under the local system account and takes a filename via the service's command line. This filename is then opened using fopen. If I revert to CYGWIN 1.5.12, fopen can read the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: m4-1.4.3-1

2005-04-06 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of m4, 1.4.3-1, is available. NEWS This is a new upstream release. From the NEWS file, the changes since 1.4.2 are: Version 1.4.3 - March 2005, by Gary V. Vaughan * DESTDIR installs now work correctly. * Don't segfault with

Re: 1.5.14: strange sshd error (openssh-3.9p1-2)

2005-04-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 6 06:41, Eric Blake wrote: According to Corinna Vinschen on 4/6/2005 2:04 AM: In Cygwin you can change the primary group to any group you're member of by changing the pw_gid entry (e.g. 545 for Users). Is there any way in cygwin to implement the POSIX-required utility newgrp, and

Re: setup.exe troubles

2005-04-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Bernhard Ege wrote: I have accidently overwritten some of the mirrors that setup.exe offers and I would like it to start out fresh. My problem is however that I cannot see anyway to reset the list. So, how do I make setup.exe reinitialise the offered mirror list? I don't understand. The mirror

Re: setup.exe troubles

2005-04-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:32:26 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Bernhard Ege wrote: I have accidently overwritten some of the mirrors that setup.exe offers and I would like it to start out fresh. My problem is however that I cannot see anyway to reset the list. So, how do I make setup.exe

How to use msvc++ with cygwin libraries?

2005-04-06 Thread Stone, Tim
Greetings, I spent a long time looking, and couldn't find this answered. If it has been, please send me a pointer to where to look. My problem: I have an existing (X/lesstif) application which compiles and runs under cygwin (gcc). I have some new functionality which I need to add to this

Re: Are two installs still needed?

2005-04-06 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:28 PM 4/3/2005, you wrote: At some time last year, cygwin installs failed (consuming all VM) if we tried to install everything in a single install; but installing twice (first the base, then everything), avoided the problem. Is that double install process still needed? No, that's been

RE: cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapshot?

2005-04-06 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:01 PM 4/5/2005, you wrote: so, when folks refer to startup problems is my problem (runtime error 216..., see prior) consider to be included? anyone? Perhaps the best way to get the answer is to try the snapshot. Then you can tell us. :-) -- Larry Hall

Re: cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapshot?

2005-04-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:45:17AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: At 11:01 PM 4/5/2005, you wrote: so, when folks refer to startup problems is my problem (runtime error 216..., see prior) consider to be included? anyone? Perhaps the best way to get the answer is to try the snapshot. Then you can tell

What puts /cygdrive in the root directory?

2005-04-06 Thread fergus
I've noticed this on two different installations: suddenly the directory cygdrive/ has appeared in the Cygwin root directory. I didn't put it there and it's dated 1st Jan 1970, suggesting some kind of automated imposition from above. I guess its creation came with one of the recent upgrades? I

Re: cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapshot?

2005-04-06 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:57 AM 4/6/2005, you wrote: On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:45:17AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: At 11:01 PM 4/5/2005, you wrote: so, when folks refer to startup problems is my problem (runtime error 216..., see prior) consider to be included? anyone? Perhaps the best way to get the answer is to try

RE: What puts /cygdrive in the root directory?

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 April 2005 16:10 I've noticed this on two different installations: suddenly the directory cygdrive/ has appeared in the Cygwin root directory. I didn't put it there and it's dated 1st Jan 1970, suggesting some kind of automated

Re: zsh startup oddity

2005-04-06 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Luke Kendall wrote: On 1 Apr, Michael Wardle wrote: By what mechanism are you ensuring zsh is invoked as a login shell rather than a non-login shell? I think we were starting it via the cygwin shortcut (cygwin.bat), which as you have said, just runs bash --login. IIRC, the

Problems installing TeTeX-3.0.0-2!?

2005-04-06 Thread Angelo Graziosi (D. Zanello)
I have installed teTeX 3.0.0-2 and latex demo.tex works! Than I have tried pdflatex demo.tex obtaining (summary because, now, I can't reproduce it) This is TeX... ... Fatal error...I am stymied This time there is NOT core dump (that is present in 3.0.0-1). So, I reinstalled

Re: apache; rebaseall - tclpip84.dll: skipped because not rebaseable

2005-04-06 Thread Jason Tishler
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:17:04AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Your problem is this: ReBaseImage (/bin/cygwin1.dll) failed with last error = 6 Normally cygwin1.dll is never rebased, as the script itself depends on it. When it hits a DLL that causes an error it stops processing. Doh!

RE: Problems installing TeTeX-3.0.0-2!?

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Angelo Graziosi (D. Zanello) Sent: 06 April 2005 17:57 Than, I have uninstalled TeTeX, libkpathsea3(4), ec-fonts and have deleted, manually, some directory that the uninstalling does not: c:\cygwin\lib\texmf\ c:\cygwin\usr\share\texmf\

Re: libnet-pcap-perl ??

2005-04-06 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: The problem with all this is that the winpcap DLLs are compiled with Mingw and depend on msvcrt, so if you want to use them with Cygwin apps you have to recompile them to use cygwin1.dll. If you don't do this, the libpcap application (Net::Pcap in

RE: libnet-pcap-perl ??

2005-04-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Brian Ford Sent: 06 April 2005 19:31 Just curious what this really means. I use the winpcap DLLs daily in a Cygwin appliction (custom, not Perl) without incident. Am I just lucky? What does cygcheck show about their dependencies? cheers, DaveK --

Re: libnet-pcap-perl ??

2005-04-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Ford wrote: The problem with all this is that the winpcap DLLs are compiled with Mingw and depend on msvcrt, so if you want to use them with Cygwin apps you have to recompile them to use cygwin1.dll. If you don't do this, the libpcap application (Net::Pcap in this case) will

Re: GNU emacs 21.3.50-2 is available

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Kelem
Joe Buehler said the following on 3/31/2004 7:24 AM: GNU emacs 21.3.50-2 is available. Has anyone ported emacs 21.4 to Cygwin? THanks, Steve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

setup keeps installing gcc 3.3.3-3

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Kelem
I am using the latest cygwin and trying to install gcc-3.4.1-1. Each time I run setup, it tries to install 3.3.3-3 even though 3.4.1-1 is current! Each time I deselect gcc-ada, it gets re-selected the next time I run setup. When I run gcc, gcc reports that it's version 3.3.3. Setup says it's

Re: setup keeps installing gcc 3.3.3-3

2005-04-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Steve Kelem wrote: I am using the latest cygwin and trying to install gcc-3.4.1-1. Each time I run setup, it tries to install 3.3.3-3 even though 3.4.1-1 is current! Each time I deselect gcc-ada, it gets re-selected the next time I run setup. When I run gcc, gcc reports that it's version

Re: setup keeps installing gcc 3.3.3-3

2005-04-06 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Steve Kelem wrote: I am using the latest cygwin and trying to install gcc-3.4.1-1. Each time I run setup, it tries to install 3.3.3-3 even though 3.4.1-1 is current! Each time I deselect gcc-ada, it gets re-selected the next time I run setup. You might just want to install the MinGW32 version of

Re: 1.5.14-1 cygwin1.dll could not be found

2005-04-06 Thread Shankar Unni
Morche Matthias wrote: cygwin1.dll not found comes up during the update of cygwin This is a common problem, if you're updating a bunch of packages including cygwin all together, and one of the packages has an uninstall script that runs some other cygwin binary. Setup normally downloads

Symlinks don't work in python???

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Ward
I just upgraded to cygwin 1.5.14 from 1.5.12, and python (version 2.4 in both cases) stopped being able to import thru symlinks. Test case: in a directory containing a symlink to foo.py, python import foo complains no module named foo.py; if I copy the file to ., it imports fine. Both

4/6 cygwin1.dll snapshot appears to fix my problem

2005-04-06 Thread Michael L. Metts
prior, i complained of runtime error 216... with both install and any attempt to start bash. so, is there any way to repair/complete my re-installation w/o overwriting the 4/6 dll with the old one? right now, i more or less half installed since all the post-intall scripts didn't run...

Re: 4/6 cygwin1.dll snapshot appears to fix my problem

2005-04-06 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:19 PM 4/6/2005, you wrote: prior, i complained of runtime error 216... with both install and any attempt to start bash. so, is there any way to repair/complete my re-installation w/o overwriting the 4/6 dll with the old one? right now, i more or less half installed since all the

RE: 1.5.14-1 cygwin1.dll could not be found

2005-04-06 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
At Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:38 PM, Shankar Unni wrote: Morche Matthias wrote: cygwin1.dll not found comes up during the update of cygwin This is a common problem, if you're updating a bunch of packages including cygwin all together, and one of the packages has an uninstall script that

Re: XEmacs+aspell failed on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-06 Thread TX
I'm happy to report that the latest snapshot fixed the XEmacs+Aspell problem. CGF, many thanks! I look forward to cygwin.1.5.15-1. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: zsh startup oddity

2005-04-06 Thread Luke Kendall
On 6 Apr, Peter A. Castro wrote: I like the sound of Michael's shell.c because you don't need a separate ..bat file to start up each different shell. I guess I don't understand how you are starting the shell, really. All you need to do is change cygwin.bat to run 'zsh -l -i'

Re: 1.5.14-1 cygwin1.dll could not be found

2005-04-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: Might it be simpler than a sort to implement, and work just as well, to have setup download run pre-uninstall scripts uninstall install run post-install scripts one package at a time rather than download

stupid graphviz tricks, Was: Re: 1.5.14-1 cygwin1.dll could not be found

2005-04-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: But it's worse than that, what if there is a cyclical depedency -- 'foo' requires 'bar' which requires 'baz' which requires 'foo'. There's no way to handle that other than to install them all and then run all three postinstalls. On a somewhat related note, I was playing

lilypond-doc-2.4.3-1 using setup.exe 2.457.2.1 fails to display music images

2005-04-06 Thread John Sellers
For the last couple of versions of lilypond documents in cygwin, I do not get music images. Lilypond was recently updated to 2.4.3.-1 with no correction of the problem behavior. If there is a better place to report these, please e-mail me. I have done my best in determine where to post, but

Convertion from cygwin to linux

2005-04-06 Thread Mahadevaswamy.Lingaiah
Hi, I have a source code compiled using cygwin(i386). I need to compile the same source code in Linux(i386). cygwin has its own libraries. But how can I use in linux? Please put some light on it. Regards Swamy

Memory Leak Tool

2005-04-06 Thread Mahadevaswamy.Lingaiah
Hi, Does cygwin compiler can identify the memory leak problem in the source code? If not does cygwin support any memory leak tool? Regards Swamy Note: The information contained in this message may be

Updated: m4-1.4.3-1

2005-04-06 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of m4, 1.4.3-1, is available. NEWS This is a new upstream release. From the NEWS file, the changes since 1.4.2 are: Version 1.4.3 - March 2005, by Gary V. Vaughan * DESTDIR installs now work correctly. * Don't segfault with