Please upload: nfs-server-2.3-3

2005-09-06 Thread Robb, Sam
All, A new version of nfs-server is ready for upload. Source : http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/nfs-server/nfs-server-2.3-3-src.tar.bz2 Binary : http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/nfs-server/nfs-server-2.3-3.tar.bz2 Hint :

Re: Please upload: nfs-server-2.3-3

2005-09-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 03:40:39PM -0400, Robb, Sam wrote: A new version of nfs-server is ready for upload. Source : http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/nfs-server/nfs-server-2.3-3-src.tar.bz2 Binary : http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/nfs-server/nfs-server-2.3-3.tar.bz2

Re: HEADSUP: pcre security announcement

2005-09-06 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corinna Vinschen wrote: Two weeks and no response. Unfortunately we have this security issue and also a couple of packages relying on libpcre. So we would need either a quick response from Ronald or somebody willing to take over the package

Re: [ITP] qt3-3.3.4

2005-09-06 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: I'm trying to build from source but get: /usr/src/qt-x11-free-3.3.4/.build/bin/uic -L /usr/src/qt-x11-free-3.3.4/.build/plugins topicchooser.ui -i topicchooser.h -o topicchooser.cpp Mutex lock failure: Resource deadlock

Update to setup.hint for octave-headers

2005-09-06 Thread James R. Phillips
Attn Cygwin uploaders: Could someone please add fftw3-dev to the requires: list in the setup.hint for octave-headers? This will fix a bug reported on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Thanks, Jim Phillips

Re: Unknown keyboard

2005-09-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: FollowUp to cygwin at cygwin dot com Why? Doesn't this belong on cygwin-xfree instead? Pure stupidity :( I don't know what I had in mind when I wrote this.

New Cygwin/X maintainer

2005-09-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
May I introduce... Alan Hourihane has now officially taken over the job as our new Cygwin/X maintainer. We just have to put his access permissions to sourceware into place, but otherwise, that's it. Congratulations and a *big* thank you for taking over, Alan! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Facename fonts vs XLFD fonts

2005-09-06 Thread Brian Willis
I have an application that by default looks for the Facename font ncenb14. I can over ride the setting by using the Xdefaults and specifying the XLFD (X Logical Font Description) instead. While this works, it's not the ideal situation. I would rather it just found the Facename name by default.

Re: New Cygwin/X maintainer

2005-09-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:19:38PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: May I introduce... Alan Hourihane has now officially taken over the job as our new Cygwin/X maintainer. We just have to put his access permissions to sourceware into place, but otherwise, that's it. Congratulations and a *big*

MultiWindow versus MWExtWM

2005-09-06 Thread Joe Krahn
What is the history of internal versus external Win32 WMs? It seems that Cygwin/X is favoring the internal WM, even though the external WM is a better fit to the X server design. I was looking into adding some NET_WM/EWMH features (mainly icons for now), and realized that most things have to

startx wont start xterm window

2005-09-06 Thread MikeSo
i installed cygwin with no problems at all but when i type startx after opening cygwin, nothing happens. i get some text but no xterm window will pop up. ive googled and searched the archives but have had trouble finding anything similar to my problem. below is the log. thanks in advance for

Re: MultiWindow versus MWExtWM

2005-09-06 Thread billh
Any discussion of internal vs external window management cannot take place without acknowledging the fact that we are talking about XWindows operating within another window system, Cygwin/X. The immediate fact here is that any action that a window manager takes that is synchronous to the

Re: Administrator vs Administrators

2005-09-06 Thread Luke Kendall
On 6 Sep, Igor Pechtchanski replied to: Can someone correct my understanding if I've got this wrong? I think Administrator means the administrator account on the local machine, Administrators means the administrative account for the machine in the domain (workgroup). Nope,

RE: Administrator vs Administrators

2005-09-06 Thread Herb Martin
I think you have an extra s in the user name :-) (I have an Administrator user, but no Administrators user). Can someone correct my understanding if I've got this wrong? I think Administrator means the administrator account on the local machine, Administrators means the

Re: ls -lrt / shows /dev....

2005-09-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 5 21:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:29:14PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: It really isn't worth the effort to implement this. Eventually, /dev will be something more like a mountable entity but, for now, I

Does setup.exe ignore setup.hint md5 checksum?

2005-09-06 Thread Luke Kendall
I only ask because setup didn't appear to notice that libgcrypt's setup.hint md5 checksum didn't match the md5.sum file. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Does setup.exe ignore setup.hint md5 checksum?

2005-09-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 6 17:29, Luke Kendall wrote: I only ask because setup didn't appear to notice that libgcrypt's setup.hint md5 checksum didn't match the md5.sum file. Not on cygwin.com. The md5sum is correct there. Setup.exe doesn't know about setup.hint. It only gets the data from the top-level file

Re: Does setup.exe ignore setup.hint md5 checksum?

2005-09-06 Thread Luke Kendall
On 6 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Not on cygwin.com. The md5sum is correct there. Sure, sure, I didn't mean to imply that. We've found a mirror site that wasn't broken, as of last night. Setup.exe doesn't know about setup.hint. It only gets the data from the top-level file setup.ini

RE: Administrator vs Administrators

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Luke Kendall Sent: 06 September 2005 04:57 Our policy is that for their PC, users have administrator rights in the network domain, so they can install and uninstall software. No. Your policy is that the *domain user account* for a user has *local*

Postgresql package broken?

2005-09-06 Thread Max Bowsher
I've used Cygwin-Postgresql before, but when I tried to use it recently, I found that postmaster immediately segfaults on start. Wanting to eliminate possible oddities with my system as a cause, I did a totally clean install on Cygwin Base + postgresql onto a different computer, but still

XEMACS and $HOME

2005-09-06 Thread Achim Schaefer
Hi, I have a problem with my $HOME setting. Starting xemacs I get the following message: $ xemacs Syntax error: Bad format environment-variable substitution, //SV018182/luxcasch$ Chaning HOME to the windows version works: $ HOME=h: xemacs Warning: XtRemoveGrab asked to remove a widget not on

Re: Postgresql package broken?

2005-09-06 Thread Jason Tishler
Max, On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:38:47PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Wanting to eliminate possible oddities with my system as a cause, I did a totally clean install on Cygwin Base + postgresql onto a different computer, but still postmaster immediately segfaults. Is the current postgresql

Re: Problems with snap 20050905 and X?

2005-09-06 Thread Antonio Romero
Angelo Graziosi Angelo.Graziosi at roma1.infn.it writes: I have installed the snap 20050905. When X/Cygwin is started with startxwin.bat, xterm hangs, its window is white instead of black (as I configured) and the prompt does not appear. Windows (W2K SP4) says : Annull or Stop the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cpio-2.6-4

2005-09-06 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Corinna Vinschen writes: I've just updated the version of cpio to 2.6-4. This version has two package bugs: /usr/share/info/dir should not be there and /usr/share/man/man1/mt.1 shadows mt.1 from mt-2.3.1-1 Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Intermittent scp crash on completion, Win98 SE, snapshot

2005-09-06 Thread Aaron Humphrey
On 9/2/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 07:27:46PM -0600, Aaron Humphrey wrote: If you can get this to fail under strace, that would probably point to the problem pretty quickly. It looks like something is trying to get the pid of the process during the final stages of

Re: New packages: singular-*-3.0.0-1

2005-09-06 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Oliver Wienand writes: CONTENTS: = There are in a whole five packages concerning Singular. I think I missed in my review that the three files SURF_AUTHORS SURF_COPYING SURF_README from /usr/lib/Singular should really be moved to /usr/share/doc/Singular-3.0.0 and the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: texi2html-1.76-1 - A highly customizable texinfo to HTML and other formats translator

2005-09-06 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi The package texi2html is now available with the Cygwin distribution: * http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/ (Homepage) * http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/texi2html/ (Download location) DESCRIPTION: sdesc: A highly customizable texinfo to HTML and other formats translator

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cpio-2.6-4

2005-09-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 6 15:34, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: I've just updated the version of cpio to 2.6-4. This version has two package bugs: /usr/share/info/dir should not be there and /usr/share/man/man1/mt.1 shadows mt.1 from mt-2.3.1-1 Thanks, I've uploaded a new

Re: compile mysql sources on cygwin

2005-09-06 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Brian Dessent wrote: Andrea wrote: There's not enough information in your message to help you. How did you configure? Are you doing a vpath build (outside of the source tree)? Mysql 5 does compile fine under Cygwin, but you may require a few small patches. Search the archives for details.

Re: BUG report: destructor exception vectorbool; DLL 1.5.18

2005-09-06 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Andreas wrote: Hello, I found a bug in the Cygwin environment that blocks me. I condensed the problem into one C++ file: all.cc I compiles OK, but crashes, when executed. I compiled the same file on a LINUX system, it runs there without a problem. To me it seems that the deallocation in the

Re: GTK2-X11 / gtk+-2.0 is not found after it is installed?

2005-09-06 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Bob Paddock wrote: I am trying to build the program PCB, http://pcb.sf.net/ that requires the GTK2 widget set, with some GTK version greater than 2.4.0. I have installed a fresh copy of Cygwin and installed all of the gtk2-x11 packages. When I run this test script: #! /bin/sh if pkg-config

RE: BUG report: destructor exception vectorbool; DLL 1.5.18

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Gerrit P. Haase Sent: 06 September 2005 18:42 Andreas wrote: Hello, I found a bug in the Cygwin environment that blocks me. I condensed the problem into one C++ file: all.cc I compiles OK, but crashes, when executed. $ g++ -Wall -g -o all.C.exe all.C

Re: BUG report: destructor exception vectorbool; DLL 1.5.18

2005-09-06 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Andreas wrote: Hello, I found a bug in the Cygwin environment that blocks me. I condensed the problem into one C++ file: all.cc I compiles OK, but crashes, when executed. I compiled the same file on a LINUX system, it runs there without a problem. To me it seems that the deallocation in the

RE: BUG report: destructor exception vectorbool; DLL 1.5.18

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Gerrit P. Haase Sent: 06 September 2005 19:06 Ok, after another look I saw that your mailer wrapped the code, maybe you should change your mailer? Heh, you _still_ didn't finish reading the thread! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: nfs-server-2.3-3

2005-09-06 Thread Robb, Sam
I've updated the nfs-server package for Cygwin to version 2.3-3. Changes in this release include: - Minor cleanups in debug logging - Minor cleanups in documentation - Addition of make targets for static code analysis (via splint) - Many minor code cleanups (see above) - Bug fix

Re: Postgresql package broken?

2005-09-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Jason Tishler wrote: Max, On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:38:47PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Wanting to eliminate possible oddities with my system as a cause, I did a totally clean install on Cygwin Base + postgresql onto a different computer, but still postmaster immediately segfaults. Is the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: swig-1.3.25-1

2005-09-06 Thread Max Bowsher
SWIG, the Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator, is a tool for easing the interfacing of C/C++ libraries to scripting languages. Its package in the Cygwin net distribution has been updated to version 1.3.25-1. This is a new upstream release. Max Bowsher. -- To update your

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: doxygen-1.4.4-1

2005-09-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Doxygen, is a documentation system based on specially formatted comments in source code, for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C#, and D. Its package in the Cygwin net distribution has been updated to version 1.4.4-1. This is a new upstream

Hang with snapshot 20050905

2005-09-06 Thread Volker Quetschke
I just discovered that after upgrading from snapshot 20050716 to 20050905 my OOo build hangs. Sorry, I didn't update/test the snapshots on this machine (Opteron 2.4GHz, cygcheck.log attached.) more frequently. It appears that this line from a perl script hangs: if ( $^O =~ /cygwin/i ) { chomp(

Re: Hang with snapshot 20050905

2005-09-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:50:47PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: I just discovered that after upgrading from snapshot 20050716 to 20050905 my OOo build hangs. Sorry, I didn't update/test the snapshots on this machine (Opteron 2.4GHz, cygcheck.log attached.) more frequently. It appears that this

Re: Hang with snapshot 20050905

2005-09-06 Thread Volker Quetschke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:50:47PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: I just discovered that after upgrading from snapshot 20050716 to 20050905 my OOo build hangs. Sorry, I didn't update/test the snapshots on this machine (Opteron 2.4GHz, cygcheck.log attached.) more

RE: Administrator vs Administrators

2005-09-06 Thread Luke Kendall
On 6 Sep, Dave Korn wrote: Your policy is that the *domain user account* for a user has *local* administrative rights over that user's own pc. True. I stand corrected. Your policy could not conceivably under any circumstances be to give every user domain admin group membership!

file not working on executables?

2005-09-06 Thread Luke Kendall
I installed the latest Cygwin a couple of days ago. file now produces no information for binary executables. Anyone else seeing this problem? (I checked that file is /usr/bin/file.) $ file /usr/bin/ls.exe /usr/bin/ls.exe: $ file /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/net.exe

New package: texi2html-1.76-1 - A highly customizable texinfo to HTML and other formats translator

2005-09-06 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi The package texi2html is now available with the Cygwin distribution: * http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/ (Homepage) * http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/texi2html/ (Download location) DESCRIPTION: sdesc: A highly customizable texinfo to HTML and other formats translator

Updated: nfs-server-2.3-3

2005-09-06 Thread Robb, Sam
I've updated the nfs-server package for Cygwin to version 2.3-3. Changes in this release include: - Minor cleanups in debug logging - Minor cleanups in documentation - Addition of make targets for static code analysis (via splint) - Many minor code cleanups (see above) - Bug fix