Re: FYI: un/zip update available

2006-08-29 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: I do not meaning to bug the maintainer, request an update, or imply that the maintainer is not paying attention to the canonical site, but in case the maintainer just hasn't noticed ... These are also

RE: Good bye, Cygwinners

2006-08-29 Thread Charli Li
Reformatted. I wrote: cgf wrote: On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 04:04:24PM +0200, Marcel Telka wrote: Hi all. I am no longer working with Windows, so I have no free resources (including time) to maintain my Cygwin packages. The list (I hope that it is complete) of my packages follows: docbook-xml412

Cygwin/X on multiple displays, nothing displayed

2006-08-29 Thread Justin Patrin
I just reinstalled Windows a short time ago and started having a strange problem. I have a laptop and use it both with its own screen only and with a second screen at work. When I switched from one setup to the other my X windows usually stopped responding visually (although they seemed to

Re: Cygwin/X on multiple displays, nothing displayed

2006-08-29 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Justin Patrin wrote: Does anyone have any clues how to fix this issue? -multiplemonitors ? -- Brian Ford Lead Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained crew... . --

FW: Remote Connections

2006-08-29 Thread Charli Li
Rich Mayo wrote: Can I set up my Cygwin X server to support remote connections such as telnet or rlogin? R. Forwarded to Cygwin/X list. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: FW: Remote Connections

2006-08-29 Thread Lionel B
Charli Li wrote: Rich Mayo wrote: Can I set up my Cygwin X server to support remote connections such as telnet or rlogin? You might want to use ssh with trusted X11 forwarding. man ssh and look at the -Y switch. -- Lionel B -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Cygwin/X on multiple displays, nothing displayed

2006-08-29 Thread Justin Patrin
On 8/29/06, Brian Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Justin Patrin wrote: Does anyone have any clues how to fix this issue? -multiplemonitors ? Thanks, I should have checked for/tried that previously. Unfortunately it makes no difference at all. I've attempted some more

Re: Cygwin/X on multiple displays, nothing displayed

2006-08-29 Thread René Berber
Justin Patrin wrote: [snip] My LCD is the primary (can't be changed) and is at 1024x768. My secondary monitor is normally to the left of my LCD and is at 1280x1024. If I make it the left-most screen X windows work on the LCD perfectly but when dragged onto the second monitor they go blank.

listen() failed

2006-08-29 Thread Woogon Chung
Dear all, How do I resolve the following problem? I cannot start X Server. I noticed that an exact question rose about 2 years ago. Can anyone show us any hint to open my X Server for Cygwin? Thanks. Woogon --- Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The

RE: listen() failed

2006-08-29 Thread Charli Li
Woogon Chung wrote: Dear all, How do I resolve the following problem? I cannot start X Server. I noticed that an exact question rose about 2 years ago. Can anyone show us any hint to open my X Server for Cygwin? Thanks. Woogon --- Welcome to the XWin X

Re: listen() failed

2006-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Woogon Chung wrote: Dear all, How do I resolve the following problem? I cannot start X Server. I noticed that an exact question rose about 2 years ago. Can anyone show us any hint to open my X Server for Cygwin? Thanks. Woogon --- Welcome to the XWin X

Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses

2006-08-29 Thread DJ Delorie
The libiberty and toplevel changes are OK with me, if the mingw maintainer agrees.

Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses

2006-08-29 Thread DJ Delorie
If you want to build some code that runs on mingw, I don't think that having mingw tools installed is an unreasonable requirement. This is how you *get* mingw tools installed. The same logic that gives you a canadian (worst case) also gives you host-x-host.

Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses

2006-08-29 Thread DJ Delorie
Corinna is trying to generate --host=i686-mingw32 tools, with a different --target. This requires at least a --target=i686-mingw32 compiler coming from elsewhere. That compiler can build the --host=i686-mingw32 libraries, and usually should. Yes. So? We build that compiler from the same

Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses

2006-08-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 29 11:09, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:59:27AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: If you want to build some code that runs on mingw, I don't think that having mingw tools installed is an unreasonable requirement. This is how you *get* mingw tools installed. The

Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses

2006-08-29 Thread DJ Delorie
I'll let Corinna answer herself, but I don't think we're trying to do anything differently than what we already do for Cygwin.

Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses

2006-08-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:35:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 29 11:09, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:59:27AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: If you want to build some code that runs on mingw, I don't think that having mingw tools installed is an unreasonable

Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses

2006-08-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 29 11:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: Btw, I agree with Daniel's suggestion of using ../config/no-executables.m4 if that's possible. I did that first, but the argument against this is that the mingw-runtime package, does not contain a top-level config directory. The source tree is supposed

Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses

2006-08-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 29 12:09, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:04:06PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 29 11:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: Btw, I agree with Daniel's suggestion of using ../config/no-executables.m4 if that's possible. I did that first, but the argument

Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses

2006-08-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:49:06PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 29 12:09, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 06:04:06PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 29 11:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: Btw, I agree with Daniel's suggestion of using

Re: [RFC] Simplify MinGW canadian crosses

2006-08-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
Grr. My mailer added a Reply-To to the previous message. Apologies to all who were impacted! cgf

RE: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters

2006-08-29 Thread Schwarz, Konrad
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mwoehlke The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps `//./C/'). So... why exactly do you need this? The only thing I might actually support here (keeping in mind Eric's

1.5.21: gcc doesn't compile, make gives simple error

2006-08-29 Thread Ervin Hegedüs
Hello, I'm new in Cygwin, sorry for the stupid question. (and so, I'm not an expert winxp user...) I downloaded Cygwin from net, with setup.exe. I start it, and copy a project to my home dir: C:\cygwin\home\airween\src\Ident. It's a simple ident-daemon, what has binary format, but I need to

RE: 1.5.21: gcc doesn't compile, make gives simple error

2006-08-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29 August 2006 09:59, Ervin Hegedüs wrote: I downloaded Cygwin from net, with setup.exe. I start it, and copy a project to my home dir: C:\cygwin\home\airween\src\Ident. It's a simple ident-daemon, what has binary format, but I need to modify the source, and recompile it. When I try to

SWIG, What switches/flags are required to make SWIG work?

2006-08-29 Thread Brian Homecall
Hello, I am trying to get the first example out of the SWIG tutorial (www.swig.org) to work, and it does not for me. Before I rush into my code. I am able to make neither a Python nor Perl example to work. I tried downloading SWIG from www.swig.org onto Cygwin and that did not work,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ruby-1.8.5-1

2006-08-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated the version of ruby on cygwin.com to 1.8.5-1. This is an upstream bugfix release. As for the bugfixes, the official release message doesn't contain any description of them, sorry. You can find a summary of the changes here: http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?ruby+1.8.5+changelog To

Cygwin installing into wrong directory

2006-08-29 Thread Chuck
Can someone please help me with this? I've searched the docs but its like finding a needle in a haystack. I got a new PC recently and need to reinstall cygwin (unless you can tell me an safe way of copying everything I had before to the new one). I made a list of all packages I had previously and

RE: Windows popup/message box?

2006-08-29 Thread Liora Milbaum
Igor, I investigated this issue a little more. I changed my cron command to: * * * * * perl -e 'use GD;' /usr/tmp/test.log Here is the content of the test.log file: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/GD/GD.dll' for module GD: No such file or directory at

Re: Cygwin installing into wrong directory

2006-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Chuck wrote: Can someone please help me with this? I've searched the docs but its like finding a needle in a haystack. I got a new PC recently and need to reinstall cygwin (unless you can tell me an safe way of copying everything I had before to the new one). I made a list of all packages I had

Control which drives are visible under Cygwin/OpenSSH?

2006-08-29 Thread Thomas J Magliery PhD
Hello, I have just installed the latest Cygwin and OpenSSH on my Windows XP Pro SP2 machine so that I can SSH into my data files from elsewhere. Works great. However, I would like to block access to my other drives (programs, backups), just in case this gets hacked. Is that possible? Thank

Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-29 Thread Grant Miller
My apologies if this question has been asked before. I've spent a bit of time searching through the mailing lists looking to see if someone else has run into this issue. I've seen similar issues, but no real solutions provided. Okay, here we go. I have 3 Windows systems (XP Pro, 2003 Server,

RE: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

2006-08-29 Thread Silva, Russell
Hi Igor, I don't know what you mean by the error string, but the backtick-output string is always empty. stderr gives me nothing. I've tried the $(COMMAND) syntax as an alternative to the `COMMAND` syntax, same problem. The value of $? is always 0 when this problem occurs, even if it should be

RE: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

2006-08-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29 August 2006 17:04, Silva, Russell wrote: The value of $? is always 0 when this problem occurs, even if it should be a non-zero value. For instance: bug_reproduce3.sh #!/bin/bash # make 1000 attempts to reproduce the bug for i in `seq 1 1000` do # ls should return incorrect

Re: Control which drives are visible under Cygwin/OpenSSH?

2006-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Thomas J Magliery PhD wrote: Hello, I have just installed the latest Cygwin and OpenSSH on my Windows XP Pro SP2 machine so that I can SSH into my data files from elsewhere. Works great. However, I would like to block access to my other drives (programs, backups), just in case this gets

RE: Control which drives are visible under Cygwin/OpenSSH?

2006-08-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29 August 2006 16:33, Thomas J Magliery PhD wrote: Hello, I have just installed the latest Cygwin and OpenSSH on my Windows XP Pro SP2 machine so that I can SSH into my data files from elsewhere. Works great. However, I would like to block access to my other drives (programs, backups),

Re: Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Grant Miller wrote: My apologies if this question has been asked before. I've spent a bit of time searching through the mailing lists looking to see if someone else has run into this issue. I've seen similar issues, but no real solutions provided. Okay, here we go. I have 3 Windows systems

RE: Cygwin installing into wrong directory

2006-08-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29 August 2006 16:09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: [ ... ] Then I noticed that it created my user home directory in c:\documents and settings\userid. I wanted it in c:\cygwin\home where it was before. What happened and how can I move it. I do NOT want it cluttering up

Re[2]: uid having logged in with ssh

2006-08-29 Thread cygwin-060809
hi, Thursday, August 10, 2006, 11:37:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 10 11:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok. did i understand correctly that subauth is not yet part of the regular cygwin distribution? Yes. i know it's annoying to ask, but is there any schedule when it will be part of

Re: Cygwin installing into wrong directory

2006-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Dave Korn wrote: On 29 August 2006 16:09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: [ ... ] Then I noticed that it created my user home directory in c:\documents and settings\userid. I wanted it in c:\cygwin\home where it was before. What happened and how can I move it. I do NOT want it

Re: uid having logged in with ssh

2006-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, Thursday, August 10, 2006, 11:37:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 10 11:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok. did i understand correctly that subauth is not yet part of the regular cygwin distribution? Yes. i know it's annoying to ask, but is there any

Re: Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-29 Thread Grant Miller
On 8/29/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Miller wrote: My apologies if this question has been asked before. I've spent a bit of time searching through the mailing lists looking to see if someone else has run into this issue. I've seen similar issues, but no real

RE: Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29 August 2006 18:22, Grant Miller wrote: I just rebooted one of the Windows systems and tried to SSH in to a now clean system (nobody else logged in since booting) with ssh keys and a script in my .bash_profile to attach to a drive letter and I got the same error (System error 85 has

Re: Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-29 Thread mwoehlke
Grant Miller wrote: I just rebooted one of the Windows systems and tried to SSH in to a now clean system (nobody else logged in since booting) with ssh keys and a script in my .bash_profile to attach to a drive letter and I got the same error (System error 85 has occurred). I also changed the

Re: Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Grant Miller wrote: On 8/29/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Grant Miller wrote: My apologies if this question has been asked before. I've spent a bit of time searching through the mailing lists

Remote Connections

2006-08-29 Thread Rich Mayo
Can I set up my Cygwin X server to support remote connections such as telnet or rlogin? R. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

FW: Remote Connections

2006-08-29 Thread Charli Li
Rich Mayo wrote: Can I set up my Cygwin X server to support remote connections such as telnet or rlogin? R. Forwarded to Cygwin/X list. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-29 Thread Grant Miller
On 8/29/06, mwoehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Miller wrote: I just rebooted one of the Windows systems and tried to SSH in to a now clean system (nobody else logged in since booting) with ssh keys and a script in my .bash_profile to attach to a drive letter and I got the same error

RE: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

2006-08-29 Thread Silva, Russell
Hi Dave, I tried this; it's an excellent point but isn't the problem. I experimented using your script version and $? is indeed set to 0 when the backtick output is empty. I'd be happy to hear more suggestions. I also need to try this on another machine (my home box, perhaps) to see if it's

Re: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

2006-08-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Silva, Russell wrote: x=`/usr/bin/cat temp`; I don't know what is causing your problem. I ran your testcase several times and never saw a failure, but from your description it seems like it's the kind of thing that might occur very rarely. My only suggestion is that if your true desire is

Re: Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-29 Thread mwoehlke
Grant Miller wrote: On 8/29/06, mwoehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Miller wrote: I just rebooted one of the Windows systems and tried to SSH in to a now clean system (nobody else logged in since booting) with ssh keys and a script in my .bash_profile to attach to a drive letter and I got

Re: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

2006-08-29 Thread Tristen Hayfield
One may also do: read x temp in bash Tristen Brian Dessent wrote: Silva, Russell wrote: x=`/usr/bin/cat temp`; I don't know what is causing your problem. I ran your testcase several times and never saw a failure, but from your description it seems like it's the kind of thing that

RE: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

2006-08-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29 August 2006 22:00, Silva, Russell wrote: Hi Dave, I tried this; it's an excellent point but isn't the problem. I experimented using your script version and $? is indeed set to 0 when the backtick output is empty. I'd be happy to hear more suggestions. I also need to try this on

ssh-agent variables available to any user process

2006-08-29 Thread Lapo Luchini
Under FreeBSD, I launch ssh-agent in my .xsession script and its environment is automatically inherited by every shell I then open in my X11 session. No such luck with Windows, but I found a way to propagate a environment variable to any (future) user process after the user is already logged. (or,

Re: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

2006-08-29 Thread Igor Peshansky
Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Tristen Hayfield wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: Silva, Russell wrote: x=`/usr/bin/cat temp`; I don't know what is causing your problem. I ran your testcase several times and never saw a failure, but from your description it

Console on Sourceforge with Cygwin

2006-08-29 Thread Keith Christian
It's hosted on SourceForge, try the latest v2 beta (not demo!) http://sourceforge.net/projects/console I just downloaded Console Beta 125 - Sorry, a little dense here, how do you invoke it from Windows to launch a Cygwin bash shell? Do you have a couple of example command lines to use?

Re: [ITP] libsigsegv-2.4-1

2006-08-29 Thread Reini Urban
[CC: cygwin - list] Martin Coria schrieb: I want to use libsigsegv within CYGWIN and so far I couldn't. I downloaded and unzipped the binary distribution and manually copied the files to their respective places. After doing that I tried to compile one of the example programs that comes with the

Updated: ruby-1.8.5-1

2006-08-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated the version of ruby on cygwin.com to 1.8.5-1. This is an upstream bugfix release. As for the bugfixes, the official release message doesn't contain any description of them, sorry. You can find a summary of the changes here: http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?ruby+1.8.5+changelog To