Re: setup.hint format change?

2008-12-31 Thread Warren Young
Christopher Faylor wrote: What problems are you trying to solve? The one in the paragraph that you snipped. I saw that you want a database, but I don't understand why. What does this give you? I don't doubt that there's a good answer. It's just that most of us don't deal with upset, so

Re: setup.hint format change?

2008-12-31 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: It provides a parser that I don't have to write for a fairly popular and well-understood markup language. Great. Yet Another Markup Language to learn. Oh...wait...Y.A.M.L. Right.../slaps forehead I'm also wondering if we should just be using rpm and forgetting

Re: setup.hint format change?

2008-12-31 Thread Warren Young
Charles Wilson wrote: setup's understanding about cygwin mount points, and setup's ability to faithfully recreate windows ACL's and replace in-use files...) Wouldn't cygwin1.dll give rpm.exe these abilities? (2) cygwin rpm + much more complicated in-use file handling (because

Re: setup.hint format change?

2008-12-31 Thread Warren Young
Warren Young wrote: Postponing postinstall scripts that depend on scheduled file installation? Fuggetaboutit. Can we postpone the script execution, too? Another possibility occurs: instead of hiding all the MoveFileEx() stuff inside setup.exe or rpm.exe, can cygwin1.dll be asked to do it?

[RFU 1.7] serf-0.2.0-2

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin-1.7/serf/libserf0-devel/libserf0-devel-0.2.0-2.tar.bz2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin-1.7/serf/libserf0-devel/setup.hint \

New libapr1 and libaprutil1 packages wrongly placed in release.

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
The new packages I built for libapr1 and libaprutil1 were for Cygwin 1.7, not Cygwin 1.5, but they are showing up as upgrade candidates in the Cygwin 1.5 setup.exe. Did they get put in the wrong area? -- David Rothenberger daver...@acm.org compuberty, n: The uncomfortable period

Re: New libapr1 and libaprutil1 packages wrongly placed in release.

2008-12-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:47:28AM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: The new packages I built for libapr1 and libaprutil1 were for Cygwin 1.7, not Cygwin 1.5, but they are showing up as upgrade candidates in the Cygwin 1.5 setup.exe. Did they get put in the wrong area? Yes. Sorry. I missed the

Re: multiwindow support for _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR

2008-12-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I have noticed that normal windows don't appear in the taskbar until they are refocused upon. Can you confirm? Ping? Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-12-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Colin Harrison wrote: That was an old bodge, that worked but was not that clever. Better to not call 'InitFonts()' other than on serverGeneration 1 and not call 'FreeFonts()' unless shutting down But wouldn't that have the (IMO undesirable)

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog Makefile.in cygwin.din ...

2008-12-31 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: c...@sourceware.org 2008-12-31 21:33:34 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog Makefile.in cygwin.din pinfo.cc cygwin/include : glob.h Added files: cygwin : glob_pattern_p.cc Log

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog include/cygwin/version.h

2008-12-31 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: c...@sourceware.org 2008-12-31 21:47:45 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin/include/cygwin: version.h Log message: * include/cygwin/version.h: Bump CYGWIN_VERSION_API_MINOR to 191.

Re: permission denied problem

2008-12-31 Thread peter360
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: chmod a+x ./gnupt-w32cli-1.4.9.exe That was the first thing I tried but didn't help. ls -l shows the permission as -rxwr-xr-x+, but I am still getting the permission denied message. -- View this message in context:

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Andy Koppe wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package. It sounds like it would get enough votes. That would be great. I'll need to read up on the package submission requirements and process.

Re: permission denied problem

2008-12-31 Thread sowiso
- Original Message - From: peter360 peter...@fastmail.us To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:12 AM Subject: Re: permission denied problem chmod a+x ./gnupt-w32cli-1.4.9.exe That was the first thing I tried but didn't help. ls -l shows the permission as

Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line

2008-12-31 Thread John Emmas
Is it possible to run a Cygwin GUI app (i.e. requiring 'X') from a DOS terminal, as opposed to a bash terminal? After starting the X server I tried cygstart path/to/my/program but nothing happened. The app runs fine if I start it from a bash terminal. John -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: permission denied problem

2008-12-31 Thread Markus Schönhaber
sowiso: That was the first thing I tried but didn't help. ls -l shows the permission as -rxwr-xr-x+, but I am still getting the permission I wonder if the + means that the file is in currently in use? No, it means that ACLs are set for the file. man getfacl Regards mks -- Unsubscribe

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Andy Koppe
On the options dialog box, an apply button would be a good Addition. Agreed. I've entered issue 12 for this. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line

2008-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* John Emmas (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:13:20 -) Is it possible to run a Cygwin GUI app (i.e. requiring 'X') from a DOS terminal, as opposed to a bash terminal? After starting the X server I tried cygstart path/to/my/program but nothing happened. The app runs fine if I start it from a bash

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Andy Koppe (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:00:29 +) Robert Pendell wrote: I modified cygwin.bat to execute mintty. Looks like mintty doesn't detach completely on it's own Yep, that's a known issue (number 4 in the issue tracker), and I haven't yet worked out how to do this properly. I've

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Pendell (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:21:40 -0500) Robert Pendell wrote: It runs on 1.7 but does not appear to execute the shell as a login one. I use bash and .bash_profile never gets executed when using MinTTY directly. I can help you debug it if you wish. I stand corrected here. I

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:05:35 -0500) On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:44:36PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package. It sounds like it would get enough votes. That would be great. I'll need to read up on

RE: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Hi Barry, From: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] Gary R. Van Sickle wrote on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:26 AM: 5. It needs a regular Windows installer. 5a. I'm good with Windows installers. You want I should whip one up for you? Just curious: Why does this need a regular

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:43:04 -0500) On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:34:52PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I think the only reason to use cygwin.bat is to set the cygwin environment variable before bash starts. There's no way to do that with a

RE: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
From: Warren Young Christopher Faylor wrote: I think the only reason to use cygwin.bat is to set the cygwin environment variable before bash starts. There's no way to do that with a shortcut is there? In this case, it could be one of MinTTY's settings, because it can set up

RE: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Andy Koppe wrote on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 5:49 PM: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: 5a. I'm good with Windows installers. You want I should whip one up for you? That would be great, since I haven't got a clue about how to do that. Ideally it would be a .msi that installs just the exe and the

Re: native emacs and manual page

2008-12-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
peter360 wrote: 2 If I start emacs from cygwin bash shell, I get a popup window stating c:\Program Files\GNU\emacs-22.3\bin\cmdproxy.exe the NTVDM CPU has encoutered an illegal instruction. ... Choose 'Close' to terminate the application I know very little about emacs (I'm not a user) but

Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line

2008-12-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * John Emmas (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:13:20 -) Is it possible to run a Cygwin GUI app (i.e. requiring 'X') from a DOS terminal, as opposed to a bash terminal? After starting the X server I tried cygstart path/to/my/program but nothing happened. The app runs fine if I

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Warren Young wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: What do any of the programs you've listed have to do with ssh? Not a thing. But if we can't tolerate two ssh implementations, why can we tolerate two command line web page fetchers? Or two FTP clients? Or two web clients? Or two graphics

Re: Mouting network drives from Cygwin ssh client

2008-12-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jeenu V wrote: Thanks for the link. I removed the default CYGWIN sshd service and ran: cygrunsrv --install sshd --path /usr/sbin/sshd.exe --user jeevis01 --args '-D' --env 'CYGWIN=ntsec It asked for my password and installed successfully. However I couldn't start the service, and my

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:39:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Christopher Faylor (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:05:35 -0500) On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:44:36PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package. It sounds like it would get

Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line

2008-12-31 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) Subject: Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line You also need Cygwin's installation path in your Windows PATH variable. Thanks Larry. I already had that set up (C:\cygwin\bin) as well as C:\cygwin\lib but I can still only

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Andy Koppe
Thorsten Kampe wrote: ?? That's how Windows Cmd.exe works. If rxvt does something different then it does some magic and it would definitely irritating to me if cmd would /not/ keep a Window open until mintty is closed. If you want the old behaviour of the command.com/Windows 9X environment,

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Andy Koppe
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Ideally it would be a .msi that installs just the exe and the readme into %PROGRAMFILES%\MinTTY and puts a shortcut to the exe directly into Start Menu\Programs. Please don't make this the only way to install this. Some of us (e.g., yours truly) do

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Andy Koppe
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Andy Koppe wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package. It sounds like it would get enough votes. That would be great. I'll need to read up on the package submission

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Andy Koppe
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Yes, but there's the complication of CYGWIN= settings that have to be set before the Cygwin DLL even loads. Thanks for pointing that out. For that matter, MinTTY could also provide GUI access to bash command line flags, a way to change the login shell by

after recent update, svn tools exiting with code 57

2008-12-31 Thread Dave Steenburgh
I haven't been able to find any info related to this problem; hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. From time to time, I use setup.exe to update all the packages I have installed. After doing that earlier today, I found out that svn, svnadmin, and svnserve (and presumably all

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {aprutil1,libaprutil1,libaprutil1-devel}-1.3.4-2

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
aprutil1 has been rebuilt for Cygwin 1.7. NEWS: = Please see http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-UTIL-1.3 for more details about the changes since 1.2.10, the previous Cygwin release of this package. This package includes plugins for ldap, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3. It is still

Re: after recent update, svn tools exiting with code 57

2008-12-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Dave Steenburgh wrote: I haven't been able to find any info related to this problem; hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. From time to time, I use setup.exe to update all the packages I have installed. After doing that earlier today, I found out that svn, svnadmin, and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {subversion,subversion-apache2,subversion-devel,subversion-perl,subversion-python,subversion-ruby}-1.5.5-1

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version of subversion is now available for download. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See CHANGES (URL below) for more information. IMPORTANT: This release will silently upgrade your Subversion working copies to the 1.5 format, rendering them unusable with previous major

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.5 and 1.7] Updated: which-2.20

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
which-2.20-1 for Cygwin 1.5 and which-2.20-2 for Cygwin 1.7 are now available. NEWS: = New upstream release. DESCRIPTION: Which is a utility that prints out the full path of the executables that bash(1) would execute when the passed program names would have been entered on the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {apr1,libapr1,libapr1-devel}-1.3.3-2

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
apr1 has been rebuilt for Cygwin 1.7. NEWS: = Please see http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-1.3 for more details about the changes since 1.2.11, the previous Cygwin release of this package. DESCRIPTION: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to

Re: after recent update, svn tools exiting with code 57

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
On 12/31/2008 10:33 AM, Dave Steenburgh wrote: From time to time, I use setup.exe to update all the packages I have installed. After doing that earlier today, I found out that svn, svnadmin, and svnserve (and presumably all other svn tools) are exiting with code 57 and no error message, with

RE: MinTTY

2008-12-31 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Thorsten Kampe wrote on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:40 AM: you have to use start. Or cygstart.exe? Windows has a GUI setting for user and system variables (which is quite lenthy to access). Start Menu = Settings = Control Panel = System (applet) = Advanced (tab) =

Re: after recent update, svn tools exiting with code 57

2008-12-31 Thread Dave Steenburgh
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Dave Steenburgh wrote: I haven't been able to find any info related to this problem; hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. From time to time, I use setup.exe to update all the

Re: after recent update, svn tools exiting with code 57

2008-12-31 Thread Dave Steenburgh
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:45 PM, David Rothenberger daver...@acm.org wrote: On 12/31/2008 10:33 AM, Dave Steenburgh wrote: From time to time, I use setup.exe to update all the packages I have installed. After doing that earlier today, I found out that svn, svnadmin, and svnserve (and

Re: [1.7] System reboot (udfs.sys), cygwin 1.7

2008-12-31 Thread Gregory Sharp
Any ideas what is going on? We need the information here: http://cygwin.com/problems.html cygcheck.out is attached (52K) strace.out is attached (180K) I also wonder about a bug in udfs. The version 5.0.2195.7006 is what I got by ordinary patching with Windows Update. But I did

Re: find assert (was Re: [1.7] System reboot (udfs.sys),...)

2008-12-31 Thread Gregory Sharp
assertion state.type != 0 failed: file /usr/src/findutils-4.5.3-1/src/findutils-4.5.3/find/ftsfind.c, line 475, function: consider_visiting This is apparently caused by a symlink that looks like this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 cgf None 6 Jul 9 2005 n - //none I confirm the assert in find.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {serf,libserf0_0,libserf0-devel}-0.2.0-2

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
The serf packages have been rebuilt for Cygwin 1.7. More information about serf can be found at http://code.google.com/p/serf/. DESCRIPTION: The serf library is a C-based HTTP client library built upon the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library. It multiplexes connections, running the

Inconsistency with sort -n?

2008-12-31 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
`sort -n' and `sort -g' work inconsistently with 0 and -0 if there are leading spaces. Sometimes -0 is before 0, as I would expect, and sometimes it is afterwards. Adding `-b' does not seem to help. Is this where I should report it or should I go upstream? In case you are wondering why I

[BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly read-only. The sequence of steps below shows that chmod 444 file1 does not make the file read-only in Cygwin 1.7, while it does in Cygwin 1.5. It may have something to do with the Read Only DOS attribute. This is set by Cygwin 1.5 but not

Re: [BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

2008-12-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:31:43PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly read-only. The sequence of steps below shows that chmod 444 file1 does not make the file read-only in Cygwin 1.7, while it does in Cygwin 1.5. It may have something to do

Re: [BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

2008-12-31 Thread Eric Blake
David Rothenberger daveroth at acm.org writes: It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly read-only. The sequence of steps below shows that chmod 444 file1 does not make the file read-only in Cygwin 1.7, while it does in Cygwin 1.5. It may have something to do with the Read

Re: [BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
On 12/31/2008 4:06 PM, Eric Blake wrote: David Rothenberger daveroth at acm.org writes: It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly read-only. Are you perchance running as an Administrator, and therefore you have backup privileges? Yes. If so, then you have root-like power,

Re: [BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
On 12/31/2008 3:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:31:43PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly read-only. The sequence of steps below shows that chmod 444 file1 does not make the file read-only in Cygwin 1.7, while

Re: [BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

2008-12-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 12:06:40AM +, Eric Blake wrote: David Rothenberger daveroth at acm.org writes: It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly read-only. The sequence of steps below shows that chmod 444 file1 does not make the file read-only in Cygwin 1.7, while it does in

[1.7] Updated: {aprutil1,libaprutil1,libaprutil1-devel}-1.3.4-2

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
aprutil1 has been rebuilt for Cygwin 1.7. NEWS: = Please see http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-UTIL-1.3 for more details about the changes since 1.2.10, the previous Cygwin release of this package. This package includes plugins for ldap, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3. It is still

Updated: {subversion,subversion-apache2,subversion-devel,subversion-perl,subversion-python,subversion-ruby}-1.5.5-1

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version of subversion is now available for download. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See CHANGES (URL below) for more information. IMPORTANT: This release will silently upgrade your Subversion working copies to the 1.5 format, rendering them unusable with previous major

[1.7] Updated: {apr1,libapr1,libapr1-devel}-1.3.3-2

2008-12-31 Thread David Rothenberger
apr1 has been rebuilt for Cygwin 1.7. NEWS: = Please see http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-1.3 for more details about the changes since 1.2.11, the previous Cygwin release of this package. DESCRIPTION: The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to