Re: Restructuring the automake and autoconf packages

2001-12-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Brett Porter wrote: I have a couple of questions regarding this (apologies if already covered - I'm on the digest and only got this message on announce). Let's see if I understand correctly: 1. you run autoconf 2. it sets the path based on a wrapper script 3. next execution goes to the

Re: I could not build libtool 1.4c under cygwin - help needed!

2001-12-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Stipe Tolj wrote: 0 [main] sh 296183 fork_copy: user/cygwin data pass 2 failed, 0x98..0xD58000, done 0, windows pid 4294563005, Win32 error 8 0 [main] sh 374123 fork_copy: user/cygwin data pass 2 failed, 0x98..0xD59000, done 0, windows pid 4294565321, Win32 error 8

Re: vim doesn't work

2001-12-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Mike Oliver wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Mike Oliver wrote: The procedure entry point bind_textdomain_codeset could not be located in the dynamic link library cygintl.dll Run 'cygcheck -c gettext'. If it doesn't say 0.10.38-2, then you need to upgrade your gettext

Re: [ANN][RFC] cygipc-1.11 at cygutils

2001-12-03 Thread Charles Wilson
Jason Tishler wrote: Chuck, [Sorry for the sluggish response time...] On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:41:04PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Horak Daniel wrote: What does postgresql do if there is no system-wide union semun? There is a check for union semun in configure and then if it does

Re: [Fwd: xemacs 21.4 crashes with cygwin 1.3.6-1]

2001-12-03 Thread Charles Wilson
duh. Just noticed that the original message was copied to cygwin@ as well as xemacs.. sorry. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: GCC : -static option does not generate statically linked executable

2001-12-05 Thread Charles Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to generate an executable, using gcc -static option. The generated file is dynamically linked! As if the -static option was simply ignored. The output of cygcheck is as follows : Error: could not find libX11.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sourceware: cygutils-0.9.7-1

2001-12-05 Thread Charles Wilson
rotaiv wrote: I used setup to download the latest files and this cygutils was included. When I ran setup to install the files, I selected Skip for this particular package. Each time I run Setup, I still have to click Skip for the cygutils package. Is there a way to make Setup

Re: dll not found, bad entry point problems

2001-12-05 Thread Charles Wilson
Bob Calco wrote: Hello all: I'm a windows guy, trying out this Cygwin thing. I downloaded cygwin on both my laptop and my desktop, with all the devel tools and such and a bunch of utilities. I'm having problems on my laptop -- which has the same version of just about everything as my

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-05 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: do porting. So the point is that if RPM had been contributed, and you maintain *just that one package* as an official package (Hey, Chuck this goes for you too :}) Yeah, but I don't have that itch. Sorry, but I don't really *care* about rpm itself. I just liked the

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Ok thanks for the pointer. Is there a script to do the packaging? yep -- each script contains a script (in some package schemes -- #3, I think -- you have to apply the patch FIRST, and then the script is created in srcdir/CYGWIN-PATCHES/ or something). pop

Re: cygwin 1.3.6-3 and xemacs

2001-12-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: There has also been some confusion in the cygwin mailing list with another problem to do with file completion in bash: see http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00175.html . Fixing the shell file completion problem has NOT fixed the xemacs problem (although

Speaking of debian cygwin

2001-12-04 Thread Charles Wilson
There's another slashdot article: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/04/13552388 Seems the debian-devel folks aren't too happy about this... --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: Bug Report: CVS and gdbm-1.8.0-3

2001-12-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Joseph M. Reagle Jr. wrote: An easy one: the latest version of CVS [1] is still expecting to find libgdbm.dll . If you copy cyggdbm.dll to that name, it works, but folks new to cygwin won't know that nor recall [2]. Nope. That's not the newest version of cvs. The newest version is

Re: cygwin-1.3.6-5 released

2001-12-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: I've released a new version of cygwin that just might fix the reported xemacs problems. It will be a while before it shows up on mirrors, but I thought I'd do this before I leave for a few hours. 1.3.6-5 mistakenly contains the mingw files:

Re: Cannot create executables / can't find libz.dll

2001-12-13 Thread Charles Wilson
Cliff Hones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.When i'm trying to compile something i see error: [cut] cannot creat exec [cut]. what i need to do? For a start, read the documentation and FAQ, and if that doesn't help give us more information. Did you do a full cygwin install? Is it

Re: CVS and SSH (again?)

2001-12-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Bauer Travis wrote: I know that there have various permutaitons of this discussion on this list before, but none of them quite seem to fit my problem: I have the latest cygwin installed using the setup program. I want to use the cvs client using ssh, which I successfully use daily on

Re: how can I install version 1.3.2?

2001-12-18 Thread Charles Wilson
JANE ASMUTH wrote: I am trying to go back to version 1.3.2 of cygwin. I am currently using cygwin 1.3.6. The setup program only allows me to unistall entirely, or go back to version 1.3.5. Can someone tell me how to uninstall what I have and get back to version 1.3.2 of the cygwin1.dll?

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gettext-0.10.40-1

2001-12-18 Thread Charles Wilson
gettext is the GNU package which provides 'national language support' for other programs. It includes a number of utility programs. CHANGES (since gettext-0.10.38-2) o updated to gettext-0.10.40 release o modified the build process so that the auto-import/auto-export capabilities of cygwin's

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sourceware: libintl1-0.10.40-1

2001-12-18 Thread Charles Wilson
The libintl1-0.10.40-1 package has added to the cygwin distribution. It contains the gettext DLL cygintl-1.dll which corresponds to the gettext-0.10.40-1, See the gettext-0.10.40-1 announcement for more information. -- Chuck Wilson To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now

Re: GLIB and GTK+

2001-12-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Steve posted an URL at the cygwin-xfree list: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q4/msg00531.html I posted an updated patch for Imlib and I made some minor modifications to the gtk patch because I had trouble building Imlib and gnome-libs:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gettext-0.10.40-1

2001-12-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Billinghurst, David (CRTS) wrote: Thanks. This works nicely with gcc-3.1 (which has had broken nls support for a while) Cool. I don't think I'd recommend re-gettextizing any package with this version, if you expect the modified package to work on another platform tho. For that, wait

GPL Violation - VCDImager

2001-12-20 Thread Charles Wilson
It seems that VCDImager (http://www.vcdimager.org/) is distributing windows binaries that depend on cygwin1.dll -- and include the dll in the binary archive, but I can't find any source for cygwin. They appear to be distributing cygwin1.dll-1.3.1. Sigh. You think somebody with the email

Re: GPL Violation - VCDImager

2001-12-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Good god. cdrdao is doing it, too. http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrdao/ --Chuck Charles Wilson wrote: It seems that VCDImager (http://www.vcdimager.org/) is distributing windows binaries that depend on cygwin1.dll -- and include the dll in the binary archive, but I can't find any

Re: GPL Violation - VCDImager

2001-12-20 Thread Charles Wilson
it, but they also REQUIRE two spearate copies of cygwin1.dll -- one in the vcdimager subfolder and another in the cdrdao subfolder. This is embarassing. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Chuck Charles Wilson wrote: Good god. cdrdao is doing it, too. http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrdao/ --Chuck Charles Wilson

Re: vt100 fonts (box characters) and terminal emulation

2001-12-24 Thread Charles Wilson
Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote: In short: What is the path of least resistance to improve the terminal emulation and character display in my cygwin shell window or rxvt? In console, add 'codepage:oem' to your CYGWIN variable. In rxvt, use a font that actually contains the box chars -- try

Re: Confused by gettext on cygwin

2001-12-29 Thread Charles Wilson
Linus Tolke wrote: Hello Chuck! Thanks for taking this further. I now succeeded in building my project i.e. the make and make dist works. I can even unpack the distribution and build. I am still not satisfied though. ;-) Here is the new and more sofisticated problem. 1. I build my

Re: dll vs static importing on cygwin

2002-01-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Please don't send cygwin related questions to me personal. This belongs on the cygwin list. I have copied the list and reset the Reply-To: appropriately. prapp wrote: I was just reading this: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-06/msg00447.html The libtool macros referred to in that

Re: system details on my little ncurses struggles

2002-01-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Please refrain from continually changing the subject line of your messages, unless there is a real need to start a NEW thread. So far, all of your messages are all about the same general thing -- problems linking to ncurses -- but since you keep changing the subject line it screws up

Re: self extractive executable Archive

2002-01-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Jorge Goncalvez wrote: Actually i wanted to make a self extractive executable Archive with Cygwin Zip. How can I do this? I tried to use -A option but it didn't make an Win32 exe. Yeah, we got that the first time. There's no need to post the same question multiple times with different

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Humm. I comment out the bash line and I add the rxvt line and I get the guick flash. I do have rxvt installed, so what have I done wrong? Windows98? What happens if you just double click rxvt.exe from explorer? I get a whit shell with black font scrollbar at

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Lapo Luchini wrote: Yeah, and we can kiss that pesky UNIX emulation claim of cygwin's goodbye, too. Somehow, I don't think that you'll find many library files in /usr/lib/cygwin on, say, HP/UX, Linux, Tru64, etc. This method solves a problem for -mno-cygwin at the expense of impacting many

Re: windows 98 message: the required cygxpm-nox4.dll not found

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Look here: http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ and search for 'cygXpm-noX4.dll' -- that will tell you which package it is in. --Chuck Ralph Buse wrote: Thanks for help. I hadn't set my path. And I simply don't have the DLL file. But: In which package is it? Is it in the xfree-distribution or

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Kent Perrier wrote: add '-display :0' to your rxvt command line. Well, I am saddened to report that this does not fix the issue. I was afraid of that. Can you add C:\cygwin\bin to your PATH in autoexec.bat, reboot, and try again? [just an experiment; I'm not advocating that

Re: progamming with Cygwin GNU Readline Library

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Hiroo Hayashi wrote: Charles 'gcc -static' + -DREADLINE_STATIC Your answer solved my problems. Thank you very much. Charles Or wait for the next release of cygwin readline, which should Charles make all of these problems go away. Do you have a rough estimatation when will it be

Re: windows 98 message: the required cygxpm-nox4.dll not found

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Robinow, David wrote: It's in the Graphics category of Cygwin setup. NTemacs, Xemacs native, and Xemacs cygwin all have their advantages, most of which I can't remember off the top of my head. The cygwin version will give you the best interaction with cygwin subprocesses. If you plan to

Re: Cygwin/Java-JNI tutorial available (plus gcc question)

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
David P. Caldwell wrote: I was having trouble figuring out how to build Java/JNI programs with Cygwin. There were a number of threads in the mailing list about it, and some were helpful, but it still took a great deal of slogging. After I got it working, I put a tutorial on the web

Re: Potential problems with cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote I've been reading the mingw mailing lists for a while and I really don't see anything like this. Most of the replies are very courteous. They don't seem to have anyone like me, for instance. :-) Speaking of single-handedly destroying the open source movement,

Re: progamming with Cygwin GNU Readline Library

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Hiroo Hayashi wrote: I don't have have the source code of Cygwin Readline Library. Use setup.exe to download the source, if you want to. However, none of my patches should have affected that function... I took a look on the official GNU sources. rl_set_screen_size and

[avail for test] ncurses-5.2-8 and libncurses6-5.2-8

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
I've placed updated versions of these two packages on sourceware, but have marked them 'test'. In order to install them, you must use setup and pick the 'Exp'erimental radio button on the chooser. Changes: fix for the BROKEN_LINKER problem. Now, the public headers DO declare that

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Try installing this font: Lucida ConsoleP from http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/bashprompt/ It is Lucida Console, reencoded to put the linedraw chars where codepage:oem expects them. Then, start rxvt as: rxvt -fn Lucida ConsoleP-14 . (also, you may need to

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Please keep replies on the list. Igor Bujna wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Try installing this font: Lucida ConsoleP from http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/bashprompt/ It is Lucida Console, reencoded to put the linedraw chars where codepage:oem expects

Re: [avail for test] ncurses-5.2-8 and libncurses6-5.2-8

2002-01-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Jason Tishler wrote: Chuck, On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:57:50AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Request: Can somebody verify that they can now build packages without -DBROKEN_LINKER when previously that switch was required? I can successfully rebuild Python 2.2 without -DBROKEN_LINKER

Re: Newbie Question

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Paul Johnson wrote: To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to set 25 lines on a DOS box using Win98. I was hoping that Cygwin itself had such a mechanism, or that there was a third party tool in use. consize, and win95cmd or ReactOS-cmd. See here:

Re: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Dan Horne wrote: Thanks Randall upon further investigation (and putting .vimrc in my home directory on not gvimrc doh) I've discovered that color-coding is working if I use the command window. However, if I use rxvt, I lose color and instead get text emphasis in bolds and underlines.

Re: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Dan Horne wrote: Hi term is set to xterm. If I do ls -l --color (or set the ls alias to do so), the listing is indeed in colour. Because 'ls.exe' is less careful about emitting color codes than vim is. You can even try this: within vim, type :se term=rxvt and the :r a file in. It

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about cvs co -r bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Hmmm...perhaps ESR's Smart Questions document should also state: Do not assume that respondents to your question on a mailing list will send the replies directly to you. Be sure to check the mailing list itself -- or the archives if you are not subscribed to it -- for replies to your

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Jon Leichter wrote: It's true that I don't usually patch the script myself and send it back. In some cases, there isn't any organization to send the patches back to, e.g. GDBM. This is not an unsubstaniated statement. I sent patches to GDBM years ago, and nothing ever came of it. What

Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project

2002-01-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Please search the mailing list archives (cygwin and cygwin-apps) where the RPM issue has been ENDLESSLY discussed. You will discover, among other things, that we have repeatedly said somebody needs to port/maintain/contribute the package and (ditto) db. Then we ask Do you want to volunteer?

Re: Solved: Re: gcc/ld problem

2002-01-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: This question remains: Do I need .def files? No. BTW, why are you building a libz dll? (Just for practice?) There is already a cygz.dll provided by the libz package... --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project

2002-01-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Jean-Michel POURE wrote: Le Vendredi 11 Janvier 2002 17:10, Charles Wilson a écrit : Please search the mailing list archives (cygwin and cygwin-apps) where the RPM issue has been ENDLESSLY discussed. You will discover, among other things, that we have repeatedly said somebody needs to port

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ncurses-5.2-8 and libncurses6-5.2-8

2002-01-12 Thread Charles Wilson
The ncurses package has been updated to ncurses-5.2-8. Similarly, libncurses6 has been updated to version 5.2-8 as well. ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus. It is often used instead of termcap. CHANGES to the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-4.2a-1

2002-01-12 Thread Charles Wilson
! WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING !! To update your system, you must run setup.exe TWICE. First, run setup and update ONLY the readline package from 4.2-3 to 4.2a-1. UNSELECT any other packages. Continue until setup completes and exits.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sources: libreadline5-4.2a-1

2002-01-12 Thread Charles Wilson
libreadline5 is a companion package to the new readline-4.2a-1 release. It contains only the DLLs corresponding to the readline-4.2a-1 package. See the readline-4.2a-1 release announcement for installation instructions and additional information. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sources: libreadline4-4.1-2

2002-01-12 Thread Charles Wilson
libreadline4 is a companion package to the new readline-4.2a-1 release. It contains compatibility DLLs corresponding to the OLD readline-4.1-2 package. See the readline-4.2a-1 release announcement for installation instructions and additional information. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-4.2a-1

2002-01-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Pre-emptive strike: Problem: I upgraded readline to 4.2a-1 and now [psql python units] doesn't work. Solution: Run setup and RE-install the 'libreadline5' package. You obviously tried to install readline and libreadline5 and libreadline4 all at once, instead of in two separate steps as

Re: progamming with Cygwin GNU Readline Library

2002-01-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: Hiroo Hayashi wrote: Charles 'gcc -static' + -DREADLINE_STATIC Your answer solved my problems. Thank you very much. Charles Or wait for the next release of cygwin readline, which should Charles make all of these problems go away. Do you have a rough estimatation

Re: OK to mention if it runs on cygwin

2002-01-13 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:40:22AM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: Robert Collins wrote: If it's running on cygwin, I wouldn't object to it being discussed here. I'm sure others will object to my seizing upon your opening. I got struct running on cygwin yesterday,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-4.2a-1

2002-01-13 Thread Charles Wilson
should now be fine. --Chuck Charles Wilson wrote: Pre-emptive strike: Problem: I upgraded readline to 4.2a-1 and now [psql python units] doesn't work. Solution: Run setup and RE-install the 'libreadline5' package. You obviously tried to install readline and libreadline5

Re: Can't find xmkmf

2002-01-13 Thread Charles Wilson
*x*mkmf is part of XFree86. go to the cygwin-xfree mailing and ask for assistance there. Or check the cygwin-xfree webpage. --Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find xmkmf in my installation of CygWin or in the Setup routine. What do I need to install to get this? --

Re: progamming with Cygwin GNU Readline Library

2002-01-13 Thread Charles Wilson
Hiroo Hayashi wrote: Charles, Thank you for your prompt reply. I've found my bug by your hint. Charles Yes, that is correct. I am surprised that it isn't working Charles for you. I got the correct results -- but I was running in Charles an rxvt window. Are you running in a

Re: libtool-devel and kde2

2002-01-14 Thread Charles Wilson
1) This discussion should be on-list. I've copied this to the cygwin mailing list. 2) Ummm...you're not USING libtool-devel. You have deliberately overriden the auto-version detection, and are using /usr/autotool/stable/* for both stable and devel projects. (You set the environment

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sourceware: libtool-devel-20010531-6

2002-01-16 Thread Charles Wilson
The 'libtool-devel' package has added to the cygwin distribution. It contains a hacked version of libtool(from CVS 31-May-2001), installed into /usr/autotool/devel/*. This version of libtool takes advantage of the auto-import/auto-export capabilities of newer (2001-08-31) binutils in order to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sourceware: libtool-stable-1.4.2-2

2002-01-16 Thread Charles Wilson
The 'libtool-stable' package has added to the cygwin distribution. It contains a the official libtool-1.4.2 (with one additional patch). This version of libtool can be used to build DLLs with some effort; see the goatbook for more information. http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/ The libtool,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sourceware: libtool-20010531a-1

2002-01-16 Thread Charles Wilson
The 'libtool' package is now available on sourceware. GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. However, THIS package is NOT the real libtool. It's a set of wrapper scripts that call the REAL

Re: devel tool wrappers and --version, --help

2002-01-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Eric Blake wrote: With the automake, autoconf, and libtool wrapper scripts presently in cygwin, the scripts do not gracefully handle --version and --help from an empty directory (that is, a directory with no configure.in): $ cd /tmp $ autoconf --version autoconf: no input file $

Re: devel tool wrappers and --version, --help

2002-01-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: I have already been given a patch to do this, but I am a little concerned about implementation. It makes sense to me, to defer to the -devel version, but I am concerned about ripple effects... IMO, if you are libtoolizing (autoconf'ing, automake'ing) a new

Re: error trying to compile anything

2002-01-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Okay people: 0) short filenames is NOT the reason for cygwin1.dll. It is called that because it is the 1st stable backward compatible DLL. Everything compiled against any version of cygwin1.dll in the past will work with any newer version without relinking (but not vice versa). For

Re: libtool-devel and kde2 - problem with AC_PROG_CXX

2002-01-17 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf Habacker wrote: Robert Collins wrote: Quoting from the fink site (it was handy): The current development branch: This is the development version that will some day be released as libtool 1.5. It has resulted from the merge of 1.4 and the MLB. It supports C, C++ and Java (via gcj).

Re: libtool-devel and kde2 - problem with AC_PROG_CXX

2002-01-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf Habacker wrote: At last I like to write about some additional topic I recognized with the libtool stuff: 1. providing -Wl,--enable-auto-import for linking executables (ltmain.in) I have prepared a patch for this, but I recognized that there must be a general strategy for handling

Re: named colour list

2002-01-18 Thread Charles Wilson
windows mode on systems WITH X11 installed, depending on DISPLAY setting. If rxvt were actually LINKED to libX11.dll then it couldn't work with W11, and vice versa. --Chuck Don Sharp wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Schaible, Jörg wrote: So I can use the named colors, lighsalmon works fine

Re: OFF-TOPIC, but...

2002-01-18 Thread Charles Wilson
No -- but these flying pigs sure make some good sausage. Anybody for baby back ribs? They're not too bad if you pick out the feathers. --Chuck Jonathan Simms wrote: Okay, *NOW* i've seen everything... :-\ ...Has hell frozen over too? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: cvs question

2002-01-19 Thread Charles Wilson
cygcheck -s -v -r Sorry it doesn't work for you. It works for many other people. I use it daily. Works best if your disks are mounted in binary (unix) mode. S.Yoshida wrote: cvs 1.11.0-1 cygwin 1.3.6-6 gdbm 1.8.0.-3 failed cvs import What is CVSROOT? Did you 'cvs init' first? (the

Re: RTFM'ing: readily accessible user documentation?

2002-01-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Soren Andersen wrote: This is going to be my one and only engagement this week in conversing with individuals who have been trained in how they think by TV shows. No need to read further. ^ indicates that this post is a troll. -- Unsubscribe info:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zlib-1.1.3-7

2002-01-20 Thread Charles Wilson
scripted compilation - uses auto-import so that -DZLIB_STATIC and -DALL_STATIC are no longer needed. -- Charles Wilson zlib volunteer maintainer for cygwin INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libpng-1.0.12-1

2002-01-20 Thread Charles Wilson
and -DALL_STATIC are no longer needed. -- Charles Wilson libpng volunteer maintainer for cygwin INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and update the libpng package

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xpm-nox-4.2.0-1

2002-01-20 Thread Charles Wilson
/noX -DXPM_NO_X LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/noX ./configure For more information about the new xpm-nox package see the NOTES section below and /usr/doc/Cygwin/xpm-nox-4.2.0.README. -- Charles Wilson INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web

Re: Cygwin Autotool Wrappers

2002-01-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Parker, Ron wrote: There is a problem IMO with the autotool wrappers. If I configure in a directory other than the source directory, most configure scripts will fail to find aclocal, autoconf, automake and autoheader utilities. This normally isn't a problem, but I have run into some packages

Re: rxvt problems on win98

2002-01-24 Thread Charles Wilson
I use the 'run' program from http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutls/unversioned/run/ Just grab the run.exe program, rename it to 'runrxvt.exe' and drop it into /bin. Then, set your shortcut to point to runrxvt instead of run. Voila' ! no more flash. --Chuck Scott Evans wrote:

Re: problem on cygregex.dll?

2002-01-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Joseph Yuen wrote: I got a problem regarding to OpenSSH. Whenever I run ssh, the system just keeps saying cygregex.dll couldn't not be found. I've installed both cygwin and OpenSSH package again, but the problem just still goes on. Can you tell me any clue about that? Thx Run setup and

Re: sh-utils: su patch for use with ntsec..

2002-01-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Ah -- but su is *supposed* to be part of the sh-utils package -- but it was ripped out because it doesn't (yet) work on cygwin. I'd view this post as a here's a patch for the sh-utils package. Which, incidentally, DOES belong on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list -- but not on the [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A cygwin hosted MinGW targeted cross platform

2002-01-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: Red Hat uses something like: /usr/H-i686-pc-cygwin for the cygwin Hosted tools. Underneath that you get something like: i686-pc-cygwin i686-pc-linux etc. for the targeted tools. So, in this instance you'd have:

Re: Suggestion: Add to FAQ - cygint.dll not found error

2002-01-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: Having run into the touble myself and skimming the list for answers, the only one that really soved the problem was Charles's: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01406.html *RE* install libintl and libintl1 packages. Ensure that

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils-0.9.8-1

2002-01-26 Thread Charles Wilson
cygutils-0.9.8-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. cygutils provides a collection of small -- and hopefully useful -- utilities. Changes: - add 'last' implementation from Mark Bradshaw - add 'utmpdump' implementation from Mark Bradshaw - add 'realpath' implementation (*)

Re: cygcrypto.dll

2002-01-27 Thread Charles Wilson
You need to add C:\cygwin\bin to your windows PATH using the Environment panel in NT/2k, or autoexec.bat in 98/Me. --Chuck Chris Mueller wrote: Hello, This dll is now in /bin But sshd complains, that it is not in /usr/sbin Went something wrong with the setup? Or do I just move it?

Re: CVS PServer problem

2002-01-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Phil Dempster wrote: RTFMLA [Heh. Been waiting to use that one...] Pserver doesn't work yet. Using :external and SSH does. Geoff Actually, I have had CVS pserver work under Win2K/Cygwin and a certain amount of duress. I _might_ even be able to work out how I did it, if there is

Re: postgres issue

2002-01-31 Thread Charles Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all. I just downloaded and installed postgres 7.1.3. I have it installed, and I have initialized the database. But I can not create the test database. I get a Windows dialog with the error that 'cygreadline5.dll' can not be found when I run '

Re: postgres issue

2002-01-31 Thread Charles Wilson
not be found when I run ' createdb test'. And this file does not exist on my machine. Can someone offer assistance? Charles Wilson

Re: Why not a news server?

2002-02-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Reply-To munging has also been discussed on this list previously. Please familiarize yourself with the arguments that have already been hashed out on this list in the past before continuing this line of discussion. Also, see 'Reply To Munging Considered Harmful' :

Re: Why not a news server?

2002-02-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Greg Mosier wrote: Reply-To munging has also been discussed on this list previously. Please familiarize yourself with the arguments that have already been hashed out on this list in the past before continuing this line of discussion. Also, see 'Reply To Munging Considered Harmful' :

Re: /dev/registry

2002-02-03 Thread Charles Wilson
Daniel Adams wrote: /proc/registry/* is a GREAT idea! Okay folks, enough with the me toos. Suffice it to say that everybody thinks this is a wonderful idea. Not surprisingly, the suggestion of a /dev/registry or /proc/registry HAS been made before. And everybody thought it was a

Re: numerical values in makefile ?

2002-02-06 Thread Charles Wilson
This is offtopic on a cygwin list. Please find a more appropriate forum for non-cygwin-oriented questions about GNU make. ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ?) --Chuck Stefan Bernögger wrote: Hi there, I want to use the $(words, text) function, but have troubles to process the numerical return value.

Re: cvs: Terminated with fatal signal 6

2002-02-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Just a hunch: do the openoffice sources contain files (within the same directory) whose names differ only in case? If so, then cygwin cvs will have problems... --Chuck Volker Quetschke wrote: Hi! I just tried to download the Openoffice sources with cvs running on cygwin (1.3.9,

Re: Problem with scanf and float under Cygwin on Windows ME Operating System

2002-02-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Michael Wirta wrote: I have been having a problem with scanf and floating point numbers in Cygwin on a WindowsME machine. I have run this same program under Linux doubt it. see below. and have had no problems with it. As soon as the float number is entered the program terminates

Re: dlopen(0, RTLD_LAZY) doesn't work?

2002-02-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Use the (kernel) source, luke. In winsup/cygwin/include/dlfcn.h, you see a comment that the following don't exist in win32 API. Since cygwin's dlopen stuff is built on top of windows shared lib (DLL) support, the definitions which appear in that header file: #define RTLD_LAZY 1 #define

Re: Setup Program

2002-02-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Laurence F. Wood wrote: After reading the FAQ again I see that the setup program is not capable of installing everything at once. However, I would like to email some suggestions to the microsoft engineer WTF? Are you TRYING to be obnoxious? You do realize that in free software circles,

Re: gcc-2.95.3-5.tar.bz2 is BROKEN

2002-02-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Laurence F. Wood wrote: By any chance did the person that broke gcc also work on (and break) bison-1.31-1? add(LaurenceWood) killfile. Welcome to the world of McNulty. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: problem with libz.a

2002-02-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Please keep replies on the list. Prateek, Arora (MED) wrote: The exact error is unresolved external symbole gzseek Okay, that's half of what I asked for. I am using the cygwin tool , which contain the libz.a lib file Can you tell me how I resolved this Problem Now, what is

Re: cygwin redistribution and gpl requirements

2002-02-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Jon Allen wrote: My company wants to re-distribute some of the pre-compiled cygwin utilities, e.g. grep.exe. These utilities will be distributed without modification, and to make them run we will copy the needed cygwin dll's. I assume we will maintain GPL compliance if we: 1. Include a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: jbigkit-1.2-6

2002-02-08 Thread Charles Wilson
organization to the more familiar JPEG group; see http://www.jbig.org/) CHANGES (from jbigkit-1.2-4): (1.2-5 was not released) 1. Internal changes to facilitate easier building/maintainance 2. readline is now built using the 'auto-import' features of recent binutils. -- Charles Wilson

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: jpeg-6b-6

2002-02-08 Thread Charles Wilson
building/maintainance 2. readline is now built using the 'auto-import' features of recent binutils. -- Charles Wilson INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://www.cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Run setup

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