Slashdot: Cygwin in a Production Environment?

2004-08-12 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I noticed that story on Slashdot - http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/12/1932246 . May be of interest for some people (or not). -- How to contact me - http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cy

Re: INT32: jmorecfg.h

2004-07-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Charles Wilson wrote: Unfortunately, the ijg group does not distribute the autoconf source for libjpeg's configure script. It's on my todo list to really truly autoconfiscate libjpeg (and libtiff) -- which will make things like this easier. But it's not a very high priori

Re: higher-level IO very slow with cygwin1.dll 5.10 (due to set_flags?)

2004-06-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 05:29:50PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Your change makes getc work almost as fast a getc_unlocked. This is on Win98. Yesterday's results were on WinME, where the differences were larger. That hard drive died this morning :(

Re: mailx mail replacement - solution in shell script

2004-05-09 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sun, 9 May 2004, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > jerzy szczudÅowski wrote: > > > Since mailx package is not ported to Cygwin, and from time to time > > someone miss it, I wrote short shell script that enables straight > > compatibility with some programs which by default depend on "mail" > > command (i

Not a Cygwin problem ( Was Re: Midnight Commander screen corruption w/ built-in editor)

2004-05-02 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Sun, 2 May 2004, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > > On Sun, 2 May 2004, Errol Smith wrote: > > > > > I'm having a problem with mc's editor (4.6.0-4, also tried > > > mc-4.6.0a-20030721 with same

Re: Midnight Commander screen corruption w/ built-in editor

2004-05-02 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Sun, 2 May 2004, Errol Smith wrote: > > > I'm having a problem with mc's editor (4.6.0-4, also tried > > mc-4.6.0a-20030721 with same issue). (cygwin 1.5.9-1 on 98se) > > If you are editing a file wider

Re: Midnight Commander screen corruption w/ built-in editor

2004-05-02 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Errol Smith wrote: > I'm having a problem with mc's editor (4.6.0-4, also tried > mc-4.6.0a-20030721 with same issue). (cygwin 1.5.9-1 on 98se) > If you are editing a file wider than the screen, sometimes > the display becomes corrupted, with odd parts of lines > appearing at t

Re: GNU coreutils?

2004-04-29 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Keith Thompson wrote: > Cygwin still includes the GNU fileutils (4.1), sh-utils (2.0.11), and > textutils (2.0) packages. These were merged some time ago into the new > coreutils package; the lastest release is 5.2.1. > > Note that upgrading would result in some changes in be

Re: how can i link the libiberty.a

2004-04-28 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, [GB2312] 张丽 wrote: > I use a function I know is in the libiberty.a,but still get a > link error.how can i link the libiberty.a.Thank you! What about posting your error ? Maybe it's due to http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01496.html (no longer the case for gcc). --

Re: nmap and cygwin

2004-04-17 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Daniel Houle wrote: > I'm new to the Cygwin world, in fact, I'm prety new to linux. > > I'm trying to nstall nmap on CTGWIN and I always get the following ewrror. > > error: Failed dependencies: > ld-linux.so.2 is needed by nmap-3.50-1 > libc.so.6 is needed by

Re: lftp 'put' problem

2004-04-16 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Chris Herborth wrote: > I've got a consistently repeatable problem with lftp when > sending data, either with "put" or "mirror -R"; the transfer > goes extremely slowly, and then lftp dumps core (see > attached). This is over a fish protocol connection. This is a known issue

RE: Comparative Performance of C++ Compilers (including gcc cygming special)

2004-04-14 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Frédéric L. W. Meunier > > Sent: 14 April 2004 07:35 > > > Anyway, does anybody know if GCC in Cygwin is compiled with > > --disable-checking ? gcc -v didn't return it, so it doesn't &g

Re: Comparative Performance of C++ Compilers (including gcc cygming special)

2004-04-13 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Hans Horn wrote: > Are there other benchmarks around that compare gcc3.x, gcc3.x > (cygwin), etc against the gcc2.9x vintage? 2.95.x has always been much faster for both C and C++ when compared to 3.x. At least on Linux, 3.4.0 prerelease was around 10% faster to compile the

Re: Loading gcc-compiled DLL with Java (JNI) crashes when using newer (>1.5.5) cygwin1.dll

2004-04-03 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Hans Horn wrote: > this was something I did try out as well. However, the dll produced with > "-no-cygwin" was just as "bad" as before. > Then I recalled faintly reading some discussion a while back, that > "mingw-gcc != gcc -no-cygwin" (don't remember details, though). -no-cy

Re: 1.5.10 release?

2004-03-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 10:18:58PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >WADR to CGF's hard work, I can tell you even before it is released that > >1.5.10 has bugs. So do 1.5.11, 1.5.12, etc. With a software project of > >sufficient size, it's

Re: SDL on Cygwin

2004-03-22 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > OK, I know we've been through this before, but there's now a new version > of SDL (1.2.7), with a new development: it builds OOTB on Cygwin, all I > had to do was reautotool. > > There are problems however: > > 1) when building on Cygwin, the default

Re: glib can not be installed(win2000+cygwin)

2004-03-22 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
This is probably off topic here. gtk-list at gnome dot org is a better place. Anyway, 2.0.7 is very old and you didn't show the errors (probably a bunch of undefined references everyone get also with 2.4.0). See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2004-March/msg00152.html for recent patches.

Re: gcc and -lang-c89

2004-03-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have the lastest stable version of cygwin installed and when I try to compile som > programs (e.g. gnugo 3.0 (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html)) i get the > following error: > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../engine-I../utils

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.9-1

2004-03-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:05:23PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > >On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > >$ cygcheck.exe -f /usr/lib/libiberty.a > >binutils-20040312-1 > >cygwin-1.5.9-1 > > > >Since you maintain both, what's t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.9-1

2004-03-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: $ cygcheck.exe -f /usr/lib/libiberty.a binutils-20040312-1 cygwin-1.5.9-1 Since you maintain both, what's the consensus ? -- How to contact me - http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sed-4.0.9-1

2004-03-18 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I can't see for myself now, but what changed that made the binary size jump from 90624 to 934424 ? On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I've updated the version of sed to 4.0.9-1. > > This is the latest stable sed release 4.0.9. > > Changes from 4.0.8: > > 0 address behaves correctly

Re: man rxvt

2004-03-10 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All responses to man present properly to screen as far as I > can tell with the exception of man rxvt which contains a lot > of explicit code of the style .YODLTAGSTART roffcmd ... > .YODLTAGEND. True. The man page is messed up. If the maintainer use

Re: 1.5.7-1 rollback to gcc 3.2

2004-03-10 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Brian Mohr wrote: > I have recently installed Cygwin and am attempting to > rollback from gcc 3.3.1 to 3.2.x. A friend of mine was able > to do this a few days before I tried it. However, I only see > gcc 3.3.1 when running setup.exe by either using the "Prev" > button or by

Re: LANL MCNP5

2004-03-10 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Why are you asking it on a Cygwin mailing-list ? You should ask the author / maintainers of such application. On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, John Cox wrote: > What should I download to be able to use the geometry plotting capability of this > program? > Your software is recommended in the MCNP5 documentat

Re: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

2004-03-01 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Yes, the mailing-list software could be changed to obfuscate them. Is it so hard ? On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Randall R Schulz wrote: > I think it's pretty unreasonable to rely on every individual posting to > this list to obfuscate email addresses in their submissions. It's > inherently error prone, wi

Re: 'less' can not find dll

2004-02-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:55:16PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > >As far as setup.exe is concerned, it should have installed this package > >for you. The setup.hint for the 'less' package includes the line: > > > >requires: cygwin termcap libpcre0

Re: 'less' can not find dll

2004-02-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, MEA-MikeFriedrichs wrote: > When I searched for 'cygpcre-0.dll' at http://cygwin.com/packages : the > following is my results. > > Found 2 matches for cygpcre-0.dll. > 1364d60.jpg > libpcre0/libpcre0-4.4-2 > Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions library > 1364d70.jpg > libpcre0

Re: Good news for Cygwin ? Re: [smartmontools-devel]Windows port

2004-02-26 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
smartmontools now has support for Cygwin in CVS. There's a full package I made for 1.5.7 (just missed a postinstall script for /etc/smartd.conf - will be in 5.30) that can be installed through setup.exe. And a smartctl binary compiled with -mno-cygwin. More information is available at http://smar

Re: Good news for cygwin ? Re: [smartmontools-devel]Windows port

2004-02-26 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:09:54PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > >smartmontools now has support for Cygwin in CVS. There's a full > >package I made for 1.5.7 (just missed a postinstall script for > >/etc/smartd.conf - will be in 5.30) that

Re: Good news for cygwin ? Re: [smartmontools-devel]Windows port

2004-02-26 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:44:20PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > >On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:09:54PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > >>>smartmontools now has support for Cygwin in CV

Good news for Cygwin ? Re: [smartmontools-devel]Windows port

2004-02-23 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I'm Cc'ing the Cygwin mailing-list since others may be interested in a S.M.A.R.T. tool that works with it. And someone may even be able to help you. I got it to compile under Cygwin (without -mno-cygwin). What I did: mv os_generic.c os_generic.c.old ln -sf os_win32/os_win32.c os_generic.c Then

Re: ldd equivalent

2004-02-05 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Edward S. Peschko wrote: > well, I was there - I'm referring to the link *inside* the message. > It points to some site which no longer exists. I uploaded the 2 ldd (I got from Google some time ago) to http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/ldd/ -- http://www.pervalidus.net/contac

Re: iconv support not detected by configure when using gcc-3.3.1-3

2004-02-04 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Charles Wilson wrote: > This is thanks to the new iconv support in newlib. Even tho it is > "turned off" in cygwin-1.5.7, the new cygwin package still installs its > own version of /usr/include/iconv.h -- and the "new" version is not, of > course, recognized as GNU iconv. > >

Re: wincvs and cygwin (tcl DLL naming issue)

2004-02-03 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Reid Thompson wrote: > my 2 cents, and what i believe is an easier and more appropriate > solution ( think like you're on unix/linux) - for your cygwin > bash/rxvt/etc terminals explicitely set the path in your .bashrc such > that the cygwin binaries are found first -- and eith

Re: wincvs and cygwin

2004-02-03 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Shankar Unni wrote: > Daniel Atallah wrote: > > > If the tcl dll included with cygwin conflicts with the > > native win32 tcl (still a problem if you don't have > > native tcl installed) > > Yes - I don't think this is a conflict per se, rather than simply > finding and trying

Re: two versions of cygwin 1.5.7 in the wild

2004-01-31 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > There was a few hour period during which an older version of cygwin 1.5.7 > was released. I hope this doesn't cause any problems. The correct version > is dated '2004-01-30 19:32'. http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin/release/cygwin/ stil

Re: This Just In: Mozilla Releases Compiled Using Cygwin

2004-01-26 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Howdy, Folks, > > I installed the new Mozila (1.6) yesterday and was exploring the > "about:*" pages via the new "about:about" master about page. Check out > "about:buildconfig": > > > -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- >

RE: ^Z with LFTP in 1.5.6: in handle_threadlist_exception!

2004-01-21 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Frédéric L. W. Meunier > > [...snip!...] > > I think it happened when I pressed > > some keys, but it wasn't ^Z. > [...snip!...] > > >

Re: LFTP 2.6.10-1 missing SSL support and with wrong dependency

2004-01-21 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Mark Blackburn wrote: > Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > >I don't see anything in the announcement about the lack of > >support - > >http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-12/msg00225.html > >. 2.6.8-3 has it. > > > >

Re: some notes on debugging screen

2004-01-21 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On reflection, the code above (which I happened to have written) didn't > look right to me, so I did a little digging. I think I was either > confused when I wrote it or I'm confused now. Assuming, as always, that > I'm less confused now than I wa

Re: ^Z with LFTP in 1.5.6: in handle_threadlist_exception!

2004-01-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:04:29PM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > >I thought ^Z would suspend LFTP, but it's 's'. Anyway, let me > >report it. > > > >In 1.5.5, nothing happens when you start it and press ^Z. > > > >In 1.5.6 and 1.5.7 snapsho

LFTP 2.6.10-1 missing SSL support and with wrong dependency

2004-01-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I don't see anything in the announcement about the lack of support - http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-12/msg00225.html . 2.6.8-3 has it. But I see /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/lftp-2.6.10.README doesn't mention --enable-ssl and lftp-2.6.8.README does. Also, I think the crypt dependency can

^Z with LFTP in 1.5.6: in handle_threadlist_exception!

2004-01-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I thought ^Z would suspend LFTP, but it's 's'. Anyway, let me report it. In 1.5.5, nothing happens when you start it and press ^Z. In 1.5.6 and 1.5.7 snapshot: in handle_threadlist_exception! Segmentation fault (core dumped) -- How to contact me - http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html -- Uns

Re: CVS instructions

2004-01-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:04:14PM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > >A cvs update from src/ also downloads many other modules (I > >guess all from > >http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/?cvsroot=src), > >not just the changes from

CVS instructions

2004-01-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
http://cygwin.com/cvs.html cvs checkout winsup "This will create a subdirectory called src and fill it with the core sources." Yes, it creates a src directory with a bunch of files and the config, contrib, etc, include, libiberty, newlib, and winsup directories. "Once you have the latest source

Re: cygwin-1.5.6-1 Vim now broken

2004-01-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:47:39AM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > >On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>And, no, screen becoming screwed up in an rxvt session is not a show > >>stopper. > > > >Yes, but it's something that will

Re: cygwin-1.5.6-1 Vim now broken

2004-01-19 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > And, no, screen becoming screwed up in an rxvt session is not > a show stopper. Yes, but it's something that will make all screen users not upgrade to 1.5.6 or downgrade to 1.5.5 when they see how broken it's. Broken dettach / reattach is nothing c

Binaries compiled under 1.5.6 don't work with 1.5.5 ?

2004-01-19 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I compiled Lynx under 1.5.6 and tried to run it under 1.5.5: "The procedure entry point _fcntl64 could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll" How many Cygwin applications are supposed to be affected by the following changes ? - Make tmpfile 64-bit aware. (Corinna Vinschen) - Ma

Re: How to get it working with gdb ?

2003-12-28 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 07:42:18PM -0200, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > > >I did

Re: How to get it working with gdb ?

2003-12-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 07:42:18PM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > >I did the following: > > > >Start the application in a terminal. > >Use ps in another terminal. > >Use gdb -p from that terminal. > > > >Then: > > > >(gdb) c > >Continuing. >

How to get it working with gdb ?

2003-12-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I did the following: Start the application in a terminal. Use ps in another terminal. Use gdb -p from that terminal. Then: (gdb) c Continuing. Do something with the application. Then I tried ^C in gdb and it didn't work, but it works on Linux. Sorry, I'm not used to debug things, but I'd like

Re: cygwin1-20031218.dll.bz2 and rxvt

2003-12-23 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 03:22:10PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:31:40PM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > >>At least here rxvt dies after started. cmd.exe works. Latest > >>Cygwin packages on XP Professional SP

cygwin1-20031218.dll.bz2 and rxvt

2003-12-18 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
At least here rxvt dies after started. cmd.exe works. Latest Cygwin packages on XP Professional SP1 + all updates. -- How to contact me - http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.ht

Re: FreeHDL doesnt compile with the latest cygwin .

2003-12-16 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, dezai G wrote: > I have downloaded and intalled the new cygwin with > gcc 3.3.1-3 > My freehdl (http://www.freehdl.seul.org/) no longer > compile with the new cygwin. > How can i download the previous setup of cygwin to be > able to compile my freeHdl program What about repo

cygwin1.dll snapshot messes up screen under rxvt

2003-12-12 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I noticed the latest cygwin1.dll snapshot messes up screen under rxvt. I haven't tried spapshots for quite a while, so it may be an old problem. I know screen isn't part of Cygwin, but it's very useful, even without the reattaching stuff. I'm using my package from http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/s

Re: Mozilla Firebird & cygwin

2003-12-12 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Doug Jenkinson wrote: > Hey everyone, > I saw this in a comment about the latest build of Mozilla, 1.6 beta that > is, and tried on Firebird. If you open up a window/tab/whatever and > goto "about:buildconfig", cygwin is mentioned! I'm just sharing the > info, as I really no

Re: Problem making rxvt

2003-11-29 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, David A. Cobb wrote: > > OK, Now I've reconciled my configure options with those in the > > document, and defined the libraries as shown. > > > Same result, basically. This time I got to a recursion about 180 proc's > deep when something failed ( happily ) and unwound the sta

Re: irc client (irssi) problem

2003-11-28 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Tomasz Rojek wrote: > > There are 2 binaries I know of, one I built and doesn't have. > > Perl support - http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/irssi/ > I will try that one. Irssi is much more attractive and user friendly than > ircII or naim, that's why I prefer it. I took the tim

Re: irc client (irssi) problem

2003-11-28 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I guess he's talking about irssi, which isn't part of Cygwin. ircII doesn't include Perl support. But I'm not sure since he used 'irc'. There are 2 binaries I know of, one I built and doesn't have Perl support - http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/irssi/ The other, which is older, has and is at http

Re: Problem making rxvt

2003-11-27 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * David A. Cobb (2003-11-27 17:54 +0100) > > My configure/make score is just barely above zero. I'd be sure it was > > all me if it was indeed zero - but not quite. > > > Latest attempt: rxvt-2.7.10 > > Install rxvt via Setup.exe. That won't fix the s

Re: Can't build Cscope 15.5 with ncurses 5.3-4 package - no ncurses.h!

2003-11-25 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Frank P. Hart wrote: > I am interested in using the Cscope package with ViM on > my Cygwin/WinXP installation. Unfortunately, the > configure script (and subsequent make attempts) for > Cscope 15.5 fails because the file 'ncurses.h' is > absent. The ncurses package on my ins

Re: Any current plans for an SDL package?

2003-11-23 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The only thing I found missing really are the libraries' header files. > > One such library is libjpeg, which has no development package, and i > believe there was some compression lib also. The headers are in jpeg-6b-11.tar.bz2. As I don't see libjp

Re: Any current plans for an SDL package?

2003-11-23 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Larry Hall wrote: > At 04:40 PM 11/23/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: >> I could also try to compile a Cygwin binary version of the >> library, but that would be at least slightly harder. > This would be a true Cygwin package so I don't see a reason > it couldn't be include

Re: Patch and directions for compiling GNU screen 3.9.15 on cygwin

2003-11-21 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:50:18PM -0600, Parker, Ron wrote: > > >I created a patch for GNU screen 3.9.15 that will allow it to be compiled > > >and installed on Cygwin. The patch is attached belo

Re: running cygwin on mutiple operating systems

2003-11-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > P.P.S. Speaking of Linux, did you know that Cygwin runs under > WINE? :-D Really ? Everything, including compiling ? -- How to contact me - http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: OpenSSL problem ? (Was Re: Pine 4.58 for Cygwin takes a very long time to close a certain IMAP INBOX)

2003-11-12 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:15:46PM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > > > > > Corinna, > > > > > > Did you get a chance to look at the strace output he posted here: > > > > > > http://pervalidus.port5.com

Re: OpenSSL problem ? (Was Re: Pine 4.58 for Cygwin takes a very long time to close a certain IMAP INBOX)

2003-11-12 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > Corinna, > > Did you get a chance to look at the strace output he posted here: > > http://pervalidus.port5.com/tmp/imap.txt.gz > > A glance there by trained eyes might save him some time. I don't have the > time or the training for mine :). It appears to

Re: OpenSSL problem ? (Was Re: Pine 4.58 for Cygwin takes a very long time to close a certain IMAP INBOX)

2003-11-12 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:20:57AM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > Now I'm trying with gdb, but don't know if the following is > > right. > > > > $ openssl s_client -connect mail.postaccesslite.com:993 > > $ gdb > > (gdb) attach PPID of opens

Re: OpenSSL problem ? (Was Re: Pine 4.58 for Cygwin takes a very long time to close a certain IMAP INBOX)

2003-11-11 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > Me neither. Seems to be a local problem. > >

Re: OpenSSL problem ? (Was Re: Pine 4.58 for Cygwin takes a very long time to close a certain IMAP INBOX)

2003-11-11 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Me neither. Seems to be a local problem. > > > > I don't see what could be wrong with my installation. > > &

Re: OpenSSL problem ? (Was Re: Pine 4.58 for Cygwin takes a very long time to close a certain IMAP INBOX)

2003-11-11 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Me neither. Seems to be a local problem. > > > > I don't see what could be wrong with my installation. &g

Re: OpenSSL problem ? (Was Re: Pine 4.58 for Cygwin takes a very long time to close a certain IMAP INBOX)

2003-11-11 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
nOn Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:52:36AM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > OK, so here's what turns out to be an OpenSSL issue. All thanks > > to Eduardo. > > > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Eduardo Chappa wrote: > > > > > *** Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote

OpenSSL problem ? (Was Re: Pine 4.58 for Cygwin takes a very long time to close a certain IMAP INBOX)

2003-11-10 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
OK, so here's what turns out to be an OpenSSL issue. All thanks to Eduardo. On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Eduardo Chappa wrote: > *** Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote on Nov 11, 2003: > > :) > Is there any delay? > :) > :) Yes. > > Ok, this means that the problem is not Pine.

Pine 4.58 for Cygwin takes a very long time to close a certain IMAP INBOX

2003-11-09 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I don't know what's wrong, but can't reproduce with the same versions of PC-Pine and Pine for Linux. I have 5 IMAP accounts. The main INBOX is fastmail.fm. The others are incoming-folders=PostaccessLite {mail.postaccesslite.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED], PostaccessLite-fredlwm {mail.postaccessli

Re: irc: No identd (auth) response

2003-10-31 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, David Andersen wrote: > I'm trying to get irc to work, but I keep getting the following: > > *** Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.freenode.net > *** Looking up your hostname... > *** Checking ident > *** Found your hostname > *** No identd (auth) response > *** Closing Li

Re: Q: looking for gcc 2.95.3 package

2003-10-23 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Larry Hall wrote: > At 09:03 AM 10/23/2003, Heiko Nardmann you wrote: > > > >Where do I find a gcc 2.95.3 package for Cygwin? > > > With any luck, nowhere. gcc 2.95.3 is broken and as a result, has been > removed from the distribution. You might be able to find it on some ou

--disable-checking in GCC ?

2003-10-13 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I read it makes significant differences for compile times when GCC is configured with --disable-checking, but 3.3.1-2 doesn't return it with gcc -v. Does it make any difference on Cygwin ? It certainly does on Linux. -- How to contact me - http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html -- Unsubscribe in

Re: multiple consoles in one window

2003-10-13 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 at 01:37 GMT, Edward Peschko penned: > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 07:24:29PM -0600, bob wrote: > >> Is there any way to have more than one console session available in > >> one rxvt (or dos) window? I am thinking of the konsole th

Re: merging mingw and cygwin

2003-10-11 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Edward Peschko wrote: > (pps - 'screen' - as per 4.0.1, just gained cygwin support. > You might want to add that to your list of cygwin packages.) I don't see any Cygwin support in 4.0.1. Where did you read it ? There's nothing in patchlevel.h (which details the changes), rea

Re: Redistributing cygwin1.dll on a site turns out to be a bad idea

2003-10-08 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
g my (this) thread. On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > mainly because one of my pages is the 10° result of a search > for download+cygwin1.dll on Google. -- How to contact me - http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

Redistributing cygwin1.dll on a site turns out to be a bad idea

2003-10-07 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I distribute some binaries since 1 1/2 year, and was also always redistributing the latest cygwin1.dll (and making the sources available from the same sites due to the license) to make people's life easier, but it turns out a lot of people were only downloading it, mainly because one of my pages is

Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

2003-10-06 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Thanks, I'll do that. I remember when I tried as a symlink and something hung setup (I guess setup doesn't handle them ?). It wasn't the XFree86-bin-icons issue, which also hung when I reverted the symlink. I'll go through the archives to see what I should do for XFree86-bin-icons since I had to u

Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

2003-10-06 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Perhaps the setup postinstall scripts should change to using > bash. Its behavior is correct and will avoid frustrations. It'd be nice it I could get rid of it. I have to use #!/bin/bash in my scripts, change rxvt (the X11 version) because it default

Re: missing java headers

2003-10-04 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:09:15PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > >On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >>>I've repeatedly asked for someone to take over maintainership of gcc. > >>>If you are producing packages on your web site can I

Re: missing java headers

2003-10-04 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hallo Christopher, > > > > I've repeatedly asked for someone to take over maintainership of gcc. > > If you are producing packages on your web site can I ask you go to all > > of the way and maintain gcc for cygwin? > > I'm thinking about it for a while

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl-0.9.7b-1, openssl-devel-0.9.7b-1

2003-10-02 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:22:03PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:50:14PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > > > I don't think Links has a maintainer, or one w

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl-0.9.7b-1, openssl-devel-0.9.7b-1

2003-10-02 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:50:14PM -0300, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > I don't think Links has a maintainer, or one we can contact. > > What do you mean? Links has a Cygwin maintainer at least. If you mean one who contribute

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl-0.9.7b-1, openssl-devel-0.9.7b-1

2003-10-01 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:28:10AM +0200, Patrick Eisenacher wrote: > > Corinna, > > > > is there an easy way to find out whether I still have a package > > installed that needs the openssl 0.9.6x compatibility package? I would > > love to get rid of t

Convert Cygwin shortcuts to Unix symlinks ?

2003-09-29 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Anybody know how (better if recursively) ? I extracted a tarball under Cygwin and later copied it to a Linux partition. Obviously all Cygwin shortcuts created at extract time are copied, breaking it. -- How to contact me - http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

libiberty.a present in 3 packages

2003-09-23 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
binutils cygwin gcc (not gcc2) What's the right version ? It seems the last package installed overwrites it, so I have the one from cygwin. -- How to contact me - http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: htt

PKG_CONFIG_PATH and XFree86

2003-09-22 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Maybe this should be directed to cygwin-xfree. I don't know, really. I read there are plans to make fontconfig a package. It probably will go to /usr/lib along with FreeType (the standalone sources also include a .pc file for it), but this doesn't fix xcursor and xft. XFree86-prog installs /usr/X

Re: links, links2 and elinks

2003-09-22 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Replying to a message from 26 February... Victor Stepanov wrote: >> Does anybody using latest "home build" browser from links >> family? I've tried to compile each, but with same problem - >> links.exe does not recognize letter commands, only Ctrl >> ones. >> After finishing links.exe all letter

checking for shmat in -lipc... no

2003-09-21 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
While running configure for IceWM (I don't think it's a question for cygwin-xfree) I noticed the following: checking for shmat... no checking for shmat in -lipc... no The second test returned yes when I created libipc.a and libipc.dll.a symlinks. What's the right procedure for this test, which s

Re: Using both gcc 3.2-3 and gcc 3.3-1

2003-09-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Alex Vinokur wrote: > I would like to use both gcc 3.2-3 and gcc 3.3-1. > Is it possible? > What and how do I download and install? I have both (only C and C++), but manually installed them. I renamed the old binaries to *-3.exe and moved the old libstdc++.a and libsupc++.a t

smartmontools ?

2003-09-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I wonder it anyone has any plans to port it. Even the commercial S.M.A.R.T. suites for Windows aren't that good. I tried all. It'd be a nice addition, really. Unfortunately I'm not (yet) a programmer, still know very little about Cygwin, but got it to compile removing some code that may be needed

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.5-1

2003-09-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Nevermind. I redownload setup.ini from sources.redhat.com. BTW, no md5sum problem. On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > Here setup is crashing / exiting. I downloaded setup.ini from > sources.redhat.com and the packages from mirrors.rcn.net. I'm > installin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.5-1

2003-09-20 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Here setup is crashing / exiting. I downloaded setup.ini from sources.redhat.com and the packages from mirrors.rcn.net. I'm installing from a local directory. It exits while scanning the packages. On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Cliff Hones wrote: > On the two mirrors which I could find which have the new 1

3.3.1-1 "solved" it (was Re: Binaries compiled with GCC 3.2-3 much bigger than with 2.95.3-10 ?)

2003-09-12 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > I just switched to 3.2-3 and was impressed with the following: > > Cygwin -O2 -O2 + -Wl,-s -Os -Os + -Wl,-s > -- > 2.95.3-10 15178 665615178 6656 > 3.2-3 26710 14336

Re: Problems with accented characters in Cygwin

2003-09-10 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I suggest you use rxvt since the Cygwin "terminal" appers to be broken for that. I don't know if it ever worked, but it never did since I started with 1.3.10. I now use 1.5.3. I reported it. See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00048.html and follow http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygw

Re: Binaries compiled with GCC 3.2-3 much bigger than with 2.95.3-10?

2003-09-05 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Answering 2 in 1. On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Wayne wrote: > There have been discussions on various forums about increased > executable size and in particular, compile time, pretty much > since gcc-3.1 was in beta. Exe will be bigger than 2-95, even > after stripping. I agree that even on Linux this is

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