Re: 20060529: python and semaphores

2006-05-31 Thread Ralf Habacker
Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:18:56PM -0500, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: snip Unless I'm missing something, the backtrace is useless and probably doesn't show a real problem. It is just YA example of the OMG! I get SIGSEGV's in GDB problem which we must discuss

Re: note about how-to-debug-cygwin.txt

2006-05-29 Thread Ralf Habacker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 10:59:35PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the how-to-debug-cygwin.txt there is listed how to run application using strace in gdb: To debug

Re: 1.5.19: changes have broken Qt3

2006-05-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Dessent schrieb: Ralf Habacker wrote: There is only one case where I still believe that there may be a problem. If a pthread_mutexattr_t is constructed on the stack and the magic class membere is be exactly the predefined value

Re: 1.5.19: changes have broken Qt3

2006-05-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Habacker schrieb: Brian Dessent schrieb: Ralf Habacker wrote: There is only one case where I still believe that there may be a problem. If a pthread_mutexattr_t is constructed on the stack and the magic class membere is be exactly

note about how-to-debug-cygwin.txt

2006-05-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the how-to-debug-cygwin.txt there is listed how to run application using strace in gdb: To debug this scenario, do something like this: bash$ gdb -nw yourapp.exe (gdb) dll cygwin1 (gdb) l dll_crt0_1 (gdb) b first line in the

Re: 1.5.19: changes have broken Qt3

2006-05-27 Thread Ralf Habacker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Korn schrieb: On 24 May 2006 13:19, Ralf Habacker wrote: This breakpoint is never reached (at least in released gdb) and makes it hard to debug cygwin's threading stuff, probably impossible in this area. How many times do you have

Re: 1.5.19: changes have broken Qt3

2006-05-27 Thread Ralf Habacker
. People have a tendency to point to the archives and say lookee, it's broken if the thread does not come to a result. ] Ralf Habacker wrote: You said that the testcase runs, yes, but do you have tried to debug the cygwin dll with this exception handling. Please start the above mentioned

Re: 1.5.19: changes have broken Qt3

2006-05-24 Thread Ralf Habacker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:20:28PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: your right, hope the above mentioned stuff help for this. Ralf, You have the test case. You have the source code. You've already provided a patch

Re: 1.5.19: changes have broken Qt3

2006-05-24 Thread Ralf Habacker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Dessent schrieb: Ralf Habacker wrote: Running this testcase results in an internal exception in pthread_mutexattr_init() Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x610b1005 in pthread_mutexattr_init (attr=0x404040

Re: 1.5.19: changes have broken Qt3

2006-05-24 Thread Ralf Habacker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Dessent schrieb: Ralf Habacker wrote: There is no segfault, but it does not work as expected e.g. pthread_mutexattr_init() does not fill the pthread_mutexattr_t struct given as parameter. How does it not work? The testcase runs fine

Re: 1.5.19: changes have broken Qt3

2006-05-24 Thread Ralf Habacker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Habacker schrieb: Hi all, If this would be my project I would add such unit test cases as far as possible. Because pthread-win32 is also hosted on sources.redhat.com it may be possible to relicense the test application to cygwin easier

Re: 1.5.19: changes have broken Qt3

2006-05-24 Thread Ralf Habacker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Dessent schrieb: Ralf Habacker wrote: And yes, it used to be that gdb was too dumb to recognise that these faults in IsBadReadPtr were not actual faults, and it would print them as spurious SIGSEGVs, just as it currently does for myfaults

Re:1.5.19: changes have broken Qt3

2006-05-23 Thread Ralf Habacker
, although I'm not sure if this zero pointer indicates a major fault conditions in the threading stuff Changelog: 2006-05-23 Ralf Habacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] * thread.cc (verifyable_object_isvalid): catch zero pointer. Index: thread.cc

Re: 1.5.19: changes have broken Qt3

2006-05-23 Thread Ralf Habacker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Korn schrieb: On 23 May 2006 18:10, Ralf Habacker wrote: Oh no, not this old saw again! C:\cygwin\home\Habacker\src\pthreads-snap-2005-03-08\testsstrace mutex1n | grep C005 - --- Process 4872, exception C005 at 610B1005 155

Re: 1.5.19: changes have broken Qt3

2006-05-23 Thread Ralf Habacker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Korn schrieb: On 23 May 2006 18:10, Ralf Habacker wrote: Oh no, not this old saw again! C:\cygwin

Re: setup alternatives

2005-06-22 Thread Ralf Habacker
). If wished I can provide a setup confirm package. Ralf Habacker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

2005-06-02 Thread Ralf Habacker
Am Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2005 23:43 schrieb Keith Moore: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Dropping it altogether would be unfortunate. Providing Win98 support DLLs in a separate package is a possibility. There's still the point that CGF raised, about there being many more people with the

Re: Serious performance problems (new snapshot has some performance improvement)

2005-05-31 Thread Ralf Habacker
Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 12:05 schrieb Gerrit P. Haase: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 30. Mai 2005 22:33 schrieb Gerrit P. Haase: Anonymous wrote: My System: #Set-up: $ g++ cygspd.cc -o cygspd-basic $ g++ -O7 cygspd.cc -o cygspd-o7 $ g++ -fno-exceptions cygspd.cc -o

Re: Serious performance problems (new snapshot has some performance improvement)

2005-05-31 Thread Ralf Habacker
Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 12:42 schrieb Gerrit P. Haase: Ralf Habacker wrote: Interesting, why is it faster when running a binary that doesn't depend on cygwin1.dll after swapping the DLL? Some Win caching mechanism? I recognized this caching behavior with KDE/cygwin too. Under

Re: Serious performance problems (new snapshot has some performance improvement)

2005-05-30 Thread ralf . habacker
Am Montag, 30. Mai 2005 22:33 schrieb Gerrit P. Haase: Anonymous wrote: My System: #Set-up: $ g++ cygspd.cc -o cygspd-basic $ g++ -O7 cygspd.cc -o cygspd-o7 $ g++ -fno-exceptions cygspd.cc -o cygspd-ne $ g++ -O7 -fno-exceptions cygspd.cc -o cygspd-ne-o7 $ g++ -mno-cygwin

Re: Rebase dlls not from cygwin

2005-05-24 Thread ralf . habacker
Am Dienstag, 24. Mai 2005 13:47 schrieb Jason Tishler: Hermann, On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:06:29PM +0200, Hermann Klocker wrote: Sorry if I email directly to you - I am new to cygwin. Please tell me if I should have posted this report to another location. I would have preferred if you

Re:cygwin, libtool, dlpreopen, and .rdata

2004-10-23 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Chuck, you wrote With newer gcc's (cygwin version numbers 3.3.3-3, 3.4.1-1, but not 3.3.1-3), const variables are placed in an .rdata section. This causes problems when those variables contain references to OTHER vars that are imported from a dll -- because the runtime relocation

Re: can't start KDE on FreeBSD from Windows XP

2004-09-07 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Tuesday 07 September 2004 10:36, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Bruce Rhodewalt wrote: I'm having trouble configuring KDE on my Windows XP machine (using Cygwin/X 2004/03/25). From my bash shell, I can ssh or telnet to my FreeBSD 5.2.1 RELEASE machine. However, if I

Re: kde3+cygwin startup problem

2004-04-30 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Friday 30 April 2004 17:15, Nicholas Gibson wrote: I'm at a loss, this is a fresh install of cygwin+kde3 on a machine that has just been built with XP. There are no spaces in my home path, any help would be much appreciated. My kde session never gets past this point, it just sits there

Re: kde fails to start after clean install

2004-04-27 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Monday 26 April 2004 22:51, Nicholas Gibson wrote: I am attempting to start kde after a fresh installation of cygwin and kde from http://kde-cygwin.sourcefroge.net. This is on a fresh machine with 1GB of RAM and plenty of disk space... It hangs at loading the window manager. I love kde

Re: gentoo portage and cygwin

2004-04-19 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Monday 19 April 2004 12:06, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Sven Köhler (2004-04-19 07:58 +0100) has anybody ever tried to port the gentoo-portage to cygwin? not that i expect many of the gentoo-ebuilds to compile, but the cygwin-people could maintain their own portage. the gentoo-portage also

Re: proposal for using windows truetype fonts

2004-04-12 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Thursday 01 April 2004 02:16, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Eric Hanchrow wrote: Ralf == Ralf Habacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralf # Create a symbolic link for the windows truetype fonts ln Ralf -sf $SYSTEMROOT/Fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype

Re: ttmkfdir no longer needed

2004-04-12 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Saturday 10 April 2004 03:09, Harold L Hunt II wrote: It looks like we no longer need ttmkfdir in order to expose the fonts installed with Windows to X11. The mkfontscale utility that is included with out distribution was inspired by ttmkfdir and essentially replaces it:

Re: Gold stars for an anonymous contributor

2004-04-09 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Friday 09 April 2004 02:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: You know how I always whine about how I can't debug 64 bit windows without a 64 bit system and have asked (not entirely seriously) for the contribution of a system? Well, I now have a brand new 64 bit windows system, contributed by an

proposal for using windows truetype fonts

2004-03-31 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, currently I'm trying the xft stuff with windows true type fonts for cygwin/qt and kde applications and it works really good. I'm planning to release the next qt/kde releases with xft support enabled. One thing I have noticed, is that a symbolic link from the windows fonts dir is

Re: Changing jobs

2004-03-31 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 20:08, Christopher Faylor wrote: I just wanted to send a brief note to inform everyone that today is my last day at Red Hat. I have accepted a position with TimeSys Corporation. I plan on continuing my volunteer work on both Cygwin and on sources.redhat.com so

note on command line installer

2004-03-26 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Robert, you may wondering about you haven't heard anything in the last months after I have offered some time working on the command line cygwin installer (for example http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-11/msg0.html) but there were some personal (at that time one of my sons

Re: auto-import failure for new libXt

2004-03-26 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Saturday 20 March 2004 23:32, Brian Ford wrote: I guess this is just a heads up since I don't have time to debug it right now, but with the latest XFree packages, I get a stream of error messages like the following when linking our apps:

Re: KDE3.1 fails to run from a clean install.

2004-03-25 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Thursday 25 March 2004 16:39, Crescioli, Phil wrote: Ooops, I forgot to insert my KDE_Log File. Here it is. Last night I did a FULL and COMPLETE download of cygwin from http://kde-cygwin.sourcefroge.net This morning I installed ALL of cygwin and tried to bring up KDE3.1 using startx

Re: .rdata section in Cygwin executables?

2004-03-12 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Friday 12 March 2004 15:51, Egor Duda wrote: Joe Buehler wrote: The emacs recompile fails because there is a section in the initially built emacs.exe named .rdata that the unexec() code for Cygwin is not expecting. The section appears to have something to do with exception handling

compiling error with recent xfree server sources

2004-03-07 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, I've tried to compile recent xfree server sources from freedesktop cvs area branch CYGWIN (after switching over from the old cvs area by patching all CVS Repository rsp. Root files followed by a cvs update -C -r CYGWIN) and got the following compile error: wincreatewnd.c: In function

[PATCH] ioctl FIONREAD implementation for sockets

2004-02-08 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, while porting a kde game (Kbattleship) to cygwin/xfree I recognized that the ioctl FIONREAD function call wasn't implemented. The appended minor patch added this support to fhandler_socket.cc Cheers Ralf Changelog 2004-02-08 Ralf Habacker [EMAIL PROTECTED

only a note - microsoft was refering to xfree windows port

2004-01-31 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi all, while reading some stuff about the ms services for unix, I stumpled over a list of xservers in their documentation, where the xfree port is also listed. (probably in the time where it belongs to cygnus, but anyway, they have stated).

KDE 3.1.4 cygwin/xfree release available

2004-01-27 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi all, Last week the first KDE 3.1.4 release of the KDE desktop environment for cygwin/xfree was released. Beside the basic packages it contains already some additional package like kde-i18n, kdevelop, kdeedu, quanta and kdenetwork (alpha version). See http://kde-cygwin.sf.net/kde3/ for

problem with cywin = 1.5.6 and procexp

2004-01-24 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, sine 1.5.6 (also in recent cygwin snapshots 20040123) the sysinternals.com process explorer procexp found at http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml is not able to retrieve process informations from cygwin applications. With 1.5.5 and lower releases there were no

Re: Any WebBrowser for Cygwin?

2004-01-23 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 08:38, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi Michael == Michael Henke writes: Michael I want to do X-Forwarding with my Windowx-XP-Box and am using Cygwin SSHd. Michael SSH is working very fine so far. All i need is a browser (except textbrowser Michael like lynx!) for

Re: playing ogg files in cygwin

2004-01-16 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Friday 16 January 2004 00:39, you wrote: Ralf Habacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a little note. I've tried yesterday ogg123 from the vorbis-tools 1.0rc3 with recent cygwin snapshot. It works without any problems using oss. However, I can't find any recent cygwin snapshot of vorbis

Re: Thanks! ogg123.exe works!

2004-01-16 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Friday 16 January 2004 20:10, Bob Clark wrote: Ralf, I couldn't help myself. I just had to try compiling the sources that you pointed me to before I got down to some serious exam grading. I have to say, after reading the README.cygwin file that you recommended, I wasn't too hopeful. The

Re: playing ogg files in cygwin

2004-01-15 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 23:58, Ralf Habacker wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 19:51, Bob Clark wrote: Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i also think, that cygwin doesn't have any OSS emulation, does it? it have using /dev/dsp. For the kde-3.1.4 cygwin port I've tried to build

Re: Cannot load libphp4.dll into server: dlopen: Win32 error 998

2004-01-15 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 18:19, tosch wrote: Hi, while trying to install a PHP-Wiki on cygwin i got several (i think quit all) problems with mod_php which were described in the thread More Apache/PHP installation puzzles. I finally reached this point: # /usr/sbin/apachectl start

Re: Cannot load libphp4.dll into server: dlopen: Win32 error 998

2004-01-15 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 18:19, tosch wrote: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/libphp4.dll into server: dlopen: Win32 error 998 BTW: This error means that some dll's could not be accessed, my be because the executable bit isn't set. The dependency walker will show you, which dll is affected.

Re: Cygwin/X Representation at LinuxWorld Expo in New York City - Jan 21 to Jan 23

2004-01-14 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 05:20, Harold L Hunt II wrote: In an exciting, and very recent, turn of events, I will be attending LinuxWorld Expo in New York City from Wednesday January 21st 3:00 PM to Friday January 23rd 4:00 PM. This trip has been made possible by funding from X.org, for

Re: playing ogg files in cygwin

2004-01-13 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 19:51, Bob Clark wrote: Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i also think, that cygwin doesn't have any OSS emulation, does it? it have using /dev/dsp. For the kde-3.1.4 cygwin port I've tried to build ogg123 and it does have problems with playing sounds using

Re: QT 3.2.3 cygwin/XFree release available

2004-01-12 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Monday 12 January 2004 11:08, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Ralf == Ralf Habacker writes: Ralf today the cygwin/XFree port of the QT 3.2.3 X11 release based on the recent Ralf cygwin release is ready containing binary and source package. The following configure test for QT fails

Re: window decoration for multiwindow mode

2004-01-08 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Sunday 04 January 2004 01:10, Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote: Hi, A new window manager XWinWM handles Motif WM Hint and Blackbox hint, and kicker has no border. XWinWM is based on Hackedbox, and Hackedbox doesn't use _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE atom. I have to supprot EWMH, but XWinWM has preblem on more

some questions relating kde-cygwin and XWin

2004-01-08 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, 1. for the next kde-cygwin 3.1.4 release I'm going to build a start script, which starts all required applications like ipc-daemon2, XWin and KDE basic apps and kills this processes after a logout, if they are started by the script. I like to build this script without any inferences

window decoration for multiwindow mode

2004-01-03 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, i just saw the xfree development page and recognized a missing feature in the multi window mode, which is is at least interesting for kde, but I assume also for other x applications. Currently the server does not handle modal dialogs like expected (currently modal dialogs are independed

Re: New webpage: Cygwin/X Features

2003-12-24 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 08:34, Harold L Hunt II wrote: I have added a Cygwin/X Features webpage due to request by users and to ease the job of getting Cygwin/X accepted by business users: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/features.html The list of features currently has about 17 items on it.

Re: How to set breakpoints before mainCRTStartup?

2003-12-23 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Tuesday 23 December 2003 18:23, Dalibor Topic wrote: in my attempts to fix an ugly bug in kaffe on Cygwin, the bug I'm trying to squish turned out to be triggered by something that happens *before* main is called. you can set a breakpoint at the application entry point. $ gdb /bin/bash

AW: HEADSUP: cygserver now has MSG, SEM and SHM support

2003-11-27 Thread Ralf Habacker
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Ok, I don't know how that's implemented in cygipc so I think it might be necessary to mention that: The implementation of the MSG, SEM and SHM functions in Cygwin are so that if the functions are not available (be it that CYGWIN doesn't contain the word server or

AW: AW: [PATCH] setup - help and local dir commandlineoptionswasRe: Setup Command Line Options

2003-11-02 Thread Ralf Habacker
Rob, 2. There are several ways to build the api of such a engine, smaller approachs (using mostly available code and classes) or bigger approach (complete rewrite), so at first I would prefer to use the current code base and to apply minimal changes (see below) to enable gui and command

AW: [Patch] Resizing fixes

2003-11-01 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 23:33, Frank Richter wrote: This patch now properly deals with minimizing the window - before, some sizes/positions were slightly off when the window was minimized and restored. It also constraints the size of the property sheet, it now can't get smaller than

AW: AW: [PATCH] setup - help and local dir command lineoptionswasRe: Setup Command Line Options

2003-11-01 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 12:16, Ralf Habacker wrote: Rob I need more time to think about what you have written and how to start with which class, I have take some time to inspect how it could be go and have build a testcase to see what kind of api is needed. Please note that I am

AW: Performance measurement data: find

2003-11-01 Thread Ralf Habacker
hi, procexp: display same fields as task manager and -see DLL's used and where loaded in memory for each program running - See all open handles and what they point to - See each thread, it's cpu time and what module it is executing in and it's call stack -

AW: AW: [PATCH] setup - help and local dir command line optionswasRe: Setup Command Line Options

2003-10-31 Thread Ralf Habacker
Rob On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 22:23, Ralf Habacker wrote: This is in the wrong place: LocalDirSetting::load is the right method to query the option from. While thinking about this a while more, I recognized that there is some more basic work necessary how to design the command

RE: [PATCH] setup - help and local dir command lineoptionswasRe: Setup Command Line Options

2003-10-27 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 03:49, Ralf Habacker wrote: Hi Rob, Oh, and please resubmit the patch with the correction I requested.. Rob here is it. I hope it is correct now. Not quite: I'm not in the business of splitting up patches and adjusting changelogs - could you please

AW: Problems with shared lesstif and shared Xt on Cygwin/XFree86

2003-10-27 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Harold L Hunt II wrote: I tried a build without $(SMLIB) and $(ICELIB) in SharedXtReqs, but it fails to link due to unresolved symbols (all symbols must be resolved at library link time in DLLs on Windows). I will have to consult with the rest of the Cygwin people to see what we

AW: AW: [PATCH] setup - help and local dir command line optionswasRe: Setup Command Line Options

2003-10-26 Thread Ralf Habacker
Rob, On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 22:23, Ralf Habacker wrote: This is in the wrong place: LocalDirSetting::load is the right method to query the option from. While thinking about this a while more, I recognized that there is some more basic work necessary how to design the command line

AW: AW: cygwin.rules - Enabling shared libXt finally?

2003-10-22 Thread Ralf Habacker
is it? That is, if Harold releases another libXt with this change, would that break the recently re-compiled and released lesstif, etc etc? -- Chuck Ralf Habacker wrote: Not sure I understand. What should be changed in the current version of the Xt code? only note 1, chaning the label. The second

Re: cygwin.rules - Enabling shared libXt finally?

2003-10-21 Thread Ralf Habacker
Harold, It looks like you got it nailed to me. I am testing a build right now. I have too additional notes to this patch. 1. Because _Xtinherit is exported as a data symbol, immediate calls to this function in the manner ... _XtInherit(); ... will be relocated wrongly and should be

AW: cygwin.rules - Enabling shared libXt finally?

2003-10-21 Thread Ralf Habacker
Harold Not sure I understand. What should be changed in the current version of the Xt code? only note 1, chaning the label. The second note is only for completeness. Attached are my curent xc/lib/Xt/[Initialize.c|IntrinsicP.h] files. Please send a diff against these if anything

AW: Patch for building libcrypt.a as a DLL

2003-10-20 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 09:31:44PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: BTW: There is another lib, libutil.a in the inetutils package, which causes same libtool problems Please don't use libutil.a anymore. All functionality intentionally exported from libutil.a is now exported genuinely

AW: Patch for building libcrypt.a as a DLL

2003-10-19 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Charles, this is very suprising. I have noted for the next to make a note exactly of this library. The reason for this is, that KDE had upgrades their libtool release to on to the newest cvs release and file_magic dependency style is not the default. Thanks very much for your effort. BTW:

ash does not understand '~'

2003-10-17 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, the following shell script does not work at least with ash-20031007-1 although I don't see any reason why this should not be a valid syntax. If you use export PATH=${HOME}:/usr/bin then the scripts runs. bash has no problems with this. --- ~/test --- #!/bin/sh export

AW: ash does not understand '~'

2003-10-17 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi the following shell script does not work at least with ash-20031007-1 although I don't see any reason why this should not be a valid syntax. If you use The reason is, '~' is an extension to the bourne shell syntax, first defined in csh or tcsh, AFAIK. ash is a pure bourne shell

Re: cygwin.rules - Enabling shared libXt finally?

2003-10-16 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi all, What we would need is a startup function which replaces pointers to the importlib _XtInherit to the pointer of _XtInherit from the dll. func reloc_addr[] = { }; unsigned reloc_addr_size = ...; __startup_relocate(void) { unsigned i; func real_func = dlsym(cygXt.dll,

AW: AW: Enabling SHM support in default build of XWin.exe

2003-09-18 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Charles, ... if linked to the static ipc-library. Using the cygipc dll results in an additional runtime dependency, which will produce windows runtime linking errors if the cygipc package isn't installed, which will produce more support noise dealing with this issue. Using the static

AW: IPC/SHM is now supported by default in xoncygwin HEAD CVS tree

2003-09-18 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Harold, I just checked in changes to the MIT-SHM (xc/programs/Xserver/Xext/shm.c) and XFree86Bigfont (xc/programs/Xserver/Xext/xf86bigfont.c) extensions that disable SHM support when the Cygwin IPC daemon is not running. This allows IPC/SHM support to be enabled by default in

AW: Enabling SHM support in default build of XWin.exe

2003-09-17 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Harold, Ralf Habacker sent some patches on 2003/09/05 that I am working on getting committed to the XFree86 CVS tree. Those two patches are here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-09/msg00092.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-09/msg00090.html I have opened Bug 698

AW: [PATCH] package base-files: fix no global set of profile.d settings

2003-09-16 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Igor, This has already been reported (and should be fixed in the next release of base-files). You should be able to find the relevant messages in the cygwin-apps archives. FYI, your patch is not space-in-filename-friendly. thanks for this note, I will wait for the next release. Could anyone

[PATCH] package base-files: fix no global set of profile.d settings

2003-09-15 Thread Ralf Habacker
env vars set Cheers Ralf ChangeLog 2003-08-23 Ralf Habacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] * etc/defaults/etc/profile: Fix problem not setting environment vars through profile.d scripts. $ diff -up etc/defaults/etc/profile.old etc/defaults/etc/profile --- etc/defaults/etc/profile.old

RE: !RE: [PATCH] gcc3/ld patch for direct-linking-to-dll andauto-importsupport

2003-09-09 Thread Ralf Habacker
I've tried that with your testcase and it seems to work. What gcc release you are using ? I tested with mingw builds of 3.3.1 and last weeks GCC-head (3.4). They put readonly data into .rdata$ sections if -fdata-sections but in .text otherwise. You're correct, though, it is is

RE: cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-08 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Harold, What do you mean? Do you mean that even after adding a call to check if shm is supported and running that the extension is still installed, even if you return? Or do you mean that looking at the existing code shows that they were never checking for shm support in the first

!RE: [PATCH] gcc3/ld patch for direct-linking-to-dll and auto-importsupport

2003-09-08 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, From: Nick Clifton nickc at redhat dot com Hi Ralf, while compiling trolltechs qt/xfree library with gcc3 (3.2x) on cygwin I recognized, that the auto-import stuff in combination of recent ld does not work in case of const variables in a dll when using direct linking to a

RE: cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-05 Thread Ralf Habacker
Ralf -- What happens when you run your cygipc-based build of X11, but do not have the ipc-daemon running? You can't run KDE, of course, but does the Xserver itself still work properly? Can non-KDE X apps work? Xfre has build in support for disabling XIT-SHM support in cases the kernel

RE: cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-05 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi all, The appended patch implemented this support for the xfree server. I've found that the XFree86-Bigfont extension is also shm related, which is fixed by the appended patch. As I have looked into this code I was wondering about the extension initialisation code, which doesn't work as

[PATCH] gcc3/ld patch for direct-linking-to-dll and auto-import support

2003-08-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi while compiling trolltechs qt/xfree library with gcc3 (3.2x) on cygwin I recognized, that the auto-import stuff in combination of recent ld does not work in case of const variables in a dll when using direct linking to a dll, because gcc put those variables into a readonly, that means the

RE: XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)

2003-08-14 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Harold, If my IP is w.x.y.z vs. my loopback of 127.0.0.1, how is one of these using unix domain sockets and the other using tcp/ip? you're right, the answer is off-topic for this issue. I had read a note about using DISPLAY=:0, which means using unix domain socket and for that my answer was

RE: cygwin as a replacement for explorer.exe

2003-08-14 Thread Ralf Habacker
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 10:29 PM To: Sal Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cygwin as a replacement for explorer.exe On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Sal wrote: Is it possible to

RE: cygwin as a replacement for explorer.exe

2003-08-14 Thread Ralf Habacker
If you want a graphical file manager, take a look at the KDE for Cygwin suite of tools. For KDE see http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cygwinm=103072530327420w=2. General Informations about KDE/cygwin could be found on http://cygwin.kde.org Thanks for the pointer. You can get more

RE: XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)

2003-08-07 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi all, The most recent patch looks pretty good from your description. c) Replaces %display% with 127.0.0.1:display.0 in commands Huh, I was going to say that %display% should be replaced with 127.0.0.1:0.0, but then I remembered that we know the 0.0, but we don't know that the user

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 95

2003-08-04 Thread Ralf Habacker
; - DEBUGPROC_MSG; into + DEBUGVARS; + DEBUG_FN_NAME(winSetSpans); + DEBUGPROC_MSG; Cheers Ralf Changelog 2003-08-04 Ralf Habacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] * winfillsp.c(winFillSpansNativeGDI), * wingc.c(winValidateGCNativeGDI), * winsetsp.c(winSetSpansNativeGDI

RE: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please make libXt a shared library.

2003-07-29 Thread Ralf Habacker
#ifdef SUNSHLIB /* * _XtInherit needs to be statically linked since it is compared against as * well as called. */ void _XtInherit() { extern void __XtInherit(); __XtInherit(); } #define _XtInherit __XtInherit + #elif defined(CYGWIN) + void (_XtInherit)(void) =

RE: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please make libXt a shared library.

2003-07-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
ago BTW: there are some design problems with the shared library. snip This test is also done in other shared libraries. On linux (and most unices) there is no problem with this. But on windows the symbol XtInherit in the other library points to the import table and is different to

RE: [XFree86-4.2.0] Now that we have an improved ld, please make libXt a shared library.

2003-07-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Alexander, for libXt it uses the direct address. For every other library using the libXt.dll it uses the address from the stub. I see, this is another case. Please take a look into xc/lib/xt/Initialize.c and xc/lib/xt/sharedlib.c which provides such a case for another os. I don't

RE: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites The link is out of date, the new one is http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCSourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites Cheers Ralf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:37:43PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites The link is out of date, the new one is http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCSourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites The link is not out of date

RE: [SEMI-OFFTOPIC] Request for Ralf Habacker

2003-07-22 Thread Ralf Habacker
Ralf, I appreciate the acknowledgement on your kde-cygwin web site but I really would rather not have my email address available on your acknowledgement page. I know that Corinna probably feels the same way and I suspect that Charles Wilson, Egor Duda, and Robert Collins probably all would

RE: RE: qt3 on cygwin

2003-07-20 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, I tried to compile qt3 from kdesygwin.sf.net but i've maybe done a mistake while retrieving the files from cvs indeed in my package (retrieved with cvs) there's no header in include in a normal qt x11 there are sym links for ex : include/qmap.h - ../src/tools/qmap.h

RE: qt3 on cygwin

2003-07-19 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hello i'm trying to compile qt3.1.0 on cygwin as said in http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/compiling.php but i get errors (impossible to find headers) has someone compiled qt3.1.0 on cygwin ? The qt3-win32 section covers the native port of qt on cygwin without using

RE: Problem in compiling : cannot find -ldl

2003-07-11 Thread Ralf Habacker
, apply the following patch to the cygwin sources. Cheers Ralf - 2003-07-11 Ralf Habacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Makefile.in (libdl.a): provide unix compatibility library for dlopen

RE: I am back

2003-07-08 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Harold, Have you checked if xoncygwin (SourceForge CVS) has both of your patches applied? I think that I applied them both, but it would be nice if you could verify that I did. The patches were not directly applied... I looked at them and did the modifications by hand, adjusting a

RE: Memory access error in XWin -multiwindow

2003-07-07 Thread Ralf Habacker
Ralf Habacker wrote: After installing this package, relink the Xserver with the following line: $ make LDFLAGS=-Wl,--whole-archive -Wl,-lmemwatch -Wl,--no-whole-archive I just noticed two little issue with linking xwin: 1. The above link line is a link line using default Makefiles

RE: Memory access error in XWin -multiwindow

2003-07-04 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Biju, I am facing an issue of Memory access error in XWin -multiwindow mode see http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-06/msg00294.html So Ralf pointed me to http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-06/msg00162.html After seeing that patch, I have just gone thru XWin Source and found,

RE: E Z ? - Tried installing KDE and lost original windowing system

2003-06-19 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 09:10 AM, Larry Hall wrote: Robert Pollard wrote: Hello all, I tried to install KDE and it wouldn't run after installation. I did all the post installation changes. It comes up with an error window saying The application failed to initialize properly

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