setup.exe problem [johnm@falch.net: Re: no exec files from gcc and c++]

2002-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
---BeginMessage--- Jean-Marc Nuzillard wrote: g++ -c hello.cpp - g++ not found, took some time to think to try c++ I think at least this part of your problems is due to another bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.15. (I've looked briefly for relevant discussion here and on cygwin-apps and seen

Re: release setup now?

2002-03-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Michael's script works for me. One caveat: I had to manually run 'clean_lst.pl ./a*.lst' 26 times (using different starting letters). However, that was because I got a BSOD when running it fullbore -- where it tried to fixup all files. Now, a perl script should never ever be able to cause a

Now that the new setup is here...

2002-03-25 Thread Charles Wilson
there were two things I was going to do: 1) move gettext from the contrib directory to the latest directory -- and see if anybody barfs. 2) update bzip2 to the latest release -- which involves the grand library split thing (bzip2 - bzip2 + libbz2_0). However, the name libbz2_0 is

RE: setup.exe problem [johnm@falch.net: Re: no exec files from gcc and c++]

2002-03-25 Thread Robert Collins
Sigh. Well I'm nearly back on deck. (Long story). I'll look into this today, I hope. Rob -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: setup.exe problem [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: no exec

RE: Now that the new setup is here...

2002-03-25 Thread Robert Collins
Holdoff please Chuck, cgf's forwarded post here indicates that there is still at least one serious bug in 2.194... Rob -Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Now that the new

RE: prev/curr/test

2002-03-25 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: prev/curr/test I think I've seen the light. ... I think that Robert is right that if you click on test you should only get

Re: Keeping base, adding standard.

2002-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:11:45AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: I just meant that I am extremely unlikely to agree with you on this one. So, I won't be willing to let setup grow in this direction. I would not blame you if you felt that your creativity was being hampered. If the decision

RE: prev/curr/test

2002-03-25 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:21 AM Hmm. I think that unclicking bin should uninstall - leaving it there would be counter-intuititive. If you have the word install next to a box, I don't think it

RE: Keeping base, adding standard.

2002-03-25 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:25 AM I'm actually in the position of being a pretty normal cygwin user right now. No time, just amazingly good ideas. I'll try to generate the appropriate resentment if

Re: Keeping base, adding standard.

2002-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:33:16AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: I'm actually in the position of being a pretty normal cygwin user right now. No time, just amazingly good ideas. I'll try to generate the appropriate resentment if no one acts on my ideas in the next day or so. Oh... well I

Re: prev/curr/test

2002-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:31:22AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Tick Bin to install foo. Untick Bin to remove foo. Tick Source to trigger a download of the source (download only mode) or extraction (install from x mode). And when you just don't want a package? What do you click to get

Re: prev/curr/test

2002-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:02:17PM -0500, Brian Keener wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: evil and should be abolished. The only way to get old versions should be at a macro level. You click a button and get all of the old stuff, you click another button and get all of the current stuff, you

RE: prev/curr/test

2002-03-25 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: prev/curr/test And when you just don't want a package? What do you click to get the equivalent of skip? Don't click either?

Re: prev/curr/test

2002-03-25 Thread Brian Keener
Christopher Faylor wrote: Sorry, but I really don't like this. Adding a whole bunch of new things for a user to cycle through (or even select from a pulldown) is moving in the wrong direction, IMO. But a big deal at one point in time was the ability to get to packages/versions that were in

Re: prev/curr/test

2002-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
Um. Could you guys stop Cc'ing me, please. I don't know how my name got on the Cc list but please remove it. I set the Reply-To for a reason. cgf

Re: prev/curr/test

2002-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:27:04PM -0500, Brian Keener wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Sorry, but I really don't like this. Adding a whole bunch of new things for a user to cycle through (or even select from a pulldown) is moving in the wrong direction, IMO. But a big deal at one point in time

Re: more package

2002-03-25 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
requires: ash cygwin libintl1 ncurses pcre almost nothing actually depends on the ncurses package. the dependency is probably on the libncurses6 and/or terminfo packages. Thanks. I actually edited a copy of grep's .hint, FYI. grep doesn't have an ncurses dependency. Yes, I added