Re: Packaging tools? (Was: RE: RFP: NASM)

2002-03-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
Stanislav Sinyagin wrote: Did someone think of developing a simple framework for making the packages, especially for that software which supports Cygwin and configure does everything for you? Concurrent Version Systems has an autobuild package. I haven't looked at it yet, just found it

Re: Link for MORE

2002-03-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:19 AM I suppose you could do this but the purists would say you should do export PAGER /bin/less Good point. Hey, Robert, why not add

Re: Link for MORE

2002-03-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: Well, my interest begins and ends with the file creation being moved somewhere sensible. Simply running setup should not create /etc/profile any more than installing sed. Yep. Agreed. I'm not sure I agree. It doesn't matter what creates it, it needs

Re: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)

2002-03-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Lapo Luchini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:48 PM But if a cygwin native version is needed nonetheless I could volunteer to package it. IMO we should have a fully self-hosted distribution. At the

Re: ITP: pkgconfig

2002-03-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
Yay Earnie Charles Wilson wrote: Anybody else want to weigh in, here? So far I've got one 'yay' vote from Robert (but putting pkgconfig into contrib instead of latest) Fine by me Any other votes? --Chuck Charles Wilson wrote: I've got pkgconfig ready for contribution to the

[Fwd: [Mingw-users] FARPROC not the same as in win32 SDK]

2002-02-13 Thread Earnie Boyd
FYI. Earnie. ---BeginMessage--- Hi, I recently got the w32api from the CVS and now the compilation of this small code broke. FARPROC fpDirectDrawCreate = GetProcAddress(hmodDDraw, DirectDrawCreate); if (fpDirectDrawCreate != NULL) { retval = (*fpDirectDrawCreate) (NULL, lpdd, NULL); }

Re: gnuplot problem under Xfree86

2002-01-30 Thread Earnie Boyd
Wrong list!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just compiled gnuplot-3.7 from source files for cygwin under Xfree86. Every thing was running fine for a postscript terminal, but it fails for a X11 terminal, for instance plotted lines fall outside the graph

Re: call matlab from C

2002-01-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
Wrong list!! Tamer Samy abdelazim wrote: Hi All ; i am using cygwin for windows. I tried to call matlab engine from C under cygwin under win2K ... I am always get errors from gcc compiler (the error is under) I do not know which libmat.a or which liberary i can use.Can you

Re: for the brave

2002-01-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: file:/Polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin-new/setup.ini file:Polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin-new/setup.ini This makes sense. You need two // after file: and two // before Polgara. The extra fifth / was just ignored. Earnie.

Re: Setup - Idea...

2002-01-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 22:35, Gareth Pearce wrote: Hi ... I am going out on a limb here and assume that this feature hasnt been suggested before. (ummm yeah I know I should of checked the message lists - I am prepared to shoot myself if I am wrong :P) I'm not sure

Re: gcc v3 issue -- hacky solution

2002-01-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:45:17PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Or maybe Danny Smith can provide details on what it takes to build said library, and one of the folk that keep building gcc for-the-hell-of-it and talking on cygwin@ can become the maintainer? It's

Re: [ANN] rcs-5.7 package available

2002-01-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
Hmm... OOTB? Did you take care to test it? In the past there've been issues with the way files are left opened while the temp files are being copied over them. That doesn't work with Win32 and therefore Cygwin. With CVS already working do we need RCS? Earnie. Corinna Vinschen wrote: On

Re: rebase for setup.

2002-01-16 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jason Tishler wrote: Any ideas why stripping prevents some DLLs from being rebased and not others? Any solutions besides not stripping? Text mode mounts? Earnie _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Re: Robots binary package

2001-12-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Your reference doesn't say that _ALL_ packages need a README. What's difficult with Robots? Your reference also doesn't say anything about adding how the package was configured to a README. Your reference was only dealing with where to put the READMEs that need to be created. I don't see a

Re: Units

2001-12-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 08:53:30PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Ok, I bit. Step 5: 5. Create setup.hint file following the documentation on this web page. For new packages the first upload MUST be tagged as experimental. Once the package has no major bug

Re: FW: bash completion (was: RE: Units)

2001-12-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:58:55PM -, Ebrey, Carl wrote: Gah! I meant to send this to the list but I replied and so it went to Earnie instead. Sorry about that... Okay, I could be really wrong here but from what I can see, http://cygwin.com/setup.html

Re: bash/cmd and CTRL-C problem...

2001-12-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Wrong list. This post belongs on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before posting to this or other lists please review the list functions at http://cygwin.com/lists.html . Earnie. Michael Rumpf wrote: Hi, I'm new to the list and I don't know if this problem is already solved, but I couldn't find a

Re: request: change mount behaviour

2001-12-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo, I am sure that this was discussed, I didn't searched the archives, but I want to make this request (again if it is so): Change the default mount behaviour to create binmode user mounts if called without options. Example: $ mount C:/some/drive /mydrive

Re: string.h vs string.h usage

2001-12-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
Pavel Tsekov wrote: Any opinions on this topic ? Btw one thing - I've found many #include strings.h in the latest sources - shouldn't this be changed to #include string.h ? mingw doesnt have strings.h. Btw It seems that if you have string.h you dont need strings.h (I'm under

Re: string.h vs string.h usage

2001-12-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
egor duda wrote: Hi! Wednesday, 05 December, 2001 Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EB egor duda wrote: Wednesday, 05 December, 2001 Pavel Tsekov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SUSv2 mandates both strings.h and string.h EB Wrong documentation base. You must use MSDN for MinGW

Re: cygutils: Category

2001-12-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keeping backward compatible/useable behaviour for a) Local installs from directories without setup.ini files, and That user must deal with those themselves. Nice in theory. If that was truely

Re: cygutils: Category

2001-12-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: Chuck, Misc as a category acts like base: things in it always install. Uhm, why? I missed this conversation evidently. IMNSHO, Base should be the only required install. Misc are niceties that make the job easier but aren't required. I guess this isn't

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