Re: RFP: texmf

2001-12-05 Thread Robert Collins
Re: renaming the package. Don't do this *yet*. a) there is no urgency in doing so, b) setup can't help at this point, and using ncurses as a reference point, it could have been worse, and ncurses has _no_ knobs to twiddle and get wrong, which tex* does AFAIK. setup will be able to help, probably

Re: string.h vs string.h usage

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

Re: RFP: texmf

2001-12-05 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] How long would it take to phase them out? A fresh setup.ini that doesn't mention tetex-beta would make tetex-beta invisible? Hmm, but then we'd need a 'conflicts:' setup hint or so, and locally cached setup.ini's could

cygutils: Category

2001-12-05 Thread Robert Collins
Chuck, Misc as a category acts like base: things in it always install. I guess this isn't documented clearly anywhere except the cygdev archives, so I'll correct that soon. Can I suggest that the cygutils packages belongs in (shock horror) Utils ? Rob

Re: experimental texmf packages

2001-12-08 Thread Robert Collins
Follow to cygwin-patches please. Thanks for freshening this up. There's still a little more to do, but it looks good nonetheless. Rob - Original Message - From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW: can you freshed up your postremove

Re: libtool packages

2001-12-09 Thread Robert Collins
Cool. Thank you very much for running with the libtool stuff. ltdl the new one should safely sub for the old one - right choice. Rob

RE: Made many changes to setup.html

2001-12-13 Thread Robert Collins
I've not had a lot of time recently. I hope to get up to date on a lot of things this weekend. Rob -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 8:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Made many changes to setup.html I

Re: Made many changes to setup.html

2001-12-14 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Carl Ebrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah right, you don't want me to re-write it then? :) Rewrite, no. provide fixups and additions and clarification, yes. The thing about rewrites, is that (unless done v. carefully) they usually introduce as much confusion as they

Re: Restructuring gettext

2001-12-15 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ouch. Do you know why it's not compatible? (i.e. is auto-import breaking something?) Well, whaddaya know. I replaced my cygintl.dll with cygintl-1.dll and wget/uuencode/etc still worked. I just assumed because I changed

Re: Made many changes to setup.html

2001-12-15 Thread Robert Collins
Jonathan could you please resend it to me (the id-name change was all I recall :}). Rob === - Original Message - From: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 11:40 AM Subject: RE: Made many changes to setup.html I've not had a lot of time

Re: Restructuring gettext

2001-12-15 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The term glutton for punishment springs to mind. :] I think we should consider it the responsibility of the package maintainer to maintain all occurrences of the name of his package. So, it would be within your right

Re: curl, libcurl, libcomprex, leakbug (was:Re: Packaging cURL for cygwin distribution ???)

2001-12-16 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] I noticed your example had a DLL name of cygcurl-2.dll. The DLLs (and .. It is not important how the dll is named, as long as libtool is used. The executables know how their dll is named to find it. Also these names were

Re: Made many changes to setup.html

2001-12-16 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't imagine why you'd argue with that. I assume that you aren't actually arguing with it. With that I'm not. I read what you'd written three times and got the same meaning each time, which was that 'b' was not a

Re: has anyone tried latest setup.exe from cvs ?

2001-12-16 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:04 PM Subject: Re: has anyone tried latest setup.exe from cvs ? On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:52:11AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From

RE: Restructuring gettext

2001-12-16 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Right. But the one package could provide the same .dll twice (until all dependent packages are rebuilt). I'd prefer not to complicate the libfooX package by starting down the path where libfoo1 contains both

Re: Setup.exe new GUI preview

2001-12-17 Thread Robert Collins
This hung for me, at 99% of the last pacakge, in download only mode. Can you post a diff to cygwin-patches? Rob === - Original Message - From: Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin-Apps [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 6:59 PM Subject: Setup.exe new GUI

Re: Restructuring gettext

2001-12-18 Thread Robert Collins
I'd recommend specifying both, for users who click 'prev'. If you don't list a prev version (implicitly or explicitly) then you don't need both. Rob

Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)

2001-12-19 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmm. Maybe I just convinced myself that they belong as a separate package. How about this: John, why don't you create a bashutils package, to serve as a collection of (moderately) useful bash scripts and settings.

Re: fortune-1.8-1 [was Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)]

2001-12-19 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Opinions? Cool. You've my vote. Rob

Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)

2001-12-19 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Ebrey, Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] One thing I would like to say though is that I've been quite annoyed by the attitudes that come over on this mailing list. The last time I checked Cygwin was an open project, available for anyone to contribute and offer help.

Re: Units

2001-12-20 Thread Robert Collins
Last time I simply removed the `test' marker. This time I'll ask. John, are you sure that it should become a `test' version? Please see setup.html. It explicitly requires this for new packages. Rob

Re: Units

2001-12-20 Thread Robert Collins
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 reports from the users, then a current package may be introduced Rob

Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)

2001-12-20 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Morrison, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 10:02 PM Subject: RE: bash completion (was: RE: Units) I found a problem with the bash_completion as stands... ... Sorry to have caused so

Re: bash completion (was: RE: Units)

2001-12-20 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Morrison, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Robert Collins' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Morrison, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 10:50 PM Subject: RE: bash completion (was: RE: Units) Question: does

Re: which which

2001-12-20 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Morrison, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:01 PM Subject: which which If you'll pardon the pun, which version of which are we running? The GNU version is currently 2.13 and I just wondered if folks would

Re: which which

2001-12-20 Thread Robert Collins
Ah, well I've no idea about how GNU our version is. :}. Rob === - Original Message - From: Morrison, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Robert Collins' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:23 PM Subject: RE: which which I wasn't sure that: 1) we were

Re: which which

2001-12-20 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I contributed my own small version of which (which is version 1.5). If you want to maintain which in future, feel free to contribute the GNU version instead. I have actually no problems stepping back. I'm happy with

Re: Units

2001-12-20 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't see how that applies to the first release of a new package. I'd call it pretty basic risk management. If the package doesn't cause any havoc, then put it in current really quickly. I'm just nervous with the concept

Re: Units

2001-12-20 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Btw, I think Earnie's idea of having a *New!* category is actually a good one. I have been meaning to implement something like that for the web package lister, in fact. Yes. I intend to do that for setup once we

Re: Units

2001-12-20 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] What about New within the last _x_ days ? Then it's up to the user. Rob

new setup snapshot

2001-12-20 Thread Robert Collins
I've uploaded a new setup snapshot for the adventurous. w32api also has been updated, and the update is needed to build the setup HEAD code. Feedback welcome. remaining features to next release: 1) Gary's layout changes. 2) Clickable categories. 3) Pavel Tsekov's netio refactor to io_stream.

Re: which which

2001-12-21 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, the bottom line is that once the new version of which is uploaded, the right thing will happen automatically. The only setup.hint changes that would be required are to the sdesc and ldesc. I think you should make it

Re: Contribution Package Proposal: JASSPA's MicroEmacs

2001-12-21 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Jon Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the information. So where can I find out information about the soon to be released features of setup.exe ?? In the code, or the Change Log or the README. I assume that the setup.hint will be extended to

rebase for setup.

2001-12-23 Thread Robert Collins
Ok Jason, lets talk rebasing. I'd like to get a release of setup out before this gets integrated in. Setup is one feature away fro mfeature freeze so that shouldn't be to far away. Did my rebasing algorithm seem correct to you? If not, lets talk what it should look like. Rob

Setup.exe snapshot

2001-12-23 Thread Robert Collins
I've placed a new snapshot of setup.exe at http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots. Any commentary is welcome, with the caveat that duplicates aren't interesting - no not even to guage the popularity or impact of a problem. Triage occurs after inital analysis. Firstly, the known bugs: * The

ITP:

2001-12-27 Thread Robert Collins
I'm considering packaging up libxml2 - thoughts? # LibXML2 test package @ libxml2 sdesc: Libxml is the XML C library developped for the Gnome project. ldesc: Libxml is the XML C library developped for the Gnome project. XML itself is a meta language to design markup languages, i.e. text language

libtool devel works nicely

2001-12-28 Thread Robert Collins
Chuck, lovely wrapper scripts, they work beautifully (its what I used for libxml2 and libxslt - which I did so I could give you feedback). Cheers, Rob

Re: Robots binary package

2001-12-28 Thread Robert Collins
My impression has been that a README in that location was required (since that thread occured), which is why it is listed as required in setup.html. I don't particularly care either way , but I think that _consistency_ is a very good idea, and that we should either bitbucket all those readme's

Re: libtool devel works nicely

2001-12-28 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Collins wrote: Chuck, lovely wrapper scripts, they work beautifully (its what I used for libxml2 and libxslt - which I did so I could give you feedback). That's good to hear. So you exercised the whole

Re: libtool devel works nicely

2001-12-29 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Stipe Tolj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert, lovely wrapper scripts, they work beautifully (its what I used for libxml2 and libxslt - which I did so I could give you feedback). I'm also fiddling arround with Chuck's libtool scripts, but having some

Re: libtool devel works nicely

2001-12-29 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would this have something to do with the stated purpose of cygwin-apps? I think it's in a grey area. It's partly feedback on Chuck test-packages, and partly discussion of libtool/cygwin - both of which have happened here in

Re: New setup build for people's perusal

2001-12-31 Thread Robert Collins
For User URL's I don't think they should be stored or shown separately, but I won't object to clean patches that do that. I will object if they are in different combo boxes (it's non-intuitive to select from both). And for storage, If you want comments, feel free to contribute a patch :]. Rob

Re: rebase for setup.

2002-01-03 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Jason Tishler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately, it does not actually handle pathological (or should I say incestuous) programs such as Python that use freshly built components (i.e., DLLs) during the build process itself. Does it make any sense to change

Re: Gary's Setup.exe v2.162

2002-01-04 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: David A. Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 5:01 AM Subject: Gary's Setup.exe v2.162 Downloaded 01/04/02, Some uglinesses: CHOOSER: View:Category Click category=Base ('cause it's numerous), observe painting of

Re: Restructuring gettext

2002-01-04 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: David A. Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've thought about suggesting the same thing but the problem with that scenario is that if you cancel an installation, then all sorts of stuff is uninstalled -- which probably isn't what you expected. Probably not. But

Re: Success report: Setup.exe on Windows 2000.

2002-01-07 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wasn't expecting you to provide this. All that I wanted was clickable categories. I'll take care of providing an uber-category. FWIW, I was going to call it Full rather than All since you pointed out that there

Re: setup.exe copyright?

2002-01-07 Thread Robert Collins
Setup.exe doesn't not require copyright assignment - it's not part of cygwin. Rob === - Original Message - From: Warren Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 5:18 AM Subject: Re: setup.exe copyright? Christopher Faylor wrote: I just perused

Re: Success report: Setup.exe on Windows 2000.

2002-01-07 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't understand. Why is there an All there at all? The only thing that I've asked for, and have been asking for, is clickable categories. I wasn't asking for special All logic. The All is a freebie that took me all

autotool man and info pages

2002-01-08 Thread Robert Collins
Chuck, your autotools wrapper install has one little hiccup: the title of this email. Might I suggest some symlinks ? Rob

new policy for packages

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
I want to suggest that the following become policy: No new packages are accepted that require non-packaged prerequisites. i.e. using rpm which was raised on cygwin@ recently, until db 3.2 is packaged and maintained by 'someone', rpm is not acceptable as a package. Thoughts? Rob

Re: new policy for packages

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] postgreSQL needs cygipc. Luckily it's not a *new* packahge :) Yes! Actually it's postgreSQL and similar that concern me: postgreSQL needs ipc, but ipc is not a package, and won't be unless the cygwin IPC looks waaay

Re: new policy for packages

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Gareth Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] This makes sense to me - however I was wondering to what extent. 1. no packages which have run-time dependencies on non-packaged. Yes. 2. no packages which have Build time dependencies on non-packaged during 'standard'

Re: new policy for packages

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] Runtime only prerequisites? Essentially. Complex build time would be a concern, but not as much of one (depending on the reputation of the packager). (i.e. long time contributor, low risk. New contributor, might package and

Re: [ANN] apache_1.3.22-2

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Stipe Tolj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since `httpd' is more general I would prefer `apache' from these two layouts. I disagree here! It's common style to have the protocoll name for /etc and /var sub-directories. httpd is not the protocol name. It's a hangover

Re: [ANN] apache_1.3.22-2

2002-01-12 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Stipe Tolj [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, isn't that postinstall copying superfluous? Wouldn't it be better to have the cyghttpd.dll already in usr/bin in the tar archive? yes, basicly I have done this because after make install we result with

Re: [ANN] apache_1.3.22-2

2002-01-12 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Stipe Tolj [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, what votes are given for leaving /etc/httpd ? Uhmm, simply put I don't care beyond voicing my opinion. However I also won't care is 1000 users complain when another www server is pacakaged and collides with apache. Rob

Re: [ANN] apache_1.3.22-2

2002-01-12 Thread Robert Collins
If you want to be able to have both apoache 1.3 and 2 installed concurrently, then that is the only valid reason to use an underscore - and the result should look like apache_1-1.3.22-3 Rob === - Original Message - From: Stipe Tolj [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday,

Re: [ANN] apache_1.3.22-2

2002-01-12 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [ANN] apache_1.3.22-2 On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:12:48AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: If you want to be able to have both apoache 1.3 and 2

Re: [ANN] apache_1.3.22-2

2002-01-12 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to put in a vote for NOT treating '_' and '-' identically. .. In fact, I *thought* setup/upset didn't treat '_' any differently than 'a' but perhaps I was wrong... So did I - I'm going to check. If they are treated

Re: [ANN] apache_1.3.22-2

2002-01-12 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] So did I - I'm going to check. If they are treated the same now, then we'll have to check that no pacakges will get broken if we change. Otherwise I'll be changing it:} From parse_filename(): for (ver = p; *ver;

Re: any chance...

2002-01-12 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I forward ported the current patch, and rebuilt automake-devel from 1.5b. That seemed to go okay; I'm waiting for make check to complete. If successful, I'll post the packages for Corinna to do with as she wants. Thanks

Re: ITP: libtool-devel, libtool-stable, libtool (wrappers)

2002-01-12 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 6:31 PM Subject: Re: ITP: libtool-devel, libtool-stable, libtool (wrappers) Robert Collins wrote: Okay, I've renamed the devel

Re: ITP: libtool-devel, libtool-stable, libtool (wrappers)

2002-01-12 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh, and on voting for this package: IMO just upload it. It's a very core package, required for many apps, and the patches are going into libtool-HEAD. Chris has a veto on packages, but I don't think I'll be stepping to

Re: last package

2002-01-15 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mark Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 1:12 AM Subject: Re: last package Robert Collins wrote: - Original Message - From

Re: Current setup hangs if file can't get installed

2002-01-15 Thread Robert Collins
Thanks, I'll handle it. Rob === - Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:40 AM Subject: Current setup hangs if file can't get installed Just a heads up, the current setup gets trapped in an endless

Re: mysql server out of the list

2002-01-18 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Stephan Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 12:35 PM Subject: mysql server out of the list Looks like the MySQL server is not doable due to the way Cygwin threads are implemented, according to the authors..

for the brave

2002-01-19 Thread Robert Collins
I need a few testers: I've fixed the fault Corinna reported with in use files and upgrades. I'd like to know that it works on 9x (not tested properly just now), and if anyone can get it to fault - with reasonable behaviour. I.e. reinstall the cygwin package, and see if it does the 'right

Stipe:

2002-01-19 Thread Robert Collins
I cannot email you directly, your email address is unreachable for me. I have answered your pthreads question, and Jeff Trawick came back to me. Rob ===

Re: for the brave

2002-01-19 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] HmmmW2K it reports REplaced in use file -- you need to reboot or some such. BUT: I had no cygwin processes running. a) what file did it THINK was in use? I'll look at providing more detail in the future. Also an

Re: setup crashing (attn Corinna)

2002-01-20 Thread Robert Collins
Oh, nearly forgot, theres' a minor w32api change as well needed to build this. Rob === - Original Message - From: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 12:32 AM Subject: setup crashing (attn Corinna) Corinna, Something seriously funny

Re: for the brave

2002-01-20 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oops -- more problems. I can't install from local directory. Setup whines that it is Unable to get setup.ini from setup.ini (??) Is this reproducible? What does your local dir look like (what setup.ini's does it have,

Re: for the brave

2002-01-20 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry that I didn't have time to track it down further. I will do so tomorrow if no one beats me to it. That's fine either way - this is in the 'wll in theory it works' bin at the moment. I've had no trouble

Re: setup crashing (attn Corinna)

2002-01-21 Thread Robert Collins
at 08:26:35AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: === - Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: setup crashing (attn Corinna) Oh, and in the gdb output plesae include: bt full, info threads Urgh, I'm getting a dialog now (shortened

Re: setup crashing (attn Corinna)

2002-01-21 Thread Robert Collins
) On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:25:53AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Actually we might be in the wrong thread. Try BT full on the other thread please. (gdb) thread 3 [Switching to thread 3 (thread 404.0xefc)]#0 0x77c33d8c in _system_dlls__ () (gdb) bt full #0 0x77c33d8c in _system_dlls__

Re: gcc v3 compile problem

2002-01-21 Thread Robert Collins
The rule of email-prodding-answers strikes again. Rob === - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 12:52 PM Subject: Re: gcc v3 compile problem Nevermind. This seems to fix it. As usual, I saw this two

Re: Low-level progress messages in setup.log

2002-01-21 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Michael A Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sure. note that ~io_stream called belongs in setup.log. It definitely goes there now, but what benefit are we gaining by having low-level progress messages in the permanent log? I thought that was what setup.log.full was

Re: gcc v3 issue -- hacky solution

2002-01-21 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:28 PM Subject: gcc v3 issue -- hacky solution If we can generate new operators for all of the builtin types that are currently being used in setup.exe, then, if

Re: gcc v3 issue -- hacky solution

2002-01-21 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a library -- it's libstdc++.a. :] but the no-exceptions clause won't fly without some convincing. How about, you can't do that unless you come up with some way of ensuring that there is a mingw version of

Re: gcc v3 issue -- hacky solution

2002-01-21 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:53 PM Subject: Re: gcc v3 issue -- hacky solution On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:45:17PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Or maybe Danny Smith can provide details

accidental commit?

2002-01-21 Thread Robert Collins
Chris, I'm assuming this was accidental, and am backing it out. I've also backed out the -fno-exceptions switch to gcc. http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cinstall/Makefil e.in.diff?r1=2.45r2=2.46cvsroot=src Rob

setup.exe: Feature frozen now

2002-01-22 Thread Robert Collins
Ok, Setup.exe is IMO feature complete for the next release. I'll upload a new snapshot tonight, and announce that on cygwin@. Barring any issues with the user-interface, I'll branch it off tomorrow, and if/when Corinna's perennial crash can be found we can release it. Remaining bugs (not

faulty symlinks in setup.exe should be fixed

2002-01-22 Thread Robert Collins
'nuff said. Rob

Links

2002-01-22 Thread Robert Collins
Hi Sami, some feedback on the packages. 1) The -src package is incorrectly rooted - you've included the usr/src in the path. Also the Cygwin specific README for it should go in the CYGWIN-PATCHES directory in the in the top of the source directory. 2) Are there any patches for links to make it

Re: for the brave

2002-01-22 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Log files for download only, or non-installed cygwin's will go to the download dir correctly now. There was, and still is, explicit code to drop setup.log and .log.full in / if it's an install action. Perhaps that should

Re: would someone kindly upload a new version of curl for me???

2002-01-23 Thread Robert Collins
Done, Rob === - Original Message - From: Roth, Kevin P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin-apps mail-list (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 7:16 AM Subject: would someone kindly upload a new version of curl for me??? There is a new version of curl available, and

Re: setup.exe command line options

2002-01-23 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:52 AM Subject: Re: setup.exe command line options - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: setup.exe command line options

2002-01-23 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:36 AM Subject: setup.exe command line options I've made some progress, but it's still (infuriatingly) not at the stage where you can do a whole installation

RE: setup.exe command line options

2002-01-23 Thread Robert Collins
CVS Setup will replace in-use files correctly (tested on NT only at this point) if the following predicates are true: Any given file is only attempted to be replaced once. The last action on each file is NOT a delete. The drive letters on the next reboot are the same. Rob -Original

Re: Links

2002-01-23 Thread Robert Collins
Uploaded. You can now do your announcement as perhttp://www.cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting step 9. Cheers, Rob === - Original Message - From: Sami Tikka [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:59 AM Subject: Re: Links Robert

Re: Setup - Idea...

2002-01-24 Thread Robert Collins
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 if it's been suggested, but I

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

2002-01-26 Thread Robert Collins
Alex, I cannot access your web site, can you post the patch to [EMAIL PROTECTED] please, or even just direct to me. Thanks, Rob === - Original Message - From: Alexander Nanou [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 1:34 AM Subject: sh-utils: su patch for

setup crashing - fixed?

2002-01-26 Thread Robert Collins
Right, I think I found the cause. At least I can successfully download from *every* available site, and before I had repeatable problems doing that. Corinna, can you CVS update and try a fresh build? I found a bug that could have caused the issue: site (char const *newkey) { key = new

Re: for the brave

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
Yes, I thought it was the shares issue - see README :}. Thanks for confirming it though, I can work on a patch now. Rob === - Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, this is from setup 2.188 (compiled just now) and I am trying to do a local install from

Re: for the brave

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is //polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin the path you enter in 'choose local dir' ? Sortof. I didn't type it in; it already knew somehow. And it was in this form: '\\polgara\private\software\windows\cygwin' with

base-files package needs a maintainer

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
Setup.hint: @ base_files sdesc: Core common files needed for correct operation of cygwin category: Base The entire package is attached. The /etc/profile generation is getting removed from setup.exe unless someone provides a _real good_ reason for it to remain. Setup.exe should be *data

Re: setup crashing - fixed?

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] By explicitely expressing my wish to change the state by pointy clicky somewhere. Honestly, think of the current test installation of tetex and texmf which is 30 Megs. If the user actually chooses to go back to the

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

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:19 AM Subject: Re: sh-utils: su patch for use with ntsec.. On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:08:49PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Alex, I cannot access your web site

Re: DocBook and OpenJade packages

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: Jon Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Is this something you'd like? Yes. * Is anybody currently working on this? Not that I'm aware, with the exception of Markus Hoenicka (who has posted to cygwin@ about this). All the package hints look fine to me. Rob

Re: for the brave

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:13 PM Subject: RE: for the brave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Wilson [snip] the

Re: setup.exe looks good!

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just built the latest setup.exe. It looks really nice. And, I see that clickable categories are working! Are they ever! And did you catch the replace files in use feature? Yeah it makes you reboot, but still,

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