Re: naim review (was Re: Pending package status (14 Jul 2003))

2003-07-16 Thread Earnie Boyd
I noticed that the release directory from mirrors.rcn.net is empty just now. Earnie. Daniel Reed wrote: On 2003-07-16T09:31+0100, Max Bowsher wrote: ) Daniel Reed wrote: ) Any headway on this? I see naim's version listed as 0.11.5.9-cyg1-1 now, ) still get the same behaviour. Off the top of my

Re: [PATCH] Setup: Fix erroneous quoting of __LINE__ and __FILE__

2003-07-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 09:23:06PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: If you want them, fill out the form at http://sources.redhat.com/ and use 'cygwin-apps' for the project. cgf I can commit to cygrunsrv under cygwin-apps. Does that mean I have commit rights to the whole

Re: [UPDATE] Pending package status (11 Jul 2003)

2003-07-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:23:16PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it would make sense for there to be a limitation on how long a package exists in this table with no votes. I think that after two months of no votes the package should

Re: minires-0.95 - a new package ready for review

2003-06-13 Thread Earnie Boyd
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:20:21PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: It works on my antique Win95 and on my CYGWIN_NT-4.0. There the Windows functions return an error and minires falls back to resolv.conf Of course LoadLibrary/GetProcAddres would work

Re: Repairing erroneous move of setup-200303 branch tag

2003-04-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: No, I used: $ cvs -z4 tag -Fb setup-200303 in a setup-200303-troubleshooting working dir. Which intuitively says ...? This should not have updated the cvs repository. It would have been commits at a later date that would have updated the repository. The ``tag'' updates

Re: Make a snapshot with set_default_sec disabled?

2003-04-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
Pavel Tsekov wrote: What about a setup which has debugging information in it. So one can use Dr. Mingw to get a useful stack trace. Installing Dr. Mingw is not hard at all. You can get it and other utilities in http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/mingw-utils-0.2.tar.gz Earnie.

Re: Make a snapshot with set_default_sec disabled?

2003-04-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
Max Bowsher wrote: (Before I had to reinstall, and can no-longer reproduce) Oh, so it's the reboot to correct the issue method that is the solution! ;) Earnie.

Re: setup (ini.cc) vs CVS mingw-runtime

2003-03-31 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 20:01, Max Bowsher wrote: However, the redefinition of fprintf in ini.cc, is as far as I can see, totally unused, and can be removed. Robert: Can you confirm this, and approve me to delete it from ini.cc ? Well, fprintf *is* used in setup. The

Re: setup (ini.cc) vs CVS mingw-runtime

2003-03-31 Thread Earnie Boyd
Max Bowsher wrote: I confirm your ICE. Did you try -mno-fun-dllimport? Earnie.

Re: Bin/Src checkboxes in setup.exe

2003-03-23 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Or even a separate Sources category... I like this... I don't particularly. Something along the lines of a directory tree structure would be nice though. + foo + bar The user clicks the + foo and gets - foo + foo-1.0-1.tar.bz2 +

Re: Pending packages status (10 Mar 2003)

2003-03-13 Thread Earnie Boyd
Max Bowsher wrote: Volker Quetschke wrote: Hi! 1. grace date : 25 Nov 2002 version: 5.1.12-1 status : updated package available for review notes : http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-11/msg00322.html reviews: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-03/msg00254.html votes : 2 (Lapo

Re: someone to take over cURL maintenance?

2003-02-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
Max Bowsher wrote: curl-7.10.3 uses libtool-1.4.2 - I'm not surprised it didn't manage to make a DLL. The on the horizon 1.5.0 release of libtool will handle building both shared and static versions of the libraries appropriately. Earnie.

Re: Unusual request: get bison 1.35 back as prev version

2003-01-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
Volker Quetschke wrote: Hi! (This request is directed to the bison maintainer, propably Christopher) The reason why I would like to get back access to the old bison 1.35 version is, that it is a prerequisite for the build of OpenOffice 1.0.2. And you're uncapable of building this version

Re: nfs-server - status request for information

2003-01-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robb, Sam wrote: A workaround is to create a regular directory, mount the Windows drive at that directory, and then export the directory. For example: $ mkdir -p /exports/c $ mount -f -s -b c:/ /exports/c $ echo /exports/c (ro,all_squash) /etc/exports Would

Re: nfs-server - status request for information

2003-01-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:39:26AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: Robb, Sam wrote: A workaround is to create a regular directory, mount the Windows drive at that directory, and then export the directory. For example: $ mkdir -p /exports/c $ mount -f -s -b

Re: Building /etc/passwd from setup.exe

2003-01-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
No, I was using cached profile. There is no Domain Controller available. John Morrison wrote: Sorry for going back to this, Earnie, are you logg'ed into a domain to give the information below? Thanks, J. From: Earnie Boyd Question: have you a known situation where $USERDOMAIN != hostname

Re: Setup vertical scrollbar doesn't display

2003-01-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
Max Bowsher wrote: There is no other way. (Well, of course, it is possible, but please trust me - it's too complicated.) Too complicated!?!? What's complicated about using tar in the root ``/'' directory? Oh, yea, it's the meta package control that can't be easily duplicated. The

Re: cmake and emacs package updates announcements

2002-12-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
Pavel Tsekov wrote: Sorry, for the noise. This seems to be some strange kind of spam. They have two seperate message headers Received: (qmail 4935 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2002 12:53:14 - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 27022 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2002

Re: cmake and emacs package updates announcements

2002-12-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:38:48PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: Sorry, for the noise. This seems to be some strange kind of spam. Hmm. Let me check the cygwin-announce subscriber list... Do you, by any chance, have either of the two original messages, Pavel? I'd

Re: /tmp

2002-12-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:53:43PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: Wrong list, redirected. Please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the distribution when responding. Jim wrote: Would be really really nice if /tmp existed as a link that a directory /tmp weren't created after

Re: /tmp

2002-12-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
Matthew Smith wrote: I assume you mean as a link to a windows temp directory somewhere. However, what if that gets changed by someone? Suddenly a lot of stuff starts breaking, and people start posting here asking why application foo isn't working. The majority of the people are fine with a

Re: /tmp

2002-12-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
Wrong list, redirected. Please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the distribution when responding. Jim wrote: Would be really really nice if /tmp existed as a link that a directory /tmp weren't created after running setup...

Re: Building /etc/passwd from setup.exe

2002-12-06 Thread Earnie Boyd
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: # if USERDOMAIN isn't empty and #USERDOMAIN isn't the hostname then we are in a domain if [ ! -z $USERDOMAIN ] [ $USERDOMAIN != `hostname` ] ; then # domain user type=-d fi # Should we append rather than replace? if [ ! -e /etc/passwd ] ; then /bin/mkpasswd

Re: cygwin apache https fork error - need rebase cmd info

2002-12-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
Wrong list, redirected. Please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the distribution in your responses. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, When I try to start Apache with the httpd.conf file configured for both http https, I receive the following error after the command: $ ./apachectl start

Re: Request approval to add stuff to .cvsignores

2002-11-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
Max Bowsher wrote: D zlib/autom4te.cache M zlib/configure These should be kept in CVS. zlib, like the setup root, is kept ready-to-go. You are correct. CVS won't actually ignore configure, even if it *is* in .cvsignore, because it is under version control. autom4te.cache isn't though, so

Re: [patch] Help Option

2002-11-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
Max Bowsher wrote: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That depends on how it's coded. The -mwindows switch alone doesn't cause the abscense of stdio. foo.c #include stdlib.h #include stdio.h #include windows.h int WINAPI WinMain ( HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance

Re: [patch] Help Option

2002-11-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: IIRC -mwindows builds don't get a console, so can't output command line help. That doesn't mean you can't create one. Earnie.

Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload. (fwd)

2002-11-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
I agree with Sergey, but wouldn't /usr/sbin be a better choice of destination? /usr/sbin should not be in the PATH of a typical user. Sergey Okhapkin wrote: Because these scripts are accessible for everyone and may change global configuration settings, these scripts are for for cygwin

Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload.

2002-11-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
IIRC, the old style symlink wouldn't work with a .exe extention. Earnie. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 07:31:53PM -0500, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: What are the symlink problems? Do you mean a symlink points to the executable name without .exe suffix? Yes. But I was

Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload. (fwd)

2002-11-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 11:05, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: I think a postinstall script that: * sets reasonable defaults * obeys and doesn't overwrite user defined settings should be ok. The postinstall script could always query the user. Earnie.

Re: starting apache - libphp4 error

2002-11-06 Thread Earnie Boyd
Wrong list, redirected. Please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the distribution list in your responses. Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to start apache for the first time and I'm getting the following error. I've had a look in the archives and found a thread about a similar problem

Re: use of DLL without Cygwin/shell environment

2002-11-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
Wrong list, redirected. Please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the distribution when responding. gilles BOURGEOIS wrote: hello, from france, (newbie using cygwin), i am wondering about how I could use the DLL API *directly* without prompting with the starting x terminal (bash commands) The fact

Re: cygwin-mketc.sh

2002-10-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
Wrong list, redirected. Please remove cygwin-patches from the distribution in response. Paul Johnston wrote: Hi, Windows has direct equivalents of some standard unix files: /etc/hosts, services, protocols, networks. It is helpful to have symbolic links from these files in /etc to the windows

Re: updated procps package

2002-09-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
Chris January wrote: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/procps-010801/procps-010801-2.tar.bz2 http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/procps-010801/procps-010801-2-src.tar.bz2 http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/procps-010801/setup.hint Uploaded. Please drop the version field in setup.hint. I

Re: And one more package, astyle Re: New Package: doxygen-1.2.17

2002-09-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
The Cygwin net distro isn't sort of a one man show, it's a community effort. It's not Chris and me who are the responsible people for reviewing a package and we are not the only people with the right to upload packages. This is one of the reasons I think that it might be better to: 1)

Re: And one more package, astyle Re: New Package: doxygen-1.2.17

2002-09-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:14:46PM +1000, Gareth Pearce wrote: Just a pro-vote - for both - not that i have had a chance to check them for quality... Corinna says: Why not? ummm because I am a busy boy? :P - barely get a few minutes spare at all these days,

Re: And one more package, astyle Re: New Package: doxygen-1.2.17

2002-09-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:27:05PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote: I agree, even though in the past I've been one of those who've done this. I can see where the breakdown lies. It seems that since Chuck left for vacation that no one takes on looking at a package.

Re: [PATCH] fix bug in autoconf-2.13 that keeps cross gcc from buildingoncygwin

2002-08-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
. - Dan Earnie Boyd wrote: I suggest that this issue be dealt with within the Cygwin distribution of autoconf-2.13. Earnie. Dan Kegel wrote: [repost -- mail system problems] Building cross gcc's on cygwin fails because autoconf 2.13's AC_TRY_COMPILER test assumes that it's ok

Re: [PATCH] fix bug in autoconf-2.13 that keeps cross gcc from buildingon cygwin

2002-08-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
I suggest that this issue be dealt with within the Cygwin distribution of autoconf-2.13. Earnie. Dan Kegel wrote: [repost -- mail system problems] Building cross gcc's on cygwin fails because autoconf 2.13's AC_TRY_COMPILER test assumes that it's ok to try to run possibly cross-compiled

[Fwd: GNU emacs 21.2-6 available]

2002-08-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
I'm surprised that this announcement was accepted, it's not standard format. Earnie. Original Message Subject: GNU emacs 21.2-6 available Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:23:31 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU emacs 21.2-6 has been uploaded. Changes: - fixed

Re: GNU emacs 21.2-3 packages available

2002-08-13 Thread Earnie Boyd
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:45:32PM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote: Joe Buehler wrote: New GNU emacs packages are available for upload to sources.redhat.com at: http://68.100.179.154:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-3/emacs/emacs-21.2-3-src.tar.bz2

Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Re: [GCC 3.2] dll/exe exceptions patch

2002-08-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
Danny Smith wrote: --- Danny Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have modified the Adriano dos Santos Fernandes patchset somewhat so that it can be used with both cygwin and mingw In absence of feedback on this patch from cygwin developers I will modify so that it only applies to

Re: Skel files

2002-07-30 Thread Earnie Boyd
John Morrison wrote: There. Quite long and slightly rambly. However, what do people think; aye or nay? The copy _will_ be done as part of $HOME creation, default files would be a bonus I believe. Some of the files I have on my system which I believe could have defaults... .bashrc

Re: profile package

2002-07-30 Thread Earnie Boyd
John Morrison wrote: There's now a 1.0-2. Added a little more functionality and lots more comments. I've not recieved much feedback wrt this. Come on folks - what do you think? I haven't looked at the package but sdesc: Core common files needed for correct operation of cygwin

Re: profile package

2002-07-30 Thread Earnie Boyd
John Morrison wrote: From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] John Morrison wrote: There's now a 1.0-2. Added a little more functionality and lots more comments. I've not recieved much feedback wrt this. Come on folks - what do you think? I haven't looked

Re: profile package

2002-07-30 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: Shouldn't there be a dependency on the Cygwin package? ack :) requires: cygwin I don't see any reason for this to require cygwin. There are no programs there. There would be no point in downloading this file by itself. Therefore, a dependency to cygwin

Re: Skel files

2002-07-30 Thread Earnie Boyd
John Morrison wrote: From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Thanks Earnie, response is welcome :) John Morrison wrote: Some of the files I have on my system which I believe could have defaults... .xinit Yes - But should be copied only

Re: ITP: profile

2002-07-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Earnie, The reply-to address for the mailing list is now [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I set it that way myself. In light of this, maybe you should reevaluate whether your default action should be to hit ``reply'' or ``reply-to-all''. I will not be adjusting my

Re: rebase problem for cygcurl-2.dll still existing?!

2002-07-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
Nicholas Wourms wrote: Jason Tishler wrote: Is that a deficiency of cygwin as a whole, or just related to the way my DLL was built?) Cygwin's fork() attempts to load DLLs in the child in the same location as in the parent. If it fails, then the child aborts. Other than the lack

Re: mknetrel: two small fixes

2002-07-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: diff -purNX.cvsignore ../foo . then, the CVS directories may show up.] So `diff -purNX.cvsignore -xCVS ../foo .' Earnie.

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #2: debug

2002-07-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Btw: A very silly question, but I can't seem to get `cvs diff' to respect your (Cygwin's?) wishes of excluding the ChangeLog from the diff. It doesn't grok -X,--exclude options, most annoying. How do you manage? Remove the ChangeLog diff from

Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #2: debug

2002-07-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Btw: A very silly question, but I can't seem to get `cvs diff' to respect your (Cygwin's?) wishes of excluding the ChangeLog from the diff. It doesn't grok -X,--exclude options, most annoying. How do you

Re: ITP: Guile 1.5.6

2002-07-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, Last night, I've eventually succeeded in building guile-1.5.6, with shared object libraries for Cygwin. I'm in favor of this package, although I haven't review them yet. With this package autogen (autogen.sf.net) should build as

Re: OS emulators - OT [WAS: Re: Need a teTeX-beta maintainer]

2002-07-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
Nicholas Wourms wrote: You might want to try http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ instead of vmware. Earnie. Very cool Earnie, I didn't know this project was still going on... Looks like it's made huge progress since I last checked... Can you give any first-hand testimonials? No, it is

Re: new setup.exe crashes with kde's setup.ini

2002-06-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
John Marshall wrote: Yes. They've been screwed by the download mirror system Sourceforge introduced on 2002-05-03. As I wrote when I changed prc-tools's .htaccess to deal with this: Update the redirect to cope with Sourceforge's new download mirror system. You'd think

Re: mingw and other gotchas in gcc 3.1

2002-06-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm finishing up on the release of gcc 3.1 and I have a few gotchas that I'd like to discuss: 1) I was going to take Red Hat's cue and release the new version of gcc as gcc3. However, this will require manual deinstallation of gcc (2.95.3-whatever) so

Re: winsup/mingw CVS HEAD

2002-06-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
Earnie Boyd wrote: Danny has merged his branch into the CVS HEAD. The MinGW runtime now supplies many C99 compliances. I will be uploading a mingw-runtime-2.0 version shortly. In the meantime the HEAD is to be considered frozen until I get out the release, hopefully today. If you wish

Re: New setup.exe snapshot 2.249.2.2

2002-06-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: Hmm, well it's definitely a bug, but how to fix? The workaround will (setting non-UNICODE programs to English) will have to do for now. Perhaps a #define UNICODE before #include windows.h would help? Earnie.

Re: New setup.exe snapshot 2.249.2.2

2002-06-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 10 June 2002 11:20 PM To: Robert Collins Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New setup.exe snapshot 2.249.2.2 Robert Collins wrote: Hmm, well it's definitely a bug

Re: URL paths in setup.exe

2002-05-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: I'd like to formalise what file:// and cygfile:// schemes mean. file:// is a native filesystem URL handler - whatever the OS may be. cygfile:// is a handler that only makes sense on mingw platforms, and access's the cygwin mount table. cygfile:// makes no sense at

Re: URL paths in setup.exe

2002-05-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: How would this confuse them ? I don't think with file://d|/foo/bar.txt is better thatn file://d/foo/bar.txt. There is a method which converts d:\foo\bar to file URL - isn't it enough ? There is also a method whic gets the parsed URL as path. Btw see the

Re: URL paths in setup.exe

2002-05-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
Pavel Tsekov wrote: file://d|/foo/bar.txt is on win32. Ok I understand this. The d| or d: is useful so we can understand that the path is not on some remote machine. EB file:///d/foo/bar.txt on Cygwin should work as well depending on the EB cygdrive value. ;) EB file:///d:/foo/bar.txt

Re: URL paths in setup.exe

2002-05-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:50 PM cygfile:// makes no sense at all on my MinGW platforms. What mingw are you talking about? cygfile:// to me only makes sense in Cygwin land

Re: URL paths in setup.exe

2002-05-07 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 22:24, Earnie Boyd wrote: Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Fine, but that's still a Cygwin library and doesn't exist in MinGW land. I'm making a fuss for search engine sake

Re: rebasing new packages?!

2002-05-06 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jason Tishler wrote: Rob, On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:55:49AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: From: Jason Tishler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 12:57 AM If the attached patch is accepted, can I start using STL in setup.exe now? You can start using STL

Re: new cygwin package: cgoban

2002-05-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: (*) counter argument: gtk+ on cygwin currently uses X. However, the code is THERE to use native MS windowing -- because there is a native MS port (on a separate CVS branch). It might be possible, some time in the future, to have TWO different gtk+ builds on cygwin:

Re: new cygwin package: cgoban

2002-05-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 5:04 AM Volker Zell agreed. Nobody else responded. I kinda like it, but FHS has moved away from that; now on Red Hat systems it appears that ONLY those

Re: new cygwin package: cgoban

2002-05-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: Earnie Boyd wrote: I see it's time for me to chime in. We the cygwin-apps developers must insist that all X11 packages use --prefix=/usr/X11R6 because it's possible for an X11 package to be both Win32 and X11, E.G.: rxvt. And I the user could want to use either

Re: rebasing new packages?!

2002-05-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Jason Tishler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 11:52 PM As long as the required dependencies are easily satisfied: a) STL headers + any libs for gcc on cygwin (i.e. OOTB build for developers). Isn't

Re: Error in configuring setup.

2002-05-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:52 AM To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error in configuring setup. Required AUTHORS and NEWS files are missing. Required

Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] [w32api] : Move anonymous struct/union defines out of windows.h

2002-05-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
Fine by me. Earnie. Danny Smith wrote: Hello Can any one see any problems with moving this block of defines: #ifdef __GNUC__ #ifndef NONAMELESSUNION #if __GNUC__ 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 __GNUC_MINOR__ = 95) #define _ANONYMOUS_UNION __extension__ #define _ANONYMOUS_STRUCT

Error in configuring setup.

2002-05-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
Upon Robert's insistance I've installed the autotools. :( Now after about 10 iterations of aclocal, libtoolize, autoconf I: mkdir bld cd bld ../configure And toward the configure ends with: configure: configuring in libgetopt++ configure: running /bin/sh ../cfgaux/configure 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g'

Re: Error in configuring setup.

2002-05-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
Required AUTHORS and NEWS files are missing. Earnie. Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Upon Robert's insistance I've installed the autotools. :( Now after about 10 iterations of aclocal, libtoolize, autoconf I: And toward the configure ends

Error in libgetopt++ from the setup build directory [WAS: Re: Error in configuring setup.]

2002-05-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
Earnie Boyd wrote: Upon Robert's insistance I've installed the autotools. :( Now after about 10 iterations of aclocal, libtoolize, autoconf I: mkdir bld cd bld ../configure And toward the configure ends with: configure: configuring in libgetopt++ configure: running /bin/sh

Re: Error in libgetopt++ from the setup build directory [WAS: Re: Error in configuring setup.]

2002-05-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
BTW, the CVS has a configure file in the setup directory as well as an aclocal.m4. Earnie. Earnie Boyd wrote: Earnie Boyd wrote: Upon Robert's insistance I've installed the autotools. :( Now after about 10 iterations of aclocal, libtoolize, autoconf I: mkdir bld cd bld

cygwin-apps-cvs missing from the Mail Lists page.

2002-05-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
FYI. Earnie.

Re: Setup sources updated - cross compile or native OOTB.

2002-04-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: Setup should now reliably cross compile or natively compile OOTB. Can I configure it from CVS without the autotools installed yet? PLEASE, put the autotools created files there! Earnie.

Re: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup

2002-04-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
I've used the redownload feature to reget a corrupted downloaded file. Not often, but it's worth saving the functionality. Earnie. Robert Collins wrote: Ok. Time for a straw poll. Please write back (to me or the list, your choice) whether you use the DELIBERATE 'download again'

Re: ITP: netpbm

2002-04-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:04:55PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: But everyone will complain if they can't run the package after they install it. I think we should absolutely avoid the latter case. The former we can deal with as required. What's

Re: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup

2002-04-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: === - Original Message - From: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:32 PM Subject: Re: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup I've used

Re: Setup sources updated - cross compile or native OOTB.

2002-04-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: === - Original Message - From: Earnie Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, I simply want to get the latest versions from CVS and configure and make. I don't want the autotools installed. Why do you want to get

Re: ITP: netpbm

2002-04-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 07:44 AM 4/29/2002, Earnie Boyd wrote: -8- The point is, the extra path walks are expensive. Quite true. But I would say that Corinna's suggestion, from a strict technical perspective, makes netpbm in a different bin directory usable 'out

Re: ITP: netpbm

2002-04-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 2:46 AM ... But cygwin is used on both NTFS and FAT... Which is the killer question: is adding a directory to the search path more or less of a

Re: setup changes to build standalone

2002-04-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: Robert Collins wrote: Yes. I even documented all this some time back on http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-11/msg00634.html, but predicatably enough, no patches where forthcoming. Probably due to the complete lack of a prebuilt bz2lib for mingw (that my

Re: setup changes to build standalone

2002-04-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: d) a --with-cygwin-headers=/path/to/headers and in mount.cc pickup the needed headers. With a default of $(prefix)/include. Earnie.

Re: Minor bugfix for setup.exe - missing call to backslash() in desktop.cc

2002-04-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
You can avoid this by attaching a file with a .txt suffix. Earnie. Max Bowsher wrote: This adds a backslash() call to fix strange behaviour when creating the Cygwin link on the start menu. Currently, the link is created with name 'Programs/Cygwin/Cygwin Bash Shell.lnk'. NB: those are

Re: ITP: netpbm

2002-04-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: However, directories other than the root are unlimited in size (except by your patience, and vision) Given that, I think the usual /usr/bin directory should suffice. Earnie.

Re: strange source packaging?

2002-04-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: Robert Collins wrote: And the GPL requires us to document the changes made - if we have the patch pre-applied, with no reverse patch, then this isn't the case. Asking folk to go elsewhere to get that 'pristine' source puts the onus on the upstream to make that

Re: libtool devel package still dll crippled.

2002-04-16 Thread Earnie Boyd
Danny Smith wrote: Todo: 2b) set an option like --export-libs=* or something else 2c) identify the libs to export and set an option like --export-libs=lib1,lib2, Do I need to refresh the patch I submitted to binutils many moons ago. It is useful its own right (building

Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Fwd: Updates to x86-Interix config files

2002-04-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
Yes, so go for it. Earnie. Danny Smith wrote: I think that this (return 8 byte structures in registers) should also go in mingw32.h config file for GCC. I'm not sure about cygwin.h ldiv() returns an 8-byte structure. I can't think of any others, but if we're serious about

Re: libtool devel package still dll crippled.

2002-04-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
Is there any real solution to this problem w.r.t. the current -devel version of libtool? Earnie. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: xfree packages

2002-04-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Let's be real picky: XFree86-xserv-major.minor-portrelease.tar.bz2 is what is required for the binary release. XFree86-xserv-major.minor-portrelease-src.tar.bz2 is what is required for the source release. I've used xserv only as an example scenario and I'm not picking on it specifically.

Re: w32api update?

2002-04-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: So I just updated my local mirror and discovered that somebody unpacked the entire w32api package onto sourceware: cygwin/latest/w32api/hold/w32api-1.3-2/* What's that all about? Shouldn't that stuff be kept out of the mirrored anonftp area? FWIW, I didn't

Re: w32api update?

2002-04-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Earnie Boyd wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: So I just updated my local mirror and discovered that somebody unpacked the entire w32api package onto sourceware: cygwin/latest/w32api/hold/w32api-1.3-2/* What's that all about? Shouldn't that stuff be kept out of the mirrored anonftp

Re: w32api update?

2002-04-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:08:09PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: FWIW, I didn't create this. I'll check the area. So who redid my packages and what was wrong with the originals? http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-04/msg00526.html Thanks, Earnie

Re: w32api release anytime soon?

2002-04-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
I'm shooting for the end of the week. Earnie. Christopher Faylor wrote: We really need a new w32api release soon. Are there any plans to release one? The last release seems to have been in December of 2001 and there have been many changes since then. cgf

Re: Proprietary Software [WAS: Re: SGML/XML packages available for testing]

2002-04-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
Stanislav Sinyagin wrote: Hi Markus, I am using these distributions in my propriatory software: Your proprietary software will need to have a GPL license if it uses any library compiled with Cygwin1.dll dependencies. Your proprietary software will need to have a GPL license if it uses

Re: pager in default install

2002-03-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
Charles Wilson wrote: Lame followup to my own post: I think we should have A 'more' package for this reason: Q: Where's more? A: In the 'more' package. makes a lot more sense than Q: Where's more? A: Use less instead. It's better. BTW, you'll probably need to set PAGER=less.

Re: why w32api-1.2-1 is broken in setup 2.194.2.15

2002-03-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
Thanks, Chris. I won't be able to take a look at a new package until mid April. Earnie. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 04:59:06PM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote: I've installed all packages except postgres. The only packages I have with the leading './' are opengl and

Re: Keeping base, adding standard.

2002-03-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
Has my vote. Earnie. Christopher Faylor wrote: Now that we have clickable categories, I think we should consider not making Base the default installation, defaulting to something like Standard instead. Standard would include things like: base + bzip2 bash clear tcsh less vim

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