Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Uploads for 12 August

2013-08-13 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/13/2013 2:09 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: For now, I think you'll have to add a wrapper script. Which would cause issues (dos boxes, etc) when launching from a shortcut, unless you use run.exe or run2.exe. With run2 (assuming the upcoming(?) release fixes the known issues), you can set

Re: Cygwin 1.7.22 calls dumper when starting X

2013-08-01 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/1/2013 7:19 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Is there a way to test run-2.0? What is the syntax to replace: C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe Sure: and how to replace C:\cygwin-2\bin\run.exe bash -l -c 'rm -rf /tmp/{.X*,dbus*,orbit

Re: Cygwin 1.7.22 calls dumper when starting X

2013-07-31 Thread Charles Wilson
On 7/31/2013 9:41 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00532.html Yeah, I need to add even more runtime-debugging in run-1.0 and put out a test release, so we can figure out what's going wrong there. Is there a way to test run-2.0? What is the syntax to

Re: coredumps with fc-cache, fc-list

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/28/2012 4:26 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Fontconfig is WJFFM (Win7 x64, 290 .ttf files in Windows fontdir, none with spaces). I suspect you have a corrupt or otherwise incorrect font file in your Windows fontdir. What happens if you remove that directory from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf? Can

coredumps with fc-cache, fc-list

2012-08-28 Thread Charles Wilson
While trying to debug the problem with my new build of rxvt-unicode, I find that I am getting a segfault way down deep in libfreetype. I rebuilt libfreetype with the new cygport, so I could get those handy debug symbols, and spent some time trudging thru that. Then, since libfreetype is

Re: Built XWin on mingw - with patches

2011-11-10 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/10/2011 11:29 AM, Ryan Pavlik wrote: On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: You *think* you're safe in assuming that WIN32 == !__CYGWIN__, but...#includejpeg.h breaks all your assumptions. But jpeg.h *did nothing wrong*. It's better to be explicit. -- Chuck OK, so

Re: Built XWin on mingw - with patches

2011-11-09 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/9/2011 1:46 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 07/11/2011 19:36, Charles Wilson wrote: But this isn't true if you ever #include any of the w32api headers. Then you get WIN32 defined, even on cygwin... True. I guess what I meant to say is that there isn't any compiler which defines both WIN32

Re: Built XWin on mingw - with patches

2011-11-07 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/7/2011 1:10 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: I see what you are trying to do here, but I'm not sure it actually adds any clarity. I think I'd just prefer to assume the knowledge that WIN32 and CYGWIN are mutually exclusive, so '#if defined(WIN32) !defined(__CYGWIN__)' can just be written

Re: rsh from other linux machines on the network to my cygwin machine

2011-02-16 Thread Charles Wilson
On 2/16/2011 6:17 PM, Srikanth Katkam wrote: I can do rsh/ssh onto other linux machines in the network and use all the resources on those machines but I cannot do the reverse, i.e., rsh on to my windows machine (i.e., Cygwin X server), why the other machines not able to see my cygwin/windows

Re: Can't use mintty instead of rxvt for ssh -Y using cygwin xserver

2010-10-11 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/11/2010 1:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: You probably could try to figure out if the X server is working and then see which display is being used from that but I really don't think it makes sense to slow down mintty to perform this check. FWIW, this wouldn't work with the linux

Re: X Server no longer launches urxvtc-X

2010-08-20 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/20/2010 10:48 AM, Jay Goldman wrote: I have the following menu items in my .XWinrc: Black EXEC /bin/urxvtc-X -fg green -bg black -cr dodgerblue -g 80x40 -e /bin/bash -l -I dodger EXEC urxvtc-X -fg white -bg dodgerblue -cr blue -g 80x42 -e /bin/bash -l -I Which have

Re: problem with startxwin.exe and a possible solution

2010-01-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Marco Atzeri wrote: Today I start some experiments and I have found that changing the menu target from C:\cygwin2\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe to C:\cygwin2\bin\run.exe -p /usr/bin /usr/bin/startxwin.exe all the problems seem gone. The Xserver is

Re: xserver bug?

2010-01-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Jon TURNEY wrote: On 20/01/2010 09:13, Sylvain RICHARD wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: I've noticed that with XWin 1.7.3 (and perhaps earlier versions; not sure), the key combination CTRL-SHIFT-0 (zero) doesn't generate any events. CTRL-SHIFT-1 thru -9, alphabetic keys, no problem -- just

xserver bug?

2010-01-19 Thread Charles Wilson
I've noticed that with XWin 1.7.3 (and perhaps earlier versions; not sure), the key combination CTRL-SHIFT-0 (zero) doesn't generate any events. CTRL-SHIFT-1 thru -9, alphabetic keys, no problem -- just not zero. This came up as I was testing the new rxvt-unicode release; it has a special

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.2.0-2

2009-12-29 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: IMPORTANT: THE startxwin.bat AND startxwin.sh SCRIPTS ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED. This release replaces those scripts with a startxwin executable. facepalm! Sounds like a good idea, but I wish I'd known this was coming before wasting time on: 2009-12-29 run2-0.4.0

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.2.0-2

2009-12-29 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 29/12/2009 16:27, Charles Wilson wrote: Sounds like a good idea, but I wish I'd known this was coming before wasting time on: * Improve checkX behavior when used as 'barrier' in startxwin. Sorry about that, Chuck, but this was just the latest of a long

Re: X server fails to start

2009-12-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Feng Dai wrote: The root cause is checkX doesn't work properly. It cause XWin failed on initClipboard and exit itself. The work around is either comment out checkX or have a sleep 3 to let XWin server startup before checkX runs. It's actually not checkX's fault that the Xserver dies. All

Re: X server fails to start

2009-12-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: So, the latest version of checkX I guess I should be specific: that's checkX from the run2-0.4.0-1 package, which should begin hitting the mirrors soon. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

2009-12-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Linda Walsh wrote: C.UTF_8 doesn't exist. You're wrong. Please read the whole of this thread -- and the last two months' worth of cygwin-developers. mintty is broken. No, it isn't. It just doesn't work the way *you* expect it to. Might want to try 'Console' nstead of using mintty. Not

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Andy Koppe wrote: The latest termcap, which was automatically generated from terminfo, has entries longer than 1K in it. ok... (I thought cygwin was using GNU termcap, which supposedly works with longer entries - though I recall _that_ being fixed

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Isn't xterm linked against ncurses? The new 1.7 xterm is. The old 1.5 xterm is still termcap based. Why does it break on a termcap file at all? 1.5 only, and it breaks because the termcap file was NOT generated using '-r' to limit the number of allowed ':tc='

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 29/11/2009 21:28, Joe Java wrote: Gone for Thanksgiving break, return and update cygwin, and now xterm does not show anymore. I have not upgraded to the latest 1.7 (I am waiting for the official release). I read the other messages and nothing seems to work.

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Lothar Brendel wrote: Unfortunately the situatiuon with ``startxwin.bat'' is worse now: * ``checkX -t 12'' still doesn't wait (?!?) I can't reproduce this. * After again inserting a sleep between checkXing and starting the xterm, the latter is marginally successful: The process is shown as

Re: Problem with new xinit - console window doesn't open (but bash starts)

2009-11-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Jon TURNEY wrote: This is typical of the current issue we have where 'run xterm' blocks when xterm tries to output 'Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion' Any one of: - installing the CJK fonts - having 'tty' in the CYGWIN environment variable - having the LANG

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-23 Thread Charles Wilson
Lothar Brendel wrote: checkX fails due to a missing cygustr-1.dll. That's contained in which package? From http://cygwin.com/packages/ and typing in 'cygustr-1.dll', I get: libustr1 This *should* have been installed by setup automatically, as the run2 package now lists libustr1 as a

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-23 Thread Charles Wilson
Lothar Brendel wrote: It should list, but it doesn't: $ grep -A9 '@ run2' setup-2.ini ^^^ This was the clue. As it happens, the union mount stuff had an override for setup.hint, but not the entire directory. So, the tarballs themselves

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-20 Thread Charles Wilson
I've integrated Lothar's patch into run2/checkX (along with some other internal changes), and published a test release. Please try run-0.3.1-1 and let me know if it fixes your problems with checkX. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Lothar Brendel wrote: Ok, this can be cured by if (pthread_cond_timedwait (cv_xopenOK, mtx_xopenOK, then) == ETIMEDOUT) { xopenOK = XSERV_TIMEDOUT; /* it's okay, we have the mutex */ xopenTrying = 0; /* allow open_display() to give up */ +

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Lothar Brendel wrote: Charles Wilson already set up this kind of infrastructure, I just had to introduce one more communication variable, cf. the patch below (positively tested on my system). Yep, there are really two different purposes for a setting a timeout [i) Just check whether an X

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Jon TURNEY wrote: But why would you fix the timeout problem by doing some horrible horrible iteration in the DOS batch script (horrible) (which would probably have to busy-wait (also horrible) as there's no sleep command), when you can fix checkX, which has the bonus of fixing other uses of

Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

2009-10-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Ken Brown wrote: X11R7.5 doesn't like the (default) locale C.UTF-8. If I start the server technically speaking, there's no such locale as C.UTF-8, so I'd not expect portable code to accept it (C and UTF-8 are mutually exclusive). No, actually

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xinit-1.1.1-5

2009-10-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Angelo Graziosi wrote: In 'startxwin.bat' I see: %RUN% bash -l -c XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error Shouldn't it be %RUN% bash -l -c XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error ? No, run implicitly puts the target in the background, unless you add the '-w' (wait)

Re: [1.7] On checkX

2009-09-04 Thread Charles Wilson
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Unfortunately, I can't reproduce. Ugh! I forgot to say that I start those scripts with links on desktop... For example: mkshortcut -AD \ -n ${urxvt} \ -a bash -l start_urxvt.sh \ -i /usr/bin/XWin.exe \ -d Console unicode

Re: [1.7] On checkX

2009-09-04 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: Angelo Graziosi wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Unfortunately, I can't reproduce. Ugh! I forgot to say that I start those scripts with links on desktop... For example: mkshortcut -AD \ -n ${urxvt} \ -a bash -l start_urxvt.sh \ -i /usr/bin/XWin.exe

Re: Problems starting rxvt from startxwin.bat

2009-09-03 Thread Charles Wilson
Jon TURNEY wrote: Is there a reason why we can't do 'checkx -d %DISPLAY% -t 30' rather than counting up to 30 ourselves? Well, -t with a number larger than 12 is not useful. Xlib itself will timeout after 12 seconds if it can't contact the xserver. The -t option for checkx (and run2) simply

Re: [1.7] On checkX

2009-08-28 Thread Charles Wilson
[Redirecting to cygwin-xfree; Reply-To set] Angelo Graziosi wrote: /usr/bin/checkX || start_XWin [...] Now, it happens that, often (perhaps always), if the x-server is not running, then checkX stackdumps, in the sense I find checkX.exe.stackdump in HOME, but it is empty! 0 bytes. What

Re: [1.7] On checkX

2009-08-28 Thread Charles Wilson
[redirecting, AGAIN, to cygwin-xfree. This is OT for the main cygwin list] Unfortunately, I can't reproduce. Try running checkX with (progressively): --no-silent --verbose --debug --debug=2 --debug=3 --debug=4 this should help to narrow down how far it gets (and perhaps why) before

Re: broken checkx on mirrors

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Guenter Millahn wrote: just now I tried an update of my CygWin. I realized that checkx-0.2.1-1.tar.bz is broken on all mirrors. The checkx-0.2.1-1 package is an empty upgrade helper. It is present only to force an update to the new package, which is called run2 -- this should have happened

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-45

2009-04-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Thomas Wolff wrote: Now that cygwin supports UTF-8 in a standard fashion, I think it's time to also add Unicode fonts to the Cygwin/X distribution. Otherwise the additional value of running xterm or rxvt in UTF-8 mode is quite limited. I would be willing to provide the Unicode versions of

Re: New Maintainer

2008-03-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:58:17PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: DRC wrote: Is there a spec for which files go in which packages, etc.? Any other advice to get started, or should I just start downloading and tinkering? Given the new modular structure of the X.org

Re: Checking if the X Server is running

2007-09-30 Thread Charles Wilson
O. Olson wrote: Is there any way of checking if the X Server is currently running? Because if you try this again, it gives you “A fatal error” … which does not crash your computer – but is a bit annoying to me. The checkX program is written specifically to do this. #!/bin/sh if

Re: Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

2007-05-07 Thread Charles Wilson
of Harold's ancient package still benefit from your support. Don't try to retcon this thread. that remark reflects poorly on you. For the casual reader, google suggests that Charles Wilson called me a liar. No, it looked to me like you were trying to redefine the terms used in earlier

Re: Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

2007-05-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2007, Charles Wilson wrote: The fact is, rxvt upstream is dead, dead, dead. It has shuffled off this mortal coil. Joined the choir invisible. It is an EX-terminal. The terminal is terminal. thanks for agreeing with me. It has no maintainer. Not so fast

Re: rxvt-20050409-4 compilation issues

2006-12-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Jason Curl wrote: Hello all, I'm having compilation issues with RXVT-20050409-4, after following instructions in the /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-20050409.README file. In particular I'm doing: cygport ./rxvt-20050409-X.cygport all and it appears to fail because the xpm.h libraries don't

gtk2/glib version mismatch?

2006-11-11 Thread Charles Wilson
The current version of glib2 on cygwin is 2.10.3-1. The current version of gtk2 on cygwin is 2.6.10-1. gtk2 (prior to 2.8.x) uses the GMemChunk interface. 2.8.x and later use the slice allocator. glib-2.10.x deprecates the GMemChunk interface: #if !defined (G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED) || defined

Re: Default directory is C:\PROGRA~1\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT\mksnt\?

2006-04-24 Thread Charles Wilson
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Without the benefit of all the info that http://cygwin.com/problems.html recommends, I can hazard a guess that you have a copy of the MKS tools installed. These tools will conflict with the like named tools in Cygwin. Your best bet is to remove them. You'll likely

Re: Looking for Cygwin/X maintainer

2006-03-03 Thread Charles Wilson
Alan Hourihane wrote: But, yet more thoughts. Given that Chris Corinna want a more active person to maintain Cygwin/X - I should stand down anyway. Thanks for having me. Please don't go away mad. :-) Better, please don't go away, even if you do stand down. Even beyond the be really

Re: rxvt fonts size setting problem for X/Cygwin

2005-11-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I don't know of an easy way to dispatch to a font name based on whether you're running X or native. You could try playing with window names and using this as a selector in your .Xdefaults... Igor Here's what I do: (1) ~/.Xdefaults has the following (if you

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: What does Cygwin native mean? If Cygwin is meant to be a POSIX environment, then X11 should be the standard for GUI apps. Not gonna happen: it has been stated before on this list that 'insight' *must* run without X -- which means that tk will remain Win32GUI.

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Others have mentioned building *NIX tcl/tk on Cygwin, and I wouldn't call building gtk2 daunting; Daunting to build it in such a way that (a) the win32 version doesn't interfere with the X version, (b) vice versa, and (c) you're SURE that nothing win32-runtime

Re: Emacs problem after rebaseall: some progresses?

2005-09-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Angelo Graziosi wrote: After the new release of rebase-2.4-1, the problem remains BUT this time reinstalling, with setup, ONLY the package libncurses7 (whose current release is 5.3-4), EMACS works again! Rebasing all and then

Re: Emacs problem after rebaseall: some progresses?

2005-09-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Angelo Graziosi wrote: as the title of this mail says, it is Emacs (21.2-13, 21.3.50-2, started from X), NOT XEmacs (21.4.17-1, 21.5.16-1), that has problems after rebasing all the system. Fine, Emacs, XEmacs, whatever. That's not the point The problem. There are

Re: Obtaining older packages...

2005-04-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Don't forget the Cygwin Time Machine: http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwintimemachine ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/index.html -- Chuck

Re: Tcl/Tk wish and Cygwin/X

2005-02-24 Thread Charles Wilson
Markus Jung wrote: I have a strange effect with my cygwin/x environment. I've downloaded a Tcl/Tk application called secpanel. secpanel is a application tho manage ssh connection with a x-window interface. Now, my problem is if I start the secpanel application with wish, it won't come up in my

Re: Installing tcltk does not force installation of XFree86-prog

2004-03-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Marc Daumas wrote: ...although X11/Xlib.h is needed. You've stuck your finger right on a sore spot. tcltk is a *native MS windowing* port of tk (tcl is GUI-agnostic; tk is the important bit wrt display technology). The X11/Xlib.h file that cygwin's tk wants is NOT the one distributed by

Re: libtool created import libs broken? was RE: DDD 3.3.8 (i686-pc-cygwin) gets `Segmentation fault

2003-12-04 Thread Charles Wilson
Brian Ford wrote: Charles Wilson, Could you look at the problem discovered in the thread below and give us a comment? Thanks. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-12/msg00053.html There are a couple of problems. 1) OOB, DDD uses libtool-1.4.2 -- which has very minimal support

Re: Updated: xfig-3.2.4-4 and xfig-lib-3.2.4-4

2003-10-29 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold L Hunt II wrote: 2) Consolidate the packages into xfig-lib (graphic symbols library), xfig (everything else). When you remove packages completely, you need to provide a compatibility package that has the same name but higher version number. That way, setup.exe will Do The Right

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

2003-10-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Errm, this isn't going to change the public interface 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

Re: [ITP] freetype2 2.1.5

2003-10-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Original from http://www.freetype.org/ Questions for other maintainers === 1) freetype2 is built as part of XFree86 right now as a shared library, but configuring with --enable-shared and --disable-static doesn't produce a .dll when building

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

2003-09-17 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf Habacker wrote: ... 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

Re: cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-04 Thread Charles Wilson
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? -- Chuck Harold L Hunt II wrote: Well, that makes it easy. SHM will not be

Re: Error building glib-2.2.1 from source 8-(

2003-03-03 Thread Charles Wilson
You have to re-libtoolize using the latest libtool. I posted a patch (for 2.2.0) to the main cygwin list on Jan 03, 2003. --Chuck Chris Olive wrote: I'm trying to build glib from source (from www.gtk.org FTP mirror), and I end up with the following error during make: OUTPUT make[2]: Entering

Re: how to enable magic cookies on W2K cygwin X11?

2003-02-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Alexander Gottwald wrote: [some stuff about magic cookies] cygutils contains the mcookie program from util-linux, if that helps. (It may not; I don't know much about X) NAME mcookie - generate magic cookies for xauth SYNOPSIS mcookie [-v] [-f filename ] DESCRIPTION

Re: new runtime pseudo-reloc in cygwin 1.3.18

2002-12-31 Thread Charles Wilson
Alexander Gottwald wrote: So I don't even know where _XtInherit is called and whats different with the relocation. gdb revealed: Dll1 (libXt) defines void _XtInherit(). Dll2 (libXaw) uses _XtInherit and passes it to a function in libXt which does if (x == _XtInherit) { foo() };

Re: new runtime pseudo-reloc in cygwin 1.3.18

2002-12-27 Thread Charles Wilson
Alexander Gottwald wrote: Alan Hourihane wrote: I'm about to commit a patch to the XFree86 CVS that uses the new relocation code in cygwin 1.3.18. This allows us to create the last few libraries as shared code. How will this affect people with cygwin 1.3.18? It won't affect them

Re: 8 bit PseudoColor problem

2002-12-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold L Hunt II wrote: I wouldn't say that PseudoColor support is sketchy. I mean, it works fine either in fullscreen or if you are running Windows in 8 bit color mode. Granted, PseudoColor is not available when you are running in windowed mode with Windows set at higher than 8 bit color.

Re: 8 bit PseudoColor problem

2002-12-07 Thread Charles Wilson
He's referring to a very old message on this list concerning 8bit PseudoColor support in cygwin-xfree and Cadence. Cadence is a CAD package that requires that feature -- and since PseudoColor support in cygwin-xfree is sketchy at best, you can't really use it to xhost cadence. (Which is the

Re: Incorrect version in packages names

2002-07-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf Habacker wrote: The naming was probably inherited from linux, where it is possible to have both kde (1) and kde (2) and kde (3) all installed on the same machine. Therefore, each needs different basename. If the kde-cygwin folks want to maintain that package-name distinction, then

Re: [packages] gtk+, glib, imlib

2002-07-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Nicholas Wourms wrote: So? Your point? I don't want to run linux on this machine. My question above was partially a joke and partially a rhetorical one. I don't need to be lectured on the joy and simplicity of the explorer interface (tho neither seem to apply). Let's not turn this

Re: Incorrect version in packages names

2002-07-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: upset would probably do the right thing with the above but I really don't see any reason to use it, regardless. I don't see any reason why a user would need to know that these are kdelibs-2 when it is pretty obvious from the version number. The naming was

Re: Problem with cygwin1.dll and xfree

2002-07-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Nicholas Wourms wrote: If I'm not mistaken, I believe WinCVS does tell them to put the dll in system. If so, then they should be vigorously insulted, and possibly shunned. Think of the frenchmen in Monty Python's The Holy Grail. However, I can't find anything prominent on their site that

Re: New xlauncher (was: Re: Success with Java prog in XFree)

2002-07-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold Hunt wrote: I haven't had any comments on this program yet because, while it is a neat exercise and will be useful for other work, it will not be distributed with Cygwin/XFree86 until it is written in a language that can be compiled with a free software compiler, preferrably gcc or

Re: New xlauncher (was: Re: Success with Java prog in XFree)

2002-07-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold Hunt wrote: That's fine about Java... but that last I knew this xlauncher was a Delphi app. What have you got to say about that :) WTF? I don't follow the xfree list all that closely, but didn't this thread start out as Success with Java prog in XFree? I just assumed that

Re: New xlauncher (was: Re: Success with Java prog in XFree)

2002-07-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold Hunt wrote: WTF? I don't follow the xfree list all that closely, but didn't this thread start out as Success with Java prog in XFree? I just assumed that 'xlauncher' WAS that Java prog. Sorry for the confusion. You know... sometimes I'm just not paying any attention at all. What

Re: Using only the X server of Cygwin

2002-07-07 Thread Charles Wilson
Hey, Nicholas -- don't squish Rhialto that quickly. He's probably one of our new users who knows nothing about the cygwin project except what he read on slashdot this morning. The fact is, Rhialto, we focus on cygwin -- as an environment all by itself, *and* independent of any specific

gcc-3.1.x [was: Re: Using only the X server of Cygwin]

2002-07-07 Thread Charles Wilson
[follow up to the cygwin list; this is getting off-topic for cygwin-xfree.] Nicholas Wourms wrote: Hey, Nicholas -- don't squish Rhialto that quickly. He's probably one of our new users who knows nothing about the cygwin project except what he read on slashdot this morning. I am still

Re: Possible bug of the M$ windows manager ? or, XFree bug ?

2002-06-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Nicholas Wourms wrote: People, For the love of God, bzip2 is there for a reason, please use it. Some of us have high mail volume and low mailbox quotas. actually, bzip2 would probably not do a very good job compressing a png. (I said PROBABLY. No need to post 27 counterexamples).

Re: By the way...

2002-05-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold Hunt wrote: 2) In libiconv-1.7-2.sh, prefix is set to 'prefix=/usr/local'. That should be changed to '/usr' before this package is released, right? Yes. I'm sorry Chuck. I just read the link that you sent to an email that you wrote... with very detailed answers to both of my

Re: Repackaging of WindowMaker and openbox needed ?

2002-05-13 Thread Charles Wilson
Ton van Overbeek wrote: Now it seems that there is a consensus that all X specific stuff should go in /usr/X11R6/bin, /usr/X11R6/lib, Well, if you call Chuck reversing his original position, and Harold agreeing with Chuck's new position, and Earnie smugly thinking 'I was right all along'

Re: Repackaging of WindowMaker and openbox needed ?

2002-05-13 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: Just to clarify, here's what I said: *I don't think I ever gave an opinion on the /usr/bin vs. */usr/X11R6/bin. My preference is that all official X stuff goes in */usr/X11R6/bin but that seems to be counter to the way most modern *distributions do things.

Re: lesstif mwm bug

2002-05-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't think I ever gave an opinion on the /usr/bin vs. /usr/X11R6/bin. My preference is that all official X stuff goes in /usr/X11R6/bin but that seems to be counter to the way most modern distributions do things. So, I don't know that we have an actual

Re: Legacy Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Randall R Schulz wrote: More problem symptoms followed. When the boot process completed the hardware scan and got to the point where the Welcome to Windows 2000 low-resolution splash screen would be taken down and the monitor resolution switched, I instead got a long period of disk

Re: MIT shared memory extension

2002-05-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Ralf Habacker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:41 AM What about using a new type respective casts for cygdaemon. This would not break key_t compatibility and allows to migrate single application to cygdaemon,

Re: MIT shared memory extension

2002-05-03 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf Habacker wrote: It is possible though to compile xfree86 for cygwin with that enabled, but it haven't been tested, check the mailinglist. It works, we have done so for the kde-cygwin port Yeah, but it requires CygIPC, doesn't it? BTW, has anybody tried to run kde-cygwin using the

Re: pkgconfig [Was By the way... ]

2002-05-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Steven O'Brien wrote: There was no circular dependency for glib-1.2.10. In fact when I ported it I had never heard of pkg-config. Oh, I misunderstood you. When you said you configured pkgconfig to build against your installed version of glib, I thought your installed version was 1.3.x,

Re: By the way...

2002-04-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold Hunt wrote: ... I added a link to your Cygwin Gnome page to Cygwin/XFree86's Ported Software page: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ported-software.html I'm very impressed with your work to compile Gnome with DLLs. Keep it up! A couple of things: 1) pkgconfig. I'm the cygwin pkgconfig

Re: mkdll.sh

2002-04-30 Thread Charles Wilson
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Wilson Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 2:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cygx Subject: Re: mkdll.sh You could probably do the following: get rid of mkdll.sh relibtoolize/autoconf using the -devel tools (e.g. make sure that configure.in has

Re: By the way...

2002-04-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Steven O'Brien wrote: 1) pkgconfig. I'm the cygwin pkgconfig maintainer, and I'd like I'll add that to the list of jobs ... When I started work on gnome-vfs pkg-config was not in the official cygwin distribution and 0.8.0 was the latest version. I patched it to remove the included

Re: cygjpeg6b.dll not found

2002-04-29 Thread Charles Wilson
Dawson, David W wrote: Goodness!! cygjpeg6b.dll is part of the jpeg package of Cygwin. WindowMaker depends upon this package. As noted in another post, WindowMaker also depends on the tiff package. Now that it has become evident that WindowMaker also needs these (non-default)

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

2002-04-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 8:33 AM if you select the source for more than one of [bob|bobx|boby], then it is downloaded only once (good) but is unpacked three times. This isn't

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

2002-04-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:59 PM Also, setup must do the following (even without new 'views' and whatnot) Setup should already do that, why not make a test setup.ini and see what

Re: xfree packages

2002-04-16 Thread Charles Wilson
. Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Wilson Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: xfree packages I can do this -- but what was the outcome of the package name

Re: info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?

2002-04-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: They were simple changes to the script I wrote to repackage the distributed archives. I'll try to write proper setup.hint files for all the packages. Cool. I'm unclear about how the -src packages (are/should be) handled, since there are a great many binary

Speaking of debian cygwin

2001-12-04 Thread Charles Wilson
There's another slashdot article: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/04/13552388 Seems the debian-devel folks aren't too happy about this... --Chuck