Re: patch cygrunsrv for running native win32 applications

2005-10-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
from time to time: On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:05:58AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:22:06AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: I recently ran across this (not work safe) similar request: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/~dm/remove.pdf I very nearly died while reading

Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:15:14PM +0100, Chris Taylor wrote: Herb Martin wrote: Eric Blake wrote: Herb Martin wrote: So what is the method to teach Setup that the file has been updated. Have you tried simply uninstalling the Cygwin package? If you installed the new one into another

Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required

2005-10-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 05:04:23PM +0100, zzapper wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:46:04 +0100, zzapper wrote: Hi $ cygpath -d c:/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer c:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1 I've just had another case where the I had to use the short form, is the short form the real name? No,

Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-3

2005-10-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:37:08PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: With the snap 20051019 13:12:47 the command 'cp -p' of coreutils 5.90-3 works fine. A curiosit. The recent snapshots contain also mingw-runtime and w32api: is there a special reason for this? Um, they changed?

Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:34:30AM +0100, Chris Taylor wrote: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:15:14PM +0100, Chris Taylor wrote: If you reinstalled all of exim, you don't really need the cygwin version.. So you want to edit the /etc/setup/installed.db and give

Re: textmount/binmount issue

2005-10-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:05:13AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Lemke, Michael IZ/HZA-IOM wrote: This is my current mount table: pc00626 mount -m mount -f -s -b c:/MyStuff/cygwin/bin /usr/bin mount -f -s -b c:/MyStuff/cygwin/lib /usr/lib mount -f -s -b

Re: textmount/binmount issue

2005-10-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:56:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:05:13AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Looks like the cygdrive prefix takes precedence over explicit mounts. This is arguably a bug. http

Re: Accessing signal context from a handler

2005-10-27 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 05:56:15PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:36:53PM +, Adam Irawan wrote: Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha at cs.nyu.edu writes: On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:00:23PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski

Re: mksh (shell)

2005-10-28 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:01:59PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Sorry for the people, please do XXX but my ressorces are limited, my responsibilities as BSD developer high, and I only have one Windows box which is already occupied with Interix. Having no Interix myself, I can't see what

Re: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
hippo is to cygwin? Then we could say, cygwin doesn't have bugs, it's got mammals. Oh, and: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:29:31PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:27:15AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: I said virus program. That would be something like Norton AV

Re: Missing directories in @INC with perl 5.8.7 and cygwin 1.5.18-1

2005-11-04 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:30:01AM +0100, Frank_Ehlert wrote: If PERL5LIB is set, perl searches for according version directories and architecture specific directories. If they are present they will be included in the @INC array. Now I am faced with the problem that with perl 5.8.7 this

Re: Missing directories in @INC with perl 5.8.7 and cygwin 1.5.18-1

2005-11-06 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:43:03AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If PERL5LIB is set, perl searches for according version directories and architecture specific directories. If they are present they will be included in the @INC array. Now I am faced

futimes fails on file open for read

2005-11-06 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
The following gives: futimes returned: -1 (Permission denied) I'm told it succeeds on linux; is it even possible for it to work on cygwin or am I SOL? #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include sys/time.h #include fcntl.h #include errno.h #include string.h int main(int argc,char **argv) {

Re: futimes fails on file open for read

2005-11-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 06:08:40PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 6 23:34, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: The following gives: futimes returned: -1 (Permission denied) I'm told it succeeds on linux; is it even possible for it to work on cygwin or am I SOL? I've created

unexpected failure of cygwin32_winpid_to_pid

2005-11-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Using 20051108, I just saw failures twice in tests of the perl binding for cygwin32_winpid_to_pid, but no failure on every try since. The test looks like: my $catpid = open my $cat, |cat or die Couldn't cat: $!; open my $ps, ps| or die Couldn't do ps: $!; my ($catwinpid) = map

Re: unexpected failure of cygwin32_winpid_to_pid

2005-11-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:17:41PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Using 20051108, I just saw failures twice in tests of the perl binding for cygwin32_winpid_to_pid, but no failure on every try since. The test looks like: my $catpid = open my $cat, |cat or die Couldn't cat: $!; open

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: apr(-util) 0.9.7-1

2005-11-15 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 03:51:10PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:37:53PM +, zzapper wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:01:43 +, wrote: zzapper wrote: On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:16:58 +, wrote: APR and APR-util, portability and miscellaneous utility

Re: upgrade/add a single package

2005-11-17 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:40:27PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: beau wrote: I think I've got my /etc/setup properly in place Huh? Normally there is no need to touch anything under /etc/setup at all. , but when I try to add a new package I end up getting everything. The only way I

open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars

2005-12-02 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
I'm trying to create a file (on NTFS) with a CR in the name and getting ENOENT; is it possible for this to work (without a managed mount)? Trying all possible characters: #include stdio.h #include fcntl.h #include unistd.h #include string.h #include errno.h #include ctype.h int main(int argc,

Re: ECANCELED

2005-12-04 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:09:03PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:38:27PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: There is no ECANCELED value in cygwin's /usr/include/sys/errno.h. Is that on purpose? Of course it is. It's about time you noticed. We refused to implement

Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars

2005-12-04 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:09:05PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 2 20:38, Eric Blake wrote: I'm trying to create a file (on NTFS) with a CR in the name and getting ENOENT; is it possible for this to work (without a managed mount)? Welcome to Windows. None of these

Re: command-line archiver that understands Windows ACLs?

2005-12-06 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:21:54PM -0800, Mark McWiggins wrote: I'm working with a company that deploys tar files from Unix to Windows where the Windows administrators set their directories up with various ACLs. Cygwin's default TAR program destroys these ACLs when files are unpacked into

Re: cygcheck bug when listing services (Was Re: Parallel writes to a single FIFO do not queue, and deadlock cygwin)

2005-12-06 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:40:01AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Running cygcheck under strace shows that after listing all the available services, it invokes cygrunsrv --query grunsrv.exe --list, which results in the above message. I think this may be because the output of cygrunsrv --list

Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars

2005-12-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:09:05PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 2 20:38, Eric Blake wrote: I'm trying to create a file (on NTFS) with a CR in the name and getting ENOENT; is it possible for this to work (without a managed mount)? Welcome to Windows. None of these

Re: Hang with 20051205 snapshot while building OOo

2005-12-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:15:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:16:17PM +0100, Volker Quetschke wrote: We got some new features in the hangs with the 20051205 snapshot when building OOo. This trace looks a little bit different from the old versions, see thread

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2005-12-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:11:37PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: 1.5.19 has also some new functionality over 1.5.18. If you have sources which take advantage of that stuff if present, we're also interested in getting feeedback about those: - clock_getres, clock_setres. - fts(3)

Re: Hang with 20051205 snapshot while building OOo

2005-12-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:23:01PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:15:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:16:17PM +0100, Volker Quetschke wrote: We got some new features in the hangs with the 20051205 snapshot when building OOo

Re: open() giving ENOENT when trying to create files with control chars

2005-12-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:31:32AM +, Eric Blake wrote: From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moving on to another non-portable problem, I want to create a file with a space at the end of the name, but cygwin is stripping spaces. Despite the comment in the code, this does

status of bash-3.0-12 (was: Re: How do I make /bin/sh=sh)

2005-12-15 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:40:06PM +, Eric Blake wrote: Actually, I'm playing with a change to bash, soon to be bash-3.0-12, where the postinstall script will leave /bin/sh alone if its timestamp is newer than /bin/bash. For one release. What happens after the next upgrade to

Re: Patch and Cygwin

2005-12-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 01:07:30AM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote: This is a summary of my tests with Cygwin patch and different line ending styles. (Only LF and CRLF are tested here.) I have downloaded patch 2.5.9 from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/patch-2.5.9.tar.gz and compiled it

Re: Perl/TK cygz.dll mapping error

2005-12-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:03:40PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Brett Serkez wrote: From what I can tell by searching for similar issues, it *looks* like the new library may need to be rebased during setup? A packaging change? No, it means you need to install the rebase package and run

Re: Linker error after clean reinstallation of Cygwin

2005-12-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 07:03:12PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Angelo Graziosi wrote: After I reinstalled Cygwin there is the following linker error in build some applications: -- g77 ... foo.F -lcygipc

Re: error on installing new packages for the third-party cygwin

2005-12-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:55:04PM +0800, Liu Haibin wrote: Hi, I'm using a product which integrates cygwin. I wanted to install a new package into this cygwin but after installation, I got an error message when I ran the newly installed package. The procedure entry point __getreent could

Re: Inconvenient ghostscript and transfig dependences

2005-12-21 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:24:56PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Sorry but there is currently no way to represent either/or dependencies via setup.exe (PTC). That said, there's no reason that you can't override setup.exe and not install gs-no-X11. If you know that's what you want, then

perl Bundle::Cygwin / perl-bundle-cygwin package

2005-12-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
I'm working on creating a bundle of common Perl modules that build and pass all significant tests on cygwin. I hope to have it accepted as a cygwin package. Any particular module requests or comment on my proposed names for the CPAN bundle or cygwin package? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: perl Bundle::Cygwin / perl-bundle-cygwin package

2005-12-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:14:06PM -0600, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: I'm working on creating a bundle of common Perl modules that build and pass all significant tests on cygwin. I hope to have

Re: Please try a snapshot - final push for 1.5.19

2005-12-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:22:49AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Only four more testing days remain if we want to get a cygwin 1.5.19 release out there by Christmas. Please try a snapshot and report success/failure to this thread. When reporting a problem please report the exact steps

Re: perl Bundle::Cygwin / perl-bundle-cygwin package

2005-12-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:51:02PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:14:06PM -0600, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: I'm working on creating a bundle of common Perl modules

Re: base-files-mketc.sh hangs

2005-12-26 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:01:15AM +0800, Liu Haibin wrote: Hi, I got a problem after I reinstalled cygwin. /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh hangs there everytime I install packages. And it will produce some log files like setup.log.postinstallXa00156 under /var/log. I tried to run

Re: Installation without network connection

2005-12-27 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Greg Youngdahl wrote: So, can this still be accomplished? Is there some web page or other document that explains how it should be done? If not - can someone help me, and perhaps I can put together such a document? Perhaps it is trivially easy,

Re: Installation without network connection

2005-12-27 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:51:54AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Greg Youngdahl wrote: So, can this still be accomplished? Is there some web page or other document that explains how it should be done? If not - can someone help me

Re: Cygwin Setup Command Line

2005-12-28 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 04:23:33PM -0800, Bruce Dobrin wrote: Hmm, I just tried it and it does appear to sort of work, but it only installs the default and I don't see any way to tell it to do otherwise. This has been discussed many times. In short, set up a dummy package in setup.iniwith

Re: Request for fixes to http://cygwin.com/problems.html

2005-12-30 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:08:07PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:01:19PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: Greetings. I'd appreciate it if the http://cygwin.com/ webmaster would make two fixes to the http://cygwin.com/problems.html page, at his/her earliest convenience:

Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet

2005-12-31 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:44:08PM -0500, Frier, David wrote: So if I have a two-physical-processor system which HT fools Windoze into thinking is a quad, then turning off HT is not really going to help me? Help with what, the cpu spikes? You could try it and see. You could also see if the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-1

2005-12-31 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 07:41:12AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: To use this release, you MUST install a recent snapshot of cygwin (20051222 or later), as well as use the experimental readline-5.1-1. And presumably the experimental libreadline6-5.1-1? -- Unsubscribe info:

snapshot ChangeLog link missing info

2006-01-02 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/winsup-changelog-20051229-20060101 is missing the actual winsup/cygwin changes: ChangeLog for 20051229 to 20060101 -- winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog -- 2006-01-01 Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- winsup/doc/ChangeLog --

services not starting with 20060104 snapshot

2006-01-04 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
I'll try to send a proper bug report in a few hours, but just want to mention now that after loading the 20060104 dll, trying to start cygserver or syslogd fails. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Start sshd server on reinstallation

2006-01-07 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 07:09:14PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Ordinary Olson wrote: I recently installed cygwin to my C drive ? however after realizing its size, I decided to move it to the D drive. So I stopped the sshd server that I had running, deleted the registry keys

Re: Start sshd server on reinstallation

2006-01-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 07:19:32PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 07:09:14PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Ordinary Olson wrote: I recently installed cygwin to my C drive ? however after realizing its size, I decided to move it to the D drive. So

Re: Cygwin(1.5.18) gcc (3.4.4) problems when compileing esd test prg

2006-01-09 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 06:06:41AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: I am tring to compile this sample program on cygwin 1.5.18 and gcc (gcc 3.4.4) You're writing a program that tries to call esound libraries. These libraries are not in the Cygwin distribution.

Re: setup crashes trying to install xorg-x11-fnts

2006-01-11 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:28:31PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: If nothing works, however, you can do the following: 1. Download release/X11/xorg-x11-fnts/xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.1.0-3.tar.bz2 from some mirror (I use mirrors.kernel.org with good results). 2. cd / tar xjf

Re: Segment fault/Bus error with Singular

2006-01-11 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:32:37PM -0500, Murray Eisenberg wrote: Sorry, I should not have asked about where to put the downloaded files; of course that would not matter given that the argument to tar includes the path to the downloads. BUT: The How do I install snapshots? FAQ answer is

Re: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

2006-01-11 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:17:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:35:37AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:23:41PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I hope that I've nailed down the last of the problems due to trying to hide

Re: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

2006-01-11 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:41:20PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:17:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:35:37AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:23:41PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I hope

Re: [PATCH] Proposed clarification of the snapshot installation FAQ

2006-01-13 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:57:27PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On 1/11/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: As mentioned in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00537.html, here's a patch to the FAQ to clarify the section on installing snapshots. I didn't know whether the various *.texinfo

Re: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

2006-01-14 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:35:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:46:24PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Just in case it's relevant, note that I have experimental bash, readline, libreadline6, findutils, and coreutils. Does the latest snapshot behave any

Re: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

2006-01-15 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:58:32PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:35:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:46:24PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Just in case it's relevant, note that I have experimental bash, readline

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-15 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:59:25PM -0500, Brett Serkez wrote: [snip] Not particularly, assuming you use the same local package cache on each machine, especially if you use the trick for pulling in all the packages you want automatically. Right. I don't know about chere, chere must

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:08:03AM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote: On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what this approach buys you over running setup.exe in unattended install mode on a copied local package cache, except fragility

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fortune-1.99.1-2 (experimental)

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
This version of fortune contains many tweaks to the fortune data files from the debian 1.99.1-2 and 1.99.1-3 releases, including the new off/disclaimer file, and adds a new, undocumented, -u switch to fortune. It is now built using the cygwin generic build script, and requires a recent snapshot

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:23:00PM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote: On 1/16/06, Chris Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Maier wrote: On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the key word there is does not yet *support*. Run setup --help from a command

snapshot installation bat file (was: Re: [PATCH] Proposed clarification of the snapshot installation FAQ)

2006-01-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:41:27PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On 1/13/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: It would be nice to have a sample batch file that automated the cygwin1.dll replacement, too. I've prettied up a batch file I use for installing cygwin-inst-* snapshots

Re: Cygwin Setup: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception

2006-01-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:37:12PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: Is an application crash the expected behavior when package validation fails? Maybe it should mark it unusable or delete it? Yuck. I went through this, too. It appeared to me that there were a large

Re: can I tell setup.exe NOT to upgrade a specific package from now on?

2006-01-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:54:05PM +, Urs Rau wrote: I need to keep a version of postgresql server at level 7.x, but now that 8.x is out setup.exe suggests an upgrade every single time it runs. And one of these days I am going to forget to manually toggle the entry back to 'keep'

Re: apache 1.3.34 can not compile anymore

2006-01-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:31:11AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried to roll back to 1.5.18-1 from the setup.exe, but now I get 10s of error messages from packages who do not find getline in the cygwin dll. You would have to also use a previous version of any

Re: Cygwin Setup: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception

2006-01-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:56:39PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: Moving to cygwin-apps, as this is likely to get technical. On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: I've looked at this a bit. Here's the weird part: the error says Uncaught Exception, but all

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:43:30PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used cygwin happily for very long time to compile apache/php/postgresql and enjoy symlinks, and now I am cut-off from one day to the next. The apache folks do not seem to care. The bug I submitted is still without reply -

Re: new cygwin dlls

2006-01-25 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:43:29AM +0900, djh wrote: Has a fix been found for building emacs on the new cygwin versions 5.19 and up yet? There is at least one problem with d_ino as you know. I thought you said you'd worked around that (though you didn't share what your actual changes). An

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU CLISP 2.38 (2006-01-24) released

2006-01-26 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:07:28AM +0100, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Sam Steingold writes: o There is NO requires line in setup.ini at least at the following download side: http://mirrors.kernel.org whereas the clisp executables depend on various dlls. setup.hint contains

binutils testsuite failures? (was: Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19)

2006-01-27 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:28:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I should point out that I didn't rebuild my packages under 1.5.19 either so I'm just as guilty as any other package maintainer in this regard. Speaking of which, in the course of making a small patch to ld (which I hope the

Re: LD_PRELOAD regression on 1.5.19-4 ? no more loaded library in child process

2006-01-28 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:31:29PM +0100, Louis Lecaroz wrote: from cmd.exe -Start bash --All environment variables from cmd.exe were propaged in bash environment+.profiles one. --Start vi sample.txt from this bash instance A new instance of bash is loaded with also all environment

Re: /proc/pid/exe points to void

2006-01-30 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:45:28PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 20 13:50, Sam Steingold wrote: On Mar 10 16:00, Sam Steingold wrote: /proc/pid/exe points to foo, not to foo.exe, so it cannot be opened c. how do I find out which file is

Re: readdir after rewinddir not working in 20060128 snapshot

2006-02-04 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:39:48AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 30 00:29, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: After a rewinddir, readdir seems to return as many empty entries as there were actual entries left to read, followed by . and .. Thanks for the testcase! Since the underlying

Re: strange cygstart bug with current Cygwin versions

2006-02-06 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:40:22PM +0100, Michael Schaap wrote: What we basically need to do, is copy the Cygwin environment to the Windows environment, taking care of path conversion for all the appropriate variables. Maybe start with:

Re: make: rm: command not found

2006-02-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 03:15:37AM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: At 08:40 AM 2/10/2006, JefV wrote: -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/make%3A-rm%3A-command-not-found-t1100243.html#a2873151 Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: default PATH

2006-02-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:57:00AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: If we don't get a single person indicating that they rely on the current behavior then I'm ok with changing it. We have a patch ready to be checked in, in fact. I assume that: $ PATH=/foo::$PATH cmd /c printenv PATH will

Re: CPAN: issues with homedirs containing spaces; how to install globally?

2006-02-17 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:32:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I think there's a bug with cpan and names containing spaces. Please report bugs in CPAN.pm to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This isn't unique to cygwin. I suggest you remove the space. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

2006-02-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:12:02PM -0600, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: So, I have a workaround of sorts. I can have my script launch my app by writing the command line to a .bat file and executing it. Definitely not something I can use to convince my management to go with CygWin. Wouldn't

Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

2006-02-21 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:25:45AM -0600, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: (2) Rebase the CygWin DLL so that it loads by default into a space not used in either memory map (I'd need help in choosing such a space). I've tried both Microsoft's rebase and CygWin's rebase, but the

Re: cygheap base mismatch detected ( Attn: rebase maintainer )

2006-02-21 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Jason, are you following this? On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:12:02PM -0600, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: We are finally zeroing in on the problem. Mark Geisert writes: The code at /src/rebase-2.3.1/rebase.c:255 assumes the signature is at offset 0x80 in the image. This was true in the early

Re: cygwin ld --out-implib treats informational message as warning (attn: binutils maintainer)

2006-02-21 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Can cygwin binutils be updated to include this patch? Thanks. On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 05:26:37PM +, Nick Clifton wrote: Hi Yitzchak, 2006-01-27 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [EMAIL PROTECTED] * pe-dll.c (pe_dll_generate_implib): Issue Creating library file: as informational

Re: stty under cygwin

2004-04-21 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:38:09PM -0700, Karl M wrote: I am sure I would have come to the same conclusion if I hadn't recognized the colon separated string. cgf That was a really nice thing to say. I thought so too. LGPL can't be far away. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: stty under cygwin

2004-04-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:03:12AM -0400, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:38:18PM +0200, bertrand marquis wrote: Christopher Faylor a ?crit: On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 09:10:46AM +0200, bertrand marquis wrote: First of all stty

Re: i want to re-download all packages... how?

2004-04-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 05:00:50PM +0200, electa wrote: i have some packeges installed, but i have lost their .bz2 files... now i want to retrieve all packages because I would like to put them on a CD-RW! -- setup.exe knows what packages i have alreay installed and don't download them... In

Re: Maildir and Cygwin

2004-04-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:26:00AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: :) that Cygwin is different (e.g. we could do this in the cygwin :) applications mailing list). :) :) Why do you want to change so many programs when all you need is a :) cygwin managed mount? IMO, the correct solution for

Re: i want to re-download all packages... how?

2004-04-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
So do it once that way to get the installed packages and then run it again to get the uninstalled packages. On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 05:43:21PM +0200, electa wrote: it selects only my installed packs, but not the other. i want all for my cygwin-CD! Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Maildir and Cygwin

2004-04-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:33:13PM -0500, GARY VANSICKLE wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:26:00AM -0700, Eduardo Chappa wrote: :) that Cygwin is different (e.g. we could do this in the cygwin :) applications mailing list). :) :) Why do you want to change so many programs when

errors using DB_File perl module under 20040422 snapshot

2004-04-25 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
It seems to be creating files that cygwin cannot thereafter open. $ perl -we'use Fcntl; use DB_File; tie %h, DB_File, bugaboo, O_RDWR()|O_CREAT(), 0666 or die error: $!' Name main::h used only once: possible typo at -e line 1. error: No such file or directory at -e line 1. $ ls *bugaboo* ls:

Re: 20040422 snapshot and filenames ending with . (was: Re: errors using DB_File perl module under 20040422 snapshot)

2004-04-28 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:45:38AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: you can create files ending with a . which are not stat'able unless another file exists with the same name without the dot. (and even then rm on the dotted name removes the non-dotted file): $ cat foo. bar ^D $ cat

Re: 20040422 snapshot and filenames ending with . (was: Re: errors using DB_File perl module under 20040422 snapshot)

2004-04-28 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:04:14PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Yitzchak wrote: I have still an older snapshot version of cygwin running here: $ uname -r 1.5.8s(0.110/4/2) And you get the ENOENT error? When issuing the perl command, yes. BTW, this happens also with cygwin-1.5.5 in

Re: 20040422 snapshot and filenames ending with . (was: Re: errors using DB_File perl module under 20040422 snapshot)

2004-04-30 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:02:21PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:45:38AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: you can create files ending with a . which are not stat'able unless another file exists with the same name without the dot. (and even then rm

Re: GPL violation ?

2004-05-06 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:50:39PM -0400, Robb, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do get a T-shirt for filing the assignment, which is intended to cover all of your subsequent contributions. Uh-oh, Igor... you let the cat out of the bag. The goodwill of the community is only worth so

Re: How to force Setup.exe to behave?

2004-05-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 04:20:34PM -0700, Lex Ein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nine days ago, this was Using Setup.exe to uninstall -bogus. Please help me figure out how to get Setup.exe to STOP TRYING TO INSTALL X. Setup.exe won't stop trying to snag unnecessary components. What file(s) to I

Re: write hangs on socket shut down for writing

2004-05-21 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:50:59AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 21 02:36, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:46:59AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try it with a recent Cygwin version? I used your above test

Re: g++

2004-06-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:23:57PM -0600, Ian Strascina wrote: I updated my cygwin last Thurs. (6/3/04) to include the Perl and Python packages... Today, I'm trying to compile my c++ programs, and g++ is gone from my /usr/bin ... Anyone know why this would happen...??? Now I want to

Re: nice not setting above/below normal

2004-06-13 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 05:42:38AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: reserved for real-time processes. The remaining range 1-15 are the regular (dynamic) priorities that most processes run with. In reality you don't set the priority directly this way, rather you choose a priority class (realtime,

Re: ODBC with PostgreSQL

2004-06-13 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 02:04:01AM -0400, Barry wrote: I have ActivePerl installed along with Cygwin's Perl. When I configured ActivePerl, I had .pl files be associated with it, and I'm not sure what Perl is used when I paste perl path in Cygwin, or if there's a conflict, or if my error is

Re: grep problems

2004-06-14 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:29:13AM +0200, J?rg Schaible wrote: I have upgraded to latest release of Cygwin and this has not changed things. I have tried the above on a Windows 98 and Windows XP system as well - same results. Any ideas how I get around this problem ? Learn the syntax.

Re: jhead question/problem

2004-06-14 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:02:15AM -0500, Jason Dufair wrote: If I execute it with the full pathname, however, it seems to have trouble: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ jhead /tmp/p660.jpg Error : No such file in file '\tmp\p660.jpg' Just for kicks, try: jhead /cygwin/tmp/p660.jpg

Re: Carriage Returns

2004-06-18 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 01:17:07PM -0700, Chris Carlson wrote: As defined in C, there is a concept of end-of-line character. I was under the impression that Perl understood this concept, too. It just so happens that M$ doesn't have one end-of-line character, but a pair of them. In some

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