RE: setup.. release ready?

2003-04-05 Thread John Morrison
From: Robert Collins That shouldn't prevent you using a local mirror though. Does it prevent you using a local mirror? thoughtfulhumm, nooo/thoughtful that would work, the only (minor) complication then would be that folks would need to keep the cygwin cache stuff on their machines as well

Re: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:23, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: 2003-04-05 Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] * RECTPP.h: New file. Much better. A few remaining nits. a) The class name, as discussed before. b) RECTCC_H__F4098557_9A48_446d_AF28_2BE45D29F68D__INCLUDED_ Uhm, thats plain

Re: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Episode 4: The Nobox Strikes Back

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:41, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Adds a note_nobox() variant of the note() function which doesn't pop up a message box. Used in an upcoming patch to eliminate the final, separate, Install Complete message box in favor of a more-traditional Finished page. This duplicates

setup release pending...

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
Max, I'm still waiting on feedback from you. I don't need a patch for the MD5 checksums immediately, but I do need to know if you are working on one, or if you are objecting in principle but not planning on creating a patch. If the former, lets set a date for having the patch by. If the

Re: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:23, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: 2003-04-05 Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] * RECTPP.h: New file. Much better. A few remaining nits. a) The class name, as discussed before. b) RECTCC_H__F4098557_9A48_446d_AF28_2BE45D29F68D__INCLUDED_

Re: setup release pending...

2003-04-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: Max, I'm still waiting on feedback from you. I don't need a patch for the MD5 checksums immediately, but I do need to know if you are working on one, or if you are objecting in principle but not planning on creating a patch. If the former, lets set a date for having

base-files-mketc.sh

2003-04-05 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Have we heard from the maintainer of base-files-mketc.sh recently? About two months ago there was a discussion about putting Windows paths in the symlinks (to avoid problems when changing /cygdrive and with user dependent mounts), but the script was never updated. Pierre

RE: setup.. release ready?

2003-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, John Morrison wrote: From: Robert Collins That shouldn't prevent you using a local mirror though. Does it prevent you using a local mirror? thoughtfulhumm, nooo/thoughtful that would work, the only (minor) complication then would be that folks would need to keep

Re: setup release pending...

2003-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: Max, I'm still waiting on feedback from you. I don't need a patch for the MD5 checksums immediately, but I do need to know if you are working on one, or if you are objecting in principle but not planning on creating a patch.

Re: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:23, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: 2003-04-05 Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] * RECTPP.h: New file. Much better. A few remaining nits. a) The class name, as discussed before. b)

Re: setup.. release ready?

2003-04-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 07:51, John Morrison wrote: I'm waiting to hear back from Max as to whether he intends to offer a patch (and if so, when to do what) for the local cache MD5 checks, but AFAIK thats the only current delay. I also would like to be able to switch

RE: base-files-mketc.sh

2003-04-05 Thread John Morrison
From: Pierre A. Humblet Have we heard from the maintainer of base-files-mketc.sh recently? Yeah - I'm here ;) About two months ago there was a discussion about putting Windows paths in the symlinks (to avoid problems when changing /cygdrive and with user dependent mounts), but the script

RE: base-files-mketc.sh

2003-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, John Morrison wrote: From: Pierre A. Humblet Have we heard from the maintainer of base-files-mketc.sh recently? Yeah - I'm here ;) About two months ago there was a discussion about putting Windows paths in the symlinks (to avoid problems when changing /cygdrive

Re: base-files-mketc.sh

2003-04-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 02:00:33PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, John Morrison wrote: From: Pierre A. Humblet Have we heard from the maintainer of base-files-mketc.sh recently? Yeah - I'm here ;) About two months ago there was a discussion about putting Windows

RE: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:23, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: 2003-04-05 Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] * RECTPP.h: New file. Much better. A few remaining nits. a) The class name, as discussed before. b)

[PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
2003-04-05 Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] * RECTPP.h: New file. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. 2003-04-05 Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] * RECTPP.h: New file. RECTPP.h Description: Binary data

[PATCH] Bigger Chooser Episode 4: The Nobox Strikes Back

2003-04-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Adds a note_nobox() variant of the note() function which doesn't pop up a message box. Used in an upcoming patch to eliminate the final, separate, Install Complete message box in favor of a more-traditional Finished page. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. nobox.diff Description: Binary

Curious code in Installer::installOneSource

2003-04-05 Thread Max Bowsher
I'm working in this area to implement the MD5-on-install feature. Is there any reason why I should not simplify this: char msg[64]; strcpy (msg, Installing); Progress.SetText1 (msg); log (LOG_PLAIN, String (msg) + + source.Cached ()); To this: char msg[] = Installing; Progress.SetText1 (msg);

Re: setup release pending...

2003-04-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: Max, I'm still waiting on feedback from you. I don't need a patch for the MD5 checksums immediately, but I do need to know if you are working on one, or if you are objecting in principle but not planning

Re: setup release pending...

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 01:09, Max Bowsher wrote: If the former, lets set a date for having the patch by. If the latter, let me know and I'll release setup.exe. Sorry, thought I had replied, but I can't find the message in the archives. I will try and get a patch done by the time you

Re: setup.. release ready?

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 08:37, Max Bowsher wrote: Well, a command line 'off' switch will do the job. It will require conscious decision.. yep, I'm happy with that. It can go in the next release, which currently has: * post install logging * Pierre's new security updates

Re: Curious code in Installer::installOneSource

2003-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: I'm working in this area to implement the MD5-on-install feature. Is there any reason why I should not simplify this: char msg[64]; strcpy (msg, Installing); Progress.SetText1 (msg); log (LOG_PLAIN, String (msg) + + source.Cached ()); To this:

Re: Curious code in Installer::installOneSource

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 08:38, Max Bowsher wrote: I'm working in this area to implement the MD5-on-install feature. Is there any reason why I should not simplify this: From memory there was either a const correctness issue, or a funny optimiser bug. Lets keep non-related bugfixes to HEAD though.

Re: setup release pending...

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 08:53, Max Bowsher wrote: I read it as the patches aren't necessarily in yet, but will go in before the release... Sounds reasonable. But discussion seems to have fizzled regarding Pierre's patch, so we must be careful it isn't forgotten. Perhaps the pendig patch

Re: setup release pending...

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 09:15, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 11:53 PM 4/5/2003 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Sounds reasonable. But discussion seems to have fizzled regarding Pierre's patch, so we must be careful it isn't forgotten. I go by what Rob wrote earlier I've fixed the bug in both HEAD

2nd ntsec patches, take two.

2003-04-05 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
2003-04-05 Pierre Humblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] * main.cc (set_default_sec): Set token owner from token user. Always try to set the token primary group to Users or Admins. Index: main.cc === RCS file:

Re: setup release pending...

2003-04-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 08:53, Max Bowsher wrote: I read it as the patches aren't necessarily in yet, but will go in before the release... Sounds reasonable. But discussion seems to have fizzled regarding Pierre's patch, so we must be careful it isn't forgotten.

Re: setup release pending...

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 09:31, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: Perhaps the pendig patch list should be resurrected? Will do. Thanks. Please, just disable the md5 checks via a command line option. There are non-trivial (non-code) issues to make it default to as-needed. OK,

Re: setup release pending...

2003-04-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 11:53 PM 4/5/2003 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Sounds reasonable. But discussion seems to have fizzled regarding Pierre's patch, so we must be careful it isn't forgotten. I go by what Rob wrote earlier I've fixed the bug in both HEAD and the release branch. We'll

ATTN: maintainers of ...

2003-04-05 Thread Charles Wilson
the following packages: XFree86/XFree86-base cmakeemacs fileutils (coreutils?) gnugoguile lynx mc mutt nano ncftppinfo procps python robots tcshtetex/tetex-bin tin vim (mine...) terminfo

RE: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 10:02, Max Bowsher wrote: But RECTFOO is a completely different sort of thing to SIDWrapper/HANDLEWrapper. Surely we shouldn't call it something that suggests resemblance? Your point is reasonable. However, the goal of both things is to ease the use of a MS

RE: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 13:01, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: And that adaptation is not in a manner analagous to that happening in e.g. HANDLEWrapper*. xxWrapper are full-blown, honest-to-God classes, with destructors and everything, and are not inherited from structs. Virtual functions could be

RE: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 13:40, Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 13:01, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: And that adaptation is not in a manner analagous to that happening in e.g. HANDLEWrapper*. xxWrapper are full-blown, honest-to-God classes, with destructors and everything, and are

Re: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 01:01, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:23, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: 2003-04-05 Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] * RECTPP.h: New file. Much better. A few remaining nits. a) The class name, as discussed before.

RE: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 01:46, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: It's a GUID, it's supposed to by ugly. Guaranteed to be unique, not going to collide with anything ever. That's how MS's AppWizard does it, and it seems like a good idea to me. Please Rob, if you're going to pick nits, pick on

Re: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 01:01, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:23, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: 2003-04-05 Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] * RECTPP.h: New file. Much better. A few remaining nits. a) The class name, as discussed

Re: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 04:13, Max Bowsher wrote: Also, the file has DOS line endings. If convenient, please d2u it. Otherwise, mention that the committer must d2u it when you resend. Good catch, and a very important point. Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 01:46, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: It's a GUID, it's supposed to by ugly. Guaranteed to be unique, not going to collide with anything ever. That's how MS's AppWizard does it, and it seems like a good idea to me. Please Rob, if you're going to

Re: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 09:24, Max Bowsher wrote: (We're not a library, so the namespace is ours). Rather sparsely used at the moment. Want me to do a global rename? Sure, if you have the time. Probably obvious, but this doesn't apply to libgetopt++/zlib/bz2lib/librsync. If you have the

Re: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 09:22, Max Bowsher wrote: PP doesn't evoke 'Memory compatible wrapper'. It doesn't even evoke Wrapper. Or Adapter. RECTPP - a C++ version of RECT. If it was that, then we could change field, give it child classes (which implies virtual

Re: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 09:51, Max Bowsher wrote: Maybe RECTWrapper Exactly. Reviewing my suggestion, I don't like it any more. After all, is doesn't wrap - it inherits. The Adapter pattern (Design Patterns, pg 139) a.k.a. Wrapper uses inheritance. Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 09:51, Max Bowsher wrote: Maybe RECTWrapper Exactly. Reviewing my suggestion, I don't like it any more. After all, is doesn't wrap - it inherits. The Adapter pattern (Design Patterns, pg 139) a.k.a. Wrapper uses inheritance. But RECTFOO is a

Re: [PATCH] Bigger Chooser Part 3 In Super 3-D: RECTPP

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 10:02, Max Bowsher wrote: But RECTFOO is a completely different sort of thing to SIDWrapper/HANDLEWrapper. Surely we shouldn't call it something that suggests resemblance? Your point is reasonable. However, the goal of both things is to ease the use of a MS struct, and

RE: Transparent terminal window?

2003-04-05 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Thanks Biju, Simon. Simon, you're right; ATerm builds easily on Cygwin, but it does have the display problem you mentioned. And on my system, with a very recent fresh install of Cygwin, it maxes out the CPU the second you start it. I haven't even tried to get it to

Re: keyboard non-US

2003-04-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
kaio wrote: I'll add the values to the list. what is xkb keymap? I meant xkb layout. This is the code of the keyboard layout. And this is it for italy. bye ago NP: VNV Nation - Epicentre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: keyboard non-US

2003-04-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
kaio wrote: KeyboardType: 4: IBM enhanced (101- or 102-key) keyboard KeyboardLayout: 0410 @Harold: can you apply this patch please? -- --- winconfig.olSat Apr 5 16:13:13 2003 +++ winconfig.c Sat Apr 5

Re: keyboard non-US

2003-04-05 Thread kaio
winconfig.c: where? can you apply this patch please? -- --- winconfig.olSat Apr 5 16:13:13 2003 +++ winconfig.c Sat Apr 5 16:11:23 2003 @@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ {0x40b, 4, pc105, fi, NULL, NULL,

Re: Transparent terminal window?

2003-04-05 Thread Simon Dong
Turning on transparency in aterm is trivial and it worked well. I did experience the CPU problem as well, and the echo/refresh problem really made it unusable. -Simon - Original Message - From: Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003

Re: Need some help on running the server on cygwin, and clients on FreeBSD.

2003-04-05 Thread Thomas Chadwick
This thread might be of interest to you... http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-10/msg00091.html From: Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need some help on running the server on cygwin, and clients on FreeBSD. Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003

Re: keyboard non-US

2003-04-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
kaio wrote: winconfig.c: where? This was a messgae for Harold Hunt. You could apply this too, but this would require that you compile XWin yourself. If you just want the keyboard to be autodetected, just wait for the next test release. bye ago NP: VNV Nation - Structure -- [EMAIL

Remote Graphical Acesss to SuSE from XP Continued

2003-04-05 Thread David White
My great thanks to the quick reply to my message! I did have some success with the suggestion. However, I am still not able to view KDE running on my Linux server on my WinXP machine. Still, now have a new error message, but this is a good thing! It shows that Xfree86 is trying to get info

Re: Remote Graphical Acesss to SuSE from XP Continued

2003-04-05 Thread Andrew Markebo
| When I executed startxwin.sh, a new XFree86 window came up with the X | cursor and a terminal window. From there I logged onto my linux | machine (ssh -x | 192.168.0.5) and echoed the display variable (echo $display). A blank ssh -X, capital X to be used.. include a -v switch also to see

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog

2003-04-05 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Branch: foo Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-05 16:25:07 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog Log message: Patches:

Re: mkpasswd and mkgroup

2003-04-05 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Pierre A. Humblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Corinna, Hmm. I feel like I'm eavesdropping. Following remarks made on the list this patch - allows to specify several domains at once with -d I just don't understand this one. Can someone be logged into multiple domains at once? - only

Re: mkpasswd and mkgroup

2003-04-05 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 08:27 AM 4/5/2003 -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: --- Pierre A. Humblet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - allows to specify several domains at once with -d I just don't understand this one. Can someone be logged into multiple domains at once? You don't need to be logged in if the domains have

RE: 1.3.22: TMPDIR Initialization

2003-04-05 Thread Robb, Sam
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 17:43, Mark Moore wrote: Christopher, I've read the http://cygwin.com/lists.html. Here's the description for the mailing list I posted to: ... The passage [cygwin-apps] is the preferred location for design discussions and bug reports regarding cygwin's

nano and TERM

2003-04-05 Thread fergus
Possibly this is a slight simplification, but broadly speaking is the following an accurate description of things? Assuming all necessary paths exist, Windows executables (fc, for instance; can't find much else that's any use) can be called from within Cygwin; and vice-versa (ls, md5sum, diff;

Re: perl 5.8.0 debugger requires double ENTER key to act on commands: cygwin 1.3.22

2003-04-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Gavin, you wrote: After upgrading from cygwin 1.3.20 to cygwin 1.3.22, the new version of Perl (5.8.0) appears to require 2 ENTER keys to be hit for any command to be acted on by the Perl debugger. The previous version of Perl (5.7.x) on cygwin 1.3.20 did not have this problem. This

Re: perl-5.8.0-2 CYGWIN1.DLL:setlinebuf failure

2003-04-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Greg, And now running perldoc, I only get 2 error messages instead of 4 about invalid page faults in cygwin DLLs. Perhaps because the perldoc page headers seem to have gone. What error messages are you getting when you run perldoc? I doon't get error messages when running it. But

Re: PERL 5.8.0-2 and Haase_Gerrit/1.3/perl/Tk800.023-1.patch - taking this to Tk800.024

2003-04-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Alan, The PERL package Tk800.023 is now Tk800.024 but Haase Gerrit's patch to get this package to work under Cygwin only works to Tk800.023. Since I wanted to use Tk800.024, I had to figure out how to do this. It was reported that Tk800.024 builds without patching it or with minimal

Re: tin says Can't get a (fully-qualified) domain-name!

2003-04-05 Thread news
Yadin Y. Goldschmidt wrote: create a file /etc/tin/tin.defaults and put a line there domainname=yourdomain If you can read this then you can assume that that fixed the problem, thanks! I also had to set disable_sender=ON in the same file (see http://www.math.psu.edu/local_doc/tin/tin.defaults

Re: perl 5.8.0-2 and WaitForMultipleObjects under win98

2003-04-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Nicholas, 307776554 [main] perl 614369 sync_with_child: WaitForMultipleObjects timed out I believe this to be a rebasing issue. I honestly think this is the result of fiddling with the stack size during the build (--stack,8388608) and non NT systems just don't like it. I may be

Re: perl 5.8.0-2 and WaitForMultipleObjects under win98

2003-04-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Nicholas, Pierre, This is also happening on WinME when I try to run either of those programs with the new perl. Except I get something Do you or someone else with Win98 or WinME have some time to do a complete build of perl, including the full testsuite? I.e. unpack the source tarball

RE: 1.3.22: TMPDIR Initialization

2003-04-05 Thread Mark Moore
Robert, If the permission on the folder pointed to by $TEMP is going to be changed during install, it seems to me it would be done by setup.exe. If not, where would that operation be performed? It looks like chmod doesn't cut it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -ld $TEMP d---rwx---+ 7 Administ

Re: nano and TERM

2003-04-05 Thread Gareth Pearce
Hmm, unable to reproduce your problem here so far, prehaps some more details would be useful. Regards, Gareth - nano packaging type guy. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 6:05 PM Subject: nano and TERM

Re: 1.3.22: TMPDIR Initialization

2003-04-05 Thread Thorsten Kampe
[Quoting adjusted] * Mark Moore (03-04-05 10:58 +0100) The passage [cygwin-apps] is the preferred location for design discussions and bug reports regarding cygwin's setup.exe program prompted me to send the post to the cygwin-apps forum. What you posted has nothing to do with setup.exe.

ORB

2003-04-05 Thread Vaillant Etienne
Hello, I need a ORB for an application under Cygwin. I know Mico and Omniorb but are there other ? Etienne I -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

perldoc prints control characters

2003-04-05 Thread Harald . Maier . BW
If I run the following command: $ perldoc Getopt::Long Then I get too printed the nasty control characters, e.g.: ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options I am not sure if this is related to perl 5.8.0-2 I looked into my

Re: perl-5.8.0-2 CYGWIN1.DLL:setlinebuf failure

2003-04-05 Thread Greg Matheson
On Sat, 05 Apr 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Greg, And now running perldoc, I only get 2 error messages instead of 4 about invalid page faults in cygwin DLLs. Perhaps because the perldoc page headers seem to have gone. What error messages are you getting when you run perldoc? I

RE: 1.3.22: TMPDIR Initialization

2003-04-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 18:58, Mark Moore wrote: Robert, If the permission on the folder pointed to by $TEMP is going to be changed during install, it seems to me it would be done by setup.exe. If not, where would that operation be performed? Setup doesn't set any special permissions. It

Re: ORB

2003-04-05 Thread Luc Hermitte
Hello, * On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 05:07:50PM +0200, Vaillant Etienne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a ORB for an application under Cygwin. I know Mico and Omniorb but are there other ? TAO may be -- based on the C++ library ACE. I am not sure if it has been ported for Cygwin, but it is

Re: perl 5.8.0-2 and WaitForMultipleObjects under win98

2003-04-05 Thread Nicholas Wourms
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Nicholas, Pierre, This is also happening on WinME when I try to run either of those programs with the new perl. Except I get something Do you or someone else with Win98 or WinME have some time to do a complete build of perl, including the full testsuite? I.e.

Re: Help -- Cygwin configuration problem

2003-04-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
I'm redirecting you to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please research their archives. Please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from your responses. Earnie. Wei Qin wrote: I have some trouble running the generated configure script on Cygwin, it complains that /bin/sh: not found at various occasions. I created a

Re: perl-5.8.0-2 CYGWIN1.DLL:setlinebuf failure

2003-04-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Greg, What error messages are you getting when you run perldoc? I doon't get error messages when running it. The same messages I had been getting for a couple of months with 5.8.0-1. As I posted here: Linkname: Greg Matheson - perl error messages with cygwin 1.3.18-1 URL:

RE: PERL 5.8.0-2 and Haase_Gerrit/1.3/perl/Tk800.023-1.patch - taking this to Tk800.024

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
Gerrit, Thanks for the email. I have been using CYGWIN for about 3/4 years now, both at home and at work, and I needed to get this item to work using cygwin perl. Now it does. It was reported that Tk800.024 builds without patching it or with minimal tweaks like the one you need to apply to

Re: perldoc prints control characters

2003-04-05 Thread Harald . Maier . BW
Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In perl-5.8.0-2 perldoc is patched to always use the -t switch, your perldoc is not the perldoc from perl-5.8.0-2. Uups, you are right. It was a 4 year old perldoc from /usr/local/bin. I have cleaned up the files and now all works fine. Thanks for the

RE: PERL 5.8.0-2 and Haase_Gerrit/1.3/perl/Tk800.023-1.patch - taking this to Tk800.024

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
Sorry - my original reply went to Gerrit only - having read on the list that it should be going to the group, I am sending this to the group ... Gerrit, Thanks for the email. I have been using CYGWIN for about 3/4 years now, both at home and at work, and I needed to get this item to work using

RE: WinXP username with spaces -- wmaker ko

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
All, I have the same problem (on my machine at home) - However I do have a (partial) solution (I am still working on the final solution): This has to be done after CYGWIN installation, but BEFORE and user logon. Edit the /etc/passwd file and replace the space in the first field, and edit the

Re: Bug in GUI App WinMain Arguements

2003-04-05 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:58:27PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: BB wrote: Also, according to the Cygwin Users Guide, I have included the following line in the code. WinMainCRTStartup() { mainCRTStartup(); } It doesnt seem to be called. Is the User Guide correct? The same problem occurs if

Re: Bash and xterm window title

2003-04-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ajay, The preferred answer is: Read the BASH manual, where the details of how to use the special escape codes recognized in the PS1 string are fully explained. To wit: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- PROMPTING When executing interactively, bash displays

RE: PERL 5.8.0-2 and Haase_Gerrit/1.3/perl/Tk800.023-1.patch - taking this to Tk800.024

2003-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Alan Miles wrote: Sorry - my original reply went to Gerrit only - having read on the list that it should be going to the group, I am sending this to the group ... [snip] Alan, Did you by any chance notice which return address Gerrit used? ;-) FYI, your original reply is

RE: PERL 5.8.0-2 and Haase_Gerrit/1.3/perl/Tk800.023-1.patch - taking this to Tk800.024

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
Igor, I am using MS Outlook 2000 - Gerrit's email was: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I checked the properties of this email I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thus I am guessing I inadvertently sent duplicate messages to the group - my apologies for that. Alan -Original Message- From: Igor

RE: WinXP username with spaces -- wmaker ko

2003-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Alan, The fix below has a few problems (one of which is unconditionally removing /etc/passwd). IMO, it's better to fix the scripts that have improper quoting, or, barring that, unset HOME in your Windows environment (or modify /etc/profile) and make sure your username doesn't contain a space.

RE: WinXP username with spaces -- wmaker ko

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
Igor, Granted - There are issues with the solution - that is why I said partial solution ( I need to resolve ALL issues) The challenge really has to do with /usr/bin/mkpasswd (which gets called by /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh during the install process) From what I can tell, it is the item

ar: .libs/libmain.al: Is a directory

2003-04-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo cygwin, getting this strange error here: ar: .libs/libmain.al: Is a directory When I look into the .libs directory I see: $ ls -la .libs total 1 drwxrwxrwx+ 2 gerrit Domänen-0 Apr 5 19:15 ./ drwxr-xr-x+ 4 gerrit Domänen-28672 Apr 5 19:14 ../ -rw-rw-rw-1 gerrit

Re: perl 5.8.0 debugger requires double ENTER key to act on commands: cygwin 1.3.22

2003-04-05 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Gerrit suggests: See the second link above, try to set: $ export PERLIO=perlio in your environment. This also fixes a problem I've had for a long time: I was unable to install Bundle::LWP from CPAN with 5.8.0-2 (many self-tests failed). -- I ... don't want programming to be really

Re: nano and TERM

2003-04-05 Thread fergus
Hmm, unable to reproduce your problem here so far, prehaps some more details would be useful. Gareth - nano packaging type guy. Thank you for getting back to me. This is what I meant. When Cygwin is installed (i.e. after running setup, filesystems are mounted, registry entries are made, etc,

Re: CVS Tags for 1.3.22

2003-04-05 Thread cm1
Thanks! I downloaded the snapshot and played around with the dates and tags until I had everything matching. BTW, I did use the branch dontuse-21 for the cygwin directory because it matched the snapshot precisely at the time I ran cvs update. This will change as new updates are checked in, of

RE: WinXP username with spaces -- wmaker ko

2003-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Alan, The one problem I see immediately with *any* automated solution of this sort is that you can actually *have* two users, e.g., Alan Miles and Alan_Miles, in some situations (in large domains, for example). Neither extra options to /bin/mkpasswd nor scripting will help here -- both will do

Re: nano and TERM

2003-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, unable to reproduce your problem here so far, prehaps some more details would be useful. Gareth - nano packaging type guy. Thank you for getting back to me. This is what I meant. When Cygwin is installed (i.e. after running setup,

Re: command prompt window title

2003-04-05 Thread Anoop Ghanwani
Randall, You were right. My path was setup so that instead of picking up /usr/bin/vi, it was picking up my DOS version of vi. Once I corrected that, the window title always shows Cygwin and never changes regardless of what I'm running. Thanks, -Anoop PS: Thanks to all who replied. I'm not

Re: nano and TERM

2003-04-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 06:42:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I know http://www.nano-editor.org supply a zipped version of nano claimed to be for Windows but since on un-zipping the provision, it turns out to include cygwin1.dll, Sigh. I've sent them excruciatingly polite email. I expect

RE: WinXP username with spaces -- wmaker ko

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
Igor, I appreciate your input - you can actually *have* two users, e.g., Alan Miles and Alan_Miles, That possibility had not occurred to me - thanks for pointing that flaw out. Since, this for me, is a problem at home, and not at work -I would have to investigate this in my own time. The

RE: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-04-05 Thread Chris January
If you have such great insight into this type of thing, it won't take you any time at all to duplicate. You've been complaining about this and other cygwin performance issues for months. Why don't *you* do something? I figured fork/exec/signals out from scratch. Certainly the

Re: nano and TERM

2003-04-05 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** Igor Pechtchanski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: IP I'm not sure why pico works, possibly because it has an internal IP termcap entry for a dumb terminal and uses that when the IP terminfo/termcap database cannot be found. Pico as built for cygwin uses the termcap entries found in

RE: 1.3.22: TMPDIR Initialization

2003-04-05 Thread Mark Moore
Robert and Thorsten, It seems to me the need for the temp folder to be accessible for all users is a global requirement, not for any one particular package. It also seems like a problem you would want to solve once. The worse possible situation would be a number of different packages solving

Re: WinXP username with spaces -- wmaker ko

2003-04-05 Thread Andrew Markebo
| | cp -a /etc/skel/. $HOME | Hi! Just a quick thought, any special reason HOME doesn't contain a legal path, escaped, as it probably (?) should be on a real unix system? (Escaped = /home/Alan\ Miles/ instead of /home/Alan Miles/) What happens if you add the escape-character to /etc/passwd ?

RE: WinXP username with spaces -- wmaker ko

2003-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Alan Miles wrote: Igor, I appreciate your input - you can actually *have* two users, e.g., Alan Miles and Alan_Miles, That possibility had not occurred to me - thanks for pointing that flaw out. Since, this for me, is a problem at home, and not at work -I would

RE: 1.3.22: TMPDIR Initialization

2003-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Mark Moore wrote: Robert and Thorsten, It seems to me the need for the temp folder to be accessible for all users is a global requirement, not for any one particular package. It also seems like a problem you would want to solve once. The worse possible situation would

RE: WinXP username with spaces -- wmaker ko

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
Igor, Will do. Thanks for your input. Alan -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 5, 2003 14:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: WinXP username with spaces -- wmaker ko On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Alan Miles wrote: Igor, I

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