Just a note:
I've moved mklink2.c to a .cc file to bypass the 'not a
prototype' error that folk with recent w32api installs may have seen.
Rob
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:27:57PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
You don't. You find some other method for reverting to
software that is 1 revision old. This is not a hardship.
AFAIK, setup has never allowed you to do more than prev/curr/test.
Not from the net. It does locally though
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From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: prev/curr/test
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 07:27:57PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
You don't. You find some other method for
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:01:11AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
cgf wrote:
Ok. So, this is recent then. It certainly never allowed it
prior to this.
It -sortof- did. If you *don't have* a setup.ini, then it scanned for
everything..
I wrote the code. I know what it did. There were only
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From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: prev/curr/test
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:01:11AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
cgf wrote:
Ok. So, this is recent then. It
I think we've done it. So Chuck, feel free to break everyone who's
lagging behind :}..
Rob
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From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 3:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: setup all ok now
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:15:53PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
I think we've done
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:15:53PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
I think we've done it. So Chuck, feel free to break everyone who's
lagging behind :}..
Shouldn't we wait a day or two and let the new setup.exe work its
way through the system?
don't worry -- I
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:22:27PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
How about this. Replace the current prev/curr/test radio buttons with a
drop-down list box containing not metapackages but installation templates,
with names like:
Workstation
Heavy-Duty Workstation
Server
Bare Bones Setup
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From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 3:40 PM
It's an interesting idea but I don't like glumping what used
to be prev/curr/test with the concept of packages or meta
packages. You lose some functionality that
Hi Keith,
I hope I haven't stolen your thunder, but I've checked into HEAD
the framework for command line options for setup. I've not used what you
put together, because it was too procedural.
Instead, we have:
GetOption - a singleton class that abstracts the getopt() mechanics.
Each
Hi,
is there any fast method for checking which package contains dll which is
missing from the cygwin-installation?
I have itself installed cygwin and postgreSQL couple of times to different
computers without big problems.
But now I have noticed that for 3 other people who has tryed to do the
| If I try to run XWin.exe, it says that it cant find
| cygwin1.dll.
You need to install cygwin1.dll, check the installation instructions
how to install cygwin.
/Andy
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Not really xfree problem, but /etc/setup contains lists of which
modules contained which files..
do a zgrep for cygprce.dll there and voila ;-)
/Andy
| is there any fast method for checking which package contains dll which is
| missing from the cygwin-installation?
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cygwin is installd. This is a bug or somekind or config problem i have.
Andrew Markebo wrote:
| If I try to run XWin.exe, it says that it cant find
| cygwin1.dll.
You need to install cygwin1.dll, check the installation instructions
how to install cygwin.
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/ Ed Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| cygwin is installd. This is a bug or somekind or config problem i have.
*bonk* you are trying to run Xwin.exe, what happens if you run
startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh??
Basically the problem is that the environment variable PATH doesn't
contain
hi,
probably basic stuff, but I could not figure it out:
on a new xfree install 4.2.0 I have created a .Xauthority putting the
following in startx:
dd if=/dev/urandom count=1|md5sum|cut -f1 -d/|sed -e 's/^/add :0
. /'|xauth -q
now, since -auth is defaulted I did nothing there.
listing the
Someone is asking me internally at Red Hat if Cygwin/XFree86 correctly
handles Japanese characters.
Can anyone confirm or deny that it does/doesn't?
cgf
I ran into something like this setting up my home machine, to which I
don't have access right now.
It ended up being an issue with host / DISPLAY configuration; check out
your /etc/hosts and make sure the entries make sense. I remember I had
to do something with localhost and/or my chosen
For me (emacs/mew, mozilla, konqueror) it does.
Cheers
Edi
/ Ed Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Why don't you please re-read the original message. I explained what happens
| when I run the bat files.
sorry, I became blind on the issue when starting xwin.exe, missing
cygwin1.dll, that wasnt the error you received first..
hmm checking the log files
Do you use a novell logon?
If so I?m not sure if it is the problem, but could you try to resolve the
names of both computers?
Try to logon onto your linux and try to resolve the other computer name, and
also the other way (logon on client try to resolve the linux box)
best regards,
Darko
Hi,
Are you connected through dialup, or some sort of WAN? X doesnt work too well
across long distances... even if there is a lot of bandwidth... it's a latency
thing.
B
--- Palic, Darko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you use a novell logon?
If so I?m not sure if it is the problem, but could you
Victor,
And I have also tried setting the display to alternate values:
start /B XWin -display :0 -query host1
start /B XWin -display :1 -query host2
That is gibberish. It doesn't mean anything.
What you want is:
start /B XWin-works :0 -query host1
start /B XWin-works :1
Nikolaus Bates-Haus wrote:
I ran into something like this setting up my home machine, to which I
don't have access right now.
It ended up being an issue with host / DISPLAY configuration; check out
your /etc/hosts and make sure the entries make sense. I remember I had
to do something with
From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: xfree86 work with Japanese characters?
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:44:17 -0500
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:45:47PM +0100, PD Dr. Edward Wornar wrote:
For me (emacs/mew, mozilla, konqueror) it does.
xterm, too?
I don't know. The fonts are
From: Brian Genisio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Please help: XDMCP connection dog-slow
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:10:02 -0800 (PST)
Are you connected through dialup, or some sort of WAN? X doesnt work too well
across long distances... even if there is a lot of bandwidth... it's a latency
This time without linewrapping (I hope)
Here is a patch for the 'chopped off characters in the chooser' problem when
using Large Fonts. I mentioned this problem in my message
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-03/msg01200.html and also saw it appearing
on cygwin-apps yesterday (with a picture
-Original Message-
From: Ton van Overbeek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SETUP(PickPackageLine.cc): Patch for 'chopped of
characters' problem (RESEND)
This time without linewrapping (I hope)
Please put the
Please put the patch in an attached file, rather than inline.
As requested, here the patch as an attachment.
Ton
pp.dif
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Rob,
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:23:08AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
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From: Jason Tishler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 3:07 AM
I have tried the attached patch and threaded Cygwin Python
builds with semaphore support instead of
-Original Message-
From: Eckhard Malcherek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 7:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: setup.exe path problem
Hi,
the new setup.exe (2.194.2.17) doesn't use an existing local
download directory structure, but creates a
Christopher wrote
I've got the same problem with a self-engineered program here. For
-Snip-
use Cygwin 1.3.9 now, but I had the problem with 1.3.2 and 1.3.4 also.
Lets go back to first principals here. When you see a bug you suspect
that there is a bug in the program. To debug a
This should go to cygwin-apps, but I am not allowed to post there, so I do it here.
The reported problem in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-03/msg00251.html is
really messing up all package installs which use hard links.
Gcc and perl and John Marshall's prc-tools are examples.
I
Just to let the people know on this list, that this problem is fixed in the
latest snapshot of gcc (2002/03/25) in the "gcc-3_1-branch" branch. I just
managed to compile my entire project using 3.1 and it is working without a
hitch now.
Someone on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list owned up and
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Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Robert Collins; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hard links broken in setup 2.194.2.x
This should go to cygwin-apps, but I am not allowed to post
Pavel,
care to supply a changelog? Thanks for tracking this down too.
Rob
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FAQ:
A new setup.exe (version 2.194.2.21) has been uploaded to
http://www.ccygwin.com/setup.exe.
This version includes:
* Handles hardlinks correctly.
* Should work ok with large fonts. (Thanks Ton van Overbook).
* Won't crash trying to create a non-existant drive. (Thanks Pavel).
Please send
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robert Collins
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 6:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fixed setup.exe - handles hardlinks
A new setup.exe (version 2.194.2.21) has been
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:41:11PM +0800, Wu Yongwei wrote:
Glibc is at least an important implementation. Don't we need compatibility?
No. Why are you asking this question again?
Didn't you actually quote the linux man page which says not to use the
second argument in gettimeofday?
The
I want to compile using gcc to make use of 'configure', 'make', and 'make
install'. I then want to link to it from within MSVC++. Is this possible?
Can I simply link to the *.a file from MSVC++? Being new to makefiles
gcc, I'm also uncertain when where I should be using --win32
and
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 09:04, Pietro Toniolo wrote:
Nay, I campiled the proposed program (every package on my side is in the
Last status) and, with -no-cygwin, I do have an unbuffered stdout.
You mean buffered?
Is it an undefined behavior of the c compiler?
But why a different default
Hello,
I have few questions about the new per-mirror approach of setup:
1) What are the advantages, how to make use of them?
2) Is it possible to delete old versions (downloaded by old setup) of the
already updated (by new setup) packages?
(I mean, that old versions are still in .../latest
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From: Alexei Lioubimov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 2:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: setup 2.194.2.21: Questions about the per-mirror
directories feature
Hello,
I have few questions about the new per-mirror approach of
Well the cvs you use has to be compiled with cygwin, sounds like it is
not, try to ask it to look in c:/cygwin/usr/local/cvs-repository or
with dos-ish backslashes..
/Andy
Thanks for the response. As indicated, the CVS sources were downloaded and
built/installed from CygWin. The
Well, finally I figured out why the printf text is not displayed right away.
You need to turn off the tty switch in CYGWIN enviroment variable:
set CYGWIN=notty
(under DOS prompt, or in autoexec.bat), before starting the bash.
Wirawan
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Hey, does anyone know a good link for setting up GLUI and GLUT with cygwin?
GLUI and GLUT are already part of the OpenGL package for Cygwin. Just
install it.
Im having some path problems...probably related to my makefile.
Please read /usr/doc/opengl-1.1.0/README.txt If you still have
Hi,
Hey, does anyone know a good link for setting up GLUI and GLUT with cygwin?
Im having some path problems...probably related to my makefile.
If anyone knows something about setting this up, I'd love to hear from you.
Thanks, Matt
In my Makefile I use
LIBS = -lglut32 -lglu32 -lopengl32
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:05:30AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there any fast method for checking which package contains dll which is
missing from the cygwin-installation?
Wrong mailing list (redirected) but to answer your question, go to
http://cygwin.com/ and click on setup.exe Package
I just did a recent brand new install yesterday and I noticed that /etc/profile no
longer contains a line like:
test -f ./.bashrc . ./.bashrc
It took me a second to figure out why .bashrc wasn't getting read (I thought it
happened automatically by the shell) until I compared it to an
IIRC, if you check the archives, you should find that the behavior of
sourcing the .bashrc file in /etc/profile was discontinued in later
cygwin releases. The fact that you have it from over a year ago is
probably because the cygwin install does not overwrite files that have
been modified or
I searched the archives and found a note from Larry suggesting that I review the
archives for 12-03-2001. I did this for all of Nov, Dec, and Jan and did not find at
least two mentions of the problem as he suggested.
My question is pretty simple: is editing the /etc/profile the recommended
I believe that .bash_login, .bash_profile or .profile is the file
you're wanting to use in this instance.
man bash
{ snip }
When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is
started, bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if
that file exists. This may be
Wow. That was allot of discussion and conjecture on this topic. Did anyone
think of looking at the GNU bash documentation before posting?
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/COMP/info/bash/bashref_7.html#SEC65
Seems to me this answers the question quite well about where this kind of
check is
I have installed the cygwin environment and source code and I want to
compile cygwin1.dll so I can instrument the code to troubleshoot a problem
I am having (which I believe is related to the com routines in cygwin). I
am not very familiar with this environment. How do I compile the DLL?
I actually asked this same question 29 October 2001. If you use google
to search the cygwin.com website (enter compiling cygwin1.dll
site:cygwin.com into google's search term box), the first three
messages are from the thread that answered this question for me. You'll
even see my name on one
I am trying to make the cygwin dll (following various directions I have
unearthed), but I get the following output from make:
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/cygwin-1.3.10-1/winsup/build/w32api'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory
Is the setup.ini from the CDROM as well? A newer setup.ini will probably
refer to the wrong versions of most of the packages.
Ah, that explains it... actually, I don't have setup.ini at all! I just
don't install cygwin often enough to remember these things. But no, I don't
have the old one
Hallo Peter,
Am 2002-03-26 um 20:58 schriebst du:
I actually asked this same question 29 October 2001. If you use google
to search the cygwin.com website (enter compiling cygwin1.dll
site:cygwin.com into google's search term box), the first three
messages are from the thread that
At 03:32 PM 3/26/2002, William Hubbard wrote:
I am trying to make the cygwin dll (following various directions I have unearthed),
but I get the following output from make:
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/cygwin-1.3.10-1/winsup/build/w32api'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `all'.
Hi,
Everytime I try to run ncftp I got a dialog with the following message:
A required .DLL file, CYGREADLINE5.DLL, was not found.
AND in the command line a Permission denied message...
llagos@LLAGOS ~
$ ncftp
BASH: /usr/bin/ncftp: Permission denied
llagos@LLAGOS ~
$
I always update all
I'm trying to get inetd set up for telnet/rsh/rlogin on my machine and have
everything going up to the point that after login.exe gives the motd to the
telnet client, a dialog window pops up on the server titled bash.exe -
Application Error and says The application failed to initialize properly
At 04:49 PM 3/26/2002, Leonardo Lagos wrote:
Hi,
Everytime I try to run ncftp I got a dialog with the following message:
A required .DLL file, CYGREADLINE5.DLL, was not found.
AND in the command line a Permission denied message...
llagos@LLAGOS ~
$ ncftp
BASH: /usr/bin/ncftp: Permission
I am running cygwin(1-3-10, latest release) on Win98 SE and OpenAFS 1.2.2b
for Win9x.
The timestamps of many files are reported as Dec 31 1969 instead of
the correct date.
This happens only under cygwin. Under the DOS prompt the dates show
correctly.
Example:
?rw-r--r-- 0 0 0810 Dec 31
My question is pretty simple: is editing the /etc/profile the
recommended way to get my ~/.bashrc file sourced?
I say: no.
And if not,
what is.
It should be noted that I found a message by Gary R. Van Sickle
suggesting that .bash_profile might be a better way to do things,
but this
At 02:41 PM 3/26/2002, Jae-Hwan Chang wrote:
I am running cygwin(1-3-10, latest release) on Win98 SE and OpenAFS 1.2.2b
for Win9x.
The timestamps of many files are reported as Dec 31 1969 instead of
the correct date.
This happens only under cygwin. Under the DOS prompt the dates show
correctly.
Hi,
the serious misunderstanding is that something being
standard conformant doesn't mean it is much usable.
Prime example is original MS Posix subsystem:
Just enough fulfilling the requirements for selling to
US government, but not usable for writing anything more
complex than cat, or else
Hi Larry,
thanks for the pointer... I reinstalled libreadline5 and readline5, and that
did the trick...
Leo
- Original Message -
From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Leonardo Lagos [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 6:08 PM
Subject:
I compiled some fortran files using g77. The compiling flags I used are:
-fugly-init -ff77 -fugly-complex -ftypeless-boz -fugly-assumed \
-fno-silent -fugly-args -fugly-comma -fintrin-case-any \
-fmatch-case-any -fno-f2c -w \
-fno-underscoring -fno-globals -g -I4 -c
Sorry, Christopher, but I thought I needed to answer others' questions and
clear myself. Because I need to copy and paste the content of your messages
to my reply (I don't want the garbage produced by Lotus Notes to interfere),
I can hardly write just below the original message and maybe the
Is there a FAQ or a posting on how to telnet from cygwin to linux such that
editing with emacs on the linux system will work correctly? TIA.
Best,
Christopher
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Can someone point me to a how-to, or provide the steps, for getting set up
so that I can debug cygwin1.dll? I want to instrument the com routines to
help zero in on a problem I am having with connecting gdb to a simulation
environment via a virtual serial port (to determine if it is cygwin or
Bill,
The debug_printf statements get printed when you run your program under
strace. (see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#TOC111 ) Also, here are some
excellent tips that cgf has given on strace and debugging cygwin1.dll:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/msg01469.html (BTW, google is
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:35:33PM -0600, Polley Christopher W wrote:
The debug_printf statements get printed when you run your program under
strace. (see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#TOC111 ) Also, here are some
excellent tips that cgf has given on strace and debugging cygwin1.dll:
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From: Gaethofs, Danny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 6:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: setup.exe path problem
Robert,
How does it use the local directory structure. To me it seems
not to be the case. It creates
Hi!
When I try to install Cygwin with the latest setup.exe (2.194.2.21) it
hangs after I have selected a mirror server to download from. It manages
to download setup.ini but them immediately comes up with the message
This space intentionally left blank and continues to eat up all cpu
cycles.
/ Christopher Glaeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Is there a FAQ or a posting on how to telnet from cygwin to linux such that
| editing with emacs on the linux system will work correctly? TIA.
I think there is a faq, check for TERM (environment variabl) in the
faq, meanwhile set it to vt100 or
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