RE: binutils status

3) Ralf's patch for objdump/cygwin crashes on auto-imported libs Nick Clifton has applied a patch for a similar problem, I will look if this solve this already. This patch does not help in this case. I will inspect this and supply a updated patch. Ralf

RE: binutils status ?

3) Ralf's patch for objdump/cygwin crashes on auto-imported libs Nick Clifton has applied a patch for a similar problem, I will look if this solve this already. I was wrong, it was Laurent Pinchart, who has applied this patch. This patch does not help in this case. I will inspect this

Re: New SGML/XML packages

Hi Peter, Thanks for reviewing these packages. sgml-base-1.01, xml-base-1.1: A bit messy. How are these resources related? If somebody wanted to add another bit, how would you release that? Looking at these packages again, I agree with you that sgml-base and xml-base had too many

Re: By the way...

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

[PATCH] cygpath.cc

Hi, as already announced here is the next patch for cygpath.cc supporting -l option to convert file names to Windows long format. Unfortunately this works not for strict mode, since functions cygwin_conv_to_win32_path and cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path will return an error for a Windows short

Re: lsa handle in security.cc

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:28:51PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: The invalid value for an lsa handle in security.cc is inconsistent. It is initially NULL, but in close_local_policy () it is INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE. Calling LsaClose(NULL) causes a fault, at least in gdb. The patch uses

Re: getfacl help/version patch

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:33:01PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Here is a patch to getfacl that adds longopts for all options, standardizes the usage output, and adds the GNU standard --version option. I'm all for it but the patch doesn't apply cleanly against current CVS. Could you

Re: [PATCH] cygpath.cc

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:02:00AM +0200, Schaible, Jörg wrote: Hi, as already announced here is the next patch for cygpath.cc supporting -l option to convert file names to Windows long format. Unfortunately this works not for strict mode, since functions cygwin_conv_to_win32_path and

Re: getfacl help/version patch

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:33:01PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Here is a patch to getfacl that adds longopts for all options, standardizes the usage output, and adds the GNU standard --version option. I'm all for it but the patch doesn't apply cleanly against current CVS. Could

Re: ssh-agent

On Mon, 20 May 2002, Brian Gallew wrote: I'm trying to use ssh-agent in a useful manner on my laptop. So, my desired state is to run the agent as a service. Here's the command I'm using to *try* to install it. cygrunsrv.exe --install ssh-agent -p /bin/ssh-agent -a -d Brian,

Re: /dev/[u]random sources

On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 01:52:39PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: I think chaning the comment from /* Mess up system entropy source. Return error if device is /dev/random. */ to /* Mess up system entropy source. Return eventual error only if device is /dev/random. */ could clarify

Re: cygwin and miktex. I need help !

Thank you all! I've downloaded the latest version of the cygwin setup.exe and reinstalled tetex-beta, texmf, texmf-base and textmf-extra packages. Sorry if someone thought there was a problem with this. At this point it works fine.[ Thanks to Hoenicka, and Hanchrow ]. But i have MikTeX and

RE: name: GNU/cygwin system

-Original Message- From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:37 PM Anyway, though I think just about everybody who's got any familiarity with the free software world at all knows that Linux packages (RPMs and Debian packages) are available for

Majordomo results: New roman

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RE: version 1.3 10, problem with gunzip.exe

At 06:49 PM 5/20/2002, Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Robert Collins Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 8:46 AM 2. I believe setup.exe creates symbolic links as if nowinsymlinks is set. So setup would create the symbolic links as Cygwin

RE: ssh-agent

-Original Message- From: Brian Gallew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 8:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ssh-agent I'm trying to use ssh-agent in a useful manner on my laptop. So, my desired state is to run the agent as a service. Here's the command

Re: ssh-agent

Jim.George said: cygrunsrv.exe --install ssh-agent -p /bin/ssh-agent.exe -a -d Probably, but it makes no difference. cygrunsrv --start ssh-agent still tells me:The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. -- Unsubscribe info:

cp -p and automatic .exe handling

I ran into a problem where cp -p doesn't automatically deal with .exe suffixes. I remember this being discussed here a while ago, but despite searching the list with its own search form and google, I can't find the thread. Can someone who remembers more please refresh my memory on the status of

Successful Build of rpm-4.0.3

The attached shell script contains the steps I used to build rpm-4.0.3 (with its included db) on an up-to-date cygwin. It is heavily based on the instructions by Mario Schmidt at http://rtfm.shagged.org/~mario/cygwin Given the number of hacks to Makefile (using perl - I'm not fond of sed), I

Re: ssh-agent

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Brian Gallew wrote: Jim.George said: cygrunsrv.exe --install ssh-agent -p /bin/ssh-agent.exe -a -d Probably, but it makes no difference. cygrunsrv --start ssh-agent still tells me:The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

Install Problems

I have attempted several installs to a Win2k system of the cygwin-ports using setup.exe on the GNU cd. I keep getting an unexpected end of file error on ex.exe and then wget.mo And then I am thrown out. It says it creates a log but I am unable to find it. Any suggestions? Thanks. Jim Furey

Re: Install Problems

At 12:35 PM 5/21/2002, Jim Furey wrote: I have attempted several installs to a Win2k system of the cygwin-ports using setup.exe on the GNU cd. I keep getting an unexpected end of file error on ex.exe and then wget.mo And then I am thrown out. It says it creates a log but I am unable to find it.

Re: Problem on starting PostgreSQL

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:19:11AM +0100, Jim.George wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2001, Vernon Wu wrote: I am very new to cygwin. After installed cygwin successfully, I can't get the PostgreSQL up so far. Here is what I have: [snip] $ initdb -D /usr/share/postgresql/data look in the

RE: rxvt cursor corruption under WinXP/ClearType

So, while I know nothing about ClearType internals, I asked around and got some info. Hope this is helpful and finds its way to someone who can do something with it. If it leads to more questions (and I suspect it might) I can forward to appropriate folks. --- ClearType has up to a one pixel

My bug or your bug?

Hi, I have just encountered a situation that I think shouldn't happen. Here's the transscript of the bash session. The is a full installation of Cygwin on a Windows 2000 Pro workstation. The failure of the first run of ./foo is expected. But the error for the second run of ./foo is not

Re: Install Problems

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:35:50PM -0400, Jim Furey wrote: I have attempted several installs to a Win2k system of the cygwin-ports using setup.exe on the GNU cd. I keep getting an unexpected end of file error on ex.exe and then wget.mo And then I am thrown out. It says it creates a log but I am

Re: name: GNU/cygwin system

Christopher Faylor wrote: You're working from an assumption that cygwin is an unknown project. It is currently the most popular project on sources.redhat.com, so I don't think it is suffering too badly from lack of awareness. I don't disagree with your conclusion, Chris, but you're

RE: ssh-agent

Harig, Mark A. said: You might want to look at the tool 'keychain'. In the setup.exe Category window, it's in the 'Utils' group. Here's what it displays when you enter: $ keychain --help keychain is certainly a nice tool, but I'm not sure it's going to help. See, I've already got the

RE: name: GNU/cygwin system

I don't disagree with your conclusion, Chris, but you're using a flawed model. So *what* if cygwin is the most popular project on sources.redhat? Just for the record: any number of unix + windows related searches (bash for windows, gnu for windows, unix for windows, gcc for windows, free

Re: Install Problems

At 12:58 PM 5/21/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:35:50PM -0400, Jim Furey wrote: I have attempted several installs to a Win2k system of the cygwin-ports using setup.exe on the GNU cd. I keep getting an unexpected end of file error on ex.exe and then wget.mo And then

Re: Dos Style path in 3.79.1-7 and -5

Try using forward slahes like d:/utils/print.exe. I don't think the CygWin version of make has ever been equipped to handle unescaped backslahes. You may also try escaping them, like d:\\utils\\print.exe. Regards, Johan Bezem CSK Software AG Rami Mehio wrote: I have been using gnu make

RE: Dos Style path in 3.79.1-7 and -5

Thanks for the reply. I actually have used many version of Cygwin make that work properly with unexcaped backslashes. It is only recently that things stopped working. Again, i am using the cmd.exe as my shell by invoking make with the --win32 command line argument. I know i could use the

Re: Problem on starting PostgreSQL

Thanks Jason and Jim. In fact, the error occured while I was following the instruction of /usr/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.2.1.README. I had tried the first step of /cygwin/usr/doc/postgresql-7.2.1/html/installation.html. I am failed on the first step: ./configure with the message bash:

Re: [Patch] make 3.79.1-5 vpath directive in file 'read.c'

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:46:21PM +0200, Johan Bezem wrote: sorry, I've been on vacation for two weeks, and now trying to catch up with the mailing list. Since supplying the patch, and already trying 3.79.1-7 in experimental mode, I've come to an understanding about the FIXME comments, asking

g++ compiler

Hello, I did a man entry on gcc and it says to use g++ for compiling C++. I tried it and it says command not found. __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: g++ compiler

At 04:52 PM 5/21/2002, Robert Coit wrote: Hello, I did a man entry on gcc and it says to use g++ for compiling C++. I tried it and it says command not found. Then go to www.cygwin.com and click on Install Now to update your installation. Make sure you pull the gcc package from the

bogus PATH transformations in bash 2.05a.0(3)-release w/cygwin 1.3.10

I noticed that my windows programs see a strange and bogus PATH. It is demonstrated here, from cmd.exe: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. c:\PATH C:\Cygwin\bin;c:\cygwin\usr\bin;C:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin c:\bash -i bash-2.05a$ echo

Crash during setup

Hi there, i'm trying to run Cygwin setup 2.218.2.9 on Win2k but it always crashes at the same point: After selecting the mirror and downloading setup.ini a page saying This space intentionally left blank appears and the program does not respond to input anymore. The only way to close it is

Re: bogus PATH transformations in bash 2.05a.0(3)-release w/cygwin 1.3.10

It's worse than I suspected originally, when I thought I could get around it by not using bash. Now, without bash: makefile: SHELL = sh default: FORCE echo $(PATH) /c/winnt/system32/cmd FORCE: and now: D:\bugPATH

Cygwin and Windows ME don't like each other

I've been using Cygwin for about 1/2 a year, on my computer at work (Win98SE) I recently got a new computer for home that runs WinME. When I tried to install Cygwin, I get the error message can't open (null) for reading or something like that. This error occurs during the installation of

Re: bogus PATH transformations in bash 2.05a.0(3)-release w/cygwin 1.3.10

On Tue, 21 May 2002 17:29:42 -0700 Kevin Layer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D:\bugPATH C:\Cygwin\bin;c:\cygwin\usr\bin;C:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin D:\bugsh -i $ make echo /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin /c/winnt/system32/cmd Microsoft Windows 2000

Re: Crash during setup

Sebastian, Patience is one suggestion. I have a fast machine with fast disks and a fast, dual-channel SCSI I/O adaptor (and the install cache and the Cygwin working directories are on separate disks and those disks are on separate I/O channels) and still it takes a long time for Setup to

Re: bogus PATH transformations in bash 2.05a.0(3)-release w/cygwin 1.3.10

What does cygcheck -s say? Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue May 21 20:37:06 2002 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 Path: C:\ODI\OStore\bin . c:\bin C:\Perl\bin C:\Cygwin\bin c:\cygwin\usr\bin

RE: Cygwin and Windows ME don't like each other

-Original Message- From: tdgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cygwin and Windows ME don't like each other I've been using Cygwin for about 1/2 a year, on my computer at work (Win98SE) I recently got a new

Re: bogus PATH transformations in bash 2.05a.0(3)-release w/cygwin 1.3.10

On Tue, 21 May 2002 20:38:23 -0700 Kevin Layer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does cygcheck -s say? Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue May 21 20:37:06 2002 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 Path:C:\ODI\OStore\bin

RE: name: GNU/cygwin system

However, I do agree that cygwin is pretty well known -- if only as the black sheep of the free software family (Imagine! Allowing Gatesians to use GNU software. The horror!) To quote the great Maurice 'Mad Dog' Vachon, What matters is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's

Updated: w32api-1.4-1

I've made a new version of the w32api headers and libraries available for download. A list of what has changed is attached. Earnie. -Installation Instructions- To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads