Re: Using Cygwin as X Emulator

2003-02-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Manu Anand wrote: I would like to ask that whether it is possible to use Cygwin as X Emulator? XFree86 runs under Cygwin. DISCLAIMER: Information contained and transmitted by this E-MAIL is proprietary to Mascot Systems Limited and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which

Re: Help with exim! Outlook doing SMTP through a local exim sometimeshangs...

2003-02-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Chuck Ocheret wrote: So I have exim working fantastically with various user agents. However, I'm having an intermittent problem with Outlook where it hangs while trying to send mail out through exim. I don't want to go off-topic by talking about Outlook but I figure that enough people must us

Re: Cygwin GCC & JNI??

2003-02-17 Thread Alan Thompson
>Jim - Try the following solution. it worked for me. Write back if it doesn't work >and I'll generate a more explicit example from my ant build script. Alan Thompson >From: "Mike Bresnahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Using cygwin and JAVA/JNI >Date: Wed, 5 Fe

Re: Using cygwin as X Emulator

2003-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 07:29:44AM +0100, Bart Lamot wrote: >I could be wrong by saying that you won't be able to have modulair >windows like with Exceed but you do get 1 MS-Windows window with all >your X-Windows. You could be wrong and you are wrong. Cygwin's XFree86 project has had this for mo

Re: Using Cygwin as X Emulator

2003-02-17 Thread Bart Lamot
Manu, Yes. Now that was a short answer. Just install cygwin with the X packages and type startx its that easy. I could be wrong by saying that you won't be able to have modulair windows like with Exceed but you do get 1 MS-Windows window with all your X-Windows. You could also run a window manage

Re: Using cygwin as X Emulator

2003-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:42:13AM +0530, Manu Anand wrote: >I would like to ask that whether it is possible to use Cygwin as X >Emulator? Go to http://cygwin.com/ and look at the table on the left, under "Software". cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug repo

Re: Using Cygwin as X Emulator

2003-02-17 Thread Ajay Simha
On Tue Feb 18 10:42:13 2003, Manu Anand wrote: > Hi Gang > First post here:) > I would like to ask that whether it is possible to use Cygwin as X Emulator? > I am connecting to a RH 7.2 box and would like to run X apps. The > functionality I have in mind is that of EXceed but EXceed is atrociously

Using Cygwin as X Emulator

2003-02-17 Thread Manu Anand
Hi Gang First post here:) I would like to ask that whether it is possible to use Cygwin as X Emulator? I am connecting to a RH 7.2 box and would like to run X apps. The functionality I have in mind is that of EXceed but EXceed is atrociously costly. In case it is not possible using Cygwin,I'll lik

Re: find not finding everything?

2003-02-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* linda w (cyg) (03-02-17 02:59 +0100) > I notice that when I do a "find C:\\", or a find "/cygdrive/c", > I don't get files under my cygwin dir. Why is that? I could > imagine that it might judge them as separate file systems and might > exclude them if I used "find -xdev...", but seems that /cy

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread John Williams
Christopher Faylor wrote: The sources available for download are for 1.3.2. The differences are below. Basically, it seems like they made a few changes without really thinking too hard about what they did. So, the cygwin mount table will be found in another registry entry but it will end up in

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:03:14AM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >John Williams wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>Ok. This version just changes the name of the DLL from cygwin1.dll to >>>xygwin1.dll. >> >>What surprises me though is that if I duplicate xygwin1.dll to >>cygwin1.dll, it doesn't wor

Help with exim! Outlook doing SMTP through a local exim sometimes hangs...

2003-02-17 Thread Chuck Ocheret
So I have exim working fantastically with various user agents. However, I'm having an intermittent problem with Outlook where it hangs while trying to send mail out through exim. I don't want to go off-topic by talking about Outlook but I figure that enough people must use exim out there that som

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread John Williams
Hey everyone, Thanks all for your input and comments on this thread. If nothing else I've learned a little more about the mechanics of Cygwin, which can't be a bad thing. I have re-assessed my needs and decided I am, in fact, better off running with Cygwin and Xygwin side-by-side, completely

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > John, > > > > FYI, if you simply copy the DLL, the programs will try to load it > > twice (once for each name). As I see it, you have the following > > choices: > > > > 1) Check out from CVS with the "cygwin-1-3-13-1" or "cygw

[avail for test] libtool-devel-20030216-1

2003-02-17 Thread Charles Wilson
I've updated libtool-devel to the 20030216 CVS, plus a rewritten win32_libid() function that should speed up linking libraries that have many dependencies. So, test and enjoy; I will probably make this the official cygwin libtool-devel very soon. Unless there are significant bugs reported, I

Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-17 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf Habacker wrote: the negative: Ralf, you keep trying to assume things based on filenames. Filenames LIE. Whether it is the name of the archive (foo.dll.a) or the name of an object in the archive (dxx.o), it's gonna fail -- and it will fail in EXTREMELY hard-to-track-down ways. You ma

RE:size limit for static arrays in cygwin/gcc

2003-02-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Danny, At 12:55 2003-02-17, Danny Smith wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: > A couple of months ago, someone reported on how local (stack) > allocations larger than a certain threshold were allocated on the heap. > In fact, you, Danny, contributed materially to that thread: Subject > "Strange beha

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > John, > > FYI, if you simply copy the DLL, the programs will try to load it > twice (once for each name). As I see it, you have the following > choices: > > 1) Check out from CVS with the "cygwin-1-3-13-1" or "cygwin-1-3-13-2" >tag (depending on the version they used

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
John Williams wrote: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: What doesn't work? The Cygwin provided utilities or the Xygwin1 versions? Neither. I can't run either Cygwin utilities under Xygwin, nor the Xygwin utilities under Cygwin. Full error messages were posted earlier in the thread.

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, John Williams wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: > > John Williams wrote: > > > >>They have a cross compiler that uses the cygwin compatability layer. > >>They have modified and distribute a version of this layer, which is > >>built upon cygwin1.dll version 1.3.13. However, they dis

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
John Williams wrote: > Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: >> >> What doesn't work? The Cygwin provided utilities or the Xygwin1 >> versions? > > Neither. I can't run either Cygwin utilities under Xygwin, nor the > Xygwin utilities under Cygwin. Full error messages were posted > earlier in th

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread John Williams
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: What doesn't work? The Cygwin provided utilities or the Xygwin1 versions? Neither. I can't run either Cygwin utilities under Xygwin, nor the Xygwin utilities under Cygwin. Full error messages were posted earlier in the thread. I wouldn't necessarily

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
John Williams wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Ok. This version just changes the name of the DLL from cygwin1.dll to xygwin1.dll. What surprises me though is that if I duplicate xygwin1.dll to cygwin1.dll, it doesn't work??? What doesn't work? The Cygwin provided utilities or the Xygwin

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
John Williams wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> Ok. This version just changes the name of the DLL from cygwin1.dll >> to xygwin1.dll. > > What surprises me though is that if I duplicate xygwin1.dll to > cygwin1.dll, it doesn't work??? > > Am I missing something here? Impossible to answer f

upgrading broke cygwin?

2003-02-17 Thread Glen Kaukola
Hi, I recently ran setup.exe to upgrade my cygwin packages and this seems to have broken it. Now when I type make it tells me: /c: Can't open /c: No such file or directory If I create a /c then make works. It never did that before the upgrade though. Also, man and which don't seem to work ri

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread John Williams
Christopher Faylor wrote: Ok. This version just changes the name of the DLL from cygwin1.dll to xygwin1.dll. What surprises me though is that if I duplicate xygwin1.dll to cygwin1.dll, it doesn't work??? Am I missing something here? Cheers, John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:32:07PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:17:02PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >>John Williams wrote: >>> Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:45:20PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: > Compile your own EDK toolchain against

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:17:02PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >John Williams wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:45:20PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >>> Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin. >>> >>> >>> Correct. >>> >>> I don't suppose yo

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread John Williams
Max Bowsher wrote: John Williams wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: OK, *now* its pretty obvious what the problem is. Cygwin 1.3.20 is backward compatible with Cygwin 1.3.13, but Cygwin is not and never will be sideways compatible with other slightly modified versions of Cygwin. Compile your own EDK t

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
John Williams wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: >> >> OK, *now* its pretty obvious what the problem is. Cygwin 1.3.20 is >> backward compatible with Cygwin 1.3.13, but Cygwin is not and never >> will be sideways compatible with other slightly modified versions of >> Cygwin. >> >> Compile your own EDK too

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
John Williams wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:45:20PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >> >>> Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin. >> >> >> Correct. >> >> I don't suppose you'd be willing to make the "modified" sources >> available, would you?

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread John Williams
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:45:20PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin. Correct. I don't suppose you'd be willing to make the "modified" sources available, would you? I'm interested in what these people have do

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread John Williams
Max Bowsher wrote: OK, *now* its pretty obvious what the problem is. Cygwin 1.3.20 is backward compatible with Cygwin 1.3.13, but Cygwin is not and never will be sideways compatible with other slightly modified versions of Cygwin. Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin.

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread John Williams
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:45:20PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin. Correct. I don't suppose you'd be willing to make the "modified" sources available, would you? I'm interested in what these people have do

RE: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-17 Thread Ralf Habacker
> > Thats very bad. > > > > Yeah. I don't know why these implibs need to declare these static > structures; it's possible that w32api is just following the lead of the > corresponding .lib files in the MSVC distribution. > > But, that's neither here nor there. IF these crossbreed implibs are > de

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:45:20PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >Compile your own EDK toolchain against Cygwin itself, not Xygwin. Correct. I don't suppose you'd be willing to make the "modified" sources available, would you? I'm interested in what these people have done to cygwin. cgf -- Unsubsc

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
John Williams wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: >> John Williams wrote: >> >>> They have a cross compiler that uses the cygwin compatability layer. >>> They have modified and distribute a version of this layer, which is >>> built upon cygwin1.dll version 1.3.13. However, they distribute >>> with their t

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread John Williams
Max Bowsher wrote: John Williams wrote: They have a cross compiler that uses the cygwin compatability layer. They have modified and distribute a version of this layer, which is built upon cygwin1.dll version 1.3.13. However, they distribute with their tools only a minimal subset of cygwin neces

Re: Why so harsh? (RE: Why the rash...)

2003-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:40:39PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf >> Of Christopher Faylor >> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:36 PM > >> I was asking why there was recently a number of people installing >> without

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
John Williams wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:55:26AM +1000, John Williams wrote: >> >>> Hey folks, >>> >>> Two things - first of all, as of 00:00 GMT Cygwin.com appears to be >>> down. Hope it's nothing too serious. >>> >>> Secondly, can you please tell me how

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread John Williams
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:55:26AM +1000, John Williams wrote: Hey folks, Two things - first of all, as of 00:00 GMT Cygwin.com appears to be down. Hope it's nothing too serious. Secondly, can you please tell me how to obtain, via the setup installer, a prior versi

Why so harsh? (RE: Why the rash...)

2003-02-17 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:36 PM > I was asking why there was recently a number of people installing > without setup and then complaining when things don't work. And you got told about *one* reasonabl

RE:size limit for static arrays in cygwin/gcc

2003-02-17 Thread Danny Smith
Randall R Schulz wrote: > A couple of months ago, someone reported on how local (stack) > allocations larger than a certain threshold were allocated on the heap. > In fact, you, Danny, contributed materially to that thread: Subject > "Strange behaviour of gcc" starting with a posting by > [EMAIL

Re: running setup.exe silently - command line switches

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Cary Lewis wrote: > I would like to be able to remotely upgrade a cygwin environment. > > > > Does setup.exe support a non graphical environment. > > > > Can it be run from a bash shell, or does an X version exist? No. There's been a little work in this direction, but it's nowhere near finished.

Re: a2ps

2003-02-17 Thread Ajay Simha
On Mon Feb 17 16:25:37 2003, David Starks-Browning wrote: > On Monday 17 Feb 03, Ajay Simha writes: > > hi, > > > > I tried to run configure on a2ps-4.13 and get this error: > > > > [asimha@ASIMHA-W2K /tmp/a2ps-4.13]$ ./configure > > ... > > checking for flex... no > > checking for lex... no > >

Problems with update old instllation from local directory: `setup.exe' doesn't show new packages

2003-02-17 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, cygwin! How are you? I have old (about 3-4 months old) installation of some cygwin packages (gcc, XFree86, some other). I've downloaded last cygwin (full tree: about 1Gb) on my work computer and bring it at computer with old cygwin. I run `setup.exe' (2.249.2.5, 171008 bytes

running setup.exe silently - command line switches

2003-02-17 Thread Cary Lewis
I would like to be able to remotely upgrade a cygwin environment. Does setup.exe support a non graphical environment. Can it be run from a bash shell, or does an X version exist? Thanks for any help. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Cygwin GCC & JNI??

2003-02-17 Thread Jim Marshall
Sorry if this is a dup, I hit send on the previous message too soon... Hello, First, I'm fairly new to gcc so if this isn't the right list plese direct me to the correct one. I have some code which compiles a shared object, it compiles fine on Red Hat 8 and even on Solaris for Intel. I'm now at

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Dieter Meinert wrote: > I was going through all this thread wondering if noone > would see the (to me as a late Un*x guy) obvious: > > Consider a slow net connection, e.g by > 14.4 K Modem, or as Hannu does, > several hosts to be updated. The natural thing to me > appears to dow

RE: kudos!

2003-02-17 Thread Brian Kelly
Does this mean that Cygwin is not ready for production?? Darn!! and I was just getting ready to roll it out to my biggest client - Randy's Pizza and Bait. ( sorry - not realation ) Brian Kelly -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Randall R Sch

Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Charles Wilson wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: But, that's neither here nor there. IF these crossbreed implibs >> ^^ >> libuuid.a at least is static *only* - not crossbreed. So there >> really is no way for libtool know to allow it e

Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Charles Wilson wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > >>> I think that in some cases, libtool tries to do too much. I've run >>> into a number of cases which would have just worked if libtool had >>> passed the arguments to gcc without modification, but it insists on >>> filtering >>> stuff in >>> comple

RE: Bash shell

2003-02-17 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
Hmm... reply/follow-up-to: is not set to cygwin ML... :-7 May I guess that you occasionally get personal mail? ;-) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Randall R Schulz -- 8< -- here and there... > I don't know Pico, > but I gave it a try (running in a Cygwin cons

RE: find not finding everything?

2003-02-17 Thread Richard Campbell
>I notice that when I do a "find C:\\", or a find "/cygdrive/c", >I don't get files under my cygwin dir. Why is that? bash-2.05b$ find /cygdrive/d -name 'find.exe' /cygdrive/d/cygwin/bin/find.exe What were you trying to find under your cygwin dir? -Richard Campbell. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: ftp access to download from sources.redhat.com

2003-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:57:48AM -0800, neal somos wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote ... >>I tried an experiment recently where I turned on ftp access to the >>cygwin download directory on sources.redhat.com. The result seemed to >>be that people started downloading cygwin's package .tar.bz2 file

a2ps

2003-02-17 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Monday 17 Feb 03, Ajay Simha writes: > hi, > > I tried to run configure on a2ps-4.13 and get this error: > > [asimha@ASIMHA-W2K /tmp/a2ps-4.13]$ ./configure > ... > checking for flex... no > checking for lex... no > checking for flex... ${SHELL} /tmp/a2ps-4.13/auxdir/missing --run flex > check

Re: Is gcc 2 still supported in cygwin at all?

2003-02-17 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dalibor, > > At 01:36 2003-02-17, Dalibor Topic wrote: > >I'm just wondering, because I got 0 replies for my > bugreport on this > >mailing list last week. > > Install the "gcc2" package. Actually, the bugreport I've sent, has an attachment, ge

Re: Is gcc 2 still supported in cygwin at all?

2003-02-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Dalibor, At 01:36 2003-02-17, Dalibor Topic wrote: I'm just wondering, because I got 0 replies for my bugreport on this mailing list last week. Install the "gcc2" package. However, the GCC 3.2.x compiler almost certainly did not introduce optimizer bugs as your report suggests. Far more likel

Re: Is gcc 2 still supported in cygwin at all?

2003-02-17 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's supported, but, like everything, unless you can > demonstrate with > a *simple* test case that there is actually a gcc > problem (which is > unlikely) rather than a programming error (which is > more likely), you > aren't apt to get much hel

a2ps

2003-02-17 Thread Ajay Simha
hi, I tried to run configure on a2ps-4.13 and get this error: [asimha@ASIMHA-W2K /tmp/a2ps-4.13]$ ./configure creating cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for mawk... no checking for gawk... g

Re: Is gcc 2 still supported in cygwin at all?

2003-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 01:36:04AM -0800, Dalibor Topic wrote: >I'm just wondering, because I got 0 replies for my >bugreport on this mailing list last week. It's supported, but, like everything, unless you can demonstrate with a *simple* test case that there is actually a gcc problem (which is un

Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-17 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: I think that in some cases, libtool tries to do too much. I've run into a number of cases which would have just worked if libtool had passed the arguments to gcc without modification, but it insists on filtering stuff in complex ways. For example, gcc -print-search-dirs doe

ftp access to download from sources.redhat.com

2003-02-17 Thread neal somos
Christopher Faylor wrote ... > I tried an experiment recently where I turned on ftp access to the > cygwin download directory on sources.redhat.com. The result seemed > to be that people started downloading cygwin's package .tar.bz2 files > directly and (somehow) used tar to extract files rather t

Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-17 Thread Charles Wilson
Max Bowsher wrote: Neither will work. The compiler is already perfectly happy. libtool decides it knows better, though, and intervenes, breaking the build. I wouldn't worry too much about this now. There's already a hardcoded sys_lib_search_path_spec for cygwin. It only affects building for ming

find not finding everything?

2003-02-17 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
I notice that when I do a "find C:\\", or a find "/cygdrive/c", I don't get files under my cygwin dir. Why is that? I could imagine that it might judge them as separate file systems and might exclude them if I used "find -xdev...", but seems that /cygdrive/c or C:\\ should give whole disk? I

Re: mutt "lock count exceeded"

2003-02-17 Thread Jason Tishler
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:40:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 15 Feb 2003, "Gary R. Van Sickle" > > I've been rather negligent in my duties of trying to get Jason > > Tishler to take over mutt maintenance ;-). > > That Jason's such a slacker ;-) there's no way he'll take it on. Yup. J

Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Charles Wilson wrote: >> Ralf Habacker wrote: > BTW: Do you know which libraries are also hybrid execpt of > cygwin1.dll ? >>> >>> There are about a half-dozen in /usr/lib/w32api -- and worse, the static >>> >>> members are "bad" variable types; if you make the static members >>>

Is gcc 2 still supported in cygwin at all?

2003-02-17 Thread Dalibor Topic
I'm just wondering, because I got 0 replies for my bugreport on this mailing list last week. cheers, dalibor topic __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwi

Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Charles Wilson wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: > > > Besides, this means altering the platform to suit libtool. Talk about the > > tail wagging the dog! > > see below > > >>The only alternatives for this particular problem seem to be: > >> > >>1) punt. > > > > Well, it's not like

Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Charles Wilson wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: > > > > > Neither will work. The compiler is already perfectly happy. libtool decides > > it knows better, though, and intervenes, breaking the build. I wouldn't > > worry too much about this now. There's already a hardcoded > > sys_l

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:55:26AM +1000, John Williams wrote: >Hey folks, > >Two things - first of all, as of 00:00 GMT Cygwin.com appears to be >down. Hope it's nothing too serious. > >Secondly, can you please tell me how to obtain, via the setup installer, >a prior version of the Cygwin base

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Marcel Telka
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:55:26AM +1000, John Williams wrote: > Hey folks, > > Two things - first of all, as of 00:00 GMT Cygwin.com appears to be > down. Hope it's nothing too serious. > > Secondly, can you please tell me how to obtain, via the setup installer, > a prior version of the Cygwi

Re: kudos!

2003-02-17 Thread Carlo Florendo
> At the risk of yet another torrent of sarcasm, I fully concur with Alec. Cygwin > ROCKS THE CASBAH! Warts and all. Everybody involved should be proud of what's > been done here. In my work alone, you've directly contributed to saving untold > numbers of lives (we build heart diagnostic equipme

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-17 Thread Steve Fairbairn
I can't really offer much comment on this, as I do still use setup.exe to actually install the packages. But one thing I have noticed recently, and I'm sure someone reported it as a bug, is that setup regularly fails to download all packages successfully. Once download is completed and we move o

Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread John Williams
Hey folks, Two things - first of all, as of 00:00 GMT Cygwin.com appears to be down. Hope it's nothing too serious. Secondly, can you please tell me how to obtain, via the setup installer, a prior version of the Cygwin base installation? I'm using some 3rd party software tools that were buil

Re: cron and network drives

2003-02-17 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Friday 14 Feb 03, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) writes: > >>We need an entry in the FAQ about the inaccessiblity of network shares > >>from Cygwin run services. > > > > > > FWIW, it's in the User's Guide: > > > > Igor > > T

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-17 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Saturday 15 Feb 03, andrew clarke writes: > ... > Section 2 of the FAQ might also put people off using Setup because it's > described as a "work-in-progress" and seemingly a bit of a moving target. I'll see if I can make this sound less off-putting. But I also agree with Chris, that the people

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-17 Thread Dieter Meinert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I was going through all this thread wondering if noone would see the (to me as a late Un*x guy) obvious: Consider a slow net connection, e.g by 14.4 K Modem, or as Hannu does, several hosts to be updated. The natural thing to me appe