Re: [Ready for test/1.5.1] postgresql 7.3.4-2

2003-08-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Jason Tishler wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:53:32PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: Recompiled for cygwin-1.5.1. No other changes. Oops. I should have indicated that this packages is built against cypipc 2.01-1. Seems to work fine too. Thanks, Chuck. Cool -- so that means you're running the

Re: [ITP] cgdb

2003-08-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:01:48PM -0400, Nicholas Wourms wrote: I actually built a recent gdb HEAD ss w/tui. Tui seemed to work, although not all of the border modes show up right in rxvt. I'm sure with some tweaking, even that could be fixed. That was my experience the last time I built this.

[Ready for test/1.5.1] procmail 3.22-8

2003-08-10 Thread Jason Tishler
Recompiled for cygwin-1.5.1. No other changes except for a minor build workaround due to a Cygwin 1.5.x, libc.a issue. If interested, see my forthcoming cygwin@ post that describes this issue in detail. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint:

Re: [update] base-files

2003-08-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
John, On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, John Morrison wrote: At last, a new version of base-files to try :) [snip] I've also added a test for id -ng = mkpasswd or = mkgroup along with a message. Hopefully this might cut down on the number of I have no user messages :) Did you also check for the

HELP, xinit failure

2003-08-10 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hello, After updating XFree86, xinit no longer works. A WINDOWS alert window appears telling that LIBICE.DLL cannot be found. Can somebody tell me if that library is a windows library or if it is a cygwin/xfree library? In the last case, in what package is it included? Thanks in advance. Rodrigo

Re: rfe: seamless windows integration

2003-08-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jack Tanner wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: Interesting idea. Probably the easiest thing to do here would be to either create a list of 'term' programs or 'non-term' programs along with a list of excluded programs. Of course, we would want to figure out which list, 'term' or 'non-term', was

Re: First pass at script to build start menu icons

2003-08-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Brian, Couple of things: 1) It seems that we are going to need to somehow get cygwin1.dll in the path of the shortcuts. One way to do this would be to set the working dir for each shortcut to '/bin'. I don't trust 99% of users to understand how to set a path variable so that it remains set

Re: XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)

2003-08-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Earle F. Philhower III wrote: The started app sees all ENV variables that XWin.exe saw at startup, so if you set your DISPLAY before starting XWin you don't need the -display x.x.x.x:y.y options. Don't rely on that. At

isatty(stdio) on cygwin/xterm/rxvt

2003-08-10 Thread Sam Steingold
when running under bash or cmd in a console, cygwin returns isatty(0) == true isatty(1) == true when running under bash in an xterm (or rxvt) under cygwin X, I get isatty(0) == false isatty(1) == false how do I check that I am running in a cygwin xterm or rxvt (as

Re: First pass at script to build start menu icons

2003-08-10 Thread Brian E. Gallew
Harold L Hunt II wrote: The list of programs to create icons for is embedded in the script itself. The script will still work, since I just copy the whole thing to /etc/postinstall/XWin-bin-icons.sh. However, I was thinking about how we should probably install this script in /usr/X11R6/bin

Re: XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)

2003-08-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Earle, Earle F. Philhower III wrote: Howdy Harold, At 12:58 PM 8/10/2003 -0400, you wrote: I have committed your patch to my local tree. However, I wonder why all of the files are prefixed with winmultiwindow. Is the code purely intended only for multiwindow modes? If so, that is fine.

Re: 1.5.2-1 file truncated

2003-08-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Faylor writes: I can't duplicate this no matter what I do. The map files didn't show much, unfortunately. ls -l /home/cygwin1.5/usr/lib/libm.a -rw-r--r--1 janneke staff 94394 2003-08-09 02:30 /home/cygwin1.5/usr/lib/libm.a Out of curiousity, are you up-to-date wrt

Re: 1.5.2-1 file truncated

2003-08-10 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Robert, Am Samstag, 9. August 2003 um 14:16 schriebst du: Timidity is a midi player. Up until now, I've not had any problems compiling it or other source code. I compiled the cygwin version of bash with no problems. The linking part with the original cygwin version of ld gives the

proftpd issues

2003-08-10 Thread Brian . Kelly
Since having gotten xinetd working, I've shifted my effortst to the new proftpd. After another couple of hours of *pain* - I finally got it going in a limited fashion. First of all, I couldn't get it to start with the SYSTEM id as indicated in the proftpd.conf file. I had to use a custom ID

Re: 1.5.x goes current on 2003-08-23?

2003-08-10 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Nicholas, Am Dienstag, 5. August 2003 um 01:56 schriebst du: Also, for 5.8.1, can you turn back on MakeMaker's bzipping of manpages, like you had during the 5.8.0RC's? You might also considier targeting /usr/share/man, as that is what we are hoping to transition to... 1. IIRC, I

Re: SSH session terminates with Ctl+C

2003-08-10 Thread Larry Hall
Jeff Nokes wrote: Hi, I've ran into a strange issue, one of which I have not run into before with cygwin. I have a W2K workstation at work, and I use cygwin to ssh into both Solaris and RedHat Linux boxes to do development. Sometimes, while ssh'd into a remote host, I have to 'Ctl+C' out of a

Re: man h command triggers error while viewing man page

2003-08-10 Thread Larry Hall
S Taylor wrote: Where else are the while-viewing-manpage shortcuts explained? Getting help, h while viewing man page (e.g. man man) triggers errors and blank less output - win98se, cygwin-1.3.22-1, bash 2.05b.09, man 1.5j, less 378, $PAGER=less The error dialog box says character / not allowed in

Re: 1.5.2-1 file truncated

2003-08-10 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Jan, Same with tetex-bin; ls/libutils.a -lX11 -lm -lwinmm /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: final lin k failed: File truncated collect2: ld returned 1 exit status it seems that -lm is the culprit. Leave it off, and it seems to work.

RE: cygwin as a replacement for explorer.exe

2003-08-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Ralf Habacker wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 10:29 PM To: Sal Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cygwin as a replacement for explorer.exe On

windows xp: cygwin-1.3.22-1 select: Bad file descriptor

2003-08-10 Thread jameswang
hi, i'm port my software from linux to windows xp using: cygwin-1.3.22-1. gcc3.2 the software is fully tested in linux (redhat-8.0). after successfully built using cygwin-1.3.2201 , my program return the following informaiton when runing: SystemError: 9, Bad file descriptor. i have try the

RE: Problem with cron!

2003-08-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salutations! I get the identical symptoms on WIN98SE. [snip] [It must be mentioned that I do not have cron installed as a service, but start it by hand in a bash after each reboot. I have not been able to get any of the procedures I have found

Does bind-utils For Cygwin Exist?

2003-08-10 Thread Hank Mill
I would like to use the host program to resolve DNS queries, but I can't find host under cygwin. Red hat 9 has host under the rpm bind-utils. I searched the cygwin packages but came up empty. Do I have to get the source and compile it or is host located some place else? Thanks. --Hank

Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

2003-08-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Having ntsec on by default has shown us that the imperfect mapping between ACLs and file modes can cause a *lot* of problems. Essentially, for ntsec to be useful, a fair amount of caring for permissions is required. New users are often not prepared for this. Hence: what about making ntsc off by

question concerning wmdebug.exe

2003-08-10 Thread natalie hinkel =)
After updating Windows on my machine and rebooting, an error appeared: wmdebug.exe = Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point__progname could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll. and when clicking OK, it only reappears. How do I go about correcting this? It does not

RE: Problem with cron!

2003-08-10 Thread cygwin
Salutations! I get the identical symptoms on WIN98SE. Last week I downloaded and updated my installed configuration with the latest. From this point in time, cron has refused to work - by this I mean that all crontab functions appear to function as usual, the cron task appears in ps and Mark

Re: Command line mail w/attachment

2003-08-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, C Wells wrote: What is the simplest way to send email from the command line, so that I can mime attach files (html, binary, etc). I would like to specify everything on the command line, because I don't know how to configure sendmail. I just need to call the email sending

Re: gcc - static pointer initialization problem

2003-08-10 Thread Ken Dibble
Alan Cooley wrote: Hello, I am having a problem with a C program. It appears that static variables are not being initialized when in an object file. The program compiles and links fine but funcPtrStruct.ptr is null so program crashes. This program works using gcc on Linux and (as I

RE: Mail Archives are Your Friend...

2003-08-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
Of Igor Pechtchanski 2) The inurl: modifier is not aware of forward slashes, and accepts partial matches, so a query with inurl:ml inurl:cygwin will search for messages on *all* of the Cygwin lists (i.e., cygwin@, cygwin-apps@, etc). AFAIK, there is no way to restrict

SCO/IBM legal issues

2003-08-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
This probably doesn't effect Cygwin at all since AFAICT the SCO claims are about the Linux kernel and Cygwin has no real kernel as per se, however SCO seems to be just about challenging the whole GPL concept. Briefly SCO claims that since it owns the rights to certain pieces of Unix (through a

Re: proftpd issues

2003-08-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since having gotten xinetd working, I've shifted my effortst to the new proftpd. After another couple of hours of *pain* - I finally got it going in a limited fashion. First of all, I couldn't get it to start with the SYSTEM id as indicated in

Re: Does bind-utils For Cygwin Exist?

2003-08-10 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Hank, Am Sonntag, 10. August 2003 um 21:07 schriebst du: I would like to use the host program to resolve DNS queries, but I can't find host under cygwin. Red hat 9 has host under the rpm bind-utils. I searched the cygwin packages but came up empty. Do I have to get the source and

Re: 1.5.1 issue?

2003-08-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: It is not necessarily a non-problem. If you can reproduce this consistently, then it is a problem, either in make or cygwin. It is not consistent. (is it ever? :-) -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: