Re: recovering cygwin settings after a Win98 anomaly

2004-01-13 Thread jon wild
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [snip] > mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive" > mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin" "/" > mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin" > mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib" [snip] > > Please let the list know if this works for you. Igor - it worked perfectly, eve

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-13 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:46:12PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > I'd be happy to help out with the documentation. As for the documentation > build system: what do I need? As far as the Cygwin distribution goes, you need to have all the normal build tools (gcc,make,etc) and a couple you m

Re: Building nco: changes in Cygwin break linking

2004-01-13 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:00 PM 1/13/2004, Mark Hadfield you wrote: >Hello all > >I am trying to build NCO version 2.8.0 from source (http://nco.sourceforge.net/). I >have Windows 2000 SP4 with an up-to-date, reasonably complete Cygwin environment >(cygwin 1.5.5-1, gcc 3.3.1-3, etc). I use the usual "./configure, ma

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-13 Thread Charles Wilson
Believe it or not, the best thread is here, even tho it's old (never mind the subject line; we drifted offtopic without re-titling): http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-07/msg00104.html "Re: ITP: Guile 1.5.6" -- Chuck Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: The most recent thread I've found on the subje

Re: rsync/cygwin can't handle filenames with some character set

2004-01-13 Thread Larry Hall
At 08:41 PM 1/13/2004, Dylan Cuthbert you wrote: >Actually, the problem I was having with rsync/cygwin and codepages was >caused by cygwin's modification of file paths, ie. some Japanese encodings >can cause a filename to have three backslashes (when viewed in Japanese it >doesn't of course) in it.

Re: recovering cygwin settings after a Win98 anomaly

2004-01-13 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:26 PM 1/13/2004, Igor Pechtchanski you wrote: >On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, jon wild wrote: > >> Hello all >> >> This sounds like it should be a FAQ question but I couldn't see it there. >> Sorry in advance if this is tedious. >> >> A few days ago my OS (Win98) inexplicably reverted to a much earlier

Re: rsync/cygwin can't handle filenames with some character set

2004-01-13 Thread Dylan Cuthbert
Actually, the problem I was having with rsync/cygwin and codepages was caused by cygwin's modification of file paths, ie. some Japanese encodings can cause a filename to have three backslashes (when viewed in Japanese it doesn't of course) in it. Cygwin seemed to be kicking in when it saw the back

Re: recovering cygwin settings after a Win98 anomaly

2004-01-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, jon wild wrote: > Hello all > > This sounds like it should be a FAQ question but I couldn't see it there. > Sorry in advance if this is tedious. > > A few days ago my OS (Win98) inexplicably reverted to a much earlier > registry version, resetting all program preferences and f

Building nco: changes in Cygwin break linking

2004-01-13 Thread Mark Hadfield
Hello all I am trying to build NCO version 2.8.0 from source (http://nco.sourceforge.net/). I have Windows 2000 SP4 with an up-to-date, reasonably complete Cygwin environment (cygwin 1.5.5-1, gcc 3.3.1-3, etc). I use the usual "./configure, make" process. The build fails to produce executables

recovering cygwin settings after a Win98 anomaly

2004-01-13 Thread jon wild
Hello all This sounds like it should be a FAQ question but I couldn't see it there. Sorry in advance if this is tedious. A few days ago my OS (Win98) inexplicably reverted to a much earlier registry version, resetting all program preferences and file associations etc. Big headache--and recent re

Re: mysqld on Cygwin

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Andrew, Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2004 um 21:13 schriebst du: Any chance we can get this packaged up for Cygwin? I found the following: http://anfaenger.de/cygwin-1.5/mysql/ courtesy of Gerrit P.Hasse and I've been using it without any problems. I just wish it was"p

Re: make complaining about clock skews

2004-01-13 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:53 PM 1/13/2004, wim delvaux you wrote: >Hi all, > >whenever I 'make' something, there are always itens with times in the future. > >However, the date is perfect, also the time 'in the future' is less than a >second ? > >What is going on ? See: >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/

Re: playing ogg files in cygwin

2004-01-13 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 19:51, Bob Clark wrote: > Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >i also think, that cygwin doesn't have any OSS emulation, does it? it have using /dev/dsp. For the kde-3.1.4 cygwin port I've tried to build ogg123 and it does have problems with playing sounds using

make complaining about clock skews

2004-01-13 Thread wim delvaux
Hi all, whenever I 'make' something, there are always itens with times in the future. However, the date is perfect, also the time 'in the future' is less than a second ? What is going on ? W -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: mysqld on Cygwin

2004-01-13 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Andrew, Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2004 um 21:13 schriebst du: > Any chance we can get this packaged up for Cygwin? I found the > following: http://anfaenger.de/cygwin-1.5/mysql/ courtesy of Gerrit P. > Hasse and I've been using it without any problems. I just wish it was > "part of Cygwin".

Missing libstdc++ for htdig

2004-01-13 Thread Dan Shoop
I have checked thru previous postings so this seems to be a known problem but I havent seen an answer that directly addresses the issue. I am trying to install htdig on a win XP box running cygwin and I get the problem need libstdc++ to run compiler. Solution suggested seem to be either downloa

Re: Complete list of out-of-date mirrors

2004-01-13 Thread Harold L Hunt II
At the risk of jumping the gun... none of the dead mirrors has been culled from the list yet. Will that happen in a cron job later or is this indicative that the script still has problems? Harold -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://c

Re: Complete list of out-of-date mirrors

2004-01-13 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Chris, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:34:16PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Okay, I decided that someone needs to check for out-dated mirrors and that someone is just going to have to be me. If you take a close look at the mirrors.html page, you'll see that the list is

Re: Complete list of out-of-date mirrors

2004-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:34:16PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >Okay, I decided that someone needs to check for out-dated mirrors and >that someone is just going to have to be me. If you take a close look at the mirrors.html page, you'll see that the list is polled on a regular basis to mainta

Re: Cygwin serial issues

2004-01-13 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Tim Arganbright wrote: > Hi Brian, > Please do not send personal email. I do read the list, and there you will have access to a much broader knowledge base. Additionally, your question and answer will then be recorded in the archives for others. I have directed this reply t

mysqld on Cygwin

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Any chance we can get this packaged up for Cygwin? I found the following: http://anfaenger.de/cygwin-1.5/mysql/ courtesy of Gerrit P. Hasse and I've been using it without any problems. I just wish it was "part of Cygwin". What needs to be done to get it into Cygwin. I'd like to help however I d

Re: rebaseall breaks zsh?

2004-01-13 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:21:28AM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: > >On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Jason Tishler wrote: > > > >> Rafael, > >> > >> Sorry for the delay... > >> > >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 01:26:07AM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote: > >> > I notice

Re: Removing added mirror from setup

2004-01-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Jeffery B. Rancier wrote: > How can I remove an added mirror? Just zap the directory? For > example, remove this?: > > drwxrwxrwx 2 jrancier root0 Jan 5 10:44 > http%3a%2f%2fwww.inf.bme.hu%2f%7eberti%2flilypond Unselect it, and re-run setup. The directory shoul

Re: Unix pipes implemented successfully

2004-01-13 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:14:00PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: > >On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:57:29PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, but no. The CVS version of cygwin already has a s

Removing added mirror from setup

2004-01-13 Thread Jeffery B. Rancier
How can I remove an added mirror? Just zap the directory? For example, remove this?: drwxrwxrwx 2 jrancier root0 Jan 5 10:44 http%3a%2f%2fwww.inf.bme.hu%2f%7eberti%2flilypond -- Thanks, Jeff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: rxvt is not a console?

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Sam Steingold wrote: well duh - of course it's not!... mingw (-mno-cygwin) applications running in rxvt do not recognize it as a console (which, I guess, it is not) and lack line editing &c. Besides, I am getting an error on tcflush() when running a cygwin application in it. Before I switch b

Re: Oh dear, pthreads and stdio still not mt-safe :-(

2004-01-13 Thread Thomas Pfaff
Dave Korn wrote: Ah, thanks for the info. I noticed that a few people have been working on it lately, including yourself and Thomas Pfaff, so I was hoping that any known problems or workrounds might be fresh in people's minds. May I ask if whoever last was maintainer left any notes or docs abou

Re: Problem with PostgreSQL: createlang plperl

2004-01-13 Thread Jason Tishler
Juergen, On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:44:43PM +0100, Juergen Sprenger wrote: > Has by chance anyone already solved this problem? Sorry, I need to rebuild PostgreSQL against the latest Perl. Thanks for the heads up. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fin

Re: Python 2.3 Cygwin and SIP and PyQT

2004-01-13 Thread Jason Tishler
Hardy, Please post instead of sending private email. On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:36:18AM +0200, Hardy Jonck wrote: > Thanks a million for the python 2.3 cygwin package. You are quite welcome. > I just downloaded SIP 3.7 from riverbank for X11 and can not get it to > compile on cygwin. I have in

playing ogg files in cygwin

2004-01-13 Thread Bob Clark
Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >i also think, that cygwin doesn't have any OSS emulation, does it? First of all, thanks for your quick reply. I doubt that cygwin has OSS emulation. I have an audio player that I generally am satisfied with (gqmpeg) that I've been able to get working on cy

Complete list of out-of-date mirrors

2004-01-13 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Okay, I decided that someone needs to check for out-dated mirrors and that someone is just going to have to be me. I audited every mirror in mirrors.html. The results below are from hosts that were reachable. Hosts that were unreachable are not reported. Anything not in the list below was ei

CATIA launch fails

2004-01-13 Thread Boucher, Chantal
I have a little more information about this problem reported September 2002, when trying to launch CATIA V4 with cygwin with PC display at 16 bits or 32 bits, we seem to have a color mapping problem, the error message we have is: Warning: Cannot convert string "-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m

Out of date mirror: csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu (Not updated since October)

2004-01-13 Thread Harold L Hunt II
The csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu mirror is woefully out of date: it has not been updated since last October. For example, check the XFree86-xserv directory, it lists -20 as the most recent release (from October) when there have been 20 more releases since then (-40 is the most recent): ftp://c

Re: package maintainer

2004-01-13 Thread Sven Köhler
I saw in the cygwin archives that you wanted to maintain (among other things) libao libogg libvorbis vorbis-tools for cygwin. I'd love to, but i'm still to stupid to create shared libraries with cygwin. I assume that means that you've gotten these packages up and running on the cygwin environment.

Problem with PostgreSQL: createlang plperl

2004-01-13 Thread Juergen.Sprenger
Hi, I tried to install languages into PostgreSQL 7.4.1-2 and ran into the following problem: $ createlang plperl createlang: language installation failed: ERROR: could not load library "/usr/lib/postgresql/plperl.dll": dlopen: Win32 error 126 By checking plperl.dll I noticed, that cygperl5_8_

Out of date mirror: cygwin.mirrors.pair.com (Not updated since October)

2004-01-13 Thread Harold L Hunt II
The cygwin.mirrors.pair.com mirror is woefully out of date: it has not been updated since last October. For example, check the XFree86-xserv directory, it lists -20 as the most recent release (from October) when there have been 20 more releases since then (-40 is the most recent): http://cygwi

"Xaw3d.dll" required for "gv" is missing in the current distribut ion

2004-01-13 Thread Ku, Wei
Hello, all: (I am posting this again with better subject line.) It seems that the current gv packed in the setup.exe requires libXaw3d.dll, which is absent in the present cygwin distribution. (The only one I found is a static version of libXaw3d.dll.a in /usr/X11/lib) $gv tmp.ps (Error message

RE: Problem compiling cygwin1.dll from CVS

2004-01-13 Thread Gabriel SOUBIES
Thanks for your reply. I moved everything under a directory /CompilCygwin that I just created. Unfortunately, it didn't change anything, i get the same error... -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Igor Pechtchanski Envoye : mardi 13 janvier 2004

RE: Problem compiling cygwin1.dll from CVS

2004-01-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Even though your /cygdrive mount is binary, I'm a bit wary of building outside of the cygwin root. Try building in some directory under "/" (not "/cygdrive/c"), and see if you still get this problem. I remember seeing something about files accessed through /cygdrive always being in textmode, but

Building Linux hosted cross compiler to cygwin target

2004-01-13 Thread Fred Fish
Does anyone have a pointer to a detailed set of instructions for building a linux hosted (i686-pc-linux-gnu) toolchain to a cygwin target (i686-pc-cygwin) starting from the bare CVS sources with no precompiled/preinstalled components? I've spent a couple of days trying to build this from the curre

Re: rebaseall breaks zsh?

2004-01-13 Thread Jason Tishler
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:40:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:21:28AM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: > >On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Jason Tishler wrote: > >> Let's wait to see what the zsh maintainer comes up with. > > > >I've reproduced the problem under a debugger and i

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-13 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
The most recent thread I've found on the subject dates back from 2001 and starts at http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-03/msg00170.html. I'm reading the thread now (well.. during coffee breaks - I'm not off the job quite yet). If this is not the thread I should be looking at, please fee

package maintainer

2004-01-13 Thread Bob Clark
I saw in the cygwin archives that you wanted to maintain (among other things) libao libogg libvorbis vorbis-tools for cygwin. I assume that means that you've gotten these packages up and running on the cygwin environment. If so, do you have your work posted on an ftp site? I've gotten these packa

Trying to compile and run GPSIM

2004-01-13 Thread Vaclav Peroutka
Hello, I tried to compile GPSIM 0.21.1 for simulation of Microchip PIC chips. But when I try to run it, I get Segmentation fault. Strace gives me following. It looks that problem appears somewhere after the usage of dll_crt0_1. But I don't have a clue what to do with the results. Can somebody he

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-13 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Ronald, > I'd be happy to help out with the documentation. As for the documentation > build system: what do I need? openjde: point setup.exe to http://anfaenger.de/cygwin Then I use the Cygnus stylesheets, available from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/docbook-tools/ (is this correct, Jos

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-13 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:13:03PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:39:08AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:39:03PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >>>This message is intended mostly for the Cygwin core developers. >>> >>>I will

RE: Unable to replicate Win2000 accounts

2004-01-13 Thread Chris January
> I have recently installed Cygwin on a Win2000 Pro system. While > trying to replicate the accounts from windows to Cygwin, I used > the commands: > > mkgroup -l > /etc/group > mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd > > the output of my group and passwd files are, respectively: > $ /etc/group try cat /etc

RE: Problem compiling cygwin1.dll from CVS

2004-01-13 Thread Gabriel SOUBIES
Oups, forgot my Cygwin.def... Here it is. Gabriel -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Igor Pechtchanski Envoye : lundi 12 janvier 2004 18:57 A : Gabriel SOUBIES Cc : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : RE: Problem compiling cygwin1.dll from CVS By "exac