[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: help2man-1.33.1-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 GNU help2man is now available with the Cygwin net distribution: ~ * http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/ (canonical homepage) ~ * ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/ (canonical download) help2man is a perl script that generates man pages bas

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ssmtp-2.60.4-2

I have updated the version of ssmtp to 2.60.4-2. The only change is to fix a bug with ssmtp-created dates, used in Received: headers and sometimes in Date: headers. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to

Re: gtypist package missing .pl files

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: | The gtypist package mentions a couple of .pl files to help generate | new lessons, but they aren't included in the binary tarball. Either | they should be included, or the package should be split into two, one | for us

RE: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?

At 09:56 PM 2/3/2004, Rafael Kitover you wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >>Robert Collins >>Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:36 PM >>To: Robert R Schneck >>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: update via setup.exe removed NTFS j

Re: Signal handling problem in 1.5.7 ? - Was: Re: Program randomly hangs.....

Hi Volker, Sometime ago there were problems with signal handling and threads in cygwin. The main issue was that signal handling was not occurring properly when threads were running and when a signal was fired the signal handler would not relinquish control properly back to whatever was control the

RE: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?

>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Robert Collins >Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:36 PM >To: Robert R Schneck >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction? > >On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:25, Robert R Schne

Re: Problem with ssh keys

At 12:22 PM 2/3/2004, Pedro Luiz Nani Costa you wrote: >Thanks Larry. > >Setting up Cygwin with smbntsec solves the problem, and i could >autenticate my keys through my net. > >But then, i delete the keys to remake all the process, generating new >keys for others users just as i did, the >th

Re: Avail for test: cygipc-2.03-1 and cygutils-1.2.4-1

Dr. Volker Zell wrote: "Charles" == Charles Wilson writes: Charles> 2) cygipc header files are now installed in /usr/include/cygipc/sys. Charles> IF (and only if) /usr/include/sys/ipc.h and friends do not exist, then Charles> a postinstall script creates symlinks to the cygipc version

Re: wincvs and cygwin (tcl DLL naming issue)

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Reid Thompson wrote: > my 2 cents, and what i believe is an easier and more appropriate > solution ( think like you're on unix/linux) - for your cygwin > bash/rxvt/etc terminals explicitely set the path in your .bashrc such > that the cygwin binaries are found first -- and eith

RE: Text entry to command line program

>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Ross Boulet >Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:28 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Text entry to command line program > >> >> Try something like: >> >> CYGWIN=notty sqlplus >> > >Is that saying nott

RE: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Eva Bordeaux >Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:40 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Segmentation fault (core dumped) > >Hello, I try to run my program on Windows machine using Cygwin. > >$ make clean al

Re: wincvs and cygwin (tcl DLL naming issue)

my 2 cents, and what i believe is an easier and more appropriate solution ( think like you're on unix/linux) - for your cygwin bash/rxvt/etc terminals explicitely set the path in your .bashrc such that the cygwin binaries are found first -- and either do not add the cygwin binary paths to the w

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Hello, I try to run my program on Windows machine using Cygwin. $ make clean all gcc -c -o codon.o codon.ccreate_codon.c gcc -c -o linkcurve.o linkcurve.c subpart.c: In function `part_extractor_closed': subpart.c:179: warning: passing arg 2 of `strcat' makes pointer from integer wit hout

Re: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:25, Robert R Schneck wrote: > In fact you are correct. setup.log.full contains: > 2004/02/03 22:59:17 Uninstalling man > ... > rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache/man > rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache > rmdir C:\cygwin/var > Indeed, calling rmdir on a junction point will remove it, I su

RE: Text entry to command line program

> > Try something like: > > CYGWIN=notty sqlplus > Is that saying notty for sqlplus and tty for everything else? Is there any decent documentation for what the CYGWIN variable does? > >> > >> [ ... Snip ... ] > >> > > > >OK, my bad. I found a couple of references to this behavior > in the M

Re: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?

Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:37, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: >> For reasons which are now obscure to me, I had set up an NTFS junction >> point from /var (c:\cygwin\var) to some other partition. Could have >> done it with mount, but I didn't. >> >> Jus

Re: Is it possible to move emacs from one computer to another?

> "Charles" == Charles Plager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Is it possible to move the emacs from that distribution Charles> to a computer where emacs isn't working? I think what you want to do is simply uninstall the version that's not working, and then install an older vers

Re: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:37, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: > For reasons which are now obscure to me, I had set up an NTFS junction > point from /var (c:\cygwin\var) to some other partition. Could have > done it with mount, but I didn't. > > Just today after running setup.exe and getting cygw

update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?

For reasons which are now obscure to me, I had set up an NTFS junction point from /var (c:\cygwin\var) to some other partition. Could have done it with mount, but I didn't. Just today after running setup.exe and getting cygwin-1.5.7-1 and a few other things, I found that /var was now an ordinary

Is it possible to move emacs from one computer to another?

Hello, The latest version of emacs seems to have problems. I have another cygwin installation on another computer where emacs still works fine. Is it possible to move the emacs from that distribution to a computer where emacs isn't working? Would I need to tell cygwin to "uninstall" emacs fi

RE: Program randomly hangs after upgrading to cygwin 1.5.7

>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Volker Quetschke >Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:12 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Program randomly hangs after upgrading to cygwin 1.5.7 > >Hi Rafael, >> Are you using a win32 native compiled

Re: Signal handling problem in 1.5.7 ? - Was: Re: Program randomly hangs after upgrading to cygwin 1.5.7

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:49:10PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:03:08AM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: >>Let me say it again: I do not look at unsolicited straces. I am also >>not interested in teaching people how to debug problems. I ment

RE: Request

See the resources on http://cygwin.com especially http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html -Original Message- From: Luis M. S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Request Mr. cygwin.com I'm interesting in install the p

Re: Signal handling problem in 1.5.7 ? - Was: Re: Program randomly hangs after upgrading to cygwin 1.5.7

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:03:08AM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: I got a longer strace. These are only the first lines, I attached the complete output as dmake_hung.strace.gz: Let me say it again: I do not look at unsolicited straces. I am also not interested in teachi

Request

Mr. cygwin.com I'm interesting in install the program in a Windows 98 environment. Please send me the procedures to do it. Thanks a lot, for your help. Regards. LAMS. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docum

Re: Modular setup?

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 03:11, Alan Dobkin wrote: > If you're referring to Chris's cygupdate (formerly up2date) script, I'm not. Look in the setup sources. Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Program randomly hangs after upgrading to cygwin 1.5.7

Hi Rafael, Are you using a win32 native compiled dmake or did you compile a copy of dmake as a Cygwin binary? Either way, did you compile dmake with debugging support? as mentioned earlier in this thread, it is the cygwin binary. See the first message in this thread for cygcheck info of dmake, and

cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

summary: I am still experiencing post-upgrade problems with my cygwin emacs; output from cygcheck and report-emacs-bug attached. What to do? details: I was annoyed by some shortcomings of my cygwin emacs (21.1? whatever version was included around the time of cygwin-1.5.5-1), such as lack of el

FD_SETSIZE and select

Hi, The Cygwin/X source uses the assumption that FD_SETSIZE == 256 in many places. I'm currently adding a -DFD_SETSIZE=256 to the build commandline but I'm not sure if this has any sideeffects. Is select() capable of handling other sizes than 64 which is set in sys/types.h? bye ago BTW: plea

Re: wincvs and cygwin (tcl DLL naming issue)

The problem lies in that anything that is linked against the native dll will not work with the cygwin dll. The problem is simple, the program will use the first matching dll that it finds in the search path. It isn't a wincvs (or gaim in my case) problem, there is nothing that they can really do t

RE: Text entry to command line program

Try something like: CYGWIN=notty sqlplus >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Ross Boulet >Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 2:12 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Text entry to command line program > > >> -Original Message- >> F

RE: Program randomly hangs after upgrading to cygwin 1.5.7

Are you using a win32 native compiled dmake or did you compile a copy of dmake as a Cygwin binary? Either way, did you compile dmake with debugging support? >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Volker Quetschke >Sent: Sunday, February 01, 200

Re: [PATCH] Fix for broken package-grep.cgi (Attn: CGF)

Can we please revisit this? It's already bitten one person that we know of (see ). If there's interest, I could also work on , but that's not as urgent. Igor On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ig

Re: wincvs and cygwin

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Shankar Unni wrote: > Daniel Atallah wrote: > > > If the tcl dll included with cygwin conflicts with the > > native win32 tcl (still a problem if you don't have > > native tcl installed) > > Yes - I don't think this is a conflict per se, rather than simply > finding and trying

Re: Python error under Cygwin - threading module

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:02:25AM -0800, Artur de Sousa Rocha wrote: > Sometimes when I launch my script under Cygwin, I get strange error > messages like: > > 2 [win] python 1912 Winmain: Cannot register window class > > Sometimes all of the threads run OK, otherwise after the "correct" >

Re: Re Re: Is there a translation from windows events to cygwin signals ?

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:44:32PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >FWIW, Cygwin's kill() understands Win32 PIDs, so you can at least skip > >step 3. I suggest looking at Cygwin's implementation of /bin/kill (in CVS > >as winsup/utils/kill.cc). >

Re: Modular setup?

--On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:29 PM -0500 Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Alan Dobkin wrote: My main goal is to be able to automate Cygwin installations on new machines so someone doesn't have to manually select each package in the GUI. I don't think this ca

Re: Re Re: Is there a translation from windows events to cygwin signals ?

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:44:32PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >FWIW, Cygwin's kill() understands Win32 PIDs, so you can at least skip >step 3. I suggest looking at Cygwin's implementation of /bin/kill (in CVS >as winsup/utils/kill.cc). Sorry to contradict you again, Igor, but cygwin's kill u

Re: Is there a translation from windows events to cygwin signals ?

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:50:19PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 10:54:40AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>>Cygwin signals use Windows events under the covers, but there's more to >>>Cygwin signals than just Windows event

Re: Modular setup?

--On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:39 AM -0500 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since I haven't formally announced this, I will certainly be displeased to see any bug reports about it. There is a reason why this isn't part of the cygwin distribution. It requires too much tweaking t

Re: wincvs and cygwin

Daniel Atallah wrote: If the tcl dll included with cygwin conflicts with the native win32 tcl (still a problem if you don't have native tcl installed) Yes - I don't think this is a conflict per se, rather than simply finding and trying to load the cygwin tcl84.dll. Have there been any significan

Re: Is there a translation from windows events to cygwin signals ?

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 10:54:40AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >Cygwin signals use Windows events under the covers, but there's more to > >Cygwin signals than just Windows events. There's no one-to-one mapping. > >Use "kill". > > Actually, no,

Re: Re Re: Is there a translation from windows events to cygwin signals ?

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Lutz Hörl wrote: > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtchacsnyuedu] Please don't quote raw e-mail addresses in your replies. Let's not make the spam harvesters' life any easier. > Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 16:55 > An: Lutz Hörl >

Re: Modular setup?

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Alan Dobkin wrote: > On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:44 PM +1100 Robert Collins wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:09, Chris Jefferson wrote: > >> Now I think I can figure out how to get to these things, but > >> I would personally perfer a nice command-line package utility

Re: Problem with ssh keys

Thanks Larry. Setting up Cygwin with smbntsec solves the problem, and i could autenticate my keys through my net. But then, i delete the keys to remake all the process, generating new keys for others users just as i did, the thing just not go too good. I believe its because the drives wit

re: Problems with Emacs

Summary: Emacs since being update has two common failure modes: 1) Taking all the CPU 2) Crashing. An update: * Updated cygwin to official 1.5.7-1 release * As suggested, I have been trying to use strace -p on the emacs pid. After updating strace from a snapshot, I was still having problems. W

Re: Is there a translation from windows events to cygwin signals ?

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 10:54:40AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >Cygwin signals use Windows events under the covers, but there's more to >Cygwin signals than just Windows events. There's no one-to-one mapping. >Use "kill". Actually, no, they don't really use windows events. Not since 1.5.6.

Re: Signal handling problem in 1.5.7 ? - Was: Re: Program randomly hangs after upgrading to cygwin 1.5.7

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:03:08AM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: >I got a longer strace. These are only the first lines, I attached the >complete output as dmake_hung.strace.gz: Let me say it again: I do not look at unsolicited straces. I am also not interested in teaching people how to debug p

Re: Modular setup?

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:11:39AM -0500, Alan Dobkin wrote: >--On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:44 PM +1100 Robert Collins ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:09, Chris Jefferson wrote: >>>Now I think I can figure out how to get to these things, but >>>I would personally perf

Re Re: Is there a translation from windows events to cygwin signals ?

-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 16:55 An: Lutz Hörl Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Is there a translation from windows events to cygwin signals ? On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Lutz Hörl wrote: > Hello, > > My pro

Re: Modular setup?

--On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:44 PM +1100 Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:09, Chris Jefferson wrote: Now I think I can figure out how to get to these things, but I would personally perfer a nice command-line package utility which I could use to automate thi

Re: Is there a translation from windows events to cygwin signals ?

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Lutz Hörl wrote: > Hello, > > My problem: > > I have to send a signal to a running cygwin application, but I can not > use the cygwin API for this purpose. This doesn't make sense. You can always do system("c:/cygwin/bin/kill -HUP "). > This signal (e.g. SIGHUP) can be cough

RE: wincvs and cygwin

Un-installing cygwin's tcl/tk now allows my wincvs to work once again. Thanks for your help. -Steve More -Original Message- From: Daniel Atallah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: win

Re: wincvs and cygwin

I believe that this is related to the problem that i have with gaim. If the tcl dll included with cygwin conflicts with the native win32 tcl (still a problem if you don't have native tcl installed) When wincvs tries to start up, it probes for a tcl dll, and when it finds it it tries to load it.

Is there a translation from windows events to cygwin signals ?

Hello, My problem: I have to send a signal to a running cywin application, but I can not use the cygwin API for this purpose. This signal (e.g. SIGHUP) can be cought by my cywin application, the application can react on it in a proper way. Until now I found only documentation that states that

Re: Problem with ssh keys

At 09:10 AM 2/3/2004, Pedro Luiz Nani Costa you wrote: >Hello everyone > >I know this subject is exausted on the list, but i can't figured out >what's happening on my case. > >Look, i have winXP e win2000 machines and i set up properly sshd on >cygwin(CYGWIN_NT-5.1 pcdep06 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 200

Problem with ssh keys

Hello everyone I know this subject is exausted on the list, but i can't figured out what's happening on my case. Look, i have winXP e win2000 machines and i set up properly sshd on cygwin(CYGWIN_NT-5.1 pcdep06 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686). The hole thing is i have to use HOME dir

wincvs and cygwin

I have upgraded to cygwin 1.5.7 and can no longer execute wincvs in a cygwin bash shell. After I execute the command: wincvs The wincvs windows start to appear then it just exits. $ echo $? 128 -Stephen More NOTICE: This e-mail may contain confidential or legally privileged informat

Signal handling problem in 1.5.7 ? - Was: Re: Program randomly hangs after upgrading to cygwin 1.5.7

Volker Quetschke wrote: This problem occured after upgrading from cygwin 1.5.5 to 1.5.7(second version). During this I update all other installed cygwin packages to the current versions. (cygcheck -s -v -r is attached) The problem is that dmake, the make utility for building OpenOffice.org seems

Re: Modular setup?

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:09, Chris Jefferson wrote: > Hello. > > I suspect that this is a FAQ, but I haven't found it, so I'll ask it! > > Unlike linux / *BSD / etc distributions, it doesn't seem easy to > automate the cygwin install utility. I don't seem able to get a list of > installed packa

Re: Avail for test: cygipc-2.03-1 and cygutils-1.2.4-1

> "Charles" == Charles Wilson writes: Charles> 2) cygipc header files are now installed in /usr/include/cygipc/sys. Charles> IF (and only if) /usr/include/sys/ipc.h and friends do not exist, then Charles> a postinstall script creates symlinks to the cygipc versions. This Charl