My ITPs update: reviews needed

2004-06-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I currently have two ITPs pending from 09 June, audiofile and esound; each has three votes (cgf, Harold L Hunt II, Dr. Volker Zell), but neither have been reviewed. audiofile is a prereq for esound, which is a libgnome-2 dependency. These packages can

Re: [ITP] (audiofile, libaudiofile0, libaudiofile-devel)-0.2.6-1

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Yaakov, I would like to contribute audiofile to the Cygwin net distro. This is a prereq for esound, which is needed by libgnome-2. cool, I vote pro this package (of course;). Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: [ITP] (esound, libesound0, libesound-devel)-0.2.34-1

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Yaakov, I would like to contribute esound to the Cygwin net distro. This is a requirment for libgnome-2, but it requires only libaudiofile0 (which I'm ITP'ing concurrently). cool, I vote pro this package too (of course;). Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: [ITP] glib-2.4.2-1

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Christopher, I think category: Libs Devel is more appropriate here, if you don't make GNOME2-* categories. Ditto about the Devel. It does need to be added. Ok. Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: My pending ITPs 2. update

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi David, many thanks for the review! Notes below. Package: libwmf-0.2.8.3-1 http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-06/msg00058.html Votes : 2 From : David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] This works for me. I have downloaded the source

Re: [ITP] glib-2.4.2-1

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yaakov schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: | I want to contribute/maintain glib. | Canonical website: http://www.gtk.org/ I'm sorry I'm nit-picking on this one, but I think this is one package which is VERY important to get right, being that

Re: Gnome versioning issues [was Re: [ITP] glib-2.4.2-1]

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Yaakov, My vote: 'glib2' and 'gtk2'. I prefer this too. I'll change the script to reflect this. Gerrit -- =^..^=

gtk-docs path (was: Re: [ITP] glib-2.4.2-1)

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi All, Yaakov wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: | I want to contribute/maintain glib. | Canonical website: http://www.gtk.org/ I'm sorry I'm nit-picking on this one, but I think this is one package which is VERY important to get right, being that it's the foundation of getting GNOME 2.6

[Good To Go] audiofile-0.2.6-1

2004-06-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Yaakov Selkowitz writes: http://cygwin-ports.sourceforge.net/install/release/audiofile/audiofile-0.2.6-1-src.tar.bz2 http://cygwin-ports.sourceforge.net/install/release/audiofile/audiofile-0.2.6-1.tar.bz2 http://cygwin-ports.sourceforge.net/install/release/audiofile/setup.hint

Re: [Good To Go] audiofile-0.2.6-1

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Volker, PS: Instead of the mega patch you could simple copy /usr/autotool/devel/bin/libtool to objdir if you have it installed. I don't like this way very much, I do always a complete reconfigure (autoreconf --install --verbose --force) if possible. I.e. I use automake-1.8.5 and

[ITP-2] glib-2.4.2-1

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello, I want to contribute/maintain glib. Canonical website: http://www.gtk.org/ Renamed repackaged tarballs: http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/glib2-2.4.2-1.tar.bz2 http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/setup.hint http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/glib2-devel-2.4.2-1.tar.bz2

Re: [ITP-2] glib-2.4.2-1

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit wrote: Hello, I want to contribute/maintain glib. Canonical website: http://www.gtk.org/ Renamed repackaged tarballs: [...] Devel package setup.hint: === category: Libs Devel requires: glib sdesc: headers and import libraries for glib This reads actually: category: Libs Devel

Re: [HEADSUP] A new policy. First victim: Gerrit

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Corinna, For a start, we (cgf and I, that is) grant Gerrit the right, to add new package to the Cygwin net distro without review and by just getting one vote, if nobody else vetos the package within a week. Wow, thanks! As a small payback it would be nice from you, Gerrit, to review

[ITP] atk-1.6.1-1

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello, I want to contribute/maintain ATK. Canonical website: http://www.gtk.org/ Runtime package setup.hint: === category: Libs Devel requires: cygwin libiconv2 libintl2 glib2 sdesc: low-level core library - runtime library ldesc: ATK is the low-level core library that forms the basis of GTK+

[ITP] libcroco-0.5.1-1

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello, I want to contribute/maintain libcroco. http://www.freespiders.org/projects/libcroco/ The Libcroco project is an effort to build a generic Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) parsing and manipulation toolkit that can be used by GNOME applications in need of CSS support. setup.hint: ===

Re: [HEADSUP] A new policy. First victim: Gerrit

2004-06-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Gerrit, On Jun 14 15:58, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: For a start, we (cgf and I, that is) grant Gerrit the right, to add new package to the Cygwin net distro without review and by just getting one vote, if nobody else vetos the package within a week. Wow, thanks! Btw., you still need to send

Re: gtk-docs path

2004-06-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: | What about the gtk-doc location? | | GLib and friends put their docs into ${prefix}/share/gtk-doc by default. | Ok to go with this path? I don't see why not. This is supposed to be a common directory for all the GNOME libs

Re: gtk-docs path

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Yaakov, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: | What about the gtk-doc location? | | GLib and friends put their docs into ${prefix}/share/gtk-doc by default. | Ok to go with this path? I don't see why not. This is supposed to be a common directory for all the GNOME libs documentation, and AFAIK this

Re: [ITP] atk-1.6.1-1

2004-06-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello, I want to contribute/maintain ATK. Canonical website: http://www.gtk.org/ Runtime package setup.hint: === category: Libs Devel requires: cygwin libiconv2 libintl2 glib2 sdesc: low-level core library - runtime library

Re: [ITP-2] glib-2.4.2-1 (NOT YET)

2004-06-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: | Renamed repackaged tarballs: | http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/glib2-2.4.2-1.tar.bz2 | http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/setup.hint | | http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/gtk+/glib/glib2-devel-2.4.2-1.tar.bz2 |

Please upload: audiofile-0.2.6-1

2004-06-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: | http://cygwin-ports.sourceforge.net/install/release/audiofile/audiofile-0.2.6-1-src.tar.bz2 | http://cygwin-ports.sourceforge.net/install/release/audiofile/audiofile-0.2.6-1.tar.bz2 |

Re: [ITP] atk-1.6.1-1

2004-06-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: | Hello, | | I want to contribute/maintain ATK. | Canonical website: http://www.gtk.org/ +1 from me. Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird -

Re: [ITP] libcroco-0.5.1-1

2004-06-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: | Hello, | | I want to contribute/maintain libcroco. | http://www.freespiders.org/projects/libcroco/ | | The Libcroco project is an effort to build a generic Cascading Style | Sheet (CSS) parsing and manipulation toolkit that can

Re: [ITP-2] glib-2.4.2-1

2004-06-14 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I want to contribute/maintain glib. I can't vote, but this seems good to go. I installed it, replacing an older version that I was using for the Midnight Commander and irssi I build some time ago. -- How to contact me -

Re: [ITP-2] glib-2.4.2-1 (NOT YET)

2004-06-14 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: If we've decided to keep this in /usr, then the binary packages look good to me; programs built against previous versions of glib2 are working fine, and I built perl-Glib against this and it passed all its tests. Since GLib isn't a GNOME or graphical

Generic build script instructions

2004-06-14 Thread Robb, Sam
Igor et. al., Are there any instructions for using the generic build script, aside from what's documented in the gdb itself? I'm looking at using the gbs for a couple of packages, and I'm trying to understand how it was intended to be used. Right now, it looks like it's something like: 1)

gv

2004-06-14 Thread Rohan Shah
i'm having trouble congifuring gv for cygwin. when i open a postsrcipt file using gv, it gives me the error: Error: Postscript interpreter failed in main window any ideas? thanks in advance. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ type -a gs gs is /usr/bin/gs gs is /bin/gs gs is /usr/X11R6/bin/gs gs is /bin/gs gs

Re: Re: Cygwin and X

2004-06-14 Thread Erik Abrahamsson
Hi! I am not sure I am doing this right, I hope this is the right forum now... Forgive me if it's not! Also, top posting or not? What's on here? Personally I hate bottom posting...Sorry folks! I choose not to include the previous post here. Is that OK? - I knew I would get a the DISPLAY parameter

Re: x-windows won't start

2004-06-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Matt Goto wrote: hey- i just finished installing cygwin on a windows xp home box. i tried starting x using the startx command and i got the following message: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.7.0.0-9 [snip] Fatal server error:

Re: Cygwin and X

2004-06-14 Thread Philippe Bertin
Don't know, Still seems a valid question for this list to me. It's still a cygwin- question, not so ? Erik can install Exceed on his PC, and use a graphical X11- environment (e.g. kde-cygwin) started from within Cygwin, and running on his Exceed X11- server, can't he ? e.g. (hypothesis shell

Re: Re: Cygwin and X

2004-06-14 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Erik Abrahamsson wrote: Hi! I am not sure I am doing this right, I hope this is the right forum now... Forgive me if it's not! Others have objected to my classification of your post. I still think this is a more appropriate forum since you are asking X related questions.

Re: x-windows won't start

2004-06-14 Thread Matt Goto
no. i hadn't tried the faq. i didn't know that it existed. should have checked. sorry. however, after following the directions on it, i found that the fonts were installed properly - mount pointed to a proper location on my hard drive and there were about 450 files in the misc subfolder. so

remote Mathematica client does not work properly in Cygwin/X (pointer bug?)

2004-06-14 Thread Liangfeng Sun
I'm using the latest Cygwin/X for Windows XP. I use xinit to start X server on my local computer, then connect to a remote linux computer by 'ssh -X'. Many clients work properly, i.e. xemacs, mozilla, etc. However, the pointer does not work good when I start Mathematica(V5) on the remote linux

Re: remote Mathematica client does not work properly in Cygwin/X (pointer bug?)

2004-06-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Liangfeng Sun wrote: I'm using the latest Cygwin/X for Windows XP. I use xinit to start X server on my local computer, then connect to a remote linux computer by 'ssh -X'. Many clients work properly, i.e. xemacs, mozilla, etc. However, the pointer does not work good when

src/winsup/utils ChangeLog dumper.cc parse_pe.cc

2004-06-14 Thread amodra
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-06-15 02:18:52 Modified files: winsup/utils : ChangeLog dumper.cc parse_pe.cc Log message: * dumper.cc (dumper::prepare_core_dump): Use bfd_get_section_size instead of _raw_size.

src/winsup/doc Makefile.in

2004-06-14 Thread joshuadfranklin
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-06-15 03:23:23 Modified files: winsup/doc : Makefile.in Log message: Fix faq-faq0 snafu. Patches:

installing cygwin on private lan

2004-06-14 Thread hazloya
Hi, I would like to install Cygwin on a DOS box that doesn't have an Internet connection but that does have a network connection to a Linux box. The Linux box is dual-homed (Internet and the private lan) but does not route between the two networks. It does export a filesystem to the DOS box.

Re: installing cygwin on private lan

2004-06-14 Thread Jani tiainen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Snip] So is there a Linux version of setup.exe and if not, how do I populate the Linux filesystem from which the DOS box will install Cygwin? Cygwin needs still Windows environment, not DOS environment. And for Linux and Windows co-operation you could use NetBIOS (Samba

RE: script command

2004-06-14 Thread Mike Kenny - BCX - Infrastructure Services
Brian, thanks for this link. This is, almost, exactly what I was looking for. But, my compile fails as it can't (neither can I) find libutil.h. Could you point me to a similar link for this, or e-mail a copy directly to me? Thanks Mike -Original Message- From: Brian Dessent

grep problems

2004-06-14 Thread Mark . Bevan
All, I was having some trouble using grep to look for text in files. From some tests it looks like meta characters cause the problem to show itself : C:\temptype test.txt text C:\tempgrep test test.txt text C:\tempgrep text *.txt test.txt:text C:\tempgrep text \temp\test.txt text

Re: script command

2004-06-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Mike Kenny - BCX - Infrastructure Services wrote: -Original Message- From: Brian Dessent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Umm, PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. (http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR) Warren, Matthew (Retail) wrote: Does cygwin provide support the script command?

RE: script command

2004-06-14 Thread Mike Kenny - BCX - Infrastructure Services
Thanks Brian, That works - still some garbage output, but it's about time I got my hands dirty again. The script functionality is there, so I'm happy Mike -Original Message- From: Brian Dessent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: grep problems

2004-06-14 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Mark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Monday, June 14, 2004 9:47 AM: I was having some trouble using grep to look for text in files. From some tests it looks like meta characters cause the problem to show itself : C:\temptype test.txt text C:\tempgrep test test.txt text

Re: vim and python

2004-06-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 11 16:54, Rohan Shah wrote: How can I add python support to Vim in Cygwin? I have never installed a package other than the ones listed on the cygwin setup menu. I know that I have to download the vim source code and compile it with some python libraries? But how do I do this? Can

Re: grep problems

2004-06-14 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:29:13AM +0200, J?rg Schaible wrote: I have upgraded to latest release of Cygwin and this has not changed things. I have tried the above on a Windows 98 and Windows XP system as well - same results. Any ideas how I get around this problem ? Learn the syntax.

RE: grep problems

2004-06-14 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 9:47 AM All, I was having some trouble using grep to look for text in files. From some tests it looks like meta characters cause the problem to show itself : Well, the meta characters has a different meaning for the cygwin/bash

RE: installing cygwin on private lan

2004-06-14 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:30 AM I would like to install Cygwin on a DOS box that doesn't have an Internet connection but that does have a network connection to a Linux box. The Linux box is dual-homed (Internet and the private lan) but does not route between the

Re: grep problems

2004-06-14 Thread Reini Urban
Hannu E K Nevalainen schrieb: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 9:47 AM I was having some trouble using grep to look for text in files. From some tests it looks like meta characters cause the problem to show itself : To get more info regarding the use/setup of rxvt+bash: Use

RE: cygwin

2004-06-14 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of risalya aldin Sent: 14 June 2004 02:58 To: y50 Cc: cygwin Subject: cygwin hello there sorry i need help here! when apache well installed in cygwin and the servername is localhost. can i open that site by internet-explore

Re: Annoucement: GCC-3.4.0 binary release candidat

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi David, I'm more curious to know how others managed to build gfortran of 3.5. Tim Prince I am trying to get my mainline gcc builds restarted. I managed a build overnight, including gfortran. I am unaware of any magic. Interesting, should I include gfortran into the distribution?

Re: compile error with mysql 4.1.2-alpha

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
cygwin wrote: I downloaded mysql 4.0.20 source (not the win version). It fails to compile with the following error: = if gcc -DDEFAULT_BASEDIR=\/usr/local\ -DDATADIR=\/usr/local/var\

Re: installing cygwin on private lan

2004-06-14 Thread Jani tiainen
Jani tiainen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Snip] So is there a Linux version of setup.exe and if not, how do I populate the Linux filesystem from which the DOS box will install Cygwin? Cygwin needs still Windows environment, not DOS environment. And for Linux and Windows co-operation you

RE: Bash hangs in WaitForMultipleObjects

2004-06-14 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of jreif Sent: 14 June 2004 04:42 Below are more traces of the bash processes hanging on my machine. Stack backtraces aren't any use without compiling both bash and the cygwin .dll from source, using the -g flag to put debug

Re: script command

2004-06-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Mike Kenny writes: Brian, thanks for this link. This is, almost, exactly what I was looking for. But, my compile fails as it can't (neither can I) find libutil.h. Could you point me to a similar link for this, or e-mail a copy directly to me? Just uncomment it, it

Re: [OT] RE: Bash hangs in WaitForMultipleObjects

2004-06-14 Thread Warren Young
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 06:12:05PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Now quote *that* line at the top of the snapshots page. I dare you! Done. What's next, Raw, Naked Code on the top of the CVS page? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Annoucement: GCC-3.4.0 binary release candidat

2004-06-14 Thread Tim Prince
At 02:51 AM 6/14/2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi David, I'm more curious to know how others managed to build gfortran of 3.5. Tim Prince I am trying to get my mainline gcc builds restarted. I managed a build overnight, including gfortran. I am unaware of any magic. Interesting, should I

Passing through the kyeboard layout settings

2004-06-14 Thread Ariel Burbaickij
Hello dear mailing list participants, is it somehow possible to pass through the actual keyboard layout settings of host machine to cygwin console? Here the explanation: Occasionally I need to type in German or Russian or some other languages, so I simply switch the kyeboard layout in Win2000.

Re: Unable to open files including Korean names

2004-06-14 Thread Jaeho Shin
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 12:15:41PM -0400, Gregg C Levine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As for your problem Jaeho Shin, I think the switching of binaries for the Cygwin DLLs should fix things. At least temporarily. Yeah, I already switched to 1.5.9-1. Everything's fine here. Trying SP2 might

Re: Unable to open files including Korean names

2004-06-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 14 20:12, Jaeho Shin wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 02:55:23PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please don't quote raw email addresses in a reply! http://cygwin.com/acronyms/index.html#PCYMTNQREAIYR Your original mail stated I did some test and found out that

log2 as function not as macro

2004-06-14 Thread Johnny Willemsen
Hi, Are there plans to deliver log2 as regular function instead of macro. The log2 as macro is hard to use in projects that also define a log2 function. I know, we can work around it, but it comes back and back again. Regards, Johnny Willemsen Remedy IT Leeghwaterstraat 25 2811 DT Reeuwijk The

Re: vim and python

2004-06-14 Thread Rohan Shah
Thanks, that was very helpful. I would like to uninstall the version of vim that cygwin installed and then re-install vim with python support. How can I uninstall vim? How can I set path related options? What path related options should I use? Rohan Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 11 16:54,

Re: vim and python

2004-06-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 14 09:18, Rohan Shah wrote: Thanks, that was very helpful. I would like to uninstall the version of vim that cygwin installed and then re-install vim with python support. How can I uninstall vim? Use setup.exe. How can I set path related options? What path related options should

Re: log2 as function not as macro

2004-06-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 14 14:11, Johnny Willemsen wrote: Hi, Are there plans to deliver log2 as regular function instead of macro. The log2 as macro is hard to use in projects that also define a log2 function. I know, we can work around it, but it comes back and back again. You could ask this on the newlib

gftp

2004-06-14 Thread getting_out
I'm trying to compile gftp, but when I do a make I got this error make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/gftp-2.0.17' Making all in intl make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/gftp-2.0.17/intl' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory

Re: Unable to open files including Korean names

2004-06-14 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Can you run some very simple program demonstrating the problem under strace, something like strace -o strace-10.txt touch some short Korean path both under 1.5.10 and 1.5.9? Sure. strace-{10,9}.txt are attached, and strace-env.txt, too. It's the output of ``env'' where I ran

RE: log2 as function not as macro

2004-06-14 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: 14 June 2004 14:48 On Jun 14 14:11, Johnny Willemsen wrote: Hi, Are there plans to deliver log2 as regular function instead of macro. The log2 as macro is hard to use in projects that also define a

Re: gftp

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
D. wrote: I'm trying to compile gftp, but when I do a make I got this error [...] pty.c:91: error: `TIOCSCTTY' undeclared (first use in this function) [...] what's up? Try Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=TIOCSCTTY+cygwin+sourceid=mozilla-searchstart=0start=0ie=utf-8oe=utf-8 Gerrit

Cygwin performance under Citrix

2004-06-14 Thread david . dezan
My company is trying to setup a development environment using Cygwin on a server running Citrix. This allows multiple users to log into the Citrix server and it looks to them like they have their own machine. However, in the course of testing the installation of our development packages

Cygwin and X

2004-06-14 Thread Erik Abrahamsson
Hi all! I have been running Cygwin/X for some time, with very low performance. In the Cygwin/X FAQ this is explained by the fact that I have a personal firewall (in this case it's Zonealarm). It is also the process vsmon.exe that is draining my system while using Cygwin/X. The solution to this

jhead question/problem

2004-06-14 Thread Jason Dufair
I believe I've found a bug with the jhead binary, but can't find any info on it. Does anyone know anything about jhead? It's a program that can extract EXIF info from image files (jpg, etc.). I see it on my system in /usr/bin, but don't see it in the package search nor any reference to it in a

RE: jhead question/problem

2004-06-14 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jason Dufair Sent: 14 June 2004 16:02 To: cygwin Subject: jhead question/problem I believe I've found a bug with the jhead binary, but can't find any info on it. Does anyone know anything about jhead? [...snip...] system in

Re: Setting speed of serial port on Win2K system

2004-06-14 Thread AuM . Graefe
Thanx, Neil. It works fine. It seems that cygwin uses the members c_ispeed and c_ospeed of struct termios and ignores any speed flag in c_cflag. Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: invalid mounts after inst of cygwin1.5.10.3

2004-06-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi Pierre, you wrote: When you run setup, third screen, where you specify the root directory. Does it have a final \ ? If so, remove it. See also below. Unfortunately this is not possible if you use H: as root, you cannot continue, you must add the backslash. However, I use this always

Re: jhead question/problem

2004-06-14 Thread Jason Dufair
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jason Dufair Sent: 14 June 2004 16:02 To: cygwin Subject: jhead question/problem I believe I've found a bug with the jhead binary, but can't find any info on it. Does anyone know anything about jhead? [...snip...] system in

Re: jhead question/problem

2004-06-14 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:02:15AM -0500, Jason Dufair wrote: If I execute it with the full pathname, however, it seems to have trouble: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ jhead /tmp/p660.jpg Error : No such file in file '\tmp\p660.jpg' Just for kicks, try: jhead /cygwin/tmp/p660.jpg

latex bug

2004-06-14 Thread Chris Jefferson
There appears to be a slightly annoying bug in latex (and tex) where they won't support filenames with spaces in. $latex a\ b.tex This is TeXk, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) %-line parsing enabled. ! I can't find file `a'. * a b.tex Please type another input file name: $latex a b.tex This

Re: Cygwin performance under Citrix

2004-06-14 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, david.dezan wrote: One of the tests was a simple while loop which counted to 100. Written in what language? Please post. This test took approximatly 30 seconds in Cygwin under Citrix and only 4 seconds in Cygwin on a local machine. man strace and sort on the first

Re: invalid mounts after inst of cygwin1.5.10.3

2004-06-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:29:24PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi Pierre, you wrote: When you run setup, third screen, where you specify the root directory. Does it have a final \ ? If so, remove it. See also below. Unfortunately this is not possible if you use H: as root, you cannot

Re: invalid mounts after inst of cygwin1.5.10.3

2004-06-14 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:29:24PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi Pierre, you wrote: When you run setup, third screen, where you specify the root directory. Does it have a final \ ? If so, remove it. See also below. Unfortunately this is not possible if you use H: as root, you

Re: Cygwin performance under Citrix

2004-06-14 Thread david . dezan
Brian, Thanks for your reply. The Unix test script was written in ksh. Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Annoucement: GCC-3.4.0 binary release candidat

2004-06-14 Thread Brian Ford
Sorry Gerrit. I didn't mean for that to be personal email as you can tell :-(. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Forwarded message --

RE: LARGE FILE SUPPORT for tar in cygwin

2004-06-14 Thread Vijaykumar Rajendra Rao
Hello, I am using cygwin version 1.3.6 on my windows 2003 server platform. I heavily rely on the tar application provided by cygwin. I know that the current version of tar that I am using is not able to read file sizez greater than 2GB. Is there any newer version of tar which is available in

RE: LARGE FILE SUPPORT for tar in cygwin

2004-06-14 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Vijaykumar Rajendra Rao wrote: Hello, I am using cygwin version 1.3.6 on my windows 2003 server platform. I heavily rely on the tar application provided by cygwin. I know that the current version of tar that I am using is not able to read file sizez greater than 2GB. Is

Re: jhead question/problem

2004-06-14 Thread Jason Dufair
The problem was indeed that it was a Win32 native version. I compiled it from source and it works as expected. I'd be glad to create and maintain a package for this if there is any interest beyond myself (having limited interest in the first place - I'm using it to help the author of album

Re: FW: wish84 incredibly slow

2004-06-14 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Brian Ford wrote: On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, fergus wrote: but on every occasion that I tried this experiment, the longest individual call, dwarfing all others, is a call towards the end (actually 17th from last in all the examples of wish.log that I tried) beginning

Re: cygwin and X

2004-06-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:27:12AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: Since this is Cygwin/X related, you have chosen the wrong list to post to. Please read http://cygwin.com/lists.html for more information. I have redirected this thread to the cygwin-xfree list. Actually, I started to respond similarly

Re: Hanging SH.EXE in Cygwin App

2004-06-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Larry, It's usually a good idea to send Cygwin-related questions to the Cygwin mailing list instead of via private mail, unless specifically requested. Not only will you get access to more expertise than any one person can provide, but your questions (and answers to them) will get archived on the

Re: FW: wish84 incredibly slow

2004-06-14 Thread fergus
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 19:56, Brian Ford wrote: Um..., nevermind. That would probably not be useful. All that time elapses between these two calls: 876 6251810 [main] wish84 3360 path_conv::check:this-path(g:\home\user\wishrc.tcl), has_acls(0) 35680785 41932595 [unknown (0xA64)]

ipc-daemon2

2004-06-14 Thread John rambo
Hi, for some reason I cannot get ipc-daemon2 installed. I looked in user/bin and it is not there. I have tried downloading from several different sites, removing all the registry entries and all the files and starting all over and still no happiness. Is the latest installer busted when it

Re: Cygwin and X

2004-06-14 Thread Philippe Bertin
Don't know, Still seems a valid question for this list to me. It's still a cygwin- question, not so ? Erik can install Exceed on his PC, and use a graphical X11- environment (e.g. kde-cygwin) started from within Cygwin, and running on his Exceed X11- server, can't he ? e.g. (hypothesis shell

RE: log2 as function not as macro

2004-06-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: 14 June 2004 14:48 On Jun 14 14:11, Johnny Willemsen wrote: Hi, Are there plans to deliver log2 as regular function instead of macro. The log2 as macro is

Re: ipc-daemon2

2004-06-14 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, John rambo wrote: Hi, for some reason I cannot get ipc-daemon2 installed. I looked in user/bin and it is not there. I have tried downloading from several different sites, removing all the registry entries and all the files and starting all over and still no happiness.

Re: vim and python

2004-06-14 Thread Rohan Shah
So are these the only path related options I need? --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --localstatedir=/var --datadir=/usr/share --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info thanks for your help, Rohan Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 14 09:18, Rohan Shah wrote:

RE: Annoucement: GCC-3.4.0 binary release candidat

2004-06-14 Thread Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS)
From: Gerrit P. Haase Hi David, I'm more curious to know how others managed to build gfortran of 3.5. Tim Prince I am trying to get my mainline gcc builds restarted. I managed a build overnight, including gfortran. I am unaware of any magic. Interesting, should I include gfortran

Re: Running ssh from procmail

2004-06-14 Thread Peter Wisnovsky
More information on this problem with ssh hostname resolution failing. If my fetchmailrc has poll ... mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %T hostname resolution in the nested script fails with + /usr/bin/ssh -g -n -e none -v -R p1:localhost:p1-l me verklempt 'sleep 180' OpenSSH_3.8.1p1, OpenSSL

tcltk-20030901-1 packaging bug?

2004-06-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, Looking at /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh on my system, TCL_BUILD_LIB_SPEC is defined to be -L/cygnus/netrel/build/libtcltk/tcl/win -ltcl84, i.e. it has a hard-coded path from the builder's system. Some other variables also have this path hard-coded. Is this a

Re: installing cygwin on private lan

2004-06-14 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 06:29:38 +, wrote: So is there a Linux version of setup.exe and if not, how do I populate the Linux filesystem from which the DOS box will install Cygwin? What you want is your own Cygwin package server, so that you can run setup.exe on your Windows (I assume that's what

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.3.4-2

2004-06-14 Thread Jason Tishler
New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.3.4-2. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following is the only notable change since the previous release: o include _tkinter module which was mistakenly omitted in 2.3.4-1 Old News: ===