Did someone mess with setup.ini on sourceware.org?

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
It looks like someone wiped out setup.ini and it was completely regenerated by upset. That doesn't work. There is still state stored in setup.ini. It is not completely generated from the release directory. Please DO NOT mess with setup.ini. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to touch

Tclsh: why exec replaces { with \{ ?

2004-07-15 Thread Sektor van Skijlen
Or just how to make it getting rid of it? It makes unable to, for example, run an awk program from inside Tcl script. Try this: exec -- echo This is {in braces} On ActiveTcl this does not happen. I also saw exec replacing / with \, but now I am not sure how to reproduce it. Regards, Sektor

[ITP] libIDL-0.8.3-1

2004-07-15 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to contribute libIDL to the Cygwin distribution. This is a ~ prereq for ORBit2, one of the Gnome2 backend libraries. http://cygwin-ports.sourceforge.net/install/release/Gnome2/libIDL/libIDL-0.8.3-1-src.tar.bz2

[ITP] ORBit2(-devel)-2.10.3-1

2004-07-15 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to contribute ORBit2 to the Cygwin distribution. This is one of the Gnome2 backend libraries. http://cygwin-ports.sourceforge.net/install/release/Gnome2/ORBit2/ORBit2-2.10.3-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: Tclsh: why exec replaces { with \{ ?

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:54:06PM +0200, Sektor van Skijlen wrote: Or just how to make it getting rid of it? It makes unable to, for example, run an awk program from inside Tcl script. Try this: exec -- echo This is {in braces} On ActiveTcl this does not happen. I also saw exec replacing /

Typo in generic-build-script

2004-07-15 Thread Harold L Hunt II
There is the following in the gbs: if [ -z $MY_CFLAGS ]; then MY_CFLAGS=-O2 fi if [ -z $MY_CFLAGS ]; then MY_LDFLAGS= fi It appears that the second if should be testing '$MY_LDFLAGS', not '$MY_CFLAGS'. Harold

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread electa
ZoneAlarm is known to change the behaviour of Windows TCP/IP stack and this seems to cause troubles with cygwin since cygwin must provide unix like semantics and has problems if something does not work it was expected. But I tried shutting down Zonealarm-- X still hangs. Do you think it ss

RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?

2004-07-15 Thread Listopad, Steve
Alexander Daniel, This is a response to both of your suggestions and questions (about the engine being used, and video card information). NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600 Driver Provider: NVIDIA Driver Date: 2/3/2004 Version: 5.4.0.1 Note: This version provided via Windows Update via IE, though it

Re: GTK missing cygX11-6.dll

2004-07-15 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
LDR schrieb: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I appreciate the efforts of all the Cygwin developers. Thank you, all,again. However, some developers might want to try paying more attention to the documented feedback! -- http://nyckelpiga.de/donate.html ... Ja, ja, I was in a hurry... But you

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, electa wrote: ZoneAlarm is known to change the behaviour of Windows TCP/IP stack and this seems to cause troubles with cygwin since cygwin must provide unix like semantics and has problems if something does not work it was expected. But I tried shutting down

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RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
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Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread electa
Can you send me another strace of the above command? strace -o xinit.strace2 startx -- -kb -clipboard but startx is not a program... i will send you xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwin.exe -kb -clipboard ok?

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, electa wrote: Can you send me another strace of the above command? strace -o xinit.strace2 startx -- -kb -clipboard but startx is not a program... i will send you xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwin.exe -kb -clipboard ok? yes. that's what i meant. bye ago --

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Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, electa wrote: Can you send me another strace of the above command? strace -o xinit.strace2 startx -- -kb -clipboard but startx is not a program... i will send you xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwin.exe -kb -clipboard ok? I've taken a look but can not find the start of

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread electa
Just a reminiscence... To be present in archive ;-) all this problems starts 1 week ago when I upgraded from Zonalarm 4 to ZoneAlarm 5!!! With ZA4 Cygwin'sX works. with ZA5 no.

Re: app crashing on paste

2004-07-15 Thread Jack Tanner
Jack Tanner wrote: Quanta (an HTML editor) starts, and I start editing some file. A few keystrokes later (sometimes Ctrl+V, sometimes TAB) quanta stops accepting all keyboard and mouse input. Other X windows are fine. Then I kill the quanta process, and I get FWIW, the problem goes away thanks

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread electa
I've taken a look but can not find the start of cat.exe. Maybe this is from profile or login script. nope. I checked .bash_profile /etc/profile /etc/profile.d/*.sh startx nobody invoke cat...

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, electa wrote: I've taken a look but can not find the start of cat.exe. Maybe this is from profile or login script. nope. I checked .bash_profile /etc/profile /etc/profile.d/*.sh startx nobody invoke cat... Maybe not directly but from another program. who would

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, electa wrote: Take a look at next strace: strace -o xinit.strace3 xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -clipboard same as in the first trace. Right after startup of sh -c xkbcomp ... it stops while waiting for some winsock operation to complete. Can you find why X hangs when I

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread electa
newer test: startx -- -kb -clipboard = starts cat and I must kill him to go on xinit -- -kb -clipboard = X startup ok!

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread electa
newer test: startx -- -kb -clipboard = starts cat and I must kill him to go on xinit -- -kb -clipboard = X startup ok! and so this is why in my straces there is no cat running: i straced xinit, because startx is not a program!

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, electa wrote: newer test: startx -- -kb -clipboard = starts cat and I must kill him to go on xinit -- -kb -clipboard = X startup ok! and so this is why in my straces there is no cat running: i straced xinit, because startx is not a program! FYI: you can use 'strace

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, electa wrote: newer test: startx -- -kb -clipboard = starts cat and I must kill him to go on xinit -- -kb -clipboard = X startup ok! and so this is why in my straces there is no cat running: i straced xinit, because startx is not a program! bash -x

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread electa
startx -- -kb -clipboard = starts cat and I must kill him to go on xinit -- -kb -clipboard = X startup ok! startx stops after winClipboardProc - Hello and before DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP looking at screen log, the only difference between the two is the cmd line:

Can not open the file cygx11-6.dll, help.

2004-07-15 Thread sen zhou
Hi, I am trying to install the cygwin on my NEC Versa E120 laptop, which has a Windows XP Home Edition (Chinese Version) operation system. The system popped up an error message of Can not open the file cygx11-6.dll at the the process of around 99% installation. I skipped this error and continued

Arrigo Benedetti - Cygwin-X hangs all at a sudden

2004-07-15 Thread Todd.Ryder
I have the EXACT same problem with cygwin/X (see URL below, obtained via google search for cygwin X11R6 server hangs). Except I am running Windows 2000 Professional not XP. This is my employer's machine, so I am assuming a recent Microsoft critical update patch or something has now broken the

Re: Can not open the file cygx11-6.dll, help.

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, sen zhou wrote: Hi, I am trying to install the cygwin on my NEC Versa E120 laptop, which has a Windows XP Home Edition (Chinese Version) operation system. The system popped up an error message of Can not open the file cygx11-6.dll at the the process of around 99%

Re: Arrigo Benedetti - Cygwin-X hangs all at a sudden

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the EXACT same problem with cygwin/X (see URL below, obtained via google search for cygwin X11R6 server hangs). Except I am running Windows 2000 Professional not XP. This is my employer's machine, so I am assuming a recent Microsoft critical update patch or

gtk tools

2004-07-15 Thread Bobby McNulty Junior
I just reinstalled these with setup. They installed ok. I have no idea what they are, but will fire up X11 to see what they do. Bobby

RE: Arrigo Benedetti - Cygwin-X hangs all at a sudden

2004-07-15 Thread Todd.Ryder
As a followup, I have found that, after some reinstallation, I can run startxwin.bat and pop an xterm and also serve remote connections (which is why I wanted cygwin/X in the first place). So my original problem appears to be with startx and probably relates to my/default .xinitrc file or

X starting difficulties

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
I just sat down with a colleague here who has never previously been able to run X on his XP laptop. I got it working, but *only* by doing this: /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -multiwindow - nothing else that I could think of could start X. (The laptops here typically have ZoneAlarm installed, but I

Recent X installation oddity

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
In the last couple of days, we've done several cygwin fresh installs and updates. In every case we get the X problem Cannot find font: fixed, afterwards. In every case, the directory C:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts exists, it contains the directory misc, that directory contains hundreds of

Re: Recent X installation oddity

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 16 Jul, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last couple of days, we've done several cygwin fresh installs and updates. In every case we get the X problem Cannot find font: fixed, afterwards. Two more installs today, with the same problem. luke

X failures if two users

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
If two people use the same machine, and the first starts X, the second person can't start X unless they have administrator rights. Cygwin sets /tmp to have mode drwxrwxrwt which means ordinary users can't remove /tmp/XWin.log if it's owned by someone else. So subsequent attempts to start X fail

Re: Recent X installation oddity

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 16 Jul, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last couple of days, we've done several cygwin fresh installs and updates. In every case we get the X problem Cannot find font: fixed, afterwards. If it's of any interest, we have mirrored Cygwin from kernels.org (and update each night via

src/winsup/mingw ChangeLog Makefile.in mingwex ...

2004-07-15 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-07-15 10:40:37 Modified files: winsup/mingw : ChangeLog Makefile.in winsup/mingw/mingwex: Makefile.in winsup/mingw/profile: Makefile.in Log message: * Makefile.in

src/winsup/mingw ChangeLog

2004-07-15 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-07-15 11:56:02 Modified files: winsup/mingw : ChangeLog Log message: Whitespace change to ChangeLog Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler.h fhandle ...

2004-07-15 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-07-15 14:56:05 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler.h fhandler_floppy.cc fhandler_raw.cc Log message: * fhandler.h (class fhandler_dev_raw): Remove

src/winsup/mingw ChangeLog include/complex.h

2004-07-15 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-07-15 20:20:22 Modified files: winsup/mingw : ChangeLog winsup/mingw/include: complex.h Log message: 2004-07-15 dgun [EMAIL PROTECTED] * include/complex.h

[RFC] Reference counting on Audio objects for /dev/dsp

2004-07-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Gerd, I'd really like your comments on this patch. As I reported before, it didn't quite work for me, but with the recent problems in testing another (presumably working) patch, I suspect my test procedure isn't quite correct anyway. The patch basically adds a (very problem-specific) reference

Re: [RFC] Reference counting on Audio objects for /dev/dsp

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 04:28:56PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:57:17PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: 2) The other problem is that I find it sort of odd to see the dec() method performing a deletion. Couldn't

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

2004-07-15 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Christopher Faylor wrote (2004-07-15 07:18): I don't know why knowing that someone says it's official helps much. It doesn't I just wanted to make sure whether there are any other issues that might come up later. Thank you for your help. Thorsten -- Guns don't protect freedom, people

Re: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin (Was Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 10:01, you wrote: On 14 Jul, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Yep, that would be a very good idea. In particular, it should point out that the information in the READMEs in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin takes precedence over that in the package READMEs and manpages. Maybe even an

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 14 Jul, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 12:02 PM 7/15/2004 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 Jul, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Thanks for the feedback. The problem is that the exim startup code thinks that you are a privileged user (see privileged 1 above). It does that by

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 15 Jul, To: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: : /home/luke ; mkgroup -l /etc/group Incidentally, after doing that I see: : /home/luke ; exim -oi luke /tmp/smff3624 2004-07-15 17:56:06 Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wrong owner, group, or mode : /home/luke ; ls -l /etc/exim.conf

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 01:39, Robert R Schneck wrote: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Luke Kendall wrote: or that it creates a symlink to sendmail. exim doesn't. That symlink is created by the cygwin specific exim-config script under explicit user control. That avoids possible conflicts with postinstall

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 17:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Jul, To: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: : /home/luke ; mkgroup -l /etc/group Incidentally, after doing that I see: : /home/luke ; exim -oi luke /tmp/smff3624 2004-07-15 17:56:06 Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wrong owner,

RE: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread Jörg Schaible
Robert R Schneck wrote on Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:39 AM: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Luke Kendall wrote: or that it creates a symlink to sendmail. exim doesn't. That symlink is created by the cygwin specific exim-config script under explicit user control. That avoids possible conflicts

gcc-mingw

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Re: mmapped memory lost after fork

2004-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 14 12:47, Tenedor Roquefort wrote: I'm using Cygwin 1.5.10-3 and have found what seems to be a fork/mmap bug. I have two examples where a forked child cannot access memory that was mmapped by the parent. The problem seems to arise when the parent munmaps some pages (different from the

Re: gcc-mingw

2004-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 11:16, bertrand marquis wrote: hello on the latest release it seems that there is a problem with gcc-mingw in fact the src package and the package contains nothing c616cffee0f344c37fd4e045a7a87054 gcc-mingw-20030911-4-src.tar.bz2 c616cffee0f344c37fd4e045a7a87054

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 05:57 PM 7/15/2004 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Jul, To: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: : /home/luke ; mkgroup -l /etc/group Incidentally, after doing that I see: : /home/luke ; exim -oi luke /tmp/smff3624 2004-07-15 17:56:06 Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wrong owner,

Re: fopen()/fclose() turns off compression

2004-07-15 Thread Jeff
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:51:29 +0200, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 14 10:18, Jeff wrote: I wrote about this issue before, but now I have something specific to report. I'm running the latest Cygwin on WinXP Pro SP1, and have my HDD formatted NTFS. I also have it set to

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 10:18 AM 7/15/2004 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 15 01:39, Robert R Schneck wrote: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Luke Kendall wrote: or that it creates a symlink to sendmail. exim doesn't. That symlink is created by the cygwin specific exim-config script under explicit user

Re: maintaner of gcc

2004-07-15 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Robert wrote: Who's maintaining GCC for Cygwin? Ours is getting old. Gcc 3.4.1 came out a couple of weeks ago. What is wrong with 3.3.x release series? Are there any serious bugs? Are there issues (for you)? Why do you need 3.4.x? Gfortran isn't included, precompiled headers do not work on

Problem: Perl with connections using LWP Module

2004-07-15 Thread Dirk Fokken, Cross Development
In an attempt to run a perl based web-application on Windows using Cygwin with Apache, I experience difficulties requesting content using the LWP module. The overall installation of Cygwin and the additional modules seems to be fine, since the call of the specific cgi-script from the command

Re: Problem: Perl with connections using LWP Module

2004-07-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL. Thanks. On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Dirk Fokken, Cross Development wrote: In an attempt to run a perl based web-application on Windows using Cygwin with Apache, I experience difficulties requesting content using the LWP module. The overall installation of

Re: maintaner of gcc

2004-07-15 Thread Tim Prince
At 06:24 AM 7/15/2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Robert wrote: Who's maintaining GCC for Cygwin? Ours is getting old. Gcc 3.4.1 came out a couple of weeks ago. What is wrong with 3.3.x release series? Are there any serious bugs? Are there issues (for you)? Why do you need 3.4.x? Gfortran isn't

Re: X startup hangs

2004-07-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, electa wrote: Take a look at next strace: strace -o xinit.strace3 xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -clipboard same as in the first trace. Right after startup of sh -c xkbcomp ... it stops while waiting for some winsock operation to complete. Can you find why X hangs when I

RE: HOWTO build debug version of the cygwin dll with no optimisation?

2004-07-15 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 15 July 2004 02:00 CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD=CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=-O2 -g -O0 LDFLAGS= ^ That's it :-) Try `make CFLAGS=-g

Re: HOWTO build debug version of the cygwin dll with no optimisation?

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:32:14PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 15 July 2004 02:00 CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD= CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=-O2 -g -O0 LDFLAGS= ^

RE: HOWTO build debug version of the cygwin dll with no optimisation?

2004-07-15 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 15 July 2004 15:38 On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:32:14PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 15 July 2004 02:00 CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD=

Setup installing xerces libraries for no apparent reason

2004-07-15 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
When checking for upgrades from ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin (View: partial), I noted that setup ver. 2.427 wanted to install libxerces-c21, libxerces-c22, and libxerces-c23. I hadn't had these before and wanted to see what was now requiring them, so I looked in setup.ini. The best

[BUG] mprotect() on Windows NT 5+

2004-07-15 Thread Xavier Joubert
Hello dear Cygwin developpers ! This is my first post here, so I would like to begin by sending you a big thank for Cygwin ! This is a great tool to port programs to Windows. I think I found a bug in mprotect() implementation. This call is unable to set some protections (PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE

Can not open the file cygx11-6.dll, help.

2004-07-15 Thread sen zhou
Dear Sir/Madam, I am trying to install the cygwin on my NEC Versa E120 laptop, which has a Windows XP Home Edition (Chinese Version) operation system. The system popped up an error message of Can not open the file cygx11-6.dll at the the process of around 99% installation. I skipped this error

Installed fine and yet having issues...

2004-07-15 Thread David J Jones
Hello,   I am knew to the list and after spending 3 days of looking over docs, faqs and web pages I have resigned myself to asking now.  I am using Windows XP Pro with the latest install of Cygwin. Everything seemed to install fine with no errors however when I start up the bash shell, I cannot

Re: [BUG] mprotect() on Windows NT 5+

2004-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 18:19, Xavier Joubert wrote: Hello dear Cygwin developpers ! This is my first post here, so I would like to begin by sending you a big thank for Cygwin ! This is a great tool to port programs to Windows. Thanks :-) I think I found a bug in mprotect() implementation. This call

RE: Installed fine and yet having issues...

2004-07-15 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David J Jones Sent: 15 July 2004 17:55 Hello,   I am knew to the list and after spending 3 days of looking over docs, faqs and web pages I have resigned myself to asking now.  I am using Windows XP Pro with the latest install

RE: C99 complex numbers in cygwin?

2004-07-15 Thread dgun
From: Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) gcc uses the complex math functions from the system libraries, (excluding builtins). They aren't in newlib, so cygwin doesn't have them. I, too, would like them as they are required by gfortran, which will be (is) the fortran compiler in gcc-3.5.

Re: HOWTO build debug version of the cygwin dll with no optimisation?

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 04:14:05PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 15 July 2004 15:38 On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:32:14PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of

Re: Setup installing xerces libraries for no apparent reason

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:57:04AM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: When checking for upgrades from ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin (View: partial), I noted that setup ver. 2.427 wanted to install libxerces-c21, libxerces-c22, and libxerces-c23. I hadn't had these before

Re: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin (Was Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-15 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:47:39 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Can I also suggest that the FAQ's section called Where can I get more information? / Where's the documentation? would be an excellent place to mention that all the per-package readme files are collected together in

Re: maintaner of gcc

2004-07-15 Thread Sam Steingold
* Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-15 15:24:45 +0200]: What is wrong with 3.3.x release series? Are there any serious bugs? Are there issues (for you)? Why do you need 3.4.x? g++ 3.3 cannot compile CLISP. it is alleged that g++ 3.4 can. (either version of gcc can compile CLISP,

mmap bug on Windows 9x

2004-07-15 Thread Anton Ertl
On Windows 9x/ME different calls to mmap sometimes produce the same address (without that memory being unmapped in the meantime, at least not by application code). Here's a trace of the application calls to mmap (on WME): try mmap($0, $400038, ..., MAP_ANON, ...); success, address=$8395 try

RE: maintaner of gcc

2004-07-15 Thread Bobby McNulty Junior
And, -mno-cygwin does not work with Timidity, so I thought perhaps Gcc 3.4.1 might be better. There have been tons of fixes to the 3.4 series. I'll try and get back on the gcc maintainers list and work with gcc 3.5 to improve it even further for Cygwin and Windows. Gcc 3.3.1 will compile Timidity

RE: C99 complex numbers in cygwin?

2004-07-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:52 PM 7/15/2004, you wrote: From: Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) gcc uses the complex math functions from the system libraries, (excluding builtins). They aren't in newlib, so cygwin doesn't have them. I, too, would like them as they are required by gfortran, which will be (is) the

Re: C99 complex numbers in cygwin?

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 04:13:16PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: At 01:52 PM 7/15/2004, you wrote: From: Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) gcc uses the complex math functions from the system libraries, (excluding builtins). They aren't in newlib, so cygwin doesn't have them. I, too, would like them

Re: [BUG] mprotect() on Windows NT 5+

2004-07-15 Thread Xavier Joubert
Hello Corinna, Selon Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The cause is a limitation in newer Windows NT versions, which make sense. Well, sort of. The protection modes PAGE_READWRITE and PAGE_WRITECOPY are mutually exlusive, which is enforced in calls to VirtualProtect since W2K. Since your

gcc 3.3.1-3 runtime error: static data storage size

2004-07-15 Thread Pietro Brandani
I have the following example to propose: /** aa.c **/ #define NXY 5000 #define NXY 7000 int xy[NXY][NXY]; main(){ printf(ok\n); } This will work when NXY=5000, but will generate a SIGSEV exception before reaching the first statement when NXY=7000. The array in the faulty case is 187MB. The gcc

Re: [BUG] mprotect() on Windows NT 5+

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:10:20PM +0200, Xavier Joubert wrote: Hello Corinna, Selon Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The cause is a limitation in newer Windows NT versions, which make sense. Well, sort of. The protection modes PAGE_READWRITE and PAGE_WRITECOPY are mutually exlusive,

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

2004-07-15 Thread Shankar Unni
Thorsten Haude wrote: - Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up before in other applications? I don't know why you are even trying to normalize the paths like this. Just hand the thing off to the OS. Usually, both the user and the OS know what it is they are trying to

Re: maintaner of gcc

2004-07-15 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Sam schrieb: * Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-15 15:24:45 +0200]: What is wrong with 3.3.x release series? Are there any serious bugs? Are there issues (for you)? Why do you need 3.4.x? g++ 3.3 cannot compile CLISP. it is alleged that g++ 3.4 can. (either version of gcc can

Re: rsync very slow, but not a network issue

2004-07-15 Thread Alexis Gallagher
Reini (and Steven), Okay, I get. This benchmark you introduced below compares rsync on two variables: copy speed locally vs over the network, and copy speed for copies onto indentical target files vs different target files. And your benchmark showed that rsync was faster for copies onto

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

2004-07-15 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Shankar Unni wrote (2004-07-16 00:52): Thorsten Haude wrote: - Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up before in other applications? I don't know why you are even trying to normalize the paths like this. Just hand the thing off to the OS. Usually, both the user

rxvt/bash tab problem

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
If at a fresh bash prompt in an rxvt window (non-X) you type a TAB, nothing happens, and no input from the keyboard appears thereafter, until you use CTRL-C to interrupt whatever has blocked. If you then type, input is working again. But if you hit TAB twice in quick succession, you'll find that

Re: rxvt/bash tab problem

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 16 Jul, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if you hit TAB twice in quick succession, you'll find that no input appears (again), and that while you can use CTRL-C to get a fresh prompt, input no longer works in the rxvt window. You have to kill the window - it has become useless.

Re: sending email from Cygwin

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 15 Jul, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: : /home/luke ; exim -oi luke /tmp/smff3624 2004-07-15 17:56:06 Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wrong owner, group, or mode : /home/luke ; ls -l /etc/exim.conf -rwx--+ 1 luke Domain U22025 Aug 29 2002 /etc/exim.conf

Re: rsync very slow, but not a network issue

2004-07-15 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Alexis Gallagher I've repeated your tests with a P4 2.4Ghz windows XP using SFU and a PIII 800Mhz running FreeBSD 5.1 %[local copy, target file is different ] %time rsync test1.mp3 test2.mp3 real 0m6.422s user 0m0.430s sys 0m1.431s P4: time rsync

How do *you* write portable shell scripts?

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
Thinking about this: It would be nice if exim *itself* reported that running exim-config might be a good idea. (Is exim-config used on other platforms besides cygwin?) made me wonder what other people on this list do, to write portable shell scripts? In a shell script, is there an

ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 15 Jul, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Incidentally is it appropriate to include Cygwin-port-specific information in a man page? Well, from a user perspective it might be cool, but IMHO the original man page shouldn't be changed, unless it's a change which should be send upstream

Re: rxvt/bash tab problem

2004-07-15 Thread Robert R Schneck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If at a fresh bash prompt in an rxvt window (non-X) you type a TAB, nothing happens, and no input from the keyboard appears thereafter, until you use CTRL-C to interrupt whatever has blocked. Putting shopt -s no_empty_cmd_completion in your .bash_profile is a good way

Re: UNC Pathname Handling within Applications

2004-07-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:30 PM 7/15/2004, you wrote: Hi, * Shankar Unni wrote (2004-07-16 00:52): Thorsten Haude wrote: - Is there any standard way to approach this problem? Has it come up before in other applications? I don't know why you are even trying to normalize the paths like this. Just hand the thing off

ENQUIRY!

2004-07-15 Thread Mr Larry Hanks
We are conducting a standard process investigation on behalf of Habib Bank Plc . This investigation involves a client who shares the same surname with you and also the circumstances surrounding investments made by this client at Habib Bank Republic , the Private Banking arm of Habib Bank Plc.

X starting difficulties

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
I just sat down with a colleague here who has never previously been able to run X on his XP laptop. I got it working, but *only* by doing this: /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -multiwindow - nothing else that I could think of could start X. (The laptops here typically have ZoneAlarm installed, but I

Re: X starting difficulties

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 16 Jul, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just sat down with a colleague here who has never previously been able to run X on his XP laptop. I got it working, but *only* by doing this: Apologies. I sent that to the wrong list. I have re-sent it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] slinks off in shame

COM Port Question

2004-07-15 Thread Tester Field
Hi,   I have installed Cygwin on a Dell PC with windows 2000, and I am trying to sent AT command to an external modem attached on COM1.   My questions are:   1) What do I need to do for cygwin to recognize COM1? 2) Is there a utility provided for the purposes.   My ultimate goal is to send SMS

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