Re: [ITP] libIDL-0.8.3-1

2004-07-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Yaakov, On Jul 22 17:40, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: | I would like to contribute libIDL to the Cygwin distribution. This is a | prereq for ORBit2, one of the Gnome2 backend libraries. | |

Re: BLT

2004-07-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 22 14:50, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Hello, Here are Cygwin packages for the BLT Tcl/Tk Extension library, a fairly popular set of extension widgets for Tcl/Tk. These are for use with the native Tcl/Tk libraries, not X11 builds.

Re: BLT

2004-07-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Corinna Vinschen wrote: There's a static lib called libBLT30.a and a symlink to ../bin/cygBLT30.dll, but there's no link library to link against the DLL, libBLT30.dll.a. Does that actually work for linking against the DLL? I thought the .dll.a lib is needed for that. libtool (e.g. building

Re: BLT

2004-07-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 23 07:31, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: There's a static lib called libBLT30.a and a symlink to ../bin/cygBLT30.dll, but there's no link library to link against the DLL, libBLT30.dll.a. Does that actually work for linking against the DLL? I thought the .dll.a

Re: BLT

2004-07-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Yes, I would prefer a .dll.a file because that's the current scheme. Ok, done. Actually BLT had the command to do it, but the wrong target filename. Anyway now it makes a .dll.a, and the symlink for the .dll in lib/ is removed.

Re: BLT

2004-07-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 23 09:38, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Yes, I would prefer a .dll.a file because that's the current scheme. Ok, done. Actually BLT had the command to do it, but the wrong target filename. Anyway now it makes a .dll.a, and the symlink for the .dll in lib/

[ANN] Updated: gmp-4.1.3

2004-07-23 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Big thanks to Gerrit P. Haase, who did 100% of the bugfixing and most of the packaging work (I only had to correct one single bug). Fails two tests ('bit' and 't-aorsmul') but shuold work much better than previous package anyway, moreover I don't

approval procedure

2004-07-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Could someone direct me to a e-mail archive URL or web page that describes the approval procedure for packages? I understand there are three votes needed and a review of some kind. Who is eligible to vote and who is eligible to review? Thanks.

Re: approval procedure

2004-07-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Could someone direct me to a e-mail archive URL or web page that describes the approval procedure for packages? Umm, I don't recall the exact link, but I can summarize it here. I suppose this information should be part of

Re: approval procedure

2004-07-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The current maintainers are eligible to vote. How does one go about generating interest for packages that the maintainers would be unlikely to use themselves? E.g. packages targeted for particular pre-existing scientific communities? Is advocacy appropriate on

Re: approval procedure

2004-07-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The current maintainers are eligible to vote. How does one go about generating interest for packages that the maintainers would be unlikely to use themselves? E.g. packages targeted for particular pre-existing

Re: approval procedure

2004-07-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: It might help if you included some info about where a particularly obscure package was leading (e.g., I have no idea what HDF5 is or does, but I may have heard of the other package you intend to produce that requires it). HDF5 is a library for fast and efficient storage

Please upload: ssmtp-2.60.9-2

2004-07-23 Thread Robert R Schneck-McConnell
Please upload a new version of ssmtp: http://math.berkeley.edu/~schneck/cygwin/ssmtp/ssmtp-2.60.9-2.tar.bz2 http://math.berkeley.edu/~schneck/cygwin/ssmtp/ssmtp-2.60.9-2-src.tar.bz2 Corinna, this has an ssmtp-config which suggests linking /usr/sbin/sendmail to ssmtp; so go ahead and upload your

[ITP] Swarm

2004-07-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Hello, Here are Cygwin packages for the Swarm simulation system, a library that facilitates construction of agent-based models. The packages are available here: http://www.santafe.edu/~mgd/cygwin/swarm Here's the setup.hint file: category: Libs requires: blt tcltk libpng12 hdf5 gcc-objc cygwin

Please upload: exim-4.41-1

2004-07-23 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
This is a bug fix release, replacing 4.40-2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.41-1/exim-4.41-1-src.tar.bz2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.41-1/exim-4.41-1.tar.bz2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.41-1/setup.hint Thanks Pierre

Re: approval procedure

2004-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:44:09PM -0600, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The current maintainers are eligible to vote. How does one go about generating interest for packages that the maintainers would be unlikely to use themselves? E.g. packages targeted for particular

Re: Please upload: ssmtp-2.60.9-2

2004-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:42:44PM -0400, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: Please upload a new version of ssmtp: http://math.berkeley.edu/~schneck/cygwin/ssmtp/ssmtp-2.60.9-2.tar.bz2 http://math.berkeley.edu/~schneck/cygwin/ssmtp/ssmtp-2.60.9-2-src.tar.bz2 Corinna, this has an ssmtp-config

Re: Please upload: exim-4.41-1

2004-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 07:16:33PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: This is a bug fix release, replacing 4.40-2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.41-1/exim-4.41-1-src.tar.bz2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.41-1/exim-4.41-1.tar.bz2

Re: Please upload: exim-4.41-1

2004-07-23 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 09:37 PM 7/23/2004 -0400, you wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 07:16:33PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: This is a bug fix release, replacing 4.40-2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.41-1/exim-4.41-1-src.tar.bz2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.41-1/exim-4.41-1.tar.bz2

Re: Please upload: exim-4.41-1

2004-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 09:41:35PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 09:37 PM 7/23/2004 -0400, you wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 07:16:33PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: This is a bug fix release, replacing 4.40-2 http://mysite.verizon.net/phumblet/exim-4.41-1/exim-4.41-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: Please upload: ssmtp-2.60.9-2

2004-07-23 Thread Robert R Schneck-McConnell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:42:44PM -0400, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: Please upload a new version of ssmtp: I've downloaded this to sourceware.org. Which of the old ssmtp files should be deleted, if any: -rw-rw-r--1 cyguser cygwin 46738 Feb 18 21:34

Re: Please upload: ssmtp-2.60.9-2

2004-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 10:20:57PM -0400, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:42:44PM -0400, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: Please upload a new version of ssmtp: I've downloaded this to sourceware.org. Which of the old ssmtp files should

Sometimes X starts, sometimes it sticks

2004-07-23 Thread luke . kendall
We've been having troubles recently using Cygwin from last week, and today I checked my personal installation which is 3 or 4 weeks older than that, and found the problem is present in that, too. The symptom is that sometimes XWin.exe starts, but doesn't show an icon in the taskbar, and you can't

Does xinit do magic stuff?

2004-07-23 Thread luke . kendall
I have just found that on a very recent Cygwin, I can never ever start X using our simple shell script (just posted: cisraxwin.sh). The script does this: runs ~/.xserverrc if it exists, else it runs Xwin with $XSERVER_ARGS; waits for the X server to start; else fails if

Re: Does xinit do magic stuff?

2004-07-23 Thread luke . kendall
On 23 Jul, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ask only to try to understand. I think the correct fix is to use xinit. The new script seems to work completely reliably. I'm still interested in xinit's magic, though. :-) luke #!/bin/sh # # Start up X. Allow XSERVER_ARGS to define args to

Crash

2004-07-23 Thread Przemyslaw Sliwa
Dear All, I have installed Cygwin on WinXP and the startx command gives me an error with the log below. I want to notice that I had some problems during the istallation - after a perfect downaload the system could not find a dll file called cygwin/X or something similar. Do you know what can

start vs run

2004-07-23 Thread Armbrust, Daniel C.
At the end of my startxwin.bat script, here is how I launch my windows manger, and then connect up to a Fedora Core 2 machine: start XWin -screen 0 1280 960 -clipboard -silent-dup-error run xterm -geometry 80x24+0+0 -sb -leftbar -e ssh -Y mir04 /bin/bash --login -c gnome-session This works

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog dtable.cc

2004-07-23 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-07-23 09:04:59 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog dtable.cc Log message: * dtable.cc (dtable::get_debugger_info): Make stderr r/w according to SUSv3. Patches:

Re: To cygwin postgresql maintainer: tutorial RFC

2004-07-23 Thread Carlo Florendo
Jason Tishler wrote: Carlo, On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:49:47PM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote: However, I would like to get some of your comments before I post about its existence on some postgresql mailing lists. Nice job. I only have minor comments which are not very useful. However, I

Re: mt setdensity not working?

2004-07-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 22 23:10, Gunther Schadow wrote: Hi, cygwin tape support is awesome. I just would like to change the DLT IV density on my TZ88 drive which is inside a changer, so I can't get to the buttons. When I do mt -f /dev/nst0 setdensity 0x41 I get invalid argument and same result no

cvs package bug: cannot open val-tags file

2004-07-23 Thread Gervase Markham
[Apologies if this is the wrong place for this bug report - cvshome.org is so impenetrable that I can't even search to see if this is an upstream cvs bug or not.] In Cygwin CVS 1.11.6-3 (but not 1.11.5-1 or 1.11.0-1), when trying to pull by tag, the following error is encountered:

rebuild rpm-4.1 from sources

2004-07-23 Thread bertrand marquis
Hello i need to recompile rpm-4.1 from sources but when it is trying to compile in db3/lock i have : cc -c -I. -I../db/dist/../include -I../db/dist/../include_auto -O2 -g -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-char-subscripts

RE: Problems with rebaseall solved

2004-07-23 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jim Ramberg Sent: 22 July 2004 21:12 To clarify what I said before: The original problem was that I was unable to successful start the rootless Xwin server from the startxwin.sh shell script. I would get an error stating that

RE: MapViewOfFileEx errors with cygwin1-20040716 snapshot

2004-07-23 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: 22 July 2004 21:41 On Jul 22 18:37, Dave Korn wrote: I beg to differ: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/build/src/winsup/cygwin grep MapViewOfFileEx failed *.cc mmap.cc: syscall_printf (-1 = mmap():

RE: No /bin after installation

2004-07-23 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 22 July 2004 20:47 On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:25:04PM +, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Nick Sabalausky writes: However, now the problem I have is that when I'm in that shell, I can't get to /cygdrive/c or

Re: To cygwin postgresql maintainer: tutorial RFC

2004-07-23 Thread Jason Tishler
Carlo, On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 02:50:31PM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote: Thank you very much for PostgreSQL for Cygwin and You are quite welcome, but I can only take very little credit for the above. for Cygwin too. And, essentially no credit for the above. Great software! Agreed! Thanks,

RE: No /bin after installation

2004-07-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 22 July 2004 20:47 On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:25:04PM +, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Hmm, I exited and ran Cygwin again and now I can do cd /cygdrive/c. Maybe I

[OT] Re: To cygwin postgresql maintainer: tutorial RFC

2004-07-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Jason Tishler wrote: Carlo, On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 02:50:31PM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote: Thank you very much for PostgreSQL for Cygwin and You are quite welcome, but I can only take very little credit for the above. for Cygwin too. And, essentially no credit

Re: No /bin after installation

2004-07-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 23 08:38, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Dave Korn wrote: It's only homosapiens v1.0.0, you know. You gotta expect a few bugs in the first release cheers, DaveK [ somedays it seems more like a beta... ] Gack! I thought it still *was* in beta! When'd

Re: cvs package bug: cannot open val-tags file

2004-07-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Gervase Markham wrote: [Apologies if this is the wrong place for this bug report - cvshome.org is so impenetrable that I can't even search to see if this is an upstream cvs bug or not.] In Cygwin CVS 1.11.6-3 (but not 1.11.5-1 or 1.11.0-1), when trying to pull by tag,

Bug? xinetd not starting services when passenv present

2004-07-23 Thread Nicolás Ernesto Kuzminski
Days ago I found that the cvspserver service launched from xinetd stopped to respond, on both similar configurations at home and at work, without any intervention on my part, except for the normal Cygwin remote upgrade. In brief, I struggle to found out that the presence of the passenv = PATH

Fixed: Need a copy of bash.bat

2004-07-23 Thread Bob Kuhfahl
Ah right, I mis-spoke, it the cygwin.bat that did not get laid down. Install goes to 99% complete and hangs on /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh. AHH - cancel, cancel. I just reinstalled admin (for the fourth time) to get the above message and while I was looking into the log to get the failed

Re: Need a copy of bash.bat

2004-07-23 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Bob == Bob Kuhfahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob My install seems to not lay this down. Can someone post a Bob copy; anything just to get started. Thanks! I think you're confused -- Cygwin doesn't install a file named bash.bat. It does, however, install bash.exe. -- Okay, a word

Mkdir: command not found?

2004-07-23 Thread Joe Bungo
Hello Im trying to play with GNU tools, and Im having trouble getting started. I havent really played in a unix environment in years. Have you had a chance to use them? Im just following along the pdf at http://www.microcross.com/gnu-arm7t-microcross.pdf, which says I should download Cygwin,

Mkdir: command not found?

2004-07-23 Thread Ken Dibble
Start by reading and following the instructions here: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Joe Bungo wrote: Hello Im trying to play with GNU tools, and Im having trouble getting started. I havent really played in a unix environment in years. Have you had a chance to use them? Im just following along

Re: [OT] Re: To cygwin postgresql maintainer: tutorial RFC

2004-07-23 Thread Jason Tishler
Igor, On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:42:48AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Jason Tishler wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 02:50:31PM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote: Thank you very much for PostgreSQL for Cygwin and You are quite welcome, but I can only take very little

[Bug] Perl ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid fails to recognize the .dll.a extension

2004-07-23 Thread Max Bowsher
ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid fails to recognize the .dll.a extension, leading to incorrect omission of link arguments when building perl extension modules. Would the Cygwin perl maintainer be prepared to fix this in the next release of perl for Cygwin? Thanks. Max. -- Unsubscribe info:

1.5.10:bugs of Chinese filename?

2004-07-23 Thread strong
I installed Cygwin 1.5.10 in Windows XP 2000 respectively. I added three lines below in .inputrc at home directory. set meta-flag on set convert-meta off set output-meta on Inputing and displaying Chinese are ok. But there is a problem when deal Chinese filename. I tried to make a Chinese

Re: 1.5.10:bugs of Chinese filename?

2004-07-23 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 08:49:46AM +0800, strong wrote: I installed Cygwin 1.5.10 in Windows XP 2000 respectively. I added three lines below in .inputrc at home directory. set meta-flag on set convert-meta off set output-meta on Inputing and displaying Chinese are ok. But there is a

Re: No /bin after installation

2004-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:00:49PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 22 July 2004 20:47 On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:25:04PM +, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Nick Sabalausky writes: However, now the problem I have is that

rsync hangs (v2.6.2-1 on both Cygwin and Fedora)

2004-07-23 Thread Clif J. Smith
I'm trying to rsync data from a WinXP system running Cygwin to a Fedora Core 2 system. When running the following command from my Fedora system, it'll build a file list for a while, but never actually sync anything and complete: # /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh \