nl_types not present

2004-12-27 Thread Vadiraj
Hello all, I have a application that uses nl_types functions, catopen, catgets, catclose. But, cygwin does not have these functions. I see these functions are provided by libnls. Googled it but, was unsuccessful. Can any one help me to get these functions? -- cheers, Vadi -- Unsubscri

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: which-1.6-1

2004-12-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of which to 1.6-1. This version generates exit codes compatible to the exit codes of GNU which. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-5.2.1-4

2004-12-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have uploaded coreutils-5.2.1-4. This package superseeds the packages fileutils, sh-utils and textutils. Changes since 5.2.1-3: - cat(1) got a simplified binary/text logic which always creates the output file in the same mode as its underlying mount point. Thanks to Pierre Humblet for thi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: which-1.6-1

2004-12-27 Thread Michel Van den Bergh
Thanks! Michel Corinna Vinschen wrote: I've updated the version of which to 1.6-1. This version generates exit codes compatible to the exit codes of GNU which. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your s

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: which-1.6-1

2004-12-27 Thread Michel Van den Bergh
Hi, I am trying to build SDL_mixer with ogg support. During the build process the compiler complains about a missing _G_config.h. Is there an official cygwin version of the file? If so in what package? Regards, Michel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Michel Van den Bergh
Hi, I am learning cygwin package management. Something I don't know how to do is how to install a binary package from ***within cygwin***, i.e. the equivalent of rpm -i.. Can somebody enlighten me? Regards, Michel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Michel Van den Bergh wrote: > Hi, > > I am learning cygwin package management. Something I don't > know how to do is how to install a binary package from > ***within cygwin***, i.e. the equivalent of rpm -i.. > > Can somebody enlighten me? Use the same 'setup.exe' tool that y

Re: Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Michel Van den Bergh
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Michel Van den Bergh wrote: Hi, I am learning cygwin package management. Something I don't know how to do is how to install a binary package from ***within cygwin***, i.e. the equivalent of rpm -i.. Can somebody enlighten me? Use the same 'setup

Re: Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Michel Van den Bergh wrote: > I am sorry for being ignorant but setup.exe is a GUI program isn't it? > I was looking for a simple command line tool like rpm that is executable > from a script. No such thing exists. setup.exe has some undocumented/unsupported command line args that you can use fo

Re: Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Michel Van den Bergh writes: > I am sorry for being ignorant but setup.exe is a GUI program isn't it? > I was looking for a simple command line tool like rpm that is > executable from a script. Cygwin package management is quite simple, it's just setup.ini with dependencies pointing to tarballs,

Re: Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:38 AM 12/27/2004, you wrote: >Michel Van den Bergh writes: > >> I am sorry for being ignorant but setup.exe is a GUI program isn't it? >> I was looking for a simple command line tool like rpm that is >> executable from a script. > >Cygwin package management is quite simple, it's just setup.in

Re: nl_types not present

2004-12-27 Thread Vladimir Levijev
On Monday 27 December 2004 10:32, Vadiraj wrote: Hi, > I have a application that uses nl_types functions, catopen, catgets, > catclose. But, cygwin does not have these functions. I see these functions > are provided by libnls. Googled it but, was unsuccessful. > > Can any one help me to get th

Re: Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Larry Hall writes: > You left out of your simple description the postinstall (and > preremove) scripts. That's not to say that someone can't make > scripts to perform the equivalent of what 'setup.exe' does or that > your python scripts don't already. Yes, I forgot. I only added /etc/postinstal

Re: Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Michel Van den Bergh
Of course. Otoh, providing a unix environment and then expecting people to resistancelessly accept a setup.exe gui to do package management is asking for trouble ;-) I second that! Regards, Michel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://

where is _G_config.h?

2004-12-27 Thread Michel Van den Bergh
I did some googling. According to this URL http://www.delorie.com/howto/cygwin/mno-cygwin-howto.html the include file _G_config.h should come with cygwin. However it is not present on my system. Can somebody enlighten me how to get it? I already have all development packages installed I think. Rega

Re: Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 05:11:06PM +0100, Michel Van den Bergh wrote: >>Of course. Otoh, providing a unix environment and then expecting >>people to resistancelessly accept a setup.exe gui to do package >>management is asking for trouble ;-) > >I second that! As usual, it seems that a point was m

run.exe fails to run my application

2004-12-27 Thread george young
[cygwin X-startup-scripts-1.0.10-2] I can not get run.exe to run my application. The app runs ok directly from the DOS prompt(with the annoying dos box). It runs from the cygwin prompt. But put 'run' in front of the command and I get an error dialog popup: Run.exe Error: could not start E:

Re: run.exe fails to run my application

2004-12-27 Thread Vladimir Levijev
On Monday 27 December 2004 18:56, george young wrote: Hi, > [cygwin X-startup-scripts-1.0.10-2] > > I can not get run.exe to run my application. The app runs ok directly > from the DOS prompt(with the annoying dos box). It runs from the cygwin > prompt. But put 'run' in front of the command an

Re: run.exe fails to run my application

2004-12-27 Thread Vladimir Levijev
On Monday 27 December 2004 19:07, Vladimir Levijev wrote: Hi, > > I can not get run.exe to run my application. The app runs ok directly > > from the DOS prompt(with the annoying dos box). It runs from the cygwin > > prompt. But put 'run' in front of the command and I get an error dialog > > po

Re: run.exe fails to run my application

2004-12-27 Thread Fred Kulack
I usually use run like this when I make an icon for it (this is for startx obviously). C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe bash --login -c startx "The stuff we call "software" is not like anything that human society is used to thinking about. Software is something like a machine, and s

RE: where is _G_config.h?

2004-12-27 Thread Morche Matthias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > the include file _G_config.h should come with cygwin. However > it is not present on my system. Can somebody enlighten me ... Found 3 matches for _G_config.h. Look at http://cygwin.com/packages/ and search for it matthias -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-20041227-1

2004-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of 'findutils' available for installation. This release is built from CVS so it is unreleased code. It does seem to fix the reported problem with '-printf "%P"'. Perhaps more importantly, this version includes a patch from Corinna Vinschen which should stop the dreaded fl

Re: run.exe fails to run my application

2004-12-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, george young wrote: > [cygwin X-startup-scripts-1.0.10-2] > > I can not get run.exe to run my application. The app runs ok directly > from the DOS prompt(with the annoying dos box). It runs from the cygwin > prompt. But put 'run' in front of the command and I get an error d

Re: mapping root directory to SystemDrive / CurrentDrive (documentation change needed)

2004-12-27 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:45:24 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:00:08PM +0200, Gernot Hillier wrote: > >Am Dienstag, 3. August 2004 13:50 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >>Keep in mind that this only happens if / isn't mounted -> back to > >>undocumented behaviour. > > > >Well

Re: where is _G_config.h?

2004-12-27 Thread Michel Van den Bergh
Thanks, I hadn't thought of looking at source packages. Regards, Michel Morche Matthias wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... the include file _G_config.h should come with cygwin. However it is not present on my system. Can somebody enlighten me ... Found 3 matches for _G_config.h. Look at h

documentation update

2004-12-27 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I've updated the documentation build in the Cygwin CVS and for the first time you can build the Cygwin documentation using packaged tools. You need to have the docbook-xml42, docbook-xsl, and xmlto packages installed. I will be preparing a new release cygwin-doc in the next few days. Unless th

Re: mapping root directory to SystemDrive / CurrentDrive (documentation change needed)

2004-12-27 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:09:15AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:45:24 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:00:08PM +0200, Gernot Hillier wrote: > > >Am Dienstag, 3. August 2004 13:50 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > > >>Keep in mind that this on

Re: Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 05:11:06PM +0100, Michel Van den Bergh wrote: > >>Of course. Otoh, providing a unix environment and then expecting > >>people to resistancelessly accept a setup.exe gui to do package > >>management is asking for trouble ;-)

SSH, SFTP, and NTSEC

2004-12-27 Thread Bryan Love
I've researched this topic online for days and it seems like every one has their own solution or their own idea about how user authentication works in Cygwin. What I CAN'T seem to find is a simple description of exactly what happens when a user tries to log in via SSH.  What is the flow of Cygw

RE: SSH, SFTP, and NTSEC

2004-12-27 Thread D N
My problem is simple... I have users that I created that cannot log in via SSH unless I make them >members of the Windows ADMINISTRATORS group on the Windows 2003 server that is running >Cygwin.  I've tried everything I can think of and lots of stuff from other people that I could never >have

Re: mapping root directory to SystemDrive / CurrentDrive (documentation change needed)

2004-12-27 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:02:41 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > In absence of such a mount, Cygwin maps / to the root of the current > Windows working directory (e.g. H:\ or \\computer\share) > > [this is the long standing behavior, see > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00016.html] Thanks

2.4.2:lilypond packages hang and incomplete

2004-12-27 Thread John Sellers
cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\cygoldX-6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygoldX-6.dll" v0.0 ts=2004/9/17 2:29 20k 2004/09/17 F:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\cygpsres-1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygpsres-1.dll" v0.0 ts=2004/9/17 2:49 125k 2004/09/17 F

Re: YA in a series: snapshot what a happy sound

2004-12-27 Thread sthoenna
Simple test case (typed in from memory as I don't have internet access for the next week): #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { system("true"); fork(); return 0; } The bug seems to be when a zombie is left after having successfully waited for a child. -- Unsubscribe in

Re: YA in a series: snapshot what a happy sound

2004-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 05:15:34PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Simple test case (typed in from memory as I don't have internet access for >the next week): > >#include >#include >int main(int argc, char **argv) >{ > system("true"); > fork(); > return 0; >} > >The bug seems to be when a

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-20041227-1

2004-12-27 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Perhaps more importantly, this version includes a patch from > Corinna Vinschen which should stop the dreaded floppy seek > problem that was reported on the cygwin mailing list. > Indeed it appears to do so. Cygwin is now usable again! -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: ht

Re: nl_types not present

2004-12-27 Thread Vadiraj
> Hi, > > > I have a application that uses nl_types functions, catopen, catgets, > > catclose. But, cygwin does not have these functions. I see these functions > > are provided by libnls. Googled it but, was unsuccessful. > > > > Can any one help me to get these functions? > > These are part o

cygwin mounted root /

2004-12-27 Thread tsfu
I am working on a CD with lighttpd popped up on it. But I cannot set up the lighttpd root to point to the CD root in machines where cygwin is installed. There is no problem at all for non-cygwin box with lighttpd pointing to the CD root. I think the problem is there's a setting of C:\cygwin

Re: Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Donovan Baarda
G'day, From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > I'd like to suggest that you all look at www.pkgsrc.org. It is a > cross-platform packaging system. I am trying to get it to work under > Cygwin (and it already works under Interix and maybe other Unix flavours). Why use pkgsrc instead of

Re: Cygwin package management

2004-12-27 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > I'd like to suggest that you all look at www.pkgsrc.org. It is a > > cross-platform packaging system. I am trying to get it to work under > > Cygwin (and it already works under Interix and maybe other Unix flavours). > > Why use pkgsrc instead of dpkg

gcc installation problem and solution

2004-12-27 Thread Rainer Dunker
Having installed gcc (package version 3.3.3-3, cygwin.dll 1.5.10-3, WinNT 4), I had the following problem: # gcc helloworld.c -o helloworld /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: installation problem, cannot exec `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../