Re: setup.exe sucks

2005-01-12 Thread Dario Alcocer
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm not as concerned about the package management as I am about the UI, actually. If we don't have a good UI for initial install, then the initial user experience is still going to be painful. You may want to take a look at my pre-release RPM distribution I did back in

Berkeley db-4.3 is released, gentle headsup for the Cygwin db package maintainers.

2005-01-12 Thread Max Bowsher
Berkeley db-4.3 has been released. I'm in no hurry to use it for the official Cygwin subversion packages, but it would be nice if it could join the Cygwin distribution at some point in the next 6 months or so. Thanks, Max.

Re: Berkeley db-4.3 is released, gentle headsup for the Cygwin db package maintainers.

2005-01-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Max Bowsher wrote: Berkeley db-4.3 has been released. I'm in no hurry to use it for the official Cygwin subversion packages, but it would be nice if it could join the Cygwin distribution at some point in the next 6 months or so. ;) Yep, I'll try to make a package ready the next days. Gerrit --

Re: Berkeley db-4.3 is released, gentle headsup for the Cygwin db package maintainers.

2005-01-12 Thread Max Bowsher
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Berkeley db-4.3 has been released. I'm in no hurry to use it for the official Cygwin subversion packages, but it would be nice if it could join the Cygwin distribution at some point in the next 6 months or so. ;) Yep, I'll try to make a package ready the

antlr for cygwin - sorry, URL has changed

2005-01-12 Thread wolfgang haefelinger
Hi, I'm very sorry but URL sent earlier this day is wrong now ( due to server problems I had to upload again). Package should be downable from http://www.antlr.org/share/1105550605023/antlr-2.7.5-1.cygwin.tgzFile or checkout http://www.antlr.org or sent me an email that you can't fetch

epstool 3.07 packaged for cygwin

2005-01-12 Thread antiskid56-cygwin
Hi, Since I announced my intention to package epstool 3.06, upstream released 3.07. I have uploaded binary and source packages for 3.07, as well as proposed setup.hint, to ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub I checked that the binary runs fine, the documentation is properly installed, the binary

Re: antlr for cygwin - sorry, URL has changed

2005-01-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
wolfgang haefelinger wrote: Hi, I'm very sorry but URL sent earlier this day is wrong now ( due to server problems I had to upload again). Package should be downable from http://www.antlr.org/share/1105550605023/antlr-2.7.5-1.cygwin.tgz or checkout http://www.antlr.org Binary tarball: The

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2005-01-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:08:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:29:51PM -, John Morrison wrote: Given my track record so far, Bah, given the amount of threads you participate in I think you are being too hard on yourself! I think it would be best if someone

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2005-01-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 10:08:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:29:51PM -, John Morrison wrote: Given my track record so far, Bah, given the amount of threads you participate in I think you are being too hard on yourself! I

RE: antlr for cygwin - sorry, URL has changed

2005-01-12 Thread wolfgang haefelinger
Hi Gerrit, The usr/ prefix is missing in the binary tarball, it should extract to usr/bin, usr/share, ... Ok, will redo. ./configure looks somewhat strange: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-javac=/usr/bin/gcj --disable-examples Do you mind about --prefix=/usr ??? I used option

fortune-1.99.1

2005-01-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
A new version of fortune, based on the debian 1.99.1-1 release is available at: http://www.efn.org/~sthoenna/fortune-1.99.1-1.tar.bz2 http://www.efn.org/~sthoenna/fortune-1.99.1-1-src.tar.bz2 http://www.efn.org/~sthoenna/setup.hint Setup hint: sdesc: Print a random, hopefully interesting,

Re: epstool 3.07 packaged for cygwin

2005-01-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
antiskid56-cygwin writes: Hi, Since I announced my intention to package epstool 3.06, upstream released 3.07. I have uploaded binary and source packages for 3.07, as well as proposed setup.hint, to ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub I checked that the binary runs

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygheap.cc dlfcn.c ...

2005-01-12 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-01-12 22:40:47 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygheap.cc dlfcn.cc dtable.cc environ.cc exec.cc fcntl.cc fhandler.h fhandler_floppy.cc

Re: Fortune potty-mouth and those who demand it

2005-01-12 Thread Geoffrey KRETZ
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: as the French say, c'est cerat, la vie French doesn't say c'est cerat, la vie (it doesn't mean anything) Geoffrey -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: mkpasswd -ld: The user name could not be found.

2005-01-12 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corinna Vinschen wrote: | And there was no additional on line X text in the error output? I haven't seen such a line. In the meantime I have found the broken entry (just by looking sharp at the lists): There was one user with a different UID in

Re: cannot access $HOME (on Samba) via ssh

2005-01-12 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Igor Pechtchanski wrote: | Hmm, weird. Can you, from an ssh session, run net use | '\\bierfass\dunkel' /user:dunkel '*' and type in your password (assuming | your username is 'dunkel' and that this is the name you normally use to | authenticate with

Anyone creating programs using the MySQL C api using Cygwin?

2005-01-12 Thread Mikael Åsberg
Hello, I installed a native windows version of MySQL (4.1.18) and tried to compile a C program using the MySQL C API using GCC (version 3.3.3 cygwin special). The program compiles and links without any errors or warnings (maximum warning level, c99-mode) but segfaults near the end. I haven't

Re: cannot access $HOME (on Samba) via ssh

2005-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 10:42, Harald Dunkel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Igor Pechtchanski wrote: | Hmm, weird. Can you, from an ssh session, run net use | '\\bierfass\dunkel' /user:dunkel '*' and type in your password (assuming | your username is 'dunkel' and that this is

c++ exceptions in shared library results in crash

2005-01-12 Thread Rainer Hochreiter
first of all, i want to apologize for cross-posing, but i think this question is of interest for both lists. now my problem: i created a main program and a shared library, both written in c++, where the source is parially taken from the c++ dlopen mini howto. find the sources in the attachments!

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-12 Thread Clemson, Chris
/LURK [ ] Offended. Think about the children! [x] Not offended. Stop bothering me with your Puritanical values. [ ] Don't care. Can we go back to talking about how negative this list is now? LURK -- The content of this e-mail is confidential, may contain privileged material and is

cygwin and mkpasswd unable to recognize a domain user

2005-01-12 Thread Steinman, Jethro F (PA62)
Greetings, I just installed cygwin and I'm having some problems using it. I have it installed on a WINXP 2002 SP1 laptop. I'm using a domain log-in. I ran cycgcheck -s to record information on the nature of my set up. The output is attached at the bottom of this message. The problem I'm having

nohup broken after update of cygwin from 1.5.9-1.5.12 -- keychain and ssh-agent broken at least...

2005-01-12 Thread Peter Valdemar Mørch
Hi there, My problem seems to boil down to this: If I have this simple batch file and dbl. click on it: \cygwin\bin\bash -c /usr/bin/nohup /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s With 1.5.9, this batch file would finish, the MS-DOS box would disappear, and ssh-agent would be operative and in the task list. With

Re: cygwin and mkpasswd unable to recognize a domain user

2005-01-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:53:25AM -0700, Steinman, Jethro F (PA62) wrote: Greetings, I just installed cygwin and I'm having some problems using it. I have it installed on a WINXP 2002 SP1 laptop. I'm using a domain log-in. I ran cycgcheck -s to record information on the nature of my set up.

Installing cygwin on Win XP Pro for multiple users

2005-01-12 Thread Crescioli, Phil
All, I have browsed the cygwin documentation, FAQ, and news group emails and still have some general questions. We have installed cygwin and checked the option to install for multiple users. Does cygwin support multiple users on win XP Pro? Is there any documentation or FYI's anyone can pass on

man prints JNROFF, KNROFF etc errors

2005-01-12 Thread geneSmith
When I run man I get this printed before the page displays: $ man man Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) JNROFF LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) KNROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tkorean -mandoc Unrecognized line in config

RE: vim problem (win xp): Cygwin seems unable to move the input cursor to arbitrary positions.

2005-01-12 Thread White, Robert (IT)
Also mks toolkit seems to set this particular term setting. Regards Rob White London DBA Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 207 6773609 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent Sent: 12 January 2005 06:22 Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com

Re: c++ exceptions in shared library results in crash

2005-01-12 Thread Dan Kegel
Rainer Hochreiter wrote: now my problem: i created a main program and a shared library, both written in c++, where the source is parially taken from the c++ dlopen mini howto. find the sources in the attachments! throwing an exception in the shared library results in a core dump of the binary

Re: Installing cygwin on Win XP Pro for multiple users

2005-01-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:16 AM 1/12/2005, you wrote: All, I have browsed the cygwin documentation, FAQ, and news group emails and still have some general questions. We have installed cygwin and checked the option to install for multiple users. Does cygwin support multiple users on win XP Pro? Is there any

Re: vim problem (win xp): Cygwin seems unable to move the input cursor to arbitrary positions.

2005-01-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:22 AM 1/12/2005, you wrote: anamtharon wrote: ok. the solution to my little problem is this: :set term=cygwin which used to be initially set to 'nutc' (term=nutc). that was all. wonder what had changed that. That would be Rational Rose I believe. If you have that

Re: man prints JNROFF, KNROFF etc errors

2005-01-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
geneSmith writes: When I run man I get this printed before the page displays: $ man man Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) JNROFF LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) KNROFF

Re: cannot access $HOME (on Samba) via ssh

2005-01-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 12 10:42, Harald Dunkel wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: | Hmm, weird. Can you, from an ssh session, run net use | '\\bierfass\dunkel' /user:dunkel '*' and type in your password | (assuming your username is 'dunkel' and that this is

Re: nohup broken after update of cygwin from 1.5.9-1.5.12 -- keychain and ssh-agent broken at least...

2005-01-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: Hi there, My problem seems to boil down to this: If I have this simple batch file and dbl. click on it: \cygwin\bin\bash -c /usr/bin/nohup /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s With 1.5.9, this batch file would finish, the MS-DOS box would disappear, and

RE: 1.5.12: ssh hangs with Windows XP SP2

2005-01-12 Thread Waiss, Garrett
Hello all, Has there been any traction regarding the pipe code issues and XP SP2? I've keeping up with the posts, but have not seen any mention of a possible work around or patch coming. Thanks much, Garrett -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: cygwin and mkpasswd unable to recognize a domain user

2005-01-12 Thread Steinman, Jethro F (PA62)
Thanks for the info. Pierre. Comments below. That's because either HOME is set in Windows to that path, or (yes, related problem), Cygwin defaults to using your HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH Right, but this is just a symptom (as you know). The more fundamental problem seems to be that the user id. is

Re: man prints JNROFF, KNROFF etc errors

2005-01-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
When I run man I get this printed before the page displays: $ man man Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) JNROFF LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) KNROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tkorean -mandoc Unrecognized line

Re: cygwin and mkpasswd unable to recognize a domain user

2005-01-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:55:26AM -0700, Steinman, Jethro F (PA62) wrote: Thanks for the info. Pierre. Comments below. That's because either HOME is set in Windows to that path, or (yes, related problem), Cygwin defaults to using your HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH Right, but this is just a

stderr ?= stdout

2005-01-12 Thread Sam Steingold
How do I check whether stdout==stderr or not? e.g., I want to distinguish between these situations: $ foo $ foo log $ foo 1log1 2log2 struct stat statbuf1; struct stat statbuf2; fstat(handle1,statbuf1) fstat(handle2,statbuf2) if (statbuf1.st_dev == statbuf2.st_dev

Re: BusyBox build problem on Cygwin

2005-01-12 Thread Tero Niemela
It sounds more like memory corruption problem to me. It may be in cygwin itself or in cygwin's version of make. When you use longer paths, some static buffers or allocated memory seem to be overwritten which may cause such behaviour. Ah, ok. It would be interesting to check if simply

Re: execv and then socket: operation not permitted

2005-01-12 Thread Eric Hoffman
Thanks for the help! That's about the only significant change in about 37000 lines of C code of a legacy application dating back to 1998... quite a testimony to both the original programmer (not me!) skills and Cygwin conformance to standards. Cheers, Eric On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:20:15 +0100,

Re: Registry settings of cygwin

2005-01-12 Thread Imanpreet Arora
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:02:47 -0500, Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:50 PM 1/11/2005, you wrote: Hi guys I am having trouble installing cygwin, I had a previous installation and tried to install a new one, and that's when the trouble came in, seems like cygwin hasn't forgotton the

What is rebase and why did I need to run it on a fresh re-install?

2005-01-12 Thread Peter Valdemar Mørch
I was having no end of trouble after upgrading my cygwin installation... So I wiped the entire HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions registry key, and wiped C:\cygwin completely and reinstalled everything again. Still the same problems... Finally, after fiddling with XWin.exe, I

cygwin programs called from non-cygwin programs mauling \ in args

2005-01-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Given a simple child process that prints its argument, and a parent that execs it passing a\b\c, trying combinations of cygwin and non- cygwin parent and child shows inconsistency in what's received: $ cat child.c #include stdio.h int main(int argc, char **argv) { printf([%s]\n, argv[1]);

RE: Installing cygwin on Win XP Pro for multiple users

2005-01-12 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
At 10:16 AM 1/12/2005, you wrote: All, I have browsed the cygwin documentation, FAQ, and news group emails and still have some general questions. We have installed cygwin and checked the option to install for multiple users. Does cygwin support multiple users on win XP Pro? The short

Re: c++ exceptions in shared library results in crash

2005-01-12 Thread Rainer Hochreiter
Rainer Hochreiter wrote: now my problem: i created a main program and a shared library, both written in c++, where the source is parially taken from the c++ dlopen mini howto. find the sources in the attachments! throwing an exception in the shared library results in a core dump of the

Info...

2005-01-12 Thread luca . spinacci
I need cygwin version 1.5.5 with PostGreSQL (v. 7.3.4-2)... Where can I find that version? Thank you. Luca. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: