Updated: diffstat-1.38-1

2005-01-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 New upstream release (including a patch from me), no change to setup.hint. Please delete 1.35-1, leaving 1.37-2 as prev, and upload 1.38-1 as the new current: http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/diffstat-1.38-1.tar.bz2

Re: Updated: diffstat-1.38-1

2005-01-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 17 07:15, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 New upstream release (including a patch from me), no change to setup.hint. Please delete 1.35-1, leaving 1.37-2 as prev, and upload 1.38-1 as the new current: Done. [Unrelated: I'm still trying to port all

Packaging Conundrum

2005-01-17 Thread James R. Phillips
Hi, Upstream for the newly added epstool package (Russell Lang) has asked via private email whether the CYGWIN-PATCHES subdir of a cygwin source package would really be required, if he modified the package makefile to include make targets for cygwin source and binary distributions. In essence,

Re: Packaging Conundrum

2005-01-17 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:04:41PM -0800, James R. Phillips wrote: Hi, Upstream for the newly added epstool package (Russell Lang) has asked via private email whether the CYGWIN-PATCHES subdir of a cygwin source package would really be required, if he modified the package makefile to

Re: Packaging Conundrum

2005-01-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: My guess is that such a subdir should always exist, containing at a minimum the setup.hint file. But I'm not really certain. Anyone have the answer for this? IIRC http://cygwin.com/setup.html says the (required) cygwin-specific readme goes there? If the Cygwin

bsdgames

2005-01-17 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Is there any interest in a bsdgames package? Most of the games to compile with very little in the way of modifications needed. If so, ought it to be all one package, or one per game?

Re: bsdgames

2005-01-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:59:10PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Is there any interest in a bsdgames package? Most of the games to compile with very little in the way of modifications needed. If so, ought it to be all one package, or one per game? How are they packaged elsewhere? cgf

Re: bsdgames

2005-01-17 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:21:24PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:59:10PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Is there any interest in a bsdgames package? Most of the games to compile with very little in the way of modifications needed. If so, ought it to be all

Re: bsdgames

2005-01-17 Thread Warren Young
Christopher Faylor wrote: How are they packaged elsewhere? I seem to recall that the practice of packaging all the BSD games together is most common on more 'traditional' *ixes, like the BSDs and Slackware. It's been awhile since I played with any of those systems, though, so my memory is

Re: bsdgames

2005-01-17 Thread Warren Young
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: I'd leave out ones that are already packaged elsewhere (banner, wtf, fortune, etc.) or ones that don't build easily. I don't see people wanting 'just' fortune, or 'just' wtf. More likely, a person will be making a decision about whether they want their Cygwin

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog lib/user32.def

2005-01-17 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-01-18 07:14:54 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/lib: user32.def Log message: * lib/user32.def (MonitorFromPoint}: Correct suffix. Patches:

That alleged hyperthreading-related bug

2005-01-17 Thread Mark Geisert
Hi, I don't know how additional narrowing-down info about this can be posted without sounding like a redundant annoying me too but here goes. I can easily reproduce it on a Dell Workstation PWS360 running WinXP SP1. The CPU is a 2.8Ghz Pentium 4, 800MHz FSB. 1GB RAM installed but no more than

RE: Ported PING

2005-01-17 Thread Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco
Nope, sorry. It's a port of the first version of ping. The minimum response time presented is 1ms. Less than that you'll get 0ms. I'ts ok for checking conectivity and delay on slower links (or a far, far away host on internet :)) but not that good on fast links. --Lino Tinoco Lino Miguel

Re: Cygwin Perl bug -- pod2usage(-verbose = 0) pod2usage(-verbose = 1)

2005-01-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
David Christensen wrote: Cygwin: Perl Pod::Usage pod2usage(-verbose = 0) is supposed to display the Pod SYNOPSIS information (ref. 'perdoc Pod::Usage'). See attached script 'test0'. On Debian 3.0r2, it works: CVSENV[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/cygwin-issues/Pod-Usage$ perl test0 Usage:

tetex 2.99

2005-01-17 Thread Dr Jekyll
Hi, the tetex package of Cygwin is not up to date. Have anyone here succeed in installing the tetex 2.99? Can you share your experience? I'm done! JK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Cygwin Perl bug -- pod2usage(-verbose = 0) pod2usage(-verbose = 1)

2005-01-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: David Christensen wrote: Cygwin: Perl Pod::Usage pod2usage(-verbose = 0) is supposed to display the Pod SYNOPSIS information (ref. 'perdoc Pod::Usage'). See attached script 'test0'. On Debian 3.0r2, it works: CVSENV[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/cygwin-issues/Pod-Usage$ perl

Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2

2005-01-17 Thread Jeff . Hodges
I'm glad that you're talking about us as a group. Anybody interested in tracking that down? I'm not in a position to hack code on this unfortunately, but I can offer to test. I suspect it's important in the longer term to track this down because they (MSFT) ~could~ make further changes down

Re: Ported PING

2005-01-17 Thread Zachary Uram
ah i have a slow dialup link so i would like try this :) zach On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:53:02 -, Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, sorry. It's a port of the first version of ping. The minimum response time presented is 1ms. Less than that you'll get 0ms. I'ts ok for

Re: tetex 2.99

2005-01-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:09:04PM +0100, Dr Jekyll wrote: Hi, the tetex package of Cygwin is not up to date. Have anyone here succeed in installing the tetex 2.99? Can you share your experience? I'm done! Good point. You can't just indiscriminately assume that DLLs are not executable since that

Re: Can DLL's libraries be marked as non-executable?

2005-01-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 08:43:44PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:56:57PM -0800, linda w wrote: I was told I might fix the problem of typing in a partial command name like cyg, and the command completion character and getting a long list of DLL's with a few EXE's

Re: That alleged hyperthreading-related bug

2005-01-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:47:56AM -0800, Mark Geisert wrote: Hi, I don't know how additional narrowing-down info about this can be posted without sounding like a redundant annoying me too but here goes. I can easily reproduce it on a Dell Workstation PWS360 running WinXP SP1. The CPU is a 2.8Ghz

Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2

2005-01-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:25:26AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm glad that you're talking about us as a group. Anybody interested in tracking that down? I'm not in a position to hack code on this unfortunately, but I can offer to test. I suspect it's important in the longer term to

initdb system 12 error

2005-01-17 Thread e . rapsomaniki
Hi I am trying to use postgresql 7.4.5 in cygwin, using windows XP professional. I get the error shown on the end of this message. I HAVE read the readme file both for the setup of cygserver and postgresql-7.4.5 The cygserver appears to be running automatically, as shown in the Services option

Re: Link error while compiling fortran

2005-01-17 Thread Jennifer
You can also simply edit the order of $PATH in /etc/profile. Makes PATH picks up MVS's path first before picking up cygwin. Similar discussion is also discussed here http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200412/msg00349.html -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: MPD transport_layer_pipes::connect: Error opening the pipe

2005-01-17 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:31 PM 1/17/2005, you wrote: Trying to compile: mpd subversion (musicpd.org), which is a server to control your music over a tcp network on default port 6600. Uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 computer 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin Environment: Windows XP I have

Re: Can DLL's libraries be marked as non-executable?

2005-01-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 08:43:44PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:56:57PM -0800, linda w wrote: I was told I might fix the problem of typing in a partial command name like cyg, and the command completion character

Re: initdb system 12 error

2005-01-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, e.rapsomaniki wrote: Hi I am trying to use postgresql 7.4.5 in cygwin, using windows XP professional. I get the error shown on the end of this message. I HAVE read the readme file both for the setup of cygserver and postgresql-7.4.5 The cygserver appears to be running

Re: MPD transport_layer_pipes::connect: Error opening the pipe

2005-01-17 Thread Reini Urban
Avuton Olrich schrieb: Trying to compile: mpd subversion (musicpd.org), which is a server to control your music over a tcp network on default port 6600. BTW: That's a very good system, which I even use in production on our radio station. Tests on cygwin (w2k) ran fine for about 6 months. The

Re: Can DLL's libraries be marked as non-executable?

2005-01-17 Thread Reini Urban
Igor Pechtchanski schrieb: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 08:43:44PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:56:57PM -0800, linda w wrote: I was told I might fix the problem of typing in a partial command name like cyg, and the command

Re: That alleged hyperthreading-related bug

2005-01-17 Thread Mark Geisert
Hi Christopher, If you have by now identified the hardware/OSversion you need to reproduce the problem yourself, please let us know so we can stop annoying you. If that info is not important, please let us know. If you haven't identified the hw/OS, how will you figure this out without more

Can't telnet after ssh

2005-01-17 Thread Charlie Watts
I'm having a strange problem that started after updating cygwin to the current version. After ssh'ing to my system, I can't telnet elsewhere. The telnet process simply quits - it doesn't return any error message, and doesn't connect. A simple 'telnet' command drops me back at the shell. I'm

Re: Can't telnet after ssh

2005-01-17 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:23 PM 1/17/2005, you wrote: I'm having a strange problem that started after updating cygwin to the current version. After ssh'ing to my system, I can't telnet elsewhere. The telnet process simply quits - it doesn't return any error message, and doesn't connect. A simple 'telnet' command

Re: initdb signal 12 error

2005-01-17 Thread e . rapsomaniki
Following your advice (reply below) the output to the cygrunsrv -Q cygserver command is: Type : Own Process Current State: Running Controls Accepted: Accept Stop Again issuing the command initdb -d mydb results in the signal 12 error, starting just after selecting default max_connections

Re: That alleged hyperthreading-related bug

2005-01-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:17:52PM -0800, Mark Geisert wrote: If you have by now identified the hardware/OSversion you need to reproduce the problem yourself, please let us know so we can stop annoying you. I did ask for people to respond with hardware which shows the problem. A simple response

Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2

2005-01-17 Thread Sven Köhler
I suspect it's important in the longer term to track this down because they (MSFT) ~could~ make further changes down the road that break cygwin-created symlinks altogether (from the windoze perspective), which'd more than just annoying. No, Microsoft is not going to break things so that

Re: That alleged hyperthreading-related bug

2005-01-17 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:06:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:17:52PM -0800, Mark Geisert wrote: If you have by now identified the hardware/OSversion you need to reproduce the problem yourself, please let us know so we can stop annoying you. I did ask for

Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2

2005-01-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:33:47PM +0100, Sven K?hler wrote: I suspect it's important in the longer term to track this down because they (MSFT) ~could~ make further changes down the road that break cygwin-created symlinks altogether (from the windoze perspective), which'd more than just

Building DLL's using g++, not gcc

2005-01-17 Thread svoboda
I've been trying to build a DLL using g++, and given the problems I was having, I decided to try a 'toy' example, which is available at: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html I tweaked the two files around thusly: hello.C: - #include stdio.h int hello() { printf(Hello World\n);}

How do I get an old version of cygwin?

2005-01-17 Thread James M. Rogers
My company has a small program that we use to pull data from files on multiple OSes. We use the latest version of cygwin on our own internal computers to run under windows systems and this works fine. However, one of our clients has an old version of cygwin that uses the 1.5.4 DLL. This is

Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2

2005-01-17 Thread Jeff . Hodges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: He clearly complained about MS-Software that cannot handle cygwin-created links, and you're talking about cygwin understand its own symlinks correct. thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Apologies. I took the word altogether to mean completely but obviously missed the

bulk command line renamer

2005-01-17 Thread Raye Raskin
I seem to remember an enhanced mv command but I can't find it. I want to say rename. Help please. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2

2005-01-17 Thread Jeff . Hodges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If this were to come to pass and not be addressed by the cygwin community, then it wouldn't make any sense to have the the default (or even option) of creating cygwin symlinks as winsymlinks. oops. add ...on XP and possibly derivatives thereof. JeffH --

Re: How do I get an old version of cygwin?

2005-01-17 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:11 PM 1/17/2005, you wrote: My company has a small program that we use to pull data from files on multiple OSes. We use the latest version of cygwin on our own internal computers to run under windows systems and this works fine. However, one of our clients has an old version of cygwin

Re: Can DLL's libraries be marked as non-executable?

2005-01-17 Thread linda w
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Try to chmod 644 any dll and call a program that uses this dll. This fails for me (on NT4 with NTFS), if it succeeds for you, fine. Change the permissions as you like it;) --- Actually, chmod makes no difference on on FAT32. Note, I'm having to rewrite this note from

Re: bulk command line renamer

2005-01-17 Thread Warren Young
Raye Raskin wrote: I seem to remember an enhanced mv command but I can't find it. mmv. Look on freshmeat. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Billing confirmation center

2005-01-17 Thread aw-confirm
Dear valued eBay member, It has come to our attention that your eBay Billing Information records are out of date. That requires you to update the Billing Information If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your billing records, you will not run into any

RE: Cygwin Perl bug -- pod2usage(-verbose = 0) pod2usage(-verbose = 1)

2005-01-17 Thread David Christensen
Two responses merged and reordered for clarity. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01392.html Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I replied on this one. Yup. My oversight. Do you really need to use textmode mounts? If you mean do I want Cygwin to understand, use, and generate CRLF line

Permission denied on Windows XP

2005-01-17 Thread Donald Hyun
I suffer from 'permission denied' problem on my note-pc (Windows XP) After running big script (recursive make script), I have met 'resource unavailable' message. And then I can't execute any bash command because of 'permission denied' message. I installed cygwin v1.5.9. I tried in the latest

Re: bsdgames

2005-01-17 Thread Warren Young
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: I'd leave out ones that are already packaged elsewhere (banner, wtf, fortune, etc.) or ones that don't build easily. I don't see people wanting 'just' fortune, or 'just' wtf. More likely, a person will be making a decision about whether they want their Cygwin