Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Hans Horn wrote: Folks, If you are still willing then you've got the job. Alright, I'm on - despite a rough start! Hans, if you plan to maintain a package, you really ought to subscribe to the cygwin-apps list. Packaging discussions should take place there. I'm sending

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 10 13:28, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Hans Horn wrote: Looks like bash2.x install in /usr/bin while bash3.x installs in /usr/local/bin. Is that ok? No, it isn't. Cygwin programs get installed in /usr/bin. If the

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 13:28, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Hans Horn wrote: Looks like bash2.x install in /usr/bin while bash3.x installs in /usr/local/bin. Is that ok? No, it isn't. Cygwin programs get installed in /usr/bin. If the upstream package doesn't go there by default,

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Hans W. Horn
Corinna Igor, Urgh! Bold hint: ./configure --prefix=/usr I just (con-)figured that out myself. Thx anyways! How do I go about Pierre's pid patch? You'll need to see exactly what it changes in the 2.05 sources, find and modify the corresponding places in the 3.0 sources, and then (the hardest

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 08:46:32PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 10 13:28, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Hans Horn wrote: Looks like bash2.x install in /usr/bin while bash3.x installs in /usr/local/bin. Is that ok? No, it isn't. Cygwin programs get installed in /usr/bin.

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Hans W. Horn
Thanks Brian, Brian Dessent wrote: Hans W. Horn wrote: This mysterious patch of Pierre: is it in that half-a-ton patch file that comes with the bash-2.05b-17 sources? If yes, hasn't anybody tried to get this patch back into bash mainstream? No, this is Pierre's patch:

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Hans W. Horn wrote: This helps a lot! By working my way thru 3way-comparison of 2.05unpatched vs 2.05patched vs 3.0patched, I saw that many (but not all) of Pierre's patches must have made it back into bash mainstream. For some sources, however (in particular in jobs.c and subst.c) the

Re: File name too long (91)

2005-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 02:07, Xu?n Baldauf wrote: Hello, I'm hitting File name too long (91) errors when using rsync or even ls within cygwin. I tracked down this problem to the constant CYG_MAX_PATH, which seems to be defined in cygtls.h. Would it be a problem to rise this limit? Yes. The main

Re: Permissions problems: traverse vs. notraverse

2005-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 9 15:14, Insert Real Name wrote: ==(Quote)== bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied bash: /cygdrive/c/Users/Michel/.bash_profile: Permission denied bash-2.05b$ ==(End Quote)== and no Cygwin-linked program could work: bash: fork:

Re: Incomplete POSIX_TIMERS support?

2005-04-10 Thread Keith Moore
Corinna Vinschen wrote: We're always interested in contributions, so, sure, go ahead. Just note that you have to have a Cygwin copyright assignment in place before we can apply patches for legal reasons. See http://cygwin.com/contrib.html. Cool. I'll get the paperwork started ASAP. Thanks,

Re: GTK+, CYGWIN MSW [oops]

2005-04-10 Thread kraken+spam
I have finally got an application to compile under cygwin, but to run it I have to launch the X server, 'startx' to be able to run the program under cygwin. However, I am not able to run the program form windows, I have added the 'cygwin.dll' and 'cygX11-6.dll' directories to the 'autoexec.bat'

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: e2fsimage 0.2.0-2

2005-04-10 Thread zzapper
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:05:27 +0200 (CEST), wrote: I've updated the e2fsimage package for Cygwin to version 0.2.0-2. For the curious http://freshmeat.net/projects/e2fsimage/ e2fsimage enables the user to create and populate an ext2 filesystem image as a copy from an existing directory tree. It

Re: lilypond-doc-2.4.3-1 using setup.exe 2.457.2.1 fails to display music images

2005-04-10 Thread Bertalan Fodor
Images are symbolic links. You won't see them but in cygwin. Should I package them as files? (That would make a difference from the other distributions.) Bert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: GTK+, CYGWIN MSW [oops]

2005-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:51:26AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have finally got an application to compile under cygwin, but to run it I have to launch the X server, 'startx' to be able to run the program under cygwin. However, I am not able to run the program form windows, I have added the

Re: lilypond-doc-2.4.3-1 using setup.exe 2.457.2.1 fails to display music images

2005-04-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Bertalan Fodor wrote: Images are symbolic links. You won't see them but in cygwin. If the above directory is served by an http server compiled under Cygwin (e.g., apache), the symlinks will be resolved to real files. If, however, the files are opened by a Windows browser,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-2.7.10-6

2005-04-10 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi, The terminal emulator rxvt, does not work properly with X-window. The dead accents do not function. The problem is due to the limited X library that is used. The problem is explained in the bug 842982 in rxvt.org. It does not seem that this problem will be solved in the near future. I wonder

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Hans Horn
Folks, If you are still willing then you've got the job. Alright, I'm on - despite a rough start! There is one potential problem in that we may need to adapt Pierre's patch to prevent problems with pid reuse to 3.0 if it is released. How do I go about Pierre's pid patch? The next step is

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Hans Horn wrote: Folks, If you are still willing then you've got the job. Alright, I'm on - despite a rough start! Hans, if you plan to maintain a package, you really ought to subscribe to the cygwin-apps list. Packaging discussions should take place there. I'm sending

Re: rsync hangs on checksum synchronization

2005-04-10 Thread Larry Hall
At 08:31 AM 4/9/2005, you wrote: Hi everybody, I'm experiencing another variant of the rsync hang-problem. I'm using rsync locally to synchronize some large amount of data (~ 80 GB of media files) with an attached USB harddrive. The command I use for everyday synchronization reads as: rsync

cannot read any data from /dev/dsp

2005-04-10 Thread Axel Weiß
Hi, I'm trying to read audio data from /dev/dsp, as I usually do it under linux. It seems that the device is recognized (open succeeds), but no data arrive. Did I miss to configure something? Any help would be very nice. Here is (part of) the output of 'strace cat /dev/dsp': 268 14563

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 13:28, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Hans Horn wrote: Looks like bash2.x install in /usr/bin while bash3.x installs in /usr/local/bin. Is that ok? No, it isn't. Cygwin programs get installed in /usr/bin. If the upstream package doesn't go there by default,

Recovering /etc/setup/installed.db

2005-04-10 Thread fergus
Suppose I have a polished setup installation of a subset of the Cygwin resource, and not necessarily the latest versions of things. I've lost /etc/setup/installed.db which would provide all the details. Is there a way I can recover it? I thought about trying to use cygcheck, remembering the

Re: Recovering /etc/setup/installed.db

2005-04-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, fergus wrote: Suppose I have a polished setup installation of a subset of the Cygwin resource, and not necessarily the latest versions of things. I've lost /etc/setup/installed.db which would provide all the details. Is there a way I can recover it? I thought about trying

[Unknown version] - Could not delete some cygwin files from filesystem

2005-04-10 Thread Er Principe
Hi. I have recently installed windows xp on my windows 2000 box, where I had installed cygwin. I did'n format the hd, i simply deleted from filesystem all the files I didn't need anymore. There are some files contained in the cygwin dir which could'nt be removed. Windows tells me they are in use

Re: Recovering /etc/setup/installed.db

2005-04-10 Thread fergus
The easiest way, however, is to look at the setup.log file from your polished installation (if that's available). Thank you. After grep \.bz2 /var/etc/setup* followed by combinations of sort, uniq and simple editing, I have recovered /etc/setup/installed.db correct in every detail, as

Re: maintaining bash

2005-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 08:46:32PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 10 13:28, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Hans Horn wrote: Looks like bash2.x install in /usr/bin while bash3.x installs in /usr/local/bin. Is that ok? No, it isn't. Cygwin programs get installed in /usr/bin.

Re: Recovering /etc/setup/installed.db

2005-04-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, fergus wrote: The easiest way, however, is to look at the setup.log file from your polished installation (if that's available). Thank you. After grep \.bz2 /var/etc/setup* followed by combinations of sort, uniq and simple editing, I have recovered

Control and shift key timeouts

2005-04-10 Thread Luke Kendall
Hi Apologies for not mentioning this years ago, but ... In vi, if I hold down the shift or the control key and then move through the file (e.g. repeated CTRL-B or SHIFT-W use), and then hit no fresh keys for 5 seconds (i.e. just sit there with the CTRL or Shift key depressed), and then continue

Re: Problem running xgettext after compiling gettext 0.14.1 with gc c 3.3.3

2005-04-10 Thread Luke Kendall
On 25 Feb, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc022). Click on OK to terminate the application Ah, right, 0xc022 is access denied, and 0xc005 is access violation (i.e., SEGV), most likely inside DllMain. Sorry, got confused

Courier-IMAP on cygwin

2005-04-10 Thread Kees Vonk
I am currently trying to install courier imap on cygwin. I have seen several people on the list saying they have managed it, but I don't seem to be able to get it working. In fact I don't even get courier-authlib (0.55) to configure without errors. When I start configure without the