Re: base-files: Does not permit the use of symlinks in /etc/profile.d/

2005-09-18 Thread John Morrison
On Sat, September 17, 2005 2:35 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 17 07:19, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Max Bowsher on 9/16/2005 4:27 PM: The current /etc/profile does not permit the use of symlinks in /etc/profile.d/ - it ignores them.

Re: base-files: Does not permit the use of symlinks in /etc/profile.d/

2005-09-18 Thread John Morrison
On Sat, September 17, 2005 5:33 pm, Max Bowsher wrote: John Morrison replied to me privately (accidentally, I presume). Yes, it was - sorry Max. I'm forwarding the message to cygwin-apps@ to maintain threading: Thanks - I wondered by it didn't appear on the list before I logged off! J.

Please upload: perl-libwin32-0.26-1

2005-09-18 Thread Reini Urban
Please upload into perl: http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/perl-libwin32/perl-libwin32-0.26-1.tar.bz2 790765 d9e9278eb21dae1c2da0983e93acc900 http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/perl-libwin32/perl-libwin32-0.26-1-src.tar.bz2 718845 2ec0772ce228c2ad07d356768d34a2b0

Re: base-files: Does not permit the use of symlinks in /etc/profile.d/

2005-09-18 Thread John Morrison
On Sun, September 18, 2005 1:14 am, Max Bowsher wrote: Eric Blake wrote: Sorry, didn't realise. If I change the line /bin/find /etc/profile.d -type f -iname '*.sh' -or -iname '*.zsh' to be /bin/find -L /etc/profile.d -type f -iname '*.sh' -or -iname '*.zsh' would that fix things? (The

Re: How about script? [was: Re: Command 'more': missing dll cygpcre.dll [Attn more maintainer]]

2005-09-18 Thread Reini Urban
Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: James R. Phillips wrote: Hm, another program in util-linux that would be nice to have is 'script'. All linux systems have it. Is anyone interested in taking that on ? script does not build out of the box. I ported another similar tool, I believe Reini has done

Re: Please upload: perl-libwin32-0.26-1

2005-09-18 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Reini Urban wrote: Please upload into perl: http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/perl-libwin32/perl-libwin32-0.26-1.tar.bz2 790765 d9e9278eb21dae1c2da0983e93acc900 http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/perl-libwin32/perl-libwin32-0.26-1-src.tar.bz2 718845

setup.hint: curr: prev: test: tags

2005-09-18 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello, Is it possible to use only 'curr:' without 'prev:'? Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: setup.hint: curr: prev: test: tags

2005-09-18 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello, Is it possible to use only 'curr:' without 'prev:'? And will 'curr: 0.1' overrule an installed 0.2 package? Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: I'm back

2005-09-18 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yaakov S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I'm back, will try to catch up on everything what I missed. Here's a few things from GNOME: 1) As I'm convinced that everything is working now, please upload the libIDL(2)/ORBit(2) packages per the

Re: Please upload: perl-libwin32-0.26-1

2005-09-18 Thread Reini Urban
Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: ... properly rebased via gbs, though the general gbs solution to do a automatic rebase is quite hard. interested parties can see steps rebase1 and rebase2 in http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/perl-libwin32/perl-libwin32-0.26-1.sh

GConf2 packaging error

2005-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
upset: *** warning package GConf2 requires non-existent package sysvinitatk-runtime I've made the obvious fix. cgf

Re: GConf2 packaging error

2005-09-18 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher Faylor wrote: upset: *** warning package GConf2 requires non-existent package sysvinitatk-runtime Oops, sorry for the mess. I've made the obvious fix. Thank you. Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: Please upload: perl-libwin32-0.26-1

2005-09-18 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Reini Urban wrote: Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: properly rebased via gbs, though the general gbs solution to do a automatic rebase is quite hard. interested parties can see steps rebase1 and rebase2 in

Re: setup.hint: curr: prev: test: tags

2005-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:49:22PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Is it possible to use only 'curr:' without 'prev:'? Assuming that you you want the curr: package and only the curr: package to show up in setup.ini, then yes. cgf

Musings on PHP

2005-09-18 Thread Max Bowsher
I personally have no need for PHP, but I know it's a very widely used piece of software. After John Morrison's recent mention of PHP in passing, I decided to do a quick estimate of how difficult getting PHP working on Cygwin would be. To cut a long story short, I got a bit carried away, and

Re: [HEADSUP] ALL Maintainers, please reply.

2005-09-18 Thread Dave
I'll guess this message was meant to go to the list :) Dave. --- Joe Linoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:50:52 -0700 From: Joe Linoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] ALL Maintainers, please reply. Dave wrote: So, ALL

Re: base-files: Does not permit the use of symlinks in /etc/profile.d/

2005-09-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 18 11:12, John Morrison wrote: On Sat, September 17, 2005 2:35 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm wondering if base-files can't check if /etc/profile has been changed, for instance, using md5sum. Then it could overwrite the file if it's still the original version, or, if it has been

Re: Please upload: perl-libwin32-0.26-1

2005-09-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 18 17:30, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Reini Urban wrote: Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: properly rebased via gbs, though the general gbs solution to do a automatic rebase is quite hard. interested parties can see steps rebase1 and rebase2 in

Re: Musings on PHP

2005-09-18 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Max Bowsher wrote: 2) Shared library headaches. PHP definitely needs its postgresql support available to be useful most non-trivial application. If I want to avoid creating a hard dependency on the postgresql package, the PHP pgsql extension needs to be built as a shared library. But to

Re: setup.hint: curr: prev: test: tags

2005-09-18 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Yes, it is a new package, however there is currently another package with the same name and a higher version, libIDL. This will be renamed to libIDL2. The new libIDL package needs the tag therefore and there is no previous

Re: Please upload: perl-libwin32-0.26-1

2005-09-18 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Gerrit, since you obviously care, I'm wondering if you are also going to install the package when you're happy. I don't understand the discussion here enough to see if it's ok to upload or not. It is definitively good to go. I just was wondering why Reini doesn't

Re: I'm back

2005-09-18 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: It is needed to add a 'curr: 0.6.8-2' to the libIDL setup.hint because currently libIDL(2) is at 0.8.3-2, right? Maybe we should name the package different, eg. ORBit-libIDL to avoid conflicts? No, when you remove the old

Re: Please upload: perl-libwin32-0.26-1

2005-09-18 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 04:23:17PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: ... properly rebased via gbs, though the general gbs solution to do a automatic rebase is quite hard. interested parties can see steps rebase1 and rebase2 in

Re: setup.hint: curr: prev: test: tags

2005-09-18 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yaakov S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Yes, it is a new package, however there is currently another package with the same name and a higher version, libIDL. This will be renamed to libIDL2. The new libIDL package needs the tag therefore and

Re: setup.hint: curr: prev: test: tags

2005-09-18 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: It will never be installed for a user who has already 0.8.x? Yes, it will be; but it's small, and I intend to mention this upon announcement. After the switch, those who don't want 0.6.x can just uninstall it on the next run

Large memory usage by XWin.exe

2005-09-18 Thread L. D. Marks
We have a (big) application which, among other things, does some analysis of images. We've noticed that when we open large pictures (4kx4k) and display then (part only on the screen) XWin is using a reasonably large chunk of memory, about 180M. This can lead to some user problems unless the CPU

Re: problem compiling code with OpenGL calls

2005-09-18 Thread Joe Krahn
William Wallace wrote: I trying to compile a simple .c program that I downloaded from sgi.com. I'm using the following to compile the program (works on my UNIX box...): gcc example.c -lglut -lGL -lGLU -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXmu -lm I get a slew of compile errors, for every OpenGL api

Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

2005-09-18 Thread cygwin . overbored
On 9/17/05, Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cygwin has been working fine for about a year, until a few days ago when I started seeing this problem. When I run rxvt -e bash (or bash --login -i, or sh, or anything at all), rxvt appears for about 0.1 seconds and then immediately exits (the

bug: pipe + O_NONBLOCK

2005-09-18 Thread Alfred Minarik
Hello, Writing to full O_NONBLOCKed pipes should not block, but return -1 with errno==EAGAIN. This should print filling for a while, then print full and exit. But at cygwin (1.5.18 on 2000/XP) it prints only filling and then hangs. #include unistd.h #include fcntl.h int main() {

SSH Client Odditie with shosts on 2K/2K3/XP??

2005-09-18 Thread Bill Martin
I am utterly confused . . . Win2K3 Server latest patches, latest install of Cygwin (DLL version: 1.5.18) and OpenSSH (openssh 4.2p1-1). No trouble getting SSHD to behave properly once configured; I can authenticate to this box via shosts from remote Linux and UNIX systems. I cannot use the

Setup minor features request

2005-09-18 Thread Herb Martin
Please add the following two minor features to setup: Remember add icon to desktop and shortcut in start menus settings Remember windows size (if resized) -- it's nice to be able to view larger window when reviewing updates. Please consider this more complicated

Re: SSH Client Odditie with shosts on 2K/2K3/XP??

2005-09-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 18 04:09, Bill Martin wrote: I am utterly confused . . . Win2K3 Server latest patches, latest install of Cygwin (DLL version: 1.5.18) and OpenSSH (openssh 4.2p1-1). No trouble getting SSHD to behave properly once configured; I can authenticate to this box via shosts from remote Linux

Re: Setup minor features request

2005-09-18 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Herb Martin wrote: Please consider this more complicated feature: Show updates in a flat list of JUST updates so that it is easy to see what is being selected without expanding each area or hunting for update checks. This is already included, just toggle the view

Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

2005-09-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 9/17/05, Eric Blake ericblake AT comcast DOT net wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Please help us help you: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Did you recently upgrade? Without details, no one here knows what you might have done that is the cause

Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

2005-09-18 Thread Yadin Goldschmidt
I had a similar problem in the past and running rebaseall solved the problem. Be sure to read the documentation and stop all running cygwin background services before running it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin has been working fine for about a year, until a

Re: Setup minor features request

2005-09-18 Thread Hans Horn
Herb Martin wrote: ... Remember windows size (if resized) -- it's nice to be able to view larger window when reviewing updates. Second that! And while we are at it: - Sortable column headers would be really nice. - Also: get rid of that silly little dialog at the end telling me that

Re: bug: pipe + O_NONBLOCK

2005-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 09:36:57AM +0200, Alfred Minarik wrote: Hello, Writing to full O_NONBLOCKed pipes should not block, but return -1 with errno==EAGAIN. O_NONBLOCK is on write is currently not implemented for pipes. Sorry. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: apache-1.3.33-2

2005-09-18 Thread Robert Richter
I updated the apache-1.3.33 package to release 2. Changes made: - Import lib file libhttpd.dll.a added - Sleep removed in postinstall script - Start daemon section added to README - apache-1.3.33.README updated Please see the README below. Have fun, Robert --- apache.README

Re: mount -X and FAQ [Attn: FAQ Maintainer, tcl maintainer]

2005-09-18 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:22:10PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On 9/16/05, Eric Blake wrote: According to Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) on 9/15/2005 10:48 AM: The FAQ (http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html) mentions using this idiom for strace and cygcheck, but not for Tcl/Tk.

Re: mount -X and FAQ [Attn: FAQ Maintainer, tcl maintainer]

2005-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 10:59:55AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:22:10PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On 9/16/05, Eric Blake wrote: According to Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) on 9/15/2005 10:48 AM: The FAQ (http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html) mentions

Arrow keys when using ssh to connect remotely to solaris box

2005-09-18 Thread Mikael
Hello, I'm using ssh inside an rxvt terminal (?) to connect remotely to a Sun server running Solaris. It connects without any problems and I can login to the Oracle database the server is running. However, the arrow keys doesn't work correctly. When I hit left-arrow to edit what I am typing in

Re: Setup minor features request

2005-09-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Herb Martin wrote: (Please address topics relating to setup.exe to cygwin-apps@ not this list.) Remember add icon to desktop and shortcut in start menus settings Remember windows size (if resized) -- it's nice to be able to view larger window when reviewing

Re: Arrow keys when using ssh to connect remotely to solaris box

2005-09-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Mikael wrote: Hello, I'm using ssh inside an rxvt terminal (?) to connect remotely to a Sun server running Solaris. It connects without any problems and I can login to the Oracle database the server is running. However, the arrow keys doesn't work correctly. When I hit left-arrow to edit what

cygwin on Vista 64-bit

2005-09-18 Thread Tim Prince
I can't get bash to run, using the standard installation. I tried all the compatibility modes, with and without the addition of syswow64 to the shortcut. Failure mode is different in the win9x modes from the others. Any more suggestions? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Arrow keys when using ssh to connect remotely to solaris box

2005-09-18 Thread Mikael
Brian Dessent wrote: Mikael wrote: Hello, I'm using ssh inside an rxvt terminal (?) to connect remotely to a Sun server running Solaris. It connects without any problems and I can login to the Oracle database the server is running. However, the arrow keys doesn't work correctly. When I hit

Re: Arrow keys when using ssh to connect remotely to solaris box

2005-09-18 Thread Mikael
Mikael wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: Mikael wrote: Hello, I'm using ssh inside an rxvt terminal (?) to connect remotely to a Sun server running Solaris. It connects without any problems and I can login to the Oracle database the server is running. However, the arrow keys doesn't work

Re: Arrow keys when using ssh to connect remotely to solaris box

2005-09-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Mikael wrote: astmatix 302 echo $TERM rxvt-cygwin-native Was the output... I also noticed this string when logging in: tcsh: using dumb terminal settings So, given this information, any further hints? Ah. Try setting it to just rxvt. It's very likely that the Solaris terminfo database

Re: cygwin on Vista 64-bit

2005-09-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 18 13:27, Tim Prince wrote: I can't get bash to run, using the standard installation. I tried all the compatibility modes, with and without the addition of syswow64 to the shortcut. Failure mode is different in the win9x modes from the others. Any more suggestions? See

Session startup

2005-09-18 Thread Baum, Elaine I.
September 18, 2005 I have completed the installation of Cygwin from your website successfully and would like to use it now. The instructions I was given to start a session are: 1. Start Cygwin 2. In the black window that comes up enter: xwin 3. Start-Cygwin-xterm

Re: cygwin on Vista 64-bit

2005-09-18 Thread Tim Prince
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 18 13:27, Tim Prince wrote: I can't get bash to run, using the standard installation. I tried all the compatibility modes, with and without the addition of syswow64 to the shortcut. Failure mode is different in the win9x modes from the others. Any more

Re: Session startup

2005-09-18 Thread René Berber
Baum, Elaine I. wrote: September 18, 2005 I have completed the installation of Cygwin from your website successfully and would like to use it now. The instructions I was given to start a session are: 1. Start Cygwin 2. In the black window that comes up enter:

Re: Session startup

2005-09-18 Thread René Berber
Baum, Elaine I. wrote: The instructions I was given to start a session are: 1. Start Cygwin 2. In the black window that comes up enter: xwin 3. Start-Cygwin-xterm --^^ I forgot something, the above should say Start - Cygwin-X - xterm . --

fstat gives wrong mode after chmod and fchmod

2005-09-18 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
I'm seeing this on the 20050916 but as far as I know it's not a regression. A new perl test (actually using an existing file opened for read access) turned this up. The following gives: after fchmod to 0 and chmod to 0666, stat: 666 fstat: 444 #include fcntl.h #include sys/stat.h #include

Re: mount -X and FAQ [Attn: FAQ Maintainer, tcl maintainer]

2005-09-18 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 02:21:51PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 10:59:55AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:22:10PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On 9/16/05, Eric Blake wrote: According to Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) on

Re: mount -X and FAQ [Attn: FAQ Maintainer, tcl maintainer]

2005-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 03:49:15PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 02:21:51PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 10:59:55AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:22:10PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On

stripping snapshots

2005-09-18 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
When I try a snapshot, I usually try building things, so I get the cygwin-inst- tarball for the changed libs, but that has unstripped executables in it. Stripping them would give a 60% smaller tarball. Could snapshots be provided this way instead or in addition to with unstripped executables?

Installation problem

2005-09-18 Thread Pinaki Mukherjee
Hi all, I'm trying to install cygwin and it's not happening properly. From cygwin website, I downloaded the setup.exe file and then ran it. I chose the first option Install from Internet. The files are getting downloaded, and then it tries to install the program. When the installation is 99%

RE: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

2005-09-18 Thread Luke Kendall
On 16 Sep, Dave Korn wrote: I suspect it may be the keyboard or perhaps the KVM switch Bingo. That'll be it. It cancels keypresses to prevent state getting stuck when you switch from one machine to another. Yes, after trying (and failing to reproduce the problem here on other

Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

2005-09-18 Thread Reid Thompson
No, I haven't upgraded. I installed RealPlayer, the R statistical system, Kerberos for Windows, and KLP (for Kerberos printing), but I doubt those are related to the issue, and I also need this software more than I need bash to directly work in rxvt. I usually just use a shortcut to a script

Re: Fwd: Lost user/group permissions after reinstallation of Cygwin

2005-09-18 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:28 PM 9/17/2005, you wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Krister Svanlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sep 17, 2005 5:22 PM Subject: Lost user/group permissions after reinstallation of Cygwin To: cygwin@cygwin.com I have major problems here, I reinstalled my computer, and while

Re: Installation problem

2005-09-18 Thread Brooks Moses
Pinaki Mukherjee wrote: I'm trying to install cygwin and it's not happening properly. From cygwin website, I downloaded the setup.exe file and then ran it. I chose the first option Install from Internet. The files are getting downloaded, and then it tries to install the program. When the

Updated: apache-1.3.33-2

2005-09-18 Thread Robert Richter
I updated the apache-1.3.33 package to release 2. Changes made: - Import lib file libhttpd.dll.a added - Sleep removed in postinstall script - Start daemon section added to README - apache-1.3.33.README updated Please see the README below. Have fun, Robert --- apache.README