installer bugs? packages tree

2005-10-04 Thread Grant Allan
hi, i installed cygwin for the first time yesterday. when i got to the screen where i choose which packages, i went straight to the root item in the tree, and set it to "install". the tree seemed to update all its branches to "install" as well, so i thought "yay!". but when i clicked "next" but

Re: cywing success stories

2005-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
> Hello All, > I've a project in a Bank institution where cywing is the environment > proposed to manage file transfers. All servers are windows base and you > know > > > The main problem to solve is to give to the security office, who does > not know Cywing, sufficient informat

cywing success stories

2005-10-04 Thread Manuel Soto
Hello All, I've a project in a Bank institution where cywing is the environment proposed to manage file transfers. All servers are windows base and you know The main problem to solve is to give to the security office, who does not know Cywing, sufficient information and Succes

Re: ATTN: g++ maintainer: Using string instances to pass arguments to dlls

2005-10-04 Thread Charles Wilson
James R. Phillips wrote: John also wonders [2] why libstdc++ is static as opposed to shared on cygwin. I have searched the archives, and verified its static nature, but was unable to find an explanation. [1] http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2005/3734 [2] http://www.octave.org/mai

Re: Cygwin xfig eps problem

2005-10-04 Thread Mike Shi
Franz Haeuslschmid gmx.at> writes: > > Mike, > > I think I've found the reason for XFig's strange behavior. Franz - Well, you got further with the source than I did! Once I saw that (a) xfig always created files of the same name (based on the PID), (b) that file remained throughout the xfig se

Rsync, Linux, Cygwin Failing on Large Directories

2005-10-04 Thread Nicholas M Saraniti
I have a RH 8.0 box which issues the following command to a Windows machine running the most recent version of cygwin (1.5.18-1) Both boxes have been updated to rsync 2.6.6-1 or 2.6.6-2 and I use the following command from the LINUX BOX (SSH keygen agent is setup for passwordless logins and th

Re: ATTN: g++ maintainer: Using string instances to pass arguments to dlls

2005-10-04 Thread James R. Phillips
Does fixing this bug require upstream intervention, or can you just develop a patch, and submit it to upstream? Anecdotal evidence [1] exists that this issue may be what prevents compiling a working version of octave 2.1.71 with gcc 3.4.4. This comes from John Ewing (octave upstream), who states

ping: recvfrom: Invalid argument

2005-10-04 Thread cy . 20 . superconductor
I've seen this problem mentioned before on this list, but I've just discovered something about it which I thought was worth mentioning (I don't know if this has been reported before). I'm on WinXP SP2 logged on as a non admin. Lets try to ping cygwin.com... PING www.cygwin.com (209.132.176.174):

Re: ATTN: g++ maintainer: Using string instances to pass arguments to dlls

2005-10-04 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Pavel Tsekov wrote: Can we get this fixed ? I entered a bugreport: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24196 Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygw

Re: Perl ldflags - packaging bug, upstream bug, or weird feature?

2005-10-04 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Max Bowsher wrote: $ fgrep -- '-L/usr/local/lib' /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/Config_heavy.pl lddlflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib' ldflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib' ldflags_nolargefiles=' -s -L/usr/local/lib' The above shows the presence of -L/usr/local/lib in the packaged perl installation config vars

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: wget-1.10.1-2

2005-10-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
The wget-1.10.1-2 package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. Changes === 2005-10-02 Harold L Hunt II - rebuild with SSL support re-enabled (Thanks to Hack!) 2005-09-06 Harold L Hunt II - update to version 1.10.1 noteable: * supports files larger than 2GB * NT

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnome-keyring-0.4.5-1

2005-10-04 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** gnome-keyring-0.4.5-1 GNOME Keyring is a system to store passwords and other sensitive data in a standardized way across all GNOME applications. A keyring stores a collection o

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnome-common-2.12.0-1

2005-10-04 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** gnome-common-2.12.0-1 gnome-common is a collection of files necessary for developing and building GNOME programs. This release is an update to the newest upstream version. Ya

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libungif-4.1.3-1

2005-10-04 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** libungif-4.1.3-1 Libungif is a library for manipulating GIF files, without the patent-encumbered LZW compression code. This release is an update to upstream 4.1.3, with a new C

Re: Intermittent fork failures

2005-10-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:02:50PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >I've been getting intermittent "fork: Resource Temporarily Unavailable" > >errors with 1.5.18 and snapshots. AFAICT, the resources are there. > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygw

Re: Intermittent fork failures

2005-10-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 4 13:02, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Hi, > > I've been getting intermittent "fork: Resource Temporarily Unavailable" > errors with 1.5.18 and snapshots. AFAICT, the resources are there. > > I was able to reproduce both the succeeding and the failing case under > strace, but, to my untrain

Re: Intermittent fork failures

2005-10-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:02:50PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >I've been getting intermittent "fork: Resource Temporarily Unavailable" >errors with 1.5.18 and snapshots. AFAICT, the resources are there. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html -- Unsubscribe info: http

Intermittent fork failures

2005-10-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, I've been getting intermittent "fork: Resource Temporarily Unavailable" errors with 1.5.18 and snapshots. AFAICT, the resources are there. I was able to reproduce both the succeeding and the failing case under strace, but, to my untrained eye, it doesn't contain much relevant information. T

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel-4.12-1

2005-10-04 Thread Marcel Telka
I've updated the stunnel package to version 4.12-1. Stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). Stunnel can allow you to secure non-SSL aware daemons and protocols (like POP, IMAP, LDAP, etc) by having Stunnel provide the encryption,

ATTN: g++ maintainer: Using string instances to pass arguments to dlls

2005-10-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, I noticed the following problem while porting an internal C++ application from linux to Cygwin. If a std::string instance created in one module (exe or dll) is passed to another say as an argument of a function call, the program crashes or hangs. I did debug for a while and it turned out th

Re: select() hangs forever with Cygwin 1.5.18 on WinXP

2005-10-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 4 09:43, Vladislav Grinchenko wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to use UNIX domain sockets in cygwin environment. > A program in question works fine just on any other POSIX > OS I can get my hands on (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, ...). > However, running on cygwin, select() hangs forever. > > T

select() hangs forever with Cygwin 1.5.18 on WinXP

2005-10-04 Thread Vladislav Grinchenko
Hi, I am trying to use UNIX domain sockets in cygwin environment. A program in question works fine just on any other POSIX OS I can get my hands on (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, ...). However, running on cygwin, select() hangs forever. The program sets up 1 socket for Read mask and 2 sockets for w

announcement forwarder broken?

2005-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There were four package announcements posted to cygwin-announce yesterday, none of which showed up on the cygwin list. Is the forwarder down again? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-1

2005-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/4/2005 2:11 AM: > On Oct 1 21:34, Eric Blake wrote: > >>I've uploaded a test version of coreutils, 5.90-1. [...] >> cat's --binary or -B option has been removed. It existed only on >> MS-DOS-like platforms, and

Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-1

2005-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to David Rothenberger on 10/3/2005 4:31 PM: > With 5.90-1: > > % mkdir -p /tmp/foo > mkdir: `/tmp/foo' exists but is not a directory > > There is no /tmp/foo. With 5.3.0-9, this works fine. My bad. The code in lib/mkdir-p.c changed from 5

RE: Cygwin Load Times and ZoneAlarm (not X)

2005-10-04 Thread wszumera
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Foglia Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 3:42 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Cygwin Load Times and ZoneAlarm (not X) > Has anyone else experienced long load times for > bash/cygwin.ba

Re: Cygwin xfig eps problem

2005-10-04 Thread Franz Haeuslschmid
Mike, I think I've found the reason for XFig's strange behaviour. Let me first reply to your message. m shi writes: [...] > From what I've read, there do seem to be a couple of minor > variations on a theme here: > > 1. Your post does not mention being able to successfully (with > preview) imp

Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-1

2005-10-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 1 21:34, Eric Blake wrote: > I've uploaded a test version of coreutils, 5.90-1. [...] > cat's --binary or -B option has been removed. It existed only on > MS-DOS-like platforms, and didn't work as documented there. How is that supposed to work in future? Cat is a texttool so it seem