Re: ITP: pstoedit-3.42

2005-10-06 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
James R Phillips writes: I have found recently that the pstoedit package, available in Debian, significantly enhances the value of xfig, by allowing ps/eps files to be converted to fig files for editing in xfig. This package handles many conversions to other vector formats

Trial Packaging for pstoedit-3.42

2005-10-06 Thread James R. Phillips
Trial packages and setup.hints for pstoedit-3.42 are located at: ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/pstoedit/setup.hint ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/pstoedit/pstoedit-3.42-1-src.tar.bz2 ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/pstoedit/pstoedit-3.42-1.tar.bz2

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Eric Blake writes: Sorry to be picky, but I noticed several nits in the packaging. Thanks. [I was building nit-free -3 versions just now] Your setup.hint mentions that depending on readline is useful although not a direct dependence, but then list libncurses7 and libreadline5 instead of

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Eric Blake writes: [snip] I'm not sure whether .la files belong in usr/bin, or whether they should always be in usr/lib, but that may just be my misunderstanding of libtool. AFAIK, on Cygwin .la files that are used by dlopen need to be in

cygwin-doc build not self contained?

2005-10-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, I just installed xmlto/docbook-xsl, and tried to build the Cygwin documentation. It seems that it's trying to connect to oasis-open.org, probably to get some DTD that's included from one of the cygwin-doc DTDs. Is this supposed to happen? Can there be a disconnected build of cygwin-doc

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Igor Pechtchanski writes: On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: AFAIK, on Cygwin .la files that are used by dlopen need to be in usr/bin. IIUC, dlopen() uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which can contain /usr/lib. The only reason the DLLs are in /usr/bin is to make sure the Windows loader

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:06:17PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Igor Pechtchanski writes: On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: AFAIK, on Cygwin .la files that are used by dlopen need to be in usr/bin. IIUC, dlopen() uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which can contain /usr/lib. The only

Re: Free/cheap FTP/HTTP hosting for packages?

2005-10-06 Thread Bob Heckel
* On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:58:41AM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Does anyone know of a good place to post Cygwin packages? I've been very happy with http://sdf.lonestar.org/ for the last 5 years or so. It's non-commercial and very reliable.

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Faylor writes: Either you're using an older version of cygwin or that's not a cygwin error. Yes, I was using 1.5.16. It looks like something is calling LoadLibrary directly rather than using the cygwin dlopen(). Cygwin was changed in 1.5.18 to use strerror style output in the

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:23:42PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: Either you're using an older version of cygwin or that's not a cygwin error. Yes, I was using 1.5.16. Well, that's pretty distressing. Despite all of my pleas to have people test the latest

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Faylor writes: Yes, I was using 1.5.16. Well, that's pretty distressing. Despite all of my pleas to have people test the latest snapshot, you're not even running the latest official release... Actually, it's worse. I do not run Cygwin at all, this is a box I can use for basic

Re: cygwin-doc build not self contained?

2005-10-06 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 10/6/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I just installed xmlto/docbook-xsl, and tried to build the Cygwin documentation. It seems that it's trying to connect to oasis-open.org, probably to get some DTD that's included from one of the cygwin-doc DTDs. Is this supposed to happen? Can there be a

Security advisories: ruby, texinfo

2005-10-06 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 New security advisories were just announced for ruby and texinfo. Ruby: Security bypass vulnerability http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-05.xml http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106996 Texinfo: Insecure temporary file creation

Re: XWin hangs on opening xterms

2005-10-06 Thread Norbert Harendt
Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha at cs.nyu.edu writes: Did you let it run long enough? Looks like it's trying to fork, and the DLLs are being loaded. Does the CPU show any activity during the hang? Does the disk? Try running it under strace to see if it's really a hang, a busy loop, etc. If you

Scrolling with Synaptics touchpad

2005-10-06 Thread Tim O'Brien
As with the IBM trackpoint mentioned in the FAQ, notebooks with Synaptics touchpads need a little undocumented configuring if you want to get the Synaptics virtual scrolling/scroll buttons to work with Cygwin/X. Add this section to the syntpenh.ini (default location is c:\program

Using cygwin with W2K in VMWare on Debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp?

2005-10-06 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I am using a Debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp hosted VMWare 5.0 with a W2K and Cygwin (latest version, all packages installed) as a guest OS. I want to compile MICO in the W2K virtual machine, using Cygwin. If I run configure it stops after checking if the C compiler works with the following

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

2005-10-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I will probably use the flag to rebuild gcc with this changed libstdc++, regardless if there is a performance issue or not. What about Danny Smith's suggestion ? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg00080.html -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Where can I download gcc3.2 packages for Cygwin?

2005-10-06 Thread TAN TH
gcc is part of the package of Cygwin. it is in /bin directory. try # which gcc --- Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:35 PM 10/5/2005, you wrote: Hi, I am a newbie for Cygwin. I need to compile something that can only be compiled under gcc3.2. I know the current gcc versions for

install LAM/MPI using Cygwin

2005-10-06 Thread TAN TH
has anyone successfully install LAM/MPI using CygWin before? if yes, would appreciate any help. I have tried install cygipc, but seem like it does not help. also Cygipc2 is not longer valid, and there is some posting saying cygipc is obsolete. It's job has been overtaken by cygserver from the

can't make gtkglarea-1.2.3

2005-10-06 Thread Grant Allan
hi, i have been trying to install gtkglarea-1.2.3 downloaded from a couple of different sources, one of them here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6087package_id=130531 but after successful configure, running make fails with an error as follows: dlltool: Syntax error in

Re: Where can I download gcc3.2 packages for Cygwin?

2005-10-06 Thread Brian Dessent
TAN TH wrote: gcc is part of the package of Cygwin. it is in /bin directory. try # which gcc Of course it is. But not version 3.2, which is what the question was about. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

where is cygintl-3.dll

2005-10-06 Thread Pach Roman (GS-EC/ESA4) *
Hi, in which package from ./release directory can I find the libray cygintl-3.dll ? Roman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

guile-1.7.2-1 AND cygwin-1.5.18-1

2005-10-06 Thread Pach Roman (GS-EC/ESA4) *
Hi, I'm trying to force the guile-1.7.2-1 to run under cygwin. The packages used are: guile-1.7.2-1.tar.bz2 libguile12-1.6.7-1.tar.bz2 libguile16-1.7.2-1.tar.bz2 After the guile has been started, the following error message is generated: guile --debug ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link:

Re: can't make gtkglarea-1.2.3

2005-10-06 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Grant Allan wrote: hi, i have been trying to install gtkglarea-1.2.3 downloaded from a couple of different sources, one of them here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6087package_id=130531 but after successful configure, running make fails with an error as follows:

Re: can't make gtkglarea-1.2.3

2005-10-06 Thread Grant Allan
hey, thanks, that sounds promising, and i will rush back to work now to try it. just one thing though (sorry) - how do i apply the patch? is it straightforward? if not, do you know a webpage that can walk me through it? thanks again! grant Apply the attached patch, run `autreconf --install

Regression problem in cygwin1.5.18 and Perl 5.8.6/7

2005-10-06 Thread Jurgen Defurne
Here is a description of my problem. I have two different installations of Cygwin on different systems : System 1 System 2 cygwin 1.5.11-1 cygwin 1.5.18-1 perl 5.8.5-3perl 5.8.6-4 (or 5.8.7-..) Windows

Re: can't make gtkglarea-1.2.3

2005-10-06 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Grant Allan wrote: hey, thanks, that sounds promising, and i will rush back to work now to try it. just one thing though (sorry) - how do i apply the patch? is it straightforward? if not, do you know a webpage that can walk me through it? Try `patch --help` first, and `man patch` should

Re: handle_threadlist_exception: handle_threadlist_exception called with threadlist_ix -1

2005-10-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:25:17PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Anyone else seeing quite a lot of these with current cvs HEAD? Often when pressing Ctrl-C, sometimes when things exit for other (signal-related?) reasons? I think this error

Re: Error: procedure entry point _getreent could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll(cygcheck.out attached)

2005-10-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Liza Atkin wrote: Hello! I have cygwin and Network Simplisity on my PC. Recently I compiled gcc for arm, the compilation of binutils and gcc itself passed as usual, but now when I try to use the .exe files that were created I get the next message: Error: procedure entry point _getreent could

Re: where is cygintl-3.dll

2005-10-06 Thread Eric Blake
Hi, in which package from ./release directory can I find the libray cygintl-3.dll ? Roman Read the FAQ: FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.missing-dlls http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cygintl-3.dll -- Eric

Re: can't make gtkglarea-1.2.3

2005-10-06 Thread Grant Allan
hi, i tried to use patch but it got rejected. (rejection file attached) not too sure what manual editing i should do, but happy to give it a shot if you can tell me. i did try pasting some of the lines from the patch into makefile.am and then went to run autreconf. but autreconf is an unknown

Re: Using cygwin with W2K in VMWare on Debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp?

2005-10-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:28:26AM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Hi, I am using a Debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp hosted VMWare 5.0 with a W2K and Cygwin (latest version, all packages installed) as a guest OS. I want to compile MICO in the W2K virtual machine, using Cygwin. If I run configure

Re: where is cygintl-3.dll

2005-10-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Pach Roman (GS-EC/ESA4) * wrote: in which package from ./release directory can I find the libray cygintl-3.dll ? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.what-packages (in particular, use the package search feature on http://cygwin.com/packages/). HTH, Igor --

Re: handle_threadlist_exception: handle_threadlist_exception called with threadlist_ix -1

2005-10-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:18:39PM +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:25:17PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Anyone else seeing quite a lot of these with current cvs HEAD? Often when pressing Ctrl-C, sometimes when things exit for

Re: guile-1.7.2-1 AND cygwin-1.5.18-1 (Attn: guile maintainer)

2005-10-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Pach Roman (GS-EC/ESA4) * wrote: I'm trying to force the guile-1.7.2-1 to run under cygwin. The packages used are: guile-1.7.2-1.tar.bz2 libguile12-1.6.7-1.tar.bz2 libguile16-1.7.2-1.tar.bz2 After the guile has been started, the following error message is generated:

Re: can't make gtkglarea-1.2.3

2005-10-06 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Grant Allan wrote: hi, i tried to use patch but it got rejected. (rejection file attached) not too sure what manual editing i should do, but happy to give it a shot if you can tell me. Come on, read the patch file. It is in unified format, it is not that hard to understand it. In this

Re: handle_threadlist_exception: handle_threadlist_exception called with threadlist_ix -1

2005-10-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: Did you happen to notice when the age of the message to which you're responding? Dave figured out the problem subsequent to sending the above. It was due to some object files not getting rebuilt after a change to cygtls.h. Yes. When I saw the

Re: can't make gtkglarea-1.2.3

2005-10-06 Thread Grant Allan
hi, thankyou, i have done that now. i was originally looking at the wrong makefile.am but when i opened the right one, the patch file suddenly made a lot more sense to me. now about autreconf. my shell cannot find this command, and man seems not to know it. can you tell me if i have the

Re: can't make gtkglarea-1.2.3

2005-10-06 Thread Grant Allan
thanks, i ran autoreconf and make and the patch has been successful. thanks for all your help. bedtime for me now. cheers, grant Come on, read the patch file. It is in unified format, it is not that hard to understand it. In this case there is one flag added to libgtkgl_la_LDFLAGS:

Re: handle_threadlist_exception: handle_threadlist_exception called with threadlist_ix -1

2005-10-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:39:35PM +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: Did you happen to notice when the age of the message to which you're responding? Dave figured out the problem subsequent to sending the above. It was due to some object files not

Re: guile-1.7.2-1 AND cygwin-1.5.18-1 (Attn: guile maintainer)

2005-10-06 Thread Eric Blake
This dll library can't be found in either the bz2 packages. It seems, it has not bin built during the guile package generation. Am I right? According to a search on http://cygwin.com/packages/, yes, this does indeed seem to be a packaging error. The guile maintainer should be reading

Re: Using cygwin with W2K in VMWare on Debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp?

2005-10-06 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 10:15 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Look at the error in config.log. I have looked and is says: This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. configure:1183: checking host system type

Re: handle_threadlist_exception: handle_threadlist_exception called with threadlist_ix -1

2005-10-06 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: It might be a different problem but the message is the same. It *is* a different problem. Ok. Some thread is sending a signal 31 (SIGUSR1). Which thread is doing this? An application thread signaling another thread to stop its execution. I am

Re: guile-1.7.2-1 AND cygwin-1.5.18-1 (Attn: guile maintainer)

2005-10-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Igor Pechtchanski writes: ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: ERROR: file: libguilereadline-v-16, message: No such file or directory The file /usr/bin/libguilereadline-v-16.la contains the link dlname='../bin/cygguilereadline-v-16-16.dll' According to a search on http://cygwin.com/packages/,

Re: guile-1.7.2-1 AND cygwin-1.5.18-1 (Attn: guile maintainer)

2005-10-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Eric Blake writes: The guile maintainer has already proposed a -2 package, but it also had packaging bugs serious enough that I did not want to upload it without the problems being fixed: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-10/msg2.html Yes, I just got round to building -3

Re: Where can I download gcc3.2 packages for Cygwin?

2005-10-06 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:45 AM 10/6/2005, you wrote: TAN TH wrote: gcc is part of the package of Cygwin. it is in /bin directory. try # which gcc Of course it is. But not version 3.2, which is what the question was about. Also, in case someone misread's Tan's implication in his response above, 'gcc' isn't

Re: Using cygwin with W2K in VMWare on Debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp?

2005-10-06 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:03 AM 10/6/2005, you wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 10:15 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Look at the error in config.log. I have looked and is says: This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

1.5.18-1: DISPLAY is not set

2005-10-06 Thread Markus Janson
Hi, I downloaded the latest version (2.510.2.2) of setup.exe from www.cygwin.com the other day, and installed it along with several packages. When I tried to run commands from the bash, I had some problems (e.g. that the path variable was not correctly set). From the FAQ I found out that

sed doesnt convert varibale values???

2005-10-06 Thread Maloney, Michael
I am using sed and for some reason, it is entering the variable name and not the value to output. The line looks like: sed 's/weblogic.Server/$APP_SERVER_DOMAIN weblogic.Server/' $file The output looks like: %JAVA_HOME%\bin\java %JAVA_VM% %MEM_ARGS% %JAVA_OPTIONS% -Dweblogic.Name=%SERVER _NAME%

Re: sed doesnt convert varibale values???

2005-10-06 Thread Peter Rehley
On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Maloney, Michael wrote: I am using sed and for some reason, it is entering the variable name and not the value to output. The line looks like: sed 's/weblogic.Server/$APP_SERVER_DOMAIN weblogic.Server/' $file It's not a sed thing, it's a shell thing. When you

RE: sed doesnt convert varibale values???

2005-10-06 Thread Maloney, Michael
I tried it with double-quotes before and it wont accept it: $ sed s/weblogic.Server/$APP_SERVER_DOMAIN weblogic.Server/ $file sed: -e expression #1, char 22: unknown option to `s' I grabbed a line from a script that works on Solaris (double quotes work there): sed s/$system_User_email =

Feedback from Cygwin Community on Development Tools for Writing JavaScript

2005-10-06 Thread Cate Vanasse
We have created a set of tools for JavaScript development and would like to get feedback from the Cygwin community. JS-Sorcerer, is a set of tools that increases the productivity of JavaScript developers. It includes a powerful analysis tool that helps developers quickly locate and fix JavaScript

Re: sed doesnt convert varibale values???

2005-10-06 Thread Peter Rehley
On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Maloney, Michael wrote: I tried it with double-quotes before and it wont accept it: $ sed s/weblogic.Server/$APP_SERVER_DOMAIN weblogic.Server/ $file sed: -e expression #1, char 22: unknown option to `s' ok, This tells me that APP_SERVER_DOMAIN is getting

Re: 1.5.18-1: DISPLAY is not set

2005-10-06 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:11 PM 10/6/2005, you wrote: Hi, I downloaded the latest version (2.510.2.2) of setup.exe from www.cygwin.com the other day, and installed it along with several packages. When I tried to run commands from the bash, I had some problems (e.g. that the path variable was not correctly set).

RE: sed doesnt convert varibale values???

2005-10-06 Thread Maloney, Michael
Hhmm...Good point. I betcha it's the slashes $ echo $APP_SERVER_DOMAIN C:/bea/user_projects/domains/fimdomain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Rehley Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:28 PM To: Cygwin List' Subject: Re: sed

RE: Cygwin Load Times and ZoneAlarm (not X)

2005-10-06 Thread Anthony Foglia
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using CA Antivirus which is bundled with ZoneAlarm, I told it (antivirus) to exclude my C:\cygwin directory from being scanned. That really helped performance a lot. That was one of the first things I tried, and it had no effect. I can still

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

2005-10-06 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: As long as GCC does not support recent libtool versions it is not easy to build dynamic libraries. What about just replacing the autogenerated libtool script with a newer one (manually hacked if necessary for options) after

Re: can't make gtkglarea-1.2.3

2005-10-06 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant Allan wrote: i have been trying to install gtkglarea-1.2.3 downloaded from a couple of different sources, one of them here: I built gtkglarea I while ago. Binaries are available at:

Re: question about sshd hang during rexec

2005-10-06 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:03 PM 10/1/2005, you wrote: Hi, sshd appears to hang after rexec() when I try to connect. I am running sshd version OpenSSH_4.2p1 on windows 2000sp4. Sorry, I don't see this. If I run /usr/sbin/sshd -dddD -r it works OK. How's that again? What's '-r'? I don't see that on the man

Re: Using cygwin with W2K in VMWare on Debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp?

2005-10-06 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 12:16 -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Sounds like a reinstallation of binutils, at least, is in order. While you're at it, reinstall gcc bits too. A full reinstallation of Cygwin did not help. I wonder if there is actually anyone who is running W2K/Cygwin in VMWare on Linux? --

Re: Using cygwin with W2K in VMWare on Debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp?

2005-10-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Sounds like a reinstallation of binutils, at least, is in order. While you're at it, reinstall gcc bits too. A full reinstallation of Cygwin did not help. I wonder if there is actually anyone who is running W2K/Cygwin in VMWare on Linux? I seriously doubt that