Re: ITP: plotutils-2.4.2 (trial Packaging too)

2005-10-11 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Charles Wilson wrote: Simple: cygplot-2.dll --- libplot2-2.4.1-X.tar.bz2 cygplotter-2.dll --- libplotter2-2.4.1-X.tar.bz2 cygxmi-0.dll --- libxmi0-2.4.1-X.tar.bz2 That is, the package name tracks the libtool DLLNUM appended to the DLL. OK, thanks for all the

Re: ATTN: ctags maintainer

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 10 11:58, Warren Young wrote: I've been watching the effort to track down package maintainers, and am dismayed that such a core package as ctags still has no responses after four requests from Corinna. If there is a ctags maintainer, please stand up and make yourself known! I am

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 10 21:59, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: [...] What's stopping us from moving the Win32 tcltk in /opt/win32, and making new *NIX tcl and tk packages in /usr? Then all that's necessary for insight is to add /opt/win32 to PATH (either

Re: ITP: tinyirc - A real tiny IRC client

2005-10-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jari Aalto on 9/2/2005 2:59 PM: Debian includes this. It's real small, basic and and handy. I had to hand fix the C code to ake it work correctly in Cygwin rxvt. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/tinyirc Jari DOWNLOAD:

Re: [ITP] libEMF/libEMF1/libEMF-devel: A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles

2005-10-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Dr. Volker Zell on 10/9/2005 11:28 PM: Hi I would like to contribute and maintain the libEMF package: * http://libemf.sourceforge.net/ (Homepage) * http://sourceforge.net/projects/pstoedit (Download location) Any precedence

Please upload: compface-1.5.2-1

2005-10-11 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Please upload at your earliest convinience. cut here #!/bin/bash mkdir -p compface cd compface wget http://cygwin.dev.wapme.net/packages/vzell/cygwin/release/compface/setup.hint wget

Re: [ITP] libEMF/libEMF1/libEMF-devel: A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles

2005-10-11 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake wrote: Any precedence for inclusion in one of the major Linux distros? I couldn't find it on debian, so this may need a few extra votes before inclusion. +1 vote from me; and your packaging looks okay. Gentoo:

Security advisory: uw-imap

2005-10-11 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 uw-imap (whose maintainer, AFAICS, has yet to respond to reply to Corinna's message) is vulnerable to remote overflow of a buffer in the IMAP server leading to execution of arbitrary code. The only solution is to upgrade to 2004g (current Cygwin

Re: Please upload: compface-1.5.2-1

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 11 18:03, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: wget http://cygwin.dev.wapme.net/packages/vzell/cygwin/release/compface/setup.hint wget http://cygwin.dev.wapme.net/packages/vzell/cygwin/release/compface/compface-1.5.2-1.tar.bz2 wget

RE: ATTN: ctags maintainer

2005-10-11 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Warren Young wrote: If there is a ctags maintainer, please stand up and make yourself known! I've also been watching this with interest. Looking in the archives, it appears that the maintainer listed in the ctags README file put out a request for a new maintainer in Dec 2003. I've been waiting

RE: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: IMHO, that was not desirable. Eventually I could imagine X11 and Cygwin native versions of the same package. I liked this method of making the distinction. What does Cygwin native mean? If Cygwin is meant to be a POSIX environment, then X11 should be the

Re: ATTN: ctags maintainer

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 11 13:29, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Warren Young wrote: If there is a ctags maintainer, please stand up and make yourself known! I've also been watching this with interest. Looking in the archives, it appears that the maintainer listed in the ctags README file put out a

update: lilypond-2.6.4-1

2005-10-11 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
I've created lilypond packages for the new upstream stable 2.6.4. This fixes several smallish bugs, amongst which the annoying absolute input file name bug, and packaging bugs. Please upload. Jan. === http://lilypond.org/cygwin/uploads/lilypond/setup.hint

Re: [ITP] libEMF/libEMF1/libEMF-devel: A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles

2005-10-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi I would like to contribute and maintain the libEMF package: * http://libemf.sourceforge.net/ (Homepage) * http://sourceforge.net/projects/pstoedit (Download location) This package could be used by pstoedit which was just ITP'd. Yeah, great. Does this package

Re: [g-b-s Patch] Write and save logfiles for configure/make/check/install

2005-10-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Charles Wilson wrote: James R. Phillips wrote: Interesting idea. I didn't know you could force configure/make/install to produce log files. Wouldn't it be better to produce a separate compressed log file archive, distinct from the source archive? The contents of the source archive have

Re: [ITP] libEMF/libEMF1/libEMF-devel: A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles

2005-10-11 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Gerrit P Haase writes: Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi I would like to contribute and maintain the libEMF package: * http://libemf.sourceforge.net/ (Homepage) * http://sourceforge.net/projects/pstoedit (Download location) This package could be used by pstoedit which was

RE: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] 1) How many of our BDs actually work for Red Hat anymore? 1 (one) Harold also stated: Look, it has been made quite clear to us on several occasions that Red Hat doesn't pay for anyone in their company to do development on Cygwin[...] Is this correct? -- Gary R. Van Sickle

Re: [ITP] libEMF/libEMF1/libEMF-devel: A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles

2005-10-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: So please upload, then maybe James R. Phillips can ITP a pstoedit package which includes EMF support. Uploaded, please announce. Gerrit

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: All of this mucking about with tk and insight requires the concurrence of -- and oodles of extra work by -- the tk maintainer and the insight maintainer. Plus, speculation alert given the centrality of the debugger to the GNUPro product, this

Re: ITP: plotutils-2.4.2 (trial Packaging too)

2005-10-11 Thread Charles Wilson
James R. Phillips wrote: OK, thanks for all the good information. I'll post another set of trial packages shortly. This is turning out to be a lot of work just to get a support library working for pstoedit. But I guess that's life. Yep. But on the plus side, plotutils is a valuable

XDMCP issues

2005-10-11 Thread Loic Domaigne
Hello everybody, I'm trying to get a remote Linux/KDE desktop from my XP box using cygwin. Following the FAQ and various posts, I have proceeded as follows: 1) I made sure that XDMCP is enable on the linux box. 2) In a cygwin shell, I started XWin.exe: $ XWin.exe -query linux_box -from

keymap pb on XWin

2005-10-11 Thread Johan Peyrard
Hello, i am using the cygwin 2.510.2.2 with xfree. I try to have the french keymap or the deutch keymap, and i have coredump... I launch XWin.exe, then i try to change keymap with #setxkbmap.exe de -model pc105 Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model -

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 10 21:59, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: [...] What's stopping us from moving the Win32 tcltk in /opt/win32, and making new *NIX tcl and tk packages in /usr? Then all that's necessary for insight is to add /opt/win32 to PATH (either

Re: XWin hangs on opening xterms, correspondence with setup hangs ??

2005-10-11 Thread Norbert Harendt
Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin.com writes: On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:41:00AM +, Norbert Harendt wrote: Norbert Harendt n.harendt at ib-eckerl.de writes: I encounter shell-hangs with cygwin also when using cygwins setup, so i post the problem also under

Re: Re: XDMCP issues

2005-10-11 Thread Loic Domaigne
Hi Chris, Does have someone an idea what's going wrong? It sounds almost like a permissions/security problem, i.e. your XP box won't *allow* a remote XDMCP to open the display. I do what you;re trying to do on Windows 2000 and I don't remember any problems like this but it may well be

Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Greetings: I am using Cygwin/Xfree: version number:11.0 vendor string:The Cygwin/X Project vendor release number:60802000 The operating system is MS Windows XP. I have found that when using the Tekplot application, if I move the window around a bit, almost always it will begin to

RE: Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Alan Hourihane wrote: Which window manager are you using Jon ? Alan. I'm not sure. I am using pretty much the standard startup for Xwin. How can I find out which I'm using. Jon -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

login xterm session - /etc/profile script adds duplicates to some *PATH vars

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Farley
Hi all, I noticed a slight problem with three of the *PATH variables that are set in a login xterm window, such as the one started by the startxwin.sh script. It seems to be caused by the /etc/profile script blindly adding directories to PATH, MANPATH and INFOPATH. In startxwin.sh, the xterm is

RE: Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Berndt, Jon S
O.k. It sounds like tekplot's problem then on the way it's dealing with window events. Alan. You might be on to something, though. I started up the IRIX window manager, 4Dwm. Most of my windows then had the standard MS-Windows frame, and within that, the Motif-style window manager

RE: Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:20 -0500, Berndt, Jon S wrote: O.k. It sounds like tekplot's problem then on the way it's dealing with window events. Alan. You might be on to something, though. I started up the IRIX window manager, 4Dwm. Most of my windows then had the standard MS-Windows

RE: Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Look in /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh and look for the line that says... XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error and change it to XWin -rootless -clipboard -silent-dup-error That will give you an Xserver with no window manager and then allow you to start the one from your IRIX

RE: Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 12:40 -0500, Berndt, Jon S wrote: Look in /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh and look for the line that says... XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error and change it to XWin -rootless -clipboard -silent-dup-error That will give you an Xserver with no

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Doug VanLeuven
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Wilson wrote: Not gonna happen: it has been stated before on this list that 'insight' *must* run without X -- which means that tk will remain Win32GUI. Tk must remain Win32GUI, or *a* Win32GUI Tk must

RE: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] 1) How many of our BDs actually work for Red Hat anymore? 1 (one) Harold also stated: Look, it has been made quite clear to us on several occasions that Red Hat doesn't pay for anyone in their company to do development on Cygwin[...] Is this correct? -- Gary R. Van Sickle --

problems with X

2005-10-11 Thread Sherrett O. Walker
Hi, all I'm running cygwin on my XP laptop mostly to ssh into a Redhat server. I'm currently seeing some strange behavior. I start X windows by using the startx command, which pops up an Xterm. From there, I usually might use another xterm or two to ssh into different boxes, and I might

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog path.cc

2005-10-11 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-10-11 16:06:11 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog path.cc Log message: * (symlink_info::set_error): Change to return bool if input error should be ignored.

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog syslog.cc

2005-10-11 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-10-11 16:28:08 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog syslog.cc Log message: * syslog.cc (try_connect_syslogd): Add priority parameter. Use writev to add the priority to the

winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winbase.h incl ...

2005-10-11 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-10-11 18:43:54 Modified files: w32api : ChangeLog w32api/include : winbase.h winsock.h Log message: Add ChangeLog: * include/winbase.h (GetProcessId): Declare.

src/winsup/mingw ChangeLog include/time.h

2005-10-11 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-10-12 00:28:11 Modified files: winsup/mingw : ChangeLog winsup/mingw/include: time.h Log message: * include/time.h (_time64): Correct prototype. Patches:

Re: log to a remote syslogd

2005-10-11 Thread Jaime Saiz Santos
You must allow logging from remote hosts on the target machine. See the syslogd -s option. Remote logging from a Cygwin client syslogd to a Linux syslogd works fine here. Thanks. It works indeed. It was an issue of a firewall... __ Este mensaje, y en su caso,

Re: problem with boost 1.33 filesystem

2005-10-11 Thread Václav Haisman
I'll look into it. wilx Lewis Hyatt wrote: Hi All, I apologize if this has been brought up before, but I couldn't find any mention of it. I think the filesystem component of boost v1.33 currently available as part of the cygwin distribution has been compiled incorrectly. As mentioned

Re: boost, boost_unit_test_framework

2005-10-11 Thread Václav Haisman
Mattias Brändström wrote: Hello! I want to write some C++ programs that use boost and compile them using cygwin. What is the recomended way of doing this? Usually when I use the boost libraries (on Fedora Core) I would be able to link my program using gcc by providing -lboost_date_time

Missing readdir_r()

2005-10-11 Thread Václav Haisman
I have noticed that we have readdir_r in Cygwin's sources but I don't see it exported in /usr/include/dirent.h or /usr/include/sys/dirent.h. Is there a reason for it missing or is it just oversight? Vaclav Haisman signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Missing readdir_r()

2005-10-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Václav Haisman on 10/11/2005 6:18 AM: I have noticed that we have readdir_r in Cygwin's sources but I don't see it exported in /usr/include/dirent.h or /usr/include/sys/dirent.h. Is there a reason for it missing or is it just

Re: problem with boost 1.33 filesystem

2005-10-11 Thread Václav Haisman
I tried to build it with BOOST_POSIX but the build fails on missing readdir_r(). The function should be present in next Cygwin release, so I think I will wait for that instead of rolling one short lived package with patch. Vaclav Haisman signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl-0.9.8a-1, openssl-devel-0.9.8a-1, openssl097-0.9.7h-1

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of OpenSSL to 0.9.8a-1. This also includes the openssl-devel package. The compatibility package openssl097 has been updated to 0.9.7h-1. This is a upstream ecurity and bugfix release. The Cygwin release is the vanilla version, no additional patches. Official release

Re: Bug: 1.5.18: 'This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem'

2005-10-11 Thread Glen A Coakley
Thanks for the message; Igor I would have never connected to two but it does sound like the same issue. I understand your uncertainty about it possibly not being changed. I have found other versions of Unix that fail the same way with invalid paths in the PATH. But, I have always considered

gethostbyname_r

2005-10-11 Thread Jason Pyeron
I am tring to port an application, but I cant seem to find the glibc2 gethostbyname_r function. Does anyone know? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc.

Re: gethostbyname_r

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 11 10:15, Jason Pyeron wrote: I am tring to port an application, but I cant seem to find the glibc2 gethostbyname_r function. Does anyone know? It doesn't exist on Cygwin. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project

Re: gethostbyname_r

2005-10-11 Thread Jason Pyeron
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 11 10:15, Jason Pyeron wrote: I am tring to port an application, but I cant seem to find the glibc2 gethostbyname_r function. It doesn't exist on Cygwin. so is this the only way to go? has any one verified the code?

Re: handle_threadlist_exception: handle_threadlist_exception called with threadlist_ix -1

2005-10-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Pavel Tsekov wrote: 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

Logger logs as user.notice

2005-10-11 Thread Jaime Saiz Santos
Hi. I have two questions regarding syslog logger in inetutils package: 1. logger command seems to ignore -p option: it behaves as if user.notice were put always. For instance: $ cat /etc/syslog.conf local3.*/var/log/local3 user.notice/var/log/user $ net

Re: handle_threadlist_exception: handle_threadlist_exception called with threadlist_ix -1

2005-10-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 05:51:00PM +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Pavel Tsekov wrote: 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

Re: gcc -mno-cygwin (incorrectly) looks for libraries in /usr/lib

2005-10-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:02:27PM +0200, Burgers A.R. wrote: When executing a configure script with gcc -mno-cygwin, the script may incorrectly determine a mingw library is present. Yep. It's a long-standing bug. binutils has advanced to the point where ld can now be told to ignore /usr/lib so

Tar and --overwrite-dir

2005-10-11 Thread Václav Haisman
My info tar mentions --overwrite-dir switch but the tar executable itself doesn't seem to know anything about it. Is the documentation out of sync with the executable? My installed tar package is 1.15.1-2. Vaclav Haisman signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: gethostbyname_r

2005-10-11 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Jason Pyeron wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 11 10:15, Jason Pyeron wrote: I am tring to port an application, but I cant seem to find the glibc2 gethostbyname_r function. It doesn't exist on Cygwin. so is this the only way to go? has any

Re: gethostbyname_r

2005-10-11 Thread Richard Campbell
Brian Ford wrote: There is almost no need for gethostbyname_r on Cygwin since its sole purpose is to create a thread safe interface. In most all cases, Cygwin's gethostbyname is thread safe. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00202.html 1) Resolving a numeric host is more common

Re: gethostbyname_r

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 11 12:10, Richard Campbell wrote: Brian Ford wrote: There is almost no need for gethostbyname_r on Cygwin since its sole purpose is to create a thread safe interface. In most all cases, Cygwin's gethostbyname is thread safe. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00202.html

Re: gethostbyname_r

2005-10-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:10:57PM -0400, Richard Campbell wrote: Brian Ford wrote: There is almost no need for gethostbyname_r on Cygwin since its sole purpose is to create a thread safe interface. In most all cases, Cygwin's gethostbyname is thread safe.

Re: Tar and --overwrite-dir

2005-10-11 Thread Eric Blake
[Forwarding to the bug-tar list; originally reported on cygwin] My info tar mentions --overwrite-dir switch but the tar executable itself doesn't seem to know anything about it. Is the documentation out of sync with the executable? My installed tar package is 1.15.1-2. Vaclav Haisman

System V IPC Message Queues and Shared Memory?

2005-10-11 Thread Siegfried Heintze
I'm curious: does cygwin support the msgget, msgsnd, msgrcv msgctl functions from System V IPC? The sample code I downloaded from the www.wrox.com (for the book Beginning Linux Programming 3rd Edition chapter 14) compiles with no errors bug causes a 5032 Bad System call. Should these functions

Re: gethostbyname_r

2005-10-11 Thread Richard Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: AFAIK, cygwin's gethostbyname is thread safe in all cases. Since I was referencing you for the proposition that it was not thread safe in the case of resolving a numeric IP, (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00182.html ) I'll certainly defer to you.

Re: System V IPC Message Queues and Shared Memory?

2005-10-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Siegfried Heintze wrote: I'm curious: does cygwin support the msgget, msgsnd, msgrcv msgctl functions from System V IPC? The sample code I downloaded from the www.wrox.com (for the book Beginning Linux Programming 3rd Edition chapter 14) compiles with no errors bug causes a 5032 Bad System

ruby-1.8.3: ginstall

2005-10-11 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corinna, While building a ruby module (extconf.rb method) with ruby-1.8.3, INSTALL is defined as /usr/bin/ginstall -c. There's no ginstall on Cygwin, just install. Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Using

Re: ruby-1.8.3: ginstall

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 11 12:52, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: While building a ruby module (extconf.rb method) with ruby-1.8.3, INSTALL is defined as /usr/bin/ginstall -c. There's no ginstall on Cygwin, just install. %$#! On my machine I had a ginstall for some reason and I even don't know anymore where

Re: ruby-1.8.3: ginstall

2005-10-11 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corinna Vinschen wrote: As a quick hack, open the file /lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin/rbconfig.rb and edit the CONFIG[INSTALL] line accordingly. If it works, please report back. I'll then upload a new ruby release. That fixes it. Yaakov -BEGIN

Re: ruby-1.8.3: ginstall

2005-10-11 Thread Eric Blake
On Oct 11 12:52, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: While building a ruby module (extconf.rb method) with ruby-1.8.3, INSTALL is defined as /usr/bin/ginstall -c. There's no ginstall on Cygwin, just install. On my machine I had a ginstall for some reason and I even don't know anymore where

Updated: guile-1.6.7-4, guile-1.7.2-3

2005-10-11 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
I have updated the Guile package to versions 1.6.7-4. This is a bugfix release, which fixes several packaging problems. Also available, in the test distribution, is a 1.7.2-3 CVS snapshot, with similar packaging fixes. Guile CVS has, amongst other things, gmp rationals and a new garbage

Re: ruby-1.8.3: ginstall

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 11 18:25, Eric Blake wrote: On Oct 11 12:52, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: While building a ruby module (extconf.rb method) with ruby-1.8.3, INSTALL is defined as /usr/bin/ginstall -c. There's no ginstall on Cygwin, just install. On my machine I had a ginstall for some

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: guile-1.6.7-4, guile-1.7.2-3

2005-10-11 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
I have updated the Guile package to versions 1.6.7-4. This is a bugfix release, which fixes several packaging problems. Also available, in the test distribution, is a 1.7.2-3 CVS snapshot, with similar packaging fixes. Guile CVS has, amongst other things, gmp rationals and a new garbage

Re: Updated: guile-1.6.7-4, guile-1.7.2-3

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 11 20:37, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: I have updated the Guile package to versions 1.6.7-4. This is a bugfix release, which fixes several packaging problems. Were you going to send this to cygwin-announce, perhaps? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails

Re: gethostbyname_r

2005-10-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:35:44PM -0400, Richard Campbell wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: AFAIK, cygwin's gethostbyname is thread safe in all cases. Since I was referencing you for the proposition that it was not thread safe in the case of resolving a numeric IP,

Re: ruby-1.8.3: ginstall

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 11 13:20, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corinna Vinschen wrote: As a quick hack, open the file /lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin/rbconfig.rb and edit the CONFIG[INSTALL] line accordingly. If it works, please report back. I'll then upload a

Re: gethostbyname_r

2005-10-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:10:57PM -0400, Richard Campbell wrote: Brian Ford wrote: There is almost no need for gethostbyname_r on Cygwin since its sole purpose is to create a thread safe interface. In most all cases, Cygwin's gethostbyname is thread safe.

Re: Tasking not implemented on this configuration - again

2005-10-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Peter W Meyer wrote: I am also trying to run tasking using GCC-Ada and cygwin and I'm getting the Tasking not implemented message. I took a look at the emails regarding this and the responses. I went back to Cygwin setup to see what I had installed already and found that I already had the

Re: Regression problem in cygwin1.5.18 and Perl 5.8.6/7

2005-10-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jurgen Defurne wrote: Subject Regression problem in cygwin1.5.18 and Perl 5.8.6/7 Classification [...] Any ideas ? Could test the same with a recent Cygwin snapshot please. http://cygwin.com/snapshots And please include more information in reports like described on

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

2005-10-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -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

Re: gethostbyname_r

2005-10-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:54:32PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:10:57PM -0400, Richard Campbell wrote: Brian Ford wrote: There is almost no need for gethostbyname_r on Cygwin since its sole purpose is to create a thread safe interface. In

Re: Tasking not implemented on this configuration - again

2005-10-11 Thread Peter W Meyer
Peter W Meyer wrote: I am also trying to run tasking using GCC-Ada and cygwin and I'm getting the Tasking not implemented message. I took a look at the emails regarding this and the responses. I went back to Cygwin setup to see what I had installed already and found that I already had

Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-2

2005-10-11 Thread David Rothenberger
On 10/8/2005 7:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote: Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: My bug in 'mkdir -p' in 5.90-1 proved immensely annoying, crippling such things as attempting to build the cygwin dll from CVS. So I have uploaded 5.90-2. I'm having another problem with 'mkdir -p' in 5.90-2. I have a

Re: Tasking not implemented on this configuration - again

2005-10-11 Thread Anh Vo
Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/2005 1:54 PM Peter W Meyer wrote: I am also trying to run tasking using GCC-Ada and cygwin and I'm getting the Tasking not implemented message. I took a look at the emails regarding this and the responses. I went back to Cygwin setup to see what I

.exe suffix from gcc and friends

2005-10-11 Thread Jason Pyeron
Is there a way to disable the .exe suffix when producing output from gcc, ld, etc? I think I missed it in the man pages. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron

Re: please test: coreutils-5.90-2

2005-10-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to David Rothenberger on 10/11/2005 4:13 PM: I'm having another problem with 'mkdir -p' in 5.90-2. I have a script that attempts to do mkdir -p c:/dir1/dir2/dir3. This started failing with a permission denied error for c:/. Hmm. It

Re: ruby-1.8.3: ginstall

2005-10-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/11/2005 12:44 PM: Should I provide a new coreutils release that provides gname variants of the various coreutils as links to the name version, so that cygwin would then indeed have a ginstall in addition to install?

Re: .exe suffix from gcc and friends

2005-10-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jason Pyeron on 10/11/2005 9:19 PM: Is there a way to disable the .exe suffix when producing output from gcc, ld, etc? You can try the brute force method: 'mv foo.exe bar.' (only works on non-managed mounts). But I don't know of any

Updated: openssl-0.9.8a-1, openssl-devel-0.9.8a-1, openssl097-0.9.7h-1

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of OpenSSL to 0.9.8a-1. This also includes the openssl-devel package. The compatibility package openssl097 has been updated to 0.9.7h-1. This is a upstream ecurity and bugfix release. The Cygwin release is the vanilla version, no additional patches. Official release

Updated: guile-1.6.7-4, guile-1.7.2-3

2005-10-11 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
I have updated the Guile package to versions 1.6.7-4. This is a bugfix release, which fixes several packaging problems. Also available, in the test distribution, is a 1.7.2-3 CVS snapshot, with similar packaging fixes. Guile CVS has, amongst other things, gmp rationals and a new garbage