I broke cygport

2006-10-16 Thread Charles Wilson
I'm currently working on a bunch of release announcements for update packages...but first things first: One of those updates is autoconf2.5-2.59 -- autoconf2.5-2.60 (yes, it's weird. But the received wisdom is that autoconf-2.60 is considered a continuation of the 2.5x line of

Re: I broke cygport

2006-10-16 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Wilson wrote: For most purposes, this is transparent. You run autoconf which is the wrapper, and you get the right version. However, cygport explicitly tests for the presence of autoconf-2.5x in $PATH. This patch makes cygport's search

X11R7.1

2006-10-16 Thread djh
Is any work being done to port the latest X-windows. My understanding is that X11R7.1 in March of this year. Reference: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/PressReleases/X11R71Released Please respond with cc to me, since I am not a list member yet. But I woul like to know what, if anything

Re: xterm Xt error: Can't open display

2006-10-16 Thread claire wilson
Many thanks for your help, it was very useful and much appreciated. I made a .xinitrc in my home directory and this did not work. However when I turned off my internet security software (norton internet security), cygwin worked fine. upon further examination i found out that norton was blocking

Re: help for cygwin and XWin

2006-10-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
First, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE. Second, this was not my bug -- I simply redirected the message to the appropriate list (as I'm doing with yours now). More below. On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Patrick HENRY wrote: I am blocked with exactly the same bug you have get with cygwin 2 years ago.

Re: Fwd: windows patch breaks cygwin/x

2006-10-16 Thread Gerhard Gonter
B52 wrote: I have KB925486 installed on my XP also but my Cygwin/X seems to work fine... I'm glad to report that after reapplying the patch today, Cygwin/X remained functional. Whatever caused the original problem, it seems to be gone now. GG -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ferran Mazzanti wrote: I can directly preview .dvi files displaying the postscript figures. I have solved in this way: cd /bin mv gs.exe gs.exe.orig ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/gs.exe gs.exe Cygwin, Why there are these two version, X and non-X of ghostscript? Once, someone said

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog autoload.cc fhandl ...

2006-10-16 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-10-16 12:27:00 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog autoload.cc fhandler.cc fhandler_disk_file.cc security.cc Log message: * autoload.cc (PrivilegeCheck):

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog

2006-10-16 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-10-16 12:31:19 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog Log message: Fix pathnames. Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog include/asm/byteor ...

2006-10-16 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-10-16 12:34:34 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog winsup/cygwin/include/asm: byteorder.h Log message: * include/asm/byteorder.h: Fix copyright dates. Fix typos in

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog autoload.cc enviro ...

2006-10-16 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Branch: cr-0x5f1 Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-10-16 12:46:34 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog autoload.cc environ.cc errno.cc fhandler.cc fhandler_disk_file.cc security.cc

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file.cc

2006-10-16 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-10-16 13:11:29 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file.cc Log message: * fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_disk_file::opendir): Drop redundant access check.

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file.cc

2006-10-16 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Branch: cr-0x5f1 Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-10-16 13:11:46 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file.cc Log message: * fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_disk_file::opendir): Drop redundant

src/winsup/utils ChangeLog regtool.cc utils.sgml

2006-10-16 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-10-16 18:00:07 Modified files: winsup/utils : ChangeLog regtool.cc utils.sgml Log message: * regtool.cc (KEY_WOW64_64KEY): Define. (longopts): Add --wow64 option. (opts):

src/winsup/utils ChangeLog regtool.cc

2006-10-16 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-10-16 19:34:27 Modified files: winsup/utils : ChangeLog regtool.cc Log message: * regtool.cc (KEY_WOW64_64KEY): Drop definition. Instead define WINVER to 0x0502 before including

Re: 1.5.21-2 CYGWIN1.DLL Invalid Page Fault (in a new thread)

2006-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 15 12:50, Charles Brockman wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Should I try anything else? I'm not sure. Maybe look around on your system (using the Windows find utility) to see if there is another cygwin*.dll on your system. No, just the one copy of cygwin1.dll. For now I'll chalk

Re: Updated: OpenSSH-4.4p1-1

2006-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 13 11:20, Charles Wilson wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 11 16:20, Wells, Roger K. wrote: When I installed this my previous installation broke and now the sshd server stops immediately when it is started. Any hints will be appreciated. thanks Maybe that's it:

GDB

2006-10-16 Thread Schraner, Philipp
Gnu debugger (6.3 and 6.5) for cygwin (called cygwin-special in version-postfix) seems to have a burried feature. How can it manage that Eclipse stops a running process? A standard compiled gdb is not able to do so. cygwin-special gdb uses some DLLs not implicitly clear to know why (i.e.

Re: Git port to Cygwin

2006-10-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:23:15AM +0900, William Baxter wrote: Pardon the direct mail, but what is the status of Git with Cygwin? I'm surprised that there is still no 'git' appearing in the Cygwin Setup tool, even now about a year after the port was completed. I'm interested in using Git for my

Re: 1.5.21-2 CYGWIN1.DLL Invalid Page Fault (in a new thread)

2006-10-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:43:50AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 15 12:50, Charles Brockman wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Should I try anything else? I'm not sure. Maybe look around on your system (using the Windows find utility) to see if there is another cygwin*.dll on your

Re: GDB

2006-10-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:14:27PM +0200, Schraner, Philipp wrote: Gnu debugger (6.3 and 6.5) for cygwin (called cygwin-special in version-postfix) seems to have a burried feature. How can it manage that Eclipse stops a running process? A standard compiled gdb is not able to do so.

Re: Permission to read anything from ls, cp, and find?

2006-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 12 16:24, David Arnstein wrote: I have a bash shell script that I run every night using Windows task scheduler. The purpose of this script is to take an inventory of my PC, and to make copies of a few important files. The script calls ls, find, cp, and a few other ordinary Linux/Unix

Re: Permission to read anything from ls, cp, and find?

2006-10-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/16/2006 7:14 AM: Please be aware that one problem remains. The Windows function SetCurrentDirectory, which is the base function used by chdir(2), apparently tries to open the directory in which to change

Re: 1.5.21: problem with xinetd permissions

2006-10-16 Thread Eran Cohanim
well, I've allso changed permissions for user eran and it still doesnt work - I must mention that in the past I didnt have to change permissions or do anything special for making it work and it did work for me. I suspect that something during istallation has changed that make this problem

Re: Permission to read anything from ls, cp, and find?

2006-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 16 07:21, Eric Blake wrote: According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/16/2006 7:14 AM: for instance, find(1) traverses directory trees by chdir'ing into directories before listing them. So even with this patch, find(1) is still not a good candidate for backing up directory trees in a

Re: Updated: OpenSSH-4.4p1-1 (FAQ ALERT)

2006-10-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 13 11:20, Charles Wilson wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 11 16:20, Wells, Roger K. wrote: When I installed this my previous installation broke and now the sshd server stops immediately when it is started. Any hints will be

FW: crontab problems on a PC with 'roaming profile'

2006-10-16 Thread Erik Wildt
Hello, I am trying to use cron on a pc with a roaming profile. Here is the crontab entry (which runs on a stand-alone laptop) $ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.3228 installed on Mon Oct 16 11:36:29 2006) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8

Error in rebaseall

2006-10-16 Thread João Esteves
Hello: When running rebaseall in ash, I get the following error: 8 [main] rebase 3792 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state (probably corrupted stack) Signal 11 What does it mean? Did it run completly or it stopped in the midle? Regards. Joao -- Unsubscribe info:

Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Ferran Mazzanti
Hi group, first of all let me tell you that I'm new to the list, so please bear with me if this is very old or known. I've tried a search on the list but didn't manage to get anything on this line... The fact is that I've installed the latest release of cygwin, in an attempt to have a unixlike

Re: emacs hangs at start, or sometime later

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Brown
Eric Twietmeyer ept at terrex.com writes: I am having some problems with my emacs. I have 21.2-13 installed, and recently it started locking up after some time, from ~1 hour to 3-4 hours. The window would not repaint. The emacs process usage goes up to 50%, then close to 100%, until

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Toby Allsopp
On 17 Oct 2006 at 05:47 NZDT, Ferran Mazzanti wrote: The fact is that I've installed the latest release of cygwin, in an attempt to have a unixlike enviroment under my Windows box. I use LaTeX extensively and so I thought this could be a good solution. However, whenever I include postscript

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ferran Mazzanti wrote: I can directly preview .dvi files displaying the postscript figures. I have solved in this way: cd /bin mv gs.exe gs.exe.orig ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/gs.exe gs.exe Cygwin, Why there are these two version, X and non-X of ghostscript? Once, someone said

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ferran Mazzanti wrote: I can directly preview .dvi files displaying the postscript figures. I have solved in this way: cd /bin mv gs.exe gs.exe.orig ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/gs.exe gs.exe Cygwin, Why there are these two version, X and non-X of

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Larry Hall wrote: As I recall, the reason for have a no-X version was so that people don't have to install X to use ghostscript. I do not remember that on Linux there are X and no-X of ghostscript. If Cygwin aims to reproduce Linux on Windows who installs Cygwin should also installs a

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Angelo Graziosi wrote: If Cygwin aims to reproduce Linux on Windows who installs Cygwin should also installs a minimum of X. I don't recall installing X being a prerequisite of a functional, useful Linux system. I regularly use Linux boxes for which my need for X is minimal-to-nonexistent.

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Matthew Woehlke wrote: Angelo Graziosi wrote: If Cygwin aims to reproduce Linux on Windows who installs Cygwin should also installs a minimum of X. I don't recall installing X being a prerequisite of a functional, useful Linux system. I regularly use Linux boxes for which my need for X is

Re: Can not start UltraEdit using cygwin path

2006-10-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2006-10-16, Igor Peshansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, lin q wrote: I download gvim myself from vim web site and installed it, it is not the one in cygwin package. This is the reason I think the application does not have to be from cygwin package. The application

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Toby Allsopp wrote: On 17 Oct 2006 at 05:47 NZDT, Ferran Mazzanti wrote: The fact is that I've installed the latest release of cygwin, in an attempt to have a unixlike enviroment under my Windows box. I use LaTeX extensively and so I thought this could be a good

RE: emacs hangs at start, or sometime later

2006-10-16 Thread Eric Twietmeyer
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Brown Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:34 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: emacs hangs at start, or sometime later Eric Twietmeyer ept at terrex.com writes: I am having some problems

Re: Known problems with rsync 2.6.6? (Solved)

2006-10-16 Thread Andy Pitonyak
Whale VPN CLient interfers. I understand that other VPN clients also prevent rsync from working, even on local drives. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: Known problems with rsync 2.6.6? (Solved)

2006-10-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Andy Pitonyak wrote: Whale VPN CLient interfers. I understand that other VPN clients also prevent rsync from working, even on local drives. With the Cisco VPN client, I find many ports are blocked. Port 22 is open however so you may want to investigate using rsync over ssh if this port is an

Re: Known problems with rsync 2.6.6? (Solved)

2006-10-16 Thread Andy Pitonyak
Andy Pitonyak wrote: Whale VPN CLient interfers. I understand that other VPN clients also prevent rsync from working, even on local drives. With the Cisco VPN client, I find many ports are blocked. Port 22 is open however so you may want to investigate using rsync over ssh if this port is

Re: Known problems with rsync 2.6.6? (Solved)

2006-10-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Andy Pitonyak wrote: Andy Pitonyak wrote: Whale VPN CLient interfers. I understand that other VPN clients also prevent rsync from working, even on local drives. With the Cisco VPN client, I find many ports are blocked. Port 22 is open however so you may want to investigate using rsync over