Re: [Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fontconfig-2.4.1-1

2006-11-10 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Dr. Volker Zell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: libfontconfig1-2.4.1-1 contains /usr/lib/libfontconfig.la which belongs to libfontconfig-devel... I think. The .la files are needed at runtime if client code uses libtool's libltdl's dlopen'ing to access the shared library. For example, try readline

RE: Using make in the latest cygwin

2006-11-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10 November 2006 08:00, Eric Knudstrup wrote: I just updated my cygwin install and found that my old gmake from a vendor no longer worked. The cygwin install will not have touched your old gmake from a vendor, unless of course your old gmake is called make.exe and lives in /bin, in which

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-5.2-3, libreadline6-5.2-3

2006-11-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline and libreadline6, 5.2-3, is available for use. 5.1-5 is now the previous version, and the 5.0 series no longer available on the cygwin mirrors. NEWS: = This is a new stable upstream release. Most importantly, it FINALLY

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.3-5

2006-11-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.2.3-5, has been promoted to current. This leaves 3.1-6 as the previous version (and not 3.1-9, since only 3.1-6 will work if you downgrade cygwin). NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, including several official

setup.hint - file

2006-11-10 Thread chrishawaii
Dear Cygwin-friends, I got a big problem in creating a userfriendly cygwin-installation. For this I want to set only two certain packages (procmail, wget) as default instead of Skip (apart from the base packages). I read on cygwin-page, that I have to create a setup.hint-file for every package.

Re: 1.5.21: Problem building C application in Cygwin

2006-11-10 Thread * *
On 11/7/06, Narayana V.V.L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have installed Cygwin on my system (WinXP). I have an written a sample application in Visual Studio 2005. When I try to build(compile) this application in cygwin using VC8 compiler make file it fails. But the same application builds

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.3-5

2006-11-10 Thread Bret Weinraub
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: A new release of bash, 3.2.3-5, has been promoted to current. This leaves 3.1-6 as the previous version (and not 3.1-9, since only 3.1-6 will work if you downgrade cygwin). complete release message deleted. I've adopted 3.2.3-5 (after previously

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.3-5

2006-11-10 Thread Eric Blake
Bret Weinraub bretweinraub at yahoo.com writes: Details: bash --version 3.2.3(5)-release sh --version 3.1.17(9)-release Evil. /bin/sh is supposed to be at the same version of bash, if you installed things correctly. It sounds like your postinstall scripts did not run correctly

Re: How to obtain a patch for viewing

2006-11-10 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! In case this wasn't clear enough, there is a Src? box behind most cygwin packages when you use setup.exe, if you check that you will find the source package and patches in /usr/src/. Thanks I was not aware of that or In general you find information regarding building a cygwin package

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.3-5

2006-11-10 Thread Bret Weinraub
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: Bret Weinraub bretweinraub at yahoo.com writes: Details: bash --version 3.2.3(5)-release sh --version 3.1.17(9)-release Evil. /bin/sh is supposed to be at the same version of bash, if you installed things correctly. It

Need Help Identifying X based packages

2006-11-10 Thread Bryan Dunphy
I need to install a CLI only version of cygwin. How can I identify X based packages so as not to accidentally install them? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Problem with C app compiled under cygwin on win32

2006-11-10 Thread P
Hi all, I have an C program (japach) that I compiled under cygwin on Windows NT. That application runs fine on all versions of win32 but problem arises when I ran it on Windows x64. Should it be compatible on x64 since it has WOW which would allow 32-bit applications to run in Windows x64? Is

Re: Need Help Identifying X based packages

2006-11-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Bryan Dunphy wrote: I need to install a CLI only version of cygwin. How can I identify X based packages so as not to accidentally install them? Don't install those in the X category in 'setup.exe'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc.

Re: Need Help Identifying X based packages

2006-11-10 Thread Bryan
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Bryan Dunphy wrote: I need to install a CLI only version of cygwin. How can I identify X based packages so as not to accidentally install them? Don't install those in the X category in 'setup.exe'. I tried that, it still installed some parts of X --

CreateFileMapping problem again

2006-11-10 Thread Tadeusz J Liszka
I saw this thread ending in August, but there was no happy ending. I have newer version and see this problems practically every few seconds during compilation, even during ssh login: 7 [main] uname 2044 C:\cygwin\bin\uname.exe: *** fatal error - C:\cygwin\bin\uname.exe: ***

Rsync 2.6.9: File name too long (91)

2006-11-10 Thread JPL
Hi, We are having the same problem then the one you already answers last year in: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00395.html Since the cygwin-1.5.21-1 specified that future release might not support win_9x Do you have any plan for supporting longer path/filename than the actual 260

Re: cyg mem limit or network failure? Other? dd(dsk-net).blksz=64M: Fail

2006-11-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 9 00:56, Linda Walsh wrote: I was running some network bandwidth tests using dd (WinXP2/Cygwin) I was timing copies of a 300MB file from local disk to a remote server. The local computer has enough memory to hold the file in the memory cache once it is

Re: Need Help Identifying X based packages

2006-11-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Bryan wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Bryan Dunphy wrote: I need to install a CLI only version of cygwin. How can I identify X based packages so as not to accidentally install them? Don't install those in the X category in 'setup.exe'. I tried that, it still installed some parts of X

Re: Rsync 2.6.9: File name too long (91)

2006-11-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
JPL wrote: Hi, We are having the same problem then the one you already answers last year in: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00395.html Since the cygwin-1.5.21-1 specified that future release might not support win_9x Do you have any plan for supporting longer path/filename than

Re: cyg mem limit or network failure? Other? dd(dsk-net).blksz=64M: Fail

2006-11-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 9 00:56, Linda Walsh wrote: I was running some network bandwidth tests using dd (WinXP2/Cygwin) I was timing copies of a 300MB file from local disk to a remote server. The local computer has enough memory to hold the file in the memory cache once it is

Bash Here... menu option howto reg-entry

2006-11-10 Thread Linda Walsh
After some time debugging I figured out a way to add a prompt option to the right-click menu on directories and drives that works for my alternate drives and network directories. I think it should be able to be generalized for other shells, but I use Bash. The reg-entry for directories is:

Re: Need Help Identifying X based packages

2006-11-10 Thread Bryan
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Bryan wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Bryan Dunphy wrote: I need to install a CLI only version of cygwin. How can I identify X based packages so as not to accidentally install them? Don't install those in the X category in 'setup.exe'. I tried that, it

Re: Bash Here... menu option howto reg-entry

2006-11-10 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Linda, Just a quick note. In the setup programme, there is an option to have 'Open Bash Prompt Here' context menu added to the right-click menu. Hugh On 11/11/06, Linda Walsh wrote: After some time debugging I figured out a way to add a prompt option to the right-click menu on

Re: Need Help Identifying X based packages

2006-11-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Bryan wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Bryan wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Bryan Dunphy wrote: I need to install a CLI only version of cygwin. How can I identify X based packages so as not to accidentally install them? Don't install those in the X category in 'setup.exe'. I tried

Updated: readline-5.2-3, libreadline6-5.2-3

2006-11-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline and libreadline6, 5.2-3, is available for use. 5.1-5 is now the previous version, and the 5.0 series no longer available on the cygwin mirrors. NEWS: = This is a new stable upstream release. Most importantly, it FINALLY