RE: [ITP] graphviz/libgraphviz4/libgraphviz-devel/graphviz-doc/graphviz-contrib: An open source graph visualization software

2008-05-05 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote on 02 May 2008 10:56: Dr. Volker Zell wrote on 02 May 2008 09:20: Hi I would like to contribute and maintain the 'graphviz/libgraphviz4/libgraphviz-devel/graphviz-doc/graphviz-contrib' packages. Your sense of timing is perfect. I just spent an evening trying to

Re: [ITP] graphviz/libgraphviz4/libgraphviz-devel/graphviz-doc/graphviz-contrib: An open source graph visualization software

2008-05-05 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Dave Korn writes: Well, the packaging looks ok, and the binaries appear to work after a bit of crude smoke-testing, but I can't successfully rebuild from source. I've tried on two different systems now (both fairly up-to-date), and they've both hung up at this stage:

setup.exe: Invalid or unsupported tar format

2008-05-05 Thread Thrall, Bryan
I've built setup.exe from source (updated today), and the ChangeLog says Brian Dessent fixed the Invalid or unsupported tar format problem with empty tar.bz2 files, but I am still seeing the error popup. I have an empty meta-package to pull in other packages copied from one of the _obsolete

Re: setup.exe: Invalid or unsupported tar format

2008-05-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Thrall, Bryan wrote: I've built setup.exe from source (updated today), and the ChangeLog says Brian Dessent fixed the Invalid or unsupported tar format problem with empty tar.bz2 files, but I am still seeing the error popup. I have an empty meta-package to pull in other packages copied from

RE: setup.exe: Invalid or unsupported tar format

2008-05-05 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Brian Dessent wrote on Monday, May 05, 2008 4:12 PM: And again, to recap: the reason for generating an error instead of silently moving on in this situation was to diagnose the case where the maintainer used a strange tar implementation to create a package -- without the error the package

Re: setup.exe: Invalid or unsupported tar format

2008-05-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 5/5/2008 3:11 PM: | I have an empty meta-package to pull in other packages copied from one | of the _obsolete packages. I understand these are created via 'tar -T | /dev/null -cjf foo.tar.bz2' (see |

Rsync

2008-05-05 Thread Ronald Finnegan
Can someone please tell me how I can get rsync running on my cygwin install? Thanks Ronald W. Finnegan Bioinformaticist, NIMH Laboratory of Neurotoxicology 10 Center Drive Room 3D42 Bethesda, MD 20892-1262 301 594 3607 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Perl IPC::Cmd

2008-05-05 Thread Ronald Fischer
I'm using perl 5.8.7 for Solaris perl 5.8.8 for Cygwin perl 5.8.10 for Windows (native) To my surprise, the Cygwin version of Perl does not include the standard module IPC::Cmd, though the other two (in particular, the earlier 5.8.7 Perl) do. Is there a particular reason, why IPC::Cmd is

Re: Perl IPC::Cmd

2008-05-05 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: Ronald Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:00 PM Subject: Perl IPC::Cmd I'm using perl 5.8.7 for Solaris perl 5.8.8 for Cygwin perl 5.8.10 for Windows (native) perl 5.8.10 ?? To my surprise, the Cygwin version

Re: Perl IPC::Cmd

2008-05-05 Thread Ronald Fischer
Sisyphus sisyphus1 at optusnet.com.au writes: I'm using perl 5.8.7 for Solaris perl 5.8.8 for Cygwin perl 5.8.10 for Windows (native) perl 5.8.10 ?? Sorry, I meant 5.10.0 Mind you, they don't need a reason to not include a non-core module - the fact that it's not a core module

Can't set access rights with chmod

2008-05-05 Thread Ronald Fischer
Please have a look at the following transscript: $ ls -l x1.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 fischron mkgroup-l-d 104 May 5 15:54 x1.pl $ chmod 0777 x1.pl $ ls -l x1.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 fischron mkgroup-l-d 104 May 5 15:54 x1.pl $ chmod +x x1.pl $ ls -l x1.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 fischron mkgroup-l-d 104 May 5 15:54 x1.pl

Re: Can't set access rights with chmod (additional info)

2008-05-05 Thread Ronald Fischer
Ronald Fischer fischerr.external at infineon.com writes: In addition to what I wrote in the previous posting, I also tried the following: export CYGWIN=smbntsec Now the behaviour changed in that chmod now works well for *new* files created, but for old files I still can't change anything. This

Re: Perl IPC::Cmd

2008-05-05 Thread Reini Urban
Ronald Fischer schrieb: Sisyphus sisyphus1 at optusnet.com.au writes: I'm using perl 5.8.7 for Solaris perl 5.8.8 for Cygwin perl 5.8.10 for Windows (native) perl 5.8.10 ?? Sorry, I meant 5.10.0 Mind you, they don't need a reason to not include a non-core module - the fact that it's not

how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread bench33
In bash, how do you change to another directory? I see that the only directory I can go is home (c:\cygwin) I have other physical drives (d:\). How do I go there? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-to-change-dir-tp17070344p17070344.html Sent from the Cygwin

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM, bench33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In bash, how do you change to another directory? I see that the only directory I can go is home (c:\cygwin) I have other physical drives (d:\). How do I go there? Cygwin apps (including bash) don't understand drive:paths.

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread Roger Wells
Mark J. Reed wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM, bench33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In bash, how do you change to another directory? I see that the only directory I can go is home (c:\cygwin) I have other physical drives (d:\). How do I go there? Cygwin apps (including bash)

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Or you can use the Cygwin mount command. It took me several years(!) to realize the power of this utility. You need do it only once because they're permanent until you change them: mount d:\ /d cd /d By the way, c:\cygwin is /. /home is c:\cygwin\home\your_ID -- Lee Maschmeyer Computing

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Lee Maschmeyer wrote: Or you can use the Cygwin mount command. It took me several years(!) to realize the power of this utility. You need do it only once because they're permanent until you change them: cd 'x:\any windows\path will also\work' I do it all the time when switching between a

Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

2008-05-05 Thread Mark Hanlon
Hello, I am trying to building Lilypond from source using cygwin (Some parts of the lilypond source have to be changed so that is why I can't download the binary :( I am using the configure script supplied with Lilypond. Unfortunately, Lilypond requires GCC 4.0 and above, so I have downloaded

cleanup after failed setup?

2008-05-05 Thread Richard Foulk
Aloha, Periodically, when I try to update Cygwin with setup.exe the process hangs and requires a `cancel' to stop. Often after this setup crashes on subsequent runs after all the various startup questions and leaves nothing in setup.log or setup.log.full to debug with. Is there a way to fix

FW: How to manipulate access control lists (ACL)?

2008-05-05 Thread Siegfried Heintze (Aditi)
I put a query on unix.com and they pointed me to http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl5_acl.htm . I don't understand this link: is it describing a bash command? At bash I type info acl and man acl but I cannot find any description of a bash command for adding an ACL to a file. Can I do

Re: FW: How to manipulate access control lists (ACL)?

2008-05-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote: | I put a query on unix.com and they pointed me to | http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl5_acl.htm . | | I don't understand this link: is it describing a bash command? No, it's not. It describes the format of

Re: FW: How to manipulate access control lists (ACL)?

2008-05-05 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) | At bash I type info acl and man acl but I cannot find any | description of a bash command for adding an ACL to a file. Can I | do this from cygwin bash? getfacl(1) and setfacl(1). FWIW, can also run the Windows commands (e.g. cacls)

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

2008-05-05 Thread Tim Prince
Mark Hanlon wrote: Hello, I am trying to building Lilypond from source using cygwin (Some parts of the lilypond source have to be changed so that is why I can't download the binary :( I am using the configure script supplied with Lilypond. Unfortunately, Lilypond requires GCC 4.0 and above,

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread Mark J. Reed
Ok, so I was totally wrong about Windows paths not working. I guess the OP was running into quoting issues. So the answer: put single quotes around the pathname when using it in bash. On 5/5/08, Lee D. Rothstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Maschmeyer wrote: Or you can use the Cygwin mount

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread bench33
thank you so much everyone!!! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-to-change-dir-tp17070344p17071546.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: how to change dir

2008-05-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Lee D. Rothstein wrote: | cd 'x:\any windows\path will also\work' Or you can escape the backslashes and spaces. e.g.: cd x:\\any\ windows\\path\ will\ also\\work Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: libtool-2.2.2-2 / Updated: libltdl7-2.2.2-2

2008-05-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: | This package had AM_GNU_GETTEXT in configure.ac without any arguments | nor AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION. autoreconf decided not using Gettext[1] | and didn't install config.rpath[2]. But AC_LIB_RPATH (from the included |