Re: please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature to setup.exe

2008-05-30 Thread Jason Spiro
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Buchbinder, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] [...] it seems to me [...] that the benefit:work ratio is high compared to some other improvements to setup. I am a programmer and that seems sensible and correct to me. If one finds a mirror too slow, one can

XKB: Couldn't load XKB keymap (fr_CH)

2008-05-30 Thread Xavier Robin
Hello ! I updated my Cygwin/X server yesterday. I have now the version 6.8.99.901-4. I don't remember what was the previous version. Since then, XKB doesn't work anymore. At xwin start, I can see this: XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory

RE: Couldn't load XKB keymap (fr_CH)

2008-05-30 Thread Phil Betts
Xavier Robin wrote on Friday, May 30, 2008 8:57 AM:: It looks like the file /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 cannot be found. However, it exists: $ ls -l /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 -rwxr--r--+ 1 ROBINX Utilisateurs 12788 Oct 27 2005 /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 (It was -rwx--+ and I

Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap (fr_CH)

2008-05-30 Thread Xavier Robin
Hello, First, thanks for your answer. Phil Betts a écrit : Directories also need the execute permission for one to be able to read them (this is an over-simplification, but essentially true). Actually /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 is a file, not a directory. find /etc/X11 -type d -exec chmod

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog select.cc

2008-05-30 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-05-30 17:56:37 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog select.cc Log message: * select.cc (peek_pipe): Semi-reinstate pipe NT-special write detection. Patches:

Re: serial ports not visible with 1.7 under Vista

2008-05-30 Thread Giovanni Maruzzelli
Thanks Christopher, thanks Dave, the last snapshot (cygwin1-20080529.dll.bz2) works perfectly both with /dev/ttyS5 and /dev/com6 Cheers, Giovanni On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 07:02:40PM +0200, Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote:

Re: binutils 20080523-1: version string breaks python2.5 distutils

2008-05-30 Thread Jason Tishler
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:48:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Why is python even checking the version? Python (i.e., Distutils) is checking versions so that it calls the appropriate driver and supplies the appropriate options. For example, in cygwinccompiler.py we have the following:

Re: binutils 20080523-1: version string breaks python2.5 distutils

2008-05-30 Thread Jason Tishler
Joe, On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:47:23AM +, Joe Pham wrote: If the OP verifies that the attached patch fixes his problem, then I will release a Cygwin Python with this patch applied. +result = re.search('(\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)?)',out_string) It worked, though not 100%: it failed to

Re: MS or cygwin dll debug tools/ was sys/sockio.h etc.

2008-05-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Mike Marchywka wrote: .rdata relocs it is then. This is why I lurk as I now remember something about this and, sure, I can find it on google. Of course, it would still be nice to have a fully instrumented load ( so where do I find the unreolcatable data?) . I relinked with -strip and

gdc update?

2008-05-30 Thread Tom
Hi, this is mainly for Dave Korn. First of all, thanks for integrating gdc into gcc. Do you have any plans to upgrade it? The one cygwin provides is based on dmd 0.12, the current on is 0.24. Thank you, Ciao Tom -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: serial ports not visible with 1.7 under Vista

2008-05-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:47:59AM +0200, Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote: Thanks Christopher, thanks Dave, the last snapshot (cygwin1-20080529.dll.bz2) works perfectly both with /dev/ttyS5 and /dev/com6 Interesting. Thanks for the verification. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: binutils 20080523-1: version string breaks python2.5 distutils

2008-05-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 08:16:10AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:48:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Why is python even checking the version? Python (i.e., Distutils) is checking versions so that it calls the appropriate driver and supplies the appropriate options.

Re: Problems installing on vista, no /bin in path

2008-05-30 Thread Michael Gorven
Hi I'm having this same problem on Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition. In case it helps, here is the output from my system (run from a Cygwin bash shell). This is a fresh installation of Windows with all updates applied. Michael $ bash -x /etc/postinstall/00bash.sh.done + result=0

Cygwin Cron not running

2008-05-30 Thread Jonathan O'Leary
I have been trying for a while to get cron working for cygwin on a windows 2003 Server, but to no avail. When I run cron-config, cron_diagnose states: ... no problem found. INFO: A cron daemon is already running. I have a cron.log file in /var/log, however it is empty. Also, the contents

Re: Cygwin Cron not running

2008-05-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Jonathan O'Leary wrote: I have a cron.log file in /var/log, however it is empty. Also, the contents of /tmp is empty as well. Currently I am trying to run 2 jobs, one is a shell script and one is a simple echo command to a file to see if I can get anything to work. Neither of the jobs

Re: Cygwin Cron not running

2008-05-30 Thread Jonathan O'Leary
Thanks for the info, however, I'm a bit confused. In cronbug it states that the permissions are: -rwxrwx--- 1 lumcon mkgroup-l-d 244 May 30 14:45 /var/cron/tabs/lumcon However, when I run a ls -al I get: -rw-r--r-- 1 lumcon mkgroup-l-d 244 May 30 14:45 /var/cron/tabs/lumcon How/why are they

just added a possible conservative fix for rsync problems

2008-05-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
The latest snapshot at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ has a conservative fix for the bug which has plagued rsync for years. I don't know for sure that it will solve the problem but I'd be interested in hearing success/failure reports here. When reporting success or failure please indicate what OS

Re: Cygwin Cron not running

2008-05-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jonathan O'Leary wrote: Thanks for the info, however, I'm a bit confused. In cronbug it states that the permissions are: -rwxrwx--- 1 lumcon mkgroup-l-d 244 May 30 14:45 /var/cron/tabs/lumcon However, when I run a ls -al I get: -rw-r--r-- 1 lumcon mkgroup-l-d 244 May 30 14:45

Cygwin - linker errors - __assert, __itob and __ftol

2008-05-30 Thread C S
hi all - i am trying to compile a C++ native library using the shapelibrary. the one for linux is built but in cygwin i seem to be having some linker error problems and i have to assume it has to do with something regarding MSVC. i am including Java because i am using JNI to talk back and forth to

Re: Cygwin - linker errors - __assert, __itob and __ftol

2008-05-30 Thread Tim Prince
C S wrote: hi all - i am trying to compile a C++ native library using the shapelibrary. the one for linux is built but in cygwin i seem to be having some linker error problems and i have to assume it has to do with something regarding MSVC. i am including Java because i am using JNI to talk back

Re: Cygwin - linker errors - __assert, __itob and __ftol

2008-05-30 Thread C S
i did not know about gcj. i guess i missed that somehow? thanks for the tip. my command line right now is: gcj -D__int64=long long -shared -I C:\Apps\Java\jdk1.6.0_05\include -I C:\Apps\Java\jdk1.6.0_05\include\win32 -I C:\Users\usmsci\My Documents\shapefiles\shapelib-1.2.10\shapelib-1.2.10 -I

Re: Cygwin - linker errors - __assert, __itob and __ftol

2008-05-30 Thread C S
i realized after i sent that last email that maybe i wasnt clear earlier that i already have created a .h file to match my JNI .Cpp file using the javah utility. so i have already done the work for that. i just need to link that up into my own .DLL to be used by a .java class. already have it