Re: [Preliminary Patch] setup.exe size/position restore on startup

2009-05-15 Thread Chris January
Hello Jonathon, On Wed, 13 May 2009 21:59:38 -0400, Jonathon Merz jonathon.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Per Dave Korn's suggestion in: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00208.html - If setup.exe exits while in a maximized state, it will be maximized on next startup,

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/15/2009 12:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote: At any rate, I'm rather tired of several YEARS of choosing the 'Exp'erimental version of emacs from setup.exe, all because 22.1-3 works better for me than the 'Stable' version. I'm all for whatever you provide, and will be grateful for whatever you

Re: [Preliminary Patch] setup.exe size/position restore on startup

2009-05-15 Thread Jonathon Merz
Hi Chris, On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Chris January wrote: You really ought to be using Get/SetWindowPlacement rather than GetWindowPos, IsZoomed etc. GetWindowPlacement works in workspace coordinates, whereas GetWindowPos works with screen coordinates so your code won't work properly

Re: [Preliminary Patch] setup.exe size/position restore on startup

2009-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:24:56AM -0400, Jonathon Merz wrote: Hi Chris, On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Chris January wrote: You really ought to be using Get/SetWindowPlacement rather than GetWindowPos, IsZoomed etc. GetWindowPlacement works in workspace coordinates, whereas GetWindowPos

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:04:10AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/15/2009 12:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote: At any rate, I'm rather tired of several YEARS of choosing the 'Exp'erimental version of emacs from setup.exe, all because 22.1-3 works better for me than the 'Stable' version. I'm all for

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/15/2009 10:46 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: If you release a new 1.5 version now then you will have a few weeks at least to work out any wrinkles. So, it might make sense to have a stable version of emacs since the old version apparently had so many problems. That sounds like a good

Please use either sourceware.org or (when possible) cygwin.com in announcement messages

2009-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
I think many people have copied an old announcement of mine for their cygwin-announce messages which includes a http://sources.redhat.com/...; URL. That name is now deprecated. Please change this URL to point to either sourceware.org or cygwin.com as appropriate. The reason for this is that

Re: Please use either sourceware.org or (when possible) cygwin.com in announcement messages

2009-05-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
And, no, I'm not going to automatically add the unsubscribe message to everything that shows up for cygwin-announce. But thanks for asking. Since this is something that probably every person wonders about who ever posts to cygwin-announce, perhaps it would be useful for you to restate the

Fundraising for new computer

2009-05-15 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
Cygwin/X users, Last fall, with Jon's technical assistance, I took on updating the long-unmaintained Cygwin/X and released X11R7.4. Since then we have released over 30 package updated, including six patch revisions to the server. Work on preparing X.Org Server 1.6 and GNOME 2.26 for Cygwin 1.7

RE: Windows 7 RC1 and Cygwin 1.7

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 1:13 PM I have installed Windows 7 RC1 (64-bit) as well as Cygwin 1.7, including the Xorg stuff in the Cygwin setup-1.7.exe file I can start the X server

Re: Windows 7 RC1 and Cygwin 1.7

2009-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:22:23PM -0700, Mike Ayers wrote: P.S. That was speculation. Hopefully someone will have a real answer soon. This was already discussed in the main cygwin list. There is a workaround in the latest version of Cygwin 1.7.x.

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog wchar.h

2009-05-15 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-05-15 11:27:41 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog wchar.h Log message: * wchar.h (sys_mbstowcs): Add missing __stdcall attribute. Patches:

Re: Question of the necessity of rebaseall

2009-05-15 Thread Matt Wozniski
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:23:08PM +, Eric Blake wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: We can't say it enough: Read the source. Is this a place where using vfork() instead of fork() helps (where it's applicable, of course)?  If so, we

[1.7] mkpasswd and mkgroup ignore user and group names with national characters

2009-05-15 Thread Alexey Borzenkov
I'm in a domain at work and previously used mkpasswd -d and mkgroup -d to populate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Unfortunately, we mostly use Russian versions of Windows (especially on servers) here and most built-in user and group names (like Administrator, Domain Users, etc.) are localized.

Re: [1.7] bug in printf and %ls

2009-05-15 Thread Alexey Borzenkov
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Alexey Borzenkov sna...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in a domain at work and previously used mkpasswd -d and mkgroup -d to populate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Unfortunately, we mostly use Russian versions of Windows (especially on servers) here and most

Re: [1.7] mkpasswd and mkgroup ignore user and group names with national characters

2009-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 15 11:43, Alexey Borzenkov wrote: I'm in a domain at work and previously used mkpasswd -d and mkgroup -d to populate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Unfortunately, we mostly use Russian versions of Windows (especially on servers) here and most built-in user and group names (like

Re: [1.7] bug in printf and %ls

2009-05-15 Thread Alexey Borzenkov
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Alexey Borzenkov sna...@gmail.com wrote: And I found why. It appears that there's a bug in printf with %ls that will refuse to print the string completely if the wide string for %ls cannot be represented in current charset. [...] Prints nothing, i.e. it

Re: [1.7] bug in printf and %ls

2009-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 15 13:30, Alexey Borzenkov wrote: [...] It appears that there's a bug in printf with %ls that will refuse to print the string completely if the wide string for %ls cannot be represented in current charset. It's interesting that sometimes it behaves differently. For example: $

Re: Cygwin 1.7 setup question

2009-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 14 13:54, Karl M wrote: From: corinna It's not running scripts as administrators.none, it's running them as user.users-primary-group. That's None for all local accounts. Is this setup behavior expected to stay the same, or eventually run them as administrator.administrators? It

Re: [1.7] bug in printf and %ls

2009-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 15 13:49, Alexey Borzenkov wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Alexey Borzenkov sna...@gmail.com wrote: And I found why. It appears that there's a bug in printf with %ls that will refuse to print the string completely if the wide string for %ls cannot be represented in current

Re: [1.7] Proposal: the filename encoding in C locale uses UTF-8 instead of SO/UTF-8

2009-05-15 Thread IWAMURO Motonori
2009/5/15 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com: I have just trouble with SJIS, but that's not something I can easily test. Maybe you can look into that in the next couple of days? Maybe I can. Please explain details of the trouble. -- IWAMURO Motnori http://vmi.jp/ -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests]

2009-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 14 17:51, Jeff Johnston wrote: Corinna, I have no problem with checking the new patch in and extending this later, assuming you have thoroughly tested this implementation. I tested it with _MB_CAPABLE defined and with _MB_CAPABLE undefined. Both variations worked as expected, the

Re: [1.7] Proposal: the filename encoding in C locale uses UTF-8 instead of SO/UTF-8

2009-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 15 20:34, IWAMURO Motonori wrote: 2009/5/15 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com: I have just trouble with SJIS, but that's not something I can easily test. Maybe you can look into that in the next couple of days? Maybe I can. Please explain details of the trouble. Probably I

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
New experimental versions of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages are now available for download for those testing cygwin 1.7, replacing the previous experimental 22.1-3 packages. I have left 21.2-13 as current. CYGWIN NEWS: This is the first release in almost two years,

Re: [1.7] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/15/2009 9:09 AM, gustav wrote: Dear Ken, First, thank you so much for having taken care of Emacs! I enclose a patch to rmail.el, which I always have to apply, because version 21.2 normally attempts to create files with po:, but neither Windows nor Cygwin tolerate that. Current rmail.el

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-48

2009-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-48. The list with the changes related to the previous test release 1.7.0-47 is attached below. === IMPORTANT NOTE This -48 test release

Calling Cygwin to start a shellscript

2009-05-15 Thread Thomas Wiedmann
Hello, How can a shellscript be called from the Windows cmd console using Cygwin, i. e. by which command, options and arguments has Cygwin to be called to run a shellscript, e. g. myscript.sh? Thomas Wiedmann -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Calling Cygwin to start a shellscript

2009-05-15 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Thomas Wiedmann th...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, How can a shellscript be called from the Windows cmd console using Cygwin, i. e. by which command, options and arguments has Cygwin to be called to run a shellscript, e. g. myscript.sh? Thomas Wiedmann What I have

libtool, how should the version be parsed?

2009-05-15 Thread René Berber
Hi, I was trying to build some package and it complained that libtool 1.4 was needed... looking at the version: $ libtool --version libtool (GNU libtool 1.3081 2009-02-17) 2.2.7a Is it 1.3081 or 2.2.7a? I see at gnu.org that the latest stable is 2.2.6a, so I suppose the one in Cygwin (1.7) is

Re: libtool, how should the version be parsed?

2009-05-15 Thread Charles Wilson
René Berber wrote: Hi, I was trying to build some package and it complained that libtool 1.4 was needed... looking at the version: $ libtool --version libtool (GNU libtool 1.3081 2009-02-17) 2.2.7a Is it 1.3081 or 2.2.7a? It is 2.2.7a. You can see that from the announcement here:

Re: libtool, how should the version be parsed?

2009-05-15 Thread René Berber
Charles Wilson wrote: [snip] So, next time, kindly refrain from accusing my package of insanity. But while we're on the subject...libtool-1.4 dates from 27-Nov-2003, more than 5.5 years ago... Thanks for all the info. I learned something new. As for the old version, that's just a

Re: [1.7] Proposal: the filename encoding in C locale uses UTF-8 instead of SO/UTF-8

2009-05-15 Thread Lenik
(This mail is encoded in utf-8) After tested with 1.7.0-48, many problems are eliminated. But cygpath doesn't return good pathnames, see: 1, Get absolute path of current directory: C:\Profiles\Shecti\桌面 set LANG=zh_CN.GBK cygpath -am . C:/Profiles/Shecti/桌面 (good)

[1.7] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1

2009-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
New experimental versions of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages are now available for download for those testing cygwin 1.7, replacing the previous experimental 22.1-3 packages. I have left 21.2-13 as current. CYGWIN NEWS: This is the first release in almost two years,

[1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-48

2009-05-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-48. The list with the changes related to the previous test release 1.7.0-47 is attached below. === IMPORTANT NOTE This -48 test release