[PATCH] Update location of mirrors list on package-server.html

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Something I noticed while answering a post on the main list this morning. http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html still refers to the old mirrors.txt file, which is no longer extant. This patch updates it to refer to the canonical mirrors.lst file instead. *

Re: [PATCH] Update location of mirrors list on package-server.html

2009-09-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:21:24PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Something I noticed while answering a post on the main list this morning. http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html still refers to the old mirrors.txt file, which is no longer extant. This patch updates it to refer to

[GTG] Re: [ITP] libproxy

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Yaakov writes: libproxy is a library which abstracts away the details of proxy handling. It is a prerequisite of libsoup, which in turn used by several other GNOME components. ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/libproxy/libproxy-0.2.3-2-src.tar.bz2

Vim and gVim

2009-09-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Corinna, I would like to change how we are handling the vim/gvim installation. gvim.exe still includes the terminal interface, and will use it if $DISPLAY is unset or if called as vim, except that it accepts the '-g' argument. (Same goes for view/vimdiff/rvim/rview). This becomes important

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] mpclib-0.7-1

2009-09-16 Thread David Billinghurst
mpclib-0.7-1 has been released for cygwin 1.7. PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.multiprecision.org/mpc Download: http://www.multiprecision.org/index.php?prog=mpcpage=download License: Gnu Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later MPC is a C library for the

cron

2009-09-16 Thread Μηχανογράφηση ΔΔΕ Α΄ Αθήνας
Cron installs as service without problems but does not run jobs. Same thing happens when it is installed without the '-D' argument (so that Windows does not monitor the service). Current version -rwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator Users 5373 Oct 21 2008 /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-7.README Running

setup.exe: Determine Geographically closest mirror programmatically

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Christoph Gille
Closest mirror? I'm not sure what you mean by this. 'setup.exe' does not require this as a setting. Actually, there is no such concept. You need to specify a mirror to work with but you can do that with '-s'. With each superfluous click I lose a user, so it would be best if setup.exe

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-16 Thread Lapo Luchini
Linda Walsh wrote: However the local rsync was build without the external attribute support. Yes, configure fails to detect it, with the following error: configure:8048: checking for __facl configure:8048: gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest.exe -O2 -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -W conftest.c -lpopt

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-16 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: However the local rsync was build without the external attribute support. Yes, configure fails to detect it, with the following error: configure:8048: checking for __facl No, sorry about the noise, that has nothing to do with xattrs, it's the

Re: setup.exe: Determine Geographically closest mirror programmatically

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Dr. Christoph Gille wrote: Closest mirror? I'm not sure what you mean by this. 'setup.exe' does not require this as a setting. Actually, there is no such concept. You need to specify a mirror to work with but you can do that with '-s'. With each superfluous click I lose a user, so it

Re: Cygwin 1.7/1.5 C99 conformance (GCC, libc)

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Matthias Andree wrote: Now, Cygwin 1.5 and 1.7 appear to lack long double library support in libc/libm -- which is required for a hosted C99 implementation however, but not for a freestanding C99 implementation. Trying to solve this, I found another Cygwin issue: GCC 3.4.4 sets

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.5] Updated: {libidn/libidn11/libidn-devel}-1.15-1: International Domain Name library

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libidn/libidn11/libidn-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Update to latest upstream release libidn NEWS: === * Version 1.15 (released 2009-06-08) ** libidn: Use c_strcasecmp instead of strcasecmp. For portability

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {t1lib/libt1lib5/libt1lib-devel}-5.1.2-10: Rasterizer library for Adobe Type 1 Fonts

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 't1lib/libt1lib5/libt1lib-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Rebuild for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.5] Updated: {libtasn1/libtasn13/libtasn1-devel}-2.2-1: Tiny ASN.1 library

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libtasn1/libtasn13/libtasn1-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Update to latest upstream release libtasn1 NEWS: === Version 2.2 (released 2009-05-20) - Change how the ASN1_API decorator is used in libtasn1.h, for

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {aalib/libaalib1/libaalib-devel}-1.4rc5-10: An ascii art library

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'aalib/libaalib1/libaalib-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Rebuild for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {gd/libgd2/libgd-devel}-2.0.36RC1-10: An open source code library for the dynamic creation of images.

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'gd/libgd2/libgd-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Rebuild for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, please

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {liblzo2/liblzo2/liblzo2-devel}-2.03-10: A data compression library which is suitable for data de-/compression in real-time

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'liblzo2/liblzo2/liblzo2-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Rebuild for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {libidn/libidn11/libidn-devel}-1.15-10: International Domain Name library

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libidn/libidn11/libidn-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Rebuild for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 libidn NEWS: === * Version 1.15 (released 2009-06-08) ** libidn: Use c_strcasecmp instead of strcasecmp. For portability

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {libwmf/libwmf027/libwmf-devel}-0.2.8.4-10: Windows Metafile library

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libwmf/libwmf027/libwmf-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Rebuild for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {libtasn1/libtasn13/libtasn1-devel}-2.2-10: Tiny ASN.1 library

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libtasn1/libtasn13/libtasn1-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Rebuild for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 libtasn1 NEWS: === Version 2.2 (released 2009-05-20) - Change how the ASN1_API decorator is used in libtasn1.h, for

non-BMP character width

2009-09-16 Thread Thomas Wolff
Hi, I see one small remaining glitch with Unicode display; non-BMP characters (those with Unicode value 0x) are displayed as two boxes. The reason is probably related to their representation as two surrogates at some point. I do not expect to have visible display of non-BMP in the cygwin

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Lapo Luchini wrote: The real reason is the following test: configure:8272: checking whether to support extended attributes configure:8321: result: No extended attribute support found ...well, judging from configure lines 8272-8321 it seems rsync xattr support is only available in

Re: setup.exe: Determine Geographically closest mirror programmatically

2009-09-16 Thread Ralph Hempel
Dr. Christoph Gille wrote: Closest mirror? I'm not sure what you mean by this. 'setup.exe' does not require this as a setting. Actually, there is no such concept. You need to specify a mirror to work with but you can do that with '-s'. With each superfluous click I lose a user, so it

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-16 Thread Lapo Luchini
Dave Korn wrote: It appears that cygwin has the xattr functions implemented and exported: ... followed of course by regenerating configure.sh. I haven't tested this (my cpu usage is already 100% and likely to stay that way for the next day or two!), but maybe you'd like to give it a

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-16 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: Dave Korn wrote: It appears that cygwin has the xattr functions implemented and exported Of course I'd like to; I didn't hope it could be as easy as that. =) Yes, it seems it was as easy as that. % rsync-3.0.6-1/inst/usr/bin/rsync.exe --version rsync version 3.0.6

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Lapo Luchini wrote: Lapo Luchini wrote: Dave Korn wrote: It appears that cygwin has the xattr functions implemented and exported Of course I'd like to; I didn't hope it could be as easy as that. =) Yes, it seems it was as easy as that. Hmm, it may or may not be... %

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: I downloaded ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/attr_2.4.43-1.tar.gz and found it builds OOTB, but my first attempt to use setfattr got me an error: $ ./setfattr/.libs/setfattr.exe -n bar -v baz foo setfattr: foo: Operation not supported Nor was getfattr

[1.7] recursive /cygdrive problem

2009-09-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I am having a real problem with 1.7 that I am pretty sure is a regression. Basically, I am trying to run a find over the cygwin root installation directory itself, not from cygwin path /. However I am finding that the cygdrive directory at the cygwin root installation directory also

Re: [Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: util-linux-2.14.1-1

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Volker Zell writes: Yaakov writes: The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** util-linux-2.14.1-1 /usr/bin/wall.exe /usr/share/man/man1/wall.1.gz conflict with sysvinit package. By the way

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-61

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Christopher Faylor writes: I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-61. This is another bugfix update: This version is missing usr/share/info/libc.info usr/share/info/libm.info usr/share/man/man3/regex.3 usr/share/man/man7/regex.7 compared to the previous version

Re: [1.7] recursive /cygdrive problem

2009-09-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/16/2009 11:24 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, I am having a real problem with 1.7 that I am pretty sure is a regression. Basically, I am trying to run a find over the cygwin root installation directory itself, not from cygwin path /. However I am finding that the cygdrive directory at the

[Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: email-3.1.2-2

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Ross Smith, writes: I've made a new version of 'email' available for installation. This is the most recent version of email available from http://www.cleancode.org/projects/email. The last version of email (2.5.1-1) had /etc/defaults support with a corresponding postinstall script.

[Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New: botan-1.8.2-1

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Lapo Luchini writes: Version 1.8.2-1 of botan has been uploaded. There is a bogus /usr/docs/Botan-1.8.2 directory present which is wrong. The contents should be moved to /usr/share/doc/botan. Ciao Volker -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [1.7] recursive /cygdrive problem

2009-09-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi again, Shaddy Baddah wrote: The following is an example for 1.7: sha...@x-vista ~ $ cd /cygdrive/c/software/cygwin/ sha...@x-vista /cygdrive/c/software/cygwin $ ls ./cygdrive c d e It has occurred to me that this wasn't the optimal example, as it does not eliminate a problem with the cd

[Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {libhdf5_0,libhdf5-devel,hdf5}-1.6.9-1

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Marco Atzeri writes: Version {libhdf5_0,libhdf5-devel,hdf5}-1.6.9-1 for cygwin-1.7 have been uploaded. Executables from hdf5-1.6.9-1 do not have an .exe extension. Ciao Volker -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

[Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libhdf5_0,libhdf5-devel,hdf5}-1.6.8-4

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Marco Atzeri writes: Versions {libhdf5_0,libhdf5-devel,hdf5}-1.6.8-4 for cygwin-1.5 have been uploaded. Bogus directory structure under /usr/share/doc hdf5/* hdf5-1.6.8/* Ciao Volker -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [1.7] recursive /cygdrive problem

2009-09-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Larry, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: snip Genuine bug? No, a feature. Having the existing drives show up under '/cygdrive' is a convenience for things like bash and other shells so that they can do completion on the paths to these drives. If you don't want what's under the '/cygdrive'

Re: [1.7] recursive /cygdrive problem

2009-09-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Larry, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: snip Genuine bug? No, a feature. Having the existing drives show up under '/cygdrive' is a convenience for things like bash and other shells so that they can do completion on the paths to these drives. If you don't want what's under the '/cygdrive'

cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Vincent R.
Hi, Is there any good reason to force user to use /cygdrive/ before accessing a drive ? I am asking it because I regularly switch from cygwin to mingw and some simple script needs to be adapted every time. Wouldn't be easier to access directly to a drive without entering cygdrive? Is there any

[1.7] task-1.8.2-1 shows up in setup-2.ini but is not selectable from setup-1.7.exe

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
see subject, it looks like it hasn't a version: tag. Ciao Volker -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Vincent R. wrote: Wouldn't be easier to access directly to a drive without entering cygdrive? Is there any reason for that ? Go ahead. You can create a mountpoint anywhere you like, so if you want MinGW-style /c, /d, etc., just use the 'mount' command or edit the fstab. cheers,

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Vincent R. wrote: Hi, Is there any good reason to force user to use /cygdrive/ before accessing a drive ? Considering you aren't forced to use /cygdrive/ (see mount(1m)) no... I am asking it because I regularly switch from cygwin to mingw and some simple script needs to be adapted every

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Vincent R.
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:02:19 -0700, Andrew DeFaria and...@defaria.com wrote: Vincent R. wrote: Hi, Is there any good reason to force user to use /cygdrive/ before accessing a drive ? Considering you aren't forced to use /cygdrive/ (see mount(1m)) no... I am asking it because I regularly

Re: [1.7] recursive /cygdrive problem

2009-09-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/16/2009 11:55 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Respectfully, I think you've misunderstood my problem. I've just posted a followup which will show an out and out inconsistency (well, at least in my opinion): sha...@x-vista ~ $ ls /cygdrive/c/software/cygwin/cygdrive sha...@x-vista ~ $ cd

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Vincent R. wrote: Ok I see your point but I find it weird to complicate things by adding /cygdrive. /cygdrive is just the string of characters the coder implementing that code choose to use. Be thankful. He could have choose /ThisIsThePathIWantedToUseToIndicateWindowsDrives! ;-) Maybe some

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
Wouldn't be easier to access directly to a drive without entering cygdrive? Is there any reason for that ? Go ahead. You can create a mountpoint anywhere you like, so if you want MinGW-style /c, /d, etc., just use the 'mount' command or edit the fstab. Personally I like /win/c etc.,

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Thomas Wolff
Vincent R. wrote: Wouldn't be easier to access directly to a drive without entering cygdrive? Is there any reason for that ? Dave Korn wrote: Go ahead. You can create a mountpoint anywhere you like, so if you want MinGW-style /c, /d, etc., just use the 'mount' command or edit the fstab.

Setup problems -- consistently inconsistent

2009-09-16 Thread Lee Rothstein
Almost every install of setup (with my prior use of 1.5, and now with 1.7) runs into some kind of problem (some -- but not all -- of them no doubt my own confusion). Note that I install all new packages and updates almost every time they are available, with a frequency of about twice a week.

Re: tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight [Was: Re: [PATCH] Define _TIMEVAL_DEFINED consistently whenever defining timeval.]

2009-09-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 07:01:44PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: From this thread: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00089.html I thought most people either were in favor of, or at least not opposed to, fixing the */tk/*/insight issue by switching to an

Re: tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight [Was: Re: [PATCH] Define _TIMEVAL_DEFINED consistently whenever defining timeval.]

2009-09-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: As an aside, 'gdbtui' is kinda neat; I'd never used that before even though it has long been part of cgf's gdb packages. Oh, and one last thing I forgot. Perhaps the *simplest* compromise, that allows us to (a) switch the main cygwin distribution to use X-based tcl/tk,

Re: [1.7] task-1.8.2-1 shows up in setup-2.ini but is not selectable from setup-1.7.exe

2009-09-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:59:22PM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: see subject, it looks like it hasn't a version: tag. Someone deleted the release-2/task directory for some reason. I've resurrected it. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-16 Thread Linda Walsh
Lapo Luchini wrote: Lapo Luchini wrote: Dave Korn wrote: It appears that cygwin has the xattr functions implemented and exported Of course I'd like to; I didn't hope it could be as easy as that. =) Yes, it seems it was as easy as that. % rsync-3.0.6-1/inst/usr/bin/rsync.exe --version

[ANNOUNCE,cygwin-improvements] New GCC branch created for Cygwin target fixes.

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Hello all, I have created a branch in the GCC SVN repository for development work on the Cygwin-targeted port of the compiler. The URL of the branch is (r/o) svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/cygwin-improvements (r/w) svn+ssh://username@gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/cygwin-improvements

Opening a socket connection in a fork ?

2009-09-16 Thread Gu1ll4um3r0m41n
Hello, I'm trying to run a program on cygwin that forks, opens a socket connection and sends the status of the connection to the parent process using pipes. The parent process then sends data through the opened socket. The program works well on linux but on cygwin, i cannot use recv on a socket

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Vincent R. (Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:08:59 +0200) On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:02:19 -0700, Andrew DeFaria and...@defaria.com wrote: Vincent R. wrote: Hi, Is there any good reason to force user to use /cygdrive/ before accessing a drive ? Considering you aren't forced to use /cygdrive/

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/9/16 Thorsten Kampe you shouldn't install Cygwin directly to C:\ (but to C:\cygwin): so you don't have the Cygwin and the Windows root folder structure mixed. And where exactly is the harm in that? Apple certainly don't see a problem with it, with the likes of /Applications and /Users

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/9/16 Thorsten Kampe whatever) prefixes when accessing stuff from the other side of the fence. Never mind the fence, what colour are we going to paint the bikeshed? This is purely a matter of taste. To each their own and de gustibus non disputandum est. cheers,

configuring shell for users

2009-09-16 Thread Flink, Timothy
I am trying to modify the login shell in /etc/passwd to be a shell script instead of a binary file so I can modify the commands sent non-interactively. However, when I do so, I get the following error when logging in via ssh or su - username: - /bin/newcmd.sh: Bad file descriptor Where

RE: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Vincent R. sent the following at Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:09 PM Vincent R. wrote: Is there any good reason to force user to use /cygdrive/ before accessing a drive? Ok I see your point but I find it weird to complicate things by adding /cygdrive. Maybe some people are crazy enough to

Re: tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight [Was: Re: [PATCH] Define _TIMEVAL_DEFINED consistently whenever defining timeval.]

2009-09-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 14/09/2009 18:14, Charles Wilson wrote: Anway, tcl-8.5.6 and tk-8.5.6 built easily on a bog-standard cygwin-1.7 system using the cygports derived from the Cygwin Ports project. I couldn't just use the Cygwin Ports binaries because IIRC they depend on other Cygwin Ports packages not available

Re: tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight [Was: Re: [PATCH] Define _TIMEVAL_DEFINED consistently whenever defining timeval.]

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: which, honestly, isn't very much. I'd be concerned about all those tcl-db${old_version} packages -- but it looks like there are no in-distro users of them. That leaves gdb, ruby, python, git, and parrot -- all of which have active maintainers. Plus suite3270 and

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:40:33PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/9/16 Thorsten Kampe whatever) prefixes when accessing stuff from the other side of the fence. Never mind the fence, what colour are we going to paint the bikeshed? Please take this discussion to

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Linda Walsh
Vincent R. wrote: Hi, Is there any good reason to force user to use /cygdrive/ before accessing a drive ? I am asking it because I regularly switch from cygwin to mingw and some simple script needs to be adapted every time. Wouldn't be easier to access directly to a drive without entering

Re: tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight [Was: Re: [PATCH] Define _TIMEVAL_DEFINED consistently whenever defining timeval.]

2009-09-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 16/09/2009 19:07, Dave Korn wrote: Could we conceivably do coexistence by bringing in the new properly cygwinized versions at version 8.5 and keep the current 8.4 DLLs and /usr/share files around for backward compat? Not AFAIK. The DLLs aren't really the issue as they use different

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/9/16 Thorsten Kampe you shouldn't install Cygwin directly to C:\ (but to C:\cygwin): so you don't have the Cygwin and the Windows root folder structure mixed. And where exactly is the harm in that? Apple certainly don't see a problem with it, with the likes

goldstar? Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:35:11AM +1000, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/9/16 Thorsten Kampe you shouldn't install Cygwin directly to C:\ (but to C:\cygwin): so you don't have the Cygwin and the Windows root folder structure mixed. And where exactly is the harm in

Re: goldstar? Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: [re: Shaddy Baddah] Wow.  Nice summation of the reasons for the need for a c:\cygwin. Can I get a goldstar here? Indeed, a nice summary. Let me dispel some misconceptions that piped up in the Apple comparison: the two ways of thinking

Re: tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight [Was: Re: [PATCH] Define _TIMEVAL_DEFINED consistently whenever defining timeval.]

2009-09-16 Thread Charles Wilson
clients -- other than insight -- for which this solution works. I've made a build of insight according to #2. It needs the patch which started this whole thread: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2009-q3/msg00075.html as well as the attached patch (which is very hackish) against 20090916

Re: tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight

2009-09-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 14/09/2009 18:14, Charles Wilson wrote: ... IIRC ... That is incorrect. Tk's dependencies are several X libraries which are all available from the distro. I see. That's good to know. 'Course, this broke my insight since I didn't bother to rebuild gdb. But,

Re: goldstar? Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, Before I start, I want to admit that I think I may have misinterpreted Andy Koppe's email. I now see that Andy may have been defending *not* demarcating the rest of the windows world with a /cygdrive prefix by just having all c:/ subpaths accessabile directly from the / prefix. That's not my

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-16 Thread Lapo Luchini
Dave Korn wrote: Ah, looks like Cygwin only supports xattr on Samba filesystems. Mhh, well okay, then maybe I can upload the new 3.0.6 release anyways, announcing that the xattr feature is in testing (but the rest of the release is really as good as the previous was). -- Lapo Luchini -

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/9/16 Dave Korn: whatever) prefixes when accessing stuff from the other side of the fence.  Never mind the fence, what colour are we going to paint the bikeshed?  This is purely a matter of taste. Exactly. I didn't mean to suggest that Cygwin should go into C:\ by default. And yes, I'm

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:18:21AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/9/16 Dave Korn: whatever) prefixes when accessing stuff from the other side of the fence. ??Never mind the fence, what colour are we going to paint the bikeshed? ??This is purely a matter of taste. Exactly. I didn't mean to

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/9/17 Christopher Faylor: My real gripe is with setup telling me off about putting Cygwin in the root dir ON EVERY SINGLE UPDATE. My real gripe is people who COMPLAIN ABOUT FREE SOFTWARE where they HAVE THE SOURCE CODE. Ah, that old lazy chestnut. Feedback not welcome. At least get a bug

[1.7] mpclib-0.7-1

2009-09-16 Thread David Billinghurst
mpclib-0.7-1 has been released for cygwin 1.7. PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.multiprecision.org/mpc Download: http://www.multiprecision.org/index.php?prog=mpcpage=download License: Gnu Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later MPC is a C library for the

[1.5] Updated: {libtasn1/libtasn13/libtasn1-devel}-2.2-1: Tiny ASN.1 library

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libtasn1/libtasn13/libtasn1-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Update to latest upstream release libtasn1 NEWS: === Version 2.2 (released 2009-05-20) - Change how the ASN1_API decorator is used in libtasn1.h, for

[1.7] Updated: {aalib/libaalib1/libaalib-devel}-1.4rc5-10: An ascii art library

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'aalib/libaalib1/libaalib-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Rebuild for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list,

[1.7] Updated: {gd/libgd2/libgd-devel}-2.0.36RC1-10: An open source code library for the dynamic creation of images.

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'gd/libgd2/libgd-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Rebuild for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, please

[1.7] Updated: {libidn/libidn11/libidn-devel}-1.15-10: International Domain Name library

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libidn/libidn11/libidn-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Rebuild for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 libidn NEWS: === * Version 1.15 (released 2009-06-08) ** libidn: Use c_strcasecmp instead of strcasecmp. For portability

[1.7] Updated: {liblzo2/liblzo2/liblzo2-devel}-2.03-10: A data compression library which is suitable for data de-/compression in real-time

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'liblzo2/liblzo2/liblzo2-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Rebuild for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list,

[1.7] Updated: {libwmf/libwmf027/libwmf-devel}-0.2.8.4-10: Windows Metafile library

2009-09-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'libwmf/libwmf027/libwmf-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Rebuild for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list,