[RFU 1.7] rsync-3.0.6-1

2009-09-17 Thread Lapo Luchini
With experimental xattr support, but the rest of the program is as tested as previous versions, so I wouldn't put this as a test release. http://lapo.it/cygwin/rsync/rsync-3.0.6-1-src.tar.bz2 http://lapo.it/cygwin/rsync/rsync-3.0.6-1.tar.bz2 http://lapo.it/cygwin/rsync/setup.hint (also

ssh-host-config still asks for confirmation even with -y

2009-09-17 Thread Mikel Ward
Hi I was trying to use ssh-host-config -y -w pass, but it still wanted to ask whether the username cyg_server was OK. I think the best fix is to make csih_select_privileged_username use the default name if csih_auto_answer is yes. --- cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh.orig 2009-09-17

[PATCH] man setup.1

2009-09-17 Thread Reini Urban
Attached is my first version simple of setup.1 for 1.7, created by help2man and 2 minutes of reformatting. Though trivial I hope it is useful and falls not under the standard assignment form req. Maybe another one wants to the SYNOPSIS part with the cmdline-only single package install command. --

Re: [RFU 1.7] rsync-3.0.6-1

2009-09-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 17/09/2009 01:05, Lapo Luchini wrote: http://lapo.it/cygwin/rsync/rsync-3.0.6-1-src.tar.bz2 http://lapo.it/cygwin/rsync/rsync-3.0.6-1.tar.bz2 Uploaded; please announce. BTW, can we remove any of the older versions? 2.6.9-2 3.0.4-1 3.0.5-1 requires: cygwin libiconv2 libpopt0

Re: [ITP] socat

2009-09-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 15/09/2009 11:22, Andrew Schulman wrote: wget \ http://www.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/socat/setup.hint \ http://www.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/socat/socat-1.7.1.1-1.tar.bz2 \ http://www.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/socat/socat-1.7.1.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \

Re: [RFU 1.7] rsync-3.0.6-1

2009-09-17 Thread Lapo Luchini
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: BTW, can we remove any of the older versions? 2.6.9-2 3.0.4-1 3.0.5-1 On Cygwin-1.5 I'd leave 2.6.9-2/3.0.4-1 indefinitely, while on Cygwin-1.7 3.0.5-1 as prev and 3.0.6-1 as current; so I'd delete 2.6.9-2 and 3.0.4-1 in case they are still present in the 1.7 area and

Xserver isn't working

2009-09-17 Thread abhishek B S
Hi, I installed cygwin on my laptop which has 64 bit vista home premium, but when i type the command xstart in the bash shell of cygwin it says a fatal error has occured and cygwin/x will now exit.In the bash shel it says waiting for X server to begn accepting connections a ten it gives an error

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New: libproxy-0.2.3-2

2009-09-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been added to the Cygwin 1.7 distribution: *** libproxy-0.2.3-2 *** libproxy0-0.2.3-2 *** libproxy-devel-0.2.3-2 libproxy exists to answer the question: Given a network resource, how do I reach it? It handles all the details, enabling you to get back to programming.

Re: [1.7] bugs in faccessat

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 9/3/2009 3:04 PM: Thanks for the patches Eric, but, here's a problem. We still have no copyright assignment in place from you. The fcntl patch is barely trivial, but the faccessat patch certainly isn't anymore.

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-17 Thread Linda Walsh
Andy Koppe wrote: 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

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-17 Thread Linda Walsh
Shaddy Baddah wrote: In this case, although cygwin has a package management system, it is not going to manage the non-cygwin stuff dropped into c:/bin,lib, etc. And that means if a user goes and installs something like msys --- I knew I had a good reason for thinking it would cause

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Andy Koppe (Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:06:45 +0100) 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

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-17 Thread Harald Joerg
Linda Walsh writes: [...] OTOH, at least the defaults are pretty sensible ... Pretty sensible, indeed. I love /cygdrive as just another example of a pretty sensible default. ... (I can just hit ENTER), through the setup ... ...and the default buttons in the GUI are always in the same place

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

2009-09-17 Thread Lapo Luchini
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: 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. Ah, thanks for noticing. I'll fix that while upgrading to 1.8.7 (hopefully soon). -- Lapo

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-17 Thread Ralph Hempel
Harald Joerg wrote: ... -- EXCEPT...at the end -- how many times do I have to tell setup that I *STILL* don't want the icon on my desktop??! I eventually got around that one. I found that I do not want *any* icons on my desktop and switched them off completely. There is an option in the

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-17 Thread Dave Korn
Lapo Luchini wrote: 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).

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

2009-09-17 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Mer 16/9/09, Dr. Volker Zell ha scritto: Da: Dr. Volker Zell Oggetto: [Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {libhdf5_0,libhdf5-devel,hdf5}-1.6.9-1 A: cygwin@cygwin.com Data: Mercoledì 16 settembre 2009, 17:52 Marco Atzeri writes:     Version

64-bit time_t?

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is the transition to 1.7 a good time to change the ABI and offer a 64-bit time_t type that won't overflow in 2038? Would we have to do the same sort of transition magic as was done back in 1.5 for 32-bit vs. 64-bit off_t? - -- Don't work too hard,

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

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Marco Atzeri on 9/17/2009 4:28 AM: on 1.7.0-61 $ cd /usr/bin/ /usr/bin $ cp yes /tmp /usr/bin $ $ ls /tmp/yes* /tmp/yes so it is a feature or a bug of 1.7 ? A multiply-reported bug of coreutils as ported to 1.7,

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-17 Thread Vincent R.
Hi, After having started some debate about cygdrive prefix (it was not my goal) I think I have another dilemna ;-) I want to try to compile cegcc-4.4.0 (gcc targetting windows ce) with a mingw compiler but I don't know which one to choose. As always with open source software I can use : a)

Error c preprocessor lib/cpp fails sanity check

2009-09-17 Thread hj.beckers
I'm trying to compile 2 applications (klavaro/procbench, both from sf.net). Both ./confiugre steps end with the above error message. Searching the web tells me, that some libs are missing. There is no /lib/cpp on my system. Searching cygwin.com for lib/cpp yields nothing, cpp a lot of

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

2009-09-17 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Gio 17/9/09, Eric Blake ha scritto: Da: Eric Blake Oggetto: Re: R: [Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {libhdf5_0,libhdf5-devel,hdf5}-1.6.9-1 A: cygwin@cygwin.com Data: Giovedì 17 settembre 2009, 13:41 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Marco

Re: Error c preprocessor lib/cpp fails sanity check

2009-09-17 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2009-09-17 12:08Z, hj.beck...@kreis-steinfurt.de wrote: I'm trying to compile 2 applications (klavaro/procbench, both from sf.net). Both ./confiugre steps end with the above error message. Searching the web tells me, that some libs are missing. Probably it's a broken gcc installation

mingw question : Post repetita

2009-09-17 Thread Vincent R.
Hi, After having started some debate about cygdrive prefix (it was not my goal) I think I have another dilemna ;-) I want to try to compile cegcc-4.4.0 (gcc targetting windows ce) with a mingw compiler but I don't know which one to choose. As always with open source software I can use : a)

Re: mingw question : Post repetita

2009-09-17 Thread Dave Korn
Vincent R. wrote: I want to try to compile cegcc-4.4.0 (gcc targetting windows ce) with a mingw compiler but I don't know which one to choose. As always with open source software I can use : a) mingw(4.4.0) compiler from mingw project b) mingw32(4.4.1) compiler from mingw64(maybe renamed

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/17/2009 01:18 AM, 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 suggest that Cygwin

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:36:26AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: 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

Re: 64-bit time_t?

2009-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:26:04AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: Is the transition to 1.7 a good time to change the ABI and offer a 64-bit time_t type that won't overflow in 2038? Would we have to do the same sort of transition magic as was done back in 1.5 for 32-bit vs. 64-bit off_t? Argh. I was

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Andrew Schulman schulman.and...@epamail.epa.gov wrote: Personally I like /win/c etc., but sure, I guess you could put none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 into /etc/fstab and get /c, /d, etc. There is a huge downside to this. I tried it. It totally

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/17/2009 12:32 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Andrew Schulman schulman.and...@epamail.epa.gov wrote: Personally I like /win/c etc., but sure, I guess you could put none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 into /etc/fstab and get /c, /d, etc. There is a

I want my FPE!

2009-09-17 Thread Mark Geisert
I would like to get control when floating-point exceptions occur, but the simple approach doesn't seem to work; see the STC below. It shows SIGSEGV can be trapped but not SIGFPE. In another experiment I tried extending libsigsegv to handle FP exceptions but got the same results. Is there

Re: I want my FPE!

2009-09-17 Thread Dave Korn
Mark Geisert wrote: Is there something I need to do to condition the Cygwin environment to generate FP exceptions? I saw the code in winsup/something/or/other to map x86 FP exceptions to SIGFPE but it seems somehow the exceptions aren't being generated in the first place. Very possibly

Select Packages blows up to full-screen (setup-1.7.exe)

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
Is there some reason why setup-1.7 has to blow up to full-screen when the Select Packages screen comes up? I prefer the friendlier 1.5 version. - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Select Packages blows up to full-screen (setup-1.7.exe)

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C jjreis...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Is there some reason why setup-1.7 has to blow up to full-screen when the Select Packages screen comes up?  I prefer the friendlier 1.5 version. I forgot to mention, that the back/cancel etc. icons at the bottom

Re: Select Packages blows up to full-screen (setup-1.7.exe)

2009-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/17/2009 06:42 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Is there some reason why setup-1.7 has to blow up to full-screen when the Select Packages screen comes up? I prefer the friendlier 1.5 version. Yes, it was changed so that you could easily see all the information in the packages listed. As a

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 9/17/2009 12:53 PM: While I'm not suggesting that people should reassign their cygdrive prefix to /, I think the problem you saw in your case is a result of having set CVS up when your setting was still cygdrive

Re: Select Packages blows up to full-screen (setup-1.7.exe)

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 09/17/2009 06:42 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Is there some reason why setup-1.7 has to blow up to full-screen when the Select Packages screen comes up?  I prefer the friendlier 1.5 version. Yes,

libtool: possible candidate for attribute 'noreturn'

2009-09-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Chuck, Compiling libcanberra-0.17 (which adds tons of -W flags) with latest libtool and gcc-4.3.2-2: CCLD test-canberra.exe ./.libs/lt-test-canberra.c: In function 'lt_fatal': ./.libs/lt-test-canberra.c:582: warning: function might be possible candidate for attribute 'noreturn'

Re: Select Packages blows up to full-screen (setup-1.7.exe)

2009-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:50:39PM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 09/17/2009 06:42 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Is there some reason why setup-1.7 has to blow up to full-screen when the Select Packages

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:25:44PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 9/17/2009 12:53 PM: While I'm not suggesting that people should reassign their cygdrive prefix to /, I think the problem you saw in your case is a

Re: libtool: possible candidate for attribute 'noreturn'

2009-09-17 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Compiling libcanberra-0.17 (which adds tons of -W flags) with latest libtool and gcc-4.3.2-2: CCLD test-canberra.exe ./.libs/lt-test-canberra.c: In function 'lt_fatal': ./.libs/lt-test-canberra.c:582: warning: function might be possible candidate for attribute

Re: 256 color terminal in basic (non-X Windows) Cygwin

2009-09-17 Thread Gwen Morse
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Gwen Morsegwen.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Andy Koppeandy.ko...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/25 Gwen Morse: I use a game client called Tinyfugue that can make use of ANSI 256 color codes. $ rxvt -tn rxvt-256color -e game D'oh, you'd

Cygwin 1.7: cygstart does not recognise App Paths

2009-09-17 Thread Mark Hadfield
I note with interest that in Cygwin 1.7 cygstart does not recognise entries in the App Paths list, whereas in Cygwin 1.5 it does. For example I have the following entry in my app paths list, pointing to my favourite text editor: $ regtool --verbose list

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Andrew Schulman schulman.and...@epamail.epa.gov wrote: Personally I like /win/c etc., but sure, I guess you could put none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 into /etc/fstab and get /c, /d, etc. There is a huge downside to this. I

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: Haven't we already looped several times in this discussion? I don't think there is any new information that needs to be imparted. Can we close this down now? People obviously wish to discuss the issue. If you're not interested in their discussion then can't you simply