[ITP] maradns-1.4.03-1

2010-05-02 Thread Steven Monai
Hello folks, I have packaged MaraDNS for Cygwin and am submitting it for review. The upstream website is: http://www.maradns.org/ MaraDNS is already packaged for Debian, i.e: http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/maradns Here is my proposed setup.hint: category: Net requires: libgcc1 sdesc:

Re: Slow response to keypresses in xorg-server-1.8.0-1

2010-05-02 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/1/2010 9:49 AM, Ken Brown wrote: I'm often seeing a very slow response to keypresses under xorg-server-1.8.0-1. The problem is intermittent, but it always happens within a few minutes after starting the server (via the start menu shortcut or a slight variant). Here are some examples: 1.

Re: 1.7.5: sshd environment variables

2010-05-02 Thread Vincent Pelletier
Le dimanche 02 mai 2010 02:52:55, Larry Hall (Cygwin) a écrit : You can add whatever variables you want and need to a script you can run as part of the login or just after, depending on your needs. So my question becomes: Is it possible to get windows environment vars in a shell obtained via

wctob function overwrites caller-owned register

2010-05-02 Thread Bruno Haible
In Cygwin 1.7.2, the wctob() function clobbers the %ebx register, which belongs to the caller. The effects are random behaviour and crashes in the caller. How to reproduce: = Compile this program, consisting of 2 parts, without optimization. It works fine.

cygwin with microsoft remote desktop

2010-05-02 Thread Eric Friedman
Hi all, I am using windows remote desktop to access cygwin on a remote machine with a disk on my local computer remote mounted, via remote desktop. On the remote machine this disk shows up under my computer but is not assigned a drive letter. How do I access it from within cygwin? I can't

Re: wctob function overwrites caller-owned register

2010-05-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 2 12:43, Bruno Haible wrote: In Cygwin 1.7.2, the wctob() function clobbers the %ebx register, which belongs to the caller. The effects are random behaviour and crashes in the caller. [...] int wctob (wint_t c) { mbstate_t mbs; int retval = 0; unsigned char pwc; /* Put

Re: cygwin with microsoft remote desktop

2010-05-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 2 06:57, Eric Friedman wrote: Hi all, I am using windows remote desktop to access cygwin on a remote machine with a disk on my local computer remote mounted, via remote desktop. On the remote machine this disk shows up under my computer but is not assigned a drive letter. How do

Re: wctob function overwrites caller-owned register

2010-05-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 2 13:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Thanks for the report. This is actually a newlib bug. I'm going to replace the above function with: [...] No, hang on. This function is a single big bug. Here's the replacement I'll check in: int wctob (wint_t wc) { mbstate_t mbs; unsigned char

cron visual output looks funny

2010-05-02 Thread Johannes Müller
Hi, I installed and use cron on windows xp using cygwin. It works fine for non-GUI applications, but for instance notepad does not seem to start at all. And a popup-window-script I wrote in python does appear and react to userinput, but is not displayed correctly, as I can not see a button

Re: problem building brltty's java with cygwin 1.7's gcj 4

2010-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, This is still a problem: Samuel Thibault, le Mon 15 Feb 2010 01:09:48 +0100, a écrit : I have an issue when building brltty's java bindings with cygwin 1.7 while it worked fine with 1.5: /usr/bin/gcj -C --encoding=UTF-8 -d classes -classpath .

Re: PostgreSQL plperl crash on Cygwin 1.7.5

2010-05-02 Thread Reini Urban
2010/5/2 Andrew Dunstan : On Cygwin version 1.7.5 I am trying to run set up a member of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl. We have a current Cygwin member (run by me) using Cygwin version 1.5.25, which for the most part runs without major problems.

Re: PostgreSQL plperl crash on Cygwin 1.7.5

2010-05-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Reini Urban wrote: 2010/5/2 Andrew Dunstan : On Cygwin version 1.7.5 I am trying to run set up a member of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl. We have a current Cygwin member (run by me) using Cygwin version 1.5.25, which for the most part runs

Re: PostgreSQL plperl crash on Cygwin 1.7.5

2010-05-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Reini Urban wrote: 2010/5/2 Andrew Dunstan : On Cygwin version 1.7.5 I am trying to run set up a member of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl. We have a current Cygwin member (run by me) using Cygwin version 1.5.25, which for the most part runs

Re: File extension for the copy of python2.5.exe

2010-05-02 Thread Jason Tishler
Jim, On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 09:37:22AM -0700, Jim Eberle wrote: Part of the latest python rollout involved converting the python symlink into a full file copy. I was wondering if this could be renamed to python.exe. Without the .exe extension, doing a CreateProcess() on python fails even

chown in vista not work because of permission denied

2010-05-02 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hello, I have a cygwin 1.5.25 installation on a vista client. I can access the vista client by ssh. For that I use an account called backup. I want use the ssh account for backup/restore with rsync. The Backup work well but the restore not :-( The files from a restore are owned by the

Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only)

2010-05-02 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Larry Hall (Cygwin)! I'm a bit late to the discussion... My problem is exactly as of the OP, I can't uninstall X components, they keep eachother enabled. Yep, I think it's clear from all the previous discussion that this is a problem. Indeed it was. :) I just have to ask, why

Re: 1.7.5: sshd environment variables

2010-05-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 5/2/2010 2:33 AM, Vincent Pelletier wrote: Le dimanche 02 mai 2010 02:52:55, Larry Hall (Cygwin) a écrit : You can add whatever variables you want and need to a script you can run as part of the login or just after, depending on your needs. So my question becomes: Is it possible to get

Re: problem building brltty's java with cygwin 1.7's gcj 4

2010-05-02 Thread Dave Korn
On 02/05/2010 16:46, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, This is still a problem: And this is still a solution: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00375.html BTW, the new GCC will be out shortly, and Java should work much better for it. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports:

Re: File extension for the copy of python2.5.exe

2010-05-02 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2010-05-02 16:48, Jason Tishler wrote: Unfortunately when I converted to using cygport, I forgot about the functionality in my build script to workaround the above issue. I will try to figure out how to convince cygport to pass LN=cp during the make install phase. Yaakov, Do you have any