Re: [PATCH] Stop automatic dependency selection on setup.exe chooser screen

2010-08-08 Thread Andy Koppe
On 7 August 2010 18:14, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 10:56:48AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:  Please go ahead and check it in, after testing. What's this after testing thing? Oh.  Wait.  Nevermind.  Good idea. I've tortured it a fair bit, including trying to delete

Re: [PATCH] Stop automatic dependency selection on setup.exe chooser screen

2010-08-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 7 12:21, Andy Koppe wrote: On 7 August 2010 10:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:  Maybe it's better to provide as much information as possible.  What about this:        libao   (1.0.0-1)                Cross-Platform Audio Output Library (Transition)                Required by:

gcc4-core PACKAGE BUG

2010-08-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Dave, testing with the latest setup.exe I came across an error message in postinstall: gcc4-core.sh, exit code 126 Manuall testing turned up that the script /usr/sbin/fix-libtool-scripts-for-latest-gcc-runtimes.sh is not executable. Either /etc/postinstall/gcc4-core.sh should call the

Re: ITP: rtorret, libtorrent, libsigc++

2010-08-08 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/08/07 8:30 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: Hi Chuck, Thank you for your thorough review of the packaging and the associated patches. I've decided for ligsigc++ and libtorrent to make the base packages the license packages as opposed to having '-lic' packages. I've made all the changes

build-docbook-catalog PACKAGE BUG

2010-08-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Yaakov, I just encountered a problem with the postinstall scripts of docbook-xml42 and docbook-xsl, an exit code of 1. Both postinstall scripts depend on the /usr/bin/build-docbook-catalog script which in turn calls xmlcatalog --noout --create /etc/xml/catalog The problem here is that

Re: ITP: rtorret, libtorrent, libsigc++

2010-08-08 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/8/2010 12:59 PM, Steven Monai wrote: Some notes about the packaging: The setup.hints of the libtorrent subpackages (libtorrent11 and libtorrent-devel) are missing their 'external-source: libtorrent' line. Odd...my local (modified) copy has these; I wonder if the patch I posted for Chris

Re: ITP: rtorret, libtorrent, libsigc++

2010-08-08 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 8 August 2010 14:48, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/8/2010 12:59 PM, Steven Monai wrote: Some notes about the packaging: The setup.hints of the libtorrent subpackages (libtorrent11 and libtorrent-devel) are missing their 'external-source: libtorrent' line. Odd...my local (modified) copy has

Re: ITP: rtorret, libtorrent, libsigc++

2010-08-08 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/08/08 11:48 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/8/2010 12:59 PM, Steven Monai wrote: Some notes about the packaging: The setup.hints of the libtorrent subpackages are missing 'libtorrent' from their 'requires:' lines. Well, yes, they are missing that requirement. But that's because

Re: ITP: rtorret, libtorrent, libsigc++

2010-08-08 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 8 August 2010 16:40, Steven Monai wrote: Practically speaking, yes, it is true that the subpackages don't really require the text docs provided by the libtorrent package to correctly perform their function. However, the entire raison d'etre for the libtorrent package seems to be to provide

Re: ITP: rtorret, libtorrent, libsigc++

2010-08-08 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 8 August 2010 16:45, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: Valid point.  I'll change the hint files for libtorrent and libsigc++ and upload new versions shortly. Done: libsigc++-2.0-2.2.8-1: wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=1 \ http://emergedesktop.org/cygwin/libsigc++/setup.hint \

[ITP] gnucap - initial questions

2010-08-08 Thread Peter Li
The Gnu Circuit Analysis Package has a stable version 0.35 from 2006 and a very usable dev version from December 2009. I have found it useful in my work, and considerably easier than trying to compile SPICE or find a decent free SPICE binary. There are already Debian and Fedora packages.

Re: [ITP] gnucap - initial questions

2010-08-08 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 20:10 -0700, Peter Li wrote: The Gnu Circuit Analysis Package has a stable version 0.35 from 2006 and a very usable dev version from December 2009. I have found it useful in my work, and considerably easier than trying to compile SPICE or find a decent free SPICE

X hardware acceleration still flaky?

2010-08-08 Thread L.Wood
Well, it's been eighteen months since I last asked: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-02/msg00259.html so I attempted to use opengl hardware acceleration with Cygwin and XFree 7.4, using Geomview (www.geomview.org) as the test application on an uptodate Cygwin 1.7 install. Lots of

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

2010-08-08 Thread Andy Koppe
On 7 August 2010 23:07, Jon TURNEY wrote: Hmmm, looking again at the implementation of select(), I don't immediately see that when waiting on /dev/windows, it checks that the message queue has old messages on it before waiting.  The MSDN documentation for MsgWaitForMultipleObjects() seems to

Re: X hardware acceleration still flaky?

2010-08-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 08/08/2010 10:18, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: Well, it's been eighteen months since I last asked: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-02/msg00259.html so I attempted to use opengl hardware acceleration with Cygwin and XFree 7.4, using Geomview (www.geomview.org) as the test

Re: XWin crash after the launch of startkde on a remote Red Hat 5 machine

2010-08-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 06/08/2010 13:55, Michel Hummel wrote: I didn't saw any response to my patch proposition, did someone tried it ? If I didn't posted it in the good place where should I have to Yes, this is abolutely the right place for your patch. It looks good and I shall incorporate it in the next X

Re: X hardware acceleration still flaky?

2010-08-08 Thread L.Wood
Hi Jon, I just downloaded the current X server and its libraries in the Cygwin distro; the xwin-gl allusion came from the previous thread I mentioned. Compiling geomview 1.9.4 --with-opengl is straightforward (that's one improvement on pre-7.4 X; configure doesn't get confused about X library

Re: [PATCH] define RTLD_LOCAL

2010-08-08 Thread Václav Haisman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote, On 8.8.2010 7:49: POSIX requires RTLD_LOCAL to be defined in dlfcn.h[1]. While our dlopen() does nothing with its second argument, portable software can rightfully expect the definition to exist alongside the other

Re: [PATCH] POSIX monotonic clock

2010-08-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 12:06:18AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 10:04 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:32:47AM +0200, V??clav Haisman wrote: This looks like you could get monotonic clock going backwards. That's a good point. We have that

Opening .n extensions

2010-08-08 Thread Luetta
Hi, First of all I would like to Thank You! in advance for answering this question. I read the 'stupid question' warnings, read through the forum topics, searched dogpile, google, and yahoo search engines and could not find the answer. I admit ahead of time to having a rudimentary

Re: Opening .n extensions

2010-08-08 Thread Andy Koppe
On 8 August 2010 08:23, Luetta wrote: First of all I would like to Thank You! in advance for answering this question. I read the 'stupid question' warnings, read through the forum topics, searched dogpile, google, and yahoo search engines and could not find the answer.  I admit ahead of time

Accessing SMB shares without explicit mounting

2010-08-08 Thread Phil Reynolds
In order to cut down on the overall time my backups are taking, I am thinking of running flexbackup under cygwin. However, I will want it to write to a directory I have shared from my Linux box using samba, without mounting it explicitly. I understand that this at least ought to be

Re: Opening .n extensions

2010-08-08 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
On 8/08/2010 7:23 p.m., Luetta wrote: [..] When my phone said the files were too large and was unable to open the files I downloaded them to my computer to open. Windows said it needed to go to the internet to obtain the program to open the file. I went onto the web and no programs, [save

Re: Moses with Cygwin on Windows 7

2010-08-08 Thread cbsa01
Dear Eliot, your script does indeed sound much better. Is it available to share? Many thanks for sharing your insights in any case. Best regards, Llio Humphreys Quoting Eliot Moss m...@cs.umass.edu: On 8/7/2010 5:23 PM, cbs...@bangor.ac.uk wrote: many thanks for your reply. On why we

Re: Moses with Cygwin on Windows 7

2010-08-08 Thread cbsa01
Dear Morgan, thanks for the tip. Can you turn it off for only some recognised programs? It does not mention this option in Microsoft's online Guided Help (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975788). Unfortunately, I don't have Windows 7 yet so I can't test it myself. Thanks, Llio Humphreys

Re: Opening .n extensions

2010-08-08 Thread mike marchywka
I guess I would also mention that you could learn to use the cygwin tools to figure this out on your own later :) The above file not found after the story could even be due to the lack of phone related headers in the request if this mumbo jumbo is designed to lock you to certain devices. If you

Re: Accessing SMB shares without explicit mounting

2010-08-08 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 08/08/2010 03:42 AM, Phil Reynolds wrote: In order to cut down on the overall time my backups are taking, I am thinking of running flexbackup under cygwin. However, I will want it to write to a directory I have shared from my Linux box using samba, without mounting it explicitly. I

Re: Accessing SMB shares without explicit mounting

2010-08-08 Thread Phil Reynolds
Quoting Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net: It sounds like your Samba configuration requires authentication in order to access this share. Are you able to access the share as \\server\share using the Windows file explorer without first mapping the share to a drive or authenticating in some other way?

Re: Accessing SMB shares without explicit mounting

2010-08-08 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 08/08/2010 12:40 PM, Phil Reynolds wrote: Quoting Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net: It sounds like your Samba configuration requires authentication in order to access this share. Are you able to access the share as \\server\share using the Windows file explorer without first mapping the share

Re: Opening .n extensions

2010-08-08 Thread Eliot Moss
On 8/8/2010 4:54 AM, Nicholas Sherlock wrote: On 8/08/2010 7:23 p.m., Luetta wrote: The 168 byte length strongly suggests that it is a 160 byte SMS (text) message with a few extra bytes added by the phone for its own purposes. And the contents suggest that as well, though why they are not

Re: Problem with subversion-apache2

2010-08-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Again, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Don't feed the spammers. On 8/6/2010 8:22 PM, Brian Wilson wrote: Yep, I made sure to shut down all cygwin applications I am aware of that were running which were shown in the Windows Services. Unfortunately I don't know what the errorno 6

Re: mkpasswd (434): [31] A device attached to the system is not functioning.

2010-08-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/7/2010 4:46 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: I'm willing to try again if anything has improved. But there were also issues about me signing off contracts to Redhat or something -- not something normal to most open source projects...and that was a bit of a put off as well. Has anything changed? I

Possible pipe(2) bug

2010-08-08 Thread Bert Belder
I think the pipe(2) implementation may have a bug. The pipe function creates a pipe and returns two file descriptors (which are just numbers), one for reading and one for writing. However sometimes (but rarely) two subsequent calls to the pipe function returns the same file descriptor twice.

Re: Opening .n extensions

2010-08-08 Thread Nicholas Sherlock
Eliot Moss moss at cs.umass.edu writes: On 8/8/2010 4:54 AM, Nicholas Sherlock wrote: On 8/08/2010 7:23 p.m., Luetta wrote: The 168 byte length strongly suggests that it is a 160 byte SMS (text) message with a few extra bytes added by the phone for its own purposes. And the contents

Re: gcc Cygwin package maintainer

2010-08-08 Thread Dave Korn
On 08/08/2010 00:00, Jerry DeLisle wrote: So I have sjlj backwards. I will fix that. Then the following I am not sure about. --disable-__cxa_atexit --enable-static --enable-shared --enable-shared-libgcc Shall I include these? Yes, do. I think they're mostly the default anyway, but

Batch-style variables to detect change in Cygdrive

2010-08-08 Thread Monte Cabet
Is there anyway I can get batch-style relative drive paths in Cygwin? An example of what I mean is %~d0. The reason for is is that I would like to mount folders from a USB, so the drive (the variable I showed does drive) will change everytime I plug the USB in. After abit of playing around I