Re: [RFU] subversion-1.7.1-1

2011-10-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 24 10:14, David Rothenberger wrote: Please delete 1.6.16-1 and leave 1.6.17-1 and 1.7.0-1. Thanks! wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://home.comcast.net/~david.rothenberger/cygwin/subversion/setup.hint \

Re: lost announcements

2011-10-25 Thread Andrew Schulman
Hm, you're right. But the odd thing is that they weren't posted to the cygwin list, which is where I read them: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-10/. Any idea why? Embedded email address. Could you please be more specific? I've compared the 4 announcements, and I can't see any

Re: lost announcements

2011-10-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 09:17:40AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: Hm, you're right. But the odd thing is that they weren't posted to the cygwin list, which is where I read them: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-10/. Any idea why? Embedded email address. Could you please be more

Re: [RFU] subversion-1.7.1-1

2011-10-25 Thread David Rothenberger
On 10/25/2011 3:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 24 10:14, David Rothenberger wrote: Please delete 1.6.16-1 and leave 1.6.17-1 and 1.7.0-1. Thanks! wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://home.comcast.net/~david.rothenberger/cygwin/subversion/setup.hint \

Re: [RFU] subversion-1.7.1-1

2011-10-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 25 09:37, David Rothenberger wrote: On 10/25/2011 3:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 24 10:14, David Rothenberger wrote: [bis repetita non placent] I guess it would help if I actually put the new files at the comcast site before sending the RFU email. Sorry about that. Should

cygutils: fix bootstrap for libtool2

2011-10-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
libtool2 uses several aclocal macros, and libtoolize copies them into m4/ automatically. Patch attached. Yaakov 2011-10-25 Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@... * bootstrap: Leave copying of libtool macros to libtoolize. Index: bootstrap

cygutils: cygstart FD.o integration

2011-10-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The attached patch and new files integrate cygstart into the Freedesktop.org desktop menu system. This allows Windows-specific files (e.g. .exe, .com, .bat, .msi, .themepack) to be easily opened by cygstart from within FD.o/X file managers (e.g. Nautilus, Thunar, PCManFM, Dolphin). Yaakov

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog hookapi.cc spawn.c ...

2011-10-25 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2011-10-25 16:35:59 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog hookapi.cc spawn.cc winsup.h Log message: * hookapi.cc (hook_or_detect_cygwin): Take additional handle to a file mapping as

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl

2011-10-25 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/25/2011 3:31 AM, Craig Miller wrote: Hello All, I am the author of expect-lite expect-lite.sf.net which relies heavily on expect. The version in the cygwin repository is quite old (from 2003). I have compiled a modern version of expect (v 5.45) based on TCL 8.5. Expect, originally

base-files license?

2011-10-25 Thread Luke Kendall
In the base-files package, what license applies to the small number of *actual shell scripts and skeleton files* under etc/{defaults,postinstall, preremove}? Is it, perhaps, one of the common licenses that are collected together and stored in base-files? If so, which one? Regards, luke

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl

2011-10-25 Thread Larry W. Virden
Craig - it is good to see some work going on in cygwin relating to tcl. I hope that expect-lite is incorporated; it would be nice to have a version of tcl closer to the latest version released. On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Craig Miller cvmil...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I am the author

possible bug in stat() -- not working with special characters on 64 bit systems

2011-10-25 Thread Leon Vanderploeg
I have been fighting a problem with a compiled C program and seem to have narrowed it down. When file names contain special characters such as the n with the tilde above it (ñ), stat() works fine on 32 bit machines, but fails on 64 bit machines (both windows 7 and server 2008 R2). At the end

Re: Contributing license information?

2011-10-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 25 12:00, Luke Kendall wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 19 11:09, Luke Kendall wrote: Soon, I will have prepared a list of the location of every license file in every Cygwin package. My motivation is to make it easy for people to find the license information, if they need it.

Re: base-files license?

2011-10-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 25 18:46, Luke Kendall wrote: In the base-files package, what license applies to the small number of *actual shell scripts and skeleton files* under etc/{defaults,postinstall, preremove}? Is it, perhaps, one of the common licenses that are collected together and stored in base-files?

Re: possible bug in stat() -- not working with special characters on 64 bit systems

2011-10-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 25 07:06, Leon Vanderploeg wrote: I have been fighting a problem with a compiled C program and seem to have narrowed it down. When file names contain special characters such as the n with the tilde above it (ñ), stat() works fine on 32 bit machines, but fails on 64 bit machines (both

New versions of tcl and expect? [Was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl]

2011-10-25 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/24/2011 9:31 PM, Craig Miller wrote: [text] Please don't imitate our official announcement subject lines. This is why I rejected your original post to cygwin-announce: that list (and, fairly speaking, the subject line format) is for official announcements by the duly appointed *cygwin*

Re: rebase problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jason Tishler
Zdzislaw, On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:38:57PM -0700, Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote: There is a problem with running rebase on my system. I go through the motions: [snip] This works fine until: /usr/bin/cygAfterImage-0.dll: new base = 6ff7, new size = 7 /usr/X11R6/bin/cygXft-1.dll:

home path for cygwin 1.7.9 is acting funny

2011-10-25 Thread Matthew Smith
I installed to c:\personal\cygwin on my windows xp machine. If I open a command prompt and type echo %HOME%, I get C:\Documents and Settings\Matt If I then start an ssh connection from DOS (not the Cygwin program), I get an error at the beginning of the connection initiation that states Could

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl

2011-10-25 Thread Craig Miller
Hi Marco, I am sure someone else could update the expect package, but I have been following cygwin for a year now (support expect-lite on cygwin) and saw no updates. There is functionality in the newer expect that expect-lite takes advantage of, and it would be nice to have a newer version in the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl

2011-10-25 Thread Craig Miller
Thanks Larry, Once I get the updated version of expect in the distro, I think I would like to create an expect-lite package for cygwin. It doesn't appear all that hard, and I am already creating deb and rpm packages. Thanks, Craig... On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Larry W. Virden

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl

2011-10-25 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/25/2011 6:18 PM, Craig Miller wrote: Hi Marco, I am sure someone else could update the expect package, but I have been following cygwin for a year now (support expect-lite on cygwin) and saw no updates. There is functionality in the newer expect that expect-lite takes advantage of, and it

Request update of TCL and expect packages

2011-10-25 Thread Craig Miller
Hello Chris Sutcliffe  Christopher Faylor, Apparently, I started off on the wrong foot. I apologize to the list. I respectfully request that the expect and TCL packages in the cygwin distro be updated. I have the sources I used (earlier) to create expect version 5.45, and they can be found at:

Symbilic links support

2011-10-25 Thread Alexey Kuznetsov
By default git checkout files created as symbolic links on linux system as symbolic links. Under windows it does not work. I expect on cygwin machines after git checkout I will get normal links can be readed as 'ls -al' command. But they actually appears as normal files. -- AK -- Problem

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.7.1-1

2011-10-25 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version of subversion is available. NEWS: = See CHANGES (URL below) for more information about the differences between 1.7.1 and previous Subversion releases. IMPORTANT: Please read the release notes (URL below) before upgrading from a previous major release. 1.7 includes a new working

Re: Symbilic links support

2011-10-25 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/25/2011 11:48 AM, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: By default git checkout files created as symbolic links on linux system as symbolic links. Under windows it does not work. I expect on cygwin machines after git checkout I will get normal links can be readed as 'ls -al' command. But they actually

Re: Contributing license information?

2011-10-25 Thread David Sastre
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:50:45PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 25 12:00, Luke Kendall wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 19 11:09, Luke Kendall wrote: Soon, I will have prepared a list of the location of every license file in every Cygwin package. My motivation is to make it

Re: home path for cygwin 1.7.9 is acting funny

2011-10-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/25/2011 11:13 AM, Matthew Smith wrote: I installed to c:\personal\cygwin on my windows xp machine. If I open a command prompt and type echo %HOME%, I get C:\Documents and Settings\Matt If I then start an ssh connection from DOS (not the Cygwin program), I get an error at the beginning of

Is /usr/src/cygutils-1.4.6-1.cygport is out of date?

2011-10-25 Thread Regid Ichira
Don't HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI carry only up to 1.4.2 ? I wonder if the other information is up to date. $ cat /usr/src/cygutils-1.4.6-1.cygport DESCRIPTION=A collection of small but useful utilties for cygwin HOMEPAGE=http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/cygutils-package/index.html;

Re: Is /usr/src/cygutils-1.4.6-1.cygport is out of date?

2011-10-25 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/25/2011 8:58 PM, Regid Ichira wrote: Don't HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI carry only up to 1.4.2 ? I wonder if the other information is up to date. $ cat /usr/src/cygutils-1.4.6-1.cygport DESCRIPTION=A collection of small but useful utilties for cygwin

Updated: subversion-1.7.1-1

2011-10-25 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version of subversion is available. NEWS: = See CHANGES (URL below) for more information about the differences between 1.7.1 and previous Subversion releases. IMPORTANT: Please read the release notes (URL below) before upgrading from a previous major release. 1.7 includes a new working