Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Robert, >It wouldn't be very hard to add /etc/passwd.lnk and /etc/group.lnk to the > test in desktop.cc. Would you accept it? I'm a bit hesitant because there > are lots of other files and directories that might

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Collins
-- === "Andrew DeFaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Rick Rankin wrote: > > > Depends on how you define "harmless". We have a *huge* domain, and "mkpasswd > > -d" can take a very long time (20 - 30 minutes) to complete, so I definitely > > w

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Depends on how you define "harmless". We have a *huge* > > domain, and "mkpasswd > > -d" can take a very long time (20 - 30 minutes) to complete, > > so I definitely > > wouldn't want to run blindly run it with the -d

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Nice to hear, so the patch could be simply to add the proper "-d" arg in the > mkpasswd/mkgroup call in the yet-to-be-written install-script; sorry, but I > can't do this either :-) :) :) Lol! Yes, well if I writ

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On the same ground, it would be nice if, when creating /etc/passwd and > /etc/group, setup.exe pass the "-d" flag to mkpasswd/mkgroup; otherwise, > ntsec is almost unusable for the (vast majority of) NT/2k/XP users

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-05 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Stephano Mariani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 7:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Suggestion for setup > > > Perhaps this is already on the wish list, but it would be > useful if setup could set the CYGWIN variable u

RE: 1.3.9-1: input disappears after killing program

2002-03-04 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: John Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Issuing the command 'reset' solves the problem fine, but it > seems like it should not be necessary. My cvs setup is > standard with CVSROOT=':ext:uname@domain:/code' and > CVS_RSH='ssh'. Attached is my cygcheck -

RE: [BUG] NetInstaller leaves bad dates

2002-03-04 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: David A. Cobb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 9:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; XEmacs NT Mailing List > Subject: [BUG] NetInstaller leaves bad dates > > > Please pardon the cross-posting. I'm copying this to

RE: setup.exe (cinstall) bugfixes + minor new feature

2002-03-04 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > But the user will need to run setup.exe and follow it through > all the way anyway. If they've managed to get through package > selection, does forcing the choice of shortcut creation help? > Or do you have big

RE: setup.exe (cinstall) bugfixes + minor new feature

2002-03-04 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > I was thinking that > > If the setting is absent it prompts, > > if the setting is on it always creates, overwriting the > current one if > > the setting is off it never creates. > > > Rob > > Hmm - I'm no

RE: setup.exe (cinstall) bugfixes + minor new feature

2002-03-04 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: setup.exe (cinstall) bugfixes + minor new feature > > > I did notice that setup-20020225.exe does not have the > shortcut creation bug - d

RE: setup.exe (cinstall) bugfixes + minor new feature

2002-03-04 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: setup.exe (cinstall) bugfixes + minor new feature > > > I did notice that setup-20020225.exe does not have the > shortcut creation bug - d

RE: Strange behavior

2002-03-03 Thread Robert Collins
Floating point comparisons should _always_ be done via a confidence interval, not bitwise equality. As for determinism, I don't know what the logic circuits look like, so can't and won't comment :}. Rob > -Original Message- > From: Chuck Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Mond

RE: w32api bugfix (was: Currently, CVS setup.exe does not compile, due to warnings with 'warnings as errors' in effect. How best to change code to avoid warnings?)

2002-03-03 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 9:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: w32api bugfix (was: Currently, CVS setup.exe does > not compile, due to warnings with 'warnings as errors' in > effect. How best to change code

RE: setup.exe (cinstall) bugfixes + minor new feature

2002-03-03 Thread Robert Collins
Thanks Max. > -Original Message- > From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 4:54 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: setup.exe (cinstall) bugfixes + minor new feature > > > I've been working with the setup code, and have discovered > some bugs in t

RE: "start" for Cygwin

2002-03-03 Thread Robert Collins
I think cygstart or something like that will eliminate the potiential for touble. Rob > -Original Message- > From: David Starks-Browning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 8:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: "start" for Cygwin > > > On Saturday 2 Mar

RE: "start" for Cygwin

2002-03-02 Thread Robert Collins
Start is a cmd builtin - there is no start.exe Rob > -Original Message- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Anyway, I personally have no objection to including start in cygutils -- but the sudden appearance of a 'start.exe' command in /usr/bin (which could hide WINNT/s

RE: Currently, CVS setup.exe does not compile, due to warnings with 'warnings as errors' in effect. How best to change code to avoid warnings?

2002-03-02 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > What do the experts think? Hmm, does C++ support the same feature? If not then an ifdef __cplusplus might do it. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http:/

Re: "local install"?

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Collins
Sorry about the length, just wanted to be really clear... === - Original Message - From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Basically, the reason we've been harping that "setup is not a mirroring > tool" is to preserve the freedom to change setup's on-disk database and > operational b

Re: "local install"?

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > >>I tried the NEW setup. Let's say it has some problems still. I'll switch > >>when the kinks are worked out. > > > > > >Okay, so when you said "how can I..." you meant "I know it's supposed

RE: "local install"?

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Perhaps the Emacs folks (NOT XEmacs -- they already have a different > solution) will create a cygwin-setup dirtree once their > cygwin port is > complete. Perhaps folks who have ported a package and want >

RE: "local install"?

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I cannot get setup.exe to permit multiple selection of > mirrors, so how is > this magical seamless multi-mirror integration achieved? Can > it be done > without running setup.exe more than once? If not, wha

RE: "local install"?

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Can you tell me some functionality only available when one uses > > "Install > > from Internet?" > > > Sure: merging multiple "mirrors" into a seamless single-view > installation. (Or, merging an official m

RE: sem_trywait returns EAGAIN (rather than returning -1 and setting errno)

2002-02-28 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew T. Schnable [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > returning -1 and setting errno) > > > I think all the sem_* functions are broken similarly. I have > the threads.cc file modified > and was going to try and submit patches, but I am having some > issues g

RE: sem_trywait returns EAGAIN (rather than returning -1 and setting errno)

2002-02-28 Thread Robert Collins
FWIW, I've patched sem_trywait and sem_wait. I haven't looked for further cases of misbehaviour though. Rob > -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > As Robert indicated, in the vast majority of those cases, > this was, in fact, the right thing to d

RE: Error: init_cygheap""etc_changed: Can't open /etc for checking, Win32 error 50

2002-02-27 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Paul McFerrin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 4:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Error: init_cygheap""etc_changed: Can't open /etc > for checking, Win32 error 50 > > > Folks: > > I checked the archives for this err

RE: Excessive packages installed by default

2002-02-26 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: rotaiv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I've you've got Misc packages showing up, then you don't have a setup.ini file, or have manually editied it. Misc packages are automatically installed unless you deselect them. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwi

RE: sem_trywait returns EAGAIN (rather than returning -1 and setting errno)

2002-02-26 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:37:35PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >The problem should _not_ be endemic in the pthreads code, as > I rewrote > >nearly all the pthread* functions fro

RE: CYGWIN : Scheduling

2002-02-26 Thread Robert Collins
Please keep replies on list. And pthread_cond_signal is implemented. Rob > -Original Message- > From: Herve Bailly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 1:02 AM > To: Robert Collins > Subject: Re: CYGWIN : Scheduling > > > >

RE: CYGWIN : Scheduling

2002-02-26 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Herve Bailly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: CYGWIN : Scheduling > > > Hello, > With mutlti-thread CYGWIN application, how to have > scheduling between thread

Re: 1.3.4 - touch /etc/abc causes BSOD

2002-02-26 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Lagstein, Yossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 5:56 PM Subject: RE: 1.3.4 - touch /etc/abc causes BSOD > It may be Microsoft bug, but since The trigger for the BSOD is cygwin, and > I'm u

Re: sem_trywait returns EAGAIN (rather than returning -1 and setting errno)

2002-02-26 Thread Robert Collins
I haven't done much work on the sem* functions to date, other than keeping the functional. Patches, as always, gratefully accepted. Post daemon merge I can do a review of the sem* functions. The problem should _not_ be endemic in the pthreads code, as I rewrote nearly all the pthread* functions

RE: Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Ross Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I just tried it and everything seems to be OK. (OS is Windows > 2000.) > > (Screenshot: http://storm.net.nz/~ross/temp/cygwin1.png) Yes, there is meant to be an image, but we don't have one. There have been a few s

Next version of setup.exe

2002-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
We've branched the next version of setup.exe, and created a snapshot for anyone willing to be our guinea pigs. It is accessible via http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020225.exe. Please use this, and report any bugs back to us. We know of one with large fonts, that will be rectified

Re: MSI Cygwin installer

2002-02-24 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Tristan Juricek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I'm the cygwin setup.exe maintainer. > I've been wondering if anyone has considered or has worked on a Cygwin MSI > installer. Though there are some restrictions and it may be more difficult > to automate, the admini

RE: 1.3.4 - touch /etc/abc causes BSOD

2002-02-24 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Lagstein, Yossi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > I opened a bug with Compaq support, they said it's a software > problem, gave > me the following: > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q130802 > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

RE: issue: parallel rsh'd makes on >=2GHz P4's stalling

2002-02-23 Thread Robert Collins
Hayden, have a look at the cygwin--developers archives - parallel make has had various problems from time to time. Cygwin seems a littleticklish there. Your best bet is to build a debug cygwin, and clearly identify the fault for one of the developers to be able to fix it for you.

Re: Creating a local mirror for setup.exe

2002-02-22 Thread Robert Collins
SignalObjectAndWait is an NT only call - this _may_ be contributing to the bug, but I don't think so. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: DLLs that can be used with MS C++

2002-02-22 Thread Robert Collins
This may be of interest http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/compiler-dependencies.html#[33.8] === - Original Message - From: "Warren Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dan Kyhl wrote: > > > > Are you saying that I can't make C++ dll's in cygwin for use in 'normal' > > Windows? > > No, beca

Re: How to create a windows link in script?

2002-02-20 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Joshua Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've written a program that does just this. It's a > fully scriptable and can set icons. I'm > hoping to get it included in cygwin sometime, but > I'm waiting until the new setup.exe comes out to > bother developer

Re: cygreadline5.dll redux

2002-02-19 Thread Robert Collins
> b) The archive search engine is too stupid to understand > quoted strings meaning adjacency, so that searching for > 'cygrealine5.dll "not found"' is equivalent to searching > for the individual words. Since 'found' appears in cygcheck > output, this does not reduce the number

Re: question on the cygwin setup command

2002-02-14 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Andrew Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It should pickup the setup.ini and use it. If nothings updated, then > > nothing will install (naturally). > > > > I removed the setup.ini file, remove all of cygwin regustry entry, removed > the c:/cygwin directry, and

Re: Running Squid using cygrunsrv

2002-02-14 Thread Robert Collins
Then maybe pass -p "/usr/bin/squid -N" to cygrunsrv. Rob === - Original Message - From: "Sindhu Kurnia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 3:45 PM Subject: R

Re: Running Squid using cygrunsrv

2002-02-14 Thread Robert Collins
Your squid syntax is invalid. -a requires a port number. Also, I was wrong - -N as you had before is correct (I got confused, been a while since I had to configure a squid install). Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com

Re: Running Squid using cygrunsrv

2002-02-14 Thread Robert Collins
You need to use -D to run squid as a service. Rob === - Original Message - From: "Sindhu Kurnia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: Running Squid using cygrunsrv > Hi, > > This is my first experience of running Squid under cygwin

Fw: question on the cygwin setup command

2002-02-14 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 3:21 PM Subject: Re: question on the cygwin setup command > - Original Message - > From: "And

Re: 2/13 PM NAV update [Correction]

2002-02-13 Thread Robert Collins
Please, for the sake of sanity, don't refer to packages by .dll revisions. libz is separate from cygwin1.dll and updated at different times. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cy

Re: RCS 5.7 (?) + setup.exe advice

2002-02-13 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Dylan Cuthbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 5:00 PM Subject: Re: RCS 5.7 (?) + setup.exe advice > Ah, I get it now, I had a full installation of an older version of cygwin > and of course when I ran the s

Re: ttcp successfully compiled

2002-02-12 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Stanislav Sinyagin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Perhaps, someday someone of the Cygwin developers team > > would create a distribution package from that... > No. All the cygwin developers are saturated. YOU can create a package and have us include it though: h

Re: /dev/registry

2002-02-10 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, it looks like I'll be the only one, but this sounds to me like an insanely > *BAD* idea. It seems to me to be hard enough to keep the Windows registry in > one piece even if you don't dink with it; I shudder

Re: /dev/registry

2002-02-09 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Yah. I've been quite on this one. I'd like to point out that Cygwin > >has had a patch for /dev/registry some time ago. > > I just did a search and I can't see any formal submittal of a pa

Re: unix domain socket with shared memory ?

2002-02-08 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Ralf Habacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 1:17 AM Subject: unix domain socket with shared memory ? > Hi all, > > cfg has told me about the current process of cygwin daemon implementation with ipc

Re: /dev/registry

2002-02-08 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The suggestion about ioctl() begs the question of where to get the file > descriptor to which to apply the ioctl() call, and does not open the > registry to scripting languages that have no direct access to the Cygwin

Re: dlopen(0, RTLD_LAZY) doesn't work?

2002-02-08 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "PsychoSphere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Don't learn this one - it's incorrect. Linking with > > cygwin1.dll would > > fail if it were correct. > > Wrong... declspec is ignored, as you will see if you > nm the exe produced. On what basis do you say this? I ju

Re: dlopen(0, RTLD_LAZY) doesn't work?

2002-02-08 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Pavel Tsekov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I believe the __declspec(...) has a similar effect, in > > that it is ignored unless -shared is specified, or > > -mdll is used. > > Ok, I didn't know that, but hey ... you learn almost every day > something new :) Do

Re: libgcc exception handling not thread safe

2002-02-08 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Andreas Damm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:47 PM Subject: libgcc exception handling not thread safe > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > libgcc.a in the gcc package does not seem to be thre

Re: Setup Program

2002-02-07 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Laurence F. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Are the sources to the setup program available? Have you considered reading the web pages or perhaps searching the mailing lists? We don't actually like repeating ourselves. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: DirectX8/DirectInput + cygwin

2002-02-06 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 07:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:20:23PM -0800, Barubary wrote: > >What about the more important problem that Microsoft's patented virtual > >table system, which COM uses, isn't supported by GCC? > > Aren't virtual tables a feature of "C++"? Yes

RE: Scriptable start.exe

2002-02-06 Thread Robert Collins
gt; > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:47:02PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Setup.exe has never been scriptable in any respect, and no > discussion > >>to that effect has occurred here to the best of my

Re: Scriptable start.exe

2002-02-05 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Setup.exe has never been scriptable in any respect, and no discussion to that > effect has occurred here to the best of my knowledge. People have been > discussing adding such a feature, but I haven't seen any cod

Re: cygipc shmat bug

2002-02-01 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Michael Haubenwallner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The problem is, that the pid-numbering of Windows is quite "confuse" > (i don't know any better word), meaning that a later ipctest.exe > gets the same pid as before, while the attach before with the same > pid i

Re: Why not a news server?

2002-02-01 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Greg Mosier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 8:31 AM Subject: Re: Why not a news server? > Yeah, I've too noticed this inconvience of having to use reply all to get it > to go back to the list. The most frust

Re: Scripting Installs? missing setup.hints

2002-01-31 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Michael Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It's part of the sources.redhat.com infrastructure. It is in CVS but it > > is not intended for general use. I don't know if it is even available > > for anonymous CVS access. > > Am I to assume that you're not interested

Re: setting up cygwin

2002-01-31 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Robert, > > OK, but why then is there a "download" mode whose only purpose is to create > a local mirror of a Cygwin package repository? Because :]. Seriously, the download mode is a sideeffect of the normal instlal pro

Re: A real fork() on NT

2002-01-31 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What about someone actually familiarizing themselves with how Cygwin > does things currently? Then they can make some informed suggestions. I don't like that idea, it might lead to less noise, more signal and some good

Re: setting up cygwin

2002-01-31 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Rob, > > Setup.exe serves the purpose of mirroring just fine, as along as all you > want to mirror is a set of Cygwin install packages, with or without source > (or, for that matter, with the current version of Setup.exe

Re: setting up cygwin

2002-01-31 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Ling F. Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In short, if I want everything in minimal effort (I > don't want to go through all of them and click > retrieve and select the source), what should I do? Use a mirroring tool, not setup.exe. Setup.exe is designed for i

Re: How do i upgrade to gcc 3.X on cygwin?

2002-01-31 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Mack Lobell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:37 AM Subject: Re: How do i upgrade to gcc 3.X on cygwin? > Hi, > > i only want the c and c++ parts. My build was configured with the followin

Re: Blue Screen Of Death

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Brian Genisio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 4:55 AM Subject: Re: Blue Screen Of Death > So, does that mean I need to r

Re: Blue Screen Of Death

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Brian Genisio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *** Stop : < a bunch of memory addresses> > IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL > > - ntoskrnl.exe > > The operation it is executing when this happens is a shell script with a loop > that does a kill -9 on about 10 processes. > > A

Re: new setup.exe snapshot

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Michael Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 1:12 AM Subject: new setup.exe snapshot > > I just tried v2.185 of the new setup.exe, and I noticed a potential > glitch. > > If you specify an alternative URL an

Re: Install failure

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Dan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:31 AM Subject: FW: Install failure > > > -Original Message- > From: Dan Horne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:05 AM > To:

Re: Remote site

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Robert Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:45 PM Subject: Remote site > Hello, > > I would like to store a set of packages on a remote server that we > host only for our use. > How do I tell setup.exe

Re: New on sourceware: texmf-20000804-2

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > xv which I uses quite often, and it obviously depends > on libpng and I would rather not break it. The package maintainers try very hard to prevent *backwards* compatability issues. You should not need to fear upgrading. Rob -- Uns

Re: Scripting Installs?

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > And, I should care about your specific requirements because... > > You want cygwin and it tools to continue to exist and be used. Ehh, nope. Setup is not part of cygwin per-se, although it is specific to cygwin. Find a better

Re: Scripting Installs?

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By the way I do write tools using some of cygwin and I am regularly > asked if there is someway to just point and click to install > just what they need. They don't know exactly what my tools require > so they can't select ju

Re: Scripting Installs?

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > These concerns about the size of Cygwin are becoming ever less sensible. > It's 2002, and storage is extremely cheap, fast and capacious. It hardly > seems worth the bother to try to pare down a Cygwin install to sav

Re: Scripting Installs?

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Glenn Sieb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:07 AM Subject: Re: Scripting Installs? > On 11:58 AM 1/29/2002 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >Have you looked into the setup.exe sources? > > No I have not. I

Re: Scripting Installs?

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Glenn Sieb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > second was "how do I tell the install that I want > you to just install the following packages" Make custom build and change the mirrors.lst location, and then combine that with a local custom setup.ini and package site. Put

Re: New on sourceware: texmf-20000804-2

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > BTW - pdftex in tetex-20001208-4 depends on the > > new (10-days-old) libpng 1.0.2. > > Hmm, that's not good. Does that package have a new name? Otherwise > we're in dire need of versioned depends. I wouldn't describ

Re: Syntax error on compile

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Collins
Try READING the bounce message. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Locating bzip2 package

2002-01-29 Thread Robert Collins
> Nevermind. You meant the "Full" View. Sorry. > > I'm always much smarter ten seconds after hitting the send button... And I've GOT to stop reading oldest first... Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Doc

Re: Locating bzip2 package

2002-01-29 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Except that there is no "Full" list yet. Isn't that a feature of newer > setup.exe's? No. There has always been a 'full' list - clicking on 'View' switchs to that list. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: New setup.exe and crashes

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "John P. Rouillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I've uploaded a new setup.exe that shouldn't crash on *anything*. If you > >have time please give it a shot. > > I have successfully used it to download and install openssh from > http://mirrors.rcn.net with WinNT 4.0SP

Re: New setup.exe snapshot

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I believe this is now *really* fixed, and a new setup snapshot is at > > http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/ > > > FYI, this version still crashes if you click the "Add" User URL button, > but haven't typed anythi

Re: Building postfix under cygwin

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Jason Tishler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Greg Matheson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 12:53 AM Subject: Re: Building postfix under cygwin > Matt, > > On Tue, Jan 2

Re: New setup.exe snapshot

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > VC++ debugger reports exception code=0xc005, flags=0x, > > Address=0x0041e53e > > > > If you wish I can give you a memory dump! > > Don't worry -

Re: C++ dll segfault problem

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Markus Hoenicka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > I'm stuck with a problem building dynamically linked versions of > OpenJade, onsgmls etc. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openjade). The ... > I've also tried to get some insight from strace. strace in this

Re: setup.exe snapshot: install from local directory not working

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 9:42 AM Subject: Re: setup.exe snapshot: install from local directory not working > On Wed, Jan 23, 2

Re: texmf packages ready

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hmm, what does setup.exe do with partly downloaded tarballs? Nothing special. From the wishlist: * incremental/recoverable download capability. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: After new install, start in /usr/bin/{myname} not in /home/{myname}

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 9:30 AM Subject: After new install, start in /usr/bin/{myname} not in /home/{

Re: New setup.exe snapshot

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "John A. Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Robert Collins wrote: > > > Any and all testing/feedback is needed. > > I've been using it for a while, and have a bit of feedback... Thank you. > o if the window gets

Re: Re installer crash

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Jason Doege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cygwin@Cygwin. Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:55 AM Subject: Re installer crash > I have successfully installed many times until the latest release of > the installer which crashes with an i

Re: Cygwin mistakes directories for character devices

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "James Vega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 6:08 PM Subject: Re: Cygwin mistakes directories for character devices > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Robert Collins wrote: > > > Under

Fw: After new install, start in /usr/bin/{myname} not in /home/{myname}

2002-01-28 Thread Robert Collins
/etc/passwd (.chk) and with a good one (.out). Hopefully this gives a clue as to why mkpasswd misbehaves, I haven't had time to look at source yet. Rob === - Original Message - From: "fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Colli

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with initdb on Cygwin

2002-01-26 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Justin Clift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Rick Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Joerg Hessdoerfer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cygwin Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 27

Re: cygwin bash shell as a service

2002-01-26 Thread Robert Collins
Yes, sshd. Rob === - Original Message - From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:16 PM Subject: cygwin bash shell as a service > Is there a way to install bash as a service and submit make's remotely > rather than having to use cygwin as

Re: FAQ topic "What about special DOS devices"

2002-01-26 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 11:58 AM Subject: FAQ topic "What about special DOS devices" > Can we add "(i.e. comX, lptX, aux)"

FAQ topic "What about special DOS devices"

2002-01-26 Thread Robert Collins
Can we add "(i.e. comX, lptX, aux)" - the folk that don'tknow about DOS devices, won't know the ComX is found under that topic. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs

Re: Cygwin mistakes directories for character devices

2002-01-26 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "James Vega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 11:50 AM Subject: Cygwin mistakes directories for character devices > Create a directory named "comX" where X is a number. > ls the directory and it will come up as a c

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