Re: nice really nice?

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 14:00, Randall R Schulz wrote: Thomas, One thing to keep in mind is that while Unix (and work-alikes) has a -20 (best scheduling priority) ... +20 (worst priority) range, Windows has only the six distinct levels. I don't know how Cygwin maps the Unix nice values to

Re: [Patch] skipping import libraries for performance reasons -direct auto-import of dll's

2002-11-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 15:43, Charles Wilson wrote: If between, where? 5-per? 30-per? 100? When in doubt, set a backwards compatible default (1), and add a knob :}. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: Some info on setup release-stopper bug

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 09:18, Max Bowsher wrote: I've been digging around in setup hunting for the 'erroneous use of prev versions' bug. It seems to be due to the fact that in processOneDependency in package_version.cc, the first satisfactory version from the versions set is chosen. Thanks,

Re: setup.exe-HEAD should build from CVS on gcc-3.

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 04:33, Max Bowsher wrote: Oh dear, replying to myself within a minute of posting... 1) The patch was broken. Fixed version in this mail. 2) I'd forgotten to mention the Cannot open (null) for reading bug, a.k.a. Setup shows versions in the chooser which it cannot

Re: setup.exe-HEAD should build from CVS on gcc-3.

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 21:27, Max Bowsher wrote: Hmm... seems I've discovered a new kwyboard shortcut. Ctrl+Enter = Send. Sure - no problem. I have a couple of improvements, (Categories column, Colour code prev/curr/exp) pending, so let me know when the chaos subsides. Max would you like

Re: setup.exe-HEAD should build from CVS on gcc-3.

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 10:43, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Max would you like checkin-after-approval access to the setup CVS repository? I'm honored :-) It's deserved. In fact, Gary and Pavel probably should get access by now too :}. I will leave it up

Re: setup.exe-HEAD should build from CVS on gcc-3.

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 11:04, Max Bowsher wrote: No. I haven't had any need for one until now. Please follow the instructions on the cygwin site for getting CVS write access, it tells you what you need to send Chris. Cheers, Rob -- --- GPG key available at:

Re: Are there any resizable setup works-in-progress out there?

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 11:21, Max Bowsher wrote: Are there any resizable setup works-in-progress out there? Gary was making noises at one point. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: Sorry Robert, your bugfix hasn't entirely worked.

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 11:16, Max Bowsher wrote: setup.exe CVS, just fetched, v2.294: I've got the [exp] libtool-devel and libltdl3 packages installed. I do too (now). setup-2.294 tries to downgrade (known problem) one of the to [curr], *and the other to [prev]*. Hmm, simpler yet, setting

Re: Sorry Robert, your bugfix hasn't entirely worked.

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 11:16, Max Bowsher wrote: PS: Attached is a patch which colour-codes version numbers in setup. Obviously its going to require much discussion before checkin, but it is what allowed me to notice the bug so easily. The colour code is: Dark Blue:[curr] Cyan:

Re: Duplicate short option -d

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 12:19, Max Bowsher wrote: $ setup -h # with the patch I've just submitted ... -d --no-desktopDisable creation of desktop shortcut -d --disable-buggy-antivirus Disable known or suspected buggy anti

Re: [patch] Help Option

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 12:16, Max Bowsher wrote: Setup has all these wonderful command line options, but no way to find out what they are! Possible patch below. exit(0) seems a little clumsy. Would you rather I did something via theLog ? Although I think we don't really want logs just for a

Re: Sorry Robert, your bugfix hasn't entirely worked.

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 12:54, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, not having a trust level, does not mean not in setup.ini at all. With merged setup.ini's, version skew can occur between the ini files, and there are only three trust slots. Thus the sorted

Re: [patch] Help Option

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 13:02, Max Bowsher wrote: Yes, I was actually taking advantage of the fact that the destructors don't fire, because I don't think we should be logging for a help invocation. Thats orthogonal. Hint to LogFile to not write anything. In fact IIRC that is already ready-to-go.

Re: [patch] Help Option

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 13:12, Max Bowsher wrote: GUI help for command line options! Seems... excessive? IIRC -mwindows builds don't get a console, so can't output command line help. What do you think I've been copy/pasting ? :-) A cygwin build. I just tested again here, it doesn't work

Re: Sorry Robert, your bugfix hasn't entirely worked.

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 13:09, Max Bowsher wrote: Or perhaps a customisable p / prev / myfavouriteword. Yep, options are needed :]. myfavoriteword is excessive. I'll go for boolean, or tri-state (none|p|prev) if you think that is a good idea. Just use a string option: static StringOption

Re: [patch] Help Option

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 13:24, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats interesting. It works here (with -mno-cygwin -mwindows). What OS. Running from what shell? CYGWIN=?? rxvt being used? Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc

Re: [patch] Categories column

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 11:20, Max Bowsher wrote: You've seen this before - take a look on the date on the ChangeLog. It's unchanged since then except rediffing to pick up changed line numbers. I assume I update the ChangeLog date to the current date before checkin? Up to you. I tend to leave it

Re: [PATCH] Patch for MTinterface

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 01:55, Thomas Pfaff wrote: On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Robert Collins wrote: Overall this looks good. What happens to non-cygwinapi created threads now though? You mention you don't agree with the code, but I can't see (from a brief look) how you correct it. BTW: I'm

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 03:16, Daniel Armbrust wrote: Every time that I run the cygwin installer program, when it finishes downloading packages, and moves to the install step, it bluescreen crashes my Windows XP machine (service pack 1) with the following error: Does it creash before or after

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 08:27, Randall R Schulz wrote: Likewise, it cannot be the locus of a fix for such a problem. While I certainly cannot speak for others who read this list, I doubt anyone is going to a) be able to help you much to solve this situation, since it is surely

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 08:52, Randall R Schulz wrote: If KB 195857 really is the culprit here, then I suppose you could well make the case that opening a lot of system handles and then just abandoning them is not good programming practice and really should be resolved on its own merits.

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 09:35, Charles Wilson wrote: Guys, I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned the obvious culprit (or asked the obvious question): Anti virus software? Was McAfee or Norton (but esp. McAfee) running while setup.exe was executed? Doh. Ok, setup HEAD will now ask and

Re: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-24 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 12:05, Max Bowsher wrote: Works for me - quick coding! Cool. It's just a quick hack. There are some things it highlit about the property page system. Garrry! I recall being unhappy about having the list of pages in two places, and it's obvious why now. Heres the

Re: Setup installed to c:/cygwin/usr/bin

2002-11-21 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 07:20, Norton Allen wrote: I would agree with that. It appears to me that setup fails to see the system mounts that cygwin sees. -Norton The source is your friend :}. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc

Re: Setup's Choose a download source screen...

2002-11-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 07:28, Max Bowsher wrote: The principal difficulty is that there is no good framework in place for persisting setup's configuration. Yep. In fact I've commented on this before - that we need a common persistence mechanism to deal with the moving requirements for where to

RE: Errors when building setup.exe

2002-11-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 08:05, John Morrison wrote: I think he means replace, not remove ;) Even so. The source downloadable via setup is that for the same version we offer on cygwin.com. To replace it with a newer version's tarball means we need a new version of setup available there. Rob --

Re: Fw: Detecting NetworkSimplicity in setup.exe

2002-11-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 05:18, Mark Bradshaw wrote: I've decided to call it quits on the package. Announcement at http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/. I hope we can make a minimal cygwin w/ssh as easy to use and install as your package was. Good luck with your next endeavour(s). Cheers,

Re: Errors when building setup.exe

2002-11-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 07:19, Max Bowsher wrote: PS to Robert Collins: Perhaps the setup source tarball should be removed from the mirrors? Its so old as to be impractical to use now. Can't do that - it's the source code that must be offered (GPL :}). Rob Followup to cygwin-apps please

Re: Detecting NetworkSimplicity in setup.exe

2002-11-19 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 12:01, Max Bowsher wrote: I've just installed the latest version of NetworkSimplicity (renaming my Cygwin registry keys first). I propose a 3-level system for detecting problematical mount tables: When NetworkSimplicity is installed, setup can simply look for OpenSSH

Re: libxml2/libxslt binaries: libxml2 version mismatch in xsltproc

2002-11-19 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 21:19, Yves Forkl wrote: Sorry for not being clear about the specific problem I encountered which is almost certainly caused by the version mismatch, but I didn't know if that classified as a bug proper - please see the description of the problem in the message

Re: Problems with installer

2002-11-17 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 06:37, Mark Bradshaw wrote: Here. Sorry if there is some confusion. Frankly, considering the number of installs I think the confusion has been minimal. As a side note I've many times been in conversation with a user and suggested that it might be time to can the

Re: SSHD on NT4... (SOLVED!!!)

2002-11-17 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 09:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: In that vein, can anyone think of other improvements to cygcheck? For instance, maybe it could debug common /etc/passwd or /etc/group problems. Or, maybe it could detect a NetworkSimplicity installation and optionally uninstall it. I

Re: gcc headers

2002-11-17 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 07:49, Lapo Luchini wrote: I don't understand completely the logic behind STL headers... e.g. there is map that uses bits/stl_map.h and there is list too but there isn't slist and multimap, though the stl_* version is there to be used. Is this normal/expected? Yes,

Re: libxml2/libxslt binaries: libxml2 version mismatch in xsltproc

2002-11-17 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 08:17, Yves Forkl wrote: In various versions of the libxml2/libxslt binaries, the executable xsltproc distributed with the latest libxslt package was compiled against an older version of libxml2 than the latest release currently distributed. ... To get xsltproc working

Re: Uncompilable setup.exe... again

2002-11-16 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 05:47, Yann Crausaz wrote: Hello, So, it was a mistake to try to handle cygwin-packets (eg gcc-mingw-3.2-20020817-1.tar.bz2) without using the setup program. Maybe it's a bad habit I've got, since I use to work on a GNU/Linux box... Well, setup uses tarballs as a

Re: Uncompilable setup.exe... again

2002-11-14 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 00:30, Yann Crausaz wrote: Hello, I'm trying to compile setup.exe under cygwin (CVS tag: cygwin-1-3-12-1; Host: Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2). I followed the instruction of the page http://www.cygwin.com/cvs.html to get the latest

Re: Uncompilable 'setup' program !

2002-11-13 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 21:28, Max Bowsher wrote: Subject: Uncompilable 'setup' program ! From: Yann Crausaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Currently, for my diploma work, I'm working on a port of RPM-4.1 for Cygwin (which is actually nearly functionnal...), and I'd like to modify the setup program to

Re: Recent CVS commits

2002-11-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 00:45, Max Bowsher wrote: I observe a steady stream of CVS commits of my patches! Thanks Robert! Heh, we are getting there. I'm about to commit an alpha sstream update to LogSingleton/LogFile. I'm gambling that libg++-3.2 has fixed some of the apparent bugs that

Re: Recent CVS commits

2002-11-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 01:25, Robert Collins wrote: I'm about to commit an alpha sstream update to LogSingleton/LogFile. I'm gambling that libg++-3.2 has fixed some of the apparent bugs that impacted me before. Oh, and I've not updated the client code to use the new LogFile::createLogFile

Re: Recent CVS commits

2002-11-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 12:08, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and I've not updated the client code to use the new LogFile::createLogFile factory yet. That should be a one liner (for a heap allocated object) or two liner (for a member object) update. I've

setup.exe-HEAD should build from CVS on gcc-3.

2002-11-09 Thread Robert Collins
Ok, I've applied most of Max's patches. CVS setup now builds and runs for me with gcc-3. Max, I've not applied a couple of the patches: -Wno-deprecated is not needed. proppage.h I've not gotten to (yet). I don't think I've missed any other patches, can you diff your sandbox against my commits to

[Fwd: ezmlm response]

2002-11-09 Thread Robert Collins
I got this when I committed the recent setup web page update.. Rob -Forwarded Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ezmlm response Date: 10 Nov 2002 03:59:42 + Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. This

Re: [Fwd: ezmlm response]

2002-11-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 15:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:20:57PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: I got this when I committed the recent setup web page update.. Should be fixed now. Thanks, I'll let you know when next I update the web pages ;}. Rob -- --- GPG key

binutils 20021107-2

2002-11-09 Thread Robert Collins
Hmm, a new ?bug? in binutils: Linking a g++-2 compiled program, with a g++-2 compiled dll (line breaks and blank lines added for clarity) RobertCLIFELESSAMD ~/src/barch/build make /bin/bash ./libtool --mode=link g++-2 -g -O2 -o get-archive-name.exe src/get-archive-name.o src/Archive.la

re: binutils 20021107-2

2002-11-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 21:59, Danny Smith wrote: Hello Robert By default symbols in libstdc++.a are excluded when doing --export-all, to protect against this type of error. However, ld/pe-dll.c knows nothing about libstdc++-2.a. So those symbols do get exported ... and cause the usual

Re: binutils 20021107-2

2002-11-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 05:58, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Shouldn't there be a few more entries in this list, like libmingwex, libmingwthrd, libmsvcrt (maybe). I don't know if any of those libraries have globals that could be erroneously exported but doesn't it pay

cvs trouble (cgf please read) ...

2002-11-08 Thread Robert Collins
Trying to grab libgetopt++ or setup: cvs -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin-apps co libgetopt++ cvs checkout: Updating libgetopt++ cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot stat /sourceware/cvs-lockdir/cygwin-apps: No such file or directory cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot stat

Re: cvs trouble (cgf please read) ...

2002-11-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 20:08, Robert Collins wrote: Trying to grab libgetopt++ or setup: cvs -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin-apps co libgetopt++ cvs checkout: Updating libgetopt++ cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot stat /sourceware/cvs-lockdir/cygwin-apps: No such file or directory cvs

RE: NO huge packages, please!

2002-11-07 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 05:51, Randall R Schulz wrote: Be sure to review Max Bowsher's recent mail about the Setup code. Apparently it (Setup's source) is in slight disarray with some ongoing enhancements in progress. Not that much disarray, just not updated to gcc 3 yet. There are also a

RE: NO huge packages, please!

2002-11-07 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 05:38, Peter A. Castro wrote: Ah, yes, I do recall seeing this. But, I wouldn't really call this a re-try facility, because if 1 out of 100 packages downloaded with errors, the re-try will pull all 100 packages all over again. A far cry from ideal, I'd say :) This is

RE: NO huge packages, please!

2002-11-07 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 18:18, Randall R Schulz wrote: Robert, Sorry, Rob. No insult intended. None taken, just clarifying the situation. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: xerces-c, xerces-c-devel, xerces-c-doc 2.1.0-2 available forreview/upload

2002-11-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 21:16, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Abraham Backus wrote: http://abackus.imagineis.com/xerces-c/xerces-c-2.1.0-2.tar.bz2 http://abackus.imagineis.com/xerces-c-devel/xerces-c-devel-2.1.0-2.tar.bz2

Re: xerces-c, xerces-c-devel, xerces-c-doc 2.1.0-2 available forreview/upload

2002-11-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 00:37, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On 6 Nov 2002, Robert Collins wrote: Anyone wishing to review these packages can point setup.exe to http://abackus.imagineis.com. You've changed the version number to 2.1.0-2, but this is not correct. Actually, it's long practice

Re: xerces-c, xerces-c-devel, xerces-c-doc 2.1.0-2 available forreview/upload

2002-11-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 01:01, Pavel Tsekov wrote: On 6 Nov 2002, Robert Collins wrote: Consider this: if the test copy we review was -3, and you approve that version, you should not rename it to -1, else when -2 comes out, all the testers will fail to upgrade. So -3 in review, stays as -3

Re: xerces-c, xerces-c-devel, xerces-c-doc 2.1.0-2 available forreview/upload

2002-11-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 04:18, Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't recall people bumping the -x numbers previously. I don't see why that's necessary. Theoretically, we are a small enough and intelligent enough group that we won't be confused when the contents of a file are updated without

Re: [PATCH] Patch for MTinterface

2002-11-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 00:14, Thomas Pfaff wrote: I have discovered some problems with the current MTinterface implementation. Here are 2 test cases: Even if the handles would be valid the pthread_join call would try to delete a thread object that is created static which would result in a

Re: [PATCH] Modified pthread types

2002-11-03 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 15:28, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm going through my mailbox cleaning up old patches. AFAICT, this patch wasn't applied. Was there a reason for that? Yep, It got lost :[. I'm not happy as-is, but have put it in my holding folder now, so as soon as I have a little more

Re: setup Question for Robert: In archive_tar_file.cc,compress_*.cc is min the STL std::min from algorithm or the macro fromwindows.h ?

2002-11-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 09:45, Max Bowsher wrote: Subject: setup Question for Robert: In archive_tar_file.cc, compress_*.cc is min the STL std::min from algorithm or the macro from windows.h ? Robert - which one of these is supposed to be used? I couldn't figure it out from the source. I ask

Re: setup gcc3 WORKING :-) (Revised patches - please review)

2002-11-01 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 03:04, Jason Tishler wrote: Max, On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:56:50PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Please comment on these patches, and then I will make any changes people suggest, write up a ChangeLog, and request they be committed. fix-gcc3-main.patch - Addition of

Re: [Patch] Fix setup to build with gcc2-2.95.3-10

2002-10-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 23:26, Nicholas Wourms wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: setup currently has a couple of build bugs when built with the gcc2 compiler. Fix here. Well what really needs fixing is the non-ISO compliant c++ Robert's used which causes setup to fail building under g++-3

Re: setup.exe: keep

2002-10-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 03:47, Michael D. Berger Rosalie A. Clavez wrote: In looking at the list of items I can install, I see that one of the options is keep. What does this mean? I would like to execute this sequence: 1 - download a complete new version; 2 - backup the complete new version;

Re: [Repost: actually with the patch included, this time :-) ][setup PATCH] Improve Category column (Take 2)

2002-10-19 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 21:48, Max Bowsher wrote: OK, so if I actually attach the patch, it would be good :-) Ping :-) no response Ping :-) I'm busy is a perfectly acceptable reply, I just want to make sue that this has been noticed. I'm busy. Sad, but

RE: 1.3.12: gcc bug: variable named end

2002-10-19 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 00:57, Rolf Campbell wrote: Doesn't this mean that gcc is not a true ANSI compiler? Shouldn't that variable be __end or something to conform with ANSI rules? AFAIK that is actually a ld issue - note that it is only global scope 'end' that collides, and that the end

Re: setup readme possibility (was about nano)

2002-10-18 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 10:53, Gareth Pearce wrote: But at a guess a patch for dialog saying - read the documentation and pointing out where it can be found... might be accepted. (I wont pretend to second guess Robert's oppinions here). Setup does at least now install a set of links to the

Re: setup readme possibility (was about nano)

2002-10-18 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 11:19, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:16:55PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, the shell script could also look for the standard .bat and .sh files. Executing them in one window would stop all of the black boxes from flashing after setup

Re: Installation Problem (Can't openC:\/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com[...] for writing: No such file ordirectory)

2002-10-18 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 09:09, Eddy Boxerman wrote: Hi, I tried to download cygwin and do a local install. This failed, so I uninstalled (deleted links, directories registry entries) and tried a direct from internet install. It seems that no matter what options I choose, I get an error (see

Re: [PATCH] Logging output of post-install scripts in setup

2002-10-17 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 00:02, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I changed the subject line to something more appropriate and resent to the (hopefully) correct list. Igor Ok, some feedback. Firstly, does this all work happily on win95? With both .bat and .sh scripts? Secondly, please don't pass

Re: [PATCH] fix segv in pthread_mutex::init

2002-10-17 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 18:11, Thomas Pfaff wrote: This patch should fix the segfault in pthread_mutex::init by changing the test order for a valid object and checking for valid initializer object first.. I'm happy with the verifyable_object change. I'm not happy with the pthread_mutex::init

Re: Please upload new version of curl (7.10.1-1)

2002-10-16 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 03:00, Roth, Kevin P. wrote: Would someone kindly upload a new version of curl to the sourceware mirrors for me? Anyone... Robert? Corinna? Jason? CGF? Buehler? I don't mean to be a pest, but I've requested this twice already over the last couple weeks and have seen

Re: pthreads problem Re: GDB always receives sigsegv with cygwin1.3.13-2

2002-10-16 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 09:54, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:07:16PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: Robert Collins, can this behavior be changed? Can we avoid checking PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER for validity. I think you may have done this once before, in fact

RE: pthreads problem Re: GDB always receives sigsegv with cygwin1.3.13-2

2002-10-16 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 10:10, Rolf Campbell wrote: -Original Message- So, silly question, why did this only start appearing in this new version of cygwin? It's been this way for several versions. It was discussin the -development list when it was introduced. Cheers, Rob -- ---

Re: ELFIO

2002-10-15 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 03:55, Christopher Faylor wrote: I can't think of any good reason for this package name to be all upper case. I've changed it to lowercase. Well, it is an anacronym. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc

Re: ELFIO

2002-10-15 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 09:06, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:36:27AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 03:55, Christopher Faylor wrote: I can't think of any good reason for this package name to be all upper case. I've changed it to lowercase. Well

Re: Viruses being transported with Cygwin messages

2002-10-13 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 05:04, Gregg C Levine wrote: Hello from Gregg C Levine Folks, don't roar at me, but I am seeing a number of messages arrive here, infected. One came with a message via Robert Collins, twice, Can you point me at the message with the virus? And the virus? I email from

Re: Maintaining Non-Cygwin Packages???

2002-10-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 12:31, David Ryan wrote: Hi, I have a number of packages I would like to create and provide to my users that I don't feel would be that useful to the whole cygwin community. The users of my web site however would find the convenience of an installable package

Re: Unable to compile setup.exe source

2002-10-11 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 23:03, Matthew Clark wrote: How did I get gcc 3.2 libs in the mix? More importantly, how do I force gcc 2.95 libs to be linked instead? You've probably not installed a mingw gcc2.95 library. This has been covered in the archives before, and is referenced on the

Re: Unable to compile setup.exe source

2002-10-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 07:02, Matthew Clark wrote: I'm trying to compile setup.exe from the setup-2.249.2.5.tar.bz2 tarball according the directions in=20 http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html I get down to the final link step and I get errors complaining about, undefined

Re: lilypond-1.6.5-1

2002-10-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 19:11, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: New upstream stable release. Apart from some important fixes from upstream, there's a small fix in the hint file: added a required dependency on ghostscript. Please upload. I went to upload this, and I can't overwrite corinna's

Re: Pending packages status

2002-10-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 18:44, Pavel Tsekov wrote: 2. CMake version: 1.4.5-1 status : reviewed, ready for upload Uploaded. 3. swig version: 1.3.15-1 status : update to an existing package - review is not required Uploaded. swig-1.3.11-1-src.tar.bz2 and swig-1.3.11-1.tar.bz2 removed.

Re: Origin

2002-10-09 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 16:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im right here. You can't be, because I'm right here and I know that you're not. Pats self, with concerned look on face - you know, you're right, I'm *not here*. Hlp Rob -- --- GPG key available at:

Re: Gnat for win32 does not search include and library paths

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 05:05, Jerry van Dijk wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: Could I have some clarification on this? Why would the GPL make it impossible to build a cygwin-based release? It seems like gcc is licensed under the GPL and cygwin is licensed under the GPL, so...

Re: Origin

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 13:51, Robert Foong wrote: Hi, Where about on the globe do you reside? Im right here. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Re : Origin [44824572]

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Collins
Hi, please keep replies on-list. I'm not sure why you thought I'd be interested in this piece of unsolicited commercial email, but I assure you I am not. It's my fond hope that my bar mate Chris whom my arms are not quite long enough to pass the beer to will kick and ban your spammy ass from the

pending uploads?

2002-10-07 Thread Robert Collins
What packages are pending upload Pavel? You pinged me for one, and Doxygen seems about ready - but Chris has (?temporarily?) vetoed that. Cheers, Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: Pending packages status

2002-10-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 03:29, Christopher Faylor wrote: I think that anyone who uploads the files would rather have them in three separate files. It's easier to just say curl -Os http://qwer/wqer.tar.bz2; three times than to do it once, extract it and copy the result to the correct release

Re: CMake 1.4.5-1

2002-10-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 23:49, William A. Hoffman wrote: I think this means that cmake has two votes. Nicholas Wourms and Gerrit. Corinna can you upload the package? Corinna is on holiday. I will upload it once the packaging has been reviewed. Cheers, Rob -- --- GPG key available at:

Re: .dll question

2002-10-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 09:13, Paul G. wrote: On a related note, can Cygwin generate c++ .dlls which are loadable by msvc++ or does Microsofts' method of name mangling prohibit such things? No it can't. In general, C++ compilers don't interoperate. The C++-Lite FAQ has a section on

Re: Nethack and Cygwin - Compils, Installs and doesn't work :)

2002-09-30 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 10:31, Brian Rowe wrote: I got past some challenges, but am a little confused on where to go next with Cygwin and debugging this. Nethack compiled, no errors. It installed in the /usr/games directory where it put nethack.exe I run nethack.exe and it just sits there, no

Re: Nethack and Cygwin - Compils, Installs and doesn't work :)

2002-09-30 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 11:17, Brian Rowe wrote: Any idea where they are now? When I looked at the list of support applications nethack was not on there. In nethack 3.3 almost all of the cygwin compile statements have been removed. The cursor just flashes around the screen, and I have to

Re: libxslt 1.0.13-1 stability problems

2002-09-30 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 12:35, Mike Bresnahan wrote: I've experiencing stability problems with libxslt 1.0.13-1. I'm frequently receiving segmentation faults when running xsltproc as follows: I'm hoping someone has already walked this path and can save me the time it will take to debug this

RE: So now you're a BigShot now? (clarification re. MinGW Glib)

2002-09-29 Thread Robert Collins
Enough already. Please, this *whole thread* has been offtopic. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: setup.exe and 'default/skip/install/reinstall' question

2002-09-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 03:21, Len Giambrone wrote: This will cause Setup to only list those packages in the chooser window. But will the non-base packages be installed by default? I.e., will they come up Skip or current-version in the chooser window? When I download to a directory, and

Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 23:15, Charles Krug wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:38:21PM -0700, Doru Carastan wrote: How about breaking free from using the windoze registry. There is absolutely no special need to use it IMO. I'll second that. Relying on a single monolithic binary file for

Re: Pthread problems -- [was: Re: newer bintuils]

2002-09-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 23:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you are correct. However there are currently some pthread issues which are being resolved before this happens. Anyhow, as previously mentioned, we are probably in for a long wait. Cheers, Nicholas Can someone elucidate a

Re: Checking mount points

2002-09-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 00:07, Richardson, Tony wrote: What is the easiest way to check if /home/$USER (or some other directory) has been mounted (either system-wide or user-only)? I know that I can use regtool (checking both the system and user keys) or parse the output from mount, but I was

RE: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 00:19, Dan Vasaru wrote: On the user mount in HKLM idea, it's a no-goer. Normal users don't have write access to most of HKLM, on any partly-secure install of NT (which is where the original posters issue arose). I may be wrong, but couldn't setup, or whoever

RE: Checking mount points

2002-09-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 00:56, Richardson, Tony wrote: Any suggestions on how to do it? mount /home/$USER returns not enough arguments and I haven't found a -check option to mount. mount | grep /home/$USER if empty, not mounted if not empty, the win32 path that is mounted there. Rob -- ---

Re: Package review status

2002-09-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 09:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, I would first suggest taking this off list. If it turns out to be a cygwin problem then you can discuss things here. I think that speculating about someone's personal gpg keys is remarkably off-topic for this list otherwise.

Re: Package review status

2002-09-26 Thread Robert Collins
For the archives: there is no bug with the cygwin gpg - the problem with my gpg key is with the keyservers. Apparently the keyservers choke on gpg keys with multiple sub-keys.. which mine has. So grab it direct. Cheers, Rob (Really the end of the thread now). signature.asc Description:

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