xwin-xdg-menu is not showing menu in taskbar

2020-10-09 Thread Volker Quetschke
Well, it is showing up with two processes in the windows task manager, with one consuming 15% or so of the CPU, but the icon never appears in the task bar. The system is a fresh install of cygwin 64 bit version on a new laptop - see attached cygcheck.out. To reproduce this the x server is

Re: R: Cygwin-1.7.1 perlMagick incompatible with perl

2010-01-19 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi Reini, Reini Urban wrote: 2010/1/19 Marco Atzeri: (snip) I already updated perl-Graphics-Magick to version 1.3.7-2, but it seems you asked for the other Perl-Magick package. From the maintainer list: perl-graphics-magickMarco Atzeri perl-image-magick Volker

Re: xmgrace

2008-11-06 Thread Volker Quetschke
Morgan Gangwere wrote: Volker Quetschke wrote: You are trying to start xmgrace from outside a cygwin environment, i.e. it does not know about cygwin softlinks. To confirm if I'm guessing right try this (only works from a cygwin shell): $ ls -l `which xmgrace` Otherwise provide more info

Re: xmgrace

2008-11-05 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi, Jorg Kewisch wrote: I have been using the plot program xmgrace (package grace) for a long time, and it has stopped working (tested with 3 cygwin from-scratch installations ) Symptoms: x-server is running xterm is running xclock produces clock xmgrace exits immediately without any

Re: Latest ImageMagick still has convert -list Format bug..

2008-04-18 Thread Volker Quetschke
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: referenced in o http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-03/msg00179.html Drats, you're right. I could have sworn it was gone last time I checked ... I'll try to debug and/or report upstream. Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net

Please upload: ImageMagick 6.4.0.6-1

2008-04-17 Thread Volker Quetschke
Please upload the new and long overdue ImageMagick package. Actually this are four packages, find links below. Since upstream version 6.3.8-5 of ImageMagick the following changes were made by the ImageMagick team: Renames: /usr/include = /usr/include/ImageMagick libMagick = libMagickCore

Re: ImageMagick renamed runtime lib names

2008-03-21 Thread Volker Quetschke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 20 19:30, Volker Quetschke wrote: Since upstream version 6.3.8-5 of ImageMagick the following changes were made: Renames: /usr/local/include = /usr/local/include/ImageMagick libMagick = libMagickCore libWand = libMagickWand Magick-config (deprecated

ImageMagick renamed runtime lib names

2008-03-20 Thread Volker Quetschke
Since upstream version 6.3.8-5 of ImageMagick the following changes were made: Renames: /usr/local/include = /usr/local/include/ImageMagick libMagick = libMagickCore libWand = libMagickWand Magick-config (deprecated) = MagickCore-config Wand-config (deprecated) = MagickWand-config And as

Re: [GTG] Re: [ITA, RFU] libgcrypt-1.4.0-1

2008-03-18 Thread Volker Quetschke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Volker? On Mar 11 15:57, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Volker Quetschke writes: I just looked into the ImageMagick stuff and I would also like to keep grace. By the way, there is a grace version sitting in test for more than a year now. What about that version

Libtool problems when building ImageMagick

2008-03-17 Thread Volker Quetschke
I wanted to prepare a new ImageMagick package, but I am stuck with the following problem. It should be easy, its a cygport build with the following files http://www.scytek.de/ImageMagick-6.3.9.8-X/ImageMagick-6.3.9.8-1.cygport

Re: Libtool problems when building ImageMagick

2008-03-17 Thread Volker Quetschke
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: | Anyway, since this bundled libtool looks like it's very recent it | doesn't make sense to try to forcibly autoreconf it to something older, | as cygautoreconf seems to want to run autoreconf --force. Normally | autoreconf would only run

Re: [GTG] Re: [ITA, RFU] libgcrypt-1.4.0-1

2008-03-10 Thread Volker Quetschke
Gergely Budai wrote: I'm slightly irritated. Is there some hidden agreement between you and Volker to take over all his packages? If so, it would be nice if we would know about that. No there is no hidden agreement between us, neither did I want to take over all his packages. Well, lets

Re: GraphicsMagick: gm does nothing, always exits with status 53

2008-03-10 Thread Volker Quetschke
Igor Peshansky wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Andrew Schulman wrote: convert -list Format from ImageMagick coredumps for me. Can anybody else check ? Sure enough... same result here. IM seems to be fairly up to date. README lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the maintainer. Is s/he listening? I'm

Re: [RFU] gnupg-1.4.8-2

2008-03-06 Thread Volker Quetschke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 5 20:51, Gergely Budai wrote: http://home.arcor.de/thuffir/cygwin/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.8-2-src.tar.bz2 \ http://home.arcor.de/thuffir/cygwin/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.8-2.tar.bz2 \ http://home.arcor.de/thuffir/cygwin/gnupg/setup.hint Uploaded. I added bash and tar to

Re: [ITA] gnupg-1.4.8-1

2008-03-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
As the current maintainer of gnupg I don't mind passing the maintainership to Gergely. I didn't thoroughly test the package but it looks good on a first glance. This does not need to be a test package, if no problems arise this should be curr. If no one beats me to it I will do more test later

Re: [ITA] gnupg-1.4.8-1

2008-03-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
David Rothenberger wrote: On 3/3/2008 11:47 AM, Gergely Budai wrote: Package location: = http://home.arcor.de/thuffir/cygwin/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.8-1-src.tar.bz2 This doesn't build for me, but maybe that's because I already have GPG installed? Only the tests fail. Making all in

Re: Grace distribution is not standard

2008-02-24 Thread Volker Quetschke
Don't send my private email regarding this topic, I am subscribed to the cygwin list. Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: Hello --- Volker Quetschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The grace have not been executed on my computer. Are there people who tried to work the grace on thier computers? Yes, works fine

Re: Grace distribution is not standard

2008-02-24 Thread Volker Quetschke
Rodrigo Medina wrote: Hi, Unlike the distributions of all other packages the distribution of grace does not put the executable program in one of the standard directories /bin or /usr/X11R6/bin. Instead it puts xmgrace.exe inside /usr/share/grace/bin. In /bin there are only links pointing to

Re: Grace distribution is not standard

2008-02-22 Thread Volker Quetschke
Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: Hello The grace have not been executed on my computer. Are there people who tried to work the grace on thier computers? Yes, works fine here. I'm not using the grace in dairy works. But I think that it is a good software. I hope that it works well on any computer

spawnvp is unbreakable for non-cygwin programs - Was: spawn doesn't return for non-cygwin programs (and also is unbreakable)

2007-01-10 Thread Volker Quetschke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 04:02:20PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: I recently tripped over the following problem: If a non-cygwin program gets started by cygwin's spawnvp() the spawn doesn't return until the started program returns. Should be fixed in the latest

Re: Xmgrace on cygwin

2007-01-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
Please no personal email, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE. You neglected to give any information regarding your setup, see: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html but I might hazard a guess that you're seeing this problem:

spawn doesn't return for non-cygwin programs (and also is unbreakable)

2006-12-25 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! I recently tripped over the following problem: If a non-cygwin program gets started by cygwin's spawnvp() the spawn doesn't return until the started program returns. To illustrate the problem just compile attached the attached breaktestwin.c file as a cygwin executable $ gcc breaktestwin.c

Re: gpg warning message

2006-12-19 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi bjf, I am having trouble when importing Keys with the GnuPG package distributed with cygwin. I continue to get the same warning. I have searched for this warning and have found a solution on uinx environments, however, it will not work with cygwin. Is there any way around this solution.

Re: xtermial does not work

2006-12-09 Thread Volker Quetschke
Debasish Mukherjee wrote: there is a fatal error Please tell me what to do. Lern how to ask a question. Be precise! -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Setting CYGWIN=tty in an already running shell leads to hidden output

2006-12-08 Thread Volker Quetschke
It's a little more complicated than the subject suggests, the output vanishes after the first command in a new bash. Have a look at the following recipe: 1. Start cygwin.bat (no prior setting of the CYGWIN environment variable) See the transcript of an example session: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $

Use rsync daemon via ssh fails

2006-12-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
I have a strange problem with rsync. Using rsync in the way describes in the man page as: USING RSYNC-DAEMON FEATURES VIA A REMOTE-SHELL CONNECTION fails but starting the daemon manually and using it and also the directly using rsync via ssh works. Some examples (the used /etc/rsyncd.conf follows

Re: Gnupg problem

2006-12-01 Thread Volker Quetschke
Dave Korn wrote: On 01 December 2006 18:35, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:54:39PM -0500, David Barr wrote: I tried installing Gnupg 1.4.5-1 on a new system with the base Cygwin install and a couple other packages. When I tried to run gpg, it would exit without any

Re: Installation problem(?) for grace: HOW DO I GET old xorgs?

2006-11-28 Thread Volker Quetschke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Αρχικό μήνυμα από Volker Quetschke quetschke argh scytek pif de: [big snip] So the bottom line is I should run this from a bash prompt. Here is what I am afraid of: The script actually running and calling gracebat is a (n Activestate) perl script that interfaces

Re: Installation problem(?) for grace: HOW DO I GET old xorgs?

2006-11-27 Thread Volker Quetschke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like initially a path problem, plus an X-problem I found out that at least one of the reasons grace and gracebat would not run from the DOS command line Oh! You never said anything about cmd.exe. Naturally cygwin links only work in a cygwin shell. bash, ash,

Re: Installation problem(?) for grace: HOW DO I GET old xorgs?

2006-11-24 Thread Volker Quetschke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: XmGrace does not work References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I seem to have two different paths for the problem. One is to download an old xorg, then the question is: WHERE DO I GET THAT? The second is use a newer Imagemagick. Again, the question is : WHERE

Re: Installation problem(?) for grace: HOW DO I GET old xorgs?

2006-11-24 Thread Volker Quetschke
Volker Quetschke wrote: moka at hol blub gr wrote: Oops, sorry :( for quoting your email. Looking at your cygcheck one sees that you are hiding a lot of cygwin programs with MinGW and other stuff. Reorganize your PATH to solve this. You also never told us if xmgrace works. Oh, sorry, you

Re: Installation problem(?) for grace

2006-11-23 Thread Volker Quetschke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to port a linux application to windows. The main issue is the graphics, for which I use a system call to gracebat. So since the windows machine cannot be on the internet, I downloaded cygwin to a flash drive and then copied it and istalled it from the

Re: How to obtain a patch for viewing

2006-11-10 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! In case this wasn't clear enough, there is a Src? box behind most cygwin packages when you use setup.exe, if you check that you will find the source package and patches in /usr/src/. Thanks I was not aware of that or In general you find information regarding building a cygwin package

Re: ImageMagick Cygwin Port

2006-11-09 Thread Volker Quetschke
djh wrote: Volker, thanks for your efforts with the ImageMagick port for cygwin. You're welcome :) Having said that, I don't appreciate personal mail with regard to cygwin packages. Please use the mailing list, I'm reading it. I tried to build ImageMagick recently and was successfull for

Re: How to obtain a patch for viewing

2006-11-09 Thread Volker Quetschke
Wynfield Henman wrote: Yaakov mentioned A fix for this is part of ports/apps/imagemagick/ImageMagick-6.2.9.8-1.src.patch; I don't think it's perl's fault, but rather the package's for putting a link library in LDFLAGS instead of LIBS. How can I get the patch, mentioned above, i.e.,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ImageMagick-6.3.0.1-2 libMagick10-6.3.0.1-2 libMagick-devel-6.3.0.1-2 perl-Image-Magick-6.3.0.1-2

2006-11-08 Thread Volker Quetschke
The following packages have been updated/added to the Cygwin distribution: * ImageMagick-6.3.0.1-2 * libMagick10-6.3.0.1-2 * libMagick-devel-6.3.0.1-2 * perl-Image-Magick-6.3.0.1-2 (new package) DESCRIPTION === ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.

Updated: ImageMagick-6.3.0.1-2 libMagick10-6.3.0.1-2 libMagick-devel-6.3.0.1-2 perl-Image-Magick-6.3.0.1-2

2006-11-08 Thread Volker Quetschke
The following packages have been updated/added to the Cygwin distribution: * ImageMagick-6.3.0.1-2 * libMagick10-6.3.0.1-2 * libMagick-devel-6.3.0.1-2 * perl-Image-Magick-6.3.0.1-2 (new package) DESCRIPTION === ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.

Re: Please upload: ImageMagick 6.3.0.1-2

2006-11-06 Thread Volker Quetschke
Eric Blake wrote: According to Volker Quetschke on 11/5/2006 2:45 PM: Please upload: ... Done, and sorry for not more closely reviewing the -1 version (cgf's wet blanket caught up with me). I assume you wanted 6.0.4-1 left as previous, and delete 6.3.0.1-1; so that's the approach I took

Imagamagick build fails with new libfontconfig1 - Was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fontconfig-2.4.1-2

2006-11-05 Thread Volker Quetschke
I had to revert to the previous versions fontconfig 2.2.2-1 libfontconfig-devel 2.2.2-1 libfontconfig1 2.2.2-1 because the new version was generating the problems shown below. I *guess* the problem stems from this entry in /usr/lib/libfontconfig.la - snip - # Directory that

[ITP-adopt] ImageMagick 6.3.0.1 - 2nd try

2006-11-04 Thread Volker Quetschke
Thanks to Yaakov's hints this now builds without special patches. http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/ImageMagick/setup.hint http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.3.0.1-1.tar.bz2 http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.3.0.1-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: [ITP-adopt] ImageMagick 6.3.0.1 - 2nd try

2006-11-04 Thread Volker Quetschke
Charles Wilson wrote: (snip) Furthermore, there are some packaging issues in the main ImageMagick package: /usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.3.0/www/subversion.html /usr/share/ImageMagick-6.3.0/ChangeLog /usr/share/ImageMagick-6.3.0/config/coder.xml

Re: [ITP-adopt] ImageMagick 6.3.0.1

2006-11-02 Thread Volker Quetschke
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Volker Quetschke wrote: | The only problem is that due to a MakeMaker problem, see | http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00024.html | the build is not completely self contained. An extra patch for | MM_Unix.pm is needed. A fix for this is part of ports

[ITP-adopt] ImageMagick 6.3.0.1

2006-11-01 Thread Volker Quetschke
As ImageMagick is a dependency for XmGrace and other packages I'm proposing to adopt ImageMagick. I followed Yaakov's Cygports packaging and divided it in four packages. The only problem is that due to a MakeMaker problem, see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00024.html the build is not

Re: [ITP-adopt] ImageMagick 6.3.0.1

2006-11-01 Thread Volker Quetschke
Sorry, typo in the URLs. Fixed below. As ImageMagick is a dependency for XmGrace and other packages I'm proposing to adopt ImageMagick. I followed Yaakov's Cygports packaging and divided it in four packages. The only problem is that due to a MakeMaker problem, see

Problem building perl module of ImageMagick 6.3.0.1 [Attn. perl maintainer]

2006-11-01 Thread Volker Quetschke
When building PerlMagick from ImageMagick 6.3.0.1 the build fails with the errorlog shown below. The problem seems to stem from the wrong order of link switches in the MakeMaker generated makefile and can be fixed with the attached patch to /lib/perl5/5.8/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm . Volker

Re: [patch] One more cygport bug

2006-11-01 Thread Volker Quetschke
Eric Blake wrote: According to Volker Quetschke on 10/30/2006 7:59 AM: Hi! $ cygport package.cygport deps doesn't report the dependencies. The attached patch fixes this for me. Duplicate of this: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00852.html and already fixed in cygport CVS

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package: gnupg-1.4.5-1

2006-11-01 Thread Volker Quetschke
gnupg-1.4.5-1 has been uploaded to cygwin.com DESCRIPTION === GNU Privacy Guard is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. It includes an advanced key

Updated cygwin package: gnupg-1.4.5-1

2006-11-01 Thread Volker Quetschke
gnupg-1.4.5-1 has been uploaded to cygwin.com DESCRIPTION === GNU Privacy Guard is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. It includes an advanced key

[patch] One more cygport bug

2006-10-30 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! $ cygport package.cygport deps doesn't report the dependencies. The attached patch fixes this for me. Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D --- /usr/bin/cygport2006-10-19

Re: Problem building ImageMagick 6.3.0

2006-10-29 Thread Volker Quetschke
Volker Quetschke wrote: I wanted to build the latest ImageMagick but the build fails for me. I attach the cygport script and patch that I use (shamelessly adapted from Yaakov's cygports version). It looks like libtool is not finding libstdc++.a (logsnippet below) Any ideas? The real

Please upload: gnupg-1.4.5-1

2006-10-28 Thread Volker Quetschke
New upstream version using libintl8 and containing a patch for the '--refresh-keys' problem. Please upload: http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/gnupg/setup.hint http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.5-1.tar.bz2 http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.5-1-src.tar.bz2

Problem building ImageMagick 6.3.0

2006-10-28 Thread Volker Quetschke
I wanted to build the latest ImageMagick but the build fails for me. I attach the cygport script and patch that I use (shamelessly adapted from Yaakov's cygports version). It looks like libtool is not finding libstdc++.a (logsnippet below) Any ideas? Volker The build fails with: if

Re: GnuPG bug: --refresh-keys

2006-10-24 Thread Volker Quetschke
Volker Quetschke wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: When running 'gpg --refresh-keys', the second updated key results in: gpg: renaming `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' to `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg~' failed: Permission denied gpg: error writing keyring `/home/max/.gnupg

ImageMagick needs old X dlls - lyx/XmGrace fail because ImageMagick doesn't work

2006-10-09 Thread Volker Quetschke
This is merely a reminder that some packages fail because the current Xorg version removed some dlls that are needed by ImageMagick. This is not a new issue, see here: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2006-08/msg00052.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00236.html Volker --

Re: XmGrace does not work

2006-10-05 Thread Volker Quetschke
I've installed Cygwin in my laptop running Windows XP, and a program that I really need a lot (XmGrace) does not work. When I type the command xmgrace and press Enter, nothing happens. I've seen that this problem is related to the current version of xorg. Ok, I reinstalled a previous version

Re: bash-3.1-7$B!!(BBUG

2006-09-14 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! Eric Blake wrote: According to Christopher Faylor on 9/13/2006 8:07 PM: I doubt that Eric will want to deal with the fallout of having bash not understand \r\n line endings but, if he does, it would be his decision and, again, I would support it 100%. I am very eager to see things like

Re: bash-3.1-7$B!!(BBUG

2006-09-14 Thread Volker Quetschke
Dave Korn wrote: On 14 September 2006 17:59, Volker Quetschke wrote: Hi! (snip) +#ifdef __CYGWIN__ + /* lseek'ing on text files is problematic; lseek reports the true + file offset, but read collapses \r\n and returns a character + count. We cannot reliably seek backwards

Re: bash-3.1-7$B!!(BBUG

2006-09-13 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi, mwoehlke wrote: Eric Blake wrote: mwoehlke mwoehlke at tibco.com writes: (snip) ... If the scan in binary mode succeeds, then leave the file in binary mode, assuming that the file is unix format even though it is on a text mount, and that lseeks will work. If the file starts life

Re: bash-3.1-7$B!!(BBUG

2006-09-13 Thread Volker Quetschke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:46:28PM -0700, Volker Quetschke wrote: (snip) Do I have to make the observation again that whether this is the case or not, it is not a primary goal of the Cygwin project to support these people? Yes. Did it ever cross your mind

cygwin snapshot 20060818 - lots of diagnostic output

2006-08-28 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi, after getting spurious Resource temporarily unavailable errors with cygwin 1.5.21 (after the last M$ patch day!!) I decided to try the latest cygwin snapshot on my favorite testcase - compiling OOo. The good news is that I haven't seen another Resource temporarily unavailable error so far,

Re: Grace broken in latest Cygwin /Xfree version

2006-08-17 Thread Volker Quetschke
Back, Birger B. wrote: Starting with a completely new installation from Cygwin I cannot get Grace to work - no window pops up. I've tried installing another X-server (Xming) instead, but the result is the same. Any ideas?? Yes, run rebaseall. Volker Cheers, Birger --

Is casting away const OK for cygwin's execvp

2006-08-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi I encountered this when writing some c++ program that uses execvp to start another process. Basically (see the attached example program) int execvp(const char *path, char * const *argv); the prototype of execvp() doesn't like constant char arrays for the second parameter, but that's what

Re: Is casting away const OK for cygwin's execvp

2006-08-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
Volker Quetschke wrote: Basically (see the attached example program) D'oh! I forgot the attachment. Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D #include string #include iostream #include

Re: GnuPG bug: --refresh-keys

2006-08-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
Max Bowsher wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: When running 'gpg --refresh-keys', the second updated key results in: gpg: renaming `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' to `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg~' failed: Permission denied gpg: error writing keyring `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg': file rename error

Re: python fails in windows shell

2006-07-25 Thread Volker Quetschke
Dave Korn wrote: On 25 July 2006 08:48, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: When I try to run python in Windows shell, it hangs. Even the simplest test like python -c 'print foo' will result in ntvdm process taking 100% CPU. I tried it with 1.5.19 and 1.5.17 and got the same result. When I strace python,

Re: xmgrace fails to start

2006-07-21 Thread Volker Quetschke
Volker Quetschke wrote: This is an X problem, redirecting to the correct ml. Charles L. Werner wrote: (snip) Yes, reproducible. But not cygwin1.dll is the culprit but xorg 6.8.99.901-1. I updated the cygwin installation to the latest and greatest except the xorg packages and xmgrace still

Re: xmgrace fails to start - solved

2006-07-21 Thread Volker Quetschke
ARGH!!! Volker Quetschke wrote: Volker Quetschke wrote: This is an X problem, redirecting to the correct ml. Charles L. Werner wrote: (snip) Yes, reproducible. But not cygwin1.dll is the culprit but xorg 6.8.99.901-1. I updated the cygwin installation to the latest and greatest except

Re: xmgrace fails to start

2006-07-18 Thread Volker Quetschke
This is an X problem, redirecting to the correct ml. Charles L. Werner wrote: H Hi all, Recently I attempted to run the xmgrace application (installed from the xmgrace cygwin package) and it fails to start. After typing the command and after a 1 or 2 second delay, it simply returns with no

Re: please test ptys and ttys in the latest snapshot

2006-06-04 Thread Volker Quetschke
Volker Quetschke wrote: (snip) Ok, starting from snapshot from 20060602 I get problems. This only happens on my Opteron system (Windows XP SP2), I'll attach a cygcheck created with snapshot 20060601. On another note I don't see any of the problems reported below on a different system (Celeron M

Re: please test ptys and ttys in the latest snapshot

2006-06-03 Thread Volker Quetschke
Christopher Faylor wrote: I've rewritten some of the pty/tty code in the latest snapshot to work around problems that Dave Korn raised. Thanks to Dave for finding the problem and for his patch which would have made things work better. If you read the cygwin-patches mailing list, you will see

Re: question

2006-05-14 Thread Volker Quetschke
Please, don't send cygwin related questions to me privately. Use the mailing list (cc'ed). Ag wrote: Hi, I am trying to install xmrace from Cygwin on Windows XP, but I miss some vital package and the oucome is Can't open display Failed initializing GUI,exiting xmgrace needs a running

Re: [ITP] cygport

2006-05-12 Thread Volker Quetschke
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I would like to propose my cygport package as a new package building/maintaining method, as well as a new package for the distribution. This still needs two more votes and a GTG. In the meantime, I've made an update. New URLs:

Re: Reproducible hang with unusual border conditions

2006-04-28 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi Larry, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 04/26/2006, Volker Quetschke wrote: 1. It only hangs from rxvt. (Invoked with shortlink from desktop to: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -cr green -sl 1000 -tn linux -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i) I guess the actual switches don't matter. Startting the following

Reproducible hang with unusual border conditions

2006-04-26 Thread Volker Quetschke
On my search for the infamous cygwin hang while building OOo, see http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00279.html, and http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Windows#Miscellaneous_info that I couldn't reproduce myself (WJFFM) I finally managed to get a reproducible hang on my systems

Re: Reproducible hang with unusual border conditions

2006-04-26 Thread Volker Quetschke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:39:37PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: On my search for the infamous cygwin hang while building OOo, see http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00279.html, and http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Windows#Miscellaneous_info

Re: Ghost processes on Cygwin

2006-04-26 Thread Volker Quetschke
mwoehlke wrote: I'm seeing something funny. While trying to build a large program on Cygwin using cl.exe (i.e. I am building a non-Cygwin app; just using Cygwin to drive 'make'), every now and then, cl.exe hangs. Before you tell me I'm on the wrong list :-), here's the funny part. If I do

Re: csh and/or GNU make bug

2006-04-18 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! Paul D. Smith wrote: %% gustav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: g There is a bug either in GNU make or in tcsh or in both---on g Cygwin. The combination of csh and GNU make will hang if SHELL is g declared as /bin/csh -f. I don't know what is causing this particular issue. First a

The 20060324/20060326 snapshots hang on testcase

2006-03-26 Thread Volker Quetschke
The newest 20060324/20060326 snapshots started to hang on the following testcase. Note, I only tried the following versions: release 1.5.19 no hang snapshot 20060306 no hang snapshot 20060324 hangs snapshot 20060326 hangs The testcase is a bit lengthy, download it here:

Re: The 20060324/20060326 snapshots hang on testcase

2006-03-26 Thread Volker Quetschke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 10:03:57PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: The newest 20060324/20060326 snapshots started to hang on the following testcase. Note, I only tried the following versions: release 1.5.19 no hang snapshot 20060306 no hang snapshot 20060324

Re: The 20060324/20060326 snapshots hang on testcase

2006-03-26 Thread Volker Quetschke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 10:34:42PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: How about narrowing it down a little? I have been keeping more snapshots around so that it's easier to do that sort of thing. Nevermind. It dawned on me what the problem probably was. However, if

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package: gnupg-1.4.2.1-1

2006-02-26 Thread Volker Quetschke
gnupg-1.4.2.1-1 has been uploaded to cygwin.com DESCRIPTION === GNU Privacy Guard is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. It includes an advanced key

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package: gnupg-1.4.2.1-1

2006-02-26 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! Sven Köhler wrote: A Dialog opens, with the title: gpgkeys_hkp.exe - component not found This version of gpg should have hardcoded the location of all the gpgkeys programs, which are in /usr/sbin. The gpgkeys_hkp.exe is found, but the cygwin1.dll is not found according to the following

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package: gnupg-1.4.2.1-1

2006-02-26 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! Volker Quetschke wrote: The gpgkeys_hkp.exe is found, but the cygwin1.dll is not found according to the following text: Yep, is it in your path? No, propably not. I could replicate your problem in a cmd shell with cygwin1.dll not being in my path. There are several possibilities to fix

Updated cygwin package: gnupg-1.4.2.1-1

2006-02-26 Thread Volker Quetschke
gnupg-1.4.2.1-1 has been uploaded to cygwin.com DESCRIPTION === GNU Privacy Guard is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. It includes an advanced key

Re: Please upload: gnupg-1.4.2.1-1

2006-02-25 Thread Volker Quetschke
Eric Blake wrote: According to Volker Quetschke on 2/24/2006 5:21 PM: New upstream version, please upload: http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/gnupg/setup.hint http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.2.1-1.tar.bz2 http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.2.1-1

Please upload: gnupg-1.4.2.1-1

2006-02-24 Thread Volker Quetschke
New upstream version, please upload: http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/gnupg/setup.hint http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.2.1-1.tar.bz2 http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.2.1-1-src.tar.bz2 Regards Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from

Re: SECURITY: gnupg (CVE-2006-0455)

2006-02-19 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi Yaakov, Applications relying on GnuPG to authenticate digital signatures may incorrectly believe a signature has been verified. Solution: upgrade to 1.4.2.1. I got the hint ;) Expect a new version in the next week or so. Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from

Re: Race condition spawning childs/pipe stuff?

2006-02-10 Thread Volker Quetschke
This is basically a me too, so I snipped as much as possible. Max Kaehn wrote: ... Occasionally, the build process hangs with a spawned child (sh.exe) eating with 100% user cpu. It seems the build command itself (spawned make) finished but child/parent? shell doesnt exit. When i kill sh.exe

Perl function tempfile() fails to recognize that directory is writable

2006-01-21 Thread Volker Quetschke
I recently encountered the following problem. This perl script - - - test.pl - - - #!/usr/bin/perl use File::Temp qw/ tempfile /; my ( $treetmpfilehandle, $treetmpfile ) = tempfile(abc , DIR = $ENV{TMP}); print(done); - - - test.pl - - - fails with this error message for the user q for me:

Please upload: (stable) grace-5.1.19-1 and (test) grace-5.99.0-1

2006-01-15 Thread Volker Quetschke
Please upload grace-5.1.19-1 (new upstream release) and grace-5.99.0-1 (development version, as test). The grace-5.1.17 version can be removed. New setup hint: http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/grace/setup.hint URLs: http://www.scytek.de/cygwin/release/grace/grace-5.1.19-1.tar.bz2

Re: upset warning from recent grace setup.hint

2006-01-15 Thread Volker Quetschke
Christopher Faylor wrote: upset: *** warning package grace requires non-existent package libjpeg-62 I changed that to libjpeg62. Oops, thanks! I changed that here too. Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: grace-5.1.19-1 / New test version: grace-5.99.0-1

2006-01-15 Thread Volker Quetschke
New upstream release: grace-5.1.19-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. See http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/doc/CHANGES.html for a detailed list of changes. New test version: grace-5.99.0-1 has been uploaded as a test version to the Cygwin net distribution to preview the

Updated: grace-5.1.19-1 / New test version: grace-5.99.0-1

2006-01-15 Thread Volker Quetschke
New upstream release: grace-5.1.19-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. See http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/doc/CHANGES.html for a detailed list of changes. New test version: grace-5.99.0-1 has been uploaded as a test version to the Cygwin net distribution to preview the

Re: Grace peculiarities

2005-12-28 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi, Two questions about GRACE: 1- Why is the folder of GRACE in /usr/ and not in /usr/share/ as everything else? Because that is the default setting if --prefix is pointing to /usr. I didn't know that there is a --enable-grace-home=DIR switch for configure that can be used to change this

strange hang/loop with 20051224 - 14:34 snapshot

2005-12-25 Thread Volker Quetschke
With the 20051224 - 14:34 snapshot I see a strange hang while building OOo. The build script hangs and the system is running on 100%. Now the funny part. I see one perl hanging (process is shown by ps and task manager) and I see another perl process (only shown in the task manager) popping up

Re: strange hang/loop with 20051224 - 14:34 snapshot

2005-12-25 Thread Volker Quetschke
Volker Quetschke wrote: With the 20051224 - 14:34 snapshot I see a strange hang while building OOo. Forgot the cygcheck, attached .. -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D Cygwin Configuration

Re: strange hang/loop with 20051224 - 14:34 snapshot

2005-12-25 Thread Volker Quetschke
Volker Quetschke wrote: With the 20051224 - 14:34 snapshot I see a strange hang while building OOo. The build script hangs and the system is running on 100%. Now the funny part. I see one perl hanging (process is shown by ps and task manager) and I see another perl process (only shown

Re: strange hang/loop with 20051224 - 14:34 snapshot

2005-12-25 Thread Volker Quetschke
Also unfortunately, unless you can come up with a short test case this isn't going to be fixed. I've already admitted defeat in the case of building openoffice.org. I'm trying a binary search backward now to find the snapshot that doesn't fail. I was hoping that this defeat was ment per

Re: strange hang/loop with 20051224 - 14:34 snapshot - mysteriously solved!

2005-12-25 Thread Volker Quetschke
Volker Quetschke wrote: With the 20051224 - 14:34 snapshot I see a strange hang while building OOo. Not any longer. After changing a few snapshots/some reboots I couldn't reproduce the issue anymore. Sorry for the noise Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from

test -e cannot distinguish between foo and foo.exe

2005-12-19 Thread Volker Quetschke
I noticed the following behaviour: (found by my favorite testcase ;) ) $ rm -rf foo* ; touch foo.exe $ test -e foo echo found foo found foo $ test -e foo.exe echo found foo.exe found foo.exe Hmm, how can I test if foo exists without also looking at foo.exe? Does this count as a bug in test?

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