RE: RFP: NASM

2002-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
Please keep replies on-list. And? Your points below don't give any rational that means NASM is good or bad to include. There are lots of things that only a few folk use in cygwin already - i.e. robots. Other things also build smoothly - ie squid, grep, ls, sh-utils, bash, to name a few. So

Packaging tools? (Was: RE: RFP: NASM)

2002-03-20 Thread Stanislav Sinyagin
--- Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please keep replies on-list. sorry, sometimes mail comes with the list address in From:, but not this time... And? Your points below don't give any rational that means NASM is good or bad to include. There are lots of things that only a few

Re: Packaging tools? (Was: RE: RFP: NASM)

2002-03-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
Stanislav Sinyagin wrote: Did someone think of developing a simple framework for making the packages, especially for that software which supports Cygwin and configure does everything for you? Concurrent Version Systems has an autobuild package. I haven't looked at it yet, just found it

Re: Packaging tools? (Was: RE: RFP: NASM)

2002-03-20 Thread Hack Kampbjørn
Stanislav Sinyagin wrote: As for the packaging, the most annoing thing (only imho, I've built only one package, much less than you folks) was setting correctly all the path names in configure options, and then packing it all with a proper file name. Did someone think of developing a simple

tcp wrappers

2002-03-20 Thread Prentis Brooks
Ok, gang, I finally got the time to finish up the build so that I had all the pieces defined in the contributor's document. It is now ready for upload. -- Prentis Brooks | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 703-265-0914 | AIM: PrentisBrooks Senior System Administrator - Web

Re: RFP: NASM

2002-03-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:53:58PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Please keep replies on-list. And? Your points below don't give any rational that means NASM is good or bad to include. There are lots of things that only a few folk use in cygwin already - i.e. robots. Other things also build

Re: tcp wrappers

2002-03-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:09:57AM -0500, Prentis Brooks wrote: Ok, gang, I finally got the time to finish up the build so that I had all the pieces defined in the contributor's document. It is now ready for upload. Can you repost the setup.hint? Chuck made some

Re: Packaging tools? (Was: RE: RFP: NASM)

2002-03-20 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Stanislav Sinyagin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did someone think of developing a simple framework for making the packages, especially for that software which supports Cygwin and configure does everything for you? Not a simple script, but I've built a cardhouse of scripts that setup a

Re: tcp wrappers

2002-03-20 Thread Prentis Brooks
Not a problem, here it is: # TCP Wrappers sdesc: TCP Wrappers, Tool to provide host based access restrictions in tcp services ldesc: TCP Wrappers, With this package you can monitor and filter incoming requests for the SYSTAT, FINGER, FTP, TELNET, RLOGIN, RSH, EXEC, TFTP, TALK, and other network

Re: tcp wrappers

2002-03-20 Thread Prentis Brooks
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:09:57AM -0500, Prentis Brooks wrote: Ok, gang, I finally got the time to finish up the build so that I had all the pieces defined in the contributor's document. It is now ready for upload. Can you

Re: release setup now?

2002-03-20 Thread Michael A Chase
I was having some problems uploading to my website, but the script is now available in http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/clean_lst.zip . I added a wrapper script to make it easier to use. It works fine for me, but someone else should try it before we unleash it on the general public. -- Mac

Re: Packaging tools? (Was: RE: RFP: NASM)

2002-03-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Lapo, Am 2002-03-20 um 14:42 schriebst du: As for NASM, I've seen only one program which uses it (and can compile without it too) -- that's Lame. Are there more? Perhaps, some hardware related tools, like CD-R burning? Video processing? At least UCL/UPX which is to be packaged

Re: RFP: NASM

2002-03-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Jim, Am 2002-03-19 um 16:47 schriebst du: I kinda thought the people at nasm.2y.net were doing a good job of maintaining it A Cygwin maintainer is one who cares about inclusion of a package in the Cygwin dist. I don't find a Cygwin binary at this site, but thank you anyway since I

Re: tcp wrappers

2002-03-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Prentis Brooks wrote: Hmm. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to make the wrapper library a DLL. I would rather we didn't, primarily because the modification to make tcp wrappers work with Cygwin was simplistic. In fact, at this point the modification is only to the Makefile, plus a

Re: tcp wrappers

2002-03-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:09:33PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: (In the old days, making a DLL required intrusive and exhausting changes to lots and lots of source files -- __declspec(dllexport) this, __declspec(dllexport that)... -- but no longer.) With auto-import binutils, and the

Re: tcp wrappers

2002-03-20 Thread Prentis Brooks
Hrmmm I will look into it, I am sure there is some efficiency gained from making it a DLL. Would packages that are built against libwrap automatically use the DLL if it is available, or would they need to be tweaked as well (ie sshd is compiled such that if libwrap.a is available it will use

Re: tcp wrappers

2002-03-20 Thread Prentis Brooks
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:09:33PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: (In the old days, making a DLL required intrusive and exhausting changes to lots and lots of source files -- __declspec(dllexport) this, __declspec(dllexport that)... -- but no

pager in default install

2002-03-20 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I had the opportunity to install cygwin from scratch today and decided to do a mad clicker install and see how far I could get with that without adding any of my personal favorites (vim, ssh, etc.) The only two things I really missed were a pager and an editor. You *can* use the Windows more,

Re: tcp wrappers

2002-03-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Prentis Brooks wrote: Hrmmm I will look into it, I am sure there is some efficiency gained from making it a DLL. Would packages that are built against libwrap automatically use the DLL if it is available, or would they need to be tweaked as well (ie sshd is compiled such that if

Re: Rob: OK to begin chooser integration?

2002-03-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:29:34PM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: And what the heck happened to my big white box?!?!? ;-) I think I happened to it. I kept promising some art work but I could never get my son to finish it. It's basically a cygwin C with an otter lounging on the bottom. The C

/usr/lib/w32api problem in setup.exe needs immediate investigation

2002-03-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
Is anyone investigating the problem with /usr/lib/w32api problem in setup.exe? w32api is being created in c:/cygwin/usr/lib/w32api rather than c:/cygwin/lib/w32api . cgf

Any way to uninstall in new setup.exe?

2002-03-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
I'd like to remove 'diff' in favor of a new 'diffutils'? Is there any way to do that without causing problems? Is there anything new in setup.exe that would eliminate the dreaded libncurses problem? cgf

RE: /usr/lib/w32api problem in setup.exe needs immediate investigation

2002-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
I will check this tonight. -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: /usr/lib/w32api problem in setup.exe needs immediate investigation Is anyone investigating the problem

RE: Any way to uninstall in new setup.exe?

2002-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Any way to uninstall in new setup.exe? I'd like to remove 'diff' in favor of a new 'diffutils'? Is there any way to do that without

RE: pager in default install

2002-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:12 PM 1. Can the less package be put into base? It really does seem essential. No. But man should depend on less IMO. And that will suck less in automatically. ROb

Rob: OK to begin chooser integration?

2002-03-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Rob, Alright if I start on bringing the chooser window into the wizard as another page, now that the new version is out? Hopefully it won't be too big of a deal. And what the heck happened to my big white box?!?!? ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot.