Security advisories: ruby, texinfo

2005-10-06 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 New security advisories were just announced for ruby and texinfo. Ruby: Security bypass vulnerability http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-05.xml http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106996 Texinfo: Insecure temporary file creation ht

Re: cygwin-doc build not self contained?

2005-10-06 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 10/6/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > I just installed xmlto/docbook-xsl, and tried to build the Cygwin > documentation. It seems that it's trying to connect to oasis-open.org, > probably to get some DTD that's d from one of the cygwin-doc > DTDs. Is this supposed to happen? Can there be a disc

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Faylor writes: >>Yes, I was using 1.5.16. > > Well, that's pretty distressing. Despite all of my pleas to have people > test the latest snapshot, you're not even running the latest official > release... Actually, it's worse. I do not run Cygwin at all, this is a box I can use for ba

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:23:42PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: > >> Either you're using an older version of cygwin or that's not a cygwin >> error. > >Yes, I was using 1.5.16. Well, that's pretty distressing. Despite all of my pleas to have people test the latest s

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Faylor writes: > Either you're using an older version of cygwin or that's not a cygwin > error. Yes, I was using 1.5.16. > It looks like something is calling LoadLibrary directly rather > than using the cygwin dlopen(). Cygwin was changed in 1.5.18 to use > strerror style output in

Re: Free/cheap FTP/HTTP hosting for packages?

2005-10-06 Thread Bob Heckel
* On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:58:41AM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > Does anyone know of a good place to post Cygwin packages? I've been very happy with http://sdf.lonestar.org/ for the last 5 years or so. It's non-commercial and very reliable.

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:06:17PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski writes: > >> On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > >>> AFAIK, on Cygwin .la files that are used by dlopen need to be in usr/bin. >> >> IIUC, dlopen() uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which can contain /usr/lib. The

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Igor Pechtchanski writes: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >> AFAIK, on Cygwin .la files that are used by dlopen need to be in usr/bin. > > IIUC, dlopen() uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which can contain /usr/lib. The only > reason the DLLs are in /usr/bin is to make sure the Windows loader

cygwin-doc build not self contained?

2005-10-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, I just installed xmlto/docbook-xsl, and tried to build the Cygwin documentation. It seems that it's trying to connect to oasis-open.org, probably to get some DTD that's d from one of the cygwin-doc DTDs. Is this supposed to happen? Can there be a disconnected build of cygwin-doc (e.g., with

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Eric Blake writes: > [snip] > > I'm not sure whether .la files belong in usr/bin, or whether they > > should always be in usr/lib, but that may just be my misunderstanding > > of libtool. > > AFAIK, on Cygwin .la files that are used by dlopen need to

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Eric Blake
> > On the other hand, since they are not direct dependencies here, but > > libreadline6 IS a direct dependency of libguile12, you should > > probably only list libreadline6 in the libguile12 setup.hint, rather > > than here. > > Why do you think that? > > $ wine cygwin/root/usr/bin/cygcheck.exe

Re: updated: guile-1.6.7-2, guile-1.7.2-2

2005-10-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Eric Blake writes: > Sorry to be picky, but I noticed several nits in the packaging. Thanks. [I was building nit-free -3 versions just now] > Your setup.hint mentions that depending on readline is useful although not > a direct dependence, but then list libncurses7 and libreadline5 instead of >

Trial Packaging for pstoedit-3.42

2005-10-06 Thread James R. Phillips
Trial packages and setup.hints for pstoedit-3.42 are located at: ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/pstoedit/setup.hint ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/pstoedit/pstoedit-3.42-1-src.tar.bz2 ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/pstoedit/pstoedit-3.42-1.tar.bz2 ftp://antiskid.homelinux.net/pub/pstoedit/ps

Re: ITP: pstoedit-3.42

2005-10-06 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> James R Phillips writes: > I have found recently that the pstoedit package, available in Debian, > significantly enhances the value of xfig, by allowing ps/eps files to be > converted to fig files for editing in xfig. This package handles many > conversions to other vector f