Re: New on sourceware: texmf-20000804-2

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Well, I *did* skip the libpng update... Ok. Mabye people 'should be warned' about skipping updates, in some broadest sense of the word? > The only obvious indication that something is missing is > that the end of the post-install script, a window pops up > saying "m

Getting line ending conversion (crlf <-> lf) in cygwin cvs?

Platform: CygWin 1.3.2, CygWin/XFree86 4.1.0, Win2k I installed cygwin with default text type "Unix". This is what is recommended by the cygwin/xfree86 User's Guide: (item 7, in the list in the above URL). So what I'm wond

Re: Compile XEmacs with X support

> "Per" == Per Magne Knutsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Per> Has anyone compiled XEmacs successfully with support for XFree86? I would like to run xemacs under Per> X, rather than the native NT gui, but I run into all kinds of trouble during configure or make. I've tested Per

Re: A real fork() on NT

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:50:45PM -0800, Barubary wrote: >Do you have any idea how to compile a program for the win32 POSIX system? >If we could reverse engineer a win32 POSIX program that uses fork(), we >could see the raw NT commands to do it. Corinna already provided a reference which provide

Re: A real fork() on NT

Do you have any idea how to compile a program for the win32 POSIX system? If we could reverse engineer a win32 POSIX program that uses fork(), we could see the raw NT commands to do it. -- Barubary - Original Message - From: "Christopher January" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fortune-1.8-2

I've updated the version of fortune in cygwin/contrib to 1.8-2. This version supports the "-m" flag, so you can now request a list of all fortunes matching a particular regular expression by running "fortune -m regexp". See the "fortune" man page for additional details.

Re: cygwin port of rsync -- patch for Win2k (rsync 2.5.1)

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:43:57PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:18:24AM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: >I am not saying that there can't be a problem but the analysis that the ^ some other kind of >parent

Re: A newbie question for cygwin 1.3.9

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:22:07PM +1100, Wong, Mun Chung (Mun Chung) wrote: >I am new to cygwin and just installed it but I couldn't find gcc as >part of the distribution. Am I missing something ? Yes. Try installing again. When the installation gets to a screen where it is saying things like

Re: cygwin port of rsync -- patch for Win2k (rsync 2.5.1)

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:18:24AM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: >I don't think I have enough knowledge on the "fork() in cygwin" subject to >evaluate if there are better solutions, I reply also in the mailing list. > >Lapo > >BTW: I'll try the fix soon, just wanted some more "advice from the gurus"

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

I have been able to build 3.x under cygwin when I just specify the C and C++ languages (see ./configure --help for info on how to do this). As I recall, it failed in the Fortran build. I didn't bother trying to figure out why as all I wanted was C & C++. regards, Ben S

A newbie question for cygwin 1.3.9

Hi I am new to cygwin and just installed it but I couldn't find gcc as part of the distribution. Am I missing something ? I am also not having luck with common programs like file & more. Do I have to download those separately ? For now I need the gcc more than anything. The other question is if

Install problems

I just installed cygwin today (after a long while of not having it installed...) and when I started up bash I discovered that $HOME wasn't being set correctly! After looking through the faq, I thought this might be related to me having a windows login name with a space in it, so I edited /etc/pro

Re: Install Problem

David, The check-box is the download or install _with source_ option. It seems that Setup.exe is doing what you ask. Surely downloading all that source and then deleting those tarballs is a little circuitous and / or wasteful, no? By the way, my use is identical to yours. I always use separat

Re: rsync as server on cygwin

> rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(151) > Just wondering if anyone has gotten it to work with just bare rsync > transfers! That's a known issue I had not yet found out how to solve (though fix from Chuck Messenger cou

Re: Cygwin port of rsync -- patch for Win2k (rsync 2.5.1)

I don't think I have enough knowledge on the "fork() in cygwin" subject to evaluate if there are better solutions, I reply also in the mailing list. Lapo BTW: I'll try the fix soon, just wanted some more "advice from the gurus" about the issue ;) Chuck Messenger wrote: > Hi Lapo, > > I've be

Install Problem

Hi. It's been awhile since I installed Cygwin, and since then the setup.exe program seems to have become considerably more complicated. I'm using setup.exe version 2.125.2.10. I use a two step process: 1) Download from Internet 2) Install from Local Directory Once I get to the package sele

Re: RPC and NFS port for cygwin

> You're talking about the "Users may copy or modify Sun RPC without charge, > but are not authorized to license or distribute it to anyone else except > as part of a product or program developed by the user." part, right? > > Do we actually need an exemption? Sun RPC is even part of glibc. > >

Re: can't 'cd /"Program Files"' with cygwin-1.3.9-1.tar.bz2 DLL

Mea culpa. My bug report is bogus. I did not realize I was using a bash alias for "cd" which did not have appropriate double quoting for its arguments. Sorry about that. > > I am not able to cd /"Program Files" with the > > cygwin1.dll from cygwin-1.3.9-1.tar.bz2. > > I can successfully do th

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

To install gcc-3 into /usr/local install dejagnu-1.4.2 if you want to run the g++ testsuite if you want to build objc, install patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2002-01/msg00578.html cd to somewhere out of the gcc source tree mkdir ${build} cd ${build} ${srcdir}/configure --enable-threads=pos

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: links

[I'm sorry this announcement is so late. My ISP has been blackholed and I was waiting for that to be fixed but apparently it's not going to happen anytime soon...] The 'links' package is now available via setup.exe Links is a text-based browser with support for HTML tables and frames. Links p

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

Hi, i have gcc 2.95.3 installed on a NT machine running cygwin. How do i upgrade to gcc 3.X? The 3.X code won't compile with a 2.X compiler. On the successful build page gcc 3.X has been built on cygwin, how did you guys do that?? Best regards.

RE: Problems building cross compiler on NT

Turning off warnings didn't help. The build still fails. >From: Jan Reimers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: 'Mack Lobell' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Problems building cross compiler on NT >Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:22:29 -0800 > >Try turning off the -pedan

Re: Blue Screen Of Death

=== - 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 restructure my question? I will try again... > > If

Re: can't 'cd /"Program Files"' with cygwin-1.3.9-1.tar.bz2 DLL

- Original Message - From: "Joe Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 09:50 Subject: can't 'cd /"Program Files"' with cygwin-1.3.9-1.tar.bz2 DLL > I am not able to cd /"Program Files" with the > cygwin1.dll from cygwin-1.3.9-1.tar.bz2. > I

MAKEFILES environment

Hi there, I have some troubles after installing the latest version of the cygwin tools (bash2.05,make3.79,...) In my makefiles there are a lot of -f $(MAKEFILE) option which worked fine so far because the parameter was automatically set to "makefile" Now with the new version it is an empty s

Re: Blue Screen Of Death

So, does that mean I need to restructure my question? I will try again... If anybody knows why this might be happening, would you be so kind as to tell me what your ideas on this matter are? Thank you, Brian --- Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > === > - Original Message -

can't 'cd /"Program Files"' with cygwin-1.3.9-1.tar.bz2 DLL

I am not able to cd /"Program Files" with the cygwin1.dll from cygwin-1.3.9-1.tar.bz2. I can successfully do this same operation using the older cygwin-1.3.6-6.tar.bz2, however. Is this a regression? As an aside, 'cd /"Program*Files"' works fine with both dll versions. I only replaced the cygwin

Re: Syntax error on compile

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:05:37PM -, Ebrey, Carl wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: 30 January 2002 16:00 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Syntax error on compile >> >>On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:50:51PM +0530, Rajat Ba

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-2.7.2-8 [More]

Steve, Sorry, I forgot to go back and fill in the URL for Xearth for Windows before I sent the message off. Xearth for Windows: . Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 11:59 2002-01-29, Steve O wrote: >... > >- Built with transparency enabled. > This is ba

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-2.7.2-8

Hi, Steve, I don't really have any need for or interest in the transparent terminals, but they are cute and when I read you'd enabled it for Cygwin RXVT, I figured I try and see what happens. Here's a feedback point for you, should you care about such frivolities: I run Xearth For Windows on

Problem with pipes, Cygwin 1.3.9, Win98

Hello! Something changed between Cygwin 1.3.6 and 1.3.9 on handling of pipes on the Windows 98 platform. Here's a small Tcl code snippet: set pipe [open "| db_create $fileName >> $null_device" w] foreach value $cmds { puts $pipe $value } close $pipe $null_device is

RE: Syntax error on compile

> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 30 January 2002 16:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Syntax error on compile > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:50:51PM +0530, Rajat Bawa wrote: > >Sorry to mail you directly .. > > > >Hope you won't

Re: Syntax error on compile

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:50:51PM +0530, Rajat Bawa wrote: >Sorry to mail you directly .. > >Hope you won't mind telling me the e-mail address at which i can mail my >queries (the same at which you have been mailing your answers/queries) .. as >[EMAIL PROTECTED] is bouncing the mails back Anyone

Re: A real fork() on NT

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 01:14:16PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:03:00AM +, Christopher January wrote: >>>When looking at XP's CreateProcessW (or rather, CreateProcessInternalW) >>>I noticed something strange about the way it creates a process. It >>>seems that NT

Re: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

> Did you check your /etc/group? Is there a group Guests and > Guest has that group as primary group in /etc/passwd? > > Corinna There is a group Guests and a user Guest - however, I'm not sure how to tell the primary (or the secondary) group of a user. I think the group entries may be wrong -

cygipc shmat bug

Hi all, I've noticed some problems using shared memory with cygipc, which don't seem to be present in the mailing list archives. I'm running cygwin 1.3.9 with cygipc 1.11 on a W2K machine. SYMPTOMS If you run multiple times a simple app that attaches a shared memory segment (with shmat), some att

Re: Blue Screen Of Death

=== - 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

Blue Screen Of Death

Hey all, I have been having a problem that happens every once in a while where I kill a bunch of programs at once. My system (Win2K) was restarting itself, until I removed the "Automatically Reboot" on system failures. Now, I was able to capture the message : *** Stop : < a bunch of memory add

soft links and windows prompt

As I like to use cygwintools also from windows prompt, I added f:\cygwin\bin to the path. No problem here. One probles is when I try to gunzip... gzip.exe is a "normal" exe, while gunzip.exe (while showing up as a symlink from bash) is not a real exe but a text file containing "!gzip.exe" (though

Re: new setup.exe snapshot

=== - 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

=== - 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

=== - 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

=== - 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?

=== - 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?

=== - 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: New on sourceware: texmf-20000804-2

Well, I *did* skip the libpng update... I think the reason (hind-sight) was that I don't expect teTeX to depend on libpng, (and to be honest, I always go via the ps/ghostscript route to pdf and I don't use pdftex myself, as the last time I use it it didn't support even eps graphics; and pdftex is

Re: Scripting Installs?

=== - 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?

=== - 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?

On 2002.01.29 16:46 Glenn Sieb wrote: > I want to know if I can do the following: > > Script the install so it does the following: > > Force the install to pick packages up from *our* server (for version > control purposes, we don't want one sales guy installing and getting > OpenSSH version

Re: Scripting Installs?

- 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: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:59:40PM -, Phil Dempster wrote: > > Heck, why did I wrote /usr/doc/inetutils-1.3.2.README and what are > > the announcements good for? Since version 1.3.2-15 we have the > > following (quoted): > [snip] > > Apologies and thanks... > > So: Since CVS is evidently ru

Re: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

> Heck, why did I wrote /usr/doc/inetutils-1.3.2.README and what are > the announcements good for? Since version 1.3.2-15 we have the > following (quoted): [snip] Apologies and thanks... So: Since CVS is evidently running as Guest (there are no entries in the event log to contradict this) and t

Re: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:46:48AM -, Phil Dempster wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've managed to get CVS pserver running on Win2K (ntsec) and am in the > process of preparing some documentation for it. I'm trying to grasp just > how the user ID switching works when CVS is spawned from inetd. > >

Re: utf-8

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:39:15PM +0530, Rajat Bawa wrote: > > Why is cygwin not able to handle utf-8 data files .. any idea ?? Sure. Nobody contributed code for it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer

Re: A real fork() on NT

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:03:00AM +, Christopher January wrote: > > When looking at XP's CreateProcessW (or rather, CreateProcessInternalW) I > > noticed something strange about the way it creates a process. It seems > > that NT is sort of capable of a fork() command. The function > > NtCre

Re: Pls. help : passwd - misunderstanding

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:09:00AM +, Tiffany Chan wrote: > Cygwin 1.3.3 is installed in a normal win 2000 > advanced server A (SP2). Server A connected to Domain, > but it is not DC. > > Local users are created in Server A. "passwd" and > "group" files are created by, > > $ mkgroup -l > /e

KBDLLHOOKSTRUCT and related

hi, there are some definitions missing in w32api: KBDLLHOOKSTRUCT and MSLLHOOKSTRUCT structures, LLKHF_INJECTED and LLMHF_INJECTED flags. Any chance to learn them? I'd like to build WinVNC with gcc, cross-compiler to windows. thank you, Vaim -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsub

Re: A real fork() on NT

> When looking at XP's CreateProcessW (or rather, CreateProcessInternalW) I > noticed something strange about the way it creates a process. It seems > that NT is sort of capable of a fork() command. The function > NtCreateProcess appears to create a "blank" process, into which you can put > anyt

ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

Hi folks, I've managed to get CVS pserver running on Win2K (ntsec) and am in the process of preparing some documentation for it. I'm trying to grasp just how the user ID switching works when CVS is spawned from inetd. I've found that it is not necessary to specify the user as `root' in inetd.co

Re: Cannot starting X Server

Hey, Nikolay :) Please, contact the appropriate mailing list for cygwin XFree86 related questions - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nikolay wrote: > I have installed The latest Cygwin and then installed XFree86 version > 4.2.0 and attempted to start the X server but no matter which method I > used to start t

guile-1.6 [WAS: experimental texmf packages]

"Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Btw, how is your guile contribution coming along? > > The static build is ok, same quality as yours, only two minor patches. > Dynamic seems to make problems at least with lilypond, also another guy > was not able to rebuild it with my patch, I thi

Re: security.cc: bug report, question and suggestion

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:32:06PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > When ntsec is not defined, internal_getlogin matches the > Windows username with the pw_name's in passwd to find the uid. > When ntsec is defined, internal_getlogin scans passwd by sid's. > Cygwin user names can then be different

Cannot starting X Server

I have installed The latest Cygwin and then installed XFree86 version 4.2.0 and attempted to start the X server but no matter which method I used to start the server I get the following error message: the procedure entry point _XLockMutex_fn could not be located in the dynamic link library libX11.

utf-8

Why is cygwin not able to handle utf-8 data files .. any idea ?? Regards, Rajat Bawa Regards, Rajat Bawa -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: Old Thread: Cygwin Performance

Hi all, this is my current patch for get running the lmbench-20 patch1 source from http://www.bitmover.com Content * initial patches from me. * Tim Prince lib_timing.c patch. * patch for disabling rpc checking without adding a new file. * bug fix of lat_select check (based on a hint of Chr

Re: New on sourceware: texmf-20000804-2

- 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

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: Syntax error on compile

Sorry to mail you directly .. Hope you won't mind telling me the e-mail address at which i can mail my queries (the same at which you have been mailing your answers/queries) .. as [EMAIL PROTECTED] is bouncing the mails back Regards, Rajat Bawa -Original Message- From: Pavel Tsekov [

Re: Syntax error on compile

Ben Miller wrote: > I am haveing trouble compiling anything on a new install of Cygwin. I > have also installed MinGW (not sure if that is relevant). It was > suggested that I run cygcheck -r -s -v and forward the log to this > address. Can you help? So far so good. Still you don't prov

Re: rxvt-2.7.2-6 -> rxvt-2.7.2-8?9?

Sorry : I haven't been able to find any combination of stty erase ^H / stty erase ^? / {nothing} that makes Backspace work properly both at the rxvt terminal and inside an application. Previously (2.7.2-6) and with no reference to stty erase anywhere, I found that Backspace worked just fine at the

A real fork() on NT

When looking at XP's CreateProcessW (or rather, CreateProcessInternalW) I noticed something strange about the way it creates a process. It seems that NT is sort of capable of a fork() command. The function NtCreateProcess appears to create a "blank" process, into which you can put anything you w

Re: New on sourceware: texmf-20000804-2

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Just to confirm that with the latest tetex-20001208-4 > and the cygwin texmf-*-* packages I don't need to > set TEXMFMAIN anymore - although I still have > TEXINPUTS and the font related variables set to > "${HOME}/somewhere//:" for my CJK stuff. > > Well-done! Thank

rxvt-2.7.2-6 -> rxvt-2.7.2-8?9?

I had not been aware of problems with in rxvt, which on my system has been just fine. I upgraded just now to what comes up on the setup menu as rxvt-2.7.2-9 although the announcement refers to 8. Now is broken. (By which I mean it does not work: cursor and the intended deleted character stay

Re: new photos from my party!

/ hrishy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | BASTARD Comeon he probably didn't do it having a party ;-) /Andy -- The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: