Again, XWin crashes with cigwin-1.5.15-1 on Win98.

2005-04-23 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi, all The XWin crashes that were cured with snapshot-20050407 reappeared with cigwin-1.5.15-1. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-03/msg00158.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg0.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00024.html Running XWin through gdb. $

Re: possible DLL license violations

2005-04-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>anyone else's. I only chime in because as best I understand it, once > >>having found a violator the rights holder must act to protect said > >>rights; failing to do so may be construed as similar to consent. > > > >That applies only to trademarks, not copyright or p

Re: badspammer and cygwin setup

2005-04-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 23 15:50, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On a different note (a general question to the list), any reason why > > setup.exe isn't mirrored? Can the setup executable (with a versioned > > name) be placed in the Cygwin package root directory (i.e.

Re: possible DLL license violations

2005-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:59:36PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >beau wrote: >>anyone else's. I only chime in because as best I understand it, once >>having found a violator the rights holder must act to protect said >>rights; failing to do so may be construed as similar to consent. > >That applies

Re: possible DLL license violations

2005-04-23 Thread Brian Dessent
beau wrote: > anyone else's. I only chime in because as best I understand it, once > having found a violator the rights holder must act to protect said > rights; failing to do so may be construed as similar to consent. That applies only to trademarks, not copyright or patents. Brian -- Unsubsc

Re: possible DLL license violations

2005-04-23 Thread beau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/23/05, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, of course I'm obliged to say IANAL. Dunno that you're obliged to say it. ;) I-also-ANAL, but I am a student, which means my information is probably even shakier than anyone else's. I only chime

Re: JTAG 0.5.1 or 0.4 on "cygwin" on "windows xp sp2" - parport wonÂt open

2005-04-23 Thread Cliff Hones
Simon wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to cygwin and my main goal is to get the JTAG stuff working over > LPT1 > on a PC. > > I wonder if anyone has installed it and got it working. I tried jtag v0.4 and > it didnÂt work. > > Also I have tried the 0.5.1 version and the screen dump is shown below. I

Re: does not work : change /cygdrive to / (Attn: documentation patch)

2005-04-23 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 4/20/05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 19 23:25, Brian Dessent wrote: > > I have attached a patch to the documentation that clarifies these two > > locations. I ask that those that know more about Cygwin than I review > > the change to make sure I didn't say anything misleading. > > > Looks

Re: shutdown-1.5-1 does not work!

2005-04-23 Thread Christian Weinberger
> Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > Too late. shutdown-1.6-1 should be on the mirrors soon. > > Corinna > shutdown-1.6-1 fixes the problem for me. Regards & many thanks, Christian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwi

JTAG 0.5.1 or 0.4 on "cygwin" on "windows xp sp2" - parport wonÂt open

2005-04-23 Thread Simon
Hi, I am new to cygwin and my main goal is to get the JTAG stuff working over LPT1 on a PC. I wonder if anyone has installed it and got it working. I tried jtag v0.4 and it didnÂt work. Also I have tried the 0.5.1 version and the screen dump is shown below. I have modified the KeithKoep cable

Re: badspammer and cygwin setup

2005-04-23 Thread David Burt
just tried another site: http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/ftp/cygwin/ was able to download setup.exe no problem - so fixed but do not why? thanks for your help d - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Burt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: S

Re: badspammer and cygwin setup

2005-04-23 Thread David Burt
Hi Igor sorry about that last message text seems to had a few problems OK - I have tried to download the setup.exe program from cygwin site as soon as I try, I get rrouted to badspammer.html - why? my PC appears to think this is a spambot I am using windows XP with SP2 installed I am also using N

Re: possible DLL license violations

2005-04-23 Thread Larry Hall
At 08:58 PM 4/22/2005, you wrote: >On 4/22/2005 10:56 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: >>On 4/22/2005 8:52 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: >> >>>I ran across a tool called "Trader's Little Helper" at [url removed >>>because it trips the cygwin spam filter] that includes the >>>cygwin1.dll, but doesn't p

Re: badspammer and cygwin setup

2005-04-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 23 15:50, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On a different note (a general question to the list), any reason why > setup.exe isn't mirrored? Can the setup executable (with a versioned > name) be placed in the Cygwin package root directory (i.e., where > setup.bz2/setup.ini usually goes)? You mean

re: badspammer and cygwin setup

2005-04-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, David Burt wrote: > BlankCan anyone help - I have tried to download cygwin setup.exe and my PC ^ Huh? > (runs windows XP with SP2) thinks its a spambot and I get re-directed to > badspammer.html > > any ideas? Dave, Which browser do you use? Do you use proxies? Ano

re: badspammer and cygwin setup

2005-04-23 Thread David Burt
BlankCan anyone help - I have tried to download cygwin setup.exe and my PC (runs windows XP with SP2) thinks its a spambot and I get re-directed to badspammer.html any ideas? dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob

Re: support dirent.d_type

2005-04-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:37:59AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, lode leroy wrote: > >>I would like to see support for dirent.d_type added to cygwin. > >> > >>fhandler_disk_file::readdir() > >>{ > >>... > >> if (buf.dwFileA

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: shutdown-1.7-1

2005-04-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of shutdown to 1.7-1. This version adds the -x/--exitex option, which allows to use the ExitWindowsEx function on Windows NT. This is important if shutdown is supposed to poweroff on Windows 2000, since the InitiateSystemShutdown implementation on Windows 2000 unfort

Re: Using shutdown-1.6-1 does not seem to shutdown!!!

2005-04-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 22 21:37, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > I have tried shutdown-1.6-1. Now it seems to work in the sense that > >shutdown now >shutdown 5 > ... 30 > etc. > > starts the procedure of shutdown, i.e. disconnets the user, saves the > configuration... . When it seems it is being

Re: support dirent.d_type

2005-04-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 23 07:36, Eric Blake wrote: > But there are a number of applications out there that behave more > efficiently if d_ino/d_type ARE properly implemented. For example, both > coreutils and findutils are smart enough to avoid extra [l]stat()s on > systems with working d_type when traversing dir

Re: support dirent.d_type

2005-04-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 4/22/2005 11:06 AM: > Actually, thanks but I don't think we want to go down this path. > > Properly implementing this field would introduce the same problems as > properly implementing d_ino. Doing this would mean a

Re: FontForge

2005-04-23 Thread Reini Urban
Lapo Luchini schrieb: I just downloaded the cygwin-binary from http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ Awesome. Simply awesome. Just to let you know it exists, it works and it works DAMN FINE! ;-) Should we post here now our all experiences about unexpected happy encounters with unix tools suddenly work

can't separate backspace and ^J key functions

2005-04-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In cygwin's bash shell, whenever I use .inputrc to assign a function to control-J, then the backspace key gets the same function. For example, as below it gives both keys "backward-char" function: "\C-H":backward-char RUBOUT:backward-delete-char How can I assign ^J to "backward-char" but

Re: support dirent.d_type

2005-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:37:59AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, lode leroy wrote: >>I would like to see support for dirent.d_type added to cygwin. >> >>fhandler_disk_file::readdir() >>{ >>... >> if (buf.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) { >> dir->__d_dirent->d_

RE: Cygwince

2005-04-23 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Dave Korn >Sent: 22 April 2005 17:24 > Original Message >> From: Craig A. Vanderborgh >> Sent: 22 April 2005 17:19 > >> We are going to be starting with the mingw version of Cygwin - MSYS - >> primarily to try to keep the size of the DLL down. Another reas

I need to change my home directory

2005-04-23 Thread marcos rebelo
Hy all My home directory is something like: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/xpto I would like to have it in: /home/xpto I hwve this in one computer but not in the other. But I didn't do nothing for that. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Marcos -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

RE: I need to change my home directory

2005-04-23 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
At Friday, April 22, 2005 11:46 AM, marcos rebelo wrote: > Hy all > > My home directory is something like: > > /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/xpto > > I would like to have it in: > > /home/xpto > > I have this in one computer but not in the other. But I didn't do > nothing for that. > > W

RE: can't separate backspace and ^J key functions

2005-04-23 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 22 April 2005 16:04 > In cygwin's bash shell, whenever I use .inputrc to > assign a function to control-J, then the backspace key > gets the same function. > > For example, as below it gives both keys > "backward-char" function: > "\C-H":

Re: does not work : change /cygdrive to / (Attn: documentation patch)

2005-04-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:25:26PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > I have attached a patch to the documentation that clarifies these two > locations. In addition to the doc change (thanks), there's room for some improvement in mount.exe. I note that setting a user mount point when there is a system

RE: Cygwince

2005-04-23 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Craig A. Vanderborgh >Sent: 22 April 2005 17:19 > We are going to be starting with the mingw version of Cygwin - MSYS - > primarily to try to keep the size of the DLL down. Another reason for > starting from this distribution is that MSYS has a version of bash and

RE: I just tried to build GCC 4.0.0-RC2 on Cygwin

2005-04-23 Thread Billinghurst, David \(CALCRTS\)
> From: Dave Korn > > > > Did you run the test suite? > > > > Gerrit > > -- > > =^..^= > > I did. > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2005-04/msg01409.html > I run a nightly build of 4.0 and 4.1 and report results to gcc-testresults - unless I am out of the office and someone turns off

Re: does not work : change /cygdrive to / (Attn: documentation patch)

2005-04-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 22 12:09, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:25:26PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > > I have attached a patch to the documentation that clarifies these two > > locations. > > In addition to the doc change (thanks), there's room for some > improvement in mount.exe. I

Re: bash/fork problem on Win server 2003 with terminal serve

2005-04-23 Thread Lionel B
"Christopher Faylor" wrote in message... > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:59:18AM +0100, Lionel B wrote: > >>second it's the wrong Cygwin version, > > > >...this is curious... I *thought* I'd installed 1.5.15. If I run > >setup.exe it tells me that the current version of cygwin is 1.5.15-1 > >(and in

RE: Wrong PATH and other env after starting bash

2005-04-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, david.balazic wrote: > Dave Korn wrote : > > > > Maybe I deselected something important. > > > Yes, you probably did. Like base-passwd, for example. > > No I did not. As I already said, base-passwd was installed. At > least setup.exe claimed that, when I run it the second ti

Cygwince

2005-04-23 Thread Craig A. Vanderborgh
Hello Everyone: This posting is sure to incur the wrath of Christopher Faylor. While I'm sorry about that, this time it just can't be helped. After many years of developing GNU tools and infrastructure for Windows CE 3.0+, we have decided that we need the functionality that Cygwin provides. W

Re: FontForge

2005-04-23 Thread David Rothenberger
On 4/22/2005 5:11 PM, Brian Dessent wrote: Lapo Luchini wrote: I just downloaded the cygwin-binary from http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ Awesome. Simply awesome. Just to let you know it exists, it works and it works DAMN FINE! ;-) Someone should kindly remind them that the gpl obligates them to

RE: Wrong PATH and other env after starting bash

2005-04-23 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: david.balazic >Sent: 22 April 2005 16:12 > Dave Korn wrote : > >>> Maybe I deselected something important. > >> Yes, you probably did. Like base-passwd, for example. > > No I did not. As I already said, base-passwd was installed. At > least setup.exe claimed th

Re: gcc 4.0 and 3.3 at the same time?

2005-04-23 Thread Reini Urban
Jason FU schrieb: Markus SchÃnhaber schoenhaber.de> writes: Am Freitag, 22. April 2005 13:27 schrieb Jason FU: Gerrit P. Haase familiehaase.de> writes: Krzysztof Duleba wrote: Asking just out of curiosity: how are you affected by the simple possibility to install multiple versions off gcc? If yo

Re: Cygwince

2005-04-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 22 17:23, Dave Korn wrote: > Original Message > >From: Craig A. Vanderborgh > >Sent: 22 April 2005 17:19 > > > We are going to be starting with the mingw version of Cygwin - MSYS - > > primarily to try to keep the size of the DLL down. Another reason for > > starting from this dist

Re: possible DLL license violations

2005-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 10:56:53AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: >On 4/22/2005 8:52 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: >>I ran across a tool called "Trader's Little Helper" at [url removed >>because it trips the cygwin spam filter] that includes the >>cygwin1.dll, but doesn't provide source code. Eve

Re: How do I solve/work around "Resource temporarily unavailable" (RESOLVED)

2005-04-23 Thread Timothy Wall
I found what seems to be the cause of the resource leak, at least for the XP computers involved. Aventail Connect (a VPN client) seems to have been involved since removing it from the system fixed the problem. It seemed odd that using msconfig to start up with only essential drivers and no ser

Re: support dirent.d_type

2005-04-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, lode leroy wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to see support for dirent.d_type added to cygwin. > > fhandler_disk_file::readdir() > { > ... > if (buf.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) { >dir->__d_dirent->d_type = DT_DIR; > } else { >dir->__d_dirent->d_type =

Re: possible DLL license violations

2005-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 05:58:24PM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: >On 4/22/2005 10:56 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: >>On 4/22/2005 8:52 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: >> >>>I ran across a tool called "Trader's Little Helper" at [url removed >>>because it trips the cygwin spam filter] that includes

Re: Wrong PATH and other env after starting bash

2005-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 05:12:19PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >PS: Message is not properly linked to the previous in the thread, as I >am not subscribed and read from the archive at : >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/ , which does not have a REPLY button. And the reason for that is that it is an

Re: FontForge

2005-04-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Lapo Luchini wrote: > I just downloaded the cygwin-binary from http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ > Awesome. > Simply awesome. > > Just to let you know it exists, it works and it works DAMN FINE! ;-) Someone should kindly remind them that the gpl obligates them to provide sources for cygwin1.dll.

Re: possible DLL license violations

2005-04-23 Thread David Rothenberger
On 4/22/2005 8:52 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: I ran across a tool called "Trader's Little Helper" at [url removed because it trips the cygwin spam filter] that includes the cygwin1.dll, but doesn't provide source code. Even worse, it puts cygwin1.dll in C:\WINDOWS! I succeeded in contacting the a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: perl-Win32-GUI-1.0-2

2005-04-23 Thread Reini Urban
zzapper schrieb: On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:05:11 +0200 (CEST), wrote: I've added perl-Win32-GUI-1.0-2 to cygwin Win32::GUI is a Win32-platform native graphical user interface toolkit for perl, which was formerly included in perl-libwin32, and is now available as seperate package. Basically, it's an X

possible DLL license violations

2005-04-23 Thread David Rothenberger (local)
I ran across a tool called "Trader's Little Helper" at http://thor.prohosting.com/roh0205/ that includes the cygwin1.dll, but doesn't provide source code. Even worse, it puts cygwin1.dll in C:\WINDOWS! I then did a search of my hard drive for other copies and was surprised to find a few more. T

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pkgconfig-0.17.2-1

2005-04-23 Thread Charles Wilson
pkgconfig is a tool used for managing the configuration information of OTHER packages. This is a routine update to the latest upstream version, 0.17.2. Changes since 0.15.0-4 -- pkg-config 0.17.2 - Don't go into an infinite loop allocating more and more memory when the same

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: perl-Win32-GUI-1.0-2

2005-04-23 Thread Reini Urban
zzapper schrieb: On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:05:11 +0200 (CEST), wrote: I've added perl-Win32-GUI-1.0-2 to cygwin Win32::GUI is a Win32-platform native graphical user interface toolkit for perl, which was formerly included in perl-libwin32, and is now available as seperate package. Basically, it's an X

RE: Wrong PATH and other env after starting bash

2005-04-23 Thread david . balazic
Dave Korn wrote : > > Maybe I deselected something important. > Yes, you probably did. Like base-passwd, for example. No I did not. As I already said, base-passwd was installed. At least setup.exe claimed that, when I run it the second time. Besides, now I reinstalled base-passwd and have

Re: gcc 4.0 and 3.3 at the same time?

2005-04-23 Thread Jason FU
Krzysztof Duleba skrzynka.pl> writes: > > Jason FU wrote: > > > > > Since gcc 4.0 is out, sooner or later there will be a Cygwin > release. As > If you don't want to have more compilers, don't install them. I am also > wondering what is a "normal Linux". All my Linux boxes have 3 C compilers >