file not working on executables?

2005-09-06 Thread Luke Kendall
I installed the latest Cygwin a couple of days ago. "file" now produces no information for binary executables. Anyone else seeing this problem? (I checked that "file" is /usr/bin/file.) $ file /usr/bin/ls.exe /usr/bin/ls.exe: $ file /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/net.exe /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/syst

RE: Administrator vs Administrators

2005-09-06 Thread Luke Kendall
On 6 Sep, Dave Korn wrote: >Your policy is that the *domain user account* for a user has *local* > administrative rights over that user's own pc. True. I stand corrected. >Your policy could not conceivably under any circumstances be to give every > user domain admin group membershi

Re: Hang with snapshot 20050905

2005-09-06 Thread Volker Quetschke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:50:47PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: I just discovered that after upgrading from snapshot 20050716 to 20050905 my OOo build hangs. Sorry, I didn't update/test the snapshots on this machine (Opteron 2.4GHz, cygcheck.log attached.) more frequ

Re: Hang with snapshot 20050905

2005-09-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:50:47PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: >I just discovered that after upgrading from snapshot 20050716 to >20050905 my OOo build hangs. Sorry, I didn't update/test the snapshots >on this machine (Opteron 2.4GHz, cygcheck.log attached.) more >frequently. > >It appears that

Hang with snapshot 20050905

2005-09-06 Thread Volker Quetschke
I just discovered that after upgrading from snapshot 20050716 to 20050905 my OOo build hangs. Sorry, I didn't update/test the snapshots on this machine (Opteron 2.4GHz, cygcheck.log attached.) more frequently. It appears that this line from a perl script hangs: if ( $^O =~ /cygwin/i ) { chomp( $

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: doxygen-1.4.4-1

2005-09-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Doxygen, is a documentation system based on specially formatted comments in source code, for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C#, and D. Its package in the Cygwin net distribution has been updated to version 1.4.4-1. This is a new upstream

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: swig-1.3.25-1

2005-09-06 Thread Max Bowsher
SWIG, the Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator, is a tool for easing the interfacing of C/C++ libraries to scripting languages. Its package in the Cygwin net distribution has been updated to version 1.3.25-1. This is a new upstream release. Max Bowsher. -- To update your installatio

Re: Postgresql package broken?

2005-09-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Jason Tishler wrote: Max, On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:38:47PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Wanting to eliminate possible oddities with my system as a cause, I did a totally clean install on Cygwin Base + postgresql onto a different computer, but still postmaster immediately segfaults. Is the curre

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: nfs-server-2.3-3

2005-09-06 Thread Robb, Sam
I've updated the nfs-server package for Cygwin to version 2.3-3. Changes in this release include: - Minor cleanups in debug logging - Minor cleanups in documentation - Addition of make targets for static code analysis (via splint) - Many minor code cleanups (see above) - Bug fix f

RE: BUG report: destructor exception vector; DLL 1.5.18

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Gerrit P. Haase >Sent: 06 September 2005 19:06 > > Ok, after another look I saw that your mailer wrapped the code, > maybe you should change your mailer? Heh, you _still_ didn't finish reading the thread! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .si

Re: BUG report: destructor exception vector; DLL 1.5.18

2005-09-06 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Andreas wrote: Hello, I found a bug in the Cygwin environment that blocks me. I condensed the problem into one C++ file: all.cc I compiles OK, but crashes, when executed. I compiled the same file on a LINUX system, it runs there without a problem. To me it seems that the deallocation in the d

RE: BUG report: destructor exception vector; DLL 1.5.18

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Gerrit P. Haase >Sent: 06 September 2005 18:42 > Andreas wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I found a bug in the Cygwin environment that blocks me. I condensed the >> problem into one C++ file: all.cc >> I compiles OK, but crashes, when executed. > $ g++ -Wall -g -o all.C.

Re: GTK2-X11 / gtk+-2.0 is not found after it is installed?

2005-09-06 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Bob Paddock wrote: I am trying to build the program PCB, http://pcb.sf.net/ that requires the GTK2 widget set, with some GTK version greater than 2.4.0. I have installed a fresh copy of Cygwin and installed all of the gtk2-x11 packages. When I run this test script: #! /bin/sh if pkg-config -

Re: BUG report: destructor exception vector; DLL 1.5.18

2005-09-06 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Andreas wrote: Hello, I found a bug in the Cygwin environment that blocks me. I condensed the problem into one C++ file: all.cc I compiles OK, but crashes, when executed. I compiled the same file on a LINUX system, it runs there without a problem. To me it seems that the deallocation in the d

Re: compile mysql sources on cygwin

2005-09-06 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Brian Dessent wrote: Andrea wrote: There's not enough information in your message to help you. How did you configure? Are you doing a vpath build (outside of the source tree)? Mysql 5 does compile fine under Cygwin, but you may require a few small patches. Search the archives for details.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cpio-2.6-4

2005-09-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 6 15:34, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > I've just updated the version of cpio to 2.6-4. > > This version has two package bugs: > > /usr/share/info/dir should not be there > > and > > /usr/share/man/man1/mt.1 shadows mt.1 from mt-2.3.1-1 Thanks, I've

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: texi2html-1.76-1 - A highly customizable texinfo to HTML and other formats translator

2005-09-06 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi The package texi2html is now available with the Cygwin distribution: * http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/ (Homepage) * http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/texi2html/ (Download location) DESCRIPTION: sdesc: "A highly customizable texinfo to HTML and other formats translator" l

Re: New packages: singular-*-3.0.0-1

2005-09-06 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Oliver Wienand writes: > CONTENTS: > = > There are in a whole five packages concerning Singular. I think I missed in my review that the three files SURF_AUTHORS SURF_COPYING SURF_README from /usr/lib/Singular should really be moved to /usr/share/doc/Singular-3.0.0 an

Re: Intermittent scp crash on completion, Win98 SE, snapshot

2005-09-06 Thread Aaron Humphrey
On 9/2/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 07:27:46PM -0600, Aaron Humphrey wrote: > If you can get this to fail under strace, that would probably point to > the problem pretty quickly. It looks like something is trying to get > the pid of the process during the final stages o

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cpio-2.6-4

2005-09-06 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Corinna Vinschen writes: > I've just updated the version of cpio to 2.6-4. This version has two package bugs: /usr/share/info/dir should not be there and /usr/share/man/man1/mt.1 shadows mt.1 from mt-2.3.1-1 Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: Problems with snap 20050905 and X?

2005-09-06 Thread Antonio Romero
Angelo Graziosi roma1.infn.it> writes: > > > I have installed the snap 20050905. > > When X/Cygwin is started with startxwin.bat, xterm hangs, its window is > white instead of black (as I configured) and the prompt does not appear. > > Windows (W2K SP4) says : Annull or Stop the process. > >

Re: Postgresql package broken?

2005-09-06 Thread Jason Tishler
Max, On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:38:47PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > Wanting to eliminate possible oddities with my system as a cause, I > did a totally clean install on Cygwin Base + postgresql onto a > different computer, but still postmaster immediately segfaults. > > Is the current postgresql

XEMACS and $HOME

2005-09-06 Thread Achim Schaefer
Hi, I have a problem with my $HOME setting. Starting xemacs I get the following message: $ xemacs Syntax error: "Bad format environment-variable substitution", "//SV018182/luxcasch$" Chaning HOME to the windows version works: $ HOME=h: xemacs Warning: XtRemoveGrab asked to remove a widget not o

Postgresql package broken?

2005-09-06 Thread Max Bowsher
I've used Cygwin-Postgresql before, but when I tried to use it recently, I found that postmaster immediately segfaults on start. Wanting to eliminate possible oddities with my system as a cause, I did a totally clean install on Cygwin Base + postgresql onto a different computer, but still post

RE: Administrator vs Administrators

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Luke Kendall >Sent: 06 September 2005 04:57 > Our policy is that for their PC, users have administrator rights in the > network domain, so they can install and uninstall software. No. Your policy is that the *domain user account* for a user has *local* admini

Re: Does setup.exe ignore setup.hint md5 checksum?

2005-09-06 Thread Luke Kendall
On 6 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Not on cygwin.com. The md5sum is correct there. Sure, sure, I didn't mean to imply that. We've found a mirror site that wasn't broken, as of last night. > Setup.exe doesn't know about setup.hint. It only gets the data from > the top-level file setup.in

Re: Does setup.exe ignore setup.hint md5 checksum?

2005-09-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 6 17:29, Luke Kendall wrote: > I only ask because setup didn't appear to notice that libgcrypt's > setup.hint md5 checksum didn't match the md5.sum file. Not on cygwin.com. The md5sum is correct there. Setup.exe doesn't know about setup.hint. It only gets the data from the top-level fil

Does setup.exe ignore setup.hint md5 checksum?

2005-09-06 Thread Luke Kendall
I only ask because setup didn't appear to notice that libgcrypt's setup.hint md5 checksum didn't match the md5.sum file. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.ht

Re: ls -lrt / shows /dev....

2005-09-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 5 21:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:29:14PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>It really isn't worth the effort to implement this. Eventually, /dev > >>will be something more like a mountable entity but, for now,