Re: Maintainer-List

Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: > If there is a list of apps and their maintainer it would be of some help. > As it would be easy to identify the apps with no maintainers. > New interested maintainer may take it up. Corinna has been maintaining that list and has posted it on cygwin-apps numerous times,

Cygwin and Blackbox font problem

Hi, In cygwin i compiled blackbox-0.70.1 successfully. when i try to start it shows the fonts as blocks, could anybody help me with this one. There is a bug logged in blackboxwm bugzilla since past 1 year, no response its no is 1105302 Thanks and Regards, Vijay -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Maintainer-List

Hi, If there is a list of apps and their maintainer it would be of some help. As it would be easy to identify the apps with no maintainers. New interested maintainer may take it up. Thanks and Regards, Vijay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Bug in setup.exe install

Arthur Schwarz wrote: One known weakness of setup.exe is when deselecting things with complex patterns of dependencies. You might get better results from starting by using the 'Keep' radio button, to select nothing for installation, and then *adding* packages you want upgraded. Setting all op

RE: Making and selling a Cygwin distribution

Christopher Faylor wrote: > Btw, if you are going to be creating your own distro don't forget to > set up a forum to support it. We don't support other releases here. Yes, that and more -- Cygwin mirror, development box/VM, test boxes/VM's, e-commerce store, payment processing, and other infrastr

Re: clean_setup.pl website disappeared ? does anyine have the latest and greates clean_setup.pl version?

Cliff Hones wrote: > For some reason I've never quite understood, cygwin-apps is subscriber-only. > If anyone subscribed to cygwin-apps would like to put it in the repository, > I will be happy to send a copy. However, I have no contact with the original > author > (Michael A Chase) and I have no

Re: can't ssh to self -amended w/cygcheck

Lex Ein wrote: After what seemed like a normal May 2005 Cygwin update, my Ohio remote Win2K SP4 machine stopped accepting ssh connections. For two years up to that point, no Cygwin update interfered with normal SSH operation. Via a naked VNC connection, in the Cygwin shell, 'ssh -vvv localho

can't ssh to self

After what seemed like a normal May 2005 Cygwin update, my Ohio remote Win2K SP4 machine stopped accepting ssh connections. For two years up to that point, no Cygwin update interfered with normal SSH operation. Via a naked VNC connection, in the Cygwin shell, 'ssh -vvv localhost' fails with t

Re: clean_setup.pl website disappeared ? does anyine have the latest and greates clean_setup.pl version?

Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Cliff Hones wrote: > >> Urs Rau wrote: >>> So, if anybody does have version 1.0700 (or newer) please let me know. >> I have a copy, which I shall mail you. >> >> Is there any interest in putting this somewhere more permanent? > > Like the cygwin-apps c

Re: boost library suggestion (regarding boost::filesystem)

Simon Lam wrote: > I'd like to suggest that the boost library is built as the gcc-nocygwin > toolset (which, if I have read the docs correctly, is just an extension > of the gcc toolset) or make available as a seperate package. The reason > behind this is that part of the library, boost::filesyste

boost library suggestion (regarding boost::filesystem)

I'd like to suggest that the boost library is built as the gcc-nocygwin toolset (which, if I have read the docs correctly, is just an extension of the gcc toolset) or make available as a seperate package. The reason behind this is that part of the library, boost::filesystem, do not work as inte

Perl function tempfile() fails to recognize that directory is writable

I recently encountered the following problem. This perl script - - - test.pl - - - #!/usr/bin/perl use File::Temp qw/ tempfile /; my ( $treetmpfilehandle, $treetmpfile ) = tempfile("abc" , DIR => $ENV{TMP}); print("done"); - - - test.pl - - - fails with this error message for the user q for

Mirrors updating - currently inconsistent setup.ini-vs-setup.bz2

In case anyone is having trouble with setup right now, it's because the setup.bz2 file hasn't yet propagated the lastest changes and is out-of-sync with the expanded setup.ini. Give it a few hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] /win/t/setup> wget 'http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/sources.redhat. com

Re: sshd client can't access remote shares

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Steve Briggs wrote: > --- Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . Thanks. > > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Steve Briggs wrote: > > > I can't access network shares when I connect via sshd. > > > > bash>cygrunsrv -I sshd -p /usr/sbin/s

Re: sshd client can't access remote shares

--- Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Steve Briggs wrote: > > I can't access network shares when I connect via sshd. > > bash>cygrunsrv -I sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd -A -d > ^ > I hope this is a typo (though your sshd o

RE: Bug in setup.exe install

Arthur Schwarz wrote: > For the last 2+ years I've been unable to upgrade Cygwin on my Win2K > system without reinstalling from scratch. This has periodically been > mentioned by other users. I may have found at least one case for a > failure. Apparently Install.cc:do_install_thread passes a zero l

Re: curses.h

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Bob Rossi wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:33:42AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > > According to Bob Rossi on 1/21/2006 8:15 AM: > > > > > > Yup, things are screwed up all right. > > > > > > Not Found: sh > > > > Use setup.exe to reinstall the bash package; I would also reinsta

Re: clean_setup.pl website disappeared ? does anyine have the latest and greates clean_setup.pl version?

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Cliff Hones wrote: > Urs Rau wrote: > > So, if anybody does have version 1.0700 (or newer) please let me know. > > I have a copy, which I shall mail you. > > Is there any interest in putting this somewhere more permanent? Like the cygwin-apps cvs repository? Igor --

Re: can I tell setup.exe NOT to upgrade a specific package from now on?

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: > Urs Rau wrote: > > > Is there any mechanism at all where I can either tell setup.exe to > > ignore future versions of posgresql or else actually be as precise, as > > to tell it that I want to stay at version 7.x for now? > > No, sorry. It will try to i

Re: g++: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or directory when using -mno-cygwin

Brian Dessent wrote: Simon Lam wrote: I am having an issue using the -mno-cygwin flag with g++/gcc. From what I have read in the archives, you need to gcc-mingw installed to have it working, however I do have it installed - see attached cygcheck.out. The mingw parts of the compiler are actu

Re: g++: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or directory when using -mno-cygwin

Simon Lam wrote: > I am having an issue using the -mno-cygwin flag with g++/gcc. From what > I have read in the archives, you need to gcc-mingw installed to have it > working, however I do have it installed - see attached cygcheck.out. The mingw parts of the compiler are actually only extracted/i

Re: curses.h

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:33:42AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Bob Rossi on 1/21/2006 8:15 AM: > > > > Yup, things are screwed up all right. > > > > Not Found: sh > > Use setup.exe to reinstall the bash package; I would also reinstall > libncurses-devel in case its postinstall failed

g++: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or directory when using -mno-cygwin

Hello everyone. I am having an issue using the -mno-cygwin flag with g++/gcc. From what I have read in the archives, you need to gcc-mingw installed to have it working, however I do have it installed - see attached cygcheck.out. Here is some other infomation: bash-3.00$ g++ -mno-cygwin --pri

Re: curses.h

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bob Rossi on 1/21/2006 8:15 AM: > > Yup, things are screwed up all right. > > Not Found: sh Use setup.exe to reinstall the bash package; I would also reinstall libncurses-devel in case its postinstall failed to run because of problems w

Re: clean_setup.pl website disappeared ? does anyine have the latest and greates clean_setup.pl version?

Urs Rau wrote: > So, if anybody does have version 1.0700 (or newer) please let me know. I have a copy, which I shall mail you. Is there any interest in putting this somewhere more permanent? -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:

Re: can I tell setup.exe NOT to upgrade a specific package from now on?

Urs Rau wrote: > Is there any mechanism at all where I can either tell setup.exe to ignore > future versions of posgresql or else actually be as precise, as to tell it > that I want to stay at version 7.x for now? No, sorry. It will try to install "curr" by default every time, whatever version t

Re: sshd client can't access remote shares

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Steve Briggs wrote: > I can't access network shares when I connect via sshd. The knee-jerk response for this is usually "read the FAQ" (i.e., ). But you seem to have covered most of it in your email. > My /etc/password

Re: curses.h

Bob Rossi wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cvs/cgdb/builddir/tmp] $ cat foo.c > #include > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/cvs/cgdb/builddir/tmp] $ gcc -c foo.c > foo.c:1:20: curses.h: No such file or directory The ncurses headers live in /usr/include/ncurses. Normally this means that you need to arrange fo

Re: question on d_ino semantics

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 08:45:52AM -0600, * * wrote: >On 1/20/06, Eric Blake wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> There are currently two competing uses of d_ino semantics in coreutils: >> >> lib/backupfile.c assumes that if d_ino is ever 0, (captured by the macro >> REA

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 1/20/06, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > $ cyg-apt install lilypond > > to install: > > libXft1 libXft2 ghostscript-base libreadline6 findutils xorg-x11-bin > > pcre pango-runtime libncurses8 glib2-runtime pcre-doc libintl fontconfig > > x

Re: clean_setup.pl website disappeared ? does anyine have the latest and greates clean_setup.pl version?

Thanks Krzysztof, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > I use a simple script of my own to clean cygwin setup directory. It has > nothing to do with clean_setup.pl, similar names are just a coincidence. > You can download it from here: > > www.duleba.net/clean-setup.pl > > Krzysztof Duleba Thanks, I had a lo

Re: clean_setup.pl website disappeared ? does anyine have the latest and greates clean_setup.pl version?

Urs Rau wrote: I have read about the clean_setup.pl script in the current http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.disk-space webpage but the link is no longer valid. ;-( But it is now gone now. Is there an alternative home for it, somewhere? Or can somebody email attach me the

Re: curses.h

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 08:01:36AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Bob Rossi on 1/21/2006 7:29 AM: > > > > I can admit that I changed the version of automake that I was using, > > however I don't think that has much to do with looking for the files. > > Here the related config.log. Has any

Re: curses.h

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bob Rossi on 1/21/2006 7:29 AM: > > I can admit that I changed the version of automake that I was using, > however I don't think that has much to do with looking for the files. > Here the related config.log. Has anything changed with Cygw

can I tell setup.exe NOT to upgrade a specific package from now on?

I need to keep a version of postgresql server at level 7.x, but now that 8.x is out setup.exe suggests an upgrade every single time it runs. And one of these days I am going to forget to manually toggle the entry back to 'keep' instead of the suggested 'upgrade'. Is there any mechanism at all wh

clean_setup.pl website disappeared ? does anyine have the latest and greates clean_setup.pl version?

I have read about the clean_setup.pl script in the current http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.disk-space webpage but the link is no longer valid. ;-( By googling I can see that this link appears to have been valid around Nov 2002. http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/

Re: question on d_ino semantics

On 1/20/06, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > There are currently two competing uses of d_ino semantics in coreutils: > > lib/backupfile.c assumes that if d_ino is ever 0, (captured by the macro > REAL_DIR_ENTRY, which is always non-zero on platforms without d_

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-5.1-1, libreadline6-5.1-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline and libreadline6, 5.1-1, is available for use, replacing 5.0-4. NEWS: = This is a new, stable upstream release, and includes all official upstream patches. This release was previously available as a test verseion, but no

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

Joshua Daniel Franklin writes: > Jan, cyg-apt appears to be able to install packages on Cygwin as > well as Linux. Yes. > Do you know if it has regularly been used in such a manner? I'm using it, but I haven't had any success or bug reports. >The biggest concern would be that if running under

How can i adjust the buffer size of the FIFO?

Hi all, I find that in the cygwin, the buffer of the FIFO seems to be 1 byte, how can i adjust it ? Thanks, -- Richard Meng Hisilicon Semiconductor Co., Ltd. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: