mysql shared libraries.

2007-10-17 Thread thefinn
Has anyone had any success compiling these on cygwin? I'm just installing a project I worked on a few years back, however it requires a little known eggdrop module that allows tcl calls to mysql (yes that's right :)). Compilation of the module however under cygwin could make for a lot of fun

Re: Problem with the dos2unix command

2007-10-17 Thread Charles Wilson
Patrick Monnerat wrote: I'm trying to convert a \r\n line-ending file to unix style, but this file has some lines with their last character being \r (i.e.: the sequence of binary bytes is ...\r\r\n...) Using dos2unix to convert it strips both \r, resulting in a byte sequence ...\n... Thi

Re: Where did man page for "rxvt" go ???

2007-10-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Paul McFerrin wrote: > Very useful information Brian. When I do a "cygcheck -p rxvt", I see > several packages containing a version of rxvt. How ever for example: > rxvt/rxvt-20050409-7VT102 terminal emulator for both X and Windows > rxvt-unicode-common/rxvt-unicode-common-7.7-6 An

Re: Where did man page for "rxvt" go ???

2007-10-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
Brian Dessent wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: Okay. How does one determine which base package rxvt is in so I can reinstall it? Is there some magical command in cygwin to do that for you. (lookup, not install) Yes, cygcheck provides various ways to do this. cygcheck -f searches insta

Re: Where did man page for "rxvt" go ???

2007-10-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Paul McFerrin wrote: > Okay. How does one determine which base package rxvt is in so I can > reinstall it? Is there some magical command in cygwin to do that for > you. (lookup, not install) Yes, cygcheck provides various ways to do this. cygcheck -f searches installed packages for a given fi

Re: Where did man page for "rxvt" go ???

2007-10-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
Brian Dessent wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: Please don't reply to an unrelated post and change the subject to start a new thread. You break the threading in the archives and in every mail client that supports threading. Oops.. sorry about that. The man page for "rxvt" (or related d

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tar-1.19-1

2007-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of tar, 1.19-1, is available, replacing 1.18-2 as current. Version 1.16.1-1 remains the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. NEWS from upstream is attached. This release requires cygwin-1.5.24 or later. See al

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.25-17

2007-10-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.2.25-17, has been uploaded, replacing 3.2.25-16 as current, and leaving 3.1-6 as previous. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release. It fixes a bug in "(times > file) | cat", introduced in -11. It incorporates a patch that

Re: Where did man page for "rxvt" go ???

2007-10-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Paul McFerrin wrote: Please don't reply to an unrelated post and change the subject to start a new thread. You break the threading in the archives and in every mail client that supports threading. > The man page for "rxvt" (or related documentation) has disappeared. > rxvt is still in the distri

Where did man page for "rxvt" go ???

2007-10-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
The man page for "rxvt" (or related documentation) has disappeared. rxvt is still in the distribution (I'm using it heavily) but I wanted to know if it had graphical support options. Does any one know of such a graphical support package that I can write "calls" from a C like programming langu

Re: What is "gcc-testsuite"?

2007-10-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Keith Thompson wrote: > It's skipped by default, but when I try to install it, nothing happens. It is a source-only package. There is no binary. This is the same testsuite that is a standard part of the gcc source which gets run when you "make check" from a full tree. To run it on an installed

Re: cygwin on Vista

2007-10-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Ruprecht Machleidt wrote: This is to ask if the problems with cygwin on Vista have by now all been straightened out. Or to be more concret: If one wants to install cygwin on Vista, can one just click on the usual "Install or update now" and get the right stuff that is also compatible with Vista?

Re: OpenSSH for windows issue

2007-10-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Mick Ken wrote: Friends, I am trying to install SSH on a Windows 2003 server since last 3 days and still no luck. I have tried literally everything and searched 100s of google pages but I am getting this error.I would greatly appreciate if someone can help me resolve this. Here's the trace fro

What is "gcc-testsuite"?

2007-10-17 Thread Keith Thompson
What exactly is the "gcc-testsuite" package? The installer says that it's "GCC testsuite sources"; the current version is 3.4.4-3, and it's supposed to be 2,581k bytes in size. It's skipped by default, but when I try to install it, nothing happens. What I mean by "nothing happens" is that the in

cygwin on Vista

2007-10-17 Thread Ruprecht Machleidt
This is to ask if the problems with cygwin on Vista have by now all been straightened out. Or to be more concret: If one wants to install cygwin on Vista, can one just click on the usual "Install or update now" and get the right stuff that is also compatible with Vista? Or does one have to downloa

Re: Putty crashes trying to establish SSH session with Cygwin

2007-10-17 Thread d.henman
This is just to let people know that a new putty for cygwin has been created using putty 06.0 Here is the URL for the new puttycyg, released Oct. 12th, 2007 http://web.gccaz.edu/~medgar/puttycyg/ You might want to update to it. regards, darel henman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygw

OpenSSH for windows issue

2007-10-17 Thread Mick Ken
Friends, I am trying to install SSH on a Windows 2003 server since last 3 days and still no luck. I have tried literally everything and searched 100s of google pages but I am getting this error.I would greatly appreciate if someone can help me resolve this. Here's the trace from the server end:

Re: Using a Cygwin-built DLL outside of Cygwin

2007-10-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christian Kreibich (Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:56:49 -0700) > I have a library originally developed on Linux/FreeBSD that is building > fine on Cygwin. It also works fine if I build executables using this > library inside Cygwin. The goal however is for the resulting DLL to work > outside of Cygwin, for

is there a "urlencode" utility somewhere?

2007-10-17 Thread Mike Marchywka
Hi, I found out that sometime during my reinstall process I lost something called "urlencode" Any idea where this is, or if it is even part of cygwin? I've been all through setup and google but no luck. This is supposed to read from stdin and output a urlencoded version but the only scripts I

Keyboard layout changed

2007-10-17 Thread Eric Lilja
Hi, I haven't used cygwin much the past month or so and I definetly haven't tampered with its setting, but when I launched it today I was surprised to find that my keyboard layout had changed from swedish to american. It had only changed in bash not in any other program. I'm running an american

Using a Cygwin-built DLL outside of Cygwin

2007-10-17 Thread Christian Kreibich
Hi list, I have a library originally developed on Linux/FreeBSD that is building fine on Cygwin. It also works fine if I build executables using this library inside Cygwin. The goal however is for the resulting DLL to work outside of Cygwin, for example with Visual Studio. I am running into a few

Re: running ssh from windows desktop

2007-10-17 Thread Brian Mathis
You might want to try using -f. You can read about it in the man page (man ssh). On 10/16/07, thefinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, this is a rather frivolous question, but just something I want to > get right so it doesn't become an itch I can't scratch ;) > > When I access ssh from windows

Problem with the dos2unix command

2007-10-17 Thread Patrick Monnerat
Hello list, I'm trying to convert a \r\n line-ending file to unix style, but this file has some lines with their last character being \r (i.e.: the sequence of binary bytes is ...\r\r\n...) Using dos2unix to convert it strips both \r, resulting in a byte sequence ...\n... This seems to me

Re: Putty crashes trying to establish SSH session with Cygwin

2007-10-17 Thread Mick Ken
Yeah, I tried that but it did not worked. To be very true, I am a linux novice and don't know much of all these commands and so I have decided now I should first try with "OpenSSH for Windows" before i start with Cygwin. Thanks a lot friends... Mick On 10/17/07, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECT

problem with SANE : scanimage freeze

2007-10-17 Thread patrick ficheux
Hi, I try to use SANE on cygwin with USB scanner (agfa snapscan 1212U) but scanimage doesn't work sane-find-scanner.exe works fine, it detects my scanner $ sane-find-scanner.exe ... found USB scanner (vendor=0x06bd [AGFA ], product=0x2061 [SNAPSCAN]) at libusb:bus-0:\\.\libusb0-0003--0x06bd-0