Re: perl 5.10 and DynaLoader

2008-04-13 Thread Reini Urban
2008/4/14, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Reini Urban wrote: > | Bug confirmed. > | I had problems with this also in B::C, but searched completely elsewhere. > | > | The next release will also change the archlib name to i686-cygwin as > promised. > | And the new build script wi

Missing header files

2008-04-13 Thread asterix gaul
I am trying to compile wpa_supplicant for windows using cygwin. But the build fails due to missing header files in cygwin, like if_arp.h I could not find it in its default location i.e. /usr/include/net. I wonder if I need to install any specific package for getting these core network header fi

Re: perl 5.10 and DynaLoader

2008-04-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Reini Urban wrote: | Bug confirmed. | I had problems with this also in B::C, but searched completely elsewhere. | | The next release will also change the archlib name to i686-cygwin as promised. | And the new build script with a sane install step.

Re: perl 5.10 and DynaLoader

2008-04-13 Thread Reini Urban
2008/4/14, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > | Perl 5.10 no longer provides the static DynaLoader.a and Win32CORE.a > | modules. But while ExtUtils::Embed ldopts() does not list them, running > | xsinit() still generates code with boot_Socket and boot_

Re: Vista + cygwin basics

2008-04-13 Thread Charles Wilson
Brian Dessent wrote: Correction - it doesn't try to do anything with the permissions as stated in the tarball. At startup it does try to set a DACL in the process token that contains Everyone:full. However, as I understand it, the DACL only applies to files created in situations where they woul

Re: Vista + cygwin basics

2008-04-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: > Setup doesn't do anything with permissions, so the resulting ones are Correction - it doesn't try to do anything with the permissions as stated in the tarball. At startup it does try to set a DACL in the process token that contains Everyone:full. However, as I understand

Re: Vista + cygwin basics

2008-04-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Charles Wilson wrote: > So, are these differences expected? Have I messed up the installation > by doing 'Run as Administrator' -- some posts around the web seem to > recommned turning off UAC when running setup.exe, or running it in 'XP > Compatibility Mode'. Yes I would expect differences, giv

Re: Attn: cygport maintainer [was: Re: Libtool 2.2.2]

2008-04-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: | I believe this was an attempt at optimization: avoid testing for | specific tools need only on one platform, unless libtool has been told | that it is ON that platform. Oddly, you'd think that libtool would | figure that out

Re: Attn: cygport maintainer [was: Re: Libtool 2.2.2]

2008-04-13 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: One more patch will be required, namely, to define OBJDUMP where necessary. I've rolled these two patches together, as attached. Explanation: The AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL macro was supposed to be used in packages which built on Win32 platforms, in order to create DLLs.

Vista + cygwin basics

2008-04-13 Thread Charles Wilson
So, I'm taking the plunge...but I have a few questions. Here's what I've done so far: (1) using setup-2.588 snapshot (2) Ran as Administrator. Note that I was logged in as my normal user account, which is NOT a member of the Administrators group. So, I right-clicked on setup-2.588.exe, and c

Re: Which tool to convert pictures into a nice web page

2008-04-13 Thread Fred Hansen
Morten Kjærulff hotmail.com> writes: > > > Hi, > > I have a bunch of picture files from a web cam in a directory. The files changes over time (some go, new ones come). > > Which tool (that comes with cygwin) can I use to make a nice web page, that I can upload to my homepage? > > What I woul

Re: libpopt0 is missing - cygpopt-0.dll missing

2008-04-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Peter Bennett wrote: > Current downloads of Cygwin packages are missing cygpopt-0.dll. This is > supposed to be packaged as libpopt0, but that package is not on any > mirror that I can find. Result is dos2unix, unix2dos, d2u, u2d do not Whatever method you're using to determine that this package

Re: libpopt0 is missing - cygpopt-0.dll missing

2008-04-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:32:58PM -0400, Peter Bennett wrote: >Current downloads of Cygwin packages are missing cygpopt-0.dll. This is >supposed to be packaged as libpopt0, but that package is not on any >mirror that I can find. Result is dos2unix, unix2dos, d2u, u2d do not >work. They terminate w

libpopt0 is missing - cygpopt-0.dll missing

2008-04-13 Thread Peter Bennett
Current downloads of Cygwin packages are missing cygpopt-0.dll. This is supposed to be packaged as libpopt0, but that package is not on any mirror that I can find. Result is dos2unix, unix2dos, d2u, u2d do not work. They terminate with a 53 return code without doing anything and without displaying

Re: perl 5.10 and DynaLoader

2008-04-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: | Perl 5.10 no longer provides the static DynaLoader.a and Win32CORE.a | modules. But while ExtUtils::Embed ldopts() does not list them, running | xsinit() still generates code with boot_Socket and boot_Win32CORE, which

Re: segmentation faults and memory problems

2008-04-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Eric Tea wrote: > I work on two computers, running under > windows XP and windows XP64. The former have 1Gb of RAM and the latter > 4Gb. > Increasing the stack size and modifying the > "heap_chunk_in_mb" value dont change anything to my segmentation > fault. > Plus "max_memory" always reply 1536Mb

perl 5.10 and DynaLoader

2008-04-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Reini, Perl 5.10 no longer provides the static DynaLoader.a and Win32CORE.a modules. But while ExtUtils::Embed ldopts() does not list them, running xsinit() still generates code with boot_Socket and boot_Win32CORE, which then leads to undefined sy

Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

2008-04-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:06:36PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >I think you have already the solution, but for the sake of >completeness: what would it happen if one installs/uninstalls Cygwin >and/or Cygwin-1.7 leaving a dirty registry? Apparently you are monitoring the cygwin-apps mailing list

[Attn: netpbm maintainer] Packaging bugs and problem with ppmtogif

2008-04-13 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi ppmtogif produces only black gif images. For example: gs -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=/tmp/tiger.ppm /usr/share/ghostscript/8.62/examples/tiger.eps ppmtogif.exe tiger.ppm > tiger.gif Also there are 2 packaging bugs in netpbm o http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-03/msg00567.html o

segmentation faults and memory problems

2008-04-13 Thread Eric Tea
Hi, I try to run a program which needs a lot of memory. It fails with a "segmentation fault". In the program's  Users Guide, it is advised to increase the stack size but as knwon the "ulimit -s" command does not work. So i tried to compile the program with "-Wl,stack=..." option but it still fa

cygwin-1.7 utf8 path support (exp)

2008-04-13 Thread Reini Urban
Attached patch is for interested developers which want to try out the upcoming cygwin-1.7 for utf8 path conversion support. It uses now the wide char api with MAX_PATH of 32KB length. Do not apply yet. The cygwin 1.7 gcc suite is not yet stable enough to finish perl compilation for me so I couldn'

Something weird is happening with endlessly updated setup.ini

2008-04-13 Thread Fergus
The file setup.ini has been updated 3 times in the last, dunno, 18 hours or so, and the only change has been a new version of _update-info-dir. Is there a reason for this? (Well, I'm sure there's a reason.) Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

2008-04-13 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I think you have already the solution, but for the sake of completeness: what would it happen if one installs/uninstalls Cygwin and/or Cygwin-1.7 leaving a dirty registry? Cheers, Angelo. --- Tu proverai si' come sa di sale lo pane altrui, e come e' duro calle lo scendere e 'l salir per l'a

Re: Attn: cygport maintainer [was: Re: Libtool 2.2.2]

2008-04-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: | Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: |> AU_DEFUN([AC_PROG_LIBTOOL], |> [LT_INIT |> LT_OUTPUT |> AC_DIAGNOSE([obsolete], |> [$0: Remove this warning and the call to LT_OUTPUT if you do not need |> libtool to exist before AC_OUTPUT.])

Re: How do I run sshd as a particular user?

2008-04-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 13 03:27, Robert McKay wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > > On Apr 12 01:11, Robert McKay wrote: > > > In order to run sshd as an unprivileged user I had to use a nasty > > > hexedit hack

ncurses with wide char support

2008-04-13 Thread Didier BRETIN
Hi, I would like to compile snownews last version with utf-8 support. In the FAQ he said that I need to have ncurses with wide char support (libncursesw). http://www.kcore.de/wiki/wiki.cgi?Snownews/FAQ#How_can_I_get_full_Unicode_support I can't see this package in the list of cygwin package. Is