Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: libtool-2.2.2-2 / Updated: libltdl7-2.2.2-2

2008-04-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Charles Wilson wrote: > way to get ld to print its search path (which is why Brian grep'ed the > binary) like gcc's -print-search-dirs. So libtool has no mechanism to I grepped the default linker script which is a plain text file. This can be done programmatically by adding -Wl,-verbose to a tes

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: libtool-2.2.2-2 / Updated: libltdl7-2.2.2-2

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: | Changes sine libtool2.2-2.2.2-1 | = I'm also seeing these warnings (where 'foo' is the executable being linked against a yet-uninstalled libtool library): ./.libs/lt-foo.c: In function `main': ./.libs/lt-foo.c:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: libtool-2.2.2-2 / Updated: libltdl7-2.2.2-2

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: | I think that libtool hasn't been told that LDFLAGS should include | -L/usr/lib/w32api. I think this is something that should be passed on | the invocation line in your makefile -- maybe AM_LDFLAGS needs to be set? As I'm sure you're aware, /u

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: libtool-2.2.2-2 / Updated: libltdl7-2.2.2-2

2008-04-14 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: | Changes sine libtool2.2-2.2.2-1 | = I'm also seeing these warnings (where 'foo' is the executable being linked against a yet-uninstalled libtool library): ./.libs/lt-foo.c: In function `main'

Re: Symbolic links and file tests in perl

2008-04-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Scott Webster Wood wrote: > I tried doing a if(-l $file) where $file was the name of a symbolically > linked directory in the current working directory and it returned a false. > Doing a (-d $file) returned true. I can't reproduce this: $ mkdir foo; ln -s foo bar $ perl -e 'print "yes\n" if

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: libtool-2.2.2-2 / Updated: libltdl7-2.2.2-2

2008-04-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Charles Wilson wrote: > I think that libtool hasn't been told that LDFLAGS should include > -L/usr/lib/w32api. I think this is something that should be passed on > the invocation line in your makefile -- maybe AM_LDFLAGS needs to be set? But the linker searches this location by default: $ grep

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: libtool-2.2.2-2 / Updated: libltdl7-2.2.2-2

2008-04-14 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: | I think that libtool hasn't been told that LDFLAGS should include | -L/usr/lib/w32api. I think this is something that should be passed on | the invocation line in your makefile -- maybe AM_LDFLAGS needs to be set? As I'm su

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: I just tried again: I deleted /usr/bin/gs symlink, /etc/alternatives/gs symlink and /var/lib/alternatives/gs. 12:13 AM [506]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-native 10 01:20 AM [507]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-x11

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Charles Wilson writes: > Dr. Volker Zell wrote: >> What does this >> path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs >> mean ? > Some sort of parsing error. At that line in the code, the program > expects that the line contains exactly an absolute path to the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: libtool-2.2.2-2 / Updated: libltdl7-2.2.2-2

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: | Changes sine libtool2.2-2.2.2-1 | = | o changed base package name from 'libtool2.2' to 'libtool' | o Added patches from Yaakov Selkowitz | http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-04/msg00378.html Do you know why I'm

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: What does this path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs mean ? Some sort of parsing error. At that line in the code, the program expects that the line contains exactly an absolute path to the target program. e.g. line = parseLine(&bufp); while (l

[Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi This is from the setup run after updating to the latest ghostscript package: 2008/04/13 22:27:51 Running preremove script for ghostscript 2008/04/13 22:27:51 running: D:\\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/preremove/ghostscript.sh 2008/04/13 22:27:51 Running preremove script for ghostscript-base 2008/04/1

[Packaging error] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: atool-0.34.0-1

2008-04-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Andrew Schulman writes: > A new version of the atool package is now available in the Cygwin distribution. > Changes in this release: > * New upstream release: adds lzma support. The following man pages in /usr/share/man/man1: apack.1.gz arepack.1.gz aunpack.1.gz acat.1.gz adif

Symbolic links and file tests in perl

2008-04-14 Thread Scott Webster Wood
I tried doing a if(-l $file) where $file was the name of a symbolically linked directory in the current working directory and it returned a false. Doing a (-d $file) returned true. Is there any way to work around this and then retrieve the real path of a symbolically linked directory under cygw

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1

2008-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > The cost of stat'ing a known symlink (which may involve spinning up a disk or > doing a network access) just to color its target was deemed too expensive for > the default. Coreutils 6.11 is due out this week, with no change in behavior, > but perhaps for 6.12,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.10-1

2008-04-14 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > These are the changes noted in the changelog. However, what I see now > is that the target of a symlink is not colored anymore at all. According to the upstream maintainer, this was a deliberate change (even though it was not mentioned in NEWS). http

[ANNOUNCEMENT] update: gsl-1.11-1 (GNU Scientific Library)

2008-04-14 Thread A.R. Burgers
The cygwin gsl package (GNU Scientific Library) has been updated to 1.11-1. This is a new upstream release. For the announcement of gsl version 1.11 see: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gsl-announce/2008/msg0.html The homepage for the GSL is http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ The gsl package co

sorry all

2008-04-14 Thread Eric Tea
hello i've sent the same mail twice (segmentation fault...) because it has been sent in html format and i've read later that the cygwin server accept text format only. i didnt check for replies before sending the second mail, i didnt thought that the first passed! so, please, accept my apologies

gold star? Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.4-1

2008-04-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:55:50PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > csih (cygwin-service-installation-helper) provides a library of shell > functions that can be used by other cygwin packages that provide servers > and daemons. It can assist in various service installation tasks, such as: Did Chuc

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: libtool-2.2.2-2 / Updated: libltdl7-2.2.2-2

2008-04-14 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: | Changes sine libtool2.2-2.2.2-1 | = | o changed base package name from 'libtool2.2' to 'libtool' | o Added patches from Yaakov Selkowitz | http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-04/msg00378.html D

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.4-1

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Wilson
csih (cygwin-service-installation-helper) provides a library of shell functions that can be used by other cygwin packages that provide servers and daemons. It can assist in various service installation tasks, such as: * identifying the underlying Windows OS * detecting whether a "privileged use

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: libtool-1.5.27a-1 / Updated: libltdl3-1.5.27a-1

2008-04-14 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: | Should I create libtool-1.5.25a-1.tar.bz2 (and libtool-2.2.2-1.tar.bz2) | packages that are simply copies of | libtool1.5/libtool1.5-1.5.25a-1.tar.bz2 (and libtool2.2-2.2.2-1.tar.bz2)? Yes. Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-14 Thread smr xxxx
Hi, I've just rebuilt my machine and done a clean install of the latest Cygwin, and am having a problem with tail. I'm wanting to know whether this is a known issue before digging deeper. For other reasons, I've rebuilt my machine clean twice this weekend and have had this problem both times -- I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: libtool-1.5.27a-1 / Updated: libltdl3-1.5.27a-1

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Question about setup.ini: @ libltdl3 sdesc: "Libtool's dynamic loader (runtime)" ldesc: "GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface." category: Libs requires: cygwin version: 1.5.27a-1 install: re

[ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: libtool-2.2.2-2 / Updated: libltdl7-2.2.2-2

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Wilson
GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. This update represents a name change from the previous 'libtool2.2' package, to the new 'libtool' package (the embedded version number '2.2' has been

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Changes in libtool packaging

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Synopsis libtool1.5 packages are now 'libtool' (current) libtool2.2 packages are now 'libtool' (testing) libltdl3 (the runtime library from libtool-1.5) is unchanged libltdl7 (the runtime library from libtool-2.2) is unchanged Required User Action

[ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: libtool-1.5.27a-1 / Updated: libltdl3-1.5.27a-1

2008-04-14 Thread Charles Wilson
GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. This is a routine update to the latest CVS code from the libtool-1.5 branch. It also represents a name change from the previous 'libtool1.5' package,

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-14 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: (...) So that character is "f021". I should have thought about that from the beginning. Well, there's no workaround and there will be no patch for this. The problem is that this character value is within the 0xf000-0xf0ff range. This range is part of the UNICODE b

Re: segmentation faults and memory problems

2008-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 14 14:26, Eric Tea wrote: > > Hi, maybe you should read the replies you get before duplicating the same message twice, which, btw., is quite rude. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 14 13:15, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schrieb: >> On Apr 14 11:30, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >>> Corinna Vinschen schrieb: On Apr 12 13:15, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schrieb: >> What's the wchar hex code value of that character? > Hmm, I d

segmentation faults and memory problems

2008-04-14 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 fai

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-14 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: On Apr 14 11:30, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Corinna Vinschen schrieb: On Apr 12 13:15, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Corinna Vinschen schrieb: What's the wchar hex code value of that character? Hmm, I don't know. Is there some obvious way to get it? You could write a s

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 14 11:30, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schrieb: >> On Apr 12 13:15, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >>> Corinna Vinschen schrieb: What's the wchar hex code value of that character? >>> Hmm, I don't know. >>> >>> Is there some obvious way to get it? >> You could write a small a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: autotrace/libautotrace3/libautotrace-devel - A program for converting bitmap to vector graphics

2008-04-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi The packages autotrace/libautotrace3/libautotrace-devel are now available with the Cygwin distribution: o http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/ (Homepage) DESCRIPTION: AutoTrace is a program for converting bitmap to vector graphics. The aim of the AutoTrace project is the developm

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-14 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: On Apr 12 13:15, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Corinna Vinschen schrieb: What's the wchar hex code value of that character? Hmm, I don't know. Is there some obvious way to get it? You could write a small application which does nothing but calling FindFirstFileW/FindNex

Re: Erroneous Disk Full - Incorrect Used and Available

2008-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 12 10:55, leonv wrote: > C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > C:\cygwin\bin390700768 26699324 0 100% /usr/bin > C:\cygwin\lib390700768 26699324 0 100% /usr/lib > C:\cygwin

Re: Embedded packaging of cygwin without installation

2008-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 12 18:09, Hans Kaiser wrote: > But now I want to be able to determine, if someone has already installed > (via your setup.exe) a cygwin. If so I would like to be able to use the > already installed one. But how to determine if there is already an > installation of cygwin? And furthermore, ho

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 12 13:15, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schrieb: >> What's the wchar hex code value of that character? > > Hmm, I don't know. > > Is there some obvious way to get it? You could write a small application which does nothing but calling FindFirstFileW/FindNextFileW and print the