Re: auto complete history

2008-05-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Bram (Sun, 11 May 2008 11:05:38 +1000) > In a previous installation of Cygwin, I had 'history auto complete' in > so far as I could type a letter, press the up key and the prompt would > cycle through the most recent entries in history whose first letter > matches the letter I typed. On my

initstate/setstate

2008-05-11 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Apparently cygwin has exported initstate and setstate for over ten years (see winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog-1997), but I can't find a header definition for it in 1.5.25-11. POSIX requires these to be declared in . Also, the signatures seem to differ sli

Re: I'd like to add and mantain a new pacakge: nix

2008-05-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:27:45AM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > Marc Weber wrote: >>I've read the "how to contribute a new package" on the faq and started >>writing the cygport file. It was easy. >> >>The distfiles which I've created this way can be found on >>http://mawercer.de/dist >> >>Whic

Re: I'd like to add and mantain a new pacakge: nix

2008-05-11 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
>> * It would be quite helpful, if there was a "NIX Intro" 'man' page >>that gave the function of the package that I could only find >>described in the Cygport file. > > > "(package manager allowing) multiple versions of a package to > be installed side-by-side, > ensures that dependenc

Re: I'd like to add and mantain a new pacakge: nix

2008-05-11 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Marc Weber wrote: * The hint file is not complete and appears to be some kind of gag? Can you recommend me one which you find "complete" ? I had a quick glance at some packages eg ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/cygwin/release/cron/setup.hint and they don't seem to contain much more informati

Re: I'd like to add and mantain a new pacakge: nix

2008-05-11 Thread Marc Weber
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:27:45AM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > look at elements of your package components because I am curious > about being a Cygwin developer/maintainer, and I have been > struggling for some time to figure out how to improved Cygwin/GNU > documentation/help. Interesting

Re: I'd like to add and mantain a new pacakge: nix

2008-05-11 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Marc Weber wrote: > I've read the "how to contribute a new package" on the faq and > started writing the cygport file. > It was easy. > > The distfiles which I've created this way can be found on > http://mawercer.de/dist > > Which is the recommended way of testing them? > tar xfj -C / nix*.tar.b

[Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libgcrypt-1.4.1-1

2008-05-11 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Gergely Budai writes: > Version 1.4.1-1 of "libgcrypt" has been uploaded. The latest version is somehow broken nm --demangle --defined-only libgcrypt.dll.a | grep 'gcry_control' nm: d000187.o: no symbols nm: d00.o: no symbols nm: d000186.o: no symbols nm: d000185.o: no symbols