Re: End of support for 9x

2008-08-24 Thread Derek Schrock
You're missing the best version of Windows that ever exist, Windows 2000. On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Trans-Mit Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Re:- >> >> Note that the official support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me >> will be discontinued with the > >> next major version (1

End of support for 9x

2008-08-24 Thread Trans-Mit Support
Re:- Note that the official support for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me will be discontinued with the > next major version (1.7.0) of Cygwin. Its bad enough having to use windows, but having to upgrade to XP or VISTA is just out of the question. Looks like I won't be using any new versi

Re: man: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

2008-08-24 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > With 1.7, there is no such issue; make manifypods builds OOTB. So any > such workaround would have to be caught in the cygport postinstall > stage, maybe in __prepman(). But I'm not sure that it would be at all > nece

Re: Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2

2008-08-24 Thread Reini Urban
2008/8/24 Brian Dessent: > Reini Urban wrote: > >> Sure. Fixing libtool of course. >> Mixing static and dynamic libs should be possible. > > I think you're missing the point of why libtool disallows it: not > because it won't work in a specific instance, but because it is not > portable. There is

Re: Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2

2008-08-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Reini Urban wrote: > Sure. Fixing libtool of course. > Mixing static and dynamic libs should be possible. I think you're missing the point of why libtool disallows it: not because it won't work in a specific instance, but because it is not portable. There is no fix for the fact that on some syst

Re: Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2

2008-08-24 Thread Reini Urban
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: Did you look into the root cause for this headache, libtool? The gtk2-perl hack had nothing to do with libtool, it had to do with the unique case of linking one Perl module against another. I was referring to the EU::Liblist::Kid patch we disc

RE: cygwin 1.7.0 and special filename chars

2008-08-24 Thread Jay
> Apparently my understanding of FAT is wrong then. > Brian FAT stores Unicode on disk, if necessary, as part of the "long name" support. That is, if a name happens to be 8.3, both in length and character set "etc.", it occupies just one "normal" directory entry. If a name is not 8.3, either

Re: bash -c '$COMSPEC' # worked sometime b4 cygwin 1.5.24-2

2008-08-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tom Rodman wrote: Greetings: ~ $ date;cygcheck -c cygwin Sun Aug 24 11:37:36 CDT 2008 Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygwin 1.5.25-15 OK ~ $ "$COMSPEC" -bash: D:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe: command not found ~ $ ls -l "$COMSPE

Re: Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2

2008-08-24 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Reini Urban wrote: > Did you look into the root cause for this headache, libtool? The gtk2-perl hack had nothing to do with libtool, it had to do with the unique case of linking one Perl module against another. I was referring to the EU::Liblist::K

Re: SIGPOLL and named pipes

2008-08-24 Thread Steve Thompson
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 07:29:59PM +0200, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: OK, thanks for the information. Do you know when 1.7 is planned to be released? Yes, but I'm not telling. CGF,YABM! -Steve ---

Re: SIGPOLL and named pipes

2008-08-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 07:29:59PM +0200, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: >OK, thanks for the information. Do you know when 1.7 is planned to be >released? Yes, but I'm not telling. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: SIGPOLL and named pipes

2008-08-24 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 01:47:56PM +0200, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: >> I don't get SIGPOLL on Cygwin in a software that runs fine on Linux and >> Solaris. Is there a known issue concerning SIGPOLL and named pipes. > > SIGPOLL (aka SIGIO) is not implemented in Cygwin. >

bash -c '$COMSPEC' # worked sometime b4 cygwin 1.5.24-2

2008-08-24 Thread Tom Rodman
Greetings: ~ $ date;cygcheck -c cygwin Sun Aug 24 11:37:36 CDT 2008 Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygwin 1.5.25-15 OK ~ $ "$COMSPEC" -bash: D:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe: command not found ~ $ ls -l "$COMSPEC" -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 A

Re: Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2

2008-08-24 Thread Reini Urban
2008/8/24 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports): > This release includes a patch, combined with perl-5.10.0-5, which allows > the linking of Gtk2-Perl modules without further intervention. cygport > will soon require this release for gtk2-perl.cygclass. Did you look into the root cause for this headache, libtoo

Re: SIGPOLL and named pipes

2008-08-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 01:47:56PM +0200, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: >I don't get SIGPOLL on Cygwin in a software that runs fine on Linux and >Solaris. Is there a known issue concerning SIGPOLL and named pipes. SIGPOLL (aka SIGIO) is not implemented in Cygwin. >Additionally, there seem to be a bu

race on pipe causing read to erroneously return 0?

2008-08-24 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Is it possible that there is somewhere a race condition in the cygwin.dll that causes the reader on a named pipe getting a return value of 0 from read, although another process has already opened the named pipe for writing. In consequence, in my application I see sporadic occurrences of SIGPIPE, w

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygport-0.3.13-1

2008-08-24 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** cygport-0.3.13-1 This is the latest release of the cygport package building tool. Please note that this version of cygport is meant solely for Cygwin 1.5. The next release fr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2

2008-08-24 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.300-2 This release includes a patch, combined with perl-5.10.0-5, which allows the linking of Gtk2-Perl modules without further intervention. cygport

SIGPOLL and named pipes

2008-08-24 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Hi, I don't get SIGPOLL on Cygwin in a software that runs fine on Linux and Solaris. Is there a known issue concerning SIGPOLL and named pipes. The setup code looks like this: Input = open(optarg,O_RDONLY); if (Input == -1) error("could not open input file %s: %s\n",optarg,strerror(errno