Re: 6th summary (was Re: [HEADSUP] ALL Maintainers, please reply.)

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:43 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > NOTE: This is one mail before the last on this matter. > LIST 1: PACKAGES WITH UNCLEAR OWNERSHIP > === > > dpkg Robert Collins or up for g

Re: 6th summary (was Re: [HEADSUP] ALL Maintainers, please reply.)

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:43 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > NOTE: This is one mail before the last on this matter. > LIST 1: PACKAGES WITH UNCLEAR OWNERSHIP > === > > dpkg Robert Collins or up for g

Re: see you all... its been a privilege

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 12:47, Larry Hall wrote: > > > Rob, > > I'm sorry to hear that you don't plan to be around these parts in the future. > I certainly appreciated your efforts and your input over the years, as I'm > sure others did too. Good luck with your new job! :-) > Thanks... Its n

Re: Custom installer

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 05:51, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > Does anyone have an experience with implementing a custom installer for > some cygwin package? (I'd like to have a one-click installer for the > lilypond package). Or can setup.exe be switched to a mode that doesn't > need user interaction? T

see you all... its been a privilege

Recently (within the last month), I've found myself only using windows for ~ 1/20th of my computing activities, and then only using cygwin as a user, not developing anything. So, its with some sadness I bid the cygwin community adieu, at least for now. I've enjoyed being part of this community,

Re: download of setup.bz2 does not start

On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 19:29, Johannes Lebek wrote: > Hi there, > > I just wanted to update my Cygwin installation. No matter which server I > choose, the download of "setup.bz2" does not start. > My screen looks like this: Thats strange. have you tried IE5 for the connection type ? Rob -- GPG

Re: Options for Source Code Control: RCS v. SCCS v. CVS

On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 03:09, Richard Heintze wrote: > I need some help understanding how RCS works. I typed > "info RCS" and felt confused. Not surprisingly. RCS doesn't model what any modern revision control system does. > Is RCS like CVS in the sense that one runs a un*x > deamon or windows ser

RE: cygwin installer

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 05:20, John Morrison wrote: > > From: Hemal Pandya > > > > Great information. I vote this be added to install doc. > > I wouldn't - folks appear to have enough difficulties as it is without > adding ways 'around' setup.exe (I know, for the power/advanced user it > is a tech

Re: cygwin installer

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 23:55, Jonah Bossewitch wrote: > Hi, > > I was hoping that someone might be able to point me in the direction of > some documentation for creating a standalone windows installer for a > cygwin based application. > > What I mean by this, is a one-click installer that ships

Re: Latest setup causes crash on winxp pro

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 22:17, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 15:36, Christopher Faylor wrote: > ...pedant mode on... > > > The requirement of not sending plain text email has nothing to do with > > "qmail". It's just a site policy. > > &q

Re: Latest setup causes crash on winxp pro

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 15:36, Christopher Faylor wrote: ...pedant mode on... > The requirement of not sending plain text email has nothing to do with > "qmail". It's just a site policy. "not sending" ? Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Descrip

Re: Latest setup causes crash on winxp pro

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 14:42, Michael D. Stemle, Jr. wrote: > I downloaded the latest setup.exe from the cygwin.com and it crashed > when I ran it. Windows stuff says AppName: setup.exe offset: 000df270. > Attached is a copy of the executable and a copy of the appcompat.txt > file both in a tarball

Re: Missing dll's during setup: cygiconv-2, cygpopt

On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 02:53, Richard Lawrence wrote: > Hi, ... > I've come to the conclusion that either I'm doing something very wrong > (which, if that is the case, it's not clear on what I should be doing) or > that setup.exe is broken when you try to install cygwin in this method. > From an

Re: How to force Setup.exe to behave?

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 09:20, Lex Ein wrote: > Nine days ago, this was "Using Setup.exe to uninstall -bogus". > Setup is only bringing in X because something you have installed requires it. It's possible that there is a circular dependency loop within the X programs themselves, and if so you may

Re: Setup 2.427 crashes on doing an MD5 sum on some packages..

On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 02:38, Michael F. March wrote: > Oops.. I just notices someone *just* reported this bug > a few days ago.. > > However, I could add that setup.exe does crash on other packages > other than xorg too. > > > Here is the error: > > > > http://cowmix.com/Cygwin/error.gif > >

Re: setup.exe and source-only packages

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 02:52, Bart van der Werf (Bluelive) wrote: > Setup reports all source-only packages as not installed when I run setup > when I did install them the the last time I ran setup.exe, version numbers > havent changed. This is by design, from a long time ago. it fits in with the be

Re: setup complains even if I've dowloaded everything

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 19:35, Carlo Florendo wrote: > Hello, > > I finished mirroring the entire cygwin distribution from > www.carfield.com.hk which totalled almost a whopping 2GB. I put the > entire distro in our local http server so that anyone could install it > from there. I fired setup.e

[ANNOUNCEMENT] new setup.exe released

--=-8TWRmjubKsXaYwWmfrs7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A new setup.exe has been released. Download it from the usual place (http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe) This is a combination bugfix and feature update. The key elements of interest are a fix for the 'lib

Re: i want to re-download all packages... how?

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 01:43, electa wrote: > it selects only my installed packs, but not the other. i want all for my > cygwin-CD! Run setup twice in download only mode. In the first run, toggle the word default to the right of all to 'reinstall'. In the second run, choose 'download' in the same

Re: Cygwin setup errors

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 02:53, Jim Johansen wrote: > I am trying to install cygwin and kde-cygwin on a work machine. When I start > cygwin I get the following errors. It tries to set up files on a non existant > network drive. I am not sure what to change where is start up scripts. Maybe > it is

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 22:11, Rodrigo Medina wrote: > Hi all, > > Rodrigo Medina (myself) wrote: > >2- When you are downloading into a temporal directory, SETUP > >downloads the packages even if they are already in the temporal > >directory but are still not installed. > > I have to be more precis

Re: Cygwin setup window size, why no maximize button enabled ?

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 01:44, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/ > > Hallelujah, a resizable setup program. What a relief. > > Now if only it would recognize my mouse wheel... It depends on windows to send the appropriate messages. What OS and what mouse are you using?

RE: Cygwin setup window size, why no maximize button enabled ?

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 13:40, utomo wrote: > Hi, > > I just try the snapshot and it is nice. > I have some comments: > 1. Maybe we need to make initial size little bit bigger, I believe > mostly people need to resize it, so if we make it little bit bigger, > user will find it easier/less resize i

RE: Cygwin setup window size, why no maximize button enabled ?

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 15:55, utomo wrote: > And also better if the setup can download simultaneusly, or preparing > for the next file. > Now if we look at the download process, the connecting time (for each > file) is consuming time. If the download process can reduce this, I > believe the downloa

Re: cygwin install failing at download/progress stage

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 04:27, Ben wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to reinstall cygwin after an upgrade to XP. Did you reinstall windows, or do an in-place upgrade? If it was in-place, your cygwin install should have just kept working... If its not working, or if you deleted it, you'll need to repair

Re: Reformatting C/C++/Java code (RE: proposed sync() patch)

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 04:29, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > Assuming you do not use strange formatting/style - the > output of indent will be perfectly acceptable, I presume. indent breaks nastily on C++. - it appears to work, but actually gets a number of things wrong. Just FYI. Rob -- GPG key

Re: popups upon library errors.

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 10:56, Edward S. Peschko wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:12:05AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > yes, I realize that it is a problem with my environment - what I'm suggesting > is that no popups be created in response to the problem. That a text error is > generated. T

Re: How can I list all the software that have been insatlled to cygwin?

On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 01:12, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Since we're throwing wild ideas into the air, how about this one: once > libsetup is available (the extract of setup's essential functionality > minus the GUI), one could come up with a "register-program-with-setup" > command-line utility that

Re: Setup broke on my install base

On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 11:20, John Sellers wrote: > A while back, setup stopped working when downloading, although I could > still install, and uninstall locally. What is the best route to fixing > this without modifying a substantual installed base? > > How can I fix this? delete /etc/setup/l

Re: ChooserPage question

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 01:22, Mile Davidovic wrote: > Hi everubody > > > Is it possible that user can make decision which package will be > installed before ChooserPage show? What do you mean? Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: Thi

Re: Broken package selection for a full install

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 16:35, Daniel F. Dickinson wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > > Daniel, > > > > If you're willing to temporarily rename the existing installation root > > (and the registry keys) and reinstall from scratch, please post the > > /var/log/setup.log and /var/log/setup.

RE: Cywin Setup application not able to maximise

On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 11:16, Greg McCrory wrote: > Actually, a search of the archives will prove futile, as the standard > response is, "if you want a better setup, code it yourself." Since most of > the people asking this question are a bit green in their programming > skills, and in fact may

Re: Suggestion: Make the setup dialog resizable

On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 14:06, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:46:06AM -0600, Chuck Irvine wrote: > > I always find myself scrolling back and forth trying to see everything > > in the setup dialog. It would be very useful if this dialog were made > > resizable. > > I've been using

Re: setup "base": strange behaviour of libbz2-1 and libpcre

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 19:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, I know this has been asked a while ago but I can't find the Q and I'm > pretty certain there wasn't an A. In my TODO to review. slated for early march (I'm in a huge transition point at the moment). Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: 2004-Feb-17 snapshot change ssh option parsing behavior

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 08:39, David Rothenberger wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 17 12:58, David Rothenberger wrote: > > We're using the latest plain BSD getopt() now. It's permuting the > > options by default. This was switched off by default in Cygwin so far. > > > > Typically you s

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > AFAIK, setup has always behaved this way. It first uninstalls the old > versions of all packages being upgraded (that's how the old pdksh.exe got > unlinked), and then installs the new versions (creating new files, > essentially). It never

Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote: > >One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partition) > >involves upgrades. I changed the symlink for ksh.exe -> pdksh.exe to a hard > >link. When an new v

Re: cyclical dependencies in setup.ini?

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 16:04, Christopher Faylor wrote: > (And here is where Robert steps in to say that build-depends is actually > recognized by setup.exe's parser...) But is currently useless because their is no UI to say 'install the build dependencies'. But you knew that I expect ;). Rob --

Re: patch for additional args to setup.exe

On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 11:09, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Robert Collins wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 01:30, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > Umm, Rob, CVS already contains '-h' for help, and the options *are* > > > case-sens

Re: patch for additional args to setup.exe

On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 01:30, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Umm, Rob, CVS already contains '-h' for help, and the options *are* > case-sensitive... I know. From a UI perspective though, I don't want to user -H ok? Rob -- GPG key available at: . signatur

Re: patch for additional args to setup.exe

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 16:55, Edward S. Peschko wrote: > hey all, > > below is a relatively small patch to setup.exe that adds the following > command line options: > > -E: use IE connection settings for downloading > -H: give a proxy name to use ... -H is reserved for help. > -P: give a

Re: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:25, Robert R Schneck wrote: > In fact you are correct. setup.log.full contains: > 2004/02/03 22:59:17 Uninstalling man > ... > rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache/man > rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache > rmdir C:\cygwin/var > Indeed, calling rmdir on a junction point will remove it, I su

Re: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:37, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote: > For reasons which are now obscure to me, I had set up an NTFS junction > point from /var (c:\cygwin\var) to some other partition. Could have > done it with mount, but I didn't. > > Just today after running setup.exe and getting cygw

Re: Modular setup?

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 03:11, Alan Dobkin wrote: > If you're referring to Chris's cygupdate (formerly up2date) script, I'm not. Look in the setup sources. Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Modular setup?

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:09, Chris Jefferson wrote: > Hello. > > I suspect that this is a FAQ, but I haven't found it, so I'll ask it! > > Unlike linux / *BSD / etc distributions, it doesn't seem easy to > automate the cygwin install utility. I don't seem able to get a list of > installed packa

Re: Setup: Can Using URL for package installs be turn off?

unlikely > to change in the future, and the only thing you can affect is the naming > scheme for those directories. Robert Collins (the primary setup > maintainer) will hopefully correct me if I'm wrong. It won't change, and neither will the naming scheme, unless it preserves

Re: Running setup twice on a new install

On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 04:34, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > I did a new cygwin install last week and I again saw the following behavior: > I ran setup twice (one > right after the other). In the first run everything seemed fine. On the > second run, setup told me I > needed > > libbz2_1: Shared

Re: setup change this year?

On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 15:47, Brian Dessent wrote: > Sam Steingold wrote: > > > > > * Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-29 20:32:28 -0500]: > > > > > > > > > > > > You can pull down 2.418 (really just adds resizable controls) > > > > resizable controls is

Re: setup crashes

On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 11:20, james pentland wrote: > i want to compile setup 2.415-1 so i can debug it, > since it crashes nearly every time i use it. > make wants a file RECTWrapper.h, which is missing from > the distribution. > where should i find it? You can download it from the setup-snapshot

Re: setup change this year?

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 10:38, Rutten, Mark wrote: > Is there something different about the way that "setup" runs since Christmas? No. No releases for quite a while actually. Larrys suggestion is probably your best bet to id the problem. Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: Different package selection between Internet install , and download from internet

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 14:30, Tony C wrote: > I'm having the same problem as Stephen Chan (msg below) > I've tried this from 2 different mirrors. > > > Why is the package selection different between these 2 options ? It shouldn't be - and isn't for me. Make sure you're using the right view. Rob

Re: adding to and upgrading a cygwin installation...

On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 04:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone point me to any good information about "adding to" and > upgrading a cygwin installation ? > > The reason I ask is, whenever I try and use setup.exe it goes through > the entire setup process from scratch. Thats wrong. Can you su

RE: Third-party products that include Cygwin

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 08:53, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > An > > alternative is a nice automated way in their installer to invoke the > > Cygwin installer. > > Heh... that would IMO require setup.exe to be able to do batch runs. Not > possible, unless changes has been done very recently. It

Re: Problems with setup handling of gcc-core & gcc-testsuite

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:22, Brian Ford wrote: > I think he and I just want clicking on all->install to not continually > download those two packages. I didn't ever hand select them to begin > with. I just get them continually for "free". Ah, well thats deliberate behaviour. Hmm, I'll think abou

Re: Problems with setup handling of gcc-core & gcc-testsuite

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:10, David A. Cobb wrote: > > > Well, I read that. It doesn't sound like the same thing. > > The first time I saw it, I explicitly selected "Install" the gcc-core. > However, it keeps showing up as something to be installed. > It still shows with the "new or omitted" pa

Re: Accident: deleted installed.db

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 04:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I really really don't want to have to start again ... > Thanks. Fergus Restore it from a backup. Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 21:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > However, CYG_MAX_PATH is simply decoupling the win32 ANSI path limit > > from our internal path limit. If and when we don't have an effective > > internal limit anymore, sure it can go. > > Yup, that's what I meant. It doesn't hurt to check

Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:58:36AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > > > > > I would prefer to change PATH_MAX and MAXPATHLEN to an arbitrary big > > > value as, e. g. the same as on Linux, 4096, or even the bigg

Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 21:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:10:08AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > > We have two choices (no particular order of preference): > > a) make MAX_PATH and posix friends the maximum length path cygwin will > > accept/return. R

Re: installer chokes on unix line endings

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 06:54, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 06:33:37AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >That said, it's probably easy enough to tweak the parser, and I'll > >review a patch happily. > > I'm confused. As I mentioned,

Re: installer chokes on unix line endings

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:52, Neal Becker wrote: > Ironic, isn't it? If you download setup.ini with unix line endings, the > installer fails to parse it. I'm guessing this can't be too hard to fix. Fix what? Setup is responsible for doing it's own downloads. If you use an external tool - presumab

Re: setup.exe alternative?

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 07:48, Len Bright wrote: > Hi, > Is there an alternative to the setup.exe network installation such as a > standalone program to install the cygwin core program(s)? setup.exe is a standalone program. Whats your issue? Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: trying again - cpan/gcc cannot compile perl module after cygwin 1.5*

On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Of course I'm aware that cygwin is now *64* bit compiled, and that I'm > looking to compile a *32* bit module. So I guess my first question, is > there backward compatibilty? And, if there is, how can I invoke it for > successful compilation?

Re: Squid Patch for Cygwin 1.5

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:06, Christian Weinberger wrote: > After some investigation I found an interim solution to get the current > cygwin squid version (2.4-STABLE7) working with the new 1.5 DLL series. > This has been tested and works for me with 1.5.5, but should work with > all 1.5 versions

Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 06:09, Brian Ford wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > Btw, I've moved this discussion here from cygwin-patches because we are > > talking about a change which could impact a number of people. Robert is > > submitting patches which increase the maxim

Re: Installer question

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:44, Anon Mouse wrote: > Hello, > > Couple of comments on the installer: > > - Does it have to be non-resizable? It's REALLY a > pain to keep scrolling left-right-left-right in a > 3-inch window There's a snapshot that addresses that. > - Why isn't there an option

Re: cc1plus.exe not included in GCC 3.3.1-3?

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 09:26, Brian Ford wrote: > > Setup will do per-version dependencies, but it does so *for the target > > version*. > > > I didn't think version specific dependencies would be needed here. I'm > obviously not well versed in setup, but I thought that replacing the old > monolith

Re: cc1plus.exe not included in GCC 3.3.1-3?

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 08:21, Brian Ford wrote: > However, if you already had the old monolithic gcc package when updating > to the new separate front end packages, then it is a setup/gcc dependency > bug and you should have gotten gcc-g++. What did you put in the setup.hint that makes you think se

Re: setup cannot proceed to do the installation...

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 12:03, Jason Fu wrote: > Sorry. > > I use normal user to download and then the admin a/c to install such that all > CYGWIN instaled packages belong to admin. Recently, after downloading by the > normal user a/c, I cannot simply invoke the admin a/c to finish the > installa

Re: setup cannot proceed to do the installation...

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:28, Jason Fu wrote: > Dear gurus, > > I normally separate the normal user a/c and the admin a/c in my Server 2k3. I > use the normal user a/c doing the downloading of various CYGWIN packages and > then I use the admin a/c (here the admin is called root like UNIX) to do t

Re: cygwin patches integrating back into standard gnu

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 14:28, cwilson wrote: > > It'd probably be wise to integrate this with setup.exe so you would > > have the option to install packages in a non-standard place. > > Oh god no. "Click here to automatically fsck-up all the binaries I just > installed" THAT's a GREAT idea!

Re: gcc 3.3.1-3, loading .la files from gcj-compiled apps

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 12:33, Charles Wilson wrote: > the > cygwin-provided, fork()-friendly dlopen stuff). Just for clarity, the fork() support in dlopen is really just tracking base addresses and order of opening.(from slightly rusty memory). -- GPG key available at:

Re: gcc 3.3.1-3, loading .la files from gcj-compiled apps

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 12:11, Charles Wilson wrote: > GVV went one better, and re-activated the LoadLibrary stuff, with cygwin > compatibility code, as a FALLBACK option if-and-only-if dlopen on cygwin > fails. THAT is what got committed to libtool CVS HEAD, and it's Gary's > contribution, not m

Re: gcc 3.3.1-3, loading .la files from gcj-compiled apps

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 07:31, Tom Tromey wrote: > > "Marcus" == Marcus G Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marcus> Would it be possible to add a -D_WIN32 to the libjava/libltdl > Marcus> Makefile for Cygwin? Just caught up with this. -DWIN32 is usually wrong for cygwin. Cygwin programs s

Re: Setup snapshot location?

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 15:22, Brian Dessent wrote: > http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/ > > I agree that this fact has not exactly been well publicised, I don't > know if there's a reason for that or not. Yes, because I want to advise folk when a snapshot should be tested. The setup home page

Re: Setup snapshot location?

www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html (linked from the packagers page on cygwin.com) Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: PATCH: Save/load proxy settings in setup.exe

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 22:55, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > One of the items on the TODO list for setup.exe is to save and load > proxy settings so the user doesn't have to keep entering them. > > Below is a small patch to ConnectionSetting.cc to do just that: Please supply: - the patch as an attachmen

Re: Serious problem with win32 pthreads crashing and c++ class

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 18:09, Arash Partow wrote: > The prototype initially creates 700 threads all of which are contained in a > vector (threadList), each thread does some "simple" string processing > (basically tokenize a string) and then exists. On completion of the thread, > the thread sets its

RE: Errors when trying to access /dev/null

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:49, Sandy Pyke wrote: > > I meant a C:\Cygwin\dev directory. Such directory doesn't > > exist, right? > > That's right. I've checked the entire HD and there is no dev to be found > from explorer. :) > > > There's no error in it. Did you try `ls -l /dev/null'? > > See

RE: dpkg --info crashes / dpkg-deb --info hangs

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 10:10, David Byron wrote: > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003, David Byron wrote: > > > $ strace dpkg-deb --info dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb >dpkg-deb.info.strace > > > > also hangs. I'll send the strace file in another post so the > > mailing list software will take it. There appears to be so

Re: merging mingw and cygwin

For crying out loud. Edward, there are plenty of archives and resources that detail how to achieve your stated goals. Right now you are making suggestions from a quite apparent position of ignorance. I urge you to research before you suggest fixing something that isn't broken. All the cygwin pack

Re: problems with current squid

On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 18:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On > How big is squid trying to set RLIMIT_NOFILE? However big it suceeded when I built it. Squid saves the successful upper limit, and then uses that. > I tried with a test > application and it failed to set the limit to more than 3200 ent

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 02:57, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > FWIW, so do I. > Igor Ditto. Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 11:16, Perry Pupp wrote: > Now it configures & builds perfectly for me, out of > the box pulled anew from cvs, with no switches or > options to configure or make. You *need* to follow the switches on http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html to get a full build. What y

Re: Setup program hanging

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:53, will ryder wrote: > I see that other people have had problems with installing cygwin due to > the setup program hanging. > > Is there a solution to this yet ? Or is it possible to get an older > version of the setup program What version are you running? Where does i

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 18:07, Max Bowsher wrote: > Ah. Looks like we have found the problem. bootstrap.sh isn't executable in > the repository. Also, a number of header files *are* executable. > > Robert, I'll do some chmodding, shall I? Please. Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: Setup disabling of nonexistent virus scanners

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 11:32, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Hmmm, yeah, I'll look at this. I wonder why I don't get this and (I assume) > others don't Incorrect const clause on wantsActivation in the base class lead to inconsistent method signatures. I fixed this this morning, but have been rus

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 05:17, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > Hannu said: > > > > Are you implying that setup isn't that well coded? ;-) > > > I have yet to look at the code. > > > > Robert Collins said: > > Please do, before you redesig

Re: Cygwin Setup application dialog size

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 02:15, Anand Kumria wrote: > I assume the size is specified, and enforced, somewhere? :}. You can easily build your own with a larger dialog. For now though, there is a patch going through rather hideous merging pains, which gives us a resizable chooser. Rob -- GPG key ava

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 14:19, Alan Miles wrote: > All, > > I concur - I have a couple of private packages that I build, and then use a > local copy of upset to create the setup.ini file. My packages are ** NOT ** > XFree86 related, and I have the same type of $(cygpath -S) call in my > postinstall

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

> Are you implying that setup isn't that well coded? ;-) > I have yet to look at the code. Please do, before you redesign from scratch. Setup is not factored out into a solid MVC or equivalent framework today, and we are slowly working towards that. Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: munmap bug test program

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 20:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:56:08PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > Thanks for clarifying. It was the first time I got a testcase for > > > som

Re: munmap bug test program

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Thanks for clarifying. It was the first time I got a testcase for > something which works instead of for something which is broken. That > irritated me a bit :-) I'd suggested to Peter offline that he send in a test case, to be added to our

Re: Setup cant open package database error?

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 02:53, Tim Gunter wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:20:25PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Well, you could right-click on the directory in Explorer and select > > Properties -> Security -> Advanced... I'm really not familiar with FAT32 > > filesystems - I think neither

new release of setup.exe.

I've updated setup.exe to the current snapshot... The critical fix here is the terrible performance problem on new installs. Thanks as usual to the net contributors. Enjoy. Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: Deep directory support

Quoting the full message as it was originally posted to a different list. On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 02:23, Parker, Ron wrote: > Please read beyond the next paragraph before hitting delete. Odd file names > are not the issue here, so bare with my for a minute. I'll get to the point > shortly. > > On

Re: Debugging cygwin1.dll startup

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 03:40, Parker, Ron wrote: > I have made some local changes to the source for cygwin1.dll and would like > to debug it, as the first Cygwin process, bash, begins. I know about using > a gdb-startup.cmd setup for JIT debugging applications, but this does not > seem to work for

RE: SUGGESTION wrt preremove / postinstall / preinstall (RE: [FAQ]Packages reported as "Incomplete" by "cygcheck -c")

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 18:55, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > I'm sure this is the way to go... I'm not that intimate with the details of > how setup works. I am ;). > My idea was based on a wish to "clean up" - for the moment. > I didn't expect it to become a "long time solution"

Re: SUGGESTION wrt preremove / postinstall / preinstall (RE: [FAQ] Packages reported as "Incomplete" by "cygcheck -c")

In general, setup needs to be taught about classes of files: configuration files vs image files vs data and script files. Once that general concept is in place, we can: * support rpm and dpkg formats more effectively * add classes for things like apache * be smarter about rebasing etc etc etc

Re: setup v2.340.2.5: inconsistent error reporting

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 23:05, Patrick Eisenacher wrote: > Trying to update my packages and not having enough space on my harddisk > got me confused yesterday. > > Downloading from a mirror via http resulted in "download incomplete. try > again?", whereas downloading from another mirror via ftp fi

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