Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Cliff Hones
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bottom line is that if we have to tell someone to use wget or rsync > just to do a normal install, something is wrong. > > It seems like this problem would be trivially fixed by not attempting to > redownload something that has already been down

Re: Cron & ssmtp timeouts

2002-04-28 Thread Gerrit Cap
>Gerrit, > >On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:03:56PM +0200, Gerrit Cap wrote: > > I have a few batch jobs that I would like to schedule using cron and have > > the output e-mailed. For small jobs this works fine but for jobs that run > > for a period of time no e-mail is being sent. Instead after snoop

RE: Problems starting apache, DLL base address conflicts?

2002-04-28 Thread S . L .
> Based upon Jason's pointers, I used the following command to rebase the > apache dll's, and now it seems to work, > [...] So this must lead to conclusion that the method of using of the "third party" ld.exe (the one with auto-import that Stipe recommends -- and actually works OTF -- in cygwin

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 04:04:36PM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote: >On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:30:00 -0400 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 06:07:12PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > >>If you're on the other end of a slow connection and are apt to be >>disconnect

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Alec Mihailovs wrote: > I have a perfect installation program for MiKTeX made > by Christian Schenk, see http://www.miktex.org/ > > You people seem to be not able to make anything even close to it. > Why don't you just copy it and use for cygwin instead of inventing > a wheel yourself? I'

RE: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Alec Mihailovs
I have a perfect installation program for MiKTeX made by Christian Schenk, see http://www.miktex.org/ You people seem to be not able to make anything even close to it. Why don't you just copy it and use for cygwin instead of inventing a wheel yourself? Best wishes, Alec Mihailovs http://w

Re: Minor Problems with the New Win32 Binary

2002-04-28 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:04:41 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) Michael A Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pease ignore. I hit the wrong address. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Gi

Minor Problems with the New Win32 Binary

2002-04-28 Thread Michael A Chase
I just copied the new Win32 binary into my system and started using it. 1. (not problem) The activity log is definitely getting written to file now. Thanks. That allows me to close the window and still have the log available if there are problems. 2. Changing the Message List view column wid

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:30:00 -0400 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 06:07:12PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > If you're on the other end of a slow connection and are apt to be > disconnected every couple of hours, you will *never* be able to do a > complete

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Sam Edge
Christopher Faylor wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin on Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:30:00 -0400: > If you're on the other end of a slow connection and are apt to be > disconnected every couple of hours, you will *never* be able to do a > complete install since the setup.exe will start from

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Sam Edge
Charles Wilson wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin on Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:07:12 -0400: > > Robert, you are a saint. > I am sick and tired of the whining about setup and downloads. > SETUP IS NOT A MIRRORING TOOL. LOL. No need to get your knickers in a twist! I was merely explaining

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 06:07:12PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > >Robert, you are a saint. > >I am sick and tired of the whining about setup and downloads. > >SETUP IS NOT A MIRRORING TOOL. > >In order to make this clear, I am in favor of completely removing the >download-only option, leaving ju

Re: Odd question

2002-04-28 Thread Daniel Adams
I have an FTP server setup using the Cygwin stuff. I am also behind a DSL style firewall, but all works fine. When at work I tried to get into my computer using FTP and it worked ok. I was rather puzzled when I couldn't navigate out of my home directory(It is a Win2k machine) and into any director

Re: building iconv/libcharset fails

2002-04-28 Thread Charles Wilson
I've ported it -- but I will not submit it for official inclusion in the cygwin distro. If you want to take my work, and assume the official maintainership, and submit it for official inclusion, that is ABSOLUTELY FINE with me. (Also, once the official libtool-1.5 comes out, then the libicon

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert, you are a saint. I am sick and tired of the whining about setup and downloads. SETUP IS NOT A MIRRORING TOOL. In order to make this clear, I am in favor of completely removing the download-only option, leaving just install-from-internet and install-from-localdir. This will force the

Re: Does CVS work?

2002-04-28 Thread Frank Schmitt
Michael Labhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >My cygwin installation generally works great. But CVS does not work on it. >It has problems finding the directories it needs. Before I launch another >mission to try to resolve this I would just like to confirm that others have >been able to get

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Sam Edge
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin on Sun, 28 Apr 2002 14:12:36 -0500: > What am I missing in all these posts? Didn't somebody post a while ago that if > you set your "Local Package Directory" to a network share and do "Install From > Internet", you get all the fu

RE: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> > -Original Message- > > From: Sam Edge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 8:17 PM > > > Every version of setup.exe I've used exhibits this annoying > > behaviour but them I'm new here. > > > > I agree with Daniele. I install different subsets of the > > packages

building iconv/libcharset fails

2002-04-28 Thread Paul Miller
I've been trying to get a gtk/gtkmm setup going, and all was well until I ran into this "little" libiconv dependency to glib. The build of the libcharset library is failing, with this error: gcc -O -Wl,--base-file,.libs/cygcharset-1.dll-base -Wl,-e,__cygwin_dll_entry@12 -o .libs/cygcharset-1.d

1.3.10: Installation Difficulties

2002-04-28 Thread Brant Langer Gurganus
Where Setup should give an option for which components to download, it freezes. It makes it through basic configuration and downloading and choosing a mirror, but then after setup.ini is downloaded from the mirror, the program freezes. Previous versions did not do this. Any help would be ap

RE: How do I get an up to date dejagnu (1.4.2 or cvs) on cygwin?

2002-04-28 Thread Christian Jönsson
Well, I don't *know* if I did the right thing, but I did as David has done, I configured dejagnu (from cvs sources) using --prefix=/usr and installed that... Seems to work. Cheers, /ChJ -Original Message- From: Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 12:29 PM To: cygwin Subject: How do I get an u

Re: trouble installing camp

2002-04-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Wrong List!!! I've redirected to the correct list. Earnie. Olivier Delrieu wrote: > > Dear all, > > I've got trouble installing camp. I'm running windowsXP and > cygwin 1.3.10 > apache_1.3.20-camp-i686-whatever-cygwin.tar.gz > > There is a warning about php4 (see log below). And the server d

RE: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Robert Collins
Kurt, you've jumped in half way through a discussion. I've addressed every point you made, as have other people, in various emails in this list over the last few months. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.h

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 09:47:14PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Sam Edge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 9:32 PM > > > > So use a mirroring tool! Setup.exe is -not- designed for this. > > > > Surely if setup.exe isn't designed

trouble installing camp

2002-04-28 Thread Olivier Delrieu
dear all, I've got trouble installing camp. I'm running windowsXP and cygwin 1.3.10 apache_1.3.20-camp-i686-whatever-cygwin.tar.gz There is a warning about php4 (see log below). And the server does not answer (lynx http://localhost is stalled). This appends even if I disable php4 in httpd.conf.

RE: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Sam Edge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 9:32 PM > > So use a mirroring tool! Setup.exe is -not- designed for this. > > Surely if setup.exe isn't designed with at least a nod to > this way of working why does it have "download fr

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Sam Edge
Robert Collins wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin on Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:22:30 +1000: > > I agree with Daniele. I install different subsets of the > > packages on several machines. I also like to keep a copy of > > the most up-to-date versions of packages that I don't > > currentl

How do I get an up to date dejagnu (1.4.2 or cvs) on cygwin?

2002-04-28 Thread Christian Jönsson
I am trying to run the test suite of gcc under windows xp/cygwin. Gcc needs dejagnu that is of version newer than what cygwin has as a regular package. I thus would like to build a newer version myself. I tried the dejagnu-1.4.2.tar.gz sources, on configure and make, only this was done: chj@D

RE: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Sam Edge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 8:17 PM > Every version of setup.exe I've used exhibits this annoying > behaviour but them I'm new here. > > I agree with Daniele. I install different subsets of the > packages on several

Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

2002-04-28 Thread Sam Edge
Daniele wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin on Sun, 28 Apr 2002 00:44:25 +0200 (MDT): > After dutifully reading the mailing list discussion on the subject, > I would like to point out that this behavior - redownloading uninstalled > packages - was absent > in previous versions of set