dlltool more error messages

2002-11-11 Thread Alfred Lam
Hello, here are some more debug code from dlltool error message after doing : $ ../croxx/pexports-0.42h/bin/pexports.exe scdll32.dll | sed 's/^_//' > scdll32.def $ dlltool -D scdll32.dll -d scdll32.def -v -l libscdll32.a dlltool: Processing def file: scdll32.def dlltool: LIBRARY: NETSAPI.dll ba

Notice of intention to release Perl module specific to Cygwin

2002-11-11 Thread Soren Andersen
[posted today to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (via Gmane) in order to try to get Cygwin's worthies in the loop]. Subject: Where it runs or what it Does?? (RFC) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:56:00 -0500 --- [[EMAIL PROT

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libtool-stable-1.4.3-1

2002-11-11 Thread Charles Wilson
The 'libtool-stable' package has been updated to 1.4.3-1 It contains libtool-1.4.3 installed into /usr/autotool/stable/*. Changes since 1.4.2-1: o updated to the 1.4.3 release From the official release announcement for libtool-1.4.3: "This is a patch release, the last one in the 1.4.x series, a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake-devel-1.7.1-1

2002-11-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Version 1.7.1-1 of the automake-devel package is now available. It contains GNU automake-1.7.1 installed into /usr/autotool/devel. Changes from 1.6.2-1: o updated to official 1.7.1 release o requires autoconf-2.54 or newer o no testsuite regressions (that is, any test that existed in 1.6.2 an

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf-devel-2.54-1

2002-11-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Version 2.54-1 of the autoconf-devel package is now available. It contains GNU autoconf-2.54, installed into /usr/autotool/devel. GNU autoconf-2.54 provides "several bug fixes, improved portability, no known incompatibility with 2.53, forthcoming Automake 1.7 requires 2.54." Changes since 2.53a-

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake-1.7.1-1

2002-11-11 Thread Charles Wilson
The automake package has been updated to version 1.7.1-1. Recall that this package is not the REAL automake. It's a set of wrapper scripts that call the REAL automake from automake-stable or automake-devel, depending on the needs of your target. See this message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf-2.54-1

2002-11-11 Thread Charles Wilson
The autoconf package has been updated to version 2.54-1. Recall that this package is not the REAL autoconf. It's a set of wrapper scripts that call the REAL autoconf from autoconf-stable or autoconf-devel, depending on the needs of your target. See this message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils-1.1.3-1

2002-11-11 Thread Charles Wilson
The cygutils package has been updated to version 1.1.3. Changes: o removed 'last' and 'utmpdump' implementations (these are now availabe from the sysvinit package) o mkshortcut now uses popt for option handling, instead of getopt o other non-user-visible changes WARNING: if you

dlltool errors

2002-11-11 Thread Alfred Lam
Hi, I'm trying to build a library from a dll and did the steps below: $ ../croxx/pexports-0.42h/bin/pexports.exe scdll32.dll | sed 's/^_//' > scdll32.def $ dlltool --input-def scdll32.def --dllname scdll32.dll --output-lib libscdll32.a and obtained the following errors: dh.s: Assembler message

Re: Printf routine incorrectly prints NaN for -Inf

2002-11-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:11:57PM -0500, Peter Kabal wrote: >gcc version 3.2 20020818 (prerelease) > >printf ("%g", log(0)); > >This prints "NaN" instead of "-Inf" as it should (and did in the past). >A check of the bit pattern returned shows that that log(0) returns a bit >pattern corresponding t

Offer 10 / 2002 - Latest Mustek, top features full size scanner for hand scanner price

2002-11-11 Thread Big Apple Computer
Dear Prospective buyer, Mustek 1200 UB Model high resolution colour scanner - USB port connectivity. No power adaptor needed. - One pass scanning. Use your computer as fax machine also. - 8.5" x 11.7" scanning area. A4 / legal size i.e., full page desktop flatbed scanner. - 600 x 1200 DPI opt

Printf routine incorrectly prints NaN for -Inf

2002-11-11 Thread Peter Kabal
gcc version 3.2 20020818 (prerelease) printf ("%g", log(0)); This prints "NaN" instead of "-Inf" as it should (and did in the past). A check of the bit pattern returned shows that that log(0) returns a bit pattern corresponding to "-Inf", but printf prints "NaN" instead. I am not sure which C li

Re: How to read TAR diskette on Windows98/Me

2002-11-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:31:58PM -0500, P. McBride wrote: >Now if someone could just plug this into the "/dev/fd0" handling code. Patches gratingly excepted. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: How to read TAR diskette on Windows98/Me

2002-11-11 Thread P. McBride
To partially answer my own question which is sort of hinted at in the documentation: On WindowsNT/2K/XP you can read a floppy using Windows API: CreateFile("\\.\\A:",...) and ReadFile(...) which I guess is close enough to map to the normal UNIX way of reading raw devices (/dev/fd0), but on Windows9

Cygwin Emacs-X uses 99% of cpu

2002-11-11 Thread J. Scott Edwards
I installed X windows, WindowMaker, and the cygwin X11 emacs a few days ago and it seemed to work fine at that time. But now when I try to run emacs from WindowMaker (or TWM) it starts sucking up all of the CPU (99%). If I run it in the background (via command line with & or RUN from the WindowMa

Re: problem with simple autoconf for fortran

2002-11-11 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Michael Lemke wrote: I have these three files (+ the stuff created by autoconf etc): x.F [...] $ cat configure.ac dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script. AC_INIT(x,1.0) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE dnl Checks for programs. AC_PROG_MAKE_SET AC_PROG_F77 [...] That went all fine.

Re: NetPBM & JPEG2000?

2002-11-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Bryan, Am Montag, 11. November 2002 um 19:21 schriebst du: >> what about netpbm support for jpeg2000? >> Is there already somethng included or >> is it planned? > Netpbm now (Release 9.12) contains Pamtojp2k and Jp2ktopam, which are based > on the Jasper library (which is included in th

problem with simple autoconf for fortran

2002-11-11 Thread Michael Lemke
I am just trying to learn autoconf and automake and found something where I don't know if I am doing something wrong. I am doing this on cygwin with W98 SE: $ uname -a CYGWIN_98-4.10 MICHA 1.3.13(0.62/3/2) 2002-10-13 23:15 i586 unknown I have these three files (+ the stuff created by autoconf e

Where it runs or what it Does?? (RFC)

2002-11-11 Thread Soren A
[posted today to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (via Gmane) in order to try to get Cygwin's worthies in the loop]. --- [[EMAIL PROTECTED] being asked:] Hi Good Folks, "namespace" advice requested. I have written an ex

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New agetty package available for download

2002-11-11 Thread Sergey Okhapkin
New cygwin agetty package available for download. Agetty is an alternative to System V/SunOS 4 getty. agetty opens a tty port, prompts for a login name and invokes the /bin/login command. It is normally invoked by init(8). The cygwin agetty port allows a user to logon into Windows NT box over

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New sysvinit package available for download

2002-11-11 Thread Sergey Okhapkin
New cygwin sysvinit package available for download. Init is the parent of all unix processes. Its primary role is to create processes from a script stored in the file /etc/inittab (see inittab(5)). This file usually has entries which cause init to spawn gettys on each line that users can log in.

Re: binutils 20021107-2

2002-11-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: But, I think it's overkill to define "system libs that should not be re-exported" as "anything in /usr/lib" or something similarly broad. Why? *anything* in /usr/lib is able to be linked to from multiple packages. If one package creates a dll from there, then we will ge

RE: Access Denied (XP Home SP1, cygwin-1.3.15

2002-11-11 Thread Harig, Mark A.
try: After creating temp.txt in Cygwin: $ ls -l temp.txt The permissions of this file will depend upon your setting of 'umask'. For me, this yields: $ umask 0022 So, my permissions are set to 'rw-r--r--'. Because you are creating a text file, execution permission should not be on

Access Denied (XP Home SP1, cygwin-1.3.15

2002-11-11 Thread Joel Rubin
I have the same problem with several Cygwin programs including wget and unzip. The "access denied" survives a reboot. So it seems that Cygwin is creating files with this problem. I have only one user with, of course, administrative rights. 11/08/2002 11:49 AM 1,080,807 cygwin-1.3.15-2.ta

Re: Is it possible to convert .a linux library into win32 .dll or lib ?

2002-11-11 Thread Samuel
- Original Message - From: "Eric Belhomme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Eric Belhomme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 8:25 AM Subject: Re: Is it possible to convert .a linux library into win32 .dll or lib ? > > So, c

Re: mkfifo doesn't work??

2002-11-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 07:08:17PM +0100, Marcos Lorenzo wrote: >mkfifo version 4.1 doesn't work? No. >Do I need to update fileutils to get this function implemented? No. >I'm really surprised, why is there an executable mkfifo if it's not >implemented? Meanness. cgf -- Please do not send me

Re: Problem with Win32/UNIX character set

2002-11-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:50:07PM +0100, Jan Middelkoop wrote: >And I did realize that I actually have to send my e-mail to the list, http://cygwin.com/bugs.html cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentati

Re: NetPBM & JPEG2000?

2002-11-11 Thread Bryan Henderson
> what about netpbm support for jpeg2000? > Is there already somethng included or > is it planned? Netpbm now (Release 9.12) contains Pamtojp2k and Jp2ktopam, which are based on the Jasper library (which is included in the Netpbm package). As we probably noted before, you can also use the 'jas

RE: Lesstif compilation problem and setup.exe

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Prive
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Manning [mailto:markem@;ev1.net] > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 12:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Lesstif compilation problem and setup.exe > > If you need a screen dump - let me know. I can either try to capture > the text itself (didn't

mkfifo doesn't work??

2002-11-11 Thread Marcos Lorenzo
[19:06:06] marcos@MOZART~ mkfifo --version mkfifo (fileutils) 4.1 Escrito por David MacKenzie. Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Esto es software libre; vea el código fuente para las condiciones de copia. No hay NINGUNA garantía; ni siquiera de COMERCIABILIDAD o IDONEIDAD PARA UN F

mkfifo doesn't work??

2002-11-11 Thread Marcos Lorenzo
[19:06:06] marcos@MOZART~ mkfifo --version mkfifo (fileutils) 4.1 Escrito por David MacKenzie. Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Esto es software libre; vea el código fuente para las condiciones de copia. No hay NINGUNA garantía; ni siquiera de COMERCIABILIDAD o IDONEIDAD PARA UN F

Re: Is it possible to convert .a linux library into win32 .dll or lib ?

2002-11-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Max Bowsher: >>> No, it's not ELF. It is a static library (i.e. more-or-less a static >>> .lib file) Larry Hall: >> See the FAQ entry: >> >> Can I mix objects compiled with msvc++ and gcc? >> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC117 >> >> Also, if your library pulls in the Cygwin runtime DLL, make

Lesstif compilation problem and setup.exe

2002-11-11 Thread Mark Manning
I decided to try compiling the latest version of Lesstif to get my feet wet doing compilations of packages. Download and untaring went well. Compilation seemed to go ok also until I'd gotten about 3/4 of the way through. Then Cygwin refused to continue compiling. I was in fvwm2 at the time.

Re: Problem with Win32/UNIX character set

2002-11-11 Thread Jan Middelkoop
No, I first got a UNIX charset (always). Now I 'export CYGWIN=codepage:oem' I get the right charset when I start the program from CygWin, but not when I compile it as a Win32 executable and run it. And I did realize that I actually have to send my e-mail to the list, but since I got no replies be

Re: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:57:22AM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > > Harig, Mark A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using option 1. My question comes from the fact > that Corinna Vinschen recommended that ~/.ssh be set to 700 > (which is what 'set-keygen' sets it to) and that she had > poi

RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-11 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > > >chmod 700 ~ && \ > > ^^^ > > This is your problem. By setting home and .ssh to 700 you > > disallow sshd to > > stat() ~/.ssh. Cygwin has two chances to retrieve > > information about a file > > or directory, by either call

Re: Is it possible to convert .a linux library into win32 .dll or lib ?

2002-11-11 Thread Eric Belhomme
> No, it's not ELF. It is a static library (i.e. more-or-less a static .lib > file) > > I know nothing about the package you are talking about, so I don't know how > easy it would be to make a DLL. > Thanks for your support :-) So, can I link this file with a native win32 software developped with

RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-11 Thread Harig, Mark A.
> > Harig, Mark A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK. So, it appears that Cygwin users > > of openssh have one of two options: > > > > 1. chmod 700 ~ > >chgrp 18 ~/.ssh > >chmod 750 ~/.ssh > > > > or > > > > 2. chmod 755 ~ > >chmod 700 ~/.ssh > > > > Do you have a recommendation on wh

Re: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Harig, Mark A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. So, it appears that Cygwin users > of openssh have one of two options: > > 1. chmod 700 ~ >chgrp 18 ~/.ssh >chmod 750 ~/.ssh > > or > > 2. chmod 755 ~ >chmod 700 ~/.ssh > > Do you have a recommendation on which of > these two options is m

RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-11 Thread Harig, Mark A.
> >chmod 700 ~ && \ > ^^^ > This is your problem. By setting home and .ssh to 700 you > disallow sshd to > stat() ~/.ssh. Cygwin has two chances to retrieve > information about a file > or directory, by either calling FindFileFirst() or by trying > to open the > file a

Add: Problem with Win32/UNIX character set (fwd)

2002-11-11 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
I'm forwarding this to the list as well. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '-

Re: Problem with Win32/UNIX character set

2002-11-11 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Jan Middelkoop wrote: > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Jan Middelkoop wrote: > > > > > Hello. > > > > > > I seem to be able to compile and run a problem fine, but when I run it, I > > > notice it uses a UNIX character set instead of the

Re: Is it possible to convert .a linux library into win32 .dll or lib ?

2002-11-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Eric Belhomme wrote: > Hi, > > I compiled a linux native library on cygwin. To do this I used the > -mwin32 flag, as Tim Prince explained to me. > > So now it compiles nice, but I obtain a "libprelude.a" file so I > wonder it is in ELF compatible format. The problem is I'd like to use > this librar

Is it possible to convert .a linux library into win32 .dll or lib ?

2002-11-11 Thread Eric Belhomme
Hi, I compiled a linux native library on cygwin. To do this I used the -mwin32 flag, as Tim Prince explained to me. So now it compiles nice, but I obtain a "libprelude.a" file so I wonder it is in ELF compatible format. The problem is I'd like to use this library with a native Win32 NT service

Re: how-to use _WIN32 preprocessor with cygwin ?

2002-11-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Eric Belhomme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The cygwin-specific gcc compile flag -mwin32 causes the _WIN32 macro >> to be defined. Certain cygwin applications predate that >> arrangement, so confusion is understandable. >> > Thanks for your answer :-) > So I wonder I have to modify the configure

Re: Problem with Win32/UNIX character set

2002-11-11 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
> Yes. Add "codepage:oem" to your CYGWIN environment variable. > P.S. David (Starks-Browning), should this be in the FAQ? > FWIW, I haven't found anything related to codepage:* in the User's Guide > page on the CYGWIN variable, either. Can someone explain the "codepage" settings so I can

Re: Problem in Cygwin

2002-11-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
RIAS schrieb: > Actually I need to install and configure Perl and > Interchange software tool. So I needed to install > Cygwin tool in windows machine as interchange tool > needs unix environment. [...] > What shall I do to rectify the problems? Fetch the setup/install/update tool: http://cygw

Re: how-to use _WIN32 preprocessor with cygwin ?

2002-11-11 Thread Tim Prince
On Monday 11 November 2002 02:33, Eric Belhomme wrote: > > The cygwin-specific gcc compile flag -mwin32 causes the _WIN32 macro to > > be defined. Certain cygwin applications predate that arrangement, so > > confusion > > > is understandable. > > Thanks for your answer :-) > So I wonder I have to

Problem in Cygwin

2002-11-11 Thread RIAS Solutions
Dear sir, Actually I need to install and configure Perl and Interchange software tool. So I needed to install Cygwin tool in windows machine as interchange tool needs unix environment. I downloaded cygwin tools from the following mirror site and installed it in my windows machine. http://www.csd

The gcc compile flag -mwin32 & _WIN32

2002-11-11 Thread Warren Dale
At 06:27 11/11/2002, Tim Prince wrote: The cygwin-specific gcc compile flag -mwin32 causes the _WIN32 macro to be defined. Certain cygwin applications predate that arrangement, so confusion is understandable. Where can I can find documentation on "-mwin32"? Warren. Warren Dale Email: [EMAIL PR

Re: receiving mail at winbox with cygwin

2002-11-11 Thread Mark Himsley
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:20:08 +0100 (CET) Marcos Lorenzo wrote: >can I receive mail at my Winbox with cygwin? I mean there must be a >service listening at some port to do this, but ssmtp doesn't seem to >achieve this... Install Exim, which is in the 'Mail' group in setup.exe. See also http://sourc

Re: receiving mail at winbox with cygwin

2002-11-11 Thread Olaf Foellinger
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:20:08AM +0100, Marcos Lorenzo wrote: > can I receive mail at my Winbox with cygwin? Yes there are several ways, mutt knows pop and imap, there are fetchmail and procmail, what exactly do you want to do ? It's not necessary to have a daemon running for receiving mail. >

Re: question: how do I find information about functions (params, return values,etc)

2002-11-11 Thread Viviana Cotirlea
OK, this is how I worked until now, meaning using google. But at one point I thought that in cygwin somewhere there is this information and I'm just not able to find it. It seems that there is not, so I wil continue using google for this. Thanks a lot, viv From: "Elfyn McBratney" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000)

2002-11-11 Thread Viviana Cotirlea
Thanks for your answer. Yes, I'm aware about licensing issues, but thanks for pointing it out. From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000) Date: F

Re: Strip Cygwin

2002-11-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:21:54AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Is it allowed that we strip the Cygwin installation and distribute only the files >(make environment related) that are needed to compile our sources? Yes and no. Yes, you can take just the binary stuff you need. No,

Re: how-to use _WIN32 preprocessor with cygwin ?

2002-11-11 Thread Eric Belhomme
> The cygwin-specific gcc compile flag -mwin32 causes the _WIN32 macro to be > defined. Certain cygwin applications predate that arrangement, so confusion > is understandable. > Thanks for your answer :-) So I wonder I have to modify the configure script to add -mwin32 flag on gcc option if I det

Strip Cygwin

2002-11-11 Thread ralf . truijen
Hi, Is it allowed that we strip the Cygwin installation and distribute only the files (make environment related) that are needed to compile our sources? Kind regards, Ralf Truijen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com

receiving mail at winbox with cygwin

2002-11-11 Thread Marcos Lorenzo
can I receive mail at my Winbox with cygwin? I mean there must be a service listening at some port to do this, but ssmtp doesn't seem to achieve this... thx, m4c __ Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago (Labs Technician) Departament of Telematic Engin