RE: [Setup PATCH] Add Clippy to cygwin Setup (Was: Re: Clippy Sightings in cygwinland?)

2003-02-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> > > > You know, if you glued some fur on that you might be able to > convince me it's > > an otter. > > cgf > > I'll take you up on that. It's an otter. Convinced? ;-) > Igor BHAHAH AAHAHHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAA

missing cygprce.dll

2003-02-03 Thread bob davis
I just installed the latest cygwin 1.3.19-1 . When I run grep I get a dialog with missing cygprce.dll I run dumpbin on grep.exe and I can see the cygprce.dll import. It looks like a regular expression library. I have searched the mailing list and the web site for the dll and I cant find it. Any h

Latest snapshot is close to 1.3.20

2003-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
Please try the latest cygwin snapshot. There are a number of fixes in this snapshot based on problem reports from the cygwin and newlib mailing lists. If things check out ok, we may be close to a 1.3.20 release. Please send problem or success reports to the cygwin mailing list not to me personal

Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-03 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't suppose that the idea was squashed because symlinks don't work for mingw. Although I guess they do work courtesy of cygw, er, msys. Yeah, all of the autotools on mingw depend on MSYS==cygwin for basic functionality. So they get symlink support "for free". -

Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:04:33PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >But, in any case, *even if it worked in all cases*, it's too late. At >this point, this IS the mechanism that libtool will use; it's been >through the wringer with the folks on the automake list, libtool list, >and has been tested

Re: document heap_chunk_in_mb?

2003-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:04:42PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >> > Any volunteers to document heap_chunk_in_mb? It's conspicuously missing >> > in the documentation, AFAICT. >> > >> > Although, hmm, I haven't seen many complaints about this recently. That's >> > odd. Maybe the overflo

Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-03 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf Habacker wrote: i've played a little with this stuff and have seen, that at least for cygwin there is an easier way to deal with this. Create a simple link from 'foo' to 'foo.exe' and Makes need are fullfilled. See ltmain.sh: # The program doesn't exist. \$echo \"\$0: error: \$pr

Re: document heap_chunk_in_mb?

2003-02-03 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
> > Any volunteers to document heap_chunk_in_mb? It's conspicuously missing > > in the documentation, AFAICT. > > > > Although, hmm, I haven't seen many complaints about this recently. That's > > odd. Maybe the overflow code in the new malloc is actually working. > > Sure. What does it do? :)

Re: makeinfo --html index problem

2003-02-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Aaron Gray wrote: > I am having problems with using makeinfo for making HTML output. The > index.html file seems corrupt and makeinfo --html is reporting a missing > TOC. > > Hope you can help, > Aaron And what does this have to do with Clippy, you ask? ;-) Hi, there, , Aaron

Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes

2003-02-03 Thread Norton Allen
Max Bowsher wrote: > > Norton Allen wrote: > > Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >> > >>> Are you saying it's a feature? If so, a feature of cygwin or > >>> of Windows? Under the Windows Command Prompt, cd " " does not > >>> complain, and leaves you in the current directory as you > >>> describe, but dir "

makeinfo --html index problem

2003-02-03 Thread Aaron Gray
I am having problems with using makeinfo for making HTML output. The index.html file seems corrupt and makeinfo --html is reporting a missing TOC. Hope you can help, Aaron -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Doc

Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-03 Thread Charles Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were several solutions: 1) Teach 'make' to only want 'foo' instead of 'foo.exe'. There are problems here -- this requires mucking with automake, which has the potential to break non-libtool builds if not done carefully. Do you have seen thatg ltmain.sh defi

Re: [Setup PATCH] Add Clippy to cygwin Setup (Was: Re: Clippy Sightings in cygwinland?)

2003-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 06:28:34PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 03:11:58PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> >On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> > >> >> > In other words I strip out all the Microsoft clutt

Re: sshd can't do publickey auth with .ssh linked to /cygdrive/c/rest/of/path

2003-02-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Marc Bejarano wrote: > hi. i'm not subscribed to this list so i would be grateful if i could be > left on the cc: line of this thread. > > i tried to link my ~/.ssh to "/cygdrive/c/Documents and > Settings//Application Data/Van Dyke Technologies/SecureCRT/" > because i thought

sshd can't do publickey auth with .ssh linked to /cygdrive/c/rest/of/path

2003-02-03 Thread Marc Bejarano
hi. i'm not subscribed to this list so i would be grateful if i could be left on the cc: line of this thread. i tried to link my ~/.ssh to "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings//Application Data/Van Dyke Technologies/SecureCRT/" because i thought it was the most straight-forward way to share my

Re: [Setup PATCH] Add Clippy to cygwin Setup (Was: Re: Clippy Sightings in cygwinland?)

2003-02-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > No problem and thanks, Elfyn. > > As a matter of fact, it wasn't as hard as I made it out to be - I just > > told it that it's going to be the new Cygwin mascot, and lo and behold, > > its fur just bristled all by itself :-D > > I think you should hav

Re: cygwin 1.3.19-1 file permission out of sync with NTFS on XP?

2003-02-03 Thread Javier
"Elfyn McBratney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje 019301c2cbc0$c6df0860$696f86d9@webdev">news:019301c2cbc0$c6df0860$696f86d9@webdev... > > Did the permission code changed somewhere between cygwin 1.3.12 and > 1.3.19-1 ? > > It there something I can do to make them sync up again ? > > (N

Re: [Setup PATCH] Add Clippy to cygwin Setup (Was: Re: Clippy Sightings in cygwinland?)

2003-02-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> No problem and thanks, Elfyn. > As a matter of fact, it wasn't as hard as I made it out to be - I just > told it that it's going to be the new Cygwin mascot, and lo and behold, > its fur just bristled all by itself :-D I think you should have a word with your Jaguar, I think it's molting ;-) >

Re: [Setup PATCH] Add Clippy to cygwin Setup (Was: Re: Clippy Sightings in cygwinland?)

2003-02-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > > he he ::-) > > > > > > Is it a bird... is it a plain... no its an otter ;-) > > > > Laugh all you want, but do you know how hard it was to actually glue the > > fur on the damn thing, what with it twisting this way and that, and > > constant

Re: [Setup PATCH] Add Clippy to cygwin Setup (Was: Re: Clippy Sightings in cygwinland?)

2003-02-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> > he he ::-) > > > > Is it a bird... is it a plain... no its an otter ;-) > > Laugh all you want, but do you know how hard it was to actually glue the > fur on the damn thing, what with it twisting this way and that, and > constantly changing shape? ;-) > Igor LOL! Sorry Igor! Coming fr

Re: [Setup PATCH] Add Clippy to cygwin Setup (Was: Re: ClippySightings in cygwinland?)

2003-02-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > I'll take you up on that. It's an otter. Convinced? ;-) > > he he ::-) > > Is it a bird... is it a plain... no its an otter ;-) Laugh all you want, but do you know how hard it was to actually glue the fur on the damn thing, what with it twi

Re: [Setup PATCH] Add Clippy to cygwin Setup (Was: Re: Clippy Sightings in cygwinland?)

2003-02-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> I'll take you up on that. It's an otter. Convinced? ;-) he he ::-) Is it a bird... is it a plain... no its an otter ;-) Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://

Re: [Setup PATCH] Add Clippy to cygwin Setup (Was: Re: ClippySightings in cygwinland?)

2003-02-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 03:11:58PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > >> > In other words I strip out all the Microsoft clutter from my desktop? > >> > No silly dogs, animated paper clips or WMP 9's

Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes

2003-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
wayne wrote: > Isn't space a valid file or directory name in unix? Since it > is if the filename " " does not exist you would get an error. Yep, but not a stupid error like this: C:\Documents and Settings\max>mkdir " " The system could not find the environment option that was entered. Huh? What

Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes

2003-02-03 Thread wayne
Isn't space a valid file or directory name in unix? Since it is if the filename " " does not exist you would get an error. On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:45:11PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: > Norton Allen wrote: > > Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >> > >>> Are you saying it's a feature? If so, a feature of cy

Re: Why won't my files link?

2003-02-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> Missing space between '-I.' and '-c'. Why would you want to use -I. ? > > #include "file" searches there anyway. Aaaah didn't know that :-) > > > You might try compiling each file (into an executable) before, > > in-case there are errors, so you'll have peace of mind that they'll > > actually co

Re: Why won't my files link?

2003-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> So I am new to Cygwin, but I am enjoying it so far. > > Kewl! :::-) > >> I am having a >> problem, though, please respond if you can... I have three C files >> (all ending in .c), and I can compile them with GCC by using the -c >> switch. Then, I want to link all thr

Re: Why won't my files link?

2003-02-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Boy i must be tired... I almost forgot, can you include the link error's you recieved? Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: ht

Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes

2003-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Norton Allen wrote: > Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> >>> Are you saying it's a feature? If so, a feature of cygwin or >>> of Windows? Under the Windows Command Prompt, cd " " does not >>> complain, and leaves you in the current directory as you >>> describe, but dir " " gives an error. This is certainly

Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes

2003-02-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> FWIW, I've just tested on Linux (of some flavor) and OpenBSD, > and neither thinks ' ' is a directory. > > In any event, I'd like to figure out whether it's a bug or > a feature under Cygwin so I can move forward. Sorry, it is my head then :/ It may just be a Cygwin geature, and by look

Re: Why won't my files link?

2003-02-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> So I am new to Cygwin, but I am enjoying it so far. Kewl! :::-) > I am having a > problem, though, please respond if you can... I have three C files (all > ending in .c), and I can compile them with GCC by using the -c switch. > Then, I want to link all three of the object files that I have

Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes

2003-02-03 Thread Norton Allen
Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > > Are you saying it's a feature? If so, a feature of cygwin or > > of Windows? Under the Windows Command Prompt, cd " " does not > > complain, and leaves you in the current directory as you > > describe, but dir " " gives an error. This is certainly > > not how it works

Re: Why won't my files link?

2003-02-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Nick Miller wrote: So I am new to Cygwin, but I am enjoying it so far. I am having a problem, though, please respond if you can... I have three C files (all ending in .c), and I can compile them with GCC by using the -c switch. Then, I want to link all three of the object files that I have cr

Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes

2003-02-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> Are you saying it's a feature? If so, a feature of cygwin or > of Windows? Under the Windows Command Prompt, cd " " does not > complain, and leaves you in the current directory as you > describe, but dir " " gives an error. This is certainly > not how it works under other OSes. I'm pretty sure

Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes

2003-02-03 Thread Norton Allen
Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > > Inasmuch as such a directory does not exist, this should > > not give any output: > > > > [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes > > > > I suspect this is not a feature of bash, but more deeply > > buried, since > > > > ls -ld ' ' > > > > believes ' ' is a directory and > > In a

Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes

2003-02-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> Inasmuch as such a directory does not exist, this should > not give any output: > > [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes > > I suspect this is not a feature of bash, but more deeply > buried, since > > ls -ld ' ' > > believes ' ' is a directory and In a way it is. ' ' or ' ' no matter how many s

Why won't my files link?

2003-02-03 Thread Nick Miller
So I am new to Cygwin, but I am enjoying it so far. I am having a problem, though, please respond if you can... I have three C files (all ending in .c), and I can compile them with GCC by using the -c switch. Then, I want to link all three of the object files that I have created (ending in .o) and

[ -d ' ' ] && echo yes

2003-02-03 Thread Norton Allen
Inasmuch as such a directory does not exist, this should not give any output: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes I suspect this is not a feature of bash, but more deeply buried, since ls -ld ' ' believes ' ' is a directory and ls -la ' ' will give you 'total 0' (no . or .. entries). It also believe

Re: Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Colin Harrison wrote: > Further tracing leads me to conclude that Win32.cc uses an old > structure for calling GetVersionEx. Old, but still valid. > MSDN now seem to use OSVERSIONINFOEX structues instead of > OSVERSIONINFO and then bodge a cast. > Their example > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/libra

Re: password file format

2003-02-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> i could not figure out what i should put for the GECOS entry. > i tried looking in the docs and on google some more.. > any suggestions? The pw_gecos field (On NT/2K/XP) contains the name of the domain/local computer, the Win32 username and the sid for the account. Can't seem to get cygwin.com u

Re: password file format

2003-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Henning, Brian wrote: > I was able to read about the /etc/passwd file > Username: Password: UID: GID: Info: Home: Shell > and i was able to find out a little about how cygwin does it. > > account:password:UID:GID:GECOS:directory:shell > > i could not figure out what i should put for the GECOS ent

Re: cygwin 1.3.19-1 file permission out of sync with NTFS on XP?

2003-02-03 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:14:03AM -0800, Andrew Chang wrote: > > I have a situation in which a cygwin app created a file, chmod it to readonly. > then we have a win32 app chomd the same file to writable (0644). > In cygiwn 1.3.12, the new write permission would show up in the > cygwin "ls -l" comma

RE: password file format

2003-02-03 Thread Henning, Brian
I was able to read about the /etc/passwd file Username: Password: UID: GID: Info: Home: Shell and i was able to find out a little about how cygwin does it. account:password:UID:GID:GECOS:directory:shell i could not figure out what i should put for the GECOS entry. i tried looking in the docs and

Re: cygwin 1.3.19-1 file permission out of sync with NTFS on XP?

2003-02-03 Thread Andrew Chang
On Monday 03 February 2003 12:03 pm, Max Bowsher wrote: > Andrew Chang wrote: > > I have a situation in which a cygwin app created a file, chmod it to > > readonly. > > then we have a win32 app chomd the same file to writable (0644). > > In cygiwn 1.3.12, the new write permission would show up in t

Re: cygwin Compile of NetBSD 1.6

2003-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Christos Dritsas wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: > >> Christos, I can see that you might be frustrated, but your post >> above is somewhat rude. Firstly, Chris does not "appear to be >> familiar" with NetBSD on Cygwin. He's simply commenting that the >> that trying to recompile a whole OS and tools is

Re: cygwin Compile of NetBSD 1.6

2003-02-03 Thread Christos Dritsas
Elfyn McBratney wrote: Not accusing anyone of witholding information. Just appeared that he[Chris] may have come across this before with the responce that he gave. A responce which was rude, but not a bother to me. If this issue has been worked on before, I as well as all others interested, would

Re: cygwin Compile of NetBSD 1.6

2003-02-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> Not accusing anyone of witholding information. Just appeared that > he[Chris] may have come across this before with the responce that he > gave. A responce which was rude, but not a bother to me. If this issue > has been worked on before, I as well as all others interested, would > benefit from h

Re: cygwin Compile of NetBSD 1.6

2003-02-03 Thread Christos Dritsas
Vince Hoffman wrote: If you're realy serious i found this rather old bunch of mails with a quick google which could possibly help http://netbsd.kpsws.com/cross-comp/maillist Vince: Thanks. I did actually get in contact with Andrew Gillham, the first poster. Although the post is old - 01/29

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.2-5

2003-02-03 Thread Jason Tishler
New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.2.2-5. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The main purpose of this release is to rebuild the _tkinter module against the latest Cygwin tcltk package, tcltk-20030128-3 (i.e., Tcl/Tk 8.4.1). Note that y

Re: cygwin Compile of NetBSD 1.6

2003-02-03 Thread Christos Dritsas
Max Bowsher wrote: Christos, I can see that you might be frustrated, but your post above is somewhat rude. Firstly, Chris does not "appear to be familiar" with NetBSD on Cygwin. He's simply commenting that the that trying to recompile a whole OS and tools is probably biting off more than you can

Re: document heap_chunk_in_mb?

2003-02-03 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
> Any volunteers to document heap_chunk_in_mb? It's conspicuously missing > in the documentation, AFAICT. > > Although, hmm, I haven't seen many complaints about this recently. That's > odd. Maybe the overflow code in the new malloc is actually working. Sure. What does it do? :) _

RE: cygwin Compile of NetBSD 1.6

2003-02-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
If you're realy serious i found this rather old bunch of mails with a quick google which could possibly help http://netbsd.kpsws.com/cross-comp/maillist > -Original Message- > From: Christos Dritsas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 03 February 2003 17:07 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subj

Re: cygwin Compile of NetBSD 1.6

2003-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
> Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Or, even, just give up since the likelihood of actually being able to >> build NetBSD under Cygwin with little or no knowledge of cross >> compilers or symlinks or log files is remote at best. >> >> This is not going to be a "fix a few problems and it works" type of >

Re: Problem with OpenSSH (daemon), mapped drives, and pubkey auth

2003-02-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> Its a know problem, when you log in via pub key the tokens needed for > network authentication are not created (a simplification but I cant remember > all the details) the same goes for any passwordless login (rsh etc with > .rhost files etc). Since your automating I'd assume you have blank pass

Re: Problem with OpenSSH (daemon), mapped drives, and pubkey auth

2003-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Seth Fitzsimmons wrote: > Hi. > > When I log in to a Win2k server using public key auth, I can't access > mapped network drives (e.g. /cygdrive/o: permission denied). However, > when I log in using password auth, I can. I'm trying to automate a > process that copies from a network drive, so pubke

RE: Problem with OpenSSH (daemon), mapped drives, and pubkey auth

2003-02-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
Its a know problem, when you log in via pub key the tokens needed for network authentication are not created (a simplification but I cant remember all the details) the same goes for any passwordless login (rsh etc with .rhost files etc). Since your automating I'd assume you have blank pass phrases

Re: cygwin 1.3.19-1 file permission out of sync with NTFS on XP?

2003-02-03 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> Did the permission code changed somewhere between cygwin 1.3.12 and 1.3.19-1 ? > It there something I can do to make them sync up again ? > (Note: I also tried "CYGWIN=ntsec", it does not help). Did your old install use ntsec (ntsec in the CYGWIN environment variable)? If not that may be why. nt

Problem with OpenSSH (daemon), mapped drives, and pubkey auth

2003-02-03 Thread Seth Fitzsimmons
Hi. When I log in to a Win2k server using public key auth, I can't access mapped network drives (e.g. /cygdrive/o: permission denied). However, when I log in using password auth, I can. I'm trying to automate a process that copies from a network drive, so pubkey auth is necessary. Is this a

Re: cygwin 1.3.19-1 file permission out of sync with NTFS on XP?

2003-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Andrew Chang wrote: > I have a situation in which a cygwin app created a file, chmod it to > readonly. > then we have a win32 app chomd the same file to writable (0644). > In cygiwn 1.3.12, the new write permission would show up in the > cygwin "ls -l" command. In cygwin 1.3.19-1, the write permiss

RE: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-03 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Chuck, >3) What I did: create a binary wrapper -- an actual executable -- > named 'foo.exe' in the main build directory. It is NOT the real > foo.exe. It simply exec's the shell script, which in turn sets up the > environment and exec's the real .lib/foo.exe. Eventually, the 'set up > th

Re: password file format

2003-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Henning, Brian wrote: > Hello- > I have been looking on google.com for the format of the cygwin > /etc/passwd file and i have had little luck finding out what the > fields mean. Can anyone point me to some docs or just tell me so i > know what they are.. thanks! Read any /etc/passwd doc for the u

password file format

2003-02-03 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- I have been looking on google.com for the format of the cygwin /etc/passwd file and i have had little luck finding out what the fields mean. Can anyone point me to some docs or just tell me so i know what they are.. thanks! username::

Re: cygwin Compile of NetBSD 1.6

2003-02-03 Thread Shankar Unni
Or, even, just give up since the likelihood of actually being able to build NetBSD under Cygwin with little or no knowledge of cross compilers or symlinks or log files is remote at best. Or wait! Maybe he can recompile Windows with Cygwin and run it on Linux! Yeah! -- Unsubscribe info:

cygwin 1.3.19-1 file permission out of sync with NTFS on XP?

2003-02-03 Thread Andrew Chang
I have a situation in which a cygwin app created a file, chmod it to readonly. then we have a win32 app chomd the same file to writable (0644). In cygiwn 1.3.12, the new write permission would show up in the cygwin "ls -l" command. In cygwin 1.3.19-1, the write permission is not visible in cygwi

Re: emacs in separate window

2003-02-03 Thread Shankar Unni
Joe Buehler wrote: A Cygwin emacs with a Windows GUI would certainly look like NTEmacs, but it would function a bit differently -- it would support the Cygwin shell in various places, etc. Ooh, that would be definitely interesting, and worth switching to.. -- Shankar. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-02-03 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, Further tracing leads me to conclude that Win32.cc uses an old structure for calling GetVersionEx. MSDN now seem to use OSVERSIONINFOEX structues instead of OSVERSIONINFO and then bodge a cast. Their example http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/bas e/gett

document heap_chunk_in_mb?

2003-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
Any volunteers to document heap_chunk_in_mb? It's conspicuously missing in the documentation, AFAICT. Although, hmm, I haven't seen many complaints about this recently. That's odd. Maybe the overflow code in the new malloc is actually working. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

Re: cygwin Compile of NetBSD 1.6

2003-02-03 Thread David Robinow
Christos Dritsas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:03:20PM - >>Or, even, just give up since the likelihood of actually being able to >>build NetBSD under Cygwin with little or no knowledge of cross compilers >>or symlinks or log files is remot

memory (?) problems when executing c++ program

2003-02-03 Thread Heino Bukkems
Hello, I am running a C++ program under cygwin (OS is win98). In the middle of the program I get a windows box saying (translated from Dutch): Program has performed illegal operation and will be terminated. This stops the C++ program, though not cygwin. The C++ program is compiled under g++ an

RE: bash lockup

2003-02-03 Thread Sean McBride
Yes, this is true, however, I am not having the problem, anymore. I traced the crash to an old version of cvs I was using in windows. Apparently, it installed the cygwin1.dll(an older version, god knows what build) in its directory and added its dir to my path. Once I deleted that dll, I no lon

Re: bash lockup

2003-02-03 Thread Barry Buchbinder
I see this all the time, too (in Win98se). WINOLDAP seems to be how Windows handles the cygwin console. It also uses it for win95cmd. And it is there even when nothing is locked up. Windows doesn't seem to use WINOLDAP for a COMAND.COM DOS box. Don't think of it as a problem or bug (or even a

Re: cygwin Compile of NetBSD 1.6

2003-02-03 Thread Christos Dritsas
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:03:20PM - Or, even, just give up since the likelihood of actually being able to build NetBSD under Cygwin with little or no knowledge of cross compilers or symlinks or log files is remote at best. This is not going to be a "fix a few probl

stackdump

2003-02-03 Thread kumarchi
folks! I need your help (cygwin latest version 1.3.19.1 although the problem may not be related to the version) 1. I have a specific program which I have in /usr/local/bin and it is in my path. -> gives a stackdump (.stackdump file) however if I do /usr/local/bin/ -> works fine!!

windres and RCDATA sections

2003-02-03 Thread Mark Blackburn
windres seems to choke on multiline strings. With the following exerpt from a .rc file 83 IDR_DEVICES RCDATA 84 BEGIN 85 "mswinpr2,\0" /* can't set resolution in device dialog box */ 86 "djet500,300x300,150x150,100x100,75x75\0" 87 "\0" 88 END I get: windres: srcwi

Re: Analysing a stackdump file

2003-02-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Gerrit Cap wrote: > Hello > > A few weeks ago I build an xplanet.exe file from the sources (which is now > being published by Hans Ecke's XPlanet website http://hans.ecke.ws/xplanet > and he sent me from a user that had a problem resulting in a stackdump > file. My question is

Re: socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fd) failing: errno 112, Address already in use

2003-02-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:15:52PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: > > I'm seeing rsync failiures due to socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fd) > > failing with errno 112, Address already in use. > > > > As far as I know, this shouldn'

[ANNOUNCEMENT] CMake 1.6.1-1

2003-02-03 Thread William A. Hoffman
CMake 1.6.1-1 is now available on Cygwin mirrors. We are pleased to announce the release of CMake version 1.6.1. Version 1.6 includes a number of new features to help make project management easier. Version 1.6 include TRY_COMPILE and TRY_RUN which can be used to test for features of the compil

Re: socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fd) failing: errno 112, Address already in use

2003-02-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:15:52PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: > I'm seeing rsync failiures due to socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fd) > failing with errno 112, Address already in use. > > As far as I know, this shouldn't be able to occur. This seems to me like a > Cygwin bug? If it is, then thi

RE: CygWin Installation

2003-02-03 Thread Steve Fairbairn
> -Original Message- > From: Peter A. Castro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Steve Fairbairn wrote: > > > I assume you never did an early slackware linux install then. > > You considder the early Slackware installs difficult, eh?? > Hah! Those > were easy (I did ma

Re: 1.3.19-1:poll bug. Patch included.

2003-02-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:15:08PM -0800, Peter Rehley wrote: > Hello, > > Just to make sure that we are both clear. Change recvfrom so that if > the buffer is too small it returns the number of bytes that can be > written into the buffer instead of setting errno. Also clear errno > since the

Re: ECB 1.90 released!

2003-02-03 Thread Jeffery B. Rancier
> "Berndl," == Berndl, Klaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > If you are using ECB 1.80 then you can just call "M-x ecb-download-ecb" if you >> > are online. ECB will then download latest ECB (1.90) and install it for you. >> When I try this, I get: >> Unpacking of ecb has fai

awk strangely outputs to file

2003-02-03 Thread Harald Kierer
Hi all, my awk (which is actually gawk) shows strange End-Of-Line-behaviour when redirecting the output to a file. Note: I use the old drive prefix "//" because of old scripts; works perfect currently. Example in bash: $ awk '{ print "123\n456" } ' /etc/passwd > "c:/x" (the /etc/passwd is just

Re: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-03 Thread ralf . habacker
I've updated libtool-devel to the 20030121 CVS, plus added a major change of my own (inspired by Earnie Boyd and others on the libtool mailing list) that "fixes" the 'relink exe's over and over and over' problem on both mingw and cygwin. [Skip to the last two paragraphs for the real import

Re: Can't see full list in setup.exe

2003-02-03 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, Found the reason but not the cure. In PickPackageLine::paint there is a If (Win32::OS() == Win32::WinNT) {...} trap My duff (production!) machine does not enter this. When code is forced all is OK. Both machines (prod and development) are XP Pros. I'll find out all about this, it looks legal

Re: Bug: cygwin-1.3.19-1 after instaling user is not properly resolved

2003-02-03 Thread Max Bowsher
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Anton Avramov wrote: > After instaling upgrading to cygwin-1.3.19-1 the user is not properly > resolved > istead of the old promp username@computer. I get ?щ"@computer or some other > strange asccii codes. > The home directory is set to /cygdrive/c > if i start bash from the alr

Bug: cygwin-1.3.19-1 after instaling user is not properly resolved

2003-02-03 Thread Anton Avramov
After instaling upgrading to cygwin-1.3.19-1 the user is not properly resolved istead of the old promp username@computer. I get ?щ"@computer or some other strange asccii codes. The home directory is set to /cygdrive/c if i start bash from the already running bash, it's starts working normaly I'm a

Analysing a stackdump file

2003-02-03 Thread Gerrit Cap
Hello A few weeks ago I build an xplanet.exe file from the sources (which is now being published by Hans Ecke's XPlanet website http://hans.ecke.ws/xplanet and he sent me from a user that had a problem resulting in a stackdump file. My question is rather simple: the xplanet.exe.stackdump file i