Question about ash and getopts

2003-12-28 Thread Peter Seebach
I know this is a pseudo-FAQ, but I haven't been able to find a clear enough answer in the archives. 1. Is it not the case that POSIX provides a specification for the getopts builtin? 2. Doesn't ash, as originally written, implement getopts? I'm trying to figure out why this feature was removed,

Re: Is perl-5.8.2 canonized for use on cygwin yet?

2003-12-28 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 08:51:12PM -0700, "Blair P. Houghton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I've found the problem. > > By more careful use of the -d=flags option to make, I traced it down to the second > of two "subdirs" > targets, and then turned off the NOECHO command (by taking it out

RE: ImageMagick packaging problem

2003-12-28 Thread koorapati_koundinya
This is not an answer to the problem posted, but it reminds me to ask as to where can a version of ImageMagick for cygwin is available for download ? Thanks, Koundinya -Original Message- From: Tony Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 9:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: Is perl-5.8.2 canonized for use on cygwin yet?

2003-12-28 Thread Blair P. Houghton
I think I've found the problem. By more careful use of the -d=flags option to make, I traced it down to the second of two "subdirs" targets, and then turned off the NOECHO command (by taking it out of the script line in the Makefile under the second subdirs target). Then, making only in the ...

Re: Windres Problem with ComboBox/tabbing? - Fixed/MinGW Problem

2003-12-28 Thread Myke Predko
Thanx Igor for the pointer, I joined the list and got my answers. For anybody that cares, or runs into the same problems: 1. The combobox control's "height" parameter is the height with the dropdown active of the control, not its height with the dropdown hidden. This doesn't seem to be well expl

Re: Is perl-5.8.2 canonized for use on cygwin yet?

2003-12-28 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:51:12AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:04:11PM -0700, "Blair P. Houghton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > In the meantime I realized that 5.8.2 is newer than I > > thought it was. Maybe I *am* the first to try t

RE: The dynamic link library cygbz2-1.dll could not be found

2003-12-28 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Martin Gainty > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:57 PM > Hallo Hannu: > Yes I have elected to re-install cygwin package from the Internet > I now have a bit of a different problem now > The cygwin setup routine Hangs on /etc/postinstall/lftp.sh > Cygwin Setup at top displays 99% complete

OLOCA

2003-12-28 Thread Nicholas Bodley
Delightful collection! I don't think your acronym list should have any that haven't appeared, but... : Life's Little Lessons Learned. (Also L^4) We who say that acronyms are acronyms only if you can pronounce them (i.e., RADAR, SONAR, LORAN, etc.) are fighting a losing battle. There just

Re: The dynamic link library cygbz2-1.dll could not be found

2003-12-28 Thread Martin Gainty
Hallo Hannu: Yes I have elected to re-install cygwin package from the Internet I now have a bit of a different problem now The cygwin setup routine Hangs on /etc/postinstall/lftp.sh Cygwin Setup at top displays 99% complete Package/Total/Disk metrics display about 50% complete For the life of me I

Re: Info.gz files

2003-12-28 Thread David A. Cobb
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo David, Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2003 um 01:08 schriebst du: I notice that some of the larger info files, notably gcc & related files plus the Cygwin-ug files, are in /usr/share/info as xxx.info.gz files. Is info (supposed to be) able to handle these direct

Re: 1.5.6-pre: Occasional bad memory accesses within cygwin1.dll

2003-12-28 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Max Bowsher wrote: I installed a self-built cygwin HEAD version - mostly it works fine, but it causes odd failures during builds (speculation: race when many processes being created and destroyed?) The most common failure is a Windows error box: The instruction at "0x6108621a" references memory a

Re: Please try the latest snapshot -- it is close to cygwin 1.5.6

2003-12-28 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 12:46 PM 12/27/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I missed the 'sh -c' clue in your previous message. Since sh uses vfork, that indicates a vfork problem. I've checked in some more changes to deal with this. It seems to do the right thing both with sh -c and witho

1.5.6-pre: Occasional bad memory accesses within cygwin1.dll

2003-12-28 Thread Max Bowsher
I installed a self-built cygwin HEAD version - mostly it works fine, but it causes odd failures during builds (speculation: race when many processes being created and destroyed?) The most common failure is a Windows error box: The instruction at "0x6108621a" references memory at "0x610030b0". The

Re: How to get it working with gdb ?

2003-12-28 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 07:42:18PM -0200, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > > >I did the following: > > > > > > > >Start the application

RE: The dynamic link library cygbz2-1.dll could not be found

2003-12-28 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Martin Gainty > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 3:43 PM > When installing cygwin from the internet I get > The dynamic link library cygbz2-1.dll could not be found in the specified > path. > Advice? Did you install this: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cygbz2-1.dll ? If

The dynamic link library cygbz2-1.dll could not be found

2003-12-28 Thread Martin Gainty
Hello When installing cygwin from the internet I get The dynamic link library cygbz2-1.dll could not be found in the specified path. Advice? Thank You, Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: perl stuff building

2003-12-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo dominix, Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2003 um 01:20 schriebst du: > perl -V report different setting from 5.8.0 to 5.8.2. it could help to know > (and nice to chose) if there is support for threads, binary compat and so on > ... perl was compiled with threads support since 5.8.1 and is not bi

Re: Info.gz files

2003-12-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo David, Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2003 um 01:08 schriebst du: > I notice that some of the larger info files, notably gcc & related files > plus the Cygwin-ug files, are in /usr/share/info as xxx.info.gz files. > Is info (supposed to be) able to handle these directly? If so, is > special ac

Re: Java hello world link error

2003-12-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Mauro, > One last thing. > I noticed that the resulting Test.exe attempts to access the internet. > Is this expected ? > Its trying to access 24.25.4.107 which my getHost tool tells me is > rlghnc-dns-cac-02-dmfe1.nc.rr.com. Please discuss this on the java list (and start a new thread), it

Re: Is perl-5.8.2 canonized for use on cygwin yet?

2003-12-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Blair, I already answered you (after my christmas vacation), but that was just a guess. The error you got is not usual. I need more information. See http://cygwin.com/problems.html how to file a complete bug report and please be sure to read this part twice: "Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygc

Re: Is perl-5.8.2 canonized for use on cygwin yet?

2003-12-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Charles, Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2003 um 07:32 schriebst du: > Gerrit: I suggest that you edit the README.cygwin file, leaving in the > names of the contributors (hell, delete mine if you want) and eliminate > all email addresses except [EMAIL PROTECTED], so we don't need to go > thru t

Re: Apache 2.0.48 installation

2003-12-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Marcus, Am Mittwoch, 24. Dezember 2003 um 23:21 schriebst du: > Hi, folks. > I am trying to install httpd-2.0.48 on my cygwin/XP and I am getting a never > seen (at least to me) error message: > __ > Installing build

Re: Windres Problem with ComboBox/tabbing?

2003-12-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Myke Predko wrote: > [snip] > gcc -mwindows -mno-cygwin -g -o Programmer.exe Programmer.c Programmer.res -lgdi32 > -luser32 ^^^ This puts you in the MinGW domain. You might have better luck asking on the mingw-users list. Igor --

Re: How to get it working with gdb ?

2003-12-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 07:42:18PM -0200, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > >I did the following: > > > > > >Start the application in a terminal. > > >Use ps in another terminal. > > >Use gdb

Windres Problem with ComboBox/tabbing?

2003-12-28 Thread Myke Predko
Hi Folks, This is my first question to the group, so hopefully I will provide all the required information. I'm attempting to build a small programmer interface for Win32 using gcc under cygwin. Along with gcc, I have been using gdb running under ddd for symbolic debugging. The application is t