[ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: mingw-bzip2-1.0.2-6

2004-10-09 Thread Charles Wilson
I've made a new package available on sourceware: mingw-bzip2 and mingw-libbz2_1 contain the bzip2 distribution compiled using 'gcc -mno-cygwin' and installed into /usr/include/mingw/ and /usr/lib/mingw. It includes: usr/bin/mgwbz2_1.dll and usr/include/mingw/bzlib.h usr/lib/mingw/libbz2.a usr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-zlib-1.2.2-1

2004-10-09 Thread Charles Wilson
The mingw-zlib package has been updated to version 1.2.1-2. zlib is a standard lossless compression library; mingw-zlib is a version built using the standard windows runtime library and NOT cygwin; it is used by setup.exe among other tools. This is a security bugfix release. CHANGES: - Routine

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zlib-1.2.2-1

2004-10-09 Thread Charles Wilson
The zlib package has been updated to version 1.2.2-1. zlib is a standard lossless compression library. This is a security bugfix release. CHANGES: - Routine update to version 1.2.2 (inludes the same security patch in the earlier cygwin 1.2.1-2 release) -- Charles Wilson zlib volunteer main

Re: PostInstallLast addons?

2004-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 06:19:07PM -0700, Lex Ein wrote: >On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 16:19:36 -0400, "Christopher Faylor" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:28:14PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >> >Robert R Schneck schrieb: >> >>lex ein wrote: >> >>>6. If a user has by some miracle heard

Re: libtool bug

2004-10-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: Whether to set the $PATH and produce wrapper scripts is clearly a distinct issue from "should stuff be relinked on install" -- although on platforms which encode -rpaths into sharedlibs and executables one issue will affect the other. Not true on cygwin. These two question

Re: libtool bug

2004-10-09 Thread Charles Wilson
BTW, note that the problem (whatever it is) exposed here, will be hidden by the patch I'm about to post to this list and to libtool-patches. I really hope somebody (Jan? Han-Wen Nienhuys?) will try their guile build with unmodified libtool-1.5.10, and when the relink fails manually execute >

ALSA for Cygwin searched

2004-10-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi, who knows if there is a Cygwin version available somewhere? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: PostInstallLast addons?

2004-10-09 Thread Lex Ein
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 16:19:36 -0400, "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:28:14PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: > >Robert R Schneck schrieb: > >>lex ein wrote: > >>>6. If a user has by some miracle heard of 'locate', a search using > >>>'locate openssh' produces n

problem starting sshd

2004-10-09 Thread Yi Chu
Please help a biginner. I installed openssh, and tried to start sshd. Here is the error message. $ cygrunsrv --start sshd cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has not been started. What is wrong and how do I fix it? I am running Windows200 i

Re: libtool bug

2004-10-09 Thread Charles Wilson
[CC:ed to libtool-patches list] Background for the libtool-patches guys: Question revolves around a problem with relinking executables (and DLLs which depend on other uninstalled DLLs, actually) when installing stuff on cygwin. There are actually two problems; only the first is addressed here

Re: libtool bug

2004-10-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Do you have an insight wrt the start of this thread? That's stalling a Guile-1.7/libguile16 release and with it the LilyPond 2.3 series. BTW, Jan, I gather that, despite my earlier doubts, the libtool changes in 1.5.10 fixed the "The application fai

Re: cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:31:03PM -0700, lex ein wrote: >On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:47:57 +0200, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Oct 5 16:00, David Campbell wrote: >>>I've read lots of web pages about how to set it up, and I believe I've >>>followed them, eg http://bumblebee.lcs.mit.

Re: libtool bug

2004-10-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Do you have an insight wrt the start of this thread? That's stalling a Guile-1.7/libguile16 release and with it the LilyPond 2.3 series. No, I don't. This: gcc -shared .libs/srfi-1.o -L/lib -L/usr/lib -L/home/Hanwen/src/guile-1.7.1/libguile-ltdl/.libs -L/u

Re: mv: `Tcollect2' and `collect2' are the same file

2004-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 04:02:25PM +, Robert R Schneck wrote: >Earl Chew wrote: >> I got this error trying to build gcc using cygwin 1.5.11. This problem >> is easily reproduced: >> >> X:> touch Tfoo.exe >> X:> chmod a+rx Tfoo >> X:> ls -l Tfoo >> -rwxrwxrwx1 earlch mkpasswd0 Oct

Re: cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password (gold star)

2004-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 04:02:25PM +, Robert R Schneck wrote: >lex ein wrote: >[...] >> 2. The user might type 'help openssh' and be told to "try 'man -k openssh' >> which produces "openssh: nothing appropriate", a nice showstopper. >[...] >> 6. If a user has by some miracle heard of 'locat

Re: PostInstallLast addons?

2004-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 07:28:14PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >Robert R Schneck schrieb: >>lex ein wrote: >>>6. If a user has by some miracle heard of 'locate', a search using >>>'locate openssh' produces no results unless the user first runs >>>'updatedb'. >> >>Would it be appropriate for the Po

Re: PostInstallLast addons?

2004-10-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Reini Urban wrote: Robert R Schneck schrieb: lex ein wrote: 6. If a user has by some miracle heard of 'locate', a search using 'locate openssh' produces no results unless the user first runs 'updatedb'. How about other distros? Under Linux it is installed as a cron job which runs at least every

RE: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-09 Thread William Budell
Though it will doubtlessly annoy the senior participants of this list, I would like to thank Richard Troy and lex ein for their well-written and lucid comments on new-comers' experiences in attempting to use these tools. As a someone without a programming background (but who is a teacher) who has s

PostInstallLast addons?

2004-10-09 Thread Reini Urban
Robert R Schneck schrieb: lex ein wrote: 6. If a user has by some miracle heard of 'locate', a search using 'locate openssh' produces no results unless the user first runs 'updatedb'. Would it be appropriate for the PostInstallLast part of setup which "updates info dir" to also run makewhatis?

Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-09 Thread Richard Troy
(I don't know _why_ I'm sitting at the keys on this glorious Saturday morning, nor do I know why I'm replying to such a thread... Oh wait, "I was a newbie once, too, and I remember what that was like." Yeah, that's it! True, that was "back in the day," but I still remember...) On Fri, 8 Oct 2004,

Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-09 Thread Vince Rice
>> 3. One may try 'help ssh' and be told to "try 'man -k ssh' which >> produces "ssh: nothing appropriate", another showstopper. One _might_ >> ultimately try 'man ssh' instead and get (sort of) lucky. > This is *your* setup, this has nothing to do with openssh: > $ man -k ssh > [...] > ssh (1

Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-09 Thread Robert R Schneck
lex ein wrote: [...] > 2. The user might type 'help openssh' and be told to "try 'man -k openssh' > which produces "openssh: nothing appropriate", a nice showstopper. [...] > 6. If a user has by some miracle heard of 'locate', a search using 'locate > openssh' produces no results unless the u

Re: mv: `Tcollect2' and `collect2' are the same file

2004-10-09 Thread Robert R Schneck
Earl Chew wrote: > I got this error trying to build gcc using cygwin 1.5.11. This problem > is easily reproduced: > > X:> touch Tfoo.exe > X:> chmod a+rx Tfoo > X:> ls -l Tfoo > -rwxrwxrwx1 earlch mkpasswd0 Oct 8 22:08 Tfoo > X:> mv Tfoo foo > mv: `Tfoo' and `foo' are the same file

How to build PHP 4.3.8 for latest cygwin and apache 1.3

2004-10-09 Thread Andrew
After lots of headbanging and trying to follow Brian Dessent's progress with packaging php for apache, I'd almost given up until I found this gem of a thread on how to build php, as a module, for apache 1.3 on Cygwin, just like in the good old days. I'm sure Brian will do a great job when the pac

RE: automatic completion

2004-10-09 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
John Morrison wrote on : >> Hi, >> >> I'm using the latest version of Cygwin in Windows XP. If I open a new >> Cygwin Bash shell, and then just press the "&" key and then the TAB >> key, the Cygwin Bash shell window freezes. >> >> Has anybody else experienced this ? > > Works well here - just too

Re: automatic completion

2004-10-09 Thread John Morrison
> Hi, > > I'm using the latest version of Cygwin in Windows XP. If I open a new > Cygwin Bash shell, and then just press the "&" key and then the TAB key, > the Cygwin Bash shell window freezes. > > Has anybody else experienced this ? Works well here - just took a moment or two to find the 4767 po

Re: libtool bug

2004-10-09 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Charles Wilson writes: > Not entirely true. With your change (or one very similar), all of the > *-exec.tests in the libtool test suite failed. These tests attempt to > run the uninstalled executable. I'm not sure why; it's probably a > side effect of the change, not just "relinking" itself. >

automatic completion

2004-10-09 Thread John Smith
Hi, I'm using the latest version of Cygwin in Windows XP. If I open a new Cygwin Bash shell, and then just press the "&" key and then the TAB key, the Cygwin Bash shell window freezes. Has anybody else experienced this ? John _ On the

Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
lex ein wrote: >>> I've read lots of web pages about how to set it up, >> WHY DON'T YOU READ THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION INSTEAD? [caps mine] > BECAUSE in the case of openssh(and others), the "official > documentation" is of little use to a new user: information is not Huh? I have read /usr/share/

Re: Plugins and referencing *variables* in the loading program

2004-10-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Maarten Boekhold wrote: Maarten Boekhold wrote: I can post my test program if anybody is interested... Please see attached. Damned and double damned... The previous version had an obvious error in it. Sorry all for wasting your band-width. Attached is a correct version. Maarten vartest.tar.

Re: Plugins and referencing *variables* in the loading program

2004-10-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Maarten Boekhold wrote: I can post my test program if anybody is interested... Please see attached. $ tar zxf vartest.tar.gz $ cd vartest $ ./autogen.sh ... $ make install ... $ /usr/local/bin/plugintest.exe 5 ** Message: trying to open /usr/local/lib/cygplugin.dll val coming from the executable:

Re: Plugins and referencing *variables* in the loading program

2004-10-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi Brian, Don't know if you noticed, but the thread you are referring to was started by me as well :) All the material discussed in there I managed to apply just fine. However, that thread deals with importing *functions*, not variables. I created a stand-alone test in which the plugin is tryi