Re: setup.ini upset?

2005-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 22 22:12, Max Bowsher wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >Just tried updating cygwin from mirrors.rcn.net, and got a much smaller > >setup.ini than usual, with many install: and source: lines missing. > > Something odd has happened. > > I've posted on cygwin-apps. > > We need CGF o

RE: cygwin crashes after every ~ 10th command and starts up only every ~ 4th try...

2005-06-22 Thread D. Bollmann
Hi Dave, thanks for your long and detailed reply :) > > Since a couple of hours cygwin crashes all the time on my windows nt > > computer. In order to restart cygwin I have to execute the xserver batch > > file several times until finally an xterm shows up. The same xterm than > > crashes after

Re: setup.ini upset?

2005-06-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Just tried updating cygwin from mirrors.rcn.net, and got a much smaller setup.ini than usual, with many install: and source: lines missing. Something odd has happened. I've posted on cygwin-apps. We need CGF or maybe Corinna to fix it. Max. -- Unsubscribe inf

setup.ini upset?

2005-06-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Just tried updating cygwin from mirrors.rcn.net, and got a much smaller setup.ini than usual, with many install: and source: lines missing. A sample: # This file is automatically generated. If you edit it, your # edits will be discarded next time the file is generated. # See http://cygwin.com/se

1.5.17 (epoch 19) ftp error:550 can't set gid

2005-06-22 Thread Rancier, Jeff
I can't seem to ftp to my Windows 2000 box hosting cygwin. I did see the mailing list thread concerning this issue, but found no resolution. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01512.html I appear to be having the same problem. I recently installed, so did I miss something during insta

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: apache2-2.0.54-1 (and subpackages apache2-devel, apache2-manual)

2005-06-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Apache httpd version 2.0, the popular web server, is now packaged for the Cygwin distribution, and arriving soon to a mirror near you. Apache is compiled with --enable-mods-shared=all, so a fairly large selection of modules is included. I will take requests for additional modules contained with

Re: setup alternatives

2005-06-22 Thread Ralf Habacker
Am Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2005 18:27 schrieb Brian Dessent: > Jason Pyeron wrote: > > > static link and boot strap a core with the installer. Just like installing > > linux from cd. > > Cygwin1.dll cannot be statically linked. > > > gosh darnit, I just want to upgrade cygwin via ssh. > > You can tr

Re: Compiling Apache2 with Cygwin

2005-06-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Tony Karakashian wrote: Crossposted from Apache-users: For the last couple of days, I've been trying to get Apache 2.0.54 to compile in a Cygwin environment. Depending various config options, I receive various levels of success. The configure line I'm using is: ./configure --enable-module=so

Re: Problem installing CPAN module

2005-06-22 Thread Lasse
Sonam Chauhan wrote: Hi - While doing a fresh install of Cygwin, I have run into errors installing a CPAN Perl module that worked last month. The module is Proc::ProcessTable. It now reports a "`PID_ZOMBIE' undeclared" error message during compilation. The relevant snippet is below. Hmm... Thi

Compiling Apache2 with Cygwin

2005-06-22 Thread Tony Karakashian
Crossposted from Apache-users: For the last couple of days, I've been trying to get Apache 2.0.54 to compile in a Cygwin environment. Depending various config options, I receive various levels of success. The configure line I'm using is: ./configure --enable-module=so --prefix=/usr --enable-mo

Re: [FAQ Alert, ping JDF!] RE: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB

2005-06-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Patrick Rotsaert wrote: > No problem that my dll will fall under the GPL. > Just out of curiosity, does this also apply for applications that use my > DLL? As far as I understand it, "linking" as defined by the GPL is when you incorporate code into the running process space. If you keep them sep

Re: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB

2005-06-22 Thread Max Kaehn
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 18:17 +0200, Patrick Rotsaert wrote: > Loading the cygwin1.dll dynamically is certainly an option. I tried it, > although I'm not quite sure how to make sure I have "4K of scratch space > at the bottom of the stack", like the faq says. > My test program crashes once cygwin_

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mathomatic-12.4.3-1

2005-06-22 Thread Reini Urban
I've updated the version of mathomatic to 12.4.3-1. It should appear at the mirrors soon. Release focus: Minor bugfixes Changes: Larger fractions and expressions are allowed in this version. A bugfix and a parameter were added to the nintegrate command. Some code and messages cleanup. About: Ma

Re: [FAQ Alert, ping JDF!] RE: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB

2005-06-22 Thread Patrick Rotsaert
Original Message From: Brian Dessent Sent: 22 June 2005 16:36 Patrick Rotsaert wrote: I need to build a DLL in cygwin (I use a lot of POSIX functions), that I can use in MSVC and Borland CBuilder apps. http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#TOC102 And, as far as I know, using cygwi

Re: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB

2005-06-22 Thread Patrick Rotsaert
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#TOC102 Note that this just references loading cygwin1.dll and getting it initialized. If you have your own DLL that depends on cygwin1.dll you will probably first have to load and initialize Cygwin, and then load your own DLL. Loading the cygwin1.dll dynamically

RE: [FAQ Alert, ping JDF!] RE: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Corinna Vinschen >Sent: 22 June 2005 17:01 > On Jun 22 16:45, Dave Korn wrote: >> Note also that Cygwin is GPL'd software (as indeed are all other >> Cygwin-based libraries). That means that if your code links against the >> cygwin dll (and if your program is ca

Re: setup alternatives

2005-06-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Jason Pyeron wrote: > static link and boot strap a core with the installer. Just like installing > linux from cd. Cygwin1.dll cannot be statically linked. > gosh darnit, I just want to upgrade cygwin via ssh. You can try the 'cygupdate' tools in CVS. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: Possible Bug in /proc/partitions ??

2005-06-22 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
Corinna Vinschen skrev: > On Jun 21 09:14, Chris January wrote: >> Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: >> >> > either /proc/prtitions has something wrong or i have. >> > This is how it looks. >> > $ cat /proc/partitions >> > major minor #blocks name >> > >> > 8 0 19535040 sdaOK >> > 8

Re: setup alternatives

2005-06-22 Thread Jason Pyeron
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: I don't think it will be as simple as just converting the packages to rpm. The rpm command itself will depend on cygwin1.dll, and any subcommands that it executes (ls, awk, perl, whatever) will as well, in addition to any other DLLs that those commands

Re: [FAQ Alert, ping JDF!] RE: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB

2005-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 22 16:45, Dave Korn wrote: > " Download crt0.c from the cygwin website and include it in your sources. > Modify it to call my_crt0() instead of cygwin_crt0(). " > > for point 5, and then something like > > " Note that if you are using any other Cygwin-based libraries that you will > pro

Re: setup alternatives

2005-06-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Jason Pyeron wrote: > yes, rpm and up2date. > > I was thinking this morning about writing a script to parse the setup.ini > and generate some no-src RPMs. > > It would be better if the RPMs were generated from src so dependencies > could be created 'properly'. I don't think it will be as simple

[FAQ Alert, ping JDF!] RE: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Brian Dessent >Sent: 22 June 2005 16:36 > Patrick Rotsaert wrote: > >> I need to build a DLL in cygwin (I use a lot of POSIX functions), that I >> can use in MSVC and Borland CBuilder apps. > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#TOC102 > And, as far as I know, using

re: setup alternatives

2005-06-22 Thread Jason Pyeron
On Mon, 2 May 2005 Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:57:18PM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote: > My question as I've >asked before is, can or is someone working on improving accessibility >of setup.exe for those of us who have to use windows via a screenreader >and keyboard. Many

Re: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB

2005-06-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Patrick Rotsaert wrote: > I need to build a DLL in cygwin (I use a lot of POSIX functions), that I > can use in MSVC and Borland CBuilder apps. http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#TOC102 Note that this just references loading cygwin1.dll and getting it initialized. If you have your own DLL that depe

How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB

2005-06-22 Thread Patrick Rotsaert
Hi all, I need to build a DLL in cygwin (I use a lot of POSIX functions), that I can use in MSVC and Borland CBuilder apps. There are a lot of docs on the web, but most of them seem to be outdated. Anyway, none of the methods I found seam to work. The DLL will have to be loaded dynamically,

RE: enscript ... > $PRINTER fails --- RESOLUTION

2005-06-22 Thread davidr
Thanks to Gerrit and Corrina (and all the other cygwin people!) Redirecting to a printer now works as before! I installed the most recent snapshot as suggested (following the instructions in the faq; I had never needed to know about their existence.) I also found I needed to use the SHARE name ra

Re: enscript ... > $PRINTER fails

2005-06-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerrit, Thanks for the reply. I'm really at my wits' end. I can't say for sure if the versions are the same, but the older one was downloaded at most 6 months ago. I've used this technique for many years now, through many versions, so I think it must be something mysteri

Re: Compile errors, Cygwin issue or gcc?

2005-06-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
RebirthSeph wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Rebirth Seph wrote: I'm getting these errors while compiling: $ make psp-gcc -c -Wall -pedantic socket.c In file included from /usr/local/pspdev/psp/lib/gcc/psp/4.0.0/../../../../psp/in clude/sys/socket.h:15, from socket.c:10: /us

RE: cygwin crashes after every ~ 10th command and starts up only every ~ 4th try...

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: D. Bollmann >Sent: 22 June 2005 10:53 > Hi, > > Since a couple of hours cygwin crashes all the time on my windows nt > computer. In order to restart cygwin I have to execute the xserver batch > file several times until finally an xterm shows up. The same xterm than

Re: sshd and /usr/bin/zsh

2005-06-22 Thread Martin Vetter
hi, I can't reproduce the error box, but I could reproduce the hang. I think I've tracked it down to a permission problem when creating a pipe after starting the new process under another, non-privileged user account. I've applied a patch which solved the zsh hang for me. Please try the latest

cygwin crashes after every ~ 10th command and starts up only every ~ 4th try...

2005-06-22 Thread D. Bollmann
Hi, Since a couple of hours cygwin crashes all the time on my windows nt computer. In order to restart cygwin I have to execute the xserver batch file several times until finally an xterm shows up. The same xterm than crashes after only a couple of commands - for example 10 executions of 'ls'

Problem installing CPAN module

2005-06-22 Thread Sonam Chauhan
Hi - While doing a fresh install of Cygwin, I have run into errors installing a CPAN Perl module that worked last month. The module is Proc::ProcessTable. It now reports a "`PID_ZOMBIE' undeclared" error message during compilation. The relevant snippet is below. Back in May, I reported a differen