[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron-4.1-3

2007-04-24 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
I have updated cron to version 4.1-3 NEWS: cron /etc/crontab must (if it exists): - be owned by System - have the Administrators group - have mode 640. package *** /usr/bin/cronlog: now looks up MAILTO. If it starts with "/", cronlog writes the

Re: Can I tell which version of newlib I have?

2007-04-24 Thread Ray Hurst
Dave Korn wrote: On 25 April 2007 00:19, Ray Hurst wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: In the case of Cygwin, the C library is provided by Cygwin, in the form of cygwin1.dll. Cygwin relies on newlib to implement some things, but malloc is not one of them. Technically you are correct. gcc does n

RE: Can I tell which version of newlib I have?

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 25 April 2007 00:19, Ray Hurst wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: >> In the case of Cygwin, the C library is provided by Cygwin, in the form >> of cygwin1.dll. Cygwin relies on newlib to implement some things, but >> malloc is not one of them. > Technically you are correct. gcc does not care. Ho

Re: Can I tell which version of newlib I have?

2007-04-24 Thread Ray Hurst
Brian Dessent wrote: Ray Hurst wrote: It was my understanding that if I write a C program and compiled it with gcc that gcc used newlib for all of the stdlib functions including malloc, realloc and free. Gcc doesn't have any choice in the matter. All it knows is that there's a C library on t

Re: Can I tell which version of newlib I have?

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Ray Hurst wrote: > It was my understanding that if I write a C program and compiled it with > gcc that gcc used newlib for all of the stdlib functions including > malloc, realloc and free. Gcc doesn't have any choice in the matter. All it knows is that there's a C library on the system, that's i

Re: Can I tell which version of newlib I have?

2007-04-24 Thread Ray Hurst
Brian Dessent wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: The version you are using is whatever was current in CVS when the version of Cygwin you're using was built. Newlib doesn't really do versions, other than a token release every year around December. But that's completely irrelevant for anything relatin

Re: Can I tell which version of newlib I have?

2007-04-24 Thread Ray Hurst
Brian Dessent wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: The version you are using is whatever was current in CVS when the version of Cygwin you're using was built. Newlib doesn't really do versions, other than a token release every year around December. But that's completely irrelevant for anything relatin

Re: Can I tell which version of newlib I have?

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: > The version you are using is whatever was current in CVS when the > version of Cygwin you're using was built. Newlib doesn't really do > versions, other than a token release every year around December. > > But that's completely irrelevant for anything relating to malloc, a

Re: Can I tell which version of newlib I have?

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Ray Hurst wrote: > I'd like to know which version of newlib I have. > Has anybody written a heap walker for the malloc routines. The version you are using is whatever was current in CVS when the version of Cygwin you're using was built. Newlib doesn't really do versions, other than a token relea

Can I tell which version of newlib I have?

2007-04-24 Thread Ray Hurst
I'd like to know which version of newlib I have. Has anybody written a heap walker for the malloc routines. Ray -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: ERROR: bash: /etc/profile: No medium found

2007-04-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 12:22:27PM -0700, intiha Ho gai wrote: >No I am not doing anything complex. I actually had everything running >on my machine. The only new thing I did was reclaim the disk space I >had reserved for my dual boot FC6 and added that as a separate HD. But >initially it was insta

RE: Mapping windows drives in cygwin?

2007-04-24 Thread Jeff Hawk
> -Original Message- > > > > You're still missing a '\' before the \c$ > > I believe /you/'re still missing the reply that already said that on > Friday > and Kevin's "Thanks, that did it" response from Saturday last week. Ah, > the > joys of catching up with an email backlog. > ht

Re: ERROR: bash: /etc/profile: No medium found

2007-04-24 Thread intiha Ho gai
No I am not doing anything complex. I actually had everything running on my machine. The only new thing I did was reclaim the disk space I had reserved for my dual boot FC6 and added that as a separate HD. But initially it was installed on c: anyway. What is even more interesting is that my syste

Re: zsh on Vista

2007-04-24 Thread Seth Kurtzberg
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:28:17 -0700 (PDT) "Peter A. Castro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, sethk wrote: > > > > > I've had some success using a different version of zsh on vista. > > > > In the UnxUtils package, there is a version of zsh, named sh. (Not copied > > or linked to

RE: ERROR: bash: /etc/profile: No medium found

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 April 2007 19:31, intiha Ho gai wrote: > hehe.. yeah.. I did that.. several time :) still no good.. I think it > has to do something with the $HOME getting set to the windows > environment var HOME but in my laptop (different from the desktop that > work on usually) I can still see the same

Re: ERROR: bash: /etc/profile: No medium found

2007-04-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:30:42AM -0700, intiha Ho gai wrote: >hehe.. yeah.. I did that.. several time :) still no good.. I think it >has to do something with the $HOME getting set to the windows >environment var HOME but in my laptop (different from the desktop that >work on usually) I can still

Re: ERROR: bash: /etc/profile: No medium found

2007-04-24 Thread intiha Ho gai
hehe.. yeah.. I did that.. several time :) still no good.. I think it has to do something with the $HOME getting set to the windows environment var HOME but in my laptop (different from the desktop that work on usually) I can still see the same config (i.e. window env showing HOME as c:\My docs...

Re: Can't use ioctl() to set baud rate on /dev/ttyS0

2007-04-24 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2007-04-23, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:34:45PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > >I've been working on porting a simple terminal emulator application > >from HP-UX 10.20 to Cygwin. All it does is make a few termio > >settings on stdin, stdout and the specified serial po

Re: ERROR: bash: /etc/profile: No medium found

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew Louie
On 4/24/07, intiha Ho gai wrote: However after the setup finished, and I dont think I rebooted, when I ^^ Try rebooting? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: ht

ERROR: bash: /etc/profile: No medium found

2007-04-24 Thread intiha Ho gai
Hi everyone, I had a perfectly functional cygwin tree that I enjoyed woeking on. However, yesterday I tried to update it using the setup.exe and installed all the files on the for X11 group to be able to run X server. However after the setup finished, and I dont think I rebooted, when I ran the cy

RE: Mapping windows drives in cygwin?

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 April 2007 17:19, Jeff Hawk wrote: >>> =Keith >> >> I tryed the last method which will give me a drive letter and I get: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ net use y: \\winops-hq\c$ >> System error 67 has occurred. >> >> The network name cannot be found. >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ >> $ n

RE: Mapping windows drives in cygwin?

2007-04-24 Thread Jeff Hawk
> > =Keith > > I tryed the last method which will give me a drive letter and I get: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ net use y: \\winops-hq\c$ > System error 67 has occurred. > > The network name cannot be found. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ net use y: winops-hq\c$ > System error 67 has occur

Re: newlib?: pow function can produce incorrect results.

2007-04-24 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Cary R. wrote: It would be nice if this could be made more compliant, but I also realize that it's not anyones job to do that. Actually, this would be the job of the newlib maintainers. If newlib is not giving the results you expect (especially if, as in this case if I am reading right, it fa

Re: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:53:36AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:33:50AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >>According to Christopher Faylor on 4/24/2007 6:26 AM: >>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:09:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: Upgrading to coreutils-6.9 breaks info, as it

Re: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
According to Christopher Faylor on 4/24/2007 6:53 AM: > If I do a 'strings' on info.exe, I see the strings 'bzip2' and 'gzip' without > extensions. True, but look at this: $ strings /bin/info.exe | grep -A12 gunzip gunzip .bz2 bunzip2 uncompress unyabba .info -info /index .inf /usr/local/info:/us

Re: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:33:50AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Christopher Faylor on 4/24/2007 6:26 AM: >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:09:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >>> Upgrading to coreutils-6.9 breaks info, as it tries to invoke gunzip.exe. >>> This should be fixed in info to just i

Re: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Eric Blake
According to Christopher Faylor on 4/24/2007 6:26 AM: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:09:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> Upgrading to coreutils-6.9 breaks info, as it tries to invoke gunzip.exe. >> This should be fixed in info to just invoke gunzip, since in gzip 1.3.9, >> gunzip is merely a symlink

Re: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:09:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> Upgrading to coreutils-6.9 breaks info, as it tries to invoke gunzip.exe. >> This should be fixed in info to just invoke gunzip, since in gzip 1.3.9, >> gunzip is merely a symlink (and the new coreutils no l

RE: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 April 2007 13:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:09:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> Upgrading to coreutils-6.9 breaks info, as it tries to invoke gunzip.exe. >> This should be fixed in info to just invoke gunzip, since in gzip 1.3.9, >> gunzip is merely a symlink (a

Re: attn gzip and info maintainer

2007-04-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:09:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >Upgrading to coreutils-6.9 breaks info, as it tries to invoke gunzip.exe. > This should be fixed in info to just invoke gunzip, since in gzip 1.3.9, >gunzip is merely a symlink (and the new coreutils no longer adds implicit >and confusin

Re: List of maintainers

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Helge Stenström wrote: > Is there a list of maintainers for the different Cygwin packages? What > is the easiest way to find out who is the maintainer for a particular > package? There is a list, it's been posted to cygwin-apps@ regularly by Corinna, although not for a while. An easier method is

RE: List of maintainers

2007-04-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 April 2007 12:53, Helge Stenström wrote: > Is there a list of maintainers for the different Cygwin packages? What > is the easiest way to find out who is the maintainer for a particular > package? The easiest and most proper way is to post here, with a subject like "[] PING maintainer|".

List of maintainers

2007-04-24 Thread Helge Stenström
Is there a list of maintainers for the different Cygwin packages? What is the easiest way to find out who is the maintainer for a particular package? Helge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: pygtk installs only in python2.4?

2007-04-24 Thread Helge Stenström
"Mark Wendell" said: The current python version installed by setup is 2.5. However, it looks like the pygtk setup package wants to install itself in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages, even if that lib doesn't originally exist. For example, installing pygtk through the installer actually created /