Re: CygWine 1.0 Beta -- an new cygwin package manager

2009-02-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Warren Young wrote: Brant Young wrote: I have launched a opensource project -- CygWine ( a cygwin package management utility, project homepage: http://cygwine.googlecode.com ) My initial thought on seeing the name is that it was a port of Wine to Cygwin, which would be tres silly. It's got my

Re: RFE: CygWinDir in ENV

2009-02-13 Thread Linda Walsh
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Tim McDaniel wrote: You did mention ] HKLM/Software/Cygwin/setup, the "rootdir" value. But you noted that that is in version 1.7. This would work for 1.5 as well if someone back-ported the 1.7 change. --- Several shell scripts are called by setup, but I'm

ANNOUNCING allmydata.org "Tahoe", the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.3

2009-02-13 Thread zooko
Folks: We maintain a cygwin buildbot on http://allmydata.org/buildbot so that we're sure this p2p disk-sharing system always passes all tests on cygwin. Please try it out and let us know what you think. Regards, Zooko ANNOUNCING allmydata.org "Tahoe", the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.3

Conjoining Setup & CygWine & Some Other Requirements. Was: Re: CygWine 1.0 Beta -- an new cygwin package manager

2009-02-13 Thread Lee D.Rothstein
I found Brant & Warren Young and Dave Korn, et al's comments about a possible conjoined 'setup', and the unfortunately named (& soon to be renamed -- TYVM), 'cygwine', and the requirements thereto (;-)), to be right to the point. I would like to suggest two new features for the setup/command line

Re: replying to digest message?

2009-02-13 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2009-02-13 21:33Z, Jody Burnett wrote: > How do you reply to the messages within the digest message > so that it is linked to the original? Here's one technique: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-01/msg00512.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?

2009-02-13 Thread Lee D.Rothstein
It's not like in Windows where you can add something to the linux-registry, "/etc", or path-specific part "/etc/profile.d" and have other apps pick up this information. It would make more sense to put it in a registry environment variable. What do you think? 'setx.exe' a CLI utility o

replying to digest message?

2009-02-13 Thread Jody Burnett
How do you reply to the messages within the digest message so that it is linked to the original? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: htt

Re: help compiling openssh

2009-02-13 Thread Jody Burnett
That worked...installed the libwrap-devel and configure worked no problem...next i created the my-openssh.tar.bz2. How do you unpack this archive without overwriting the folder permissions of bin, var etc? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New documentation available

2009-02-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 13 10:15, Nahor wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Bugfixes and enhancements in the form of patches (diff -u) are welcome. > > Not a patch but easy enough to find: > > [A brief history of the Cygwin project] > "the 1.7 release in 2008" > => 2009 Fixed. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinsch

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New documentation available

2009-02-13 Thread Nahor
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Bugfixes and enhancements in the form of patches (diff -u) are welcome. Not a patch but easy enough to find: [A brief history of the Cygwin project] "the 1.7 release in 2008" => 2009 Cheers, Nahor -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

Re: [1.7] New documentation available

2009-02-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 13 10:03, Tim McDaniel wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> - The User's Guide. It should be fairly complete now. >> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html >> >> - The API reference. ... >> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html >> >> - The n

Re: [1.7] New documentation available

2009-02-13 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote: - The User's Guide. It should be fairly complete now. http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html - The API reference. ... http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html - The new FAQ. ... http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.html Many

bash fails on Windows 2008 (x86 architecture only)

2009-02-13 Thread Martine Carannante
Hi I have installed CYGWIN version CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.5.25 on a Windows 2008 x86 and x64 architectures The command bash works very well on Windows 2008 x64 architecture but fails on x86. When I launch bash on Windows 2008 *(*x86) , I have the following errors: ..>bash 2 [main] bash 35

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New documentation available

2009-02-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I made all of the latest version of the Cygwin 1.7 documentation available on cygwin.com. It consists of three parts: - The User's Guide. It should be fairly complete now. For online reading: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html To fetch a local copy as one single, gz

Re: help compiling openssh

2009-02-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 13 02:05, Jody Burnett wrote: > When i run configure openssh 5.1p1-10 (source from cygwin setup) with the > following command > > $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir='${sbindir}' > --localstatedir=/var --datadir='${prefix}/share' --mandir='${datadir}/man' > --infod

Re: 1.7.0 /cygdrive text/binary behavior

2009-02-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 12 14:34, Garber, Dave (GE Infra, Energy, Non-GE) wrote: > Hi, > > I've been testing out the 1.7.0-40 release and noticed an odd behavior > with /cygdrive. Without any modifications, when I try to run a script > from /cygdrive/v, I get errors due to the trail '\r' characters. This > is ex

help compiling openssh

2009-02-13 Thread Jody Burnett
When i run configure openssh 5.1p1-10 (source from cygwin setup) with the following command $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir='${sbindir}' --localstatedir=/var --datadir='${prefix}/share' --mandir='${datadir}/man' --infodir='${datadir}/info' --with-tcp_wrappers i get a