Re: under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

2009-03-20 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Dave Korn wrote: Hi Dave! Peter A. Castro wrote: The offending symbol entries are the following (functions) tgetent tgetflag tgetnum tgetstr tgoto tputs pow (but this is not an unresolve symbol, see below) 'pow' is not an unresolve symbol in this mes

Re: under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

2009-03-20 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, A.R. Burgers wrote: Any special reason for specifying -lm and -lc when building d3.dll? Umm...because math functions historically come from lib"m" and the normal C runtime historically comes from lib"c". And, anyways, this has always worked, up 'til now, and there was no

Re: chere doesn't work anymore with MinTTY

2009-03-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > I'll leave it at just -e, like Konsole and gnome-terminal. Like those, > MinTTY is meant to be configured primarily through its GUI. > Alternatively, its config file can be edited manually. The point is that not all of those xterm command line

Re: chere doesn't work anymore with MinTTY

2009-03-20 Thread Andy Koppe
Corinna Vinschen: > I just think the -e option is along the lines of the -c option for shells. > Every Unix shell has a -c option and it always means the same, even > for csh and, FWIW, cmd.exe. Agreed, and implemented in 0.3.8. > I'd say that emulating the options in the common subset of rxvt's

csih: Unattended installations are not possible

2009-03-20 Thread Julio Emanuel
Hi all (with a 'ping Chuck') Regarding the problem in csih that asks confirmation over the account name if used with -y (*): Chuck, can you look into this? I had already started to edit the csih script, but then when I searched the mailinglist, I understood WHY the 'simple' change of logic in the

Re: UNLINK problem (again!!)

2009-03-20 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 06:45:12PM + Dave Korn wrote: > This is Cygwin correctly implementing the POSIX "can delete a file while > retaining a handle to its contents" semantic, followed by the known Cygwin > problem (a restiction of the underlying windows OS) that you can't (as yo

[1.7] passwd: useless if used with a logged on domain user

2009-03-20 Thread Julio Emanuel
Hi, I've been tracing some problems related to the installation scripts of ssh (more info on another mail later), and the root cause for one of the problems is the passwd misbehaving. The test case is very simple. Log on with a domain user on a cygwin shell. My particular case, it's an local Admin

Re: UNLINK problem (again!!)

2009-03-20 Thread Dave Korn
Martine Carannante wrote: > $ ./testop > Create file > unlink file > Create Again the file > Error Create: : Permission denied >printf("Create file\n"); >if((fp=fopen("toto","a+"))==NULL) { >perror("Error Create: "); >exit(255); >} >

Re: Cannot find SSH in the installer ?

2009-03-20 Thread Aaron Gray
Hi Aaron, 2009/3/20 Aaron Gray <>: Sorry what catagory ? When you happen to know the package name, but don't remember in which category is it, click on the 'View' button on the top right of the setup window till it says 'Full' in front of it. Then you can browse the alphabetical list of all p

Re: UNLINK problem (again!!)

2009-03-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Martine Carannante on 3/20/2009 10:06 AM: > Hi > > I kow that several persons have sent a mail concerning this problem, but > unfortunately I don't see a clear solution in the mailing list. > It seems to me very strange because this kind

UNLINK problem (again!!)

2009-03-20 Thread Martine Carannante
Hi I kow that several persons have sent a mail concerning this problem, but unfortunately I don't see a clear solution in the mailing list. It seems to me very strange because this kind of code happens very often . My problem is that we can't recreate a file immediately after an unlink() of

Re: What is your default ANSI codepage?

2009-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 14:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 20 12:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > here's a question which is quite important for me to know. > > > > What is your default ANSI codepage? Windows supports a lot of these > > codepages, but some of them are only used in rare cases a

Re: What is your default ANSI codepage?

2009-03-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> A minor nit: CP1252 is not "Latin-1". > > *shrug*  That's what Microsoft calls it, ANSI Latin 1 I wasn't nitpicking your original list. Microsoft acknowledges that none of this "ANSI code page" stuff is really ANSI, and that "ANSI Latin

Re: What is your default ANSI codepage?

2009-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 10:34, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > > H:\>codep > ANSI codepage: 1252 > > Latin-1, ok... > > A minor nit: CP1252 is not "Latin-1". *shrug* That's what Microsoft calls it, ANSI Latin 1, in contrast to ISO-8859-1 Latin 1. I just adde

Re: What is your default ANSI codepage?

2009-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 10:30, Charles Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:06 -0400, "Charles Wilson" > > > > huh? Does GetACP really get the "active" code page? > > GetACP == Get ANSI code page. > GetOEMCP == Get OEM code page. > I have no idea how to retrieve whatever chcp says is the "active" code > page

Re: syslog-ng: some packaging glitches

2009-03-20 Thread Julio Emanuel
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 23:49, Julio Emanuel wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 18:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >>> Now, for the part I didn't manage to solve yet: the syslog-ng service >>> also spits this warning (error?) when starting: "Error resolving user; >>> user='system'", but I have the 'va

Re: What is your default ANSI codepage?

2009-03-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: H:\>codep ANSI codepage: 1252 Latin-1, ok... A minor nit: CP1252 is not "Latin-1". "Latin-1" refers to ISO 8859 part 1,which differs from Windows-1252 in that the latter has graphic(*) characters where the former has control characters.

Re: What is your default ANSI codepage?

2009-03-20 Thread Charles Wilson
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:06 -0400, "Charles Wilson" > > huh? Does GetACP really get the "active" code page? GetACP == Get ANSI code page. GetOEMCP == Get OEM code page. I have no idea how to retrieve whatever chcp says is the "active" code page. But never mind. I'll go crawl back under my rock now

Re: What is your default ANSI codepage?

2009-03-20 Thread Charles Wilson
So I was thinking, what if cygwin supported codepage 437 in this manner? Since that is the "OEM" codepage, then we'd have a workaround of sorts if we discovered a need later for the "old" codepage:oem setting. So, I compiled your test app using 'gcc -mno-cygwin', and did the following from a DOS b

Re: What is your default ANSI codepage?

2009-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 12:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi, > > here's a question which is quite important for me to know. > > What is your default ANSI codepage? Windows supports a lot of these > codepages, but some of them are only used in rare cases and not as > default ANSI codepage. > > Right now, what

Re: Does libXpm-noX depend on libintl, libiconv?

2009-03-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Victor Paesa wrote: > The Xpm-noX library seems to depend on libintl, libiconv: > > $ grep ^dependency_libs /usr/lib/noX/libXpm-noX.la > dependency_libs=' -lgdi32 -luser32 /usr/lib/libintl.la -L/usr/lib > /usr/lib/libiconv.la' ... > I believe libXpm-noX does not really depend on libintl, libiconv,

Re: Q: Is anybody here using the CYGWIN=codepage:oem setting?

2009-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 19 21:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Here's another idea: > > If the codeset is not UTF-8, and if a filename contains wide chars not > representable in the current ANSI codeset, use the good old ASCII "SO/SI" > method. > > Example: Assuming the ANSI codepage is CP1252. Assuming the filena

Re: [1.7] cygserver: misleading info in cygserver-config?

2009-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 11:37, Julio Emanuel wrote: > Hi all, > > I've noticed that running cygserver-config produces the following advice: > -- > Please keep in mind, that a client application which wants to use > the services provided by cygserver *must* have the environment variable > CYGWIN set so that

What is your default ANSI codepage?

2009-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi, here's a question which is quite important for me to know. What is your default ANSI codepage? Windows supports a lot of these codepages, but some of them are only used in rare cases and not as default ANSI codepage. Right now, what Cygwin can support as codepages are: 737: IBM737, O

[1.7] cygserver: misleading info in cygserver-config?

2009-03-20 Thread Julio Emanuel
Hi all, I've noticed that running cygserver-config produces the following advice: -- Please keep in mind, that a client application which wants to use the services provided by cygserver *must* have the environment variable CYGWIN set so that it contains the word "server". So, if you don't nee

Re: Cannot find SSH in the installer ?

2009-03-20 Thread Julio Emanuel
Hi Aaron, 2009/3/20 Aaron Gray <>: > Sorry what catagory ? > When you happen to know the package name, but don't remember in which category is it, click on the 'View' button on the top right of the setup window till it says 'Full' in front of it. Then you can browse the alphabetical list of all p

Any Cygwin tool to change .exe subsystem type ?

2009-03-20 Thread Christian Franke
Is there any tool in the Cygwin distro that allows to change subsystem type (Console, GUI, ...) of an already linked .exe ? Same operation as e.g. 'editbin /subsystem:windows ...', but without the need to have MS tools installed. -- Christian Franke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

Does libXpm-noX depend on libintl, libiconv?

2009-03-20 Thread Victor Paesa
Hi, The Xpm-noX library seems to depend on libintl, libiconv: $ grep ^dependency_libs /usr/lib/noX/libXpm-noX.la dependency_libs=' -lgdi32 -luser32 /usr/lib/libintl.la -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/libiconv.la' But cygcheck reports it does not: $ cygcheck /bin/cygXpm-noX-4.dll C:\cygwin17\bin\cygXpm-noX