[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: login-1.10-10

2009-04-20 Thread Charles Wilson
login is a utility that authenticates signing on to a system. It is used by ftpd, telnetd, rshd, and various other servers. This is a routine update. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This is the first release specific for cygwin-1.7; the only differences between this package and the simultaneo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: ssmtp-2.62-10

2009-04-20 Thread Charles Wilson
ssmtp is an extremely simple sendmail replacement, which forwards messages to a mailhub (e.g., your ISP's outgoing mail server), and does nothing else. This is a bugfix release, and an update to the latest debian source and patchlevel (2.62-3, 2009-01-31). This release is compiled with SSL/TLS su

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ssmtp-2.62-2

2009-04-20 Thread Charles Wilson
ssmtp is an extremely simple sendmail replacement, which forwards messages to a mailhub (e.g., your ISP's outgoing mail server), and does nothing else. This is a bugfix release, and an update to the latest debian source and patchlevel (2.62-3, 2009-01-31). This release is compiled with SSL/TLS su

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: login-1.10-1

2009-04-20 Thread Charles Wilson
login is a utility that authenticates signing on to a system. It is used by ftpd, telnetd, rshd, and various other servers. This is a routine update. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This will most likely be the final login update for the cygwin-1.5 distribution; future development will contin

Re: Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

2009-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:06:57PM -0700, Wayne Watson wrote: >I finally carved out some time to install CygWin on my Win XP machine >via the RedHat Cygwin official installation facility. I downloaded >rhsetup.exe to start. Sorry but you don't get support for Red Hat's version of Cygwin here. We

Problems Installing Cygwin on Win XP Pro

2009-04-20 Thread Wayne Watson
I finally carved out some time to install CygWin on my Win XP machine via the RedHat Cygwin official installation facility. I downloaded rhsetup.exe to start. I requested install via the internet, and it died somewhere along the line. I then tried again, requesting download instead. I now have

Re: "Error opening terminal"

2009-04-20 Thread Colin Diesh
Sorry, I guess I mean to point out that when I download the binaries of programs that use ncurses from the setup.exe program, I get the error "Error opening terminal: cygwin." Programs for example that I get this for. $ cygcheck -c ctris lynx ninvaders Cygwin Package Information Package

Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning

2009-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:37:01AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > On 4/20/2009 9:29 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >> I just installed the bash-completion package. To see how it worked, I >> typed >> $ ssh >> This yielded: >> $ ssh cygwin warning: >> MS-DOS style path detected: BEGIN {FS=","} >>

Re: DOS programs under "screen"

2009-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:56:16PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >James Calfee wrote on 04/20/2009 02:02:33 PM: > >> Hi Andrew. I have change request for screen.exe under cygwin. I did >> not get any response from the cygwin mailing list. I guess the request >> is a bit too specific. Do you k

Re: DOS programs under "screen"

2009-04-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
James Calfee wrote on 04/20/2009 02:02:33 PM: > Hi Andrew. I have change request for screen.exe under cygwin. I did > not get any response from the cygwin mailing list. I guess the request > is a bit too specific. Do you know where I might direct the request? > > In case your wondering, we

Re: 1.7: snprintf() with gcc -std=c99: warning about implicit declaration

2009-04-20 Thread Markus Rinne
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Dave Korn wrote: I wonder how many other functions would need the same treatment, do you happen to have an idea? vsnprintf, vscanf, vsscanf and vfscanf have similar situation. Markus Rinne -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem report

Re: [1.7] flock change breaks autotools 'make -j2'

2009-04-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 20 17:45, Eric Blake wrote: > I did notice that flock only seems to protect processes spawned in the > same cygwin process hierarchy - using strace to spawn my test program > created a new hierarchy, and thus did not see the lock held by the old > hierarchy. That does not affect the origina

Re: [1.7] flock change breaks autotools 'make -j2'

2009-04-20 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > Because this testcase works fine. I hope it's not trying to do this: > > parent opens file > fork > child calls flock() > exit > fork > second child relies on the lock. > > because this is exactly the scenario which doesn't work with flo

Re: [1.7] flock change breaks autotools 'make -j2'

2009-04-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 20 17:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 20 15:14, Eric Blake wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > > > > > I'd prefer a testcase in C. > > > > > > > > So would I. I'm not even sure whether perl was using flock or > > > > lockf/fcntl. Do you still need me to try and wr

Re: [1.7] flock change breaks autotools 'make -j2'

2009-04-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 20 15:14, Eric Blake wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > > > I'd prefer a testcase in C. > > > > > > So would I. I'm not even sure whether perl was using flock or > > > lockf/fcntl. Do you still need me to try and write a STC, or at least > > > test how perl behaves with

Re: User account problem

2009-04-20 Thread Aaron Gray
On Apr 20 15:32, Aaron Gray wrote: Hi, I need to use a different named user account on Cygwin, ie one without a space. I am using Vista and Cygwin. I have an account created by default called 'Aaron Gray', what I need is an account called 'ang'. How can I go about changing my default account

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: bash-completion-1.0-1

2009-04-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Eric Blake wrote: > Not that I can see. I just tried the older /etc/bash_completion.d/cygport > with the newer bash_completion, and it still worked. Thanks; committed r6446. Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Com

Re: User account problem

2009-04-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 20 15:32, Aaron Gray wrote: > Hi, > > I need to use a different named user account on Cygwin, ie one without a > space. > > I am using Vista and Cygwin. > > I have an account created by default called 'Aaron Gray', what I need is > an account called 'ang'. > > How can I go about changing

Re: [1.7] flock change breaks autotools 'make -j2'

2009-04-20 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > I'd prefer a testcase in C. > > > > So would I. I'm not even sure whether perl was using flock or > > lockf/fcntl. Do you still need me to try and write a STC, or at least > > test how perl behaves with your first patch? > > I checked in a patch whic

User account problem

2009-04-20 Thread Aaron Gray
Hi, I need to use a different named user account on Cygwin, ie one without a space. I am using Vista and Cygwin. I have an account created by default called 'Aaron Gray', what I need is an account called 'ang'. How can I go about changing my default account to be 'ang', if this is possibl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] mpfr-2.4.1-3 for cygwin-1.7

2009-04-20 Thread David Billinghurst
Version 2.4.1-3 of mpfr/libmpfr1/libmpfr-devel for cygwin-1.7 has been uploaded. The is a rebuild using gcc-4 against gmp-4.3.0. The DLL is binary compatible with previous releases. PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.mpfr.org License : GNU LGPL 2.1 or later The MPF

[ANNOUNCEMENT] {gmp/libgmp3/libgmpxx4/libgmp-devel}-4.3.0-1 for cygwin-1.7

2009-04-20 Thread David Billinghurst
Version 4.3.0-1 of gmp, libgmp3, libgmpxx4 and libgmp-devel have been uploaded. This release for cygwin-1.7 is the first compiled with gcc-4 and g++-4 PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://gmplib.org/ License : GNU LGPL GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithme

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: OpenSSH-5.2p1-2

2009-04-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the Cygwin 1.7 version of OpenSSH to 5.2p1-2. This is a minor update to allow a more sophisticated selection of the user running the sshd service. For that reason, a new option has been added to the ssh-host-config script: -u SERVICE-USER-ACCOUNT This allows to overwrite the

Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning

2009-04-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/20/2009 9:29 AM, Ken Brown wrote: I just installed the bash-completion package. To see how it worked, I typed $ ssh This yielded: $ ssh cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: BEGIN {FS=","} /^\s*[^|\#]/ {for (i=1; i<=2; ++i) { \

[1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning

2009-04-20 Thread Ken Brown
I just installed the bash-completion package. To see how it worked, I typed $ ssh This yielded: $ ssh cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: BEGIN {FS=","} /^\s*[^|\#]/ {for (i=1; i<=2; ++i) { \ gsub(" .*$", "", $i)

[1.7] perl5 changes: split debug, peflags, ...

2009-04-20 Thread Reini Urban
For the forthcoming perl5 update for 1.7 I'm testing this: 1. compilation with gcc4.3 against shared libgcc_s 2. I'm testing to split the debug sections into the /usr/lib/debug path, with a seperate perl_debug package. Yaakov, did you already envisioned that for cygport? I use this function in m

Re: BFD 2.17.50 20061004 assertion fail

2009-04-20 Thread Dave Korn
i...@torsten-klinger wrote: > when iam try to compile ffmpeg for wince with cegcc under cygwin i get this > error: > ove_extradata_bsf.o libavcodec/armv4l/dsputil_arm.o > libavcodec/armv4l/mpegvideo_ arm.o libavcodec/armv4l/jrevdct_arm.o > libavcodec/armv4l/simple_idct_arm.o libavc odec/armv4l/ds

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: bash-completion-1.0-1

2009-04-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Yaakov (Cygwin/X) on 4/18/2009 9:10 PM: > As cygport is Cygwin-specific, I think shipping it with cygport makes > more sense. If I just grab the file from the previous release, will any > changes be necessary for the current version? Not