Re: Your email has been returned by MAPS (was why does no one talk to me about FLOSS weekly?)

2010-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:58:26PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: >Now maybe I understand why this joker isn't getting his email. This type of language isn't necessary. >Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>> On 01/07/2010 06:53 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/07/2010 07:32 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I l

Re: Your email has been returned by MAPS (was why does no one talk to me about FLOSS weekly?)

2010-01-19 Thread Linda Walsh
Now maybe I understand why this joker isn't getting his email. Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/07/2010 06:53 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/07/2010 07:32 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I listen to podcasts a lot and one that I listen to is FLOSS Weekly. It's about Open Source and hosted by Randall Sc

Re: g++: -ansi flag makes snprintf() unavailable?

2010-01-19 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/19 8:06 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Using -ansi generally says that you want the headers to expose ONLY the > interfaces mentioned in the C89 standard. But C89 did not describe > snprintf, hence your compilation failure. Actually, it looks like -ansi means something slightly different when

Re: Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-19 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/19/2010 09:18 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: I think the bottom line is that the the core cygwin developers are good at their jobs because they are strongly technically oriented and, *usually*, people focusing all their energy on their craft don't have time to be "social". Thus they are not

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libxml2-2.7.6-1, libxslt-1.1.26-1

2010-01-19 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** libxml2-2.7.6-1 *** libxml2-devel-2.7.6-1 *** libxml2-doc-2.7.6-1 *** libxslt-1.1.26-1 *** libxslt-devel-1.1.26-1 *** libxslt-doc-1.1.26-1 *** python-libxml2-2.7.6-1 *** python-libxslt-1.1.26-1 Libxml2 and Libxslt are the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libssh2-1.2.2-1

2010-01-19 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** libssh2_1-1.2.2-1 *** libssh2-devel-1.2.2-1 libssh2 is a library implementing the SSH2 protocol. This is an update to the latest upstream version. Yaakov CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO ==

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: check-0.9.8-1

2010-01-19 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution *** check-0.9.8-1 Check is a unit test framework for C. This is an update to the latest upstream version. Yaakov CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-a

Re: Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-19 Thread Linda Walsh
Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/07/2010 06:53 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/07/2010 07:32 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I listen to podcasts a lot and one that I listen to is FLOSS Weekly. It's about Open Source and hosted by Randall Schwartz. They do episodes about various open source projects from

Re: Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-19 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/19/2010 05:41 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Since you were asking specifically for Corinna or Chris to comment, I think you can understand why others haven't, and really shouldn't, respond. Awe a couple of "Me too"'s would have been nice! ;-) As far as their reasoning for not responding

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {rxvt-unicode-X/rxvt-unicode-common}-9.07-1

2010-01-19 Thread Charles Wilson
rxvt-unicode is the successor to the familiar, but no longer maintained, rxvt terminal emulator. * Stores text in Unicode (either UCS-2 or UCS-4). [cygwin:UCS-4] * Uses locale-correct input, output and width: as long as your system supports the locale, rxvt-unicode will display correctly. * Daem

Re: g++: -ansi flag makes snprintf() unavailable?

2010-01-19 Thread Eric Blake
According to Steven Monai on 1/19/2010 8:11 PM: > I compile and run this program as follows: > > $ g++ -ansi -o mytest mytest.cc && ./mytest Using -ansi generally says that you want the headers to expose ONLY the interfaces mentioned in the C89 standard. But C89 did not describe snprintf, hence

g++: -ansi flag makes snprintf() unavailable?

2010-01-19 Thread Steven Monai
Hi folks, Here is a very simple C++ test program that uses snprintf() and then prints the result. #include #include using namespace std; int main() { char buf[10]; char c = 10; snprintf( buf, sizeof(buf), "&#x%02X;", (unsigned) ( c & 0xff ) ); cout << buf << '\n'; // printf( "%s\n", b

Re: Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/19/2010 07:46 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/07/2010 06:53 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/07/2010 07:32 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I listen to podcasts a lot and one that I listen to is FLOSS Weekly. It's about Open Source and hosted by Randall Schwartz. They do episodes about various op

Re: rxvt ctrl-c killing process

2010-01-19 Thread Charles Wilson
David Smiley @MITRE.org wrote: > Mintty is even better (thanks Sven) but suffers from the same problem as Andy > is pointing out. It's odd that when using Cygwin's default terminal > (whatever that thing is) that ctrl-C works there but not in mintty. Any > work-arounds/alternatives? You may be a

xemacs font problem?

2010-01-19 Thread Phan, Linh H (343H)
Hi, I've just updated the latest cygwin-1.7, and I have this problem when I'm in emacs shell (M-x shell): emacs-shell% gcc -g test.c test.c: In function \200\230main\200\231 test.c:21: error: \200\230mqd\200\231 (first use in this function) test.c:21: error: (Each undeclared identifier is repo

Re: Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-19 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/07/2010 06:53 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/07/2010 07:32 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I listen to podcasts a lot and one that I listen to is FLOSS Weekly. It's about Open Source and hosted by Randall Schwartz. They do episodes about various open source projects from Ardour to ZFS. I thin

POSIX regex libraries?

2010-01-19 Thread brian
Hi, Can anyone tell me if cygwin has and if it does, how to get the POSIX regex libraries in cygwin ? Thanks Brian -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Problem with compiling Perl Curses.pm

2010-01-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Reini Urban wrote: > Then CursesVar.c is regenerated by gen\make.CursesVar.c > It looks like this generation got triggered somehow and gets it wrong. > Because the DLL exporting part of ncurses/ncurses_dll.h does: > > /* > * For reentrant code, we map the various global variables into SCREEN by >

Re: rxvt ctrl-c killing process

2010-01-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/19/2010 05:14 PM, David Smiley wrote: Mintty is even better (thanks Sven) but suffers from the same problem as Andy is pointing out. It's odd that when using Cygwin's default terminal (whatever that thing is) that ctrl-C works there but not in mintty. Any work-arounds/alternatives? It'

Re: rxvt ctrl-c killing process

2010-01-19 Thread David Smiley @MITRE.org
Mintty is even better (thanks Sven) but suffers from the same problem as Andy is pointing out. It's odd that when using Cygwin's default terminal (whatever that thing is) that ctrl-C works there but not in mintty. Any work-arounds/alternatives? ~ David Andy Koppe wrote: > > Sven Köhler: >> D

Re: 1.5.25-15: problem with mount table

2010-01-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/19/2010 04:03 PM, Mike Nistor wrote: Just a few minutes ago, I tried to unmount a few mounts I had the previous semester. Because I was not able to unmount each specific mount I had, I instead ran umount -a, which erased both the /bin and /etc entries from the mount table. A few notes: I re

1.5.25-15: problem with mount table

2010-01-19 Thread Mike Nistor
Just a few minutes ago, I tried to unmount a few mounts I had the previous semester. Because I was not able to unmount each specific mount I had, I instead ran umount -a, which erased both the /bin and /etc entries from the mount table. A few notes: I realize I should not be using mount and should

ATTN: perl-Tk maintainer RE: perl-Tk is broken

2010-01-19 Thread Thrall, Bryan
RE: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00890.html Reini Urban wrote: >2009/7/24 Wolfgang Goetz: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Tk+804.028_501 ohjeh.. perl 5.8.8 is yellow for cygwin. there seems to be no interest at all for the moment. >>> >>> I had some spare time some tim

Hola!

2010-01-19 Thread Toyoball
Hola! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {glpk,libglpk0,libglpk-devel}-4.42-2

2010-01-19 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version 4.42-2 of glpk,libglpk0,libglpk-devel have been uploaded for cygwin. The GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) package is intended for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems. It is a set of routines written in ANSI C and organi

1.5.25 cf. 1.7.1: an odd packaging finding for *curses.h

2010-01-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Fergus wrote: > Is this a packaging error (nothing under /usr/include/) or, > here only, has something gone strangely awry during setup? See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2010-01/msg2.html "MAINTAINERS: You must now specify explicitly -I/usr/include/ncurses when compiling against ncur

Re: R: Cygwin-1.7.1 perlMagick incompatible with perl

2010-01-19 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi Reini, Reini Urban wrote: > 2010/1/19 Marco Atzeri: (snip) >> I already updated perl-Graphics-Magick to version 1.3.7-2, >> but it seems you asked for the other Perl-Magick package. >> >> From the maintainer list: >> perl-graphics-magickMarco Atzeri >> perl-image-magick

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lzip-1.9-1

2010-01-19 Thread JonY
Version 1.9-1 of "lzip" has been uploaded. lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm with a user interface similar to gzip or bzip2. It supports recovery from damaged archives. Homepage: This is a new upstream release. Changes include:

Re: rxvt ctrl-c killing process

2010-01-19 Thread Andy Koppe
Sven Köhler: > David Smiley: >> I have been fed-up with the default GUI shell on Cygwin, being used to the >> great Terminal that comes with Mac OS X.  Some googling around uncovered >> that I should try "rxvt".  My experience with rxvt is pretty good, after >> reading online some basic configurati

Re: rxvt ctrl-c killing process

2010-01-19 Thread Sven Köhler
Am 19.01.2010 06:52, schrieb David Smiley @MITRE.org: > Greetings folks. > I have been fed-up with the default GUI shell on Cygwin, being used to the > great Terminal that comes with Mac OS X. Some googling around uncovered > that I should try "rxvt". My experience with rxvt is pretty good, aft

1.5.25 cf. 1.7.1: an odd packaging finding for *curses.h

2010-01-19 Thread Fergus
I just tried to build an old version of nano, a task frequently performed in the past. The build worked in 1.5.25 but failed in 1.7.1 for the first time that I can ever recall and a comparison of output from ./configure shows diff 1.5.25.log 1.7.1.log 78c78 < checking for strcasestr... no --

RE: Windows 7 Pro - rxvt launch errors

2010-01-19 Thread Jim Garrison
I moved aside c:\cygwin and reinstalled from scratch. The problem seems to have cured itself, but I did nothing different on the second install. Oh well... -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jim Garrison Sent: Monday, January

Re: Problem with compiling Perl Curses.pm

2010-01-19 Thread Reini Urban
2010/1/19 Jurgen Defurne: > I am beginning to upgrade my environment to Cygwin 1.7. Since I have a > whole lot of extra requirements, especially in the realm of Perl, I > have a test case to check my software against. > > Well, the second package I want to add is Perl Curses.pm, which does > not co

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-Error-0.17016-1

2010-01-19 Thread Eric Blake
A new version of perl-Error, 0.17016-1, is now available for use; leaving 0.17015-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Upstream changes include: Dec 19 2009 (Shlomi Fish) Error.pm #0.17016 - Mentioned the lack of compatibility of "use Error qw(:try)" with Moose. F

Re: R: Cygwin-1.7.1 perlMagick incompatible with perl

2010-01-19 Thread Reini Urban
2010/1/19 Marco Atzeri: > --- Mar 19/1/10, Wes Barris  ha scritto: >> Marco Atzeri wrote: >> > --- Mer 6/1/10, Wes Barris  ha scritto: >> > >> >> I just installed Cygwin 1.7.1. I noticed that the >> available version >> >> of perlMagick is incompatible with the available >> version of >> >> perl. >

Re: Problem with compiling Perl Curses.pm

2010-01-19 Thread Jurgen Defurne
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Jurgen Defurne wrote: > Dear all, > > I am beginning to upgrade my environment to Cygwin 1.7. Since I have a > whole lot of extra requirements, especially in the realm of Perl, I > have a test case to check my software against. > > Well, the second package I want t

Problem with compiling Perl Curses.pm

2010-01-19 Thread Jurgen Defurne
Dear all, I am beginning to upgrade my environment to Cygwin 1.7. Since I have a whole lot of extra requirements, especially in the realm of Perl, I have a test case to check my software against. Well, the second package I want to add is Perl Curses.pm, which does not compile anymore. I get Curs

Re: Man pages garbled in 1.7.1

2010-01-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 19 15:03, Wes Barris wrote: > > > From: Jeenu V > > > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 02:48 > > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > > Subject: Re: Man pages garbled in 1.7.1 > > > > > > I'm now using UTF-8 encoding on PuTTYCyg and the man pages look fine. > > > Could > > > somebody tell me how to sea

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-01-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 18 00:17, ol42 wrote: > > But obviously the environment variable has still an effect! > Without binmode I get the following error > > > $ git clone ssh://o...@simulacron/home/git/gen-dsp.git > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/ol/tmp/gen-dsp/.git/ > remote: Counting objects: 9

Re: Can't find any info on "eventvwr" or "syslog-ng" or "eventlog"

2010-01-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 18 22:55, Paul McFerrin wrote: > I discovered that cygwin has both packages for "eventlog" and "syslog-ng. > > I searched for cygwin documentation in "man", "info", and the > command itself. I have them both installed, (says setup.exe) but I > can only find the command itself for "syslog-n

Re: missing setup command line arguments in the FAQ.

2010-01-19 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hello again, On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 we variously wrote: > > That's not correct (*): > > Well strictly it is, since I said what would happen if you ran it, and not > what would happen if you _didn't_ run it (for whatever reason that might > happen to be)! Damn. Aced. 15-love. > [da...@ubique ~]$

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: {libAfterImage/libAfterImage-devel/libAfterImage0}-1.18-1

2010-01-19 Thread Charles Wilson
libAfterImage is a general-purpose image manipulation library. It was initially implemented to address AfterStep Window Manager's needs for image handling, but it evolved into extremely powerful and flexible software, suitable for virtually any project that has needs for loading, manipulating, disp

Re: R: Cygwin-1.7.1 perlMagick incompatible with perl

2010-01-19 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Mar 19/1/10, Wes Barris ha scritto: > Marco Atzeri wrote: > > --- Mer 6/1/10, Wes Barris  ha scritto: > > > >> I just installed Cygwin 1.7.1. I noticed that the > available version > >> of perlMagick is incompatible with the available > version of > >> perl. > >> The perlMagick package is bu