RE: offline cygwin install question

2013-09-07 Thread R.Penney
If you want to update, or just freshly install, Cygwin on a system that does not have a direct internet connection, then you could try "pmcyg" (http://pmcyg.sourceforge.net). pmcyg will allow you to maintain a partial mirror of the Cygwin distribution, together with the installer program, in a for

Re: Something breaks unattended setup

2013-09-07 Thread Václav Zeman
On 09/07/2013 02:35 AM, jacomoman wrote: > Sam Nelson wrote >> Sam Nelson >> >> siliconfuture.net> writes: >> >> These last three sections are repeated until the retries are exhausted (4 >> total). For the life of me, I can't see any error indicating exactly what >> failed. Is there any way to

Re: Proper Or Best Way To Add Libraries To Cygwin?

2013-09-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thomas Dineen! > What is the proper or best way to add libraries to Cygwin. > Can you use existing Windows dlls? > Can you use libraries generated by MXE? It would be easier to answer your rather vague questions, if you clearly state, what REALLY you want to accomplish. G

Proper Or Best Way To Add Libraries To Cygwin?

2013-09-07 Thread Thomas Dineen
Gentle People: What is the proper or best way to add libraries to Cygwin. Can you use existing Windows dlls? Can you use libraries generated by MXE? Thomas Dineen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: wish(Tk) crashes without fontconfig, but fontconfig is not installed as a dependency

2013-09-07 Thread Arjen Markus
I have very recently had the same problem with pango - the library complained that it could not match any fonts. After installing fontconfig it all worked. Regards, Arjen 2013/8/24 nu774 : > Hi, > Without fontconfig, wish(Tk) seems to crash on the attempt to create > widgets (which requires some

Re: Problem with cairo - missing routine

2013-09-07 Thread Arjen Markus
If Cygwin is no more than that, why does it have Windows API libraries? Regards, Arjen 2013/9/7 Andrey Repin : > Greetings, Arjen Markus! > >> I am trying to build and test the PLplot libraries and examples >> on Cygwin with the cairo and pango libraries. > >> The build fails because there is no

Re: cairo library is missing cairo_win32_surface_create

2013-09-07 Thread Arjen Markus
Sorry, I thought my previous mail was withheld - it did not appear in a reasonable time, so I reformulated my question. Regards, Arjen 2013/9/7 Andrey Repin : > Greetings, Arjen Markus! > >> I would like to use the cairo library but it turns out that the >> routine cairo_win32_surface_create is

Restoring Cygwin Backups with Symbolic Links

2013-09-07 Thread Dan Plassche
Hello, I use GNU tar from Gnuwin32 to backup my Cygwin installation on Windows 7, but restoring breaks symbolic links. The same problem appears with bsdtar from gnuwin using a posix archive format. The restored link files contain the destination if you open them in an editor, but no they longer a

[Bug 64bit version] nss: certutil and p12util core dump

2013-09-07 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Yaakov When running the test suite from the latest neon-0.30.0 in 64bit certutil and p12util both core dump: mkdir nssdb echo foobar > nssdb.pw /usr/bin/certutil -d nssdb -N -f nssdb.pw (core dump) Ciao Volker -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: cairo library is missing cairo_win32_surface_create

2013-09-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Arjen Markus! > I would like to use the cairo library but it turns out that the > routine cairo_win32_surface_create is missing, whereas many other such > routines are present. What can be done about this? It turns out, you're spamming the mailing list. Can't you please direct all your

cairo library is missing cairo_win32_surface_create

2013-09-07 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, I would like to use the cairo library but it turns out that the routine cairo_win32_surface_create is missing, whereas many other such routines are present. What can be done about this? Regards, Arjen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:/

Problem with cairo - missing routine

2013-09-07 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, I am trying to build and test the PLplot libraries and examples on Cygwin with the cairo and pango libraries. The build fails because there is no routine "cairo_win32_surface_create" in the cairo libraries. All manner of other surface creation routines are present. How can this be solved?

Problem with fonts and pango

2013-09-07 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, I am trying to build and test the PLplot libraries and examples (see SourrceForge) on Cygwin with the cairo and pango libraries. While the build succeeds if I exclude the ordinary Windows features (the routine "cairo_win32_surface_create" is missing from the cairo libraries), I get warning