Re: 1.5.18-1 gcc path weirdness

2005-12-06 Thread Alan Miles
All, Sorry this isn't from my regular mailer ... - Message from x on Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:33:22 -0600 - To: Subject:Re: 1.5.18-1 gcc path weirdness What does ls -l /usr/bin/*gcc* show you? From bash, it looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin $ ls -l /usr/bin/*gcc*

Question regarding perl and perl-libwin32 using the latest cygwin ... and an anomaly

2004-01-20 Thread Alan Miles
91/Win32CORE/tests$ date Tue Jan 20 12:31:01 CST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/doc/perl-libwin32-0.191/Win32CORE/tests$ The date/time stamp reported by win32core.pl doesn't make any sense - the GMT does, NOT the local - I am on Central US time (as reported by date). ___

Problem with latest cygwin dll ... bash doesn't shutdown properly

2004-01-20 Thread Alan Miles
nent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ezmlm-reject: fatal: Sorry, I don't accept messages larger than 10 bytes (#5.2.3) --- Enclosed are the original headers of the message. Please read below ... -----Original Message- From: Alan

Diff for generic readme and generic-build script to automatically generate pkg data and file listings

2003-11-25 Thread Alan Miles
All, Was wondering if this patch got dropped, or is it on a todo list? Alan -Original Message- From: Alan Miles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 21, 2003 18:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Diff for generic readme and generic-build script Igor, New patch - basically I

RE: Diff for generic readme and generic-build script

2003-11-21 Thread Alan Miles
ng files, since you never claimed your script is reentrant), you should be ok. You can simply replace "${ThePackageReadMeFile}.tmp" in your patch with "/tmp/${ThePackageReadMeFile}.tmp" (or even "`mktemp -t "${ThePackageReadMeFile}.XXXXXX"`", but you'd ne

RE: Diff for generic readme and generic-build script

2003-11-18 Thread Alan Miles
doc/Cygwin/%PKG%.README.tmp file in its listing. Which solution would be your preference? (Unless you have another one of course ...) Alan -Original Message----- From: Alan Miles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 18, 2003 19:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Diff for generic rea

RE: Diff for generic readme and generic-build script

2003-11-18 Thread Alan Miles
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Diff for generic readme and generic-build script On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Alan Miles wrote: > [snip] > 7/ Note: the -i option to sed (quoting the man page for sed): > >-i[suffix], --in-place[=suffix] >edit files in place (makes backup if extension

Diff for generic readme and generic-build script

2003-11-17 Thread Alan Miles
executed contains a NUL character. These together constitute the operation of the modifications. _ Alan Miles ICQ#: 171006836 More ways to contact me: http://wwp.icq.com/171006836 _ pack

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-05 Thread Alan Miles
s/Win200 SP4/Win2000 SP4/g -Original Message- From: Alan Miles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 5, 2003 20:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise All, Just to add another wrinkle: See

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-05 Thread Alan Miles
All, Just to add another wrinkle: See messages: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00203.html and: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00202.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01821.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01823.html I did the following: 1/Co

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

2003-10-03 Thread Alan Miles
All, I concur - I have a couple of private packages that I build, and then use a local copy of upset to create the setup.ini file. My packages are ** NOT ** XFree86 related, and I have the same type of $(cygpath -S) call in my postinstall scripts. They also freeze up this latest setup.exe, the 2.3

FW: XFree86-bin-icons .. believe cygwin xfree86 a "red" herring ... this is I believe a cygwin problem

2003-09-30 Thread Alan Miles
All, Relates to http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01821.html These are the cygcheck files gziped and non-full setup files gziped _ Alan Miles ICQ#: 171006836 More ways to contact me: http://wwp.icq.com/171006836

FW: XFree86-bin-icons .. believe cygwin xfree86 a "red" herring ... this is I believe a cygwin problem

2003-09-30 Thread Alan Miles
message. and according to my emailer the attachment is 777kB. I did try and send the cygcheck etc. -Original Message- From: Alan Miles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: September 29, 2003 23:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: XFree86-bin-icons .. believe cygwin xfree86 a &q

RE: Question regarding problem during uninstall using setup.exe

2003-08-02 Thread Alan Miles
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Question regarding problem during uninstall using setup.exe On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 21:45, Alan Miles wrote: > Rob, > > Thanks for the message. > > However, my "packages" did NOT create these directories - I just wi

RE: Question regarding problem during uninstall using setup.exe

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Miles
Rob, Thanks for the message. However, my "packages" did NOT create these directories - I just wish to mount them, therefore setup should not be deleting them. For example, I mount C:\Documents and Settings\Alan Miles as /mnt/User. Setup should not (and does not) delete the files i

Question regarding problem during uninstall using setup.exe

2003-07-31 Thread Alan Miles
d type system (binmode) H:\CygnusSolutions-Cygwin Files\CygwinMachine_Package_Dirs\dest on /CygwinMachine_Package_Files/Release type system (binmode) H:\CygnusSolutions-Cygwin Files\CygwinMachine_Package_Dirs\src on /CygwinMachine_Package_Files/src type system (binmode) C:\Documents and Settings\Ala

Patch for Bug in /etc/profile script ....

2003-06-23 Thread Alan Miles
est" -a ! -L "$HOME$fDest" ]; then - cp "$f" "$HOME/$fDest" + /usr/bin/install -D -p -v "${f}" "${HOME}/${fDest}" fi done fi _ Alan Miles ICQ#: 171006836 More ways to contact me: http://w

Question regarding setup, upset and post install scripts

2003-06-10 Thread Alan Miles
le (via the setup) mechanism? I found these messages, but they haven't helped me too much. Any ideas? http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-10/msg00955.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg00379.html _ Alan

RE: WinXP username with spaces --> wmaker ko

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
Igor, Will do. Thanks for your input. Alan -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 5, 2003 14:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: WinXP username with spaces --> wmaker ko On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Alan Miles wrote: >

RE: WinXP username with spaces --> wmaker ko

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
Igor, I appreciate your input - >> you can actually *have* two users, e.g., "Alan Miles" and >> "Alan_Miles", That possibility had not occurred to me - thanks for pointing that flaw out. Since, this for me, is a problem at home, and not at work -I would have to

RE: WinXP username with spaces --> wmaker ko

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
e user name) - change any spaces to _ characters (i.e., change "Alan Miles" to "Alan_Miles") 4/ Change field 6 (the home directory setting) - change any spaces to _ characters (i.e., change "/home/Alan Miles" to "/home/Alan_Miles") 5/ Save /etc/passwd file (e.g.

RE: PERL 5.8.0-2 and Haase_Gerrit/1.3/perl/Tk800.023-1.patch - taking this to Tk800.024

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
l Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 5, 2003 10:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: PERL 5.8.0-2 and Haase_Gerrit/1.3/perl/Tk800.023-1.patch - taking this to Tk800.024 On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Alan Miles wrote: > Sorry - my original reply

RE: WinXP username with spaces --> wmaker ko

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
All, I have the same problem (on my machine at home) - However I do have a (partial) solution (I am still working on the final solution): This has to be done after CYGWIN installation, but BEFORE and user logon. Edit the /etc/passwd file and replace the space in the first field, and edit the fiel

RE: PERL 5.8.0-2 and Haase_Gerrit/1.3/perl/Tk800.023-1.patch - taking this to Tk800.024

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
Sorry - my original reply went to Gerrit only - having read on the list that it should be going to the group, I am sending this to the group ... Gerrit, Thanks for the email. I have been using CYGWIN for about 3/4 years now, both at home and at work, and I needed to get this item to work using c

RE: PERL 5.8.0-2 and Haase_Gerrit/1.3/perl/Tk800.023-1.patch - taking this to Tk800.024

2003-04-05 Thread Alan Miles
Gerrit, Thanks for the email. I have been using CYGWIN for about 3/4 years now, both at home and at work, and I needed to get this item to work using cygwin perl. Now it does. >> It was reported that Tk800.024 builds without patching it or with >> minimal tweaks like the one you need to apply to

PERL 5.8.0-2 and Haase_Gerrit/1.3/perl/Tk800.023-1.patch - taking this to Tk800.024

2003-04-03 Thread Alan Miles
versa. I go to the window this creates and select "quit" and all other tests seem to work fine. I am attaching my complete perl Makefile.PL, make, make test logs. Any ideas? Alan Miles some output from my log file: In file included from tkPort.h:28, from Xlib_f.c:1: tkWi