Re: Cygwin from Scratch?

2005-07-01 Thread Tony Karakashian
> If there are problems building a new package, the first resource is LFS > or BLFS of course, what else? So besides LFS is missing some basic > Cygwin packages it is already the best guide available when building new > packages. Just rename it;) Hehehe, precisely what I do, too. I figure they'

Re: Cygwin from Scratch?

2005-07-01 Thread Tony Karakashian
> Maybe a better question would be, "Why do you feel it would not be > possible?" Every Cygwin binary package is compiled from source by the > maintainer (obviously) and includes a -src package that should build > cleanly, else there's a packaging problem. So in that sense you can > build everyth

Re: Syslog-ng

2005-06-30 Thread Tony Karakashian
> Dunno what you're up to but I'm running syslog from inetutils just > fine. Cygwin tries to syslog on /dev/log if it's available (it's > usually created by syslog) and there's also a /dev/kmsg pipe which > would be utilized for kernel messages ... *if* Cygwin would have > anything like kernel mes

Cygwin from Scratch?

2005-06-30 Thread Tony Karakashian
Just a random thought: as a long time Linux from Scratch user, I'm intrigued about the possibility of building a Cygwin "distribution" from scratch. Typically when I build an LFS install, I take a lot of time building each package to make sure every possible feature is available (for example, curr

Syslog-ng

2005-06-30 Thread Tony Karakashian
I've seen lots of people who got syslog-ng working on their cygwin boxes. Latest version compiles just fine out of the box, but not sure what I should put in for a source in the syslog-ng.conf? Default for Linux is to use /proc/kmesg, but we don't have one under Cygwin. Are Cygwin installs limit

Re: Build/Compile problems with ApachPHP on Cygwin MS-XP

2005-06-30 Thread Tony Karakashian
> This is the wrong approach, use the linking flag -no-undefined instead. I've been searching for a couple of days now for how you're supposed to do that. Set LDFLAGS? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docume

Re: mounting network shares to make it persistent.

2005-06-23 Thread Tony Karakashian
> > net use z: share\\fs2 password /USER:qadomain\\Administrator > > /PERSISTENT:No Change that to /persistent:yes -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Compiling Apache2 with Cygwin

2005-06-22 Thread Tony Karakashian
Crossposted from Apache-users: For the last couple of days, I've been trying to get Apache 2.0.54 to compile in a Cygwin environment. Depending various config options, I receive various levels of success. The configure line I'm using is: ./configure --enable-module=so --prefix=/usr --enable-mo