RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-4.2a-1

2002-01-14 Thread Morrison, John
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Note to python, postgres, and units maintainers: >Binaries within your packages are linked against > cygreadline5.dll. I > have taken the following actions: > > units: didn't include readline in the requires: field (although it > shoul

segfault with xemacs 21.4.6/cygwin, setup.exe distribution, re_match_2_internal

2002-01-14 Thread Henry S. Thompson
resultSun.htm.gz Description: fontification crash provoker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg

2002-01-14 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Soren Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 3:17 PM > - can one safely assume that a noobie who finds Cygwin grasps that the > tools that are packed with cygwin (bash, login, man, for example) aren't > specific to Cygwin at all but long

Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg

2002-01-14 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Monday 14 Jan 02, Robert Collins writes: > > The task (of writing up re-directions for some of these categories or > > inquiries) can be done once, -- to set up more precise explanations > and > > info at the site; or it can be done as its been done, repeated over > and > > over again as simila

Resource leak in CYGWIN or /bin/sh?

2002-01-14 Thread Frank Wuebbeling
Hi, I've been using CYGWIN for about a year with excellent results for some times, when it stopped working. My systems are varying, typically Windows98SE with something from 128MB to 512MB of memory, with a fixed virtual memory of roughly 512MB. The latest test I tried was a full install yesterda

Re: Cross compiler

2002-01-14 Thread ROLAND
--- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Get cygwin-1.3.6-6.tar.bz2 and > w32api-20010520-1.tar.bz2, or newer. > You don't have to ask everything, you can look at > the scripts; plus > they're more accurate than I am :-) Does anybody have an URL for these??? _

tetex installation error: texconfig init fails

2002-01-14 Thread Marko Loparic
Hi! I am not managing to get tetex installed. The step `texconfig init' fails. Below I have copied the quick installation help in /usr/doc/Cygwin/tetex-beta20001218.README and the results I have got # Quick Installation: # # Here is an overview of a typical installation: # # 1] install the

problem with perl 5.6.1-2 and cpan

2002-01-14 Thread Teun Burgers
Hello, when downloading anything (include the index files) with cpan (perl -MCPAN -e shell) with 5.6.1-2, all download methods (LWP, Net::FTP, etc) will hang. If I go back to 5.6.1-1 everything works fine. I use windows 98SE. It happens on two systems I am using, one with a firewall and one with

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-14 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Earnie Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 1) `gcc -mno-cygwin' is not a cross compile. > > 2) it is possible to emulate a cross build system using a scripted > `gcc > > -mno-cygwin' and symlinks. > > 3) `gcc -mno-cygwin' switches the bu

Problem with cygwin.bat

2002-01-14 Thread Heimo Ponnath
Sorry for this stupid question, but I did not find a way to solve the problem myself. I work with Windows NT 4.0 SP 6a and the actual cygwin (just some minutes ago updated) distribution. Some weeks ago, I changed the way, windows reacts when I click onto a desktop-icon which stands for a .bat

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-14 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jon Leichter wrote: > > > > > Using Robert's invocation WOULD put configure in cross-compile mode. > > But > > > since using Cygwin GCC to generate MinGW is ALMOST like a > > cross-compile, it > > > will work out ok. In fact, one compelling reason to use Robert's > > method is > > > because one

Re: Ash spawning win32 programs (was Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...)

2002-01-14 Thread Andy Piper
At 10:50 AM 1/12/2002 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >Have you tried the latest snapshot and confirmed that this still occurs? Yes, this is with the latest snapshot. I actually haven't upgraded past 1.3.2 because the problems (like this) get worse from then on (using bash as /bin/sh being the onl

AW: Problem with cygwin.bat

2002-01-14 Thread KRISTOF . DOFFING
Hallo Heimo. If you just want to repair your Windows settings: My Machine says: open: "%1" %* Bearbeiten: C:\WINNT\System32\NOTEPAD.EXE Print: C:\WINNT\System32\NOTEPAD.EXE /p Sorry to all non-germans to bother you with german words. Kristof Doffing Lufthansa Systems Airline Services GmbH, FRA A

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-4.2a-1

2002-01-14 Thread Jason Tishler
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:08:54PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:47:00PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > >postgres: this setup hint is absolutely incomplete. It has no sdesc, > >ldesc, category, OR requires. I made no changes -- the maintainer needs > >to generat

Re: AW: Problem with cygwin.bat

2002-01-14 Thread Heimo Ponnath
Hi Kristof, Am Montag, 14. Januar 2002 15:08 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > If you just want to repair your Windows settings: > My Machine says: > open: "%1" %* This solution does not work for me. When I change the entry in program for open from: C:\WINNT\system32\Cmd.exe["%1"] to "%1" %* a

Re: Windows question (was Problem with cygwin.bat)

2002-01-14 Thread Keith Starsmeare
> Sorry for this stupid question, You forgot to mention "completely off topic" and maybe "inappropriate for this list" too. Keith -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.

Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg

2002-01-14 Thread Tim Prince
Robert Collins wrote: > >>given with Cygwin run the same 'on cygwin' as they do on any >> > Uni* -like > >>platform (and therefore general documentation 'out there' will apply >> > too), > >>From experience on this list, I can assert that this is an unsafe > assumption. Many many many question

Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg

2002-01-14 Thread Fractal A.
Here is a good place to look for info about flex. I found some good stuff about bison there. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ Have you ever tried using Daves Quick Search Bar? It's a convenient helpful search tool. http://notesbydave.com/toolbar/searchdoc.htm --- Tim Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: segfault with xemacs 21.4.6/cygwin, setup.exe distribution, re_match_2_internal

2002-01-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
I don't know what this is but I'm not going to to run an executable which has no description. cgf On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:35:46AM +, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Document

Need help Accessing a NAN

2002-01-14 Thread norm
Under Linux I do: include ... reciprocal=NAN; When I try to compile this under cygwin, gcc complains that NAN is undefined. Under cygwin, "man nan", tells me about a function named nan(), also using math.h. When I try to use it, gcc complains about an implicit declaration of nan(). I

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Earnie Boyd > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 5:43 AM > To: Robert Collins > Cc: Jon Leichter; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > You need to na

cvs server

2002-01-14 Thread Guy SMADJA
Hello, I try to run cvs as server in my windows 98 computer, so that it can accept connection from the net. Somebody can help me, Thanks a lot, Guy ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Courrier :

RE: rebase for setup (curl)

2002-01-14 Thread Roth, Kevin P.
One more follow-up: I'm not sure what I did, however I tried it while logged in as an administrative user on my Win2K box (where all this started). It built re-basable. So, I tried again while logged in as a non-admin (same test as I ran nearer the start of this thread). But this time, it builds

Re: cvs server

2002-01-14 Thread Charles Wilson
STFMLA. RTFM. --Chuck Guy SMADJA wrote: > Hello, > > I try to run cvs as server in my windows 98 computer, > so that it can accept connection from the net. > > Somebody can help me, > > Thanks a lot, > > Guy > > > ___ > Do You Yahoo!

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2002-01-14 Thread sanwa
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Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg

2002-01-14 Thread Soren Andersen
On 14 Jan 2002 at 7:59, Tim Prince wrote: > And, without experience specific to Cygwin, no one knows exactly which > variations on the standard behavior of free software will apply on Cygwin. I was hoping and expecting that someone would make this observation. It's one that I think is importa

RE: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg

2002-01-14 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Soren Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > So what I am addressing is a perceived (on my part) need for Soren, this is *discussing* it, if you wish to address it, then contribute a patch - to the web site, the FAQ - wherever you think it should go. I don't

Re: Documenting heap_chunk_in_mb

2002-01-14 Thread mike stump
I saw that you were twisting in the wind with setting the registry setting. I found out how, so I thought I would share. In older releases, such as b19, the registery setting was a DWORD setting called HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygnus Solutions/CYGWIN.DLL setup/b15.0/heap_chunk_in_mb, in the 1

Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg

2002-01-14 Thread Soren Andersen
On 14 Jan 2002 at 21:32, Robert Collins wrote: > contribute patches. Contribute the links *you know* (come on' after more > than a years use you must have collected a few useful links). Don't worry > about whether they are the best links, that's what open source doco is for! Well, yes, exactly!

RE: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg

2002-01-14 Thread Soren Andersen
On 15 Jan 2002 at 10:41, Robert Collins wrote: > Soren, this is *discussing* it, if you wish to address it, then > contribute a patch - to the web site, the FAQ - wherever you think it > should go. I'll get to work on it, for sure. > I don't say this to cut short the discussion, but because no-

Re: Documenting heap_chunk_in_mb

2002-01-14 Thread Randall R Schulz
Mike, Not at all. I don't give up easily, and I definitely found out what I needed to know and the registry setting worked as it was supposed to. In fact, the message you found was not about me having trouble increasing the Cygwin heap allocation, but rather about my need for help in adding th

Re: Need help Accessing a NAN

2002-01-14 Thread norm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Under Linux I do: > >include >... >reciprocal=NAN; > > >When I try to compile this under cygwin, gcc complains that NAN is undefined. > >Under cygwin, "man nan", tells me about a function named nan(), also using math.h. >When I try to use it, gcc complains about an impl

Re: Documenting heap_chunk_in_mb

2002-01-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:58:37PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >I did not, however, get any answers about the mechanics of the >documentation process, so my offer to help fill in this particular lacuna >went essentially unclaimed. > >So it goes... The source code for the documentation is inc

openssh issue with UID's over 65535

2002-01-14 Thread Mark Bradshaw
I have an issue with openssh and UID's over 65535. Similar things were discussed a bit back, but this is slightly different. Seems that sshd will die when a user with a UID too high logs in. The root cause of this is cygwin's use of an unsigned short for uid_t, instead of an integer. As the UI

Re: libtool-devel and kde2

2002-01-14 Thread Charles Wilson
1) This discussion should be on-list. I've copied this to the cygwin mailing list. 2) Ummm...you're not USING libtool-devel. You have deliberately overriden the auto-version detection, and are using /usr/autotool/stable/* for both "stable" and "devel" projects. (You set the environment v

RE: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg Has Been Reorged

2002-01-14 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Robert Collins > > > -Original Message- > > From: Soren Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > So what I am addressing is a perceived (on my part) need for > > Soren, this is *discussing* it,

Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg Has Been Reorged

2002-01-14 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Uh, guys: http://cygwin.com/lists.html. Cool - Soren, you're off the hook :}. > Pretty well done, whoever did it. And it's been up since at least the crack of > noon. Yes, CVS will tell if you're interested. I haven'