Autotools broken?

2002-01-20 Thread Stephano Mariani
It appears in the latest cygwin (updated just hours ago) that the libtool is broken... I'm using the autotools on a very big build tree, that has over 600 c source files to be built, and some 50 assembler sources. When using autoconf, automake and libtool, the configure script dies complaining t

Re: texconfig and ed

2002-01-20 Thread Thomas Esser
> Sorry forgot to send the modified texconfig. > In any case a better solution to the "ed" missing > problem is to include in /usr/bin the following > shell script, with the name "ed" : > > #!/bin/sh > vim -e $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 > exit > > Don't forget to make it executable >

Re: -lsupc++ in cygwin-1.3.7-1

2002-01-20 Thread Kei OHSHIRO
Hi, Michael On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:04:23 -0800 in article <003701c1a181$4167a850$ec00a8c0@mchasecompaq> "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CGF already took care of it. Update from CVS again to get the corrected > version. Thank you for your mail. Now I get it from cvs. Regards, Ke

RE: Autotools broken?

2002-01-20 Thread Ralf Habacker
Look in the thread "libtool-devel and kde2 - problem with AC_PROG_CXX" - there is a patched libtool.m4 which works for me. Regards Ralf Habacker > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Stephano Mariani > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002

Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?

2002-01-20 Thread twidlar
Soren Andersen: > ... It amazes me that some folks here are so addicted to > reacting angrily and acting like superior, stuffy old > aunts waggling their fingers at disobedient "children", > that they cannot see what a pointless rut they are in. Such psychobabble. Go to your room. -- Unsubscr

Re: texconfig and ed

2002-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:12:44PM +0100, Thomas Esser wrote: >> Sorry forgot to send the modified texconfig. >> In any case a better solution to the "ed" missing >> problem is to include in /usr/bin the following >> shell script, with the name "ed" : >> >> #!/bin/sh >> vim -e $1 $2 $3 $

touch caused BSOD!

2002-01-20 Thread Philip Aston
I've recently upgraded to W2K. Wanting to use inet-utils I ran iu-config, and was somewhat shocked to get the blue screen of death. I investigated this further. The BSOD occurred if I touch a file in /etc: $ touch /etc/abc or $ > /etc/abc Touching files outside of /etc doesn't

Re: DLL And Visual Basic

2002-01-20 Thread Tim
Ok, I've gotten a little further in my endeavors and am stumped again. Actually this is pretty much where I was stumped in the beginning, but I have made some moderate headway. I have successfully created a dl that can be called (successfully mind you) from Visual Basic, but unfortunately only on

Re: CygwinPerl Q - interact with symlinked dir?

2002-01-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Am 19 Jan 2002 um 23:51 hat Soren Andersen geschrieben: >My question is: what is Perl going to do when I run an invocation of CPAN? >Is it going to look in "~/.cpan" and if so, will it play nicely with a >symlink and transparently find the existing dirs over on the other logical >volume? Or wi

Re: touch caused BSOD!

2002-01-20 Thread Philip Aston
Charles Wilson writes: > Go to "My Computer"->Properties->"Advanced Tab"->"Startup and Recovery" > > Then, in the "Write debugging information" chooser, pick "Small Memory > Dump (64k)". Make a note of the filenmae to which the memory dump will > be saved. Then Exit. > > Now, make yo

Reasonable security for remote non-administrative accounts

2002-01-20 Thread Marcus Schwartz
I'm trying to set up sshd so I can offer non-root accounts to people who I don't want to have full access to my computer. What I'm currently stuck on (biggest hurdle so far was figuring out why users could log on but would get a bad mount table -- the default permissions on the mount table in HKL

Re: cvs question

2002-01-20 Thread S.Yoshida
Thanks, Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cygcheck -s -v -r Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Mon Jan 21 05:04:10 2002 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 Path: d:\cygwin\home\vzy03312\bin d:\cygwin\sbin d:\cygwin

Perl DB_FIle 1.802 cygwin install errors

2002-01-20 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.linux
Hi, How could I help you to get the package compiled under www.cygwin.com / W2k Pro. This linux-like environment. Would you need some header file information? Jari cpan> install DB_File Running install for module DB_File Running make for P/PM/PMQS/DB_File-1.802.tar.gz Fetching with LWP: ft

Re: AOL

2002-01-20 Thread Robert Collins
It's getting some attention... http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020120&mode=classic Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs

The Question

2002-01-20 Thread Nguyen Le Minh
Hi all, I have a question as follows; I have a program written in GCC and compiled sucesful in linux. When I use CYGWIN by make file, it introduce "no without file or dictionary: " I only include , it is of GCC in linux. Could you show me the problem? Thank you. Nguyen -- Unsubscribe info:

interrupt failure after upgrading 1.3.6-6 to 1.3.7-1

2002-01-20 Thread FergusDaly
I upgraded from Cygwin 1.3.6-6 to 1.3.7-1 and lost the "interrupt" capability. e.g.1. just at the console, I ran a diff -r command to compare two large directories. Pressing failed to interrupt this time-consuming activity, which carried on chugging away to the bitter end. e.g.2. inside an app

Reasonable security for remote non-administrative accounts

2002-01-20 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Sunday 20 Jan 02, Marcus Schwartz writes: > I'm trying to set up sshd so I can offer non-root accounts to people who > I don't want to have full access to my computer. It was my understanding that you should not expect Cygwin to be secure enough for this, depending on how careful you need to b

Re: interrupt failure after upgrading 1.3.6-6 to 1.3.7-1

2002-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:25:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I upgraded from Cygwin 1.3.6-6 to 1.3.7-1 and lost the "interrupt" >capability. > >e.g.1. just at the console, I ran a diff -r command to compare two large >directories. Pressing failed to interrupt this time-consuming >activity

Re: interrupt failure after upgrading 1.3.6-6 to 1.3.7-1

2002-01-20 Thread Tim
I had the same problem and something wigged out my shell and it was taking forever to run anything. I modified my /etc/profile and that problem went away (I think it was a cygdrive issue), but never looked to hard into the CTRL-C problem b/c other things came up. ;-) -tim Cygwin Win95/NT Conf

Re: interrupt failure after upgrading 1.3.6-6 to 1.3.7-1

2002-01-20 Thread fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net
> ls -lR seems to terminate just fine with CTRL-C. Yes, worked for me too in this case. > 'cygcheck -r -s -v' might help track this down. Thanks for this suggestion. I tried 'cygcheck -r -s -v' under each regime. The resulting screeds are very similar (and very long) and wonder whether you w

Re: Perl DB_FIle 1.802 cygwin install errors

2002-01-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Am 20 Jan 2002 um 22:47 hat Jari Aalto+mail.linux geschrieben: >How could I help you to get the package compiled under >www.cygwin.com / W2k Pro. This linux-like environment. Would you >need some header file information? > >Jari I don't understand this question. >cpan> install DB_File >Running

RE: interrupt failure after upgrading 1.3.6-6 to 1.3.7-1

2002-01-20 Thread Marcus Schwartz
I noticed I had the nano problem too; I downloaded the source and recompiled, and now it works fine (for the record I ran ./configure --enable-extra --disable-nls --prefix=/usr). -=Marcus > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of fergus at

Re: interrupt failure after upgrading 1.3.6-6 to 1.3.7-1

2002-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:39:01PM -, fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net wrote: >> ls -lR seems to terminate just fine with CTRL-C. > >Yes, worked for me too in this case. > >> 'cygcheck -r -s -v' might help track this down. > >Thanks for this suggestion. I tried 'cygcheck -r -s -v' unde

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zlib-1.1.3-7

2002-01-20 Thread Charles Wilson
The zlib package has been updated to version 1.1.3-7. zlib is a standard lossless compression library. This release is now built using the new auto-import features of binutils, and eliminates the need for the -DZLIB_STATIC flag when linking statically. CHANGES: - internal reorg to support scr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libpng-1.0.12-1

2002-01-20 Thread Charles Wilson
The libpng package has been updated to version 1.0.12-1. libpng is a library that provides routines to access and manipulate Portable Network Graphics (PNG) images. PNG is a lossless, patent- unencumbered image format intended to replace GIF. Since the png-developers group released version 1.0.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.8-1

2002-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run s

Re: Not compatible between cygwin-B20 and cygwin-2.125.2.10

2002-01-20 Thread Michael A Chase
I am not the sole source of wisdom in the list. Please address your questions there. I have forwarded my response to the list. When I view this message (Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp") all the backslashes I paste from the bash console window show up as yen symbols. On the other

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.8-1

2002-01-20 Thread Michael A Chase
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 19:45 Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.8-1 > . . . > If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin > mailing list at: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sources: libpng2-1.0.12-1

2002-01-20 Thread Charles Wilson
The libpng2 package contains the shared library from the libpng-1.0.x distribution. It has been split from the main 'libpng' package in order to coexist with the forthcoming libpng3 package (from libpng-1.2.x). See the libpng announcement on this mailing list for more information and INSTALLA

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xpm-nox-4.2.0-1

2002-01-20 Thread Charles Wilson
The xpm-nox has been updated to correspond to the code included in the 4.2.0 release of XFree86. As always, the xpm-nox package contains the DLL, static library, and import library for the X-less version of the Xpm library. This release ALSO contains the X-based DLL, cygXpm-X4.dll, so that older

Re: DLL And Visual Basic

2002-01-20 Thread Mader, Alexander
Hallo, from my understanding during the development of DLLs for VB there are the following important things: 1. Compile with stdcall: VB uses the stdcall (Pascal) calling convebtion. Either hardcode it (_I_ wouldn't do that) or use the -mrtd with gcc. 2. When passing structs mind the sick pa

security with the ftp daemon

2002-01-20 Thread Dylan Cuthbert
Hi there, I've set up the ftp server with inetutils on win2k, but I get a strange security hole. I've set permissions so that only "Administrators" can access the cygwin directories. The home directories are only accessible by their respective users and /bin is Everyone and read-only. However,

Re: sshd and fstat

2002-01-20 Thread Guy Harrison
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:12:17 +0100, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:31:16PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >> >> >> Guy Harrison wrote: >> >> >On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:49:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Harrison) >> >wrote: >> > >> > >> >> >> [snip] >> >> >

Strange sh prompt

2002-01-20 Thread Frederic Darboux
Hello. I have just installed cygwin on my new computer. Now, when I use sh, the prompt looks like : $ sh \[\033]0;\w\007 \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ It seems "\[\033]0;\w\..." is the value of the PS1 environment variable. I looked for that on the mailing list archives and could jus