RE: How to install customised version of cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: hugo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:32 PM > > Hi Robert > > Thanks for your reply. However, I do not want to compile from > source - there is no need for that. All I would like to do is > include XFree86, Tk800.23.1 and Tk:Fi

problem with make

2002-04-22 Thread Jason Morgan
Hi, I'm having a problem using Cygwin as a platform for gcc running as a cross compiler. When doing make dep on a kernel tree, the following happens. On the make line dep-files, the make file reads dep-files: scripts/mkdep archdep include/linux/version.h scripts/mkdep -- init/

Re: vim doesn't quite get backslash-separated paths right

2002-04-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:41:34PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote: > If you run vim with "c:\temp\foo" it complains > > E303: Unable to open swap file for "c:\temp\foo", recovery impossible > > However, it then manages to correctly write the file out to the indicated > path. Looking at strace sho

Not initializing bash: Error 0xc0000022

2002-04-22 Thread wolfgang--onsys . leideck
Hello. Yes i know, i have seen some mailings about that error. All of them says that the application have the executable bits not set. But in my case there are executable. Following situation: I have the sshd daemon running (configured with ssh-host-config). The connection with ssh failed after

Re: WGET <== no CYGCRYPTO.DLL

2002-04-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 07:59:13PM -0700, Chris Morton wrote: > Hi, I'm a Windoze/DOS maven and just want to use WGET. With the = > exception of rudimentary FTP commands, I am a complete UNIX neophyte. I = > have installed the default version of Cygwin today and am trying to run = > WGET -h from a

Re: binmode ? dos2unix ?

2002-04-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:29:44AM +0800, lau bella wrote: > Do i need to change mount point e.g. (f:\) to binmode, > how to do it ? mount --help Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developermailto:[EMAIL P

[Patch] make 3.79.1-5 vpath directive in file 'read.c'

2002-04-22 Thread Johan Bezem
Hi, After supplying a patch on March 22nd (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-03/msg01323.html), I've found a bug in my patch, so I'll resubmit the fix. Before checking on zero pointers, make occasionally crashed... I checked the vpath.c file, it seems unaffected, so the patch delivered is

Re: How to install customised version of cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread rich-paul
Well, I quickly wrote up what I do to install cygwin. The first differance is that I use tar, not zip ... zip doesn't grok cygwin symlinks and such. Anyway, the good news is that setup.exe does almost nothing except install the files. creating the mountpoints is trivial, just export 'em with r

Re: lpr problem (was: Re: FW: Can you offer enscript.cfg file for cygwin?)

2002-04-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Rick schrieb: > Apparently, I've missed some past discussions of lpr. I'll peruse the mailing > list archives to see if I can find a list of other complaints or problems. If > anyone knows of other issues off the top of your head, send them to me and I'll > try to address them. Not much yet, it

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-22 Thread Cliff Hones
Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > ... > Thanks for the detail Cliff. As a point of interest: both latest and > contrib are obsolete - and I expect setup.exe to redownload the entire > content of mirror sites. This is due to a restructuring done on > sources.redhat.com to put everythign i

RE: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-22 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Cliff Hones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 7:16 PM > I was pleasantly > surprised how easy this was (once I realised the setup200202 > branch was needed), and after adding some diagnostics have so > far found that the check_fo

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-22 Thread Cliff Hones
From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 11:29 AM > There is one additional possibility that has > occurred to me. Setup is *designed* to redownload files in download-only > mode. This is not my preference, but was argued over waay back. So in > download mode, *any*

RE: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-22 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Cliff Hones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 9:14 PM > The problem seems to be that setup doesn't set these > already-present packages to 'keep' or 'skip' by default, and > there's no way for the user to find out which packages a

Compiling SocksCap under Cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread jozsefke
Hi everybody! I'm trying to compile the SocksCap under Cygwin. The configuration was successful., but by the compilation I'm getting the following error message: $ make make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/socks5-v1.0r11/server' ... gcc -I. -I../include -I./../lib -I./../

help: info support broken

2002-04-22 Thread "Schaible, Jörg"
Hi, since the last update (last week) my info support is broken. Allthough I have recreated the dir file (FAQ) and all menu items appear, none if them is actually working. Calling info I get now (suddenly localized !?!) following screen: == snip == File: dir,

Porting software HOWTO

2002-04-22 Thread wolfgang--onsys . leideck
Hello, is there any HOWTO documentation for porting software. I'm in the need to port the new tcl/tk 8.4 to cygwin, but i don't know how. Thanks in advance Wolfgang Wolfgang Leideck ONSYS GmbH Fon: +49 (0)621/60-44104 Fa

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-22 Thread Cliff Hones
Robert Collins wrote: > So you are suggesting that in download mode it should not offer to > upgrade any installed packages by default? Or that it should only offer > upgrades for installed packages without cached files? The latter (approx) . I view it as offering downloads - not upgrades - in d

Incomplete/corrupted archive.

2002-04-22 Thread John Daniel Doucette
Hi, I just downloaded the cygwin package and then tested it with bzip2. It reports the following error. I downloaded the single package from another mirror site, ' ./ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.nas.nasa.gov%2fmirrors%2fcygwin.com%2fpub%2f' and received the same error. Perhaps that package has been cor

RE: WGET <== no CYGCRYPTO.DLL

2002-04-22 Thread Robinow, David
> From: Chris Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: WGET <== no CYGCRYPTO.DLL > Hi, I'm a Windoze/DOS maven and just want to use WGET. With the = > exception of rudimentary FTP commands, I am a complete UNIX > neophyte. I = Although I love cygwin, there's really no reason to install it j

Re: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP?

2002-04-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
Elizabeth, Most commercial, non-open-source software is not sold outright, only the right to use it is. While it's true that not all contracts and license agreements are legal and / or enforceable, if you agreed to it, which you had to do to accomplish installation, then unless you bring some

Problem building OpenSSH

2002-04-22 Thread Karl M
Hi All... It has been a long time since I built OpenSSH. When I cd into the source directory and do the configure shown in the readme file, I get the following. $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/sbin checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output..

Re: How to install customised version of cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:55 AM 4/22/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Well, I quickly wrote up what I do to install cygwin. The first >differance is that I use tar, not zip ... zip doesn't grok cygwin >symlinks and such. Anyway, the good news is that setup.exe does >almost nothing except install the files. creatin

Re: Compiling SocksCap under Cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 07:36 AM 4/22/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have verified on a Debian Linux, that the IFF_POINTOPOINT is defined in the >'/usr/lib/net/if.h' header file. On this machine the >compilation of SocksCap was successful. Why isn't defined this macro in Cygwin? Because nobody has contributed it.

Re: Problem building OpenSSH

2002-04-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 07:14:36AM -0700, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > It has been a long time since I built OpenSSH. When I cd into the source > directory and do the configure shown in the readme file, I get the > following. > > $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr

Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-22 Thread Scott Evans
Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, did it occur to anyone that the rapid and multiple responses to > this email -- which, given its tone and lack of specific content > qualifies as a troll by any objective measure -- serve to ENCOURAGE > this sort of insistent, badgering, and rude b

Re: How to install customised version of cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:55:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Anyway, you can find this trove of information at >www.rich-paul.net. Have fun with it. One part of your installation instructions is ill-advised. Using regedit rather than mount to set up your mount table is really asking for

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf-devel-2.53-1

2002-04-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Version 2.53-1 of the autoconf-devel package, which has been available as a test release for a month now with no complaints, has now been marked 'current'. It contains GNU autoconf-2.53, installed into /usr/autotool/devel. GNU Autoconf-2.53 has some major internal changes, but remains backward c

Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:34:28AM -0400, Scott Evans wrote: >Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>BTW, did it occur to anyone that the rapid and multiple responses to >>this email -- which, given its tone and lack of specific content >>qualifies as a troll by any objective measure -- serv

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake-devel-1.6-1

2002-04-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Version 1.6-1 of the automake-devel package, which has been available as a test release for a month now with no complaints, has been marked 'current'. It contains GNU automake-1.6, installed into /usr/autotool/devel. Full disclosure: GNU automake 1.6 adds 29 new internal self tests. The cygwin

Re: Problem building OpenSSH

2002-04-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Karl schrieb: > $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/sbin > checking for gcc... gcc > checking for C compiler default output... a.exe > checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C > compiled programs. > If you meant to cross compile, use `--

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:36:46 +1000 Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Cliff Hones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 9:14 PM > > > The problem seems to be that setup doesn't set these > > already-present packages to 'keep' or 'skip' by default, and

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:55:41 +0100 Cliff Hones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: > > So you are suggesting that in download mode it should not offer to > > upgrade any installed packages by default? Or that it should only offer > > upgrades for installed packages without cached f

Re: Incomplete/corrupted archive.

2002-04-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:13:50 -0300 John Daniel Doucette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just downloaded the cygwin package and then tested it with bzip2. It > reports the following error. I downloaded the single package from > another > mirror site, ' > ./ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.nas.nasa.gov%2fmirro

Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:55:25 -0400 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:34:28AM -0400, Scott Evans wrote: > >Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>BTW, did it occur to anyone that the rapid and multiple responses to > >>this email -- which, given its

Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-22 Thread Cliff Hones
> > First, "Download from Internet". That should have read First, "Install from Internet" The following paragraph(s) should then make more sense. > > Assuming there's already a cygwin installation present, setup should > > examine all packages installed and compare their versions with the > > l

Incorrect file size reported ....

2002-04-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, everyone. I LOVE cygwin. Thank you very much for the hard work. I'm on NT 4 sp 6. Can someone explain why the KPRSINDEX2.DBF file below has the very large and incorrect size? The file size is acually 2,097,156KB (from Explorer). Is there a fix? -rw-r--r--1 dtj011 Administ 73400729

Re: Incorrect file size reported ....

2002-04-22 Thread Roland Glenn McIntosh
Are you sure you don't have some FAT corruption? (or ntfs corruption?) Running Scandisk or defrag with the "check disk" option should tell you. -rgm At 12:53 PM 04.22.2002 -0400, you wrote: >Is there a fix? > >-rw-r--r--1 dtj011 Administ 734007296 Apr 22 2002 KPRSIDX4_05.DBF >-rw-r--r--

Re: Problem building OpenSSH

2002-04-22 Thread Karl M
Hi All... Its looking for conftest, but I don't see one anywhere. Where should I find it? configure:1022: PATH=".;."; conftest.sh conftest.sh: not found configure:1025: $? = 127 configure:1079: checking for gcc configure:1094: found /usr/bin/gcc configure:1102: result: gcc configure:1330: check

Re: Incorrect file size reported ....

2002-04-22 Thread Cliff Hones
Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote: > Are you sure you don't have some FAT corruption? (or ntfs corruption?) > Running Scandisk or defrag with the "check disk" option should tell you. Actually, this looks much more like the 32-bit file-size limit in Cygwin. 2,097,156KB is just over 2^31 (given 1K=1024

Re: Porting software HOWTO

2002-04-22 Thread Elmar Haneke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is there any HOWTO documentation for porting software. I'm in the need to > port the new tcl/tk 8.4 to cygwin, but i don't know how. I would suggest to have a look at the 8.0 port currently available. Based on this you can analyze which changes were required for 8.

small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Chris Metcalf
This small change fixes an interoperability problem with vim in Cygwin. If the Cygwin vim is invoked by non-Cygwin aware tools, it may be passed a backslash-separated path. Since vim is essentially Unix-built for Cygwin, it doesn't realize it should recognize the backslashes as path separators, a

Re: vim doesn't quite get backslash-separated paths right

2002-04-22 Thread Chris Metcalf
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Use the cygpath utility then. This is awkward in the context of something like $EDITOR, which is spawned off by some non-Cygwin program to run vim. In this case you'd either need to do a .bat file, or else a simple executable that ran cygpath and

Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Chris Metcalf wrote: > This small change fixes an interoperability problem with vim in Cygwin. If > the Cygwin vim is invoked by non-Cygwin aware tools, it may be passed a > backslash-separated path. Since vim is essentially Unix-built for Cygwin, > it doesn't realize it should recognize the ba

Re: Problems linking program

2002-04-22 Thread Matt Minnis
Larry, What I am trying to do is guild a library for working with images called GD. It is for dynamically creating images, and I got it from: http://www.boutell.com/gd/ The libraries and order that I am using is: LIBS=-lfreetype -lgd -lz -ljpeg -lpng -lcygwin I have resolved most of the issues

Re: Problems linking program

2002-04-22 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 02:29 PM 4/22/2002, Matt Minnis wrote: >Larry, > >What I am trying to do is guild a library for working with images called GD. >It is for dynamically creating images, and I got it from: >http://www.boutell.com/gd/ > >The libraries and order that I am using is: >LIBS=-lfreetype -lgd -lz -ljpeg -

Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Chris Metcalf
Earlier, I wrote: > This small change fixes an interoperability problem with vim in Cygwin. > If the Cygwin vim is invoked by non-Cygwin aware tools, it may be passed > a backslash-separated path. Since vim is essentially Unix-built for > Cygwin, it doesn't realize it should recognize the backs

Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:35:50PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > I'm quite sure this is not a good solution. It's just waiting to fail > in another place. The Unix code just isn't prepared for backslashes in > a file name to be path separators, they are seen as escaping the special > meaning of

Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:08:07PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote: > > Or better: Isn't there a cygwin trick for this already? > > Well, "cygpath -u PATH" will convert a Windows path to a Unix path. > However, this means you can't just set $EDITOR to a simple executable, > but have to walk it throu

Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:35:50PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > I'm quite sure this is not a good solution. It's just waiting to fail > > in another place. The Unix code just isn't prepared for backslashes in > > a file name to be path separators, they are seen as

Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:18:40PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: >That sounds like something we can use. But lacking the manual page it's >a bit difficult to know exactly how to call it. Can anyone post the man page for this for Bram? I'm away from my windows machine right now, and can't do it.

RE: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Richard Campbell
>Can anyone post the man page for this for Bram? I'm away from my >windows machine right now, and can't do it. C:\>man cygwin_conv_to_posix_path CYGWIN_CONV_TO_POSIX_PATH(3) CYGWIN_CONV_TO_POSIX_PATH(3) SYNOPSIS extern "C" void cygwin_conv_to_posix_path (const char * p

Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:18:40PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >#include > > > >cygwin_conv_to_posix_path(const char *win_path, char *posix_path); > > That sounds like something we can use. But lacking the manual page it's > a bit difficult to know exactly

Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Chris Metcalf
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > >cygwin_conv_to_posix_path(const char *win_path, char *posix_path); > > That sounds like something we can use. But lacking the manual page it's > a bit difficult to know exactly how to call it. Also, can this function > be used when the path is a

Re: Problems linking program

2002-04-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >>ld -shared -o libgd.so.2.0.0 gd.o gd_gd.o gd_gd2.o gd_io.o gd_io_dp.o >>gd_io_file.o gd_ss.o gd_io_ss.o gd_png.o gd_jpeg.o gdxpm.o gdfontt.o gdfonts.o >> gdfontmb.o gdfontl.o gdfontg.o gdtables.o gdft.o gdcache.o gdkanji.o wbmp.o >> gd_wbmp.o gd

Re: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP?

2002-04-22 Thread Chris January
- Original Message - From: "Elizabeth Barham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:04 AM Subject: Re: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP? > This whole thing seems kind of iffy in regards to Microsoft's > position. While Microsoft has some authority, c

Re: Problems linking program

2002-04-22 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:40 PM 4/22/2002, Charles Wilson wrote: >Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > >>>ld -shared -o libgd.so.2.0.0 gd.o gd_gd.o gd_gd2.o gd_io.o gd_io_dp.o >>>gd_io_file.o gd_ss.o gd_io_ss.o gd_png.o gd_jpeg.o gdxpm.o gdfontt.o gdfonts.o >>>gdfontmb.o gdfontl.o gdfontg.o gdtables.o

RE: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-22 Thread Heribert Dahms
No, cgf isn't always mean! Psst, I'll tell you a secret: The default of mean or not toggles with every even/odd release, modulo phase of the moon 8-) Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -Original Message- > From: Michael A Chase [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 18

The Cygwin Server Daemon - VERY LONG

2002-04-22 Thread Richard Troy
Hello again, Last week when I inquired about the cygserver architecture, present state of development, etc, I was told that cygserver is documented primarily in the cygwin-developers email list archive. I am now working on a document that will hopefully serve as better documentation of cygs

more delqueue problems

2002-04-22 Thread Chris January
/tmp/kde-chris contains one file: ksycoca which is locked. I type this: rm -rf /tmp/kde-* the command doesn't return, and after a while I start seeing this on the screen. 681 [main] rm 2520 delqueue_list::queue_file: Out of queue slots 668 [main] rm 2592 delqueue_list::queue_file: Out of q

Persistent process

2002-04-22 Thread Chris January
Often I encounter Cygwin processes that refuse to exit. They leave a entry in the process table (as seen with ps), and attempting to "End Process" the process from Windows Task Manager I get "Unable to Terminate Process/The operation could not be completed.Access denied." The process is running a

Re: more delqueue problems

2002-04-22 Thread Chris January
> /tmp/kde-chris contains one file: > ksycoca > which is locked. > I type this: > rm -rf /tmp/kde-* > the command doesn't return, and after a while I start seeing this on the > screen. > 681 [main] rm 2520 delqueue_list::queue_file: Out of queue slots > 668 [main] rm 2592 delqueue_list::qu

Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Chris Metcalf wrote: > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > >cygwin_conv_to_posix_path(const char *win_path, char *posix_path); > > > > That sounds like something we can use. But lacking the manual page it's > > a bit difficult to know exactly how to call it. Also, can this func

Fwd: Re: Incomplete/corrupted archive.

2002-04-22 Thread John Daniel Doucette
>Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:28:07 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) >From: Michael A Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Incomplete/corrupted archive. >To: John Daniel Doucette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: Mahogany 0.64.1 'Sparc', running under Windows NT 5.1 (build 2600) >R

Fwd: Re: Incomplete/corrupted archive.

2002-04-22 Thread John Daniel Doucette
>Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:02:09 -0300 >To: Michael A Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: John Daniel Doucette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Incomplete/corrupted archive. > >I always use cycgwin's setup.exe (currently 2.194.2.24) to download the >packages to a local directory. Since I'm a bit

Re: I am not going to let Cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-22 Thread Paul G.
FWIW, All I think any one really needs here is to be certain that you have done and checked every possibility (that you can) out your self before bringing it up on the list. Check mailing list archives, etc. Once it is clear that you have checked every possibiliity (there are a lot of

Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:26:36 -0400 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:18:40PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > >That sounds like something we can use. But lacking the manual page it's > >a bit difficult to know exactly how to call it. > > Can anyone post th

Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:24:09PM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote: >On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:26:36 -0400 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:18:40PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: >>>That sounds like something we can use. But lacking the manual page >>>it's a bit

RSH/RSHD Configuration Problem

2002-04-22 Thread Andrews Harold G Maj USAFA/DFCS
Hi, I'm trying to configure rshd to start up the nodes in a distributed simulation system using Cygwin running on a bunch of Win2K and WinXP machines. As a first step, I tried rsh'ing to the localhost, which works okay. When I use the local machine name instead, rsh claims that it couldn't look

Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:28:32 -0400 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:24:09PM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote: > >On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:26:36 -0400 Christopher Faylor > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:18:40PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wr

Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:52:52PM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote: >On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:28:32 -0400 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:24:09PM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote: >> >On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:26:36 -0400 Christopher Faylor >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-22 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Bruce Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 4:50 AM > What if you didn't install cygwin on C: ? It is not a > requirement, is it? I have suspected my not installing it on > C: may be the source of some things being broken, an

RE: Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-22 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Michael A Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 2:28 AM > "Download from Internet" shouldn't care in the least whether > there is a Cygwin installation present or not. It should > only care about the files in the local director

I'm trying to make my own mud, but get this error, know of any way to fix?

2002-04-22 Thread WayharenMudding
I keep getting this message upon compilation... And I've been doing everything to fix it, but nothing is working... I've learned quite a bit doing this alone, but I'm still clueless on how to fix this... Your help would be appreciated. db.c: In function `boot_db': db.c:401: warning: implicit decl

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake-devel-1.6-1

2002-04-22 Thread Charles Wilson
FWIW, pr300-lib.test, pr300-ltlib.test, and pr300-prog.test failures were not cygwin-specific, and are corrected in post-automake-1.6 CVS. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2002-03/msg00054.html A careful reading of this thread: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2002-04/msg00033.html

Re: I'm trying to make my own mud, but get this error, know of any way to fix?

2002-04-22 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:32 PM 4/22/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I keep getting this message upon compilation... >And I've been doing everything to fix it, but nothing is working... >I've learned quite a bit doing this alone, but I'm still clueless on how >to fix this... Your help would be appreciated. > >db.c: I

Odd question

2002-04-22 Thread Daniel Adams
I have an FTP server setup using the Cygwin stuff. I am also behind a DSL style firewall, but all works fine. When at work I tried to get into my computer using FTP and it worked ok. I was rather puzzled when I couldn't navigate out of my home directory(It is a Win2k machine) and into any director

Re: The Cygwin Server Daemon

2002-04-22 Thread Richard Troy
Hi All, I've finally had a chance to play some. So, there's nothing like trying something! In answer to some of my own questions: > + Why doesn't the cygserver run, itself, as a server under NT much as sshd > does? You can do that. > + Regarding starting the server with cygrunsrv: > > -

cygwin postgresql package: question

2002-04-22 Thread Neil Zanella
Hello, I have installed the postgresql package that came with cygwin. When I start the serer it complains about unable to find the PGDATA directory. Does anyone know what the exact procedure for getting postgresql server to run under cygwin is? Thanks, Neil -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

winsup CVS

2002-04-22 Thread Robert Collins
Did gcc use to be able to be grabbed as part of the src/ CVS tree? I'm working on getting a mingw libstdc++ and libgcc built during the all-in-one process (mainly for setup), and I want to be as close to what an end user would get as possible. Or do I just grab the gcc 2.95.3-5 sources and put th

Bug of Setup 2.194.2.24 running in "Install from Local Directory"

2002-04-22 Thread Wu Yongwei
I reported this bug before, but since it was not fixed in the new release, I am reporting again. When I chose "Download" and skipped some downloads, and then "install from local directory", setup will still try to install the newer packages that do not exist locally. Setup ver. 2.125.2.10 has not

Re: Problem building OpenSSH

2002-04-22 Thread Karl M
Hi All... The problem was that my umask was set to 0177. This made the conftest.sh not executable, and so not found for execution. Thanks, ...Karl >From: Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Problem building OpenSSH >Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:32:15 +0200 >

RE: setup 2.194.2.21: Questions about the "per-mirror directories" feature

2002-04-22 Thread Billinghurst, David (CRTS)
> From: Michael A Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 27 March 2002 8:49 > To: Alexei Lioubimov; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: setup 2.194.2.21: Questions about the "per-mirror directories" feature > I've written a Perl script > (http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/clean_set

Re: How to install customised version of cygwin

2002-04-22 Thread Andrew DeFaria
hugo wrote: > Hi Robert > > Thanks for your reply. However, I do not want to compile from source - > there is no need for that. All I would like to do is include XFree86, > Tk800.23.1 and Tk:Filedialog in my cygwin distribution, plus a few > perl utilities I wrote myself. > > At present this i

Re: The Cygwin Server Daemon - VERY LONG

2002-04-22 Thread Richard Troy
Hi All, when I asked: > + Regarding my own hopeful use someday: What is a reasonable approach to > adding the honoring of the setuid (and guid) bit(s) in image execution? > > I take it that cygwin1.dll needs to be changed, but cygwin1.dll seems to > be built of little bits of source c

RE: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-22 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BTW, did it occur to anyone that the rapid and multiple responses to > > this email -- which, given its tone and lack of specific content > > qualifies as a troll by any objective measure -- serve to ENCOURAGE > > this sort of insistent, badgering,

Re: setup 2.194.2.21: Questions about the "per-mirror directories" feature

2002-04-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:17:55 +1000 "Billinghurst, David (CRTS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Michael A Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, 27 March 2002 8:49 > > To: Alexei Lioubimov; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: setup 2.194.2.21: Questions about the "per-mirror

substr

2002-04-22 Thread Jim George
Folks, can someone tell me which package provides the substr command line routine? TIA, Jim -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

SETUP.EXE (2.194.2.24) Download from Internet - Problem or Feature

2002-04-22 Thread sborc
Hello, I download with setup.exe (version 2.194.2.24) everyday a few files, to complett my setup directory. Everytime I'll take the same mirror (http://programming.cpp14.ac.uk). Now I see, that there is no remark if the file is downloaded or not. Is this a Problem or a Feature. Thanks Step

Re: substr

2002-04-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:05:06 +0100 Jim George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can someone tell me which package provides the substr command line > routine? You can look for yourself by following the "setup.exe Package Listing" link from http://cygwin.com/ . In this case, you probably want sed,

Re: SETUP.EXE (2.194.2.24) Download from Internet - Problem or Feature

2002-04-22 Thread Michael A Chase
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:24:34 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I download with setup.exe (version 2.194.2.24) everyday a few files, to > complett my setup directory. > > Everytime I'll take the same mirror (http://programming.cpp14.ac.uk). > > Now I see, that there is no remark if the file is do

Re: Re: SETUP.EXE (2.194.2.24) Download from Internet - Problem or Feature

2002-04-22 Thread Stephan Borchert
Michael A Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 23.04.02: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:24:34 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I download with setup.exe (version 2.194.2.24) everyday a few files, to > > complett my setup directory. > > > > Everytime I'll take the same mirror (http://programming.cp

file contains ^M characters for binmode mount

2002-04-22 Thread lau bella
Hi all, I installed Cygwin 1.3.10 in another w2k machine ( this time i installed in w2k professional). I used "unix format" to install. All mount point are in binmode: c:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) c:\cygwin\lib on /usr/bin type system (binmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type system (b

Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-22 Thread Daan Hoogland
Now that you guys don't remember the subject anymore anyway;... > "Larry" == Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> At 01:42 PM 4/20/2002, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: ... >> Yeah, what ever happened to "because we're mean"? Larry> LOL! Larry>