RE: rpm-4.1 successful compile on Cygwin

2003-03-08 Thread Ralf Habacker
Max Bowsher wrote: > > > I'm not quite sure rpm really is desirable for the Cygwin dist, unless it > > was decided to transition to rpm packages exclusively once setup was > > suitably adapted. > > Well, there are grand designs eventually to generalize setup so that it > can accept tar.bz2 (or .cyg

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-20030307-1

2003-03-08 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi > I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. > This version is a refresh from CVS on sources.redhat.com. > > This release has one minor change from Chuck Wilson to make > --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc the default for `ld'. > Are there no more changes in this release ? Wenn

Re: setup.exe - 2.249.2.5 - Cannot get other packages not included in base install

2003-03-08 Thread Joseph Colton
--- Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please keep replies on the list. > > Joseph Colton wrote: > > --- Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Are your Windows DPI/font size settings > non-default? > >> (In the Display control > >> panel) > > > > My font sizes are all default.

RE: sudo and runas

2003-03-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> At 14:22 2003-03-06, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > >>To Whom It May Concern, > >> > >>Beware programmers named after Roman gods with eyes (and faces) on > >>both sides of their head bearing pre-compiled software. He sees the > >>outside _and_ inside! Get it? He's trying t

Resore my settings after reinstalling windows

2003-03-08 Thread Yongtao Yang
Hello, list, This is my first message to the list, if it is just a FAQ, please forgive me and kindly point me to the link. BTW, I have briefly browsed the cygwin FAQ. I have a copy of cygwin/xfree86 installed and worked fine for a couple of months. But last week my windows became unbootable and I

RE: Testsuite

2003-03-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
I'll go you one better Max: a combined bat/perl script that downloads and installs a snapshot. Attached is what I use to install the latest snapshots; put it anywhere (rename it to ".bat", I had to get it through Outlook), MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CYGWIN THINGS RUNNING, run it, and you're set.

RE: Testsuite

2003-03-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> I'll go you one better Max: a combined bat/perl script that downloads and > installs a snapshot. Attached is what I use to install the latest snapshots; > put it anywhere (rename it to ".bat", I had to get it through Outlook), MAKE ^^

Re: Testsuite

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> I'll go you one better Max: a combined bat/perl script that >> downloads and installs a snapshot. Attached is what I use to >> install the latest snapshots; put it anywhere (rename it to ".bat", >> I had to get it through Outlook), MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE ANY >> CYGWI

Re: Resore my settings after reinstalling windows

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Yongtao Yang wrote: > Hello, list, > > This is my first message to the list, if it is just a FAQ, please > forgive me and kindly point me to the link. BTW, I have briefly > browsed the cygwin FAQ. > > I have a copy of cygwin/xfree86 installed and worked fine for a couple > of months. But last week

RE: Testsuite

2003-03-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> I'll go you one better Max: a combined bat/perl script that > >> downloads and installs a snapshot. Attached is what I use to > >> install the latest snapshots; put it anywhere (rename it to ".bat", > >> I had to get it through Outlook), MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE AN

Re: Resore my settings after reinstalling windows

2003-03-08 Thread Yongtao Yang
Max Bowsher wrote: Yongtao Yang wrote: Hello, list, This is my first message to the list, if it is just a FAQ, please forgive me and kindly point me to the link. BTW, I have briefly browsed the cygwin FAQ. I have a copy of cygwin/xfree86 installed and worked fine for a couple of months. But la

chmod not working on Win98

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Matheson
When I installed fetchmail-6.2.2.1, fetchmail started refusing to use my .fetchmailrc. I think the requirement that permissions be 600 on it is new. However when I tried chmodding it to 600, it stays at 644 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -al .fetchmailrc -rw-r--r--1 greg unknown 864 Feb 1

chmod not working on Win98

2003-03-08 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Saturday 8 Mar 03, Greg Matheson writes: > When I installed fetchmail-6.2.2.1, fetchmail started refusing to > use my .fetchmailrc. I think the requirement that permissions be > 600 on it is new. > > However when I tried chmodding it to 600, it stays at 644 This is in the FAQ. David -- Unsu

RE: sudo and runas

2003-03-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
Gar-Gar, At 03:04 2003-03-08, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > At 14:22 2003-03-06, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > >>To Whom It May Concern, > >> > >>Beware programmers named after Roman gods with eyes (and faces) on > >>both sides of their head bearing pre-compiled software. He

Re: Newbie Question: Tcl/tk undefined reference

2003-03-08 Thread Eric L T Tan
In fact, I got away with adding -ltcl -ltk to the gcc -o ... line in the Makefile. Somehow the ./configure didn't do this for me. Thanks anyways.. Eric On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Andrew Markebo wrote: > Hi! > > Just a quick thought, throw us the command-line that gives the error > too.. And there are

PET scrap

2003-03-08 Thread Samuel
To whom it may concern, It is a harmless email. If we have bothered you, please ingore this message and accept our appology. Our aim is to looking for a partner for long term only. We are a leading plastic scrap importer in China. With own reprocessing facilities, import license, we are buy

Re: setup.exe is too small

2003-03-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Andrew, > > > > I was not accusing anyone of anything; I was simply commenting on the > > general statements made by people in this thread. I'm sorry if it > > seems to you that you were accused. You did read the P.S., righ

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-20030307-1

2003-03-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf Habacker wrote: Hi I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This version is a refresh from CVS on sources.redhat.com. This release has one minor change from Chuck Wilson to make --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc the default for `ld'. Are there no more changes in this re

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.6.0-1

2003-03-08 Thread Pavel Tsekov
The Midnight Commander visual shell has been updated to version 4.6.0-1. This is major upgrade and the result of more then one and a half year of bugfixing and code cleanup. You can find the official announcement here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2003-February/msg00043.html Full list

Re: Problem compiling Perl Tk800.024

2003-03-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Volker, Am Mittwoch, 5. März 2003 um 11:03 schriebst du: >> "Gerrit" == Gerrit P Haase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gerrit> Hallo Dr. Zell, > >> By the way I'm using perl-5.8.0. (Does anyone know why > >> all the man pages and perl scripts in /bin have CRLF's ?) > Ger

Is there a way to increase SOMAXCONN ?

2003-03-08 Thread Rani Pinchuk
Hi all, Hopefully someone here can give me a pointer/explanation of how to increase SOMAXCONN. In the last Cygwin I setup, it is defined as 5: In /usr/include/cygwin/socket.h: ... /* Maximum queue length specificable by listen. */ #define SOMAXCONN 5 ... I need it to be higher (a daemon

RE: setup.exe is too small

2003-03-08 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
> -Original Message- > Subject: Re: setup.exe is too small > > >It is indeed a natural assumption that the phrase "to demand that > >something be done" is addressed to me, that I was demanding that > >something be done. > , relax. And pay attention. The whole thread was > about people w

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pkgconfig-0.15.0-1

2003-03-08 Thread Charles Wilson
pkgconfig is a tool used for managing the configuration information of OTHER packages. This is a routine update to the latest upstream version, 0.15.0. --Chuck To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to you

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:13:43AM +1100, Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: > >=== >- Original Message - >From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Cygwin (Robert Collins)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:56 AM >Subject: Re: He wrote, then she wro

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release ofsetup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 11:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >So, for you to get snapshot access, ask Chris for > >a) scp upload access > >b) write access to the setup-snapshots directory. > > Don't "ask Chris". Go to http://sourceware.org/ and fill out the form > referenced on that page. List [EM

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bison-20030307-1

2003-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of 'bison' available for download. This updates the package to the latest version available from CVS. It seems to fix the problem that some people have had with some .y files, most notably the ones in the cygwin setup sources. For a brief descripton of this package, see h

New setup.exe snapshot available.

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Collins
There is a new setup.exe snapshot. It's a minor increment over the current setup. Specifically it should address the problems with ntsec being on by default, and a recent bug report where proxies that need a username and an empty password couldn't be used. You can download the snapshot from http:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: unzip-5.50-2

2003-03-08 Thread Charles Wilson
The 'unzip' package has been updated to version 5.50-1. UnZip is an open-source, command-line alternative to other zip-format archives such as WinZip, etc. unzip-5.50 is the latest release from Info-Zip, http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html. CHANGES from 5.50-1 o Add fix for an obscur

Re: New setup.exe snapshot available.

2003-03-08 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 11:23 AM 3/9/2003 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >There is a new setup.exe snapshot. It's a minor increment over the >current setup. >From an ntsec point of view it tries to insure that the file permissions *displayed* by ls -l allow at least rx access. When running the new snapshot, please be

Re: Removing concat.cc/h

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: > === > - Original Message - > From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> What is policy for setup? Should we regenerate Makefile.in (and >> aclocal.m4, and any other relevent files) with the current Cygwin >> release of automake, since we are changing it

Re: Removing concat.cc/h

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Max Bowsher wrote: > Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: >> === >> - Original Message - >> From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >>> What is policy for setup? Should we regenerate Makefile.in (and >>> aclocal.m4, and any other relevent files) with the current Cygwin >>> release of auto

Re: I think I've GOT IT! The "Cannot open (null) for reading"bug!!!

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: > I've tweaked packageversion to > use a mutator function, and overriden it in defaultversion. You can > equally trip an Exception in _defaultversion::pick(bool) if you want > to find where it was being set. I'll be interested to know if this > solves the problem ( I

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: > I'd really have loved to have a new setup > release, oh, 8 months back. And that would compile out of the box with > the current gcc. However whats released has been very stable, and the > time to finish releasing HEAD keeps getting away from us. HEAD has > lots of

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cygwin (Robert Collins)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe) > Cygwin (Robert Collins) w

Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe)

2003-03-08 Thread Cygwin \(Robert Collins\)
=== - Original Message - From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cygwin (Robert Collins)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Re: He wrote, then she wrote, ... (was RE: when is next release of setup.exe) > Cygwin (Robert Collins) w

Re: Pending setup patches (Re: [PATCH] Re: Removing concat.cc/h)

2003-03-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Cygwin (Robert Collins) wrote: > === > - Original Message - > From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Igor's error message patch > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00017.html > > Commited. > > I still suspect we need a <= rather than == - but