Re: .logout files?

2004-04-19 Thread Jani tiainen
Larry Hall wrote: At 02:43 PM 4/17/2004, you wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:03:00AM -0700, Karl M wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:17:16AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 16 21:35, Christopher Spears wrote: Hi! I can't seem to find a .logout file. I found The reason might be that th

Re: gentoo portage and cygwin

2004-04-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Sven Köhler (2004-04-19 07:58 +0100) > has anybody ever tried to port the gentoo-portage to cygwin? not that i > expect many of the gentoo-ebuilds to compile, but the cygwin-people > could maintain their own portage. the gentoo-portage also supports > binary packages so that you don't have to

Re: gentoo portage and cygwin

2004-04-19 Thread Sergey Okhapkin
Sven Köhler wrote: has anybody ever tried to port the gentoo-portage to cygwin? not that i expect many of the gentoo-ebuilds to compile, but the cygwin-people Take a look at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=27249&package_id=19019 -- Sergey Okhapkin Somerset, NJ -- Unsubscr

RE: seg fault via cygwin1!aclcheck() ?

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Larry Hall > Sent: 18 April 2004 23:56 > >I am running ns on cygwin, and after my program executes for > a while with no > >problems, suddenly I get a seg fault with the following > backtrace (in gdb): > > > >Program received signal

Unix time conversion error

2004-04-19 Thread jurgen . defurne
Hello, I have a conversion problem. When I convert UNIX timestamps to datetime representations, they are one hour off. Does this have to with the following mail (indeed we are now in DST) ? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00995.html I first thought it was a Perl problem, but I now not

Re: gentoo portage and cygwin

2004-04-19 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Monday 19 April 2004 12:06, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Sven Köhler (2004-04-19 07:58 +0100) > > > has anybody ever tried to port the gentoo-portage to cygwin? not that i > > expect many of the gentoo-ebuilds to compile, but the cygwin-people > > could maintain their own portage. the gentoo-portag

Typo in Cygwin website main menu

2004-04-19 Thread Zas
Hi, In main menu present on most pages: http://x.cygwin.com/";>Cygwin/X Home here Regards, -- Zas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html F

Re: Typo in Cygwin website main menu

2004-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 19 14:42, Zas wrote: > Hi, > > In main menu present on most pages: > > http://x.cygwin.com/";>Cygwin/X > Home > here Thanks, fixed. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: Cygwin setup window size, why no maximize button enabled ?

2004-04-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > > http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/ > > > > Hallelujah, a resizable setup program. What a relief. > > > > Now if only it would recognize my mouse wheel... > > It depends on windows to send the appropriate messages. What OS and what > mouse are you using? Win2K SP4, with a Logitech generic

Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-19 Thread Shish
o) An "approximate time remaining" field in the download progress window would be nice - you're got the total size, size done, and download speed; Adding this field should be a single simple equation. o) Cache mirrors.lst and setup.bz2 - if they're already there, ask me if I want to update. Even u

RE: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Shish > Sent: 19 April 2004 14:48 > o) Cache mirrors.lst and setup.bz2 - if they're already > there, ask me if I want > to update. Even using the "back" and "next" buttons causes it to be > re-downloaded Deep disagreement, about s

RE: [OT?] make bash script wait for called program to finish?

2004-04-19 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
Actually, there may be a simpler way than cmd /c start /wait program_being_waited_for /c/tmp> cat t #!/bin/sh date /c/windows/notepad date /c/tmp> t Mon Apr 19 09:51:35 EDT 2004 Mon Apr 19 09:51:47 EDT 2004 1 /c/tmp> Ditto with #!/bin/bash. So (at least on XP) if you just start the program witho

RE: libc

2004-04-19 Thread Richard Campbell
>Libc has as a standard catgets. But catgets and catopen are absent from the >cygwin implementation and gencat and nl_types are not to be found. > >So where can I find either the source for these or a technical spec? Switched to the main cygwin list. Cygwin uses newlib. http://sources.redhat.co

RE: libc

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Richard Campbell > Sent: 19 April 2004 15:12 > >Libc has as a standard catgets. But catgets and catopen are > absent from the > >cygwin implementation and gencat and nl_types are not to be found. > > > >So where can I find either the

How do I link libnsl.a in Cygwin? It is not available in the Cygwin installed.

2004-04-19 Thread Cuckoo
Hi All, I am trying to port my Linux 8.0 code to Cygwin. However my source code uses libnsl.a which is not to be found in the package...! Where can I download this library ? Is there any other package that I can use ?? Plzzz help !! Thanks in advance, Megha.

RE: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: Shish > Sent: 19 April 2004 15:21 > To: Dave Korn [Conversation restored to the list address] > > > o) Cache mirrors.lst and setup.bz2 > > Deep disagreement, about setup.bz2 at any rate. If you > ever attempt to do > > a setup with an out-of-date setup.bz2

How do I link libnsl.a in Cygwin? It is not available in the Cygwin installed.

2004-04-19 Thread Cuckoo
Following is the error message i recieve :- g++ -g -O2 -o run run.o libsim.a ../../bfd/libbfd.a ../../opcodes/libopcodes.a ../../libiberty/libiberty.a -lnsl -lm /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find

RE: [OT?] make bash script wait for called program to finish?

2004-04-19 Thread Thomas L Roche
Barry Buchbinder Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:56:47 -0400 How about the following? $ cmd /c start /wait program_being_waited_for Tom Roche Sunday, April 18, 2004 8:01 PM >>> I've never run windows' shell from bash, but that does the job. Larry Hall 04/18/2004 07:12 PM >> [For 'wait n',] 'n' is a

RE: How do I link libnsl.a in Cygwin? It is not available in the Cygwin installed.

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Cuckoo > Sent: 19 April 2004 15:26 > Hi All, > > I am trying to port my Linux 8.0 code to Cygwin. > However my source code uses libnsl.a which is not to > be found in the package...! > Where can I download this library ? From http:

RE: [OT?] make bash script wait for called program to finish?

2004-04-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:36 AM 4/19/2004, you wrote: >Barry Buchbinder Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:56:47 -0400 > How about the following? > $ cmd /c start /wait program_being_waited_for > >Tom Roche Sunday, April 18, 2004 8:01 PM I've never run windows' shell from bash, but that does the job. > >Larry Hall 04/18

CVS + SSH + Binary File = ^M

2004-04-19 Thread kgrizzle
I have a cygwin CVS server that I access remotely with the cygwin CVS client and Open SSH. When I add binary files to the repository from a remote machine, they are corrupted by having ^M line endings appended to each line. When I add a binary file to the repository from the server machine (ie

Re: Unix time conversion error

2004-04-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:18 AM 4/19/2004, you wrote: >Hello, > >I have a conversion problem. When I convert UNIX timestamps >to datetime representations, they are one hour off. Does this have to >with the following mail (indeed we are now in DST) ? > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00995.html > >I first t

Where to get cygwin's gmake sources, and does it build without errors?

2004-04-19 Thread Sandy Currier
Hi all, [hope this is an ok place to ask this question...] I need to build the latest 3.81rc1 (beta1) version of gmake under cygwin. However, the native gmake CVS distribution fails 6 make tests when I build it under cygwin. The maintainer of gmake claims that FSF does not support make under cyg

RE: CVS + SSH + Binary File = ^M

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of kgrizzle > Sent: 19 April 2004 16:15 > I have a cygwin CVS server that I access remotely with the > cygwin CVS client and Open SSH. When I add binary files to > the repository from a remote machine, they are corrupted by > having ^

RE: Where to get cygwin's gmake sources, and does it build without errors?

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Sandy Currier > Sent: 19 April 2004 16:22 > However, the native gmake CVS distribution fails 6 make tests when I > build it under cygwin. The maintainer of gmake claims that > FSF does not > support make under cygwin, basically only

problem installing libiconv-1.9.2

2004-04-19 Thread Steve Kelem
What's the trick to getting libiconv to install? If I try to do "make install" from tcsh, I get the message: /bin/install -c -m 644 .libs/cygiconv-2.dll $dldir/cygiconv-2.dll /bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/lib/../bin/cygiconv-2.dll': Permission denied I assume that this is because I'm using

RE: [OT?] make bash script wait for called program to finish?

2004-04-19 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
I was actually surprised that bash stopped when I did the experiment. It wouldn't surprise me if it would depend on which program one was trying to wait for, in addition to which version of windows. MS products do so much behind one's back -- making life easier for the novice but more difficult i

RE: problem installing libiconv-1.9.2

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Steve Kelem > Sent: 19 April 2004 16:42 > What's the trick to getting libiconv to install? If I try to > do "make > install" from tcsh, I get the message: > /bin/install -c -m 644 .libs/cygiconv-2.dll $dldir/cygiconv-2.dll > /bin/i

RE: [OT?] make bash script wait for called program to finish?

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) > I was actually surprised that bash stopped when I did the experiment. > > It wouldn't surprise me if it would depend on which program > one was trying > to wait for, in addition to which version of win

1.57 on Win2k or WinXP. Not more than 16 com ports. Differences between //./comX and /dev/comX

2004-04-19 Thread Lutz Hörl
Hello, I want to use (Windows-) COM port numbers greater than 16, but when I use open() to get a file descriptor for the devices I get the behaviour: ---1.case- errno = 0; fd = open("/dev/com8", O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK); -> fd = 3, errno = 0 -> everything is O

RE: [OT?] make bash script wait for called program to finish?

2004-04-19 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
For me (XP Pro) from cmd.exe, both notepad and write detach but from command.com only write detaches, notepad does not. MS must want us all to be like the scientist would wouldn't predict what would happen unless s/he had done the experiment. -Original Message- From: Dave Korn Sent: Monda

RE: 1.57 on Win2k or WinXP. Not more than 16 com ports. Differences between //./comX and /dev/comX

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Lutz Hörl > Sent: 19 April 2004 17:29 > Hello, > > I want to use (Windows-) COM port numbers greater > than 16, but when I use open() to get a file > descriptor for the devices I get the behaviour: > > ---1.case--

Re: Where to get cygwin's gmake sources, and does it build without errors?

2004-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:21:36AM -0400, Sandy Currier wrote: >I need to build the latest 3.81rc1 (beta1) version of gmake under >cygwin. However, the native gmake CVS distribution fails 6 make tests >when I build it under cygwin. The maintainer of gmake claims that FSF >does not support make un

Re: Where to get cygwin's gmake sources, and does it build without errors?

2004-04-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:21 AM 4/19/2004, you wrote: >Hi all, > >[hope this is an ok place to ask this question...] > >I need to build the latest 3.81rc1 (beta1) version of gmake under cygwin. >However, the native gmake CVS distribution fails 6 make tests when I >build it under cygwin. The maintainer of gmake claims

Re: gentoo portage and cygwin

2004-04-19 Thread Sven Köhler
has anybody ever tried to port the gentoo-portage to cygwin? not that i expect many of the gentoo-ebuilds to compile, but the cygwin-people Take a look at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=27249&package_id=19019 the portage available there seems to work with python 2.2 only.

Re: .logout files?

2004-04-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:11 AM 4/19/2004, you wrote: >Larry Hall wrote: > >>At 02:43 PM 4/17/2004, you wrote: >> >>>On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:03:00AM -0700, Karl M wrote: >>> >On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:17:16AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>On Apr 16 21:35, Christopher Spears wrote: >> >>>Hi

Re: 1.57 on Win2k or WinXP. Not more than 16 com ports. Differences between //./comX and /dev/comX

2004-04-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:29 PM 4/19/2004, you wrote: >Hello, > >I want to use (Windows-) COM port numbers greater >than 16, but when I use open() to get a file >descriptor for the devices I get the behaviour: > >---1.case- > >errno = 0; >fd = open("/dev/com8", O_RDWR | O_NONBLO

Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
Haven't got any time to investigate further tonight, and I'm not sure if this is a real bug or some misunderstanding of mine, but it doesn't appear to be how the documentation ("info make") suggests things should work. Here's a cut-down testcase: -snip- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....

2004-04-19 Thread Robb, Sam
Dave, "error:" != "error". You want to use the following syntax: $(error 1 ANYTHING is defined ) Possibly a bug in make, as I'd expect it to complain about an undefined function named "error:". Similar constructs are also silently ignored: $(foo This isn't a valid make function) $(b

2nd Try 1.57 on Win2k or WinXP. Not more than 16 com ports. Differences between //./comX and /dev/comX

2004-04-19 Thread Lutz Hörl
Hello, thank you Dave, thank you Larry. But unfortunately your advice to use "//./devX" did NOT solve the problem. Dave: Cygwin uses upto 16 COM ports, not only 8. I did not compile with open("\\.\com8",...) but with open(buf,...) so I did not get warnings from the compiler. I corrected the exa

RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....

2004-04-19 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robb, Sam > Sent: 19 April 2004 18:57 > > Dave, > > "error:" != "error". You want to use the following > syntax: > > $(error 1 ANYTHING is defined ) > Ach, thanks. I had a space between the 'error' and the ':' everywhere e

Need copy of /etc/profile

2004-04-19 Thread LarrysPCRemedies
I very stupidly overwrote my /etc/profile file. Can someone send me (directly or through the mailing list) a pristine copy of it, or is there a way to get just that file from CYGWIN's setup? (very embarrassed) Larry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

Re: 2nd Try 1.57 on Win2k or WinXP. Not more than 16 com ports. Differences between //./comX and /dev/comX

2004-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 19 20:14, Lutz H?rl wrote: > Hello, > > thank you Dave, thank you Larry. > > But unfortunately your advice to use "//./devX" did NOT solve the problem. No, it can't. When using the Win32 device names, the files are not recognized as devices by Cygwin but instead they are treated like no

Re: rsync question

2004-04-19 Thread Peter Kok
> At 12:08 AM 4/17/2004 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Apr 16 15:44, Peter Kok wrote: > > >> Q2: Could nontsec work with public key authentication? I have granted > >> the account with several local user rights, "create token object, > >> logon > >> as a service' and 'replace a process

Re: rsync question

2004-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 19 15:46, Peter Kok wrote: > > At 12:08 AM 4/17/2004 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >I've send a patch to the portable OpenSSH developers list which > >hopefully > >makes it into 3.8.1p1, which is due RSN. > > > >Corinna > > Thank you Corinna for your quick response. I just saw that Ope

Re: Unix time conversion error

2004-04-19 Thread Mark Thornton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a conversion problem. When I convert UNIX timestamps to datetime representations, they are one hour off. Does this have to with the following mail (indeed we are now in DST) ? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00995.html If you mean that timestam

RE: CVS + SSH + Binary File = ^M

2004-04-19 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Dave Korn > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 5:29 PM Commenting a message from kgrizzle > > Sent: 19 April 2004 16:15 > Basically I think it's a bad idea to mount your filesystems in textmode > and then complain "But it keeps adding \r to my line endings". > Accessing a binary file through a

RE: Need copy of /etc/profile

2004-04-19 Thread Ross Boulet
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I very stupidly overwrote my /etc/profile file. Can someone send me > (directly or through the mailing list) a pristine copy of it, or is there > a way to get just that file from CYGWIN's setup? > > (very embar

RFI: Emulating hard links on FAT et al.

2004-04-19 Thread A . Alper Atici
Hello, I've been pondering over the prospects of emulating hard links for some time. List archives don't show much about it, and I have not come across any similar open implementation on the net. My rudimentary idea of emulating hard links is based on employing a new type of windows shortcut whi

Cygwin (december 2003 version) and strcat

2004-04-19 Thread Martin Johansen
Hi. I am experiencing problems using strcat and strncat. For some reason, these functions do not appent a zero. I am using sprintf for now, but this is not an elegant solution. How can I fix cygwin to handle these simple functions? Thanks! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsub

RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....

2004-04-19 Thread Ross Ridge
> Possibly a bug in make, as I'd expect it to complain >about an undefined function named "error:". I would've expected it to complain about a bad substition reference, ie. it's missing an "=". > Similar constructs are also silently ignored: > > $(foo This isn't a valid make function) > $(bar

RE: Cygwin make thinks a statement can be neither true nor false....

2004-04-19 Thread Robb, Sam
Interesting - I'll have to go back and reread the make docs to fix this in my mind. Thanks for teaching me something new today :-) -Samrobb -Original Message- From: Ross Ridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 4/19/2004 9:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-19 Thread GregMo
Since the topic is a patch to setup.exe, let me restate an earlier oversight with it that I mentioned, and add a new one I've discovered through hours of trial and error... The first of these is an issue with changing the install options from "default" on 'All' to "Install". When you do this, set

incorrect dos version

2004-04-19 Thread Daniel Senderowicz
Hi, I'm new to this list. I read the FAQ but I couldn't find an answer nor a fix for my problem. I just installed the latest cygwin version (1.5.9) on a PC running windows NT-4.0. Everything went OK, and I can run programs from the console. However when I try to 'startx' it comes back with the mes

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:47 PM 4/19/2004, you wrote: >Since the topic is a patch to setup.exe, let me restate an earlier oversight >with it that I mentioned, and add a new one I've discovered through hours of >trial and error... > >The first of these is an issue with changing the install options from >"default" on 'A

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-19 Thread GregMo
From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe > "All Users" creates all the necessary default mount points for all users. > "Just Me" creates them just for the user that installs Cygwin. Without > the mount points for all users ('mount -s'), services genera

Bugs in sed and uudecode? md5sum too?

2004-04-19 Thread GregMo
If you will, have a look at these two commands performed on both a cygwin install and a redhat install, on the exact same file (http://216.40.230.24/part.1) CygWin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/.brag/all-servers/unfinished/1082426201]$ cat part.1 |sed -e {/^$/d} |uudecode [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/.brag/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: exim-4.32-1

2004-04-19 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
I have updated Exim, the Mail Transfer Agent, to exim-4.32-1. It is the first stable release since the current 4.31. News from the official announcement: --- This release fixes a serious recipient callout caching bug that

Re: Updated: exim-4.32-1

2004-04-19 Thread Jason S. Reingold
I will be out of the country from March 30th till May 4th. If you need to reach me by email, please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need to reach me by phone, please contact medical student affairs for my emergency contact information. Sincerely, Jason Reingold -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

2004-04-19 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi all, My whishes for SETUP: 1- In the list of packages include its size. It is very important for people with slow connexions, so they can easily program what to download and in which order. For example you may decide not to download an updated 16MB fonts package with minor changes. Right now y

Re: incorrect dos version

2004-04-19 Thread Olof Lagerkvist
Daniel Senderowicz wrote: Hi, I'm new to this list. I read the FAQ but I couldn't find an answer nor a fix for my problem. I just installed the latest cygwin version (1.5.9) on a PC running windows NT-4.0. Everything went OK, and I can run programs from the console. However when I try to 'startx'

Re: problem installing libiconv-1.9.2

2004-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Steve Kelem wrote: What's the trick to getting libiconv to install? If I try to do "make install" from tcsh, I get the message: /bin/install -c -m 644 .libs/cygiconv-2.dll $dldir/cygiconv-2.dll /bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/lib/../bin/cygiconv-2.dll': Permission denied I assume that this is