Re: libtool-1.5.6-3, export-symbols-regex bug?

2004-09-12 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Please see: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00607.html Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. In Chuck's reply to the cygwin list he says he'll look into this. I haven't seen any further reply from him yet, neither on the cygwin list nor on the libtool

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.11-1

2004-09-12 Thread Bjørn-Helge Mevik
Christopher Faylor writes: > > "I've rotated the tires on the car." > > "Unfortunately, this does not solve the problem of the oil leak." > > Well, duh. It was meantioned that the update would fix problems that, to my obviously insufficient knowledge of MS Windows and Cygwin internals, sounded lik

cygwin glib/g_module_build_path

2004-09-12 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi Gerrit, Using libtool under cygwin, it is quite common that a shared library (eg. cygfoo.dll) is installed in a different directory than the libtool library (eg. libfoo.la). libfoo.la would then point to the location of the actual DLL: # The name that we can dlopen(3). dlname='../bin/cygxfce

"minimal cygwin ?"

2004-09-12 Thread Michael Arndt
Hello *, Has anyone tailored a "minimal cywin install" with just the absolutely "required" cygwin components ? Explanation: I'd like to distribute cygwin to a farm of older nt systems with restricted discspace My favorite approach would be, to distribute a "minimal syste

Re: sundry & using rootfs as cygwin-root

2004-09-12 Thread Don Sharp
I have found that giving cygwin its own partition and setting / to the root of the volume gives the best of all worlds for me. I have also used systems with a LETTER:/cygwin and experienced no unexpected or inconvenient behaviour. Cheers Don Sharp Max Bowsher wrote: linda w wrote: Since some fa

cygserver problem max 5 connections

2004-09-12 Thread Reini Urban
I have a postgres user claiming that cygserver cannot serve more than 5 concurrent connections with postgres. In my own tests it showed that postmaster really crashed at the parallel regression test suite. ipcs showed five semaphores and one shm area. The serial tests work fine with up to 40-100

Re: cygserver service won't start

2004-09-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 11 13:06, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Alder wrote: > > On a perfect platform, perhaps, but like I said, I really had to add it > > because without it there a Windows dialog would pop up when I ran cygserver > > telling me that 'Cygwin1.dll' could not be found. That was a

Re: cygserver problem max 5 connections

2004-09-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 12 14:05, Reini Urban wrote: > I have a postgres user claiming that cygserver cannot serve more than 5 > concurrent connections with postgres. Did you already play with the /etc/cygserver.conf parameters? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin t

zsh hangs with "command not found" (Peter A. Castro?)

2004-09-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hi, This is a follow-up to the thread "zsh 4.1.1-3 on W2000 hangs with command not found" from March 2004. Facts: Cygwin 1.5.12s(0.116/4/2) 20040907 00:06:12 zsh 4.2.0 Windows XP SP2 Problem: zsh "hangs" about ten seconds when I try to execute a nonexistant command (bash in comparison returns im

Re: snapshot 20040911: lose bash prompt

2004-09-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* fergus (2004-09-12 16:08 +0200) > With snapshot 20040911, bash shell, XP SP2, I find that any command > whatever (eg. uname -a, ls -latr, find .) that would normally run and > then re-present the bash prompt, runs but the prompt is not recovered. > Nor without using Task Manager can I run anythin

Re: zsh hangs with "command not found" (Peter A. Castro?)

2004-09-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thorsten Kampe (2004-09-12 16:59 +0200) > This is a follow-up to the thread "zsh 4.1.1-3 on W2000 hangs with > command not found" from March 2004. > > Facts: > Cygwin 1.5.12s(0.116/4/2) 20040907 00:06:12 > zsh 4.2.0 > Windows XP SP2 > > Problem: > zsh "hangs" about ten seconds when I try to exe

Re: cygserver service won't start

2004-09-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 11 13:06, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Alder wrote: > > > On a perfect platform, perhaps, but like I said, I really had to add > > > it because without it there a Windows dialog would pop up when I ran > > > cygserver telli

Re: cygserver problem max 5 connections

2004-09-12 Thread Reini Urban
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: On Sep 12 14:05, Reini Urban wrote: I have a postgres user claiming that cygserver cannot serve more than 5 concurrent connections with postgres. Did you already play with the /etc/cygserver.conf parameters? Sure. I only see a 10 semaphore id limit, but not the reported 5

Re: cygwin & wmnew

2004-09-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Lilian, Please send all Cygwin-related questions to the Cygwin mailing list at . Private mail about Cygwin is strongly discouraged unless specifically requested. Moreover, by sending your questions to the list you will gain access to more expertise than any one person can provide, and the answer

Re: libtool-1.5.6-3, export-symbols-regex bug?

2004-09-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:16 AM 9/12/2004, you wrote: >Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >>Please see: >>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00607.html > >Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. In Chuck's reply to the cygwin list he >says he'll look into this. I haven't seen any further reply from him yet, n

Re: cygserver service won't start

2004-09-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:36:42AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Sep 11 13:06, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> > On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Alder wrote: >> > > On a perfect platform, perhaps, but like I said, I really had to add >> > > it because withou

Re: "minimal cygwin ?"

2004-09-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:55 AM 9/12/2004, you wrote: >Hello *, > >Has anyone tailored a "minimal cywin install" with just the absolutely >"required" cygwin components ? > >Explanation: I'd like to distribute cygwin to a farm of older nt systems > with restricted discspace > My favorite approac

Re: cygserver service won't start

2004-09-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:36:42AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >> On Sep 11 13:06, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> > On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Alder wrote: > >> > > On a perfect platform, perhaps, b

Re: cygserver service won't start

2004-09-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 02:22:37PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Any time I hear about who great this option is, it seems as though >>people raise the issue of finding multiple files with the same name in >>a tar file. If this really represents t

Re: sundry & using rootfs as cygwin-root

2004-09-12 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello linda, I'm relatively new with Cygwin, but making progress... Saturday, September 11, 2004, 4:48:56 PM, you wrote: lw> I did run into a problem on a friend's system when I decided to take lw> the more conservative approach and install cygwin in the non-root of lw> his system -- since it wa

Don't use 2004-Sep-11 or 2004-Sep-12 snapshots

2004-09-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
Someone changed a critical structure in newlib, causing critical problems for cygwin. So, the two snapshots in the subject should not be used. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http

RE: sundry & using rootfs as cygwin-root

2004-09-12 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
linda w wrote: > Since some fair number of people (including myself) do use the cygwin > fs root set at C:\, and having done so over win98,me,2000 and xp I've, > personally, never ran into any problems, I was wondering if anyone > else *had* run into problems having Cygroot=C:\ ? > > I did run in

Re: sundry & using rootfs as cygwin-root

2004-09-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello all, learn your Windows: C:\>mkdir cygwin C:\>cd cygwin C:\cygwin>touch testsubst C:\cygwin>cd .. C:\>dir cygwin /B testsubst C:\>subst X: C:\cygwin C:\>dir X: /B testsubst C:\> Install Cygwin into X:\ now and you're done. Or just use an entire separate partition (hardisks are cheap). Ge

Re: cygserver service won't start

2004-09-12 Thread Alder
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:: On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Alder wrote: > Just for the sake of completeness, though, could you please try adding a service that basically invokes cmd.exe with '-c "echo %PATH%"' as arguments, and see what the PATH is in the log after starting the service? Igor Sure, bu

Re: cygserver service won't start

2004-09-12 Thread Alder
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:: On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Alder wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote:: On Sep 10 09:47, Alder wrote: Corinna, I don't know if this is relevant, but I have to add the "/bin" directory to the cygrunsrv command line in the /bin/cygserver-config file in order to avoid Windows failing to

rsync - file size differences

2004-09-12 Thread Ryan Brothers
I'm running into an issue using rsync-2.6.2-2 on cygwin on Win2k SP4 where after I rsync a directory, the binary files rsync'ed have a different size and thus are corrupt if I try to open them in the program they were created in (pdf's, jpg's, etc) - text files remain identical. After looking at t

[SOLVED] cygserver service won't start

2004-09-12 Thread Alder
Alder wrote: -a '-c "echo %PATH%"' \ After I checked the syntax of the CMD command and was set to change the dash-c to a slash-C, I looked carefully at the PATH variable I had defined in Windows and found that I had prepended a misspelled Cygwin pathname as follows: D:\cygwn\b

Re: cygserver service won't start

2004-09-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Alder wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote:: > > On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Alder wrote: > > > > Just for the sake of completeness, though, could you please try adding a > > service that basically invokes cmd.exe with '-c "echo %PATH%"' as > > arguments, and see what the PATH is in the

RE: 1.5.10: expr + configure failure + testcase (also on 1.5.11-1)

2004-09-12 Thread Bogdan Vacaliuc
Hello again, After (finally?!) noticing that a new release of the cygwin.dll was made on Sept. 4 and being encouraged by the line: "- Fix mysterious configure script premature exit. (Pierre Humblet)" I decided to check against the latest public release. The problem continues to persist, unfo

Crash in setup 2.427

2004-09-12 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I'm having trouble using setup to install gcj (gcc-java) on my Windows 2000 SP4 box. There are several versions of it available in setup, and I don't seem to be able to get all the parts of the version I want installed. It's confusing to me, and I think it's confusing setup too, with the resu

Re: Crash in setup 2.427

2004-09-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:20 PM 9/12/2004, you wrote: >I'm having trouble using setup to install gcj (gcc-java) on my Windows 2000 SP4 box. >There are several versions of it available in setup, and I don't seem to be able to >get all the parts of the version I want installed. It's confusing to me, and I think >it

ssmtp.exe doesn't authenticate against exchange

2004-09-12 Thread Alex
it works against sendmail+cyrus but not against the latest exchange server. Any patches on the horizon? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Shifting to a new user created

2004-09-12 Thread Vivek Kumar Gupta
Hi, i am using cygwin on windows 2000. Problem: unable to shift to desirable user like from user: vkgupta to user: qa I have done $mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd This had given me all the users in the domain now i want to shift from user: vkgupt to user:qa who are in my domain. Regards Vivek Kum

BUG: Bad call to GetFileSze in ext2fsprogs lib/ext2fs/getsize.c

2004-09-12 Thread Earl Chew
The call to GetFileSize() doesn't match the Microsoft documentation, and invariably mis-sizes the disk image as zero. Earl -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

Re: Crash in setup 2.427

2004-09-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:20:02PM -0300, "Michael D. Crawford" wrote: > What that seems to indicate is that I don't have all the parts of gcc > installed, at least not all the right versions. Unfortunately, setup > seems to also know about versions 3.3.3-3, 20040810-1 and 20040822-1 of > vario