No getline() in stdio.h?

2005-07-07 Thread George Morgan
Ok, I was reading about the virtues of using getline and then looked in cygwin's stdio.h and it is not there! Did it get removed? Yeah, I found the __getline but when I changed my C code to use that the linker does not find it. This is with cygwin DLL version 1.5.18 and gcc 3.4.4. Maybe I need

Re: Lack of des.h in openssl devel 0.9.8-1 package

2005-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 6 21:17, Richard Hodson wrote: > Have just done a fresh install of cygwin to compile a Linux app that uses > DES. > > According to "man des", I should still be able to include , > but that > file doesn't seem to exist in this release. Wow, that was a tricky one. It turned out to be a

Re: No getline() in stdio.h?

2005-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 7 04:12, George Morgan wrote: > Ok, I was reading about the virtues of using getline and then looked in > cygwin's > stdio.h and it is not there! Did it get removed? Yeah, I found the __getline > but when I changed my C code to use that the linker does not find it. This is > with cygwin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lynx-2.8.5-1

2005-07-07 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Corinna Vinschen writes: > I've updated the version of lynx to 2.8.5-1. > This is the latest official upstream release, including patch level 2. There are a couple of CVS subdirectories below /usr/share/doc/lynx which should be deleted I think. /usr/share/doc/lynx/samples/CVS /usr/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lynx-2.8.5-2

2005-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of lynx to 2.8.5-2. This is a packaging bugfix release. The -1 release accidentally contained CVS subdirectories. These are removed in -2. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl-0.9.8-2, openssl-devel-0.9.8-2

2005-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of OpenSSL to 0.9.8-2. This also includes the openssl-devel package. This is a bug fix release. An upstream change in the Makefiles short-circuted the installation rules so that the following files were missing in openssl-devel-0.9.8-1: /usr/include/openssl/blowfish.h

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lynx-2.8.5-1

2005-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 7 10:56, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > I've updated the version of lynx to 2.8.5-1. > > This is the latest official upstream release, including patch level 2. > > There are a couple of CVS subdirectories below /usr/share/doc/lynx > which should be d

Re: No getline() in stdio.h?

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to George Morgan on 7/7/2005 2:12 AM: > Ok, I was reading about the virtues of using getline and then looked in > cygwin's > stdio.h and it is not there! Did it get removed? Yeah, I found the __getline > but when I changed my C code to use

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-6

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.0-6, is available, replacing 2.05b-17. (Prior packaging attempts 3.0-1 through 5 were never made current cygwin releases.) NEWS This is a new (well, 11 month old) upstream release, and includes all official upstream rele

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ash-20040127-2

2005-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of ash to 20040127-2. This version is a major packaging change. Cygwin is moving towards using bash as /bin/sh, as it's the default also on most Linux systems. To get this done, the bash package and the ash package have now been updated simultaneuously, to provide a smoo

Re: No getline() in stdio.h?

2005-07-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to George Morgan on 7/7/2005 2:12 AM: Ok, I was reading about the virtues of using getline and then looked in cygwin's stdio.h and it is not there! Did it get removed? Yeah, I found the __getline but when I changed my

Re: No getline() in stdio.h?

2005-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 7 14:26, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > >An alternative is to investigate using the gnulib module in your code. > >gnulib is currently designed for CVS use only (so there is no cygwin > >distribution), but projects like coreutils use gnulib getline() and other > >modules to ma

Re: No getline() in stdio.h?

2005-07-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to George Morgan on 7/7/2005 2:12 AM: Ok, I was reading about the virtues of using getline and then looked in cygwin's stdio.h and it is not there! Did it get removed? Yeah, I found the __get

Latest uopdates to bash and ash, 20050707

2005-07-07 Thread fergus
Just updated bash and ash, seems to involve losing /bin/sh.exe. (1) Now all scripts beginning #! /bin/sh fail; should there be a link /bin/sh -> /bin/bash? (2) Also, previously, typing "rxvt" without the qualifier "-e bash" still gave a rxvt window. Now it's a case of flicker on screen, followed

Re: Latest uopdates to bash and ash, 20050707

2005-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 7 13:35, fergus wrote: > Just updated bash and ash, seems to involve losing /bin/sh.exe. > > (1) Now all scripts beginning #! /bin/sh fail; should there be a link > /bin/sh -> /bin/bash? No, the postinstall scripts of both, bash and ash are copying bash.exe to sh.exe. How did you install

Re: No getline() in stdio.h?

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Gerrit P. Haase on 7/7/2005 6:26 AM: >>http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ > > Same approach as libgen? Are dirname() and basename() included? Gnulib uses source code sharing. There is no libgnulib.a, just a lot of small modules that ca

Re: Latest uopdates to bash and ash, 20050707

2005-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 7 14:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 7 13:35, fergus wrote: > > Just updated bash and ash, seems to involve losing /bin/sh.exe. > > > > (1) Now all scripts beginning #! /bin/sh fail; should there be a link > > /bin/sh -> /bin/bash? > > No, the postinstall scripts of both, bash and a

Re: No getline() in stdio.h?

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Gerrit P. Haase on 7/7/2005 6:35 AM: >>> An alternative is to investigate using the gnulib module in your code. > > Wouldn't it be nice to have it as a Cygwin package? Unfortunately, the gnulib maintainers aren't ready for it to be a pac

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ash-20040127-3

2005-07-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of ash to 20040127-3. CAUTION: A bug in the postinstall script of ash-20040127-2 and bash-3.0-6 lets you end up with no /bin/sh.exe at all. Do not install these versions if your mirror of choice onl

Re: Latest uopdates to bash and ash, 20050707

2005-07-07 Thread fergus
Thanks for getting back so quickly. Sorry about annoying typo in Subject. (1) and (2) answer your qq. Please see also (3). (1) I installed using setup, selecting everything (including source). I always update using setup. (2) There is no /bin/sh.exe. cat /var/log/setup.log reveals postinstall sc

Re: Latest uopdates to bash and ash, 20050707

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to fergus on 7/7/2005 7:17 AM: > (2) There is no /bin/sh.exe. As a temporary workaround for those who have already downloaded the BROKEN ash-20050707-2 and bash-3.0-6, use Windows Explorer to copy c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe to c:\cygwin\

RE: man.conf missing after cygwin upgrade (Attn: User's Guide maintainer)

2005-07-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, FischRon.external wrote: > > Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it > > for a reason. There's no need to Cc: me on the messages, as I read > > the list. > > Thank you for pointing this out! It's done correct now. Yes it is. Thank you for notic

RE: man.conf missing after cygwin upgrade (Attn: User's Guide maintainer)

2005-07-07 Thread FischRon.external
> > ~ $ getfacl /usr /usr/share /usr/share/misc > > # file: /usr > > # owner: Administrators > > # group: mkpasswd > ^^^ > > user::rwx > > group::--- > ^^ > > group:SYSTEM:rwx > > mask:rwx > > other:--- > > default:user:Administrators:rwx > > default:group:SYSTEM:rwx > > d

Re: Latest uopdates to bash and ash, 20050707

2005-07-07 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (2005-07-07 13:45 +0100) > On Jul 7 13:35, fergus wrote: >> Just updated bash and ash, seems to involve losing /bin/sh.exe. >> >> (1) Now all scripts beginning #! /bin/sh fail; should there be a link >> /bin/sh -> /bin/bash? > > No, the postinstall scripts of both, bash and as

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ash-20040127-3

2005-07-07 Thread Shaffer, Kenneth
> Wait for 20040127-3 and bash-3.0-7 to show up on the mirror and install > these. Did you really mean bash-3.0-7? I only see an announcement for bash-3.0-6. -- Ken Shaffer - - - - - - - Appended by Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. - - - - - - - This e-mail and any attachments may contain

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-5.3.0-7

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 5.3.0-7, is available. NEWS This is a minor patch release. The overall 5.3.0 series was designated unstable by the upstream author (compared to the stable 5.2.1), because it introduces some POSIX-compliance fixes for

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-7

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.0-7, is available, replacing 2.05b-17. CAUTION: A bug in the postinstall script of ash-20040127-2 and bash-3.0-6 lets you end up with no /bin/sh.exe at

RE: man.conf missing after cygwin upgrade

2005-07-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, FischRon.external wrote: > > > ~ $ getfacl /usr /usr/share /usr/share/misc > > > # file: /usr > > > # owner: Administrators > > > # group: mkpasswd > > ^^^ > > > user::rwx > > > group::--- > > ^^ > > > group:SYSTEM:rwx > > > mask:rwx > > > other:--- >

Re: starting background process and logging out

2005-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:42:39PM -0400, Maloney, Michael wrote: >I am having a problem using cygwin on both Windows 2k/2003. When I send >a cmd into the background and then log out of the system, the process >dies on me. I am using Ataman Telnet Server to login but that doesn't >seem to be a fact

readshortcut crashes with updated cygwin-1.5.18-1

2005-07-07 Thread Adye, TJ \(Tim\)
Hi, With cygwin-1.5.18-1, the |readshortcut| command crashes on exit if I specify a Cygwin-style path name. The crash goes away if I downgrade to cygwin 1.5.17-1. % readshortcut "C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Accessories/Calculator" /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/calc.exe

Re: No getline() in stdio.h?

2005-07-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 7 14:26, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Eric Blake wrote: An alternative is to investigate using the gnulib module in your code. gnulib is currently designed for CVS use only (so there is no cygwin distribution), but projects like coreutils use gnulib getline() and ot

Re: No getline() in stdio.h?

2005-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:37:08PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Jul 7 14:26, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>>Eric Blake wrote: An alternative is to investigate using the gnulib module in your code. gnulib is currently designed for CVS use only (so there is no cygwi

Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Adye, TJ \(Tim\)
Hi, In an attempt to work round the problem with readshortcut I reported earlier, I thought I'd use a Perl script. Unfortunately the Win32::Shortcut package seems to cause problems with process forking (unlike the readshortcut error, this one isn't specific to the latest cygwin DLL). I get an erro

Re: New to Cygwin - Problems with Cygwin NFS

2005-07-07 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:17 AM 7/7/2005, you wrote: >ohaya wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've been trying to configure Cygwin NFS running on a Windows 2003 >> Server machine (machine: testwin2k3) to export directories so that I can >> eventually use these directories as home directories on Solaris >> machines. >> >>

Re: readshortcut crashes with updated cygwin-1.5.18-1 (cygutils maintainer -- RFA patch enclosed)

2005-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 05:29:25PM +0100, Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote: >Hi, > >With cygwin-1.5.18-1, the |readshortcut| command crashes on exit if I >specify a Cygwin-style path name. The crash goes away if I downgrade to >cygwin 1.5.17-1. It's a readshortcut double free problem. As mentioned in another

Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:10 PM 7/7/2005, you wrote: >In an attempt to work round the problem with readshortcut I reported >earlier, I thought I'd use a Perl script. Unfortunately the >Win32::Shortcut package seems to cause problems with process forking >(unlike the readshortcut error, this one isn't specific to the l

Re: New to Cygwin - Problems with Cygwin NFS

2005-07-07 Thread ohaya
Larry Hall wrote: > > At 02:17 AM 7/7/2005, you wrote: > > > > >ohaya wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've been trying to configure Cygwin NFS running on a Windows 2003 > >> Server machine (machine: testwin2k3) to export directories so that I can > >> eventually use these directories as home d

RE: readshortcut crashes with updated cygwin-1.5.18-1 (cygutils maintainer -- RFA patch enclosed)

2005-07-07 Thread Adye, TJ \(Tim\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Btw, in case anyone is interested, I tracked this down by putting a > breakpoint on free, and printing the address being freed. Then I > cut/pasted that output to a file and sorted the file based on the > address. This unearthed a few potential candidates for this pro

question for perl maintainer

2005-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:08:40PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >At 01:10 PM 7/7/2005, you wrote: >>In an attempt to work round the problem with readshortcut I reported >>earlier, I thought I'd use a Perl script. Unfortunately the >>Win32::Shortcut package seems to cause problems with process forking >

Use Fetchmail/procmail on winxp

2005-07-07 Thread reader
I've found quite a lot of info about fetchmail and procmail on google but didn't really find something describing how to make them work with winxp native mail tools. (My reader is not native winxp but Emacs news reader Gnus). I'm well acquainted with setting both up under a sendmail system but rea

Bash 2.05 vs. 3.0 Prompt Behavior

2005-07-07 Thread Peter D. Stout
I updated my Cygwin installation this morning and picked up the new version of Bash (3.0-7). When I started a new shell (running under rxvt) I was suprised to see that my prompt displayed differently than before the upgrade. I use the following prompt PS1='\[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PRO

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-7

2005-07-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Eric Blake wrote: A new release of bash, 3.0-7, is available, replacing 2.05b-17. I just installed bash 3.0-7 and immediately noticed my colors where gone and my delete key no longer worked. Anyways I'm a bit clueless but it seems something wierd is happening to ~ I can verify my profile i

Re: Use Fetchmail/procmail on winxp

2005-07-07 Thread Jason Tishler
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:31:27PM -0500, reader wrote: > My aim is to retrieve from a pop3 server using fetchmail and deliver > using procmail to wherever it needs to go for gnus to slurp the mail. You should find the necessary information to do the above in the following: /usr/share/doc/Cyg

RE: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Adye, TJ \(Tim\)
Hi Larry, Sorry, I assumed that the rebasing problem was ancient history, since I hadn't encountered it for so long (and remembered a long-ago comment about rebaseall being a stop-gap measure). Thanks for putting me right. Unfortunately I can't get rebaseall to work... running from a bash prompt

RE: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Adye, TJ \(Tim\)
Answering my own question > cygiconv-2.dll is used by bash, but rebaseall is a bash script. > What can I do? I found I could do this by saving the rebase command-line and file list that rebaseall generates and then running the rebase command directly from the DOS prompt. Now Perl's Win32::Shortcu

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: apache2-2.0.54-1 (and subpackages apache2-devel, apache2-manual)

2005-07-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Max Bowsher wrote: Apache httpd version 2.0, the popular web server, is now packaged for the Cygwin distribution, and arriving soon to a mirror near you. Getting this error: [Thu Jul 07 21:43:44 2005] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock Configuration

I updated cygwin today and discovered something that made me glad

2005-07-07 Thread Mikael
So, I updated my cygwin installation today (something I hadn't done for a few weeks or so) to get the latest version of cygwin itself, but I was also interested in the new version of bash. During the updating process some other programs were updated since new (stable) versions were availabe and

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: apache2-2.0.54-1 (and subpackages apache2-devel, apache2-manual)

2005-07-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Apache httpd version 2.0, the popular web server, is now packaged for the Cygwin distribution, and arriving soon to a mirror near you. Getting this error: [Thu Jul 07 21:43:44 2005] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrit

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-7

2005-07-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Jon A. Lambert wrote: What happened to my tilde? It looks like it points to /home instead of /home/jlambert How do I fix this? I would add that if I telnet or ssh in to my cygwin shell everything is fine and my ~/.bash_profile is invoked correctly and cd ~ does take me to the right user dire

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: apache2-2.0.54-1 (and subpackages apache2-devel, apache2-manual)

2005-07-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Max, I use my self compiled apr / apu, will reiinstall the distributed version now. Hope that will help. This makes a difference. It is running now. Sorry for the false alarm. However, I see the same problem as I had with my own Apache2 in January, I'm getting only 8k and then it stops tra

Re: question for perl maintainer

2005-07-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:08:40PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: At 01:10 PM 7/7/2005, you wrote: In an attempt to work round the problem with readshortcut I reported earlier, I thought I'd use a Perl script. Unfortunately the Win32::Shortcut package seems to cause probl

Re: Bash 2.05 vs. 3.0 Prompt Behavior

2005-07-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I updated my Cygwin installation this morning and picked up the new > version of Bash (3.0-7). When I started a new shell (running under > rxvt) I was suprised to see that my prompt displayed differently than > before the upgrade. I use the following prompt > > PS1='\[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I updated cygwin today and discovered something that made me glad

2005-07-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Mikael wrote: So, I updated my cygwin installation today (something I hadn't done for a few weeks or so) to get the latest version of cygwin itself, but I was also interested in the new version of bash. During the updating process some other programs were updated since new (stable) versions we

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: apache2-2.0.54-1 (and subpackages apache2-devel, apache2-manual)

2005-07-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: However, I see the same problem as I had with my own Apache2 in January, I'm getting only 8k and then it stops transmission... $ wget http://anfaenger.de/xmailgraph/pop3_daily.png --22:22:04-- http://anfaenger.de/xmailgraph/pop3_daily.png => `pop3_daily.png' Re

Re: question for perl maintainer

2005-07-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Wouldn't this problem be ameliorated slightly if the perl DLLs all loaded in unique addresses to begin with? Isn't the problem that all perl DLLs (and probably others) are loading in address 0x1000? Gerrit, would you be willing to change this so that the DLLs load in

Re: Bash 2.05 vs. 3.0 Prompt Behavior

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
> I updated my Cygwin installation this morning and picked up the new > version of Bash (3.0-7). When I started a new shell (running under > rxvt) I was suprised to see that my prompt displayed differently than > before the upgrade. I use the following prompt > > PS1='\[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: question for perl maintainer

2005-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:45:14PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:08:40PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >> >>>At 01:10 PM 7/7/2005, you wrote: >>> In an attempt to work round the problem with readshortcut I reported earlier, I thought I'd

Re: question for perl maintainer

2005-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:03:01PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >>>Wouldn't this problem be ameliorated slightly if the perl DLLs all >>>loaded in unique addresses to begin with? Isn't the problem that all >>>perl DLLs (and probably others) are loading in address 0x1

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-7

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
> I just installed bash 3.0-7 and immediately noticed my colors where gone and > my delete key no longer worked. > > Anyways I'm a bit clueless but it seems something wierd is happening to ~ > I can verify my profile is executed and my .bash_profile and .bashrc are > not. Well, if your .bash_pr

RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard

2005-07-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Daniel, Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it for a reason. There was no need to Cc: me -- I read the list. On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Daniel Landry wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >Ah. I'm going to venture a guess and say that it's not simply

Cygwin and zsh...

2005-07-07 Thread Spack
I've tried to change the default shell (bash) to zsh by changing the appropriated line in the /etc/passwd file but when I reload cygwin I'm always on bash. How can I change the default shell ? PS: I've installed zsh but I've not looking for the /etc/shells file. -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-7

2005-07-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Jon A. Lambert wrote: Jon A. Lambert wrote: What happened to my tilde? It looks like it points to /home instead of /home/jlambert How do I fix this? I would add that if I telnet or ssh in to my cygwin shell everything is fine and my ~/.bash_profile is invoked correctly and cd ~ does take me t

Running Windows apps (newbie again)

2005-07-07 Thread Rex Eastbourne
Hi all, If I already have a program, such as Emacs, that comes with Cygwin, should I keep my own version, or get the Cygwin version? (The shell doesn't recognize the 'emacs' command, but I presume I can fix that by changing my $PATH). Are there any other advantages to the Cygwin versions? Best, Rex

Re: Cygwin and zsh...

2005-07-07 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Spack wrote: I've tried to change the default shell (bash) to zsh by changing the appropriated line in the /etc/passwd file but when I reload cygwin I'm always on bash. How can I change the default shell ? The stock startup script (cygwin.bat) has bash hardcoded in it, so i

The perils of editing .bashrc

2005-07-07 Thread Rex Eastbourne
Is it advisable to edit one's .bashrc? I'd like to put in a bunch of customizations, aliases, etc., but I'm intimidated by the message saying that my .bashrc will not be updated by setup.exe if I modify it. Does this mean that I'll have to put in changes for new programs manually? If so, how can I

Re: The perils of editing .bashrc

2005-07-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Is it advisable to edit one's .bashrc? I'd like to put in a bunch of > customizations, aliases, etc., but I'm intimidated by the message > saying that my .bashrc will not be updated by setup.exe if I modify > it. Does this mean that I'll have to put in changes for new programs > manually? If so,

Problems with ash-20040127-3

2005-07-07 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Last morning I have made a build of ROOT (a CERN application) using the snapshot 20050705, bash-3.0-3-test, ash-20040127-1, coreutils-5.3.0-6 GCC-3.3.3-3. The buid takes almost 1.5 h After upgrading to bash-3.0-7, ash-20040127-3, coreutils-5.3.0-7 I have tried a new build. This time the buid stop

Re: The perils of editing .bashrc (Attn: base-files maintainer)

2005-07-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Rex Eastbourne wrote: > Is it advisable to edit one's .bashrc? I'd like to put in a bunch of > customizations, aliases, etc., but I'm intimidated by the message > saying that my .bashrc will not be updated by setup.exe if I modify > it. Does this mean that I'll have to put in c

RE: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:54 PM 7/7/2005, you wrote: >Hi Larry, > >Sorry, I assumed that the rebasing problem was ancient history, since I >hadn't encountered it for so long (and remembered a long-ago comment >about rebaseall being a stop-gap measure). Thanks for putting me right. Well, it's not entirely a stop-gap

status of libtiff?

2005-07-07 Thread Thom DeCarlo
Hi, I'm trying to figure out why the libtiff library in the cygwin distribution is so old (v3.7.0beta2-1 vs the current release 3.7.3). Does it need to be put into cygwin by a libtiff developer or does someone in this group handle installing the updates? I'm not one of the core developers on

Re: Running Windows apps (newbie again)

2005-07-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Rex Eastbourne wrote: > Hi all, > If I already have a program, such as Emacs, that comes with Cygwin, > should I keep my own version, or get the Cygwin version? (The shell > doesn't recognize the 'emacs' command, but I presume I can fix that by > changing my $PATH). Are there a

Re: I updated cygwin today and discovered something that made me glad

2005-07-07 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:56 PM 7/7/2005, you wrote: >Mikael wrote: >>I love cygwin and the tools ported to it. I wish I was a more knowledgeable >>person so I could contribute to the project and just not praise it. > >I started with zero knowledge about Cygwin and zero knowledge about >programming five years back.

Fwd: Cygwin and zsh...

2005-07-07 Thread Spack
Thanks for your response... > Ok, so what are you expecting to find in /etc/shells and how does that > relate to you running your shell of choice? This file lists all available shells, no ? And I indeed start cygwin from the icon. I'll test mkzsh... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: Problems with ash-20040127-3 (Attn: bash maintainer)

2005-07-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Last morning I have made a build of ROOT (a CERN application) using the > snapshot 20050705, bash-3.0-3-test, ash-20040127-1, coreutils-5.3.0-6 > GCC-3.3.3-3. The buid takes almost 1.5 h > > After upgrading to bash-3.0-7, ash-20040127-3, coreutils-5.3.0

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: apache2-2.0.54-1 (and subpackages apache2-devel, apache2-manual)

2005-07-07 Thread Brian Dessent
"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > However, I see the same problem as I had with my own Apache2 in January, > I'm getting only 8k and then it stops transmission... > ... > What the heck is going on here? Try adding 'EnableSendfile Off' to httpd.conf to see if it makes a difference. Brian -- Unsubscribe

rsync package version in Cygwin

2005-07-07 Thread Herman Poon
Hello, My apologies if this is a dumb question. I did look in both the cygwin and cygwin-apps mailing list archives for this information, and also tried Googling for it but could not find an answer. I'm wondering why the release of rsync that is in the current Cygwin setup is only 2.6.3, when 2.6

Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Brian Dessent
"Adye, TJ (Tim)" wrote: > % rebaseall > ReBaseImage (/usr/bin/cygiconv-2.dll) failed with last error = 6 > > cygiconv-2.dll is used by bash, but rebaseall is a bash script. What can > I do? This is a problem with the new bash version 3.0, which is dynamically linked to the readline, libiconv, an

RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Landry
In Xterm, running bash, the result is: $ echo \351 e (e acute is displayed correctly) $ bind -v | grep meta set convert-meta off set input-meta off set meta-flag off set output-meta off My complete .bashrc is (I have removed only the line beginning by #): # User dependent .bashrc

Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:15:36PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >I think we will require a statically linked bash, or some kind of >trickery in the rebaseall script. One potential way around this might >be for it to output a .cmd file (or .bat under 9x, grrr) and then exec() >$COMSPEC to run the co

Re: rsync package version in Cygwin

2005-07-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Herman Poon wrote: > I'm wondering why the release of rsync that is in the current Cygwin > setup is only 2.6.3, when 2.6.4 was released on March 30, 2005 and > 2.6.5 was released on June 1, 2005. Rsync is even at 2.6.6pre1 now (I > got the announcement today via rsync-announce). > > I'm not "com

Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 7/7/2005 7:15 PM: > This is a problem with the new bash version 3.0, which is dynamically > linked to the readline, libiconv, and ncurses DLLs: > > The prior version of bash, 2.05b-17, is statically linked: The problem i

Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: > >I think we will require a statically linked bash, or some kind of > >trickery in the rebaseall script. One potential way around this might > >be for it to output a .cmd file (or .bat under 9x, grrr) and then exec() > >$COMSPEC to run the commands. This would have the

FAQ request

2005-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
Could we split the "Why is your package so out of date?" question out of the "Why isn't package available in Cygwin?" and add something like the below? cgf Q) Why is your package XYZ so out of date? Q) Why is the version of package XYZ older than the version that I can download from the XYZ

Re: Problems with ash-20040127-3 (Attn: bash maintainer)

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Igor Pechtchanski on 7/7/2005 6:34 PM: > I suspect this may actually be a bug in bash, since single > quotes ought to stop it from trying to expand variable references. This > only happens when the single quotes are inside a shell substit

Install J2EE tar on Cygwin?

2005-07-07 Thread C Jennings
Hello, This might be a stupid question but is it possible to install Linux software onto Cygwin. I currently have Cygwin + 3.1.4 KDE installed on my Windows XP box. I've downloaded (wget) a tar file of the Java J2EE SDK v1.3.1 and installed it using the following command provided on Sun's website

Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 7/7/2005 7:41 PM: > > Option B would be to write a C or C++ program to do the job of what > rebaseall currently does. That's even more work. True - there are many actions where scripts are just more convenient than full

Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:41:31PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>I think we will require a statically linked bash, or some kind of >>>trickery in the rebaseall script. One potential way around this might >>>be for it to output a .cmd file (or .bat under 9x, grrr) and th

RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard

2005-07-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted. On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Daniel Landry wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >At which point this stops being an X-related problem, and is better > >discussed on the main list. I've set the Reply-To: accordingly (though > >the xfree list is likely t

Re: Install J2EE tar on Cygwin?

2005-07-07 Thread Jason Pyeron
Why?, install the native JVM, then your j2ee jars. On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, C Jennings wrote: Hello, This might be a stupid question but is it possible to install Linux software onto Cygwin. I currently have Cygwin + 3.1.4 KDE installed on my Windows XP box. I've downloaded (wget) a tar file of

Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 06:41:31PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > > >Option B would be to write a C or C++ program to do the job of what > >rebaseall currently does. That's even more work. > > I was going to suggest that but it requires that the user

Broken parse on `'${'`

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i686 OS: cygwin Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash.exe' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' - -DCONF_OSTYPE='cygwin' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-cygwin' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' - -

Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 7/7/2005 8:05 PM: >>Option B would be to write a C or C++ program to do the job of what >>rebaseall currently does. That's even more work. > > I was going to suggest that but it requires that the user had loaded > t

Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Eric Blake wrote: > coreutils already requires libintl and libiconv since 5.2.1 days, so most > useful actions in a postinstall script have already depended on having > libraries available as part of Base. Based on several months of no > complaints, I think we can discount the theoretical problem

Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Eric Blake wrote: > Or, you could make rebaseall a #!/bin/ash script, which would require that > we never kill ash from the distribution, while freeing you from bash's > dynamic linking. Ah, hadn't thought of that. This seems like the best short-term solution, since it involves minimal changes.

Re: Install J2EE tar on Cygwin?

2005-07-07 Thread Brian Dessent
C Jennings wrote: > This might be a stupid question but is it possible to install Linux > software onto Cygwin. No. > I currently have Cygwin + 3.1.4 KDE installed on my Windows XP box. > I've downloaded (wget) a tar file of the Java J2EE SDK v1.3.1 and > installed it using the following command

Re: Install J2EE tar on Cygwin?

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to C Jennings on 7/7/2005 8:03 PM: > Hello, > This might be a stupid question but is it possible to install Linux > software onto Cygwin. Cygwin is (well, strives to be) a SOURCE-compatible environment. To run a linux program in cygwin, th

RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Landry
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >This would seem to indicate that the .inputrc either isn't read, or is >overridden. >Try running 'bind "set input-meta on"; bind "set output-meta on"', and >then see if that lets you input French characters. If it does, >investigate why your .inputr

Re: Perl Win32::Shortcut screws up fork

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 7/7/2005 8:21 PM: >>coreutils already requires libintl and libiconv since 5.2.1 days, so most >>useful actions in a postinstall script have already depended on having >>libraries available as part of Base. Based on severa

Re: Cygwin and zsh...

2005-07-07 Thread haro
From: "Peter A. Castro" Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:23:50 -0700 (PDT) ::On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Spack wrote: :: ::> I've tried to change the default shell (bash) to zsh by changing the ::> appropriated line in the /etc/passwd file but when I reload cygwin I'm ::> always on bash. How can I change the defa

Re: Install J2EE tar on Cygwin?

2005-07-07 Thread C Jennings
Thank you both for the information and clarification on Cygwin. I guess I will download the Windows version of J2EE instead.. CJ On 7/7/05, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to C Jennings on 7/7/2005 8:03 PM: > > Hello, > > Th

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