Cygwin: Where is the Help Guide

2006-03-25 Thread zzapper
Cygwin: Where is the Help Guide Where you should start http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ (User Guide/FAQ) What's included in Cygwin eg grep,grace,guile,gvim http://cygwin.com/packages/ This (searchable) newsgroup on the web http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/ command line help > man zsh > inf

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-5.1-5, libreadline6-5.1-5

2006-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline and libreadline6, 5.1-5, is available for use, replacing 5.1-4 as the current version. NEWS: = This is a minor bugfix release. It adds official upstream patches 3 (referencing freed memory) and 4 (incremental search mode

Why only 1 cygwin1.dll?

2006-03-25 Thread Jeremy Wilkins
Hi, Why can there be only 1 cygwin1.dll in the filesystem? Is this a limitation of the dll or is it just a problem with applications finding the wrong version of the cygwin1.dll when there are several? Or is it just that certain cygwin registry keys get initialised wrong if its not installed corre

Re: Why only 1 cygwin1.dll?

2006-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
> Why can there be only 1 cygwin1.dll in the filesystem? Is this a > limitation of the dll or is it just a problem with applications > finding the wrong version of the cygwin1.dll when there are several? It is an intentional design decision of cygwin. In order to properly emulate POSIX semantics

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: monotone-0.25.2-1 (security fix)

2006-03-25 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Version 0.25.2-1 of monotone has been uploaded. monotone is a free distributed version control system. it provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization proto

Re: service interact with desktop broken between: 1.5.5 & 1.5.19

2006-03-25 Thread Lev Bishop
Can't tell you why this isn't working for you (I wasn't able to make it work either). But looking at the cygrunsrv sources I noticed something else that doesn't look quite right: In cygrunsrv.cc:print_service(): if (interact) strcat (tmp, "--nohide "); I assume what is intended is:

Re: Why only 1 cygwin1.dll?

2006-03-25 Thread Lev Bishop
FAQ candidate? Either of Eric's explanations seem spot on, to me. And this question does come up fairly regularly. Lev -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Why only 1 cygwin1.dll?

2006-03-25 Thread Bob Rossi
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:38:53PM -0500, Lev Bishop wrote: > FAQ candidate? Either of Eric's explanations seem spot on, to me. And > this question does come up fairly regularly. In the FAQ, I think it would be a good idea to mention that this limitation makes it impossible (outside of setup.exe)

Re: Why only 1 cygwin1.dll?

2006-03-25 Thread Jeremy Wilkins
Thanks for the answer, the question wasn't really leading anywhere other than idle curiosity. The answer seems like a good candidate for the FAQ. jeb On 3/25/06, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why can there be only 1 cygwin1.dll in the filesystem? Is this a > > limitation of the dll or

Re: Why only 1 cygwin1.dll?

2006-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:38:53PM -0500, Lev Bishop wrote: >FAQ candidate? Either of Eric's explanations seem spot on, to me. And >this question does come up fairly regularly. It is not 100% complete but I guess something like that should be in the FAQ under a heading of: Q) I see the way you'

Re: Why only 1 cygwin1.dll?

2006-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:40:51PM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote: >On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:38:53PM -0500, Lev Bishop wrote: >> FAQ candidate? Either of Eric's explanations seem spot on, to me. And >> this question does come up fairly regularly. > >In the FAQ, I think it would be a good idea to mention

Re: Cygwin: Where is the Help Guide

2006-03-25 Thread George
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 01:12:22PM +, zzapper wrote: LOL. Gotta love this enthusiasm. > [...] > > This (searchable) newsgroup on the web > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/ Newsgroup 'on the web'? Words fail me. More accurately, Gmane provides the contents of various mailing list ar

Re: Why only 1 cygwin1.dll?

2006-03-25 Thread Lev Bishop
On 3/25/06, Christopher Faylor wrote: > It is not 100% complete but I guess something like that should be in > the FAQ under a heading of: > > Q) I see the way you're doing things and I don't agree. Certainly I > know more about this then you do. Please prove me wrong, although I > doubt that

Re: 1.5.19: cygrunsrv problem running Apache under user nobody

2006-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Gerry Reno wrote: Today I tried starting httpd with cygrunsrv with similar results: $ cygrunsrv -S httpd cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has not been started. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/docs $ ps -efl UID PIDPPID TTY STIME COMMA

Re: ":" in filename

2006-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Eric Blake wrote: It would be nice if cygwin could be more proactive in recognizing : as invalid in non-managed mounts, rather than passing the : on to the Windows filename functions, in order to avoid the creation of undeletable filenames such as ".new." via the help of a colon, but I can l

Re: service interact with desktop broken between: 1.5.5 & 1.5.19

2006-03-25 Thread Lev Bishop
Another bug in cygrunsrv.cc:main() (again not the reason for this problem) --- cygrunsrv.cc.old2006-03-25 13:49:08.238075200 -0500 +++ cygrunsrv.cc2006-03-25 13:50:35.473513600 -0500 @@ -1930,14 +1930,14 @@ case '1': if (action != Install) return error (IONotAl

Re: Why only 1 cygwin1.dll?

2006-03-25 Thread Bob Rossi
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:56:56PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:40:51PM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:38:53PM -0500, Lev Bishop wrote: > >> FAQ candidate? Either of Eric's explanations seem spot on, to me. And > >> this question does come up

Re: Why only 1 cygwin1.dll?

2006-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Bob Rossi wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:56:56PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:40:51PM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:38:53PM -0500, Lev Bishop wrote: FAQ candidate? Either of Eric's explanations seem spot on, to me. And this question does c

1.5.19: apache-1.3.33-2: make[5]: *** No rule to make target `libssl.dll', needed by `lib'. Stop.

2006-03-25 Thread Gerry Reno
I am attempting to build apache 1.3.33-2 from the Cygwin sources. I used the included build script and ran configure and make. ./apache-1.3.33-2.sh configure ./apache-1.3.33-2.sh make ... make[5]: *** No rule to make target `libssl.dll', needed by `lib'. Stop. ... This error is coming from .../

Re: 1.5.19: cygrunsrv problem running Apache under user nobody

2006-03-25 Thread Gerry Reno
The solution was to install the httpd service with the following args: $ cygrunsrv -I httpd -u nobody -p /usr/sbin/httpd -a -F -d "CYGWIN httpd" -e "CYGWIN=server" --shutdown $ net start httpd The CYGWIN httpd service is starting. The CYGWIN httpd service was started successfully. Gerry Reno ma

Re: 1.5.19: apache-1.3.33-2: make[5]: *** No rule to make target `libssl.dll', needed by `lib'. Stop.

2006-03-25 Thread Gerry Reno
Ok, cleaned everything out and reran everything: ./apache-1.3.33-2.sh prep ./apache-1.3.33-2.sh configure ./apache-1.3.33-2.sh make ./apache-1.3.33-2.sh make #-must run make twice for libhttpd.dll ... htpasswd.c:101: error: conflicting types for 'getline' /usr/include/sys/stdio.h:31:

Re: 1.5.19: apache-1.3.33-2: make[5]: *** No rule to make target `libssl.dll', needed by `lib'. Stop.

2006-03-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Gerry Reno wrote: > ./apache-1.3.33-2.sh prep Without running prep you don't get any patches applied, one of which is the rather involved patch to add hooks and support for mod_ssl. > htpasswd.c:101: error: conflicting types for 'getline' > /usr/include/sys/stdio.h:31: error: previous declarati