RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Jörg Schaible
William A. Hoffman wrote on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:12 AM: > OK, so to summarize. > > - there is no options or special syntax that will allow the > make 3.81 to recognize drive letters in such a way that native > windows tools can use them. /c/ and /cygdrive/c/ will only work > with applicati

Re: GCC: problem with library search path when targeting mingw

2006-08-15 Thread Damien Fouilleul
I'm not sure that I agree with your assements, /usr/lib as always been available (at least displayed) as a default search path in 'print-search-dirs' even when using the -mno-cygwin switch, but for some reason, has always been ignored when linking for MinGW. I think the problem has to do with

Re: Rsync over ssh (pulling from Cygwin to Linux) stalls..

2006-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 14 11:03, mwoehlke wrote: > It sounds to me like what you want to do is release a GPL version of > your work. [...] But it sounds like this is inadequate? For inclusion into Cygwin, yes, it's inadequate. The buyout license as mentioned in the last paragraph on http://cygwin.com/licensi

Re: autom4te-2.13 missing in autoconf2.1-2.13-1

2006-08-15 Thread Reini Urban
Charles Wilson schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: autoconf2.1-2.13-1 This package misses /usr/bin/autom4te-2.13 resp. the wrapper has no extra logic for the missing autom4te. I solved it by cp /usr/bin/autom4te-2.5x /usr/bin/autom4te-2.13 Strangely this was the first time I needed such an old cruf

Can I use two sets of different cygwin installations simultaneously?

2006-08-15 Thread 광훈 최
Can I use two different sets of cygwin installations safely? For example, one set may include the up-to-date full packages, while the other may include somewhat old-dated, partially installed packages. The second setmight look strange to you, but I have to keep it because I need to maintain the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: catdoc-0.94.2-2

2006-08-15 Thread Reini Urban
catdoc has been updated for those who want to follow correct build instructions and read proper english. http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/ - version 0.94.2-2 - - Workaround wrong aclocal version. Removed the wrong autom4te-2.13 suggestion. Thanks to Chuck Wilson. This rea

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mathomatic-12.6.1-1

2006-08-15 Thread Reini Urban
A new upstream release which fixes an important floating point accuracy fix. Cygwin changes: Moved html_docs into html Changes: See http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/changes.txt About: Mathomatic is a highly portable, general purpose symbolic math program that can solve, simplify, combine, differe

Re: Error: procedure entry point in cygreadline6.dll

2006-08-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to René Berber on 8/13/2006 6:36 PM: > doublehelix wrote: > >> >> The procedure entry point rl_variable_value could not be located in the >> dynamic link library cygreadline6.dll Attaching the output of `cygcheck -svr' as a text file would

RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread William A. Hoffman
At 10:40 PM 8/14/2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: >> MS cl can no longer be used with cygwin make as of 3.81. > >Incorrect. See below. > >> Perhaps something along the lines of /c/ that would be translated by >> gmake itself into c:, so that no special parsing would be required for >> the makefiles. >

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread William A. Hoffman
At 11:17 PM 8/14/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:40:34PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: >>On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, William A. Hoffman wrote: >>>Sounds like it is time to join the gmake mailing list. Has anyone on >>>this list tried that yet? >> >>If you are asking whether any

RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, William A. Hoffman wrote: > At 10:40 PM 8/14/2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > >> MS cl can no longer be used with cygwin make as of 3.81. > > > >Incorrect. See below. > > > >> Perhaps something along the lines of /c/ that would be translated by > >> gmake itself into c:, so th

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: "John W. Eaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:50:46 -0400 > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com > > This whole problem could be solved if the people who are complaining > about the Cygwin version of GNU Make directed their efforts toward > getting a patch accepted in the GNU Make sourc

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
William A. Hoffman wrote: At 10:40 PM 8/14/2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: - The other option is to use mingw-make, and only use cygwin make for cygwin linked programs only. Incorrect. If you use Cygwin make, it's very easy to invoke Windows programs by converting their arguments with "cygpath -w"

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Joachim Achtzehnter
John W. Eaton wrote: I mean, isn't free software all about getting something for nothing, then complaining about it and expecting others to do yet more gratis work for you? Free software is about collaboration of a community consisting of developers, users, documentation authors, testers, tran

RE: Can I use two sets of different cygwin installations simultaneously?

2006-08-15 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
광훈 최 wrote: > Can I use two different sets of cygwin installations safely? > > For example, one set may include the up-to-date full packages, while > the other may include somewhat old-dated, partially installed > packages. > > The second set might look strange to you, but I have to keep it > b

Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread Chuck
My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this? Also, the group name is showing up as all question marks when I d

Re: Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Chuck wrote: My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this? Also, the group name is showing up as all question

RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Dave Korn
On 15 August 2006 18:07, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: > A peculiar aspect of all-volunteer free software > projects (some are wholly or partially funded where this can be different) > is that nobody can force another member of the community to do something > they don't want to do, so it is all base

RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Olivier Langlois
Hi, This is just to let you know that I totally agree with what Joachim has written. I too am annoyed and affected by the recent changes made in cygwin (drop of MS-DOS path support in make and changes in executable file name evaluation in the cygwin DLL). He has expressed better than I could have

RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread William A. Hoffman
At 02:32 PM 8/15/2006, Dave Korn wrote: >On 15 August 2006 18:07, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: > >> is the exact opposite of >> what free software is supposed to be about. A healthy free software project >> depends on and welcomes input from the community. The attitude exhibited by >> some on this m

openmotif, .rdata, shared libs and runtime linking/loading problem

2006-08-15 Thread Avi Cohen Stuart
Hi, Please let me know if this is the correct newsgroup. I'm trying to get openmotif to run under cygwin. I know that I'm not supposed to do that but, who knows, maybe they change the license one of these days :-) The test I'm using is the hello.c from chapter 2 of the motif examples. During th

Re: Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread Chuck
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Chuck wrote: >> My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I >> log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own >> files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I >> need to do to fix this? Also, the g

Re: Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this? Also, th

Re: openmotif, .rdata, shared libs and runtime linking/loading problem

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
Avi Cohen Stuart wrote: [snip] gdb reports the following: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [snip] The address it is trying to write to appears to be a read only address in the attempt to resolve some adresses and updating pointers it crashes. I've no idea why openmotif/wha

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 08:55:04AM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote: >At 11:17 PM 8/14/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Or, the short answer to the question is: Yes. The GNU make mailing list >>has already been contacted and the GNU make maintainer has already made >>a suggestion. > >I have search

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread John W. Eaton
On 15-Aug-2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: | Free software is about collaboration of a community consisting of | developers, users, documentation authors, testers, translators, etc. to a | common good, namely the production of good software that serves the needs | of that community. In my view, p

Re: Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
mwoehlke wrote: Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I need to do to f

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
John W. Eaton wrote: On 15-Aug-2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: Clearly, developers make a huge contribution, nobody is denying this, but to suggest that *only* developers contribute and everybody else should therefore just shut up I never said everyone else should "just shut up". My point wa

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:53:17PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >John W. Eaton wrote: >>On 15-Aug-2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: >>>Clearly, developers make a huge contribution, >>>nobody is denying this, but to suggest that *only* developers contribute >>>and everybody else should therefore just shut

Re: (XP) cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: Permission denied

2006-08-15 Thread Colin Greg Jones
This is an old issue but we figured out where the cause of the problem was: a Veritas backup agent. I tried setting the backup operations to manual, but that wasn't enough. It also wasn't enough that the directory where I was doing my cvs checkout wasn't even selected for backup. I had to prevent

RE: Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
> My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to > another. Now when I > log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access > some of my own > files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone > tell me what I > need to do to fix this? Also, the group name is show

How can I know if a Windows execution is under cygwin??

2006-08-15 Thread Pablo Chico de Guzm�n Huerta
Hi, My work group has developed a Prolog Language to Unix. Now, we are going to adapt it to work under windows, but when a .exe is executed, we need know is the execution is under CygWin or no. We used CYGWIN variable, but we think that it does not exist any longer under CygWin.