[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: quilt-0.48-3 -- Tool to work with series of patches

2011-04-19 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/quilt License : GPL Tool to work with series of patches Program manages a series of patches by keeping track of the changes each of them makes. They are logically organized as a stack, and you can apply, un-apply, r

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: python-feedparse 5.0.1-1 -- Universal Feed Parser for Python

2011-04-19 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://feedparser.org License : MIT Python module for downloading and parsing syndicated feeds. It can handle RSS 0.90, Netscape RSS 0.91, Userland RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS 0.93, RSS 0.94, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom, and CDF feeds. Provides the same A

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: arc 5.21p-1 -- The ARC archive utility

2011-04-19 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/arc License : GPL This program is based on the MSDOS ARC program, version 5.21, plus a few enhancements. ARC performs Huffman Squeezing on data. The Huffman Squeeze algorithm was removed from MSDOS ARC after ve

OSS device names under Cygwin

2011-04-19 Thread Johan Henkens
I'm trying to expand the usability of Shairport, a recent Airplay software that uses the libao audio library to support the output to specified devices under Windows 7 with cygwin. However, I have been unable to find any information on how to access the different device names or ID's for the dif

Re: emacs No Longer Works After A Cygwin Upgrade

2011-04-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/18/2011 5:44 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 4/18/2011 3:27 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/18/2011 4:02 PM, marco atzeri wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: This has happened the last few times I did an upgrade with setup.exe. emacs, emacs-nox, and emacs -nw will not start

Re: emacs No Longer Works After A Cygwin Upgrade

2011-04-19 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 4/19/2011 6:57 AM, Ken Brown said this: > On 4/18/2011 5:44 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> On 4/18/2011 3:27 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >>> On 4/18/2011 4:02 PM, marco atzeri wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > This has happened the last few times I did an upgrade with

Re: emacs No Longer Works After A Cygwin Upgrade

2011-04-19 Thread Warren Young
I don't think cygcheck can resolve a symlink. (I'm not near a Windows machine to test right now) For the archives, yes, it can. I don't have emacs on my machine (vi is the one true editor) but the only difference between the two invocation methods is that if you pass a symlink, cygcheck emit

RE: Octave Plotting, Invoking Octave

2011-04-19 Thread Doug Pace
Thanks Marco I deleted the cygwin directory and reinstalled, selecting cygwin 1.7.8-1. This did not work either; but I may have done a rebaseall after installing octave. Got octave working with this sequence: install cygwin, with x11; do a >/cygwin/bin/ash ? ./rebaseall; run setup again: do

Re: Octave Plotting, Invoking Octave

2011-04-19 Thread marco atzeri
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Doug Pace wrote: > Thanks Marco > >  I deleted the cygwin directory and reinstalled, selecting cygwin 1.7.8-1. > This did not work either; but I may have done a rebaseall after installing > octave. > > Got octave working with this sequence: > > install cygwin, with

named pipe (fifo) question

2011-04-19 Thread bob 295
I'm porting a library from Linux to Cygwin and I've encountered a problem with the behavior of named pipes (fifo's). In my sequence a pair of fifos are opened by each end of the conversation. One is opened as WRONLY, the other as RDWR. Some documentation seems to frown on RDWR pipes. We

Re: named pipe (fifo) question

2011-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:01:55AM -0400, bob 295 wrote: >I'm porting a library from Linux to Cygwin and I've encountered a problem with >the behavior of named pipes (fifo's). >... >Is this the intended POSIX behavior? Is the problem the RDWR open? The problem is that Cygwin's implementation o

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin now licensed under GPLv3+

2011-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I'm happy to announce that, effective immediately, Red Hat has relicensed Cygwin from "GNU Public License version 2" (GPLv2) to "GNU Public License version 3 or later" (GPLv3+). The Open Source Licensing Exception persists, as well as the availability of the Cygwin A

Re: Linking statically against GraphicsMagick: problems with libxml2 and libpng

2011-04-19 Thread Dmitry Katsubo
Hi Marc, On 05.04.2011 10:48, marco atzeri wrote: > you can check the package source and propose the change I have went through the manual installation of libxml: the package was installed absolutely OK. After "make install" I got: $ ls -1 /usr/local/lib/libxml2* /usr/local/lib/libxml2.a /usr/lo

Re: Linking statically against GraphicsMagick: problems with libxml2 and libpng

2011-04-19 Thread marco atzeri
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > Hi Marc, > > On 05.04.2011 10:48, marco atzeri wrote: >> you can check the package source and propose the change > > I have went through the manual installation of libxml: the package was > installed absolutely OK. After "make install" I got:

0417 snapshot: exec() fails on /proc/self/exe

2011-04-19 Thread Andy Koppe
With the latest snapshot, exec() fails on /proc/self/exe: $ cat test.c #include #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { if (argc > 1 && !fork()) { execl("/proc/self/exe", argv[0], (char *)0); puts(strerror(errno)); } return 0; } $ cc test.c $ ./

cygstart, mailto: URLs, and launching an executable

2011-04-19 Thread Wm. David Bentlage
Hi, What's the reason for the following change in cygstart between cygwin 1.5 and 1.7?  Can the cygwin 1.5 behavior be restored? ai016aadm01@app-stl-33 ~ $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.2 app-stl-33 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin ai016aadm01@app-stl-33 ~ $ cygstart -v mailto: ShellExecut

Re: Memory leak in select

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2011-04-18 21:23 skrev Peter Rosin: > Den 2011-04-18 17:28 skrev Christopher Faylor: >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:24:41AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 04:32:10PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote: Den 2011-04-18 14:23 skrev Peter Rosin: > Den 2011-04-18 13:43 sk

Re: cygstart, mailto: URLs, and launching an executable

2011-04-19 Thread Charles Wilson
On 4/19/2011 4:58 PM, Wm. David Bentlage wrote: > Under cygwin 1.5, a new bash window is launched (per the man page). > Under cygwin 1.7, I get an error. I can open bash in cygwin 1.7 if I > specify the full path to the bash executable. cygwin-1.4.0: * Support in cygstart for unicode arguments/f

Re: 0417 snapshot: exec() fails on /proc/self/exe

2011-04-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/19/2011 02:16 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) > { > if (argc > 1 && !fork()) { > execl("/proc/self/exe", argv[0], (char *)0); > puts(strerror(errno)); > } > return 0; > } > > $ cc test.c > > $ ./a bla > Bad file descriptor > > With 1.7.9, it prints no

Idea on how to improve cygstart

2011-04-19 Thread SJ Wright
Hi. Well, maybe there's a better word than "improve." Maybe "streamline" would be better. Anyhow, here it is. Allow users to create a list of paths to GUI apps they have on their systems -- other than the selected Windows defaults -- and using either aliases (like "monkey" for SeaMonkey 2.0

Re: Memory leak in select

2011-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:31:38PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote: >Den 2011-04-18 21:23 skrev Peter Rosin: >> Den 2011-04-18 17:28 skrev Christopher Faylor: >>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:24:41AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 04:32:10PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote: > Den

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.3-2 (TEST)

2011-04-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/25/2011 6:36 AM, Ken Brown wrote: New test releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages (23.3-2) are now available, leaving 23.3-1 as current and 23.2-3 as previous. These are rebuilds of the 23.3-1 packages, patched to use mmap for buffer allocation. Please test this release an

[1.7.9] frequent five-second pauses for no apparent reason

2011-04-19 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
As of today, I'm experiencing intermittent five-second pauses when I run Cygwin processes. Even the simplest executables (ls, mkdir) can experience these freezes. I can't break out of them with ctrl-c. I stripped down my PATH to /usr/bin with no effect. My Cygwin installation and home directory are

Re: 0417 snapshot: exec() fails on /proc/self/exe

2011-04-19 Thread Andy Koppe
On 19 April 2011 21:16, Andy Koppe wrote: > With the latest snapshot, exec() fails on /proc/self/exe: > > $ cat test.c > #include > #include > #include > #include > #include > > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) > { >  if (argc > 1 && !fork()) { >    execl("/proc/self/exe", argv[0], (char *)0);