base-files license?

2011-10-25 Thread Luke Kendall
In the "base-files" package, what license applies to the small number of *actual shell scripts and skeleton files* under etc/{defaults,postinstall, preremove}? Is it, perhaps, one of the common licenses that are collected together and stored in base-files? If so, which one? Regards, luke

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl

2011-10-25 Thread Larry W. Virden
Craig - it is good to see some work going on in cygwin relating to tcl. I hope that expect-lite is incorporated; it would be nice to have a version of tcl closer to the latest version released. On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Craig Miller wrote: > Hello All, > > I am the author of expect-lite w

possible bug in stat() -- not working with special characters on 64 bit systems

2011-10-25 Thread Leon Vanderploeg
I have been fighting a problem with a compiled C program and seem to have narrowed it down. When file names contain special characters such as the n with the tilde above it (ñ), stat() works fine on 32 bit machines, but fails on 64 bit machines (both windows 7 and server 2008 R2). At the end of

Re: Contributing license information?

2011-10-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 25 12:00, Luke Kendall wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Aug 19 11:09, Luke Kendall wrote: > >>Soon, I will have prepared a list of the location of every license > >>file in every Cygwin package. My motivation is to make it easy for > >>people to find the license information, if they n

Re: base-files license?

2011-10-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 25 18:46, Luke Kendall wrote: > In the "base-files" package, what license applies to the small > number of *actual shell scripts and skeleton files* under > etc/{defaults,postinstall, preremove}? > > Is it, perhaps, one of the common licenses that are collected > together and stored in base

Re: possible bug in stat() -- not working with special characters on 64 bit systems

2011-10-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 25 07:06, Leon Vanderploeg wrote: > I have been fighting a problem with a compiled C program and seem to have > narrowed it down. When file names contain special characters such as the n > with the tilde above it (ñ), stat() works fine on 32 bit machines, but fails > on 64 bit machines (bot

New versions of tcl and expect? [Was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl]

2011-10-25 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/24/2011 9:31 PM, Craig Miller wrote: [text] Please don't imitate our official announcement subject lines. This is why I rejected your original post to cygwin-announce: that list (and, fairly speaking, the subject line format) is for official announcements by the duly appointed *cygwin* main

Re: rebase problem

2011-10-25 Thread Jason Tishler
Zdzislaw, On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:38:57PM -0700, Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote: > There is a problem with running rebase on my system. I go through the > motions: > > [snip] > > This works fine until: > > /usr/bin/cygAfterImage-0.dll: new base = 6ff7, new size = 7 > /usr/X11R6/bin/cygXft-1

home path for cygwin 1.7.9 is acting funny

2011-10-25 Thread Matthew Smith
I installed to "c:\personal\cygwin" on my windows xp machine. If I open a command prompt and type "echo %HOME%", I get "C:\Documents and Settings\Matt" If I then start an ssh connection from DOS (not the Cygwin program), I get an error at the beginning of the connection initiation that states "Co

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl

2011-10-25 Thread Craig Miller
Hi Marco, I am sure someone else could update the expect package, but I have been following cygwin for a year now (support expect-lite on cygwin) and saw no updates. There is functionality in the newer expect that expect-lite takes advantage of, and it would be nice to have a newer version in the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl

2011-10-25 Thread Craig Miller
Thanks Larry, Once I get the updated version of expect in the distro, I think I would like to create an expect-lite package for cygwin. It doesn't appear all that hard, and I am already creating deb and rpm packages. Thanks, Craig... On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Larry W. Virden wrote: > Cr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl

2011-10-25 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/25/2011 6:18 PM, Craig Miller wrote: Hi Marco, I am sure someone else could update the expect package, but I have been following cygwin for a year now (support expect-lite on cygwin) and saw no updates. There is functionality in the newer expect that expect-lite takes advantage of, and it

Request update of TCL and expect packages

2011-10-25 Thread Craig Miller
Hello Chris Sutcliffe &  Christopher Faylor, Apparently, I started off on the wrong foot. I apologize to the list. I respectfully request that the expect and TCL packages in the cygwin distro be updated. I have the sources I used (earlier) to create expect version 5.45, and they can be found at:

Symbilic links support

2011-10-25 Thread Alexey Kuznetsov
By default git checkout files created as symbolic links on linux system as symbolic links. Under windows it does not work. I expect on cygwin machines after git checkout I will get normal links can be readed as 'ls -al' command. But they actually appears as normal files. -- AK -- Problem reports

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.7.1-1

2011-10-25 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version of subversion is available. NEWS: = See CHANGES (URL below) for more information about the differences between 1.7.1 and previous Subversion releases. IMPORTANT: Please read the release notes (URL below) before upgrading from a previous major release. 1.7 includes a new working

Re: Symbilic links support

2011-10-25 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/25/2011 11:48 AM, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: By default git checkout files created as symbolic links on linux system as symbolic links. Under windows it does not work. I expect on cygwin machines after git checkout I will get normal links can be readed as 'ls -al' command. But they actually a

Re: Contributing license information?

2011-10-25 Thread David Sastre
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:50:45PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 25 12:00, Luke Kendall wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Aug 19 11:09, Luke Kendall wrote: > > >>Soon, I will have prepared a list of the location of every license > > >>file in every Cygwin package. My motivation

Re: home path for cygwin 1.7.9 is acting funny

2011-10-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/25/2011 11:13 AM, Matthew Smith wrote: I installed to "c:\personal\cygwin" on my windows xp machine. If I open a command prompt and type "echo %HOME%", I get "C:\Documents and Settings\Matt" If I then start an ssh connection from DOS (not the Cygwin program), I get an error at the beginni

Is /usr/src/cygutils-1.4.6-1.cygport is out of date?

2011-10-25 Thread Regid Ichira
Don't HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI carry only up to 1.4.2 ? I wonder if the other information is up to date. $ cat /usr/src/cygutils-1.4.6-1.cygport DESCRIPTION="A collection of small but useful utilties for cygwin" HOMEPAGE="http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/cygutils-package/index.html"; SRC_URI="http://cy

Re: Is /usr/src/cygutils-1.4.6-1.cygport is out of date?

2011-10-25 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/25/2011 8:58 PM, Regid Ichira wrote: Don't HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI carry only up to 1.4.2 ? I wonder if the other information is up to date. $ cat /usr/src/cygutils-1.4.6-1.cygport DESCRIPTION="A collection of small but useful utilties for cygwin" HOMEPAGE="http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/cy