Re: Invalid compiler error

2003-03-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Tron Thomas wrote: > I wrote a simple program to test an open source library I am planning to > use in a development project. I want the project to be supported on > different compilers, including the GCC compiler included with Cygwin. I > have been able to successfully build my test application

Re: Invalid compiler error

2003-03-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Tron Thomas wrote: > Earlier, I tried almost exactly what you suggested before posting my > question, and it worked fine with the Cygwin compiler. Would it be > helpful if I actually provided the headers the library is using? No. It seems you have discovered you were using a non-portable construc

Re: cygwin-1.3.22-1 Kills tcsh

2003-03-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Craig Milo Rogers wrote: > I updated to cygwin-1.3.22-1. Now, tcsh dies (consumes all CPU and > memory until out og the latter). I tried a reinstall of cygwin-1.3.22-1 > (with, incidentally, an error message about incomplete downloads (I > tried three servers), and some complaints about "null" du

Re: Building Mozilla Tools under CYGWIN

2003-03-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Divya Sundaram wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to build the LDAP C SDK from Mozilla under cygwin > and am looking for some advice. > > The web page here: > http://www.mozilla.org/directory/csdk.html > > lays out the steps to build the Mozilla C SDK from source. > > And, this page offers hints for

Re: Building Mozilla Tools under CYGWIN

2003-03-22 Thread Max Bowsher
how_bug.cgi?id=134113 Max. > -Original Message- > From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 9:16 AM > To: Divya Sundaram; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Building Mozilla Tools under CYGWIN > > > Divya Sundaram wrote: >>

Re: V 1.3.22: CVS Checkout from local: No such file or directory

2003-03-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Birgit Guder wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I tried to setup cvs server on my windows 98 machine through cygwin. >> However I could not even manage to get the basics of cvs working. I >> create a new repository with: >> >> $ cvs -d/cygdrive/d/data/cvs init >> >> The directory /cygdrive/d/data/cvs exists and c

Re: tar file size limitation

2003-03-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Pierre Gregoreski wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to put on a tape a 16 GB file with Cygwin tar on W2K. Cygwin does not support large files (2GB+). Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: tar file size limitation

2003-03-24 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know work is progressing to change this but seems to me > this is worthwhile fodder for the FAQ at this point. You are right - however, I'm not the FAQ maintainer. Forwarding to the list. Max. > Original Message: > ----- > From

Re: I can jam cygwin in 2 minutes - can you?- "Cannot fork: Permission denied" jam

2003-03-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Mike W. wrote: > This relates to a bug in Win NT 2000 sp3 or cygwin- > hard to say which. I can only exercise the bug in > cygwin, but I would like to exercise it from > command.exe- see below. Another user jammed cygwin in > 183 iterations of the loop, after two days without a > reboot. I am no

Re: cant run binaries in cygwin

2003-03-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Martin Gainty wrote: > Hello > ./bin/my_print_defaults: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected > What is cygwin doing to this binary to cause this error? > How do I fix? Last time someone got this error, they were trying to run Linux binaries under Cygwin. YOU CAN'T DO THIS! Cygwin is a porting framew

Re: I can jam WIN 2000 in a few minutes- WITHOUT CYGWIN !!!! - can you?

2003-03-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Mike W. wrote: > Ha Ha! > > The bug I have been digging into (with my Dell laptop) > that I first saw in cygwin also manifests from the > Win2000 command prompt, with no involvement by cygwin > at all. Well then, it's kind of off topic here then... > Soo > > What list do peo

Re: file permissions

2003-03-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Lu Fang wrote: > Hi, all > I have installed CVS with cygwin under windows2k operation system. It is > working properly. Further more,I want to specify the files permissions for > different group of users. I have read the cvs manualfrom > > > > a

Re: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Shankar Unni wrote: > Pavel Tsekov asked: > >> Is it possible that the problematic box has X already installed >> on it ? If there is an older version of a package already >> installed, setup will try to upgrade it. > > No, it doesn't. The "current" column is blank. Also, there are no > XFree86

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 02:24, Vince Hoffman wrote: >> Havent a clean system to try a full install. however on running it to >> upgrade/add packages the first run crashed . >> on the second run all was fine and componants were added/updated >> perfectly. I tried running a few

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: >> Robert Collins wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 02:24, Vince Hoffman wrote: >>> >>>> Havent a clean system to try a full install. however on running it to >>>> upgrade/add packages the fi

Re: rsync reliablility issue

2003-03-26 Thread Max Bowsher
Bruce Dobrin wrote: > cygwin 1.3.22, > > I know the list hates rsync questions/problems ( is there is a better > list for this?) but... How about the rsync list? > I have been having somewhat aqrbitrary but continued reliability issues > with rsync, I've been trying to use rsync to synchronize

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Rolf Campbell wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: >> A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to >> reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed. >> >> The new version is available from >> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.exe (binary) and >> http://www.cy

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:10, Vince Hoffman wrote: >>> Ok, well this is 'not good' :}. >>> >>> At what point does it crash? >>> >> >> At start before any window appears. >> Shuttting down cygwin services made no difference. >> let me know if there is any more i can do to help

Re: gcc/Cygwin awareness

2003-03-31 Thread Max Bowsher
John Williams wrote: > Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> You could use this >> >> #if defined(__GNUC__) && defined(__CYGWIN__) > > So __CYGWIN__ is defined in the preprocessor environment when compiling > under Cygwin? That's precisely what I'm after, thanks. General answer to this kind of question: $

Re: Building DLLs to be loaded from Visual Basic

2003-03-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Massimiliano Mirra wrote: > "Mader, Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> - is anybody today successfully building DLLs with cygwin (not >>> mingw32) and loading them from Visual Basic (or other languages)? >> >> I have to provide DLLs for VB and do so by using Cygwin but with >> -mnocygwi

Re: Segmentation fault in ld

2003-03-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > Hello all, > > I just discovered a bug in the current ld: > > To repeat, just make sure there is no .libs in the current directory and > there is a minimal stub.cpp with at least one function. Run make with the > following makefile: > > == BEGIN Makefile == > all

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Rolf Campbell wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: >> Robert Collins wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:10, Vince Hoffman wrote: >>> >>>>> Ok, well this is 'not good' :}. >>>>> >>>>> At what point does it crash?

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Rolf Campbell wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: >> Rolf Campbell wrote: >>> Max Bowsher wrote: >>>> Robert Collins wrote: >>>>> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:10, Vince Hoffman wrote: >>>>>>> Ok, well this is 'not good' :}. >>&g

Re: ld cannot find -lrt

2003-04-01 Thread Max Bowsher
gmane wrote: > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: > cannot find -lrt > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [dump.exe] Error 1 > > > Trying to compile rpm4.0.4 sources and get this error in ./tools . > What does this indicate? It indicates that rpm do

setup.exe troubleshooting snapshot

2003-04-01 Thread Max Bowsher
I've uploaded a new setup troubleshooting snapshot: http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3-no-set_default_sec.exe This is simply 2.340.2.3 with the recently-added ntsec code deactivated. Please could anyone who can reproduce crashes with 2.340.2.3 give this a try. If it doesn't cras

Re: Ever needed a CVS-only shell?

2003-04-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Lapo Luchini wrote: > Today I finally solved one of the problems that I have since a long > time: how to let people access CVS via SSH but not give them shell access. > > It was *much* easier than expected, but real strange for a person that > uses Windows a lot: it wouldn't certainly permit to hav

Re: perl-5.8.0-2 CYGWIN1.DLL:setlinebuf failure

2003-04-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Greg Matheson wrote: > I installed the new perl-5.8.0-2, but > > I am getting the Chinese Windows error message: > CYGPERL5_8_0.DLL file failed to connect to output routine > CYGWIN1.DLL:setlinebuf. > > This is with cygwin-1.3.22-1 and earlier versions. ^^^ No, this vers

Re: setup.exe final pre-release..

2003-04-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Alan Dobkin wrote: > On 4 Apr 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > >> you should use apache or IIS to serve out the mirror and add >> it to your mirror selection creen in the custom URL field. >> >> Then, setup won't check the md5's of every package. > > This seems like an overly complex workaround just t

Re: Bug in GUI App WinMain Arguements

2003-04-04 Thread Max Bowsher
BB wrote: > I'm having a problem running a windows gui app with arguments from a > mounted directory if the Win32Path mounted to contains blanks. (i.e. > mount -s -b "C:/foo bar" "/foobar"). It's not a mount specific problem > because it also occurs if the directory has a space in it. Since > mkpa

Re: OpenSSH PublicKeyAuthentication failure using cygrunsrv

2003-04-04 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently installed the latest Cygwin Version on my W2k test server > along with the latest > OpenSSH package. > I find that if I manually start the sshd daemon I can login ok using > PublicKeyAuthentication but when I create an NT Service using cygrunsrv > that thi

Re: How to access a Linux partition

2003-04-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Martin wrote: > How does Cygwin access a Linux partition? It doesn't. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

2003-06-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:33:46PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: >> Now it has been proven that each cygwin installation manipulating 1000s of >> files only suffers from this "feature"; not to mention that it breaks >> winfile.exe :-(((. > > The next Cygwin version will pro

Re: Today's revision of pcre : possible cause of damage?

2003-06-05 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sometime in the last couple of hours I ran setup.exe and upgraded pcre and > associated bits and pieces. Maybe I did something wrong but now there are > real rather than virtual files as follows: > > \usr\bin\cygpcre-0.dll > \usr\bin\cygpcreposix-0.dll > \usr\

Re: Today's version of pcre:

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Lester Ingber wrote: > I can't start up my cygwin shell due to "cygpcre.dll not found", and I > cannot get the older 4.1 version under setup to install the older 4.1 as > recommended by Max? Hmm - seems like *that* aspect of the setup.hint file was broken as well. Either wait a few hours for the

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:48:39AM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> Wait, no, *100%* of Cygwin users on NTFS are negatively >^^ >?? > > I'm also on NTFS and I

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:25:18PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >> I threw together a horrible C program to ask Windows whether a file was >> sparse. .exe and .dll files made with a 1.5.0 Cygwin are. I haven't posted >> the test progra

Re: Cygwinperl & tar on Win9x (really tar)

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Soren Andersen wrote: > Hello Cygwinauts, > > I'd like to report a problem I encountered recently try to run CPAN(.pm) > on Cygwinperl to ... you know what CPAN does. > > My system is Win98 and I suspect from absence of reports concerning this > that somehow this isn't affecting people on other-der

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:03:34PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:25:18PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >>>> I threw together a horrible C program to ask Windows whether a file was >>

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:29:51PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >> I assumed you would trust someone telling you whether the read-only >> attribute of a file was set, without needing to see further evidence? >> To me, this is an equivalent situation.

Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

2003-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I did the same here and I've added the block count which shows how much > blocks has been wasted by being a sparse file: > > 188 -rwxr-xr-x1 corinna root 191765 Jun 6 09:55 ./ftp/ftp.exe > Sparse bit 200 > 497 -rwxr-xr-x1 corinna root 508186 Jun 6

Re: Question about "rexec"

2003-05-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: >> Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>> All that this says is to insure that you have ntsec set. I have it set. >>> chmod still doesn't work! BTW I'm on Windows XP and use NTFS. My home >>> directory is on the server (

Re: printf "\n"|perl -pe '1;'|od -a #perl 5.8 converts to *DOS* text :-

2003-05-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Trevor Forbes wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Gerrit P. Haase > > > > Since Cygwin runs on Windows and Windows is a DOS system the PERLIO > > layer crlf is default. Ugh. Some of use Cygwin to *escape* Windows! Is there any way to tell perlio "just let the system (i.e. cygwin)

Re: Should PERLIO=no_crlf be the default on Cygwin?

2003-05-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hallo Max, > Since Cygwin runs on Windows and Windows is a DOS system the PERLIO layer crlf is default. > >> Ugh. Some of use Cygwin to *escape* Windows! > >> Is there any way to tell perlio "just let the system (i.e. cygwin) handle >> things"? >> That would be a

Re: Should PERLIO=no_crlf be the default on Cygwin?

2003-05-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > I would prefer to have it like it is on Unix, read and write back what > you get, never do any conversion, why should I do a LF -> CRLF > conversion for someone who lives on a text mount? > Why should I do the conversion backwards? *You* shouldn't. But you should allow Cyg

Re: Should PERLIO=no_crlf be the default on Cygwin?

2003-05-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hallo Max, > > Am Freitag, 30. Mai 2003 um 17:47 schriebst du: > >> I know very little about perlio, but wouldn't defaulting to stdio cause Perl >> to obey Cygwin mount modes? > > From perlrun.pod: > "An unset or empty PERLIO is equivalent to :stdio." > > The problem is tha

Trivial change request for autoconf-wrapper

2003-06-01 Thread Max Bowsher
The current autoreconf wrapper doesn't know about the --warnings option. The logic is already there for autoconf, etc. so the only change needed to the package is: echo opt_warnings >> autoreconf.options Thanks, Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

Re: libncurses

2003-06-01 Thread Max Bowsher
David Knox wrote: > I got into situation trying to compile an application with GCC under > cygwin. When I ran configure all of the C++ test snips failed. I checked > the command line that was being used to compile the snips and tried it > from the command line myself. It turned out that my last upd

Re: libncurses

2003-06-01 Thread Max Bowsher
David Knox wrote: > But there is a package "ncurses: Libraries for terminal handling" that > given its label and description, it can easily be assumed that it really > does contain libncurses. > > That's all I'm trying to say. Rather that firing off emails, perhaps you could take the time to look

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LibXML2 (2.5.7) test packages available

2003-06-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Elfyn McBratney wrote: > I have uploaded test packages for LibXML2 version 2.5.7 to > sources.redhat.com . The LibXML2 source and binary packages *should* be > available on most mirrors by the beginning of next week. The source package > does not *yet* contain a patch file; for some reason (me bein

Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

2003-06-02 Thread Max Bowsher
$ uname -svr CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.0(0.86/3/2) 2003-06-02 00:41 The new sparse file heuristic is being triggered by the way binutils writes .exe and .dll files. I'm unsure this could be worked around. Any ideas? Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repor

Re: missing package libintl2 on mirrors

2003-06-02 Thread Max Bowsher
Maxa Petr wrote: >> Joakim Erdfelt wrote: >> >> libintl2 is under the gettext package. >> You can find the latest version here. ... >> /* joakim */ > > Thanks for a quick response. > > This is a correct information, but it is not logically traceable where the > libintl2 package is actually stored.

Re: Path separator

2003-06-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Greg Fenton wrote: > --- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> You shouldn't be defining _WIN32 for cygwin. Cygwin gcc doesn't >> define this by default. > > > Unfortunately, autoconf is doing this for us. It is picking up > windows.h from /usr/include/w32api, which in turn includes

Re: Calling gcc built DLL from .NET (Visual Basic)

2003-06-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Thomas X. Hoban wrote: > Does anyone have a good example that shows how to create a DLL using > cygwin/gcc and call it using VB .NET? I am specifically interested in an > example that shows how to pass a String variable. In the example that I > show below, I am able to call a C function. I can

Re: Why is patch(1) asking for the file names already given?

2003-06-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Constantine wrote: > Andrew Markebo wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Just a guess, I usually throw -p1 or more, not -p0? Could it be that? >> >> /Andy >> >> / Constantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> I am trying to apply a patch I made for myself. When I am running the >>> patch(1) u

Re: Why is patch(1) asking for the file names already given?

2003-06-04 Thread Max Bowsher
>>>> / Constantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> I am trying to apply a patch I made for myself. When I am running the >>>>> patch(1) utility, I am always being asked to type in the file name to >>>>> a file that needs to be patch

Re: Path separator

2003-06-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Greg Fenton wrote: > --- Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> No: Cygwin != _WIN32. >> > > No argument from me here. :-) > > >> A native/Cygwin dual-mode binary sounds like a clever idea, but AFAIK >> has never been done before, and is pr

Re: dllwrap/perl/Net::DNS DNS.o(.text+0x1b1):DNS.c: undefined reference to `___dn_expand'

2003-06-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Jari Aalto+mail.perl wrote: > >> c -c -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing -DUSEIMPORTLIB -O3 -DVE RSION=\"0.38\" >> -DXS_VERSION=\"0.38\" "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int/CORE" DNS.c Running >> Mkbootstrap for Net::DNS () >> chmod

Re: non network install

2003-06-10 Thread Max Bowsher
B Thomas wrote: > Hi, > I would be gratefull if you could help with the following problem: > > I am trying to make a CD so that cywin binary/source can be installed > from this CD. The reason being I only have a linux computer my friend > only has a Windows XP. I have a fast internet connection ,

Re: AC_CYGWIN?

2003-06-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Alexander Enchevich wrote: > Hi > > What's the proper way to check if I am compiling on a cygwin system from > within an autoconf configure.in script? >From the subject, you clearly already have an idea. If you check the autoconf docs, they will tell you that that macro is obsolete, and tell you h

Re: non network install

2003-06-11 Thread Max Bowsher
B Thomas wrote: > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Thank you very much for all your replies. Having the distribution in > folder below the top one does indeed solve the problem. > > I wrote a bunch of tiny bash scripts to make the check dependencies and > make the iso image for two CD's. I shal

Re: Some useful permission setting scripts

2003-06-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Max Polk wrote: > WARNING: If you omit "administrators" then if you reinstall Windows, > you can NEVER, NEVER, EVER get to the file again, even as > administrator! (SOLUTION: use partition magic, convert > your drive to "FAT32" drops the bad permission, then >

Re: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ZPC207050 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) bug

2003-06-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Hornsby, Kelly wrote: > I just discovered that an environment variable OSTYPE is not longer exported by default to a > subprocess under this version of Cygwin. Why did this occur? Was it intentional, or > inadvertent? I use this often, and although I can perform an export OSTYPE explicitly, I n

Re: colons with rsync

2003-06-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > I did manage to create a file called ':saved' (on NTFS). It didn't show > up in directory listings (simple 'ls'), but did in an explicit 'ls > :saved'. I also could write to it and read from it, so I'm not sure > exactly where or how the file was created ('mv :saved ./Z

Re: Processes are unable to fully discard their controlling terminal

2003-06-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Some time ago I (Max Bowsher) wrote: > I can now successfully share an ssh-agent between all > my shells, with it > starting with the first one, and ending with the last, > and no zombie windows > if I end shells in the wrong order. Matt wrote: > I would like ssh-agent to functi

Re: Processes are unable to fully discard their controlling terminal

2003-06-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Matt wrote: > works like a champ.. thanks for the pointer. you've > never tried to get cygwin to use pageant have you (or > anybody)?? pageant = putty's ssh agent No, and I'm pretty sure that it is impossible. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem rep

Re: multiple cygwins on same system ?

2003-06-14 Thread Max Bowsher
klemens zwischenbrugger wrote: > Hi, > > i've try'd to install a second cygwin ( latest version ) byside > my normal one. > > unfortunatly, the setup seems to find the other installed > packages even if I set a complete new root-directory for the 2nd > one.

Re: 1.3.22 : ocaml package not there ?

2003-06-18 Thread Max Bowsher
Folken wrote: > I'm a developper & would like to use ocaml project under Cygwin ... > Shouldn't it be integrated by default ? The Ml Language is the future > in programming ... In case you hadn't noticed, Cygwin is a volunteer project. Packages are included when someone volunteers to contribute t

What does an exit code of 128 mean?

2003-06-18 Thread Max Bowsher
I'm trying to run a perl program (vcp*) but when given certain data sets, it dies with exit code 128, and no visible errors (even when run under the perl debugger). Does 128 have a special meaning? I recall reading something about that, but can't find it now. Max. *: vcp is Versioned Copy - co

Re: install-info.exe: The procedure entry point mbrtowc could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll.

2003-06-21 Thread Max Bowsher
Perry Pupp wrote: > install-info.exe - Entry point not found > > The procedure entry point mbrtowc could not be >located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll. > > > I just ran the cygwin setup, and let it pick all the > new current versions, mbrtowc is present in the latest version of cygwi

Re: unexpected behavior: setup v2.340.2.5

2003-06-24 Thread Max Bowsher
linda w (cyg) wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 11:39a >> I don't know what you mean by "beta". If you mean packages installed >> when you press the "Exp" radio button in setup, then that's >> how it works. >> You pick "Ex

Re: is this known bug still known to be around? (re: rsync)

2003-06-24 Thread Max Bowsher
book-girl wrote: > Often, after transfering a large number of files, rsync will hang when > done (src + dst on same machine). I remember this being mentioned ages > ago as a problem. > > It seems to still be around. Same as it ever was -- all files seem > to be transferred, it just doesn't want

Re: download the older version of openssh

2003-06-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Doug VanLeuven wrote: > Actually, the only reason I cc'd the list was on the off chance someone > might contribute the proper way to include it so setup could revert it. > I've never done that. OK, here goes... You need the correct entries for a setup.ini. This means you must do one of the follow

Re: grep not working due to missing cygpcre.dll

2003-06-25 Thread Max Bowsher
JK wrote: > I just updated my installation with the "current" list of packages in > setup. > On startup I get a message from grep.exe saying it can't find > cygpcre.dll. > So now grep, less and more are broken. > > It's the problem described here: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-06/msg0003

Re: Linker info message

2003-06-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi, > > In an attempt to create a dll I get a warning from the linker, trying to > resolve a static class variable. ... > Info: resolving Object::i by linking to __imp___ZN6Object1iE > (auto-import) > make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/o/MinDll/Source/Exe' > > C

Re: problem with runningsimple C program

2003-06-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Milos Puzovic wrote: > I was trying to run the following simple C code: > > void func(); > > main() { >func(); >} > > void func() { printf("Hello world from func()!"); } > > First, I compiled it with gcc program.c -o program. Then I tried to run > it, but I got "Segmentation fault (core

Re: cygwin presentation ???

2003-06-26 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Suggested presentation: [ Snip various derogatory comments about Cygwin. ] You could take a few moments to step back from your rant, and consider the nature of Cygwin - a volunteer project. You could allow yourself to be pleasantly surprised by the general cohesiveness o

Re: Download from internet = 1Mb?!

2003-06-26 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 18 Jun, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The mirror is 1.2Gb, and I wanted to just write a copy of the install >> set to take home. So my idea was to choose "download from internet", >> and burn that. >> >> Trouble is, that option results in a 1Mb download (I thi

Re: Network shares under ssh: some can, some can't

2003-06-26 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I noticed some discussion on the list a while back, where people > reported that if they logged in remotely to their Windows PC via > slogin, they didn't have access to their network shares. > > I'd never worried too much about this, since I always just manually > mapped

Re: The procedure entry point putc_unlocked could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll

2003-07-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Venkatesh K. Kesavan wrote: > Hi, > Im new to cygwin. I tried to use gcc.exe i get the below error. I > reinstalled the whole cygwin twice but i get the same error. Please help > me. Thanks in advance. > > "The procedure entry point putc_unlocked could not be located in the > dynamic link library

Re: ioctls.h

2003-07-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Martin Gainty wrote: > Hello > > Where can I locate cygwin library header file ioctls.h ? The "Setup Package Search" link on http://cygwin.com will show you that no such file exists. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.co

Re: Why do symlinks need to be system files

2003-07-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Mark R. wrote: > Hello, > > I've been busy attempting to use WinInstaller LE to create an MSI package > of cygwin so we can automatically deploy a customized build for our > department. This works for the most part, however when I deploy this to a > windows XP machine, all of the symlinks are brok

Re: setup doesnt work at all and searching the archives doesntwork either

2003-07-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Jordan Bortz wrote: > It does nt work at all..Like...it refuses to download the list of mirrors; > if I install from a local disk, it shows hardly any packages in the > avaialble list. > > When it attempts to install something, what it usually install is just the > directories. > > I could go on an

Re: CVS tag for releases?

2003-07-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Jeremy White wrote: > Hi all, > > Forgive me if I have missed something blindingly obvious, > but I cannot find a CVS tag to correlate > to the 1.3.22-1 release of cygwin1.dll. I see one for > cygwin-1-3-19-1 on some winsup/cygwin files. > > I was hoping to check out a 'stable' release from CVS, >

Re: php-mysql-cygwin how to

2003-07-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, andrew brian clegg wrote: > >> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Bill McCormick wrote: >> >> [mysql client] >> >>> I compiled it myself from the linux src I got from mysql.com. It seems >>> to work but maybe there's a more established way. >> >> Wanna try this myself

Re: php-mysql-cygwin how to

2003-07-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hello Max, >> 3) The long standing server problem. It seems like the complex C++ is >> confusing gcc? > > No, it is a problem with the Cygwin/MySQL socket code. Nothing works > with 1.3.22, similar as it is with Apache. The older versions, e.g. > 1.3.10 works better, but

Re: mysqlc (was RE: php-mysql-cygwin how to)

2003-07-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > 4.0.x is still a mess regarding libtoolizing with newer libtool and > newer autotools than they used at MySQL.com, 4.1.x was the first release > which makes no problems with the build tools and only minor problems > with the sources. I obtained a cygmysqlclient-12.dll with

Re: php-mysql-cygwin how to

2003-07-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> In short: Comment out all '#pragma interface' and '#pragma >> implementation' lines, it doesn't work on Cygwin. >> >> And besides that, compiling and linking works well. > > Wish I'd read this before blingly hacking the source

Re: installing audiofile on cygwin

2003-07-14 Thread Max Bowsher
SHIMING DONG wrote: > Hi there : > > When I "make" audiofile, it gave me the error message that: > > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/audiofile-0.2.3/test' > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. > make[2]: Leaving directory `/u

Re: Problem with dereference option on Windows LNKs (shortcuts)

2003-07-14 Thread Max Bowsher
Mellem, Dan wrote: > From: Igor Pechtchanski On: 7/12/03 6:05 PM >> Cygwin symlinks are a bit more than read-only shortcut (.lnk) files. >> They have a special format, and they also have something in their >> "Comment" field (that you can check via shortcut properties). In short, >> you cannot eas

Re: Problem with dereference option on Windows LNKs (shortcuts)

2003-07-14 Thread Max Bowsher
Mellem, Dan wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Max Bowsher On: 7/14/03 2:08 PM >> Importantly, a Cygwin symlink contains a *POSIX* path. The fact that the >> symlink is also a windows shortcut is essentially just decoration. >> Obviously, a normal shortcut

Re: cygwin dll old versions?

2003-07-16 Thread Max Bowsher
Tobias Ritter wrote: > hi, > > where do i get older cygwin1.dll releases? ... > is there any way to get those old releases? No. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.c

Re: Trivial change request for autoconf-wrapper (Attn: Charles Wilson)

2003-07-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Ping? Max Bowsher wrote: > The current autoreconf wrapper doesn't know about the --warnings option. The > logic is already there for autoconf, etc. so the only change needed to the > package is: > > echo opt_warnings >> autoreconf.options > > > Thanks, > &

Re: P.S.: Re: mutt/Cygwin locks on some characters?

2003-07-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Lester Ingber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> assertion "errno == E2BIG || (BUGGY_ICONV && (errno == EILSEQ || errno == >> ENOENT))" failed: file "../mutt-1.4-1/sendlib.c", line 743 > >> I have an email to which I simply wish to reply. When I try "r" in mutt, >> mutt stalls

Re: _GETTEXT undefined problem

2003-07-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Searle Mr JR wrote: > /usr/bin/gcc -L/home/otb/OTB_Intnl_ABCA/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib bmap_to_lmap.o > -o bmap_to_lmap > bmap_to_lmap.o(.text+0x186):bmap_to_lmap.c: undefined reference to > `_gettext' There is no -lintl on the gcc command line to tell it to look for a libintl.a This only worked on

Re: little trouble

2003-07-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >> On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Miguel Arturo Diaz Lopez wrote: >> >>> Hello CYGWIN team, i have a little problem when i try to run >>> commands from the bash (like chroot, ls, etc), appears a pop up >>> win dialog that say: canĀ“t find

Re: Cygwin version 1.3.20

2003-07-21 Thread Max Bowsher
Henry Da Costa wrote: > Hello Mr. Faylor, You have sent this message to a public mailing list. > I hope you can help me. I'm looking for a complete Cygwin version 1.3.20 > set of packages but have so far been unable to find it. The phrase "complete Cygwin version 1.3.20 set of packages" is meani

Re: practicing building the cygwin.dll

2003-07-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Carlo Florendo wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to build the cygwin dll from scratch. I downloaded the entire > distribution last year including the sources. I've never upgraded any > package since then. > > I have cygwin-1.3.12-4 installed. Attached is the output of cygcheck -svr > > I assumed tha

Re: Setup fails on XP Pro : no files in /etc + no permissions in /bin

2003-07-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Milner, Jon (EU-SES) wrote: > When I attempt to install Cygwin on my (new) XP Pro machine, setup appears > to complete okay, and I can launch bash, but something has gone badly wrong > (see listings below). > > Anyone know what I am doing wrong? > (Or what extra information I need to provide to ena

Re: Questions about building from CVS (was Re: documentation on building the cygwin dll)

2003-07-23 Thread Max Bowsher
David Rothenberger wrote: >> Gerrit P. Haase writes: >> > Try this: >> > >> > #!/bin/bash >> >> Gerrit, >> >> Thanks for the script! I just started building the cygwin DLL from >> sources last week and this script sure does make it easier. >> >> I do have two questions for those that have do

Re: MICO / configure script question

2003-07-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to get MICO compiled under Cygwin using it's configure > script. When run, the script does not detect that it is possible to > create dll's (and therefor that it not possible to throw exceptions > across dll's). > > Is there a portable way to deter

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