Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB)

Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FWIW: I am not a lawyer. And therefore, everything you have said may be safely ignored. Until this alleged GPL violator receives a "cease and desist" order from an attorney, he has no reason to even consider modifying his behavior. (Except to be poli

Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB)

Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pat, > > At 09:36 2003-03-25, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > >Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > FWIW: I am not a lawyer. > > > >And therefore, everything you have said

Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB)

as the stronger argument. "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > > [snip, yeah I'll bite] > > > My main point is that an engineer has as much business interpreting > > law as a salesperson has telling an engine

Re: strange error message when running SHUTDOWN.EXE as root (administrator)

The Perl script below should give you a better error message. Just save it as "shutdown.pl"; run it with "--help" for usage instructions. You need to run it under ActiveState Perl, not Cygwin Perl. (Unless Cygwin Perl includes the Win32API module, which I believe it does not.) - Pat # Shut do

Re: Cygwin unattended Installation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Foller, Timo) writes: > Hello, > I want to start an unattended installation of Cygwin Environment. > The Installation should be merged with the Operating System Windows 2000 > > Professional. > What about the specific parameters (setup.exe)??? > Is it also possible? I believe

1.3.18-1: "can't create title mutex"

While running a big recursive make under Cygwin 1.3.18-1 on an SMP system, I am getting occasional failures like these: C:\cygwin\bin\cygpath.exe: *** can't create title mutex, Win32 error 6 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** can't create title mutex, Win32 error 6 I am appending the output from "cygc

Re: 1.3.18-1: "can't create title mutex"

"Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While running a big recursive make under Cygwin 1.3.18-1 on an SMP > system, I am getting occasional failures like these: > > C:\cygwin\bin\cygpath.exe: *** can't create title mutex, Win32 error 6 > C:

Re: Cygwin Package selection

"Rajagopalan, Karthik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I hve selected package to be installed from cygwin setup. I want my > clients to have the same selection made when they click setup of > cygwin in their system. > Can anyone suggest me a way of doing it. You can use AutoIT for this. See

Re: running setup.exe silently - command line switches

Cary Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does setup.exe support a non graphical environment. Not yet. However, you can use AutoIt to create your own unattended (though not silent) install. See: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html#cygwin - Pat -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.21-1

Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, and isn't it a *shame* that when I suggest that people should > try a snapshot, they never do? The only way I have to test new > features is to release a new version of cygwin, apparently. And, > then listen to the complaints. A bug report

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Otherwise, I can't think of a specific thing to point at and say > "Work on that". Maybe serial support? What about fixing the "Cygwin deadlocks due to broken select() when writing to pipes" bug? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01807

Re: Wishlist additions for setup.exe

How about command-line switches for unattended installation? This would be useful for deploying Cygwin in any non-toy environment. It should be as simple as applying Edward Peschko's patches: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00261.html The "-a" option is the vital one. Downloadin

Re: GPL violation ?

Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 07:54 AM 5/8/2004, you wrote: > >"Do not feed the trolls." > > > Which troll is that? Oh, I just assumed that was what you considered me. > While I respect your right to voice your opinions here, the reason I > responded was that I didn't want anyo

Re: GPL violation ?

Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I am sure you know, mentioning the GPL always starts a Rube > Goldberg reaction of interpretation from would-be lawyers, zealots, > or people who are unsatisfied with following the rules and assume > they should have more rights to the software t

Re: GPL violation ?

"Do not feed the trolls." I honestly did not expect any replies; I hate these discussions as much as anybody. I will keep this brief. Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then your gripe is with the GPL. The point is, whether you agree > with all the tenants of the license or not, you cann

Re: The Choices Are Exim, Exim and, er, Exim...

Igor Pechtchanski writes: > - if you don't mind a *HUGE* download, simply give a "-a" command-line > option to setup As far as I can tell, looking at current CVS sources, the "-a" option has not yet been implemented. As I may have mentioned, it sure would be a nice option to have. Last I read

Re: How to install packages...

Bruce Alderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know that setup.exe doesn't currently support batch operations > ... how much effort would it be to add? Is it planned? Is there a > better way to install it in a batch manner? Until the unattended mode support for setup.exe is finished, you might

"too many arguments" error in /etc/profile

When starting a login shell using the current release of Cygwin, I get the error: bash: [: too many arguments I tracked this down to my group name having a space in it ("Domain Users"). Fix for /etc/profile is below. - Pat Date: 20 Aug 2003 14:56:24 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Li

Re: pwd option to return windows path

Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:23PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote: > > >maybe then having your 'finger on the button' isn't the right response? > >Maybe tolerance is in order? maybe letting people voice their opinions > >without a verbal smackdown? A

Re: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)

Christopher Faylor writes: > Anyone know of a suitable, free setup-like utility that could be > pressed into service for use with cygwin? NSIS has already been mentioned. The other open-source utility I know of is Inno Setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php). But if you really want to do y

Re: setup.exe 2.427 problem with installation from rsync mirrors

"Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Many things about setup.exe make no sense. Since I took over > maintainership of setup.exe a few months ago, I'm slowly working on > making it more sensible. Any chance you might add the "-a" switch to make unattended installation possible without simul

Re: Negative

Rodrigo de Salvo Braz writes: > The point would be to bring this to the attention of the people > being negative. By seeing that not just one person feels like that, > people may decide to stop and think whether their ways are > constructive. Hopefully this would effect a change for the better. U

Re: cygwin installer

Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2b) (Harder.) If you really need it to be totally prompt-less, > there was a proposal once to add command line flags to setup.exe to > make it more automatable. Not just a proposal, but patches: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00261.html

Re: rsync hangs (v2.6.2-1 on both Cygwin and Fedora)

"Clif J. Smith" writes: > I'm trying to rsync data from a WinXP system running Cygwin to a Fedora > Core 2 system. When running the following command from my Fedora > system, it'll build a file list for a while, but never actually sync > anything and complete: > # /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete -