Re: links

2007-08-02 Thread d.henman
Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 2 17:22, wynfield wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > You probably removed the R/O attribute from the .lnk files. It's > > > essential for shortcats to be recognized as Cygwin symlinks. Try > > > something along the lines of > > > > Wh

Re: links

2007-08-02 Thread d.henman
Al Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is the windows Read Only attribute. > > P.s. should not need all that nonsense below..And sorry to say > > I am not familiar with this r attribute, except as a > > read(r)permission. Is the group intentionally trying to be obtuse? > > > You must have

tty dissociation

2007-09-02 Thread d.henman
Corinna in the following message, specified a way, ie. use setsid(), to dissociate a tty from a process. http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00753.html I ust want to ask if this is still the preferred method, or if any newer method exists? Regards, Darel Henman -- Unsubscribe inf

Re: tty dissociation

2007-09-03 Thread d.henman
darel henman Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 07:48:52AM +0900, d.henman wrote: > >Corinna in the following message, specified a way, ie. use setsid(), > >to dissociate a tty from a process. > > > >http://sourceware.org/ml/cyg

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread d.henman
Marko, the best way for you would be to throw Windows out and use a mature unix like o.s. Cygwin documents that it is not made for secure operation, due to Captial w windows, faults cheers. d. henman Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marko Loparic wrote: > > Hello Steve, >

XP User Account

2007-09-22 Thread d.henman
Platform: XP Home Edition I want to set up exim, the smtp server and would like to create a user, named "exim" for this daemon process and its files. I don't know who to do this without have the "exim" user name coming up on the login screen along with the other users. Does anywone know ho

Re: Problems building applications as user with a limited account

2007-09-28 Thread d.henman
Angelo, Darel here. Try adding--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include/X11 to your configure arguments. The X11 dev. include files are there in the include/X11 directory The library binaries look like they'll be found as is. Regards, Darel Henman --- Angelo Graziosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problems with freshclam

2007-09-29 Thread d.henman
I have the same version but have not encountered the problem you mention. I have: ls -l /etc/*clam* -rwx-- 1 djh Users 9293 Jun 28 09:22 /etc/clamd.conf -rwx-- 1 djh Users 3619 Jun 28 09:13 /etc/freshclam.conf freshclam.conf is probably the same as yours, but our clamd.conf file sizes ar

Re: How to write directory address under Cygwin?

2007-10-08 Thread d.henman
René Berber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Hains wrote: > > "C:\cygwin\home\PHains\SuperHirn\make" directory on my hard drive. My > > problem is getting the UNIX software to understand where the parameter > > file can be found. > > > > I've tried the Windows nomenclature as outlined above and

Re: Putty crashes trying to establish SSH session with Cygwin

2007-10-17 Thread d.henman
This is just to let people know that a new putty for cygwin has been created using putty 06.0 Here is the URL for the new puttycyg, released Oct. 12th, 2007 http://web.gccaz.edu/~medgar/puttycyg/ You might want to update to it. regards, darel henman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygw

RE: copying a million tiny files?

2007-10-31 Thread d.henman
>From what Gary mentions. indeed rsync is the best way to go. At least for thinking, on time backups. With rsync, only the first time is slow. For one shot backups of many files,using tar to group them into one and then sending is a good idea. Using xcopy, is kind of silly and wont

clamav

2008-01-28 Thread d.henman
Angelo, Re : I have noted this request: >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-12/msg00231.html, but Clamav is >not yet uploaded. Perhaps it was forgotten. I have it. I think that you need to 'click' on the "exp" tab in setup.exe gui in order to see it. But, unfortunately, next time you have

RE: prevent scroll (or something like that)

2008-01-29 Thread d.henman
Re: Scroll... Why don't you just do either of (a.) pipe output to less and read it page by page e.g. $ dissemble-cmd | less or (b.) redirect output to a text file and them use some editor like emacs or nano to view it. e.g.$ dissemble-cmd >filename

Re: ZSH - UTF-8

2008-03-03 Thread d.henman
I am using: zsh 4.3.5 (i686-pc-cygwin)( compiled from src ) I just did $export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 cmd line editting didn't seem ill affected and worked fine. Paul-Kenji Cahier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... (Note: I'm talking of having zsh display&edit properly utf-8 in the line >editor, > inc

Re: Emacs-23.0.60.snapshot (20080315) Cygwin binaries

2008-03-16 Thread d.henman
Angelo, I am using 23.0.50, which I had no problems building. Is this the version where you increased required memory for something or other several tens of megabytes? I am not familiar with the original problem you had, being out of the loop, but I didn't think as the time that throw

Re: mysql package

2013-09-26 Thread d.henman
Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, > > > I jsut installed the mysql pacakge and tried to start the daemon. > > I got the follow error listing. > > Why not use native mysql server?... Looking for troubles? No. I just prefer a posix environment and it makes it better for porting to productio

build library libmad

2013-11-14 Thread d.henman
Building libmad I download an attempted to build libmad-0.15.1b. with the build shared option set. Options to --force-mem and addr were deleted as unneccessary anymore. The configure and make process proceed without any errors. But, no dll is made. I can only see .lo files and one libmad

Re: build library libmad

2013-11-15 Thread d.henman
Thanks for the helpful information. >honeycomb (2013/11/15 1:01), > > Building libmad > > > > I download an attempted to build libmad-0.15.1b. with the build shared > > option set. > > > > Options to --force-mem and addr were deleted as unneccessary anymore. > > > > The configure and make p

Re: Audio Related

2013-11-18 Thread d.henman
Thanks for the informative explanation. It would be nice if someone see this and has the audio knowldge to update this area as you said. Thanks Corinna Vinschen > On Nov 16 11:09, wynfield wrote > > > > I want to add audio output volume control to an application. But, I don't > > know how

apparent ncurses lib linking problem

2009-09-02 Thread d.henman
Using: cygwin 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-08-20 gcc (GCC) 4.3.4 20090802 (prerelease) ln --version ---> ln (GNU coreutils) 7.0 ncurses (runtim lib and devel) Description: I attempted to build what should be a very simple build, but wound up with linking errors, which s

Re: apparent ncurses lib linking problem

2009-09-03 Thread d.henman
xr-x 1 djtm root 229376 Aug 9 2003 /bin/cygncurses7.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 djtm root 5209 Mar 27 14:21 /bin/ncurses9-config Is it possible that the varible declared in the downloaded .a file does not match its corresonding name or location representation in the .dll file? Dave Korn wrote:

Re: apparent ncurses lib linking problem

2009-09-03 Thread d.henman
Charles, thank you so much for your help. d.henman Charles Wilson wrote: > d.henman wrote: > > g++ -g -O2 -L../mpegsound -L../nmixer -o nmixer.exe main.o -lncurses > > -lnmixer -lpthread -lm -lao -lpthread > > ../nmixer/libnmixer.a(n

Re: what is interfering texlive?

2009-10-04 Thread d.henman
You probably loaded the windows version of TeXLive, which is basically MiKTeX with a TeX editor and another program. These are made specifically for windows and that means they require "windows file and path names". In other words they don't use POSIX compliant pathnames. In order to install a

libgcrypt

2008-06-18 Thread d.henman
libgrypt : libgcrypt-1.4.1-4.tar.bz2 size: 101 kb This package is brain dead. No libraries in it. (as of 6/19/2008 (this time) Revert to: libgcrypt-1.4.1-2 (is necessary till fixed) Possible packaging problem? regards. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

RE: pangp

2008-06-23 Thread d.henman
e they are defined in would suffice to cure the problem? regards, henman Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > d.henman wrote on 23 June 2008 09:32: >> Re: Buiding Pango 1.21.3 > > Take a look in the output of "nm ./.libs/libpangowin32-1.0.dll.a" and see > if th

Re: pangp

2008-06-23 Thread d.henman
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > | So, they're in the DLL itself, but for some reason not marked as exports > | in the DEF file, and hence no available stubs for them in the import .a > | library. > > It's because of the -export-symbols-regex "^pango_.*" fla

Re: pangp

2008-06-24 Thread d.henman
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > | So, they're in the DLL itself, but for some reason not marked as exports > | in the DEF file, and hence no available stubs for them in the import .a > | library. Yes, Dave is right here. His idea gives a way to building

Re: pangp

2008-06-24 Thread d.henman
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .. snipped > I can attest that there are no issues building pango with the X11 cairo. No I configured cairo with: ./configure --with-x --enable-win32-font=no --enable-win32=no --disable-ps --disable-pdf --disable-svg --prefix= cairo builds and

Re: pango solution

2008-06-24 Thread d.henman
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > | So, they're in the DLL itself, but for some reason not marked as exports > | in the DEF file, and hence no available stubs for them in the import .a > | library. > > It's because of the -export-symbols-regex "^pango_.*" fla

Re: pango

2008-06-24 Thread d.henman
Pleas look at the configured built .pc files below. Why does the pkg-confing file, pangowin32-uninstalled.pc, include the line below? Libs: ${pc_top_builddir}/${pcfiledir}/pango/libpangowin32.la -lgdi32 $ ls *win32*.pc#list all pkg-config file related to win32 pangowin32-uni

Follow up regarding setup.exe hanging

2013-03-10 Thread d.henman
Now when ran with the proper permissiong, setup.exe still hangs. Here is the output just before setup.exe hangs: start $c/cygwin-packages/setup -q -n -D -K http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.sig -l C:\cygwin-packages -R C:\cygwin -s http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/cygwin

Re: X11 capturing DISPLAY value

2013-03-10 Thread d.henman
Thanks, but I don't like hard coding something important like that. It might work most of the time, in my case it wouldn't work, my X-window comes up as ":1" and it appears sometimes as ":0", but mainly one, but if more people were on the machine it cou ld be other values as well. You're right

libffi.pc needed

2013-03-31 Thread d.henman
I'm trying to build a package that reqruires libffi.pc I looked arount and found: http://cygwin-rurban.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/contrib/libffi/CYGWIN-PATCHES/README $ cygcheck -c | grep ffi libffi4 4.5.3-3 OK Says that I have libffi4, so I

regarding the ffi liber

2013-03-31 Thread d.henman
I can't find any developement package for libffi4 I 'm looking for the ffi.h include file. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Re: But it is cygwin related.

2013-04-04 Thread d.henman
Comments below: Christopher Faylor wrote: > If you're asking how to call cygwin entry points to use Cygwin I/O from > an assembly language program then you are on-topic for the mailing list. That's exactly what I asked. > It is possible to write a raw assembly language program which does this >

Re: GCC-4.7.2-2: Go/No-go?

2013-04-09 Thread d.henman
I agree that it should be released. The sooner the better. It might help me and others with some building problems I've runn into, that didn't exist before. At the very least, it would reduce the number of variables that might be the cause of unsuccessful builds. Dave Korn wrote: > Hi all,

autorun X11 from 1st mintty invocation

2013-07-31 Thread d.henman
When I click on cygwin's mintty icon, which is installed by setup.exe and is, basically a link which invokes mintty as: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - I then start X11 by running $ startx & from this 1st initial mintty window. Objective. I want to have 'start

Re: checkX problem or misunderstanding

2013-08-04 Thread d.henman
Update: checkX does work of course. My problem was: 1. I was setting the DISPLAY environment variable which X11 based clients use and expected checkX to use it as well. 2. I specified the X11 server to try, incorrectly as $ checkX 127.0.0.1:0, without the -d opt

Re: mintty functionality

2013-08-25 Thread d.henman
David, thanks for your advice. It didn't run right off the bat, but with some proper single and double quoting. The fact that env takes a command as an argument is what enabled it to work. Cheers. > > The normal way works and even > >$ PATH=${PATH}: mintty cmd > > > > The command

Re: Build Failure for APR library

2013-09-16 Thread d.henman
I tried running httpd2 by hand and it dies immediately and violently: $ httpd2 zsh: invalid system call (core dumped) httpd2 $ cat httpd2.exe.stackdump Stack trace: Frame Function Args When executed from the bash shell: $ /usr/sbin/httpd2 Bad system call (core dumped) xxx@binki /tmp $