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1998-04-07 Thread rohitm
hello i was wondering if anyone knew how to cross compile from linux for dos/win95. i wrote a lot of c code using the curses.h library and it does not port to borland or turbo c. is there some way i can tell gcc to compile it for a different operating system?? any illumination would be app

Re: [?] egcs increases C++ binary size dramatically

1998-04-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 04:43:31PM +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > I did not change any configuration options. I compiled the older package > > with > > the latest GNU gcc/g++ 2.7.*, and the new one with egcc/eg++. xpdf makes > > quite hea

Re: mozilla motif-2.1 package

1998-04-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
I have now uploaded a mozilla-smotif and mozilla-dmotif package, linked with Motif 2.1 and libc6. If anyone would like to pile in and start looking for bugs, I'd be grateful. If we can really get a joint maintenance effort going, perhaps we should set it up on master with cvsup. I don't have any

Re: Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-07 Thread Bob Hilliard
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3) A free English dictionary (www.dict.org). > >I found a hint on > >http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html > >that such a dictionary exists and is desired to be included >into Debian. Is there any effort on this?

Re: Guile question: What was bug #14213???

1998-04-07 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Jim" == Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jim> [1 ] Jim> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: >> The changelog lists only a bug number, with no description of >> what the bugs were. They are no longer in the bug tracking >> system. Jim> You are hitting

Re: Problems with equivs

1998-04-07 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Manoj Srivastava, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >Darren> Now, I don't want to install mbr since I want lilo to manage >Darren> my boot-records. I have no reason to use another bm. > > Huh? mbr and LILO coexist on a system. There is no need t

Re: Copying hard links.

1998-04-07 Thread Scott McDermott
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 08:35:11AM -0400: > In the previous discussion of hard links in the archive, it was suggested > tome that cpio and tar did manage the links correctly although cp -a did > not. > > I just tried to use tar to copy one of my CDs with hard links

Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.6)

1998-04-07 Thread James A . Treacy
> > 3.) A minor modification to section A.1 will make the order of > > events cleaner and easier to code regarding acceptance of formal > > amendments. I suggest the following: > > 3. If a formal amendment is not accepted, it remains as an amendment > > and is voted on. > > 4. If

Re: http mirror (was Re: New APT Version)

1998-04-07 Thread Jules Bean
--On Tue, Apr 7, 1998 3:13 pm -0400 "Steve Hsieh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Apr 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > >> > Oh I'm all for switching to HTTP. Can we convince all our mirrors to >> > switch? >> >> I'm going through the mirror list and building a sources.list of all the >> possible

Re: Problems with equivs

1998-04-07 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Jason Gunthorpe, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >I'm not sure why you don't want to install mbr, all it is an image of the >boot record that lilo uses to generate it's boot record from, with out >/boot/mbr.b lilo will not work in some of it's capac

Re: Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-07 Thread Alex Romosan
>1) xteddy > > Xteddy is a cuddly teddy bear for your X Windows desktop. > It is more or less an excersise for package bundling and > maintaining. > In fact xteddy is a must have for any Linux distribution :-)) > you can get an xteddy debian package by anonymous ftp from caliban.lbl.gov in

qt 1.40 (beta) available as .deb, compilation of qtscape is running

1998-04-07 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
... as the subject says, I've made the pre 1.40 snapshot of the qt lib available on my private directory ... please note, that this is not intended for inclusion in any release as I've first to check w/ the troll tech people. The pre 1.40 release (1.39-19980406) is the release that has been used

Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.6)

1998-04-07 Thread Ian Jackson
James A.Treacy writes ("Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.6)"): > First a trivial change. "money money" in 9.2.1 should have one money deleted. > > Next some suggested changes: 1.) It should be stated somewhere that > a member of a committee, that is a member of a group for which a > decision

Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.5)

1998-04-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Oliver Elphick writes ("Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.5) "): ... > I suggest certain changes between the double lines; lines beginning `X =' > are to be deleted and replaced: Thanks a lot. (Your notation was very difficult, btw. You might like to look into using `diff -u'.) I have inco

Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.5)

1998-04-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Juergen Menden writes ("Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.5)"): > > 2. Decisionmaking bodies and individuals > > > >Each decision in the Project is made by one or more of the following: > > 1. The individual developer working on a particular task; > > 2. The developers, by way of

Constitution - formal proposal (v0.6.1)

1998-04-07 Thread Ian Jackson - Debian Project Leader
Please see http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/debian-organisation-0.6.1.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/debian-organisation.html for the latest draft constitution. These changes are not yet formal. Changes (numbering as in new): s.1: List of decisionmakers rearranged and senten

intent to package SOCKSv5

1998-04-07 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I've just about finished packaging SOCKSv5 - clients, library, server. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | 2.0 release soon - over 1800 PGP key available on public key servers | packages on a stable OS -- To UNSUBSCRI

qt1-1.39.19980406 for qtscape ready

1998-04-07 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
... as the subject says. qt1-1.39.19980406 (aka qt 1.40 beta) is the version the trolls used to compile qtscape. I've build the deb's. Is anybody interested? I'd think it's not even usable for unstable, as it's not official released and announced from troll tech. Heiko -- email : [EMAIL

http mirror (was Re: New APT Version)

1998-04-07 Thread Steve Hsieh
On 5 Apr 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Oh I'm all for switching to HTTP. Can we convince all our mirrors to > > switch? > > I'm going through the mirror list and building a sources.list of all the > possible sources. I have 8 sites already I have enabled http transfers on our mirror as well..

Re: Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-07 Thread Jay Kominek
> 3) A free English dictionary (www.dict.org). > >I found a hint on > >http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html > >that such a dictionary exists and is desired to be included >into Debian. Is there any effort on this? I would think >about maintaining thi

was default prompt debate - system defaults

1998-04-07 Thread David Welton
If we won't even set a default prompt, what business do we have doing things like: (/etc/init.d/netbase) spoofprotect () { if [ -e /proc/net/ip_input ]; then echo -n "Setting up IP spoofing protection..." This may very well lead people to believe they have some sort of protection aga

gcc_2.7.2.3-3.deb

1998-04-07 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, does anyone have a gcc_2.7.2.3-3.deb laying around? I am getting weird errors compiling a huge C++ application (Hylaxfax) that I think a caused by egcc (from the g++ package). I'd like to try g++ from gcc just to be sure the problem is not something else but I deleted my old gcc_2.7.2.3-3.deb

Re: DEC alpha

1998-04-07 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Kamel SEHIL wrote: > > hi people i want to know if an DEC ALPHA (beta or less) is avaible > for now i install red-hat5 , but i'm an debian user's (free software) > and red-hat is not really stable Actually, yes, Debian has a stable port for the Alpha. Right now, it's still considered technically

Re: Technical comitee: motion for initial members

1998-04-07 Thread Ian Jackson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (chopped and changed): > Ian Jackson writes: > > Personally, I _want_ to appoint the technical committee, ... > > But perhaps the developers don't trust me to do this. > It isn't a matter of trust, it's a matter of involvement. ... OK. How about this ? I start looking f

Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.5)

1998-04-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.5)"): ... > The wording seems clear to me, but the effect is confusing. In effect, if > a quorum must vote in favor of a proposal for it to pass, and only a > quorum is present, this condition makes the voting requirement go from > N:1 to

Bug#20810: Misc file conflicts

1998-04-07 Thread Martin Stjernholm
Package: general There are a number of file conflicts in the frozen hamm dist. They manifest themselves like this during installation: dpkg: error processing debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/net/netstd_3.03-1.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man8/ftpd.8.gz', which is also in p

Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello I want to start maintaining the following packages: 1) xteddy Xteddy is a cuddly teddy bear for your X Windows desktop. It is more or less an excersise for package bundling and maintaining. In fact xteddy is a must have for any Linux distribution :-)) 2) wordnet * Wordnet 1

DEC alpha

1998-04-07 Thread Kamel SEHIL
hi people i want to know if an DEC ALPHA (beta or less) is avaible for now i install red-hat5 , but i'm an debian user's (free software) and red-hat is not really stable thanks forthe answer

Offering package tkman (non-free)

1998-04-07 Thread Yann Dirson
The tkman package needs a maintainer who knows TCL/TK programming (I don't have these skills, and only took it because it was orphaned and out of date). It seems to me lots of things could be done on this program to integrate it better in the Debian system, but I couldn't convince the upstream au

where is debian-changelog.el?

1998-04-07 Thread Nils Rennebarth
I somehow lost my debian-changelog mode when upgrading to last frozen. Now debian-changelog does not turn up anymore in Contents-i386.gz Where is it or why won't I need it any longer? Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net:

Re: Copying hard links.

1998-04-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Roman Hodek wrote: > > > I just tried to use tar to copy one of my CDs with hard links back onto > > the hard disk. I did a cd to that archive, and ran: > > > > tar -c /cdrom | tar -xv > > > > Which created seperate inodes for the file and its hard link, blowing the >

Re: [?] egcs increases C++ binary size dramatically

1998-04-07 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > I did not change any configuration options. I compiled the older package with > the latest GNU gcc/g++ 2.7.*, and the new one with egcc/eg++. xpdf makes > quite heavy use of C++, but as it worked with GNU g++ for years, I think we > can exclude templa

Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.5)

1998-04-07 Thread Juergen Menden
> 2. Decisionmaking bodies and individuals > >Each decision in the Project is made by one or more of the following: > 1. The individual developer working on a particular task; > 2. The developers, by way of General Resolution or an election; > 3. The Project Leader; > 4. The Te

Re: Deity still stuck

1998-04-07 Thread Juergen Menden
Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Huh? I can't remember that a dpkg upgrade ever messed up > /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/vars > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/kooij> $ dpkg -S /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/vars > dpkg: /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/vars not found. > > dpkg just doesn't "own" the file.

Re: Netscape4 installer package broken? [solved]

1998-04-07 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Alex Romosan wrote: > > > the new navigator unpacks itself in > > navigator-v405.x86-unknown-linux2.0 and not in the current directory. > > you have two options. manually recreate the netscape tar file so it > > unpacks in the curre

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 07 Apr 1998, Anand Kumria wrote: > is what you are thinking about? Personnally I'd prefer a default prompt of > nothing and allow the sysadmin doing the installation to setup reasonable > defaults. I'd suggest putting in a couple of different prompts, and leaving them all commented out. Th

Re: package pre-selections tool

1998-04-07 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 11:12:36PM +0200, David Frey wrote: > On 05 Apr 1998 16:44:13 -0400 Steve Dunham wrote: > > "James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For reference, here are the options under RH 4.0: > > > ( ) C development > > > ( ) development libraries > > > ( ) C++ devel

Re: Guile question: What was bug #14213???

1998-04-07 Thread Jim Pick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > The changelog lists only a bug number, with no description of what > the bugs were. They are no longer in the bug tracking system. You are hitting on one of my pet peeves - we should have a perpetual bug archive for closed bugs. > Can you expla

Re: package pre-selections tool

1998-04-07 Thread Anthony Fok
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, David Frey wrote: > On 05 Apr 1998 16:44:13 -0400 Steve Dunham wrote: > > "James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For reference, here are the options under RH 4.0: > > > ( ) C development > > > ( ) development libraries > > > ( ) C++ development > > > ( ) pri

[OFF-TOPIC] Gtk guru needed

1998-04-07 Thread aqy6633
Hi. I am sorry for a bit off-topic question, but I already asked this on gtk-list and got *zero* responses. The question is about porting a "normal" X (Motif) application to Gtk. Application uses "custom event- dispatching loop" in the form below. Is there a way to use something like that in Gtk?