From: b DOT mcleod AT opengroup DOT org ("Bruce D. McLeod") Subject: Re: Corrected patch to cygwin.dll + ncurses for termcaps 28 Mar 1997 16:55:32 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <2.2.32.19970328173230.009cc8d8.cygnus.gnu-win32@postman.osf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: mcleod AT postman DOT osf DOT org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Original-To: "Mikey" , "Sheik" Original-Cc: "cygnus" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I compiled and installed cygwin.dll and ncurses with this patch, but I get: Error opening terminal: w32ansi when I run any of the test programs. It accepts a TERM of ansi, but the screen output is wrong. Is w32ansi correct, and if so, why might I be getting this error? Thanks. Bruce At 01:35 AM 3/5/97 -0700, Mikey wrote: >Sorry, :^(. I was playing around trying to get rcs to work, and I guess I >left the changes at the begining of the files in when I made the diffs. You >can either just delete the *.rej files, or I have included the corrected >diffs here. > >---------- >> From: Sheik >> To: Mikey >> Cc: cygnus >> Subject: Re: patch to cygwin.dll + ncurses for termcaps >> Date: Tuesday, March 04, 1997 9:47 PM >> >> >> >> On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Mikey wrote: >> >> > Scott >> > I don't recall if I put it in my orig post or not, but all of my >> > filesystems are mounted -b, so the patches are LF only. When you use >> > patch.exe the filesystem, file, and patch-file should all be in sync, >(the >> > file, and patch-file must be). >> > >> ug, I don't want to sound dense, but I don't think the patch itself is > >> right, at least to the current source... for instance in your patch >> called termcaps.dif, here is the cut of the first few lines.... >> >> diff -urbBN ../winsup.orig/Makefile.in ./Makefile.in >> --- ../winsup.orig/Makefile.in Tue Feb 25 13:02:27 1997 >> +++ ./Makefile.in Sat Feb 01 18:14:57 1997 >> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ >> -# Makefile.in for the winsup directory. # >> +# Makefile.in for the winsup directory. >> # Copyright (c) 1995, 1996 Cygnus Solutions >> >> so I look at the current Makefile.in in the newest source, and here is >> the first few lines..... >> >> # Makefile.in for the winsup directory. >> # Copyright (c) 1995, 1996 Cygnus Solutions >> >> >> Notice, the first line DOESN'T have the "#" char at the end of the line., > >> but your patch expects it to be there. The entire patch file you sent >> have these probs, so I thought maybe you based the patches on an older >> source tarball... >> >> Thanks again, >> Scott KilauContent-Type: application/octet-stream; name="termcaps.dif" >Content-Description: termcaps.dif (DIF File) >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="termcaps.dif" > >Attachment Converted: c:\eudora\attach\termcaps1.dif >Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="terminfo.dif" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Description: terminfo.dif (DIF File) >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="terminfo.dif" > >Attachment Converted: c:\eudora\attach\terminfo1.dif >Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="bash_less.dif" >Content-Description: bash_less.dif (DIF File) >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="bash_less.dif" > >Attachment Converted: c:\eudora\attach\bash_less1.dif > - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".