X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:04:04 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: checkx-0.2.0-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.74 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com checkX is a little utility I wrote that tests to see if (a) the X11 client DLLs are installed on the machine, and (b) the Xserver on $DISPLAY (or -d x.x.x.x:x) is running and usable. CHANGES: * switch to cygport build framework * massive internal reorganization of code. Instead of one big .c file, now more logical divisions. Most of the functionality is delegated to one entry point, checkX(). The application code (in checkX_main.c) now handles only parsing options before delegating to checkX(). Eventually, I plan to make the core functionality into a library... * checkX app has new option '--version' It does not link against the Xll libraries itself, but attempts to dlopen it, using a fuzzy name/path search. Both the search path and the target name are explicitly overridable via commandline arguments. In its default mode, checkX returns a 0 status if X is present, 1 otherwise, and generates no output. It is intended for use in scripts, which need to intelligently decide whether to launch an X-based application or a non-X (native MS Gui? console?) one. ============================================================================= Usage: checkX [OPTION]... Determines if X is installed, Xserver is running on specified DISPLAY and will accept clients. Returns 0 if yes, nonzero otherwise Options: -h|--help print this help message and exit -v|--version print version information and exit -d|--display STR use STR instead of $DISPLAY -l|--location print location of Xlib DLL on stdout -a|--appendpath STR append STR to value of $PATH (cumulative) -p|--prependpath STR prepend STR to value of $PATH (cumulative) -r|--replacepath STR use STR instead of $PATH when searching -x|--xlibname STR use exactly STR instd of fuzzy cygX11-n.dll -t|--timeout FLT allow FLT seconds to connect with Xserver defaults to 0.5, use 0.0 for Xlib's (safe, 12s) timeout --nogui disable informational popups --notty disable stderr messages --debug turn on debugging messages --no-silent allow error, warning, and info messages Note that -a defaults to '/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin'. To eliminate the default, use '-a ""' ============================================================================= -- Charles Wilson checkx volunteer maintainer for cygwin To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at the above URL. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/