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Jon Turney c6f14b3c81 cygwin: Improve discussion of linker library ordering in faq-programming
Signed-off-by: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
2017-12-08 12:09:18 +00:00
Jon Turney 17b85c59bf Update URLs for Cygwin packaging information
Also:
Remove obsolete reference to g-b-s
Remove mention of ancient pre-invisiconsole behaviour of setup scripts

Signed-off-by: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
2017-04-20 15:28:06 +01:00
Jon Turney afcde26618 Update FAQ answer about setting an early breakpoint
Signed-off-by: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
2016-10-20 13:12:20 +01:00
Jon Turney e27cfa4631 Restore mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core in FAQ listing required packages
Restore mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core to requirements for 32-bit builds in FAQ
listing required packages, and give reason.
2016-06-29 15:08:33 +01:00
Jon Turney 24b1c90116 Update FAQ listing required packages for building Cygwin
docbook2X is now required for building documentation
libiconv differences between x86_64 and x86 no longer exist
2016-06-28 20:11:12 +01:00
Corinna Vinschen 6e623e9320 Switching the Cygwin DLL to LGPLv3+, dropping commercial buyout option
Bump GPLv2+ to GPLv3+ for some files, clarify BSD 2-clause.

Everything else stays under GPLv3+.

New Linking Exception exempts resulting executables from LGPLv3 section 4.

Add CONTRIBUTORS file to keep track of licensing.

Remove 'Copyright Red Hat Inc' comments.

Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
2016-06-23 10:09:17 +02:00
Adam Dinwoodie 3b66731698 Git is Git, not GIT
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
2016-05-24 12:09:10 +02:00
Corinna Vinschen 445036bb98 Remove Mingw.org from FAQ, or replace with Mingw-w64.
* faq-api.xml: Change MingW to Mingw-w64.
	* faq-programming.xml: Ditto.

Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
2016-03-21 21:09:23 +01:00
Jon Turney 9c8a6e5646 faq: Update FAQ question and answer about gdb and signals
* faq-programming.xml: Update question and answer about gdb and signals.

Signed-off-by: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
2016-01-15 14:59:07 +00:00
Jon TURNEY 49380b7ee3 Improve FAQ answer on debugging Cygwin
Improve FAQ answer on debugging Cygwin to mention the cygwin-debuginfo package
and the gdb command 'set cygwin-exceptions on'.

2015-08-03  Jon Turney  <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>

	* faq-programming.xml: Improve debugging-cygwin answer.

Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
2015-08-05 20:17:55 +01:00
Corinna Vinschen 9272d8f942 Change CVS->GIT in docs
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
2015-03-10 14:19:42 +01:00
Corinna Vinschen db9a8c9983 * Throughout, replace http with https as far as cygwin.com and
sourceware.org URLs are concerned.
	* Throughout, simplify ulink expressions if the visible text is the
	URL anyway.
	* faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.dll-relocatable): Remove.
	* faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.name-with-space): Change for 1.7.34.
	(faq.setup.home): Ditto.
	* faq-using.xml (faq.using.printing): Clarify old links and availability
	of a2ps and file.
	(faq.using.xemacs): Drop outdated version info and pointers to native
	XEmacs.
	(faq.using.ntemacs): Remove.
	* faq-what.xml (faq.what.what): Rephrase to reflect reality.
	(faq.what.supported): Ditto.
	(faq.what.who): Rephrase slightly.
	* legal.xml: Bump copyright.
	* setup-net.xml (internet-setup): Fix references to setup executables.
2015-02-03 13:48:43 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 6b31215816 * Makefile.in: Throughout use parenthesis instead of braces where
appropriate.
	(DBXDIRS): Remove.
	(XSLTPROC): Define for symmetry.  Use throughout.
	(clean): Drop removing cygwin-api.xml and doctool.*.
	(cygwin-api.xml): Drop rule.
	(doctool): Drop rule.
	(Makefile.dep): Add dependency to cygwin-api.xml.
	* cygwin-api.in.xml: Rename to cygwin-api.xml.  Convert includes to
	XML XInclude style.
	* doctool.c: Remove.
	* doctool.txt: Remove.
	* faq-programming.xml: Drop reference to local utils.xml file.
	* path.xml: Moved from ../cygwin and converted to XML.
	* posix.xml: Ditto.
	* using.xml: Drop relative path from utils.xml include.
	* utils.xml: Moved from ../utils.
2014-08-14 19:44:29 +00:00
Christopher Faylor 59c45c4445 * faq-programming.xml: Add gettext-devel to list of packages needed to build
Cygwin.
2014-06-17 14:49:06 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 6d49b42a95 * faq-programming.xml: Update packages needed to build Cygwin. 2014-01-07 14:54:58 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 47b7ed597c * faq-programming.xml: Convert url to refer to new flat faq.html file.
* faq-setup.xml: Ditto.
	* faq-using.xml: Ditto.
	* highlights.xml: Ditto.
2013-06-05 07:57:39 +00:00
Warren Young 8142972d87 Modernized user guide, API reference, and FAQ generation. Overall
effect is to move away from DocBook SGML and DJ Delorie's doctool and
toward pure DocBook XSL.  (There remains just one use of doctool, and
we have plans for replacing it, too.)  See ChangeLog for details.
2013-05-01 23:30:25 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 453c3a5fe8 * faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.64bitporting): Fix typo. 2013-04-25 10:16:01 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 77dcee573c * faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.64bitporting): Extend entry.
(faq.programming.64bitporting-fail): New entry.
	(faq.programming.64bitporting-cygwin64): New entry.
2013-04-25 10:14:26 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 21470a3ca9 * faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.64bitporting): Mention the
-Wformat and -Wall gcc options.
2013-04-24 17:33:30 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 895ece0124 * faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.64bitporting): New FAQ entry.
(faq.programming.objective-c): Include gcc4.
	(faq.programming.make-execvp): Drop text discouraging usage of -j.
	(faq.programming.undeclared-functions): Drop entry.
	(faq.programming.x86-assembly): Ditto.
	(faq.programming.djgpp): Ditto.
2013-04-24 16:09:43 +00:00
Christopher Faylor 95b7947d04 * faq-programming.xml: Remove reference to "make check". 2013-01-23 16:54:35 +00:00
Yaakov Selkowitz 03b7882aa0 * faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.unix-gui): Update to
reflect the availability of X11 toolkits on Cygwin.
2012-07-18 02:11:04 +00:00
Yaakov Selkowitz 0a5135e32a * faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.objective-c): Update for gcc4.
(faq.programming.win32-api): -mwindows does include -lcomdlg32.
	(faq.programming.win32-no-cygwin): Update for removal of -mno-cygwin.
	* overview2.sgml (ov-ex-win): Ditto.
2012-04-23 21:46:46 +00:00
Yaakov Selkowitz 521b39b4c7 * faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.make-execvp): Remove obsolete
information about Tcl/Tk.
(faq.programming.dll-relocatable): Ditto.
* faq-using.xml (faq.using.tcl-tk): Rewrite to reflect switch to
X11 Tcl/Tk.
2012-03-01 07:35:02 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen a016fed8ba * faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.win32-api): Remove simplicity.
Add note and xrefs to User's Guide chapters explaining restrictions
	using the Win32 API.
	* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.6): Add note about Win CWD.
	* overview2.sgml (ov-hi-intro): Add note and xrefs about Win32 API
	restrictions.  Tone down flexibility.
	* pathnames.sgml (pathnames-intro): Add xref to pathnames-win32-api
	section.
	(pathnames-win32-api): New section describing Win32 CWD restriction.
	* setup2.sgml (setup-env-ov): New sub-section.
	(setup-env-win32): Ditto, describing Win32 environment restriction.
2010-08-13 11:52:13 +00:00
Yaakov Selkowitz 2a904ebacb * Makefile.in: Use "xmlto pdf" instead of docbook2pdf.
Force the dblatex backend, as the default passivetex does not work.
* README: Replace docbook-utils dependency with dblatex.
Update required docbook-xml version.
* faq-programming.xml: Ditto.
2010-06-27 21:32:19 +00:00
Yaakov Selkowitz 50da6b49ed * faq-programming.xml: Update for Cygwin docbook-utils package. 2010-02-02 01:18:03 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 7bdb64ea18 * faq: Throughout, revert references to User's Guide to default URL. 2009-07-20 10:10:48 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 3d69426491 * setup2.sgml (setup-locale-console): New section to explain
console character set setting.
	* faq: Throughout, change references to User's Guide to references
	to 1.7 User's Guide temporarily.
	* faq-setup.html (faq.using.unicode): Rephrase slightly.
	(faq.using.weirdchars): New FAQ entry for console charset problems.
2009-04-07 13:04:43 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen c2da1d6ebf * faq-programming.xml: Revamp (mostely) for Cygwin 1.7.
* faq-what.xml: Ditto.
2009-02-11 18:22:50 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 7ffaa17c80 ChangeLog:
* configure.in: Remove --enable-server option.  Allways add the
	cygserver directory to $SUBDIRS.
	* configure: Regenerate.

cygwin/ChangeLog:

	Remove USE_SERVER define.  Accommodate throughout.
	* configure.in: Remove --enable-server option.
	* configure: Regenerate.
	* environ.cc: Remove CYGWIN=server setting.

cygserver/ChangeLog:

	* client.cc (allow_server): Remove variable.
	(client_request_get_version::client_request_get_version): Drop checking
	allow_server.

utils/ChangeLog:

	* passwd.c: Remove CYGWIN=server requirement from usage text.

doc/ChangeLog:

	* cygserver.sgml: Remove the "How to use the Cygserver services"
	section.
	* cygwinenv.sgml: Move "(no)server" to the removed options section.
	* faq-programming.xml: Remove CYGWIN=server requirement for running
	the Cygwin testsuite.
	* ntsec.sgml: Ditto for using `passwd -R'.
2009-01-21 17:14:39 +00:00
Christopher Faylor 8b6f3d4c86 * faq-programming.xml: Clarify where to run "make check". 2007-08-12 19:45:45 +00:00
Joshua Daniel Franklin 6804a9d4e1 faq.using.chmod faq.programming.adjusting-heap 2006-04-05 04:09:55 +00:00
Joshua Daniel Franklin acfdfc9ffb Move cocom to the build requirements. 2006-01-28 02:12:32 +00:00
Joshua Daniel Franklin 90c01ac9df Add top-level README 2006-01-27 05:37:13 +00:00
Joshua Daniel Franklin aba373611c * faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.ipc): Add new FAQ about
cygserver and its relation to the "Bad system call" error.
* faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.uninstall-all): Mention postgresql.
* overview2.sgml: Update security info on shared memory.
2006-01-27 04:52:16 +00:00
Joshua Daniel Franklin 2ceb32d95a * faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.building-cygwin): Add
list of packages required for building and exact check instructions.
* faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.uninstall-service): New instructions
on uninstalling a cygwin service.
(faq.setup.uninstall-all): Reference new service uninstall FAQ.
2006-01-26 04:39:04 +00:00
Joshua Daniel Franklin 3220aed354 * faq-programming.xml: Add note about struct stat64. 2005-12-13 05:32:43 +00:00
Joshua Daniel Franklin facdd5dd4a 2005-10-02 Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com>
* faq-what.xml: Add 2003 and WOW64 to "supported" FAQ.
	* faq-programming.xml: Fix cygexec FAQ, building link.
2005-10-02 20:56:53 +00:00
Joshua Daniel Franklin 7b96339c80 2005-09-25 Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com>
* faq.xml: Remove copyright section, link to license.html
	* faq-sections.xml: Remove copyright section, link to license.html
	* faq-programming.xml: Remove confusing reference to Red Hat.
	* faq-what.xml: Reword "supported" FAQ.
2005-09-26 00:29:51 +00:00
Joshua Daniel Franklin 2041777dee Update to switch FAQ from texinfo to DocBook. 2005-08-06 05:14:41 +00:00