Re: 64 bit applications

2010-04-17 Thread Andrew P.
Thanks, Christopher Faylor ! Mingw64 is for compiling x64 Windows applications. As there no possibilities to run Linux_x86_64 applications under Windows, so far as I'll try to compile they for Windows x64 (though it should lead to loss in relative productivity approximately on a quarter becaus

Re: 64 bit applications

2010-04-17 Thread Andy Koppe
Andrew P. wrote: > Mingw64 is for compiling x64 Windows applications. > As there no possibilities to run Linux_x86_64 applications under Windows, so > far as I'll try to compile they for Windows x64 What x86-64-specific applications are you talking about? The vast majority of applications compile

Re: mintty: Doesn't know about CTRL key

2010-04-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 17 06:20, Andy Koppe wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Consider you have more than one mintty window open.  A typical use case > > for me is to have one shell open under UAC and the other one with admin > > rights to test to test something.  Then I want to close both ttys and > > test aga

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: irssi-0.8.15-1

2010-04-17 Thread Kostya Altukhov
Version 0.8.15-1 of irssi has been uploaded. This is a new upstream release. It fixes two security issues: the first being that Irssi didn't check hostname on SSL connections and the other being a hard to exploit remote crash bug. For a complete listing of the changes and bugfixes since 0.8.14, p

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pure-ftpd-1.0.29-1

2010-04-17 Thread Kostya Altukhov
Version 1.0.29-1 of pure-ftpd has been uploaded. This is a new upstream release. For the complete list of changes since 1.0.21 see the official news page: http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/news If you have questions or comments, please send them to the cygwin mailing list at: cygwin@cygwi

General cuestions about package mantainership

2010-04-17 Thread d.sastre.medina
Hello, I'm taking into consideration the possibility of taking over the mantainership of an orphaned package[1], but I'd need some clarifications regarding this task, in order to decide if I am capable enough to do it. Caution comes from the assumption of my limitations. To me it's clear that the

Re: 64 bit applications

2010-04-17 Thread Andrew P.
Dear Andy Koppe ! The goal is to run application in 64bit mode, because in 32bit mode it lacks in relative productivity ~0,4. This I have personally established on CAE applications example (as well as loss on ~1/4 Windows x64 rather Linux_x86_64). I want to run on Windows not CAE but too exacti

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xz/liblzma-devel/liblzma1}-4.999.9beta-11

2010-04-17 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-04-11 11:54, Charles Wilson wrote: This is routine update to a more recent git snapshot. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-3 ]] CHANGES (since 4.999.9beta-10) o Update to 2010-Apr-01 git snapshot Wed Mar 31 16:47:25 2010 +0300 a1f7a986b8d708f9290da9799ca1b8d7082

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xz/liblzma-devel/liblzma1}-4.999.9beta-11

2010-04-17 Thread Charles Wilson
On 4/17/2010 10:42 AM, Rolf Campbell wrote: > This release will not compress a file with multiple hard links, even > when "forced". > > I'm running an NTFS drive, and my source file has 2 hard-links to it. > Running "xz -9evf source.txt" prints: > xz: source.txt: Input file has more than one hard

Re: scripting elevated privilege on Windows 7

2010-04-17 Thread Robert Pendell
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:33 PM wrote: > Thank you Robert Pendell! I wrote this shell script. Any suggestions > for optimization? > > #!/bin/bash > if [ $# -eq 1 ] > then >        echo "Usage: elev program arg1 arg2 ..." >        exit 1 > fi > prog="$1" > shift > exec cygstart --action=runas `whic

Re: ./ns command not WORKING AT ALL!!!

2010-04-17 Thread novice_246
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 05:35:32PM +0200, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: >>Hello, >> >>A quick google search points to this: > > Yes. I was actually attempting a "teach someone to fish" exercise here. > But I should know that that trick never works here. > >

Re: Running a Matlab script remotely via ssh

2010-04-17 Thread Geraldo Veiga
I have Cygwin installed in a Vista/64 system with sshd enabled. I would like to login remotely via ssh and run a script written in Matlab. Directly from the DOS command line this is possible: matlab -nosplash -nodesktop -minimize -r test_batch -logfile logfile No such luck when I try the same wi

Re: ./ns command not WORKING AT ALL!!!

2010-04-17 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 4/17/2010 12:42 PM, novice_246 wrote: > > > > Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 05:35:32PM +0200, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> A quick google search points to this: >> >> Yes. I was actually attempting a "teach someone to fish" exercise here. >>

Re: Running a Matlab script remotely via ssh

2010-04-17 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 4/17/2010 1:04 PM, Geraldo Veiga wrote: > I have Cygwin installed in a Vista/64 system with sshd enabled. I > would like to login remotely via ssh and run a script written in > Matlab. > Directly from the DOS command line this is possible: > > matlab -nosplash -nodesktop -minimize -r test_batc

RE: General cuestions about package mantainership

2010-04-17 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
d.sastre.medina wrote on Saturday, April 17, 2010 6:59 AM > I'm taking into consideration the possibility of taking over the > maintainership of an orphaned package[1], but I'd need some > clarifications regarding this task, in order to decide if I am capable > enough to do it. Caution comes from

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ImageMagick-6.4.0.6-2 + libMagick10, libMagick-devel, perl-Image-Magick

2010-04-17 Thread Reini Urban
[sending old message again to the right address for reference] The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * ImageMagick-6.4.0.6-2 * libMagick10-6.4.0.6-2 * libMagick-devel-6.4.0.6-2 * perl-Image-Magick-6.4.0.6-2 This was made by me with permission by the original maint

bash loop using mintty

2010-04-17 Thread ERIC HO
I reported a couple of times of the bash loop problem before. But it seems the problem could bot be duplicated by others. I use "mintty -" to start up a terminal session. Today, I found out the problem. The loop is caused by set -o vi in my .bashrc. After I removed that statement, I can hit shi

setup.exe download has no Content-Length header

2010-04-17 Thread David Balažic
Hi! When downloading http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe with Firefox, the server sends no Content-Length header, so the download manager can not show a percentage progress. Here are the headers captured with the Live HTTP Headers plugin: http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe GET /setup.exe HTTP/1.1 Host:

Re: ./ns command not WORKING AT ALL!!!

2010-04-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 01:08:35PM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >On 4/17/2010 12:42 PM, novice_246 wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> Nothing above points to this being related to Cygwin. Could you elaborate >>>on why you think this is something that could be handled by this mailing >>>list? >>>

Re: DBD-DB2-1.78 driver for Perl V5.10 under CYGWIN 1.7.4

2010-04-17 Thread ERIC HO
The attached script file was provided to me by T.Allsopp and it works. His email to cygwin somehow never delivered. Regards, Eric. fix.sh Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: htt

Re: bash loop using mintty

2010-04-17 Thread Andy Koppe
ERIC HO wrote: > I reported a couple of times of the bash loop problem before. But it seems > the problem could bot be duplicated > by others. > I use "mintty -" to start up a terminal session. > Today, I found out the problem. The loop is caused by set -o vi in my > .bashrc. After I removed that

Re: bash loop using mintty

2010-04-17 Thread ERIC HO
Hi Andy, you are right, I just tested it under xterm and bash loops as well with shift F12. Eric -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: gcc: building gcc-4.5.0 for Cygwin

2010-04-17 Thread Paul Bibbings
Jerry DeLisle writes: > I have not had any problems building with Cygwin 1.7 on WinNT or Win7. > You do have to make sure you have the mpc complex math library > installed. Other than that I have had no problems. > > Jerry I've had no problems with the build itself, as far as I can tell. The is

Re: bash loop using mintty

2010-04-17 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 4/17/2010 3:31 PM, ERIC HO wrote: > Hi Andy, you are right, I just tested it under xterm and bash loops as well > with shift F12. I just reproduced this problem with a simpler test case. Enter vi editing mode under bash and then type ESC-;. That is, press the escape key and then hit the sem

Re: Running a Matlab script remotely via ssh

2010-04-17 Thread Matthew B. Smith
I'm pretty sure you cannot use a window. I think matlab has another cmd line argument such as -batch to run w/out windows? mbs On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 15:04 -0300, Geraldo Veiga wrote: > I have Cygwin installed in a Vista/64 system with sshd enabled. I > would like to login remotely via ssh and r

Re: DBD-DB2-1.78 driver for Perl V5.10 under CYGWIN 1.7.4

2010-04-17 Thread Reini Urban
ERIC HO schrieb: The attached script file was provided to me by T.Allsopp and it works. > His email to cygwin somehow never delivered. Of course shell script attachments can easily be deleted. Please send that to Praveen upstream so that more users can benefit from that. http://search.cpan.or

Re: Running a Matlab script remotely via ssh

2010-04-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/17/2010 2:17 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: On 4/17/2010 1:04 PM, Geraldo Veiga wrote: I have Cygwin installed in a Vista/64 system with sshd enabled. I would like to login remotely via ssh and run a script written in Matlab. Directly from the DOS command line this is possible: matlab -nosplash -

Re: cron error can't switch user context

2010-04-17 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 17/04/2010 01:43, Tom Schutter a écrit : On Fri 2010-04-16 17:06, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: Le 16/04/2010 20:42, Tom Schutter a écrit : http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL I have number of machines running Windows2003 and Cygwin 1.7.5. On most cron works. But on one (lemon) it does

Re: ./ns command not WORKING AT ALL!!!

2010-04-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17/04/2010 21:01, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 01:08:35PM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >> On 4/17/2010 12:42 PM, novice_246 wrote: >>> Christopher Faylor wrote: Nothing above points to this being related to Cygwin. Could you elaborate on why you think this is somet

Re: ./ns command not WORKING AT ALL!!!

2010-04-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17/04/2010 18:42, novice_246 wrote: > > FRIG WANNA!!! I JUST ASK FOR A LITTLE HELP AND WANNA GETTING ON LIKE A BUNCH > OF PUSSYHOLES!! Yes, but you're being an idiot, so this is what you get. Enjoy! OK, let's spell it out for you step by step: 1: You got a program off your tutors at

Re: bash loop using mintty

2010-04-17 Thread Andy Koppe
Jeremy Bopp wrote: > On 4/17/2010 3:31 PM, ERIC HO wrote: >> I  just tested it under xterm and bash loops as well with shift F12. > > I just reproduced this problem with a simpler test case.  Enter vi > editing mode under bash and then type ESC-;.  That is, press the escape > key and then hit the s

Re: Running a Matlab script remotely via ssh

2010-04-17 Thread Geraldo Veiga
Thanks for the follow-ups. It turns out that I tried the same experiment on another Vista installation (32bit this time around) and it run Matab scripts via ssh without a hitch. Officially the command-line should look like this: matlab -nodesktop -r test_batch In practice the option "-nodesktop"

Re: bash/readline spinout in vi command mode

2010-04-17 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Changed the subject to protect the innocent... Andy Koppe wrote: > Jeremy Bopp wrote: >> On 4/17/2010 3:31 PM, ERIC HO wrote: >>> I just tested it under xterm and bash loops as well with shift F12. >> I just reproduced this problem with a simpler test case. Enter vi >> editing mode under bash an

Re: ./ns command not WORKING AT ALL!!!

2010-04-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 02:00:21AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Meanwhile, I'll teach *your* dog to play the piano! Thanks. I appreciate the help as I get through this emotional period. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docum