Any existing routine for CPU-id on Cygwin?
Hello, I was just wondering if there is any existing code that's perhaps part of the Cygwin "code base" or else known to some readers, that will allow querying of the CPU type? I'd like to have a pretty simple way to get this. One application would be an enhanced "configure" for zlib-1.1.3 which would place the appropriate assembler source for a 486, a 586 or a 686 -- for example -- into the Makefile build formulae. I need only the "generation" of chip, i.e. what Intel calls the "Family." I am thinking that maybe somebody already worked this out. I am also thinking that instead, maybe the way this is done is in assembler and if so maybe it hasn't been done (specific to Cygwin, that is; I have found a couple of free utilities out there that do this from a command line). I am just full of semi-educated guesses ;-). If its been done in Cygwin I'd much appreciate a pointer to where I can look at that code. Regards, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Downloading problems - either won't D/L at all or truncates over 1MB
On 9 Jan 2002 at 2:50, $Bill Luebkert wrote: Hey, $Bill, welcome! (back). > This is partly complaint, partly my first encounter with the install > script and partly some suggestions to improve D/L scenarios. > > I've had Cygwin uninstalled for a while due to space limitations. I > now have the space and am trying to re-install. I tried D/Ling the > entire distro and encountered many problems. > > The install screen is a bit cryptic on what some options mean. There > ought to be a few changes made to make things easier to install. Here > are my thoughts: > > 1) After going to all of the trouble of picking the files you want > and picking a D/L site, it would be nice if the picks were saved so > when it fails you don't have to go through all that picking again. A-men. This is the biggest frustration I've had w/ setup, also. > 5) A readme file at the top level of /Cygwin tree to explain > cygwin-setup.exe options and recoveries etc. would be nice. Yes. > All of the ftp sites I tried failed. Just a bunch of failed to D/L > latest version of "XXX" where XXX is whatever package I'm D/L'ing. > > I finally got a site to work, but all files > 980K failed after that > much was D/L'ed. I tried with and without my firewall on. Still > can't D/L files > 1 MB or so. I also tried using FTP with same result. > This seems more like either an internet or server problem rather than > Cygwin setup, but maybe someone else had similar problems that they > have resolved and could donate a suggestion. > > Well, I tried some more sites and finally found one that works - > ftp.oav.net and managed to D/L the larger packages. This leads me to > believe that it's a server or routing issue (timeout somewhere is set > too small to allow slow dialup D/L's). I can only add reportage of my overall experiences which are similar. I have found many mirrors to be non-functional on a random basis; one month a server will seem good, another it will be a dog. Some servers allow an immediate connect and promptly display the listing of packages, while others hang half-way through. Various stuff like that. > I managed to make a mirror script to D/L newer files which seems to be > working (haven't tried it since I fixed the large file problem by > finding a good site. It's Perl based using Net::FTP module and should > grab newer files easily and D/L them. Of course you did :-). Go Perl! > PS: I'm currently not subscribed (I already have super heavy email > traffic helping Perl users), so please CC me with any replies. Will do, although I am not a fixer of anything around here ;-). Yet. But I will keep an eye out for any replies that might happen to not be CC'd, and forward them to you. Regards, Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Downloading problems - either won't D/L at all or truncates over 1MB
On 10 Jan 2002 at 10:06, Robert Collins wrote: > Ah, magic word.. firewall. > > I've had problems like this before that I got around by D/L'ing to a faster > > site (my ISP on the backbone) and then D/L'ing from there to my > > dialup PC. > > The amount of data that I need to do this with this time would make it a > > hassle to do for this situation, but I will if I can't resolve it any other way. > If you've had problems like this before, take a clue: Your environment > is broken. Before I got ADSL I routinely downloaded 20-30Mb files on a > 33.6 modem. I am not behind a firewall but have also had various problems similar to some of those reported by $Bill: servers that hung, file downloads that were reported by setup.exe during the install phase as "incomplete," and so on. Not the specific file size limit problem $Bill is reporting, I need to add to be precise. How I have handled the obstacles I have experienced --since I believed that they were apparently "endemic" to the Cygwin setup system as it is currently designed -- was just to perservere -- sometimes losing hours of time in the process -- until I could finally get a good setup run. The most recent setup.exe is a major improvement in terms of clarity, I gave a huge sigh of relief and wanted to stand up and cheer when I saw the totally new heirarchical display style. That part of what's been accomplished is just great. I believe that problems may exist on the server network side or with the programming involved in that. Bearer of bad news? Shoot the messenger? Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
