Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

> Off the top of anyone's head, is there any major reason why it should not > build? > Theres a few assembly bits that (from my experience attempting to port it to alpha OSF/1 - with gcc 3.3) - I would be a bit worried about possibly - although possibly a non issue since this is x86. When I last t

Re: Possible GPL Violation

> On 3/27/2003 5:33 AM, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > I am sending you this e-mail because I was given your URL in passing, and > > found that you are distributing Cygwin amongst other Cygwin-linked utilities > > , but there is no URL for the > > corresponding sour

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

> > OK. Whatever those are. > > I'm guessing the MS in MSFT is Microsoft. I don't know what the FT part is. Stock symbol.. sorry. > Building from Cygwin while targeting native Windows APIs would > presumably be feasible using MinGW and / or "-mno-cygwin", but the > result would presumably functi

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:59:19PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: 2. Having a complex GUI app like Mozilla ported to Cygwin could prove to be a stick in which to measure and compare the over all efficiency and performance of Cygwin. If the "native" Moz

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:59:19PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >>2. Having a complex GUI app like Mozilla ported to Cygwin could >>prove to be a stick in which to measure and compare the over >>all efficiency and performance of Cygwin. If the "native" >>Mozilla and th

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:15:30PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >> > While I can't totally empathize since I've never had high Internet bills, >> > until recently I was on US dialup (that's 53Kb down at best). >> >> I've been around since it was 2400 bps ;-) - believe me; that is slow. >

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

Michael, At 21:32 2003-03-26, Michael F. March wrote: Jeff, Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it, what would be gained? well you could ssh into your windows machine and run mozilla remotely from your xterminal ... umm - okay so thats not much of a gain... but... Fi

Re: Gold star for Joshua and a suggestion for setup documentation

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:36:38AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> (anyone sick of the "gold star" stuff yet?) > >No! ;-) > >> I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the >> cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installment is >> really wonderful. It is

Re: Gold star for Joshua and a suggestion for setup documentation

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:23:43PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:09:25AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the >> cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installment is >> really wo

Re: Possible GPL Violation

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:17:47PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >While I agree, doesn't it make more sense to contact people off-list >first? If this was [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something I'd understand, but really >other than us being fellow Cygwin users what does it have to do with >the cyg

Re: Gold star for Joshua and a suggestion for setup documentation

> Sounds fine to me. I do think we should at least leave a link to the > installer for veteran users. (Or do we all type in 'cygwin.com/setup.exe'?) I know I do :-) Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simp

Re: Gold star for Joshua and a suggestion for setup documentation

> (anyone sick of the "gold star" stuff yet?) No! ;-) > I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the > cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installment is > really wonderful. It is just what we needed. Indeed. Nice Work! > It is so good that I would l

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

Jeff, Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it, what would be gained? well you could ssh into your windows machine and run mozilla remotely from your xterminal ... umm - okay so thats not much of a gain... but... First off, I have said it before and I'll say it agai

Re: Gold star for Joshua and a suggestion for setup documentation

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:09:25AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the > cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installment is > really wonderful. It is just what we needed. Thanks! I don't really know why I neve

Re: Possible GPL Violation

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:55:22PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:35:33AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > >>I am sending you this e-mail because I was given your URL in passing, > > >>and found that you are distributing Cygwin amongst other Cygwin-linked > > >>u

Re: Possible GPL Violation

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:55:22PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:35:33AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >>I am sending you this e-mail because I was given your URL in passing, > >>and found that you are distributing Cygwin amongst other Cygwin-linked > >>utilities <

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:53:54PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > IMO; Don't _include_ the descriptions for 'cp' and 'mkdir' - instead find a > relevant pointer to earlier/ better/ whatever description. This is what I > wish I've had when I was a new user :-). > Nor do I thin

Gold star for Joshua and a suggestion for setup documentation

(anyone sick of the "gold star" stuff yet?) I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installment is really wonderful. It is just what we needed. It is so good that I would like to suggest that maybe it should sub

Re: Possible GPL Violation

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:07:17AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >Perhaps a http://cygwin.com/goldstars/ web page is in order ;-) No, I'm only >kidding... Hmmm cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Do

Re: Possible GPL Violation

> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:35:33AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >>I am sending you this e-mail because I was given your URL in passing, > >>and found that you are distributing Cygwin amongst other Cygwin-linked > >>utilities , but there is no URL > >>for th

Re: Possible GPL Violation

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:35:33AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >>I am sending you this e-mail because I was given your URL in passing, >>and found that you are distributing Cygwin amongst other Cygwin-linked >>utilities , but there is no URL >>for the correspo

Re: root user of cygwin

> On a traditional Unix system, a root user is one with uid=0 > (uid is an abbreviation of user id). > > On an MS-Windows NT family system (NT, 2000, XP), an administrative > account is one in the group Administrators. > > I'm no expert (rather a novice in many ways with cygwin), but > I suspect th

Re: problem with chown

> Hi,all > I installed cygwin under win2k operation system. > Now I have some problem with using command "chown" to change the ownship of > a directory. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ chown -R cvsuser1:cvsgroup1 /home/lufang/repo Are these real users? Or just "aliases" in /etc/{passwd,group} with the

Re: Failed non-blocking connect returns incorrect errno on AF_UNIXprotocol

Steven O'Brien wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:48:33AM +0800, David Huang wrote: Failed non-blocking connect returns incorrect errno on AF_UNIX protocol. I think it is unlikely that the app really needs the connect() call to be non-blocking (otherwise it would have to handle the in-progress We

Re: Possible GPL Violation

> I am sending you this e-mail because I was given your URL in passing, and > found that you are distributing Cygwin amongst other Cygwin-linked utilities > , but there is no URL for the > corresponding source code. > > I see mentions of the GPL on your site, so

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Robert Collins wrote: A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed. The new version is available from http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.exe (binary) and http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.

Possible GPL Violation

I am sending you this e-mail because I was given your URL in passing, and found that you are distributing Cygwin amongst other Cygwin-linked utilities , but there is no URL for the corresponding source code. I see mentions of the GPL on your site, so I'm guessi

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

Francis Litterio wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Secondly, if I could get my users to set their "ApplicationPaths" I could as easily get them to set their PATHs. The real world situation is that this is not the case and neither PATH nore ApplicationPaths are set. Here's an idea: Traverse the direc

problem with chown

Hi,all I installed cygwin under win2k operation system. Now I have some problem with using command "chown" to change the ownship of a directory. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ chown -R cvsuser1:cvsgroup1 /home/lufang/repo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -lg /home/lufang total 16 dr-xr-xr-x7 lufang None

Re: root user of cygwin

On a traditional Unix system, a root user is one with uid=0 (uid is an abbreviation of user id). On an MS-Windows NT family system (NT, 2000, XP), an administrative account is one in the group Administrators. I'm no expert (rather a novice in many ways with cygwin), but I suspect that the upper con

root user of cygwin

Hi, all Can anyone tell me which user is the root user on cygwin? I'm not sure about this concept of "root user" , if I want to login to cygwin as root user, which account should I use? I installed cygwin under win2k operating system, and there is no any system user name "root". Can anyone help?

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

Jeff, Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it, what would be gained? well you could ssh into your windows machine and run mozilla remotely from your xterminal ... umm - okay so thats not much of a gain... but... Gareth _

Re: Problems with non-blocking I/O

> I guess cygwin doesn't get a lot of testing with non-blocking I/O. We're > having lots of problems. Using version 1.3.14, we find it barely usable but > problematic and unreliable. With versions 1.3.20 and 1.3.21, it's quite > unusable. The specific problems are, for 1.3.14: > > 1. selecting for

Re: Failed non-blocking connect returns incorrect errno on AF_UNIXprotocol

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:48:33AM +0800, David Huang wrote: Failed non-blocking connect returns incorrect errno on AF_UNIX protocol. See attached test program. On cygwin: $ ./afunix EINPROGRESS: Operation now in progress On Linux 2.4 (Debian 2.2) Linux 2.4 (Redhat 7.3) Sun

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

virgin XP Install From Internet All Users Unix C:\cygwin ftp://mirrors.rcn.net default package set NTFS partition this time. All chmods but the last one seem the same as under UNIX. $ cd /tmp $ mkdir j $ cd j $ touch p $ ls -l -rw-r--r-- $ chmod a+x p $ ls -l -rwxr-xr-x $ chmod a-r p $ ls -l --wx--

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

Jeff, Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it, what would be gained? Randall Schulz At 17:24 2003-03-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just outta curiosity, has anyone built Mozilla 1.3 on cygwin? thanks, JeffH -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Summary: Successful install on virgin 98 machine, I think, but I'm not sure if chmod is working correctly (due to my ignorance of how it should work on FAT-32). virgin Win98 Install From Internet All Users Unix C:\cygwin ftp://mirrors.rcn.net default package set It seems to work; I'm not actually s

Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

just outta curiosity, has anyone built Mozilla 1.3 on cygwin? thanks, JeffH -- 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/

Problems with non-blocking I/O

I guess cygwin doesn't get a lot of testing with non-blocking I/O. We're having lots of problems. Using version 1.3.14, we find it barely usable but problematic and unreliable. With versions 1.3.20 and 1.3.21, it's quite unusable. The specific problems are, for 1.3.14: 1. selecting for writing

Re: [PATCH] Trivial pthread testsuite fixes

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:23:31PM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >> > >> > Brian, > >> > > >> > Your patch may get more attention from the cygwin-patches mailing list > >as > >> > per . > >> > > >> > >> Yes, but it i

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: w32api-2.3-1

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --030105090803030104010407 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've made a new version of the w32api headers and libraries available for download. A list of what has changed is attached

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

Andrew DeFaria wrote: Elfyn McBratney wrote: But as cgf (the Really Cool Manager) said the registry keys are not to be relied on as they might not be there forever. Yeah but what I'm saying is that there should be a commitment to at least one registry entry which denotes the [active] installa

Re: rsync reliablility issue

Bruce Dobrin wrote: > cygwin 1.3.22, > > I know the list hates rsync questions/problems ( is there is a better > list for this?) but... How about the rsync list? > I have been having somewhat aqrbitrary but continued reliability issues > with rsync, I've been trying to use rsync to synchronize

rsync reliablility issue

cygwin 1.3.22, I know the list hates rsync questions/problems ( is there is a better list for this?) but... I have been having somewhat aqrbitrary but continued reliability issues with rsync, I've been trying to use rsync to synchronize a fairly large number of machines from a central server.

Re: [PATCH] Trivial pthread testsuite fixes

Thanks. I did not know that. Done. On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > > > > Brian, > > > > > > Your patch may get more attention from the cygwin-patches mailing list > as > > > per . > > > > > > > Yes, bu

Re: [PATCH] Trivial pthread testsuite fixes

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:23:31PM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> >> > Brian, >> > >> > Your patch may get more attention from the cygwin-patches mailing list >as >> > per . >> > >> >> Yes, but it is by subscription only

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

> Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > >> While interesting there are two flaws here. Firstly, this down't work > >> on all versions of Windows. Secondly, if I could get my users to set > >> their "ApplicationPaths" I could as easily get them to set their > >> PATHs. The real world situation is that this is

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Robert Collins wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: >> Robert Collins wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 02:24, Vince Hoffman wrote: >>> Havent a clean system to try a full install. however on running it to upgrade/add packages the first run crashed . on the second run all was fine and comp

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

Elfyn McBratney wrote: While interesting there are two flaws here. Firstly, this down't work on all versions of Windows. Secondly, if I could get my users to set their "ApplicationPaths" I could as easily get them to set their PATHs. The real world situation is that this is not the case and ne

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 03:15, Rolf Campbell wrote: Robert Collins wrote: A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed. The new version is available from http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 02:24, Vince Hoffman wrote: Havent a clean system to try a full install. however on running it to upgrade/add packages the first run crashed . on the second run all was fine and componants were added/updated perfectly. I tried runnin

Re: [PATCH] Trivial pthread testsuite fixes

> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > > Brian, > > > > Your patch may get more attention from the cygwin-patches mailing list as > > per . > > > > Yes, but it is by subscription only. > > I prefer to read the archives, at least until they are password prote

Re: [PATCH] Trivial pthread testsuite fixes

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > Brian, > > Your patch may get more attention from the cygwin-patches mailing list as > per . > Yes, but it is by subscription only. I prefer to read the archives, at least until they are password protected also. It seem

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Robert Collins wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 02:24, Vince Hoffman wrote: >> Havent a clean system to try a full install. however on running it to >> upgrade/add packages the first run crashed . >> on the second run all was fine and componants were added/updated >> perfectly. I tried running a few

Re: [PATCH] Trivial pthread testsuite fixes

> 2003-03-26 Brian Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * winsup.api/pthread/condvar7.c (mythread): Cast pthread_mutex_unlock > argument of pthread_cleanup_push to void *, preventing a compiler > warning / testsuite failure. > * winsup.api/pthread/condvar9.c (mythread): Likewise. > * winsup.api/pthread/r

[PATCH] Trivial pthread testsuite fixes

2003-03-26 Brian Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * winsup.api/pthread/condvar7.c (mythread): Cast pthread_mutex_unlock argument of pthread_cleanup_push to void *, preventing a compiler warning / testsuite failure. * winsup.api/pthread/condvar9.c (mythread): Likewise.

Re: file permissions

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lu Fang wrote on March 26, 2003 8:57 AM: > ... CVS with cygwin ... I want to specify the files permissions for > different group of users. I have a similar need for a CVS security model that allows me to control which users can access which CVS projects. My solution was to cre

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

> Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > > Secondly, if I could get my users to set their > > "ApplicationPaths" I could as easily get them to set their PATHs. The real world > > situation is that this is not the case and neither PATH nore ApplicationPaths > > are set. > > Here's an idea: Traverse the directory

Re: Win32 error 126 under cron, but not under shell

> >Looks like a simple permission problem. Does your cron run under > >LocalSystem? > > > Yes it is, but I'm not sure what LocalSystem is. My W2K User Admin > doesn't list a user with that name. LocalSystem is a special user account which may be displayed as SYSTEM (I know it's displayed when ad

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 03:15, Rolf Campbell wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: > > A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to > > reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed. > > > > The new version is available from > > http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.

Re: Win32 error 126 under cron, but not under shell

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Steve Kelem wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >Looks like a simple permission problem. Does your cron run under > >LocalSystem? > > > Yes it is, but I'm not sure what LocalSystem is. My W2K User Admin > doesn't list a user with that name. It's also commonly referred to

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 02:24, Vince Hoffman wrote: > Havent a clean system to try a full install. however on running it to > upgrade/add packages the first run crashed . > on the second run all was fine and componants were added/updated perfectly. > I tried running a few more times to reproduce the

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Secondly, if I could get my users to set their > "ApplicationPaths" I could as easily get them to set their PATHs. The real world > situation is that this is not the case and neither PATH nore ApplicationPaths > are set. Here's an idea: Traverse the directory %SystemDrive%

Re: Re-setup & cygintl-[12].dll

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 02:20, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > > > Just a thought, > > > > It's a good one. Such scripts belong in > > /bin > > or > > /usr/bin > > > > :] > > Rob > > You mean along with ssh-user-config &Co? Any particular reason why this >

Re: Win32 error 126 under cron, but not under shell

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Looks like a simple permission problem. Does your cron run under LocalSystem? Yes it is, but I'm not sure what LocalSystem is. My W2K User Admin doesn't list a user with that name. Is the above DLL readable/executable by LocalSystem? How do I tell? The unix permiss

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

> Tino Lange wrote: > > > This is not true! There's a trick: At least under >= Windows 2000 you > > can just put 'cygpath.exe' (and its path) in your so called > > "ApplicationPaths". This is a Registry location for several utils you > > can just call by name - no more needed. Have a look at your:

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 07:51, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Marcel Telka wrote: > > (Of course, going hand in hand with this would be a command line driven > setup.exe but perhaps we shouldn't go there just yet...) Uhh, grab the source. It's ~ 95% there. Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

Tino Lange wrote: This is not true! There's a trick: At least under >= Windows 2000 you can just put 'cygpath.exe' (and its path) in your so called "ApplicationPaths". This is a Registry location for several utils you can just call by name - no more needed. Have a look at your: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACH

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marcel Telka wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:44:29PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marcel Telka wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:35:47PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > P.S. Maybe we could factor out the code that detects a Cyg

RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Joshua Daniel Franklin --8<-- > > IMHO my suggestions adds just that *tiny bit* of extra info > > that makes a new user get the grip - without some of the FAQs. > > This is true, and makes me feel somewhat guilty since one of the goa

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:44:29PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marcel Telka wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:35:47PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > P.S. Maybe we could factor out the code that detects a Cygwin installation > > > from setup into a lib

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 00:17, Joe Buehler wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: > > > USER-VISIBLE CHANGES: > > Did you forget resizable dialogs No. > or is that not done yet? Bingo! Rob -- GPG key available at: . signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

Marcel Telka wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:23:31PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Elfyn McBratney wrote: But as cgf (the Really Cool Manager) said the registry keys are not to be relied on as they might not be there forever. Yeah but what I'm saying is that there should be a commitment to at

Re: Determining the location of a cygwin installation

On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 18:56, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> I need to determine the location of an existing Cygwin net > >> installation programatically. > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 06:45:42PM -, John Morrison wrote: > >cygpath -w -p / > > That's the only sure-fire way to work since there

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marcel Telka wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:35:47PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > P.S. Maybe we could factor out the code that detects a Cygwin installation > > from setup into a library, and distribute a small cygdetect.exe that links > > with it? > > ... an

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:35:47PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > P.S. Maybe we could factor out the code that detects a Cygwin installation > from setup into a library, and distribute a small cygdetect.exe that links > with it? ... and cygdetect.exe will be placed in /bin :-) -- +---

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

> He also said he needed to determine this from "outside the Cygwin > environment" and I would think that cygpath is inside the Cygwin > environment. Think about it. You're in cmd.exe and you want to tell > where Cygwin is installed. How can you execute cygpath without knowing > where cygpath is? T

Re: no user root

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:53:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Make a user "root" if you want to using "net user" but the privileged user account on Windows is "Administrator". That may be what you're looking for. i don't know if it would be of any help, but the group policy e

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:23:31PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > >But as cgf (the Really Cool Manager) said the registry keys are not to > >be relied on as they might not be there forever. > > Yeah but what I'm saying is that there should be a commitment to at > lea

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > Rolf Campbell wrote: > > > > > You mean "cygpath -w -p /bin", because he said "I need to determine > > > the native path to the directory containing cygwin1.dll" > > > > He also said he needed to determine this from "outside the Cygwin > > environmen

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

Elfyn McBratney wrote: But as cgf (the Really Cool Manager) said the registry keys are not to be relied on as they might not be there forever. Yeah but what I'm saying is that there should be a commitment to at least one registry entry which denotes the [active] installation path of Cygwin. IO

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

> Rolf Campbell wrote: > > > You mean "cygpath -w -p /bin", because he said "I need to determine > > the native path to the directory containing cygwin1.dll" > > He also said he needed to determine this from "outside the Cygwin > environment" and I would think that cygpath is inside the Cygwin > en

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

Andrew, At 11:41 2003-03-26, Andrew M. Inggs wrote: ... Specifically for CD-R, I have had trouble doing this because the URL-encoded directories that setup.exe creates to keep track of which mirror you select are not ISO9660 or Joliet friendly. I usually just rename the directory before burni

Re: RPM-4.1 port to Cygwin available

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Marcel Telka wrote: > > For that, however, these programs need to be *native Windows binaries* > > (i.e. no cygwin layer underneath), or you'd have a chicken-and-egg > > problem doing a first-time installation (or any time you updated cygwin > > itself). > > What about lin

RE: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Pavel Tsekov wrote: > ghostscript-x11 ghostscript-x11-7.05-2.tar.bz2 0 (Clap to forehead!). Sorry, and thanks for spotting that one.. -- Shankar. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > As I understood from a posting of Igor Pechtchanski this isn't as hard as I thought(1). Well, now to the collection of words; something like this, maybe: -- If you have a CD-burner, ZIP, Jazz, removable HD or some such at "home" _and_ in a machine elsew

RE: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Shankar Unni wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Currently, the list of installed packages is stored in > > /etc/setup/installed.db (subject to change at any time). It > > should be updated on every install/uninstall/upgrade. > > Attached is my installed.db (I've name

Re: RPM-4.1 port to Cygwin available

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:06:35AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: > Yann Crausaz wrote: > > >The version of setup.exe I propose must be a bit old, isn't it ? If there's > >a real interest, I'm OK to care about the latest version, but will poeple > >really use RPM under Cygwin ? > > Good point. > >

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

Rolf Campbell wrote: You mean "cygpath -w -p /bin", because he said "I need to determine the native path to the directory containing cygwin1.dll" He also said he needed to determine this from "outside the Cygwin environment" and I would think that cygpath is inside the Cygwin environment. Thin

Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB)

Original Message: - >From: Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: 26 Mar 2003 12:11:50 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic >Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB) > [snip] >Oh, I almost forgot. Here is my idea. I can create a

Re: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Shankar Unni wrote: > Pavel Tsekov asked: > >> Is it possible that the problematic box has X already installed >> on it ? If there is an older version of a package already >> installed, setup will try to upgrade it. > > No, it doesn't. The "current" column is blank. Also, there are no > XFree86

RE: procps and top output

> Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > What options to procps are you using to get that output format? > I cannot > > reproduce it. > > It's the output of "top", and yes, I see the problem too. The "size" > column is always around 400 (+/-) MB, however large or small the process. > > The RSS size is corre

scp and win98

Win98 SE Have cygwin up to date. Noticed that every time I run scp when the copy finishes I get a error dialog that says ssh preformed an illegal operation: SSH caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 016f:bff9dfff. Registers: EAX=0152fe38 CS=016f EIP=bff9dfff EFLGS=0206 EBX=8

RE: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Currently, the list of installed packages is stored in > /etc/setup/installed.db (subject to change at any time). It > should be updated on every install/uninstall/upgrade. Attached is my installed.db (I've named the attachment .txt so that it's easy to display). No

Re: file permissions

Lu Fang wrote: > Hi, all > I have installed CVS with cygwin under windows2k operation system. It is > working properly. Further more,I want to specify the files permissions for > different group of users. I have read the cvs manualfrom > > > > a

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

You mean "cygpath -w -p /bin", because he said "I need to determine the native path to the directory containing cygwin1.dll" John Morrison wrote: You didn't say whether you wanted it for a script or exe, for a script... cygpath -w -p / works for me :) J. -Original Message- From: [EMAI

RE: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Shankar Unni wrote: > Pavel Tsekov asked: > > > Is it possible that the problematic box has X already installed > > on it ? If there is an older version of a package already > > installed, setup will try to upgrade it. > > No, it doesn't. The "current" column is blank. Also,

Re: Determining the location of a cygwin installation

>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf >> Of John Dallaway >> Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2003 6:33 pm >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation >> >> I need to determine the location of an existing Cygwin net installation >> program

RE: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Shankar Unni wrote: > Pavel Tsekov asked: > > > Is it possible that the problematic box has X already installed > > on it ? If there is an older version of a package already > > installed, setup will try to upgrade it. > > No, it doesn't. The "current" column is blank. Al

RE: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

Pavel Tsekov asked: > Is it possible that the problematic box has X already installed > on it ? If there is an older version of a package already > installed, setup will try to upgrade it. No, it doesn't. The "current" column is blank. Also, there are no XFree86 packages in the download direct

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