Re: Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts

2003-09-23 Thread jurgen . defurne
Thanks, Corinna, Unfortunately for me this is infeasible. Samba is run here on a Solaris box and I am not root. But now I know at least what is going on. Thanks again. Jurgen Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/23/2003 04:20 PM Please respond to cygwin

Problem with 1.5.5-1

2003-09-23 Thread Christopher Vickery
I have a development environment for FPGAs that uses Cygwin/g++ to compile simulations. This feature of the product "went broke" when I did a routine update of my Cygwin installation, getting the 1.5.5-1 dll and (I think) an updated version of g++. I'm not sure how to roll back to the working v

Re: feature requests for setup

2003-09-23 Thread peter garrone
- Original Message - From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:56:04 -0400 (EDT) To: peter garrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: feature requests for setup > > - Have setup check with the mirror to see if the setup program itself > >has been upgraded. F

DDD Compilation Fails using GCC 3.3.1

2003-09-23 Thread Ayamico Hamasaki
Hi, I have problem compiling DDD 3.3.7 using gcc 3.3.1. But if I revert to gcc.3.2.3, the compilation is successful. Anyone has seen the same problem ? I wonder if this is a gcc or ddd problem. Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus _update-info-dir0

Re: feature requests for setup

2003-09-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, peter garrone wrote: > Hi, I thought I would note some desirable features in setup > that would save dickheads such as myself much time. > > - Have setup check with the mirror to see if the setup program itself >has been upgraded. For people who dont read announcements. I

Re: feature requests for setup

2003-09-23 Thread Rolf Campbell
peter garrone wrote: - Have setup check with the mirror to see if the setup program itself has been upgraded. For people who dont read announcements. It does. After it's been 'officially' released. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: htt

Undefined reference to 'isalpha_array'

2003-09-23 Thread Divine Providence
Hi, I was trying to cross-compile Windows binaries on bsd. The newlib libraries compiled alright. Most part of winsup compilation went through without any errors. When it comes to linking I get the following errors: The functions asprintf_r(), vasprintf(), _vasprintf_r(), _asprintf_r() are part

Re: procmail not writing mbox file properly?

2003-09-23 Thread Greg Matheson
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Matthew Rich wrote: > I set up mutt to poll my pop3 server itself, and when it does this it writes to the > mbox file properly. Also, I looked at my old mbox file from my linux machine and I > figured out what's wrong: procmail on cygwin is not writing the leading From line

feature requests for setup

2003-09-23 Thread peter garrone
Hi, I thought I would note some desirable features in setup that would save dickheads such as myself much time. - Have setup check with the mirror to see if the setup program itself has been upgraded. For people who dont read announcements. - If installing from the local directory, possibly o

Re: Solved: Windows 2k crash while processing big bash script

2003-09-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:22:40AM +0200, Luc Hermitte wrote: >* On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:52:49AM +0300, -TifsSoft- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>YES!!! It's all because of Agnitum Outpost Firewall 2 Pro. All goes >>fine when outpost is uninstalled. Thanks you very much, you are really >>make my

Re: Latest GCC has mbstate_t problem

2003-09-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:08:25PM -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote: >I'm using cygwin v1.5.5 under Win2K. > >uname -a >CYGWIN_NT-5.0 lisa 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown >Cygwin > >cygcheck -s -v -r is attached. I'll generate a fix. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Problem with perl distro?

2003-09-23 Thread Peter M Aarestad
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: # Variables used in loop my $screen = ""; my $fldname = ""; Changing my script to this and using "export PERLIO=crlf" got rid of all the warnings for me. I didn't know the latter, so thanks for teaching me something new today! :) -peter -- Peter M Aarestad [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Solved: Windows 2k crash while processing big bash script

2003-09-23 Thread Luc Hermitte
Hello, * On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:52:49AM +0300, -TifsSoft- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > YES!!! It's all because of Agnitum Outpost Firewall 2 Pro. All goes > fine when outpost is uninstalled. Thanks you very much, you are really > make my life easy :) By the way, thanks to all who help me solve

Latest GCC has mbstate_t problem

2003-09-23 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I'm using cygwin v1.5.5 under Win2K. uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 lisa 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin cygcheck -s -v -r is attached. A long time ago (11/7/2002) I reported a problem with GCC 3.2 20020818 that involved the mbstate_t structure. cgf quickly fixed it back th

Solved: Windows 2k crash while processing big bash script

2003-09-23 Thread -TifsSoft-
Re, Brian, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 6:32:39 PM, you wrote: BF> I hate to point to the obvious, but it does not seem that anyone has BF> pointed to this thread as a possible explanation: BF> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg00521.html BF> It looks fairly relevant to me. YES!!!

RE: FYI: bladeenc - fairly easy port.

2003-09-23 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: Gerrit P. Haase > Hannu schrieb: > > > Approximate speed difference: > > -O2 runs 1.75x speed > > -O0 runs 0.75x speed (P2/450!) > > -O0: "All operations completed. Total encoding time: 00:47:46" > > -O2: "All operations completed. Total encoding time: 00:20:04" As I did try this, I'l

RE: Problem with perl distro?

2003-09-23 Thread Peter M Aarestad
-- "DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great job! This seems to fix it under Cygwin perl 5.8.0-5, but I still > get errors using ActiveState Perl for Windows. Which probably means > (unless Peter cannot get this fix working under Cygwin) that we should > take it off the list. I

procmail not writing mbox file properly?

2003-09-23 Thread Matthew Rich
I just moved to cygwin from debian linux and am having some problems setting up my email. I use mutt, fetchmail, and procmail. procmail writes most of my mail to ~/mbox, my main mbox file. However, I noticed that mutt was not picking up the messages written to ~/mbox by procmail. I set up mutt

Re: Problem with perl distro?

2003-09-23 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Igor schrieb: > $screen was uninitialized. Changing it to 'my $screen = ""' eliminates > the warnings in the simpler script. > Igor Both are not initialized (the third was not used anyway, so I deleted it. # Variables used in loop my $screen = ""; my $fldname = ""; But still what I wr

Re: Problem with perl distro?

2003-09-23 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Igor, > $screen was uninitialized. Changing it to 'my $screen = ""' eliminates > the warnings in the simpler script. But that was only half the problem, try the following, save it in DOS Format with CR/LF line endings and run the script, then save it in Unix Format with LF line endings and run a

Re: Problem with perl distro?

2003-09-23 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello, do `export PERLIO=crlf` before running the script, or save it without DOS line endings. Other problems: This line: AACE_1."ADDR LINE1": or this: AACE_1.CITY_0: will not be matched with this regex: /^(\w+):$/) Quotes and points are usually not in words included. Gerrit -- =^..^= --

RE: Problem with perl distro?

2003-09-23 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> Igor Pechtchanski said > Peter, > > $screen was uninitialized. Changing it to 'my $screen = ""' > eliminates > the warnings in the simpler script. > Igor > -- Igor, Great job! This seems to fix it under Cygwin perl 5.8.0-5, but I still get errors using ActiveState Perl for Windows.

libiberty.a present in 3 packages

2003-09-23 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
binutils cygwin gcc (not gcc2) What's the right version ? It seems the last package installed overwrites it, so I have the one from cygwin. -- How to contact me - http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: htt

RE: man 2 setpriority - issues

2003-09-23 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Christopher Faylor > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:25:50AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > >> $ man 2 getpriority > >> ... > >> SYNOPSIS > >> ... > >> int > >>

RE: Problem with perl distro?

2003-09-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Peter M Aarestad wrote: > -- "DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can you provide a simple but complete script and data source that > > recreate your error? > > This is too weird. I've stripped down my script to its roots, but now > I'm getting warnings with A

Re: FYI: bladeenc - fairly easy port.

2003-09-23 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hannu schrieb: > Approximate speed difference: > -O2 runs 1.75x speed > -O0 runs 0.75x speed (P2/450!) > -O0: "All operations completed. Total encoding time: 00:47:46" > -O2: "All operations completed. Total encoding time: 00:20:04" I guess it will be faster when using a native Windows (non C

RE: Problem with perl distro?

2003-09-23 Thread Peter M Aarestad
-- "DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you provide a simple but complete script and data source that > recreate your error? This is too weird. I've stripped down my script to its roots, but now I'm getting warnings with ActivePerl too! This time, I'm getting warnings on every l

RE: Problem with perl distro?

2003-09-23 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> Peter M Aarestad said [-snip-] > perl -w works fine for ActivePerl - no warnings. Plus, my > script uses the "warnings" and "strict" pragmas. [-/snip-] Peter, Can you provide a simple but complete script and data source that recreate your error? I don't know what the data you are parsing is su

RE: Problem with perl distro?

2003-09-23 Thread Peter M Aarestad
-- "DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of builds, can you please specify which version of perl you are > using under Cygwin and which version of ActiveState Perl you are using? According to setup.exe, I have cygwin 1.5.5-1 and perl 5.8.0-5 installed. My version of ActiveS

RE: Problem with perl distro?

2003-09-23 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> Peter M Aarestad said [-snip-] > Now, every single time I read in a line, I get this warning > > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > ./genguimapdoc.pl line 60, line n. > > However, I do NOT get this warning using ActiveState Perl, > and the script works fine! Is th

Re: Manipulating user privileges (was Re: SSHD, Cygwin and Windows 2003)

2003-09-23 Thread Chris Rodgers
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:24:45AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Also error codes on failure, and the ability to check whether a user has > > certain rights (without using grep). If we decide to adopt it as a > > package, could we have a CVS repository for it under cygwin-apps (like for >

Problem with perl distro?

2003-09-23 Thread Peter M Aarestad
I have a script that I noticed was giving me problems with the Cygwin version of Perl when I ran it, but the same script works fine with the AcitveState version of Perl. The key lines of the main loop look like this: while () { chomp; if (!$desc and /^(\w+):$/) { # warning line

FYI: bladeenc - fairly easy port.

2003-09-23 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
As I understand there might be issues WRT copyright on mp3-encoding. There is some wording on this at the site indicated below. Therefore I have to ask; Will it be a "to high risk" to include bladeenc in cygwin as a package? Below you can see that it is LGPL too; would that be a hindrance? -- N

FAQ correction needed?

2003-09-23 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
"How do the net-related functions work?" ... "As of the b19 release, this information may be slightly out of date. " (At the very end of that section.) The appearance of that ^ sentence makes me wonder how "fresh" the text before it is. (Hmm... I guess I could use the dictionary a bit and rephra

RE: Manipulating user privileges (was Re: SSHD, Cygwin and Windows 2003)

2003-09-23 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: Igor Pechtchanski > > Setting up a CVS repository would be simple. > > > > Corinna > > Umm, yes, this was mostly a (disguised, I guess) question for Chris on > whether he wants to tie his program to Cygwin or release it independently. > Igor Hmm... WAG: Chris is feeling the pressur

__CYGWIN__ ++ (RE: getuid() and root)

2003-09-23 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: Corinna Vinschen > Remove (or better ifdef out) all checks for the root user account. > sshd is using the same approach. We don't have a root user > concept so far so these test are a bit displaced on Cygwin. Sorry to butt in again... :-P This is just to make things clear up a bit for

Fatal flex bug

2003-09-23 Thread Matt Gregory
I want to use flex in Visual Studio, but it won't run. It just says: flex: fatal internal error, exec failed It worked before I upgraded Cygwin a few days ago. I don't know what version of flex I was using before, but this happens with version 2.5.31. Thanks! Matt Gregory -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Bug in Bash 2.05b.0(13) with nt-emacs

2003-09-23 Thread Jeffery B. Rancier
I don't think so, I am doing the same, with: , | GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) ` and: , | GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of 2003-03-27 on buffy ` Without any problems, this is on Windows XP Pro. Where did you get that version of bash? Is that a

Re: man 1.5j - can't find cat, tbl, nroff, less

2003-09-23 Thread Kevin Van Workum
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > When I try 'man grep' I get the following. > /bin/cat: not found > /usr/bin/tbl: not found > /usr/bin/nroff: not found > /usr/bin/less: not found > Error executing formatting or display command. > System command (cd /usr/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/cat

some missing defines in .h files

2003-09-23 Thread Eugene Kotlyarov
Hello Recently I've ported some NetBSD soft to Cygwin and encountered some incompatibilites in header files that are not caught by configure. I wonder whether this should be fixed in Cygwin? #define TM_YEAR_BASE1900 Is not defined in tzfile.h #define _PATH_TMP "/tmp/" or

RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem

2003-09-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > > > Sent: 23 September 2003 16:20 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > > > > Look at the logs (/var/log/setup.log{,.full}). Did "base-files" get > > > installed? > > > Igor > > > > No. It's not in the cygch

RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem

2003-09-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > Sent: 23 September 2003 16:20 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > > Look at the logs (/var/log/setup.log{,.full}). Did "base-files" get > > installed? > > Igor > > No. It's not in the cygcheck output either. Weird, I selected install for > 'all' in setu

RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem

2003-09-23 Thread Hughes, Bill
Sent: 23 September 2003 16:20 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > Look at the logs (/var/log/setup.log{,.full}). Did "base-files" get > installed? > Igor No. It's not in the cygcheck output either. Weird, I selected install for 'all' in setup and then de-selected ghostscript as I was playing with

gcc 3.3.1: include problem solved

2003-09-23 Thread Andre Bleau
I'd like to report that the problem that I reported about gcc 3.2 in: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg01556.html is no longer present with gcc 3.3.1 For those who might care, it was a problem of include files in /usr/include/w32api wrongly taking precedence over those in /usr/in

Re: man 2 setpriority - issues

2003-09-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:25:50AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: >> $ man 2 getpriority >> ... >> SYNOPSIS >> ... >> int >> setpriority(int which, int who, int prio); >> ... >> >> $ man 2 setpriority >> No entry for setpri

Re: Windows 2k crash while processing big bash script

2003-09-23 Thread Brian Ford
I hate to point to the obvious, but it does not seem that anyone has pointed to this thread as a possible explanation: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg00521.html It looks fairly relevant to me. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems Flig

Re: man 2 setpriority - issues

2003-09-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > $ man 2 getpriority > ... > SYNOPSIS > ... > int > setpriority(int which, int who, int prio); > ... > > $ man 2 setpriority > No entry for setpriority in section 2 of the manual > > IMO this is very confusing IF you're not

Re: man 5 proc [ SEE ALSO in procps(1) ] missing? (FAQ alert)

2003-09-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:19:27PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: >$ man procps > >SEE ALSO >top(1) pstree(1) proc(5) > > >$ man 5 proc >No entry for proc in section 5 of the manual > >$ man proc >No manual entry for proc > >$ uname -a >CYGWIN_NT-5.0 P450 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-

RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem

2003-09-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > Sent: 23 September 2003 15:26 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > > > Why is it I always find the problem after I post? > > > There was no /etc/profile in my installation. > > > I copied one from another machine and my i

man 2 setpriority - issues

2003-09-23 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
$ man 2 getpriority ... SYNOPSIS ... int setpriority(int which, int who, int prio); ... $ man 2 setpriority No entry for setpriority in section 2 of the manual IMO this is very confusing IF you're not aware of it. I spent some time finding out. Then; "PRIO_PROCESS" mentioned later in t

man 5 proc [ SEE ALSO in procps(1) ] missing?

2003-09-23 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
$ man procps SEE ALSO top(1) pstree(1) proc(5) $ man 5 proc No entry for proc in section 5 of the manual $ man proc No manual entry for proc $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 P450 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin Setup.exe: Curr - "All @ Install" - yesterday. /Hannu E K N

RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem

2003-09-23 Thread Hughes, Bill
Sent: 23 September 2003 15:26 From: Igor Pechtchanski > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > > Why is it I always find the problem after I post? > > There was no /etc/profile in my installation. > > I copied one from another machine and my installation appears OK, except for > > the man probl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-3.7.1p2-1

2003-09-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 3.7.1p2-1. This is again an official new release, this time mostly a bugfix and security related release. Since the latest Cygwin specific changes are now in the official repository, this Cygwin version is from the vanilla sources again. Official Relea

man 1.5j - can't find cat, tbl, nroff, less

2003-09-23 Thread Hughes, Bill
When I try 'man grep' I get the following. /bin/cat: not found /usr/bin/tbl: not found /usr/bin/nroff: not found /usr/bin/less: not found Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/cat '/usr/man/man1/grep.1 '; echo; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") |

RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem

2003-09-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > Why is it I always find the problem after I post? > There was no /etc/profile in my installation. > I copied one from another machine and my installation appears OK, except for > the man problem. > I don't know if /etc/profile is mssing from the distribut

Re: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem

2003-09-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:16:19PM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote: > Why is it I always find the problem after I post? It's because it happens to everyone. Why should it be better for you? SCNR, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer

Re: getuid() and root

2003-09-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:44:22AM -0400, Kevin Van Workum wrote: > I'm trying to compile SOpenPBS on Cygwin. SOpenPBS is the Scalable Open > Portable Batch System (www.supercluster.org). And I need some advice. > > I have it compiled and running, with some ugly hacks. First, the daemons > want to

Re: Manipulating user privileges (was Re: SSHD, Cygwin and Windows 2003)

2003-09-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:24:45AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Also error codes on failure, and the ability to check whether a user has > > certain rights (without using grep). If we decide to adopt it as a > > package, could we have a CVS re

Re: Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts

2003-09-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:01:28PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, Corinna, > > Symlinks form the installation are created as ordinary > files, ie. instead of eg. Uh, I see. Setup doesn't create symlinks as shortcuts. It still uses the old system file method to create symlinks. The sy

RE: Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem

2003-09-23 Thread Hughes, Bill
Why is it I always find the problem after I post? There was no /etc/profile in my installation. I copied one from another machine and my installation appears OK, except for the man problem. I don't know if /etc/profile is mssing from the distribution or something happened to mine. regards, Bill

getuid() and root

2003-09-23 Thread Kevin Van Workum
I'm trying to compile SOpenPBS on Cygwin. SOpenPBS is the Scalable Open Portable Batch System (www.supercluster.org). And I need some advice. I have it compiled and running, with some ugly hacks. First, the daemons want to run as user root. I can change this in the source to my login, but I'd like

Re: Manipulating user privileges (was Re: SSHD, Cygwin and Windows 2003)

2003-09-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:24:45AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Also error codes on failure, and the ability to check whether a user has > certain rights (without using grep). If we decide to adopt it as a > package, could we have a CVS repository for it under cygwin-apps (like for > cygrunsr

Cygwin 1.5.5 Configuration problem

2003-09-23 Thread Hughes, Bill
I have tried rtfm, rtffaq, rtfa(rchive), I would appreciate some help if someone could point me in the right direction. I was having problems with man (among other things) not working so I decided to perform a complete uninstall and re-install. I un-installed everything, removed the remaining folde

Re: Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts

2003-09-23 Thread jurgen . defurne
Hello, Corinna, Symlinks form the installation are created as ordinary files, ie. instead of eg. lrwxrwxrwx ld.exe -> /usr/bin/ld.exe I get -rw-r--r-- ... ld.exe Unfortunately, I deleted the other files. Jurgen Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/

Re: Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts

2003-09-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:37:29PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I noticed this before, but since the solution is simple, > > though a little bit annoying, I did not mention it. > > > > I think this is also only an issue for peopl

Re: configure cygwin for vxworks

2003-09-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, deva kumar s wrote: > 1) How can I configure cygwin for vxworks? . The whole document is a good read in any case. > 2) Is their exist separate cross compiler for this? Do you Google?

Re: FIFO question

2003-09-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:47:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > While I was configuring and rebuilding screen, > I got the following message : > > configure: checking fifos... > - your fifos are not usable > > Is that so ? Yes. named pipes are not implemented yet. Corinna --

Re: Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts

2003-09-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:37:29PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed this before, but since the solution is simple, > though a little bit annoying, I did not mention it. > > I think this is also only an issue for people who use > cygwin from a shared drive, and the shared dri

Re: Manipulating user privileges (was Re: SSHD, Cygwin and Windows 2003)

2003-09-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:43:45PM +0100, Chris Rodgers wrote: > > OK. I've had a crack at this. The packages can be found at: > > http://rodgers.org.uk/editrights/ > > and are released under a BSD-style licence. > > Would you mind to send an ITP mess

FIFO question

2003-09-23 Thread jurgen . defurne
Hello, While I was configuring and rebuilding screen, I got the following message : configure: checking fifos... - your fifos are not usable Is that so ? Regards, Jurgen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html D

Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts

2003-09-23 Thread jurgen . defurne
Hello, I noticed this before, but since the solution is simple, though a little bit annoying, I did not mention it. I think this is also only an issue for people who use cygwin from a shared drive, and the shared drive comes from Samba, not native Windows. Anyhow, I have to recreate manually all

Good work!

2003-09-23 Thread jurgen . defurne
Hello, Today I have found time to upgrade to 1.5.5, seemingly without glitches, thanks for the good work, guys. Jurgen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: searching the cygwin archive

2003-09-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
A lot of people use the site: feature of google to search the archives if that would help ? (eg. use "site:cygwin.com man page" as your search string.) > -Original Message- > From: Kevin Van Workum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 September 2003 12:39 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

searching the cygwin archive

2003-09-23 Thread Kevin Van Workum
Is there a way to turn off the 'smart' searching when searching through the Cygwin mailing list? For example, sometimes it would be useful to search for only the string 'man page' and not '(man or maned or mans or manly) and (page or paged or paging or pager or pages or pagers)'. Kevin Van Workum,

configure cygwin for vxworks

2003-09-23 Thread deva kumar s
1) How can I configure cygwin for vxworks? 2) Is their exist separate cross compiler for this? waiting for your reply, thanks. regards dev HAVE A NICE DAY ___ Art meets Anesthesia; Shefali Weds Dr. Raman. Rediff Matchmaker strikes another interesting

RE: Math working on command line but not in script

2003-09-23 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Howdy Alexander! > You misspelled the first line, should be > #!/usr/bin/bash Well, now I feel plain silly! Thanks for the answer! Rob :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cyg

Re: Windows 2k crash while processing big bash script

2003-09-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 06:30:06PM +0300, -TifsSoft- wrote: > I provide all information as wrote in http://cygwin.com/problems.html. > (I reed it before sending problem letter). > cygcheck.out is in my first letter. > I tryed to process ./configure in new copy of cygwin (only base + > gcc + binutil

Re: Manipulating user privileges (was Re: SSHD, Cygwin and Windows 2003)

2003-09-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:43:45PM +0100, Chris Rodgers wrote: > OK. I've had a crack at this. The packages can be found at: > http://rodgers.org.uk/editrights/ > and are released under a BSD-style licence. Would you mind to send an ITP message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as described under http://cygwin

Re: Math working on command line but not in script

2003-09-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Robert Mark Bram wrote: > > Howdy All! > > I have a small script called maths.sh with the following code in it: > > #/usr/bin/bash The features you're trying to use are bash-specific. The above shebang is not correct (you need a ! after the #, as in "#!/path/to/file") and so the script is bein

Re: cygwin 1.5+ process control problem?

2003-09-23 Thread Alexander Osipenko
Thanks, the snapshot cygwin1-20030923.dll.bz2 works. Alexander. "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:37:07AM +0400, Alexander Osipenko wrote: > >Shell hangs, executing command > > > >