[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.1.1-2

[I just now realized that I never announced the initial release of zsh-4.1.1, so, after fixing a minor layout problem in the package, I'm announcing it now. Better late than never !-] An updated version of zsh has been released and should be at a mirror near you real soon. Zsh has had some inter

RE: terminal characterestics

Hey Igor and Nicolas, Your mails gave me a pointer and I tried setting the TERM variable on the remote host to vt220 (default was xterm) and now things are working, although I need to explore more. Thanks ! Koundinya -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Installer Question

Rob, Igor - Thanks for the pointer on how to get everything at once, as well as to the resizable setup binary. While I'm intested in reading the discussion you mention, I couldn't find it right off. >>>Does the installer really have to be this difficult? >Yes. And to anticipate your nex

Re: 1.5.5: sshd problem

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, John Pye wrote: > Well... This is looking weird now :-) > In response to your suggestions, Igor... > > >Access is denied. > > > >At a guess, your sshd doesn't have permissions to execute bash. > > > > > > $ net helpmsg 5 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ net helpmsg 5 > > Access is

Re: 1.5.5: sshd problem

Well... This is looking weird now :-) In response to your suggestions, Igor... Access is denied. At a guess, your sshd doesn't have permissions to execute bash. $ net helpmsg 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ net helpmsg 5 Access is denied. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Please post the output of "ls -ln /bin/bas

Re: Installer question

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:59:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Anon Mouse wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Couple of comments on the installer: >> >> - Does it have to be non-resizable? It's REALLY a pain to keep >> scrolling left-right-left-right in a 3-inch window > >Yes, i

Re: Trouble in Compiling OpenGL-1.1.0-6 with cygwin!

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:26:28AM +0100, ALEX MANTION wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I am experiencing a trouble while I am trying to >compile OpenGl-1.1.0-6 from its sources available on >cygwin web site. I need this one to make Ghemical 1.5 >working (for its glut component part [glutinit and so >on]).

Re: Installer question

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Anon Mouse wrote: > Hello, > > Couple of comments on the installer: > > - Does it have to be non-resizable? It's REALLY a pain to keep > scrolling left-right-left-right in a 3-inch window Yes, it does. The version of the installer currently distributed off the main Cygw

Re: Installer question

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:44, Anon Mouse wrote: > Hello, > > Couple of comments on the installer: > > - Does it have to be non-resizable? It's REALLY a > pain to keep scrolling left-right-left-right in a > 3-inch window There's a snapshot that addresses that. > - Why isn't there an option

Installer question

Hello, Couple of comments on the installer: - Does it have to be non-resizable? It's REALLY a pain to keep scrolling left-right-left-right in a 3-inch window - Why isn't there an option to "get it all?" It's REALLY a pain to have to select each and every package .. compounded by the fact

Re: Perl CPAN module help

Brian Dessent wrote: How do you list modules already installed? There's no definitive way to do this. If you just want to see if you have the Foo::Bar module, you can use "perl -MFoo::Bar -e 1" and if you get an error then you need to install Foo::Bar. You can also try the following script whic

RE: using rsync in a sceduled script

> -Original Message- > From: Brendon Baumgartner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:36 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: using rsync in a sceduled script > > I have a very odd problem. > > I'm using rsync 2.5.6 in a bash script that is scheduled to run u

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: d-1.2.0-1

The package 'd' is now available with the Cygwin distribution. 'd' is an alternative to 'ls', which shows colorized, verbose file information by default. There are several differences between 'd' and 'ls', including: * fully customizable through d.conf file (see /usr/share/doc/d-1.2.0/d.conf.e

Re: cc1plus.exe not included in GCC 3.3.1-3?

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 09:26, Brian Ford wrote: > > Setup will do per-version dependencies, but it does so *for the target > > version*. > > > I didn't think version specific dependencies would be needed here. I'm > obviously not well versed in setup, but I thought that replacing the old > monolith

Re: cc1plus.exe not included in GCC 3.3.1-3?

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 08:21, Brian Ford wrote: > > However, if you already had the old monolithic gcc package when updating > > to the new separate front end packages, then it is a setup/gcc dependency > > bug and you should have gotten gcc-g++. > > Wha

Re: cc1plus.exe not included in GCC 3.3.1-3?

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 08:21, Brian Ford wrote: > However, if you already had the old monolithic gcc package when updating > to the new separate front end packages, then it is a setup/gcc dependency > bug and you should have gotten gcc-g++. What did you put in the setup.hint that makes you think se

Re: cc1plus.exe not included in GCC 3.3.1-3?

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Patrick Eisenacher wrote: > I faced the same problem. Upgrading from the old monolithic gcc to the > new separate front end packaged ones only gave me gcc-c. I had to > separately select gcc-c++. > > I'm not sure whether this can be classified as a setup dependency bug, > sinc

using rsync in a sceduled script

I have a very odd problem. I'm using rsync 2.5.6 in a bash script that is scheduled to run using windows XP scheduler. Rsync works perfectly everytime from the command line, but sometimes after the rsync operation completes when it is run using a script/scheduler, I get this error and rsync sits

Re: cc1plus.exe not included in GCC 3.3.1-3?

I faced the same problem. Upgrading from the old monolithic gcc to the new separate front end packaged ones only gave me gcc-c. I had to separately select gcc-c++. I'm not sure whether this can be classified as a setup dependency bug, since you always face this kind of problem when you split up

Re: cc1plus.exe not included in GCC 3.3.1-3?

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Brian P Kasper wrote: > Thanks, Brian. Your suggestion to look for gcc-g++ pointed me at the answer. > > I didn't realize that the backends for GCC don't show up in the > "partial" view of Cygwin Setup, only the "Not Installed" view. > Well, the "partial" view tells you what

Re: cc1plus.exe not included in GCC 3.3.1-3?

Thanks, Brian. Your suggestion to look for gcc-g++ pointed me at the answer. I didn't realize that the backends for GCC don't show up in the "partial" view of Cygwin Setup, only the "Not Installed" view. I installed gcc-g++ and all is well. -Brian

Re: terminal characterestics

hello, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, koorapati, koundinya wrote: Hey Cygwin Users, I have a problem when I rlogin to other *NIX hosts from the native xterm launched from Cygwin-Xfree86. One I rlogin, it so happens that, trying to 'vi' some file, the vi editor just scrolls past

Re: Perl CPAN module help

zzapper wrote: > > Peter, > > >cpan > cpan> > > How do you list modules already installed? There's no definitive way to do this. If you just want to see if you have the Foo::Bar module, you can use "perl -MFoo::Bar -e 1" and if you get an error then you need to install Foo::Bar. You can also

Re: cc1plus.exe not included in GCC 3.3.1-3?

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Brian P Kasper wrote: > cc1plus.exe appears to be missing from gcc 3.3.1-3. I'd been running > 3.2-3, and all was well. I upgraded to 3.3.1-3 and began experiencing > the "cannot exec `cc1plus' error. I downgraded to 3.2 and the problem > ceased. At the end of this message

cc1plus.exe not included in GCC 3.3.1-3?

Folks -- I apologize deeply if this has already been fixed, but I see nothing about it in the Cygwin list archives or the main Cygwin web page, and there isn't a later version of gcc-3.3.1 on mirrors.rcn.net yet. I had to unsubscribe from this list for a while to keep my email S/N down, so

REWIND on stdin in g77 3.3.1

After upgrading to g77 3.3.1 from g77 3.2, some of the code I was running sucessfully before was not running anymore on a windows 2000 workstation. After investigation, I found that the problem seemed to be when performing REWINDs on stdin (unit 5). To illustrate this, I created a simple fortran p

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: opengl-1.1.0-7

I've updated the OpenGL package to version 1.1.0-7 . Excerpts from the README: What has changed since opengl-1.1.0-6 - gl.h and glu.h have been withdrawn from the package as they are now part of the w32api package. The w32api package is now required. GLUT has

cygwin is producing only UNIX file formats, no DOS.

Hello, I have installed cygwin and chosen DOS file type. When I open any file I make in vim or perl, I find it to be UNIX format. Can somebody please help? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Empty /usr/local/bin in Release 1.5.5-1

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Shyamal Mitra wrote: > I just installed Cygwin 1.5.5-1 on my Windows XP machine. I > cannot find vi or gcc. > > There is nothing in /usr/local/bin. > /usr/local/bin is normally empty after an install. It is for locally (ie. you) installed software, not software that shipped w

Empty /usr/local/bin in Release 1.5.5-1

Hi, I just installed Cygwin 1.5.5-1 on my Windows XP machine. I cannot find vi or gcc. This is a partial output from `echo $PATH`. /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem: /cygdrive/c/Program Files/SSH Commun

Re: gtk for cygwin

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Bernhard Windisch wrote: > I installed cygwin on my Windows XP laptop to access my linux > workstation via ssh -X. Unfortunately, when I try to open a x-window > application on the remote machine, I get the error Gtk-WARNING **: > cannot open display on my laptop, if I am not

Re: Problem with Xemacs, cygwin and maybe XP

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Yadin Y. Goldschmidt wrote: > This faq is not clear enough and should be updated. It does not give the > location of the snapshots: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ You're right, it should be used in conjunction with . > which can also be ac

Re: mkconfig.sh: Portability fix

[cc: cygwin mailing list -- original message at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-11/msg00843.html] >> For the past month or so, make restrap has been randomly broken under >> cygwin. >> >> I have traced it to tm.h and tconfig.h not always getting rebuilt >> correctly, though I really have n

RE: 1.5.5-1 command substitution hangs (0% cpu) on XP

I'm sorry I posted this problem a second time (under this new name) ... I thought my first attempt was too shotty and was probably misnamed. I was trying to continue the discussion that I had found that most closely matched (blah, blah). So I thought about trying an older version of cygwin to see

RE: "Cannot read: No space left on device" accessing DDS3 drive on W2K

Peter, Thanks for the pointer. Both drives are DDS4 so both support density 0x25 (DDS3) which is the density of the tapes. Still no luck but am continuing in my search for a resolution. Thanks > -Original Message- > From: Peter J. Acklam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, N

gtk for cygwin

I installed cygwin on my Windows XP laptop to access my linux workstation via ssh -X. Unfortunately, when I try to open a x-window application on the remote machine, I get the error Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display on my laptop, if I am not running the X-server under cygwin. I installed the gtk2

RE: Problem with Xemacs, cygwin and maybe XP

Gotcha. Thanks Igor and Brian. It works now. Steve -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 11/13/2003 9:34 AM To: Scott, Steven Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Problem with Xemacs, cygwin and m

Re: Problem with Xemacs, cygwin and maybe XP

This faq is not clear enough and should be updated. It does not give the location of the snapshots: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ which can also be accessed from the cygwin main page, see on the very left the item Snapshots and click on it. Then you have to download the file cygwin1-.dll.bz2

Re: Problems using WIN32 api

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:40:37AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: >I'll take a shot at a few of these I know. > >On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, zze-BDE balg011 VAUCHER Laurent DvSI/SIReS/GRE wrote: > >> I'm trying to understand how to build an application using >> both Cygwin and (some) WIN32 APIs and I stumbled

Re: Installation problem:

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, aimmethod wrote: > Hi All! > > I do not have a mouse attached to my computer. > > After entering installation setup, I cannot choose > components to be installed ie. I can toggle between > the options on top and bottom of the window, but not > into the items list. How do I sel

Re: Problems using WIN32 api

I'll take a shot at a few of these I know. On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, zze-BDE balg011 VAUCHER Laurent DvSI/SIReS/GRE wrote: > I'm trying to understand how to build an application using > both Cygwin and (some) WIN32 APIs and I stumbled into a > problem using exactly whet the FAQ says (even if it says

RE: Problem with Xemacs, cygwin and maybe XP

should have all the information you need on how to install snapshots. Igor On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Scott, Steven wrote: > Sorry 'bout that. However, I just updated Cygwin again and the problem > persists. > Maybe I don't understand what is meant by "f

RE: Problem with Xemacs, cygwin and maybe XP

Sorry 'bout that. However, I just updated Cygwin again and the problem persists. Maybe I don't understand what is meant by "fixed in the current Cygwin snapshot." If I update Cygwin using the installer program don't I have the latest snapshot? I'm not sure what I need to do to fix the prob

RE: bash v2.05b.0 + nmake v7.10.3077 problem

> From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 6:28 PM > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:38:17PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > > From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak > > > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:22 PM > > > > > The attachment you sent has a lot of blank lines in it

Installation problem…

Hi All! I do not have a mouse attached to my computer. After entering installation setup, I cannot choose components to be installed ie. I can toggle between the options on top and bottom of the window, but not into the items list. How do I select items for installation using keyboard? Thx in a

Problems using WIN32 api

I'm trying to understand how to build an application using both Cygwin and (some) WIN32 APIs and I stumbled into a problem using exactly whet the FAQ says (even if it says it is not up to date). Example program : main.c -- #include int main(int arc, char *argv[]) { BO

Re: Perl CPAN module help

Peter, >cpan cpan> How do you list modules already installed? zzapper -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: lpr -l misbehaviour

--- Rodrigo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all! > I have just installed cygutils-1.2.2 > 'lpr -l' is still repeating the last byte of a file as I have > explained some months ago in the message: > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg00451.html > > As I don't see any mention

Re: 1.5.5: sshd problem

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, John Pye wrote: > Hi everyone > > I'm still having problems with my SSH configuration. I have followed all > the steps give by Corinna earlier, plus some more, but it hasn't changed > anything. Does anyone have any more tips or suggestions? > > Perhaps other files which could

Re: Windows 2003 Server & Cygwin Cron

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, René Haber wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Check if the new cron_server user account has execute permissions > > on the cron.exe executable. > > Thanks. I had some permission Problems, not only on cron.exe, because I > didn't reinstall cygwin when i reinstalled Windows. N

Re: terminal characterestics

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, koorapati, koundinya wrote: > Hey Cygwin Users, > I have a problem when I rlogin to other *NIX hosts from the native xterm > launched from Cygwin-Xfree86. One I rlogin, it so happens that, trying to > 'vi' some file, the vi editor just scrolls past the top most lines of th

Re: bash v2.05b.0 + nmake v7.10.3077 problem

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:38:17PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak > > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:22 PM > > > The attachment you sent has a lot of blank lines in it (at least > > when I look > > at it on my Linux box) - is that normal? (i.e. one in two

Re: cvs complains of no repository

I looked further into this and think the problem is due to the fact that the 1.10 version I was using was strictly Windows-based and so whenever a CVS/Root file was created it had the for the end of line. Then when I used the cygwin version I had trouble. The following patch fixed the problem I w

RE: bash v2.05b.0 + nmake v7.10.3077 problem

> From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:22 PM > The attachment you sent has a lot of blank lines in it (at least > when I look > at it on my Linux box) - is that normal? (i.e. one in two lines is blank). Typical for line endings beeing CRLF - and loading such a file

Re: bash v2.05b.0 + nmake v7.10.3077 problem

The attachment you sent has a lot of blank lines in it (at least when I look at it on my Linux box) - is that normal? (i.e. one in two lines is blank). Other than that, I see nothing suspicious in the file.. Could you provide a minimal testcase that reproduces the behaviour? On Thu, Nov 13, 200

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp-2.6.8-3

I've updated lftp to latest upstream version 2.6.8. I've also fixed a buggy postinstall script that was causing setup to lock up. lftp is an ftp client that supports many protocols: ftp, ftps, http, https, hftp, fish and file. lftp also has readline support (ie tab-completion and history like ba

RE: tail

Paul-Kenji Cahier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm experiencing trouble with tail > >i want to do a tail +2 but it wont be recognized >tail --version wont give any output either > >any idea? The first thing to do when a command behaves differently than expected is to see what it is, so try "which

Re: general observation about this list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ah - but if you are using one of those dreadful Micr$oft e-mail clients and do a 'reply to all', you'll find it goes both ways and satisfies all your requirements. Fortunately, I'm not :) I am quite happy with Thunderbird

tail

Hello all, I'm experiencing trouble with tail i want to do a tail +2 but it wont be recognized tail --version wont give any output either any idea? thanks, Paul-Kenji Cahier -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

RE: general observation about this list

Ah - but if you are using one of those dreadful Micr$oft e-mail clients and do a 'reply to all', you'll find it goes both ways and satisfies all your requirements. -Original Message- From: ahnkle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 November 2003 14:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: O

OT: general observation about this list

Hi, I have noticed several posts about not directly contacting people who have posted to the list. When I have tried to reply to a thread, the reply address has not been that of the list but the individual whose message I am looking at. In the headers for the messages from this list, there doe

lpr -l misbehaviour

Hello all! I have just installed cygutils-1.2.2 'lpr -l' is still repeating the last byte of a file as I have explained some months ago in the message: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg00451.html As I don't see any mention about this problem in cygutils TODO, I am sending this mess

Re: bash v2.05b.0 + nmake v7.10.3077 problem

Hello Ronald, here some additional information... Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > * the Makefile (especially line 147 seems to be of interest) Please refer to attachment. But line 147 seems to the end of the file... The Makefile is generated by qmake 1.06c. > * a step-by-step description of wh

Re: How to add MPI on Cygwin

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Amandeep Parmar wrote: > I was wondering if we can add other compiler packages to Cygwin. I want to > install the parallel programming package MPI to cygwin ( which I think is > not already included in cygwin). I would really appreciate if somebody can > help me out with it. >

Re: bash v2.05b.0 + nmake v7.10.3077 problem

Hello Lars, On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:15:34PM +0100, Lars Monecke wrote: > I updated to msvc 7.1. Before I used msvc 6.0 with no problems in compiling > from bash. Now nmake has problems to compile in the bash enviroment. > The following error occured: > Makefile(147) : fatal error U1054: cann

bash v2.05b.0 + nmake v7.10.3077 problem

Hello, I updated to msvc 7.1. Before I used msvc 6.0 with no problems in compiling from bash. Now nmake has problems to compile in the bash enviroment. The following error occured: Makefile(147) : fatal error U1054: cannot create inline file '' Has anyone the same problems? Is it a problem of

Building shared objects

Hi all, I currently use cygwin 1.3.4. I'm trying to build a shared object which uses another lib. My object is named : mf.o It uses the lib name : libHt.so And for my test, they are in the same directory. libHt.so has been generated by : gcc -shared -o libHt.so Ht.o If I do : gcc -shared libHt.

Re: How to add MPI on Cygwin

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:43:29PM -0500, Amandeep Parmar wrote: > I was wondering if we can add other compiler packages to Cygwin. I want to > install the parallel programming package MPI to cygwin ( which I think is > not already included in cygwin). I would really appreciate if somebody can >

Re: 1.5.5: sshd problem

Hi everyone I'm still having problems with my SSH configuration. I have followed all the steps give by Corinna earlier, plus some more, but it hasn't changed anything. Does anyone have any more tips or suggestions? Perhaps other files which could secretly be snarling up my SSH config, other t

terminal characterestics

Hey Cygwin Users, I have a problem when I rlogin to other *NIX hosts from the native xterm launched from Cygwin-Xfree86. One I rlogin, it so happens that, trying to 'vi' some file, the vi editor just scrolls past the top most lines of the file and takes me to a point somewhere in the middle. Ev

Re: Windows 2003 Server & Cygwin Cron

Corinna Vinschen wrote: Check if the new cron_server user account has execute permissions on the cron.exe executable. Thanks. I had some permission Problems, not only on cron.exe, because I didn't reinstall cygwin when i reinstalled Windows. Now it works. René -- Unsubscribe info: http://

RE: "Cannot read: No space left on device" accessing DDS3 drive on W2K

"Sean Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Problem Description: I have a tape archive on a DDS3 tape >created under GNU/Linux 2.2.18. The tape was created with a >blocksize of 512 and IS accessible and usable on the linux >machine. On the W2K machine using Cygwin, I get the following >error when

Apache SSL, Apache Tool Box under Cygwin...

When doing a fresh build under CYGWIN (i686) (install.sh -c) I do not receive any error messages until mm & ssl are built. Note that I can build mm fine by just doing a make; make install so I'm sure that it's not the library. Is there a command line option I need to set in order to delay the li

RE: Perl CPAN module help

"Gary Nielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I tried installing several perl modules today, but make test >failed on several in the LWP package and for HTML::Parser >etc. Couldn't find modules I'd already installed in the INC >path. That's strange. Which module is not found? Since you have instal

RE: cygwin too slow

Thanks to all who replied - Brian, Reid, Eric Rolf, kevin, shankar ; Sorry if I have left out any, I'm glad to say that I was able to find out why and that solved my problem. It was with the HOME variable which was by default set to /cygwindrive/h or something like that. Being a total newbie on Win