No /bin directory

2003-11-15 Thread François-Denis Gonthier
Hello all Something just happened with my Cygwin installation. I just had to reinstall Cygwin from the net because I accidentally broke some things. Anyway, the reason doesn't matter. The install went apparently fine until I noticed to absence of the Bin directory. I've looked on Google for tha

Re: trying again - cpan/gcc cannot compile perl module after cygwin 1.5*

2003-11-15 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Of course I'm aware that cygwin is now *64* bit compiled, and that I'm > looking to compile a *32* bit module. So I guess my first question, is > there backward compatibilty? And, if there is, how can I invoke it for > successful compilation?

trying again - cpan/gcc cannot compile perl module after cygwin 1.5*

2003-11-15 Thread Brian . Kelly
Before the upgrade to 1.5* - 64 bit cygwin, this used to compile with the default configuration just fine. Now it can't. I am aware that the entire perl libwin32-0.191 distribution never did work completely with cygwin - especially named pipes. However, the Win32::Semaphore module *did* - and befor

IGNORE: Re: cpan/gcc cannot compile perl module after cygwin 1.5*

2003-11-15 Thread Brian . Kelly
Oops!! My goof - I meant Win32::Semaphore. DOH! -bk [EMAIL PROTECTED]@cygwin.com on 11/15/2003 05:10:54 PM Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Brian Kelly/WTC1/Empire) Subject:cpan/gcc cannot compile perl module after cygwin 1.5* Before the upgrade t

cpan/gcc cannot compile perl module after cygwin 1.5*

2003-11-15 Thread Brian . Kelly
Before the upgrade to 1.5* - 64 bit cygwin, this used to compile with the default configuration just fine. Now it can't. I am aware that the entire perl IPC distribution never did ever work with cygwin - especially named pipes. However, the Semaphore module *did* - and before the 1.5* upgrade, comp

Re: Learning zsh

2003-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 03:39:36PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:32:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Lets recap: >> 1) X posts a message about a non-cygwin topic > >Sorry, but X postings are off-topic for this list. > >(ducks) Heh. Probably the funniest

Re: Learning zsh

2003-11-15 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:32:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Lets recap: > 1) X posts a message about a non-cygwin topic Sorry, but X postings are off-topic for this list. (ducks) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: Include Problem

2003-11-15 Thread Bill C. Riemers
> It doesn't. Cygwin != Linux. > > Also, AFAIK, if a Linux application is directly including linux/*, it is > broken. Not necessarily. Not every application is designed to work across different platforms. Sometimes a programmer may choice to sacrifice portability for some other advantage. In f

Re: Squid Patch for Cygwin 1.5

2003-11-15 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:06, Christian Weinberger wrote: > After some investigation I found an interim solution to get the current > cygwin squid version (2.4-STABLE7) working with the new 1.5 DLL series. > This has been tested and works for me with 1.5.5, but should work with > all 1.5 versions

Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

2003-11-15 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 06:09, Brian Ford wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > Btw, I've moved this discussion here from cygwin-patches because we are > > talking about a change which could impact a number of people. Robert is > > submitting patches which increase the maxim

RE: The End - Will next cygwin1.dll release have the select() fix?

2003-11-15 Thread Brian Kelly
> Anyway, can we *please* just drop this noise now. Agreed - enough. > I'll gladly relinquish it if it'll make you feel better. HECK NO!! cgf doesn't give those out every day - and besides, in my not so humble opinion you've contributed MORE than enough to deserve one outside of this *noise* - a

Re: Will next cygwin1.dll release have the select() fix?

2003-11-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BRAVO! > > My hearty congratulations to Mr. Ford. > > I'm sure it will look good on his resume. > > >>> *I was actually given Brian Ford* > > I thought slavery in this country ended with the Civil War, or is Mr. Ford > a form of *artificial intellige

Re: Will next cygwin1.dll release have the select() fix?

2003-11-15 Thread Brian . Kelly
BRAVO! My hearty congratulations to Mr. Ford. I'm sure it will look good on his resume. >>> *I was actually given Brian Ford* I thought slavery in this country ended with the Civil War, or is Mr. Ford a form of *artificial intelligence*? Anyhow - how much do you want for him/it? ;-D -bk

Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

2003-11-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 01:09:00PM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: > >Well, since your soliciting opinions... > > > >I don't have much of one other than I'd really prefer to keep > >PATH_MAX/MAX_PATH and define them to the largest allowable path so they >

Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

2003-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 01:09:00PM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: >On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> Btw, I've moved this discussion here from cygwin-patches because we are >> talking about a change which could impact a number of people. Robert is >> submitting patches which increase t

Re: Will next cygwin1.dll release have the select() fix?

2003-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 01:37:04PM -0500, Brian Kelly wrote: >Why do I feel like I'm watching an Ed Wood movie? > >Thank God you guys write better code than you do comedy. > >Suggested ad copy for "attracting" more non-contributing end-users: > >Cygwin! - Come for the software, stay for the BERATEM

Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

2003-11-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Btw, I've moved this discussion here from cygwin-patches because we are > talking about a change which could impact a number of people. Robert is > submitting patches which increase the maximum path length for NT-class > systems. > > My concern is

RE: Will next cygwin1.dll release have the select() fix?

2003-11-15 Thread Brian Kelly
Why do I feel like I'm watching an Ed Wood movie? Thank God you guys write better code than you do comedy. Suggested ad copy for "attracting" more non-contributing end-users: Cygwin! - Come for the software, stay for the BERATEMENT! :-l bits and bytes may break my code, but your 'word's will n

mount and ln commands

2003-11-15 Thread Erica Ramsey
I am having trouble mounting a linking to a directory. The mounted file doesn't go to "/" as I specified in the mount command instead it goes to /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/erica. What am I doing wrong? This is what I do: $ mount -tf "c:\PalmDev" /PalmDev $ ln -s "C:\Palm OS 5 SDK (6

Re: chmod

2003-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:21:41AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: >I'm sorry for being grumpy, but I just don't know what's left to tell. >I guess WJM rubs off quickly, huh? It's the subliminal messages we put in the cygwin DLL source code. As soon as you start to become more knowledgeable about cygwin

Re: chmod

2003-11-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Lorenzo Travaglio wrote: > > Ugh. Again, what OS and what filesystem, and: > Sorry. Win98. > And FAT32, and did you read these? > Brian Ford wrote: > > More likely, you are running an NT variant at work and 9x at home? See: > > > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC45 a

Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

2003-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:45:34AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:07:26PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >>On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:43, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>Yes, I've already (obviously?) been to SUSv3. I wasn't talking about >>>standards. I was talking about c

Re: For masochists: the leap o faith

2003-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:07:26PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:43, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Yes, I've already (obviously?) been to SUSv3. I wasn't talking about >>standards. I was talking about common practice. >> >>If you have a common practice web site that you wan

[Fwd: Re: [Module::Build] Alzabo / Module::Build Cygwin installation problem]

2003-11-15 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 11/14/2003 5:42 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote: > There is still a problem to be worked out, but I'm not yet sure where the problem is. Can you tell post your perl & Cwd version. > > Dave, What versions of perl, Cwd, & M::B have you tested Alzabo with? > > This problem doesn't seem directly related t

Windows 2003 & Cygwin User Authentication

2003-11-15 Thread Vesa Tikkanen
Hi, I started to use Cygwin recently. I'm having a problem with authentication. I cannot login unless the user belongs to DomainAdmins group. I haven't modified my installation anyway. After installation I have just added cygwin/bin directory to path environment variable and added new environment