Exporting /cygdrive/ Probelm, was Re: How To Export NFS?

2004-05-16 Thread Jack Polimer
--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > One more place to look: > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/nfs-server-2.2.47-2.README > Igor Excellent! I compiled from source and did not have the above file and was missing some other stuff. Once I installed the binaries I was able to export re

Re: How to force Setup.exe to behave?

2004-05-16 Thread A . Alper Atici
On Sun, 16 May 2004 16:20:34 -0700, Lex Ein wrote: >Nine days ago, this was "Using Setup.exe to uninstall -bogus". > >Please help me figure out how to get Setup.exe to STOP TRYING TO INSTALL >X. You need to figure out the package(s) installed depending on X. Attached is a list of packages that h

error compiling python2-biggles-1.6.4

2004-05-16 Thread iwamae atsushi
I have an error to compile the latest version of python2-biggles on (BCygwin/WindowsXP. (BI would appreciate if someone would help me to build biggles. (BI paste the error message at the bottom. (BThe message says that the undefined reference "_png_*" in ibrary libplot.a (B (BI have downloa

Backup failure for Cron.pid

2004-05-16 Thread bella
Hi, Install cygwin 1.3.10 in windows 2000 advanced server SP3. I used Veritas Netbackup for backup system. Recently, I got error ERR = failure reading file: D:\cygwin\var\run\cron.pid (The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file) I can open cron.pi

Re: How to force Setup.exe to behave?

2004-05-16 Thread Karl M
Hi All... I ran into a circular dependency with X as well. I temporarily installed something that wanted it and then later removed the original package. I tried a couple of times to remove X and gave up. (It doesn't take that much disk to worry about and I'll take care of it on my next clean ins

Re: How to force Setup.exe to behave?

2004-05-16 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 09:20, Lex Ein wrote: > Nine days ago, this was "Using Setup.exe to uninstall -bogus". > Setup is only bringing in X because something you have installed requires it. It's possible that there is a circular dependency loop within the X programs themselves, and if so you may

Re: How to force Setup.exe to behave?

2004-05-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 04:20:34PM -0700, Lex Ein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nine days ago, this was "Using Setup.exe to uninstall -bogus". > > Please help me figure out how to get Setup.exe to STOP TRYING TO INSTALL > X. > Setup.exe won't stop trying to snag unnecessary components. > What file(

How to force Setup.exe to behave?

2004-05-16 Thread Lex Ein
Nine days ago, this was "Using Setup.exe to uninstall -bogus". Please help me figure out how to get Setup.exe to STOP TRYING TO INSTALL X. Setup.exe won't stop trying to snag unnecessary components. What file(s) to I have to edit manually to make this happen? What can I manually delete? It's a r

Re: cp breaking weirdly when trying to copy an executable without specifying the .exe extension

2004-05-16 Thread Robert R Schneck
Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> $ touch foo.exe >>> $ cp foo bar >>> cp: `foo' and `bar' are the same file > > I suppose the answer is to simply patch coreutils to give a better > error message in this case. I submitted just such a patch in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at http://www.cygwin.com/

Re: Error compiling glib, help?

2004-05-16 Thread Jean Bréfort
Le dim 16/05/2004 Ã 19:20, Jamil a Ãcrit : > I am trying to compile the latest version of glib under a CYGWIN/WinXP > using NTFS, but I get errors about function's references. I would > appreciate if someone would help me fix this problem; here is an error > report that more clearly explains what m

Re: Calling g77 FORTRAN code from MSVC 7?

2004-05-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Ted Yu wrote: > Hi, > My DLL produced by Cygwin calls malloc (in > cygwin1.dll). This DLL is used by MSVC project. > Is this allowed ? > What do I need to do to initialize Cygwin heap ? It's generally a bad idea to mix runtimes. Furthermore, cygwin1.dll cannot be dynamically

Re: Fetchmail Hang with the New Snapshot

2004-05-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 15 08:54, ERIC HO wrote: > Hi It seems fetchmail hang with the nw snapshot. The last snapshot without fetchmail > problem is from 20040506. Not quite sure whether others experience this too. Thanks Thanks for the report. Should be fixed in the next snapshot. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: cp breaking weirdly when trying to copy an executable without specifying the .exe extension

2004-05-16 Thread Max Bowsher
Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: >> From: Max Bowsher >> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:38 PM > >> $ touch foo.exe >> $ cp foo bar >> cp: `foo' and `bar' are the same file >> >> The above error message is rather confusing. >> >> Is Cygwin's cp supposed to transparently permit the omission of >> the .exe

Re: Calling g77 FORTRAN code from MSVC 7?

2004-05-16 Thread Ted Yu
Hi, My DLL produced by Cygwin calls malloc (in cygwin1.dll). This DLL is used by MSVC project. Is this allowed ? What do I need to do to initialize Cygwin heap ? __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://p

Re: Fwd:CYGWIN & CDRECORD

2004-05-16 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, Gabriele, On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 05:24:19PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It...works! glad it helped. Could you please keep answers on the list? This would be useful in two ways: 1. Your problems and successes would be archived, perhaps helping the others in the future. 2. The p

RE: cp breaking weirdly when trying to copy an executable without specifying the .exe extension

2004-05-16 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Max Bowsher > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:38 PM > $ touch foo.exe > $ cp foo bar > cp: `foo' and `bar' are the same file > > The above error message is rather confusing. > > Is Cygwin's cp supposed to transparently permit the omission of > the .exe extension, or am I misremembering? cp

RE: CYGWIN & CDRECORD

2004-05-16 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 4:37 PM > I'm really in trouble because I'm trying to use Cdrecord under > Cygwin enviroment. > > I have succefully installed Cdrecord but I'm unable to find the > CDRW device. > How I can do to install the CD recorder in Cygwin? FWIW; If win

Re: The rxvt.1 manpage of the rxvt-2.7.10-4 package

2004-05-16 Thread Jason Pearce
An easy way of deleting the YODL garbage is to use the VIM editor. The following VIM script (call it patch.vim) does the job: Q %s/^\.YODLTAGSTART\./\.YYODLTAGSTART\./ %s/\.YODLTAGSTART\./\r\.YODLTAGSTART\./g %s/\.YODLTAGSTART\. roffcmd // %s/\.YYODLTAGSTART\. roffcmd // %s/\.YODLTAGEND\.// %s/\n\