RE: Link problem when building cygwin1.dll (parsing cygwin.def)

Dave, I'm still having this problem. I configured cygwin to be in UNIX mode (all mounts are binaries) and added the packages you mentioned. Should I try to build the code from the cygwin itself rather than the one from the CVS? Attached is the cygcheck output. Thanks, Eitan To: Subjec

Re: Cron problems with cygwin...

Kevin, . Thanks. I'm redirecting this reply to the Cygwin mailing list, and setting Reply-To appropriately. On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Kevin Markle wrote: > Hello, > > I was looking on the web for my windows 2003 cygwin cron prolems and it > appears that you have

Re: cygpath + csh bug!

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:55:13PM -0400, Ordak D. Coward wrote: >The following command combination in csh/tcsh does not work properly: > >$ echo `cygpath -aw .` > >The result is a truncated "C:". Try doing a set echo_style=none prior to using the echo command. tcsh is interpreting '\' as an

Re: Problem with bash-3.0-9 (test)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Krzysztof Duleba on 7/26/2005 9:12 AM: > Isn't this caused by the fact that bash returns $? when exits and Ctrl-C > sets $? to 1? ksh, on the other hand, sets $? to 130 after Ctrl-C. This is a bug in bash and ksh; POSIX requires $? to ref

Re: Commercial Support for Free Software

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:36:53PM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote: >Is advertising sllowed on the cygwin list? Yes, it is ssslllooowwwed to a stop whenever I notice it. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docume

Re: Commercial Support for Free Software

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rebaseall failure?

While trying to solve my Python 2.4.1-1 problem under cygwin 1.5.18 it was suggested that rebaseall might solve my problem. Unfortunately it didn't. However, rebase all didn't work either. Here is result: $ /bin/rebaseall ReBaseImage (/usr/bin/cygiconv-2.dll) failed with last error = 6 (verbo

Re: ssh session can't see share permissions; rights for disk share reduced

Pierre: I may not be able to get back to this until Thursday, but I will post again, with more detail (working or not working). -- thanks again, Tom see comments below: On Tue 7/26/05 17:26 EDT "Pierre A. Humblet" wrote: > I don't follow exactly what you did, but you must make sure (show us !

More details on Python 2.4.1-1 failure under Cygwin 1.5.18

Attached find a cut-n-paste'd error from python being temporarily unable to allocate a lock: $ python tbp.py each test group is testing 1 items sem_init: Resource temporarily unavailable Exception in thread Thread-3: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/python.572/usr/lib/python2.4

Commercial Support for Free Software

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Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:27:17PM -0700, Andrew Ho wrote: > So I think the next step is to figure out who can help look at that latter > problem. Is there a bug I or someone else should file somewhere? To make sure it isn't completely forgotten you can put it into the bug tracker with perlbug.

Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present

Hello, As the original instigator of this thread, maybe I can help continue its usefulness. I think the current consensus is as follows: * This all has nothing at all to do with with ExtUtils::MakeMaker (so I have removed that list from the Cc list). * There is nothing intrinsic

Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:57:08PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Andrew found relevant cahnges and you replied: Oh yeah. Huh. Good question. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the implemen

mc 4.6.1 - background not working

Hi In the latest release of mc, subshell isn't working. Ctrl-O just shows the background. However, if I build mc myself from the sources, subshell works fine. mc-4.6.1-2.sh build script uses the following configure options: ${srcdir}/configure \ --srcdir=${srcdir} --prefix="${prefix}" \

Re: ssh session can't see share permissions; rights for disk share reduced

Tom Rodman wrote: > Thanks for your help. After I rebuilt > /etc/passwd and /etc/group some but not all of the symptoms went away- > I'm pretty sure /etc/group was corrupt (my fault). I will post again after > I get things in order, but for now I still can not write to the share: I don't follo

Re: ssh session can't see share permissions; rights for disk share reduced..

Pierre: Thanks for your help. After I rebuilt /etc/passwd and /etc/group some but not all of the symptoms went away- I'm pretty sure /etc/group was corrupt (my fault). I will post again after I get things in order, but for now I still can not write to the share: > 16:04:01 Tue Jul 26 0j tty0

Re: Problem with path conversion since update from/of ash to bash?

> i'm reporting this problem based on observations from multiple people. > The problem is that the configure script of Mozilla/Firefox/etc. > stopped working since people updated their cygwin. The problem is > caused by these lines (see > http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/configure.in#1634 for

Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present

Michael G Schwern wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:23:03PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: 5.8.7 ships with Test::Harness 2.48 which doesn't have this code. It fails to run the tests from the command line with the default installation of perl-5.8.7 for Cygwin? Huh? From the initial repo

Re: ssh session can't see share permissions; rights for disk share reduced..

Tom Rodman wrote: > Just upgraded to 1.5.18. Having several problems with > network drives in ssh sessions - problems not seen in 1.5.10 > or earlier. Here they are: > > # > # ssh session can not read share permissions w/"setac

Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:23:03PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >5.8.7 ships with Test::Harness 2.48 which doesn't have this code. > > It fails to run the tests from the command line with the default > installation of perl-5.8.7 for Cygwin? Huh? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem with path conversion since update from/of ash to bash?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i'm reporting this problem based on observations from multiple people. The problem is that the configure script of Mozilla/Firefox/etc. stopped working since people updated their cygwin. The problem is caused by these lines (see http://lxr.mozilla

ssh session can't see share permissions; rights for disk share reduced..

Just upgraded to 1.5.18. Having several problems with network drives in ssh sessions - problems not seen in 1.5.10 or earlier. Here they are: # # ssh session can not read share permissions w/"setacl" # *

RE: rm filename length problem

One other twist on the potential workaround: You can use the Windows _subst_ command to assign a new drive letter to an existing drive\path combination, and then reference the deep files through the new drive letter, effectively shortening the path. It appears that after substing a drive, cygwin m

Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present

Michael G Schwern wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 07:51:48PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Yep, the example with the delete( $ENV ...) shows clearly that there is a problem with forked/spawned processes which should be resolved. In the first place I would be glad if someone (petdance?) could

Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 07:51:48PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Yep, the example with the delete( $ENV ...) shows clearly that there > is a problem with forked/spawned processes which should be resolved. > > In the first place I would be glad if someone (petdance?) could fix TH > for Cygwin s

Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present

Scott Bolte wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:39:41 +0200, "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: Indeed, I see no unsetenv() in the perl sources. Since it seems that the problem is independent of TH the problem should be located in perl itself. I'll try with a recent devel version to see if it fails here too

Re: rm filename length problem

Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Ken Dibble Sent: 26 July 2005 17:16 I'm trying to script a cleanup of some directories prior to backup. I'm having a heck of a time with some long filenames. 'doze and *nix both have path length limitations. Sometimes pat

RE: Link problem when building cygwin1.dll (parsing cygwin.def)

Original Message >From: Eitan Eliahu >Sent: 26 July 2005 17:52 [ Hi Eitan; you only sent this reply to me personally, and I'm guessing that's just a mistake from hitting the wrong reply button, so I've Cc'd the list back in. (If you did do it just to take the conversation private, please

Re: rm filename length problem

> I'm having a heck of a time with some long filenames. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/Documents And Settings/Ken Dibble/Local > Settings/Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5 > $ rm -Rf * > rm: cannot remove > `450JUVMP/Type=click&FlightID=1991987&AdID=1986689&TargetID=2006165&Segments=200 >

Re: Is the Cygwin installation process likely to change significantly anytime soon?

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:40:30PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>And of course one can name the download something else when >>saving it, but then it is difficult to tell on the next >>update if you have the "same file/different version" already. > >Then there's the question "Why do you care?" Just d

RE: Is the Cygwin installation process likely to change significantly anytime soon?

At 12:29 AM 7/26/2005, you wrote: >> > - Name of setup utility: setup.exe >> >> >> I doubt this will change. It was chosen ages ago in the >> hopes that it would be a well understood name for the Windows >> crowd. So far, there's been no real complaint about the name >> and, better yet, no

RE: Link problem when building cygwin1.dll (parsing cygwin.def)

Original Message >From: Eitan Eliahu >Sent: 26 July 2005 15:29 > Hi Dave, thank you do much for your quick response. Attached please find > the cygcheck.out file. > > Eitan > > > > > From: "Dave Korn" OOOPS!^^ Right, first thing, please read http://cy

RE: rm filename length problem

Original Message >From: Ken Dibble >Sent: 26 July 2005 17:16 > I'm trying to script a cleanup of some directories prior to backup. > > I'm having a heck of a time with some long filenames. 'doze and *nix both have path length limitations. Sometimes path translation can push things ove

rm filename length problem

I'm trying to script a cleanup of some directories prior to backup. I'm having a heck of a time with some long filenames. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/Documents And Settings/Ken Dibble/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5 $ ls 450JUVMP ETYH0R2P QDB49KJ2 W1MRMJYV ZJH 8DQF238

Re: Problem with bash-3.0-9 (test)

Eric Blake wrote: Something weird is going on. Once I have a shell open, and fire up a second level bash (non-login), Ctrl-C behaves correctly and cancels the current line input with exiting the shell. But then when I type exit, bash returns with exit status 1, even though it did absolutely no

Re: What's in it for Redhat?

fergus wrote: >>... I had to spend a lot of time sharpening my hair. > > What does this mean? (Sorry for asking, I'm English.) A reference to Dilbert's pointy-haired manager, I imagine. -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cy

Re: What's in it for Redhat?

> ... I had to spend a lot of time sharpening my hair. What does this mean? (Sorry for asking, I'm English.) Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: Link problem when building cygwin1.dll (parsing cygwin.def)

Hi Dave, thank you do much for your quick response. Attached please find the cygcheck.out file. Eitan From: "Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: RE: Link problem when building cygwin1.dll (parsing cygwin.def) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:20:00 +0100 Original Message >From: Eit

RE: Link problem when building cygwin1.dll (parsing cygwin.def)

Original Message >From: Eitan Eliahu >Sent: 26 July 2005 14:58 > This issue was posted before but I'm not sure if there was any resolution. Building the dll works fine 'out-of-the-box' for me and many others. > collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped >

RE: automake && config.h conflicts

Original Message >From: Vladislav Grinchenko >Sent: 26 July 2005 15:02 > There is a conflict between $topsrcdir/config.h generated by > automake tools and a couple of confing.h files from the system include > dirs: > > /usr/include/cygwin/config.h > /usr/include/sys/config.h > > In the c

Re: What's in it for Redhat?

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 06:45:24AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >Red Hat is involved because they bought Cygnus back in the dot-com boom >days. Right. I remember sitting in a meeting where someone asked Matthew Szulik (Red Hat CEO) what Red Hat was going to do with Cygwin. He blinked and said som

automake && config.h conflicts

Hi, I'm trying to build an application that uses automake tools under cygwin. There is a conflict between $topsrcdir/config.h generated by automake tools and a couple of confing.h files from the system include dirs: /usr/include/cygwin/config.h /usr/include/sys/config.h In the code, ifdef cons

Link problem when building cygwin1.dll (parsing cygwin.def)

This issue was posted before but I'm not sure if there was any resolution. Here is the linker output: c++ -L/cygdrive/c/Cyg/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup -L/cygdrive/c/Cyg/obj/i686-p c-cygwin/winsup/cygwin -L/cygdrive/c/Cyg/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/w32api/li b -isystem /cygdrive/c/Cyg/src/winsup/i

Re: Is the Cygwin installation process likely to change significantly anytime soon?

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 02:17:40PM +0100, Cliff Hones wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Cliff Hones wrote: > > > That said, the latest release version of setup.exe is encoded in setup.ini > > on any up-to-date mirror. Simply run your old copy, and it'll warn you if > > a

Re: Problem with bash-3.0-9 (test)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 7/25/2005 12:53 PM: > According to David Rothenberger on 7/25/2005 12:32 PM: > >>>I tried out the new test version of bash-3.0 (bash-3.0-9) and noticed a >>>problem. When I press Ctrl-C at the bash prompt, bash itself exists

Re: Is the Cygwin installation process likely to change significantly anytime soon?

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Cliff Hones wrote: > > >>Doesn't help you tell which version of setup.exe you have, though. >>[snip] >>The Cygwin home page prominently displays the latest Cygwin DLL version. >>Could it not also display the latest setup.exe version > > That would

Re: gcc-core and g++ source

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Eric Blake wrote: > According to James McLaughlin on 7/26/2005 5:44 AM: > > I've been wondering about why functions such as strcpy > > return char*, instead of being void, so I thought I'd > > look at the source for this function and see if there > > were any informative comme

Re: Download Incomplete. Try again?

Luke, Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it for a reason. There was no need to Cc: me -- I read the list. On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Luke Kendall wrote: > On 25 Jul, Igor Pechtchanski replied to: > > > > Is there a way to test if a downloaded cygwin will cause the > >

RE: Is the Cygwin installation process likely to change significantly anytime soon?

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > I do intend if I _ever_ get enough round tuits to replace the whole > thing with real win32 list/treeview displays with multi-selection and > right-click context menus. Hehe, so it's a race[*], is it? ;-) Igor

Re: Is the Cygwin installation process likely to change significantly anytime soon?

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Cliff Hones wrote: > Doesn't help you tell which version of setup.exe you have, though. > [snip] > The Cygwin home page prominently displays the latest Cygwin DLL version. > Could it not also display the latest setup.exe version That would be a good idea, IMO. > and also a l

RE: What's in it for Redhat?

On 26 Jul 2005 at 12:49, Dave Korn wrote: > It's all part of a conspiracy. Cygwin developers, please keep conspiring! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

Re: gcc-core and g++ source

James McLaughlin wrote: > I've been wondering about why functions such as strcpy > return char*, instead of being void, so I thought I'd > look at the source for this function and see if there > were any informative comments. However, while I've got > the g++ and gcc-core source, I can't find the s

Re: What's in it for Redhat?

Alex Goldman wrote: I'm curious, why did Redhat develop "Why did Cygnus Solutions develop..." is a better question, because Cygnus's main business was selling support and development contracts to companies wanting to use GCC in uncommon ways. For instance, as a cross compiler running on a

Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:39:41 +0200, "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > > Indeed, I see no unsetenv() in the perl sources. > > Since it seems that the problem is independent of TH the problem should > be located in perl itself. I'll try with a recent devel version to see > if it fails here too. Scott, h

Re: gcc-core and g++ source

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to James McLaughlin on 7/26/2005 5:44 AM: > I've been wondering about why functions such as strcpy > return char*, instead of being void, so I thought I'd > look at the source for this function and see if there > were any informative comments

Re: Bash behavior change 2.05b-17 vs 2.05b-16

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Victor Atkinson on 7/25/2005 1:23 PM: > I believe that it is Bash itself that is causing this behavior, and not some > underlying Cygwin mechanism, for two reasons: First, the backslash format > of the command works fine under zsh, tcsh,

Re: Is the Cygwin installation process likely to change significantly anytime soon?

Dave Korn wrote: > Original Message > >>From: Herb Martin >>Sent: 26 July 2005 05:29 > > - Name of setup utility: setup.exe >>> >>>I doubt this will change. [ ... ] I'd >>>say the name 'setup.exe' is here to stay. >> >>There are much better choices however -- many people will >>st

RE: Is the Cygwin installation process likely to change significantly anytime soon?

Original Message >From: Herb Martin >Sent: 26 July 2005 05:29 >>> - Name of setup utility: setup.exe >> >> I doubt this will change. [ ... ] I'd >> say the name 'setup.exe' is here to stay. > > There are much better choices however -- many people will > store such downloads in a gener

RE: Is the Cygwin installation process likely to change significantly anytime soon?

Original Message >From: Larry Hall >Sent: 26 July 2005 02:44 > At 04:20 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote: >> - Tree view for package selection, including toggling between >> "Default", "Install", "Reinstall" and "Unistall" and the "Bin?" label >> above the column of checkboxes for binary packages

RE: What's in it for Redhat?

Original Message >From: Alex Goldman >Sent: 26 July 2005 12:47 > I'm curious, why did Redhat develop (or sponsor) Cygwin? It makes more > business sense for Microsoft to do so, and they do have the > misleadingly named Windows Services for UNIX: > > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsservers

What's in it for Redhat?

I'm curious, why did Redhat develop (or sponsor) Cygwin? It makes more business sense for Microsoft to do so, and they do have the misleadingly named Windows Services for UNIX: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/productinfo/default.mspx (It has NFS client that seems to be missing fr

gcc-core and g++ source

I've been wondering about why functions such as strcpy return char*, instead of being void, so I thought I'd look at the source for this function and see if there were any informative comments. However, while I've got the g++ and gcc-core source, I can't find the source for the standard functions

Re: sshd wouldn't start as a Windows service

Halloechen! Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > >> From my old installation, there still is the global environment >> variable CYGWIN="ntsec tty". I called ssh-host-config, but >> copied my old config files over the new ones. > > > There's y