Re: Rationale sought: XEmacs 21.5.16 (test) build disabling MS windows toolkit

> Rick Rankin writes: > --- Shaddy Baddah wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I had a play with the XEmacs 21.5.16-1 build (which is the [test] >> version atm). I noticed that, unlike the 21.4.17-1 and 21.4.15-1 build, >> XEmacs could not be started using the native MS windows toolki

Re: Rationale sought: XEmacs 21.5.16 (test) build disabling MS windows toolkit

Hi, Rick Rankin wrote: > I believe that the XEmacs 21.5 branch with --with-msw=yes has been broken for > a > while; however, I haven't tried to build it in a while, either. Assuming it's > still broken, I suspect that's the "rationale". Disabling it would make perfect sense then. Thanks for that

CreateProcess was: bash: /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long

Christopher Faylor wrote: > There will be some limits (especially with cygwin 1.5.18 - this is fixed > in snapshots) but mounting the /bin and /usr/bin directories with -X > should increase the command line length enormously over the Windows > default of around 32K. The MSDN docs for the lpComman

Re: (XP) cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: Permission denied

Ugh, top-posting, reformatted. On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Greg Jones wrote: > "Shankar Unni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . Thanks. > > Greg Jones wrote: > > > >> cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to > >> CVS/Entries: Permissio

Re: 1.5.18: Install Issues (Windows 2000)

At 02:11 PM 8/22/2005, you wrote: >I am trying to install the latest Cygwin on Windows 2000 Professional. > >I do not have Administrator access as this is a work PC. > >I downloaded the Cygwin distribution and wrote it to a CD. I then >did an install from the CD to my machine at work. > >Here are t

Re: (XP) cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: Permission denied

Thanks, that makes sense. Do you know if Windows provides any way to find out who the culprit is? Who has the file open? I have a Symantec anti-virus. I'm not sure if I know about every time it's doing its thing. It might be, but it would be strange for it to fail every time. I'm not run

Re: Cygwin UTF-8

Larry Hall wrote: I didn't try it but it seems relevant. I just did, and it does work if you give -u8. The xterm started by startx doesn't have this flag. If I'm right, this is more an issue for the xfree list. Indeed. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

Re: Cygwin UTF-8

At 06:40 PM 8/22/2005, you wrote: >John Morrison wrote: >>I'm connecting (ssh) to a linux box which is running it's shells as utf-8. > >In that case, you should set up the remote Linux system not to use UTF-8 >until Cygwin's xterm gets UTF-8 support. Setting the LANG environment >variable to C

Re: Cygwin UTF-8

John Morrison wrote: I'm connecting (ssh) to a linux box which is running it's shells as utf-8. In that case, you should set up the remote Linux system not to use UTF-8 until Cygwin's xterm gets UTF-8 support. Setting the LANG environment variable to C will do it. (export LANG=C) -- Unsub

Re: Cygwin UTF-8

John Morrison wrote: I'm trying to get Cygwin to run as utf-8 and failing. Cygwin itself doesn't care what character set you are using. The only thing I can think of where you might think Cygwin would have some effect here is printing UTF-8 to the console and expecting it to use the right

Re: Cygwin UTF-8

On Mon, August 22, 2005 7:36 pm, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, John Morrison wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm trying to get Cygwin to run as utf-8 and failing. Can anyone tell >> me >> if it's possible and if it is - what I need to do? *please*? > > John, > > Which part of Cyg

Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > I'm not going to build crm114 now. Yaakov already did so. > > Go fetch his binaries: > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/crm114/ > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/tre/ Since there are those interest

Re: How do I make /bin/sh=sh

> > Actually, I'm playing with a change to bash, soon to be bash-3.0-12, > > where the postinstall script will leave /bin/sh alone if its timestamp > > is newer than /bin/bash. > > For one release. What happens after the next upgrade to bash? My plan for bash-3.0-12 and beyond is to only upgrad

Re: Permissions, again

On Aug 22 13:00, Shankar Unni wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >use POSIX permissions with POSIX permission rules -> ntsec, > > use Windows permissions with Windows permission rules -> nontsec > > Err, isn't that sort of a backwards terminology? When I see the word > "ntsec", I read it as "

Re: How do I make /bin/sh=sh

Eric Blake wrote: Actually, I'm playing with a change to bash, soon to be bash-3.0-12, where the postinstall script will leave /bin/sh alone if its timestamp is newer than /bin/bash. For one release. What happens after the next upgrade to bash? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libexif-0.6.12-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Oops. I'm sorry, my bad, I have not uninstalled 0.6.9 to test the > release. Will provide an update of exif soon. Could you please package the dlls in separate libexif10 and libexif12 packages? This didn't only break exif,

Re: Permissions, again

Corinna Vinschen wrote: use POSIX permissions with POSIX permission rules -> ntsec, > use Windows permissions with Windows permission rules -> nontsec Err, isn't that sort of a backwards terminology? When I see the word "ntsec", I read it as "use NT SECurity", vs. "NO NT SECurity" (i.e. some

Re: Rationale sought: XEmacs 21.5.16 (test) build disabling MS windows toolkit

On 8/22/2005 12:48 PM, Rick Rankin wrote: --- Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, I had a play with the XEmacs 21.5.16-1 build (which is the [test] version atm). I noticed that, unlike the 21.4.17-1 and 21.4.15-1 build, XEmacs could not be started using the native MS windows toolkit. A quick look at t

Re: Rationale sought: XEmacs 21.5.16 (test) build disabling MS windows toolkit

--- Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Hi, > > I had a play with the XEmacs 21.5.16-1 build (which is the [test] > version atm). I noticed that, unlike the 21.4.17-1 and 21.4.15-1 build, > XEmacs could not be started using the native MS windows toolkit. > > A quick look at the source package confirmed tha

Re: Unable to read/write to a tape with tar

On Aug 22 14:46, cyril bonnard wrote: > After installing the new dll of cygwin, the behaviour of mt changed to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ strace -o trace.txt mt -f /dev/st0 status > mt: /dev/st0: Bad address > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ mt -f /dev/st0 status > drive type = Unknown type of tape d

Re: Perl binmode problems when redirecting to text mounts

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Ok. That is why Earl already filed a bug report: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32342 Ah, no wonder I didn't see it -- it requires authorization... Hopefully, as the Perl maintainer, you'll keep us posted

Re: Perl binmode problems when redirecting to text mounts

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: is there any difference when running this with CYGWIN=tty vs. notty? Can't test with CYGWIN=tty right now, but running from a cmd.exe window (with notty) and from an xterm (on a pty) both produce this problem... I

Rationale sought: XEmacs 21.5.16 (test) build disabling MS windows toolkit

Hi, I had a play with the XEmacs 21.5.16-1 build (which is the [test] version atm). I noticed that, unlike the 21.4.17-1 and 21.4.15-1 build, XEmacs could not be started using the native MS windows toolkit. A quick look at the source package confirmed that support was explicitly disabled: /usr/sr

Re: Perl binmode problems when redirecting to text mounts

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > is there any difference when running this with > CYGWIN=tty vs. notty? Can't test with CYGWIN=tty right now, but running from a cmd.exe window (with notty) and from an xterm (on a pty) both produce this problem... Igor --

Re: Perl binmode problems when redirecting to text mounts

Igor, is there any difference when running this with CYGWIN=tty vs. notty? Gerrit -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.c

Re: Cygwin UTF-8

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, John Morrison wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to get Cygwin to run as utf-8 and failing. Can anyone tell me > if it's possible and if it is - what I need to do? *please*? John, Which part of Cygwin are you trying to run as "utf-8"? Igor --

Re: Perl binmode problems when redirecting to text mounts

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Ok. That is why Earl already filed a bug report: > http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32342 Ah, no wonder I didn't see it -- it requires authorization... Hopefully, as the Perl maintainer, you'll keep us posted on the status[*]. :-)

Re: Perl binmode problems when redirecting to text mounts

Ok. That is why Earl already filed a bug report: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32342 Gerrit -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: please try latest snapshot

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:18:56PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >We're heading into a cygwin 1.5.19 release so it is time for a thorough >testing of the latest snapshot. > >http://cygwin.com/ Urgh. Make that: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Also please mention the date of the snapshot that you

please try latest snapshot

We're heading into a cygwin 1.5.19 release so it is time for a thorough testing of the latest snapshot. http://cygwin.com/ Please report success or problem reports to this thread. Please don't start a new thread or mention the problem in passing in another message. For this one case, if you have

1.5.18: Install Issues (Windows 2000)

I am trying to install the latest Cygwin on Windows 2000 Professional. I do not have Administrator access as this is a work PC. I downloaded the Cygwin distribution and wrote it to a CD. I then did an install from the CD to my machine at work. Here are the problems I ran into: 1. The install r

Re: bash test -n && test -z return tru

Note: Please direct all further email about this to the cygwin-talk mailing list. Hopefully this message will not include any headers which will cause a mailer to send email to the cygwin list. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://c

Re: bash test -n && test -z return tru

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 10:26 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 08:52:57PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > >On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 14:56 -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >>On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > >>>On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 12:11 -0400, Christophe

Re: Perl binmode problems when redirecting to text mounts

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > > > I'm trying to make sure our perl program works with text mounts. In the > > > course of the testing, one weird problem cropped up: binmode seems to > > > have n

Re: "Application key pad mode" in cygwin console

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Igor van den Hoven wrote: > After sending \e= (see man console_codes) to either rxvt and the > windows console to enable application key pad mode, pressing keypad 1 > to 9 shows: > > \e[8~\e[B\e[6~\e[D\C-k\e[C\e[7~\e[A\e[5~ > > This should be: > > \eOq\eOr\eOs\eOt\eOu\eOv\eOw\

Re: Publickey Authentication for a domain account

On Aug 22 10:43, Shawn Marriott wrote: > > Howdy, > > Is there any way to do Publickey Authentication for a domain account > with Cygwins port of OpenSSH? > > The situation I am in is as such; > >There is a website that allows users to re/set their passwords > provide they answer some que

Re: Latex in Cygwin lost?

Wrong list, redirected. Please remove from further replies. On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, xzou wrote: > Dear Cygwin folks, > > I installed Cygwin/X in Feb, 2005, and it has been working very well. > This passed weekend I wad trying add the "xfig", and after downloading > and reinstalling, yes I have xfi

Re: bash: /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:16:22AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Morten Kjarulff on 8/22/2005 6:56 AM: >>If I try to rm many files, or fewer files with long names I get "bash: >>/usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long". Can anyone tell the limits? > >The limits are pretty low if you are using

Re: Packaging error in latest gnutls-devel-1.0.25-1/libgnutls11-1.0.25-1

Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi Latest gnutls-devel-1.0.25-1 seems to package the contents of libgnutls11-1.0.25-1 and vice-versa. Sigh. Will upload the correct packages now. Thanks Mr. Güteprüfer! Gerrit -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Path processing bug

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:42:36AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>I don't agree with you that /../ components are actually seldom in path >>expressions. If you examine typical source trees, you'll find that >>expressions as -I../../foo/bar or -L/path/to/bin/../lib are used

Re: Path processing bug

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 06:40:54AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >How often does the substring /../ actually appear in path name >resolution? You're asking questions and arguing without actually looking at the source code. It doesn't only matter how often something like this happens. It also matters

Re: bash prompt problem - some more observations

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Robinson, Mark on 8/22/2005 1:50 AM: > > g'day > > > > I've been noodling around with the extra-character-bash-prompt-problem. > > It appears to manifest itself (for me at least) when I have title-bar > > info in my prompt, e.g. It's actually

Re: Unable to access forced mounts from /bin/sh

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Igor Pechtchanski on 8/20/2005 11:57 PM: > > Here's something weird. I don't know whether this is a problem with the > > latest Cygwin, or bash: > > I don't know if 2-level forced directories would/should ever work. If /a > doesn't exist, the

Publickey Authentication for a domain account

Howdy, Is there any way to do Publickey Authentication for a domain account with Cygwins port of OpenSSH? The situation I am in is as such; There is a website that allows users to re/set their passwords provide they answer some questions. The users new plaintext password is stored in

Re: bash test -n && test -z return tru

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 08:52:57PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: >On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 14:56 -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: >>>On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 12:11 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 10:36:05AM +0200, Hannu E

Re: Unable to read/write to a tape with tar

On Aug 22 12:42, cyril bonnard wrote: > So, W2k recognizes the device as a "ARCHIVE VIPER 150 21531" and the file > pointed for driving is qic157.sys Er... well, right, there are at least three different tape drive types which have been sold as Sun 411 tape drives. The Archive Viper is a QIC dri

Re: How do I make /bin/sh=sh

> Hi, > > As I understand it, next time I update my cygwin installation, my /bin/sh > will be a bash. > > If this is correct, how do I get sh back again, the easiest way. Also, it > would be nice if I shouldn't think about it each time I update. Cygwin sh has always been something else; there is

Re: Path processing bug

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I don't agree with you that /../ components are actually seldom in path > expressions. If you examine typical source trees, you'll find that > expressions as -I../../foo/bar or -L/path/to/bin/../lib are used quite > often. Indeed. Even just "gcc hello.c" has to wade th

Re: Path processing bug

On Aug 22 06:40, Eric Blake wrote: > How often does the substring /../ actually appear in path name resolution? > I don't think it is all that often, and the penalty for getting that > corner case POSIXly correct need not affect the common case when /../ is > not part of the path name. Besides, t

How do I make /bin/sh=sh

Hi, As I understand it, next time I update my cygwin installation, my /bin/sh will be a bash. If this is correct, how do I get sh back again, the easiest way. Also, it would be nice if I shouldn't think about it each time I update. The reason is, that I develop a lot of scripts on my cygwin inst

Re: bash: /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Morten Kjarulff on 8/22/2005 6:56 AM: > Hi, > > If I try to rm many files, or fewer files with long names I get "bash: > /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long". Can anyone tell the limits? The limits are pretty low if you are using Windows

bash: /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long

Hi, If I try to rm many files, or fewer files with long names I get "bash: /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long". Can anyone tell the limits? Is the solution something like "for file in * ; do rm $file ; done"? /Morten The directory is empty: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp $ ls [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp

Cygwin UTF-8

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get Cygwin to run as utf-8 and failing. Can anyone tell me if it's possible and if it is - what I need to do? *please*? *grin*. Thanks, J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Doc

Re: Unable to read/write to a tape with tar

So, W2k recognizes the device as a "ARCHIVE VIPER 150 21531" and the file pointed for driving is qic157.sys I 've done the strace, but my poor knowledge prevent me from analyzing it correctly so as recommended by Corinna i've attached the trace file. thank you for your help. Cyril.

Re: Path processing bug

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 8/21/2005 9:17 PM: > I really don't care about POSIX in this case because I don't care about > slavish adherence to POSIX standards at the expense of decreasing cygwin > performance, adding a lot of complexity, or rem

Re: bash prompt problem - some more observations

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Robinson, Mark on 8/22/2005 1:50 AM: > g'day > > I've been noodling around with the extra-character-bash-prompt-problem. > It appears to manifest itself (for me at least) when I have title-bar > info in my prompt, e.g. Which version of b

Packaging error in latest gnutls-devel-1.0.25-1/libgnutls11-1.0.25-1

Hi Latest gnutls-devel-1.0.25-1 seems to package the contents of libgnutls11-1.0.25-1 and vice-versa. Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Unable to access forced mounts from /bin/sh

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Igor Pechtchanski on 8/20/2005 11:57 PM: > Here's something weird. I don't know whether this is a problem with the > latest Cygwin, or bash: I don't know if 2-level forced directories would/should ever work. If /a doesn't exist, then sh

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Re: Perl binmode problems when redirecting to text mounts

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I'm trying to make sure our perl program works with text mounts. In the course of the testing, one weird problem cropped up: binmode seems to have no effect on STDOUT when redirecting to a file on a text mount. The follo

"Application key pad mode" in cygwin console

After sending \e= (see man console_codes) to either rxvt and the windows console to enable application key pad mode, pressing keypad 1 to 9 shows: \e[8~\e[B\e[6~\e[D\C-k\e[C\e[7~\e[A\e[5~ This should be: \eOq\eOr\eOs\eOt\eOu\eOv\eOw\eOx\eOy I think this problem was reported 3 years ago and a pa

Re: Unable to read/write to a tape with tar

On Aug 22 07:50, cyril bonnard wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I try to read and write data to a tape using tar under CIGWIN with: > > -a SUN MODEL 411 tape reader hosted in my PC through a SCSI card > -Win 2000 > -latest Cygwin version > > when i try to get info about the tape i get: > > $ mt -f

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: atk(-runtime/-devel/-doc)-1.9.1-1

> Gerrit P Haase writes: > ATK - has been uploaded to cygwin.com > DESCRIPTION > === > The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for accessibility. By > supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can be used > with such tools as screen readers,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lcms-1.14-1

> Gerrit P Haase writes: > lcms - aka littlecms - has been updated to version 1.14 But it isn't uploaded yet. Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.co

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libart_lgpl-2.3.17-1

> Gerrit P Haase writes: > libart_lgpl has been updated to version 2.3.17 But it isn't uploaded yet. Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

Re: Building a cygwin->linux cross-compiler problem

Brian Dessent wrote: > Alain Paschoud wrote: > > >>For some reason, I need to compile in cygwin applications that will run >>on linux (OpenBSD to be precise). I didn't find any pre-compiled >>cross-compiler to do that (does it exist one ?), so I try to build one. >>To do so, I am following first

Unable to read/write to a tape with tar

Hello everybody, I try to read and write data to a tape using tar under CIGWIN with: -a SUN MODEL 411 tape reader hosted in my PC through a SCSI card -Win 2000 -latest Cygwin version when i try to get info about the tape i get: $ mt -f /dev/st0 status mt: /dev/st0: Invalid request code when i

bash prompt problem - some more observations

g'day I've been noodling around with the extra-character-bash-prompt-problem. It appears to manifest itself (for me at least) when I have title-bar info in my prompt, e.g. % PS1='\[\e]0;\u\a\]% ' % echo $BASH $BASH $BASH_COMMAND $BASH_SUBSHELL $BASH_ARGC $BASH_LINENO$BASH_V

Re: Building a cygwin->linux cross-compiler problem

Alain Paschoud wrote: > For some reason, I need to compile in cygwin applications that will run > on linux (OpenBSD to be precise). I didn't find any pre-compiled > cross-compiler to do that (does it exist one ?), so I try to build one. > To do so, I am following first part of next howto : This i

Building a cygwin->linux cross-compiler problem

Hi all, For some reason, I need to compile in cygwin applications that will run on linux (OpenBSD to be precise). I didn't find any pre-compiled cross-compiler to do that (does it exist one ?), so I try to build one. To do so, I am following first part of next howto : http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_