Re: cygwin scp -r fails

2006-02-18 Thread Andy
I'm seeing the same issue. I just updated all installed cygwin packages thru installer, but problem remains. test: open an xterm.. $ which ssh /usr/bin/ssh $ mkdir test $ echo "test" > test/test.dat $ scp -r test remotehost:~/ $ ssh remotehost ls -l test total: 0 The directory gets created on re

tar fails with some combinations of line ending and binmode setting

2006-02-18 Thread David Mastronarde
Hi, In some cases, a tar archive containing files with DOS line endings will fail to untar with the messages: tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors The attached script "testtar" tests the various combinations. It creates some text files with DOS line endings

tar fails with some combinations of line ending and binmode setting

2006-02-18 Thread David Mastronarde
Hi, In some cases, a tar archive containing files with DOS line endings will fail to untar with the messages: tar: Skipping to next header tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors The attached script "testtar" tests the various combinations. It creates some text files with DOS line endings

resolv.conf equivalent on Cygwin

2006-02-18 Thread Hiroki Sakagami
Hi, I am trying to port a program with an asynchronous DNS resolver to Cygwin. Because it can't use gethostbyname() family functions, it needs to read /etc/resolv.conf file. However, Windows seems to have the names of DNS servers in the registry key "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Param

New cygwin mirror

2006-02-18 Thread Robert Pendell
Who should I contact if I want to contribute a new cygwin mirror? Is there a server I should be using in order to update the mirror? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/d

Re: ghostscript-8.50 packaging question

2006-02-18 Thread James R. Phillips
This is a reasonable question. For this release I did not try to change the structure developed by the previous maintainer, and for which I am aware of no particular complaints. However, I am willing to try to improve the structure of the package for future releases. In particular I wish to move

RE: cygheap base mismatch detected

2006-02-18 Thread Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
We are finally zeroing in on the problem. Mark Geisert writes: > The code at /src/rebase-2.3.1/rebase.c:255 assumes the signature is at offset 0x80 > in the image. This was true in the early Windows days but has long since been > generalized. The technique nowadays is to obtain the short integer

Re: Problem on WindowsXP Home Edition: file access, permission denied

2006-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/16/2006, Enrico Migliore wrote: I've built a Linux application on Cygwin/WinXP(home edition), where there's just one user configured, Enrico, that is, me. The application, when launched, tries to load the following dynamic link library: /usr/local/classpath/lib/classpat

Re: Linux vs Cygwin linkage

2006-02-18 Thread skaller
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 11:52 -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > According to skaller on 2/18/2006 11:39 AM: > > I have found some unexpected differences between Cygwin > > and Linux. FYI I think Cygwin is right, and Linux is wrong. > > No, they are both right, in their own way. Windows .dlls cannot use >

Re: 1.5.19-4: bash starts up in /usr/bin

2006-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Nils wrote: Reinstalling the base files fixed the problem. There should be a message ANYWHERE, that cygwin should be exited while updating the binaries. Instead, it seems to succeed in updating the system. That's not an optimal situation. You mean you didn't see the message from setup saying t

Re: Scrollback working differently?

2006-02-18 Thread Eric Blake
> > I have DOS window sized that a scrollback is present, start bash, do several > ls's then scroll back. > > The problem is that when I type, instead of the cursor being automatically > positioned to the end of the scrollback (essentially making the screen > appear as if I never scrolled back),

Scrollback working differently?

2006-02-18 Thread Ken Shaffer
I have DOS window sized that a scrollback is present, start bash, do several ls's then scroll back. The problem is that when I type, instead of the cursor being automatically positioned to the end of the scrollback (essentially making the screen appear as if I never scrolled back), it exists wher

Re: rsync fork/exec problem with odd twist for native windows programs

2006-02-18 Thread Brett Serkez
Scott, > Thanks for the suggestion. Switching from socketpair() to > pipe() does let ssh get going, but rsync later runs into > problems. A few minutes into the transfer it just hangs. I've actually been able to run fine once past the initial hang, but I've seen reports of rand

RE: _kbhit

2006-02-18 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Shankar Unni > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:28 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: _kbhit > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > Arend-Jan Westhoff writes: > >> I cannot confirm your assertion that msvcrt.dll and cygwin1.dll > >> cannot be used together. > > > The Gary Exclusio

Re: make: rm: command not found

2006-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:07:46PM -, Dave Korn wrote: On 10 February 2006 17:50, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:45:44AM -0800, JefV wrote: I re-installed cygwin and it seems to be working now. Strange. So, for those who keep track of such

Re: Linux vs Cygwin linkage

2006-02-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to skaller on 2/18/2006 11:39 AM: > I have found some unexpected differences between Cygwin > and Linux. FYI I think Cygwin is right, and Linux is wrong. No, they are both right, in their own way. Windows .dlls cannot use undefined symbols,

Re: Linux vs Cygwin linkage

2006-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:39:41AM +1100, skaller wrote: >I have found some unexpected differences between Cygwin and Linux. FYI >I think Cygwin is right, and Linux is wrong. > >What happens is I have a DLL P which depends on a DLL F and a DLL D. A >also depends on R. The executable depends on R

Linux vs Cygwin linkage

2006-02-18 Thread skaller
I have found some unexpected differences between Cygwin and Linux. FYI I think Cygwin is right, and Linux is wrong. What happens is I have a DLL P which depends on a DLL F and a DLL D. A also depends on R. The executable depends on R D and F. Under Linux, I link P against F, and it works. IMHO th

ghostscript-8.50 packaging question

2006-02-18 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Wouldn't it be much better to package all the shell scripts from the ghostscript-8.50 package which are now duplicated in both the ghostscript-x11 and the ghostscript package in ghostscript-base and put them below /usr/bin ? Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscri

quilt-0.43-1: wrong location of quilt.quiltrc

2006-02-18 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
To be consistent with the rest of the packages which are using the /etc/defaults directory the latest quilt package should use the directory /etc/defaults/etc for its quilt.quiltrc. Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: Updated: readline-5.1-3, libreadline6-5.1-3 - possible bug

2006-02-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul J. Ghosh on 2/18/2006 7:33 AM: > Eric, > > Find below the bindings and PS prompt being used. Yes, it is the default > PS1. Thanks. I managed to reproduce and patch it last night, look for libreadline6-1.5-4 at a mirror near you so

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-5.1-4, libreadline6-5.1-4

2006-02-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline and libreadline6, 5.1-4, is available for use, replacing 5.1-3 as the current version. NEWS: = This is a minor bugfix release. The previous release had a partial patch to fix vi search mode display bugs, but it forgot em

RE: Updated: readline-5.1-3, libreadline6-5.1-3 - possible bug

2006-02-18 Thread Paul J. Ghosh
Eric, Find below the bindings and PS prompt being used. Yes, it is the default PS1. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ bind -v set blink-matching-paren on set byte-oriented off set completion-ignore-case off set convert-meta on set disable-completion off set enable-keypad off set expand-tilde off set history

RE: cygheap base mismatch detected

2006-02-18 Thread Mark Geisert
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: [...] I did try rebaseall. It told me all the Oracle DLLs were not rebaseable. The -v output is included below. [...] /usr/bin/tclpip84.dll: skipped because not rebaseable /usr/share/terminfo/a/ansi+sgrso: skipped because not rebaseable /usr/s