How can I know if a Windows execution is under cygwin??

2006-08-15 Thread Pablo Chico de Guzm�n Huerta
Hi, My work group has developed a Prolog Language to Unix. Now, we are going to adapt it to work under windows, but when a .exe is executed, we need know is the execution is under CygWin or no. We used CYGWIN variable, but we think that it does not exist any longer under CygWin.

RE: Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
> My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to > another. Now when I > log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access > some of my own > files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone > tell me what I > need to do to fix this? Also, the group name is show

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

2006-08-15 Thread Colin Greg Jones
This is an old issue but we figured out where the cause of the problem was: a Veritas backup agent. I tried setting the backup operations to manual, but that wasn't enough. It also wasn't enough that the directory where I was doing my cvs checkout wasn't even selected for backup. I had to prevent

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:53:17PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >John W. Eaton wrote: >>On 15-Aug-2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: >>>Clearly, developers make a huge contribution, >>>nobody is denying this, but to suggest that *only* developers contribute >>>and everybody else should therefore just shut

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
John W. Eaton wrote: On 15-Aug-2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: Clearly, developers make a huge contribution, nobody is denying this, but to suggest that *only* developers contribute and everybody else should therefore just shut up I never said everyone else should "just shut up". My point wa

Re: Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
mwoehlke wrote: Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I need to do to f

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread John W. Eaton
On 15-Aug-2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: | Free software is about collaboration of a community consisting of | developers, users, documentation authors, testers, translators, etc. to a | common good, namely the production of good software that serves the needs | of that community. In my view, p

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 08:55:04AM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote: >At 11:17 PM 8/14/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Or, the short answer to the question is: Yes. The GNU make mailing list >>has already been contacted and the GNU make maintainer has already made >>a suggestion. > >I have search

Re: openmotif, .rdata, shared libs and runtime linking/loading problem

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
Avi Cohen Stuart wrote: [snip] gdb reports the following: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [snip] The address it is trying to write to appears to be a read only address in the attempt to resolve some adresses and updating pointers it crashes. I've no idea why openmotif/wha

Re: Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this? Also, th

Re: Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread Chuck
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Chuck wrote: >> My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I >> log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own >> files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I >> need to do to fix this? Also, the g

openmotif, .rdata, shared libs and runtime linking/loading problem

2006-08-15 Thread Avi Cohen Stuart
Hi, Please let me know if this is the correct newsgroup. I'm trying to get openmotif to run under cygwin. I know that I'm not supposed to do that but, who knows, maybe they change the license one of these days :-) The test I'm using is the hello.c from chapter 2 of the motif examples. During th

RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread William A. Hoffman
At 02:32 PM 8/15/2006, Dave Korn wrote: >On 15 August 2006 18:07, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: > >> is the exact opposite of >> what free software is supposed to be about. A healthy free software project >> depends on and welcomes input from the community. The attitude exhibited by >> some on this m

RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Olivier Langlois
Hi, This is just to let you know that I totally agree with what Joachim has written. I too am annoyed and affected by the recent changes made in cygwin (drop of MS-DOS path support in make and changes in executable file name evaluation in the cygwin DLL). He has expressed better than I could have

RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Dave Korn
On 15 August 2006 18:07, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: > A peculiar aspect of all-volunteer free software > projects (some are wholly or partially funded where this can be different) > is that nobody can force another member of the community to do something > they don't want to do, so it is all base

Re: Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Chuck wrote: My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this? Also, the group name is showing up as all question

Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread Chuck
My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this? Also, the group name is showing up as all question marks when I d

RE: Can I use two sets of different cygwin installations simultaneously?

2006-08-15 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
광훈 최 wrote: > Can I use two different sets of cygwin installations safely? > > For example, one set may include the up-to-date full packages, while > the other may include somewhat old-dated, partially installed > packages. > > The second set might look strange to you, but I have to keep it > b

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Joachim Achtzehnter
John W. Eaton wrote: I mean, isn't free software all about getting something for nothing, then complaining about it and expecting others to do yet more gratis work for you? Free software is about collaboration of a community consisting of developers, users, documentation authors, testers, tran

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
William A. Hoffman wrote: At 10:40 PM 8/14/2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: - The other option is to use mingw-make, and only use cygwin make for cygwin linked programs only. Incorrect. If you use Cygwin make, it's very easy to invoke Windows programs by converting their arguments with "cygpath -w"

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: "John W. Eaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:50:46 -0400 > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com > > This whole problem could be solved if the people who are complaining > about the Cygwin version of GNU Make directed their efforts toward > getting a patch accepted in the GNU Make sourc

RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, William A. Hoffman wrote: > At 10:40 PM 8/14/2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > >> MS cl can no longer be used with cygwin make as of 3.81. > > > >Incorrect. See below. > > > >> Perhaps something along the lines of /c/ that would be translated by > >> gmake itself into c:, so th

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread William A. Hoffman
At 11:17 PM 8/14/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:40:34PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: >>On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, William A. Hoffman wrote: >>>Sounds like it is time to join the gmake mailing list. Has anyone on >>>this list tried that yet? >> >>If you are asking whether any

RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread William A. Hoffman
At 10:40 PM 8/14/2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: >> MS cl can no longer be used with cygwin make as of 3.81. > >Incorrect. See below. > >> Perhaps something along the lines of /c/ that would be translated by >> gmake itself into c:, so that no special parsing would be required for >> the makefiles. >

Re: Error: procedure entry point in cygreadline6.dll

2006-08-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to René Berber on 8/13/2006 6:36 PM: > doublehelix wrote: > >> >> The procedure entry point rl_variable_value could not be located in the >> dynamic link library cygreadline6.dll Attaching the output of `cygcheck -svr' as a text file would

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mathomatic-12.6.1-1

2006-08-15 Thread Reini Urban
A new upstream release which fixes an important floating point accuracy fix. Cygwin changes: Moved html_docs into html Changes: See http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/changes.txt About: Mathomatic is a highly portable, general purpose symbolic math program that can solve, simplify, combine, differe

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: catdoc-0.94.2-2

2006-08-15 Thread Reini Urban
catdoc has been updated for those who want to follow correct build instructions and read proper english. http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/ - version 0.94.2-2 - - Workaround wrong aclocal version. Removed the wrong autom4te-2.13 suggestion. Thanks to Chuck Wilson. This rea

Can I use two sets of different cygwin installations simultaneously?

2006-08-15 Thread 광훈 최
Can I use two different sets of cygwin installations safely? For example, one set may include the up-to-date full packages, while the other may include somewhat old-dated, partially installed packages. The second setmight look strange to you, but I have to keep it because I need to maintain the

Re: autom4te-2.13 missing in autoconf2.1-2.13-1

2006-08-15 Thread Reini Urban
Charles Wilson schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: autoconf2.1-2.13-1 This package misses /usr/bin/autom4te-2.13 resp. the wrapper has no extra logic for the missing autom4te. I solved it by cp /usr/bin/autom4te-2.5x /usr/bin/autom4te-2.13 Strangely this was the first time I needed such an old cruf

Re: Rsync over ssh (pulling from Cygwin to Linux) stalls..

2006-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 14 11:03, mwoehlke wrote: > It sounds to me like what you want to do is release a GPL version of > your work. [...] But it sounds like this is inadequate? For inclusion into Cygwin, yes, it's inadequate. The buyout license as mentioned in the last paragraph on http://cygwin.com/licensi

Re: GCC: problem with library search path when targeting mingw

2006-08-15 Thread Damien Fouilleul
I'm not sure that I agree with your assements, /usr/lib as always been available (at least displayed) as a default search path in 'print-search-dirs' even when using the -mno-cygwin switch, but for some reason, has always been ignored when linking for MinGW. I think the problem has to do with

RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread Jörg Schaible
William A. Hoffman wrote on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:12 AM: > OK, so to summarize. > > - there is no options or special syntax that will allow the > make 3.81 to recognize drive letters in such a way that native > windows tools can use them. /c/ and /cygdrive/c/ will only work > with applicati