signing off, mostly

2006-12-02 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Cygwin Community, It's been a fun few years that I've been maintaining the Cygwin documentation, but I think it's come time to ask for replacement volunteers. I now rarely use Windows and just realized when I got a few minutes on my wife's laptop that it doesn't even have the build tools installe

Re: system account files mystery

2006-12-02 Thread dsacks
Okay, h. So what is the secret to geting sshd working? It is running, but when I try to ssh in, it doesn't accept my domain password. Does it work with domain users or is there something special I need to do for that to happen? D Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > dsacks wrote: >> fyi, this is

Argument list too long

2006-12-02 Thread Michael Eager
I get the error message "argument list too long" while building GCC on certain Cgywin installations, but not all. This happens when make executes a command with a large number of arguments. I'm assuming that this is because I'm running out of environment space. Some of the workarounds, like usi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: apache2-2.2.3-1

2006-12-02 Thread Max Bowsher
Apache HTTPD version 2 has been updated to 2.2.3-1. This is a new upstream security and bugfix release. Max Bowsher. -- To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answe

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion 1.4.2-1

2006-12-02 Thread Max Bowsher
Subversion, a version control system which aims to be a compelling replacement for CVS, has been updated in the Cygwin net distribution to version 1.4.2-1. This is a new upstream feature release as compared to the previous Cygwin packaged version. Release notes for the Subversion 1.4.x series are

Re: getting rcp or scp to work on a home wireless network

2006-12-02 Thread Charles D. Russell
* From: Brian Dessent "Charles D. Russell" wrote: > What is the easiest way to get rcp or scp working on a simple home > wireless LAN? > I have set up /etc/hosts, .rhosts, and .ssh/authorized_keys. Is > there something else to configure? Yes, of course. Make sure you've installed

cairo without glitz breaks pkg-config

2006-12-02 Thread Jason Stillwell
the cairo.pc file requires the glitz.pc file. without which, all of pkg-config breaks. So anything that builds requiring pkg-config also breaks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://

cairo without glitz breaks pkg-config

2006-12-02 Thread Jason Stillwell
the cairo.pc file requires the glitz.pc file. without which, all of pkg-config breaks. So anything that builds requiring pkg-config also breaks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://

Re: Windows NTFS UCS2 characters

2006-12-02 Thread Linda Walsh
Igor Peshansky wrote: The former is true, the latter is half-true. Cygwin works with the default codepage when the Windows locale settings are set correctly. You cannot *switch* locales programmatically from within Cygwin, but it can handle the full 8-bit charset just fine. Not sure what ANSI m

Problem with perl debugger and stdin

2006-12-02 Thread Andrew Certain
I looked through the archives and Google, but I wasn't able to find anybody else with this same problem. The only similar reference I saw told the poster to use the cygwin perl instead of ActiveScript's perl, but I'm already using cygwin's. My apologies if this has been answered elsewhere.

REFFMTID define in the winapi headers (was: Updated: w32api-3.8-1)

2006-12-02 Thread Anton Vodonosov
Chris Sutcliffe" : I've made a new version of the w32api available for download. A list of what has changed is below. File /usr/include/w32api/basetyps.h. It would be better to have REFFMTID type defined for C compiler as #define REFFMTID const FMTID* instead of #define REFFMTID const

Re: bash scripting problem

2006-12-02 Thread Will Parsons
> This script is used to preprocess the CSV output of Exceed into an ASCII ^^ Of course, I meant "Excel". - Will -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Doc

Re: installing guile

2006-12-02 Thread Charles D. Russell
"Charles D. Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: After installing the cygwin guile package, attempting to run guile leads to the message that it cannot find "guile.init". How odd. Guile.init is not a part of guile-1.8.1. You probably have have leftovers from a previous installation, eg, so

Re: installing guile

2006-12-02 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
"Charles D. Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After installing the cygwin guile package, attempting to run guile > leads to the message that it cannot find "guile.init". How odd. Guile.init is not a part of guile-1.8.1. You probably have have leftovers from a previous installation, eg, s

installing guile

2006-12-02 Thread Charles D. Russell
After installing the cygwin guile package, attempting to run guile leads to the message that it cannot find "guile.init". I find no reference to "guile.init" in either info guile nor in the cygwin guile README. I had previously gotten a working guile by installing cygwin guile on top of a

Re: Ruby hangs when executing: ruby -r mkmf -e 'have_func("rb_hash_foreach")'

2006-12-02 Thread David Rothenberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/2/2006 9:18 AM, Jared Silva wrote: > I have the same problem on one machine but not another. > > How do I rebase? Install rebase and read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rebase-2.4.3.README. - -- David Rothenbergerspammer? -> [EMAIL PR

Re: Ruby hangs when executing: ruby -r mkmf -e 'have_func("rb_hash_foreach")'

2006-12-02 Thread Jared Silva
I have the same problem on one machine but not another. How do I rebase? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Ruby hangs when executing: ruby -r mkmf -e 'have_func("rb_hash_foreach")'

2006-12-02 Thread Max Bowsher
David Rothenberger wrote: > On 12/2/2006 6:15 AM, Max Bowsher wrote: >> For me, current Cygwin Ruby (1.8.5-2) hangs when executing: >> >> ruby -r mkmf -e 'have_func("rb_hash_foreach")' >> >> Please could someone confirm whether this problem is reproducible for them? > > I reproduced it until I r

Re: cygwin + make 10 time slower than equivalent linux make (same ifc compiler)

2006-12-02 Thread Mark Moriarty
I deeply apologize -- I'm used to a different mail list which does automatically screen the addresses. Subject: Re: cygwin + make 10 time slower than equivalent linux make (same ifc compiler) Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:25:27 -0700 __

Re: Ruby hangs when executing: ruby -r mkmf -e 'have_func("rb_hash_foreach")'

2006-12-02 Thread David Rothenberger
On 12/2/2006 6:15 AM, Max Bowsher wrote: > For me, current Cygwin Ruby (1.8.5-2) hangs when executing: > > ruby -r mkmf -e 'have_func("rb_hash_foreach")' > > Please could someone confirm whether this problem is reproducible for them? I reproduced it until I ran rebaseall, then it went away. I'

Re: cygwin + make 10 time slower than equivalent linux make (same ifc compiler)

2006-12-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - reformatted According to Mark Moriarty on 12/2/2006 9:20 AM: > From: Christopher Faylor ^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > > Ther

Re: cygwin + make 10 time slower than equivalent linux make (same ifc compiler)

2006-12-02 Thread Mark Moriarty
One can always dream :) From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin + make 10 time slower than equivalent linux make (same ifc compiler) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:18:37 -0500 On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 04:06:49PM +, Mark M

Re: cygwin + make 10 time slower than equivalent linux make (same ifc compiler)

2006-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 04:06:49PM +, Mark Moriarty wrote: >Line 47 of WHAT? I have the cygwin source, but no file reference was >given. Sorry. This was a joke. If speeding up Cygwin was as simple as removing a line, don't you think that it would have been done already? >From: Christopher

Re: No manual entry for ls

2006-12-02 Thread Jared Silva
Not using the latest files caused the problem. Maybe I should take the reboot warning more seriously. $ locate .new D:/UNIX/cygwin/bin/bash.exe.new D:/UNIX/cygwin/bin/cygiconv-2.dll.new D:/UNIX/cygwin/bin/cygncurses-8.dll.new D:/UNIX/cygwin/bin/cygreadline6.dll.new D:/UNIX/cygwin/bin/cygwin1.dll

Re: cygwin + make 10 time slower than equivalent linux make (same ifc compiler)

2006-12-02 Thread Mark Moriarty
Line 47 of WHAT? I have the cygwin source, but no file reference was given. Thanks. From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin + make 10 time slower than equivalent linux make (same ifc compiler) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 1

Re: No manual entry for ls

2006-12-02 Thread Tim Prince
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think since man-1.6d-2, man has not worked for me. I have tried the trivial solutions, but nothing has worked. /usr/share/misc/man.conf has not been changed. I greatly appreciate any help. $ man ls -d In my mind, the trivial solutions include checking 'info ls' and

Re: cygwin + make 10 time slower than equivalent linux make (same ifc compiler)

2006-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 12:06:57PM +0100, Eric Lilja wrote: >Philippe Conraux skrev: >>I have to build a large project on Windows. >> >>Build libraries using Intel compilers needs 12 hours on cygwin >>when same build needs 1 hour on Linux (same computer : dual boot, same >>compilers ifc 9.1) >> >>

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron-3.0.1-22

2006-12-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated the version of cron on cygwin.com to 3.0.1-22. Same as 3.0.1-21 with a minor quoting bugfix in cron-config. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: doxygen-1.5.1-1

2006-12-02 Thread Max Bowsher
Doxygen has been updated to 1.5.1-1. Doxygen is a documentation system based on specially formatted comments in source code, for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C#, and D. This is a new upstream release. Upstream Changelog: http://www.stack.nl

No manual entry for ls

2006-12-02 Thread Jared Silva
I think since man-1.6d-2, man has not worked for me. I have tried the trivial solutions, but nothing has worked. /usr/share/misc/man.conf has not been changed. I greatly appreciate any help. $ man ls -d Reading config file /usr/share/misc/man.conf found man directory /usr/share/man found man d

Re: bash scripting problem

2006-12-02 Thread Will Parsons
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> From: Rob Walker >> >> d2u may also corrupt "text" files that need to have CR in >> them. This includes bash scripts that need to parse or output CR. >> >> -Rob > > Do you have a link to such a script? I don't mean a proof-of-principle; I'm > sure a suitable exampl

Ruby hangs when executing: ruby -r mkmf -e 'have_func("rb_hash_foreach")'

2006-12-02 Thread Max Bowsher
For me, current Cygwin Ruby (1.8.5-2) hangs when executing: ruby -r mkmf -e 'have_func("rb_hash_foreach")' Please could someone confirm whether this problem is reproducible for them? Thanks, Max. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

cygwin-email utility clipping attached zips

2006-12-02 Thread zzapper
Hi I'm using the following to send attachments from the cli, works fine except for word Docs etc but zip files loose a few bytes eg -rwxr-xr-x 1 davidr None 161792 Dec 2 12:47 ../aaa/am4mar.doc (RECEIVED) -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 davidr None 161792 Feb 14 2006 am4mar.doc (SENT) -rwxr-xr-x 1 davidr No

Re: Gnupg problem

2006-12-02 Thread Eric Lilja
David Barr skrev: I tried installing Gnupg 1.4.5-1 on a new system with the base Cygwin install and a couple other packages. When I tried to run gpg, it would exit without any output or any error message. I tried running strace on the program, and I got an error message about a missing cygminir

Re: cygwin + make 10 time slower than equivalent linux make (same ifc compiler)

2006-12-02 Thread Eric Lilja
Philippe Conraux skrev: I have to build a large project on Windows. Build libraries using Intel compilers needs 12 hours on cygwin when same build needs 1 hour on Linux (same computer : dual boot, same compilers ifc 9.1) Equivalent build using Visual-Studio seems faster (not yet real measures

cygwin + make 10 time slower than equivalent linux make (same ifc compiler)

2006-12-02 Thread Philippe Conraux
I have to build a large project on Windows. Build libraries using Intel compilers needs 12 hours on cygwin when same build needs 1 hour on Linux (same computer : dual boot, same compilers ifc 9.1) Equivalent build using Visual-Studio seems faster (not yet real measures) Is it a known issue