Re: Cygutils patch: fix cygstart under recent snapshots

2006-12-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Michael Schaap wrote: Can you apply the patch and release a new Cygutils version, at your convenience? Done. I'll announce 1.3.1-1 after the mirrors have had a chance to get it. (FYI: your next 'cvs update' you'll need to explicitly get the newly added m4/ and build-aux/ subdirectories -- o

Re: print from xfig

2006-12-12 Thread Steven Woody
On 12/5/06, Andrew Louie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steven Woody gmail.com> writes: > > i can run xfig successuflly, but i can not print our network printer. > it reported: > > lpr: printer error: can't open 'd:\printersharename' > > what do i do? thank you. > Can you normally print with lpr?

Re: find -execdir command executed in wrong directory

2006-12-12 Thread David Rothenberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/5/2006 8:20 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > David Rothenberger acm.org> writes: > >> >> "find -execdir" seems to be executing the command in the wrong >> directory. If the file is in /tmp/a/b/c, the command is executed with >> the current directory /

Re: another cygport patch

2006-12-12 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Eric Blake wrote: > Cygport currently makes it impossible to pass arguments to ./configure > that contain a space. I need this for building autogen. > > 2006-12-12 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * cygport (cygconf): Preserve shell meta

Re: library paths

2006-12-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Richard Foulk wrote: > We use perl a lot and are looking into building a standard routine for > the beginning of each script that will add to the path where necessary. > And perhaps even remove from the path if two or more instances of the > key libraries are found. I don't understand how this wo

library paths

2006-12-12 Thread Richard Foulk
Running cygwin on a number of diverse machines, accessability of cygwin1.dll and others can be a problem. We use perl a lot and are looking into building a standard routine for the beginning of each script that will add to the path where necessary. And perhaps even remove from the path if two or m

Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

2006-12-12 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, João Gonçalves wrote: > I am trying to start cygwin and I get this error message. > I understand, from what I read, that this error is because I am using > a different user. And that's true, I am using a different user, but I > also lost the old user, because I installed windo

RE: Postinstall Problem with 01bash.bat

2006-12-12 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 12 December 2006 03:24, Eric Blake wrote: > > Hey Eric, > > > Phooey - now that you have gotten rid of the problem, I can't do any > > more debugging via your system. I'm still trying to reproduce the > > failure, by manually sourcing /etc/profile.d/00

MAKE does not recognize symbolic links after applying patch

2006-12-12 Thread Jim Breaux
Hello, I am using MAKE 3.80 (for various reasons I cannot upgrade to 3.81 yet). I recently encountered the bug described here: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg01659.html I applied the recommended patch to the source code and rebuilt MAKE. It seems to be working fine EXCEPT that it no

Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

2006-12-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
João Gonçalves wrote: I am trying to start cygwin and I get this error message. I understand, from what I read, that this error is because I am using a different user. And that's true, I am using a different user, but I also lost the old user, because I installed windows again! Is to mount cygwin

RE: Postinstall Problem with 01bash.bat

2006-12-12 Thread Dave Korn
On 12 December 2006 03:24, Eric Blake wrote: Hey Eric, > Phooey - now that you have gotten rid of the problem, I can't do any more > debugging via your system. I'm still trying to reproduce the failure, by > manually sourcing /etc/profile.d/00bash.sh, but so far it seems I am just > catching l

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-12 Thread ERIC HO
Thanks to all who helped out on this! -- 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/

Automatic "setup.ini" generation/cleanup?

2006-12-12 Thread cuicui
Hello, I'd like to speed up the setup.ini parsing during setup and i'm looking for a script to generate or clean a "setup.ini" regarding to a local packages directory. Is there any way simple to achieve that ? All the best, Nicolas -- Ce message a ete verifie par MailScanner pour des vir

Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

2006-12-12 Thread João Gonçalves
I am trying to start cygwin and I get this error message. I understand, from what I read, that this error is because I am using a different user. And that's true, I am using a different user, but I also lost the old user, because I installed windows again! Is to mount cygwin in my current user wit

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Schaap
Corinna Vinschen wrote: When using cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINENV), Cygwin doesn't only copy the environment, it also changes into the actual cwd and keeps Cygwin cwd and native cwd in sync. This is also propagated to child processes. Naturally, this process and its children are blocking the cw

Cygwin developer needs Vista

2006-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
Does anyone have a copy of Windows Vista that they would be willing to donate for the Cygwin cause? I'm feeling sort of guilty that Corinna is stuck with all of the Vista issues but, since I don't have a copy of Vista to use, I can't really help her. Both 64 and 32 bit versions would be appreciat

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Schaap
Igor Peshansky wrote: I just looked at the ChangeLog between those two snapshots. The following looks like the culprit change: 2006-11-29 Corinna Vinschen <(snip)> * path.cc [snip] (cwdstuff::init): Initialize cygheap->cwd with current working directory. Change to wi

Python crashes with threading and Tkinter

2006-12-12 Thread Dan Lenski
Hi all, I've been having a problem with Python under Cygwin. Basically, Python crashes if I try to start any threads in a program using the Tkinter GUI package. This issue has been encountered before, by Steve Ward in February 2006: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00700.html The test

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Schaap
Hi Eric, ERIC HO wrote: The command and out are as follows: /cygdrive/c/user $cmd /c cd c:\user The latest snapshot (2006-12-11) has the same problem. I went back to 1.5.22-1 release and the problem is fixed. Not sure which change causes this. Thanks. The bug was found and fixed, and a new

Cygutils patch: fix cygstart under recent snapshots

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Schaap
Hi Chuck, Attached is a Cygutils patch that fixes cygstart under recent Cygwin snapshots. (It didn't set the current directory correctly under them.) In addition, I've added a --verbose flag, which shows the Win32 ShellExecute call that is made. Can you apply the patch and release a new Cy

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Schaap
Michael Schaap wrote: normalize_posix_path: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/hello.txt = normalize_posix_path (hello.txt) (FWIW, the above strace output is now actually incorrect, prepending /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/, instead of the POSIX current directory, to the filename.) Never

RE: Postinstall Problem with 01bash.bat

2006-12-12 Thread Kenneth Evans, Jr.
I could probably restore my Cygwin directory from a backup and try again. -Ken -Original Message- From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 9:24 PM To: Kenneth Evans, Jr. Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Postinstall Problem with 01bash.bat

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Schaap
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 12 14:23, Michael Schaap wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Does cygstart use CreateProcess and/or GetCurrentDirectory instead of fork/exec/getcwd? If so, cygstart will have to call cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINENV) before using the native Windows functions.

RE: building a cross compiler for linux

2006-12-12 Thread Dave Korn
On 12 December 2006 09:55, Domen Vrankar wrote: > I'm using this tutorila: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-build-cross.html > for building a cygwin cross compiler for linux. > > I built binutils sucessfully but when trying to build gcc I get: > > configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 12 08:58, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Michael Schaap wrote: > > I went down the list of snapshots, and it looks like this was introduced > > some time in between 2006-11-27 and 2006-11-30. > > I just looked at the ChangeLog between those two snapshots. The following > look

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 12 14:23, Michael Schaap wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Does cygstart use CreateProcess and/or GetCurrentDirectory instead of > >fork/exec/getcwd? > > > >If so, cygstart will have to call cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINENV) before > >using the native Windows functions. > > No, it uses Shel

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-12 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Michael Schaap wrote: > > > Michael Schaap wrote: > > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > > > > Does cygstart use CreateProcess and/or GetCurrentDirectory instead of > > > > fork/exec/getcwd? > > > > > > > > If so, cygstart will hav

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-12 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Michael Schaap wrote: > Michael Schaap wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > > Does cygstart use CreateProcess and/or GetCurrentDirectory instead of > > > fork/exec/getcwd? > > > > > > If so, cygstart will have to call cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINENV) > > > before using

Re: another cygport patch

2006-12-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 12/12/2006 6:37 AM: > Cygport currently makes it impossible to pass arguments to ./configure > that contain a space. I need this for building autogen. > > 2006-12-12 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * cygport (cy

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Schaap
Michael Schaap wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Does cygstart use CreateProcess and/or GetCurrentDirectory instead of fork/exec/getcwd? If so, cygstart will have to call cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINENV) before using the native Windows functions. No, it uses ShellExecute (see "cygstart --refere

another cygport patch

2006-12-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cygport currently makes it impossible to pass arguments to ./configure that contain a space. I need this for building autogen. 2006-12-12 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * cygport (cygconf): Preserve shell metacharacters in args. - --- /bi

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Schaap
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Does cygstart use CreateProcess and/or GetCurrentDirectory instead of fork/exec/getcwd? If so, cygstart will have to call cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINENV) before using the native Windows functions. No, it uses ShellExecute (see "cygstart --reference"). It does indeed

Re: building a cross compiler for linux

2006-12-12 Thread Vin Shelton
Hi Domen, Domen Vrankar wrote: I'm using this tutorila: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-build-cross.html for building a cygwin cross compiler for linux. I built binutils sucessfully but when trying to build gcc I get: configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross com

RE:20061211snapshot isue( was: rxvt NOT RESPONDING when exiting)

2006-12-12 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi, The 20061023 snapshot, also presents the problem, but with less frequency. bye, RM -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.

RE:20061211snapshot isue( was: rxvt NOT RESPONDING when exiting)

2006-12-12 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi, The cygwin1.dll-20061211 malfunctions like the cygwin1.dll-20061205. bye RM -- 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:20061211snapshot isue( was: rxvt NOT RESPONDING when exiting)

2006-12-12 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Sorry, The snapshot with the problem was the 20061205, not the 20061211, that I have not checked. bye, RM -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

20061211snapshot isue( was: rxvt NOT RESPONDING when exiting)

2006-12-12 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi, The problems with rxvt do not appear with the 20061023 snapshot. XWin also remains active, but desappears from the cygwin list of processes. Bye RM -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

building a cross compiler for linux

2006-12-12 Thread Domen Vrankar
I'm using this tutorila: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-build-cross.html for building a cygwin cross compiler for linux. I built binutils sucessfully but when trying to build gcc I get: configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'. See `config.l

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

2006-12-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 12 02:58, Michael Schaap wrote: > ERIC HO wrote: > >/cygdrive/c/user $cmd /c pwd > >/cygdrive/c/user > > Hmm, I should have asked for > $ cmd /c cd > :-[ > > > > >My cygcheck ouput are attached. Thanks > > > > Looks like you're running a pretty old Cygwin snapshot: > Cygwin DLL ve