Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-04 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, Just installed the latest cygwin (including Cygwin's build of perl 5.8.7) on Windows Vista Business (64) on an AMD64 box. Trying to access perl documentation using 'perldoc' throws an error: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-07-04 Thread Lev Bishop
On 7/3/07, Samuel Thibault wrote: Corinna Vinschen, le Tue 03 Jul 2007 09:54:24 +0200, a écrit : > For using local named pipes you don't need winsock anyway, and for > remote connections you should use Cygwin sockets. And mixing both is quite difficult. Anyhow, I'll only enable cygwin sockets a

vista rsh problem

2007-07-04 Thread goetz fischer
hello, i know this has been discussed but sadly not enough. i just used a nightly dll and the error message is gone but it still doesn't work. the prompt just keeps empty like it's working. to be clear this is about using rsh with cygwin on vista. attached the cygcheck ... thanks in advance

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > work. Have things changed with these libraries since last year. This > was, BTW, I relative new install of cyqwin. I just copied the gfortran > and gcc4 executables over from an older machine. I think this is a > cyqwin question. No, it's not a Cygwin question. Yes, gc

RE: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 00:39, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: >> Install the required packages >> (libgmp3 and libmpfr1). > > I'll try doing that, but why does: > > gcc version 4.2.0 20060808 (experimental) > > work. Have things changed with these libraries since last year. Simple answer: yes. ch

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:22:26PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > > Just asking in general, but are you related to the people doing the > > cygwin release on the gfortran web page? I downloased the exe about 2 > > weeks ago and it did nothing. Yes, NOTHING! gfortan --ve

Re: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

2007-07-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:16:43AM +0200, Pavel Kudrna wrote: >Do you mean that the variables are present but hidden in that case? It depends on what you mean by hidden. Cygwin is a windows application so obviously it can get to them as could any other windows application which tried hard enough.

Re: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

2007-07-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 08:42:02AM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 07/03/2007, Pavel Kudrna wrote: >> > >> > >> > * /From/: "Dave Korn" >> > >> > They are legal, but there's no possible way to convert them to POSIX, >> which >> > has no notion of a per-drive current directory. >> >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated:lftp-3.5.11-1

2007-07-04 Thread Schulman . Andrew
A new version of the lftp package is available in the Cygwin distribution. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http client. It supports multiple network protocols, offers tab completion, command history, job control, and bookmarks, can mirror sites and transfer multiple files i

Re: ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I use 2.10.2, but so long as you can provide something like 2.27.29 in > its place I could move ahead and match my server. OK, understood. I'll have a unison2.27 package out tomorrow. It will be version 2.27.29 for right now, but all versions 2.27.x can sync with each other. -- Unsubscribe i

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > Just asking in general, but are you related to the people doing the > cygwin release on the gfortran web page? I downloased the exe about 2 > weeks ago and it did nothing. Yes, NOTHING! gfortan --version gave the > version but a gfortran complile gave no errors and no ex

Re: ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

2007-07-04 Thread Steven E. Harris
Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone still using any of the unison2.9.1, unison2.9.20, > unison2.10.2, or unison2.12.0 packages in Cygwin? I use 2.10.2, but so long as you can provide something like 2.27.29 in its place I could move ahead and match my server. -- Steven E. Har

Re: Problem downloading setup.exe

2007-07-04 Thread Jeremy Davis-Turak
Yeah, thanks guys, it worked from home. Stupid firewall. On 7/3/07, Jeremy Davis-Turak wrote: Hi list, I know this sounds crazy but I can't download setup.exe ... I always get 97% of the way there then it stops. I've tried different browsers, different comptuers, even wget command. Does any

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: brltty 3.8-2

2007-07-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Version 3.8-2 of "brltty" has been uploaded. It is a background process (daemon) providing access to the Windows Console for a blind person using a refreshable braille display. -- brltty-3.8-2 -- 2007-07-03 --- Update to subversion 3090 for braille font support. Heavy #ifdef WIN

RE: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran

2007-07-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 04 July 2007 14:53, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > I mean gfortran-4.3-Cygwin-i686.tar.bz2 (I may have renamed it. I can > not remember). That gives executables in /usr/local/gfortran. > > Typing gfortran -v gives after compile info:- > > gcc version 4.3.0 20070512 (experimental) > > so we are

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran

2007-07-04 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 02:37:44PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > > Just asking in general, but are you related to the people doing the > > cygwin release on the gfortran web page? > > NO. > > > I downloased the exe about 2 weeks ago and it did nothing. > > EXE

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran

2007-07-04 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > Just asking in general, but are you related to the people doing the > cygwin release on the gfortran web page? NO. > I downloased the exe about 2 weeks ago and it did nothing. EXE ? If you mean 'gfortran-windows-20070612.exe', it is for MINGW not Cygwin. The package

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:19:14AM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > > I have build GFortran under Cygwin configuring with: > > ./configure --prefix=${prefix_dir} \ > --enable-languages=c,fortran \ >--enable-bootstrap \ >

Re: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

2007-07-04 Thread Pavel Kudrna
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 07/03/2007, Pavel Kudrna wrote: > > > * /From/: "Dave Korn" > > They are legal, but there's no possible way to convert them to POSIX, which > has no notion of a per-drive current directory. > Ok, but Cygwin != POSIX :-) Cygwin application has environment

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Angelo Graziosi
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Brian Dessent wrote: > Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > > ./configure --prefix=${prefix_dir} \ > > According to the documentation you should not do this (build in the same > dir as the source.) Obviously I forgot to say: cd ${build_dir} ${gcc_dir}/configur

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Angelo Graziosi wrote: > ./configure --prefix=${prefix_dir} \ According to the documentation you should not do this (build in the same dir as the source.) > A few months ago this did not happen (same building procedure). The warning is correct because libdecnumber is only supported

RE: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Danny Smith
Angelo Graziosi Wednesday, 4 July 2007 7:19 p.m. > > > > I have build GFortran under Cygwin configuring with: > > ./configure --prefix=${prefix_dir} \ > --enable-languages=c,fortran \ >--enable-bootstrap \ >-

Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-04 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have build GFortran under Cygwin configuring with: ./configure --prefix=${prefix_dir} \ --enable-languages=c,fortran \ --enable-bootstrap \ --enable-libgomp \ --enable-threads \