Re: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-21 Thread Steve Holden
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Re: Bash

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jam One on 8/21/2007 7:37 PM: > I have downloaded the recent copy of cygwin and there > is no "bash.exe" in the cygwin/bin directory, yet the > cygwin.bat file points to the bash command. > > What is your recommendation? Follow the direc

Re: Bash

2007-08-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Jam One wrote: I have downloaded the recent copy of cygwin and there is no "bash.exe" in the cygwin/bin directory, yet the cygwin.bat file points to the bash command. you have to install bash after installing cygwin. Erich -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

Bash

2007-08-21 Thread Jam One
I have downloaded the recent copy of cygwin and there is no "bash.exe" in the cygwin/bin directory, yet the cygwin.bat file points to the bash command. I have been using cygwin for many years now and this is the first time I have encountered this problem. If bash is no longer supplied with cygwin,

RE: error while building from CVS

2007-08-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21 August 2007 21:49, Brian Dessent wrote: > Bobby McNulty wrote: > >> I was waiting for someone to notice it under winsup. That is where this one >> is at. I am not running a snapshot of the cygwin dll. Though I will try that >> next. > > This has nothing to do with the Cygwin DLL, or the v

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: coreutils-6.9-5

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Reini Urban on 8/21/2007 3:26 PM: >> This is a minor patch release. It attempts to add some >> case-insensitivity >> smarts to mv, cp, and install. In other words, 'mv a A' should now cause >> the file to be renamed, rather than reportin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: coreutils-6.9-5

2007-08-21 Thread Reini Urban
Eric Blake schrieb: A new release of coreutils, 6.9-5, is available for experimental use, leaving 6.9-4 as current. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release. It attempts to add some case-insensitivity smarts to mv, cp, and install. In other words, 'mv a A' should now cause the file to be rena

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: coreutils-6.9-5

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 6.9-5, is available for experimental use, leaving 6.9-4 as current. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release. It attempts to add some case-insensitivity smarts to mv, cp, and install. In other words, 'mv a A' should now

Re: error while building from CVS

2007-08-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Bobby McNulty wrote: > I was waiting for someone to notice it under winsup. That is where this > one is at. > I am not running a snapshot of the cygwin dll. Though I will try that next. This has nothing to do with the Cygwin DLL, or the version of gcc. It's an issue with how the various configur

Re: A problem with setup.exe (?)

2007-08-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Angelo Graziosi wrote: > So the question is: Should setup give a warning that the lst.gz file > was corrupted, suggesting to remove it? > > But perhaps, the simplest solution should be to remove the 'Cancel' button > from setup... Thanks for the report. Setup should neither fail to clean up aft

Re: error while building from CVS

2007-08-21 Thread Bobby McNulty
Dave Korn wrote: On 21 August 2007 20:31, Bobby McNulty wrote: configure: loading cache .././config.cache configure: error: `CFLAGS' has changed since the previous run: configure: former value: -O2 -O2 configure: current value: -O2 -O2 configure: error: `CXXFLAGS' has changed since the

RE: error while building from CVS

2007-08-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21 August 2007 20:31, Bobby McNulty wrote: > configure: loading cache .././config.cache > configure: error: `CFLAGS' has changed since the previous run: > configure: former value: -O2 -O2 > configure: current value: -O2 -O2 > configure: error: `CXXFLAGS' has changed since the previous run

error while building from CVS

2007-08-21 Thread Bobby McNulty
While building the cygwin1.dll, from CVS, I get the following just as it is configuring in they cygwin and winsup areas. newlib built just fine. configure: configuring in cygwin configure: running /bin/sh '../../../../s

RE: Cygcrypt-0.dll ad-aware trojan alert

2007-08-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21 August 2007 19:58, PTBluster wrote: > Dave, Greg: > Thanks for checking. Also IROffer/cygcrypt-0.dll trogan was not detected by > my scans with Spybot or AVG. > The strange thing is that IROffer seems to be a ligit trogan and has been > part of Ad-aware's defs since at least mid 2006. Perhap

RE: Cygcrypt-0.dll ad-aware trojan alert

2007-08-21 Thread PTBluster
Dave, Greg: Thanks for checking. Also IROffer/cygcrypt-0.dll trogan was not detected by my scans with Spybot or AVG. The strange thing is that IROffer seems to be a ligit trogan and has been part of Ad-aware's defs since at least mid 2006. Perhaps a recent update is causing the problem; it wasn't

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mathomatic-12.7.5-1

2007-08-21 Thread Reini Urban
A new upstream release with minor feature fixes. Cygwin build changes: minor Changes: See http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/changes.txt Minor code, documentation, and makefile improvements. 7/28/07 - Added "tests/quartic.in" and fixed incomplete simplification in the calculate command. 8/3/07 - Allo

Re: Missing dependencies and Cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Thorsten Kampe on 8/21/2007 9:52 AM: > This seems to have changed as nowadays applications just silently > return without any visible error. I have to run "strace app" to see > the same error I used to see without strace. Run the proble

RE: Cygcrypt-0.dll ad-aware trojan alert

2007-08-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21 August 2007 16:56, Greg Chicares wrote: > On 2007-08-21 15:27Z, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 21 August 2007 16:05, Dave Korn wrote: >> >>> On 21 August 2007 15:52, PTBluster wrote: >>> I just ran Ad-aware and got a hit for the IROffer object which uses cygcrypt-0.dll. I've searched Ad-

RE: Missing dependencies and Cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21 August 2007 16:53, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Hi, > > this is more like an observation an not a problem: in the past I > noticed some third party applications compiled against Cygwin that > wouldn't because of missing dependencies/DLLs. This was quite obvious > as I got a big pop-up saying som

Re: Cygcrypt-0.dll ad-aware trojan alert

2007-08-21 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2007-08-21 15:27Z, Dave Korn wrote: > On 21 August 2007 16:05, Dave Korn wrote: > >> On 21 August 2007 15:52, PTBluster wrote: >> >>> I just ran Ad-aware and got a hit for the IROffer object which uses >>> cygcrypt-0.dll. I've searched Ad-ware forum and with Google but could not >>> find much.

Missing dependencies and Cygwin

2007-08-21 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hi, this is more like an observation an not a problem: in the past I noticed some third party applications compiled against Cygwin that wouldn't because of missing dependencies/DLLs. This was quite obvious as I got a big pop-up saying something like "cannot find cygwhatever- x.y.dll". Then I co

Re: Shell scripts on FAT volumes

2007-08-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 17:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 21 15:37, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > [Cygwin latest snapshot] > > > > I just noticed (on two different Windows XP) Cygwin installation that > > Shebang shell scripts are not executable on FAT32 volumes > > [...] > > Is that expected behaviour? > >

RE: Cygcrypt-0.dll ad-aware trojan alert

2007-08-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21 August 2007 16:05, Dave Korn wrote: > On 21 August 2007 15:52, PTBluster wrote: > >> I just ran Ad-aware and got a hit for the IROffer object which uses >> cygcrypt-0.dll. I've searched Ad-ware forum and with Google but could not >> find much. I think cygcrypt-0.dll is a legit library file

Re: Shell scripts on FAT volumes

2007-08-21 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* yitzle (Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:42:24 -0400) > On 8/21/07, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just noticed (on two different Windows XP) Cygwin installation that > > Shebang shell scripts are not executable on FAT32 volumes (like usb > > drives). The mount man page says "Normally, files

RE: Cygcrypt-0.dll ad-aware trojan alert

2007-08-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21 August 2007 15:52, PTBluster wrote: > I just ran Ad-aware and got a hit for the IROffer object which uses > cygcrypt-0.dll. I've searched Ad-ware forum and with Google but could not > find much. I think cygcrypt-0.dll is a legit library file so I am wondering > if this hit is significant?

[Packaging BUG] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ncftp-3.2.1-1

2007-08-21 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Jonathan C Allen writes: > PACKAGE DESCRIPTION > === > ncftp - An improved FTP client A diff between the package listing of the last version and the new version shows that all the documentation and man pages are missing. It looks like a packaging bug to me. Pr

Re: Shell scripts on FAT volumes

2007-08-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 15:37, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > [Cygwin latest snapshot] > > I just noticed (on two different Windows XP) Cygwin installation that > Shebang shell scripts are not executable on FAT32 volumes (like usb > drives). The mount man page says "Normally, files ending in certain > extensions (.

Cygcrypt-0.dll ad-aware trojan alert

2007-08-21 Thread PTBluster
I just ran Ad-aware and got a hit for the IROffer object which uses cygcrypt-0.dll. I've searched Ad-ware forum and with Google but could not find much. I think cygcrypt-0.dll is a legit library file so I am wondering if this hit is significant? Ad-aware SE Ad-aware Def: 20.08.2007 cygcrypt-0.dll

Re: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-21 Thread Aaron Gray
On 20 August 2007 22:53, Aaron Gray wrote: Why is it different from gcc-4.2.0's ? Okay I am kicking myself now many hours wasted it was because I used a Windows program WinRAR to unpack my work rather than using tar !!! It was a permissions problem afterall. Very sorry for poluting your mail

Re: Shell scripts on FAT volumes

2007-08-21 Thread yitzle
On 8/21/07, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Cygwin latest snapshot] > > I just noticed (on two different Windows XP) Cygwin installation that > Shebang shell scripts are not executable on FAT32 volumes (like usb > drives). The mount man page says "Normally, files ending in certain > ex

Shell scripts on FAT volumes

2007-08-21 Thread Thorsten Kampe
[Cygwin latest snapshot] I just noticed (on two different Windows XP) Cygwin installation that Shebang shell scripts are not executable on FAT32 volumes (like usb drives). The mount man page says "Normally, files ending in certain extensions (.exe, .com, .bat, .cmd) are assumed to be execut

A problem with setup.exe (?)

2007-08-21 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have observed this problem with setup.exe 2.575, 2.573.2.2 and 2.578 (but, perhaps it is not a stricly setup problem). Usually when one has some experimental package installed, setup, while installing some other package, tries to reinstall the 'Cur' package. So one should click to keep the exp.

Re: symbolic link untar issue

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tom Rodman on 8/20/2007 5:58 PM: > These steps 'hide bash', so invoking bash again fails: > > /tmp $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 argon 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin > /tmp $ tar tvf bar.tar > drwxrwxr-x staffuser1/XY

Re: cannot compile function containing "get_current_dir_name"

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Rainer Stamen on 8/21/2007 2:09 AM: > Hi, > > I try to compile a program which contains a call to > "get_current_dir_name". The compiler complains that the fucntion is > undeclared. Probably because cygwin does not declare a function by

Re: Trouble with perl fork() and exec()

2007-08-21 Thread George
Dave Korn wrote: On 16 August 2007 16:31, George wrote: I'm at a loss as to what could be holding up the python dll. Is there any advice for how to find this? Install "Process Explorer" from Sysinternals (now part of microsoft). It has a search function that lets you search all processes

Re: Latest mutt (1.4.2.2-1) does not work on (my) XP

2007-08-21 Thread Pedro Alves
I just downloaded the source and compiled it, *without changing anything*, and the resulting binary worked without problems. The final binary also has only 526kb, much smaller than the one I got from the same binary package. (I was expecting +- the same output) Hope it helps Thanks -- Ped

Re: Latest mutt (1.4.2.2-1) does not work on (my) XP

2007-08-21 Thread Pedro Alves
Attached cygcheck output On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:57:52PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: > > > Hello. > > > I can't run latest mutt, version mutt-1.4.2.2-1 on my XP. For every > operation I try to do I get an error like 'cannot create temporary file'. > It's not a permission problem... files ar

RE: Problem building GCC on Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 20 August 2007 22:53, Aaron Gray wrote: >> Why is it different from gcc-4.2.0's ? > > Okay I am kicking myself now many hours wasted it was because I used a > Windows program WinRAR to unpack my work rather than using tar !!! > > It was a permissions problem afterall. > > Very sorry for polu

cannot compile function containing "get_current_dir_name"

2007-08-21 Thread Rainer Stamen
Hi, I try to compile a program which contains a call to "get_current_dir_name". The compiler complains that the fucntion is undeclared. From checking the archives I learned that the problem existed already in the past. However the proposed fix (add #define _GNU_SOURCE) seems not to work for