Steve Slany added you as a connection on Pulse

2007-12-21 Thread Plaxo Pulse
Steve Slany wants to add you as a connection on Pulse. To accept this connection request, go to: http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/invite/?i=7406956&k=1630893471&l=en Thanks! The Pulse team --- What's Pulse? It's a new way to stay connected and share stuff with the people in your life. The people y

Re: Ruby on Rails 2.0.2/Cygwin Bug

2007-12-21 Thread Mike Boone
I came up with a simple Ruby snippet that reproduces the problem. I'd appreciate it if other Cygwin users would try it. You can change the "cause_failure = true" line to say false and it will run. --urandom_test.rb-- # Test failure of reading /dev/urandom after failed require # this method is

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-21 Thread Robert Pendell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:35:53 -0800, > Brian Dessent wrote: > >> Dave Korn wrote: >> >>> Same reason as strace, I would assume: it's a DOS-based program, >>> not a cygwin one. >> I think you mean "it's a MSVCRT-based program" > > I

sh.exe hangs when invoked from make without a terminal

2007-12-21 Thread Stephen Bennett
test.pl: $childpid=fork; die "failed to fork" if (!defined $childpid); if (! $childpid) { close STDIN; close STDOUT; close STDERR; exec "make -f test.mk &>test.out"; } test.mk: var=$(shell echo foobar | cat) default: @echo "$(var)" Running "make -f tes

Re: cygwin 1.5.25-7: cygcheck does not work?

2007-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:38:28PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >On 21 December 2007 12:41, Alexey Lyubimov wrote: > >> Thanks, Brian! >> But what would be the "final" decision? As far as I >> understand 1.5.x branch MUST support Win98. Am I >> right? >> Should I wait for 1.5.25-8 (where hard dependenci

RE: cygwin 1.5.25-7: cygcheck does not work?

2007-12-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21 December 2007 12:41, Alexey Lyubimov wrote: > Thanks, Brian! > But what would be the "final" decision? As far as I > understand 1.5.x branch MUST support Win98. Am I > right? > Should I wait for 1.5.25-8 (where hard dependencies on > NT-dll would be removed, I hope) or should I downgrade > t

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-21 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Eric Lilja wrote: > Of course it's native windows program without any dependency > on cygwin1.dll Oh yes! only now I have realized: $ cygcheck /bin/cygcheck.exe C:\cygwin\bin/cygcheck.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll

Re: cygwin 1.5.25-7: cygcheck does not work?

2007-12-21 Thread Alexey Lyubimov
Thanks, Brian! But what would be the "final" decision? As far as I understand 1.5.x branch MUST support Win98. Am I right? Should I wait for 1.5.25-8 (where hard dependencies on NT-dll would be removed, I hope) or should I downgrade to some previous 1.5.25-x? -- Alexey Brian Dessent wrote: >The

Re: making .bat to launch .exe and .sh

2007-12-21 Thread Trapdoor
Hi Jeff, I registered an account, just to thank you. I was looking for this information everywhere and couldn't find the answer. Now it works perfect for me! kind regards, TD Jeff Lange wrote: > > I use a bat file that looks like this: > > > @echo off > c: > chdir c:\cygwin\bin

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-21 Thread Eric Lilja
Angelo, think about. Of course it's native windows program without any dependency on cygwin1.dll. It's supposed to be able to inspect your cygwin installation even when it's so hosed that you can't even launch a bash shell. Thus, it's a pure windows program and generates line breaks the way all

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:35:53 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: > >> Same reason as strace, I would assume: it's a DOS-based program, >> not a cygwin one. > >I think you mean "it's a MSVCRT-based program" I guess that's one way to describe them. I've heard them described as "nati

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-21 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Dave Korn wrote: > Same reason as strace, I would assume: it's a DOS-based program, > not a cygwin one. I only use 'cygcheck' that comes with Cygwin! Brian Dessent wrote: > I think you mean "it's a MSVCRT-based program" Does this mean that the 'cygcheck' has used MSVCRT-based program to bu