Re: lzma vs. new automake [attn lzma maintainer]

2008-01-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Eric Blake wrote: Automake 1.10.1 was released yesterday Just FYI, I won't have enough 'tuits to release the updated automake until next week. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

cygwin file permissions problem & solution

2008-01-22 Thread Dave Burns
I open the cygwin bash shell. I right click on the bar and select properties. I check QuickEdit mode's checkbox and click 'ok'. An error window pops up with title: 'Error updating shortcut': "Unable to modify the shortcut: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Cygwin\Cygwin Bash She

Re: ps executable does not appear to match source

2008-01-22 Thread paul . hermeneutic
>That said, however, the other way of dealing with this is to modify >procps to deal with Windows pids. Then we wouldn't need the cygwin ps. >If you want to provide a patch to do that, then it's likely that the >procps maintainer would accept it -- assuming that it isn't so intrusive >as to cause

Re: setup.exe fails uninstalling cygrunsrv

2008-01-22 Thread paul . hermeneutic
>> I also disabled cygrunsrv and rebooted the machine. Same results. Any ideas? > >Delete your corrupt /etc/setup/cygrunsrv.lst.gz. Thanks, Brian. It worked for me. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Document

HDF5 and timezone

2008-01-22 Thread Mark Hadfield
Building HDF5 (either the recently released RC1 or the previous beta 5) under Cygwin fails with gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DNDEBUG -UH5_DEBUG_API -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -Wundef -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wconversion -Wsign-comp

Re: setup.exe fails uninstalling cygrunsrv

2008-01-22 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I also disabled cygrunsrv and rebooted the machine. Same results. Any ideas? Delete your corrupt /etc/setup/cygrunsrv.lst.gz. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: setup.exe fails uninstalling cygrunsrv

2008-01-22 Thread paul . hermeneutic
>> When I run setup.exe, it seems to want to update cygrunsrv. However, >> after downloading and while trying to uninstall cygrunsrv, it fails >> giving me the Windows fault message. It apologises, but that does not >> seem to be much consolation. Any suggestions? > >You stopped all the cygrunsr

Re: problem in compiling c program

2008-01-22 Thread Greg Chicares
A million thanks: your suggestion solved a problem that had bedevilled one of my coworkers for several weeks. Details below in case they help someone else On 2008-01-22 10:09Z, Dave Korn wrote: > On 22 January 2008 09:08, Alexander(Wei) Yin wrote: > >> However, when I tried to compile the hel

Re: setup.exe fails uninstalling cygrunsrv

2008-01-22 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
> When I run setup.exe, it seems to want to update cygrunsrv. However, > after downloading and while trying to uninstall cygrunsrv, it fails > giving me the Windows fault message. It apologises, but that does not > seem to be much consolation. Any suggestions? You stopped all the cygrunsrv serv

setup.exe fails uninstalling cygrunsrv

2008-01-22 Thread paul . hermeneutic
When I run setup.exe, it seems to want to update cygrunsrv. However, after downloading and while trying to uninstall cygrunsrv, it fails giving me the Windows fault message. It apologises, but that does not seem to be much consolation. Any suggestions? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

lzma vs. new automake [attn lzma maintainer]

2008-01-22 Thread Eric Blake
Automake 1.10.1 was released yesterday, and includes a new feature for dist- lzma. However, the lzma-4.43-1 package shipped with cygwin comes from the 7zip lzma-sdk upstream source, and provides an incompatible lzma program whose interface is incompatible with automake's needs. http://tukaani.

Re: cvs import issue

2008-01-22 Thread Norton Allen
Sorry, red herring. The directory names happen to fall into cvs's default ignore category. -N Norton Allen wrote: I'm trying to do a 'cvs import' from cygwin and I'm finding that some subdirectories get inexplicably skipped. This reminds me of an old bug with the perl find routines where they

cvs import issue

2008-01-22 Thread Norton Allen
I'm trying to do a 'cvs import' from cygwin and I'm finding that some subdirectories get inexplicably skipped. This reminds me of an old bug with the perl find routines where they tried to do some optimization that used a directory's link count to stop looking for subdirectories before processi

RE: Error when running "cygcheck -s -r -v"

2008-01-22 Thread Dave Korn
On 22 January 2008 12:59, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > I ran "cygcheck -s -r -v" to troubleshoot a problem on a Windows 2003 > R2 SP2 Terminal Server and Domain Controller where the zsh history is > not read. > > I got this error (but cygcheck output otherwise seems to be fine) > > garbled output

Re: Error when running "cygcheck -s -r -v"

2008-01-22 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Marco Atzeri (Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:17:05 +0100 (CET)) > --- Thorsten Kampe ha scritto: > > I ran "cygcheck -s -r -v" to troubleshoot a problem > > on a Windows 2003 > > R2 SP2 Terminal Server and Domain Controller where > > the zsh history is > > not read. > > > > I got this error (but cygcheck

Re: Error when running "cygcheck -s -r -v"

2008-01-22 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Thorsten Kampe ha scritto: > Hi, > > I ran "cygcheck -s -r -v" to troubleshoot a problem > on a Windows 2003 > R2 SP2 Terminal Server and Domain Controller where > the zsh history is > not read. > > I got this error (but cygcheck output otherwise > seems to be fine) > > garbled output

Error when running "cygcheck -s -r -v"

2008-01-22 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hi, I ran "cygcheck -s -r -v" to troubleshoot a problem on a Windows 2003 R2 SP2 Terminal Server and Domain Controller where the zsh history is not read. I got this error (but cygcheck output otherwise seems to be fine) garbled output from 'id' command - no uid= found garbled output fr

RE: problem in compiling c program

2008-01-22 Thread Dave Korn
On 22 January 2008 09:08, Alexander(Wei) Yin wrote: > However, when I tried to compile the hello world program which is called > "hello.c" by "gcc -Wall hello.c -o hello", the compiler seemed to be not > working. There's no executable and no error/warning as well. I have > re-install the cygwin fo

problem in compiling c program

2008-01-22 Thread Alexander(Wei) Yin
Dear All, I have met a strange problem when I try to use cygwin to compile a basic hello world in C. The program is correct and have been tested under Linux. I have installed a full version of cygwin 2.573.2.2. I can see there is already a GCC compiler of version 3.4.4 on it. However, when

Re: setup.exe 2.573.2.2 is crashing in Windows XP - fixed !

2008-01-22 Thread Jose Ramon Huerga
Great ! I just removed this file ... C:\cygwin\etc\setup\bash.lst.gz ... and then, I ran setup.exe and it worked ! Thank you very much. Jose R. P.D: By the way, this command now works: $ zcat /etc/setup/bash.lst.gz etc/ etc/postinstall/ etc/postinstall/00bash.sh etc/preremove/ etc/prer