Re: about cyglsa.dll

2008-03-25 Thread Yue Chen
Hi Eric Really thank you for the help. Now I have downloaded the latest snapshot. However, I found there was no bash in the package. In order to use bash in cygwin 1.7.x snapshort, I downloaded the bash source code from cygwin site and tried to build it. But I can not figure out how to build bash

Re: where is `getopt` ?

2008-03-25 Thread Brian Dessent
PRC wrote: > I want to update the `getopt` utility in my cygwin, since the current > version cannot support `-a` option. But I don't know which package this > utility is in. I check `setup.ini` file in the `release` diretory. There > is only a little informatation about `getopt`, like $ cygcheck

where is `getopt` ?

2008-03-25 Thread PRC
I want to update the `getopt` utility in my cygwin, since the current version cannot support `-a` option. But I don't know which package this utility is in. I check `setup.ini` file in the `release` diretory. There is only a little informatation about `getopt`, like ---

announcing allmydata.org "Tahoe", the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.0

2008-03-25 Thread zooko
Folks: I relied on cygwin extensively while developing this project. Nowadays the end-user customers who use this product use the Native- Windows build, but I continue to maintain the cygwin version, both to keep our options open in the future and because I have a special fondness for cyg

Re: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-25 Thread Reini Urban
2008/3/25, Dave Korn: > Robert Latest wrote on 25 March 2008 08:50: > > Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real > > industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ Windows PC. God, I hadn't known > > just how much Windows sucks. Everything around here is done with > > Acce

Re: MD Cygwin mirror

2008-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Chelban Vasile wrote: Good day, How can someone become public Cygwin mirror (listed at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html) ? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalt

1.5.24-2: Applications automatically restart on crash

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Morlier
Hi Everyone, For a couple of years I have noticed that when I run programs from within Cygwin (currently 1.5.24-2), if the program crashes (ie segfault) then the program gets automatically restarted. This is primarily a problem when compiling/testing a windows program I am developing (compile

Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-25 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello $ cygpath --help Is this infomation useful for you? Rerads Tatsuro --- Scott Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg Chicares wrote: > > On 2008-03-25 13:30Z, Scott Wegner wrote: > >> I am trying to create a "wrapper" Cygwin bash script to add > >> functionality to an existing Windo

Re: GNU M4 diversion error [SOLVED] [attn FAQ maintainer]

2008-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Kaarlo Räihä on 3/25/2008 10:42 AM: | I found the issue. It is called Avira AntiVir. When enabled, it causes | issues for m4. Sorry that I bothered you. Just as I suspected. I guess we have another BLODA entry to check for. - -- Don't

Re: GNU M4 diversion error

2008-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please post to an appropriate mailing list, rather than to an individual developer - your question will likely be answered faster, because more people can contribute, and the answer will be archived in case someone else comes across the same issue. A

Re: Using curses with -mno-cygwin

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:33:14AM -0700, Stepp, Charles wrote: >I'd bet a shiny new quarter that cygwin supports linking to the ncurses >library. Both aalib (aafire) and mc (Midnight Commander) work just fine, >which indicates that curses is a go. Uh, no one said that cygwin did not support linki

Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Scott Wegner wrote: > My question is, whether there is a way to easily strip the Cygwin > entries from the path for the batch call. Hopefully the solution would > be portable, and not affect the environment outside of the bash script. PATH is just a regular variable like any other. If you want

RE: Using curses with -mno-cygwin

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
Stepp, Charles wrote on 25 March 2008 17:33: > I'd bet a shiny new quarter that cygwin supports linking to > the ncurses library. Well, if that was germane to the point, you'd be up a quarter, but as it stands, nobody said cygwin doesn't! Perhaps http://cygwin.com/acronyms#YSHFRTT? chee

RE: Using curses with -mno-cygwin

2008-03-25 Thread Stepp, Charles
I'd bet a shiny new quarter that cygwin supports linking to the ncurses library. Both aalib (aafire) and mc (Midnight Commander) work just fine, which indicates that curses is a go. ncurses(3X) ncurses(3X) NAME n

Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Kairys
"Scott Wegner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... However, I'd rather find a solution where the batch script can remain "unaware" of its Cygwin context. Once I get things working, I plan on creating bash script wrappers for many Windows batch scripts, so I'd like

Re: Wrong links?

2008-03-25 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Dave Korn ha scritto: > What do you mean by "wrong"? 'ls -l /bin' shows them in RED (as if they were unresolved), instead 'ls -l /usr/bin' shows them in CYAN, i.e. pointing to the right files. Cheers, Angelo. --- "Physics is like sex: sure it may give some pratical results, but that's not

Re: Wrong links? (Attn: netpbm, cvs, terminfo, and webcheck maintainers)

2008-03-25 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Igor Peshansky ha scritto: On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Angelo Graziosi wrote: I have noticed that if I do 'ls -l /bin' I get the following wrong links: X11 -> ../X11R6/bin pnmnoraw -> pnmtoplainpnm.exe [1] rcs2log -> ../share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log webcheck -> ../share/webcheck/webcheck

Re: Wrong links? (Attn: netpbm, cvs, and webcheck maintainers)

2008-03-25 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > I have noticed that if I do 'ls -l /bin' > > I get the following wrong links: > > X11 -> ../X11R6/bin > > pnmnoraw -> pnmtoplainpnm.exe [1] > > rcs2log -> ../share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log > webcheck -> ../share/webcheck/webcheck.py > > > If I

RE: Wrong links?

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
Angelo Graziosi wrote on 25 March 2008 14:38: > I have noticed that if I do 'ls -l /bin' > > I get the following wrong links: > > X11 -> ../X11R6/bin In what sense is that "wrong"? > pnmnoraw -> pnmtoplainpnm.exe [1] > > rcs2log -> ../share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log > webcheck -> ..

Wrong links?

2008-03-25 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have noticed that if I do 'ls -l /bin' I get the following wrong links: X11 -> ../X11R6/bin pnmnoraw -> pnmtoplainpnm.exe [1] rcs2log -> ../share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log webcheck -> ../share/webcheck/webcheck.py If I do 'ls -l /usr/bin', only [1] is still wrong, the remaining lin

Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-25 Thread Scott Wegner
Greg Chicares wrote: On 2008-03-25 13:30Z, Scott Wegner wrote: I am trying to create a "wrapper" Cygwin bash script to add functionality to an existing Windows batch script. In my Cygwin script, I would like to call the batch file with something like: ... cmd.exe /k batch-script.bat params .

Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-25 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2008-03-25 13:30Z, Scott Wegner wrote: > > I am trying to create a "wrapper" Cygwin bash script to add > functionality to an existing Windows batch script. In my Cygwin script, > I would like to call the batch file with something like: > > ... > cmd.exe /k batch-script.bat params > ... > >

MD Cygwin mirror

2008-03-25 Thread Chelban Vasile
Good day, How can someone become public Cygwin mirror (listed at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html) ? Currently FedoraMD.org has Cygwin mirror at http://repo.fedoramd.org/mirrors/cygwin/ Country: Moldova Country code: MD City: Chişinău Chelban Vasile FedoraMD.org site administrator -- U

Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-25 Thread Scott Wegner
Hello, I am trying to create a "wrapper" Cygwin bash script to add functionality to an existing Windows batch script. In my Cygwin script, I would like to call the batch file with something like: ... cmd.exe /k batch-script.bat params ... Calling the script in this fashion seems to generall

RE: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
Robert Latest wrote on 25 March 2008 08:50: > Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real > industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ Windows PC. God, I hadn't known > just how much Windows sucks. Everything around here is done with > Access and Excel and lots of ultra-slow

Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-25 Thread Robert Latest
Hello friends, Years ago, I heard of cygwin and installed it on a Windows PC that I occasionally had to use -- just to have access to bash and find, actually. Well, I liked it OK but viewed it as a more or less superfluous toy. I mean, why use cygwin when you can have a native, full-blown Linux sy