cpan has a problem Writing Makefile

2008-04-25 Thread Chap Harrison
Hi, I'm new to cygwin. Using setup.exe, I have installed the default cygwin installlation on XP, as well as the entire devel section. I'm trying to use cpan to install a Perl module (Text::CSV_XS) but it gives the following error message: Checking to see if your kit is complete... Looks good.

Re: How to run Cygwin from USB stick without admin access

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Domaskis
Martin Fischer wrote: >> Thorsten Kampe writes: >> * Paul Domaskis (Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:47:16 -0400) >>> I will be using a standalone Win2K machine on which I will likely not >>> have admin access. Will this be a problem, if I choose to install >>> only for the account of interest? >> >> No, I

RE: [ mingw-Patches-1789093 ] Modernize mingw10.dll build procedure

2008-04-25 Thread Danny Smith
> From: Charles Wilson > Sent: Saturday, 26 April 2008 2:05 p.m. > > SourceForge.net wrote: > > Patches item #1789093, was opened at 2007-09-06 14:33 > > > > Comment By: Danny Smith (dannysmith) > > Date: 2008-04-25 17:42 > > > > Ping! > > Danny, you'd do better to ping the main mingw [and cygw

Re: [ mingw-Patches-1789093 ] Modernize mingw10.dll build procedure

2008-04-25 Thread Charles Wilson
SourceForge.net wrote: Patches item #1789093, was opened at 2007-09-06 14:33 Comment By: Danny Smith (dannysmith) Date: 2008-04-25 17:42 Ping! Danny, you'd do better to ping the main mingw [and cygwin] lists. Comments on sf bugs go to the originator (me -- and I can't do anything about it,

OCEnvNlsCreate error using DBD::Oracle 1.21 on Cygwin 1.5

2008-04-25 Thread Dunston Rocks
Hi Firstly, thanks for continuing to work with me on this. Here's my script. and the output. I am able to connect to all databases in TNS_ADMIN/tnsnames.ora from the cygwin prompt, but am unable to get the script to connect. I have all the below-mentioned environment variables set in the Windows

Re: Just upgraded last night pop3 now giving errors

2008-04-25 Thread René Berber
Wes S wrote: I upgraded last night and so far everything seems to be working except for pop3. I telneted into it and this is what I get. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to barefoot.wess.mdns.org. Escape character is '^]'. +OK POP3 barefoot.wess.mdns

Re: Add OpenSC packages to cygwin?

2008-04-25 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, April 25, 2008 2:16 pm, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > Is anyone interested in maintaining a cygwin packages for OpenSC > projects? To whit: http://www.opensc-project.org/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html D

SetErrorMode (SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS) not working on Vista?

2008-04-25 Thread cygwin
I was running the libtool-2.2 testsuite on Vista [32bit Home Premium] (cygwin-1.5.25-12), and ran into something I thought was long dead: I kept getting popup windows like: X.exe has stopped working Windows is checking for a solution to the problem... which after about five seconds was replace

cygport missing features after 0.3.9 [Was: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: inetutils-1.5-3]

2008-04-25 Thread Charles Wilson
I just uploaded 0.3.9, so you should be able to start porting your customized .cygport's for it. Are there any other features you still need? Dunno. I'll port forward my existing patches (except the relocatable stuff), and then see. It's when I'm forward porting that I usually discover what'

fstatat support

2008-04-25 Thread Eric Blake
In trying to build findutils for cygwin 1.7.0, I'm running into: fts.c: In function `fts_stat': fts.c:1395: warning: passing arg 3 of `fstatat' from incompatible pointer type Is there any reason why you declared fstatat to take struct __stat64 * instead of struct stat like all the other *stat fu

Add OpenSC packages to cygwin?

2008-04-25 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Hello, We have just finished to update OpenSC's trunks [1], [2], [3] to support mingw cross compile and cygwin. tarballs are available at [4], [5], [6]. Any feedback is appreciated. Is anyone interested in maintaining a cygwin packages for OpenSC projects? Please CC me as I am not subscribed t

Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Dave Korn wrote: RGH[*]! FTDIchip are the bane of my life at the moment. Buggy drivers. I hate them so much . [*] - I just got back from rebooting a testrig that locked up due to buggy ftdichip drivers at about the twentytwo-hour point into a twentyseven-hour testrun. I am not happy.

Imagemagick : montage errors

2008-04-25 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
I updated the imagemagick package to the latest version through setup and now my scripts are failing with the following error. $ montage -version Version: ImageMagick 6.4.0 04/17/08 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2008 ImageMagick Studio LLC $ montage ./Wip1.png ./Wip

RE: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-25 Thread Dave Korn
Nefastor wrote on 25 April 2008 17:26: > Thanks Dave, I kinda suspected the FTDI drivers for the COM3 issue One tip I've learned is never, ever, ever, unplug them while you're still running your terminal software (or whatever) and it's got the port open. Disconnect, or exit the application, or

RE: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-25 Thread Nefastor
Thanks Dave, I kinda suspected the FTDI drivers for the COM3 issue (I've seen worse : once, the COM port number would be incremented every time the cable was unplugged and replugged). Unfortunately I'm stuck with FTDI chips as they are, AFAIK, the only USB-to-serial adapters I can buy as chips and

Re: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-25 Thread Nefastor
NightStrike wrote: > > What motherboard do you have? It's always possible that there is a > riser pinout for a serial port somewhere in the front of the board for > connection to a front panel mount. > No, I checked for that. Besides, this port would appear in Windows' device manager even if

RE: - stdin read problem

2008-04-25 Thread Dave Korn
Alexey Zakharov wrote on 25 April 2008 15:48: > The program does the following: > - The main thread creates a helper thread which reads stdin and prints > the data read. > - stdin is read via ReadFile() Win32 API function. No, that's *not* stdin. Stdin is file descriptor zero, and you aren't

- stdin read problem

2008-04-25 Thread Alexey Zakharov
Hi, I've attached simple cpp program which demonstrates the problem. The program works fine from cmd.exe, but fails when started from cygwin. The program does the following: - The main thread creates a helper thread which reads stdin and prints the data read. - stdin is read via ReadFile() Win32

- stdin read problem

2008-04-25 Thread Alexey Zakharov
Hi, I've attached simple cpp program which demonstrates the problem. The program works fine from cmd.exe, but fails when started from cygwin. The program does the following: - The main thread creates a helper thread which reads stdin and prints the data read. - stdin is read via ReadFile() Win32

RE: Looking for basic documentation on Cygwin and Serial Ports

2008-04-25 Thread Dave Korn
Nefastor wrote on 24 April 2008 23:08: > case : My machine has two serial port, one on the MoBo and a USB-serial > adapter, yet Windows calls them COM1 and COM3. Or /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS2, as they'll be known to cygwin. > Speaking of Windows' DM, it's rather quirky on the serial > ports :

Re: Install cygwin in Win2K as nonadmin from CD make from WinXP

2008-04-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Paul Domaskis (Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:27:04 -0400) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Paul Domaskis (Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:47:16 -0400) wrote: > >> I will be using a standalone Win2K machine on which I will likely > >> not have admin access. Will this be a problem, if I choose to > >> install only for th

Re: How to run Cygwin from USB stick without admin access

2008-04-25 Thread Fergus
>> ... but was stopped by the necessity to perform >> the mount command with admin rights. Hi, I use Cygwin the whole time from a mobile drive on home, work and other people's machines none of which have Cygwin installed (but they could have). The principles are the same as for CD-bound systems

How to run Cygwin from USB stick without admin access (was: Install cygwin in Win2K as nonadmin...)

2008-04-25 Thread Martin Fischer
> Thorsten Kampe writes: > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:06:02 +0200 > > * Paul Domaskis (Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:47:16 -0400) >> I will be using a standalone Win2K machine on which I will likely not >> have admin access. Will this be a problem, if I choose to install >> only for the a