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2008-06-18 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
Hello, I intend to build rawstudio (rawstudio.org) - somebody stated that he could do it, but I couldn't contact him so far. At configure step, rawstudio thrown the error saying he needs a newet gtk that cygwin provides by standard setup. I've took the lates gtk+ packages from www.gtk.org. I've

libgcrypt

2008-06-18 Thread d.henman
libgrypt : libgcrypt-1.4.1-4.tar.bz2 size: 101 kb This package is brain dead. No libraries in it. (as of 6/19/2008 (this time) Revert to: libgcrypt-1.4.1-2 (is necessary till fixed) Possible packaging problem? regards. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

2008-06-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might also try 7-Zip. You can download it from: http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-zip supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats. I use this and in my shell resource file I have aliased it to "7z" in instead

Re: installer is really confusing to use

2008-06-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 07:53:29PM -0400, alex wrote: >how do I just install a single package? It seems it wants to uninstall >then reinstall everything or some other option I don't want. The closest >I've been able to get is, select uninstall everything, download to disk first, >then install from

Re: Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

2008-06-18 Thread wynfield
You might also try 7-Zip. You can download it from: http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-zip supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats. I use this and in my shell resource file I have aliased it to "7z" in instead of putting the directory

installer is really confusing to use

2008-06-18 Thread alex
how do I just install a single package? It seems it wants to uninstall then reinstall everything or some other option I don't want. The closest I've been able to get is, select uninstall everything, download to disk first, then install from disk once that's complete but even that is unreliable. -

Re: Compiling from cvs and duplicate definition error on strsignal

2008-06-18 Thread Eric Blake
Brian Keener thesoftwaresource.com> writes: > > I was compiling a debug version of Cygwin after updating from current > cvs (starting from scratch) and got a conflicting types error on > definition of strsignal building libiberty/strsignal.c : > at line 409 of strsignal.c in > /usr/develop/s

Compiling from cvs and duplicate definition error on strsignal

2008-06-18 Thread Brian Keener
I was compiling a debug version of Cygwin after updating from current cvs (starting from scratch) and got a conflicting types error on definition of strsignal building libiberty/strsignal.c : at line 409 of strsignal.c in /usr/develop/src/src/src/libiberty/strsignal.c vs line 79 of string.h in

Re: Shift-Tab for Backwards Completion

2008-06-18 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Frank Jacobs (Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:49:18 -0500) > I've used the solution below so that I can go back in the completion > list in Bash via the SHIFT-TAB keystroke. However, I can only get it > to work when running in an xterm window (where $TERM=xterm). It > doesn't work in the plain-ol' Windows co

Re: Shift-Tab for Backwards Completion

2008-06-18 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Frank Jacobs (Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:49:18 -0500) > I've used the solution below so that I can go back in the completion > list in Bash via the SHIFT-TAB keystroke. However, I can only get it > to work when running in an xterm window (where $TERM=xterm). It > doesn't work in the plain-ol' Windows co

Re: Connecting to Access with Python from within Cygwin

2008-06-18 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Latest (Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:29:37 +0200) > I've written a small script in a Windows Python envoronment. This > script accesses an MS Access database using the win32 odbc module. > These are involked using this line: > > import odbc, dbi > > However, I greatly prefer the Linux/X look and

Re: Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

2008-06-18 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thomas Wiedmann (Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:19:30 +0200) > how can (Win)zip files (or certain files only of the zip archive) be > decompressed or at least be viewed with Cygwin? "unzip" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

2008-06-18 Thread Thomas Wiedmann
Hello, how can (Win)zip files (or certain files only of the zip archive) be decompressed or at least be viewed with Cygwin? Thanks for all good hints. Thomas Wiedmann -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html D

Re: subversion 1.4.6-1 dies with new cygwin install

2008-06-18 Thread David Rothenberger
On 6/17/2008 11:21 PM, René Berber wrote: Brian wrote: With a new cygwin install, subversion 1.4.6-1 dies on execution. Under XP, it silently exits. Under Vista, it launches the "This program has stopped working" dialog. This doesn't happen with a machine upgrading its version of cygwin, only o

Re: New mirror checker in operation

2008-06-18 Thread Robert Pendell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Faylor wrote: | On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:25:17PM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote: |> Christopher Faylor wrote: |>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:32:29PM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote: |>>> Christopher Faylor wrote: | I am running a new mirror

Re: New mirror checker in operation

2008-06-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:25:17PM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:32:29PM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote: >>>Christopher Faylor wrote: I am running a new mirror checker on the cygwin web site. It should do a much better job of finding vali

Re: 1.5.25-14 cygwin on Windows Server2008 Intel64 does not run

2008-06-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 18 18:10, Christoph Herdeg wrote: > Corinna: I don't think there is a version of Server 2008 for the ia64 > platform (yet?). So completely obviously he means the x86_64 flavour. You can download 2008 for ia64 from MSDN, for example. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, s

Re: New mirror checker in operation

2008-06-18 Thread Robert Pendell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Faylor wrote: | On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:32:29PM -0400, Robert Pendell wrote: |> Christopher Faylor wrote: |>> I am running a new mirror checker on the cygwin web site. It should do |>> a much better job of finding valid mirrors. The m

Re: 1.5.25-14 cygwin on Windows Server2008 Intel64 does not run

2008-06-18 Thread Christoph Herdeg
Corinna: I don't think there is a version of Server 2008 for the ia64 platform (yet?). So completely obviously he means the x86_64 flavour. However: the 1.5.25-12 installs and works on all our 2008 installations, no matter if 32 or 64bits...

Re: 1.5.25-14 cygwin on Windows Server2008 Intel64 does not run

2008-06-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 18 08:15, Eric Berge wrote: > I can't really claim that's the same problem. I also had a suspicion that > Vista with SP1 also could exhibit the problem, but that's pretty anecdotal at > this time. Nope, I have Vista x86_64 SP1 and 2008 x86_64 (obviously) SP1. Both work fine with the late

Re: 1.5.25-14 cygwin on Windows Server2008 Intel64 does not run

2008-06-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 18 17:51, Devor, Tevi wrote: > I have installed cygwin (1.5.25-14)on an Intel64 machine running Windows > Server2008 (Data Center) 64bit OS. > The installation goes fine ? but if I click on the cygwin icon, a cygwin > command prompt window appears for a second and then terminates. > I trie

Re: 1.5.25-14 cygwin on Windows Server2008 Intel64 does not run

2008-06-18 Thread Eric Berge
I've seen the same problem for several months now on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of 2008. Your /var/log/setup.log probably also shows that most if not all the postinstall scripts failed for the same reason. That said, there are other Win2008 boxes I have successfully installed on and I have

1.5.25-14 cygwin on Windows Server2008 Intel64 does not run

2008-06-18 Thread Devor, Tevi
I have installed cygwin (1.5.25-14)on an Intel64 machine running Windows Server2008 (Data Center) 64bit OS. The installation goes fine – but if I click on the cygwin icon, a cygwin command prompt window appears for a second and then terminates. I tried running: C:\cygwin\bin>C:\cygwin\Cygwin.b

Re: subversion 1.4.6-1 dies with new cygwin install

2008-06-18 Thread Brian
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:21 AM, René Berber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> With a new cygwin install, subversion 1.4.6-1 dies on execution. Under >> XP, it silently exits. Under Vista, it launches the "This program has >> stopped working" dialog. This doesn't happen with a machine upgrading >> it

Re: Cygwin app not receiving modified PATH env var

2008-06-18 Thread Mike Mueller
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:30:22PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > As I said, PATH is fetched with GetEnvironmentStrings from the env like > every other environment var, if the Cygwin app has been started by a > native parent. It's just massaged into a POSIX path afterwards. > There's no magic in

Re: cygwin 1.7 problems: network, path, file system

2008-06-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 18 11:27, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Hello, I had a number of problems with cygwin 1.7: > > > -- > Network problems > > > No /etc/fstab - this has been discussed in other mails, but I am mentioning > it This is not a general problem, just in your installation. Did you u

Re: Cygwin app not receiving modified PATH env var

2008-06-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 18 05:30, Mike Mueller wrote: > Obviously PATH is special to cygwin, because it has to transform the > Windows representation into a Unix-like representation. I agree with > you that it *should* be pulled in like any other variable, but I'm not > familiar with cygwin's under-the-hood workin

Re: Cygwin app not receiving modified PATH env var

2008-06-18 Thread Mike Mueller
Thanks for the replies, Corinna. > > A little further info. It looks like apr detects a unicode environment, > > so ultimately is calling CreateProcessW (not CreateProcessA). > > How do you pass your unicode env? Do you set the CREATE_UNICODE_ENVIRONMENT > flag? I get a snapshot of the current

cygwin 1.7 problems: network, path, file system

2008-06-18 Thread Thomas Wolff
Hello, I had a number of problems with cygwin 1.7: -- Network problems No /etc/fstab - this has been discussed in other mails, but I am mentioning it as I am having other network problems too: I cannot copy to a Hummingbird-nfs-mounted device anymore. This is when mounting

Re: Cygwin app not receiving modified PATH env var

2008-06-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 18 04:00, Mike Mueller wrote: > A little further info. It looks like apr detects a unicode environment, > so ultimately is calling CreateProcessW (not CreateProcessA). How do you pass your unicode env? Do you set the CREATE_UNICODE_ENVIRONMENT flag? > Also, if I pass environment variable

Re: Cygwin app not receiving modified PATH env var

2008-06-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 17 21:05, Mike Mueller wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:41:52PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > > I have a program (native win32) that is capable of launching > > sub-processes, using apr (apache portable runtime), which is essentially > > a wrapper around CreateProcess in the Windows API.

Re: Cygwin app not receiving modified PATH env var

2008-06-18 Thread Mike Mueller
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:05:36PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:41:52PM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > > I have a program (native win32) that is capable of launching > > sub-processes, using apr (apache portable runtime), which is essentially > > a wrapper around CreateProc