Re: programming API to determine whether in 'Cygwin environment'

2008-07-10 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, July 10, 2008 10:06 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:49:06PM -0700, Tony Last wrote: >> My console program is built for native Windows (thus does not reply on >> cygwin1.dll). >> >> So I'm looking for a boolean method which will allow a program to tell >> whether i

Re: programming API to determine whether in "Cygwin environment"

2008-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:49:06PM -0700, Tony Last wrote: > >My console program is built for native Windows (thus does not reply on >cygwin1.dll). However, people may want to use it in a Cygwin environment and >if they do I want it to behave in a suitably "Unixy" way. The obvious >example is that

programming API to determine whether in "Cygwin environment"

2008-07-10 Thread Tony Last
My console program is built for native Windows (thus does not reply on cygwin1.dll). However, people may want to use it in a Cygwin environment and if they do I want it to behave in a suitably "Unixy" way. The obvious example is that when it prints out a pathname (which happens a lot) a Cygwin use

RE: perl-5.10.0-4 -> perl-5.10.0-5 site_perl update needed

2008-07-10 Thread Jan Dubois
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Reini Urban wrote: > I've analyzed the symbols in the dll's and found the explanation and > solution for this update problems. p5p and module authors need not to > be concerned. It's a simple cygwin perl update problem. > > In short: > All old perl-5.10.0-4 generated binary si

Re: binutils: ld --export-dynamic

2008-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:39:59AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > While you're waiting for the binutils list to get back to you, here's > another binutils issue. This is not a regression in 2.18, but rather a > longstanding difference in Cygwin behaviour versus Linux. > > When linking a pro

Re: mod_perl2 build problems

2008-07-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll wrote: | I have tried googling for this error, without finding a single hit, and | I have tried finding out which lib should provide the references above. | Would anybody on the list be able to point me in the right directi

Re: perl-5.10.0-4 -> perl-5.10.0-5 site_perl update needed

2008-07-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Reini Urban wrote: | In short: | All old perl-5.10.0-4 generated binary site_perl modules need to be | recompiled with perl-5.10.0-5. | They are not ABI cross-compatible with the new vendor and archlib modules. Say WHAT? I need to recompile all bi

Re: scheme implementations for cygwin

2008-07-10 Thread Warren Young
Nathan Thern wrote: What does ITP stand for, anyway? http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#ITP Search for that in the subject line of some recent messages to see what an ITP message normally looks like, then do that. :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repor

Re: scheme implementations for cygwin

2008-07-10 Thread Nathan Thern
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great! Care to ITP them? They're all a kinda rough. A little background here: a while ago I compiled as many scheme implementations as I could for cygwin. When cygport came out, I even made a few packages, but I never ran ge

Re: Problems installing Cygwin

2008-07-10 Thread Eric Berge
The postinstall scripts might not have run correctly, to really see what happened with them take a look at /var/log/setup.log Eric - Original Message From: Bryan A. Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:47:32 AM Subject: Problems installing

Re: Problems installing Cygwin

2008-07-10 Thread Sam Hanes
I (Sam Hanes) wrote: > > I need some more information to help: > > First, the output of `/bin/mount`, which is a list of all the > mountpoints on your system. The most common reason that the shell > can't find commands in the PATH is that the mount table has gotten > messed up. > > Second, the outp

Re: Problems installing Cygwin

2008-07-10 Thread Sam Hanes
Bryan A. Zimmer wrote: > > Most recently the post-install scripts seem to have run fine, and the > installation was complete, I attempted to start Cygwin. I even took the > precaution of creating the password and group files with the mkpasswd > and mkgroup programs, with the commands: > > $ mkpassw

Re: Problems installing Cygwin

2008-07-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Bryan A. Zimmer wrote: Hello. I have used Cygwin since the year 2000, possibly 1999. Throughout the years I have had no problem installing and using my Cygwin installation; first on Win98, WinNt, Windows 2000, and Windows = XP. This year however I have not been able to achieve a good installat

Re: Problems installing Cygwin

2008-07-10 Thread Warren Young
Bryan A. Zimmer wrote: there is not even a default path Perhaps your /etc/profile is damaged. If you open it in a text editor and it looks okay to you, diff it against /etc/defaults/etc/profile, that being the version that's installed when the Cygwin package that owns this file (dunno what

Problems installing Cygwin

2008-07-10 Thread Bryan A. Zimmer
Hello. I have used Cygwin since the year 2000, possibly 1999. Throughout the years I have had no problem installing and using my Cygwin installation; first on Win98, WinNt, Windows 2000, and Windows = XP. This year however I have not been able to achieve a good installation of = Cygwin. even th

Re: Perl-5.10 on a fresh install reports unable to remap Glob.dll

2008-07-10 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Dave Wombat wrote: Still no happiness. I followed the instructions to best of my ability and got: $ exec /bin/ash \[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ rebaseall ReBaseImage (/usr/bin/cygiconv-2.dll) failed with last error = 6 \[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\e[33m

Re: Perl-5.10 on a fresh install reports unable to remap Glob.dll

2008-07-10 Thread Reini Urban
2008/7/9 Dave Wombat: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dave Wombat schrieb: >>> >>> I did a fresh install of Cygwin on a Vista box. I needed to add some >>> Perl modules so I ran >>> Perl -MCPAN -e shell >>> >>> After the install began I got errors abou

Re: scheme implementations for cygwin

2008-07-10 Thread Reini Urban
Great! Care to ITP them? I would review them. We would just need debian links. At least bigloo and slib should be in the official distro. 2008/7/9 Nathan Thern: > I have compiled several scheme implementations natively on cygwin. > I've put them (with a couple of other packages I have created) in

Re: Event viewer application error?

2008-07-10 Thread Kevin M
Larry Hall (Cygwin) presented the following explanation : Kevin M wrote: Hello, I'm getting this error. /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron: PID 2784: (CRON) error (can't switch user c

mod_perl2 build problems

2008-07-10 Thread Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll
Dear list, I am trying to build mod_perl2 in my Cygwin environment, and the build stops at the following: make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/.cpan/build/mod_perl-2.0.4-Y5Qjqi/WrapXS/APR/ThreadRWLock' rm -f ../../../blib/arch/auto/APR/ThreadRWLock/ThreadRWLock.dll g++ --shared -Wl,--enab

Re: Updating cygwin from a remote shell?

2008-07-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, Thanks, all, for the responses. On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > rdesktop to connect to their Windows 2000 server and I'm not _very_ > > careful how I close down the rdesktop session then the server crashes. > > I've never seen this happen at all. By definition, any user ap

Re: perl-5.10.0-4 -> perl-5.10.0-5 site_perl update needed

2008-07-10 Thread Reini Urban
2008/7/10 Reini Urban: > I've analyzed the symbols in the dll's and found the explanation and > solution for this update problems. p5p and module authors need not to > be concerned. It's a simple cygwin perl update problem. > > In short: > All old perl-5.10.0-4 generated binary site_perl modules ne

perl-5.10.0-4 -> perl-5.10.0-5 site_perl update needed

2008-07-10 Thread Reini Urban
2008/7/9 Reini Urban: > 2008/7/9 Reini Urban: >> 2008/7/8 Reini Urban: >>> 2008/7/8 Gary R. Van Sickle: Hi Reini, It looks like something changed between perl 5.10.0-4 and -5 which breaks the DateTime module from CPAN (version 0.4302, latest). The attached Simple Tes