Re: installing DBI from cpan and getting this...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 thefinn wrote: | what the hell is it trying to do to /usr/bin anyhow? should it not just | install into /usr/lib/perl/site/blah ??? Some perl modules install scripts into /usr/bin. In this case, perl-DBI installs dbilogstrip, dbiprof, and dbiproxy

Directory Permissions issue

Running New Cygwin install on vista. Just would like to know how to change directory permissions for various directories... Any help appreciated. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/perl5 $ ls -l total 40 dr-xr-x---+ 51 Peter Users 40960 Jul 13 15:18 5.10 dr-xr-x---+ 3 Peter Users 0 Jul 13 15:18

installing DBI from cpan and getting this...

what the hell is it trying to do to /usr/bin anyhow? should it not just install into /usr/lib/perl/site/blah ??? Is there not a package I can install for this apart from compiling the cpan one? and just generally :( test.pl done TIMB/DBI-1.605.tar.gz make test -- OK Running make install P

Re: ppm disappeared

- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . $ ppm Can't locate ActivePerl/PPM/limited_inc.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/5.10 /usr/ lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-

ppm disappeared

After installing Activestate Perl on the Windows side, I no longer have a 'ppm' command on the Cygwin side. I ran the Cygwin setup and reinstalled Perl, but that did not make it work. Any ideas or suggestions? $ ppm Can't locate ActivePerl/PPM/limited_inc.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/per

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xdelta,xdelta-devel,libxdelta2}-1.1.4-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The xdelta set of packages, xdelta, xdelta-devel, and libxdelta2, have been updated to 1.1.4-1, leaving 1.1.3-3 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Changes from 1.1.3-1 are: * Add an implementation of xdp_generator_free() for u

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mathomatic-14.0.7-1

Minor bugfixes. The changes since 14.0.4 are minor: Warns when dividing by zero. "solve verify" was corrected by simplifying more. Presentation of expressions with coefficients is improved, and the readline history is now remembered between sessions. See http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/changes.t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: asciidoc-8.2.7-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new version of the asciidoc package, asciidoc 8.2.7-1, is now available for download, replacing 8.2.6-1 as current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, with upstream changes listed below. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/do

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cvsutils-0.2.5-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of cvsutils, 0.2.5-1, is available, leaving 0.2.3-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. From the NEWS file, the changes since 0.2.3-1 are: New in 0.2.5: * Take years from CVS/Entries as is, without "rolling centur

Re: daemon opens blank dos windows for its subprocess

* Pierre-Philipp Braun (Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:21:53 +0200) > > I'm using cygwin to filter my emails with fetchmail and procmail. > Problem is, when fetchmail launches procmail (mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f > - -m $HOME/.procmailrc.file"), it quickly opens and closes freacking > (blank) dos windows ! H

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

* William Sutton (Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:34:30 -0400 (EDT)) > All the same, you should probably check to see that whatever variables you > choose to key off of don't alter the way your program behaves in other > alternate Windows shells. A co-worker of mine uses 4NT, which provides > UNIX command

Re: CoPy to /dev/null fails

On Jul 11 22:05, Christian Franke wrote: > Hi, > > this works on Linux: > > $ cp file /dev/null > > but fails on Cygwin 1.5.25-15: > > $ cp file /dev/null > cp: cannot create regular file `/dev/null': Invalid request code > > > /dev/null exists, so /bin/cp opens it with O_TRUNC only. But this fails