Re: perl.exe: fatal error on Vista

2008/8/12 hce: > I installed cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe on Vista. I am > building the VLC at the moment and had following error for cygwin > perl.exe. Could anyone advise what I was missing? > > + autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4 > 4 [main] perl 920 C:\Tools\Cygwin

Re: changed behaviour in date command

Hi Brian, Thanks for the reply. I'll switch to %H. My mistake. br, Nicholas > Nicholas Volk wrote: > >> After I updated cygwin today (bash updated) this no longer works as >> such, >> because the behaviour of %k has changed: instead of the usual "07" I now >> get " 7". Is this intentional? At

Re: changed behaviour in date command

Nicholas Volk wrote: > After I updated cygwin today (bash updated) this no longer works as such, > because the behaviour of %k has changed: instead of the usual "07" I now > get " 7". Is this intentional? At least in my opinion the new behaviour is > worse than the original. The date command is p

changed behaviour in date command

Hi all, I have used script to pach a group of files. The relevant command in the script has been tar -jcvf api-`date '+%Y%m%d%k%M'`.tbz files After I updated cygwin today (bash updated) this no longer works as such, because the behaviour of %k has changed: instead of the usual "07" I now get " 7

Cygwin installation breaks ALL telnet clients

We are seeing an issue where after installing Cygwin and including the inetutils package in order to get telnet access, none of the telnet clients on the system will work properly (not Cygwin's, Microsoft's, PuTTY, nothing). The issue persists even after removing Cygwin. In the Cygwin telnet clien

perl.exe: fatal error on Vista

Hi, I installed cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe on Vista. I am building the VLC at the moment and had following error for cygwin perl.exe. Could anyone advise what I was missing? + autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4 4 [main] perl 920 C:\Tools\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** f

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RE: I have installed cygwin under GNU/Linux + Wine, but the file i/o is so slow.

Brian Dessent wrote on 11 August 2008 21:12: > eric zhao wrote: > >> But it need more time preparing a cross toolchain than installing cygwin >> for me. I will find or make a cross toolchain. > > If you're using Debian then you can just apt-get install mingw32. > > Brian If not, there's a ha

Re: PATCH: cygutils/cygstart - wait till task terminates (i.e. run in foreground)

On 11-Aug-2008 18:26, Barry Kelly wrote: I find cygstart useful generally, but ShellExecute/Ex has more options than cygstart exposes. In particular, I'd like to be able to write a script that starts an action and waits for it to complete, and then perform another action. This means that I don't

Re: I have installed cygwin under GNU/Linux + Wine, but the file i/o is so slow.

eric zhao wrote: > But it need more time preparing a cross toolchain than installing cygwin for > me. > I will find or make a cross toolchain. If you're using Debian then you can just apt-get install mingw32. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gvim-7.2-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** gvim-7.2-1 This is an update to the vim GTK+2 GUI. It requires a simultaneous update to vim-7.2.* for the runtime files. Yaakov DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads fr

PATCH: cygutils/cygstart - wait till task terminates (i.e. run in foreground)

I find cygstart useful generally, but ShellExecute/Ex has more options than cygstart exposes. In particular, I'd like to be able to write a script that starts an action and waits for it to complete, and then perform another action. This means that I don't want cygstart to return until the process

Re: How to access windows files?

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:06:54PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >circ ular wrote on 11 August 2008 10:49: > >> How do I access windows files from cygwin? >> >> I found it before it was something like cd /cygwin/c/ and then I could >> move around in my windows files. > > > Almost! It's /cygdrive/c/ th

Re: openssh, XP and network drives not working *with* password auth

On 08/11/2008, Jamie Lokier wrote: Several of the error messages I got from ssh-host-config I entered into Google, and got only a few mails relating to installing on 64-bit Vista. My computer is neither 64-bit, nor is it running Vista. Could it be to do with XP Service Pack 3 (relatively new)?

Re: Can't find how to fetch from the web

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:43:00AM +, Circular Function wrote: >Believe me I have googled and read the faqs but I can't find how to >download from the web. Go back to the main cygwin page at http://cygwin.com/ and read the section called "Installing and Updating Cygwin". -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: How do I fetch files from the web?

circ ular wrote: there is no option to install curl or cweb from setup.exe. at least i dont find it in the alternatives. There is no cweb package. Curl is there: Try clicking on "View" in 'setup.exe' until you get to the "Full"

Re: FW: /dev/null Not Found

Singh, Abhijeet wrote: Hi, I am not able to compile using DOT Net Compiler. It complains that /dev/null not found. Why would a Win32 compiler understand '/dev/null'? Perhaps you need to be a little more descriptive about what you're doing here. ;-) Similar setup on another Win-XP Box runs f

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.2-1

Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.2-1. There is no 16-bit DOS version, the executable is too big to fit in the limited memory space. I guess Bill Gates was wrong :-) Note that I'm not bashing Microsoft here, I'm just amused because I've got more RA

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.39-20

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 8/11/2008 6:37 AM: | A new release of bash, 3.2.39-29, has been uploaded, replacing 3.2.39-19 | as current, and leaving 3.1-6 as previous. Oops - I had a typo. If it isn't obvious, the new release is 3.2.39-20, not -29.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.39-20

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.2.39-29, has been uploaded, replacing 3.2.39-19 as current, and leaving 3.1-6 as previous. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release, which blindly installs /bin/sh rather than using a postinstall script prone to failure. Th

RE: I have installed cygwin under GNU/Linux + Wine, but the file i/o is so slow.

eric zhao wrote on 11 August 2008 11:50: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I want to compile some win32 OSS in my linux box just for fun. >>> I know this might sound crazy! >> >> Then you want a cross-compiler, not wine. > > Yeah, I know that. > But

RE: I have installed cygwin under GNU/Linux + Wine, but the file i/o is so slow.

eric zhao wrote on 11 August 2008 10:08: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Samuel Thibault > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> eric zhao, le Sun 10 Aug 2008 09:14:10 +0800, a écrit : >>> After install cygwin under wine, >>> I try to run "tar -xvf linux-2.6.25.7.tar.bz2". >>> It spent about 20 minutes

RE: How to access windows files?

circ ular wrote on 11 August 2008 10:49: > How do I access windows files from cygwin? > > I found it before it was something like cd /cygwin/c/ and then I could > move around in my windows files. Almost! It's /cygdrive/c/ that you're looking for. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of

Re: How to access windows files?

2008/8/11 circ ular <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How do I access windows files from cygwin? > > I found it before it was something like cd /cygwin/c/ and then I could > move around in my windows files. > So close! - it's /cygdrive/c/ (assuming it's the C drive you want to access). -- AdamT "At times

Re: I have installed cygwin under GNU/Linux + Wine, but the file i/o is so slow.

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I want to compile some win32 OSS in my linux box just for fun. >> I know this might sound crazy! > > Then you want a cross-compiler, not wine. Yeah, I know that. But it need more time preparing a cross toolchain than inst

Re: How do I fetch files from the web?

there is no option to install curl or cweb from setup.exe. at least i dont find it in the alternatives. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, August 11, 2008 2:50 am, circ ular wrote: >> 1. how do I install packages once I already have insta

Re: How do I fetch files from the web?

On Mon, August 11, 2008 2:50 am, circ ular wrote: > 1. how do I install packages once I already have installed cygwin? Use http://cygwin.com/setup.exe to select additional packages. > 2. what do I write do download from a specific internetadress. This list is for cygwin-specific questions, not g

How do I fetch files from the web?

Believe me I have googled and read the faqs but I can't find how to download from the web. I have installed cygwin and it works but I think I need a package although web was default in my download. 1. how do I install packages once I already have installed cygwin? 2. what do I write do download

How to access windows files?

How do I access windows files from cygwin? I found it before it was something like cd /cygwin/c/ and then I could move around in my windows files. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http:

FW: /dev/null Not Found

Hi, I am not able to compile using DOT Net Compiler. It complains that /dev/null not found. Similar setup on another Win-XP Box runs fine. I am aware that I can replace /dev/null with a File Name and it will run but that is not a permanent solution. Lots of archives on the mailing list suggest

Re: I have installed cygwin under GNU/Linux + Wine, but the file i/o is so slow.

eric zhao wrote: > I want to compile some win32 OSS in my linux box just for fun. > I know this might sound crazy! Then you want a cross-compiler, not wine. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentat

Re: I have installed cygwin under GNU/Linux + Wine, but the file i/o is so slow.

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eric zhao, le Sun 10 Aug 2008 09:14:10 +0800, a écrit : >> After install cygwin under wine, >> I try to run "tar -xvf linux-2.6.25.7.tar.bz2". >> It spent about 20 minutes. >> >> How to improve the file i/o performance? >

openssh, XP and network drives not working *with* password auth

Hi, I have a problem which at first seems to have been asked a hundred times: How do I access network shares from an ssh session? The trouble is, everything I found via Google, the Cygwin docs, FAQ etc. says the same thing: It works fine if you login with a password. If you login witho

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.2-1

I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.2-1. This is an update to the new upstream version 7.2. Cygwin Vim builds from the vanilla sources. The official release message: === Hello Vim users, Announcing: Vim (Vi

Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

On Aug 10 23:56, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > I'll make the relevant change to cygport before the next release, and > I've attached a patch to htdocs/setup.html as well. Applied. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Lea

Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:20:39PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Well, one of the problems with both cygport's current automatic handling of info files, and the _update-info-dir metapackage, is that nobody ever runs install-info --remove. And really, I don't see any way