Re: No bash.exe in bin after "successful" installation

2008-08-28 Thread Monwhea Jeng
--- "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I recall, post-texmf takes a long time > with its > postinstall script. You can try running it yourself > from > 'bash' to see if it will finish in a few hours. > After which > you should rerun 'setup.exe' to finish off all the >

RE: Probably stupid make question

2008-08-28 Thread Phil Smith
Well, I said it was probably stupid :-) Ok, I'll dig into it some more. It seemed worth asking in case everyone said "Hey, dip, use the -XYZ option". ...phsiii -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2

Re: bash -c '$COMSPEC' # worked sometime b4 cygwin 1.5.24-2

2008-08-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tom Rodman wrote: On Thu 8/28/08 22:38 +0200 Reini Urban wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) schrieb: There hasn't been any effort to support Windows paths in Cygwin for a long time. That doesn't mean it wouldn't have worked sometime in the past. it worked in cygwin 1.5.19-4 A nice long ride it h

Re: bash -c '$COMSPEC' # worked sometime b4 cygwin 1.5.24-2

2008-08-28 Thread Tom Rodman
On Thu 8/28/08 22:38 +0200 Reini Urban wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) schrieb: > > There hasn't been any effort to support Windows paths in Cygwin for a long > > time. That doesn't mean it wouldn't have worked sometime in the past. it worked in cygwin 1.5.19-4 > > It's just that doing so is not

Re: Limited regex support in newlib cripples syntax highlighting in nano

2008-08-28 Thread Lapo Luchini
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 1 10:03, Tomi Belan wrote: Cygwin regex.h implementation doesn't support some special sequences, for example \< (beginning of word), \> (end of word) and \b (word boundary). What you're looking for are perl regular expressions and they are only available if nano

Re: bash -c '$COMSPEC' # worked sometime b4 cygwin 1.5.24-2

2008-08-28 Thread Reini Urban
Larry Hall (Cygwin) schrieb: There hasn't been any effort to support Windows paths in Cygwin for a long time. That doesn't mean it wouldn't have worked sometime in the past. It's just that doing so is not a goal of this project. Use the POSIX form of the path and will work nicely for you -

Re: Probably stupid make question

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:13:47PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Phil Smith wrote: >>We're perverting CMake and Cygwin make to use a cross-compiler for z/OS >>(IBM mainframe). We've beaten it mostly into submission, but are >>hitting an issue with definitions being passed. Cygwin make seems to >>b

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: icu-3.8-4

2008-08-28 Thread Reini Urban
The icu library, the IBM Internationalization Components for Unicode were updated to 3.8-4. Only libicu-devel was changed, but the other icu packages were also touched. This release fixes a minor w32api development issue as reported by Samuel Thibault. It allows now: #include #include

Re: Probably stupid make question

2008-08-28 Thread Brian Dessent
Phil Smith wrote: > We're perverting CMake and Cygwin make to use a cross-compiler for z/OS (IBM > mainframe). We've beaten it mostly into submission, but are hitting an issue > with definitions being passed. Cygwin make seems to be passing them in the > format: > -Dvarname value > rat

Probably stupid make question

2008-08-28 Thread Phil Smith
We're perverting CMake and Cygwin make to use a cross-compiler for z/OS (IBM mainframe). We've beaten it mostly into submission, but are hitting an issue with definitions being passed. Cygwin make seems to be passing them in the format: -Dvarname value rather than: -Dvarname=val

Re: Domain Suffix Search

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:48:24AM -0700, Jack D. Maddux wrote: > I have looked every where I possibly could, and not found any issues/fixes > for why cygwin is not using the domain suffix search order. There is > nothing I can find regarding any sort of resolv.conf solution either. Has > anyone

Domain Suffix Search

2008-08-28 Thread Jack D. Maddux
I have looked every where I possibly could, and not found any issues/fixes for why cygwin is not using the domain suffix search order. There is nothing I can find regarding any sort of resolv.conf solution either. Has anyone seen or heard of this? -jack -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

Re: openssl errors creating password for certificate authority (CA Request)

2008-08-28 Thread Auteria W. Winzer Jr.
Here's the steps in creating the CA request and self-signed cert: [ ! -d /etc/pki/root ] && mkdir -p /etc/pki/root/ && chmod -f 00700 /etc/pki/root/ cd /etc/pki/root/ /usr/bin/openssl rand -out .rnd0 1024 /usr/bin/openssl rand -out .rnd1 1024 /usr/bin/openssl rand -out .rnd2 1024 /usr/bin/openssl

Re: printf: %ls or %S does not work when string is of length 1.

2008-08-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jason Tishler wrote: > This is one option -- possibly a difficult one. Hmm, my mindreading isn't working so well today. What do you mean by that? > Another option is to only support Python 3.0 under Cygwin 1.7 > and later. Not optimal, but may no

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Eric Blake wrote: > Usually, if something is not provided, it is because no one has > volunteered to port it yet. You are welcome to try building it yourself, ...or check if it's in Cygwin Ports already :-) http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/

Re: [1.7.0-29] can't create master tty

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:38:25AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >The reason I asked is that I did try it, and found that bash wouldn't start at >all. Thought maybe I was using 1.5. Stay tuned, I'll submit a fuller report. There are easy ways to figure out if the DLL is 1.7. You can just run un

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ed-1.0-1

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of ed available for installation. This version is a refresh from the currently released FSF version of this package. For a listing of the files contained in this package see http://cygwin.com/packages/ed . To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" lin

Re: [1.7.0-29] can't create master tty

2008-08-28 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:17:49AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> > 3 [main] bash 212 c:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - > >> > Can't > >> >create master tty > >> > >> You forgot to mention that you need to set CYGWIN=tty before starting the > >> process. > > > >Yep, I did.

Re: libicu: conflict on int32_t definition

2008-08-28 Thread Reini Urban
2008/8/28 Samuel Thibault: > Reini Urban, le Wed 27 Aug 2008 10:33:09 +0200, a écrit : >> You can also patch /usr/include/unicode/pwin32.h until I get out a new >> release. >> >> Add: >> #ifdef __CYGWIN__ >> #define U_HAVE_INTTYPES_H >> #endif >> >> at the beginning of the file, below the _MSC_VER

Re: printf: %ls or %S does not work when string is of length 1.

2008-08-28 Thread Jason Tishler
Corinna, On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:13:15PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 28 08:41, Jason Tishler wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:27:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Thanks for the testcase. This looks like a bug in the newlib > > > function _wcsrtombs_r. I'll send a bug

RE: End of support for 9x

2008-08-28 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:38 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: End of support for 9x > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:21:20AM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: > >We volunte

Re: Where is the 1.7 download?

2008-08-28 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:30:31AM -0400, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: >> So, it was let slip sometime ago: >> >> www.cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe > > "let slip" as in "search google and it's easy enough to find". Shhh!!! Now you've told them ab

Re: Where is the 1.7 download?

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:30:31AM -0400, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > So, it was let slip sometime ago: > > www.cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe "let slip" as in "search google and it's easy enough to find". cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:/

Re: Where is the 1.7 download?

2008-08-28 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
So, it was let slip sometime ago: www.cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/do

Re: openssl errors creating password for certificate authority (CA Request)

2008-08-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 28 16:00, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > FWIW, I'm in the process of updating neon to the latest version and see the > same error in the latest neon test suite with > openssl-0.9.8h (the latest): > > Write out database with 1 new entries > Data Base Updated > + MKPKCS12='/usr/bin/openssl p

RE: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread Dave Korn
John Emmas wrote on 28 August 2008 15:48: > - Original Message - > From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BTW, one tradition we have on this list is please don't quote people's email addresses in the body of your email. See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR. >> [Please don't co

Re: openssl errors creating password for certificate authority (CA Request)

2008-08-28 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Aug 27 00:33, Auteria W. Winzer Jr. wrote: >> I opt to use a challenge password for sending a CA request. When I incorporate the challenge password I get the following error: >> >> Please enter the following 'extra' attributes >> to be sent

Re: [1.7.0-29] can't create master tty

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:17:49AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> > 3 [main] bash 212 c:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - Can't >> >create master tty >> >> You forgot to mention that you need to set CYGWIN=tty before starting the >> process. > >Yep, I did. Standard for screen in

Re: Where is the 1.7 download?

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:07:04AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>Rex Basham wrote: >>>I keep reading posts about Cygwin version 1.7.x. >>> >>>Where is the download for the Windows Setup package if there is one? >>> >>>I have ran every link I can find on the Cygwin home page and only find >>>downl

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries. [Please don't commandeer existing threads to start a new topic] Oops, sorry! Most mailing lists start a new topic automatically as long as you change the email's subj

Re: printf: %ls or %S does not work when string is of length 1.

2008-08-28 Thread Ralph Hempel
Jason Tishler wrote: If you are going to release another Cygwin 1.5, would you be willing to back port this fix? Otherwise, Python 3.0 will not be able to run under Cygwin 1.5. And the madness begins Ralph -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem report

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

2008-08-28 Thread Barry Kelly
Michael Schaap wrote: > On 11-Aug-2008 18:26, Barry Kelly wrote: > > I find cygstart useful generally, but ShellExecute/Ex has more options > > than cygstart exposes. > > I've attached the patch for review. Is there any other place I should be > > posting to submit this patch? > > > > > This i

Re: [1.7.0-29] can't create master tty

2008-08-28 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > 3 [main] bash 212 c:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - Can't > >create master tty > > You forgot to mention that you need to set CYGWIN=tty before starting the > process. Yep, I did. Standard for screen in a DOS console, so I forgot to mention it. > It should be fixed in the

Re: Where is the 1.7 download?

2008-08-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 28 09:07, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Rex Basham wrote: > > > I keep reading posts about Cygwin version 1.7.x. > > > > > > Where is the download for the Windows Setup package if there is one? > > > > > > I have ran every link I can find on the Cygwin home page and only find > > > downloads

Re: printf: %ls or %S does not work when string is of length 1.

2008-08-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 28 08:41, Jason Tishler wrote: > Corinna, > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:27:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Thanks for the testcase. This looks like a bug in the newlib function > > _wcsrtombs_r. I'll send a bug report and a proposed fix upstream. > > This will be fixed in Cygwin

Re: Where is the 1.7 download?

2008-08-28 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Rex Basham wrote: > > I keep reading posts about Cygwin version 1.7.x. > > > > Where is the download for the Windows Setup package if there is one? > > > > I have ran every link I can find on the Cygwin home page and only find > > downloads for version 1.5.x > > > > Thanks in advance for any i

Re: Python and sqlite3

2008-08-28 Thread Jason Tishler
Yaakov, On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 08:04:42PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > BTW, have you tried python3.0 yet? No, I haven't. Sounds like I should... :,( > I've run into some issues: > > http://bugs.python.org/issue3626 I appreciate

Re: printf: %ls or %S does not work when string is of length 1.

2008-08-28 Thread Jason Tishler
Corinna, On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:27:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Thanks for the testcase. This looks like a bug in the newlib function > _wcsrtombs_r. I'll send a bug report and a proposed fix upstream. > This will be fixed in Cygwin 1.7. If you are going to release another Cygwin 1

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Please don't commandeer existing threads to start a new topic] According to John Emmas on 8/28/2008 5:50 AM: > 1) Am I right in assuming that these are supplied as pre-compiled binaries > with associated header files? Yes (although often, the heade

Re: .gitk CR-LF line ending triggers git warning

2008-08-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Matt Seitz on 8/27/2008 11:54 PM: > Why does ".gitk" use CR-LF line endings instead of just LF? Probably because it is designed to be read by TCL/TK, which (for now) is a native windows program rather than a full-blown cygwin program, s

[1.5.25-15]postinstall script failures exit code=128

2008-08-28 Thread Phil Ten
This is sort of a follow up of my other post: 1.5.25-15:bash failure with all basic commands On the same Windows Server 2003, when I install cygwin (after a full uninstall) I have no visible error reported during the install process, but the setup.log (attached) reports postinstall script fail

A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread John Emmas
Hi guys, I noticed that the setup package for Cygwin includes (optionally) lots of 3rd party libraries. For example, in the audio section, there are libraries for flac, libogg. libesound etc. This raises a few obvious questions:- 1) Am I right in assuming that these are supplied as pre-compile