[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake-3-1

This package provides a wrapper system for the various automakeX.Y packages, and plays a role similar to that of the long-standing autoconf wrapper package. This wrapper system is based on the bash am-wrapper developed by the gentoo distribution, with tweaks to support cygwin's existing alternativ

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf2.5-2.63-1

Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. The autoconf2.5 package contains the latest edition of autoconf in the 2.5x release sequence (which includes 2.60, 2.61, etc). This will most likely be the final aut

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf2.1-2.13-5

Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. This is a packaging update of the autoconf2.1 package, which provides autoconf-2.13. This will most likely be the final autoconf2.1 update for the cygwin-1.5 distrib

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf-6-1

The autoconf package has been updated to version 6. Recall that this package is not the real autoconf, but is a wrapper system to delegate to the appropriate version of real autoconf (either 2.13 or 2.63 at present). This is a feature enhancement and compatibility update, which adds support for t

Re: setup.exe won't update

On 2008-10-08, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Gary Johnson wrote: > > > >> I did some searching for setup.exe debug hints and found out about >> /var/log/setup.log.full, so I've attached a copy of that. I also looked >> in /etc/setup for any clues that might be there. The installed.db file >> i

Re: [perl] Portably linking to libstdc++

> I was doing some testing of someone else's upcoming release of Devel::Size > (0.72), which > has been significantly rewritten and is quite different to the current CPAN > version (0.71). I believe I was the one who rewrote it recently. > If it does build for more recent cygwin perls, then I gue

RE: newbie to setting up ssh needs help

I've had issues with the file permissions in .ssh in the past, mine are all 600. I use the following when I need to add ssh access to a new account: cd $HOME chmod 0700 .ssh ssh-keygen -t dsa -f $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa -P '' cd $HOME/.ssh cp id_dsa.pub authorized

newbie to setting up ssh needs help

Hello, I'm requesting help getting ssh properly configured on a Win 2003 Server SP2. I've installed sshd and gotten it running using priv sep and the default sshd account. Here are the hosts.* and directory listings with the output of a login attempt to localhost. Any help would be greatl

Re: [PATCH] subversion-1.5.3 source: add aprutil lib to target

On 10/18/2008 10:51 PM, Ray Chuan wrote: I'm referring to the latest subversion-1.5.3 source file. Looking at build.conf, the subversion/libsvn_fs/libsvn_fs-1.la target in build-outputs.mk should have the $(SVN_APRUTIL_LIBS) path for the linker, but it doesn't. applying the below patch fixes thi

Re: Executables made by Linux is not running on Cygwin

* Rajagopal, Prasanth (Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:09:19 -0400) > I made some executables under Linux and it is not running under > Cygwin. It says command is not supported, if I run the exe. > I installed the cygwin latest one and I am new to Unix / Cygwin. What > other package has to be installed. I inst

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

Manning, Sid wrote: I appreciate everyone's insight and I will definitely checkout Mecklenburg's make book to get hard stats on the differences. Mecklenburg's book is much better put to use as the definitive reference for make :-) Chapter 10 "Improving the Performance of make" pp182-195 is wh

RE: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

> > "Manning, Sid" wrote: > > > >> I was surprised to see that I could compile much faster under VMware > >> than on Cygwin on the same host. > > > > Why is that surprising? > > Well, I can see why it might be surprising to anyone who isn't aware in > some > detail exactly /how/ much work Cygw

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

Mark J. Reed wrote: Long story short, this is probably not so much a Cygwin issue as general Windows issue... No, I think that's going too far. It's a mismatch between the Windows and UNIX process models, and the fact that compilation via make(1) is optimized for the latter. Agreed. I was

Re: [subversion 1.5.3.-1] package dependency suggestion

On 10/18/2008 10:05 PM, Ray Chuan wrote: > i think it would be useful to add the following dependencies for the > subversion source package: As cgf mentioned, setup.exe doesn't support build dependencies. However, /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/subversion-1.5.3.README does list the build dependencies. > -

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Ralph Hempel wrote: > It looks like you're comparing compiling under Cygwin on the > host machine to compiling under Linux on a VMWare machine running > on the host and finding the second way faster. Shocking! > Long story short, this is probably not so much a Cyg

RE: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

Brian Dessent wrote on 20 October 2008 18:30: > "Manning, Sid" wrote: > >> I was surprised to see that I could compile much faster under VMware >> than on Cygwin on the same host. > > Why is that surprising? Well, I can see why it might be surprising to anyone who isn't aware in some detai

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

"Manning, Sid" wrote: > I was surprised to see that I could compile much faster under VMware than on > Cygwin on the same host. Why is that surprising? Cygwin and VMware work on entirely different principles. Plus your chosen benchmark essentially tests the two slowest aspects of Cygwin, proce

Re: Problems with cron

- Original Message - From: "Jörg Schreiber" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:31 AM Subject: Problems with cron Hi, I've installed cygwin and I'm very pleased with it. Now I want to use cron to run some kind of backup script where I need the possibilities of a rea

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

Manning, Sid wrote: I've been happily using cygwin for many years but I recently loaded VMware on my system and it seemed pretty snappy, so much so I decided to see how it compared to native execution. I was surprised to see that I could compile much faster under VMware than on Cygwin on the sam

Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

I've been happily using cygwin for many years but I recently loaded VMware on my system and it seemed pretty snappy, so much so I decided to see how it compared to native execution.  I was surprised to see that I could compile much faster under VMware than on Cygwin on the same host.    I past

cygpath -m output incorrect on cygwin 1.7

Hi Folks, I run the setup-1.7 and upgraded my 1.5 version to try it out and I came across this. cygwin 1.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /cygdrive/g/dilkiel_Tug_parallel_1/SmallApps/TUG $ cygpath -m foo foo cygwin 1.7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/views/dilkiel_Tug_parallel_1/SmallApps/TUG $ cygpath -m foo C:/views

Problems with cron

Hi, I've installed cygwin and I'm very pleased with it. Now I want to use cron to run some kind of backup script where I need the possibilities of a real shell (not DOS). After installing cron and ssmtp I first got e-mails from cron. It seems to run, but since I've started cron as a service (2008

Re: Executables made by Linux is not running on Cygwin

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Danilo Turina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The long answer is... well there are hundreds of brilliant persons in this > list that can give you the long answer better than I could possibly do. Cygwin is source compatible, not binary compatible with Linux. This mea

Re: Executables made by Linux is not running on Cygwin

Hi, the short answer is: it won't work. Executables (and libraries) produced in Linux (and for Linux) do not run in Cygwin. Executables (and libraries) produced in Cygwin do not run in Linux (unless Wine or similar is used). The long answer is... well there are hundreds of brilliant perso

RE: Makefile error: target pattern contains no %

Rajagopal, Prasanth wrote on 20 October 2008 14:10: > However, I got an error like target pattern contains no % when I ran the > makefile. By searching, I came to know that a : should be removed, but I > am not sure where exactly to remove, though the line number is given. I > am new to makefile s

Executables made by Linux is not running on Cygwin

Hi all, I made some executables under Linux and it is not running under Cygwin. It says command is not supported, if I run the exe. I installed the cygwin latest one and I am new to Unix / Cygwin. What other package has to be installed. I installed the Note that the original codes are said to b

FW: Makefile error: target pattern contains no %

Hi all, I am new to cygwin / unix. I installed latest cygwin 1.5.25-15 by setup.exe and tried to build another open source project called NBIS FIngerPrint. The document says that it has been tested for Linux and Windows with Cygwin.

Re: [perl] Portably linking to libstdc++

Sisyphus wrote: > Apparently g++ needs a "-shared" but ld2 doesn't. (I don't understand that.) > > And I don't understand what is achieved by: > > gcc -shared -o > Size.dll -Wl,--out-implib=libSize.dll.a -Wl,--export-all-symbols > -Wl,--enable-auto-import > -Wl,--stack,8388608 -Wl,--enable-au

Re: [perl] Portably linking to libstdc++

- Original Message - From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . Please post the entire link command and not just the error. It's impossible to say what the true nature of the problem is otherwise. For example, if you're trying to link a library and not an executable then the abov

Re: cygwin-1.7 sshd/ssh-host-config install issues on Vista

On Oct 17 17:38, Herb Maeder wrote: > On 17 Oct 2008 20:06:35 EDT, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:50:48PM -0700, Herb Maeder wrote: > > >But the tcp_wrappers package is not listed as a dependency in the openssh > > >setup.hint file. > > > > libwrap0 is listed as an openssh

Re: problem compile with gcc

bjoe wrote: > The thing that confusing me is the error came from w32api packages, > not from source code. Maybe someone in this list can explain to me > about what going on here. You haven't provided enough information, such as what version of w32api you're using. If you aren't using the latest

Re: [perl] Portably linking to libstdc++

Sisyphus wrote: > Of course, the other option on both linux and cygwin is to set *both* > $Config{cc} and $Config{ld} to 'g++', and that works fine on linux, but > doesn't quite work on cygwin where I still get an undefined reference to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]': > > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/

Re: Powershell Ouput via Cygwin and Open SSH

Thanks very much Larry, even if i cant solve this issue i at least know the cause. Sadly i cant find tfy.exe anywhere. I dont suppose anyone here still has a copy? On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Calvert wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> I have b

Re: [perl] Portably linking to libstdc++

- Original Message - From: "Reini Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . Current cygwin perl already has g++ as LD for some releases. Good - I think that's a step in the right direction. (I wonder how we can get linux builds to start doing the same.) On my 5.8.8, LD is set to ld2 which, I t

problem compile with gcc

Dear Sir, When I try to compile C source with Cygwin I get this error (the source code originally write with borland) $ gcc -mno-cygwin test.c In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/../../../../include/w32api/security.h:38, from test.c:54: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-m

Problem restoring mount point in bash

Hi All, Background: 1. Running Cygwin (on USB Flash) on machine where there is Cygwin installed in local machine 2. I already making script which back up Cygwin mount (on local machine), put this back-up (remount.bat) in bin directory of Cygwin (on USB) and making new mount point for Cygwin (

Re: [perl] Portably linking to libstdc++

2008/10/20 Sisyphus: >> Really the correct way to link C++ code is by using g++ which doesn't >> require this manual -lstdc++ nonsense. Can't you just do that, by >> either fixing the makefile to link with $(CXX) or overriding the >> appropriate variable? > Aaah ... good point. I had missed somet