[1.7] Cygwin 1.7 misnames hardlinks

2008-12-23 Thread Lawrence Mayer
Cygwin 1.7-37 and -36 misname certain hardlinks by adding an extra .exe extention: e.g. ln vgaoem.fon .. creates vgaoem.fon.exe in the parent directory, not vgaoem.fon as expected. The same bug occurs with cp -l vgaoem.fon .. This bug occurs when hardlinking all .fon files I hav

Re: Is it possible to install cygwin application passing the setup?

2008-12-23 Thread Alexander M. Batishchev
Hello. Thanks a lot for information you provided, it helps a lot! My formula to make using Cygwin magnificent: Create batch with body 'call "D:\Cygwin\bin\%1" %2 %3 ..' Add the directory contains it to %PATH% Call anything via 'cygwin foo -?' Cheers! PS. Please also tip me what does 'command

Re: Is it possible to install cigwyn application passing the setup?

2008-12-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Alexander M. Batishchev wrote: Hi. Hello. Please don't commandeer someone else's threads for your own use. If you have a new question for this list, just send a new message. Is it possible to install an application from cigwyn via any method, except setup? What for is there Cygwin Package Li

Re: Loginscript

2008-12-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
René Berber wrote: Andreas Pfister wrote: I have a question regarding the startup procedure of cygwin. I tried to put an .login file into my home folder with an simple command in it an suggested that this will be executed after starting up cygwin but nothing happened. Any ideas or approaches to

Re: Loginscript

2008-12-23 Thread René Berber
Andreas Pfister wrote: > I have a question regarding the startup procedure of cygwin. > I tried to put an .login file into my home folder with an simple command > in it an suggested that this will be executed after starting up cygwin > but nothing happened. Any ideas or approaches to get that work

Is it possible to install cigwyn application passing the setup?

2008-12-23 Thread Alexander M. Batishchev
Hi. Is it possible to install an application from cigwyn via any method, except setup? What for is there Cygwin Package List search, if the result for example 'uname' contains nothing about 'where a package or file lives in the Cygwin release'? Maybe I'm wrong, please tip me how to do that. Cheer

Loginscript

2008-12-23 Thread Andreas Pfister
Hi, I have a question regarding the startup procedure of cygwin. I tried to put an .login file into my home folder with an simple command in it an suggested that this will be executed after starting up cygwin but nothing happened. Any ideas or approaches to get that work ? Thanks a lot An

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-37

2008-12-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
Sorry for the duplicate messages. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-37

2008-12-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've just made a new release of the experimental 1.7 version of the Cygwin and utilities available. The ChangeLog is after the unsubscribe instructions. As announced in Corinna's first message about the 1.7 test, just download http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe and use that setup tool to install Cyg

[1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-37

2008-12-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've just made a new release of the experimental 1.7 version of the Cygwin and utilities available. The ChangeLog is after the unsubscribe instructions. As announced in Corinna's first message about the 1.7 test, just download http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe and use that setup tool to install Cyg

Re: Want to compile GCC 4.3.2 / 4.4.0 under cygwin.

2008-12-23 Thread Matt Wozniski
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Tim Prince wrote: > I'd be surprised if debian had a specific automatic dependency setup for > gcc build, although more of the tools would be included in the base > package selection, or come in automatically when installing gcc. Nothing specific to gcc, but Debian

Re: [1.7] Pipes intermittently lose data on Cygwin 1.7

2008-12-23 Thread Lawrence Mayer
On 081223 10:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm uploading a new version of the DLL now. Please give it a try. It should be there in 5 - 10 minutes. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Bug appears fixed in current snapshot cygwin-inst-20081223! Thanks Christopher! I appreciate your work

Re: [1.7] Pipes intermittently lose data on Cygwin 1.7

2008-12-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:27:14PM -0800, Lawrence Mayer wrote: Too bad. Since I can't duplicate the problem it will be difficult to fix it. > >>> Have you tried running the examples I provided in my original post >>> (with foo = ~ 5MB text file) on a DOS shell (cmd.exe)? > >> Yes. That

Re: About the spec of cygwin's setup.ini file.

2008-12-23 Thread Hongyi Zhao
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:03:26 -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >> 2- Furthermore, if I want make a local repository based on the >> setup.ini file, where should I put these pakcages? More specifically, >> should I use the field value of _install:_ or the field value of >> _source:_ to construct the local

Re: Want to compile GCC 4.3.2 / 4.4.0 under cygwin.

2008-12-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tim Prince on 12/23/2008 6:50 AM: > After installing automake, it is necessary to over-write autoconf with > autoconf 2.59 which is easily built from source, as gcc build requires > that specific version. The distro comes with a version o

Re: Want to compile GCC 4.3.2 / 4.4.0 under cygwin.

2008-12-23 Thread Tim Prince
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Hongyi Zhao on 12/23/2008 3:05 AM: >> I've try to use the setup.exe to do this thing. But I also meet the >> following issues: which packages are the dependent pakages of gcc >> 4.3.2? More specifically, in order to make gcc 4.3.2 work correctly, >> I should selec

Re: Want to compile GCC 4.3.2 / 4.4.0 under cygwin.

2008-12-23 Thread Hongyi Zhao
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:05:43 -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >In general, using setup.exe automatically selects all the dependencies >without you having to worry about what they are; so it is sufficient for >you to select gcc4 for installation, then install everything that was >selected at the same time

Re: Want to compile GCC 4.3.2 / 4.4.0 under cygwin.

2008-12-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Hongyi Zhao on 12/23/2008 3:05 AM: > I've try to use the setup.exe to do this thing. But I also meet the > following issues: which packages are the dependent pakages of gcc > 4.3.2? More specifically, in order to make gcc 4.3.2 work corr

Re: About the spec of cygwin's setup.ini file.

2008-12-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Hongyi Zhao on 12/23/2008 2:18 AM: > > 1- The above two entries in the setup.ini actually point to the same > source file: GConf2-2.14.0-2-src.tar.bz2, while they have different > other filelds, such as: install. That's because there ar

Re: Want to compile GCC 4.3.2 / 4.4.0 under cygwin.

2008-12-23 Thread Hongyi Zhao
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:19:44 -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >Yes, as evidenced by the fact that there is a gcc4 package containing a >build of gcc 4.3.2. But since a pre-existing binary exists, that may be >simpler for you than building your own. I've try to use the setup.exe to do this thing. But I

About the spec of cygwin's setup.ini file.

2008-12-23 Thread Hongyi Zhao
Hi all, I find that there're many duplicate lines in the cygwin's setup.ini file, e.g.: - @ GConf2-devel sdesc: "GNOME configuration database system (development)" ldesc: "GConf is a configuration database system, functionally similar to the Windows registry but lots better. I

Hello cygwin List --

2008-12-23 Thread Ben Kamen
Hi all, I'm sorry for posting this here if it's inappropriate for the list, but I already tried the correct list (I think) with a reply to post it here. So I'll re-post here in the hopes I can't get some instruction as to what I should do or a reply from a developer. Thanks, -Ben ===