Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:40:31PM -0800, rhubbell wrote: >On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:32:23 -0500 >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Please stop this off-topic discussion. Warning #1. >I'll stop if you do. Warning #1. Ok, so long then. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simp

Re: [OT] Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread rhubbell
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:22:05 -0500 Dave Korn wrote: > How frequently you notice it may be different from how frequently other > people notice it, hopefully in proportion to whether you are more or less of a > jerk than whichever other people you choose to compare yourself against. You seemed to

Re: wget, ssh, ssh-agent hang in socket_cleanup

2009-02-24 Thread Paul McFerrin
I tried updating cygwin1.dll up to version 1.7 on my production system and it (system) failed to start. So I backed it out for now unless someone can give me some help is upgrading to 1.7 as I have NO experience with 1.7. Here are my errors: Huh? No /etc/fstab file in \??\C:\cygwin\etc\fsta

Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread rhubbell
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:32:23 -0500 Christopher Faylor wrote: > Please stop this off-topic discussion. Warning #1. I'll stop if you do. Warning #1. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http:

Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:05:05PM -0800, rhubbell wrote: >On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:33:53 -0500 >Greg Freemyer wrote: >>A lot of Linux mailing lists have that policy. Especially if it is >>high volume or has a large subscriber base. The idea is that someone >>can read a single email and understand

[OT] Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread Dave Korn
rhubbell wrote: > I was mostly noticing how frequent the "list policing" is here. How frequently you notice it may be different from how frequently other people notice it, hopefully in proportion to whether you are more or less of a jerk than whichever other people you choose to compare yoursel

Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread rhubbell
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:33:53 -0500 Greg Freemyer wrote: > A lot of Linux mailing lists have that policy. Especially if it is > high volume or has a large subscriber base. The idea is that someone > can read a single email and understand it without having to bounce all > over the place. I was mo

Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 04:44:58PM -0600, Ben Kamen wrote: > Greg Freemyer wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:35 PM, rhubbell wrote: >>> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:15:33 -0500 >>> Greg Chicares wrote: By the way, this list discourages full quoting: http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU >>>

graphics programming - beginner

2009-02-24 Thread H Le
Hi, The previous message I asked was "the path to graphics.h library" but it seems to get more confusion. After searching for awhile, it seems that the graphics.h library is obsoleted. I try to compile some simple graphics program but unsure what libraries to #include and what compile parameter

Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread rhubbell
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:45:21 -0500 Ben Kamen wrote: > What still always makes me laugh is the people who are so emphatic about top > vs. bottom posting. If born sooner they would be shouting "Get of my lawn!". -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread rhubbell
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:12:00 -0500 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Thanks for sharing. Well, of course, if this bothers you to some great > extent, you need not stay. We won't follow you home. Promise! :-) Thank you too for sharing. (^: -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscri

Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
rhubbell wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:15:33 -0500 Greg Chicares wrote: By the way, this list discourages full quoting: http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU Ok, this is one neurotic list. Thanks for sharing. Well, of course, if this bothers you to some great extent, you need not stay. W

Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Ben Kamen wrote: But what made me laugh about the .sig was that it missed something. it said something along the idea of: Because it just does. Why. Yes. So, does that make it evil? because it reverses the flow of discussion. why is top posting evil? I had to laugh when I saw this! In any

Re: wget, ssh, ssh-agent hang in socket_cleanup

2009-02-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Paul McFerrin wrote: I would be happy to try it. I'm currently running version "- Paul1.5.25-15". How do I download version 1.7? Setup is giving me 1.5.25-14! As expected. If you want 1.7, go to the cygwin-announce mailing list and read one of the (preferably the latest) 1.7 announcements

Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread Ben Kamen
Greg Freemyer wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:35 PM, rhubbell wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:15:33 -0500 Greg Chicares wrote: By the way, this list discourages full quoting: http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU Ok, this is one neurotic list. A lot of Linux mailing lists have that policy

Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:35 PM, rhubbell wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:15:33 -0500 > Greg Chicares wrote: >> By the way, this list discourages full quoting: >>   http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU > > Ok, this is one neurotic list. A lot of Linux mailing lists have that policy. Especially i

Re: file name too long

2009-02-24 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Paul Cantalupo this!> wrote: >> >> tar: >> S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid/S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_HGblast/S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.go

lynx seems broken

2009-02-24 Thread Morten Kjærulff
Hi, On my machine#2 I just installed lynx, but it just exit without telling anything. Then I went to my machine#1 where lynx was already installed, and it worked fine. I then ran setup.exe and it installed a little. After that, lynx just exit without telling anything. I attach cygcheck.out1 which

Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread rhubbell
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:15:33 -0500 Greg Chicares wrote: > By the way, this list discourages full quoting: > http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU Ok, this is one neurotic list. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.h

Re: file name too long

2009-02-24 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Paul Cantalupo wrote: tar: S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid/S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_HGblast/S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_file7.HGblast.out: Cannot open: File name too long This name i

Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2009-02-24 20:36Z, rhubbell wrote: > What's the [CFT] stand for? > Call For Test? Yes. He spelled it out: >> CALL FOR TEST By the way, this list discourages full quoting: http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simp

Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program

2009-02-24 Thread Sylvain RICHARD
grip wrote: Note: I have to type double quotes twice always and I get two double quotes. I use backspace to remove one every time. A single double quotes produces no output on the screen This behaviour is coherent with the hypothesis that you're in fact using the diaeresis key, and it

Re: wget, ssh, ssh-agent hang in socket_cleanup

2009-02-24 Thread Paul McFerrin
I would be happy to try it. I'm currently running version "- Paul1.5.25-15". How do I download version 1.7? Setup is giving me 1.5.25-14! - Paul Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 22 18:24, Paul McFerrin wrote: I've been having the same problem for the past two weeks. Just didn't know wh

special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-24 Thread Greg Freemyer
All, I'm familiar with http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html But it only shows the \device\hardisk mappings. Are there also mapppings for the shadow devices. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy) ie. \Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy4 or \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskV

Re: file name too long

2009-02-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Paul Cantalupo wrote: Hello, I updated my cygwin installation to 1.5.25-15 but I'm still getting 'file name too long' errors when trying to extract a .tgz archive that contains some really long pathnames. Here is an example of one of the errors: tar: S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid/S1

Re: [CFT] libtool on nix->cygwin cross, with wine

2009-02-24 Thread rhubbell
What's the [CFT] stand for? Call For Test? Are you requesting test volunteers? On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:01:19 -0500 Charles Wilson wrote: > The most recent release of libtool (2.2.7a-1 for cygwin-1.5, and > 2.2.7a-10 for cygwin-1.7) ought to support cross builds at least as well > as libtool-1.5

file name too long

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Cantalupo
Hello, I updated my cygwin installation to 1.5.25-15 but I'm still getting 'file name too long' errors when trying to extract a .tgz archive that contains some really long pathnames. Here is an example of one of the errors: tar: S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid/S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: astyle-1.23-1

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
I've uploaded a new version astyle, 1.23-1, in keeping with the current upstream release. Note: This release is for Cygwin 1.7.x only, there is no release for Cygwin 1.5.x at this point. For a list of changes check out http://astyle.sourceforge.net/astyle_release_notes.html. To update your insta

Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program

2009-02-24 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Tim McDaniel wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, grip wrote: and so forth. I just realized I've been forgetting this list's custom of ripping out e-mail addresses, so I've sent out a bunch of unobfuscated ones lately. My apologies. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Unsubscrib

Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program

2009-02-24 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Eric Blake wrote: grip gmail.com> writes: 1. From the command prompt from windows, I tried this - od -tx1 - " (Note: I have to type double quotes twice always and I get two double quotes. I use backspace to remove one e

Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program

2009-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
grip gmail.com> writes: > 1. From the command prompt from windows, I tried this > - od -tx1 > - " (Note: I have to type double quotes twice always and I > get two double quotes. I > use backspace to remove one every time. A single > double quotes produces n

Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program

2009-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
Tim McDaniel panix.com> writes: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, grip gmail.com> wrote: > > 2. Output from od- tx1 -a test.c > > > > -BEGIN--- > > 000 23 69 6e 63 6c 75 64 65 20 3c 73 74 64 69 6f 2e > > # i n c l u d e sp < s t d i

Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program

2009-02-24 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, grip wrote: 2. Output from od- tx1 -a test.c -BEGIN--- 000 23 69 6e 63 6c 75 64 65 20 3c 73 74 64 69 6f 2e # i n c l u d e sp < s t d i o . 020 68 3e 0a 0a 69 6e 74 20 6d 61 69 6e 28 29 0a 20

Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program

2009-02-24 Thread grip
Ok here are more clues and I think this should help you: 1. From the command prompt from windows, I tried this - od -tx1 - " (Note: I have to type double quotes twice always and I get two double quotes. I use backspace to remove one every time. A single do

Re: gcc compile problem: error: stray \168 in program

2009-02-24 Thread grip
Hi Dave and Tim 1. Output from od -tx1 test.c -BEGIN--- 000 23 69 6e 63 6c 75 64 65 20 3c 73 74 64 69 6f 2e 020 68 3e 0a 0a 69 6e 74 20 6d 61 69 6e 28 29 0a 20 040 7b 0a 70 72 69 6e 74 66 28 a8 54 65 73 74 20 74 060 68 69 73 a8 29

Re: Git broken with cygwin-1.7

2009-02-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:42:17AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Eric Blake on 2/24/2009 6:39 AM: >>You can work around this by cloning via http protocol instead of git. >>I have seen occasional read errors as well, but have had a hard time >>reliably reproducing them. I guess it's a good

Re: stat() returning EFAULT?

2009-02-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sjors Gielen, le Tue 24 Feb 2009 16:54:28 +0100, a écrit : > Here's the test case and output: > > #include > int main() { > if(stat("test") != 0) perror("Calling stat() on test"); > if(stat("test.exe") != 0) perror("Calling stat() on test.exe"); > return 0; > } Compile with -Wa

stat() returning EFAULT?

2009-02-24 Thread Sjors Gielen
Hey all, I noticed this weird cygwinism and wrote a little test case. It seems stat() is returning EFAULT on some of my files. I've done some digging through Cygwin source but couldn't see the source of the problem. The testcase is a simple test.c which is compiled to test.exe. After that, i

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {ncurses/libncurses-devel/libncurses8/ncurses-demo}-5.7-1

2009-02-24 Thread Dave Korn
rhubbell wrote: > Just curious since I'm new here. Why do announcements go to this list? > Isn't there an announcement list? The announce list is mirrored to the main list because the information is vital. Things like changing CRLF line-end handling in bash create enough upheaval even when they

Re: Git broken with cygwin-1.7

2009-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 2/24/2009 6:39 AM: > You can work around this by cloning via http protocol instead of git. I > have seen occasional read errors as well, but have had a hard time > reliably reproducing them. I guess it's a good thing to rep

Re: Git broken with cygwin-1.7

2009-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Vincent R. on 2/24/2009 6:07 AM: > git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/Vincent/projects/sparse/.git/ > remote: Counting objects: 7642, done. > remote: Compressing objec

Git broken with cygwin-1.7

2009-02-24 Thread Vincent R.
Hi, Everytime I try to checkout source code with git on cygwin-1.7 it fails while the same command works fine on cygwin-1.5/ For instance : git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/Vincent/projects/sparse/.git/ remote: Counting objec

Re: [1.7] makeinfo: too many open files

2009-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 2/24/2009 2:20 AM: > On Feb 20 22:18, Charles Wilson wrote: >> I ran into the following problem building libtool under cygwin-1.7 >> (makeinfo from texinfo-4.8a-1): >> >> /usr/src/packages/libtool/22/libtool-2.2.7a-10/s

Re: [1.7] rebaseall doesn't solve the problem

2009-02-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 20 21:27, Charles Wilson wrote: > Using process explorer, I find that for SOME reason, even in the parent > perl, the Cwd.dll (one of the DLLs shipped with perl, in > /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-pc-cygwin/auto/Cwd/Cwd.dll) is being loaded in > a strange location: > > Image Base: 0x5d6a > L

Re: [1.7] makeinfo: too many open files

2009-02-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 20 22:18, Charles Wilson wrote: > I ran into the following problem building libtool under cygwin-1.7 > (makeinfo from texinfo-4.8a-1): > > makeinfo -I doc -I > /usr/src/packages/libtool/22/libtool-2.2.7a-10/src/libtool/doc -o > /usr/src/packages/libtool/22/libtool-2.2.7a-10/src/libtool/doc/

Re: wget, ssh, ssh-agent hang in socket_cleanup

2009-02-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 22 18:24, Paul McFerrin wrote: > I've been having the same problem for the past two weeks. Just didn't > know where to look. Thanks for sharing. Maybe we can get someone on > this. > > Wget would just HANG intermittently in the Connecting phase. I don't observe this problem. Does upd

Re: BLODA list

2009-02-24 Thread Warren Young
Greg Chicares wrote: On 2009-02-21 12:23Z, Vincent R. wrote: Is there any BLODA list ? Yes, it's in the FAQ: It's also built into cygcheck -s. Look for "app conflicts". -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html