Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!

Dave Korn wrote: > Forgot to say... can I see your "cygcheck -cd"? I would have said "just m4 > and cygwin", but maybe it's related to something else. Attached. FWIW, I had no problems building other things, like yesterday's p7zip packages or today's alternatives packages. -- Chuck Cygwin P

Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!

Dave Korn wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: >> Dave Korn wrote: >> >>> Q2) Has anyone out there /not/ updated today, and also has a checkout of >>> CVS >>> binutils they could try building and testing? >>> >>> In either case:- >>> >>> If you get six fails, that's probably the bug I have here. >>

Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!

Charles Wilson wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> Q2) Has anyone out there /not/ updated today, and also has a checkout of CVS >> binutils they could try building and testing? >> >> In either case:- >> >> If you get six fails, that's probably the bug I have here. > > I got six fails. :-/ Tha

Re: [1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!

Dave Korn wrote: > Q2) Has anyone out there /not/ updated today, and also has a checkout of CVS > binutils they could try building and testing? > > In either case:- > > If you get six fails, that's probably the bug I have here. I got six fails. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

[1.7]: For the love of god, don't update!

Hi all, [ re: ... don't update! ] Or at least, not without taking a backup of your Cygwin installation first, at any rate the system-related parts (/bin /usr/lib /usr/include and who knows if maybe more?), at least until we figure out whether everyone else is going to have the same utter n

Cygwin Rsync over SSH hang - best solution

Hey Guys, I come with a solution to Cygwin over SSH problem. I created a blog where I posted it. http://youadmin.blogspot.com/ Intro from blog: " It is well known that running rsync over SSH to pull data from a windows cygwin host hangs and there is no good workaround but to not use SSH PIPES. W

popup consoles on Windows 7

Thanks, Chuck and Dave for pointing me towards 'objdump -p'. I'd got as far as trying objdump, but hadn't spotted the -p option. MinTTY is a -mwindows app, which so far seemed to work well on XP and Vista, because no console is popped up, not even momentarily. Not so on Windows 7, unfortunately. f

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: alternatives-1.3.30c-3

alternatives provides a framework for managing installation of multiple packages that provide similar features, and selecting between them. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This will most likely be the final alternatives update for the cygwin-1.5 distribution; future development will continue w

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: alternatives-1.3.30c-10

alternatives provides a framework for managing installation of multiple packages that provide similar features, and selecting between them. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This is the first release specific for cygwin-1.7; there are only trivial differences between this package and the simulta

Re: Finding an executable's Windows subsystem

Andy Koppe wrote: > Apologies for having failed to google an answer, but is there an easy > way in Cygwin to find out which Windows subsystem an executable > targets? > > More specfically, is rxvt a 'console' or a 'windows' program? In general, when you want to know about an executable or libra

Re: Finding an executable's Windows subsystem

Andy Koppe wrote: > Apologies for having failed to google an answer, but is there an easy > way in Cygwin to find out which Windows subsystem an executable > targets? > > More specfically, is rxvt a 'console' or a 'windows' program? > objdump -p | grep Subsystem For rxvt, that is: Subsystem

Finding an executable's Windows subsystem

Apologies for having failed to google an answer, but is there an easy way in Cygwin to find out which Windows subsystem an executable targets? More specfically, is rxvt a 'console' or a 'windows' program? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: ht

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: p7zip-4.65-10

p7zip is the Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that archives with very high compression ratios. p7zip provides /usr/bin/7zr, a standalone minimal version of the 7-zip tool that only handles 7z archives. It also provides /usr/bin/7za, a statically-linked application that supports packing and unpa

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: p7zip-4.65-1

p7zip is the Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that archives with very high compression ratios. p7zip provides /usr/bin/7zr, a standalone minimal version of the 7-zip tool that only handles 7z archives. It also provides /usr/bin/7za, a statically-linked application that supports packing and unpa

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: inetutils-1.5-6

Inetutils provides common networking clients and servers, including the inetd super-server, telnetd and telnet, ftpd and ftp, rshd and rsh, rlogind and rlogin, talkd and talk, tftpd and tftp, rexecd (but no rexec), uucpd (but no uucp client), rcp, and syslogd. This is a bugfix release. This releas

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.9-2

csih (cygwin-service-installation-helper) provides a library of shell functions that can be used by other cygwin packages that provide servers and daemons. It can assist in various service installation tasks, such as: * identifying the underlying Windows OS * detecting whether a "privileged user"