Re: Beginner questions, setting up window manager and paths

2009-05-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 05/05/2009, LM wrote: Is there a good forum to share tips or patches needed to get applications building and working on Cygwin as opposed to building them on Linux and/or Windows directly? I don't know of a general forum like this. That's not to say that there isn't something out there. I

Re: Beginner questions, setting up window manager and paths

2009-05-05 Thread LM
Larry Hall wrote: >1.7 has '/etc/fstab', if you prefer this (and if you don't, you'll >be stuck with it eventually anyway. ;-) ) See cygwin.com for links to >the User's Guide documentation for 1.5 and 1.7. Thanks for the information on 1.7. Looks like it'll be nice. Now I'm just wondering if

Those "job opening VISION SPECIALIST" messages

2009-05-05 Thread André Bleau
Hi folks, Sorry about those "job opening VISION SPECIALIST" messages that shouldn't have been sent to the list. I realized too late that some private mail I sent previously was bearing a Reply-to:cygwin at cygwin dot com field. I have changed my settings and notified my correspondants, and wi

cygwin-1.7beta -- iu-config -- what is the right way?

2009-05-05 Thread Georg Nikodym
My goal is to able to: rsh localhost or rsh localhost ls As you all know, this can be made to work just fine on 32-bit Windows variants. Yes, I know all about ssh. Not an option for various reasons out of my control. With the cygwin-1.7 beta, I read that progress has b

Re: problems using Xlib.h/Xwindows.h/unistd.h and win32api under gcc-4

2009-05-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Uh, ok. So this is actually a bug in the application? To put it mildly, yes. Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iE

RE: job opening VISION SPECIALIST # 8439

2009-05-05 Thread Consulpro
www.genetec.com... I'll keep you informed. Regards, Ed Kaluzny, MBA Consulpro Tel.: 514-932-9523 http://www.consulpro.com Connect with me on Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/edhunter -Original Message- From: André Bleau [mailto:andre_bl...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Re: problems using Xlib.h/Xwindows.h/unistd.h and win32api under gcc-4

2009-05-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 5 09:49, Yaakov S wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > AFAICS this is a generic problem with the X11/Xwindows.h file which > > should be fixed upstream. The definition of sleep as Sleep might be > > fine for a native X server, but not

Re: problems using Xlib.h/Xwindows.h/unistd.h and win32api under gcc-4

2009-05-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > AFAICS this is a generic problem with the X11/Xwindows.h file which > should be fixed upstream. The definition of sleep as Sleep might be > fine for a native X server, but not for the Cygwin X server and should > be guarded

Re: dual installation 1.5 and 1.7: which XWin to use?

2009-05-05 Thread Andy Koppe
> I have installed both versions of cygwin 1.5 and 1.7. > Both seem to work fine with Xserver from 1.5 or 1.7 (i.e. cygwin 1.5 > works fine with Xwin from 1.5 and 1.7, cygwin 1.7 works fine with Xwin > from 1.5 and 1.7). > Any recommendation on which one to use? The 1.7 one, to help testing it. ;)

RE: job opening VISION SPECIALIST # 8439

2009-05-05 Thread Consulpro
André, Could you call me to discuss just for a few minutes? Regards, Ed Tel.: 514-932-9523 -Original Message- From: André Bleau [mailto:andre_bl...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:39 AM To: Ed Kaluzny Subject: FW: job opening VISION SPECIALIST # 8439 Hi Ed, I'm back in

dual installation 1.5 and 1.7: which XWin to use?

2009-05-05 Thread Frédéric Bron
I have installed both versions of cygwin 1.5 and 1.7. Both seem to work fine with Xserver from 1.5 or 1.7 (i.e. cygwin 1.5 works fine with Xwin from 1.5 and 1.7, cygwin 1.7 works fine with Xwin from 1.5 and 1.7). Any recommendation on which one to use? Frédéric -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: 1.7: cygserver problems under cygwin 1.7

2009-05-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 4 14:07, Patrick Aikens wrote: > I've just installed cygwin 1.7 on a WinXP SP3 machine that used to > have 1.5 installed. Since I didn't want to run them in parallel, > first I deleted my c:\cygwin folder, then used regedit to get rid of > the "Cygnus Solutions" and "Cygwin" registry keys

Re: More: [1.7] packaging problem? Both /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are non-empty

2009-05-05 Thread Fergus
> That's very odd. > Those files are created by the postinstall script, > which is run by setup.exe in a "real" cygwin shell. > That is, it's just a bash script that runs > .. > BUT, because it's in a bash shell, it OUGHT to know > about all of the mount points, especially > cygwin-1.7 (cat /etc/f

Re: More: [1.7] packaging problem? Both /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are non-empty

2009-05-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 5 07:37, Charles Wilson wrote: > > And again: following the recent upgrade to rxvt-unicode there are now 3 > > "real" files in /usr/lib/ being > > > > C:\>attrib m:\usr\bin\* > > A S M:\usr\bin\urxvt > > A S M:\usr\bin\urxvtc > > A S M:\usr\bin\urxvtd > > > > (A

Academic Publication

2009-05-05 Thread s . caullychurn
Dear Araceli Castro , I am writing on behalf of the German publishing house, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller AG & Co. KG. In the course of a research at University of Illinois at Chicago, I came across a reference to your thesis on "Inquiry-science curriculum for 4th grade earth science". As we would li

Re: More: [1.7] packaging problem? Both /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are non-empty

2009-05-05 Thread Charles Wilson
Fergus wrote: >> Just noticed that after the recent unison upgrade there exists a file >> /usr/bin/unison >> Also just noticed (but this must have occurred a while ago - 30/03/09 >> maybe, the date of a TeX upgrade?) that there now exists a directory >> /usr/lib/texmf/ >> with deep non-empt

Re: emacs in its own window

2009-05-05 Thread Andy Koppe
Gus K: > I installed the X server and i get an xterm window > I type emacs& but emacs doesnt start You've started the terminal version of emacs, which just stays quiet if you put it into the background with '&'. Just omit the '&'. (Or, as Ken said, install the X version of emacs and invoke it as

Re: Trouble with ssh-agent (maybe opening socket?)

2009-05-05 Thread avadekar
I occasionally see something similar. I can only describe it has managing to log in and get ssh-add started by my first shell before windows has sucessfully started something related to the network stack. In this case, ssh (and maybe any other cygwin socket programs) simply wont work. I have to

Re: emacs in its own window

2009-05-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/5/2009 3:23 AM, Gus K wrote: cygcheck gave the following: Found: C:\cygwin\bin\emacs.exe C:\cygwin\bin\emacs.exe C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses7.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.DLL C:\Windows\system32\KER

Re: More: [1.7] packaging problem? Both /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are non-empty

2009-05-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 5 07:22, Fergus wrote: >> Just noticed that after the recent unison upgrade there exists a file >> /usr/bin/unison >> Also just noticed (but this must have occurred a while ago - 30/03/09 >> maybe, the date of a TeX upgrade?) that there now exists a directory >> /usr/lib/texmf/ >>

Re: emacs in its own window

2009-05-05 Thread Dave Korn
Gus K wrote: > cygcheck gave the following: > > Found: C:\cygwin\bin\emacs.exe > C:\cygwin\bin\emacs.exe >C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses7.dll > C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll > C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL > C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.DLL > C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32

Re: [1.7] packaging problem? Both /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are non-empty

2009-05-05 Thread Dave Korn
Fergus wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> For the future: there's no need to bzip the attachment. >> That makes it harder to read. > > I just attached cygcheck.srv.out to the immediately preceding post and No you didn't! > [additionally] it has appeared en clair in the text. No it has

Re: Trouble with ssh-agent (maybe opening socket?)

2009-05-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 5 10:03, Christian Anton wrote: > Now i have absolutely no idea what the problem is, i only see that ssh-agent > starts to get crazy eating all cpu time it can get when ssh-add is trying to > access its socket. I can't reproduce this problem. > Do you have any idea how to debug this prob

Re: Different start menu for 1.5 and 1.7?

2009-05-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 5 09:05, Fr?d?ric Bron wrote: > I would like to try 1.7 and I installed it together with 1.5. I > installed 1.5 in D:\cygwin and 1.7 in D:\cygwin-1.7. No problem with > that. > But the start menu entries are all mixed. Is there a way to install > 1.7 menu entries in a separate directory? U

Re: problems using Xlib.h/Xwindows.h/unistd.h and win32api under gcc-4

2009-05-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 5 17:28, Chris LeBlanc wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Thanks for the description of the problem, and the workaround. Our > code is pretty complicated at points, so it might be challenging to be > sure of the include order, but I'll try. > > The other suggestion I saw from Christopher Faylor was t

Trouble with ssh-agent (maybe opening socket?)

2009-05-05 Thread Christian Anton
Hi cygwin community! I use cygwin for a long time on my corporate Windows XP client to make this operation system "usable". In fact i am using the cygwin shell as ssh/scp client in most cases because it is the most familiar way for me to work with ssh connections as i come from the unix/linux worl

Re: emacs in its own window

2009-05-05 Thread Gus K
cygcheck gave the following: Found: C:\cygwin\bin\emacs.exe C:\cygwin\bin\emacs.exe C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses7.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.DLL C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.DLL C:\Windows\syste

Different start menu for 1.5 and 1.7?

2009-05-05 Thread Frédéric Bron
I would like to try 1.7 and I installed it together with 1.5. I installed 1.5 in D:\cygwin and 1.7 in D:\cygwin-1.7. No problem with that. But the start menu entries are all mixed. Is there a way to install 1.7 menu entries in a separate directory? Frédéric -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin