ssh-agent at startup

2009-05-31 Thread Kevin Cella
I'm trying to automate my backup using rsync and cron. I have the ssh key pair setup, but still requires me manually start s cygwin shell every time I boot into Windows. Does anyone know of a way to start and agent and prompt for my passphrase at boot? Below is what I'm using now and is what I

How to install gnome-terminal in cygwin?

2009-05-31 Thread Peng Yu
Hi, I don't find gnome-terminal in 'setup.exe'. I am wondering if it is available there or I have to install it manually? Regards, Peng -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.c

Re: R: [1.7] does LD_PRELOAD support more than 1 dll ?

2009-05-31 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > This isn't a Cygwin-specific thing. That's the way Windows works. > Order is dependent here for the same reason that you can't do: > > gcc -Lfoo program-that-uses-foo.o > > on Windows. I'm at least a little bit surprised. My first thought was "Calling LoadLibrary

Re: R: [1.7] does LD_PRELOAD support more than 1 dll ?

2009-05-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:56:12AM +, Marco Atzeri wrote: > >--- Sab 30/5/09, Christopher Faylor ha scritto: > >> >Ok, I found it. >> >The order is also relevant >> > >> >cygoctinterp.dll requires >> >???cygcruft.dll and cygoctave.dll >> > >> >cygoctave.dll requires >> >? cygcruft.dll >> >

Re: xfce 3.8.18

2009-05-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 31/05/2009 11:33, miem...@physik.hu-berlin.de wrote: Tried to compile xfce 3.8.18. Why are you trying to build such an ancient Xfce? The current version is 4.6, which works just fine on Cygwin. Is a solution to this problem known ? Probably not, because nobody supports such old versio

xfce 3.8.18

2009-05-31 Thread miemiec
Tried to compile xfce 3.8.18. Compilation and linking were completed successfully. Half of the programs crashed with a sigsegv. The problem seems to originate from XInternAtom calls in the libX11 version 6 library. Is a solution to this problem known ? -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: Win2k Command Window Can't Execute G++

2009-05-31 Thread Alexey Borzenkov
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Roger Head wrote: > U... e no, no, that's too easy. There must be a harder way to do > it. As an alternative you can try looking into my http://git.kitsu.ru/mine/shell-wrapper.git (use snapshot link for topmost commit if you don't have git and don't k

Re: Win2k Command Window Can't Execute G++

2009-05-31 Thread Dave Korn
Roger Head wrote: > Dave Korn googlemail.com> writes: > >> How about just typing "g++-4" (or "g++-3") instead of "g++" when trying >> to invoke the compiler from a DOS shell? >> >> cheers, DaveK >> > > U... e no, no, that's too easy. There must be a harder way to > do it. To par

Re: Win2k Command Window Can't Execute G++

2009-05-31 Thread Roger Head
Dave Korn googlemail.com> writes: > How about just typing "g++-4" (or "g++-3") instead of "g++" when trying to > invoke the compiler from a DOS shell? > > cheers, > DaveK > U... e no, no, that's too easy. There must be a harder way to do it. Thanks Dave. Roger --

Re: emacs -nw keypad, tpu-edt.el, and C-h

2009-05-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/31/2009 10:15 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/31/2009 9:36 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: Currently the code sends ^H for Alt+Backspace, which clobbers 'kill word' in emacs, so that still needs to either move to Ctrl+Backspace or be removed altogether. Right. I forgot about that. Presumably there's no

Re: emacs -nw keypad, tpu-edt.el, and C-h

2009-05-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/31/2009 9:36 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: Currently the code sends ^H for Alt+Backspace, which clobbers 'kill word' in emacs, so that still needs to either move to Ctrl+Backspace or be removed altogether. Right. I forgot about that. Presumably there's no linux standard that says Alt-Backspace

Re: Win2k Command Window Can't Execute G++

2009-05-31 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Koppe wrote: >> I'm sure that I can come up with a hack that will let me do what I want > > The easiest thing to do would be to overwrite the link with the file > it points to, e.g. 'cp /bin/g++-4.exe /bin/g++.exe'. You'd have to > remember to do that after every gcc update though. How ab

Re: emacs -nw keypad, tpu-edt.el, and C-h

2009-05-31 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/5/31 Ken Brown: > As I long-time emacs user, I have to say that I have never been tempted to > type Ctrl-Backspace in emacs.  But, as a result of this discussion, I just > tried it in three different settings and got three different behaviors. >  (The three settings were: emacs under X, emacs

Re: emacs -nw keypad, tpu-edt.el, and C-h

2009-05-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/31/2009 5:13 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/5/30 Matt Wozniski: On Debian, at least, the console sends ^H for Ctrl+Backspace and ^? for Backspace; that is a pretty common convention among terminal emulators that I've used. I vote against the ^_ suggestion; I for one would be genuinely surprised

Re: R: [1.7] does LD_PRELOAD support more than 1 dll ?

2009-05-31 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Sab 30/5/09, Christopher Faylor ha scritto: > >Ok, I found it. > >The order is also relevant > > > >cygoctinterp.dll requires > >   cygcruft.dll and cygoctave.dll > > > >cygoctave.dll requires > >  cygcruft.dll > > > >So the working way is : > > > >export LD_PRELOAD="$libcruft:$liboctave:

Re: Win2k Command Window Can't Execute G++

2009-05-31 Thread Roger Head
Hi Andy, > > I'm almost certain that I was able to invoke it from a CMD window. > > Afaik, gcc and g++ changed into links only recently, to help with the > transition from gcc-3.4 to 4.3. > There are still some remnants of AVR-GCC hanging around on my system from a few years ago. Maybe a conne

Re: emacs -nw keypad, tpu-edt.el, and C-h

2009-05-31 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/5/30 Ken Brown: > Now C-h and Backspace work as expected when I run emacs in a Cygwin console, > provided I do stty erase ^? first.  Am I right in assuming that this won't > be necessary once the termios default is changed? Yep. 2009/5/30 Matt Wozniski: > On Debian, at least, the console se

Re: Win2k Command Window Can't Execute G++

2009-05-31 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/5/31 Roger Head: > Thanks for the reply, Matt. I don't have a really good idea of how Cygwin and > Windows are both supposed to be able to handle .LNKs to e.g. G++, but a dump > of > g++.exe.lnk shows strings for /etc/alternatives and > L:\cygwin\etc\alternatives. > So yes, I don't know if W

Re: Win2k Command Window Can't Execute G++

2009-05-31 Thread Roger Head
Matt Wozniski gmail.com> writes: > > Don't have a cygwin install in front of me ATM, but - isn't g++ a > cygwin symlink these days? cmd.exe can't follow those even if they're > in the path, of course. > > ~Matt > Thanks for the reply, Matt. I don't have a really good idea of how Cygwin and

Re: Win2k Command Window Can't Execute G++

2009-05-31 Thread Matt Wozniski
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Larry Hall wrote: > Roger Head wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I'm a noob to Cygwin and all things non-Windows. I installed Cygwin on my >> Win2k system (a couple of hiccups, but nothing major), then installed the >> GCC. When that completed, I did g++ -v in a bash windo