Re: Cygwin Build Error

Jacob Jacobson wrote: > > Getting close here. Apparently gets to the linking phase. Please help > with error below. > > > [build$:618] (../src/configure --prefix=/c/home/wrk/cygwin/install -v; make) >>& make.out > [build$:619] tail make.out > /c/home/wrk/cygwin/build/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin/..

gold star requests

As a test for our brand-new gold star maintainer, I'd like to suggest that he give himself two gold stars. One as a test to see if this thing is on and another for volunteering. I'd also like to give a five apiece to Jon Turney and the intrepid Yaakov Selkowitz for taking over the daunting task o

Re: wrong home directory

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:58 PM, hvshare wrote: > Andy, you were right! HOME was set to the Emacs folder. I replaced it with > the directory I wanted as my Cygwin home folder and restarted my OS. Now > /home/helvio/ is my new Cygwin hom You'd be better off deleting HOME from the Windows environme

Re: wrong home directory

Andy Koppe wrote: I'd guess that emacs has set a system-wide HOME environment variable. That would take precedence over the setting in Cygwin's /etc/passwd. Check under System Properties->Advanced->Environment Variables. (That's where they are in XP anyway.) Andy, you were right! HOME was s

Re: wrong home directory

Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/7/13 hvshare: Hello, I've searched all over the web for an answer to my problem but i couldn't find one, so I decided to send a mail here. After I installed Cygwin, I noticed that my home directory '~' is not /home/helvio, i.e. /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/helvio (helvio is m

Re: Username hassles

Mark J. Reed wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Larry Hall wrote: If you prefer "paul" to be used, you need to do one of two things: 1. Remove the "MEAD8998" user from your '/etc/passwd'. It's presumably before the "paul" user in the file and has the same SID. 2. "chmod -R paul /

Re: Rxvt on Windows 7 RC

> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 02:39:04PM -0700, Ian Puleston wrote: > >>>I just tried cygwin (1.5.25) on the Windows 7 RC for the first time. > >>>Seems to work fine from a Windows cmd window, but I can't get it to > >>>run an rxvt window launc

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {libtool/libltdl7}-2.2.7a-14

GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. This is a bugfix and feature enhancement update. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This release is specific for cygwin-1.7, but it differs from the si

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libtool/libltdl7}-2.2.7a-5

GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. This is a bugfix and feature enhancement update. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] Unless there are serious issues with this package, it is likely to

Re: Cygwin and Java

M.K. Choy wrote: Hi, I wrote a class file ComeAgain.java with Emacs in Cygwin: public class ComeAgain { private static int n; public static void main(String[] args) { n = 57; System.out.printf("Come in number %d please%n", n); } } I compiled the script successfully with "javac C

Cygwin and Java

Hi, I wrote a class file ComeAgain.java with Emacs in Cygwin: public class ComeAgain { private static int n; public static void main(String[] args) { n = 57; System.out.printf("Come in number %d please%n", n); } } I compiled the script successfully with "javac ComeAgain.java" i

Re: Username hassles

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Larry Hall wrote: >  If you prefer "paul" to be used, you need to do > one of two things: > >  1. Remove the "MEAD8998" user from your '/etc/passwd'.  It's presumably >     before the "paul" user in the file and has the same SID. > >  2. "chmod -R paul / /usr/bin /u

Re: Username hassles

Paul Mead wrote: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: . Thanks. Ownerships won't change. You're only telling Cygwin that the name to display for your user is "MEAD8998" rather than "paul".

Re: Username hassles

"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: > > Ownerships won't change. You're only telling Cygwin that the name > to display for your user is "MEAD8998" rather than "paul". The user > id (or SID in Windows) will not change (and you shouldn't change it > in '/etc/passwd'). This is all "details" but since yo

Re: Username hassles

Paul Mead wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html Corinna OK, so if I'm reading this right, I need to edit /etc/passwd to translate my 'paul' cygwin login to my XP 'MEAD8998' username. Then ownership of file owned by 'MEAD8998' will no longer be a probl

Re: Username hassles

Corinna Vinschen writes: > http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html > > > Corinna OK, so if I'm reading this right, I need to edit /etc/passwd to translate my 'paul' cygwin login to my XP 'MEAD8998' username. Then ownership of file owned by 'MEAD8998' will no longer be a problem. Is that ab

Re: Username hassles

Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Jul 13 15:29, Paul Mead wrote: >> Thorsten Kampe writes: >> >> > >> > Untested: /etc/passwd? >> What should that do, I ran it but I'm none the wiser! > > You *ran* /etc/passwd? It's not a script. Maybe this helps: > http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html

Re: gcc4: -ffast-math causes segfaults

On 13/07/2009 04:24, Dave Korn wrote: Yes. -ffaast-math allows the compiler to generate SSE instructions. This is a problem if used with plain uninitialised C common variable declarations, because the PE file format doesn't have a way to specify the alignment of common section allocations.

RE: octave 3.0 package

> I suspect you have a redefinition of the PATH variable > in your own shell startup files that does not include > /usr/lib/lapack/ Yes! > For this reason there are two shell startup files > /etc/profile.d/lapack.csh > /etc/profile.d/lapack.sh > to add /usr/lib/lapack/ at the end of the search p

Re: wrong home directory

2009/7/13 hvshare: > Hello, > > I've searched all over the web for an answer to my problem but i couldn't > find one, so I decided to send a mail here. > > After I installed Cygwin, I noticed that my home directory '~' is not > /home/helvio, i.e. /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/helvio (helvio is my user ID

wrong home directory

Hello, I've searched all over the web for an answer to my problem but i couldn't find one, so I decided to send a mail here. After I installed Cygwin, I noticed that my home directory '~' is not /home/helvio, i.e. /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/helvio (helvio is my user ID), as I wanted it to. Inst

Re: Username hassles

On Jul 13 15:29, Paul Mead wrote: > Thorsten Kampe writes: > > > > > Untested: /etc/passwd? > What should that do, I ran it but I'm none the wiser! You *ran* /etc/passwd? It's not a script. Maybe this helps: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

R: octave 3.0 package

--- Lun 13/7/09, Van Zandt, Jim ha scritto: > Da: Van Zandt, Jim > Oggetto: octave 3.0 package > A: "cygwin cygwin.com" > Cc: "James R. Van Zandt" > Data: Lunedì 13 luglio 2009, 16:25 > I have been unable to get Cygwin > Octave to run: > > vanzandt:~ $ octave > vanzandt:~ $ > > Here's my ver

Re: Cygwin Build Error

Jacob Jacobson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I said remove the mingw *directory* not the utils/mingw *file*. cgf Looks like the build process created a "mingw" directory also for object files. I removed both now & also edited the makefile (as in the other post) and am trying a build now.

Re: Username hassles

Thorsten Kampe writes: > > Untested: /etc/passwd? What should that do, I ran it but I'm none the wiser! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

octave 3.0 package

I have been unable to get Cygwin Octave to run: vanzandt:~ $ octave vanzandt:~ $ Here's my version info: vanzandt:~ $ cygcheck -c -h cygwin Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygwin 1.5.25-15 OK vanzandt:~ $ cygcheck -c -h octave Cygwin Packa

Re: Cygwin Build Error

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:13:02AM -0500, Jacob Jacobson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:10:42PM -0500, Jacob Jacobson wrote: Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jacob Jacobson on 7/8/2009 12:36 PM

Re: Username hassles

* Paul Mead (Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:38:39 + (UTC)) > Hi, I've got cygwin running on a work machine with a weird username allocated by > IS dept. Somehow I managed to make the user name on cygwin to be 'paul' but > all > the files loaded by cygwin setup are owned by 'MEAD8998'. > > Is there any

Username hassles

Hi, I've got cygwin running on a work machine with a weird username allocated by IS dept. Somehow I managed to make the user name on cygwin to be 'paul' but all the files loaded by cygwin setup are owned by 'MEAD8998'. Is there any way (short of complete reinstallation) of changing cygwin so that

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-51

Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-51. The list with the changes related to the previous test release 1.7.0-50 is attached below. === IMPORTANT NOTE -51 adds code which influ

Re: gcc4: -ffast-math causes segfaults

Dave Korn wrote: > Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> Are there any known issues with -ffast-math that I should be aware of? > > Yes. -ffaast-math allows the compiler to generate SSE instructions. This > is a problem if used with plain uninitialised C common variable declarations, > because the PE f

Re: gcc4: -ffast-math causes segfaults

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > Just today I have encountered two cases, one C and one C++, where > compiling with gcc-4.3 and -ffast-math (which was added by the packages > in question) caused segfaults in the resulting executables. > > Are there any known issues with -ffast-math that I should be awar