cygcheck -cd : No setup information

2009-10-24 Thread Paul McFerrin
I just got gone setting up a cygwin 1.7 installation on my USB flash drive. Everything look good except for one thing. When I do the following: $ cygcheck -cd cygwin|sed -e "1,2d" -re "s/cygwin[ \t]+//" $ cygcheck -cd cygwin Cygwin Package Information No setup information found Th

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/10/24 Dave Korn: >> which it was for most systems until >> fairly recently, but now it's not just us but some of the linux distros are >> moving to UTF-8 by default as well and they have the same problem. > > You mean they're switching the unadorned "C" locale to UTF-8? T

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

2009-10-24 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/24 Dave Korn: >  BTW, I don't see why this is anything other than a gcc testsuite problem; if > we want to use UTF-8 as the default encoding in the C locale, who's to say we > shouldn't? POSIX certainly allows it, but glibc's behaviour has to be taken into account as well. If there was a d

Re: Problem [1.7] diff leads to error msg

2009-10-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 02:56:11PM +0100, Fergus wrote: >Windows 7, Cygwin [1.7] latest snapshot 20091012. >Comparing two large subdirectories with diff leads to error msg. >Output from cygcheck -srv attached. > >~> diff -rq /d/home /m/home > 6 [main] diff 3720 sig_send: error sending signal

Re: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty

2009-10-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 06:19:32PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote: >FYI: > >I'm making my work on this subject available to any one who want to >download my work. At > http://pmcferrin.homedns.org/lman2.cpio.gz >is a copy of the Linux/BSD manual pages of Section 2 of the man >directory. If

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

2009-10-24 Thread paul . hermeneutic
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 08:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > For XML, the list of encoding values is specified by IANA. >> >> http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets > > This is something we should head to in the long run.  For the time being > I'd prefer we stick to "ASCII". The IANA document

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

2009-10-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 24 07:05, paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 23:25, Charles Wilson > wrote: > > That's interesting. I had thought "ascii" was a fairly common encoding > > name; I know I've seen both 'encoding="ascii"' and 'encoding="us-ascii"' > > in XML documents.  Maybe we (cygwi

RE: "Permission denied" on /usr/bin/sh when running gmake with multiple jobs

2009-10-24 Thread John Daintree
Hi Jurriaan, I've tried that, completely removed my Sophos anti-virus. I'm still getting the same problem. /john -Original Message- From: jurri...@rivierenland.xs4all.nl [mailto:jurri...@rivierenland.xs4all.nl] Sent: 23 October 2009 19:08 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "Permission d

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

2009-10-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/24/2009 3:06 AM: > Somehow I don't understand how a test application running in the "C" > locale could emit characters outside the ASCII range at all and another > part of the test expects the emitted character to be

Re: default ACLs

2009-10-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Corinna wrote: > > I applied a patch to Cygwin CVS which seems to work fine. That will > > be in the next 1.7.0 test release. > > Thank you so much! Yeah, that's good. I actually noticed this problem a long time ago and just figured it was a limitation we had to live with. Thanks. -- Probl

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

2009-10-24 Thread paul . hermeneutic
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 23:25, Charles Wilson wrote: > That's interesting. I had thought "ascii" was a fairly common encoding > name; I know I've seen both 'encoding="ascii"' and 'encoding="us-ascii"' > in XML documents.  Maybe we (cygwin) should add an explicit > plain-old-ascii encoding name? F

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 24 10:31, Dave Korn wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Can I get a STC which shows the aforementioned problem? >> BTW, I don't see why this is anything other than a gcc testsuite problem; >> if >> we want to use UTF-8 as the default encoding in the C local

Re: default ACLs

2009-10-24 Thread Mikel Ward
Corinna wrote: > I applied a patch to Cygwin CVS which seems to work fine. That will > be in the next 1.7.0 test release. Thank you so much! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

2009-10-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 24 10:31, Dave Korn wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >> Can I get a STC which shows the aforementioned problem? > > BTW, I don't see why this is anything other than a gcc testsuite problem; if > we want to use UTF-8 as the default encoding in the C locale, who's to say we > shouldn't

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Can I get a STC which shows the aforementioned problem? BTW, I don't see why this is anything other than a gcc testsuite problem; if we want to use UTF-8 as the default encoding in the C locale, who's to say we shouldn't? I think it's just up to the testsuite to set

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Can I get a STC which shows the aforementioned problem? Sure, you already have it in your local copy of the GCC sources, at gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/parse/error29.C, and this is what I see when I run it: > $ set | grep LC_ > > ad...@ubik ~ > $ set | grep LANG > > ad...@

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

2009-10-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 24 10:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 24 06:47, Andy Koppe wrote: > > 2009/10/24 Charles Wilson: > > > [cross-posted to cygwin list] > > > > > > Background for cygwin list: Dave discovered a problem running some of > > > the gcc tests.  The tests were run in the "C" locale, but in so do

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

2009-10-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 24 06:47, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/10/24 Charles Wilson: > > [cross-posted to cygwin list] > > > > Background for cygwin list: Dave discovered a problem running some of > > the gcc tests.  The tests were run in the "C" locale, but in so doing > > they assumed an ascii encoding (specifically,

Re: default ACLs

2009-10-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 24 10:21, Mikel Ward wrote: > Corinna wrote: > > Neither the NtCreateFile function, nor the > > CreateFile function handle ACE inheritance either. > > Looks like that's only if lpSecurityAttributes is non-NULL, but I guess > Cygwin uses that field? Well, Cygwin uses NtCreateFile, rather t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.2-1

2009-10-24 Thread Andy Koppe
Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user interface and minimalist design. Among its features are Unicode support and a graphical options dialog. Its terminal emulation is largely compatible with xterm, but it does not require an X server. Mintty is based on code from PuTT

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/10/24 Charles Wilson: >> [cross-posted to cygwin list] >> >> Background for cygwin list: Dave discovered a problem running some of >> the gcc tests. The tests were run in the "C" locale, but in so doing >> they assumed an ascii encoding (specifically, that "'" would match

Re: matlab not fully functional on cygwin

2009-10-24 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/23 Alex D. Kostic: > I recently installed cygwin (Cygwin/X X Server Version 1.5.3 (20090222), > X11R6) and am experiencing problems when I run MATLAB (7.9.0 R2009b)  on it. >  For the most part MATLAB works fine, except when I open an Editor window > the contents are blank (it's just a blan