1.7: 'whatis' doesn't work; apropos does

2009-12-21 Thread Lee Rothstein
* 'man' is installed. * 'cygcheck' says ok * 'makewhatis' is run after each run of setup. * 'apropos' works fine * 'whatis' does not For example: * 'man ls' works * 'apropos dir' finds 'ls' among other commands/libraries/etc * whatis 'ls' doesn't work $ type whatis whatis is hashed (/bin/whatis

Re: Did I missing the official announcement that 1.7 went official?

2009-12-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/21/2009 10:41 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote: Doing my bi-weekly update of my 1.7 installation, I noticed that it download my whole installation again and took at least an hour to perform at RR speeds. I was in the hospital for a while so I was out of it for a while when I deleted a bunch of old m

Did I missing the official announcement that 1.7 went official?

2009-12-21 Thread Paul McFerrin
Doing my bi-weekly update of my 1.7 installation, I noticed that it download my whole installation again and took at least an hour to perform at RR speeds. I was in the hospital for a while so I was out of it for a while when I deleted a bunch of old mail messageg but I looked first. My cygwi

cygwin 1.7: perl/perl package has wrong description

2009-12-21 Thread Bruce Cran
I have a cygwin 1.7 installation, and went to install perl today. I noticed that both perl/perl and perl/perl_manpages both have the same description, "perl manpages". -- Bruce Cran -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documenta

getsubopt in wrong header

2009-12-21 Thread Eric Blake
Per POSIX, getsubopt should be in , not (kind of stupid, though, since getopt is in ). I'll work on a patch, if no one beats me to it. -- Eric Blake -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.c

Incorrect 1.7 FAQ Link

2009-12-21 Thread Keith Brown
Hi, The link is incorrect in the Setting up Cygwin section of the 1.7 FAQ, question 6 "After upgrading from Cygwin 1.5 to Cygwin 1.7 my user mount points disappeared! How can I get them back?". It is currently http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table but I believe it should be h

Re: rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25

2009-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:50:02AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: >On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM, David Christensen > wrote: >> I'm having trouble with rsync invoked on Debian 5.0.3 pulling files from >> Windows XP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25. > >If this is not a daemon connection, then it's probably the cyg

Re: rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25

2009-12-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM, David Christensen wrote: > I'm having trouble with rsync invoked on Debian 5.0.3 pulling files from > Windows XP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25. If this is not a daemon connection, then it's probably the cygwin pipe-hang bug. I have heard that a more modern cygwin (such as 1