Cygwin 1.7.1 sprintf() with format string having 8th bit set

2010-01-03 Thread Joseph Quinsey
Hello, In Cygwin 1,7.1, sprintf() with the format string having an 8th bit set appears to be broken. Sample code (where I've indicated the backslashes in the comments, in case they are stripped out by the mailer): #include int main (void) { unsigned char foo[30] = ""; unsigned char bar[

Re: chmod in cygwin

2010-01-03 Thread René Berber
Linda Armelle Nzumotcha Tchoumkam wrote: > > I am a new user of cygwin in windows xp. > I want to run an executable program connected to cygwin. > I use the command chmod as ( “[ugoa]*<[-+=]<[rwxXst]*|[ugo]>>+” write “chmod > a+x /C/Program/flow”) > But I don’t get to the executable program. I re

Re: using a serial port with cygwin

2010-01-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/01/2010 10:16 PM, Rance Hall wrote: Ive been reading up on this and I think I have a handle on knowing that I can use comx in cygwin or maybe /dev/ttySx with my usb-serial adapter. Use the /dev/ttySx form when in the Cygwin world. -- Larry Hall http://www.rf

Re: chmod in cygwin

2010-01-03 Thread Rosario D. Contarino
If it can be of any help, why don't you try to execute some other programs instead of chmod and see if you get the same error, for example instead of "chmod a+x /C/Program/flow" something like "ls -d /C/Program/flow" and see if works. If it does then we can say something can be wrong with chmod, i

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-01-03 Thread David Antliff
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 15:06, Kevin Layer wrote: > I'm not using the git protocol.  Note the single slash.  The machine > is named `git', which is what is confusing you.  Anything of the form > "foo:/path" uses SSH, which is what this is using. Yes, you're right, I'm so used to seeing git://server

Re: Chagrin 1.7.1 install halting on Windows 7

2010-01-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/02/2010 12:24 PM, Durwin wrote: I have just received an Alienware laptop with Windows7. I downloaded and ran the current setup from website. The install process will stop at various stages, not always the same place. By stop, I mean it looks as if it is working, but it never proceeds pas

chmod in cygwin

2010-01-03 Thread Linda Armelle Nzumotcha Tchoumkam
I am a new user of cygwin in windows xp. I want to run an executable program connected to cygwin. I use the command chmod as ( “[ugoa]*<[-+=]<[rwxXst]*|[ugo]>>+” write “chmod a+x /C/Program/flow”) But I don’t get to the executable program. I receive this message: chmod a+x /C/Program/flow : No s

Re: 1.7.1: Does 'chere' work with Vista 64b? Can't tell by me.

2010-01-03 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Dave wrote: Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Dave wrote: > Check HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Shell\cygwin_bash. It's value should > be the context menu item text, "Mintty Bash" Value was null. > It should have one subkey, command, whose value is the command to run > "c:\_0\bin\mintty ...". Val

Re: Symbolic links problem with cygwin 1.7.1 in 64-bit Win7 Command Prompt

2010-01-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/01/2010 04:52 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: Will Windows junctions (for the path; plus the file name) work, here, Andy? (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx) NTFS junctions are for directories only.. For files and directories, one could use "mklink" on Vista and newe

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-01-03 Thread Kevin Layer
Brian L. wrote: >> I'm seeing very similar bad behavior from cygwin+git on win7 x64 as >> well as winxp x86. This bug is not confined to 64 bit platforms. This >> bug is new in 1.7.x--I have cygwin 1.5 installs on both of these >> machines that do not exhibit this failure. >> >> The problem seem

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-01-03 Thread Kevin Layer
David Antliff wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 07:55, Kevin Layer wrote: >> >  la...@hobart128 /c/tmp >> >  $ git clone git:/repo/git/acl acl.test >> >  Initialized empty Git repository in /c/tmp/acl.test/.git/ >> >  remote: Counting objects: 9205, done. >> >  remote: Compressing objects: 100%

Re: Revamp cygwin.com project page?

2010-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:36:06AM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: >I've set up a sample at ... You're putting me in the situation of practically begging me to be mean. As much as everyone thinks I may enjoy that, I really don't. But, since you asked. I *really* don't like the redesigned red left men

Re: Revamp cygwin.com project page?

2010-01-03 Thread Thomas Wolff
Reini Urban schrieb: 2009/12/26 Kristopher Ives: Thanks. I can modify the colors and the logo idea was just to see what people thought. The design was very short work and was my attempt at giving back to the Cygwin project. I was needing feedback and wanted to know if this was a possibility.

Extracting arpack-96-2-src.tar.bz2

2010-01-03 Thread Stephen Grant Brown
Dear All From the attached set.log.full file it can be seen that 2010/01/04 11:06:19 Extracting from file://O:\CygWIN-1p7_Downloads/http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.lilengine.com%2f/release/arpack/arpack-96-2-src.tar.bz2 a few times. Is this correct behaviour? It also does on subsequent runs of setup.

Re: cygwin_create_path

2010-01-03 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/3 Andy Koppe: > I'm having a spot of trouble changing mkshortcut to use the > wchar_t-enabled cygwin_create_path instead of the deprecated > cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path & co. When converting to a Windows path > using CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_W, the result is a path starting with "\\?\", > e.g. "\

License violation? (was: CygTeXmacs starting error)

2010-01-03 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 03/01/2010 05:48, Kalle Mikkola wrote: I unzipped CygTeXmacs to a directory Sounds strange, but the CygTeXmacs installation[1] includes an OLD cygwin1.dll (and an assortment of other packages), but the sources are not included in the download, I see no link thereto on the webpage, nor can

Re: select() and named pipes

2010-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 05:58:46PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 03:12:19AM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:37:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:43:09PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >> > >I am experienci

Re: Symbolic links problem with cygwin 1.7.1 in 64-bit Win7 Command Prompt

2010-01-03 Thread tuli tanssi
> You could create a Windows symbolic link using the Windows 'mklink' > tool though, and it should work both in cmd.exe and in Cygwin. Thanks for the info and Corinna's quote. Probably I'll just create windows symlinks like from c:\users\tuli\bin\gcc.exe to c:\cygwin\bin\gcc-3.exe so that cygwin

Re: select() and named pipes

2010-01-03 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 03:12:19AM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:37:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:43:09PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > >I am experiencing a problem with select() and named pipes in cygwin > > >1.7. The att

cygwin_create_path

2010-01-03 Thread Andy Koppe
I'm having a spot of trouble changing mkshortcut to use the wchar_t-enabled cygwin_create_path instead of the deprecated cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path & co. When converting to a Windows path using CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_W, the result is a path starting with "\\?\", e.g. "\\?\C:\cygwin\bash.exe". Yet un

Re: GCC, -rdynamic option is unrecognized by GCC.

2010-01-03 Thread Claude Sylvain
Dave Korn wrote: > Cesar Strauss wrote: >> but failed with undefined references when switching to gcc 4.3.4. They >> seem to be related to some inline functions in toporouter.c. > > The meaning of "extern inline" changed, to match c99. See, for example: > > http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2007

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: Updated: {ncursesw/libncursesw10/libncursesw-devel/ncursesw-demo}-5.7-18

2010-01-03 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/2 Charles Wilson: > ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling > libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus.  It is often used > instead of termcap. ncursesw provides a version of this library and > related tools compiled to support wide characters (that is, wch

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-4.5.5-1

2010-01-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of findutils, 4.5.5-1, is available, leaving 4.5.4-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Upstream news is attached. See also /usr/share/doc/findutils/. DESCRIPTION: The findutils package contains prog

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: libncurses10-5.7-18; Updated: {ncurses/libncurses-devel/ncurses-demo}-5.7-18

2010-01-03 Thread Charles Wilson
ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus. It is often used instead of termcap. Like the (new) ncursesw packages, it is compiled with support for reentracy, and uses and uses the same ABI number ("10" on cygwin for historic

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tack-1.07-1

2010-01-03 Thread Charles Wilson
The tack program is a diagnostic that is designed to create and verify the correctness of terminfo entries. This program can be used to create new terminal descriptions that are not included in the standard terminfo database. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-3 ]] As expected now that cygwin-1.7.1 has

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: Updated: {ncursesw/libncursesw10/libncursesw-devel/ncursesw-demo}-5.7-18

2010-01-03 Thread Charles Wilson
ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus. It is often used instead of termcap. ncursesw provides a version of this library and related tools compiled to support wide characters (that is, wchar_t rather than char). Note tha

UPDATE on [1.7.1 hangs on 000-cygwin-post-install.sh]

2010-01-03 Thread Rosario D. Contarino
Hi all, I've been moving on this issue, which still remains unresolved, and I would like to share with you all few improvements I think could help on better focus where the problem could be. Still there is no way to let the "setup.exe" complete properly its run and it always ends on the last part

Re: 1.7.1: Does 'chere' work with Vista 64b? Can't tell by me.

2010-01-03 Thread Dave
Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > Dave wrote: > > > So chere has managed to set the keys, and read them back fine. What > > happens when you run the following command in cmd (all one line)? > > > C:\_0\bin\mintty.exe --icon=c:\_0\cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll,10 - -e > > /bin/xhere /bin/bash.exe "c:\Pro

Re: Building core cygwin packages which only come with patch files over gnu.org packages

2010-01-03 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 03/01/2010 00:53, neil.mowb...@calgacus.com wrote: Okay, so I get the general idea. First you get the cygwin-src package. Unpack it and run cygport on the coreutils-7.0-2.cygport file with download option. If you are rebuilding an existing source package, you don't need to download it agai

RE: Building core cygwin packages which only come with patch files over gnu.org packages

2010-01-03 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Dom 3/1/10, Neil.Mowbray ha scritto: > By the way, when I try to build it > says Automake 1.10a is required. > However, this version isn't > an option under cygwin, only 1.10.3, 1.10.2, etc.  How > do I fixed this, hack > configure.ac? > $ cygcheck -c -d |grep automake automake