Re: perl6 fails -

2010-04-29 Thread Reini Urban
2010/4/30 David Vergin: > I'm a little out of my element here but I did my best. > If I have misunderstood, please advise. ... > strace perl6 --version|grep fhandler_base::open|cut -c48 &> > perl6_strace_redir_all.txt Not good, but I think we are onto something. PMC perms probably. The complete st

/usr/local/lib missing in gcc LIBRARY_PATH

2010-04-29 Thread Reini Urban
I'm a bit baffled that /usr/local/lib is not in the LIBRARY_PATH - the ld library search path, but /usr/local/include is in the header search path. For gcc-3 and -4 On linux and default gcc /usr/local/lib is even before /usr/lib, but certainly not removed at all. See e.g. http://www.network-theory.

Re: NIS/yp ported?

2010-04-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 04/29/2010 09:46 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: I'm just curious - I have a function that I use on Unix to do basically a ypcat passwd | grep -i $...@. It's very useful in looking up users especially since ore and more corporations use anonymous numbers or IDs to represent peo

Re: perl6 fails -

2010-04-29 Thread Reini Urban
> on 4/26/2010 3:13 AM Reini Urban said the following: >> 2010/4/26 David Vergin: >>> ...sadly I now have a new error... >>> >>> $ /usr/bin/perl6 -V >>> Null PMC access in find_method('get_parrotclass') >>> current instr.: 'perl6;ClassHOW;onload' pc -1 ((unknown file):-1) >>> Segmentation fault (co

Re: NIS/yp ported?

2010-04-29 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I'm just curious - I have a function that I use on Unix to do basically > a ypcat passwd | grep -i $...@. It's very useful in looking up users > especially since ore and more corporations use anonymous numbers or IDs > to represent people. But I have to log into the Unix sys

RE: (nwl) Re: (nwl) Re: Installation problems - post install scripts all give "abnormal exit: exit code=128"

2010-04-29 Thread Crow, Frank
That's also good stuff to know. I'm escalating these issues to management, they will have to decide. Cygwin is a requirement of a new project. So something will have to give one way or the other! Many thanks guys. I really appreciate the assistance. -Frank _

Re: (nwl) Re: Installation problems - post install scripts all give "abnormal exit: exit code=128"

2010-04-29 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Crow, Frank wrote: > But let's say that BLODA is the problem... and I'm not allowed to remove the > offending software. Can I do something like install Cygwin on a different > machine and then copy over the entire C:\Cygwin? I'm betting not, but I'm > asking just in case. Yes, even though i

RE: (nwl) Re: Installation problems - post install scripts all give "abnormal exit: exit code=128"

2010-04-29 Thread Crow, Frank
I looked at the BLODA list. There are a couple of software packages in there that I do have, however I'm not allowed to remove per company policy. Such as Symantec Anti-virus and even the Embassy Trust Suite. Heck, I'm not even sure if I can remove Windows Defender for that matter. Actua

NIS/yp ported?

2010-04-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
I'm just curious - I have a function that I use on Unix to do basically a ypcat passwd | grep -i $...@. It's very useful in looking up users especially since ore and more corporations use anonymous numbers or IDs to represent people. But I have to log into the Unix system to do it. I was wonde

Re: Installation problems - post install scripts all give "abnormal exit: exit code=128"

2010-04-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/29/2010 11:22 PM, Crow, Frank wrote: Hi, I recently installed the latest version of the full Cygwin. I noticed that many things were not working, so I looked at the /var/log/setup.log file. In that log file, I discovered that all of the package post install scripts failed during insta

RE: (nwl) Re: spam score exceeded threshold??

2010-04-29 Thread Crow, Frank
I tried re-sending my questions in a number of different ways; different subject, reduced amount of example error messages and so forth. What finally worked is that I re-sent the entire thing and did *not* attach the cygcheck.out file. Not sure why the spam filters didn't like it. I'm also

Re: spam score exceeded threshold??

2010-04-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/29/2010 11:12 PM, Crow, Frank wrote: I've been trying to send a question to the Cygwin list and I keep getting: "Server refused mail at END OF DATA - 552 spam score exceeded threshold (#5.6.1)" Can anyone help me figure out why my question results in this? I'm not spamming! Just asking

Installation problems - post install scripts all give "abnormal exit: exit code=128"

2010-04-29 Thread Crow, Frank
Hi, I recently installed the latest version of the full Cygwin. I noticed that many things were not working, so I looked at the /var/log/setup.log file. In that log file, I discovered that all of the package post install scripts failed during installation.All, except two, give the "abn

spam score exceeded threshold??

2010-04-29 Thread Crow, Frank
I've been trying to send a question to the Cygwin list and I keep getting: "Server refused mail at END OF DATA - 552 spam score exceeded threshold (#5.6.1)" Can anyone help me figure out why my question results in this? I'm not spamming! Just asking a couple of legitimate questions. Any

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.5-1

2010-04-29 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
An updated package, coreutils-8.5-1 release has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you, leaving coreutils 8.4-2 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, with upstream details listed below. It also includes a change to base64 to always operate in binary mode on input e

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems

2010-04-29 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:13 PM, greenup greenup wrote: > This is an old problem, the last I heard on it was something along the lines > of: > "Cygwin's functionality/compatibility/robustness improved in necessary > ways, but performance was required to suffer" > From a hearsay perspective, it ap

Re: List configuration?

2010-04-29 Thread Lee Rothstein
On 4/29/2010 11:31 AM, Ben Kamen wrote: The newer thunderbird (I think starting with version 3) has a button "Reply to List" I try to remember to use that. -Ben Thanks for the heads up on TB 3. Works like a charm -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems

2010-04-29 Thread greenup greenup
This is an old problem, the last I heard on it was something along the lines of: "Cygwin's functionality/compatibility/robustness improved in necessary ways, but performance was required to suffer" >From a hearsay perspective, it appears to be related to fork/exec performance, and more specifically

Re: Ignored Permissions

2010-04-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/29/2010 04:47 PM, Matthew B. Smith wrote: > If I set the permissions of a file to be read only I can still delete > it, or modify it w/out warning. > This is an administrator acct if that affects the issue. I am using 1.7 Yes, that makes a difference. I bet if you became root on your Ubun

Ignored Permissions

2010-04-29 Thread Matthew B. Smith
If I set the permissions of a file to be read only I can still delete it, or modify it w/out warning. eg. touch test.txt chmod 444 test.txt echo "what" >> test.txt In ubuntu I get an error, in cygwin it just modifies the file. This is an administrator acct if that affects the issue. I am using

Re: Python 2.6 ?

2010-04-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2010-04-27 17:01, Jason Tishler wrote: I'm ready to release python-2.6.5-1 as experimental. How long should the module maintainers be given to transition their modules to Python 2.6? Is 3 months reasonable? I would like to add the transition date to my release announcement. One one hand,

Re: perl6 fails -

2010-04-29 Thread David Vergin
Reposting. This may have gotten lost in the shuffle. I remain ready to test and report as much as is helpful.David on 4/26/2010 3:13 AM Reini Urban said the following: 2010/4/26 David Vergin: ...sadly I now have a new error... $ /usr/bin/perl6 -V Null PMC access in find_method('get_pa

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Marc Girod
Ken Brown-6 wrote: > > [This should have gone to the cygwin-xfree list. I've set the reply-to > accordingly.] > Sorry... I wasn't sure whether it was emacs or X. I reply via nabble: hope it will follow the reply-to. > This is a result of the change in the default server DPI announced in >

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/29/2010 2:07 PM, Marc Girod wrote: I just thought I'd add my /var/log/XWin.0.log file, which contains my X startup string... The complete startup string, from /Emacs.bat, is: bash --login -c "/usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/emacs -g 90x37+150+0 -- /usr/bin/X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard" Please s

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Marc Girod
I just thought I'd add my /var/log/XWin.0.log file, which contains my X startup string... The complete startup string, from /Emacs.bat, is: bash --login -c "/usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/emacs -g 90x37+150+0 -- /usr/bin/X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard" Thanks, Marc http://old.nabble.com/file/p28403944/X

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Ken Brown
[This should have gone to the cygwin-xfree list. I've set the reply-to accordingly.] On 4/29/2010 1:55 PM, Marc Girod wrote: Hello, I just upgraded for the first time for a few months. Starting my Gnu emacs under X11, I notice that my font (and frames) is larger than previously, by a factor

Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I just upgraded for the first time for a few months. Starting my Gnu emacs under X11, I notice that my font (and frames) is larger than previously, by a factor ~1.5. I did record the following last October, and it stayed the same now: ~> cygcheck -c | egrep 'bitstream.*vera' font-bitstre

Re: List configuration?

2010-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:37:49AM -0400, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: >Hmm. Replying to Christopher did set the header to the list, That's because *I* made a personal choice to set the Reply-To. >but more than once I wrote to a person when I thought I was writing to >the list. Not long ago somebody el

rsync 3.0.7 hangs in combination with cygwin 1.7.[4,5] and rsync server on Debian

2010-04-29 Thread Wiesner Thomas
Hello. My laptop runs XP Home SP3 and my workstation XP Prof. SP3. Attached is the output of cygcheck -s -v -r of the laptop. I use Cygwin and rsync to sync my files to a Debian 4.0 server which runs rsync 2.6.9 in daemon mode. It had always worked quite will until I upgraded from 1.5.x to Cyg

Re: select() hanging after terminal killed

2010-04-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Thomas Wolff wrote on 2010-04-29: On 29.04.2010 13:28, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 29.04.2010 12:53, schrieb Thomas Wolff: [on closed terminal] On Linux, select() indicates an exception and EIO. On SunOS, select() indicates both an exception and input (weird), Not weird, you appear to be mis

Re: List configuration?

2010-04-29 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Hmm. Replying to Christopher did set the header to the list, but more than once I wrote to a person when I thought I was writing to the list. Not long ago somebody else's name got affixed to my reply because the recipient was a person instead of the list and that person had to massage it. That w

Re: List configuration?

2010-04-29 Thread Ben Kamen
On 4/29/2010 10:24 AM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: On 4/29/2010 10:19 AM, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: Hi folks, The user's guide requests that people reply to the list, but the default headers are set up to reply to the sender. This seems a bit strange. I know it's been this way for ages but I do get tired of

Re: List configuration?

2010-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:19:44AM -0400, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: >The user's guide requests that people reply to the list, but the >default headers are set up to reply to the sender. This seems a bit >strange. I know it's been this way for ages but I do get tired of >realizing I forgot to change t

Re: List configuration?

2010-04-29 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 4/29/2010 10:19 AM, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > Hi folks, > > The user's guide requests that people reply to the list, but the default > headers are set up to reply to the sender. This seems a bit strange. I > know it's been this way for ages but I do get tired of realizing I > forgot to change the

Re: select() hanging after terminal killed

2010-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 05:11:00PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 29 12:53, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> If a terminal gets killed, its tty/pty is not properly closed. >> This is likely to confuse applications and let them hang, as observed >> with mined (thanks Andy for the report) and joe. >>

List configuration?

2010-04-29 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Hi folks, The user's guide requests that people reply to the list, but the default headers are set up to reply to the sender. This seems a bit strange. I know it's been this way for ages but I do get tired of realizing I forgot to change the recipient. -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State Universit

Re: select() hanging after terminal killed

2010-04-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 29 12:53, Thomas Wolff wrote: > If a terminal gets killed, its tty/pty is not properly closed. > This is likely to confuse applications and let them hang, as observed > with mined (thanks Andy for the report) and joe. > > On Linux and SunOS, a subsequent read() return 0 (indicating EOF); >

RE: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-29 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
> From: Eric Blake > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 14:19 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2 > > ... > Perhaps unspoken, but I prefer suffix-less executables. Then I don't > have to care whether they are binary or interpreted scripts. Besides, > having a suffix

Re: select() hanging after terminal killed

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 29.04.2010 13:28, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 29.04.2010 12:53, schrieb Thomas Wolff: [on closed terminal] On Linux, select() indicates an exception and EIO. On SunOS, select() indicates both an exception and input (weird), Not weird, you appear to be misunderstanding select(). An I

Re: 1.7.5: Problem with dlopen and relative path

2010-04-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 29 12:39, Mansur Mamkin wrote: > Hello, > > As I see in source of dlfcn.cc, dlopen() should override LoadLibrary's > automatic adding of a ".dll" suffix, > but it's behaving strangely > > I have such files: > /home/me/project/myexe.exe > /home/me/project/lib1.dll > /home/me/project/subdi

Re: queries on Environment and Services before 1.5 -> 1.7 upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Lester Ingber
I appreciate the feedback from Jeremy Bopp and Corinna Vinschen. Just after Jeremy's email I did the upgrade and it went very smoothly. Thanks very much. Lester Original Message Subject: queries on Environment and Services before 1.5 -> 1.7 upgrade From: Lester Ingber To: cy

Req: cygwin binary for gnuplot-4.4.

2010-04-29 Thread George Barrick
Req: cygwin binary for gnuplot-4.4. 2010.04.29.12:10:21 UT Hello Cygwin folks, My interest in gnuplot is as a plotting engine for octave. I had noticed that the gnuplot graphing package released its version 4.4 in March 2010. I realize that it is probably easy t

Re: select() hanging after terminal killed

2010-04-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 29.04.2010 12:53, schrieb Thomas Wolff: [on closed terminal] > On Linux, select() indicates an exception and EIO. > On SunOS, select() indicates both an exception and input (weird), Not weird, you appear to be misunderstanding select(). An IEEE Std 1003.1 compliant select(): - only states th

select() hanging after terminal killed

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
If a terminal gets killed, its tty/pty is not properly closed. This is likely to confuse applications and let them hang, as observed with mined (thanks Andy for the report) and joe. On Linux and SunOS, a subsequent read() return 0 (indicating EOF); any further read() returns -1, errno indicating

Re: Getting characters to display properly in Cygwin/RXVT/man pages

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 29.04.2010 07:32, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 04/27/2010 08:51 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: Additional options: * Update groff (with setup.exe) for a man page fix. Could you expand upon that? I believe I already have the latest groff. Since you ran into the "weird characters for option dashes

1.7.5: Problem with dlopen and relative path

2010-04-29 Thread Mansur Mamkin
Hello, As I see in source of dlfcn.cc, dlopen() should override LoadLibrary's automatic adding of a ".dll" suffix, but it's behaving strangely I have such files: /home/me/project/myexe.exe /home/me/project/lib1.dll /home/me/project/subdir/lib2.dll /home/me/project/subdir/lib3 (without .dll) My

Re: queries on Environment and Services before 1.5 -> 1.7 upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 28 14:16, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > On 4/28/2010 1:07 PM, Lester Ingber wrote: > > I have some questions prior to upgrading from 1.5.25-15 to 1.7 > > (currently 1.7.5-1) with respect to Environment and Services. > > > > I already am aware that after the upgrade I should run > > /bin/copy-user-re