Re: build cygwin apps on linux

2010-08-19 Thread Slide
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 06:18:11PM -0700, Slide wrote: >>I've looked through the archives and saw some messages about building >>a cross-compiler to build cygwin apps on linux, but most of those >>messages/articles are pretty old. Has an

cygwin 1.7.6: df shows wrong (different?) drive information

2010-08-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
When I run "df -h " where dir is part of a native-NTFS-mounted-drive, then df prints details about the root drive (not the mounted drive). This acts differently if the drive is *also* mounted as a separate top-level drive. In that case, if you specify the mount point itself, it prints inform

Re: USB Drive Letter Manager (Small adverticement. Sorry if you find it abusive.)

2010-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 05:37:31AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >I've been pointed to this (without a doubt) exceptional piece of software. >http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html > >I'm toying with it now, but what I find in it, what would be most attractive >to the Cygwin community, is it's ability

USB Drive Letter Manager (Small adverticement. Sorry if you find it abusive.)

2010-08-19 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! I've been pointed to this (without a doubt) exceptional piece of software. http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html I'm toying with it now, but what I find in it, what would be most attractive to the Cygwin community, is it's ability to mount removable drives as NTFS reparse points.

Re: build cygwin apps on linux

2010-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 06:18:11PM -0700, Slide wrote: >I've looked through the archives and saw some messages about building >a cross-compiler to build cygwin apps on linux, but most of those >messages/articles are pretty old. Has anyone done this recently with >more recent GCC and Cygwin versions

Re: last email

2010-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 08:40:44PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: >On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Jacob Jacobson wrote: >> On 8/17/2010 6:07 AM, Global International wrote: >>> >>> Hi Dear, >>> >>> Please confirm if you received my last email and provide me your direct >>> phone number for more disc

Re: build cygwin apps on linux

2010-08-19 Thread Huang Bambo
I've build gcc 4.4.0 for arm in cygwin. 2010/8/20 Slide : > I've looked through the archives and saw some messages about building > a cross-compiler to build cygwin apps on linux, but most of those > messages/articles are pretty old. Has anyone done this recently with > more recent GCC and Cygwin

build cygwin apps on linux

2010-08-19 Thread Slide
I've looked through the archives and saw some messages about building a cross-compiler to build cygwin apps on linux, but most of those messages/articles are pretty old. Has anyone done this recently with more recent GCC and Cygwin versions? Thanks, slide -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.

Re: last email

2010-08-19 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/19/2010 8:31 PM, Jacob Jacobson wrote: > On 8/17/2010 6:07 AM, Global International wrote: >> Hi Dear, >> >> Please confirm if you received my last email and provide me your direct >> phone number for more discussions. >> >> Yours truly, >> >> Mr. David Brown >> Global International >> >> >> >

Re: last email

2010-08-19 Thread Gregg Levine
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Jacob Jacobson wrote: > On 8/17/2010 6:07 AM, Global International wrote: >> >> Hi Dear, >> >> Please confirm if you received my last email and provide me your direct >> phone number for more discussions. >> >> Yours truly, >> >> Mr. David Brown >> Global Internati

Re: last email

2010-08-19 Thread Jacob Jacobson
On 8/17/2010 6:07 AM, Global International wrote: Hi Dear, Please confirm if you received my last email and provide me your direct phone number for more discussions. Yours truly, Mr. David Brown Global International Discuss what? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

2010-08-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-08-19 18:37, Andrey Repin wrote: If ATI is the junction (reparse point, or however you call it) to a top-level directory on another partition, this behavior could be explained by "exiting through the window": process enter the partition from the doors (junction), dig it, then trying to ex

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

2010-08-19 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > I checked the strace, and after ascending back from the ATI subdir into > the toplevel dir successfully, find appears to exit "just so", without > any trace that it even *tries* to continue to scan further subdirs. And > unfortunately there's no way to see why find

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1

2010-08-19 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/19/2010 6:17 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 8/19/2010 11:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.3.003-1. >> >> This is an update to the new upstream version 7.3, including the >> first three patchsets. Cygwin Vim builds from the vanilla sour

Re: diff /usr/include/endian.orig.h /usr/include/endian.h > endian.h.diff

2010-08-19 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
ChangeLog entry: 2010-08-19 Pedro Izecksohn * endian.h [_BSD_SOURCE || ! _POSIX_SOURCE] (htobe16, htobe32) (htobe64, be16toh, be32toh, be64toh, htole16, htole32, htole64) (le16toh, le32toh, le64toh): Macros defined. I modified endian.h again: *** /usr/include/endi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1

2010-08-19 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/19/2010 11:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.3.003-1. > > This is an update to the new upstream version 7.3, including the > first three patchsets. Cygwin Vim builds from the vanilla sources. After updating, /usr/bin/vi no longer exists. I

cron fails to start as a service in Win2k3R2 64bit

2010-08-19 Thread Blaine Miller
The only way I've been able to get cron running is manually by starting the crond via execution of cron.exe. Attached are my cygcheck.txt and crontab. I get the following error after I install and start the cron service... cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

2010-08-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-08-19 12:28, Eric Blake wrote: On 08/19/2010 08:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hmm, digging through Cygwin's readdir code, I have a vague idea. Eric, does find honor the struct dirent d_type flag? I'm wondering if d_type is erroneously set to DT_REG for some reason. If so, we could fi

Re: rlwrap is ancient -- maintained?

2010-08-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/19/2010 5:02 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: The version of rlwrap in Cygwin is very old; the manpage dates it to 2005. Is the package still maintained? If not, does it need a new maintainer? :) The listed maintainer is Mauricio Antune but my admittedly limited search for any recent activity

rlwrap is ancient -- maintained?

2010-08-19 Thread Daniel Colascione
The version of rlwrap in Cygwin is very old; the manpage dates it to 2005. Is the package still maintained? If not, does it need a new maintainer? :) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/doc

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/19/2010 01:59 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > Of course the quality of the defect tracker is directly related to the > effort the maintainers put in to keep it relatively pruned and > organized. Maybe that is too much to expect for most maintainers at > this time. Bingo. That's why I'm perfectly

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 8/19/2010 12:34 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:02:35AM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >> A defect tracker should hopefully address such issues at least somewhat >> better than mail archives. Duplicate issues can be merged, issue owners >> can be more readily assumed to be

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.3.003-1. This is an update to the new upstream version 7.3, including the first three patchsets. Cygwin Vim builds from the vanilla sources. The official release message: ===

Re: MySQL?

2010-08-19 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 13:22 -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: > Has MySQL ever been successfully ported to Cygwin? I recall as we were > making the move towards 1.7 that it came up several times. Cygwin Ports provides MySQL packages. The clients are fine, but I do not guarantee that the server is usable

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 01:26:03PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>On Aug 19 11:23, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>>What is the status of http://cygwin.com/bugzilla? It appears to have >>>been in use at least last year. >>> >>>Provisional effort? Occasionally used? Useful, not useful? >> >>Not used fo

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 07:05:53PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 19 11:23, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> What is the status of http://cygwin.com/bugzilla? It appears to have been >> in use at least last year. >> >> Provisional effort? Occasionally used? Useful, not useful? > >Not used for

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:02:35AM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >On 8/19/2010 10:18 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> (1) Most important: How many people care? Do users want a bug tracker? >> Would package maintainers use it? Would the cygwin and setup.exe >> maintainers use it? >> >> Andrew Schulman

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:18:48AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI ? > >Auto-updating the package categories daily doesn't seem hard to me, I would >build that if we had a bug tracker working. > >But before we get to that point, I'd have a few other questions. > >

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Aug 19 11:23, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > What is the status of http://cygwin.com/bugzilla? It appears to have been > > in use at least last year. > > > > Provisional effort? Occasionally used? Useful, not useful? > > Not used for Cygwin, right now. CGF was using it at least a little bit

MySQL?

2010-08-19 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Has MySQL ever been successfully ported to Cygwin? I recall as we were making the move towards 1.7 that it came up several times. - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sunrpc-4.0-4

2010-08-19 Thread Charles Wilson
This update is simply a repackaging of the existing sunrpc package, without any testing. If the old version still works at this late date (4.0-3 was published in 2005, during the cygwin-1.3.x era), then this new version will too, because the .exe is *the same file*. OTOH, if this new version is br

[ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: rpcgen-2.11.90_20100818-1

2010-08-19 Thread Charles Wilson
rpcgen is a tool that generates C code to implement an RPC protocol. The input to rpcgen is a language similar to C known as RPC Language (Remote Procedure Call Language). This package replaces a component of the (soon-to-be-obsolete) sunrpc package; you should update sunrpc to the 4.0-4 version if

[ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: {libtirpc/libtirpc1/libtirpc-devel}-0.2.1-1

2010-08-19 Thread Charles Wilson
libtirpc is an updated version of the Sun RPC library. As such, it replaces part of the (orphaned) sunrpc package -- just as on linux, it replaces the built-in RPC routines in glibc: http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/doc/tirpc_rpcbind.php You should update sunrpc, if installed, to 4.0-4 or above.

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 11:18, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI ? > > Auto-updating the package categories daily doesn't seem hard to me, I would > build that if we had a bug tracker working. > > But before we get to that point, I'd have a few other questions. > > (1) Most importan

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 11:23, Andrew Schulman wrote: > What is the status of http://cygwin.com/bugzilla? It appears to have been > in use at least last year. > > Provisional effort? Occasionally used? Useful, not useful? Not used for Cygwin, right now. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Pleas

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 10:28, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/19/2010 08:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Hmm, digging through Cygwin's readdir code, I have a vague idea. > > > > Eric, does find honor the struct dirent d_type flag? I'm wondering > > if d_type is erroneously set to DT_REG for some reason. If so,

Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6

2010-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:33:16AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 19 02:03, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:42:21PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: >> >The other crazy idea would be to override the Win32 file and path >> >functions and handle the notion of a current

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

2010-08-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/19/2010 08:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hmm, digging through Cygwin's readdir code, I have a vague idea. > > Eric, does find honor the struct dirent d_type flag? I'm wondering > if d_type is erroneously set to DT_REG for some reason. If so, we > could find this out by augmenting the de

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 8/19/2010 10:18 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > (1) Most important: How many people care? Do users want a bug tracker? > Would package maintainers use it? Would the cygwin and setup.exe > maintainers use it? > > Andrew Schulman and Bill Blunn would find a bug tracker useful, but that's > not en

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
What is the status of http://cygwin.com/bugzilla? It appears to have been in use at least last year. Provisional effort? Occasionally used? Useful, not useful? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http:/

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI ? Auto-updating the package categories daily doesn't seem hard to me, I would build that if we had a bug tracker working. But before we get to that point, I'd have a few other questions. (1) Most important: How many people care? Do users want a bug tracker?

Re: ImageMagick: Still more insufficient package dependencies?

2010-08-19 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: This looks to me like an Emacs configuration problem, not a Cygwin problem. The code in image.c:7723 is guarded by #ifdef HAVE_MAGICKEXPORTIMAGEPIXELS, and configure reported "no" in the corresponding test. If I understand this rightly, ... checking for MagickExportImagePixe

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 10:41, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > The question is if the maintainers really want that, and cgf and I are > > just 2 out of ~60 maintainers, maintaining over 1400 packages. From > > these ~60 maintainers we have quite a few who either don't reply to any > > mail about their package, or wh

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 09:50, Rolf Campbell wrote: > NTFS Junction point: yes. I used the builtin windowns tool > "mountvol" to mount the disk in an empty directory. It's > technically mounted as "C:\.timemachine\3". > > Output from "ls -l" > [...] > I do not set the CYGWIN environmental variable when runnin

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> The question is if the maintainers really want that, and cgf and I are > just 2 out of ~60 maintainers, maintaining over 1400 packages. From > these ~60 maintainers we have quite a few who either don't reply to any > mail about their package, or who only reply after some nudging. Agreed, but OT

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 09:57, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > It might be helpful if I could be clear what the reasons for not having > > a bug tracker are. > > > > I could take a stab as: > > > > 1. It is not the feeling of the Cygwin maintainers that a bug tracker > > would provide a significantly better solut

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread William Blunn
On 19/08/2010 14:57, Andrew Schulman wrote: I think that a bug tracker would be a nice improvement to our development workflow. As a package maintainer, I'd love to be able to call up a page of all of the open bugs for all of the packages I maintain. I also think that the work to set up and mai

Re: Bash file completion (Tab) produces "-sh: exclude: unbound variable"

2010-08-19 Thread Jacob Jacobson
On 8/18/2010 10:22 AM, Dr. Rainer Woitok wrote: Greetings, after having recently upgraded Cygwin on my laptop running Windows Vista the Bash Shell started misbehaving by issuing "-sh: exclude: unbound variable" whenever I hit "Tab" for file name completion. After trying the obvious (that

Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 09:20, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 8/19/2010 6:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I applied the patch which adds the CW_SYNC_WINCWD code and I updated > > the documentation accordingly. > > > > I uploaded the rewritten chapter about using the Win32 file API here: > > > > http://cygwin.

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> It might be helpful if I could be clear what the reasons for not having > a bug tracker are. > > I could take a stab as: > > 1. It is not the feeling of the Cygwin maintainers that a bug tracker > would provide a significantly better solution than the current mailing > list solution > > 2.

Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6

2010-08-19 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/19/2010 6:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I applied the patch which adds the CW_SYNC_WINCWD code and I updated > the documentation accordingly. > > I uploaded the rewritten chapter about using the Win32 file API here: > > http://cygwin.de/cygwin-ug-177/using.html#pathnames-win32-api > >

Bash file completion (Tab) produces "-sh: exclude: unbound variable"

2010-08-19 Thread Dr. Rainer Woitok
Greetings, after having recently upgraded Cygwin on my laptop running Windows Vista the Bash Shell started misbehaving by issuing "-sh: exclude: unbound variable" whenever I hit "Tab" for file name completion. After trying the obvious (that is, issuing "set +u") and even having success with

Re: ImageMagick: Still more insufficient package dependencies?

2010-08-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/19/2010 7:33 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: I am trying to build the development version of Emacs with the imagemagick support. In the configure step one gets: $ ./configure --with-imagemagick [...] checking for Wand... yes checking IMAGEMAGICK_CFLAGS... -fopenmp -I/usr/include/ImageMagick chec

Bug tracker (was: ImageMagick: More insufficient package dependencies)

2010-08-19 Thread William Blunn
On 18/08/2010 21:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 18 21:32, William Blunn wrote: On 18/08/2010 19:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 06:40:17PM +0100, William Blunn wrote: My apologies to all the folks NOT involved in maintaining the ImageMagick package,

ImageMagick: Still more insufficient package dependencies?

2010-08-19 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I am trying to build the development version of Emacs with the imagemagick support. In the configure step one gets: $ ./configure --with-imagemagick [...] checking for Wand... yes checking IMAGEMAGICK_CFLAGS... -fopenmp -I/usr/include/ImageMagick checking IMAGEMAGICK_LIBS... -lMagickWand -lMagic

Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 22:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 18 15:51, Charles Wilson wrote: > > On 8/18/2010 3:41 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > >Chuck, btw., the function setup_win_environ() in run.c can easily be > > >replaced with `cygwin_internal (CW_SYNC_WINENV);' > > > > Yes, I was just looking

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 10:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 18 18:50, Rolf Campbell wrote: > > I have an 2nd NTFS disk mounted in a directory in my primary NTFS > > disk. When I use 'find' (with no arguments), it only displays a > > small fraction of the files in the current directory. > > > > Using cygwin

Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 02:03, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:42:21PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: > >The other crazy idea would be to override the Win32 file and path > >functions and handle the notion of a current directory entirely within > >Cygwin for both Win32 and Cygwin function

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 18:50, Rolf Campbell wrote: > I have an 2nd NTFS disk mounted in a directory in my primary NTFS > disk. When I use 'find' (with no arguments), it only displays a > small fraction of the files in the current directory. > > Using cygwin 1.7.5, it displayed about 100,000 files. > Using cyg

Re: ImageMagick: More insufficient package dependencies

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 21:57, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 18 August 2010 21:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 18 21:32, William Blunn wrote: > >> On 18/08/2010 19:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> >On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 06:40:17PM +0100, William Blunn wrote: > >> >>My apologies to all the folks NOT involved

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 22:00, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:16 AM > >What changed since Cygwin 1.7.5: > > > > > >- Cygwin handles the current working directory entirely on its own. The > > Win32 curr

Re: Postinstall for mintty fails when installing "just for me"

2010-08-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 18 20:31, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Wednesday, August 18, 2010 4:43 AM > > > >That usually just means you don't have admin privs. > > For the archive: That is indeed the case. > > >Here's the actual problem: > > cygdrive prefix