Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread marco atzeri
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote: >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik  wrote: >>> tetex is dead and buried. >>> Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says: >>> --- >>> De-suppo

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread wynfield
I have installed and use 'texlive 2010', as is, on cygwin with no problem. No need for MikTeX or Windows interfaces. Using TexLive also eases things since it uses normal posix pathnames. Regards, Wynfield -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://

Error when Perl calling shell scipt using Cygwin >>> c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487

2011-05-26 Thread Gaurav Chhabra
http://old.nabble.com/file/p31714033/cygcheck.out cygcheck.out Hi, I have a Windows machine and I have Cygwin installed. I have a Perl script which calls a shell script using Cygwin. I am getting the following message while running the Perl script: -

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 9:13 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > I observe that I installed and use MiKTeX, which is a native > Windows TeX/LaTeX, but I call it fine from cygwin scripts and > such without difficulty. It was a seamless cutover. Me too. > So ... I am not sure that > there is any great benefit to a cygwi

Re: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 15:57, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > On 5/26/2011 3:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:28:53PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote: > >>Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option: > >>glob:noignorecase > >> > >>What follows is an edited transcript of m

Re: mintty font test

2011-05-26 Thread Andy Koppe
On 27 May 2011 06:26, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 26 May 2011 16:53, Warren Young wrote: >> It might be good if this xgraphics file you have were distributed with >> mintty in the doc directory, so others can repeat the test on their system >> with other fonts. > > It's not mintty-specific and it's not

Re: mintty font test

2011-05-26 Thread Andy Koppe
On 26 May 2011 16:53, Warren Young wrote: > It might be good if this xgraphics file you have were distributed with > mintty in the doc directory, so others can repeat the test on their system > with other fonts. It's not mintty-specific and it's not documentation, so no. Find it attached though.

Re: Can't talk to X server through ssh tunnel after ~ 18 minutes

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 05/26/11 08:39, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 26/05/2011 00:47, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 5/25/2011 11:01 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 5/25/2011 12:43 PM, Andrew DeFaria said this: I ssh from my Cygwin box to a Linux machine (happens with Solaris machines too) and I can run X applications back to Cy

cmake broken with Cygwin CVS HEAD

2011-05-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
cmake 2.8.4 does not run with Cygwin CVS HEAD, but does with 1.7.9. Please let me know if you need further information to diagnose. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Un

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Eliot Moss
On 5/26/2011 6:39 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: tetex is dead and buried. Well, hold on there, cowboy. Jan Nieuwenhuizen is listed as the teTeX maintainer for cygwin; I think to proper course is t

Re: select() hanging after terminal killed

2011-05-26 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 29.04.2010 17:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: 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 (

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> tetex is dead and buried. >> Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says: >> --- >> De-support notice >> >> I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new re

Re: Troubleshooting SSH connection as SYSTEM user.

2011-05-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 5/26/2011 5:46 PM, Matthew Leonhardt wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 5/26/2011 11:10 AM, Matthew Leonhardt wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to install a service to keep some SSH tunnels alive using the following script: $ cat ssh_tunnel.exe #!/usr/bin/bas

rsync, network shares, and soft links

2011-05-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, I'm using rsync to make backups of my laptop to a windows share, and with the -l option it copies over links, but apparently does so as linux-style rather than cygwin-style. When I do it to a local dir, the link is recognized as such and not re-sent: $ cd test; ln -s ../apps; ll; cd

Re: Troubleshooting SSH connection as SYSTEM user.

2011-05-26 Thread Matthew Leonhardt
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 5/26/2011 11:10 AM, Matthew Leonhardt wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I'm trying to install a service to keep some SSH tunnels alive using >> the following script: >> >> $ cat ssh_tunnel.exe >> #!/usr/bin/bash >> while : >> do >>   /cyg

Re: Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread sweinberger
Hi Chuck, You are right. I had to create a separate folder, which in my case I used your advice and did /usr/local/build-binutils. I also found out that the reason for my earlier problems with the make file complaining about carriage returns was because I used WinZip to expand the binutils-2.21

Re: Troubleshooting SSH connection as SYSTEM user.

2011-05-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 5/26/2011 11:10 AM, Matthew Leonhardt wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to install a service to keep some SSH tunnels alive using the following script: $ cat ssh_tunnel.exe #!/usr/bin/bash while : do /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/netstat -an | grep 192\.168\.0\.1:139 \ | grep LISTENING> /

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread marco atzeri
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > tetex is dead and buried. > Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says: > --- > De-support notice > > I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any > more (May 2006). > -

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
tetex is dead and buried. Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says: --- De-support notice I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any more (May 2006). --- In fact, newer (la)tex packages

Re: Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 4:17 PM, sweinberger wrote: > > > Here's your problem: binutils and gcc don't support compiling "in the >> source tree". You need to create a separate, empty build directory >> *outside* the src directory, and run configure/make in there. > > I did just that. > > I downloaded binu

Re: Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread sweinberger
Here's your problem: binutils and gcc don't support compiling "in the > source tree". You need to create a separate, empty build directory > *outside* the src directory, and run configure/make in there. I did just that. I downloaded binutils-2.21 and expanded everything into a new empty folder

Re: Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 3:32 PM, sweinberger wrote: > Cygwin is supposed to provide an isolated environment totally shielding > applications that run on the inside from even knowing that a Windows > anything exists. I don't know where you got that idea. It's perfectly fine to use w32api functions in combin

Re: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-26 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 5/26/2011 3:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:28:53PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote: Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option: glob:noignorecase What follows is an edited transcript of my confusion about trying to find the command "xwin" (and ev

Re: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:28:53PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote: >Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option: >glob:noignorecase > >What follows is an edited transcript of my confusion about trying >to find the command "xwin" (and eventual resolution), having >forgotten about it

Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread sweinberger
Hi, I am using Cygwin 1.7.9-1 on my Windows desktop. I ran into a problem a few weeks ago using the dmake.exe uiliy, wherein dmake wanted the project that I was builing to be not in Linu convetion, but rather in a Windows notation. Since ":" and "\" are not acceptable characters in a Linux pat

Re: help developing a good problem report

2011-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:10:27PM -0500, Rance Hall wrote: >I've been noticing an issue with cygwin that I find annoying and would >like to fix. > >Ive never submitted a cygwin problem report before so this is a first. > >My issue now is that I dont actually understand the problem well >enough to

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/26/2011 3:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 26/05/2011 2:33 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never even been able to install it successfully. I admit it, I'm a dolt. Anybody have the "magic beans" on this? I've tried installing and reinstalli

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 26/05/2011 2:33 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never even been able to install it successfully. I admit it, I'm a dolt. Anybody have the "magic beans" on this? I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work. As it happens

Re: help developing a good problem report

2011-05-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 26/05/2011 1:10 PM, Rance Hall wrote: I've been noticing an issue with cygwin that I find annoying and would like to fix. Ive never submitted a cygwin problem report before so this is a first. My issue now is that I dont actually understand the problem well enough to give a good report. Her

Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Lee Rothstein
I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never even been able to install it successfully. I admit it, I'm a dolt. Anybody have the "magic beans" on this? I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work. Here's some feedback from my last "install attempts": --

file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-26 Thread Lee Rothstein
Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option: glob:noignorecase What follows is an edited transcript of my confusion about trying to find the command "xwin" (and eventual resolution), having forgotten about its capitalization. More specifically, I was trying to figure out if i

help developing a good problem report

2011-05-26 Thread Rance Hall
I've been noticing an issue with cygwin that I find annoying and would like to fix. Ive never submitted a cygwin problem report before so this is a first. My issue now is that I dont actually understand the problem well enough to give a good report. Here is what is happening: I'm using mintty t

Keyboard problem

2011-05-26 Thread phiroc
Hello, I use an US - International keyboard on my PC. Sometimes, when I switch from cygwin-x-xterm to another Windows application and return to xterm, Alt-K displays an accented e on the terminal instead of clearing the screen, as expected. If Iright-click the top of the cygwin-x-xterm window

Re: mintty font test

2011-05-26 Thread Warren Young
On 5/25/2011 7:42 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: FYI: http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/mintty-font-test/ Ok, I redid the screenshots, but this time I made sure to cat the xgraphics file again after changig the font. This is really valuable, Chuck! I'd already independently settled on Deja Vu and Luc

Re: Can't talk to X server through ssh tunnel after ~ 18 minutes

2011-05-26 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 26/05/2011 00:47, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 5/25/2011 11:01 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> On 5/25/2011 12:43 PM, Andrew DeFaria said this: >>> I ssh from my Cygwin box to a Linux machine (happens with Solaris machines >>> too) and I can run X applications back to Cygwin/X without a problem. >>> Ho

Re: New to cygwin, trouble using GSL

2011-05-26 Thread marco atzeri
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Rufus_Darkstar wrote: > > So, I have recently attempted to install gsl on in cygwin.  Here is the > output i get from using the "make" command: > http://old.nabble.com/file/p31708242/Untitled.png Untitled.png > I'm really not sure what this means. Is there a partic

Troubleshooting SSH connection as SYSTEM user.

2011-05-26 Thread Matthew Leonhardt
Hello all, I'm trying to install a service to keep some SSH tunnels alive using the following script: $ cat ssh_tunnel.exe #!/usr/bin/bash while : do /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/netstat -an | grep 192\.168\.0\.1:139 \ | grep LISTENING > /dev/null if (( $? )); then /usr/bin/ssh -v -v

Re: IFS not fixing carriage returns

2011-05-26 Thread Luke Kendall
Eric Blake redhat.com> writes: > > On 03/25/2011 10:35 AM, Tim McDaniel wrote: > > Although it's not documented in "man bash" on the latest Cygwin, I did > > find "set -o igncr" and it seems to work well. > > I documented it in the cygwin bash release notes, so it is in > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/

Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 9:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 26 09:42, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> BTW, is there an easy way to get the F14 version of the font > > http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=liberation-mono-fonts Yep, and then once you have the rpm, you can do this on cygwin: rpm2c

New to cygwin, trouble using GSL

2011-05-26 Thread Rufus_Darkstar
So, I have recently attempted to install gsl on in cygwin. Here is the output i get from using the "make" command: http://old.nabble.com/file/p31708242/Untitled.png Untitled.png I'm really not sure what this means. Is there a particular directory I have to compile everything in? Any advice is ap

Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)

2011-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 09:42, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 26/05/2011 9:19 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On May 26 08:09, Charles Wilson wrote: > >>On 5/26/2011 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote: > >On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, And

Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)

2011-05-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 26/05/2011 9:19 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 08:09, Charles Wilson wrote: On 5/26/2011 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote: On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: I guess somebody needs to file a bug with f

Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)

2011-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 08:09, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 5/26/2011 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote: > >> On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote: > >>> On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > >>> I guess somebody needs to file a bug with fedorahosted.org, but I didn't

Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)

2011-05-26 Thread KHMan
On 5/26/2011 8:09 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 5/26/2011 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote: On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: I guess somebody needs to file a bug with fedorahosted.org, but I didn't see an obviou

Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote: >>> On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> I guess somebody needs to file a bug with fedorahosted.org, but I didn't see >>> an obvious way to request an account with