Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut

2011-08-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* LMH (Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:59:12 -0400) > I have just installed 1.7 on win7 enterprise 64 bit and I tried to > modify the shortcut that starts the bash window and I get a windows > error message, > > "can't modify the shortcut > . > make sure it has not been deleted or renamed" Why on earth and

i686-XXX-mingw32 compilers and __MINGW32_MINOR_VERSION macro: 3.18 or 3.11?

2011-08-17 Thread Frédéric Bron
Using cygwin 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10. The following program: #include int main() { std::cout<<__MINGW32_MAJOR_VERSION<<'.'<<__MINGW32_MINOR_VERSION<<'\n'; return 0; } outputs: - 3.18 when built with i686-pc-mingw32-g++ - 3.11 when built with i686-w64-mingw32-g++ why? I

install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut

2011-08-17 Thread LMH
I have just installed 1.7 on win7 enterprise 64 bit and I tried to modify the shortcut that starts the bash window and I get a windows error message, "can't modify the shortcut . make sure it has not been deleted or renamed" I currently have cygwin installed at E:/cygwin and I also tried "rei

Help debugging signal sources with gdb

2011-08-17 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, Signals seem to really confuse gdb under cygwin (win7-x64), usually leading to stack traces somewhere in kernelbase.dll or ntdll.dll with no hint of the actual code responsible for the error. In particular, SIGABRT and SIGSEGV would be nice to catch a little closer to the source. SIG

Re: how to get into dos mode & run .bat or .cmd file

2011-08-17 Thread Eliot Moss
On 8/17/2011 4:26 PM, J.V. wrote: I want a bash / shell script that I can run that will go into dos mode, and from there run a .bat or a .cmd script automatically. After much googl'ing and experimenting, I cannot quite get it to run a dos shell and run a .bat or .cmd. any help would be apprec

how to get into dos mode & run .bat or .cmd file

2011-08-17 Thread J.V.
I want a bash / shell script that I can run that will go into dos mode, and from there run a .bat or a .cmd script automatically. After much googl'ing and experimenting, I cannot quite get it to run a dos shell and run a .bat or .cmd. any help would be appreciated. J.V. -- Problem reports:

screen uses /bin/sh

2011-08-17 Thread Sam Steingold
Hi, screen uses /bin/sh by default, not /bin/bash despite SHELL being set to /bin/bash. "screen -s /bin/bash" does the right thing. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on CentOS release 5.6 (Final) X 11.0.60900031 http://ffii.org http://jihadwatch.org http://truepeace.org http://openvotingc

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libusb-win32 1.2.5.0-1

2011-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Version 1.2.5.0-1 of "libusb-win32" has been uploaded. This is a new upstream release, the filter installer is not shipped any more as it does not build on cygwin any more. It is a library that allows userspace application to access USB devices on Windows operation systems (Win98SE, WinME, Win2

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.3-3

2011-08-17 Thread Ken Brown
New releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages (23.3-3) are now available, leaving 23.3-2 as previous. This fixes the problem with memory management discussed starting at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-08/msg00167.html (see also http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9273)

v*printf functions not available with g++ -std=c++0x

2011-08-17 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, I'm using the experimental gcc-4.5 package and hit a strange error: c++0x mode suppresses the definition of the v*printf() family of functions in stdio.h in c++0x mode. The offending code seems to be: #if !defined(__STRICT_ANSI__) || (__STDC_VERSION__ >= 199901L) #ifndef _REENT_ONLY .

Re: teTeX/dvips

2011-08-17 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Ryan Johnson was heard to say: AFAIK, it's a tex thing and has little or no relation to anything linux or unix. Other than that I tend to agree with your assessment, tho. Just for the sake of completeness: most TeX implementations use the Kpathsea library for path searching. Its idiosyn