[bug #35213] problems with pager on Cygwin build

2012-01-03 Thread marco atzeri
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #35213 (project octave): Less is always present on cygwin as it is a dependency of some base packages. If less is not present the message will be: octave:1> source prova.m /bin/sh: less: command not found It is an issue with the installed "less". Please install also li

question on where to direct a query

2012-01-03 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Cygwin: I am running code on a Fedora box and a WinXP box under cygwin. When I run a make with g++, I am seeing message of "recipe for target 'whatever' failed". I do not see these under Fedora. Though it may seem like a minor point, it is a bit of a pain when trying to filter any "make.out".

Re: Combining path components

2012-01-03 Thread Radly
Ken Brown-6 wrote: > > On 1/3/2012 9:32 PM, Radly wrote: >> >> I just installed Cygwin, which I've used off and on since it was created. >> I've been using MinGw for several months and have a .bashrc file that >> sets >> up some environment variables for me to reduce the typing in some routine

Re: Combining path components

2012-01-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/3/2012 9:32 PM, Radly wrote: I just installed Cygwin, which I've used off and on since it was created. I've been using MinGw for several months and have a .bashrc file that sets up some environment variables for me to reduce the typing in some routine tasks. The file has the following form

Combining path components

2012-01-03 Thread Radly
I just installed Cygwin, which I've used off and on since it was created. I've been using MinGw for several months and have a .bashrc file that sets up some environment variables for me to reduce the typing in some routine tasks. The file has the following form, after modifying the first line fr

Re: Efficient posix_spawn implementation for Cygwin

2012-01-03 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 1/3/2012 4:20 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> but it sounds interesting (especially if it allows less-frequent >> invocation of the rebaseall ritual). > > Since the VAST majority of UNIX/linux programs use fork/exec I don't > see how this would really have much of an effect. The idea is to ad

Re: Efficient posix_spawn implementation for Cygwin

2012-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:43:30PM -0500, Ryan Johnson wrote: >On 03/01/2012 5:25 PM, dan...@dancol.org wrote: >> posix_spawn [1] is an optional POSIX facility that allows programs to >> start other programs without using fork or vfork. I've created an >> efficient implementation of posix_spawn for

Re: Efficient posix_spawn implementation for Cygwin

2012-01-03 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 1/3/2012 2:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/2012 5:25 PM, dan...@dancol.org wrote: >> posix_spawn [1] is an optional POSIX facility that allows programs to >> start other programs without using fork or vfork. I've created an >> efficient implementation of posix_spawn for Cygwin. The code is

Re: Efficient posix_spawn implementation for Cygwin

2012-01-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/01/2012 5:25 PM, dan...@dancol.org wrote: posix_spawn [1] is an optional POSIX facility that allows programs to start other programs without using fork or vfork. I've created an efficient implementation of posix_spawn for Cygwin. The code is available at https://github.com/dcolascione/cygsp

Efficient posix_spawn implementation for Cygwin

2012-01-03 Thread dancol
posix_spawn [1] is an optional POSIX facility that allows programs to start other programs without using fork or vfork. I've created an efficient implementation of posix_spawn for Cygwin. The code is available at https://github.com/dcolascione/cygspawn. This library uses Cygwin's nonstandard spawn

man redirect error

2012-01-03 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
Thought maybe someone would be interested in the following error. $ man gcc | head GCC(1)GNU GCC(1) NAME gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler SYNOPSIS gcc [-c|-S|-E] [-std=standard] [-g] [-pg] [-Olevel] Error executing formatting or disp

[bug #35213] problems with pager on Cygwin build

2012-01-03 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Update of bug #35213 (project octave): Status: Need Info => None Summary: Matrix multiplication after rand() or randn() produces non-viewable result => problems with pager on Cygwin build _

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: unison2.40-2.40.63-1

2012-01-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
The unison2.40 package for Cygwin has been updated. This is a new upstream release. About Unison Unison is a file synchronizer for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or on different disks on the same ho

Re: GCC, '-pg' option and 'mcount' undefined

2012-01-03 Thread Tim Prince
On 1/3/2012 12:45 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: For the sake of completeness, I want to flag the following issue I have found on Cygwin. I have an application that doesn't build on Cygwin (gcc-4.5.3) because undefined reference to `_mcount' etc... I have tried to reproduce it with this simple examp

Re: GCC, '-pg' option and 'mcount' undefined

2012-01-03 Thread marco atzeri
On 1/3/2012 6:45 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: For the sake of completeness, I want to flag the following issue I have found on Cygwin. I have an application that doesn't build on Cygwin (gcc-4.5.3) because undefined reference to `_mcount' etc... I have tried to reproduce it with this simple exampl

GCC, '-pg' option and 'mcount' undefined

2012-01-03 Thread Angelo Graziosi
For the sake of completeness, I want to flag the following issue I have found on Cygwin. I have an application that doesn't build on Cygwin (gcc-4.5.3) because undefined reference to `_mcount' etc... I have tried to reproduce it with this simple example: $ cat hello.c #include int main() {

Re: Stackdump at every second startup

2012-01-03 Thread marco atzeri
On 1/3/2012 5:58 PM, Marc Girod wrote: marco atzeri-4 wrote: C:\cygwin\bin>ash ./rebaseall chdir c:\cygwin\bin dash -l -i -c "rebaseall" Er... this should not have resulted in anything different from the previous, right? I guess "-c" is critical and "-l" puts a clean cygwin enviroment.

Re: Stackdump at every second startup

2012-01-03 Thread Marc Girod
marco atzeri-4 wrote: > >> C:\cygwin\bin>ash ./rebaseall > > chdir c:\cygwin\bin > dash -l -i -c "rebaseall" > Er... this should not have resulted in anything different from the previous, right? I know there was another failing attempt, but this was already corrected... My real question now:

Re: Stackdump at every second startup

2012-01-03 Thread Børge Strand-Bergesen
That seems to have done the trick. Thanks! Børge On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 15:25, marco atzeri wrote: > On 1/3/2012 1:29 PM, Børge Strand-Bergesen wrote: >> >> Thanks, >> >> I hope I used the right syntax in cmd. I ran it as Admin. The result >> is the same, though, stackdump at every second cygwin

Re: Stackdump at every second startup

2012-01-03 Thread marco atzeri
On 1/3/2012 1:29 PM, Børge Strand-Bergesen wrote: Thanks, I hope I used the right syntax in cmd. I ran it as Admin. The result is the same, though, stackdump at every second cygwin startup. Børge Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserv

Re: Stackdump at every second startup

2012-01-03 Thread Børge Strand-Bergesen
Thanks, I hope I used the right syntax in cmd. I ran it as Admin. The result is the same, though, stackdump at every second cygwin startup. Børge Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\borge>cd \cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin>as

Re: Stackdump at every second startup

2012-01-03 Thread Eliot Moss
On 1/3/2012 7:11 AM, Børge Strand-Bergesen wrote: Hi guys, I've been experienceing some error messages lately, so I did a fresh resinstall of Cygwin on my Win7-64 machine. All settings left as defaults. I tried alternating Run as Administrator during both setup and when starting Cygwin. That did

Stackdump at every second startup

2012-01-03 Thread Børge Strand-Bergesen
Hi guys, I've been experienceing some error messages lately, so I did a fresh resinstall of Cygwin on my Win7-64 machine. All settings left as defaults. I tried alternating Run as Administrator during both setup and when starting Cygwin. That didn't seem to change much. The strange thing is that

Re: Fwd: CRLF

2012-01-03 Thread Franz Fehringer
Am 01.01.2012 17:08, schrieb Christopher Faylor: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:45:11AM +0100, Franz Fehringer wrote: >> What is this "interesting workaround"? >> Most probably we will use bash with "set -o igncr" btw. > > Read the forwarded email in this thread. > > cgf > thanks got it -- Pro