Re: 1.7.14-2: bash not accepting "~" (tilde) from keyboard in Console (WIN7)

2012-05-06 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 5/6/12 11:16 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> Yes. Just use mintty. It's the default and it works. > I use mintty and Console. One good thing about Console it understands > pty's or does something in the face of pty's that cause it to work in > certain circumstances that mintty fails in. My example

Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin?

2012-05-06 Thread JonY
On 5/7/2012 04:55, Marilo wrote: > Many thanks > > that worked. > > and just prior to that, I tried what elliot said too, (the lesser clean!), > make clean then make.. that worked too! > > It doesn't have -X proto, but it's nice to have GNU netcat 0.7.1 to know what > it looks like.. (not to

Re: 1.7.14-2: bash not accepting "~" (tilde) from keyboard in Console (WIN7)

2012-05-06 Thread JonY
On 5/7/2012 02:16, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 05/06/2012 05:54 AM, David Sastre Medina wrote: >> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 11:43:23PM +0200, Chris Brouwer wrote: >>> I have just installed Cygwin 1.17.14-2 using the setup.exe. >>> >>> I use Console (portable; from Portableapp.Com) as my entry to bash.

Portmap RPC registration fails

2012-05-06 Thread Ken
Portmap RPC registration fails I have sunrpc 4.0-4 and libtirpc-devel 0.2.1-1. I'm using Windows 7 SP1. I compiled and linked the following outline code against tirpc: #define PROG 0x1fffL #define VERS 0x2L struct netconfig *nconf = getnetconfigent("tcp"); static void dispatch_func

Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin?

2012-05-06 Thread Marilo
Many thanks that worked. and just prior to that, I tried what elliot said too, (the lesser clean!), make clean then make.. that worked too! It doesn't have -X proto, but it's nice to have GNU netcat 0.7.1 to know what it looks like.. (not too different from the one in cygwin!).. And now I kn

Re: 1.7.13/1.7.14: Issue with command prompt not returning when forking process

2012-05-06 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 5/6/12 1:09 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > [cmd /c start foo not going into the background] > It is not likely to change. What worries me isn't that the behavior changed, but that the new behavior is weird. SIGINT doesn't work on processes spawned by cmd /c start. Try it yourself: $ cmd /c s

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Testing: mintty-1.1.0-1

2012-05-06 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 5/6/12 12:29 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > mintty 1.1.0-1 (aka 1.1-beta1) is on its way to the Cygwin mirrors. > This is a test release. Can you please consider applying my patch to mintty's exit behavior at https://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=319 ? This patch makes mintty's behavior co

Re: 1.7.13/1.7.14: Issue with command prompt not returning when forking process

2012-05-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 10:05:00PM +0200, Rob Burgers wrote: >Corinna wrote: >>If Cygwin behaves different than Linux then that's not really intended. >>However, this only goes as far as Cygwin processes are affected. We >>can't (and don't) make any such guarantee for native, non-Cygwin >>processe

RE: 1.7.13/1.7.14: Issue with command prompt not returning when forking process

2012-05-06 Thread Rob Burgers
Hi Corinna, Thanks for your answer. > If Cygwin behaves different than Linux then that's not really intended. > However, this only goes as far as Cygwin processes are affected. We can't > (and don't) make any such guarantee for native, non-Cygwin processes. Okay, may be we should review our sta

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Testing: mintty-1.1.0-1

2012-05-06 Thread Andy Koppe
mintty 1.1.0-1 (aka 1.1-beta1) is on its way to the Cygwin mirrors. This is a test release. To install it using setup.exe, find mintty on the package selection screen and click on the cycle symbol by its version number until the required version appears. Make sure the checkbox in the 'Bin?' column

Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin?

2012-05-06 Thread Mark Geisert
Arrgh. I meant: > But after editing configure one needs to start the build over from scratch, > so: > make distclean ./configure > make > and you should be all set. ..mark -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Do

Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin?

2012-05-06 Thread Mark Geisert
Marilo writes: > I amended the configure file as you mention. > > I still get an error in the make.. and then no netcat.exe in the src > subdirectory [...] > core.o: In function `core_listen': > /home/Steve/netcat/src/core.c:225: undefined reference to >`_udphelper_ancillary_read' > collect2: ld r

Re: 1.7.14-2: bash not accepting "~" (tilde) from keyboard in Console (WIN7)

2012-05-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 05/06/2012 05:54 AM, David Sastre Medina wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 11:43:23PM +0200, Chris Brouwer wrote: I have just installed Cygwin 1.17.14-2 using the setup.exe. I use Console (portable; from Portableapp.Com) as my entry to bash. I have tried this when calling cygwin.bat from Explor

Re: 1.7.14-2: bash not accepting "~" (tilde) from keyboard in Console (WIN7)

2012-05-06 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 11:43:23PM +0200, Chris Brouwer wrote: > I have just installed Cygwin 1.17.14-2 using the setup.exe. > > I use Console (portable; from Portableapp.Com) as my entry to bash. > I have tried this when calling cygwin.bat from Explorer, effectively > starting cygwin from cmd.exe

Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin?

2012-05-06 Thread Marilo
--- On Sun, 6/5/12, Mark Geisertwrote: > From: Mark Geisert > Subject: Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin? > To: cygwin > Date: Sunday, 6 May, 2012, 9:46 > Marilo writes: > > > You followed the wrong instructions. > > > > The instructions - "INSTALL" said > > 1. configure > > 2. make >

Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin?

2012-05-06 Thread Mark Geisert
Marilo writes: > > You followed the wrong instructions. > > The instructions - "INSTALL" said > 1. configure > 2. make > .. > > But the problem is "configure" didn't exist. Two things: 1st, Whoever wrote the INSTALL was sloppy and should have said "./configure", and the 2nd thing is it's common

Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin?

2012-05-06 Thread Marilo
--- On Sun, 6/5/12, René Berber wrote: > From: René Berber > Subject: Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin? > To: cygwin > Date: Sunday, 6 May, 2012, 5:39 > On 5/5/2012 10:59 PM, Marilo wrote: > > [snip] > > $ autoconf-2.13 > > autoconf: configure.in: No such file or directory > > You f