Re: HOWTO: cross-compile the Linux kernel on Cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Addendum: On 2012-06-11 22:31, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: 3. kernel a. Download a kernel from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ . b. Unpack and apply patch 0001. c. For 3.3 or newer kernels, apply patch 0002. d. For make xconfig, apply patch 0003. e. For make nconfig, apply patch 0004. *

Re: Expand stack in Cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread marco atzeri
On 6/12/2012 11:43 PM, Robert Lewis wrote: do not reply to a different thread to open a new thread. How does one increase the stack size of an application using Cygwin? I have googled this and found suggestions such as adding -W1,--stack,800 -Wl not -W1 to pass the dato to the linker

Re: Expand stack in Cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread René Berber
On 6/12/2012 4:43 PM, Robert Lewis wrote: How does one increase the stack size of an application using Cygwin? I have googled this and found suggestions such as adding -W1,--stack,800 ^ Wrong, change the "1" to the letter "l". to make the stack 8 meg. However, this doesn't work for

Expand stack in Cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread Robert Lewis
How does one increase the stack size of an application using Cygwin? I have googled this and found suggestions such as adding -W1,--stack,800 to make the stack 8 meg. However, this doesn't work for me. I include this as an option to gcc in my makefile and bash just reports an error messa

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-12 Thread marco atzeri
On 6/12/2012 7:08 PM, Roger K. Wells wrote: On 06/12/2012 11:10 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:46 AM, James Johnston wrote: Wikipedia says that ... Wikipedia isn't the keeper of the information relevant to Cygwin. You can only find the truth at cygwin.com. Besides, compa

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-12 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 06/12/2012 11:10 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:46 AM, James Johnston wrote: Wikipedia says that ... Wikipedia isn't the keeper of the information relevant to Cygwin. You can only find the truth at cygwin.com. Besides, companies do support open source projects by provi

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:32:00AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >On 06/12/2012 09:12 AM, Nick Lowe wrote: >> http://cygwin.com/ >> >> "The Cygwin DLL and utilities are Copyright ? 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, >> 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Red Hat, Inc" > >Yes, that's true for the

Re: HOWTO: cross-compile the Linux kernel on Cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 12/06/2012 12:34 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 6/12/2012 9:17 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:31:59PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Prerequisites: [snip] Nice, Yaakov. Indeed, this is a real cool addition to Cygwin's capabilities Yaakov. :-) Should we mak

Re: HOWTO: cross-compile the Linux kernel on Cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/12/2012 9:17 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:31:59PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Prerequisites: [snip] Nice, Yaakov. Indeed, this is a real cool addition to Cygwin's capabilities Yaakov. :-) Should we make this a FAQ entry or even a separate cygwin web pag

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/12/2012 09:12 AM, Nick Lowe wrote: > http://cygwin.com/ > > "The Cygwin DLL and utilities are Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, > 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Red Hat, Inc" Yes, that's true for the cygwin1.dll. But it's not all the executables available from cygwi

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 04:12:58PM +0100, Nick Lowe wrote: >http://cygwin.com/ > >"The Cygwin DLL and utilities are Copyright ? 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, >2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Red Hat, Inc" The version of Cygwin supported at cygwin.com is a GPL-based free software pro

Re: 1.7.15: C# hello world program hangs when run from cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread Peter Ross
On 12 June 2012 14:13, marco atzeri wrote: > On 6/12/2012 1:52 PM, Peter Ross wrote: >> >> On 12 June 2012 12:35, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Peter Ross wrote: >>> If I downgrade from 1.7.15 to 1.7.14 then it runs as expected >>> >>> And if you upgrade

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-12 Thread Nick Lowe
http://cygwin.com/ "The Cygwin DLL and utilities are Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Red Hat, Inc" > Wikipedia isn't the keeper of the information relevant to Cygwin.  You > can only find the truth at cygwin.com.  Besides, companies do supp

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:46 AM, James Johnston wrote: >  Wikipedia says that ... Wikipedia isn't the keeper of the information relevant to Cygwin. You can only find the truth at cygwin.com. Besides, companies do support open source projects by providing man hours to it. It doesn't mean that t

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-12 Thread Nick Lowe
To me, the key question is: Would Red Hat have an objection in principle to signing Cygwin and its packages given the history and ties. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubs

RE: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-12 Thread James Johnston
> >Red Hat might not have to buy a code signing cert for this. They might > >already have one that will work: http://goo.gl/5Hm3C > > The Cygwin project is not Red Hat. It wouldn't be "Red Hat" buying anything. What is the Cygwin project then? I honestly thought it was a Red Hat project... I.

Re: HOWTO: cross-compile the Linux kernel on Cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:31:59PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >Prerequisites: >[snip] Nice, Yaakov. Should we make this a FAQ entry or even a separate cygwin web page? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 06:57:45AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >On 6/9/2012 9:57 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>and I'm really not willing to burden cygwin.com with the cycles >>necessary to unpack tarballs at cygwin.com to sign them. > >Based on the traffic I see to cygwin-apps, my sense is that t

RE: Small request for the new cygwin terminal

2012-06-12 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
-BEGIN Original Message- From: Andy Koppe On 11 June 2012 13:55, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > I don't get > the U+009F result from the "/" key from any combination of Ctrl > and Shift. On a US keyboard, Shift+"/" is "?", and Ctrl+"?" is itself a valid control character combination, producing ^

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/11/2012 11:10 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/11/2012 7:39 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/10/2012 10:54 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-06-10 19:45, Ken Brown wrote: The bisection shows that the first problematic commit is this one: http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=7eae4

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-12 Thread Warren Young
On 6/9/2012 9:57 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: and I'm really not willing to burden cygwin.com with the cycles necessary to unpack tarballs at cygwin.com to sign them. Based on the traffic I see to cygwin-apps, my sense is that this would amount to single-digit CPU-minutes per day, once you g

Re: 1.7.15: C# hello world program hangs when run from cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread marco atzeri
On 6/12/2012 1:52 PM, Peter Ross wrote: On 12 June 2012 12:35, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Peter Ross wrote: If I downgrade from 1.7.15 to 1.7.14 then it runs as expected And if you upgrade to the newest cygwin.com/snapshots what happens? Replacing cygwin1.dll wit

Re: 1.7.15: C# hello world program hangs when run from cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread Peter Ross
On 12 June 2012 12:35, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Peter Ross wrote: > >> >> If I downgrade from 1.7.15 to 1.7.14 then it runs as expected >> > > And if you upgrade to the newest cygwin.com/snapshots what happens? > Replacing cygwin1.dll with cygwin1-20120611.dll.bz2 and i

Re: HOWTO: cross-compile the Linux kernel on Cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 11/06/2012 11:31 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Prerequisites: * Cygwin snapshot 1.7.16s/20120611 or newer (DLL and headers) * Cygwin gcc4-core 4.5 or newer, make, perl * Cygwin gettext, libelf-devel, libgmp-devel, libmpc-devel, libmpfr-devel, zlib-devel * (for make menuconfig) libncurses-de

Re: 1.7.15: C# hello world program hangs when run from cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Peter Ross wrote: > > If I downgrade from 1.7.15 to 1.7.14 then it runs as expected > And if you upgrade to the newest cygwin.com/snapshots what happens? -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

1.7.15: C# hello world program hangs when run from cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread Peter Ross
I compiled the following simple C# program using Mono 2.10.8 public class Hello { public static void Main() { System.Console.WriteLine("hello"); } } I then attempt to run it under mono and native .net # mcs Hello.cs # mono Hello.exe hello # ./Hello.exe If I down