Re: parentheses in environment variable name

2013-05-08 Thread Linda Walsh
BJ Quinn wrote: > Anyway, at least one suggestion I found was that my problem may be caused by > the CommonProgramFiles(x86) environment variable needing to be set to > 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files'. So, can anyone suggest how to set an > environment variable whose VARIABLE NAME (not j

parentheses in environment variable name

2013-05-08 Thread BJ Quinn
I have the problem described here - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3735922/issue-with-oledbconnection-open-when-running-as-a-service Basically, I've installed cygwin plus openssh for the purpose of remotely logging into my windows machine from a linux machine over ssh to run an executable o

Junctions + "pwd -P" = only skin deep resolution

2013-05-08 Thread Brendan Byrd
Junctions seem to respond differently to symlinks with commands like "pwd - P", getcwd(), or Perl's Cwd::getcwd. This is the last stop of a wild goose chase for a bug that I thought was centered around File::chdir. More details here: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84988 However, u

Re: printf + pthreads+gdb+mintty = hang?

2013-05-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 04:47:46PM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: >On 08/05/2013 2:36 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 04:22:23PM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Running the attached STC inside gdb hangs (zero CPU util, have to kill >>> gdb from Task Manager, kill

Re: printf + pthreads+gdb+mintty = hang?

2013-05-08 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 08/05/2013 2:36 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 04:22:23PM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, Running the attached STC inside gdb hangs (zero CPU util, have to kill gdb from Task Manager, killing a.exe doesn't cut it). Compile line used: g++ -Wall -g -mthreads -DBUG bu

Re: Installing VIM installs lots of other stuff

2013-05-08 Thread Erik Falor
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:43:59PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Rick Patterson! > There's tons of more useful editors for Windows. I heartily disagree with that statement. I'm not altogether convinced that Cygwin's Vim _needs_ to include the Perl interface, but then again, I usually h

RE: Installing VIM installs lots of other stuff

2013-05-08 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Rick Patterson sent the following at Tuesday, May 07, 2013 10:09 PM >I am wondering why installing VIm installs so many other things: After >doing a default install of Cygwin, and then not finding VIm, I added VIM >to the install as well, but found it greatly increased my Cygwin install >as follows

Re: Installing VIM installs lots of other stuff

2013-05-08 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Rick Patterson! > I am wondering why installing VIm installs so many other things:  After > doing a default install of Cgwin, and then not finding VIm, I added VIM to > the install as well, but found it greatly increased my Cygwin install as > follows. > Dependencies listed to be inst

Re: printf + pthreads+gdb+mintty = hang?

2013-05-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 04:22:23PM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: >Hi all, > >Running the attached STC inside gdb hangs (zero CPU util, have to kill >gdb from Task Manager, killing a.exe doesn't cut it). > >Compile line used: g++ -Wall -g -mthreads -DBUG bug.cpp > >I currently have the following packa