Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...)

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Earnie Boyd wrote: On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Earnie Boyd wrote: However you the user have a choice of where to put things. Frankly, I would use /cygwin and /cygwin32 And how does that get you the autoredirection I suggested with the links in Windows/sysw

Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...)

2013-08-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Earnie Boyd wrote: >> >> However you the user have a choice of where to put things. Frankly, I >> would use /cygwin and /cygwin32 > > > And how does that get you the autoredirection I suggested with > the links in Windows/syswow64

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Shaddy Baddah wrote: To be honest, my bug bear with NTFS has been the file/folder ownership. But I think noacl's is probably the best compromise for general NTFS ACL issues. You realize you can change the ownership of files in cygwin, no? chmod . -R . in your home directory, followed by chmo

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Shaddy Baddah wrote: This is the output for L: drive, which is not a physical but logical volume formatted EXFAT. Hopefully it doesn't alter the characteristics/attributes. With a bit of extra effort, I could try with a physical device (format a spare USB stick EXFAT through Windows): $ /usr/li

Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...)

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Earnie Boyd wrote: On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: Hello Linda, It seems to be the only reliable 32-bit redirection -- and MS chose to put it in the /windows dir... so they must want customers to put anything needing that feature in that dir...right?? ;-) Oi... Absolutel

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-03 Thread Paul Allen
Hi On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: > Rats. I just had another crash, the "Fatal error 6" variety. Windows > Defender has not turned itself back on (it's been known to do that), and a > scan of the BLODA list didn't match anything else on my system. > > So I don't think it's BL

Re: 64-bit emacs crashes a lot

2013-08-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 02/08/2013 8:07 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 02/08/2013 7:04 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/2/2013 4:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 1 22:46, Ryan Johnson wrote: Here's a new one... I started a compilation, but before it actually invoked the command it started pegging the CPU. After ^G^G^G,

Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...)

2013-08-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: Hello Linda, > > It seems to be the only reliable 32-bit redirection -- and MS chose to put > it in the /windows dir... so they must want customers to put anything > needing > that feature in that dir...right?? ;-) Oi... > Absolutely not what M

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pl-6.4.1-1 (the package formerly called "SWI-Prolog")

2013-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi, to be more in line with Linux distros, I just renamed the SWI-Prolog package to "pl" and updated it to version 6.4.1-1. This is an update to the latest version, and it's the first version available for x86_64. This is also the first version including the XPCE package. Have fun, Corinna  

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: smartmontools-6.2-1

2013-08-03 Thread Christian Franke
Version 6.2-1 of smartmontools is now available. http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Changes include: - smartctl: Added ATA write cache reordering control using '-g wcreorder' and '-s wcreorder,[on|off]' options. - update-smart-drivedb: Updated for new SVN repository. - HDD, SSD and USB addi

Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...)

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Warren Young wrote: then maybe in your bashrc have it do a cygmount or create a softlinke from /bin32 -> /bin or /bin64->/bin (and same for lib)? You can't just merge the two bin/lib dirs. The executable names conflict. My solution involving a "cygwin2.dll" is the only solution I see. An

Re: ssh login no longer allowed by local accounts other than main administrator account after taking machine off domain

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Yuki Ishibashi wrote: Hi all, Recently I've been tasked with taking a Win7 machine that was running Cygwin and sshd off of my company's old Active Directory domain... --- Have you ever heard of "Process Monitor" http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645 It can allow you to monit

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [64-bit New] nmh-1.5-2

2013-08-03 Thread David Levine
A 64-bit release of nmh 1.5-2 is now available. nmh is a capable mail handling system with a command line interface. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of

checkX problem or misunderstanding

2013-08-03 Thread wynfield
Re: checkX $ checkX --version run2 0.4.2 checkX doesn't work as I understand the description below: "DESCRIPTION Determines if X is installed, Xserver is running on specified DISPLAY and will accept clients. Returns 0 if yes, nonzero otherwise" Environment / Procedure to