Re: A walking "bug" on Cygwin home page

2013-08-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
n concerning malware more seriously. If you actually take the time to look at cygwin.org it appears that either the developer of that website has an extremely weird sense of humor or else that website has been hacked into and defaced. Which? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomi

Re: Home directory issue

2013-07-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
printenv |grep HOME ) was not set. So there is likely some other reason (which may or may not be related to a Wine bug) that I got the same symptoms as the OP. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of V

Re: Home directory issue

2013-07-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e, and cygwin/wine levels.) Are there any other environment variables that should be set as well before running setup.exe for a fresh install? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victo

Re: Failure with fork() (Cygwin on Wine install now sort of works)

2013-07-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-05 16:48-0400 Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 12:11:10PM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2013-07-04 13:39-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: So if the consensus here after looking at the setup_install.out results is that cygwin on Wine is more or less installed properly

Re: Failure with fork() (Cygwin on Wine install now sort of works)

2013-07-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-04 13:39-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: So if the consensus here after looking at the setup_install.out results is that cygwin on Wine is more or less installed properly from these results (except for the rename issue above which I can fix by doing that rename manually as suggested by the

Re: Failure with fork() (Cygwin on Wine install now sort of works)

2013-07-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Note, my original message to this list with plain cygcheck.out attached (as requested on the problems page) bounced for some reason so I am trying a compressed version of cygcheck.out this time. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Phy

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
platform is Microsoft or Wine. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-27 23:42-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: I am getting absolutely nowhere. A script run by setup.exe in the latter part of the install steps appears to hang now with or without updating cygwin1.dll to the fork-fixed version. I got this result for two versions of wine which I have heavily

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ipt hang (which is a big if), then I think it is time for someone with a lot more wine and cygwin expertise than me to take over here to attempt to try and figure out a way to run setup.exe on Wine with fork-fixed cygwin1.dll overwriting the buggy version. Alan __ Alan W. I

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-27 15:56-0500 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2013-06-27 15:33, Alan W. Irwin wrote: I think you keep assuming I have some version of Cygwin already installed when that is not the case. It is the last stage of the initial attempt at installation using setup.exe that fails on Wine due

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-27 21:13+0200 marco atzeri wrote: Il 6/27/2013 9:01 PM, Alan W. Irwin ha scritto: I have now found the snapshots page, and the latest one contains 013-06-18 Christopher Faylor * dcrt0.cc (child_info_fork::alloc_stack): Don't subtract 4096 from stack pointer since get

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-27 21:00+0200 marco atzeri wrote: Il 6/27/2013 8:35 PM, Alan W. Irwin ha scritto: Are there daily snapshot builds of the CVS version I could access? daily not, but on reasonable schedule (aka when Corinna or Christopher release one) http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ just wait for the

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-27 11:35-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: The only Windows platform available to me is Wine. And I have no Cygwin on Wine experience at this stage because this fork bug shut me out. But now that it is fixed in CVS, how do I get access to the fixed version of setup.exe? Are there daily

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
accessible with MinGW/MSYS/Wine so I hope I will only need hints to get started with (a) building the CVS version of Cygwin with the fork fix, and (b) building and testing software for the Cygwin on Wine platform. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affili

g77, iargc, getarg don't work for shared linking on Cygwin

2005-11-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t our Cygwin platform use to static library builds of PLplot, but that restrics PLplot in a number of other ways (e.g., are python and java interfaces require shared linking). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 250-727-2902 Astronomical research affiliation