RE: Subversion problems with "svn switch", "svn co", "svn switch", because of 'wrong' permissions in .svn/ directories

Dave Korn wrote: > Jörg Schaible wrote on 29 April 2008 07:39: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Say, has your Outlook Quotefix gone screwy too? > >>> Spiro Trikaliotis wrote on 26 April 2008 10:42: >>> >>>> Unfortunately, with SVN from Cy

RE: Subversion problems with "svn switch", "svn co", "svn switch", because of 'wrong' permissions in .svn/ directories

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Spiro Trikaliotis wrote on 26 April 2008 10:42: > >> Anyway, this reminds me of another problem: Personally, I install >> Cygwin with DOS line endings (CR/LF). That's the reason why I have >> built CVS.EXE myself some moons ago ;), as the pre-built version did >> not lik

RE: Request for running a test application

FALSE FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS: FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION: FALSE FILE_NAMED_STREAMS : FALSE FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME : FALSE FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS : FALSE Jörg Schaible wrote on Wed

RE: Request for running a test application

Hi Corinna, following some results for different drives: 1/ An EXT3 volume on an external USB HD mounted with ext2fs driver in *read-only* mode and with ISO-8859-1 charset: $ getvolinfo /mnt/M Device Type: 7 Characteristics: 20 Volume Name: Serial Number : 1296127060

RE: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

Dave Korn wrote on Monday, July 02, 2007 7:21 PM: > On 02 July 2007 18:17, Pavel Kudrna wrote: > >> Hi, >> the legal win32 paths containing period like "c:.\" or "c:." are >> incorrectly converted by cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() to "c:./" and >> "c:." respectively. See last two output lines of the

RE: multiple cygwin installs

Phil Betts wrote on Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:34 PM: [snip] > > Any 3PP that forces one to use their (inevitably out of date) version > of cygwin (and thereby killing the official installation) is > IMO broken > and the issue should be taken up with them. At the very least, it > shows they ha

RE: Re: How to list/detect any "non-cygwin" apps in /bin

A list of the intsalled files for each package is available in /etc/setup. zzapper wrote on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:54 PM: > Tim Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> I may not be catching your intent; why not sort by .dll > dependencies? > I want to find out what

RE: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

DePriest, Jason R. wrote on Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:30 PM: > On 12/14/06, Brian Dessent wrote: [snip] >> I thought the idea here was that the manifest tells the system >> explicitly "I am not an installer and I do not need to be run with >> elevated privileges", i.e. treat it like a normal

RE: ssh-agent variables available to any user process

Lapo Luchini wrote on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 12:42 AM: > Under FreeBSD, I launch ssh-agent in my .xsession script and its > environment is automatically inherited by every shell I then > open in my > X11 session. > No such luck with Windows, but I found a way to propagate a > environment varia

RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

William A. Hoffman wrote on Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:14 PM: [snip] > So, there seem to be three options on the table: > > - pay redhat to put the patch back > - maintain your own version of make, that is separate from cygwin. > - have the patch made part of the upstream gnu make The forth

RE: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

William A. Hoffman wrote on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:12 AM: > OK, so to summarize. > > - there is no options or special syntax that will allow the > make 3.81 to recognize drive letters in such a way that native > windows tools can use them. /c/ and /cygdrive/c/ will only work > with applicati

RE: Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81?

Christopher Faylor wrote on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:26 PM: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:12:51AM -0600, Michael Hirsch wrote: >>> Yes. See > . >>> If you are using a POSIX-like "OS" (i.e. Cygwin), you should be >>> using POSIX paths. Th

RE: Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81?

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:08 AM: > On 07/21/2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: >> I just had to deal with such a messy system and the new Cygwin make >> doesn't work. Even though this collection of makefiles was initially >> written on a POSIX system it still got into trou

RE: Cgywin filename with 255 character

Hi Larry, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:50 PM: [snip] > Windows places a limit on the number of ASCII characters in a > file/path name. It's approximately 260 characters. Cygwin path > conversion > may cut that down > a bit. Is there any pointer at MS, where this is de

RE: Find not working w/ Samba drive

Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:14 PM: > On Apr 11 12:45, J?rg Schaible wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:54 AM: >> >>> On Apr 11 11:40, J?rg Schaible wrote: Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote on Tuesday, April 11, 2006

RE: Find not working w/ Samba drive

Corinna Vinschen wrote on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:54 AM: > On Apr 11 11:40, J?rg Schaible wrote: >> Hi Corinna, >> >> Corinna Vinschen wrote on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:30 AM: >> >>> Can you send an `ls -i' output from a small directory on that share? >>> I'm still looking into some way to

RE: Find not working w/ Samba drive

Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:30 AM: > Can you send an `ls -i' output from a small directory on that share? > I'm still looking into some way to distinguish old and new versions > of Samba... Same situation here: [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/src/getvolinfo $ getvo

RE: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Friday, March 03, 2006 2:08 AM: > P.P.Hughes wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This is probably a silly question to most you, but here goes: >> >> I'm opening a ssh connection from a Linux box to our Windows Server >> 2003 which then initiates a Cygwin terminal. I then try and

RE: Wikipedia info about cygwin

Christopher Faylor wrote on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:56 PM: [snip] > Does someone want to make that an "action item"? > > And, anyone interested in moving the Cygwin history beyond > the aggrandizing of Steve Chamberlain and the first few years > of development? Why? Has there ever been a be

RE: [ITP] run.exe was Re: Running ssh in background [solution/patch]

Hi Alexander, Alexander Gottwald wrote on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:08 PM: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > >> You might make more traction by suitably patching the 'run' utility >> so that it also supports pipes. Then you could use 'run' to launch >> the standard /bin/ssh with

RE: Running ssh in background [solution/patch]

Corinna Vinschen wrote on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:57 AM: > On Oct 26 11:40, J?rg Schaible wrote: >> My solution was to build ssh as Windows console app: [...] >> +sshw$(EXEEXT): $(LIBCOMPAT) libssh.a $(SSHOBJS) >> + $(LD) -mwindows -o $@ $(SSHOBJS) $(LDFLAGS) -lssh >> +-lopenbsd-compa

RE: Running ssh in background [solution/patch]

Jörg Schaible wrote on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:09 AM: > Alexander Gottwald wrote on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:26 PM: > >> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> >>> Good guess. While I have no console window popping up anymore, the >>> ssh proc

RE: Running ssh in background

Alexander Gottwald wrote on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:26 PM: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> Good guess. While I have no console window popping up anymore, the >> ssh process does now no longer terminate and the Windows app hangs >> until I kill the

RE: Running ssh in background

Hi Igor, Igor Pechtchanski wrote on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 5:44 PM: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> Hello Cygwinners :) >> >> can anything be done to run ssh in the background i.e. no console >> window pops up if it is called by a native Window

Running ssh in background

Hello Cygwinners :) can anything be done to run ssh in the background i.e. no console window pops up if it is called by a native Windows process? Background: Running Eclipse with the Subclipse plugin to access Subversion repositories. If I setup subversion to use Cygwin's ssh, anything went fin

RE: Subversion client & text mounts

Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote on Monday, October 24, 2005 6:38 PM: > At 11:27 2005-10-24 +0200, Joerg Schaible wrote: >> Hello Subversion maintainer, >> >> the subversion client does unfortunately not respect text mounts. >> Checking = out form a remote repository all text files have unix line >> endi

Subversion client & text mounts

Hello Subversion maintainer, the subversion client does unfortunately not respect text mounts. Checking out form a remote repository all text files have unix line endings although they have the property svn:eol-style set to native. This is a major hassle in a build environment where also a lot

RE: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

Ensure that .ssh is 700 and id_rsa is 600. Otherwise ssh will not take'em ... and this is standard on all OS. Christopher Benson-Manica wrote on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:16 PM: > How does one set permissions on id_rsa in such a way as to > make ssh happy? Nothing I have done has made chmo

RE: ATTN: jpeglib maintainer

Hi Chuck, Charles Wilson wrote on Friday, July 22, 2005 12:22 AM: [snip] > > So, what to do? On cygwin, I think you just need to do something > like this: > > #ifdef __CYGWIN__ > # define CHECK_PROGRESSIVE(cinfo) (cinfo->process == > JPROC_PROGRESSIVE) #else # define CHECK_PROGRESSIVE(cinfo) >

ATTN: jpeglib maintainer

Hi Charles (you seem the jpeglib maintainer), it seems something has gone wrong with the last jpeglib version. Basically I want to compile jpeginfo (http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~tjko/projects.html). Using a managed mount (has an aux directory) it configures fine, but fails to compile: === %<

Re: Symlinks don't work in python???

[snip] > (3) Thinking that the realpath bug might be a key > to the python import-thru-symlinks problem, > I ran a simple test on recent cygwin/python > combinations, finding: > > Cygwin version Python version realpath Import > 1.5.xx: 2.yy:

RE: Problem with symbolic links and cygpath in 1.5.14

Michael Schaap wrote on Friday, April 08, 2005 4:03 PM: > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PHB 1.5.14(0.126/4/2) 2005-04-01 13:40 i686 unknown > unknown Cygwin > > $ ln -s /bin /tmp > > $ cygpath -w /tmp/bin > C:\cygwin\bin > > $ cygpath -w /tmp/bin/ls.exe > C:\cygwin\tmp\bin\ls.exe Already reporte

RE: .bashrc not working (and yes I've read the FAQ etc as you'll see)

Steve Mayes wrote on Friday, February 18, 2005 11:01 AM: > Hi, > > Forgive the defensive addendum but I've no wish to be either > flamed or ignored when I've tried available pathways to solving this. > > Situation: > > .bashrc not working and yes my $home variable is correctly > defined [snip]

RE: hyperthreading fix, try #1

Brian Gallew wrote on Monday, February 07, 2005 2:18 PM: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreading problems. I have >> run three invocations of the scripts for four days without a hiccup. >> Previously, I had problems within minutes. > > Go, you! Someone s

RE: Can't cd into directory

Please post output of mount -p acidblue wrote on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:18 AM: > I'm using the following syntax: > cd '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings' > I get a " No such file or directory" message. > cygwin on WinXP installed to C:/ > > I get this message no matter which directory I

RE: Multiple installations and 3PPs

Chris January wrote on Friday, January 21, 2005 12:04 PM: >> Well, it was proposed once already, but nobody did the work: >> >> Get rid of the registry entries completly. Cygwin could use >> something similar to /etc/fstab to manage its mount modes. > > And how do you know where / is mounted? I

RE: Multiple installations and 3PPs

> Or is the following approach a promising one: [snip] Well, it was proposed once already, but nobody did the work: Get rid of the registry entries completly. Cygwin could use something similar to /etc/fstab to manage its mount modes. - Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

RE: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

Hi John, John Morrison wrote on Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:32 PM: >> mkpasswd.exe -l -c | sed 's/cygdrive\/.*Documents and Settings/home/' >> > /etc/passwd >> >> This is nonsense. "Documents and Settings" is localized. > > Humm, not nonsense (it works for English), maybe not > correct... (i

RE: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

Hi John, John Morrison wrote on Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:08 AM: [snip] > > I did consider changing /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh so that > instead of running > > /bin/mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd > > it does > > mkpasswd.exe -l -c | sed 's/cygdrive\/.*Documents and Settings/home/' >

RE: scp exits often with -1

Hi Bob and Pierre thanks for your analysis so far. Bob Byrnes wrote on Friday, November 19, 2004 5:49 PM: > I spent a little time looking at these straces and scp -v > output. I still don't understand what's going on, but it > seems to be unrelated to the recent pipe changes. I say that > becau

RE: scp exits often with -1

Hi Pierre, Pierre A. Humblet wrote on Friday, November 19, 2004 6:14 AM: > I had a second look at this. It's easy to correlate the trace > with the -v outputs you provided in > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00637.html > The debug outputs correspond to lines such as "N = write (2, > xxx)",

Re: scp exits often with -1

Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:00:38PM +0100, J?rg Schaible wrote: >>I'll have a look tomorrow in the office, where fd 4 came from (thought I >>posted all related stuff, but trace is hard). > > Which is why unsolicited traces are almost always useless. Point taken. - J

Re: scp exits often with -1

Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:27:29PM -0500, Bob Byrnes wrote: >> > If this is a problem with the new pipe code then maybe Bob Byrnes could >> > offer some insight. >> >> Offhand, I can't think of any way that the new pipe stuff could cause >> this behavior, but I'll add t

Re: scp exits often with -1

Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:15:49AM +0100, J?rg Schaible wrote: [snip] >>Well, this *is* the list for reporting problems with Cygwin. Sorry, >>that I missed among all the other 450 mail per month, the one Chris >>stated, that he don't want straces sent to list without f

RE: scp exits often with -1

Dave Korn wrote on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:20 PM: [snip] > So basically what you've done is say to yourself "I'll just > send tons and tons of stuff (which I know will be of no use > or interest to 99.9% of the recipients) to absolutely > everyone in the hopes that it might be relevant t

RE: scp exits often with -1

Reini Urban wrote on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:21 PM: > Hi Jörg :) > >> So, if you can't or won't help, I prefer no answer. > > Downgrading to cygwin-1.3.11 should help. Hmmm. My old cygwin.dll was not *that* old. 1.5.9 or so (unfortunately I deleted my download cache to be sure to gain t

RE: scp exits often with -1

Dave Korn wrote on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:24 PM: > I beg to differ. > > My post contained the useful information that dumping a > couple of hundred Kb of unsolicited strace output on the list > is a pointless waste of time. > > Yours contained a couple of hundred Kb of unsolicited

RE: scp exits often with -1

Dave Korn wrote on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:18 PM: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jörg Schaible >> Sent: 16 November 2004 17:39 > > Sure. How about 200k of unintelligible gibberish? I'm > sure we'd all _love_ t

scp exits often with -1

Hi folks, after upgrading to latest cygwin1.dll and openssh I have massive problems with ssh/scp. Using e.g. the same scp command it fails from time to time called from the command line. Unfortunately it fails more often when called from a shell script and quite every time when this shell scrip

RE: if construct doesn't work in makefile

Gerrit P. Haase wrote on Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:13 PM: [snip] > A snippet from the Makefile you're using would help, please > see also the > other postings with more tipps -> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/ ... or older: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-06/msg01318.html - Jörg

RE: Bugzilla (was: whole cygwin release/ distribution issues)

Dave Korn wrote on Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:14 AM: > Hey! I found a bug in b19! I wanna report it! Forget it! Was fixed in B20 and that one had no bugs EVER! - Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

RE: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

David Christensen wrote on Friday, October 01, 2004 7:31 AM: [snip] > I would like to request that this policy be reversed -- that > there be a version number for the entire Cygwin release. > Every O/S and application I've used had a release number for > the whole thing; Cygwin should as well. R

RE: file conversion utility sought: from isolatin (8859-1) to utf8

Ralf Hauser wrote on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:17 PM: > Hi, > > Are there any tools like d2u or u2d for UTF-8 for cygwin? > > In http://lists.suse.com/archive/m17n/2004-Jun/0002.html, > Bjoern talks about the "recode" and "iconv" utilities, but > these don't appear to exist in cygwin. Reco

RE: Problem configuring ssh with public key Authentication - help!

Leong, Kenneth (HEALTH) wrote on Monday, August 09, 2004 10:27 AM: [snip] > drwxr-xr-x+ 2 Administ Domain U0 Aug 9 15:33 .ssh This is a problem. Change to 0700. - Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

RE: cygwin maximum capacity -> cygwin <=> linux

karthik bala guru wrote on Thursday, July 22, 2004 4:57 PM: > Can Cygwin have all the normal linux has ? > what is the percentage by which cygwin is nearer > to linux ? what are those that cant be provided > by cygwin. Define "normal Linux"! No, Cygwin won't have a kernel and will not have XFS,

RE: sending email from Cygwin

Robert R Schneck wrote on Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:39 AM: > Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >> Luke Kendall wrote: >>> or that it creates a symlink to sendmail. >> >> exim doesn't. That symlink is created by the cygwin specific >> exim-config script under explicit user control. That avoids possible >>

RE: scp with DOSish paths

Corinna Vinschen wrote on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:45 PM: >> >> Background: scp is called by a Java application (Maven) and I cannot >> even wrap the call with a script. > > Sure you can. Create a script called "scp" which is in > Maven's $PATH before /usr/bin. No. Been there, done that. But

scp with DOSish paths

Hello, can anything be done (environmetn variable, option ?), that would allow scp to support DOSish absolute paths? $ pwd /cygdrive/c $ scp 'C:\test\file.txt' host:/target/ ssh: C: no address associated with name $ scp '\test\file.txt' host:/target/ \test\file.txt: No such file or directory

RE: grep problems

Hi Mark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Monday, June 14, 2004 9:47 AM: > I was having some trouble using grep to look for text in files. > > From some tests it looks like meta characters cause the problem to > show itself : > > C:\temp>type test.txt > text > > C:\temp>grep test test.txt > text >

RE: Tivoli

Franz Wolfhagen wrote on Friday, June 11, 2004 8:39 AM: > You will have an "extra" cygwin1.dll when running tivoli > endpoint/managed node on the same machine as you run cygwin. > > I have run setups with both cygwin and 2 endpoints installed > on the same machine - the only thing you need to tak

Re: Trying to link an MSVC DLL with a Cygwin Application

Please keep replies on the list! On Wednesday 05 May 2004 09:31, you wrote: Jt> Jörg Schaible wrote: Jt> Jt> > john george wrote: Jt> > Jt> > Jt> >>Can i resolve the name mangling issue by adding the Jt> >>extern "C" declaration for every funct

RE: Trying to link an MSVC DLL with a Cygwin Application

john george wrote: > Can i resolve the name mangling issue by adding the > extern "C" declaration for every function that I'm > exporting in the MSVC created DLL. > I tried this but doesn't seem to work.Is there any > other way to do this. Be aware, that there is more than just a compatible call.

RE: gcc-3.3.1-3 popup error persists.

Edward S. Peschko wrote on Tuesday, April 06, 2004 6:38 AM: > thanks for the tips, but this is all sort of moot - I am > compiling to a non-standard location which I put at the front > of my path. I'm truly starting from scratch, > taking /bin out of my path and putting links into a bootstrap > dir

RE: [OT] RE: Third-party products that include cygwin

Christopher Faylor wrote on Monday, December 15, 2003 6:23 PM: > I was thinking about adding a cygwin-set-reply-to opt-in > subscription list for people (like me) who always want the > reply-to set to the mailing list. It would require a fair > amount of rework of the spam blocking software but it

RE: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

Christopher Faylor wrote on Friday, December 05, 2003 3:23 PM: > Nah. It's just because we are so frigging mean. Walking on the edge for so many years now > WASFM Igor, wtf cannot translate ... :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:/

RE: bug in gcc3.3.1

Jörg Schaible wrote on Friday, December 05, 2003 10:04 AM: > In case you did not know ... Sorry, could not resist. Regards, Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.

RE: bug in gcc3.3.1

Brian Ford wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:47 PM: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:38 PM: >>> what was the reason for dropping the support? >>> ( I have to now fix few lines of code!!) >&

RE: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

Jon A. Lambert wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:03 PM: > "Nguyen, Huu-Dung" wrote: >> Thank for the answers >> >> Can any gurus tell me what is the real use of /usr/bin as a mount >> point and /usr/bin as a physically existing directory in the Cygwin >> directory ? Sometime i am too much cur

RE: bug in gcc3.3.1

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:38 PM: > what was the reason for dropping the support? > ( I have to now fix few lines of code!!) It is not ANSI compatible and therefore not portable. Regards, Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Probl

RE: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

Hello Huh-Dung, Nguyen, Huu-Dung wrote on Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:43 AM: > Please help me to understand Cygwin because i am an unexperienced > user of CygWin > > I want to start some bash files or *.exe under /usr/bin so i > have set in my profile file ... > PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin

RE: Setup.bz2 currently broken

Larry Hall wrote on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 4:15 PM: > At 07:50 AM 12/2/2003, Jörg Schaible you wrote: >> Hi gang, >> >> Setup (2.416 started directly from the web) seems currently broken >> (or at least the contents of setup.bz2). I tried 4 different mirro

Setup.bz2 currently broken

Hi gang, Setup (2.416 started directly from the web) seems currently broken (or at least the contents of setup.bz2). I tried 4 different mirrors and after downloading setup.bz2 I get always a Dialogbox with "Parse Error" and the message "(null) line 783: parse error, unexpected COMMA, expecting

RE: BUG?: /usr/bin is accepted as /bin in PATH

Hello Huu-Dung, no private mails, please keep the discussion on the list! Nguyen, Huu-Dung wrote on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 1:08 PM: > But after i have set > ... > PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH" > export PATH > ... > and see that my bash file in /usr/bin can NOT be ca

RE: BUG?: /usr/bin is accepted as /bin in PATH

Nguyen, Huu-Dung wrote on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:27 PM: [snip] > #!/bin/sh > echo "Hello World" > > and move this bash file from every directory set for PATH in > /etc/profile and see that i can NOT call this bash file when > it is in /usr/bin. > > Any help is appreciated This is in Cygw

RE: newby stupid question - cat mutiple files to new piped output files

Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 12:53 PM: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:55:34AM -0500, c wrote: >> Just started to get somewhere until i wanted to cat a heap of csv >> files and then send the unique records to a new file. I thought it >> couldnt be to hard but now my b

RE: Variables in Makefiles

Brian Fallik wrote on Thursday, November 20, 2003 9:35 PM: > Cygwin folks, > > I'm having trouble getting makefiles to work in the cygwin > environment. They work perfectly fine in Linux. I've checked > the mailing list archives, google, google groups, and the faq > for help but haven't found th

RE: nmake for cygwin?

Robert Mark Bram wrote on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:22 AM: > Howdy All! > > Is there an nmake for cygwin? I looked it up in setup.exe under the > development category but could not find one. No, and since nmake is MS's make tool, it will not happen, since MS does not offer the source. >

RE: Problems with Make, VPATH and MS-DOS paths

Nate Bohlmann wrote on Monday, November 17, 2003 5:53 PM: > Hi, > I'm having a problem getting MS-DOS paths to work properly with > VPATH under GNU Make 3.80. The problem is that the VPATH processing > tacks on a Unix path separator ('/') to the end of the VPATH giving > me a source file name s

RE: Building bison?

Ian, please stay on the list for ongoing conversation ... Ian Badcoe wrote on Monday, November 17, 2003 9:27 PM: > At 14:40 17/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: >> Ian Badcoe wrote on Monday, November 17, 2003 12:49 PM: >> [snip] >>> 1.875c behaves nicely to a ./configure and make but it then >>> c

RE: Building bison?

Ian Badcoe wrote on Monday, November 17, 2003 12:49 PM: [snip] > 1.875c behaves nicely to a ./configure and make but it > then crashes > immediately when I give it my input script. Just an idea: Since Cygwin compiles as Unix flavour, the original source may not be prepared to read files wit

RE: a try at killall

Lapo Luchini wrote on Sunday, November 09, 2003 7:06 PM: > Vince Hoffman wrote: >>> Not complete, but usually works for me 0=) >>> >>> $ cat /usr/local/bin/killall >>> #!/bin/sh >>> ps -s | sed -re "/$1$/s/^ +([0-9]+).*$/\1/;t fine;d;:fine" | xargs >>> kill $2 $3 $4 >>> >>> >> Any reason not to

RE: The incredible shrinking PATH

Mark Sheppard wrote on Friday, November 07, 2003 3:33 PM: > We're getting a problem where a native windows console > program invoked from an interactive Cygwin bash shell seems > to be getting a truncated PATH environment variable. The > windows program in question is Boost Jam and for some people

RE: Is gcc-core-3.3.1-3.tar.bz2 corrupted?

John Daniel Doucette wrote on Friday, October 31, 2003 2:05 PM: > Hi, > > If I test gcc-core-3.3.1-3.tar.bz2 I get the error: > > gcc-core-3.3.1-3.tar.bz2: bad magic number (file not created > by bzip2) You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt > to recover data from undamaged sections o

RE: how to build GNU make from scratch ?

Heiko Nardmann wrote on Friday, October 24, 2003 8:24 AM: > On Freitag, 24. Oktober 2003 08:07, Bobby McNulty Junior wrote: >> I just configured Make 3.80 in a seperate directory. >> I made on called "o" in the root of the source code and configured. >> Looks promising, as long as you are using the

RE: *** unable to allocate heap, heap_chunk_size 0, Win32 error 0

Ronald van Gogh wrote on Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:44 AM: > First of all, sorry, but I still don't know how to post a reply, > since I'm registered on the mailinglist in digestmode and nobody seems > to be able to > tell how to reply on a single mail I see in this list of mails. You might use

RE: Limit to length of command line arguments? (was Cygwin/bash: need environment variables >32K)

Hi Barry, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote on Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:43 AM: > While doing some other work, I've come to the impression that > this is not a fileutils problem. In a directory with ~1700 > htm files whose names take 37k, > $ ls * > bash: /bin/ls.exe: Invalid argument >

RE: g++ rejects 'timezone tz'

Alex Vinokur wrote on Monday, October 20, 2003 4:00 PM: > === > Windows 2000 Professional > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.5.4(0.94/3/2) > GNU g++ version 3.3.1 (cygming special) > === > > == C++ code : File foo.cpp : BEGIN =

RE: Is there a 'ping' in Cygwin?

Hughes, Bill wrote on Friday, October 17, 2003 3:32 PM: >> I shall now fix my path and create symlinks so 'ping' works. > > I corrected the case of the directory names in the windows > environment variable and Cygwin now finds PING.EXE, just a > note for the record. I know PTC etc, but would chan

RE: ash does not understand '~'

Corinna Vinschen wrote on Friday, October 17, 2003 1:04 PM: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:37:10PM +0200, J?rg Schaible wrote: >> BTW: It does also not know the "[ ]" syntax for a built-in test, you >> always have to use "test": >> >> if test -f /etc/hosts; then >> echo "/etc/hosts exist!" >>

RE: ash does not understand '~'

Hi Ralf, Ralf Habacker wrote on Friday, October 17, 2003 12:20 PM: > the following shell script does not work at least with > ash-20031007-1 although I don't see any reason why this > should not be a valid syntax. If you use > > export PATH=${HOME}:/usr/bin > > then the scripts runs. bash

RE: my bad, ignore 'Yet another install problem'

Sean Thomson wrote on Friday, October 17, 2003 5:27 AM: > Hi Folks, > > Sorry to have added to the noise of the group, I though I had > disabled 'cybersitter' on my box, and apparently did not. > When I disabled it, the problem seemed to vaporize. ... which proves, that Cygwin is only for real me

RE: Program too big to fit in memory - Previous hints didn't work

Hi Elkin, E G wrote on Thursday, October 16, 2003 7:47 PM: > I then compiled the fortran code and linked the libraries and required > object files -including the C program- as I did in Linux (I > just changed the > paths for the includes and the libraries) and the names of > the libraries ( > -lXp

RE: Daylight saving bug in winsup/times.cc

Lapo Luchini wrote on Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:07 AM: > Anyway I guess that a correct "timezone" variable can solve > your issue. (but usually it is "ok" also without anything defnied) A little Google search pops up Corinna's famous settings in the first position: http://www.google.de/search

RE: Daylight saving bug in winsup/times.cc

Vanlerberghe Ignace wrote on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 3:10 PM: >> We are using an old versio of cygwin : uname -a = > CYGWIN32_NT NTDATAKOR 5.0 17.6 i686 >> >> Now we are dealing with a daylight saving problem because the time >> from the NT-server must be correct for our application. >> >>

RE: gcc 3.3.1 problem

Hi Gerry, you return a pointer to an object on the stack, that is no longer valid after leaving your function. So any value printed in main is undefined and you can get any result. Regards, Jörg Gerry Reno wrote on Monday, September 29, 2003 9:34 AM: > I'm having a problem with gcc 3.3.1. H

RE: davtool with cygwin

Hi prefab, pre fab wrote on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:33 PM: > I have read your post in the cygwin list. I am mailing > to you because I am trying to compile davtool-0.1.0 with cygwin. > > The compilation actually succeeds but I cannot use the > tool in cygwin or windows. The tool seems to

RE: File path expansion problem (DLL version 1.5.3-1 and earlier)

Hi Martin, > Is this only a problem of my system, or also reproduceable on > other systems ? well, this is normal. myeditor knows nothing about posix paths, since it is no Cygwin application. For non-Cygwin apps you have to convert the path yourself: myeditor "`cygpath -w /etc/services`" and y

RE: Postinstall script error

Hi Thomasz, my guess: You've selected all new packages, but setup.exe does not install them according their dependencies (IIRC this is not implemented yet). So installing the new ash will fail any postinstall scripts until also the new cygwin dll is installed ... So, install cyqwin dll first an

RE: Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.3-2

Hi Naveen, > I have windows 2003 server system and i am using rsync > application to get it compiled on that cygwin envirnment. > But,i feel i have some problems.Could any one let me know if > there are any compatibility issues.Is there any new release > where its 2003 server compatible, bas

Libxml2 package problem?

Hello libxml2 maintainer, currently I try to compile davtool-0.1.0 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/davtool), a command line utulity I would expect to build OOTB on Cygwin. Unfortunately the configuring fails due to an unfound parser.h in the xml-package, see output: == snip ===

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