Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2005-02-08 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 8 07:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recent remarks ("I have an idea about how to fix the race but it would introduce a destabilizing change that I'd rather not chance before 1.5.13 is released") suggest that an updated cygwin1.dll might be imminent. Please could I ment

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Available for testing: Bash 2.05-17

2004-11-22 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
New News: = Version 2.05b-17 of the Bash package is now available for download. This is a bugfix release relative to 2.05b-16, and fixes the bug discussed in a thread starting here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00781.html To update your installation:

Re: Bash returns incorrect process status

2004-09-22 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Dolton Tony AB wrote: I've noticed that bash doesn't get issued too often. It doesn't for three reasons: 1. the maintainer for Cygwin (that would be me) is very busy 2. The current version of Bash is very, very stable 3. I'm hesitant (reluctant, even) to let a new release of Bash go out the door

Re: Bash-3.0 available for FTP

2004-07-27 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
FWIW, I'll try to wrap up a Cygwin package with this ASAP (i.e.: when I have time). rlc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin

Re: Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed mounts with C VS-1.11.6

2004-07-22 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Dave Korn wrote: My ${CURRENCY_UNIT}*1e-2: rather than guessing, cvs should *find out*, by creating a file in the current directory using a name that is known not to exist, try to unlink it using a shifted version of that name, and then see if it's gone or not. I *think* that would do the job, w

Re: Facing problem with bash

2004-07-22 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Atukuri, Vasudeva_Kumar wrote: OS: Windows 2000 Cygwin bash version "2.05b.0(9)" My application is a combination of Fortran and C. In Fortran Stdout's number is 6. When I ran the application from the Cygwin console it is giving the problem and exited. where there is a write statement to the stdout.

Re: Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed mounts with CVS-1.11.6

2004-07-22 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:27:38AM -0400, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Hello CVS maintainer (et al.), I've got a slight problem with CVS when running it on a directory mounted in managed mode: the directory being case-sensitive,

Re: Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed mounts with CVS-1.11.6

2004-07-22 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:27:38AM -0400, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Hello CVS maintainer (et al.), I've got a slight problem with CVS when running it on a directory mounted in managed mode: the directory being case-sensitive, ``cvs update'' should

Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed mounts with CVS-1.11.6

2004-07-22 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Hello CVS maintainer (et al.), I've got a slight problem with CVS when running it on a directory mounted in managed mode: the directory being case-sensitive, ``cvs update'' should *IMHO* not warn about a file whose name might clash with another due to its case (and on ``cvs checkout'', it doesn'

Re: home directory.

2004-06-16 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Vince Hoffman wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote: It seems that somewhere $HOME is getting set to /cygdrive/c. I want it to be /home/$USER like the /etc/profile would set it to if it wasn't already set to /cygdrive/c. So where do I change that? Have a look at your windows environment vari

Re: bashrc

2004-06-16 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Chris W wrote: Where do I put my .bashrc file so it reads my settings and alias commands? In you home directory. You might want to read the output of $ man bash section INVOCATION, for more information about this.. HTH rlc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

Re: JNI loading dlls which link to cygwin1.dll

2004-06-16 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Have a look at the thread that starts here: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00795.html If that doesn't help you, please report back :) (In short, that thread lead to the conclusion that there was a problem with the calling convention used. Your linker flag to add stdcall versions o

Re: .bashrc is ignored

2004-04-12 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Hoss wrote: > I'm a newbie to cygwin and I'm trying to setup .bashrc to start when I launch > a cygwin terminal (using rxvt in fact). my .bashrc is ignored which I think > is because the %HOME% environment variable is not set *before* I run > bash/rxvt. > When I do set it, it simply causes bash to

Re: coreutils maintainer needed

2004-02-20 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Christopher Faylor wrote: I think our textutils/nascent coreutils maintainer is again MIA. Can I get a volunteer to support the coreutils package? coreutils will supercede fileutils and textutils. cgf If no-one else steps up, I'll be happy to step in :) I am currently setting up a new Cygwi

Re: Keypress anomaly: maybe locality specific

2004-01-27 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Just an update: I can reproduce the error locally and will try to debug it. Don't expect a fix too soon, though - the month hasn't started yet. rlc On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:10:10PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > OK, from the responses I got (and the code I looked at) I g

Re: Keypress anomaly: maybe locality specific

2004-01-26 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
OK, from the responses I got (and the code I looked at) I gather that my initial hunch has a good chance of being correct: this is not a Cygwin-specific problem and is likely to be located in the readline library. I'll be wrapping up an experimental version of Bash for the interested to try out w

Re: Keypress anomaly: maybe locality specific

2004-01-26 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:14:07PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Windows XP. The anomaly happens in Cygwin 1.5.6 and 1.5.5 and maybe earlier > still, but I have no way of confirming this ... it's a bit parochial (may be > UK specific, I think) but I'd like to describe it here as, I hope, an eas

Re: sftp + cygwin

2004-01-26 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:44:08AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I sftp defauly folder when I am using cygwin. > It points to c: drive right now. Please read the text at http://cygwin.com/problems.html and re-phrase your question. Thanks, rlc -- Those who can, do; those who can't, w

Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge

2004-01-19 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:29:53AM +0100, S. L. wrote: > [...] > > > It would be rather interesting to add nfs to cygwin. We could develop > > > filesystem "plug-ins" which could be generalized for stuff like NFS, > > > EXTFS, etc. > > > > > > Didn't someone say they had a free month? Perfect pr

Re: MS offers "Services For Unix" free of charge

2004-01-16 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:36:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:26:03PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote: > >> But beyond curiosity, there's not many reasons to install and > >> use both, at least concurrently. Cygwin and SFU both address > >> the same needs and Cygwin cover

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Jan 13, 2004 at 03:46:12PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > I'd be happy to help out with the documentation. As for the documentation > > build system: what do I need? > > As far as the Cygwin distribution goes, you need to have all the > normal build tools (gcc,make,

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
I don't have commit access, but I will have the time in four weeks :) If you've been dutifully archiving the patches, I'll be happy to examine them. I wouldn't be at all surprised if people have in deed been waiting for you to patch the generic build script: AFAIKnew, it's your script, right? :)

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-13 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
The most recent thread I've found on the subject dates back from 2001 and starts at http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2001-03/msg00170.html. I'm reading the thread now (well.. during coffee breaks - I'm not off the job quite yet). If this is not the thread I should be looking at, please fee

Re: A month worth of developers time available for cygwin.

2004-01-13 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:13:03PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:39:08AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:39:03PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >>>This message is intended mostly for the Cygwin core develop

A month worth of developers time available for Cygwin.

2004-01-12 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
This message is intended mostly for the Cygwin core developers. I will be quitting my job mid februari (the 13th) and moving to Canada where I won't start searching for a job until at least three weeks after our arrival (I'll be looking after my daughter in stead). As I don't expect taking care of

[OT] profiting from info gathered by aaaspam@sourceware.org

2003-12-31 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Completely off-topic - I hope you don't mind - but with the recent increase of spam in my mailbox, I was wondering if there is any way to get the list of E-mail addresses blacklisted by [EMAIL PROTECTED], to check new E-mails against that list and dump them if they're in there.. rlc -- There ar

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

2003-12-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:22:47PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:39:25AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >I feel your pain, but there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. > >I have Outlook Express 5 installed on my machine (though I don't use it), > >and I

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pcre-4.5-1

2003-12-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
New News: = Version 4.5-1 of the PCRE packages is now available for download. This corresponds to the latest official PCRE release. The only changes applied to this version wrt the canonical version involve the build process. To update your installation: === Run the

Re: Link error using g++ 3.3.1

2003-12-11 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:40:52PM +0100, Jean-Francois bonastre wrote: > I've just install (using cygwin setup) cygwin and g++ dev tool using the > latest web install on www.cygnus.com ^^-> s/nus/win/g ? > When I try to build an exec, I get a link error : > /usr/l

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

2003-12-03 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:43:23AM +0100, Nguyen, Huu-Dung wrote: > 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:/bin:/usr/X11R

Re: Bash wait indefinitely

2003-12-02 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Please use cygwin at cygwin dot com for cygwin-related mail. I have set the reply-to header for your convenience. On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:24:47PM -0800, Antoine Labour wrote: > Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > >Unfortunately, I don't have any system with more than one CPU, so

Re: Doubt and Request

2003-12-01 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
To download and install Cygwin and its packages, follow the instructions here: * http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html the part of the users guide on setting up Cygwin * http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html the users guide's TOC * http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC8 t

Re: Bash wait indefinitely

2003-11-29 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Unfortunately, I don't have any system with more than one CPU, so there's no way I can test it on a system like that and I have not run into any similar problems on any of the systems I have.. (Cygwin or otherwise). I'm afraid someone else will have to debug this, as I don't see that I can do anyt

Re: Running a script from Bash

2003-11-28 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
You run a script by running its interpreter (at least if its outside the wonderful world of Cygwin). What you need in your environment variables depends on what you need to run the script and what its interpreter expects of its environment. Read the documentation of the interpreter and the script i

Re: please do help me out

2003-11-28 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Here are some pointers as to where you might want to look for detailed help: * http://cygwin.com/xfree/ the site dedicated to XFree on Cygwin * http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/ the archives of the list dedicated to XFree on Cygwin (where this question would be on-topic) * http://cygwin.com/

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

2003-11-27 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:42:58AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > > 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 > > > t

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

2003-11-26 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
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 brain hurts. > Can anyone help me with a line of code that will do the command

Re: bash and rxvt exiting with .NET

2003-11-26 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:57:16PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Howdy. Hello :) > I'm using .NET 1.1 in development. I have tried using both the > standard bash cygwin terminal and rxvt with limited success. > > Whenever I run my .NET console application from within Cygwin and > that applic

Apparent problem with tcsh's cd [was: "Re: Where am I anyway?"]

2003-11-26 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Hello Dai, Your subject line wasn't very explicit in what you were talking about, so I guess most people on the list will have skipped your message entirely. It just showed up in my scanning my mailbox for "bash".. Anyway, you don't give us any information about your Cygwin installation: the ver

Re: bash v2.05b.0 + nmake v7.10.3077 problem

2003-11-14 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 06:21:33PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > Not that I see this to be important; > > 1. I see CRLF line endings. That confirms that there is something wrong elsewhere (probably at my ISP or someplace between there and the Cygwin list) as where you see "cr nl", I see

Re: bash v2.05b.0 + nmake v7.10.3077 problem

2003-11-13 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:38:17PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak > > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:22 PM > > > The attachment you sent has a lot of blank lines in it (at least > > when I look > > at it on my Linux bo

Re: bash v2.05b.0 + nmake v7.10.3077 problem

2003-11-13 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
, 2003 at 01:28:38PM +0100, Lars Monecke wrote: > Hello Ronald, > > here some additional information... > > Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > * the Makefile (especially line 147 seems to be of interest) > > Please refer to attachment. But line 147 seems to the end of th

Re: bash v2.05b.0 + nmake v7.10.3077 problem

2003-11-13 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Hello Lars, On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:15:34PM +0100, Lars Monecke wrote: > I updated to msvc 7.1. Before I used msvc 6.0 with no problems in compiling > from bash. Now nmake has problems to compile in the bash enviroment. > The following error occured: > Makefile(147) : fatal error U1054: cann

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin package: bash-2.05b-16

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
New News: = Version 2.05b-16 of the Bash package is now available for download. This is a bugfix release relative to 2.05b-15, and fixes the bug reported and patched in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01166.html. To update your installation: === Run the

Re: Q: ACE library for cygwin?

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 03:22:27PM +0200, Heiko Nardmann wrote: > Did anyone build the ACE library for Cygwin already? AFAIK, no. I haven't actually checked the package list, though, but it doesn't ring any bells. Do you ITP it? Of course, you can find the entire package list at cygwin.com.. rlc

Re: Q: mixing MSVC++ and gcc C++ libs/dlls ?

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 03:21:32PM +0200, Heiko Nardmann wrote: > Hi! > > The FAQ tells me that only C object files can be mixed. > > Is this true for MS .NET and gcc 3.x since I expect both to be conform to the > ABI standard ? What ABI standard would that be? Anyway, gcc and MSVC don't use th

Re: pwd option to return windows path

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
This thread, though getting on my nerves, actually has a relatively interesting question in it. I think the answer is kinda obvious, though.. On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:36:07AM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > P.S. Speaking of special treatment, how come Cygwin is the only free > software proj

Re: cygpath hangings: A fix - bash patch enclosed -- bash maintainer please note!

2003-10-20 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
I've just checked the patch a wee bit closer - it looks OK to me. If you want to push it upstream, please go ahead :) I'm wrapping up release -16 now. I'll make it available for upload on -apps ASAP. Thanks, rlc On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:58:36AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct

Re: cygpath hangings: A fix - bash patch enclosed -- bash maintainer please note!

2003-10-20 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
I'll apply your patch and release a new Bash version shortly rlc On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:58:36AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:30:12PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >I just managed to duplicate the problem on my system at work. > > > >Stay tuned. > > I ma

Re: ash does not understand '~'

2003-10-17 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:48:12AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Jörg Schaible wrote: > > > > 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

Re: Where does the 'time' (shell keyword) write?

2003-10-16 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
$ bash -c 'time ls > ../ls.out' 2> ../time.out HTH rlc On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:01:20PM +0200, Alex Vinokur wrote: > $ type time > time is a shell keyword > > > $ time ls > dummy1 dummy2 > > real0m0.040s > user0m0.020s > sys 0m0.040s > > > $ time ls > zzz > > real0m0.040

Re: VC++ and Perl

2003-10-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:46:27AM -0400, Paul Bezzam wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a C program calling a Perl module running successfully under > Cygwin. Can I use VC++ environment to call this Perl? Dunno and AFAICT it's off-topic here. If you want to do anything with MSVC, ask a MSVC-relat

Re: What Linux version corresponds to a specific cygwin version?

2003-10-07 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
First: Cygwin != Linux On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:03:05PM +0200, Uwe Galle wrote: > after some research this question remained unresolved, that's why I want to > post it to the list. > > Some applications, e.g. C-Kermit 8.0 > (http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80binaries.html#linux), offer a variet

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:18:37AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:11:40AM +0200, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > > > I've overwritten sh.exe with bash.exe > > Don't do that. > U

Re: Postinstall hangs with bash

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:11:40AM +0200, Bertalan Fodor wrote: > I've overwritten sh.exe with bash.exe Don't do that. > With this setting cygpath hangs in myPostinstall.sh: > > ROOT=$(cygpath -w /) > > It is interesting. > > Using sh it is ok. $ ROOT=$(cygpath -w /) $ echo $ROOT D:\cygwin WFM

Re: Copying stderr to stdout

2003-09-29 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:28:16PM +0200, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > I was having a bit of trouble copying stderr to stdout, e.g. > > $ ls 2>&1 lkajsdflkjasdflkj >ll > ls: lkajsdflkjasdflkj: No such file or directory > > I would have expected the error message to end up in "ll". > > If I place "2>&1

Re: open () and /dev/ttyS0

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:34:01AM -0600, Craig Gullixson wrote: > (me: bashing head agains wall) Bash is by no means intentded to hurt the heads of developers! Please don't abuse the shell in such a way! (Sorry, couldn't resist ;) rlc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: aspell-en version 0.51.0-1

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
New News: = Version 0.51.0-1 of the aspell-en package is now available for download. This corresponds to the latest official release (0.51-0). To update your installation: === Run the Setup utility from http://cygwin.com/setup.exe and pick up the proper packages.

Re: No support for wchar_t in latest Cygwin?

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:54:43AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:53:19AM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > AFAIK, this is a PTC situation.. > > I take this as a 'no' then? What you've just said applies to everything > not don

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: aspell version 0.50.3-1

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On behalf of the aspell maintainer, Gareth Pearce: New News: = Version 0.50.3-1 of the aspell package is now available for download. This corresponds to the latest official release (0.50-3). To update your installation: === Run the Setup utility from http://cygwin.

Re: No support for wchar_t in latest Cygwin?

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:28:41AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:53:19AM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > AFAIK, this is a PTC situation.. > Well, I don't see any problem with wchat_t in the below error messages. Ah, yes. I should've

Re: No support for wchar_t in latest Cygwin?

2003-09-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
AFAIK, this is a PTC situation.. http://cygwin.com/contrib.html rlc On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:59:14PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > Hi, it's me again :) > > I've been developing some software in C++ and have tested it on Linux > and FreeBSD, so I decided yesterday to test it on my Cygwin > insta

Re: objdump : inaccurate demangling for foo(char* const)

2003-09-19 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
AFAIK, const is a compiler directive - there is nothing in the assembler that make a symbol const. You should see const more like a promise: "I promise I won't change the value of this variable". That promise can be broken by a const-cast, and the assembler code doesn't know anything about it (AFA

Re: Windows 2k crash while processing big bash script

2003-09-19 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
To start helping you debug this problem, we need a bit more information about your Cygwin setup. Could you please read http://cygwin.com/problems.html and provided the information mentioned there? rlc On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:45:46AM +0300, -TifsSoft- wrote: > Hello. I have troubles using cygwi

Re: Can .lib files be converted to .a files?

2003-09-17 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:06:38AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > At 10:24 AM 9/17/2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak you wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:45:06AM -0400, craig grossbach wrote: > >> Does someone know of a way to convert a .lib file to it's > >> .a cou

Re: Can .lib files be converted to .a files?

2003-09-17 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:45:06AM -0400, craig grossbach wrote: > Does someone know of a way to convert a .lib file to it's > .a counterpart? I need to get pcscal32.lib to be > libpcscal32.a. Thank you. If pcscal32.lib was written in C and compiled by MSVC, just rename it. If it was not writt

Re: ctrl-s freeze bash?

2003-09-17 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Try hitting Ctrl-Q to unfreeze. (not a bug) rlc On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:05:40PM +0800, Lucifer wrote: > If press Ctrl-S in rxvt running bash and then the bash becomes inactive, > i.e. does not response to any key stroke. I have to open another rxvt > and kill -9 . Is this a feature or a bug?

Re: bash-2.05b-15 still broken

2003-09-17 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
FYI. The problem reported by Alexander was apparently fixed by a simple reboot (as far as he told me off-list). Further on in the thread I read cgf saying this is probably (certainly?) a Cygwin problem, so I'll wait with trying to reproduce this in Bash until I hear from cgf.. rlc On Tue, Sep

Re: bash-2.05b-15 still broken

2003-09-16 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
WFM: $ PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\e[32;1m\]$ \[\e[0m\]' $ ./todo todo-manager-0.70.2 todomgr todo-manager-0.70.2.tar.gz $ ./todo Could you attach cygcheck output as per http://cygwin.com/problems.html ? rlc On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:16:55AM +0400, Alexander Osipenko wrote: > Just as described i

Re: cygwin pathing

2003-09-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
First of all: Cygwin != Bash What you are looking at is a difference in behaviour between two versions of Bash: one is buggy, the other one is not. The buggy one - contrary to what you apparently expect - is the first one. Cygwin is a POSIX emulation layer. As such, the paths it uses are POSIX-is

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Bash package available for download

2003-09-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
New News: = Version 2.05b-15 of the Bash package is now available for download. This is a bugfix release relative to 2.05b-14, and fixes the bug reported in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg00822.html The applied patch is temporary and will be replaced by a more permanent (less k

Re: Automated replies from list

2003-09-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Being on the digest list means you should only get one mail - so all is well :) If you use procmail & formail, you can use them to split the digest up into the individual messages (see `man procmail' for details). Otherwise, you could subscribe to the "normal" list: cygwin (dash) subscribe (at) cyg

Re: grep.exe - Unable to locate DLL

2003-09-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Could you please tell me what kind of problem you had with the libpcre package? Thanks, rlc (Cygwin pcre maintainer) On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 06:53:32PM +0300, Alex Vinokur wrote: > > "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Alex Vi

Re: bash-2.05b-14 broken!

2003-09-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
This will be fixed in the next release (coming shortly - building & testing under way). rlc On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:01:56AM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: > PS1="\[\e[33;1m\]\t\[\e[m\] \[\e[36;1m\]\w [\#]\\$\[\e[m\] " > there are two spaces after "$", not one as it should be > (and as it was wit

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated PCRE packages ready for download

2003-09-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
New News: = Version 4.4-2 of the PCRE packages is now available for download. This corresponds to the latest official PCRE release. The only change relative to 4.4-1 is that the Cygwin-specific README moved to its proper place in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin To update your installation: =

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT for bash?

2003-09-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
I made Bash available for upload before the week-end, and said I'd announce it after - which is in a few minutes :) Vigilance is good - keep it up :) rlc On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:05:03PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: > Oops, s/th/sh/ > > Rolf Campbell wrote: > >I noticed there's a new version o

Re: cygwin bash 2.05b patches and "rebash" a debugger for bash (http://bashdb.sourceforge.net)

2003-09-12 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 10:13:21AM -0400, R. Bernstein wrote: > This is all a bit too cryptic for me. > > Ronald Landheer-Cieslak writes: > > The patches that have not been applied yet will be applied in the next > > release. > > Whose release? If you are talking

Re: Compilling cygwin programs using Visual Studio .NET

2003-09-12 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
There's a gawk script that can convert dsw files to Makefiles. It's a MinGW utility you can get here: http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/projects/gnu-win32/software/msds/ It targets the MinGW environment, which comes very, very close to Cygwin. You may need to edit the Makefile a wee bit, though, to get

Re: cygwin bash 2.05b patches and "rebash" a debugger for bash (http://bashdb.sourceforge.net)

2003-09-12 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:14:21AM -0400, R. Bernstein wrote: > > The Cygwin version is vanilla bash plus patches 001 to 004 plus the > > below patches: > Actually, if you look here: > > http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-2.05b-patches/ > > you'll see that there are 3 more from March of thi

Re: Where are the rm, mkdir, tar, and the normal Unix command in the cygwin bash shell?!!!

2003-09-12 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Look here: http://cygwin.com/packages/ Looking for bin/tar, I get tar/tar-1.13.25-1 A GNU file archiving program tar/tar-1.13.25-3 A GNU file archiving program so, you need to install the "tar" package for tar ;) You might also want to look here: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: Minor bug in splint manpage

2003-09-12 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:21:16AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > You're just *daring* the SPAM filter, aren't you? ;-) Actually, I just noticed that my original message didn't get through my own spam filter ;) rlc -- "Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it."

Re: Minor bug in splint manpage

2003-09-12 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:21:16AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > > In the author section, both the E-mail address and the homepage URL are > > missing, which renders: > > > > AUTHOR > >If

Minor bug in splint manpage

2003-09-11 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
In the author section, both the E-mail address and the homepage URL are missing, which renders: AUTHOR If you need to get in contact with the authors send email to or visit JTYMLTK rlc -- Awright, which one of you hid my PENIS ENVY? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

Re: bug in "ar" when creating libraries on cross linked filesystems

2003-09-05 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
I can't reproduce the problem and don't see anything out of the ordinary in your cygcheck output. Could you do a $ which ar and see if you're really working with Cygwin's ar? (I've just read Igor's reply - interesting hunch, but I'd have expected to be able to reproduce the problem..) rlc On Fri

Re: bug in "ar" when creating libraries on cross linked filesystems

2003-09-05 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 07:02:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > the command > ar cq libdh.a a.o b.o > does not work, if the current directory is on a linked filesystem. > In my case "." referes to /cygdrive/h". > The error message of "ar" is: > ar: libdh.a: rename: Cross-devi

Re: DDD 3.3.7 compiles ootb (was - RE: DDD 3.3.5 success)

2003-09-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:44:27AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:27:49AM -0400, Richard Campbell wrote: > >cgf wrote: > >>Haven't I already vetoed this once? > > > >Have you? I searched the cygwin, cygwin-xfree, and cygwin-apps mailing > >list archives for ddd, read

Re: How to compile static to avoid the need for cygwin1.dll

2003-09-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:26:32AM -0300, Ivan Hernandez wrote: > Hello! i'm trying searchs in google to find info on how to compile > statically linked binary files on cugwin in order to avoid the need of > having cygwin1.dll with my programs. I need it because some people is > alergic to thing

Re: DDD 3.3.5 success

2003-09-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:29:10AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:59:06AM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > >Personally, I'm not that interested in ddd, but next time, before going > >through packaging, I will ask on the -apps list whether

Re: DDD 3.3.5 success

2003-09-04 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:24:00PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > One way to help all those people and minimize the number of such queries > is to contribute DDD as a Cygwin package and volunteer to maintain it, so > that it can be installed using Cygwin setup. See the Package > Contributor's G

[ANNOUNCEMENT] updated PCRE packages available for download

2003-09-03 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
New News: = Version 4.4-1 of the PCRE packages is now available for download. This corresponds to the latest official PCRE release. To update your installation: === Run the Setup utility from http://cygwin.com/setup.exe and pick up the proper packages. Problem rep

Re: package submission

2003-09-02 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:30:29PM +0200, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Hello, > I'd like to propose my text mode editor mined for a cygwin package; > among other benefits it provides extensive UTF-8 and CJK support. > Its homepage is http://towo.net/mined/. Please take a look at the Cygwin Package Contrib

Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?

2003-09-02 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:46:59PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: > Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > > ("At least there's a big company behind it > > that has the (legal) responsability for the quality of the program..") > > ROTFLMAO. ?? > What legal res

Re: all apps crash at startup with current CVS checkout of cygwin

2003-09-01 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
"Shortly" took a bit longer than I expected, but OK.. I've put the cygwin1.dll in place and ran cygcheck - id crashed but the cygcheck.out file it produced is attached anyhow.. I have also attached a file called cygwin1-20030828.dll.map, which contains the addr2line output for the addresses in t

Re: all apps crash at startup with current CVS checkout of cygwin

2003-09-01 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
I'm back at the failing machine now - I'll report back shortly :) rlc On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:40:33PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:06:28PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:41:52AM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Ciesla

Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened?

2003-09-01 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:20:04PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > Where I was working at the time, they we're afraid of "free software". Some > people, eh? Actually, that kind of fear is probably more common that you thingk: where I work, people are afraid of free software too, for two reasons:

Re: all apps crash at startup with current CVS checkout of cygwin

2003-08-29 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:34:00AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:08:20PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > >With a fresh checkout from cygwin's CVS repo, fresh build, etc. I get this > >when I start rxvt: > > > > 6 [m

Re: all apps crash at startup with current CVS checkout of cygwin

2003-08-29 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
I didn't know about the --enable-debugging option yet - I'll turn it on and see what I get. thx rlc On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:34:00AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:08:20PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > >With a fresh checkout fro

all apps crash at startup with current CVS checkout of cygwin

2003-08-28 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
With a fresh checkout from cygwin's CVS repo, fresh build, etc. I get this when I start rxvt: 6 [main] rxvt 1912 handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION 15845 [main] rxvt 1912 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to rxvt.exe.sta ckdump. The stackdump is attached. All Cyg

Re: What is latest Cygwin gcc version?

2003-08-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Just in case: to get yours (a working recent gcc) use Setup.exe in all cases. It's available on the cygwin site at http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe HTH rlc On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:39:33PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > $ gcc --version > gcc (GCC) 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)

Re: What is latest Cygwin gcc version?

2003-08-25 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
$ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.2 20020927 (prerelease) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. HTH rlc On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 07:11:56PM

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