Re: perl -r says readable dir is unreadable

On Sat, April 25, 2009 9:37 pm, Mikel Ward wrote: > The key is that the -r (file is readable) operator returns false for > directories that I CAN read. "test" and "ls" prove that I can read them. -r does not test to see if you can read a file, it tests whether the mode gives you read access to th

Re: GREP: Memory Exhausted

On Wed, April 15, 2009 12:46 pm, Dave Korn wrote: > Letters in an error message don't just randomly change between upper and > lower case for no reason. Either you two are using different versions of > grep, or Shailesh did not accurately report the *actual* error message > that he was *actually*

[attention base-files maintainer] copying /bin files to home dir on first run of cygwin.bat

I did a base install of cygwin 1.7 (using setup-1.7.exe), and the first time I ran cygwin.bat, it gave the following: Copying skeleton files. These files are for the user to personalise their cygwin experience. They will never be overwritten nor automatically updated. bash: cd: /etc/skel: N

Re: CygWine 1.0 Beta -- an new cygwin package manager

I'd rather see the common code put into a library (and available in both cygwin and mingw flavors). Then it would be pretty easy to have a Cygwin::Setup perl extension and command line tools using it. (Substitute your other glue language of choice as desired.) On Thu, February 12, 2009 10:17 am,

Re: is it an FAQ: cygwin startup sequence

On Sun, December 21, 2008 4:56 pm, Kermit Tensmeyer wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> My guess is that you might have PATH problems. But if you had followed >> these directions: > > and that's why I'm asking for the documentation. I don't need/want you to > solve a p

Re: Cygwin Design

On Fri, September 12, 2008 9:38 am, R&D wrote: > I am deeply interested in implementing a simple > command interpreter in Windows XP platform as a part of my summer project, > so will you please give me some hint on implementing it. I suspect cygwin will be of little use to you in pursuing such a

RE: Cygwin Design

On Fri, September 12, 2008 3:08 pm, Jason Pyeron wrote: >> I am deeply interested in >> implementing a simple command interpreter in Windows XP platform as a >> part of my summer project, so will you please give me some hint on >> implementing it. > > Isn't summer over? Do I detect the taint of he

Re: why the strange stack stuf in cygwin?

(reformatted) On Tue, September 2, 2008 12:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snipped the drivel > ... > >> The code seems very wierd in places. >> I don't "like" it. >> I know, boo hoo, whine whine whine. It seems to work but it makes me >> nervous. - Jay > J

Re: How do I fetch files from the web?

On Mon, August 11, 2008 2:50 am, circ ular wrote: > 1. how do I install packages once I already have installed cygwin? Use http://cygwin.com/setup.exe to select additional packages. > 2. what do I write do download from a specific internetadress. This list is for cygwin-specific questions, not g

Re: programming API to determine whether in 'Cygwin environment'

On Thu, July 10, 2008 10:06 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:49:06PM -0700, Tony Last wrote: >> My console program is built for native Windows (thus does not reply on >> cygwin1.dll). >> >> So I'm looking for a boolean method which will allow a program to tell >> whether i

Re: Ugrent !! Reg. Executing the EXE generated by Cygwin

On Fri, June 13, 2008 2:23 am, Mani kandan wrote: > This problem is probably due to using incompatible versions of the cygwin > DLL. > >> Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility >> and delete all but the most recent version. The most recent version >> *should* >> resid

Re: building perl-5.8.8-4 from source 'perl-5.8.8-ext-Win32CORE.tar.bz2 not found'

On Sat, May 24, 2008 8:45 am, David Christensen wrote: > I am attempting to build Perl from source (I'm curious about Perl's > regression test), but it appears that the current Cygwin source > distribution is incomplete: If you don't want to duplicate the exact cygwin binary distribution, but don'

Re: Add OpenSC packages to cygwin?

On Fri, April 25, 2008 2:16 pm, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > Is anyone interested in maintaining a cygwin packages for OpenSC > projects? To whit: http://www.opensc-project.org/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html D

Re: Win32Core module question

On Mon, September 10, 2007 12:34 pm, Reini Urban wrote: > John Neil schrieb: > >> Thanks. For now I installed the previous version of the Cygwin >> perl-libwin32 package, but I agree there should be some way to access the >> non-core Win32 routines that were previously available without having to

Re: Cygwin Perl and -Duselongdouble

On Thu, July 26, 2007 5:19 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 26 22:09, Sisyphus wrote: >> I'd like to have a perl on Cygwin built with -Duselongdouble, so I tried >> *** You requested the use of long doubles but you do not seem to have >> *** the following mathematical functions needed for lon

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 13 21:02, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: >> And approximately what is the timeframe to 1.7.0; weeks, months, next >> year? Is HEAD stable enough for those not working on cygwin1.dll to be >> testing? > > Months. It's stable enough now but it's constantly changing.

Re: Perl bug?

> On Jan 28 11:57, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > Thanks for the info. It's interesting to know. What I still don't >> get, >> > however, is the fact that the same statement does not waste memory on >> > the x

Re: Perl bug?

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 27 23:17, Reini Urban wrote: >> Václav Haisman schrieb: >> >If I were you I would report it as a bug to their bug tracker. >> >> It's no bug, it's a perl feature, > > Uh, right, a *feature* ;) > >> and often defended. >> Even dll's are not unloaded. >> >> If you wa

Re: Perl inefficiency...

Linda Walsh tlinx.org> writes: > I understand perl may not be as efficient in data storage as > C, but seems like expanding a 100MB string to take 200MB is > wasting 100MB. > > Is this what you were referring to, Corinna? No, the inefficiency is that it stores the 100MB string in two separate p

Re: Perl bug?

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 22 11:26, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >> Corinna wrote: > $a = "a" x (100 * 1024 * 1024); > sleep 5; >> > "a" --> malloc (2 bytes) >> > x 100 Megs --> realloc (100 Megs) + malloc (100 Me

Re: Perl bug?

> Hi, > > consider the following statement: > > $a = "a" x (100 * 1024 * 1024) > > When you create a script which does this over and over again, you'll > observe a strange memory problem. Can you show your script? > By stracing I found that for each of these statements the following > happens: >

Re: cygwin source question

Dave Korn writes: > On 21 January 2007 14:38, Christopher Layne wrote: > > I notice in some places, there are double-negates, like: > > > > me->read_ready |= ret || !!(events & (FD_READ | FD_ACCEPT | FD_CLOSE)); > > > > What's the rationale for these? To enforce either a 0 or 1, to be directly >

Re: activestate perl on cygwin

Kevin T Cella nycap.rr.com> writes: > Using the version of perl installed with cygwin is not really an option > since I already have scripts written that utilize windows specific modules. Out of curiousity, which modules are those? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

Re: cygwin 1.5.22 - cpan core dumping on initial

jake writes: > $ cpan > There seems to be running another CPAN process (pid 2064). Contacting... > Other job not responding. Shall I overwrite the lockfile? (Y/N) [y] ... > Fetching with Net::FTP: > ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > Segmentation fault (core dumped) I have oc

Re: perl script dies with The instruction at

Harold Fuchs wolfeden.demon.co.uk> writes: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > How are you starting your script? Can you put: print "$^O: $]\n" > > or something at the beginning and verify for sure which perl you are > > using? > At a command prompt (DOS/

Re: perl script dies with The instruction at

moka writes: > Larry Hall wrote: > >Don't mix and match perl modules. If you're using Cygwin's perl, use modules > >built and be sure _not_ to use any ActiveState Perl modules and vice-versa. > Well, I did not mean to mix. In fact I think I did not ask cygwin to install > perl, but I am not sure.

Re: Problem with perl debugger and stdin

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 02:25:24PM -0800, Andrew Certain wrote: > In a normal UNIX environment, you can run the perl debugger > and still redirect an input file to stdin. In other words, > > perl -d myscript < mydata > > does the right thing, namely, that you enter the debugger, the debugger >

Re: Perl output dropped when invoking itself

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Michael Adler wrote: > I'm having Perl I/O problems on one machine that keep me from getting > CPAN installations to work. On this machine if I execte: > >perl -e 'print `perl -e "require 5; print qq{VER_OK\n}"`;' > > from bash there is no output.

Re: Perl's use locale don't work on Cygwin ?

Sergei Kolodka wrote: > YST> Letting perl know what the encoding of your data is should enable /i > to work > YST> correctly. How you would do this depends on what exactly you are > doing; it > YST> may just require a "use encoding 'cp1251';". (I assume 2151 was a > typo.) > > Well, all I got was

Re: Perl's use locale don't work on Cygwin ?

Sergei Kolodka wrote: > Just wonder is whole Perl's "use locale" and "setlocale()" thing doesn't > works on Cygwin or I'm just too dumb to find out how to use it ? It works just fine for all locales supported by cygwin, which is just the "C" locale :) > Yes, I know that locale on Cygwin not imple

pathconf/fpathconf failing in some cases

The perl tests for pathconf/fpathconf are showing some failures (perl translates -1 to undef, and the fpathconf calls are made on an fd opened to the path mentioned in the following pathconf calls): 1..84 ok 1 - calling fpathconf(3, _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED) not ok 2 - checking that the returned

Re: Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:53:55PM +1200, Steve Keate wrote: > Are there any useful resources on finding out exactly what security mode > to choose when using Cygwin, also, are there any resources on how to use > mkpasswd and what arguments to use. I have scoured the net for two days > looking for

Re: Where is complex.h

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 01:36:47PM -0700, TV JOE wrote: > > Hi, > > I've a C program referencing complex.h. But make can't find it > and the only copy I see is in /usr/include/mingw which I don't > think is the right version. Advice welcomed. Comment out the complex.h, see what errors you

RE: Perl failure

> Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it with 1.5.20 and 1.5.21s 20060718. > But Alas no better luck. Any Idea if this is Cygwin or Perl? I'm betting on cygwin. I hope to look more into this soon. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://

Re: Perl failure

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:53:09AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:08:43PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a server that has been doing back end maintenance using perl on > > cygwin for 6 years now. I recently upgra

Re: Perl failure

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:08:43PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server that has been doing back end maintenance using perl on > cygwin for 6 years now. I recently upgraded from win2k and cyg1.5.9 to > XP sp3 and cyg1.5.19 (to be fare, I also cleaned up the perl code a > bit). T

Re: Is anything getting through to the list?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:21:51AM -0400, Chuck wrote: > I have been trying to post a question to this list for over a week and > it never appears, not does it bounce back indicating a problem. I've > tried to email the list owner and haven't gotten any help there either. > I guess I have to run my

Re: Crashes/defunct processes after upgrade to cygwin-1.5.20

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:46:58PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > On 11 July 2006 14:12, Harald Anlauf wrote: > > > Corinna, > > Nope, I'm not Corinna! > > > I have now attached the output of cygcheck of my system > > that should be "current" except for cygwin1 which 1.5.19-4. > > > > I have veri

Re: In scripts suddenly must use perl.exe rather than perl

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 10:38:19PM +, zzapper wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 12:23:24PM +, zzapper wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have a few (ancie

Re: FW: Cygwin Perl bug -- pod2usage(-verbose => 0) & pod2usage(-verbose => 1)

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 04:35:29PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Cygwin & Perl: > > This issue is still present. > > > Reini's PERLIO suggestion functions as a work-around on Cygwin. > > > Who decides if/when to use Reini's suggested patch? If that decision > has already been made in the

Re: In scripts suddenly must use perl.exe rather than perl

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 12:23:24PM +, zzapper wrote: > Hi, > > I have a few (ancient) shell scripts which call perl scripts (which > perform MySql queries), since a few days these have stopped working (may > have been since recent coreutils update) What does "stopped working" mean? > c:/u

Re: Bug list posted on alpha centauri for 50 years!

> Dave Korn wrote: >> That's a false positive and you're about the fifteenth person this >> month to >> report it to the list without having bothered to search the archives >> first. > --- > Yeah -- the buglist has been clearly posted on Alpha Centauri for the > past 50 years. There's no r

Re: Which list should cygwin development be discussed on ?

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 01:28:08PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And of course the discussion and methodology behind the internal > development of the cygwin libraries, issues, and future ideas is > - in true opensource form (NOT) - on a completely closed list, > invite-only, with no public acc

cygwin@cygwin.com

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 06:53:38PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Linda Walsh wrote: > > > The attached test case is simple and fairly short. It does not > > depend on File::BOM (and has none of the code from it). > > > > It's only dependency (other than perl) is the POSIX module, > > where, from

Re: cygwin non-posix problems

Linda Walsh wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >> Can he or you reduce the problem to a non-File::BOM dependent test >> script > What part of the perl module File::BOM should I throw out before > it's no longer File::BOM? It's just perl code. > > It

Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:30:43PM -0700, Linda W wrote: > A problem I reported in trying to install "File::BOM" (module to handle > files with Unicode Byte-Order-Marks) under CPAN originally here: > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00238.html last February > is still a problem. I bounc

Re: perl reading ^M on text mounts

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:28:52PM +, Michael Lemke wrote: > Dave googlemail.com> writes: > > > > > Have you tried setting the environment variable PERLIO? I'm not a heavy > > PERL user, but I tend to have > > > > PERLIO=crlf > > > > if I'm likely to see CRLFs. > > Thanks, I tried that.

Re: Reading Term::ReadKey support for ActiveState Perl and Cygwin

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 09:39:16PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Mon, 22 May 2006, Paul Dorman wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've been racking my brains trying to read keystrokes in a Cygwin > > shell with ActiveState Perl. Has anyone worked out how to read > > individual keystrokes with a Perl

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:38:58AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:30:50PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:50:59PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:47:09AM -0400, Christ

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:38:58AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:30:50PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:50:59PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:47:09AM -0400, Christ

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:50:59PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:47:09AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:11:57PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > >On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:12:42PM +0200, Cori

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:12:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Please test the latest snapshot (at least 2006-Apr-24) from > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > Please report back in this thread when you encounter a problem, which > you can't reproduce with 1.5.18 or 1.5.19. We're interest

Re: how t o read env variable in cygwin

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:12:01AM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Eric Blake wrote: > > > According to cyg_win_user on 3/27/2006 3:12 AM: > > > i m trying to read environment variable in perl using > > > > > > $OSTY = $ENV{OSTYPE}; > > > this will return os type as "li

Re: PING binutils maintainer (was: Re: Can we get a new release of binutils?)

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:20:09PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:00:52AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:17:37AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >>Can we get a new release of binutils? >

PING binutils maintainer (was: Re: Can we get a new release of binutils?)

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:17:37AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > Can we get a new release of binutils? > > Thanks. > > See: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00758.html > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >

Can we get a new release of binutils?

Can we get a new release of binutils? Thanks. See: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00758.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: cygwin ld --out-implib treats informational message as warning (attn: binutils maintainer)

Can cygwin binutils be updated to include this patch? Thanks. On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 05:26:37PM +, Nick Clifton wrote: > Hi Yitzchak, > > >2006-01-27 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * pe-dll.c (pe_dll_generate_implib): Issue "

Re: cygheap base mismatch detected ( Attn: rebase maintainer )

Jason, are you following this? On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:12:02PM -0600, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: > We are finally zeroing in on the problem. > > Mark Geisert writes: > > The code at /src/rebase-2.3.1/rebase.c:255 assumes the signature is at > offset 0x80 > > in the image. This was true in th

Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:25:45AM -0600, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: > (2) Rebase the CygWin DLL so that it loads by default into a > space not used in either memory map (I'd need help in > choosing such a space). I've tried both Microsoft's > rebase and CygWin's rebase, but the

Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:12:02PM -0600, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: > So, I have a workaround of sorts. I can have my script launch my app > by writing the command line to a .bat file and executing it. Definitely > not something I can use to convince my management to go with CygWin. Wouldn't j

Re: CPAN: issues with homedirs containing spaces; how to install globally?

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:32:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, I think there's a bug with cpan and names containing spaces. Please report bugs in CPAN.pm to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This isn't unique to cygwin. I suggest you remove the space. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: default PATH

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:57:00AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > If we don't get a single person indicating that they rely on the current > behavior then I'm ok with changing it. We have a patch ready to be > checked in, in fact. I assume that: $ PATH="/foo::$PATH" cmd /c printenv PATH

Re: make: rm: command not found

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 03:15:37AM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: > At 08:40 AM 2/10/2006, JefV wrote: > >-- > >View this message in context: > >http://www.nabble.com/make%3A-rm%3A-command-not-found-t1100243.html#a2873151 > >Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com. > > > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe in

Re: strange cygstart bug with current Cygwin versions

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:40:22PM +0100, Michael Schaap wrote: > What we basically need to do, is copy the Cygwin environment to the > Windows environment, taking care of path conversion for all the > appropriate variables. Maybe start with: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2005-q4/msg000

Re: readdir after rewinddir not working in 20060128 snapshot

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:39:48AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 30 00:29, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > After a rewinddir, readdir seems to return as many empty entries as there > > were actual entries left to read, followed by . and .. > > Thanks for the

Re: /proc//exe points to void

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:45:28PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 20 13:50, Sam Steingold wrote: > > >> > On Mar 10 16:00, Sam Steingold wrote: > > >> >> /proc//exe points to "foo", not to "foo.exe", so it cannot be > > >> >> opened &c. > > >> > > > >> > > > >> >

Re: LD_PRELOAD regression on 1.5.19-4 ? no more loaded library in child process

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:31:29PM +0100, Louis Lecaroz wrote: > from cmd.exe > ->Start bash > -->All environment variables from cmd.exe were propaged in bash > environment+.profiles one. > -->Start "vi sample.txt" from this bash instance > >A new instance of bash is loaded with also all envir

binutils testsuite failures? (was: Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19)

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:28:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I should point out that I didn't rebuild my packages under 1.5.19 either > so I'm just as guilty as any other package maintainer in this regard. Speaking of which, in the course of making a small patch to ld (which I hope the bi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU CLISP 2.38 (2006-01-24) released

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:07:28AM +0100, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > > Sam Steingold writes: > >> o There is NO requires line in setup.ini at least at the following > >> download side: http://mirrors.kernel.org > >> whereas the clisp executables depend on various dlls. > > > setu

Re: new cygwin dlls

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:43:29AM +0900, djh wrote: > Has a fix been found for building emacs on the new cygwin versions > 5.19 and up yet? > > There is at least one problem with d_ino as you know. I thought you said you'd worked around that (though you didn't share what your actual changes). >

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:43:30PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used cygwin happily for very long time to compile > apache/php/postgresql and enjoy symlinks, and now I am cut-off from one > day to the next. The apache folks do not seem to care. The bug I > submitted is still without reply

Re: Cygwin Setup: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:56:39PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: > Moving to cygwin-apps, as this is likely to get technical. > > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > > > I've looked at this a bit. Here's the weird part: the error says > > > "Uncaught Except

Re: apache 1.3.34 can not compile anymore

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:31:11AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > > Tried to roll back to 1.5.18-1 from the setup.exe, but now I get 10s of > > error messages from packages who do not find getline in the cygwin dll. > > You would have to also use a previous version o

Re: can I tell setup.exe NOT to upgrade a specific package from now on?

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:54:05PM +, Urs Rau wrote: > > I need to keep a version of postgresql server at level 7.x, but now that 8.x > is out setup.exe suggests an upgrade every single time it runs. > > And one of these days I am going to forget to manually toggle the entry back > to 'keep'

Re: Cygwin Setup: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:37:12PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > Linda Walsh wrote: > > > Is an application crash the expected behavior when > > package validation fails? Maybe it should mark it unusable > > or delete it? Yuck. I went through this, too. It appeared to me that there were a larg

snapshot installation bat file (was: Re: [PATCH] Proposed clarification of the snapshot installation FAQ)

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:41:27PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 1/13/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > It would be nice to have a sample batch file that automated > > > the cygwin1.dll replacement, too. > > > > I've prettied up a batch

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:23:00PM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote: > On 1/16/06, Chris Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Adrian Maier wrote: > > > On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I think the key

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fortune-1.99.1-2 (experimental)

This version of fortune contains many tweaks to the fortune data files from the debian 1.99.1-2 and 1.99.1-3 releases, including the new off/disclaimer file, and adds a new, undocumented, -u switch to fortune. It is now built using the cygwin generic build script, and requires a recent snapshot or

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:08:03AM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote: > On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm not sure what this approach buys you over running setup.exe in > > unattended install mode on a copied local package cache, exc

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:59:25PM -0500, Brett Serkez wrote: > [snip] > > Not particularly, assuming you use the same local package cache on > > each machine, especially if you use the trick for pulling in all the > > packages you want automatically. > > Right. > > > I don't know about chere, >

Re: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:58:32PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:35:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:46:24PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > >Just in case it's relevant, note that I

Re: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:35:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:46:24PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >Just in case it's relevant, note that I have experimental bash, > >readline, libreadline6, findutils, and coreutils. > >

Re: [PATCH] Proposed clarification of the snapshot installation FAQ

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:57:27PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 1/11/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > As mentioned in , > > here's a patch to the FAQ to clarify the section on installing snapshots. > > I didn't know whether the various *.

Re: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:41:20PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:17:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:35:37AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > >On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:23:41PM -0500, Christ

Re: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:17:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:35:37AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:23:41PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> I hope that I've nailed down the last of the pr

Re: Segment fault/Bus error with Singular

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:32:37PM -0500, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > Sorry, I should not have asked about where to put the downloaded files; > of course that would not matter given that the argument to tar includes > the path to the downloads. > > BUT: The "How do I install snapshots?" FAQ answe

Re: setup crashes trying to install xorg-x11-fnts

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:28:31PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: > If nothing works, however, you can do the following: > > 1. Download release/X11/xorg-x11-fnts/xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.1.0-3.tar.bz2 from > some mirror (I use mirrors.kernel.org with good results). > 2. cd / && tar xjf xorg-x11-fnts-6.8.1

Re: Cygwin(1.5.18) gcc (3.4.4) problems when compileing esd test prg

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 06:06:41AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: > > > I am tring to compile this sample program on cygwin 1.5.18 and gcc (gcc > > 3.4.4) > > You're writing a program that tries to call esound libraries. These > libraries are not in the Cygwin distribut

Re: Start sshd server on reinstallation

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 07:19:32PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 07:09:14PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > > Ordinary Olson wrote: > > > > > I recently installed cygwin to my C drive ? however > > > after realizing its

Re: Start sshd server on reinstallation

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 07:09:14PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > Ordinary Olson wrote: > > > I recently installed cygwin to my C drive ? however > > after realizing its size, I decided to move it to the > > D drive. So I stopped the sshd server that I had > > running, deleted the registry

services not starting with 20060104 snapshot

I'll try to send a proper bug report in a few hours, but just want to mention now that after loading the 20060104 dll, trying to start cygserver or syslogd fails. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentatio

snapshot ChangeLog link missing info

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/winsup-changelog-20051229-20060101 is missing the actual winsup/cygwin changes: ChangeLog for 20051229 to 20060101 -- winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog -- 2006-01-01 Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- winsup/doc/ChangeLog -- 2005-1

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-1

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 07:41:12AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > To use this release, you MUST install a recent snapshot of > cygwin (20051222 or later), as well as use the experimental > readline-5.1-1. And presumably the experimental libreadline6-5.1-1? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com

Re: Hope this topic isn't taboo yet

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:44:08PM -0500, Frier, David wrote: > So if I have a two-physical-processor system which HT fools Windoze > into thinking is a quad, then turning off HT is not really going to > help me? Help with what, the cpu spikes? You could try it and see. You could also see if the

Re: Request for fixes to http://cygwin.com/problems.html

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:08:07PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:01:19PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > >Greetings. I'd appreciate it if the http://cygwin.com/ webmaster would > >make two fixes to the http://cygwin.com/problems.html page, at his/her > >earliest convenien

Re: Cygwin Setup Command Line

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 04:23:33PM -0800, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > Hmm, I just tried it and it does appear to sort of work, but it only > installs the "default" and I don't see any way to tell it to do > otherwise. This has been discussed many times. In short, set up a dummy package in setup.iniw

Re: Installation without network connection

On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:51:54AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Greg Youngdahl wrote: > > So, can this still be accomplished? Is there some web page or other > > document that explains how it should be done? If not - c

Re: Installation without network connection

On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Greg Youngdahl wrote: > So, can this still be accomplished? Is there some web page or other > document that explains how it should be done? If not - can someone help > me, and perhaps I can put together such a document? Perhaps it is > trivially ea

Re: base-files-mketc.sh hangs

On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:01:15AM +0800, Liu Haibin wrote: > Hi, > > I got a problem after I reinstalled cygwin. > /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh hangs there everytime I install > packages. And it will produce some log files like > setup.log.postinstallXa00156 under /var/log. I tried to run

Re: perl Bundle::Cygwin / perl-bundle-cygwin package

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:51:02PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:14:06PM -0600, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > I'm wo

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