Re: cygwin Digest 7 Dec 2014 10:57:56 -0000 Issue 8995

Based on the output of the identify-compilers.sh script below, it appears that the following C compilers are available on Cygwin. Those labeled "Cygwin" require the cygwin1.dll file to be available. What is the difference between the "pc" and "w64" compilers? Why is there no x86_64-pc-mingw-gcc.e

ERRORLEVEL not returning to Cygwin shell

I am using CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PAC047922 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39 i686 Cygwin An exit code returned by a DOS batch file does not seem to be coming back to the Cygwin shell. I am using bash. $ cat myexit.bat @echo off set EXITCODE=%1 echo got here with %1 exit /b %EXITCODE% $ cmd /c c:/DOCUME

ERRORLEVEL not returning to Cygwin shell

I am using CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PAC047922 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39 i686 Cygwin An exit code returned by a DOS batch file does not seem to be coming back to the Cygwin shell. I am using bash. $ cat myexit.bat @echo off set EXITCODE=%1 echo got here with %1 exit /b %EXITCODE% $ cmd /c c:/DOCUME

Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 22:39, Chris Cormie wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 02:25:03PM +1100, Chris Cormie wrote: There are barriers to implementing rpm in Cygwin, the most frequently mentioned being the fact that a cygwin process can't easily replace

Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 06:46, Andy Koppe wrote: > > *splutter*. You obviously haven't seen setup.exe's source code, and > you're forgetting that any such solution also needs to be integrated > into the UI, most interestingly, the progress screen, which is > currently designed for downloading one p

Re: Howto set default text file type to DOS/Text under release 1.7 BETA

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 00:36, Eric Backus wrote: > Niels Hallenberg gmail.com> writes: > >> I have a lot of scripts that >> won't run under bash as long as the extra CR's are not removed. I know Python has implemented a universal line ending scheme. Perhaps that could work here. -- Problem re

Re: command not working

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 08:51, Kie Kyon Huang wrote: > The problem is that i cant seem to use some common command e.g. mkdir, > ls without addding ./ in front?  I am attaching the cygcheck output > here. The output appears to show that you do not have Cygwin in your PATH. Are you running this fr

Re: Bash - IF Statement

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 15:15, briglass111 wrote: > > my friend pointed out that the problem is that there needs to be extra > spaces: > > [ "$T" = "y" ]; > > good job, bash I am not sure your comment is praising or bemoaning the bash shell. The shell interpreter needs a space after the square b

Re: Removed 1.5.25 and installed 1.7.0, but still cannot access filenames containing Unicode

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:11, Thomas Wolff wrote: > I agree absolutely. This setting is needed for many apps and I suggest > adding it to the default cygwin.bat, where it should probably be > 'set LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8' to be more specific and to avoid a national > preference. If it is to be added to

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 08:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > For XML, the list of encoding values is specified by IANA. >> >> http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets > > This is something we should head to in the long run.  For the time being > I'd prefer we stick to "ASCII". The IANA document

Re: dg-error vs. i18n?

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 23:25, Charles Wilson wrote: > That's interesting. I had thought "ascii" was a fairly common encoding > name; I know I've seen both 'encoding="ascii"' and 'encoding="us-ascii"' > in XML documents.  Maybe we (cygwin) should add an explicit > plain-old-ascii encoding name? F

Re: bash 3.2.49(23): when I start a bash window, $HOME is the DOS value rather than /home/lwv27

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:47, Dave Korn wrote: >  The home dir won't just appear when you update mkpasswd; you have to start a > new shell, when the /etc/profile startup script notices your home dir setting > doesn't exist it'll kick of the creation process for you. > >  For the full explanation,

Re: bash 3.2.49(23): when I start a bash window, $HOME is the DOS value rather than /home/lwv27

Larry: Mark is right. cat /etc/passwd Perhaps you can get the 'admin' to create the users before it is given to anyone else. Or, it might be that LANDesk has some capability to run a script after the package is installed. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: short success story

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 16:46, James Fuller wrote: > Just a FWIW post. > I am a novice at Linux and know very little about cygwin but I did > have success with BaCon an experimental endeavor located here. > http://www.basic-converter.org/ > > Here is the discussion on how I got it working > http:/

Re: make 3.81 - Exiting with 5 jobserver tokens available; should be 4!

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:29, Jonathan Grant wrote: > Hello > Anyone else see this output below? > > Please include my email address in replies as I am not on this list > Regards, Jon > > > C:\src>make -j4 > > ./src/test.c(56) : C0200 (E) No prototype function > make[1]: *** [obj/test.o] Error 1

Re: Where can I find a cygwin package for Tcl/Tk 8.5.4 or newer?

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 14:46, Dave Korn wrote: > Larry W. Virden wrote: >> The tcltk package that I find on the cygwin mirror sites is Tcl 8.4.1, >> which was released in 2002. Are there other cygwin download sites which >> would have a Tcl 8.5.4 or newer (the latest release is 8.5.7, which was >

Re: Problem with XP Pro at work.

If the Exchange server has POP3 or IMAP enabled, you should be able to do email from an email client that runs on Cygwin. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:49, J. David Boyd wrote: > > This is killing me, and I need some help trying to find out what is > happening. > > I'm using XP pro at work, and I'v

Re: 1.7 unattended install

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 23:47, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/10/10  : >> When I use the script above, it appears that the --site I specify is >> added to the list.  However, using that entry always results in the >> failure message: >> >>    Unable to get setup-2.ini from

1.7 unattended install

I am attempting to use the unattended installation capabilities in 1.7. I have an installed 1.7 to which I would like to add the curl package. The 1.7 documentation still says that setup does not support unattended installation. However, there are clearly a number of switches which can be seen

ppm disappeared

After installing Activestate Perl on the Windows side, I no longer have a 'ppm' command on the Cygwin side. I ran the Cygwin setup and reinstalled Perl, but that did not make it work. Any ideas or suggestions? $ ppm Can't locate ActivePerl/PPM/limited_inc.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/per

Acronym submission

Submission for http://cygwin.com/acronyms/ BDFL - Benevolent Dictator For Life. The title appropriate for Guido van Rossum, author of the Python language included in Cygwin. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Running Cygwin in background.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00527.html http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Cygwin+setup+sshd -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Scripting Cygwin setup.exe

I need to be able to install and update Cygwin on a machine using a script which specifies additional packages to include and to uninstall. I do not currently believe that I need to specify version numbers, but that might be a nice feature. The apt-cyg package looks good, but it cannot install fr

Re: CRLF setting stored

> | Where is the CRLF setting from Cygwin setup.exe stored? > > $ mount -m > $ man mount Many thanks, Blake. And from where does mount retrieve the setting? HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

CRLF setting stored

Where is the CRLF setting from Cygwin setup.exe stored? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: ps executable does not appear to match source

>That said, however, the other way of dealing with this is to modify >procps to deal with Windows pids. Then we wouldn't need the cygwin ps. >If you want to provide a patch to do that, then it's likely that the >procps maintainer would accept it -- assuming that it isn't so intrusive >as to cause

Re: setup.exe fails uninstalling cygrunsrv

>> I also disabled cygrunsrv and rebooted the machine. Same results. Any ideas? > >Delete your corrupt /etc/setup/cygrunsrv.lst.gz. Thanks, Brian. It worked for me. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Document

Re: setup.exe fails uninstalling cygrunsrv

>> When I run setup.exe, it seems to want to update cygrunsrv. However, >> after downloading and while trying to uninstall cygrunsrv, it fails >> giving me the Windows fault message. It apologises, but that does not >> seem to be much consolation. Any suggestions? > >You stopped all the cygrunsr

setup.exe fails uninstalling cygrunsrv

When I run setup.exe, it seems to want to update cygrunsrv. However, after downloading and while trying to uninstall cygrunsrv, it fails giving me the Windows fault message. It apologises, but that does not seem to be much consolation. Any suggestions? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

Re: ps executable does not appear to match source

> ps from Cygwin is the historically older version, it's using another > mechanism to get to all the date and, last but not least, it's a core > Cygwin tool under the Cygwin license. Feel free to use procps as ps > by aliasing, but Cygwin's ps will not go away and it can't use procps > sources for

Re: ps executable does not appear to match source

> On Jan 17, 2008 9:38 PM, <> wrote: > > The ps that comes with Cygwin is missing a number of features that > > appear to be in the procps-3.2.7/ps/ source code. The source code > > does not look like it was used to build the executable. Is this > > correct? > > Cygwin has both ps and procps ava

ps executable does not appear to match source

The ps that comes with Cygwin is missing a number of features that appear to be in the procps-3.2.7/ps/ source code. The source code does not look like it was used to build the executable. Is this correct? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

ps executable does not appear to match source

The ps that comes with Cygwin is missing a number of features that appear to be in the procps-3.2.7/ps/ source code. The source code does not look like it was used to build the executable. Is this correct? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: