Re: gcc under windows xp

2002-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:49 PM 1/10/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >hi there! > >i previously used cygwin under a windows 2000 environment, and it worked >really fine. (i more or less only use the gcc compiler and tools) >but i got myself a new machine, and - bad luck - it only really runs fine >under windows xp. So

Re: vim and color

2002-01-10 Thread Lynn Wilson
/usr/bin/vi (aka /bin/vi) supports syntax highlighting based on the file extension of the file being edited. The files at /usr/share/vim/vim60/syntax/*.vim define the highlighting (vim60 may vary according to your version). The very last line of my ~/.vimrc is 'syntax enable'. This does the

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:31 PM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > Using `gcc -mno-cygwin' is switching the build environment t

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
Robert, This all now makes a lot more sense to me. Those switch definitions have confused me for a long time. Thank you. Jon > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Robert Collins > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:28 PM > To: Jon Leich

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I still don't understand why I'd want to symlink the binutils binaries. I > WANT the Cygwin binutils. They don't generate object code; they operate on > it. The Cygwin binutils do a fine job (as Cygwin binaries) operating

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Jon Leichter wrote: > It's true that I don't usually patch the script myself and send it back. In > some cases, there isn't any organization to send the patches back to, e.g. > GDBM. This is not an unsubstaniated statement. I sent patches to GDBM years > ago, and nothing ever came of it. What

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Karsten Fleischer
> FWIW, I'm checking on this internally now. Please do so. Karsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Karsten Fleischer
> I'm not sure but I don't think it matters if the sources are > proprietary. Maybe this is getting incredibly picky but if you adapted > algorithms from other non-GPL compliant programs then that is probably > an issue, too. I don't know if something like "If the first four bytes of a file are

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Karsten Fleischer
> >>OK, more detailed. I allow only absolute pathes in $SHELL and don't > >>allow any *csh. If superuser then only shells from [/usr][/local]/bin > >>are considered trusted shells. If not superuser shells from other > >>directories are allowed, but if uid != euid or gid != egid the shell > >>an

rebuild libc.a with MB_CAPABLE defined

2002-01-10 Thread RMDUVY
I want to rebuild libc.a with MB_CAPABLE defined so wcstombs works when NULL is passed in as the first arg - wcstombs( NULL, wcstr, 0 ). Currently, this function always returns 0 because MB_CAPABLE is not defined when cygwin is initially installed. How do I rebuild libc.a? There are a lot of

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
Ok. I need to return to asking some questions with my new understanding of --build, --host, and --target (which I'm incredibly grateful for and happy about). I have returned to working with OpenLDAP. The configure script is generated with autconf-2.13.1. It uses AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM, which you say

Re: rebuild libc.a with MB_CAPABLE defined

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
Follow the instructions for building cygwin on the cygwin web pages. (Look at the menu on the left). At a guess, you'll need to do more than just define MB_CAPABLE. Chances are, it's disabled because cygwin is not MB_CAPABLE :}. Rob === - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 12:20 PM Subject: RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > Ok. I need to return to asking some questions with my new understand

Re: FW: ast on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:12:43AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: >Chris, >I know you don't like private mail. No, I don't. I am redirecting this to the project mailing list. >But, could this statement from Glenn tame you a bit... If anyone looked at sources which have any restrictive license

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:03:43AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: >> I'm not sure but I don't think it matters if the sources are >> proprietary. Maybe this is getting incredibly picky but if you adapted >> algorithms from other non-GPL compliant programs then that is probably >> an issue, too.

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 5:27 PM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > > - Original Message - > From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:03:44AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: >> FWIW, I'm checking on this internally now. > >Please do so. I will. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwi

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:04:47AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: >It's not a major change. SUSv2 doesn't say that you have to use >/bin/sh for a shell. It even says that $SHELL can name the user's >favorite shell. Every UNIX system that I've ever seen uses /bin/sh. The SUSv2 says that system

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sorry... I left that out. Yes, I do have an accessible i686-pc-mingw32-gcc, > and I am looking at the configure script. It just searches for gcc. It > doesn't bother to look for the prefixed tool. Are you sure? Here's the out

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 5:45 PM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > - Original Message - > From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > AC_CHECK_TOOL checks for tools with a ${host} prefix. AC_CHECK_PROG does > not. > > In my opinion, this serves as another example that one cannot count on a > configure script being up-to-date. Ouchies. I agree - yet another

RE: Copy and Paste into Console

2002-01-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Randall R Schulz > Gary, > > I was happy to learn about this: > > ># Make insert actually useful > >"\e[2~": paste-from-clipboard > Me too, since I didn't know about it myself until I went to answer t

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:31:49PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:03:43AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: >>> I'm not sure but I don't think it matters if the sources are >>> proprietary. Maybe this is getting incredibly picky but if you adapted >>> algorithms from o

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'll stop apologizing for this after this message but I will reiterate > that I don't like this. I do get asked about this kind of thing all of > the time within and without Red Hat, though. I don't want to be in a > p

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:52:01PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>AC_CHECK_TOOL checks for tools with a ${host} prefix. AC_CHECK_PROG >>does not. >> >>In my opinion, this serves as another example that one cannot count on >

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Ouchies. I agree - yet another reason for cygwin ports to be updated > >by the maintainer :}. package/port ^^^ > If I am reading this correctly, this is not really a cygwin issue. It's > a cros

RE: Copy and Paste into Console

2002-01-10 Thread Stephan Mueller
" From: Gary R. Van Sickle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] " > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On " > 2) Why does "paste-from-clipboard" stop just before the first newline " > in the clipboard contents while middle-mouse pastes the entire " > contents? Is there another undocumente

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
Thus... returning to the ORIGINAL topic of this thread... I had recommended the following to the OP: $ env CC=mgcc ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 My new understanding of switches gives me new perspective. 'build' and 'target' will pickup the value of 'host'. In this context, you're t

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thus... returning to the ORIGINAL topic of this thread... I had recommended > the following to the OP: > > $ env CC=mgcc ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 > > My new understanding of switches gives me new perspective. 'buil

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 6:16 PM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > > - Original Message - > From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > See above why it doesn't. mingw != cygwin :}. > > If 'build' WERE to be tested automatically, independent to 'host', it would > come up with 'i686-pc-cygwin'. Thus, we'd effectively end up with the same > line you specified

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 6:25 PM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > - Original Message - > From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

Re: gcc version 2.95.3-5: assert() does not work as expected

2002-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:17:52PM +0100, Torrisi Fabio wrote: >Dear maintainers, > >Please consider the following bug: > >Problem: >assert does not work as written in the manual > >symptom: >If I register a signal handler for SIGABRT it does not get called by assert Yes, that was definitely a pr

Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg (was: RE: No stderr output)

2002-01-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Christopher Faylor > [snip] > >For Bourne style shells I use > > > >runme > filename 2>&1 > > > >This redirects stdout first and then stderr to whereever stdout is > >pointing. > > If this doesn't do

Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg (was: RE: No stderr output)

2002-01-10 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Comments? Questions other than "what are you smoking"? ;-) How long have you been somking it :}-. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.co

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Karsten Fleischer > > It's not a major change. > SUSv2 doesn't say that you have to use /bin/sh for a shell. It even says > that $SHELL can name the user's favorite shell. > I know that you always have

Re: rebase for setup (curl)

2002-01-10 Thread Kevin Roth
On 8 Jan 2002, at 13:26, Jason Tishler wrote: > All of the above appear to be non-relocatable: > $ file *.dll > cygcurl-2.dll: MS Windows PE Intel 80386 console DLL not relocatable > > How did you manage to accomplish this? Well, I'm no closer to understanding why it didn't work on my Win

RE: Copy and Paste into Console

2002-01-10 Thread Randall R Schulz
D'Oh! I had an old copy of the FAQ (the file mod date is Nov. 21 2000, but I'm not sure if that's the original mod time or the time at which I downloaded it). This copy of the FAQ did not mention the "paste-from-clipboard" readling action. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 17:53 2002

funny strstream bug (yes I know it's deprecated)

2002-01-10 Thread Brian Bull
People probably don't care about strstream any more but I still thought this was an interesting one. Self contained bug example follows: --- #include #include int main(){ std::string fred = " some_spaces_precede_a_single_exceedingly_long_

Child process assigned to wrong parent in xinit

2002-01-10 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hello, There is a bug in the control of processes of Cygwin. As I found it while installing XFree86 I am sending this report to both mail lists. My system is a Window 95-B with DirectX, CYGWIN_95-4.0, XFree86-4.1.0 I have put in ~/ a shell script .xinitrc for running xninit. The file is a modi

RE: [Q]Windows PATH is not working..

2002-01-10 Thread Jonathan Simms
Hi SB, I'm kinda new to this too...here's what i think: >>leesb@leesb-kr ~ >>$ which notepad >>/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/notepad any time you access the filesystem *outside* of the cygwin install folder (and *nix-esque file structure), cygwin uses the above format C:\foo\bar.txt = /cygdriv

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2002-01-10 Thread Ñåðãåé
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Re: Potential problems with Cygwin GCC and -mno-cygwin switch

2002-01-10 Thread anitak
Hi, By seeing these hot discussions of -mno-cygwin swich I started a canadian cross for building a mingw hosted SH targetted cross compiler on cygwin environment. I am stuck with the following problem. Will be very thankful if anybody guides me on this? Regards, Anita - Original Message

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telnet cannot see mount drive - another method

2002-01-10 Thread Tiffany Chan
I have try another method to "cd" to another server rather than using "mount" or "net use". In my case, I want to get/put files from w2k advanced server to/from HP-Unix Server. --- Cygwin in w2k HP-Uni

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Re: CVS 1.11: More info about my problem (i'm sorry about the demanding tone...)

2002-01-10 Thread Alexei Lioubimov
I'm so sorry about the demanding tone of my "cry for help", but i'm really very upset and confused. Here are the details of the problem: 1) The task: - i want to checkout a tagged snapshot of myproject, so i try a "cvs co -r mytag myproj" and receive the following: cvs [checkou

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-10 Thread Alexei Lioubimov
Of course i've read every response for my message, but none of them are useful at the moment, because i was not asking about cygwin's internals, but about the workaround for "cvs co -r" command itself (that doesn't work without Attic directory presence) Alexei - Original Message - From:

Setting Cygwin terminal colors?

2002-01-10 Thread Jeff
The default light grey on black background of the terminal window gives me a great deal of eye strain. I would like to change the background color, default color of text, and the colors of highlights, reverse video, etc.-- just as I can with the two telnet clients I'm currently using. I've searc

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