RE: how to build GNU make from scratch ?

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

Re: how to build GNU make from scratch ?

Heiko Nardmann wrote: > ... > What is Cygwin B20 in difference to what I normally get by setup.exe ??? [Joerg was of course joking...] B20 is a *very* old version of Cygwin, which is completely unsupported. If you are using setup.exe to install, you will not have B20. I've no idea why Bobby M

Re: Binaries for bootstrap GNAT/GCC-Cygwin Build

David schrieb: > First, a general apology if I seem to be going over stuff I've gone over > before. I had a computer outage that cost me most of my memory of the > last 4 years. > Around 25 September, David, Gerrit, and Jason had a discussion on the > list about making David's build of GNAT av

Re: Wildcard problem with recursion

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 03:05:53PM +0530, Ajith Kumar wrote: Cygwin utilities like grep or ls with -R options doesn't seem to be working. egs when I say grep -r FLD_DCT_STRING *.h?? I get grep: *.hpp: No such file or directory However there are many .h, .hxx

RE: how to build GNU make from scratch ?

> From: Heiko Nardmann > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:24 AM > What is Cygwin B20 in difference to what I normally get by setup.exe ??? Very O L D [Acronym geeks take heed! Only Limited Delivery ;-) ] /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E -- printf("Timezone: %s\n", (D

RE: rsync local dir copy hang - solved for me

> From: Bakken, Luke > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 4:19 AM > Hi all, > > I was attempting to use rsync (v 2.5.6) to copy one local directory to > another on my machine (Windows XP) today when I experienced the dreaded > hang. It copied the files, and hung waiting for a child process to exit. >

RE: Strange Cygwin issue

> From: Dylan Cuthbert > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:10 AM > Did you sort this problem out eventually? We're having the same problem. > > We pass a DOS command that we've compiled in Vis.C a parameter > from within a > bash shell and all our quotes are "played" with. > > ie. #> ourcomma

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Re: how to build GNU make from scratch ?

Heiko wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > On Freitag, 24. Oktober 2003 08:07, Bobby McNulty Junior wrote: >> I just configured Make 3.80 in a seperate directory. >> I made on called "o" in the root of the source code and configured. >> Looks promising, as long as you are us

1.5.1: can't open files beginning with "..."

I have a file on my PC called "...foo.txt". cygwin has a problem with this file: $ ls -a . .. ...foo.txt cygcheck.out $ ls -al > /dev/null ls: ...foo.txt: No such file or directory $ cygwin also has a problem making similarly named files: $ touch ...foo2.txt touch: creating `.

Re: Q: how to build GNU make from scratch ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Freitag, 24. Oktober 2003 08:21, Heiko Nardmann wrote: > On Freitag, 24. Oktober 2003 07:45, Heiko Nardmann wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I just unpacked the original GNU make sources and now am unsure about how > > to build this thing. Calling './configur

Re: Cannot Start Cron

"Harig, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is a new version of the cron diagnostic script. It contains another test suggested and provided by Pierre Humblet. The new test checks to see if there is a password entry that corresponds to the values in the environm

Re: Compiling errors with '-mno-cygin' option on Cygwin

Hello everyone, Is there any way I can call an application(a C application using embedded Perl) created on Cygwin from Windows(C++, APIs) environment? Any pointers would be appreciated. Thank you. Paul On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Any DLL that comes with the Cygwin perl is

Re: tcsetattr ()

Hello > >Incidentally, I am working on a trivial cleanup patch to fix: >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00708.html >I just haven't had time to test it thoroughly yet. I have no idea about >this person's second "random hang" problem. It wasn't very eloquently >described. It is a good

RE: rsync local dir copy hang - solved for me

> From: Mark Thornton > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 12:13 PM Mark, please - even if your repliy might seem a bit personal - do keep replies on the list. There might be some little spark, that makes others have a fire lit (i.e. get a bright idea). > >The bottom point: *don't do that* ;-) > >

RE: rsync local dir copy hang - solved for me

> Hmm? Is waitpid() a blocking call or not? WRT "WNOHANG" it > looks like an > unblocking one... Yep. > Thus I'm assuming it doesn't block and that msleep() is > something internal > to rsync, using usleep() or some such. It uses select(). When I used strace on a non-modified version of rsyn

Re: DDD under cygwin

Jozef, Please don't send personal e-mail with Cygwin questions unless specifically requested. All Cygwin-related discussion should take place on one of the Cygwin mailing lists (see ). This will give your question access to a much wider area of expertise than any one

Re: Q: how to build GNU make from scratch ?

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Heiko Nardmann wrote: > Changing /bin/sh to /bin/bash at the start of the configure script gets > me slightly further. I now get the following output: > > checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... ./configure: fork: Resource > temporarily unavailable > > and here again make seems

Re: tcsetattr ()

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Martin Farnik wrote: > Brian Ford wrote: > >Incidentally, I am working on a trivial cleanup patch to fix: > > > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00708.html > > > >I just haven't had time to test it thoroughly yet. I have no idea about > >this person's second "rando

Re: Strange Cygwin issue

Dylan, If you followed that thread to the end, it was suggested that the program itself was buggy and treated the "-" as a parameter separator, IIRC. As for your case, that's the expected behavior. Windows programs get the quotes surrounding quoted arguments -- try it from cmd.exe with this simp

Re: OpenGL and Cygwin

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > thanks Andre ! the fix worked. I can now compile helloglut and many of > the red book opengl demos. > I went back to review this thread, but I am unsure exactly what fix you actually used. It would help greatly to see your exact compile line, and to

starting emacs in X-window mode without a console

Hello, I've searched the archives a bit, but can't find anything recent and/or pertinent (although I'm sure this has been answered before). I want to know if there is a way to start an emacs X-window without an accompanying cygwin console. I tried using nohup, but that didn't seem to make any di

Re: Compiling errors with '-mno-cygin' option on Cygwin

The best and the most foolproof way I can think of is something like a system() (CreateProcess) call and data exchange through temporary files. Igor On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Paul Bezzam wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Is there any way I can call an application(a C application using embedded > Pe

Strange characters

Hello, I was studying man pages more deeply in Cygwin and I can not solve a problem involving strange (format ?) characters. As an example, here is a part of "man zip". __ zipnote [â^'hwL] [â^'b path] zipfile zipsplit [â^

Re: starting emacs in X-window mode without a console

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Rob S.i.k.l.o.s. wrote: > I've searched the archives a bit, but can't find anything recent and/or > pertinent (although I'm sure this has been answered before). > > I want to know if there is a way to start an emacs X-window without an > accompanying cygwin console. > Try digg

RE: Cannot Start Cron

1. From your cygcheck.txt: >... > Found: C:\WINNT40\grep.exe > Found: d:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe > Warning: C:\WINNT40\grep.exe hides d:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe >... Please check your C:\WINNT40 for other utilities, such as 'cron.exe'. Consider deleting these programs, or moving them to another dire

Re: Strange characters

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Marcus Vinicius Ferreira wrote: > Hello, > > I was studying man pages more deeply in Cygwin and I can not solve a problem > involving strange (format ?) characters. As an example, here is a part of "man > zip". > > __

GNUPLOT compilation limitation (?) : howto enable x11 terminal support when compiling gnuplot for CYGWIN

Hi, I'm willing to use x11 terminal of gnuplot in a cygwin environment. So, I tryed to compile gnuplot (3.7.3) and it worked well. The only problem is that with this version, I don't have any x11 terminal so that gnuplot is not easy to use! I haerd that I had to build it setuid in order to get

Cannot log on as user - admin okay

Tried archives, google, erdelynet; but no answer or unrelated. Newbie on XP. Install okay, can log on locally (XP) as admin and users. Remote logon (Linux - ssh) works for admin of XP box only; not for any of the users on that XP box. I tried some of those posts suggesting mkpasswd and mkgroup; no

Re: Cannot log on as user - admin okay

On Fri, 25 Oct 2003, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Tried archives, google, erdelynet; but no answer or unrelated. > Newbie on XP. > Install okay, can log on locally (XP) as admin and users. Remote logon > (Linux - ssh) works for admin of XP box only; not for any of the users > on that XP box. I tried some o

Re: Cannot Start Cron

Please check your C:\WINNT40 for other utilities, such as 'cron.exe'. Consider deleting these programs, or moving them to another directory in your PATH. 3. Please examine your /var/log/cron.log to see if it provides any useful messages. 4. Please provide a copy of your crontab: $ crontab -

RE: GNUPLOT compilation limitation (?)

>> So, I tryed to compile gnuplot (3.7.3) and it worked well. >> The only problem is that with this version, I don't have any >> x11 terminal so that gnuplot is not easy to use! I just do (i) start XWin -multiwindow [if OS is 98 -- omit "start" if OS is XP]; then (ii) run rxvt -display localhost:0

Can't link to winsock2 library

Hi, (B (BI made ruby extension module which uses winsock2. (BAnd I tried to compile it. (BBut the following error appeared. (B (BWhat can I do for this problem? (BPlease let me know. (B (Bext>>gcc -Os -I /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-cygwin -I. (B-I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin (B

Re: Can't link to winsock2 library

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Takeshi Honda wrote: > What can I do for this problem? > Please let me know. > > ext>>gcc -Os -I /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-cygwin -I. > -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin > -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin -I. > -I/usr/local/cygwin-local/include -c Sniff.cpp -lws

RE: Thread.start()

Eros, Please don't send personal mail with Cygwin questions unless specifically requested. All Cygwin-related questions should be addressed to one of the Cygwin lists (see ). Also, please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header. On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, [is

Re: Can't link to winsock2 library

Thank you for your help. (B (B> The -c option means compile just a .o file. (B> Libraries are only used (B> during the final link. Remove the -c, and you'll (B> probably want a -o to (B> specify the output file name. (B (BI could compile and link. Thanks! (B (B> Your include path looks

Re: Strange characters

Hi Igor, Using alias to less did not work. I can see the difference what you suggested using color ls: $ /bin/ls -l --color | /bin/less -r compared to $ /bin/ls -l --color | /bin/less Defining $PAGER to less aliased or explicitly to "/bin/less -r" does not resolve either. I still ca

Re: 1.5.1: can't open files beginning with "..."

To make things even more interesting, it thinks that anything starting with '...' is a character device? /home/rcampbell> ll .. crw-rw-rw-1 rcampbel 0, 0 Oct 24 14:28 .. /home/rcampbell> touch ... touch: creating `...': No such device or address Chris Moore wrote:

ssh-host-config: "mkpasswd -l -u sshd"; should it be "-d" on domain controller?

consider: bash-2.05b$ uname -r; grep mkpasswd /bin/ssh-host-config 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) mkpasswd -l -u sshd | sed -e 's/bash$/false/' >> ${SYSCONFDIR}/passwd Does "mkpasswd -l" make any sense on a domain controller? On an NT domain controller I tested mkpasswd -d -u sshd | sed -e

Re: undefined reference to `_getline'

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:05:02AM -0400, Robb, Sam wrote: >>I suppose that in all of your searching you never came across the >>concept that cygwin uses newlib and that cygwin does not export every >>single thing from newlib? That means that there are some things >>defined in headers which are no

Re: how to build GNU make from scratch ?

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:10:00AM +0200, J?rg Schaible wrote: >Heiko Nardmann wrote on Friday, October 24, 2003 8:24 AM: >> On Freitag, 24. Oktober 2003 08:07, Bobby McNulty Junior wrote: >>> I just configured Make 3.80 in a seperate directory. >>> I made on called "o" in the root of the source co

Re: proftpd

Mark, Please post instead of sending private email. On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:03:51AM -0700, Mark Rissman wrote: > Any thoughts as to why proftpd service won't start on WinXP. I > followed your article about making it a service. See the following: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-quest

Weird Naim.exe network usage?

I hope this is the right mailing list to address this issue in. I recently installed cygwin on my window xp home edition computer. I started naim. I then proceeded to enter my username, and password. It logged into TOC just fine, and I was typing away with friends. I noticed that for some reaso

Key-based authentication fails when keys are in Samba directory

I have Cygwin and OpenSSH set up on a number of Win2K machines. Home directories for users are mounted via a FreeBSD-based Samba server named Whistler. SSH to the Win2K machines works without any problems *except* for key-based authentication where the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file is in a Samba-mou

Re: Key-based authentication fails when keys are in Samba directory

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Hugh Brown wrote: > I have Cygwin and OpenSSH set up on a number of Win2K machines. > Home directories for users are mounted via a FreeBSD-based Samba > server named Whistler. SSH to the Win2K machines works without any > problems *except* for key-based authentication where t

Re: Key-based authentication fails when keys are in Samba directory

Can an unauthenticated user access //sambaserver/username via Windows? If not, that's the real problem. You'll have to use password authentication unless you change the access. I'd be surprised if your problem is driven by directory/file permission issues anyway, since you have StrictModes turned

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

There are no unusual file names. Everything starts with a consonant. As an example, in bash $ echo N* | wc 13332 73218 $ ls N* | wc bash: /bin/ls.exe: Invalid argument 0 0 0 $ echo i* | wc 1 4 41 $ ls i* | wc 4 4 45 sh behaves the

Re: how to build GNU make from scratch ?

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:10:00AM +0200, J?rg Schaible wrote: > >Heiko Nardmann wrote on Friday, October 24, 2003 8:24 AM: > >> On Freitag, 24. Oktober 2003 08:07, Bobby McNulty Junior wrote: > >>> I just configured Make 3.80 in a seperate director

Re: how to build GNU make from scratch ?

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:58:21PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:10:00AM +0200, J?rg Schaible wrote: >> >Heiko Nardmann wrote on Friday, October 24, 2003 8:24 AM: >> >> On Freitag, 24. Oktober 2003 08:07, Bobby McNult

Re: how to build GNU make from scratch ?

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:58:21PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:10:00AM +0200, J?rg Schaible wrote: > >> >Heiko Nardmann wrote on Friday, October 24, 2003 8:24

Re: Key-based authentication fails when keys are in Samba directory

Brian Ford wrote: > I'm not an ssh expert, but how do you expect this to work, at least if the > Samba mount requires authentication? Seems like a "chicken and the egg" > problem to me. and Larry Hall wrote: > Can an unauthenticated user access //sambaserver/username via Windows? > If not, that'

RE: proftpd

> The above wont work. Use the "at trick" if you want to run proftpd > manually: > > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=cygwin+ > at+trick+localsystem > > Jason WRT "At trick", see http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01860.html and have a look at the attachm

Re: cygcheck as body or attachment (was RE: rsync hang .... )

> I've used Cygwin for several years now, and have read this mailing list > for quite some time. When I encountered the rsync problem, I searched > mailing lists as well as Google to find the solution, couldn't find a > definitive answer, and eventually found one myself that worked, so I > thought

Re: 1.5.1: can't open files beginning with "..."

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote: > To make things even more interesting, it thinks that anything starting > with '...' is a character device? > > /home/rcampbell> ll .. > crw-rw-rw-1 rcampbel 0, 0 Oct 24 14:28 .. > > /home/rcampbell> touch ... > touch: cr

Problem with a Cygwin App - Broken on a pristine system until I install Cygwin, cygwin1.dll doesn't seem to be enough

I have a program that I originally wrote on Linux, and compiled with cygwin to make a Windows binary. The problem is that the Windows binary won't work properly on a system that doesn't have cygwin installed on it. It seems to not be using fread and fwrite correctly, or it's having some weird probl

1.3.22: gdbm-1.8.3 build error

Hello, I have tried to rebuild gdbm-1.8.3 and got a make install error. Makefile installs some files with explicit ownership. Unfortunately the group and owner variables are not double quoted and the commands fail if the variables contain spaces. gdbm-1.8.3/Makefile:138 install: libgdbm.la gd

Re: Problem with a Cygwin App - Broken on a pristine system until I install Cygwin, cygwin1.dll doesn't seem to be enough

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > I have a program that I originally wrote on Linux, and compiled with > cygwin to make a Windows binary. The problem is that the Windows binary > won't work properly on a system that doesn't have cygwin installed on > it. It seems to not be using fread

Re: Problem with a cygwin App - Broken on a pristine system until I install cygwin, cygwin1.dll doesn't seem to be enough

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:07:25PM -0700, Benjamin Cutler wrote: >I have a program that I originally wrote on Linux, and compiled with >cygwin to make a Windows binary. The problem is that the Windows >binary won't work properly on a system that doesn't have cygwin >installed on it. It seems to n

Re: Problem with a cygwin App - Broken on a pristine system until I install cygwin, cygwin1.dll doesn't seem to be enough

--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are distributing cygwin outside your organization, the other > thing you need to include is the source code for your application and > for the Cygwin DLL, as per the GPL. > Aye, it's a GPLed app. I didn't want to provide a URL to the app

Re: Binaries for bootstrap GNAT/GCC-Cygwin Build

Gerrit P. Haase wrote: David schrieb: Around 25 September, David, Gerrit, and Jason had a discussion on the list about making David's build of GNAT available. David's server couldn't bear much traffic but there were some offers of other sites. Are the binaries available on-line at this time?

RE: Wildcard problem with recursion

I run these from the win2k cmd.exe and not from the bash prompt. Can u be more specific please to which doc or man pages I shold refer to? Thank You Regards, ajith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Thursday, October 23, 20

RE: Wildcard problem with recursion

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Rushton Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wildcard problem with recursion Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 03:05:53PM +0530, Ajith Kumar wrote: >