misc basic installation problems with cygwin

2003-10-25 Thread Werner Beck
Hi - I've seen this twice now, and I can't find a hint in the FAQ, and searching the newsgroups available to me didn't turn up something that seemed related, so I hope this list is appropriate for asking such questions ... if not, I would appreciate a pointer to "the right thing to do". On WinX

misc basic installation problems with cygwin

2003-10-25 Thread Werner Beck
Hi - I've seen this twice now, and I can't find a hint in the FAQ, and searching the newsgroups available to me didn't turn up something that seemed related, so I hope this list is appropriate for asking such questions ... if not, I would appreciate a pointer to "the right thing to do". On WinXP P

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

2003-10-25 Thread Cliff Hones
Benjamin Cutler wrote: ... Hrm, next time I get a chance to sit down in the CS lab and hammer away at it for a while (I currently only have a Linux box available to me without making a trip across campus) I'll try strace. As the previous poster suggested, I had already tried cygcheck, and all it sp

Re: rsync local dir copy hang - solved for me

2003-10-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:41:54AM -0700, Bakken, Luke wrote: > It never got past cygwin_select(). > [...] > > The bottom point: *don't do that* ;-) > > i.e. leave the msleep() call there. > > If I leave msleep there, it hangs every time. So I'm taking it out. Now, But Hannu is right. Why not r

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

2003-10-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:38:50PM -0500, Tom Rodman wrote: > 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 controll

(newbie) "Unable to load setup.ini..." error

2003-10-25 Thread news.gmane.org
Hi, I read the archives and google before and I have no problems with trailing blanks or trailing slashes. I also deleted last-mirror file. I have several packages I put on my local webserver. I added this url during setup (2.416), and packages shows up. Then I uploaded the directory to my ISP.

Re: Binaries for bootstrap GNAT/GCC-Cygwin Build

2003-10-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo David, >>Do you have a reasonable amount of time and Ada code to test run the Ada >>compiler? > I have an /unreasonable/ amount of time. Ada code - I can write it, I > can also go download the conformance tests (I think). Fine, since it is not yet released, I send you the URL to download

RE: rsync local dir copy hang - solved for me

2003-10-25 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 12:18 PM > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:41:54AM -0700, Bakken, Luke wrote: > > It never got past cygwin_select(). > > [...] Hannu: > > > The bottom point: *don't do that* ;-) > > > i.e. leave the msleep() call there. > > > > If I leave

RE: Wildcard problem with recursion

2003-10-25 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Ajith Kumar > Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 7:59 AM > > Yes, read the shell man pages to learn how file completion works. > > What you want is a job for `find | xargs grep'. > > > > Corinna > I run these from the win2k cmd.exe and not from the bash prompt. > Can u be more specific plea

RE: misc basic installation problems with cygwin

2003-10-25 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Werner Beck > Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 10:09 AM > > Hi - I've seen this twice now, and I can't find a hint in the FAQ, and > searching the newsgroups available to me didn't turn up something that > seemed related, so I hope this list is appropriate for asking such > questions ... if

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

2003-10-25 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Cliff Hones > Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 12:08 PM > Have you considered the registry? Installing Cygwin updates the > registry - it's where the mount points are recorded. If your app > is using a POSIX-style path anywhere (eg /tmp/...) this would not > be found, and if your app is

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

2003-10-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 11:07:31AM +0100, Cliff Hones wrote: >Benjamin Cutler wrote: >>... >>Hrm, next time I get a chance to sit down in the CS lab and hammer away >>at it for a while (I currently only have a Linux box available to me >>without making a trip across campus) I'll try strace. As the

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

2003-10-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:04:14AM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > Chris Moore wrote: > > > I have a file on my PC called "...foo.txt". > > This does work, but Cygwin's path handling code understands > only ".." and "." . If it get three dots in a raw and they > appear before the last '/' char, Cyg

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

2003-10-25 Thread Cliff Hones
Christopher Faylor wrote: PLEASE don't instruct people to play around with the registry. We have a perfectly good tool for them to use -- mount. It is designed to manipulate cygwin's mount table. The fact that it is in the registry is incidental. You can do everything you need with the mount com

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

2003-10-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:58:00PM +0100, Cliff Hones wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>PLEASE don't instruct people to play around with the registry. We have >>a perfectly good tool for them to use -- mount. It is designed to >>manipulate cygwin's mount table. The fact that it is in the regis

binutils: Strange ld error: Error: 0-bit reloc in dll

2003-10-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo, I'm getting a 'I've never seen before' ld error: Error: 0-bit reloc in dll Libtool issues the link command like this: gcc -shared \ $(OBJECTS) \ -L/usr/lib \ -L/usr/X11R6/lib $(LIBS) \ -Wl,--export-dynamic \ -Wl,--export-dynamic \ -o .libs/cyggucharmap-3.dll \ -Wl,--image-base=0x10

Re: binutils: Strange ld error: Error: 0-bit reloc in dll

2003-10-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Additional info about the statements that it happens with big object files: $ d gucharmap-unicode-info.o rw-r--r-- #gerrit:Admins 3.9M Oct 25 19:27 gucharmap-unicode-info.o 1 regular files, with a total size of 3.9M. May be that is just too big? Gerrit > I'm getting a 'I've never seen before

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

2003-10-25 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:04:14AM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > Chris Moore wrote: > > > > I have a file on my PC called "...foo.txt". > > > > This does work, but Cygwin's path handling code understands > > only ".." and "." . If it get three do

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

2003-10-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:58:10PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:04:14AM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > > Chris Moore wrote: > > > > > I have a file on my PC called "...foo.txt". > > > > > > This does work, but Cy

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

2003-10-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:58:10PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:04:14AM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > > > Chris Moore wrote: > > > > > > I have a file on my PC ca