Re: Setup and memory usage

2004-11-25 Thread Luke Kendall
On 25 Nov, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >I can report that the problem is slightly improved in the current > >release of setup, > > Er, there hasn't been any release of setup since the original reports. > The last release was on April 25, 2004. Sorry, I jumped to a conclusion. I was ins

Re: Setup and memory usage

2004-11-25 Thread fergus
> Is this just a local problem here, do you think? > Other people are, somehow, still able to install Cygwin these days? > Any idea how they do it? I guess posts of the style "Well, I do this" are not very welcome on the grounds of volume and non- generalisability. But since you ask: 1. I always

Re: Setup and memory usage

2004-11-25 Thread Luke Kendall
On 25 Nov, fergus wrote: > 5. If you try installing in two stages (i - the default Base installation, > then ii - the rest) then, in my experience anyway, on three machines as > described above, the whole thing goes through like a dream. Ah! Thanks, Fergus, I'll give that a try. I assume y

Re: Setup and memory usage

2004-11-25 Thread fergus
> I assume you mean you just install Default > then run setup a 2nd time, choosing All? Exactly. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Where is libdl which is used by cppunit

2004-11-25 Thread Liang Wang
I wrote an example to try cppunit, but got error message below: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -ldl Where is libdl? I can't find it. Here is my Makefile. === example : IntTest.o main.o g++ -

Re: Where is libdl which is used by cppunit

2004-11-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Liang Wang wrote: I wrote an example to try cppunit, but got error message below: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -ldl Where is libdl? I can't find it. There is no libdl. Remove "-ldl" from your link line. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.

2004-11-25 Thread John Macallister
I've installed Cygwin a few times before and I was fairly confident of installing version 1.5.12 but what a disaster this distribution is! I don't want anyone in particular to feel they're the object of criticism but this release may put off many users from trying to use Cygwin at all because it's

Re: Where is libdl which is used by cppunit

2004-11-25 Thread Liang Wang
It works. Thank you. -- 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: Upgraded man command

2004-11-25 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Reini Urban writes: > Volker, this is something for you: >http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=571 I'll try to get to it soon. Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Doc

problem when building insight

2004-11-25 Thread twomol
hello I get the newest insight from cvs today.There is a problem when building it.My OS is winxp with cygwin! The following is the error msg: file=/cygdrive/i/gnu/insight/src/bfd/po/`echo fr | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH msgfmt -o $file /cygdrive/i

RE: problem when building insight

2004-11-25 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: insight-owner On Behalf Of twomol > Sent: 25 November 2004 13:57 > hello > I get the newest insight from cvs today.There is a > problem when building it.My OS is winxp with cygwin! > The following is the error msg: > file=/cygdrive/i/gnu/insi

Linux Server

2004-11-25 Thread Ratnesh Khandelwal
Good Evening Sir/Madam, I have two partision of my Hard disk one for Linux and Other for Window.I want ot know if its possible to run linux server on window with full use of window application as most of the time i work on window application but for some urgengy i need to have my system as Linu

linking problems using gcc

2004-11-25 Thread Niklas Odenteg
Hi! This may be a newbee Q, but I'll try anyway ;-) I trying to link a small C/C++ program and I got linking error on time(), rand() and srand(). These should be part of libc right? So way are they missing? Has cygwin some special libc implementation or something??? Confused programmer needs som

Re: linking problems using gcc

2004-11-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Niklas Odenteg wrote: > Hi! > > This may be a newbee Q, but I'll try anyway ;-) > > I trying to link a small C/C++ program and I got linking error on time(), > rand() and srand(). These should be part of libc right? So way are they > missing? Has cygwin some special libc imple

Re: problem when building insight

2004-11-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: insight-owner On Behalf Of twomol Sent: 25 November 2004 13:57 hello I get the newest insight from cvs today.There is a problem when building it.My OS is winxp with cygwin! The following is the error msg: file=/cygdrive/i/gnu/insigh

Re: Linux Server

2004-11-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Ratnesh Khandelwal wrote: Good Evening Sir/Madam, I have two partision of my Hard disk one for Linux and Other for Window.I want ot know if its possible to run linux server on window with full use of window application as most of the time i work on window application but for some urgengy i need

gcj-3.4.2 on Cygwin not working

2004-11-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi, just finished the 3.4.2 cygwin-special build, all compiles ok, however gcj compiled binaries are not working, any hints appreciated: $ echo 'public class hello_j {' > hello_j.java $ echo 'public static void main(String[] args) {' >> hello_j.java $ echo 'System.out.println("Just another

cygwin.com link to fluxbox broken

2004-11-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi, There is a link to fluxbox at the main cygwin.com website at top of the software section: http://www.ghostintheruins.fallinangel.net/cygwin/ This link is broken. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

Re: Linux Server

2004-11-25 Thread Reini Urban
Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: Ratnesh Khandelwal wrote: I have two partision of my Hard disk one for Linux and Other for Window.I want ot know if its possible to run linux server on window with full use of window application as most of the time i work on window application but for some urgengy i need

Re: gcj-3.4.2 on Cygwin not working

2004-11-25 Thread Tim Prince
At 09:29 AM 11/25/2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi, just finished the 3.4.2 cygwin-special build, all compiles ok, however gcj compiled binaries are not working, any hints appreciated: $ echo 'public class hello_j {' > hello_j.java $ echo 'public static void main(String[] args) {' >> hello_j.java $

Re: gcj-3.4.2 on Cygwin not working

2004-11-25 Thread Michael Koch
Am Donnerstag, 25. November 2004 19:16 schrieb Tim Prince: > At 09:29 AM 11/25/2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >Hi, > > > >just finished the 3.4.2 cygwin-special build, all compiles ok, > > however gcj compiled binaries are not working, any hints > > appreciated: > > > >$ echo 'public class hello_j

Re: linking problems using gcc

2004-11-25 Thread Fred Kulack
On 11/25/2004 at 10:25:28 AM, cygwin-owner wrote: > I trying to link a small C/C++ program and I got linking error on time(), > rand() and srand(). These should be part of libc right? So way are they > missing? Has cygwin some special libc implementation or something??? --- end of excerpt --- Thi

Re: Linux Server

2004-11-25 Thread Ratnesh Khandelwal
Good Evening Sir/Madam, Thank you very much for your very helpful and informative answer to my question. It is much appreciated. On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Reini Urban wrote: > Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: > > Ratnesh Khandelwal wrote: > >> I have two partision of my Hard disk one for Linux and Other

Re: gcj-3.4.2 on Cygwin not working

2004-11-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Tim Prince wrote: At 09:29 AM 11/25/2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi, just finished the 3.4.2 cygwin-special build, all compiles ok, however gcj compiled binaries are not working, any hints appreciated: $ echo 'public class hello_j {' > hello_j.java $ echo 'public static void main(String[] args) {'

Re: gcj-3.4.2 on Cygwin not working

2004-11-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Tim Prince wrote: At 09:29 AM 11/25/2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi, just finished the 3.4.2 cygwin-special build, all compiles ok, however gcj compiled binaries are not working, any hints appreciated: $ echo 'public class hello_j {' > hello_j.java $ echo 'public static void

Re: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.

2004-11-25 Thread Max Bowsher
John Macallister wrote: I've installed Cygwin a few times before and I was fairly confident of installing version 1.5.12 but what a disaster this distribution is! I don't want anyone in particular to feel they're the object of criticism but this release may put off many users from trying to use Cyg

RE: linking problems using gcc

2004-11-25 Thread Niklas Odenteg
Hi Igor! Thanks for trying to help. I'll solve it. The stupid platform (windows or cygwin?) uses random and srandom instead of rand and srand! Everything in order to confuse the enemy right ;-) I solved it with these small statements below. Little messy, but it works. #ifndef MSDOS #include #el

Re: Setup and memory usage

2004-11-25 Thread Luke Kendall
On 25 Nov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I assume you mean you just install Default > > then run setup a 2nd time, choosing All? > > Exactly. Many thanks, Fergus. Knowing that, I can add it to our Cygwin automated installation process. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

RE: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.

2004-11-25 Thread John Macallister
I went from release 1.5.9 to 1.5.12 and so haven't tried intermediate ones. I was trying 1.5.12 on a clean system, Windows 2000. The system was clean in that there were no Cygwin files anywhere on disk beforehand but there's always the possibility that there might have been something in the re

Re: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.

2004-11-25 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:17 AM 11/25/2004, you wrote: >I've installed Cygwin a few times before and I was fairly confident of >installing version 1.5.12 but what a disaster this distribution is! I >don't want anyone in particular to feel they're the object of criticism >but this release may put off many users from tr

RE: linking problems using gcc

2004-11-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Niklas, First off, . Hint for Outlook users: Google for "PCYMTNQREAIYR Outlook". Thanks. Secondly, you did not provide a minimal example that demonstrates the problem. Your statement makes no sense -- Cygwin does define (and use) both rand() and srand

PATH and SystemRoot oddity

2004-11-25 Thread Luke Kendall
I see that by default PATH includes some entries like %SystemRoot%/System32 I also note that $SystemRoot is undefined, yet $SYSTEMROOT contains the expected C:\WINDOWS value. This of course causes problems. Would a backslash-style path work correctly if it were properly interpolated into the PAT

Linking problem

2004-11-25 Thread 向阳 韩
Dear All, I use RegisterDeviceNotification Win32 API in my program. While compiling under cygwin, linker reports that cannot find _RegisterDeviceNotification symbol. And I searched and found that RegisterDeviceNotification's text is contained in libuser32.a, but its symbol is appended @12, what'

Re: PATH and SystemRoot oddity

2004-11-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Luke Kendall wrote: > I see that by default PATH includes some entries like > %SystemRoot%/System32 > > I also note that $SystemRoot is undefined, yet $SYSTEMROOT contains the > expected C:\WINDOWS value. > > This of course causes problems. Would a backslash-style path work > correctly if it we