Cygwin setup on dialup (newbie)

2004-12-12 Thread Steve T
Just a question regarding the behaviour of setup.exe. I selected the download to local directory option. I'm trying to download all binary packages. I'm on dialup, so of course the connection drops out sometimes (i think the session limit is 24 hours). Of course, setup needs a lot more time tha

Re: floppy drive accesses

2004-12-12 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Eric Schweitz wrote: > I just upgraded my cygwin installation and I'm now seeing > the floppy drive get accessed on various commands. What How old was your Cygwin setup before the update ? This thread might be related to what you are experiencing if you have a floppy

Re: Cygwin setup on dialup (newbie)

2004-12-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:59:57AM +, Steve T wrote: > Just a question regarding the behaviour of setup.exe. > > I selected the download to local directory option. I'm trying to > download all binary packages. I'm on dialup, so of course the > connection drops out sometimes (i think the session

Re: building perl modules in cygwin

2004-12-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Many thanks, just FYI, I'm back at Thursday or Friday and will prepare the 5.8.6 release then for the following weekend. Gerrit Reini Urban wrote: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes schrieb: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:34:09AM -0800, a c wrote: cpan> install Win32 Win32 is rather a special case. There are pa

Re: perl 5.8.6

2004-12-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Reini Urban wrote: Jason Pearce schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: Maybe I'll come to the pending Win32::API problem with the callbacks on gcc also. A simple hack30-like solution should always be possible. Or a fallback to C::Dynalib. Win32::OLE didn't compile OOTB, but this is easy. Just forgot where I

Re: [Fwd: [gp@familiehaase.de: sem_* functions in cygwin]]

2004-12-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [Catching up on some older mails] - Forwarded message from "Gerrit P. Haase" - From: "Gerrit P. Haase" To: cygwin ML Subject: sem_* functions in cygwin Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:48:20 +0100 Hi, nearly all sem_* functions are available, but sem_unlock is missing, w

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-1.5o1-1

2004-12-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'man' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: Man, apropos and whatis. CYGWIN NEWS: - Fixed postinstall bug 571 (see http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=571) - The following problem with not honoring MANWIDTH seems to b

curses.h / termcap.h: conflicting types of tparm (was: Re: Error Compiling Mysql 4.1.7)

2004-12-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Got it now after retrying. IIRC this was already reported, I report this again now with the according subject (only cygwin list for now): curses.h / termcap.h: conflicting types of tparm This error happens when compiling the MySQL client v4.1.7 term.c because both headers are included. There are tw

Re: curses.h / termcap.h: conflicting types of tparm

2004-12-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: curses.h / termcap.h: conflicting types of tparm This error happens when compiling the MySQL client v4.1.7 term.c because both headers are included. There are two locations to report this, the cygwin main list and the mysql list, because it may be unusual to include both and

Re: Cygwin setup on dialup (newbie)

2004-12-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:39 AM 12/12/2004, you wrote: >On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:59:57AM +, Steve T wrote: >> Just a question regarding the behaviour of setup.exe. >> >> I selected the download to local directory option. I'm trying to >> download all binary packages. I'm on dialup, so of course the >> connection

Re: Newbie seeeking more information. Latest Cygwin under win2k3 Server

2004-12-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:24 AM 12/12/2004, you wrote: >On Thrusday I installed cygwin following the instructions on the website docs >onto my test windows 2003 standard server. > > >Cygwin itself appears to be functioning perfectly, and I am very happy with >it. The thing is that I cannot seem to figure out how t

Re: Error Compiling Mysql 4.1.7

2004-12-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 08:52 AM 12/12/2004, you wrote: >Milis wrote: > >>after used ./configure --without-server then i continue with make >>command but i got error when using make.see this screenshot : >>http://img12.exs.cx/img12/7594/cygwin15qr.jpg > >Sorry, I cannot load the picture. I don't know anything really

Re: 2:problem with installation of cygwin

2004-12-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:07 AM 12/11/2004, you wrote: >I mean after finishing the installation, that message >pops up " >cygwin1.dll" cannot be found" First thing to try, reboot. If that doesn't help, search your system for more than 1 cygwin1.dll. Delete any that you find that aren't in your Cygwin installation

Re: short fread(), but no ferror/feof

2004-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:32:07PM +0100, Peter Astrand wrote: >I've discussed this issue with some local gurus, and the consensus is >that fread() should do as many read() calls as it takes. This is what >glibc does, for example (if I understand the source correctly). >Basically, fread() means "r

Re: Visual Studio linking

2004-12-12 Thread Daniel Starin
Hi. I am also trying to use functions implemented in cygwin1.dll with Visual Studio as discussed below. After started a blank console application and following steps below, I get to linking which gives me the following error: Linking... LIBCMTD.lib(crt0.obj) : error LNK2005: _mainCRTStar

Re: Visual Studio linking

2004-12-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:39 PM 12/12/2004, you wrote: >Hi. > >I am also trying to use functions implemented in cygwin1.dll with >Visual Studio as discussed below. After started a blank console application >and following steps below, I get to linking which gives me the following >error: > >Linking... >LIBCMTD.lib

Segmentation faults with g++ 4.0

2004-12-12 Thread James W . McKelvey
I installed CYGWIN_NT-5.1 a few days ago and then built g++ from the latest CVS. Simple programs like the one below will compile and link, but then get segmentation faults in pthread_specific on execution: #include #include static const std::locale l; //static std::ostream& o = std::cerr;

Re: Segmentation faults with g++ 4.0

2004-12-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:10 PM 12/12/2004, you wrote: >I installed CYGWIN_NT-5.1 a few days ago and then built g++ from the latest >CVS. Simple programs like the one below will compile and link, but then get >segmentation faults in pthread_specific on execution: > >#include >#include > >static const std::locale l

Re: Segmentation faults with g++ 4.0

2004-12-12 Thread Danny Smith
James W. McKelvey wrote: > I installed CYGWIN_NT-5.1 a few days ago and then built g++ from the latest > CVS. Simple programs like the one below will compile and link, but then get > segmentation faults in pthread_specific on execution: > > #include > #include > > static const std::locale l; > /

Re: How to make `mv the hard way' fail

2004-12-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:40 PM 12/12/2004, you wrote: >Apologies if this is a FAQ. > >When I use `mv' on a directory and any file within it happens to be locked >for some reason [e.g. I've opened it in Word], it will try to copy the >entire directory and then delete the original. > >I consider this very dangerous beh

Re: Segmentation faults with g++ 4.0

2004-12-12 Thread James W . McKelvey
On Sunday 12 December 2004 15:57 pm, Danny Smith wrote: > James W. McKelvey wrote: > > I installed CYGWIN_NT-5.1 a few days ago and then built g++ from the > > latest > > > CVS. Simple programs like the one below will compile and link, but > > then get > > > segmentation faults in pthread_specific

jek-cygwin1@kleckner.net (bounds checking)

2004-12-12 Thread Bill Priest
Jim & All, I've successfully built and used cygwin 3.3.1 with Herman Ten Brugge's bounds checking patches. I've submitted the trivial changes required for cygwin back to Herman. You can google for Herman Ten Brugge and find a reference to the changes I made to get them to work w/ cygwin.

Re: How to make `mv the hard way' fail

2004-12-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:40:46PM -0600, Ben Wing wrote: > When I use `mv' on a directory and any file within it happens to be locked > for some reason [e.g. I've opened it in Word], it will try to copy the > entire directory and then delete the original. > > I consider this very dangerous behavi

Re: floppy drive accesses

2004-12-12 Thread Eric Schweitz
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:01:22PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > Hello, Hi Pavel, > > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Eric Schweitz wrote: > > > I just upgraded my cygwin installation and I'm now seeing > > the floppy drive get accessed on various commands. What > > How old was your Cygwin setup before th

Re: How to make `mv the hard way' fail

2004-12-12 Thread Raye Raskin
When I use `mv' on a directory and any file within it happens to be locked for some reason [e.g. I've opened it in Word], it will try to copy the entire directory and then delete the original. I consider this very dangerous behavior to be happening without my specifically requesting it, and I'd lik

RE: How to make `mv the hard way' fail

2004-12-12 Thread Ben Wing
> If you have enough disk space you could do "cp -pr FROM TO" > followed by "rm -rf FROM" if there are no errors reported by > the cp command. > > You could do a "diff -qr FROM TO" before the rm to feel even safer. > > You could even write a little shell script that does the > above, name it m

RE: How to make `mv the hard way' fail

2004-12-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:34 AM 12/13/2004, you wrote: >> If you have enough disk space you could do "cp -pr FROM TO" >> followed by "rm -rf FROM" if there are no errors reported by >> the cp command. >> >> You could do a "diff -qr FROM TO" before the rm to feel even safer. >> >> You could even write a little shel

Problems starting rxvt

2004-12-12 Thread Jesper Nygårds
I have some problems when trying to run rxvt on my newly installed cygwin. I have edited the cygwin.bat script to read as follows: @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin rxvt -e /bin/zsh --login -i But when I start cygwin, a DOS window opens and displays the message: "failed to open an Xlib (cygX11-6,

Re: floppy drive accesses

2004-12-12 Thread Robert Pendell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Schweitz wrote: | | I just upgraded my cygwin installation and I'm now seeing | the floppy drive get accessed on various commands. What | gives? The commands with this broken behavior I've run | across are: find, df, mount at least. | | How do I

Newbie seeeking more information. Latest Cygwin under win2k3 Server

2004-12-12 Thread nemir nemiria
On Thrusday I installed cygwin following the instructions on the website docs onto my test windows 2003 standard server. Cygwin itself appears to be functioning perfectly, and I am very happy with it. The thing is that I cannot seem to figure out how to get an application that has been writte

Re: Error Compiling Mysql 4.1.7

2004-12-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Milis wrote: after used ./configure --without-server then i continue with make command but i got error when using make.see this screenshot : http://img12.exs.cx/img12/7594/cygwin15qr.jpg Sorry, I cannot load the picture. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: perl 5.8.6

2004-12-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Many thanks, just FYI, I'm back at Thursday or Friday and will prepare the 5.8.6 release then for the following weekend. Gerrit Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:30:53AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Gerrit, I've hoped to have some time to work on Win32:: stuff on th

How to make `mv the hard way' fail

2004-12-12 Thread Ben Wing
Apologies if this is a FAQ. When I use `mv' on a directory and any file within it happens to be locked for some reason [e.g. I've opened it in Word], it will try to copy the entire directory and then delete the original. I consider this very dangerous behavior to be happening without my specifica