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2005-03-16 Thread rubinet
Sorry for my bad english and to be off topic I'm a journalist from Italy. I urgently need to make a couple a questions to a motorola employee. Are you *real* motorolan? Can you help me? Thank you very much! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Does cygwin support xim?

2005-03-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Duong Duong wrote: > I have ported a Vietnamese keyboard application from > linux to cygwin, but it can't run as I want. When it > ran, it warned that " Cannot load either en_US.UTF-8 > or vi_VN.UTF-8 lo. To use this program you must have > one of these locales installed". Des

Re: off topic

2005-03-16 Thread Arend-Jan Westhoff
At: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:34:32 + (UTC) rubinet wrote: >Sorry for my bad english and to be off topic > >I'm a journalist from Italy. I urgently need to make a couple a questions to a >motorola employee. Are you >*real* motorolan? Can you help me? >Thank you very much! > What about trying (var

Re: off topic

2005-03-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:19:27PM +0100, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: >At: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:34:32 + (UTC) rubinet it> wrote: >>Sorry for my bad english and to be off topic >> >>I'm a journalist from Italy. I urgently need to make a couple a >>questions to a motorola employee. Are you *real*

RE: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: David Rothenberger >Sent: 16 March 2005 04:20 > Andrew. It has crashed twice in the few weeks and I've captured stack > traces for each. I was running a debugging copy of the Cygwin DLL (built > myself from CVS) in each case and I've run addr2line on each stack > tr

Re: ./configure

2005-03-16 Thread Donald
Base64 gmail.com> writes: > > configure scripts come with a specific package or source you are > trying to compile. Usually these packages come in a .tar.gz or .bz2 > file. After extracting this, in the directory there may be a > configure script which would be executed by running ./configure

Bash hangs, CTRL-C required

2005-03-16 Thread Patrick Graebel
Hi When I try to open Cygwin's Bash window, nothing further happens: the cursor blinks in the left upper corner, no login happens. The windows reacts on CTRL-C though. After CTRL-C I am requested to confirm the current batch excecution with yes/no. After confirmation I get a Bash prompt (sometime

Re: ./configure

2005-03-16 Thread Donald
Oh~ thanks all ^^ I can "./configure" it. But a new problem happened >< bash-2.05b$ ./configure Directories: /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/man Looking for a C compiler... gcc Checking if gcc accepts gcc warnings... yes Looking for a C++ compiler... gcc Checking if gcc accepts gcc warnings... yes Che

Re: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll [autossh maintainer please note]

2005-03-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:20:28PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: >I've been having some problems with autossh crashing with 1.5.13 and >later snapshots. These problems did not occur with 1.5.12. (The problem >may be related to the one reported by Andrew Schulman in >

RE: ./configure

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Donald >Sent: 16 March 2005 15:44 > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/mudtelnet-1.03-1/src/telnet' > gcc -O2 -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-qual -Wstrict- > prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs - > Winline

Re: [SWIPL] emacs prolog cygwin question

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Kelem
Stefan Bruda said the following on 3/16/2005 8:37 AM: I am not at all familiar with Cygwin, so the following are more of educated guesses rather than authoritative answers. At 06:58 -0800 on 2005-3-16 Steve Kelem wrote: > > I have verified that the above version of prolog.elc is being loaded. > Whe

OpenGL does not render when linked with -mno-cygwin

2005-03-16 Thread Arvind N
I am using g++ Version 3.3.3 on a Windows XP box to write a program that draws mathematical functions as graphs. The program works fine when I compile and link without -mno-cygwin and the graphs are rendered fine. However, if I add -mno-cygwin to the compile line and "-L/usr/lib/mingw -lstdc++"

RE: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll

2005-03-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> 0065E938 61093A1F (6112B460, 7974742F, 61120031, 6974616D) > malloc.cc:3952 > nextchunk = chunk_at_offset(p, size); > nextsize = chunksize(nextchunk); > > > yeesh. nasty heap corruption leading to bad nextchunk pointer and an > exception when it is dereferenced in the attem

1.1.13: PID aren't reused?

2005-03-16 Thread Ostash!
Hello All! I'm trying to build binutils 2.15: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../binutils-2.15/bfd -I. -D_GNU_SOURCE -I. -I../../binutils-2.15/bfd -I../../binutils-2.15/bfd/../include -I../../binutils-2.15/bfd/../intl -I../intl -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -g -O2 -c ../../bin

Re: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll [autossh maintainer please note]

2005-03-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Once I installed a CVS-version of cygwin, I quickly discovered that, as > Dave Korn unsurprisingly and correctly diagnosed, this is a heap > corruption problem. I'd noted that the stack trace which was previously > provided looked "funny" and I cou

RE: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Andrew Schulman >Sent: 16 March 2005 17:08 > Would the job be easier in my case, where I have a repeatable crash? I > provided strace output in the earlier thread about my autossh problems, > but haven't tried using any debug builds of cygwin1.dll. I'm not > conv

Re: Bash hangs, CTRL-C required

2005-03-16 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:06 AM 3/16/2005, you wrote: >Hi > >When I try to open Cygwin's Bash window, nothing further happens: the >cursor blinks in the left upper corner, no login happens. The windows >reacts on CTRL-C though. After CTRL-C I am requested to confirm the >current batch excecution with yes/no. After co

Re: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll [autossh maintainer please note]

2005-03-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> The problem is that autossh is freeing the return value of > gethostbyname(). I can't find any reference which says that is a > acceptable thing to do. It certainly screws up cygwin, and I can't > think of any way to avoid having it screw up cygwin. Maybe it won't > screw up other systems sinc

RE: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll [autossh maintainer please note]

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Andrew Schulman >Sent: 16 March 2005 17:44 > OK. (hangs head) I have to take the blame for this, because as it > happens I contributed that bit of code. Forgive my simplicity on this > point, but it seemed like good memory heigene-- free up the memory that > getho

Question about mkdir and windows paths

2005-03-16 Thread Peter Rehley
Hi, I'm using mkdir with a windows path, and it's not working the way I expect. When I type the following command mkdir -p C:\\Cygwin\\tmp\hello; # cygwin and tmp already exist the directory is created. If I try the following rm -rf C:\\Cygwin\\tmp\\hello mkdir -p C:\\Cygwin\\tmp\\hello\\goodbye

RE: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll

2005-03-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> GOK why it works on glibc-based systems, but I guess it must, or the > problem would surely have cropped up before. Hm.. Simple: that part of the code is contained in an #ifdef HAVE_NO_ADDRINFO ... #endif block, and so is only built on systems without a getaddrinfo () function. That

RE: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll [autossh maintainer please note]

2005-03-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Generally speaking, it is whoever mallocs memory that has the > responsibility for freeing it. If your app mallocs it, your app should free > it; if the library mallocs it, the library should free it. > > In some cases, the ownership of a bit of memory (or any other resource) > may be trans

Re: autossh crash with 20050314 and earlier cygwin1.dll

2005-03-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 06:06:20PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >Original Message >>From: Andrew Schulman >>Sent: 16 March 2005 17:08 > > >> Would the job be easier in my case, where I have a repeatable crash? I >> provided strace output in the earlier thread about my autossh problems, >> but h

Re: Question about mkdir and windows paths

2005-03-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:36:02AM -0800, Peter Rehley wrote: >Hi, > >I'm using mkdir with a windows path, and it's not working the way I >expect. When I type the following command > >mkdir -p C:\\Cygwin\\tmp\hello; # cygwin and tmp already exist > >the directory is created. > >If I try the follo

Re: Bash hangs, CTRL-C required

2005-03-16 Thread Patrick Graebel
I activated option -x in my cygwin.bat and realized, that the batch execution does not get stuck -- instead it is horrible slow. Until this problem occured (yesterday), the prompt always appeared at once on my computer. I added a timestamp via "date" into my profile. The execution consumes up to

Re: OpenGL does not render when linked with -mno-cygwin

2005-03-16 Thread André Bleau
Arvind N wrote: I am using g++ Version 3.3.3 on a Windows XP box to write a program that draws mathematical functions as graphs. The program works fine when I compile and link without -mno-cygwin and the graphs are rendered fine. However, if I add -mno-cygwin to the compile line and "-L/usr/lib/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autossh-1.2g-5

2005-03-16 Thread Schulman . Andrew
A new version of the autossh package is available in the Cygwin distribution. Changes in version 1.2g-5: * Fix heap corruption and segfaults caused by free()ing static memory. Andrew E. Schulman *** To update your installation,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autossh-1.2g-5

2005-03-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:45:09PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >A new version of the autossh package is available in the Cygwin >distribution. > >Changes in version 1.2g-5: >* Fix heap corruption and segfaults caused by free()ing static memory. Just to state it really clearly: it wasn't free

Re: Bash hangs, CTRL-C required

2005-03-16 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:23 PM 3/16/2005, you wrote: >I activated option -x in my cygwin.bat and realized, that the batch >execution does not get stuck -- instead it is horrible slow. Until this >problem occured (yesterday), the prompt always appeared at once on my >computer. And what changed on your machine betwe

Re: 1.5.13: PID aren't reused?

2005-03-16 Thread Ostash!
Hello ! 16 March 2005 . 19:51:41 Ostash! wrote cygwin@cygwin.com: O> I'm trying to build binutils 2.15: 1.5.13 in subj is much more correct ;-) Best regards, Ostash! np: Madonna - American Pie ... [Team Hot Sevastopol girls] [Team Ukrainian language] --- The Bat! 3.0.1.33 Windows 2000 5.0.219

Re: Single Packaged Shell?

2005-03-16 Thread Brian Dessent
John Westbrook wrote: > I have heard that you can compile perl code into c code, so I was > wondering if anything similar exists for shell scripts or even cygwin > itself. Ideally I would like to distribute an executable that uses a > shell script as its entry point, but does not require a cygwin

procps package: which version to use?

2005-03-16 Thread David Arnstein
I am using the cygwin installer, and it is pointed to the rcn http mirror site. The installer wants to "update" the procps package to version 010801-2. According to the "search packages" page on the cygwin.com web site, most of the files are dated from 2002 in this version. On the other hand, the

Re: procps package: which version to use?

2005-03-16 Thread Brian Dessent
David Arnstein wrote: > I am using the cygwin installer, and it is pointed to the rcn http mirror > site. > > The installer wants to "update" the procps package to version 010801-2. > According to the "search packages" page on the cygwin.com web site, most > of the files are dated from 2002 in th