Re: connect()/cygwin_select() hangs in >=1.5.15

2005-05-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Sunil wrote: This piece of code hangs with cygwin1.dll >=1.5.15 during connect(), strace is attached. The same code runs fine with cygwin1.dll version 1.5.13. fd = socket (proto->family, 1, proto->stream_proto_num); if (fd < 0) { ; goto out; } i

Attention libtool maintainer: Re: `make install' of glib fails

2005-05-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Franz Haeuslschmid wrote: After having managed to actually make the latest version of glib, `make install' fails and spits out an error message that I don't understand (excuse the mass of lines): [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/d/Src/glib-2.6.4/gobject $ make install make install-am make[1]: Ente

sftp exits with error NULL pointer given as argument

2005-05-26 Thread Pavel Rosenboim
Hi, I'm connecting with sftp from my work computer running Win2k SP4 to my home computer running Fedora Core 3. My ssh config file turns on port forwarding for several ports. In this configuration sftp exits with error: "xfree: NULL pointer given as argument". When port forwarding is turned o

Re: How to install perl modules?

2005-05-26 Thread Jason Pearce
The manual install method is *USUALLY* Decompressing and unpacking is best done in a temporary directory somewhere, can usually be done with cd /tmp tar xzvf yourmodule.tar.gz For a global install (for which Root privilages are needed) do the following: perl Makefile.PL For a local in

Re: How to create "." files

2005-05-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
On Wed, 25 May 2005 23:15:36 +0430, Alireza Ghasemi wrote: > I tried to create some hidden-Linux like files such as ".bashrc" but Windows > did not allow me and said "You must type a file name". Windows allows that. You probably used the wrong tool. > How can I solve this? Thanks Use another too

Re: PATH oddity

2005-05-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
On Wed, 25 May 2005 11:58:45 -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:28:43AM -0700, Karl M wrote: >> Hi All... >> >> While looking at my PATH environment variable (in response to the recent >> postings about sshd and environment variables), I noticed that "." was >> i

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Fetchmail: Cygwin socket read retry

2005-05-26 Thread George
I'm seeing single or often multiple 'Cygwn socket read retry' messages for each email message as it's being retrieving with fetchmail. Not certain whether this is a real problem (to date I've lost no email messages), but I thought it worth pointing out. Cygcheck output attached. -- George Cyg

Re: Questions on patching dcrt0.cc

2005-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 00:38, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2005, Max Kaehn wrote: > > 3. I want to spare anyone making use of the test program any > > worries over legalities. Should I submit it under the cygwin > > license or put it in the public domain? > > Either would be fine, AFAIU,

Re: sftp exits with error NULL pointer given as argument

2005-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 10:33, Pavel Rosenboim wrote: > Hi, > > I'm connecting with sftp from my work computer running Win2k SP4 to my > home computer running Fedora Core 3. My ssh config file turns on port > forwarding for several ports. In this configuration sftp exits with > error: "xfree: NULL pointer gi

RE: Problem with £ sign at Cygwin prompt.

2005-05-26 Thread thomas . revell
Works fine for me (Windows 2000 Professional, SP4). Thanks! >" To type international characters (£åäö) in bash, add the following lines >to your ~/.inputrc file and restart bash: > >set meta-flag on > set convert-meta off > set output-meta on >set

Re: How to install perl modules?

2005-05-26 Thread George
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:55:59AM +0100, Jason Pearce wrote: > Yes, use the CPAN module as Brian suggests. Just make sure environment > variable PERLIO is unset when using -MCPAN, otherwise it will fail. (You > might set this to CRLF for DOS compatibility purposes). > Also be aware that you may

Re: How to install perl modules?

2005-05-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Manuel Tejada wrote: Thanks to you and the other people for the answer. Unfortunatly I don't have Internet-like programs installed (as lynx, wget, ncftpget, ncftp, etc) in my cygwing, so I can't use the -MCPAN or just de command cpan. I don't intend to install those programs to avoid my cygwin

Re: sftp exits with error NULL pointer given as argument

2005-05-26 Thread Pavel Rosenboim
Pavel Rosenboim wrote: Hi, I'm connecting with sftp from my work computer running Win2k SP4 to my home computer running Fedora Core 3. My ssh config file turns on port forwarding for several ports. In this configuration sftp exits with error: "xfree: NULL pointer given as argument". When por

RE: Problems installing binutils

2005-05-26 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Aaron Gray >Sent: 25 May 2005 21:47 > I am having problems installing binutils on just this machine. AFAIKS I > haave the same instillation as my other machine which builds and installs > binutils fine. > > Doing 'make install' I get the following error :- > > mak

Wildcards in the path name parameter

2005-05-26 Thread Coetzee, Evert
Hi I want to do a simple copy. I have W2K on my machine and the normal dos commany would have been: copy c:\sourcedir\*.txt c:\targetdir So I have an application that makes a call to the cp.exe cygwin file: cp c:\sourcedir\*.txt c:\targetdir I get the following error: cp: cannot stat `c:\sour

Re: sftp exits with error NULL pointer given as argument

2005-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 11:47, Pavel Rosenboim wrote: > Pavel Rosenboim wrote: > [config file] Thanks, the config file allowed me to reproduce the problem. AFAICS, it's a 4.0p1 specific problem. Using sftp and ssh from the upcoming 4.1p1 release, the problem has gone. So, for now, just use a different config

Re: Wildcards in the path name parameter

2005-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 06:28, Coetzee, Evert wrote: > So my conclusion is that the * is not interpreted as a wildcard when it is > part fo a pathname. Wrong. Don't mix Win32 and POSIX paths. Use /cygdrive/c/sourcedir/*.txt. No drive letters, no backslash. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Plea

Re: Fetchmail: Cygwin socket read retry

2005-05-26 Thread Jason Tishler
George, On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:29:30PM -0700, George wrote: > I'm seeing single or often multiple 'Cygwn socket read retry' messages > for each email message as it's being retrieving with fetchmail. Not > certain whether this is a real problem (to date I've lost no email > messages), but I th

Re: Attention libtool maintainer: Re: `make install' of glib fails

2005-05-26 Thread Franz Haeuslschmid
"Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Franz Haeuslschmid wrote: > >> After having managed to actually make the latest version of glib, >> `make install' fails and spits out an error message that I don't >> understand (excuse the mass of lines): [... Output of make showing messages of un

Re: Fetchmail: Cygwin socket read retry

2005-05-26 Thread Jason Tishler
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:19:53AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > The above is a caused be a known Winsock issue: The above should have been the following: The above is caused by a known Winsock issue: Sigh... :,( Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers

Re: Fetchmail: Cygwin socket read retry

2005-05-26 Thread George
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:19:53AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:29:30PM -0700, George wrote: > > I'm seeing single or often multiple 'Cygwn socket read retry' messages > > for each email message as it's being retrieving with fetchmail. Not > > certain whether this is

Re: Fetchmail: Cygwin socket read retry

2005-05-26 Thread Jason Tishler
George, On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 03:07:00AM -0700, George wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:19:53AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > > which is why I submitted the following fetchmail patch: > > > > http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2002-May/006259.html > > I've recently reinst

RE: Wildcards in the path name parameter

2005-05-26 Thread Coetzee, Evert
But I'm running it from the cmd.exe command prompt. I'm not in a shell. cp: cannot stat `/cygdrive/c/*.*': No such file or directory That is the error I get now. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: 26 May 2005 11:42 To: c

Re: Wildcards in the path name parameter

2005-05-26 Thread Tony Richardson
"Coetzee, Evert" wrote > But I'm running it from the cmd.exe command prompt. I'm not in a shell. > > cp: cannot stat `/cygdrive/c/*.*': No such file or directory > > That is the error I get now. The shell does wildcard expansion in Cygwin (and Unix) not the utility. Try bash -c "cp /cygd

Re: Attention libtool maintainer: Re: `make install' of glib fails

2005-05-26 Thread Franz Haeuslschmid
Franz Haeuslschmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Franz Haeuslschmid wrote: >> >>> After having managed to actually make the latest version of glib, >>> `make install' fails and spits out an error message that I don't >>> understand (excuse the mas

RE: Re: PATH oddity

2005-05-26 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Karl M wrote: >>> While looking at my PATH environment variable (in response to the >>> recent postings about sshd and environment variables), I noticed >>> that "." was included. >>> >>> It was caused by a double ; ( a ";;" sequence) in my PATH as >>> defined in the Windows XP My Computer Proper

Re: Questions on patching dcrt0.cc

2005-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:38:56AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> 3. I want to spare anyone making use of the test program any >> worries over legalities. Should I submit it under the cygwin >> license or put it in the public domain? > >Either would be fine, AFAIU, but wait for CGF or

Re: Wildcards in the path name parameter

2005-05-26 Thread Lev Bishop
On 26/05/05, Coetzee, Evert wrote: > But I'm running it from the cmd.exe command prompt. I'm not in a shell. > > cp: cannot stat `/cygdrive/c/*.*': No such file or directory > > That is the error I get now. Do you have "noglob" in your CYGWIN environment variable? http://cygwin.com/problems.html

In OpenSSH 4.0p1sshd, select() returns error 10022 when requesting a second channel

2005-05-26 Thread Heiko Kirschke
Hi, when trying to open a second channel from an SSH client onto an OpenSSH server, the sshd signals 10022 (EINVAL) errors around the select() statement used for the second channel. It does not mind if this 2nd channel was opened for a port forwarding or by an sftp request, both operations from t

Multiple Cygwin (directory trees) instances

2005-05-26 Thread Aaron Gray
I have a problem I am trying to find a way round. Can I have multiple Cygwin (directory tree) instances, or does registry prohibit this ? Aaron -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: ht

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-4.1p1-1

2005-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 4.1p1-1. This is an official upstream bugfix release. The official release message: OpenSSH 4.1 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.open

Re: dlopen and cygcheck inconsistency

2005-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 07:49:20PM -0700, Sunil wrote: >Hi, > >cygcheck also searches the `basename ` for >dependent DLLs while dlopen requires PATH to be set to >open the DLL. One of them should be corrected to make >life consistent. example is as follows: > >$ cygcheck /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/cygg

Re: Questions on patching dcrt0.cc

2005-05-26 Thread Max Kaehn
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 07:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I don't know what "submit it" means here. If the submission is for inclusion > somewhere in the cygwin-specific part of winsup then the code needs to be > assigned to Red Hat. Otherwise, why not just make it GPL? If MSVC code is acceptable

Re: Attention libtool maintainer: Re: `make install' of glib fails

2005-05-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Franz Haeuslschmid wrote: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Franz Haeuslschmid wrote: After having managed to actually make the latest version of glib, `make install' fails and spits out an error message that I don't understand (excuse the mass of lines): [... Output of make

Re: Questions on patching dcrt0.cc

2005-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:44:39AM -0700, Max Kaehn wrote: >On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 07:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I don't know what "submit it" means here. If the submission is for >>inclusion somewhere in the cygwin-specific part of winsup then the code >>needs to be assigned to Red Hat. Othe

Re: dlopen and cygcheck inconsistency

2005-05-26 Thread Sunil
so, this means dlopen searches ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} as well, after RPATH? thanks, Sunil --- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 07:49:20PM -0700, Sunil > wrote: > >Hi, > > > >cygcheck also searches the `basename ` for > >dependent DLLs while dlopen requires PATH

Re: dlopen and cygcheck inconsistency

2005-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:17:19AM -0700, Sunil wrote: >so, this means dlopen searches ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} as >well, after RPATH? dlopen searches LD_LIBRARY_PATH, just like linux. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/probl

Re: Questions on patching dcrt0.cc

2005-05-26 Thread Max Kaehn
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 11:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Rather than talking about "MSVC code" being "acceptable", please just > provide a specific indication of *what* you are trying to do. Where do > you want to put this code? Look at the directories available in winsup > and tell us where you

cvs/daylight savings again!?

2005-05-26 Thread David Abrahams
I'm following up in this thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/6688 I can't believe the latest reference to this problem I can find is from 2002. Well, maybe I shouldn't be surprised. I haven't run into it for years, but now it's back, with a freshly-installed Cygwin installation (ab

Re: Questions on patching dcrt0.cc

2005-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:20:35AM -0700, Max Kaehn wrote: >On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 11:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Rather than talking about "MSVC code" being "acceptable", please just >>provide a specific indication of *what* you are trying to do. Where do >>you want to put this code? Look at

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.17-1

2005-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run se

Re: connect()/cygwin_select() hangs in >=1.5.15

2005-05-26 Thread Sunil
this issue is not fixed in any later snapshots, not even the just released 1.5.17. can someone with the knowledge of cygwin socket code comment on it please? Thanks, Sunil --- "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sunil wrote: > > > This piece of code hangs with cygwin1.dll >=1.5.15 >

Re: connect()/cygwin_select() hangs in >=1.5.15

2005-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 12:08, Sunil wrote: > this issue is not fixed in any later snapshots, not > even the just released 1.5.17. > > can someone with the knowledge of cygwin socket code > comment on it please? > > Thanks, > Sunil > > --- "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sunil wrote: > > > >

Re: .a to .lib converting

2005-05-26 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:47 AM 5/26/2005, you wrote: >On Wed, 25 May 2005, Larry Hall wrote: > >> At 09:21 AM 5/25/2005, you wrote: >> >On Wed, 25 May 2005, Alireza Ghasemi wrote: >> > >> >> Hello, >> >> I want to use some cygwin .a libraries with other environments(like >> >> VC++) as static .lib files.is this possi

Re: cvs/daylight savings again!?

2005-05-26 Thread David Abrahams
David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm following up in this thread: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/6688 > > I can't believe the latest reference to this problem > I can find is from 2002. Well, maybe I shouldn't be > surprised. I haven't run into it for years, but now > it

Re: Multiple Cygwin (directory trees) instances

2005-05-26 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:42 AM 5/26/2005, you wrote: >I have a problem I am trying to find a way round. > >Can I have multiple Cygwin (directory tree) instances, or does registry >prohibit this ? You cannot have multiple 'cygwin1.dll's in your path. You can have multiple Cygwin instances if you like. You need t

Re: cvs/daylight savings again!?

2005-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 03:46:15PM -0400, David Abrahams wrote: >I wonder if this should be a FAQ somewhere? We could generalize the entry to: If I've installed a non-cygwin utility should I expect it to behave exactly the same as a cygwin utility? No. If my utility is misbehaving shoul

Re: How to install perl modules?

2005-05-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
George wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:55:59AM +0100, Jason Pearce wrote: Yes, use the CPAN module as Brian suggests. Just make sure environment variable PERLIO is unset when using -MCPAN, otherwise it will fail. (You might set this to CRLF for DOS compatibility purposes). Also be aware th

Re: installing XML::Xerces in Perl

2005-05-26 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
marcos rebelo wrote: I'm getting crazy I have the Xerces (I think) installed. Now I have to set some variables but I dont know to what, can someone help me XERCES_LIB XERCES_INCLUDE XERCESCROOT XERCES_CONFIG XERCES_LIB=/usr/lib XERCES_INCLUDE=/usr/include XERCESCROOT=/usr/src/xerces ? Depen

Problem with cp and dangling symbolic link

2005-05-26 Thread Kenneth Chalmers
I've found what looks like it might be a bug in the cygwin implementation of symbolic links. It's a pretty obscure one, but I just got bitten by it so it can happen :) Here's a breakdown: 1. Create a dangling symbolic link: ln -s filename_that_doesnt_exist test 2. Copy the link, preserv

problem building cygwin1.dll from cvs with latest binutils

2005-05-26 Thread David Rothenberger
I tried to build cygwin1.dll from cvs this morning using the latest binutils release. When I start ssh-agent, I get the following error messages: 5 [main] ? 3036 multiple_cygwin_problem: cygheap base magic number mismatch detected - 0x7F/0x0 6 [main] ? 4900 multiple_cygwin_proble

Re: Questions on patching dcrt0.cc

2005-05-26 Thread Max Kaehn
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 21:38, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > As I understand it, the same issues arise whether cygwin1.dll is > dynamically loaded from an MSVC application or a MinGW application. > There is a simple way to compile MinGW applications on Cygwin (namely, > "gcc -mno-cygwin"). You could te

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.17-1

2005-05-26 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Faylor writes: > cgf: Make dlopen search /usr/bin (for Windows compatibility) and /usr/lib > (for UNIX compatibility). Does that mean that libtool's .la files used to dlopen can now be moved back to (ie, after installing stay in) /usr/lib? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.17-1

2005-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:34:35PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: >>cgf: Make dlopen search /usr/bin (for Windows compatibility) and >>/usr/lib (for UNIX compatibility). > >Does that mean that libtool's .la files used to dlopen can now be moved >back to (ie, after insta

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cpio-2.6-1

2005-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of cpio to 2.6-1. This is an official upstream release. The Cygwin version has two minor tweaks. The package now contains also the rmt tool, which is entirely untested. cpio passes all (two) tests in the testsuite. What's new in 2.6? * Added NLS support * Improv

win95 tcp/ip connections (fwd)

2005-05-26 Thread Robert Wasmann
Ok Ive included the output. I hope somebody might have some experience getting tcp/ip to work within cygwin on windows 95b. rob -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:50:31 -0600 (MDT) From: Robert Wasmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: win95 tcp/ip

bash pid reuse

2005-05-26 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Hi This is rather informal report as I couldn't reproduce this problem in any way. I worked with latest Cygwin release of bash started directly with no command line options. bash-2.05b$ ptx.exe bash-2.05b$ man ptx 260 [main] bash 21168 slow_pid_reuse: couldn't create last_fork_proc, Win32 e

Re: bash pid reuse

2005-05-26 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > This is rather informal report as I couldn't reproduce this problem in any > way. > > > > bash-2.05b$ ptx.exe > > bash-2.05b$ man ptx > 260 [main] bash 21168 slow_pid_reuse: couldn't create last_fork_proc, > Win32 > error 6 >8590 [main] bash 21168 child_info::sync

how to change the window title dynamically

2005-05-26 Thread lin q
Hi, I wonder how to change the window title synamically like command prompt to list the full path? Google returns me such command, print -nP -u2 "\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:%~\a" But "print" is not recognized, I tried printf, it says -n and -u not recognized. Thanks. __

Re: Problems installing binutils

2005-05-26 Thread Aaron Gray
I am having problems installing binutils on just this machine. AFAIKS I haave the same instillation as my other machine which builds and installs binutils fine. Doing 'make install' I get the following error :- makeinfo --split-size=500 -I /usr/src/binutils-2.15/binutils/doc /usr/src/bi nuti

Re: Problems installing binutils

2005-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:37:33PM +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: >>I am having problems installing binutils on just this machine. AFAIKS I >>haave the same instillation as my other machine which builds and installs >>binutils fine. >> >>Doing 'make install' I get the following error :- >> >>makeinfo --s

Re: Problems installing binutils

2005-05-26 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:37 PM 5/26/2005, you wrote: >>I am having problems installing binutils on just this machine. AFAIKS I >>haave the same instillation as my other machine which builds and installs >>binutils fine. >> >>Doing 'make install' I get the following error :- >> >>makeinfo --split-size=500 -I /usr/

Re: how to change the window title dynamically

2005-05-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to lin q on 5/26/2005 4:19 PM: > Hi, > I wonder how to change the window title synamically like command prompt > to list the full path? Google returns me such command, > > print -nP -u2 "\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:%~\a" Try echo or printf, a

Re: Problem with cp and dangling symbolic link

2005-05-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Kenneth Chalmers on 5/26/2005 2:17 PM: > 1. Create a dangling symbolic link: > ln -s filename_that_doesnt_exist test > 2. Copy the link, preserving its link status: > cp -d test test2 > 3. Try to copy the link AGAIN, even w

Re: How to install perl modules?

2005-05-26 Thread George
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:11:50PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > George wrote: > > >On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:55:59AM +0100, Jason Pearce wrote: > > >>Yes, use the CPAN module as Brian suggests. Just make sure > >>environment variable PERLIO is unset when using -MCPAN, otherwise it > >>will fa

error during install

2005-05-26 Thread Robert
Installing from local directory (doing an all install) it errors out at 43%, mhash is being installed at the time. It creates an appcompat error file in the temp directory which is deleted as soon as I say ok or close out the error messages, this file is listed at the end of this. At the time of e

Re: Attention libtool maintainer: Re: `make install' of glib fails

2005-05-26 Thread Franz Haeuslschmid
"Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Franz Haeuslschmid wrote: > >> "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [... Stupid me changing $LDFLAGS and installing `libtool' on my own ...] > It was meant as a ping to the libtool maintainer. Since there are > always some Cygwin spe