Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: w32api-3.3-1

> Chris Sutcliffe writes: > I've updated the w32api package to version 3.3-1: > w32api contains all the headers and libraries required to compile > windows based programs. A list of what has changed is attached. Any reason this package is more than twice the size of the last vers

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-runtime-3.8-1

> Chris Sutcliffe writes: > I've made a new version of the mingw runtime headers and libraries > available for download. A list of what has changed is attached. This version doens't seem to be stripped. > Chris Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Re: man, info fail me in cygwin 1.5.18

Rolf Maier wrote: If I type 'info man' I get multiple listings to help on fftw3 and Octave, and nothing else. Can anyone tell me what might have happened, and hence what I need to fix? I didn't mention what Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes mentioned as short term solution: Manually run /etc/postin

Problems compiling PerlMagick. Any suggestions...

Ok, Im no rookie to compiling stuff on linux etc, but Ive encountered a problem Im not sure where to go. I have compiled my own version of perl 5.8.7 and placed it in /opt/perl587 so I can install all kinds of various perl modules etc. I have installed ImageMagick and the associated devel librari

RE: Chrooted ssh and SFTP in cygwin

Hello, My problem is with SFTP server, not with FTP. The environnement seems not to be the same with openssh-4.1. I could make an chroot with openssh 3.8.1. Can I found somewhere the source of this release ? Thanks Philippe RITTER -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

Re: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

On Aug 15 16:52, Bitmead, Chris wrote: > > >Yes, I know. Unless I implement this *crucial* bit of functionality it > >is possible that the space time continuum will implode. > > I see, so any API that you personally have no use for should be mocked. > > >However, since it is not currently imple

Windows hardening and system paths

Hello there, I am trying to install Cygwin on a Windows 2003 server that is hardened, meaning that all Windows resources (DLLs) are moved from their usual location (eg. X:\WINNT\SYSTEM32) to a different location, and that these resources can only be accessed/executed from this location. Cygwin us

missing sh.exe in coreutils

Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as _obsolete Regards Sigurd -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.

Re: Windows hardening and system paths

Mikkel Rostock wrote: > Cygwin uses some DLL-resources in Windows, but in my case, these DLLs reside > in another location than the usual Windows system directory, so how can I > tell Cygwin to (also) look for Windows resources in a different place than > the usual system folder? Cygwin doesn't k

Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

Sigurd Nes wrote: > Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? > > I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as _obsolete First, sh is not a part of coreutils nor its predecessor sh-utils. Until recently, /bin/sh has been ash, in the package 'ash'. Now it is a copy of /bin/bash,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: libao-0.8.6-1, libao2-0.8.6-1, libao-devel-0.8.6-1

I have uploaded libao-0.8.6-1, consisting of three packages: - libao - Base package, containing docs and stuff. - libao2 - Runtime package, containing just the libao DLL. - libao-devel - Development package, containing libs and include files. Libao is a Cross-Platform Audio Output Libr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: vorbis-tools-1.1.1-1

I have uploaded vorbis-tools-1.1.1-1. Vorbis-tools contains oggenc (an encoder) and ogg123 (a playback tool). It also has vorbiscomment (to add comments to vorbis files), ogginfo (to give all useful information about an ogg file, including streams in it), oggdec (a simple command line decoder), an

Re: Problems compiling PerlMagick. Any suggestions...

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:28:49AM -0700, John Cavanaugh wrote: > $ make > cp Magick.pm blib/lib/Image/Magick.pm > AutoSplitting blib/lib/Image/Magick.pm > (blib/lib/auto/Image/Magick) > /opt/perl587/bin/perl.exe > /opt/perl587/lib/5.8.7/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap > /opt/perl587/lib/5.8.7/Ex > tUtil

SV: missing sh.exe in coreutils

> From: Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 2005-08-15 10:45:59 CEST > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils > > Sigurd Nes wrote: > > > Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? > > > > I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as > > _obsole

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: speex-1.1.10-1, libspeex1-1.1.10-1, speex-devel-1.1.10-1

I have uploaded speex-1.1.10-1, consisting of three packages: - speex - Base package, containing binaries, docs and stuff. - libspeex1 - Runtime package, containing just the speex DLL. - speex-devel - Development package, containing libs and include files. Speex is a patent-free audio cod

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libvorbis-1.1.1-1, libvorbis0-1.1.1-1, libvor... etc.

I have updated libvorbis to 1.1.1-1, containing the 1.1.1 upstream release. In my first attempt I used the older 1.1.0 package accidentally. Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, and general-purpose compressed audio format for audio and music at fixed and variable

/usr/bin/manweb from latest netpbm not working

Hi This is from latest netpbm: 12:45 PM [674]> /bin/manweb Can't open configuration file '/etc/manweb.conf'. No such file or directory at /bin/manweb line 322. It looks like this could be setup in a postinstall step. Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: Problems compiling PerlMagick. Any suggestions...

John Cavanaugh wrote: Ok, Im no rookie to compiling stuff on linux etc, but Ive encountered a problem Im not sure where to go. I have compiled my own version of perl 5.8.7 and placed it in /opt/perl587 so I can install all kinds of various perl modules etc. I have installed ImageMagick and the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: vorbis-tools-1.1.1-2

I have updated vorbis-tools to 1.1.1-2. This package now also has speex support builtin. Vorbis-tools contains oggenc (an encoder) and ogg123 (a playback tool). It also has vorbiscomment (to add comments to vorbis files), ogginfo (to give all useful information about an ogg file, including stream

Re: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Herb Martin on 8/14/2005 10:22 PM: > > cygwin (like Linux apparently) keeps a database of > programs and so deleting an incorrect program > on the path may leave the OS complaining about >

Re: $OS vs `uname -s` [Attn: base-files maintainer]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PLEASE fix your mailer to send valid mail. It was difficult to see what you were asking, because your MIME settings are incorrect, and correct mailers only saw a blank message. According to Michael Richardson on 8/14/2005 2:28 PM: > I noticed that my

Re: FW: Installation Problems with Cygwin on Windows XP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Vittal Krishnamurthy (vitkrish) on 8/15/2005 12:10 AM: > > One more question.. > Wondering where is the default bashrc located (or rc file which is > executed when bash is executed). > I need to modify to point to my .profile. man bash

Re: g++ defines for win32

Hello, On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: > Here's the test case. Execute the run.bat file to perform the test. > Hmm, it seams that I cannot send zip files as attachments. So you may > download the test case from > http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~angel/test_case.zip > and run run.bat to

Re: $OS vs `uname -s` [Attn: base-files maintainer]

Eric Blake wrote: If your setup is like mine, OS is an inherited environment variable, set by Windows before bash is even started. You can set it to whatever you like. Meanwhile, uname -s is not affected by the environment (you really don't want an environment variable changing the uname outpu

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: vorbis-tools-1.1.1-2

> Corinna Vinschen writes: > I have updated vorbis-tools to 1.1.1-2. > This package now also has speex support builtin. But it's missing /usr/bin/vcut.exe /usr/share/man/man1/vcut.1 Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: vorbis-tools-1.1.1-2

On Aug 15 14:06, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > I have updated vorbis-tools to 1.1.1-2. > > This package now also has speex support builtin. > > But it's missing > > /usr/bin/vcut.exe > /usr/share/man/man1/vcut.1 Sigh. I missed the fact that vcut only get

RE: Windows hardening and system paths

Hello Brian, Thanks for a quick answer! However, I have searched all over to find out where to add the path, and as you state "just put it in the path" - but where? - In Windows registry or in a Cygwin config file? Mikkel Rostock wrote: > Cygwin uses some DLL-resources in Windows, but in my cas

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vorbis-tools-1.1.1-3

I have updated vorbis-tools to 1.1.1-3. This package now also provides the missing vcut tool. Vorbis-tools contains oggenc (an encoder) and ogg123 (a playback tool). It also has vorbiscomment (to add comments to vorbis files), ogginfo (to give all useful information about an ogg file, including s

Re: Windows hardening and system paths

Mikkel Rostock wrote: > However, I have searched all over to find out where to add the path, and as > you state "just put it in the path" - but where? - In Windows registry or in > a Cygwin config file? The path is the path. It doesn't matter how you add it there, as long as the DLLs are in the

RE: Win64 users, please test snapshot (was Re: cygwin on win x64)

> On Aug 13 16:37, Frank Spies wrote: > > i have the same problem with the cygwin install spawning 1000s of > > processes on win x64 reported in a post on 28 july .. > > > > i did not see anybody responding with a fix or a workaround > > does anybody have an idea how to get cygwin up and running o

Re: Win64 users, please test snapshot (was Re: cygwin on win x64)

On Aug 15 14:09, Oliver Walsh wrote: > > > On Aug 13 16:37, Frank Spies wrote: > > > i have the same problem with the cygwin install spawning 1000s of > > > processes on win x64 reported in a post on 28 july .. > > > > > > i did not see anybody responding with a fix or a workaround > > > does anyb

Subversion 1.2.0: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL

Hello! I'm running Cygwin on Win98SE and the problem is that I can not even import any project to the successfully created local SVN-repository: $ svnadmin create c:/svnroot/ $ svnadmin verify c:/svnroot/ * Verified revision 0. $ svn import c:/foo/ file:///c:/svnroot/ svn: Unable to open an ra_l

non-OLOCA acronym alert (was: Re: Proposal singular-3.0.0-1 (final directory structure))

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:18:04PM +0200, Oliver Wienand wrote: > JFTR: Packages required: gcc, gmp, make, flex, bison, perl, readline, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cy

Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

On 15-Aug-2005 10:45, Brian Dessent wrote: Sigurd Nes wrote: Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as _obsolete First, sh is not a part of coreutils nor its predecessor sh-utils. Until recently, /bin/sh has been ash, in th

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Blake > According to Herb Martin on 8/14/2005 10:22 PM: > > > > cygwin (like Linux apparently) keeps a database of > > programs and so deleting an incorrect program > > on the path may leave the OS complaining about > >

Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

Hi, Michael Schaap wrote: On 15-Aug-2005 10:45, Brian Dessent wrote: Sigurd Nes wrote: Is sh.exe missing from coreutils? I am not able to use sh after a upgrade - and sh-utils is listed as _obsolete First, sh is not a part of coreutils nor its predecessor sh-utils. Until recently, /bin

Re: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 04:52:16PM +1000, Bitmead, Chris wrote: >On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:21:41AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:56:44PM +1000, Bitmead, Chris wrote: I've heard of sigstack and sigalstack but cygwin hasn't. >>> >>>Well that's a shame since sigalt

Re: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:11:09AM -0500, Herb Martin wrote: > There is a man directory in /usr/bin, i.e., /usr/bin/man -- > with man.exe being the program, while manpath gives: What created that directory? Having it is a really bad idea, and probably the source of all your troubles. -- Unsubscr

Re: g++ defines for win32

- Original Message - From: "Pavel Tsekov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Angel Tsankov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "cygwin mailing list" Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 3:04 PM Subject: Re: g++ defines for win32 Hello, On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: Here's the test case. Execute th

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:11:09AM -0500, Herb Martin wrote: > > There is a man directory in /usr/bin, i.e., /usr/bin/man -- with > > man.exe being the program, while manpath gives: > > What created that directory? Having it is a really bad idea, > and probably the source of all your troubles

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-2.1.71-2

INFO The cygwin octave package has been updated to release 2.1.71-2. Changes: +Rebuilt to link against fftw3 libraries, for faster fft operations. +Links with --enable-auto-image-base flag to reduce need for rebasing dlls. +Fixed packaging error related to /usr/share/info/dir More inform

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

> There is a man directory in /usr/bin, i.e., /usr/bin/man -- > with man.exe being the program, while manpath gives: This sentence was confusing. Are you telling me that /usr/bin/man exists and is a directory (does it have normal subdirectories like man1?), and that /usr/bin/man.exe exists and is

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

> > man hash and info hash are both worthless (except to > admit that "hash" is exists, i.e., is a built-in. Yes, bash documentation is not the best packaged (I like the Solaris man pages for shell builtins much better). What `man hash' is trying to tell you to do is run `man bash', then search

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

> From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Herb Martin; cygwin@cygwin.com > > man hash and info hash are both worthless (except to admit > that "hash" > > is exists, i.e., is a built-in. > > Yes, bash documentation is not the best packaged (I like the > Solaris man pages for shell bui

Re: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:00:49PM +, Eric Blake wrote: > > There is a man directory in /usr/bin, i.e., /usr/bin/man -- > > with man.exe being the program, while manpath gives: > > This sentence was confusing. Are you telling me that > /usr/bin/man exists and is a directory (does it have norm

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Blake > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 10:01 AM > To: Herb Martin; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 > -- Apropos still troublesome > > > There is a

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

Original Message >From: Herb Martin >Sent: 15 August 2005 16:03 >>> man hash and info hash are both worthless (except to admit that "hash" >>> is exists, i.e., is a built-in. >> >> Yes, bash documentation is not the best packaged (I like the >> Solaris man pages for shell builtins much b

Re: $OS vs `uname -s` [Attn: base-files maintainer]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Eric" == Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eric> PLEASE fix your mailer to send valid mail. It was difficult Eric> to see what you were asking, because your MIME settings are Eric> incorrect, and correct mailers only saw a blank message.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-forge-2005.06.13-3

INFO The cygwin octave-forge package has been updated to release 2005.06.13-3. There was a corrupted version of this upload that existed briefly on the mirrors as octave-forge-2005.06.13-2; if you installed this, you definitely need to update. Changes: +Links with --enable-auto-image-base

Re: g++ defines for win32

Angel Tsankov [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Angel Tsankov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pavel Tsekov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "cygwin mailing list" Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 5:37 PM Subject: Re: g++ defines for win32 - Original Message - From: "Pavel Tsekov"

Re: Installation Problem

Gerrit P. Haase familiehaase.de> writes: > What shows the eventlog? Are there some policies active because 2003 > Server is really picky about what is allowed to run. However it should > be a relevant information and/or error message in the eventlog. Unfortunately no new event show up in the e

RE: missing sh.exe in coreutils

Renaming an in-use file is not a new Windows feature. It's certainly been there since Windows NT and 200, and I'm pretty sure it's in 9x as well. I'd check if I had a 9x box handy, but instead, Reinhard, as the one who raised the concern, maybe you can :-) stephan(); -Original Message-

FW: Cygwin perl hangs with open FH, "... |"

I received a (welcome) off-list reply to my report of trouble running CygWin Perl and piping the output of an open FILEHANDLE call to capture the output. Interesting his reproduction of the problem uses other programs so it is NOT just netsh (although these could conceivably be unrelated it see

patch to fix broken xdr headers

This patch fixes the broken CYGWIN xdr headers under g++. For an example of C++ usage of the xdr External Data Representation, see http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~bowman/xstream.html diff -ru rpc.broken/auth.h rpc/auth.h --- rpc.broken/auth.h 2005-03-10 14:32:52.0 -0700 +++ rpc/auth.h 200

RE: patch to fix broken xdr headers

> This patch fixes the broken CYGWIN xdr headers under g++. John, Thanks for the effort you put into this - unfortunately, I'm a bit leery of applying such a significant patch without a better understanding of what the exact problem is. Additionally, it looks like there are a lot of formatti

problem running tcl/expect when it lives remotely

Version being used: 1.5.17(0.129/4/2) OS; Windows 2003 I am trying to get my scripts which live on a remote server running on a test box running Windows 2003. The history is when I had all of this running locally (all scripts on local box, instead of remote using "net use...") it was working fi

Re: Subversion 1.2.0: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL

Alexey Lyubimov wrote: Hello! I'm running Cygwin on Win98SE and the problem is that I can not even import any project to the successfully created local SVN-repository: $ svnadmin create c:/svnroot/ $ svnadmin verify c:/svnroot/ * Verified revision 0. $ svn import c:/foo/ file:///c:/svnroot/ sv

Re: Snapshots are now stripped again

On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > The split of debug information into a separate file reflects a change to > the way the Cygwin DLL is now generated by the makefile in > winsup/cygwin. Debug information will no longer be part of the DLL > itself, but will, instead, only be included

Re: Snapshots are now stripped again

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:06:47PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I'll be making the .dbg file available when I make the formal cygwin >>release also, either in the source tarball or as a separate package. >> >>The split of debug information into a

Re: Snapshots are now stripped again

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:06:47PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>I'll be making the .dbg file available when I make the formal cygwin > >>release also, either in the source tarball or as a separ

Re: Attached Error Log: from Beginning of Installation: PARSING ERROR

On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Rhodney Reck wrote: Attachments: setup.log.full(0.33 MB) I believe the following lines indicate the problem: Found ini file - C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop/Used desktop shortcuts/Data/Disk1/setup.ini 100% (540 of 540 bytes of ini file read Found ini file - C:\

RE: Win64 users, please test snapshot (was Re: cygwin on win x64)

> > On Aug 15 14:09, Oliver Walsh wrote: > > > > > On Aug 13 16:37, Frank Spies wrote: > > > > i have the same problem with the cygwin install spawning 1000s of > > > > processes on win x64 reported in a post on 28 july .. > > > > > > > > i did not see anybody responding with a fix or a workaround

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: chere-0.6-3

chere is a Cygwin package to manage the cygwin shell context menus. This adds items to the Explorer Drive and Directory context menus. The named shell is started in the selected drive/directory when the menu item is chosen. Please consult the inbuilt help for details on usage (chere -h). Fixes

Re: setup.exe filename

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Jon A. Lambert wrote: > > > Bill Priest wrote: > > > > > I typically save cygwin's setup.exe to my Desktop as I update cygwin > > > quite often; however, I've found that this interferes with some other > > > (admittedly buggy and lame install programs).

RE: OpenLDAP NT Service

Thanks Vince, I was trying to do this, however, I can't find the documentation on how to add the sysV init scripts as a service. I think you just add /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit as a service using: # cygrunsrv --install rc.sysinit --path /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit --disp "CYGWIN sysinit" Is this correct? Q

Re: Snapshots are now stripped again

On Aug 15 14:18, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Thanks, I understood that. I was asking a different question, though: if > a developer checked out the latest Cygwin from CVS and built it, would the > build produce the .dbg file (as it used to produce an unstripped DLL), or > would she have to invoke "

RE: problem running tcl/expect when it lives remotely

Looks like the script cannot find its-self. It's failing at: exec $ARTS_EXPECT -n -N "$0" "$@" Log: $ P:/lemon/automation/WAM/FIM/FARTS/utils/run_remote_cmds + TCL_LIBRARY=C:/cygwin/usr/share/tcl8.4/init.tcl + export TCL_LIBRARY + LD_LIBRARY_PATH=C:/cygwin/lib/libtcl84.a + export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Re: g++ defines for win32

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: > It seems I've come upon an interesting issue, probably a bug. Here it > is: > I have a header file that defines __stdcall, __fastdecl and __cdecl. > If the preprocessor uses the CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH to find that header > file, then it does not issue a warn

RE: OpenLDAP NT Service

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Vince, I was trying to do this, however, I can't find the documentation on how to add the sysV init scripts as a service. I think you just add /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit as a service using: # cygrunsrv --install rc.sysinit --path /etc/rc.d/rc.sys

Problems installing octave-forge-2005.06.13-3

When installing octave-forge-2005.06.13-3 setup.exe gives many errors: error: unsupported file 'K' One can only click OK to pass the next error, until the end. The setup.exe version is: 2.457.2.2 With the previous (useful) version, 2005.06.13-1, there are not installing problems. Best reg

Building a cygwin version of make?

Can someone explain how to build a cygwin special version of make 3.81beta3? Angel Tsankov [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: bash is crashing

Eric Blake wrote: > Are you running any sort of background program (virus scanner or > desktop search engine) that might be interfering with cygwin, so that > cygwin runs > out of available Windows processes sooner? What does 'ps -eaf' show, > when run from another console while your strace is run

Re: Building a cygwin version of make?

- Original Message - From: "Angel Tsankov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "cygwin mailing list" Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 2:38 AM Subject: Building a cygwin version of make? Can someone explain how to build a cygwin special version of make 3.81beta3? Well, I defined HAVE_CYGWIN_SHELL

Re: Problems installing octave-forge-2005.06.13-3

Angelo Graziosi wrote: When installing octave-forge-2005.06.13-3 setup.exe gives many errors: error: unsupported file 'K' One can only click OK to pass the next error, until the end. The setup.exe version is: 2.457.2.2 With the previous (useful) version, 2005.06.13-1, there are not install

Re: rsync daemon not starting as windows service

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Daniel Franke wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2005 00:35, Brian Dessent wrote: > > Daniel Franke wrote: > > > I added it with this command: > > > cygrunsrv.exe -I rsyncd -p /bin/rsync.exe -a "--daemon" > > > > Using --daemon will cause the process to try and detach from the > >

openssh-4.1p1-2/cygwin-1.5.18-1: write(2) misbehaving?

After upgrading my Cygwin packages recently (running cygwin-1.5.18-1), I found that I could no longer log in to a variety of Linux servers running various versions of sshd from OpenSSH (OpenSSH_3.5p1 on Red Hat 9, OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 on Debian 3.1, OpenSSH_4.1p1 on Debian post-3.1-unstable). Here's th

Re: Anyone running spfd on Cygwin?

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote: > Is anyone successfully running the full Mail::SPF perl module, SPECIFICALLY > the spfd (daemon)? > > I can run it ONLY as a socket, and only if I leave it in the foreground. > (Otherwise Exim doesn't seem to be able to query it.) > [snip] > Exim queries it

RE: Anyone running spfd on Cygwin? (Attn: cygrunsrv maintainer)

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote: > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 5:45 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Anyone running spfd on Cygwin? . Thanks. > [snip] > Can a Cygwin pr

Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:23:00AM -0700, Linda W wrote: > >Is there a way to find out in a bash script the cygdrive prefix? > >I thought something simple like > > mount -p|tail -1|cut -f1 > >but that incorrectly assumed the fields were tab delimi

RE: Remove cygwin services

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote: > It might help (pure speculation) to enable one of the "signals" > when creating Cygwin-Apps as services. This way the "stop" > will include a HUP or TERM. $ cygrunsrv --help 2>&1 | grep -C2 'HUP' -s, --termsig Optional signal to send to service app

RE: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

> From: "Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >In the post you're replying to, I listed the legitimate reasons for > >wanting to do it. Here they are again: > > > >- If you're writing a task switcher. > > And what's the difference between a task switcher and > switching between co-routines? You seem t

RE: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

[snip a lot of jibba-jabba] > >And, I assume that there will be no recursion in your > program? Because > >if > there > >is you're guaranteed heap corruption. > > No, each function call has its own scheme environment and > therefore its own stack. So on a recursive call a new > environment is

Re: Installation Problem

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Tom McKenna wrote: > > > cygcheck -c shows a problem: > > cygwin 1.5.18-1 Incomplete > > Cygwin requires at least cygwin1.dll to be present in the bin directory > (-> c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll). The headers and import libraries

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote: > > > cygcheck can show a version when the program is not > > > even there (either not installed or missing) > > > > Why do you say that the Cygwin man was not installed? From > > everything you've posted it was installed just fine,

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote: > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Blake . Thanks. > man hash and info hash are both worthless (except to admit that "hash" > is exists, i.e., is a built-in. "type hash" should say that it's a built

Re: rlogin to xp home edition

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Ulrich Güttich wrote: > Hallo, > > (i hope this is the correct forum to this question) > > I have a XP home edition running using cygwin and the inetd package. I > have created /etc/passwd and /etc/group as described. The only user (and > there is only one at an XP home editio

Re: Perl v5.8.7, CygWin DLL 1.5.18, script runs differently (hangs) on Cygwin while running open FH, "netsh ...|" or die "..."

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote: > The following test script hangs under CygWin Bash and run > to completion under Windows (CMD.exe) -- both command lines > run fine when run from the respective shell prompts (not > in Perl), even when redirected to a file or piped to another > command (mor

Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > Michael Schaap wrote: > > > note that you *can* rename a running executable. > > But isn't renaming a running executable only a feature of recent Windows > OSs? FYI, even on WinXP, which does allow renaming a currently running program, Cygwin will brea

Re: Snapshots are now stripped again

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 15 14:18, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Thanks, I understood that. I was asking a different question, though: > > if a developer checked out the latest Cygwin from CVS and built it, > > would the build produce the .dbg file (as it used to produ

Re: non-OLOCA acronym alert (was: Re: Proposal singular-3.0.0-1 (final directory structure))

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:18:04PM +0200, Oliver Wienand wrote: > > JFTR: Packages required: gcc, gmp, make, flex, bison, perl, readline, > Yeah, I noticed it. The OLOCA isn't meant to be all-inclusive. FWIW,

Re: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:31:12PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Is there going to be any part of this interpreter that isn't a "no-no"? > You're going to longjmp() around all your crazy malloc'd stacks? Seriously > Chris, how is it that you can come up with all these wild... Schemes... and >