Re: Problems between GV-3.5.8-2 and Ghostscript-8.50-1 ?

2006-02-17 Thread James R. Phillips
I have verified the behavior described. My guess would be that it is an issue in the interface between gv and gs. Dr. Volker Zell is the current cygwin maintainer for gv; I recently took over maintaining gs, bringing it up to the latest 8.50 GPL release. I note that the cygwin version of gv is s

cygpath problem

2006-02-17 Thread Hans Horn
Folks, according to the cygpath manpage, I should get the following, given a short DOS name, e.g. c:\Progra~1: cygpath -wl C:\Progra~1--> C:\Program Files cygpath -ml C:\Progra~1--> C:/Program Files however, the -m option completely ignores the '-l' flag, and I get instead cygpath -ml

Re: Problems between GV-3.5.8-2 and Ghostscript-8.50-1 ?

2006-02-17 Thread Angelo Graziosi
James R. Phillips wrote: > ... > Dr. Volker Zell is the current cygwin maintainer for gv... > > ... > > I note that the cygwin version of gv is somewhat out of date It would be nice an update of GV to 3.6.1. > Since the interface works in at least one scenario, i.e., "gs file.pdf > &", I a

RE: cygheap base mismatch detected

2006-02-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 February 2006 23:17, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: > More test results: Right, thanks for giving us something we can actually get our teeth into... it would really have been helpful to bring out some of this information a bit earlier in the thread, like in the very first post for instance,

Re: Problems using Solaris mapped drive

2006-02-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 16 09:59, Cowdery, James wrote: > I just updated cygwin and my Solaris mapped drive no longer works > properly. If I create a directory I cannot remove it. I just get > permission denied. If I try and copy a file I get the "skipping file > 'filename' , as it was replaced while being copie

RE: Error C1083

2006-02-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 February 2006 19:36, Elin Aronsen wrote: > Hi ! > > I have attached cygcheck and the to logfiles. I do not know why in > the logfile I geet the message it cannot find oistream fopen. Very > greatful for help. > > Elin Aronsen Can't help very much, because I don't know what CLHEP is, bu

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: libgii1-1.0.0-1 (and 2 subpackages)

2006-02-17 Thread Peter Ekberg
The following packages have recently been added to the Cygwin net release: libgii1-1.0.0-1 libgii1-devel-1.0.0-1 libgii1-input-x-1.0.0-1 LibGII is a "General Input Interface" and is primarily the input layer for LibGGI, the "General Graphics Interface". The main purpose

RE: glut, OpenGL, undefined reference to glutCheckLoop()

2006-02-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 February 2006 22:10, Dean C. Tsai wrote: > I went to Fletcher's site and found some files (glut32.dll, glut32.lib, and > glut.h) but frankly I have no clues if I can use them, or I should put them > if I can use those files. I remember reading that applications must be > re-compiled in Cygw

Re: cygpath problem

2006-02-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 17 00:23, Hans Horn wrote: > Folks, > > according to the cygpath manpage, I should get the following, given a short > DOS name, e.g. c:\Progra~1: > > cygpath -wl C:\Progra~1--> C:\Program Files > cygpath -ml C:\Progra~1--> C:/Program Files > > however, the -m option completely

Re: 'top' command always reports 0.0% cpu usage

2006-02-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 16 15:56, Manuel Gonzalez Montoya wrote: > All, > > I just installed the lastest cygwin version on an XP Professional > SP2 machine and noticed the output of the top command always reports > wrong info (0.0%) about the CPU usage summary [...] That's a small bug in top. A new version

Re: CPAN: issues with homedirs containing spaces; how to install globally?

2006-02-17 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:32:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, I think there's a bug with cpan and names containing spaces. Please report bugs in CPAN.pm to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This isn't unique to cygwin. I suggest you remove the space. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: Permissions problem - odd setup

2006-02-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Andrew DeFaria wrote: I have a somewhat odd setup here and am having a permissions problem with my userid and authentication. In general I'm trying to have one home directory that is shared between Windows and Linux. On Windows I use Cygwin. Normally this involves mounting my Windows oriented

RE: glut, OpenGL, undefined reference to glutCheckLoop()

2006-02-17 Thread Brian Ford
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 16 February 2006 22:10, Dean C. Tsai wrote: > > I went to Fletcher's site and found some files (glut32.dll, glut32.lib, and > > glut.h) but frankly I have no clues if I can use them, or I should put them > > if I can use those files. I remember reading th

RE: cygheap base mismatch detected

2006-02-17 Thread Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
Dave Korn writes: > Right, thanks for giving us something we can actually get our teeth into... > it would really have been helpful to bring out some of this information a bit > earlier in the thread, like in the very first post for instance, but better > late than never! Sorry I didn't send con

"have you looked into rebaseall?"

2006-02-17 Thread Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
In another context, Dave Korn writes: > Have you looked into 'rebaseall' yet? My reaction: o Don't know about that, let's look it up. o Try "man rebaseall" in CygWin shell. No luck. o Try searching Windows 2003 Help. No luck. o Google search turns up people who are complaining

Re: cygwin logfile do not find iostream fopen no such file or directory

2006-02-17 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Elin Aronsen wrote: > Actually, I started out on my laptop and I have not done more than > installing cygwin. But cygwin logfile complains about not finding > fopen: no such file or directory, please see attached cygcheck and > logfile. What can the reason be ? FYI, you have

Re: Big thanks to Corinna and Chris

2006-02-17 Thread Alex Vinokur
"Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] > Thanks, nice to read somebody is happy with Cygwin :-) [snip] Also I am happy with Cygwin. -- Alex Vinokur email: alex DOT vinokur AT gmail DOT com http://mathforum.org/library/view/10978.html

RE: Big thanks to Corinna and Chris

2006-02-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17 February 2006 18:45, Alex Vinokur wrote: > "Corinna Vinschen" wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [snip] >> Thanks, nice to read somebody is happy with Cygwin :-) [snip] > > Also I am happy with Cygwin. > No! *I* am Spartacus! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of

RE: "have you looked into rebaseall?"

2006-02-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17 February 2006 17:54, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: > In another context, Dave Korn writes: > >> Have you looked into 'rebaseall' yet? > > My reaction: > > o Don't know about that, let's look it up. > > o Try "man rebaseall" in CygWin shell. No luck. Just FYI, some things have info

Re: "have you looked into rebaseall?"

2006-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:01:29PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >On 17 February 2006 17:54, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: > >> In another context, Dave Korn writes: >> >>> Have you looked into 'rebaseall' yet? >> >> My reaction: >> >> o Don't know about that, let's look it up. >> >> o Try "man reb

Re: "have you looked into rebaseall?"

2006-02-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: > Absolutely so. I reckon doing a proper rebaseall that includes the oracle > dlls should make a noticeable difference. This is important. The rebaseall script only knows about DLLs installed via setup.exe. So, you will need to provide a list of any additional DLLs that you

RE: "have you looked into rebaseall?"

2006-02-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17 February 2006 19:21, Brian Dessent wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> Absolutely so. I reckon doing a proper rebaseall that includes the >> oracle dlls should make a noticeable difference. > > This is important. The rebaseall script only knows about DLLs installed > via setup.exe. So, you

Re: regular user, bash cannot find /tmp

2006-02-17 Thread Claude Marinier
Apologies for the incomplete posting. Here are two output files: The first is output from 'cygcheck -s -v -r', the second is the error message from cygcheck. History: I want to run 'octave' and tried a package containing a partial cygwin environment and octave 2.1.42. Discovered that it is too

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: WordNet-2.1

2006-02-17 Thread zzapper
"Dr. Volker Zell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi > > A new version of 'WordNet' has been uploaded to a server near you. > This has defied my Googling Powers. But I have found out a few things You call it from the command line as wn (not wordnet) > wn > man wn The on

Re: _kbhit

2006-02-17 Thread Shankar Unni
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Arend-Jan Westhoff writes: I cannot confirm your assertion that msvcrt.dll and cygwin1.dll cannot be used together. The Gary Exclusion Principle: Two C runtimes cannot occupy the same point in space at the same moment in time. The problem here is that unfortu

Re: _kbhit

2006-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:27:52PM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: >Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >>Arend-Jan Westhoff writes: >>>I cannot confirm your assertion that msvcrt.dll and cygwin1.dll cannot >>>be used together. > >>The Gary Exclusion Principle: Two C runtimes cannot occupy the same >>point in spa

Apache2 Threads

2006-02-17 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
The 'worker' MPM for Apache2 uses threads. According to its docs: By using threads to serve requests, it is able to serve a large number of requests with less system resources than a process-based server. Yet it retains much of the stability of a process-based server by keeping multiple processes

Re: Apache2 Threads

2006-02-17 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > The 'worker' MPM for Apache2 uses threads. According to its > docs: By using threads to serve requests, it is able to > serve a large number of requests with less system resources > than a process-based server. Yet it retains

RE: cygheap base mismatch detected

2006-02-17 Thread Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
Dave Korn wrote >On 17 February 2006 19:21, Brian Dessent wrote: > >> Dave Korn wrote: >> >>> Absolutely so. I reckon doing a proper rebaseall that includes the >>> oracle dlls should make a noticeable difference. >> >> This is important. The rebaseall script only knows about DLLs installed >

RE: cygheap base mismatch detected

2006-02-17 Thread Dill, Jens (END-CHI)
I wrote: > Could I > "fix" the problem by providing a stripped-down app that links all > the DLLs and and all the same static libraries, but does nothing > but launch a shell, which can then be used to launch the real app? Nope, didn't work. Got the same message: 2 [main] ? (-5768) d:\m1\voy

rsync fork/exec problem with odd twist for native windows programs

2006-02-17 Thread Scott Bolte
I've found an rsync problem that might be another data point for the fork() (or exec()?) problems mentioned on the cygwin mailing list last fall. On one of my systems rsync hangs after it forks a cygwin program. Surprisingly, when it forks some native windows program, it completes. I started this

Re: rsync fork/exec problem with odd twist for native windows programs

2006-02-17 Thread Brett Serkez
Scott, > I started this investigation when rsync spawning ssh hung. By using > the -vv verbose option I could tell that rsync was starting ssh. It is difficult to tell if this is the same or similar to the rsync hang I experienced: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg01096.html It seemi

Re: rsync fork/exec problem with odd twist for native windows programs

2006-02-17 Thread Scott Bolte
Brett, Thanks for the suggestion. Switching from socketpair() to pipe() does let ssh get going, but rsync later runs into problems. A few minutes into the transfer it just hangs. Since I exercised ssh by transferring 16MB files back and forth for 1

re: Updated: readline-5.1-3, libreadline6-5.1-3 - possible bug

2006-02-17 Thread Paul J. Ghosh
I have key binding set to vi and now after having updated to the newest version of readline the search capability invoked by ESC followed by a / results in the prompt being displayed a few times along with the /. I have reverted to 5.0-4 for now which seems to work fine. 5.0-4 behavior: [EMAIL PR

Re: Updated: readline-5.1-3, libreadline6-5.1-3 - possible bug

2006-02-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul J. Ghosh on 2/17/2006 9:28 PM: > I have key binding set to vi and now after having updated to the newest > version of readline the search capability invoked by ESC followed by a / > results in the prompt being displayed a few times al