Re: bash scripts fail with bash3.1-8

2006-10-04 Thread Thomas Porschberg
Am Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:02:29 +0100 schrieb "Dave Korn" : > On 03 October 2006 16:43, Turly O'Connor wrote: > > > > By way of an example as to what broke, note that in the following > > that "cleartool" is not a cygwin tool (it's a Windows executable), > > writing its CRLF-terminated output to Wi

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-04 Thread Ken Wagnitz
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:14:37PM -0700, Wilks, Dan wrote: > >cgf wrote: > >>I really am getting a bad feeling that, rather than FIXING THE SCRIPTS, > >>everyone is reverting to using text mode mounts which are not what we > >>generally recommend. > >

RE: shopt igncr not working

2006-10-04 Thread Kazuyuki Hagiwara
Hi Frank, all the three methods work fine here. some points ... Is the bash version right? [~/work] bash --version GNU bash, version 3.1.17(9)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. [~/work] ) - first line of the shell script # is required In the shopt line

RE: shopt igncr not working

2006-10-04 Thread Frank Illenseer
Hi Kazuyuki, thanks for pointing this oiut, but 1) bash version is correct, i.e. GNU bash, version 3.1.17(9)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) as recommended 2) I indeed applied the comment character "#" at the end when using as the first line of the shell script 3) When trying the optio

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.1-9

2006-10-04 Thread Ken Wagnitz
Wilks, Dan intuit.com> writes: > > Eric, as one of the complainers :) thanks. I just wanted to check in > and > say that our case of executing a cr/lf script via a DOS path on a text > mount > is working as well as it used to. > > I echo that sentiment. Now I don't feel so "left behind". :)

extending desktop to a second monitor

2006-10-04 Thread Fabrizio Salvatore
Hi, I run cygwin on my Windows XP laptop and I now have a second monitor that I use to extend my desktop. Although I can use both monitors without any problem with Windows, when I run cygwin I noticed the following: when I open a new xterm, this will always be open on my laptop's monitor and

Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:24:12PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Gary R. Van Sickle on 10/3/2006 8:27 PM: >>What's going to break if igncr is simply always on? > >Actually, that might not be a bad idea. Those who want literal \r >would edit cygwin.bat or ~/.bash_profile to turn the shopt

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:04:55AM +, Ken Wagnitz wrote: >Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: >> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:14:37PM -0700, Wilks, Dan wrote: >> >cgf wrote: >> >>I really am getting a bad feeling that, rather than FIXING THE SCRIPTS, >> >>everyone is reverting to using text m

Re: shopt igncr not working

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Frank Illenseer on 10/4/2006 2:24 AM: > > 3) When trying the option of including the shopt line in my > .bash_profile I first opened a >bash login shell (which indeed executes the .bash_profile) and > in-there then ran the script >

Re: extending desktop to a second monitor

2006-10-04 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Fabrizio Salvatore wrote: Hi, I run cygwin on my Windows XP laptop and I now have a second monitor that I use to extend my desktop. Although I can use both monitors without any problem with Windows, when I run cygwin I noticed the following: when I open a new xterm, this will always be open o

Re: extending desktop to a second monitor

2006-10-04 Thread Fabrizio Salvatore
Hi, I've no idea if this is a Cygwin/X issue ! When I run cygwin, I use Windows as window terminal: %RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error +bs), I'm not opening another window terminal on top of Windows (I mean, all my windows are being opened on my Windows desktop). It seems t

Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-04 Thread Karl M
Hi All... My $0.02... If you make igncr the default for bash, I would consider removing the special handling on the DOS paths. Thanks for all the work you are doing to speed things up. Damn the CRs, full speed ahead! ...Karl From: Eric Blake Subject: Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings Date:

Re: extending desktop to a second monitor

2006-10-04 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Fabrizio Salvatore wrote: Hi, I've no idea if this is a Cygwin/X issue ! When I run cygwin, I use Windows as window terminal: %RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error +bs), You need to add the -multiplemonitors flag to the command line. See the batch file for more info. -- Jona

Re: extending desktop to a second monitor

2006-10-04 Thread Fabrizio Salvatore
Ah, that's an interesting suggestion, then ! Thank you very much ! By adding this flag, I assume cygwin will not complain when I'm using my laptop without the additional monitor, will it ? Thanks again ! > See the batch file for more info. Where is this file ? Cheers,

Re: Un-attended install ALL

2006-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Vinod Gupta wrote: On 10/3/2006 10:28 PM, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote: Vinod Gupta wrote: Vinod K Gupta wrote: We have a local mirror of selected packages from which we install cygwin on user machines. When we perf

Re: extending desktop to a second monitor

2006-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/04/2006, Fabrizio Salvatore wrote: I've no idea if this is a Cygwin/X issue ! When I run cygwin, I use Windows as window terminal: %RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error +bs), XWin is the Cygwin X server. Therefore, by definition, this is a Cygwin/X issue for which there

RE: Re: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Coatimundi wrote: > Thank you for bringing this up. I forgot to mention (a sure > sign that my multitasking scaling is rolling over) that I also > tried the P option. > While this usually works, I found cases where it did not. [...] > Since I see nothing wrong with the source and I am short on >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: readline-5.2-1, libreadline6-5.2-1

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline and libreadline6, 5.2-1, is available for experimental use. 5.1-5 remains the current version. NEWS: = This is an upstream release candidate, and hence experimental. It is possible that there are still bugs that will be

Re: extending desktop to a second monitor

2006-10-04 Thread Fabrizio Salvatore
OK, I'll do it. In any event, the suggestion I received works, so thanks ! Fab Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/04/2006, Fabrizio Salvatore wrote: I've no idea if this is a Cygwin/X issue ! When I run cygwin, I use Windows as window terminal: %RUN% XWin -multiwindow -

RE: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > At the risk of being over-obvious, Linux users... use Linux. In such > an insular environment, perhaps they have the luxury of only using > the One True Text File Format (whatever that is). We're you the one who brought up Unicode earlier? Besides, there are numerous si

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: lyx-1.4.3-4

2006-10-04 Thread Bo Peng
Version 1.4.3-4 of "lyx" has been uploaded. In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject: LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It is released u

Re: Re: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?

2006-10-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:37:09AM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: >Coatimundi wrote: >>Thank you for bringing this up. I forgot to mention (a sure >>sign that my multitasking scaling is rolling over) that I also >>tried the P option. >> While this usually works, I found cases where it

Re: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?

2006-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Coatimundi wrote: Thank you for bringing this up. I forgot to mention (a sure sign that my multitasking scaling is rolling over) that I also tried the P option. While this usually works, I found cases where it did not. [...] Since I see nothing wrong with t

Subversion 1.4

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Has anybody successfully built subversion 1.4 (or alternately, is a release planned soon)? It didn't build OOTB for me, and I'd rather not duplicate effort. gsw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl-0.9.8d-1, openssl-devel-0.9.8d-1, openssl097-0.9.7l-1

2006-10-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of OpenSSL to 0.9.8d-1. This also includes the openssl-devel package. The compatibility package openssl097 has been updated to 0.9.7l-1. This is an upstream security and bugfix release. The Cygwin release is the vanilla version, no additional patches. Official release

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-4.4p1-1

2006-10-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 4.4p1-1. This is a new major upstream release. The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla sources. The official release message of 4.4p1: OpenSSH 4.4 has just been released. It w

Re: openssh 3.4p1-4. Error starting sshd service

2006-10-04 Thread Luther Palmer
Max Bowsher ukf.net> writes: > > Pablo Milano wrote: > > I upgraded to openssh 3.4p1-4, and after installing it, I get the > > following error when trying to start the openssh service: > > > > *** > > The CYGWIN sshd service is starting. >

Re: Un-attended install ALL

2006-10-04 Thread Vinod Gupta
All this pain, just because some one did not include "--InstallAll" option to setup.exe?? As the saying goes, . Of course, you can always look to see if any of your issues with 'setup.exe' are addressed by a snapshot

Re: bash scripts fail with bash3.1-8

2006-10-04 Thread mwoehlke
Thomas Porschberg wrote: Am Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:02:29 +0100 schrieb "Dave Korn" : On 03 October 2006 16:43, Turly O'Connor wrote: By way of an example as to what broke, note that in the following that "cleartool" is not a cygwin tool (it's a Windows executable), writing its CRLF-terminated outp

Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-04 Thread mwoehlke
Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: At the risk of being over-obvious, Linux users... use Linux. In such an insular environment, perhaps they have the luxury of only using the One True Text File Format (whatever that is). We're you the one who brought up Unicode earlier

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: monotone-0.30-1

2006-10-04 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Lapo Luchini writes: > Version 0.30-1 of monotone has been uploaded. Packaging error: There are two directories under /usr/share/doc monotone and monotone-0.30 Shouldn't the file below monotone go to the monotone-0.30 subdirectory ? Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: Un-attended install ALL

2006-10-04 Thread Vinod Gupta
The local packages folder has two mirrors - the main (http%3a%2f.../) and mymirror/ (which has only this empty allpackage). How do I tell setup.exe to look inside BOTH mirrors? Type in the name of your mirror site when you are asked for the mirrors you wish to use. I am installing from "loc

Packaging error in lyx-1.4.3-4

2006-10-04 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Packaging errors in lyx-1.4.3-4: o The file /etc/postinstall/lyx.sh/lyx.sh should be /etc/postinstall/lyx.sh o The subdirectory /usr/share/doc/lyx should be named /usr/share/doc/lyx-1.4.3 to be consistent with the other packages Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

bash shell globbing not working anymore

2006-10-04 Thread Andy Telford
Has any experienced this? - "ls" works but "ls *" returns "ls: *: No such file or directory" - same if I just use the shell builtin "echo *" just returns "*" I am up to date with the latest versions of everything. I had to fix up the line endings in my .bash_profile/.bashrc file to follow the

Re: bash shell globbing not working anymore

2006-10-04 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Andy Telford wrote: > Has any experienced this? > > - "ls" works but "ls *" returns "ls: *: No such file or directory" > - same if I just use the shell builtin "echo *" just returns "*" I experience this every time when I issue those commands with an empty directory as cwd. That's simply the way

Re: Un-attended install ALL

2006-10-04 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote: > > All this pain, just because some one did not include > > "--InstallAll" option to setup.exe?? > > > > As the saying goes, . Of course, you > > can always look to see if any of your issues with 'setup.exe' are > >

RE: bash shell globbing not working anymore

2006-10-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 04 October 2006 16:47, Andy Telford wrote: > Has any experienced this? > > - "ls" works but "ls *" returns "ls: *: No such file or directory" > - same if I just use the shell builtin "echo *" just returns "*" You are in an empty directory. There is nothing for the '*' to match. As glob

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.1-9

2006-10-04 Thread David Picton
From: Eric Blake To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:51:04 -0600 Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.1-9 Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com Reply-to: The Cygwin Mailing List -BEGIN PGP S

Re: Un-attended install ALL

2006-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Vinod Gupta wrote: The local packages folder has two mirrors - the main (http%3a%2f.../) and mymirror/ (which has only this empty allpackage). How do I tell setup.exe to look inside BOTH mirrors? Type in the name of your mirror site when you are asked for the mirrors you wish to use. I am

RE: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > If 'ar' insists on backslash separators that is surely a bug. You may be right, but please stop calling me Shirley. :-) Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Why is that? If 'LIB.EXE' will work with either and 'ar' as a Cygwin > app prefers '/', why would working with a .lib p

Re: Subversion 1.4

2006-10-04 Thread David Rothenberger
On 10/4/2006 7:35 AM, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Has anybody successfully built subversion 1.4 (or alternately, is a release planned soon)? It didn't build OOTB for me, and I'd rather not duplicate effort. I successfully built it with the attached patch. I haven't actually used it yet,

RE: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > The dilemma here is that I read other mailing lists besides > cygwin where people are trying to use Cygwin but are close > to giving up because it is so slow. So, making bash faster > for people who are using it correctly is very desirable. Which is why we need to get

Re: bash shell globbing not working anymore

2006-10-04 Thread Andy Telford
Nope. The directory was not empty, so * should have been expanded by the shell according to the bash "pathname expansion" rules. I included the SHELLOPTS variable in the first email to show that noglob is not set. $ mkdir newdir $ cd newdir $ touch newfile $ ls newfile $ ls * ls: *: No such fil

Re: Subversion 1.4

2006-10-04 Thread David Rothenberger
Resending with the g-b-s script compressed so it's not blocked and with a valid GPG signature this time. On 10/4/2006 7:35 AM, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Has anybody successfully built subversion 1.4 (or alternately, is a release planned soon)? It didn't build OOTB for me, and I'd rather

RE: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 04 October 2006 18:06, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > Seriously, I'd have a hard time believing that supporting > endings would noticably impact performance if it > were done as part of upstream BASH. Special-casing Cygwin > (especially when you start doing things like checking for > DOS

RE: bash shell globbing not working anymore

2006-10-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 04 October 2006 18:08, Andy Telford wrote: > Nope. The directory was not empty, so * should have been expanded by the > shell according to the bash "pathname expansion" rules. I included the > SHELLOPTS variable in the first email to show that noglob is not set. > > $ mkdir newdir > $ cd ne

RE: Subversion 1.4

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
David Rothenberger wrote: > I successfully built it with the attached patch. I haven't > actually used it yet, since some other tools I use don't > yet support 1.4, but it passed all tests except the ruby > tests. Thanks. I'll give it a try. I meanwhile found an earlier post that recommended "./co

Re: Un-attended install ALL

2006-10-04 Thread Vinod Gupta
On 2006-10-04 11:55, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote: All this pain, just because some one did not include "--InstallAll" option to setup.exe?? As the saying goes, . Of course, you can always look to see if any of your is

Re: bash shell globbing not working anymore

2006-10-04 Thread Andy Telford
Eureka! I checked the cygcheck output and noticed that my cygwin dll was old even though "setup" thought I was up to date. Maybe a previous cygwin update failed to complete properly? I reinstalled the base cygwin package using setup and now it is all working fine. I guess the current bash d

RE: bash shell globbing not working anymore

2006-10-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 04 October 2006 18:41, Andy Telford wrote: > Eureka! I checked the cygcheck output and noticed that my cygwin dll was > old even though "setup" thought I was up to date. Maybe a previous cygwin > update failed to complete properly? I reinstalled the base cygwin package > using setup and now

Re: 1.5.21 Forked background processes

2006-10-04 Thread Steve
Steve sbcglobal.net> writes: > Hello again, > > This is what I managed to confirm so far by using snapshots: > > Snapshot 2006-03-09 - Problem does not exist. > Snapshot 2006-03-18 - Problem exists > > So it looks like this problem arose between 03/09/06 and 03/18/06. Looking at > the cha

lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-04 Thread David Arnstein
I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/darnstein/.qt When I try to save a lyx

Re: Un-attended install ALL

2006-10-04 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote: > On 2006-10-04 11:55, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote: > > > > > > All this pain, just because some one did not include > > > > "--InstallAll" option to setup.exe?? > > > > > > > > As the saying goes,

1.5.21: problem with source command in bash

2006-10-04 Thread Ring, Patrick
I am having a problem with the "source" command in bash (3.1-9). When I try to source a file with aliases in it, the aliases get garbled so that they don't work. When I type "alias" on the command line, I can see that it is incorrect. Other commands also do not work, usually giving an error like

Re: 1.5.21: problem with source command in bash

2006-10-04 Thread mwoehlke
Ring, Patrick wrote: I am having a problem with the "source" command in bash (3.1-9). When I try to source a file with aliases in it, the aliases get garbled so that they don't work. When I type "alias" on the command line, I can see that it is incorrect. Other commands also do not work, usuall

Re: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?

2006-10-04 Thread Coatimundi
Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: You've probably already ruled this out, but if you do see it again, you might want to verify that you're not mixing path separators (LIB.EXE will use either). I believe you must use only backslash-style separators if you want to interoperate with ar. gsw Ironi

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:06:19PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> The dilemma here is that I read other mailing lists besides >> cygwin where people are trying to use Cygwin but are close >> to giving up because it is so slow. So, making bash faster >> for p

cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Tom Lee
Hello, after further study, I noticed that using "c:/directory" works fine with my tests except tar.exe. all of the following commands works cp.exe c:/temp/tuner.h c:/test/ mv.exe c:/temp/tt.h c:/test for tar.exe, tar test.tar c:/temp/* works. however, tar cvf c:/test.tar c:/temp/* and tar

Cygwin server/cvs passwd problem

2006-10-04 Thread Erik Nijkamp
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Re: bash shell globbing not working anymore

2006-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/04/2006, Andy Telford wrote: I guess the current bash doesn't jive with cygwin 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-16 15:01 i686 Cygwin, Yes, I'm quite sure bash doesn't speak jive. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 89

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
David Arnstein wrote: I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This is a network directory, obviously. When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/darnstein/.qt

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:06:19PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: The dilemma here is that I read other mailing lists besides cygwin where people are trying to use Cygwin but are close to giving up because it is so slow. So, making

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tom Lee wrote: Hello, after further study, I noticed that using "c:/directory" works fine with my tests except tar.exe. all of the following commands works cp.exe c:/temp/tuner.h c:/test/ mv.exe c:/temp/tt.h c:/test for tar.exe, tar test.tar c:/temp/* works. however, tar cvf c:/test.tar c:

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) on 10/4/2006 11:06 AM: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> The dilemma here is that I read other mailing lists besides >> cygwin where people are trying to use Cygwin but are close >> to giving up because it is so slo

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 10/4/2006 5:24 PM: >> >> Seriously, I'd have a hard time believing that supporting >> endings would noticably impact performance if it were done as part of >> upstream BASH. > > You haven't been paying attention, it

Re: Cygwin server/cvs passwd problem

2006-10-04 Thread René Berber
Erik Nijkamp wrote: > Currently I’m trying to use the newest cygwin version as ssh server > for windows xp sp2, > > which is working quite smoothly. But actually I need to create a cvs > alias for an existing nt user. An alias? Are you in fact creating a user in the /etc/passwd file? if you wan

rsync can run in command line but not in cron

2006-10-04 Thread lin q
Hi, I just installed lastest cygwin on windows xp service pack 1. I enabled cron in cygwin, the crontab looks like this, # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.3548 installed on Wed Oct 4 19:11:00 2006) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.1-9

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to David Picton on 10/4/2006 10:13 AM: >> (shopt -s igncr) 2>/dev/null && eval 'shopt -s igncr';# > > Alternatively, you can set the environment variable BASH_ENV to the name > of a > file containing startup commands for all bash scripts. I

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 07:17:18PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) on 10/4/2006 11:06 AM: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> The dilemma here is that I read other mailing lists besides >>> cygwin where people are tryi

Re: readline-5.2-1 prompt issue on cygwin

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Igor Peshansky on 10/4/2006 9:03 AM: >> The upstream maintainer claims that this version fixes some prompt display >> bugs when using non-printing escape sequences with a single-line prompt. >> I have not verified this, but hope that this

Re: 1.5.21: problem with source command in bash

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ring, Patrick on 10/4/2006 3:07 PM: > I am having a problem with the "source" command in bash (3.1-9). > When I try to source a file with aliases in it, the aliases get garbled > so that they don't work. When I type "alias" on the command

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tom Lee on 10/4/2006 5:45 PM: > Hello, > > after further study, I noticed that using "c:/directory" works fine with > my tests except tar.exe. > > > I understand people here may like /cygdrive/c more than c:/. Just want > to know if it

Re: [bash-testers] Re: readline-5.2-1 prompt issue on cygwin

2006-10-04 Thread Chet Ramey
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Igor Peshansky on 10/4/2006 9:03 AM: >>> The upstream maintainer claims that this version fixes some prompt display >>> bugs when using non-printing escape sequences with a single-line prompt. >>> I have not verified this, but hope that this is the case. >> FWIW, st

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 10/4/2006 7:58 PM: > > Am I understanding what this change does correctly? > > It does not really fix the "CRLF problem". Instead it just strips every > \r that it finds regardless of whether the \r is before a \n,

Re: lyx has problem with network directory names

2006-10-04 Thread David Arnstein
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > So mounting the share should work-around this issue, right? Yes. I also have to redefine the HOME environment variable to P:/ and do "cd P:/" before starting lyx, in order to get it to work correctly. In this case, P: is the dr

RE: sshd "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host" until restarted

2006-10-04 Thread David Christensen
Pritchard, Douglas wrote: > We tried your solution and did it a few times just to make sure and > the machines having this problem still have it. I did find a > reference that suggested it might be a timing or dependency problem > with another service. Sshd already is tied to TCP/IP as a > depend

RE: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Eric Blake [snip] > You asked, so I'll answer. Yes, it is an accident that other > tools understand c:/. It's no accident that make used to, and now again will, be supporting Windows paths. People put considerable time and effort into making it work originally, and then again just recen

Re: cygwin unix commands in windows

2006-10-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:23:49PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> From: Eric Blake >[snip] >>You asked, so I'll answer. Yes, it is an accident that other tools >>understand c:/. > >It's no accident that make used to, and now again will, be supporting >Windows paths. People put considerable t

Requesting an updated gcc-mingw-g++ package to match gcc-g++-3.4.4-2 (PR24196)

2006-10-04 Thread Prehnite -
I was running gcc-g++-3.4.4-1, and was running into the same problem of a std::string allocating memory in a different DLL described here: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg00051.html http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24196 So I update to 3.4.4-2, and yes it fixed the problem