Re: One happy screen user

2007-03-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I am using the screen test package Andrew Schulman mentioned here some 2 > weeks ago. And so far it works great for me. > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/msg00446.html > > Andrew, thanks for your work. Again, I'm not experiencing any problems > with this build. Please consider trying to m

missing definition of __STRING macro in standard cygwin headers

2007-03-03 Thread Jaakko Pääkkönen
Hi Shouldn't this be fixed in cygwin headers? http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=448&forum=3 What the web link basically says that cygwin doesn't have #define __STRING #x defined in any of the standard header files which means some source code won't compile out of th

Re: missing definition of __STRING macro in standard cygwin headers

2007-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 12:08:50PM +0200, Jaakko P??kk?nen wrote: >...cygwin doesn't have >#define __STRING #x >defined in any of the standard header files which means some source code >won't compile out of the box (FAAC library in this case). Hacking up all the >software by inserting that bit int

Re: missing definition of __STRING macro in standard cygwin headers

2007-03-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jaakko Pääkkönen on 3/3/2007 3:08 AM: > Hi > Shouldn't this be fixed in cygwin headers? > http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=448&forum=3 > > What the web link basically says that cygwin doesn't have > #defin

Re: Ambiguous error from ./configure

2007-03-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Forrest Aldrich on 3/2/2007 11:11 AM: > Here is the output from cygcheck. We ask for cygcheck output _as an attachment_ for a reason - so that the mailing list archive search engine won't get false positives on the body of your mail. And

Re: missing definition of __STRING macro in standard cygwin headers

2007-03-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Eric Blake wrote: > Then that's a bug in FAAC. Using any identifier in the __ namespace is > admitting that your code is relying on implementation details, and it > deserves to break when ported to a different implementation. > > That said, submit a patch, and it will probably be applied, since

Re: missing definition of __STRING macro in standard cygwin headers

2007-03-03 Thread Pedro Alves
Brian Dessent wrote: Eric Blake wrote: Not to mention the fact that it's incredibly silly to rely on libc headers to define something as trivial as the stringify operator which is a standard part of the C language. Does it also require __COMMENTBEGIN to be defined as /*? __BRACEBEGIN as {? Why

Re: missing definition of __STRING macro in standard cygwin headers

2007-03-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Pedro Alves wrote: > It wouldn't work. > #define __STRING #x != #define __STRING(x) #x I am just quoting what the OP said, which was: > What the web link basically says that cygwin doesn't have > #define __STRING #x > defined in any of the standard header files which means some source code I h

Re: missing definition of __STRING macro in standard cygwin headers

2007-03-03 Thread Pedro Alves
Brian Dessent wrote: Pedro Alves wrote: It wouldn't work. #define __STRING #x != #define __STRING(x) #x I am just quoting what the OP said, which was: What the web link basically says that cygwin doesn't have #define __STRING #x defined in any of the standard header files which means some

Re: script problem

2007-03-03 Thread Lev Bishop
On 3/2/07, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: The only downside to the switch that I've experienced is that my interactive shells take quite a bit longer to come up, but I think that may have something to do with my setup rather than something intrinsic to the rxvt-unicode+Xserver setup. My usage pattern

very odd behavior of Cygwin python from CMD

2007-03-03 Thread David Abrahams
With c:\cygwin\bin in my PATH, if I open a CMD shell and invoke python I get some garbage characters on my console, and then it freezes. If I instead do set USER=dave && python there are no garbage characters and no freeze, but also no python process. Can anyone explain this? Thanks,

emacs fatal error - called with threadlist_ix -1

2007-03-03 Thread Martin Sebor
I've observed the following message with the latest Cygwin running on Vista: 7 [sig] emacs 2476 C:\cygwin\bin\emacs.exe: *** fatal error - called with threadlist_ix -1 Both times emacs was idle and not being used when it happened, although there were other running processes on the system. I've

RE: script problem

2007-03-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Lev Bishop > Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 2:42 PM > Subject: Re: script problem > > On 3/2/07, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > The only downside to the switch that I've experienced is that my > > interactive shells take quite a bit longer to come up, but I think > > that may have somethi

javac?

2007-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Linux distributions usually provide a javac symlink pointing on gcj, which is handy for all these applications that assume that javac is the proper command for compiling java programs. Maybe cygwin should provide a javac symlink too? Samuel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#un

Re: javac?

2007-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Samuel Thibault, le Sun 04 Mar 2007 00:01:54 +0100, a écrit : > Linux distributions usually provide a javac symlink pointing on gcj, > which is handy for all these applications that assume that javac is the > proper command for compiling java programs. > > Maybe cygwin should provide a javac

Re: javac?

2007-03-03 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Samuel Thibault, le Sun 04 Mar 2007 00:01:54 +0100, a écrit : > > Linux distributions usually provide a javac symlink pointing on gcj, > > which is handy for all these applications that assume that javac is the > > proper command for compiling j

Re: javac?

2007-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Igor Peshansky, le Sat 03 Mar 2007 19:06:43 -0500, a écrit : > You might consider the Java wrappers in cygwin-apps: > . But this is not provided as a cygwin package and does point to cygwin programs. Isn't there a way t

Re: script problem

2007-03-03 Thread Lev Bishop
On 3/3/07, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Does running fc-cache speed up your startup? > > Lev It hasn't bothered me enough to even look in to it frankly. My Cygwin interactive shell startup times have been a bit slower than normal for years because I have a bit of Perl/Cygpath magic in my bash_pr

Re: very odd behavior of Cygwin python from CMD

2007-03-03 Thread David Abrahams
David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With c:\cygwin\bin in my PATH, if I open a CMD shell and invoke > > python > > I get some garbage characters on my console, and then it freezes. If > I instead do > > set USER=dave && python > > there are no garbage characters and no freeze, but a

Re: very odd behavior of Cygwin python from CMD

2007-03-03 Thread Brian Dessent
David Abrahams wrote: > Now, I am writing a program that must use CMD to probe for python in > the PATH and check its version. If I do the naive thing and just try > to invoke "python," and there's a Cygwin installation, my program will > crash or freeze. So the question is, what do I do instead

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GCC doesn't create an executable

2007-03-03 Thread Bogus Bill
I have the same problem. I tried to compile the requisite "Hello, world!" program, but gcc didn't give any messages, nor generate any output. Here are the specifics: Code: #include using namespace std; int main (void) { cout << "Hello, world!"; return 0; } Compiler c

Re: javac?

2007-03-03 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Igor Peshansky, le Sat 03 Mar 2007 19:06:43 -0500, a écrit : > > You might consider the Java wrappers in cygwin-apps: > > . > > But this is not provided as a cygwin package and doe

Re: very odd behavior of Cygwin python from CMD

2007-03-03 Thread David Abrahams
Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Abrahams wrote: > >> Now, I am writing a program that must use CMD to probe for python in >> the PATH and check its version. If I do the naive thing and just try >> to invoke "python," and there's a Cygwin installation, my program will >> crash or