Inoltra: Re: Doing additions in cygwin?

2007-03-23 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Kevin Markle ha scritto: > Hello, > > I'm attemping to use the expr variable and am > having > problems. when I > type test=expr 1+1 or > test=`expr 1+1` or > test='expr 1 + 1' or > > with and without quotes?? I just want to create a > variable based on and > expression? this is a bash qu

Extraneous characters in mutt text manual?

2007-03-23 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
I'm using Cygwin 1.5.24 on Windows XP Pro SP2 I saw the announcement about the new bash package, so I used setup.exe to upgrade my installed packages today. This bumped my mutt (and its documentation) up to 1.4.2.2-1 When I do (with less 381-1)... less /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.2.2/manual.txt I

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bsflite-0.82-2

2007-03-23 Thread Jonathan C. Allen
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === BSFlite - A minimalist console AIM client Homepage: http://bsflite.sourceforge.net/ Version : 0.82 License : BSD BSFlite is a rather small and "minimalistic" client for AOL's Instant Messenger service. NOTE: New package built with cygport, no new upstream

Re: perl fork errors with a cygwin dll?

2007-03-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 3/22/2007 11:26 PM: > This happens about 50% of the time when I run some kind of fork from > perl in cygwin: > > Executing: rsync -a --delete --delete-excluded --stats -v --progress > '/cygdrive/d/coLinux' '/cygdrive/

Re: perl fork errors with a cygwin dll?

2007-03-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This happens about 50% of the time when I run some kind of fork from perl in cygwin: Executing: rsync -a --delete --delete-excluded --stats -v --progress '/cygdrive/d/coLinux' '/cygdrive/h/Backup/coLinux' 9648 [main] perl 4064 d:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error -

Re: Extraneous characters in mutt text manual?

2007-03-23 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Mark S. Reglewski on 3/23/2007 3:20 AM: > less /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.2.2/manual.txt > > I get a display like this: > ESC[1mset-flag ESC[22m(default: w) > > Does anyone else observe this, or is this a me-only problem? I'm guessing

Re: Slow performance following upgrade

2007-03-23 Thread Lev Bishop
On 3/23/07, Zak Johnson wrote: I first blamed XFT, as it manifested itself most obviously when starting XFT applications; fc-cache helps? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cyg

Libusb-win32-0.1.12.1-1 makes system unusable after reboot.

2007-03-23 Thread Ton van Overbeek
I have problems with the libusb-win32-0.1.12.1-1 Cygwin package. Installation went fine. After running /usr/sbin/libusb-install the test program worked OK and also my own libusb based program worked fine. The real problem started after the following reboot. The /usr/sbin/libusb-install installs th

Re: Libusb-win32-0.1.12.1-1 makes system unusable after reboot.

2007-03-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Ton van Overbeek, le Fri 23 Mar 2007 15:18:24 +0100, a écrit : > I have problems with the libusb-win32-0.1.12.1-1 Cygwin package. Just to make sure, does the old 0.1.10.1-3 work fine? > My guess is that /usr/sbin/libusb-install omits some crucial step > (registry? kernel service?) which make

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: python-pyrex 0.9.5.1a-3

2007-03-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Version 0.9.5.1a-3 of "python-pyrex" has been uploaded. Pyrex lets you write code that mixes Python and C data types any way you want, and compiles it into a C extension for Python. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: cygwin@cygwin.com .

RE: Slow performance following upgrade

2007-03-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23 March 2007 06:38, Zak Johnson wrote: > I recently installed Cygwin (1.5.24(0.156/4/2)) on a new (dual-core) > machine, and am seeing much slower performance than a February install > of Cygwin on an older machine (no longer available for comparison, I'm > afraid). > > I suspect it is a prob

Re: Libusb-win32-0.1.12.1-1 makes system unusable after reboot.

2007-03-23 Thread Ton van Overbeek
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Ton van Overbeek, le Fri 23 Mar 2007 15:18:24 +0100, a écrit : > > I have problems with the libusb-win32-0.1.12.1-1 Cygwin package. > > Just to make sure, does the old 0.1.10.1-3 work fine? > Yes, Installed 0.1.10.1-3 after removing 0.1.12.1-

Re: Slow performance following upgrade

2007-03-23 Thread Zak Johnson
Lev Bishop wrote: > On 3/23/07, Zak Johnson wrote: > >I first blamed XFT, as it manifested itself most obviously when starting > >XFT applications; > > fc-cache helps? fc-cache fails: $ fc-cache /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: failed to write cache /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi: failed to

Re: Slow performance following upgrade

2007-03-23 Thread Zak Johnson
Dave Korn wrote: > Do you have any of the following installed? > > - Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component (dlactrlw.exe) > - Norton/MacAffee/Symantec antivirus or antispyware These two; no others. I disabled DLA using Sysinternals autoruns, as per the "Cygwin fork()" threa

Re: Libusb-win32-0.1.12.1-1 makes system unusable after reboot.

2007-03-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ton van Overbeek, le Fri 23 Mar 2007 16:56:48 +0100, a écrit : > Yes, Installed 0.1.10.1-3 after removing 0.1.12.1-1 and it works fine. Ok, so people can use that one instead for the few coming days until I fix the issue. > Also there is now an /usr/lib/libusb/install-filter.exe which did not > e

RE: Slow performance following upgrade

2007-03-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23 March 2007 16:11, Zak Johnson wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> Do you have any of the following installed? >> >> - Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component (dlactrlw.exe) >> - Norton/MacAffee/Symantec antivirus or antispyware > > These two; no others. I disabled DLA using S

Re: Extraneous characters in mutt text manual?

2007-03-23 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
Eric Blake wrote: According to Mark S. Reglewski on 3/23/2007 3:20 AM: less /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.2.2/manual.txt I get a display like this: ESC[1mset-flag ESC[22m(default: w) Does anyone else observe this, or is this a me-only problem? I'm guessing that you also upgraded man. There is

Re: Slow performance following upgrade

2007-03-23 Thread Zak Johnson
Dave Korn wrote: > Suspect DLA then. No such luck, I'm afriad. Uninstalled DLA (and all other Roxio software, for good measure). Rebooted. Verified DLA is not running and no DLA-related DLLs exist. No change in behavior. In fact, I see similar behavior when booted into safe mode. What else

Bash (under Cygwin) problem with colon

2007-03-23 Thread Philip Peake
The colon (:) character appears to be being misinterpreted. As an example: $ > xxx:yyy Rather than creating a file names xxx:yyy (as all other shells do, and bash does on my Solaris and Linux boxes) it creates a file called xxx. The colon appears to be being treated as a comment character r

Re: Bash (under Cygwin) problem with colon

2007-03-23 Thread Eric Blake
Philip Peake vogon.net> writes: > > The colon (:) character appears to be being misinterpreted. That's Windows for you! > > As an example: > >$ > xxx:yyy On Windows 9x, that is an invalid file name. On NT class machines, that is a command to create an alternate stream (google this li

Re: Building GCC 4.3.0 on Cygwin...

2007-03-23 Thread Tim Prince
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angelo Graziosi wrote: As I wrote: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31039 Ah, okay. I failed to see that you'd posted the config.log there. (And I mentioned gmp/mpfr as I have seen that cause the build to fail in exactly the way you described, but it's

Re: Libusb-win32-0.1.12.1-1 makes system unusable after reboot.

2007-03-23 Thread Ton van Overbeek
I believe I found the cause of the problem. When running cygcheck on /usr/lib/libusb/libusb0.sys I get this: $ cygcheck /usr/lib/libusb/libusb0.sys c:/Cygwin/lib/libusb/libusb0.sys Error: could not find usbd.sys < C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\BOOTVID.dll