Re: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_32/working/math-gmpz/Math-GMPz-0.22 > $ perldoc ExtUtils::MakeMaker > Error in tempfile() using ./XX: Parent directory (./) is not > writable > at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1483 tempfile() is trying to create the tempfile in the current direc

Re: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-05 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . I wonder, do you have TMPDIR set? Try setting it, e.g. export TMPDIR=/tmp/Rob Yep - that fixes it. Both TEMP and TMP were set, but not TMPDIR. How do I make that alteration a permanent fixture, so that I don't

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 5 04:09, goetz fischer wrote: > hello, > > i know this has been discussed but sadly not enough. > i just used a nightly dll and the error message is gone but it still > doesn't work. the prompt just keeps empty like it's working. > to be clear this is about using rsh with cygwin on vista.

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 5 11:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 5 04:09, goetz fischer wrote: > > hello, > > > > i know this has been discussed but sadly not enough. > > i just used a nightly dll and the error message is gone but it still > > doesn't work. the prompt just keeps empty like it's working. > > to

Test file "is not readable" when running 'make test' (Perl)

2007-07-05 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, I'm trying to build a very small (and simplistic) perl module that I've created (Foo-0.01): [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_32/comp/Foo-0.01 $ perl Makefile.PL Writing Makefile for Foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_32/comp/Foo-0.01 $ make test cp

Re: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Sisyphus on 7/5/2007 3:15 AM: > Yep - that fixes it. Both TEMP and TMP were set, but not TMPDIR. > > How do I make that alteration a permanent fixture, so that I don't have > to do it every time I open a new shell ? I tried editing etc/pr

Re: Test file "is not readable" when running 'make test' (Perl)

2007-07-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Sisyphus on 7/5/2007 4:32 AM: > $ ls -l > total 1 > --+ 1 Rob None 46 Jul 5 13:37 test.t Hmm, you have non-default ACLs associated with this file (perhaps they were inherited from the directory?) The commands getfacl and setfacl

Problem with setup.exe

2007-07-05 Thread David Kastrup
Hi, I have downloaded and non-installed a number of packages. Now I call setup.exe in a batch file with setup -n -N -d -A -L -q -R %CYGWIN_HOME% and this works in that it installs what is cached in the local directory, but!!! just the default minimal selection, not what I have additionally sel

Problem: Java interpreter does not work

2007-07-05 Thread Dan N
I tried to run Java interpreter, but it doesn't work. Here is how it looks like: [~/Java] cat HelloWorld.java public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello world!"); } // main } [~/Java] jikes -bootclasspath /usr/share/java/libgcj-3.4

Re: Problem: Java interpreter does not work

2007-07-05 Thread Jan Moesen
[~/Java] gij HelloWorld.class Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: HelloWorld.class Shouldn't you leave out ".class" there? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http:

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 05:19:28PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > > work. Have things changed with these libraries since last year. This > > was, BTW, I relative new install of cyqwin. I just copied the gfortran > > and gcc4 executables over from an older machine. I thi

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread goetz fischer
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 5 04:09, goetz fischer wrote: hello, i know this has been discussed but sadly not enough. i just used a nightly dll and the error message is gone but it still doesn't work. the prompt just keeps empty like it's working. to be clear this is about using rsh wi

Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
Good morning, I have a POS emulation program written in C. It uses two threads, two condition variables and a mutex. One thread receives from a serial port, the other sends. The condition variables and mutex are used to create a message queue between the two threads to pass received ACK/NAK to the

Re: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:10:36AM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: >Good morning, > >I have a POS emulation program written in C. It uses two threads, two >condition variables and a mutex. One thread receives from a serial port, >the other sends. The condition variables and mutex are used to create a >

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 15:11, Bob McConnell wrote: > Good morning, > > I have a complex system with multiple interactions that a rough overview of is utterly inadequate to attempt to diagnose complicated interlocking or race problems. > Is this a known issue? What, your program having a bug? No

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 05:19:28PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Brian Salter-Duke wrote: work. Have things changed with these libraries since last year. This was, BTW, I relative new install of cyqwin. I just copied the gfortran and gcc4 executables over from an older m

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread goetz fischer
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I started an inetd w/ rsh and rlogin on another box and that box was a 'real' unix box? no but? and tried to login from my vista test machine to that box. rlogin, rsh and rcp worked fine. We'd need a much more detailed problem description to help you.

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:54 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows > > On 05 July 2007 15:11, Bob McConnell wrote: > > > Good mornin

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 5 14:59, goetz fischer wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jul 5 04:09, goetz fischer wrote: > > > >>hello, > >> > >>i know this has been discussed but sadly not enough. > >>i just used a nightly dll and the error message is gone but it still > >>doesn't work. the prompt just keeps e

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 5 17:28, goetz fischer wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>I started an inetd w/ rsh and rlogin on > >>>another box > >>> > >>and that box was a 'real' unix box? > >> > >no > > > but? Another Cygwin box. What about my request of a more detailed problem description instead?

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 16:33, Bob McConnell wrote: > If I read this right, you are saying there are no reported conflicts in > pthread resources between multiple processes. That is all I wanted to > know. I don't like to waste time diagnosing known problems and then be > told much later that there is an

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 16:16, Bob McConnell wrote: >> But unless you can http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPAST, you're >> just holding up >> a black box and saying "There's magic stuff in here and it's >> broke, does >> anyone know why", to which the only answer is of course "Depends what the >> magic stuff

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:59 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Interference between instances on MS-Windows > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:10:36AM -0400, Bob McConne

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:48 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows > > On 05 July 2007 16:33, Bob McConnell wrote: > > > > If I rea

RE: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 17:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 5 18:00, goetz fischer wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> Another Cygwin box. >>> >> not the best test i'd say. > > As valid as any other test. Did you try against a Cygwin box? > >>> What about my request of a more detailed problem d

RE: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 10:15, Sisyphus wrote: > How do I make that alteration a permanent fixture, so that I don't have to > do it every time I open a new shell ? I tried editing etc/profile (in > wordpad), but only succeeded in stuffing up the line endings - and had to > replace that file with a copy of

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:47 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows > > On 05 July 2007 16:16, Bob McConnell wrote: > > >> But unle

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 5 18:00, goetz fischer wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Another Cygwin box. > > > not the best test i'd say. As valid as any other test. Did you try against a Cygwin box? > >What about my request of a more detailed problem description instead? > what else should i say? i submitted t

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread goetz fischer
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 5 17:28, goetz fischer wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I started an inetd w/ rsh and rlogin on another box and that box was a 'real' unix box? no but? Another Cygwin box. not the best test i'd say. What

RE: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 17:01, goetz fischer wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> What about my request of a more detailed problem description instead? > what else should i say? i submitted the cygcheck output and there's > nothing left to tell. There's just about /everything/ left to tell. What type

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 17:17, Bob McConnell wrote: > All of the timing is based on the serial data being exchanged with the > host system. Without that interaction, there is nothing left to examine. Without testing it you have no way of knowing whether that is important or not. It could be that there

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > However I have to say that I think that this is very much a cygwin > question. Knowing what packages to install before doing something is a > cygwin question and I got no sense that I had to do this on the gfortran > site before downloading the tar file of executables fo

Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Lee Rhodes
Hello, I have installed the GSL libs via setup and am trying to get the following example program to work: #include #include int main (void) { double x = 5.0; double y = gsl_sf_bessel_J0 (x); printf ("J0(%g) = %.18e\n", x, y); return 0; } The compiler/li

Re: Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Lee Rhodes wrote: Hello, I have installed the GSL libs via setup and am trying to get the following example program to work: #include #include int main (void) { double x = 5.0; double y = gsl_sf_bessel_J0 (x); printf ("J0(%g) = %.18e\n", x, y); return 0;

Re: Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Lee Rhodes wrote: > The compiler/linker is able to locate the header ok, but the error message I > get on the line that calls the function is: > > undefined reference to `_gsl_sf_bessel_J0' > > Somehow the function name got mangled with an added underscore, and of > course, it doesn't ex

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-07-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lev Bishop, le Wed 04 Jul 2007 23:54:32 -0400, a écrit : > Is there a way I can investigate this without needing special braille > hardware Well, there is a virtual braille device, but it can't replace the fast physical sense of braille dots. Samuel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Lee Rhodes
Lewis, Thanks, OK, I was able to compile it ok from the command line as you suggested. However, the plot thickens, and I should have mentioned, that I am attempting to compile/build using Eclipse (using the Generated Makefile Builder). So my problem may be configuring Eclipse, which is usin

Re: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 05 July 2007 17:17, Bob McConnell wrote: Sending a copy of it to one support tech to debug that vendor's library does not constitute distribution, AFAICT. Utterly comprehensively wrong. Sorry. Really? "You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose of hav

Re: Slow directory listing

2007-07-05 Thread Anton Ivanov
>> I experience a problem whereby 'ls' of a directory takes upwards of 20 >> seconds. I've searched around the archives and found reports of issues >> that could be similar (i.e. slow bash completion) but it didn't seem >> like any action was taken. >Cygwin is slow. This is by design. 20 second

Re: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-05 Thread Thomas Berger
Andrew Schulman wrote: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_32/working/math-gmpz/Math-GMPz-0.22 >> >> $ perldoc ExtUtils::MakeMaker >> >> Error in tempfile() using ./XX: Parent directory (./) is not >> >> writable >> >> at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1483 > > > > tempfile() is

Re: Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Lee Rhodes
Brian, Thanks. Here is the output from Eclipse: make -k all Building file: ../main.cpp Invoking: GCC C++ Compiler g++ -O0 -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -MMD -MP -MF"main.d" -MT"main.d" -o"main.o" "../main.cpp" Finished building: ../main.cpp Building target: TestGSL.exe Invoking: GCC C++

Re: Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Lee Rhodes wrote: Brian, Thanks. Here is the output from Eclipse: make -k all Building file: ../main.cpp Invoking: GCC C++ Compiler g++ -O0 -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -MMD -MP -MF"main.d" -MT"main.d" -o"main.o" "../main.cpp" Finished building: ../main.cpp Building target: TestGSL.e

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- A few months ago this did not happen (same building procedure). ___ You posted this several places, and they're still arriving. Apparently, nothing has changed, except they've added this warning that the maintainers of this librar

Re: Slow directory listing

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Anton Ivanov wrote: > As I said the directory for which the listing takes a long time to > produce contains only 22 entries. > I tried 'ls', not 'ls -l'. Note that sometimes even plain 'ls' requires a full stat call on each file, such as if you have coloring enabled via an alias or for the printi

Re: Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Lee Rhodes
Lewis, Thanks! I found where to add the library reference in the Eclipse dialog hierarchy: Project/properties/"C/C++ Build"/"GCC C++ Linker"/Libraries/ . I also had to add c:\cygwin\lib\lapack to the PATH environment variable so it could find cyglas.dll. Thank you for your patience! Lee.

RE: Slow directory listing

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 20:55, Anton Ivanov wrote: > It still appears to me that in my particular case the slow-down is not > necessary. Could be something else interfering. Known culprits include: Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component Norton/MacAffee/Symantec antivirus or antisp

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:47:28AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > > However I have to say that I think that this is very much a cygwin > > question. Knowing what packages to install before doing something is a > > cygwin question and I got no sense that I had to do this

Re: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

2007-07-05 Thread Pavel Kudrna
Christopher Faylor wrote: I suppose it is possible that we'd consider a nicely written, minimally intrusive patch to use these but I'm not 100% certain that it is even possible to do this cleanly given the way the environment variable/path conversion handling works. Lets look back to original

Re: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

2007-07-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Pavel Kudrna wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I suppose it is possible that we'd consider a nicely written, minimally intrusive patch to use these but I'm not 100% certain that it is even possible to do this cleanly given the way the environment variable/path conversion handling works. Lets

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > I understand all this, but this case seems an odd one to me. If I am > missing a library I expect to find a clear error message that it needs > it, but here I just got nothing. I agree that this not a cygwin problem. > I have yet to update my old gfortran 4.2. on linux t

Re: Slow directory listing

2007-07-05 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Could be something else interfering. Known culprits include: Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component Norton/MacAffee/Symantec antivirus or antispyware Logitech webcam software with "Logitech process monitor" service Kerio, Agnitum or ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall Iolo System M

Re: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

2007-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 06:50:45PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Pavel Kudrna wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>I suppose it is possible that we'd consider a nicely written, minimally >>>intrusive patch to use these but I'm not 100% certain that it is even >>>possible to do this cleanly g

cygwin terminal question

2007-07-05 Thread ppanta
Hi, I'm looking for a way to increase the number of lines that the terminal will be able to show. e.g. I can only see the last 200 lines in my terminal. If there's a way to increase the history lines please let me know. It would be greatly appreciate. Thx. pp -- View this message in context: ht

Re: cygwin terminal question

2007-07-05 Thread Jan Moesen
e.g. I can only see the last 200 lines in my terminal. If you are talking about the default console window (e.g. bash), you can change its properties in the window's system menu. Click on the icon in the title bar, choose Properties, go to the Layout tab and change the screen buffer size. Hop