RE: Installing rpmbuild?

2008-10-07 Thread Dave Korn
Jamie Webb wrote on 07 October 2008 14:01: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to add rpmbuild to my cygwin installation, using the > latest version of the net installer. Looking at the distribution site, > I see the rpm-build package, but it doesn't appear to be listed in the > installer interface. T

Re: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread Mark J. Reed
>From John Emmas: > When I double click the 'Cygwin' icon on my Windows desktop, a DOS-like > window opens which I'm led to believe is Cygwin's bash terminal. However, > with every version of Linux that I've used, the bash terminal had menus > allowing me to do certain things like (for example) c

Re: install assumes.exe extension?

2008-10-07 Thread Ralph Hempel
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Ralph Hempel <> wrote: I'd just like to clear up some confusion on my part about "install" as distributed with Cygwin. Does this help? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id318321 Yes, but then this part confuse

Re: [OT] RE: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread Ralph Hempel
Dave Korn wrote: Mark J. Reed wrote on 07 October 2008 14:30: While you can copy and paste with the standard "DOS box" window, it is not easy, and copying is especially laborious. It requires an extra step (you have to go into "mark mode" via Edit->Mark before you can select anything);

Re: Problem to open big selfextracting Zip files from bash - starting from scratch :-)

2008-10-07 Thread Dirk Napierala
If I missed feedback to the thread below I have to apologize. Otherwise I would like to recall this (my last post)again Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:57:32PM +0200, Dirk Napierala wrote: Dave Korn schrieb: Dirk Napierala wrote on 25 September 2008 09:55:

Re: [OT] RE: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread John Emmas
Thanks guys. It's already a lot better than it was, only this morning!! John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: [OT] RE: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Dave Korn wrote: > Enable "Quick Edit" in the properties. Then you can just use click-and-drag > to select, hit enter to copy, and right-click to paste. Very useful tip. Thanks! Now if we could just get rid of that rectangular-selection requirement. :) -- Ma

RE: [OT] RE: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread Dave Korn
Mark J. Reed wrote on 07 October 2008 15:01: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Dave Korn wrote: >> Enable "Quick Edit" in the properties. Then you can just use >> click-and-drag to select, hit enter to copy, and right-click to paste. > > Very useful tip. Thanks! Now if we could just get rid o

Installing rpmbuild?

2008-10-07 Thread Jamie Webb
Hi all, I've been trying to add rpmbuild to my cygwin installation, using the latest version of the net installer. Looking at the distribution site, I see the rpm-build package, but it doesn't appear to be listed in the installer interface. The setup.ini file has an entry for this package, but it'

Re: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: "Greg Chicares" Subject: Re: Cygwin bash You can configure size and colors in the "Properties" dialog. Thanks for the tip, Greg. Just setting a bigger font has improved matters enormously..! Also, I discovered along the way that even the existing, DOS-lik

Re: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread Gustavo Seabra
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Well me! I tried playing around with the -ip option to rxvt which says > inherit parent pixmap. This essentially allows you to have semi transparent > windows. Pretty cool. But the bad part is there doesn't seem to be a way to > control the a

[OT] RE: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread Dave Korn
Mark J. Reed wrote on 07 October 2008 14:30: > While you can copy and paste with the standard "DOS box" window, it is > not easy, and copying is especially laborious. It requires an extra > step (you have to go into "mark mode" via Edit->Mark before you can > select anything); Enable "Quick E

printing from gvim

2008-10-07 Thread Lester Ingber
I cannot seem to get the Cygwin gvim-7.2 to print to my HP Officejet. I keep getting E365: Failed to print Postscript file. However, I have also installed from ftp.vim.org//pub/vim/pc that version of gvim-7.2 under Program Files and I can print just file from that gvim. Thanks. Lester -- Unsub

release-2/libtool/setup.hint lists missing 'curr' file

2008-10-07 Thread Herb Maeder
The current setup.hint for release-2/libtool specifies the following current version: curr: 1.5.27a-1 But the corresponding libtool-1.5.27a-1.tar.bz2 file does not exist on the mirrors. Only libtool-2.2.2-2.tar.bz2 exists (listed in the "test:" field). I believe that if a package that requir

Re: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, John Emmas wrote: then simply, Edit->Paste. voila..! That is not "simply", that's tedious and annoying. One reason I prefer rxvt is that it supports middle-click paste. Even in native Windows mode. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin

Re: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Gustavo Seabra wrote: You can try using vitrite instead: http://www.vanmiddlesworth.org/vitrite With that you can set the transparency for *any* window in Windows (not only rxvt). You can set the transparency from 0 to 9 with just a ctrl+shift+[0-9]. really simple app, and v

Re: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:46 AM, John Hardin wrote: > That is not "simply", that's tedious and annoying. One reason I prefer rxvt > is that it supports middle-click paste. Even in native Windows mode. As noted, Windows console supports right-click paste in QuickEdit mode. But I still miss shift-I

Re: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Gustavo Seabra wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Well me! I tried playing around with the -ip option to rxvt which says inherit parent pixmap. This essentially allows you to have semi transparent windows. Pretty cool. But the bad part is there doesn't seem to be a w

Re: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
John Emmas wrote: - Original Message - From: "Greg Chicares" Subject: Re: Cygwin bash You can configure size and colors in the "Properties" dialog. Thanks for the tip, Greg. Just setting a bigger font has improved matters enormously..! Also, I discovered along the way that even the

Re: Cygwin bash

2008-10-07 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: "Mark J. Reed" Subject: Re: Cygwin bash As noted, Windows console supports right-click paste in QuickEdit mode. But I still miss shift-Insert. Oh - you and me, both - and especially within Linux. [CTRL+INSERT] followed by [SHIFT+INSERT] is s much more

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {apr1,libapr1,libapr1-devel}-1.3.3-1

2008-10-07 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version the Apache Portable Runtime is now available for download. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Please see http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-1.3 for more details about the changes since 1.2.11, the previous Cygwin release of this package. DESCRIPTION: ==

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {aprutil1,libaprutil1,libaprutil1-devel}-1.3.4-1

2008-10-07 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version the Apache Portable Runtime utilities library is now available for download. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Please see http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/CHANGES-APR-UTIL-1.3 for more details about the changes since 1.2.10, the previous Cygwin release of this package.

1.7 preallocate issue?

2008-10-07 Thread Rob Bosch
I've been testing out the 1.7.0-28 build of cygwin using rsync 3.0.3 with the preallocate patch. My destination server setup is a Windows Server 2003 R2 machine with a fibre array (10TB). The client is also running the same version of cygwin and rsync on a Server 2003 box. I've noticed that wh

invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-07 Thread Herb Maeder
The "Special values of user and group ids" section of the Cygwin User's Guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net.html#ntsec-ids) states: Also, since Cygwin release 1.3.20, if the current user is present in /etc/passwd, but that user's login group is not present in /etc/group, the grou

MPI under cygwin?

2008-10-07 Thread Gustavo Seabra
Hi all, I looked here: http://cygwin.com/packages/ , but there doesn't seem to be any MPI available for installing using setup.exe. I wonder if anyone here has experience installing any MPI implementation under cygwin. I **do not** mean to use the Windows version under cygwin, as listed here: htt

openssh 5.1p1-3 / ssh-host-config dependency and permission issues

2008-10-07 Thread Karl Herrick
The scope of this post is have an OpenSSH server running on top of Windows XP Professional without dependency errors or permission issues during the setup. On 2008-06-28 a system was installed from scratch with the following specs: Windows XP Professional SP2 setup.exe 2.573.2.2 OpenSSH

Re: MPI under cygwin?

2008-10-07 Thread Anh-Khai NGUYEN
Hi Gustavo, I'm using MPICH2 under Cygwin and it works fine. I would like to try OpenMPI but it is not yet supported. It seems OpenMPI team is working on it. Best regards, Anh-Khai Gustavo Seabra a écrit : Hi all, I looked here: http://cygwin.com/packages/ , but there doesn't seem to be any

Re: openssh 5.1p1-3 / ssh-host-config dependency and permission issues

2008-10-07 Thread Karl Herrick
Unfortunately, I forgot to attach my cygcheck.out file... it is now attached. Karl Herrick wrote: The scope of this post is have an OpenSSH server running on top of Windows XP Professional without dependency errors or permission issues during the setup. On 2008-06-28 a system was installed f

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-4.2.4-1 - A command-line driven interactive function plotting utility.

2008-10-07 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2008-10-03 21:55, skrev Dr. Volker Zell: Hi A new version of 'gnuplot' has been uploaded to a server near you. *snip* CYGWIN NEWS: o Update to latest upstream release. o Enabled the ggi driver Neat, I can get gnuplot output w/o starting the X-server. Thanks! PS. I have "

Memory leak with timer

2008-10-07 Thread Bob van Loosen
Hi all, When using a timer I seem to be getting a memory leak. It eats up about 8 kilobyte per second. Here's some example code: #include #include #include #include #include void nothing(){} void Die(char *error){perror(error); exit(1);} int main() { struct itimerspec itimer; struc

RE: Memory leak with timer

2008-10-07 Thread Dave Korn
Bob van Loosen wrote on 07 October 2008 23:09: > Hi all, > > When using a timer I seem to be getting a memory leak. > It eats up about 8 kilobyte per second. Mmmm, yeah, how interesting. Confirmed: the WS just keeps getting bigger and there's a constant rate of pagefaults per second. Somethi

Re: Memory leak with timer

2008-10-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:08:52AM +0200, Bob van Loosen wrote: > Hi all, > > When using a timer I seem to be getting a memory leak. > It eats up about 8 kilobyte per second. > > Here's some example code: > > #include > #include > #include > #include > #include > > void nothing(){} > void Die(

Re: Memory leak with timer

2008-10-07 Thread Bob van Loosen
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:08:52AM +0200, Bob van Loosen wrote: Hi all, When using a timer I seem to be getting a memory leak. It eats up about 8 kilobyte per second. Here's some example code: #include #include #include #include #include void nothing(){} voi

Re: Memory leak with timer

2008-10-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:45:55AM +0200, Bob van Loosen wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> This should be fixed in the next snapshot. If you are looking for a >> workaround, specifically set the sigev_notify_attributes to >> PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED. > > Thanks, that fixed it. > Shouldn't PTHRE