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

2008-10-10 Thread Dirk Napierala
Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 04:48:20PM +0200, Dirk Napierala wrote: Christopher Faylor schrieb: If I missed feedback to the thread below I have to apologize. Otherwise I would like to recall this (my last post)again This is getting old. Rather than rep

Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

2008-10-10 Thread John Emmas
I'm trying to build a library called "aubio" which requires the fftw3 math package. I built and installed fftw3 yesterday. However, when I try to build aubio, the ./configure stage fails, saying that fftw3 can't be found. The config log says:- Package fftw3f was not found in the pkg-config sear

[OT] Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

2008-10-10 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: "Brian Dessent" Subject: Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ? /usr/lib and /lib are the same directory. Woo - this gets more fascinating as the days progress. I'm now installing

Re: Cmake 2.6 and the FindwxWidgets.cmake seems to use the wrong locating logic in Cygwin

2008-10-10 Thread Bill Hoffman
Brian Keener wrote: I'm not sure if this should be posted here or if I should go upstream to cmake.org but I was compiling an application that uses cmake/ccmake and can be compiled on Windows/Linux/MingW/Cygwin and so on. Not a lot of folks try it on Cygwin so I have been stumbling over some o

cygwin is slow with a new server setup

2008-10-10 Thread Michael Schwartzkopff
Hi, we have a very strange problem here. We did setup a new RHEL5 server with KDE and xdmcp. Accessing the box from other Linux hosts and displaying X is no problem and works good: Xnet -query :1 and I can work as if it would be locally. When we access the same server from Windows machines w

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

2008-10-10 Thread Reid Thompson
Dirk Napierala wrote: , but what I do not understand is > that after > we found that only replacing the dll cause the prob and fix it again > when reverted, why isn't that enough > to troubleshoot the dll now? Also because it does not work with the 1.7 > version. > > I think if you'll go back thro

Re: optimizing fork/exec in vendor source

2008-10-10 Thread Jack Andrews
eric wrote: > No, changing bash to use CreateProcess is not the answer. The real > question is whether someone with copyright assignment is willing to write > posix_spawn[p], and write it more efficiently than forking, this seems to be an easy problem in cygwin (at least, in comparison to fork).

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

2008-10-10 Thread Ralph Hempel
Reid Thompson wrote: Dirk Napierala wrote: , but what I do not understand is that after we found that only replacing the dll cause the prob and fix it again when reverted, why isn't that enough to troubleshoot the dll now? Also because it does not work with the 1.7 version. I think if you'll g

Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

2008-10-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- John Emmas ha scritto: > I'm trying to build a library called "aubio" which > requires the fftw3 math > package. I built and installed fftw3 yesterday. > However, when I try to > build aubio, the ./configure stage fails, saying > that fftw3 can't be found. > The config log says:- > why ha

RE: optimizing fork/exec in vendor source

2008-10-10 Thread Dave Korn
Jack Andrews wrote on 10 October 2008 14:27: > eric wrote: >> No, changing bash to use CreateProcess is not the answer. The real >> question is whether someone with copyright assignment is willing to write >> posix_spawn[p], and write it more efficiently than forking, > > this seems to be an eas

New package: chicken-3.4.0-1

2008-10-10 Thread Nathan Thern
The chicken implementation of the scheme programming language is now available with the Cygwin distribution. * http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/ (Homepage) DESCRIPTION: CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. CHICKEN produces portable, efficient C,

Re: optimizing fork/exec in vendor source

2008-10-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:26:32AM +1100, Jack Andrews wrote: >eric wrote: >>No, changing bash to use CreateProcess is not the answer. The real >>question is whether someone with copyright assignment is willing to >>write posix_spawn[p], and write it more efficiently than forking, > >this seems to

Re: ssh accepting AD kerberos tickets

2008-10-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 9 17:07, Sam Liddicott wrote: > I've read about cygwin, ssh and network access till my neck hurts. > > It seems to me that if someone :-) integrates ssh kerberos > authentication such that sshd accepts an AD kerberos ticket, that > _maybe_ this could be associated with the login and give t

Re: optimizing fork/exec in vendor source

2008-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
Jack Andrews gmail.com> writes: > > eric wrote: > > No, changing bash to use CreateProcess is not the answer. The real > > question is whether someone with copyright assignment is willing to write > > posix_spawn[p], and write it more efficiently than forking, > > this seems to be an easy prob

Re: optimizing fork/exec in vendor source

2008-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jack Andrews on 10/9/2008 11:25 PM: > in the example, i guess all that is done is to fork and exec ls, > grabbing its stdout. this can be done with CreateProcess() easily > without having to emulate everything that fork does. so my real

Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

2008-10-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- John Emmas ha scritto: > - Original Message - > From: "Marco Atzeri" > Subject: Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ? > > > > why have you not installed : > > > > libfftw3-devel-3.1.2-2 > > libfftw3_3-3.1.2-2 ? > > > > it should be much simpler that rebuilding > > fftw3 from scra

Re: cygwin is slow with a new server setup

2008-10-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:46:07PM +0200, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote: >we have a very strange problem here. We did setup a new RHEL5 server with KDE >and xdmcp. Accessing the box from other Linux hosts and displaying X is no >problem and works good: > >Xnet -query :1 This would appear to

Re: New package: chicken-3.4.0-1

2008-10-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:23:01AM -0500, Nathan Thern wrote: >The chicken implementation of the scheme programming language is now >available with the Cygwin distribution. > > * http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/ (Homepage) Please don't cc cygwin-com when you send announcments. That

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

2008-10-10 Thread Dirk Napierala
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] schrieb: From: Dirk Napierala wrote on Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:48 AM Phil Betts schrieb: Yes, the file called sfx-file.exe I can make it available for you to test. Please just reply to my corp. address and I can provide you with download details.

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

2008-10-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 9 17:35, Herb Maeder wrote: > On 09 Oct 2008 13:05:36 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Bingo. We now have two entries for Domain Users, one with gid 898 > > and one with 10513. > > Thanks for the explanation. The behavior makes sense to me now. > > But I think that means that so

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated experimental package: gcc4-4.3.2-1

2008-10-10 Thread Dave Korn
Angelo Graziosi wrote on 09 October 2008 22:50: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> Is it perhaps that the runtime library has debug in it with my package... > > ... and this happens because gcc-4 package is still 'experimental' > > Right? Hmm, well it could be that something's wrong with the way I've d

Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

2008-10-10 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: "Marco Atzeri" Subject: Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ? why have you not installed : libfftw3-devel-3.1.2-2 libfftw3_3-3.1.2-2 ? it should be much simpler that rebuilding fftw3 from scratch. Oh, how embarrassing..! I've been using cygwin-ports f

[OT] Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

2008-10-10 Thread John Emmas
Sorry to keep asking dumb questions - but now that I've installed fftw3, I can get aubio past the stage where it was previously complaining. However, aubio's 'make' is now bombing out, saying:- cannot find -lpython2.5 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status AFAICT I do have pyhton2.5 but it's a DLL

Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

2008-10-10 Thread Brian Dessent
John Emmas wrote: > When I got to the 'make install' stage for fftw3 it installed its files > under /usr/ whereas my other libraries seem to be installed under /lib/ > (e.g. fftw3f.pc was in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ - whereas 'everything_else.pc' > seems to be in /lib/pkgconfig/). I'm assuming that th

Re: [OT] Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

2008-10-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- John Emmas ha scritto: > Sorry to keep asking dumb questions - but now that > I've installed fftw3, I > can get aubio past the stage where it was previously > complaining. However, > aubio's 'make' is now bombing out, saying:- > > cannot find -lpython2.5 > collect2: ld returned 1 exit stat

Re: [OT] Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

2008-10-10 Thread Jason Tishler
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:01:02PM +0100, John Emmas wrote: > Sorry to keep asking dumb questions - but now that I've installed > fftw3, I can get aubio past the stage where it was previously > complaining. However, aubio's 'make' is now bombing out, saying:- > > cannot find -lpython2.5 > collect

Re: Cmake 2.6 and the FindwxWidgets.cmake seems to use the wrong locating logic in Cygwin

2008-10-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Brian Keener wrote: > I'm not sure if this should be posted here or if I should go upstream > to cmake.org but I was compiling an application that uses cmake/ccmake > and can be compiled on Windows/Linux/MingW/Cygwin and so on. Not a lot > of fol

Re: [OT] Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

2008-10-10 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: "Jason Tishler" Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ? You need to get make to add the following: -L /usr/lib/python2.5/config Thanks Jason - presumably I'd need to do this either by passing a parameter to 'make' or by editing the ma

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

2008-10-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:51:23AM +0200, Dirk Napierala wrote: >> If I missed feedback to the thread below I have to apologize. >> Otherwise I would like to recall this (my last post)again > > This is getting old. Rather than repeatedly apologize for theoretically > n

sh / bash.exe exits and "does no longer work" (Vista)

2008-10-10 Thread Marc Weber
When running sh / bash on Vista I hit one problem occasionally.. A popup appeared telling me "sh funktioniert nicht mehr" (sh does no longer work) - sorry, I was'nt able to switch to English language :-( When running Vista within qemu I even can't run bash --login because of that. Running sh from

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

2008-10-10 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Dirk Napierala wrote on Friday, October 10, 2008 5:36 AM: > Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] schrieb: >> From: Dirk Napierala wrote on Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:48 AM >> >> I'll presume the following. >> - You've a "good" reason (company policy?) that you cannot use the >> simplest solution

Re: optimizing fork/exec in vendor source

2008-10-10 Thread Jack Andrews
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>this seems to be an easy problem in cygwin (at least, in comparison to >>fork). and would fix one of the biggest problems with cygwin (or at >>least cygwin bash). who has to hold the copyright? > > It is not an "easy

Virtual inheritance & dllimport in GCC 4

2008-10-10 Thread John E. / TDM
Hi! On the off chance that you're A) reading this message, B) a GCC on Windows hacker, and C) not aware of GCC PR#36654, I'd like to draw your attention to it. This is an interesting problem that arises in builds of recent GCC versions for Windows (i.e. Cygwin and MinGW). Basically, this bug

ACL weirdness on Cygwin

2008-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm just as stumped as Bruno on this issue, and don't know if it represents a bug in cygwin1.dll. - Original Message [http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2008-10/msg00195.html] The test-copy-acl.sh test fails for me on Cygw

Re: optimizing fork/exec in vendor source

2008-10-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jack Andrews on 10/10/2008 7:50 PM: > i'm naive when it comes to cygwin internals, but the obvious > similarity of posix_spawn to CreateProcess is seductive. can you give > me an example of one of the difficulties of implementing posix_sp

Re: optimizing fork/exec in vendor source

2008-10-10 Thread Jack Andrews
eric wrote: > Exactly how do you propose to implement posix_spawnattr_setsigdefault > without understanding cygwin internals, and given the fact that native > Windows API is woefully lacking in sigset_t coding? in the startup code for the new process, i'd call signal() (or similar) to set the defa

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

2008-10-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 07:03:26PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Speaking of "Changing Cygwin's Maximum Memory" > ... > >Curiously (since I've never played with heap_chunk_in_mb), when I tried >max_memory.exe I got the exact

Re: optimizing fork/exec in vendor source

2008-10-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:50:03PM +1100, Jack Andrews wrote: >On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: There is no reason to include my email address in the body of your message. That's what email headers are for. >>>this seems to be an easy problem in cygwin (at least, in co

Linker Search Directories

2008-10-10 Thread John Emmas
I hope it's okay to start a new thread about this because the previous thread had veered off-topic. I'm trying to build a project (using make) that needs python. Python's link library is in /lib/python2.5/config/ but unfortunately, 'make' doesn't seem to be aware of this and fails with the messa

Re: Linker Search Directories

2008-10-10 Thread Brian Dessent
John Emmas wrote: > I'm trying to build a project (using make) that needs python. Python's link > library is in /lib/python2.5/config/ but unfortunately, 'make' doesn't seem > to be aware of this and fails with the message:- make doesn't know anything about linker search directories. It just ex