Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Jeenu V wrote: > With cgf's help and a good look at your cygcheck output, I believe I was > able to reproduce something like your problem. If I'm right, then you > want to remove 'tty' from your CYGWIN environment variable. Make sure

Re: Emacs not working correctly under the new cygwin server.

For a similar problem I eventually went to the cygwin installer, unchecked hide obsolete packages, went into the _obsolete area, selected everything beginning with xorg-x11-f (I would assume the XFree86-f* packages would work too) and restarted the X Windows server; actually by rebooting the compu

Re: SSH V.5.1 with Cygwin1.dll 1.7.0(0.189/5/3) 2008-12-09: Very large logon times...

Hello, Corinna, cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com schrieb am 16.12.2008 11:08:05: > Hello? Did you read all of my previous mail? > > > Please, don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU > == > Yes, I read and understand it now! > > On Dec 16 09:39, Carsten.Por

Re: Inconsistency with sort -n?

According to Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] on 12/31/2008 2:29 PM: [sorry for my delay in replying] > `sort -n' and `sort -g' work inconsistently with 0 and -0 if there are > leading spaces. Sometimes -0 is before 0, as I would expect, and sometimes > it is afterwards. Adding `-b' does not

Re: [1.7] Cygwin 1.7 misnames hardlinks

On Dec 23 20:09, Lawrence Mayer wrote: > Cygwin 1.7-37 and -36 misname certain hardlinks by adding an extra .exe > extention: e.g. > ln vgaoem.fon .. > creates vgaoem.fon.exe in the parent directory, not vgaoem.fon as expected. > > The same bug occurs with > cp -l vgaoem.fon .. > > Thi

Re: [BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

On Dec 31 22:38, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 12:06:40AM +, Eric Blake wrote: > >David Rothenberger acm.org> writes: > >>It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly read-only. > >>The sequence of steps below shows that "chmod 444 file1" does not make > >>th

Re: [1.7] /proc/mounts, /etc/mtab

On Jan 4 19:46, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > It would be a helpful enhancement to have a /proc/mounts interface to > the mountpoint data, with /etc/mtab perhaps being a symlink thereto. Is > this something that could be easily added, or is this

Re: tcsh problems with Cygwin on 64-bit Windows Server 2008

On Jan 5 11:50, Freddy Jensen wrote: > > I just finished setting up my new 64-bit Windows Server 2008 machine. > One of the final things was to install cygwin on the machine so I > could get all the Unix functionality. However, I ran into a problem > when launching the tcsh shell. I got this erro

Re: [1.7] Cygwin 1.7 misnames hardlinks

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > The same happens with all hardlinks to files used by the system. The NT > status code returned when trying to set the delete disposition flag is > C121, STATUS_CANNOT_DELETE. None of the Windows native methods to > delete these hardlinks works.

Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:49:46PM +0530, Jeenu V wrote: >On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) > wrote: >> Jeenu V wrote: > >> With cgf's help and a good look at your cygcheck output, I believe I was >> able to reproduce something like your problem. If I'm right, then you >> want t

Re: [1.7] Cygwin 1.7 misnames hardlinks

On Jan 7 09:38, Brian Ford wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > The same happens with all hardlinks to files used by the system. The NT > > status code returned when trying to set the delete disposition flag is > > C121, STATUS_CANNOT_DELETE. None of the Windows native

Empty include file on samba share

Hi I have a problem that may be cygwin or not. I'll just ask here if anybody knows something (or to show me some better place to go to). We use a quite old cross-gcc (2.95.2), built with cygwin and running on various windows (since NT on to vista). The currently used cygwin is version 1.5.19-cr-0

Re: tcsh problems with Cygwin on 64-bit Windows Server 2008

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 03:31:32PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >This is a problem of the lapack package. Unfortunately the lapack >package is orphaned and nobody volunteered to be the new package >maintainer so far. I've created a new lapack.csh file which should not have this problem and crea

Re: Empty include file on samba share

Fabian Cenedese wrote: Hi I have a problem that may be cygwin or not. I'll just ask here if anybody knows something (or to show me some better place to go to). We use a quite old cross-gcc (2.95.2), built with cygwin and running on various windows (since NT on to vista). The currently used cygw

Re: Missing telnet, rlogin, and rsh on cygwin

Freddy Jensen wrote: == Begin included message == From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Date: Tue Jan 6 2009 2:55pm To: "cygwin" Subj: Re: Missing telnet, rlogin, and rsh on cygwin [ Attachment (text/plain): 1301 bytes Character set: utf-8 plain text Encoded with "base64

Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

I need to put a Cygwin snapshot on CD[*]. To that end I've been searching the mailing list archive. So far the scripts wirtten by Vin Shelton look like they're awfully close to what I want. http://www.Cygwin.com/ml/Cygwin/2007-03/msg00606.html The only thing that (AFAICT) is missing is the inc

Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

Grant Edwards wrote: I need to put a Cygwin snapshot on CD[*]. To that end I've been searching the mailing list archive. So far the scripts wirtten by Vin Shelton look like they're awfully close to what I want. http://www.Cygwin.com/ml/Cygwin/2007-03/msg00606.html This link goes nowhere for

Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

rk in progress but ISOs are available here: http://cygwinsolutions.com/ I generate two ISOs - one for source, one for binary. For instance here is a binary ISO: http://updates.cygwinsolutions.com/20090107-11/cygwin-20090107-11-bin.iso and here is a source ISO: http://updates.cygwinsolutio

Re: [1.7] Cygwin 1.7 misnames hardlinks

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The same happens with all hardlinks to files used by the system. The NT status code returned when trying to set the delete disposition flag is C121, STATUS_CANNOT_DELETE. None of the Windows native methods to delete these hardlinks works. I'm st

Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

On 2009-01-07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> I need to put a Cygwin snapshot on CD[*]. >> >> To that end I've been searching the mailing list archive. So >> far the scripts wirtten by Vin Shelton look like they're >> awfully close to what I want. >> >> http://www.Cygwin.

Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

in ISOs at my own site for a few > months now. It's still a work in progress but ISOs are available here: > > http://cygwinsolutions.com/ Thanks. I'll take a look. > I generate two ISOs - one for source, one for binary. > > For instance here is a binary ISO: > >

Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) com> wrote: ^ Thanks. Grant Edwards wrote: I need to put a Cygwin snapshot on CD[*]. To that end I've been searching

Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > screen uses ptys. ptys are equivalent to CYGWIN=tty. > > We really don't guarantee that pure Windows applications will work with > ptys. Hm... looks like I've to live without cmd.exe from screen. Anyway,.thank you guys for the support

Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:23:16AM +, Grant Edwards wrote: >On 2009-01-07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> And, as you noted, you need to distribute the source of your >> application > >I don't see what my application has to do with anything. Just >because I compile an application with gcc, tha

Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:25:59AM +, Grant Edwards wrote: >One of the things I liked about Vin Shelton's script was that it >allowed me to customize what was installed by default. I need to add >5-6 packages to the default install. I'd really like to keep it to 1 >CD if at all possible. I w

Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:18:11PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:25:59AM +, Grant Edwards wrote: >>One of the things I liked about Vin Shelton's script was that it >>allowed me to customize what was installed by default. I need to add >>5-6 packages to the defaul

Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

On 2009-01-08, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:23:16AM +, Grant Edwards wrote: >>On 2009-01-07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> And, as you noted, you need to distribute the source of your >>> application >> >>I don't see what my application has to do with anything. Ju

Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

On 2009-01-08, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:25:59AM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>One of the things I liked about Vin Shelton's script was that >>it allowed me to customize what was installed by default. I >>need to add 5-6 packages to the default install. I'd really

Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

On 2009-01-08, Grant Edwards wrote: I didn't think it was relevent to the question at hand, but to try to short-circuit yet another endless, pointless discussion of the GPL, I'll explain exactly what the CD is for. What I'm putting together is a CD with a very basic Cygwin installation plus a cr

Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?

Grant Edwards wrote: > I mean the packages that are installed by default when you run > setup.exe for the first time and don't select any additional > packages. Maybe that set of packages is called something else? We usually call that the "Base" installation, as those packages are in the "Base" c