Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: experimental package: gcc4-4.3.2-2

2009-03-14 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Sab 14/3/09, Dave Korn ha scritto: > Da: Dave Korn > Oggetto: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: experimental package: gcc4-4.3.2-2 > A: > Data: Sabato 14 marzo 2009, 07:56 > Marco Atzeri wrote: > > > it seems a 1.7 specific fault. On cygwin 1.5 it works; > I never checked > > before :-( > >   O

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: experimental package: gcc4-4.3.2-2

2009-03-14 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Dave Korn wrote: 1.5 or 1.7? I do not use 1.7. uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 mypc 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin cygcheck ./test_program.exe .\test_program.exe C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll C:\WINDOWS\

Clearing the Cygwin console

2009-03-14 Thread Thomas Wiedmann
Hello, on Linux/UNIX systems with the command 'clear' the console content usually can be "flushed", on Windows with 'cls'. None of these commands worked with Cygwin. If I enter 'clear', the message bash: clear: command not found is returned. How can a console used with Cygwin be cleared? Tho

Re: Starting other Cygwin console from Cygwin console

2009-03-14 Thread Thomas Wiedmann
"cygstart bash" Thanks - worked. Thomas Wiedmann -- 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: Clearing the Cygwin console

2009-03-14 Thread Andy Koppe
> on Linux/UNIX systems with the command 'clear' the console content usually > can be "flushed", on Windows with 'cls'. > None of these commands worked with Cygwin. If I enter 'clear', the message >  bash: clear: command not found > is returned. > > How can a console used with Cygwin be cleared? C

Re: Clearing the Cygwin console

2009-03-14 Thread Thomas Wiedmann
Ctrl+L. Works in all terminals. Great - thanks - worked. Thomas Wiedmann -- 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: under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

2009-03-14 Thread Vin Shelton
René Berber wrote: Vin Shelton wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Just for grins, could you rebuild zsh against libncurses9 -- but this time use gcc3? cygiconv-2 and cygncurses-9 use the static gcc-3.4.4 libgcc.a, but you are apparently using the gcc-4.3.2 shared libgcc. I just wonder if that pres

Re: Clearing the Cygwin console

2009-03-14 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Koppe wrote: >> on Linux/UNIX systems with the command 'clear' the console content usually >> can be "flushed", on Windows with 'cls'. >> None of these commands worked with Cygwin. If I enter 'clear', the message >> bash: clear: command not found >> is returned. >> >> How can a console used w

Re: Clearing the Cygwin console

2009-03-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Dave Korn wrote: > In a DOS console, it doesn't clear and reset the scrollback buffer, only the > visible field. There's also 'clear.exe', although it also does not clear/reset the scrollback buffer. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Clearing the Cygwin console

2009-03-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thomas Wiedmann (Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:25:21 +0100) > on Linux/UNIX systems with the command 'clear' the console content > usually can be "flushed", on Windows with 'cls'. None of these > commands worked with Cygwin. If I enter 'clear', the message > bash: clear: command not found > is returned.

Re: Problems installing Cygwin on Windows XP

2009-03-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* cwcarls...@cox.net (Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:43:53 -0400) > Today, I tried to install it on my Windows XP system at work. I > downloaded the entire release ("Download without Installing") and > copied this to a CD. I got the release from kernel.org. I had to do > this because we don't have full Intern

Re: Clearing the Cygwin console

2009-03-14 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Andy Koppe wrote: on Linux/UNIX systems with the command 'clear' the console content usually can be "flushed", on Windows with 'cls'. None of these commands worked with Cygwin. If I enter 'clear', the message bash: clear: command not found is returned. How can a console used with Cygwin be clea

Re: Clearing the Cygwin console

2009-03-14 Thread Dave Korn
Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > Andy Koppe wrote: >>> on Linux/UNIX systems with the command 'clear' the console content >>> usually >>> can be "flushed", on Windows with 'cls'. >>> None of these commands worked with Cygwin. If I enter 'clear', the >>> message >>> bash: clear: command not found >>> is r

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-03-14 Thread bjoe
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:37:03PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: > > What I found missing in Mintty is putty feature to start duplicate > > session (more welcome with hot-keys) > > Since MinTTY doesn't have sessions like Putty, I didn't think there > was much point in keeping this. It's because you re

Mintty running program from shortcut problem

2009-03-14 Thread bjoe
Dear, When we running program with mintty from shortcut, mintty will running the program in non login shell without knowing cygwin PATH. This will make some kind of error When program try to running external program like info run gzip or using shell escape in vim. Is this expected behavior?

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-03-14 Thread Charles Wilson
bjoe wrote: > It's because you remove networking function from putty, right. IMHO > this feature will help many user (especially who come from Windows > word) and will give sort of additional point for Mintty (regarding > flame war between mintty and rxvt). What flame war? If you like mintty, us

Re: Mintty running program from shortcut problem

2009-03-14 Thread Andy Koppe
> When we running program with mintty from shortcut, mintty will > running the program in non login shell without knowing cygwin PATH. > This will make some kind of error When program try to running > external program like info run gzip or using shell escape in vim. > Is this expected behavior? Ye

setup.exe crashes when removing xorg-server

2009-03-14 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, After (actually during) my last cygwin update, the installation procedure crashes when setup tries to uninstall xorg-server. I am running on windows XP I have updated to the latest setup.exe (2.573.2.3), and rebooted. I do not see any x-processes in either task manager or windows servic

Re: setup.exe crashes when removing xorg-server

2009-03-14 Thread tmcd
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Mirko Vukovic wrote: > After (actually during) my last cygwin update, the installation > procedure crashes when setup tries to uninstall xorg-server. I am > running on windows XP Is the "crash" something like a window popping up saying that setup.exe has encountered errors a

clearing the scrollback buffer in mintty

2009-03-14 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Dave Korn "piped": For gui consoles, use alias cls='echo -e "\033c"' which does clear the scrollback buffer. Thanks Dave, this works on 'xterm' but not on 'mintty'. On 'mintty' it does a 'clear' (i.e., clears the screen), rather than a 'cls' (i.e., clears the screen and scrollback buf

Is there a problem with cygport?

2009-03-14 Thread Lee D.Rothstein
--- Begin Message --- A huge number (575) of 'man' pages, that reference other man pages using a '.so' (source include) reference, fail to work because the plain text files have the '.gz' extension appended without actually being gzipped. Could this be due to a mishap in or with the 'cygport' pa

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: mintty-0.3.6-1

2009-03-14 Thread Andy Koppe
MinTTY is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user interface and minimalist design. Its terminal emulation is largely compatible with xterm, but it does not require an X server to be running. It is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team. This is a routine update.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: [1.7] {libXpm-noX/libXpm-noX-devel/libXpm-noX_4}-3.5.7-11

2009-03-14 Thread Charles Wilson
The libXpm-noX packages provide a version of the X.Org XPM image format library that do NOT require the use of an X server. This library can be used to read, process, and save XPM images, but all display code has been removed, because that requires X. It is useful for applications that need to ma

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libXpm-noX/libXpm-noX-devel/libXpm-noX_4}-3.5.7-2

2009-03-14 Thread Charles Wilson
The libXpm-noX packages provide a version of the X.Org XPM image format library that do NOT require the use of an X server. This library can be used to read, process, and save XPM images, but all display code has been removed, because that requires X. It is useful for applications that need to ma

Re: setup.exe crashes when removing xorg-server

2009-03-14 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM, wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Mirko Vukovic > wrote: > > After (actually during) my last cygwin update, the installation > > procedure crashes when setup tries to uninstall xorg-server.  I am > > running on windows XP > > Is the "crash" something like a window p

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {libtool/libltdl7}-2.2.7a-10

2009-03-14 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: > GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the > complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable > interface. > > This is a bugfix and feature enhancement update. With this release I'm

Re: under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

2009-03-14 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Dave Korn wrote: Vin Shelton wrote: How can I ascertain what entry point is not being found? You need depends.exe. http://www.dependencywalker.com/ Thanks, Dave! That's a kool tool! cheers, DaveK -- Peter A. Castro or "Cats are just autistic Do

long unsigned int vs. uint32_t again

2009-03-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Why does the following give me a warning (with -Wformat=2): uint32_t seconds = ... uint32_t minutes = ... uint32_t hours = ... snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%" PRIu32 ":%02" PRIu32 ":%02" PRIu32, hours, minutes, seconds); warning: long unsigne

Re: under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

2009-03-14 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Vin Shelton wrote: Greetings, All, As the zsh maintainer I guess I get to try and figure out what's going on. :-) Using the Dependency Walker tool that Chuck pointed out (thanks Chuck!), I've found some rather interesting things. The offending symbol entries are the f

using gcc-4.3.2-2: gcc-4 -shared-libgcc

2009-03-14 Thread Marco Atzeri
Hi All, this is just an info for other mantainers and users on gcc-4.3.2-2. As reported by David announcment http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00378.html the current standard is "linked statically against libgcc". I found a case where CC="gcc-4 -shared-libgcc" is absolutely needed and