Cygwin 1.7: Problem with Windows 2008 mount point folders

Hi, using Cygwin on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 I can't create directories within (or below) mount point folders. Obviously Cygwin fails to stat mount point folders in general. For example I have a partition mounted at C:\Data: DISKPART> list volume Volume ### Ltr LabelFs Type

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Problem with Windows 2008 mount point folders

On Aug 24 11:15, Dieter Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > using Cygwin on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 I can't create directories > within (or below) mount point folders. Obviously Cygwin fails to stat > mount point folders in general. > > For example I have a partition mounted at C:\Data: > > DISKPART> l

run-1.1.12-1:Issue with RXVT

To whom it may concern, After applying the recent "run" update, I cannot invoke an RXVT terminal under Cygwin-X. Background: I have a modified StartXWin.bat (straight copy from the original) with the following modification: REM %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l %RUN% rxvt -e /usr/bin/bash -l Upon

Crash with ntea on USB memory sticks

Hi all: I've seen a simple "ls -la" command crashing on a couple of computers, and I've managed to track it down to the combination of USB memory sticks (formatted with FAT) and CYGWIN option ntea. This is a small demo script: #!/bin/bash set -xv # Trace on. # This is my CYGWIN, (defaul

Re: flex package requires m4

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 06:36:12PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >My point was that flex needs a dependency on m4 for setup so that m4 is >installed automatically. Unless, of course, there is some reason not >to make the dependancy explicit. The dependency has been added. Thanks for the heads up. cgf -

Re: Crash with ntea on USB memory sticks

On 08/24/2009 09:51 AM, R. Diez wrote: Hi all: I've seen a simple "ls -la" command crashing on a couple of computers, and I've managed to track it down to the combination of USB memory sticks (formatted with FAT) and CYGWIN option ntea. This is a small demo script: #!/bin/bash set -xv

Re: fcntl bug

Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > >But POSIX does (and Linux at least obeys this part of POSIX, whether or > >not its man page says so): > > I checked in a fix for this a while ago. It's in the latest snapshot. While we're at it, fcntl and dup2 both have another minor bug. POSIX states

Re: run-1.1.12-1:Issue with RXVT

K Stahl wrote: > Could someone please confirm and provide a solution? Can't confirm. Works fine for me. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New: perl-XML-Simple-2.18-10

The following package has been added to the Cygwin 1.7 distribution: *** perl-XML-Simple-2.18-10 XML::Simple is a CPAN package providing an easy-to-use API for accessing XML files. It will be a prerequisite of other packages coming soon to the distro. Yaakov CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE I

Error in memset man page

"man memset" shows the following synopsis for the memset function: #include void *memset(const void *DST, int C, size_t LENGTH); The "const" on the first parameter is incorrect. The correct prototype according to the C standard (both C90 and C99) is: void *memset(void *s, int c, si

Re: add -debuginfo packages

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:28:13AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: > >On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>How many people here are capable of firing up a debugger to decode > >>problems? > > > >A lot more if they don't have to go through the

Re: run-1.1.12-1:Issue with RXVT

Could this be timing issue? I'm running cygwin on a pretty slow laptop. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: flac: rebuild needed for 1.7

On 8/23/2009 11:39 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > The fix is simply to rebuild flac for 1.7, preferably with gcc-4.3 while > you are at it. Ack. Thanks for the heads-up. I just got back from a one week holiday and real life is quite busy, but I'll try to get to this soon. -- David Rothenberger

Failure building libsigsegv-2.6 [1.7]

I am trying to set up Cygwin-1.7 to build Tex Live, but there is a failure in building libsigsegv-2.6 (which is needed by Clisp-2.48, which needs for xindy). I follow the suggestions from Tex Live pages and from README in TL sources. On Cygwin-1.5 all works fine. The simplest way to reproduce

Re: Failure building libsigsegv-2.6 [1.7]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Angelo Graziosi on 8/24/2009 3:26 PM: > The simplest way to reproduce the failure is: > > 1. wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libsigsegv/libsigsegv-2.6.tar.gz Stock 2.6 is known to be broken when used with cygwin. Don't use unpatched upstrea

Re: Error in memset man page

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Keith Thompson on 8/24/2009 11:57 AM: > "man memset" shows the following synopsis for the memset function: > > #include > void *memset(const void *DST, int C, size_t LENGTH); > > The "const" on the first parameter is incorrect.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: libexif-0.6.17-10

The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: *** libexif12-0.6.17-10 *** libexif-devel-0.6.17-10 This is a rebuild for Cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4.3. Yaakov CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list