bar and bar.exe under same folder and cygwin-svn version control (don't do that!)

2009-09-27 Thread Haojun Bao
This might turn out a big surprise for the unwary (and unwise, like me), who put `bar' and `bar.exe' in the same folder, under svn version control. `bar' is a Linux binary, `bar.exe' is for Winows. Now, if you `rm bar' (for some reason), and modify `bar.exe', then do a `svn ci', you will see both

Re: Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin

2009-09-27 Thread M . Xurux
Chris Cormie gmail.com> writes: > Chris Cormie wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is my first post to the Cygwin mailing list: hello everyone! > > > > I updated Cygwin today via setup.exe and Subversion ceased working: i have the same problem: i just updated "subversion" and "mercurial" via setup.exe

Re: Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin

2009-09-27 Thread M . Xurux
> > This is my first post to the Cygwin mailing list: hello everyone! > > > > I updated Cygwin today via setup.exe and Subversion ceased working: > > > > $ svn updating packages "libapr1" and "libaprutil1" fixed it for me. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: ld: cannot find -llegacyapps problem

2009-09-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/26/2009 08:31 PM, Zhongliang Zhao wrote: Hi all, I was compiling a project and want to "make" the executable file shawn.exe, and it was OK initially until last step of 100%, here is the process: ... ... ... [82%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/shawnlib.dir/sys/xml/xml_init.o Linking CXX st

Re: bar and bar.exe under same folder and cygwin-svn version control (don't do that!)

2009-09-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/27/2009 03:03 AM, Haojun Bao wrote: This might turn out a big surprise for the unwary (and unwise, like me), who put `bar' and `bar.exe' in the same folder, under svn version control. `bar' is a Linux binary, `bar.exe' is for Winows. Right. It's best to create platform-specific directori

Re: Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin

2009-09-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/26/2009 04:22 AM, Chris Cormie wrote: How stable is the Beta these days? Right now, it's pretty stable. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889

Re: goldstar? Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Wow. Nice summation of the reasons for the need for a c:\cygwin. > > Can I get a goldstar here? Awarded. Sorry for the delay. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

ls / does not show /c with cygdrive prefix=/

2009-09-27 Thread Mikel Ward
Hi All If I use a standard install with the cygdrive prefix as /cygdrive, the drive letters appear in a directory listing: $ ls /cygdrive c d w But if I change cygdrive to /, they don't: $ mount -c / $ ls / Cygwin.bat bindev home optsbin usr Cygwin.ico cygdrive etc lib

Re: RE: Re: Cygwin portable bash

2009-09-27 Thread Andy Holt
Well, I'm not so sure that that is really a problem... I looked for fstab but couldn't even find one so I'm not sure where the mount table is specified. BUT I don't think that has anything to do with my current problem. I need to 'log in' to bash first. then I'll worry about the cygdrive mount

Re: Cygwin portable bash

2009-09-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Reformatted. On 09/27/2009 10:51 PM, Andy Holt wrote: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: I'm not aware that this has been mentioned before in this thread, but I'd worry that there is no mount table. (I assume that this is cygwin 1.5.) See the documentat