Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(

2009/12/23 Lee Rothstein: > Chris, > > Thanks for the reference. As I mentioned, it wasn't retrievable via Google. > Strange. > > As you had stated earlier, the key to solving the problem is to reference: > >  --icon=c:\_0\cygicons-hippo-vista-0.dll,10 in the shortcut Hippo hippo hurray! > Note

[ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW major release: cygwin-1.7.1-1

Hi Cygwin friends and users, after an exceptionally long time of development and testing we're proud to release Cygwin's next major version 1.7.1. This release is a big leap from the former Cygwin releases in a couple of ways. For the full list we urge you to read the new User's Guide, which yo

Re: 1.7.1: Mintty/bash window start: -bash: regtool: command not found

2009/12/23 Lee D. Rothstein: > Just installed 1.7.1.  Bravo, again. > > Everything seems to be working okay, but every time I start up a Mintty/Bash > window I get the following > error message. > > -bash: regtool: command not found > > Shortcut is: > > C:\_0\bin\mintty.exe --icon=c:\_0\cygicons-hi

setup 1.7.1 hangs on 000-cygwin-post-install.sh

Hi, I have problems installing 1.7.1. I first tried to upgrade my existing 1.5 installation. All went as expected until setup (2.673) comes to the end of the process where the scripts are run. It tries to run /etc/postinstall/ 000-cygwin-post-install.sh but this doesn't seem to do anything. After

Re: setup 1.7.1 hangs on 000-cygwin-post-install.sh

On Dec 23 11:19, Frank Fesevur wrote: > Hi, > > I have problems installing 1.7.1. > > I first tried to upgrade my existing 1.5 installation. All went as > expected until setup (2.673) comes to the end of the process where the > scripts are run. It tries to run /etc/postinstall/ > 000-cygwin-post-

Re: setup 1.7.1 hangs on 000-cygwin-post-install.sh

2009/12/23 Corinna Vinschen : > Works fine for me.  You should examine the /var/log/setup.log and > /var/log/setup.log.full files if you can find any hint. Thanks for the reply. Here is the content of setup.log.postinstallXa05832. 5 [main] bash 2832 C:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error -

Re: setup 1.7.1 hangs on 000-cygwin-post-install.sh

On Dec 23 11:46, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2009/12/23 Corinna Vinschen : > > Works fine for me.  You should examine the /var/log/setup.log and > > /var/log/setup.log.full files if you can find any hint. > > Thanks for the reply. Here is the content of setup.log.postinstallXa05832. > > 5 [main]

HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

Hi, I just found an unfortunate side-effect of the move of the Cygwin 1.7 release area. If you use the new setup.exe for Cygwin 1.7 on a mirror which hasn't catched up with the update yet, you are in danger to overwrite your 1.7 installation with a Cygwin 1.5.25-based installation. Be *VERY* car

[ANNOUNCEMENT] HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

Hi, I just found an unfortunate side-effect of the move of the Cygwin 1.7 release area. If you use the new setup.exe for Cygwin 1.7 on a mirror which hasn't catched up with the update yet, you are in danger to overwrite your 1.7 installation with a Cygwin 1.5.25-based installation. Be *VERY* car

Re: setup 1.7.1 hangs on 000-cygwin-post-install.sh

2009/12/23 Corinna Vinschen : > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda ? > > Personally I'm running MSFT Security Essentials with real-time protection > turned on on that machine and it works still as expected. No, I don't run any of the mentioned applications. I tried disabling Kasp

Re: 1.7: mintty 5.5.1 refuses to take hippos seriously ;-(

>> Note to everyone, including Andy, the ICO file worked until Mintty v0.5.4. >> And, all my other ICO files seem to work with Mintty v0.5.5, including an >> earlier one, I had gerri-rigged. > > Strange. I wonder what's different about the hippo. I might have a > look at implementing a fallback fro

Re: setup 1.7.1 hangs on 000-cygwin-post-install.sh

Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2009/12/23 Corinna Vinschen : >> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda ? >> >> Personally I'm running MSFT Security Essentials with real-time protection >> turned on on that machine and it works still as expected. > > No, I don't run any of the mentioned appli

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: arpack-96-2

New versions 96-2 of arpack (source) / libarpack-devel / libarpack0 for cygwin-1.7 are available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES Updated to avoid a well known sigsev error http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2006-November/001230.html DESCRIPTION ARPACK is a collection o

Re: NEW major release: cygwin-1.7.1-1

On 12/23/2009 2:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: after an exceptionally long time of development and testing we're proud to release Cygwin's next major version 1.7.1. I know it says "no donations" on the site, but is this EU regulation...flexible? Perhaps I am interested in sending you a Chri

RE: NEW major release: cygwin-1.7.1-1

> -Original Message- > From: Warren Young > Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:12 > To: The Cygwin Mailing List > Subject: Re: NEW major release: cygwin-1.7.1-1 > > On 12/23/2009 2:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > after an exceptionally long time of development and testing we're >

Re: 1.7.0-51: Problem using ssh public/private key authentication

Hello, I have encountered same problem after upgrading to 1.7.x. First to say that I'm not so familiar with all of that. I was running a ssh-server and connect with Putty to my server using a tunnel. Everything works fine till today. After upgrading to 1.7.x and trying to connect to my server I

Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:37:31PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Hi, > >I just found an unfortunate side-effect of the move of the Cygwin 1.7 >release area. If you use the new setup.exe for Cygwin 1.7 on a mirror >which hasn't catched up with the update yet, you are in danger to >overwrite your

Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

2009/12/23 Christopher Faylor: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:37:31PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>Hi, >> >>I just found an unfortunate side-effect of the move of the Cygwin 1.7 >>release area.  If you use the new setup.exe for Cygwin 1.7 on a mirror >>which hasn't catched up with the update yet,

Re: NEW major release: cygwin-1.7.1-1

On Dec 23 07:11, Warren Young wrote: > On 12/23/2009 2:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >after an exceptionally long time of development and testing we're proud > >to release Cygwin's next major version 1.7.1. > > I know it says "no donations" on the site, but is this EU > regulation...flexibl

Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

On Dec 23 10:11, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:37:31PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I just found an unfortunate side-effect of the move of the Cygwin 1.7 > >release area. If you use the new setup.exe for Cygwin 1.7 on a mirror > >which hasn't catched up wit

Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

2009/12/23 Andy Koppe: > 2009/12/23 Christopher Faylor: >> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:37:31PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>Hi, >>> >>>I just found an unfortunate side-effect of the move of the Cygwin 1.7 >>>release area.  If you use the new setup.exe for Cygwin 1.7 on a mirror >>>which hasn't

Re: NEW major release: cygwin-1.7.1-1

On Dec 23 09:22, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > From: Warren Young > > On 12/23/2009 2:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > after an exceptionally long time of development and testing we're > > > proud to release Cygwin's next major version 1.7.1. > > > > I know it says "no donations" on the site, but i

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW major release: cygwin-1.7.1-1

> Hi Cygwin friends and users, > > > after an exceptionally long time of development and testing we're proud > to release Cygwin's next major version 1.7.1. > > This release is a big leap from the former Cygwin releases in a couple > of ways. Indeed it is. As maintainer of the gold star page,

Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 03:17:31PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: >2009/12/23 Christopher Faylor: >> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:37:31PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>Hi, >>> >>>I just found an unfortunate side-effect of the move of the Cygwin 1.7 >>>release area. ??If you use the new setup.exe for Cy

Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi, > > I just found an unfortunate side-effect of the move of the Cygwin 1.7 > release area.  If you use the new setup.exe for Cygwin 1.7 on a mirror > which hasn't catched up with the update yet, you are in danger to > overwrite your 1.7

"mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

Hi All... With the last 1.7.0 version and with a clean 1.7.1 install on an XP Pro SP3 machine, if I edit my fstab to change my cygdrive prefix and then do a "mount -a", my mounts as shown by the mount command or catting mtab are not updated. I only tried it with the cygdrive prefix, not with

Questions about gnu debug

I read the FAQ, but still very confused, please help. 1. I have a project written by C++, I want to debug it under Cygwin. I know I can use g++ -g, but I think this is for a single .cpp file. How to debug a whole Project? Anyway to debug the project inside a windows like editor? 2. The gnu C++ u

Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:24:52AM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: >On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>I just found an unfortunate side-effect of the move of the Cygwin 1.7 >>release area. ??If you use the new setup.exe for Cygwin 1.7 on a >>mirror which hasn't catched up with

Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:24:52AM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: >>On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>I just found an unfortunate side-effect of the move of the Cygwin 1.7 >>>release area.  ??If you use the new se

Re: cygwin 1.7: perl/perl package has wrong description

2009/12/21 Bruce Cran: > I have a cygwin 1.7 installation, and went to install perl today. I > noticed that both perl/perl and perl/perl_manpages both have the same > description, "perl manpages". Oops. This was online only. Just fixed it. Thanks Bruce! -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/

Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:56:23PM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: >Well I use my own mirror too so I wanted to get it up to date anyways. > The warning does come up when the mirror is not on the list so that >is not the issue. Are you saying that you actually *saw* the message? In that case, you ig

Re: 1.7.1: Mintty/bash window start: -bash: regtool: command not found

Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/23 Lee D. Rothstein: Just installed 1.7.1. Bravo, again. Everything seems to be working okay, but every time I start up a Mintty/Bash window I get the following error message. -bash: regtool: command not found Shortcut is: C:\_0\bin\mintty.exe --icon=c:\_0\cygic

Cygwin-doc 1.5, with Cygwin 1.7.1?

Is that correct? -- 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

git stopped working with 1.7.1

la...@hobart128 /c/tmp $ git clone git:/repo/git/acl acl.test Initialized empty Git repository in /c/tmp/acl.test/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 9205, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3300/3300), done. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: early EOFs: 62% (5708/9

Incorrect permissions on mount point when user does not have permission to access mounted directory

Hello, I have drive I: mounted at /backup but the ACLs deny access to anyone not in the Administrators group. I am in the Administrators group, but running Windows 7 so I can only access the drive if I am running with elevated privileges. If I run Cygwin without elevated privileges and type

Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

Updates using 1.5.25 have always worked, so I had assumed my setup configuration files had managed to stay intact. But, after reading the new User Guide I tried the new setup.exe and after about the third package download from ftp://mirrors.kernel.org I got: Can't open G:/installs/cygwin/package

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

la...@hobart128 /c/tmp $ git clone git:/repo/git/acl acl.test Initialized empty Git repository in /c/tmp/acl.test/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 9205, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3300/3300), done. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: early EOFs: 62% (5708/9

Re: HEADSUP: Check mirror carefully when updating your 1.7 installation

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:56:23PM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: >>Well I use my own mirror too so I wanted to get it up to date anyways. >> The warning does come up when the mirror is not on the list so that >>is not the issue. > > Are yo

Re: Questions about gnu debug

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Liming wrote: > I read the FAQ, but still very confused, please help. > > 1. > I have a project written by C++, I want to debug it under Cygwin. I > know I can use g++ -g, but I think this is for a single .cpp file. Hi Liming, If you have a project with multiple C

setup version 1.7.1-1 failure

I tried to upgrade to the 1.7.1-1 version on Windows 7 Home 64bit. Toward the end of the process I had to click through several modal dialogs which say: The procedure entry point stpcpy could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll. Although I'm not too familiar with the way Cygw

Borken link on cygwin.com home page

On the home page for cygwin.com, these is a broken link at: Latest Cygwin DLL release version is 1.7.1-1 (broken link) I'm cleaning up my 1.5 distro. Boy I didn't tkink that day would come! Good work to all you develo

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

On 12/23/2009 02:24 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: Updates using 1.5.25 have always worked, so I had assumed my setup configuration files had managed to stay intact. But, after reading the new User Guide I tried the new setup.exe and after about the third package download from ftp://mirrors.ker

Re: setup version 1.7.1-1 failure

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:15:21PM -0800, Collin Monahan wrote: >I tried to upgrade to the 1.7.1-1 version on Windows 7 Home 64bit. Toward the >end of the process I had to click through several modal dialogs which say: > >The procedure entry point stpcpy could not be located in the dynamic link >

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

>Try again. ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/release/GNOME/ shows that >directory now. > > >-- >Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com >RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office >216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX >H

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

On 12/23/2009 04:19 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: I just did, but I still get the same error OK, if another mirror doesn't help either, you'll need to look at /var/log/setup.log.full for a clue. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc.

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

After the try again suggestion failing, I cd'd to G:/installs/cygwin/packages/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsourceware%2fcygwi n%2f/release and did a mkdir -p GNOME/_obsolete/atk. Then I tried setup again, and it got past that package and came to another where it claimed it couldn't write to b

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

Here's setup.log.full just after I tried setup again following the last mkdir I did... 2009/12/23 14:34:32 Starting cygwin install, version 2.673 2009/12/23 14:34:32 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/setup.rc) failed 2 No such file or d

Re: 1.7.0-51: Problem using ssh public/private key authentication

XYM wrote: > I have encountered same problem after upgrading to 1.7.x. First to say that > I'm not so familiar with all of that. > > I was running a ssh-server and connect with Putty to my server using a > tunnel. Everything works fine till today. After upgrading to 1.7.x and > trying to connect

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

On 12/23/2009 04:48 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: Here's setup.log.full just after I tried setup again following the last mkdir I did... ftp> 227 Entering Passive Mode (204,152,191,39,247,39). ftp> 150 Opening BINARY mode data con

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

la...@hobart128 /c/tmp $ git clone git:/repo/git/acl acl.test Initialized empty Git repository in /c/tmp/acl.test/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 9205, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3300/3300), done. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: early EOFs: 62% (5708/9

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

I tried to install 1.6.1.2 on 1.7.1, but it didn't work. The clone complained that the index-pack program was missing. I did the usual ./configure && make && make install so I'm not sure what else to try. I copied git-index-pack.exe from the build directory to /usr/local/libexec/git

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

>OK, you're getting nowhere fast. I don't see the file sizes being created as >anything but 0. So here are a few questions: > > > 1. Can you create a file in any of these directories yourself? Yes > 2. Is this a local or network drive? Local -- FAT32 > 3. Does it work better if you create

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

On 12/23/2009 05:15 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: 2. Is this a local or network drive? Local -- FAT32 I'm going to guess this is the problem. Any chance you can try again and point to a NTFS formatted partition? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners

The procedure entry point stpcpy could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll

I'm getting the subject error on attempting to update. Any pointer or suggestions for a remedy? removed the attached the error screen shot as mailing list disallowed it. pasted it here http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2mwaygw&s=6 Thanks reid -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

RE: The procedure entry point stpcpy could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll

> -Original Message- > From: Reid Thompson > Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 17:25 > Subject: The procedure entry point stpcpy could not be > located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll > > I'm getting the subject error on attempting to update. > Any pointer or suggestions for a re

Re: 1.5.25: ocamlrun crashes with GetModuleHandleA not located

I just updated to 1.7 and the error is gone. Thanks! Still interested what exactly was happening though. Misha -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http:

Re: The procedure entry point stpcpy could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll

Jason Pyeron wrote: Could you move the dialog, I would like to see which part of the setup it is in. Thanks. I think i've gotten past it. I found and renamed the infrarecorder installed C:\Program Files\InfraRecorder\cdrtools cygwin1.dll and the cygwin /bin/cygwin1.dll. Re-ran setup marked

Updating the Wikipedia entry for Cygwin

Does anyone on the list keep an eye on the Wikipedia entry for Cygwin? It is where you would expect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin for the English Wikipedia. It has the current version as "1.5.25-15 / 14 June 2008". Someone with a better understanding of the fundamental changes may want to

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

>On 12/23/2009 05:15 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: >> >> 2. Is this a local or network drive? >> >>Local -- FAT32 >> > >I'm going to guess this is the problem. Any chance you can try again and >point to a NTFS formatted partition? Yes, that fixed it. I'd sure like to be able to kee

Two questions

Hello! With the release of version 1.7.1 I decided to install it, and had a few issues with the beta one. I decided to install it into its own folder, cygwin171. Here are the two questions: How do I move the normally running services that Cygwin supplies from the regular folder to my new one? Fo

Re: Upgrade from 1.5.25 to 1.7.1 fails.

On 12/23/2009 06:53 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: On 12/23/2009 05:15 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: 2. Is this a local or network drive? Local -- FAT32 I'm going to guess this is the problem. Any chance you can try again and point to a NTFS formatted partition? Yes, that f

Re-installed cygwin 1.7 but still getting error running Perl

Hi all I am getting this error when I try to run Perl $ perl -v /usr/bin/perl.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I originally tried to used setup.exe to upgrade my 1.5.x cygwin to 1.7.x and things seemed to be quite broken. S

A question about setup.exe

I did the upgrade to 1.7.1-1 without any problems. During the remainder of the day, I accidentally blew away my installation of 1.7.1-1. I restored my installation from a backup several days old (1.7.0-65). Now I'm trying to upgrade again. Now the questions I have are: When I run setup agai

1.7 hangs installing libncurses8-5.5-10

60% Cygwin Setup Installing libncurses8-5.5-10 /MZ| Stops here. I picked another mirror, downloaded everything again and installed. Stopped at same place. W2K SP4 Wes -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: 1.7 hangs installing libncurses8-5.5-10

Wes S wrote: > 60% Cygwin Setup > Installing libncurses8-5.5-10 > /MZ| > > Stops here. > > I picked another mirror, downloaded everything again and installed. > Stopped at same place. I suspect you have a cygwin process still running, and cygncurses-8.dll is in use. Now, this /should/ cause

File permissions on Vista

I saw Corinna Vinschen's posting http://lists-archives.org/cygwin/30817-file-permission-hassles-on-vista.html Vista, these attributes give the file a 'shared' property, which adds a shared file overlay on the GUI icons. If you try to manipulate files from the Windows GUI, things become VERY

Re: Questions about gnu debug

Thanks. Csaba, I still not so clear about gdb, I am usually use microsoft Visual Studio 1. With g++ -g -o executable_name a.o b.o ... Can I set break point? or this one only display the place the code has problem, then go to there to modify it? 2. For ddd, Emacs, Eclipse Are they IDC with debu

Problems with SSHD service partially resolved (Other problem not resolved.)

Hello! Okay, I've found and fixed the locations for the Windows Service entries concerning my new location for Cygwin. It does indeed confirm that the Cygwin service agent is indeed found at my new directory. But the SSHD service doesn't start as expected, it reports the same issues found back in

upgrade to 1.7 experience ; Cygwin.bat doesn't find home directory

I just upgraded my first XP Pro machine from 1.5 to 1.7 - a couple of minor issues Part of the post-install failed with many popup dialogs - "The procedure entry point __ctype_ptr__ could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll". After a reboot bash wouldn't start - same err

Re: Questions about gnu debug

--- Gio 24/12/09, Liming ha scritto: > Thanks. Csaba, > > I still not so clear about gdb, I am usually use microsoft > Visual Studio > > 1. With g++ -g -o executable_name  a.o b.o ... > Can I set break point? or this one only display the place > the code has problem, then go to there to modify i

How to install Legacy from scratch?

Thanks for great new version. 1.7 uses setup.ini, draws from release/, uses setup.exe v.2.673. 1.5 uses setup-legacy.ini, draws from release-legacy/, uses setup.exe v.2.673 (i.e. the same version as 1.7). My question is: how does a user install 1.5 from scratch (if desired or needed e.g. old

Re: How to install Legacy from scratch?

2009/12/24 Fergus: > Thanks for great new version. > > 1.7 uses setup.ini, draws from release/, uses setup.exe v.2.673. > 1.5 uses setup-legacy.ini, draws from release-legacy/, uses setup.exe > v.2.673 (i.e. the same version as 1.7). No, 1.5 you uses http://www.cygwin.com/setup-legacy.exe Andy -

Re: upgrade to 1.7 experience ; Cygwin.bat doesn't find home directory

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:45:15PM -0800, Myron Flickner wrote: >I just upgraded my first XP Pro machine from 1.5 to 1.7 - a couple of minor >issues > >Part of the post-install failed with many popup dialogs - "The procedure >entry point __ctype_ptr__ could not be located in the dynamic link lib

Re: How to install Legacy from scratch?

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 07:18:19AM +, Fergus wrote: >Thanks for great new version. > >1.7 uses setup.ini, draws from release/, uses setup.exe v.2.673. >1.5 uses setup-legacy.ini, draws from release-legacy/, uses setup.exe >v.2.673 (i.e. the same version as 1.7). > >My question is: how does a u

Re: A question about setup.exe

2009/12/24 Paul McFerrin: > I did the upgrade to 1.7.1-1 without any problems.  During the remainder of > the day, I accidentally blew away my installation of 1.7.1-1.  I restored my > installation from a backup several days old (1.7.0-65).  Now I'm trying to > upgrade again. > > Now the questions

Re: upgrade to 1.7 experience ; Cygwin.bat doesn't find home directory

It appears that bash not finding the home directory is caused by a missing /etc/profile. I copied over this file from a 1.5 system and now bash finds my profile and .bashrc. Is this a bug or by design ? imaging away / flick - Original Message Sorry for the crappy formatting