subversion: svn2cl

David, I have begun using svn2cl[1] to manage the cygport ChangeLog. While this will only be a dependency for me and not for building from a source tarball, this should really be added to the distro. There are two alternatives: 1) As is done by other Linux distros[2][3], ship with subversio

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

2009/12/23 Charles Wilson: > I saw something similar a while back. I "fixed" it by doing the following: > > 1) launch an ash shell from a cmd window > 2) run rebaseall (google for more instructions on this). > 3) re-run setup (this will attempt again to run any uncompleted > postinstall scripts fro

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

* Lee D. Rothstein (Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:43:02 -0500) > Andy Koppe wrote: > > 2009/12/23 Lee D. Rothstein: > > I can reproduce this as follows: > > > > - Leave a Cygwin session open. > > - Run setup.exe > > - Select reinstall for cygwin-1.7.1-1. > > - Click next > > - "in-use files detected" appears

Re: Re-installed cygwin 1.7 but still getting error running Perl

2009/12/24 : > 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 Can you please post the result of cygcheck /bin/perl I just fixed the wrong setup.hint yesterday,

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

On Dec 23 10:33, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > 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 way

Re: How to install Legacy from scratch?

>> http://www.cygwin.com/setup-legacy.exe Thank you, I had completely missed this, fooled by it having same version number as setup.exe. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.

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

2009/12/24 Gregg Levine: > My other problems are the typically idiotic Windows problems > concerning removing a directory (or a directory of directories). The > system refuses to believe that I have the rights to remove that > directory. Use 'rm -rf' from your new Cygwin install. Much faster than

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

On Dec 23 08:32, Karl M wrote: > 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 t

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

On Dec 23 18:55, Chris January wrote: > 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

Re: Updating the Wikipedia entry for Cygwin

On Dec 23 17:17, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > 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

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

With files from my backup I have newly set up Cygwin with 1.5.x. Everythings ok. Then I updated it to 1.7.x, same error like before. XYM Happy X-Mas René Berber-2 wrote: > > XYM wrote: > >> I have encountered same problem after upgrading to 1.7.x. First to say >> that >> I'm not so familiar

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

XYM wrote: > > 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 get the following message: > > 2 [main] -bash 3776 C:\CygWin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't

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

I've done some tests. Normally my passwordauthentification is set to no cause I only want to allow access with key. Now I've set to yes. Login with user/pass works here, too. With key no chance. XYM THW Mark wrote: > > > XYM wrote: >> >> I was running a ssh-server and connect with Putty to

Re: [1.7] ctypes / geos / python / django

I have this bug fixed. See details on my bugreport, django side. See [1] [1] - http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/12438 kiorky a écrit : > > Yaakov (Cygwin/X) a écrit : >> On 10/12/2009 14:57, kiorky wrote: >>> Yep as i said, i already have that patch applied, its not that. >> Oh, I see what

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

i've also tried overwriting my cygwin with the 'legacy' version but it doesnt seem to make any difference. there are some other threads in the forum talking about this, but i have found no solution so far... -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/1.7.0-51%3A-Problem-using-ssh-p

c:/dev, find

Congrats on getting 1.7.1 out the door - not sure if 3 gold stars is enough! I have noticed one odd thing. For historical reasons we (ducking now) install cygwin in /.The bash postinstall script has: DEVDIR="$(cygpath -au "C:/$(cygpath -am /dev/)" | sed 's|/c/\(.\):/|/\1/|')" mkdir -p "$DE

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

René Berber-2 wrote: > > Michael H. wrote: > >> $ cygrunsrv -E sshd >> $ /usr/sbin/sshd -ddde > > And there you are creating the problem... or another problem: the > service runs as a special user, when you run it yourself its running as > your user so, if it works, that means you have permiss

Problem with RightAlt key in mintty

In the latest mintty (0.5.5-1), RightAlt plus f (or b) doesn't move the cursor one word forward (or backward) when editing the command line. The LeftAlt key still works as expected. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docu

Re: Problem with RightAlt key in mintty

2009/12/24 Ken Brown: > In the latest mintty (0.5.5-1), RightAlt plus f (or b) doesn't move the > cursor one word forward (or backward) when editing the command line. The > LeftAlt key still works as expected. Confirmed. As a workaround, switch on the Ctrl+LeftAlt is AltGr option on the Keyboard p

Re: c:/dev, find

Egerton, Jim wrote: > For historical reasons we (ducking now) install cygwin in /. > This breaks find: Hate to say "We Told You So", but we did. You get to keep the pieces! :-) Although actually this /particular/ problem seems to be a bug in cygwin's find; it's come up a couple of times in

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

XYM wrote: > > I've done some tests. Normally my passwordauthentification is set to no > cause I only want to allow access with key. Now I've set to yes. Login > with user/pass works here, too. With key no chance. > > XYM > > i think i found a solution/workaround! - I had a useraccount 'use

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

Thank you. I've tried like described. Works. But I think that it should be possible to run the service as local system, maybe someone has a solution for this. XYM THW Mark wrote: > > > XYM wrote: >> >> I've done some tests. Normally my passwordauthentification is set to no >> cause I only

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libiconv/libiconv2/libcharset1}-1.13.1-1

The GNU libiconv package provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-3 ]] As expected now that cygwin-1.7.1 has been officially released, this libiconv package is available exclusi

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

On 12/24/2009 02:56 AM, Myron Flickner wrote: 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 ? Neither. See Chris' email here:

Re: Questions about gnu debug

Marco Atzeri wrote: --- 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 m

Re: Questions about gnu debug

And this may add a little to your understanding: gdb is a reasonable debugging tool, but is *command line* oriented. By itself, it provides no GUI interface. If you compile with -g then the available symbols let you talk about (non-local) variables, code locations, etc. emacs is an *editor* that

Re: Questions about gnu debug

Eliot Moss wrote: And this may add a little to your understanding: Note these two options to gdb also... --tui Use a terminal user interface. -w Use a window interface. --tui will utilize a *curses interface -w brings up insight on my system -- Problem repor

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

On 12/24/2009 07:55 AM, THW Mark wrote: René Berber-2 wrote: Michael H. wrote: $ cygrunsrv -E sshd $ /usr/sbin/sshd -ddde And there you are creating the problem... or another problem: the service runs as a special user, when you run it yourself its running as your user so, if it works, th

Re: subversion: svn2cl

On 12/24/2009 12:08 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I have begun using svn2cl[1] to manage the cygport ChangeLog. While this will only be a dependency for me and not for building from a source tarball, this should really be added to the distro. There are two alternatives: 1) As is done by other Li

setup RFE: auto stop/restart of system-level cygrunsrv service et al.

Since it's not a user-level program that a user can easily just close a window on (and would have to bring up services to start/stop), would it be too much trouble to stop & restart cygrunsrv if it is the only program creating a file-busy condition (such as on replacying cygwin1.dll)? IMHO, som

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

Just a note which I hope is related. vim was having problems with one of its files in ~. In Windows Explorer I copied the entire /home folder (d:\path\home) from 1.5 to c:\cygwin\home, thereby overwriting it. Then I used Explorer again to remove any read-only attributes. That seemed to solve

Re: setup RFE: auto stop/restart of system-level cygrunsrv service et al.

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:07:16AM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: >Since it's not a user-level program that a user can easily just close a >window on (and would have to bring up services to start/stop), would it >be too much trouble to stop & restart cygrunsrv if it is the only >program creating a file-

Issue with cygwin 1.7 install

I wonder if anyone else has seen this issue, but after installing 1.7 from setup.exe, starting up cygwin causes it to complain about not being able to find /usr/bin/sed, and the shell also doesn't seem to be fully functional either (delete key doesn't work, less is not working properly ... etc). L

Re: Issue with cygwin 1.7 install

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:15:06AM -0800, Michael Kwong wrote: >I wonder if anyone else has seen this issue, but after installing 1.7 >from setup.exe, starting up cygwin causes it to complain about not >being able to find /usr/bin/sed, and the shell also doesn't seem to be >fully functional either

Re: A question about setup.exe

Does anyone know where the MTIMES of the installed packages are stored. I need to over-ride them all in order to re-install the packages. I could NOT find the http/ftp directory containing the files installed. So I went through to check "reinstall" on every package (whew) and downloaded the

BIG Issue with 1.7 install.... multiple utils missing: mount, cygcheck, mkpasswd, etc

Michael Kwong wrote: I wonder if anyone else has seen this issue, but after installing 1.7 from setup.exe, starting up cygwin causes it to complain about not being able to find /usr/bin/sed, and the shell also doesn't seem to be fully functional either (delete key doesn't work, less is not workin

Re: BIG Issue with 1.7 install.... multiple utils missing: mount, cygcheck, mkpasswd, etc

2009/12/24 Linda Walsh: >        It appears several files are missing. > I have no mkpasswd or group, no mount.  Don't know what else is missing. > I do have 'sed', but it might have been there from before (I didn't > reinstall > it). > > I've done a cygcheck -c to see if any packages had missing f

floating-point math problem in Cygwin 1.7?

Hi, I have wondering why when I do floating-point math in Cygwin 1.7, Cygwin does not output the "correct" result, eg: main () { double qcb[4] = {0.41585680180318363, 0.70823637211274604, 0.089200955545759006, -0.56347808399291521}; double qba[4] = {0.09648538897087118, -0.3703203736251

Re: Problem with RightAlt key in mintty

2009/12/24 Andy Koppe: > 2009/12/24 Ken Brown: >> In the latest mintty (0.5.5-1), RightAlt plus f (or b) doesn't move the >> cursor one word forward (or backward) when editing the command line. The >> LeftAlt key still works as expected. > > Confirmed. As a workaround, switch on the Ctrl+LeftAlt is

Re: Questions about gnu debug

Eliot Moss wrote: > > And this may add a little to your understanding: > Few of which pertains to cygwin... Eliot Moss wrote: > > Hope these distinctions help > They are matters of taste, and of experience. I have an other taste and an other experience. Hard to compare, I know. Eliot Moss w

Re: BIG Issue with 1.7 install.... multiple utils missing: mount, cygcheck, mkpasswd, etc

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:43:00PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: >Michael Kwong wrote: >> I wonder if anyone else has seen this issue, but after installing 1.7 >> from setup.exe, starting up cygwin causes it to complain about not >> being able to find /usr/bin/sed, and the shell also doesn't seem to be

Re: A question about setup.exe

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 03:05:57PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote: >Does anyone know where the MTIMES of the installed packages are stored. >I need to over-ride them all in order to re-install the packages. I >could NOT find the http/ftp directory containing the files installed. You're assuming a

Re: Questions about gnu debug

I almost took this to talk list except for one comment that re-iterates the need for something like cygwin with windoze, On 12/24/09, Marc Girod wrote: > > > Eliot Moss wrote: >> >> And this may add a little to your understanding: >> > Few of which pertains to cygwin... > > Eliot Moss wrote: >> >

Re: 1.7 hangs installing libncurses8-5.5-10

On 23 Dec 2009 at 22:44, Charles Wilson wrote: > 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 stil

Re: BIG Issue with 1.7 install... inuse files causes random problems

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:43:00PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: Michael Kwong wrote: I wonder if anyone else has seen this issue, but after installing 1.7 from setup.exe, starting up cygwin causes it to complain about not being able to find /usr/bin/sed, and the shell als

Re: A question about setup.exe

OKAY... I finally realized that MTIME was not used by setup. I now have my installation completely restored. I used file /etc/setup/installed.db to "trick" setup to do a forced install. 1. Have a running cygwin system available 2. Run "setup" thru the "Package Selection" pages but NOT beyond

RE: c:/dev, find

> Although actually this /particular/ problem seems to be a bug in > cygwin's > find; it's come up a couple of times in the past few months and been > referred > back upstream IIRC. Don't suppose "-xdev" helps does it? I didn't try -xdev, but after I fixed the bash postinstall to create c:\dev

Re: floating-point math problem in Cygwin 1.7?

Linh Phan usc.edu> writes: > I have wondering why when I do floating-point math in Cygwin 1.7, Cygwin does not output the "correct" > result, eg: > > qca = [-0.623718486146499718, 0.736824293298044886, -0.260654850643024127, > 0.011147182658310384] CORRECT (LINUX/SOLARIS) > qca = [-0.62371848

Re: bash expands $1 in strange new way

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM, David Arnstein wrote: > I have a bash shell script named xplo that worked as desired under > cygwin 1.5. It fails under cygwin 1.7. Your shell script is incorrect, and I don't see how it worked under 1.5. This line: >        set EXPLOR='/cygdrive/c/windows/explor

Re: bash expands $1 in strange new way

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM, David Arnstein wrote: > I have a bash shell script named xplo that worked as desired under > cygwin 1.5. It fails under cygwin 1.7. Specifically, the shell expands > the expression >        $1 > in a way that I simply cannot understand. This expression expanded to

Re: bash expands $1 in strange new way

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM, David Arnstein wrote: >> I have a bash shell script named xplo that worked as desired under >> cygwin 1.5. It fails under cygwin 1.7. > > Your shell script is incorrect, and I don't see how it worked under > 1

can some one please help me fix compiling errors related to winsock and sys/types and fd_set...etc

I have a 64bit Vista machine. Please help me fix these two errors so I can compile, they seem to be related to winsock in some way PLEASE HELP I'm trying to compile a C program and here is what I'm getting: bash-3.2$ make -f Makefile gcc -O3 -oibsp.exe main.c gl.c string.c physics.c camera.c

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

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/12/24 Gregg Levine: >> My other problems are the typically idiotic Windows problems >> concerning removing a directory (or a directory of directories). The >> system refuses to believe that I have the rights to remove that >> directory. > >

need workaround for backspace change in 1.7

For a variety of reasons, I need a way to switch the character sent by the Console Window Backspace key from ASCII \177 to ASCII \008 (that is, make the backspace key send the ASCII backspace character like it did in older cygwin versions). I thought of using dumpkeys/loadkeys, but I can't fi

R: floating-point math problem in Cygwin 1.7?

--- Gio 24/12/09, Linh Phan ha scritto: > Hi, > >   I have wondering why when I do floating-point math > in Cygwin 1.7, Cygwin does not output the "correct" result, > eg: > > main () { >   double qcb[4] = {0.41585680180318363, > 0.70823637211274604, 0.089200955545759006,  > -0.56347808399291521

Re: can some one please help me fix compiling errors related to winsock and sys/types and fd_set...etc

Josh writes: [...a bunch of detailed stuff...] If this were really a Cygwin program you likely wouldn't be #include-ing winsock.h. Is this a native Windows program you're just trying to build with gcc? If so, you likely don't want Cygwin, you want MinGW, a separate project with different goals.

Re: can some one please help me fix compiling errors related to winsock and sys/types and fd_set...etc

2009/12/25 Mark Geisert: > Josh writes: > [...a bunch of detailed stuff...] > > If this were really a Cygwin program you likely wouldn't be #include-ing > winsock.h.  Is this a native Windows program you're just trying to build with > gcc?  If so, you likely don't want Cygwin, you want MinGW, a sep

Re: need workaround for backspace change in 1.7

2009/12/25 Ric Anderson: > For a  variety of reasons, I need a way to switch the character sent by the > Console Window Backspace key from ASCII \177 to ASCII \008 (that is, make > the backspace key send the ASCII backspace character like it did in older > cygwin versions). Can't be done at the mo