Python 2.6 ?

2010-01-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Jason, What are your plans for upgrading the distro Python to 2.6? I'm finally starting to see some programs require 2.6 now, so I think the time has finally come that to consider an upgrade. Of course, any upgrade to Python affects a lot of packages, so I hope that we can coordinate this i

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.7-1

2010-01-26 Thread Andy Koppe
Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user interface and minimalist design. Among its features are Unicode support and a graphical options dialog. Its terminal emulation is largely compatible with xterm, but it does not require an X server. Mintty is based on code from PuTT

Re: Strange cygdrive problem

2010-01-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 25 22:56, Steve Woolet wrote: > Avi Schwartz cfftechnologies.com> writes: > [...] > I am seeing something very similar to Avi's problem, only mine is with AFS > mounted drives. I have three AFS mounted drives that show up under /cygdrive > as > r/, y/, and z/ in addition to the normal c/.

Re: Strange cygdrive problem

2010-01-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 26 11:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 25 22:56, Steve Woolet wrote: > > Avi Schwartz cfftechnologies.com> writes: > > [...] > > I am seeing something very similar to Avi's problem, only mine is with AFS > > mounted drives. I have three AFS mounted drives that show up under > > /cygdr

RE: Strange cygdrive problem

2010-01-26 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
On Jan 26 11:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 25 22:56, Steve Woolet wrote: > > Avi Schwartz cfftechnologies.com> writes: > > [...] > > I am seeing something very similar to Avi's problem, only mine is with AFS > > mounted drives. I have three AFS mounted drives that show up under > > /cygdr

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2010-01-26 Thread Thomas Berger
Hi Cygwinners, On "XP Mode" on Windows 7 x64 I encounter the identical problem as described in < http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00630.html >. For a host drive mapped as G: <-> \\TSCLIENT\g "ls" yields bash-3.2$ ls /cygdrive/g ls: reading directory /cygdrive/g: Permission denied The same

Re: Strange cygdrive problem

2010-01-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 26 12:08, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: > On Jan 26 11:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Oh, btw., is that using the OpenAFS client? Does anybody know if a > publically available AFS server for testing purposes exists somewhere? > > > Corinna > > /afs/openafs.org is at least readable for anyone

Re: Compiling strings with nonascii chars.

2010-01-26 Thread Eric Blake
According to Andy Koppe on 1/25/2010 10:53 PM: >> let _ = print_DEBUG "Fin du chargement dynamique éventuel" >> >> >> I have done some testing and it looks like I get an error on any string >> literal which contains non-ascii chars. > This might be a case of the source being > encoded in ISO-8859

Re: pre-compiled octave-3.2.4 for cygwin.

2010-01-26 Thread George Barrick
2009.01.26.13:28:02 UT Hey cygwin-octave folks (and Marco), I ran the command "$ cygcheck cygwin-3.2.4.exe" as Marco Atzeri suggested, and got the output: cyg_octave20100125.txt > Found: D:\cygwin\bin\octave-3.2.4.exe Found: D:\cygwin\bin\octave-3.2.4.exe Found

Re: pre-compiled octave-3.2.4 for cygwin.

2010-01-26 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Mar 26/1/10, Krause, Joe ha scritto: > It appears that > the new cygwin distribution forgets to get the cygwin setup > program to install the package containing > cygGLU-1.dll. >   > - Joe Krause > I know, it have also other "not visible" problems. I am just uploading a new version with

Re: Python 2.6 ?

2010-01-26 Thread Jason Tishler
Yaakov, On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 02:55:23AM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > What are your plans for upgrading the distro Python to 2.6? I was waiting for Cygwin 1.7 to be released. I guess I can't use that excuse anymore... :,) > I'm finally starting to see some programs require 2.6 now, so I

Re: FLTK versions in Cygwin [was: Re: units: update, FHS compliance]

2010-01-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:28:56PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Meh. Unlike linux, there is a significant portion of the cygwin user >base that treats cygwin simply as a "build environment" -- but use a >compiler for native win32 $hosts. > >I don't much like it, but that's reality. (...why did C

FW: FLTK versions in Cygwin [was: Re: units: update, FHS compliance]

2010-01-26 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:38 AM >On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:28:56PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>I don't much like it, but that's reality. (...why did Cygnus fund the >>early development, in the first place? To have a windows-hosted build >>environment

Re: FW: FLTK versions in Cygwin [was: Re: units: update, FHS compliance]

2010-01-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:14:44AM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:38 AM >>On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:28:56PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>>I don't much like it, but that's reality. (...why did Cygnus fund the

RE: FW: FLTK versions in Cygwin [was: Re: units: update, FHS compliance]

2010-01-26 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:25 AM > >>Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:38 >>AM >>>On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:28:56PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: I don't much like it, but that's reality. (...why did Cygnus fund

Re: FW: FLTK versions in Cygwin [was: Re: units: update, FHS compliance]

2010-01-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:01:30AM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >I know better than to argue with you in general and on this subject in >particular. (For those who don't know, Chris used to work for Cygnus >Solutions.) I just thought that it might be useful to point those who

Re: FW: FLTK versions in Cygwin [was: Re: units: update, FHS compliance]

2010-01-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:16:20AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:01:30AM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] >wrote: >>I know better than to argue with you in general and on this subject in >>particular. (For those who don't know, Chris used to work for Cygnus

Re: Please support CP932. (I have problem using subversion with SJIS)

2010-01-26 Thread Kazuhiro Fujieda
>>> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:23:58 +0100 >>> Corinna Vinschen said: > The Unix consensus is apparently EUC-JP and that's what Cygwin 1.7.2 > will use as default as well. If you want UTF-8, just use "ja_JP.UTF-8". To change the default codeset of ja_JP to eucJP is ridiculous. Any users of Japanese

Re: Please support CP932. (I have problem using subversion with SJIS)

2010-01-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 27 01:36, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote: > >>> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:23:58 +0100 > >>> Corinna Vinschen said: > > > The Unix consensus is apparently EUC-JP and that's what Cygwin 1.7.2 > > will use as default as well. If you want UTF-8, just use "ja_JP.UTF-8". > > To change the default codeset

Git-gui and ssh key authenication

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Lee
Hi cygwin, I'm not sure if this goes in the cygwin-apps list of here. I'm running Cygwin 1.7.1 on XP SP3 Pro. I'm having problems getting git-gui to use my ssh key. I can run git-gui fine. But when I try to clone from my repo it asks for my ssh passphrase. I'm assuming that this is because it ca

Re: Please support CP932. (I have problem using subversion with SJIS)

2010-01-26 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/26 Corinna Vinschen: >> Any users of Japanese version of Windows don't use eucJP as >> typical euncoding scheme. It will cause unnecessary confusion. > > Well, you can always use "ja_JP.SJIS". > > As for the default charset, now > that we get extended NLS support, there are packages out ther

Re: Git-gui and ssh key authenication

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Lee
Hi again, I hope this replies to the right thread. I forgot to say I'm using Mintty. When it asks me for my passphrase it asks me from the Mintty console I ran the "git gui" command from. Two things happen here, my passphrase is displayed as I type it and when I quit the git-gui, only every other

SSH password change request

2010-01-26 Thread Jonathan Mailloux
Hi everyone. I modified "openssh-5.1p1-10" to allow SSH to have it login with a password and do some action on a single line. This is the result of a chain of problems I had to customize and automate our web installations here. Syntax is as follow: ssh password:usern...@server [params] [acti

Re: SSH password change request

2010-01-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 26 13:56, Jonathan Mailloux wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > I modified "openssh-5.1p1-10" to allow SSH to have it login with a password > and do some action on a single line. This is the result of a chain of > problems I had to customize and automate our web installations here. > > Syntax

Readline problem on stand alone application

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Budnik
In the latest port of the ordinal calculator (www.mtnmath.com/ord) readline does not work. Backspace does not delete characters and the arrow keys do not move the cursor. The problem is reproducible with bash. Copy bash.exe and the dlls it uses to another directory and execute bash in that dire

Re: Readline problem on stand alone application

2010-01-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:28:00AM -0800, Paul Budnik wrote: >In the latest port of the ordinal calculator (www.mtnmath.com/ord) >readline does not work. Backspace does not delete characters and the >arrow keys do not move the cursor. The problem is reproducible with >bash. Copy bash.exe and the

Re: Python 2.6 ?

2010-01-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 26/01/2010 07:56, Jason Tishler wrote: Agreed, especially since the Python web site indicates the following: The current production versions are Python 2.6.4 and Python 3.1.1. Which raises another point: 3.x are meant to be installed in parallel with 2.x (/usr/bin/python3 instead of /

Re: Problems starting sshd as a service on cygwin 1.7.1

2010-01-26 Thread Myron Flickner
Problem remains - If I repeat the cgyrunsrv -S sshd command eventually it works. Disabling Symantec Client Firewall didn't fix this. I've attached the cygcheck.out file.Is there any other tracing I can do ? imaging away / flick cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Proble

Re: Problems starting sshd as a service on cygwin 1.7.1

2010-01-26 Thread Gregg Levine
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Myron Flickner wrote: > Problem remains - If I repeat the cgyrunsrv -S sshd command eventually it > works. > > Disabling Symantec Client Firewall didn't fix this. > > I've attached the cygcheck.out file.    Is there any other tracing I can do ? > >  imaging away /

Re: Problems starting sshd as a service on cygwin 1.7.1

2010-01-26 Thread Myron Flickner
Thanks for catching the typeo - it's cygrunsrv. sshd was installed as I outlined in the original posting. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00893.html imaging away / flick - Original Message From: Gregg Levine To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Tue, January 26, 2010 3:56:41 PM Subj

Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-26 Thread Steven Monai
Hi folks, Consider this command line transcript: -- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 hostname 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin $ cygcheck -c cygport Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygport 0.9.80-1 O

cd /cygdrive hangs for some time.

2010-01-26 Thread Ram Kal
Hi, I have a new problem with latest Cygwin installation (1.7.1(0.218/5/3)). Most of the times I wanted to cd to C Drive, the command hangs for few seconds and then completes. Also noticed that once i am in /cygdrive/c and do a 'ls -l' command, same thing happens. I have attached the point in the

Suggestion: relative path for cygstart

2010-01-26 Thread Ken Hirsch
Older versions of cygstart did not replace the file names with absolute windows paths. This was better since the ShellExecute function will search the path for a command. And, if it doesn't find it in the path, it will look in the registry. So you can 'cygstart calc', 'cygstart winword', 'cygst

re: Cygwin Vista svn problem STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Stanton
Following up on Mark MacVicar's recent email about getting a stack dump using svn from a DOS prompt, I have exactly the same problem (Cygwin 1.7.1 running under Vista). Here's some more info: a. If the repository is accessed at http..., svn works fine from the DOS prompt. b. When I switched so

Re: 1.7.1 "Bad Address" when running cmd.exe on 64 bit windows server 2008

2010-01-26 Thread jenniferlee
Wow, thank you so much, that was very fast! Is there a way I can refer my customers to this patch? Or should I put the workarounds in my code for now until this is in an official release? I appreciate all the help with the workarounds, that got me going again, but at this point I either need

I suggest changing the default application to mintty

2010-01-26 Thread Clinton Goudie-Nice
I've experienced a variety of people who have used Cygwin, and then been frustrated by the inability to scale the window or cut and paste effectively. Often I ask if they've used mintty and they don't even know what I'm talking about since it's not installed by default, and even if it were, they wo

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 26/01/2010 20:09, Steven Monai wrote: $ pwd /home/steve/My Documents/bglibs This is not a bug in cygport per se. Spaces in paths is just a bad idea when you're dealing with shell scripts and you will find all sorts of breakage as a result (as has already been well documented on this list)

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-26 Thread Lee Rothstein
Steven Monai wrote: Hi folks, Consider this command line transcript: -- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 hostname 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin $ cygcheck -c cygport Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygport

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-26 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/26 8:42 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 26/01/2010 20:09, Steven Monai wrote: >> $ pwd >> /home/steve/My Documents/bglibs > > This is not a bug in cygport per se. Spaces in paths is just a bad idea > when you're dealing with shell scripts and you will find all sorts of > breakage as

Re: Please support CP932. (I have problem using subversion with SJIS)

2010-01-26 Thread Kazuhiro Fujieda
>>> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:06:15 +0100 >>> Corinna Vinschen said: > As for the default charset, now that we get extended NLS > support, there are packages out there which have messages > files for ja_JP encoded in eucJP. These are not shown > correctly if SJIS is the default. The runtime library

'git commit' problem

2010-01-26 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, This might be a general 'git' issue rather than something specific to Cygwin. (The only git I have used is Cygwin's git - version 1.5.4.) When I try to 'git commit' my amendments I often get hit with "* trailing whitespace (line xxx)" errors. Firstly, I'm wondering what's wrong with hav

Re: Please support CP932. (I have problem using subversion with SJIS)

2010-01-26 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/27 Kazuhiro Fujieda: > Andy said `Seems SJIS really isn't suited for Unix command line > use.' I said there is no problem, no difference with EUC-JP, and > no need to change the default. That comment primarily referred to standard SJIS, with its mappings of the ASCII backslash and tilde cod

Re: Please support CP932. (I have problem using subversion with SJIS)

2010-01-26 Thread Kazuhiro Fujieda
>>> On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:28:53 + >>> Andy Koppe said: > Another example is X11, which has its own locale system independent > from Cygwin's. There, "ja_JP" implies eucJP already. This means that > with LANG=ja_JP, xterm uses eucJP, while filenames and programs > currently use the system's AN