[ATTN: cvs maintainer] trailing dot issue with cygwin 1.7

2010-04-04 Thread crosmun_william
I haven't seen this reported in the mailing lists anywhere. My apologies if it has.  We are having problems with the cvs client running in Cygwin 1.7. There is a section of code in src/client.c > temp_filename = xmalloc (strlen (filename) + 80); > #ifdef USE_VMS_FILENAMES >  /* A VMS

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just release 1.7.3-1. This is a bugfix release which fixes a serious deadlock problem, a couple of not so serious bugs, plus a few minor changes. == NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOT

Re: cygintl-8.dll was not found

2010-04-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 03/04/2010 12:08, wefwef wefwef wrote: > I have downloaded the cygwin with all the defaults, plus a few extra > packages to a local directory, then copied this to another machine and > installed. - (Thanks to those who helped to get a minimal install, it > is now 80 MB) > > I am getting the err

Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 03/04/2010 06:51, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> A "silent" install might be cool but I can also see that it would be >> useful to allow to user to browse though some of the optional packages. >> For example, while maybe not everybody would want gcc and make, some >> may. Or perh

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
For anyone who's interested, there is one additional fix in 1.7.3 - strace -p now works again. It was broken for about a year and a half. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: scp no longer reports incremental progress

2010-04-04 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
Fixed with Cygwin 1.7.3 On 3/29/2010 4:09 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I am running the latest Cygwin (1.7.2) and ssh. I notice that scp (from local to remote host) no longer shows an incremental progress bar. It just reports 100% completion immediately, then I have to wait until the copy is a

Re: scp no longer reports incremental progress

2010-04-04 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
> Fixed with Cygwin 1.7.3 Unfortunately I'm still experiencing the issue. Is there anything I can do to help debug it? Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: htt

__cxa_atexit

2010-04-04 Thread June Kim
I'm building CppUTest from http://cpputest.sf.net with cygwin. make from the CppUTest path results in a huge list of errors with ___cxa_atexit reference, for e.g.: tests/CommandLineArgumentsTest.o: In function `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0': /cygdrive/d/work/chord/CppUTest/tests/Comm

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-04 Thread jurriaan
From: Corinna Vinschen Date: Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 05:22:09PM +0200 > > == > NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE > > Cygwin 1.7.1 or earlier users of LSA authentication using the cyglsa.d

Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-04 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Dave Korn wrote: > On 03/04/2010 06:51, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >> Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >>> A "silent" install might be cool but I can also see that it would be >>> useful to allow to user to browse though some of the optional packages. >>> For example, while maybe not everybody would want gcc and m

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-04 Thread Jeremy Bopp
jurri...@rivierenland.xs4all.nl wrote: > From: Corinna Vinschen > Date: Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 05:22:09PM +0200 >> == >> NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE >> >> Cygwin 1.7.1 or earlier use

Re: Xcompose like input for UTF-8 ?

2010-04-04 Thread Andy Koppe
Rurik Christiansen wrote: > Is there a way to have something similar to Xcompose for utf8 input ? You can have actual Xcompose by running an X server and using xterm or rxvt-unicode. For the console and mintty, you depend on Windows' native mechanisms, in particular, "dead keys". Different keyboa

WTF & NEW acronyms Was: Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-04 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Andrew Defaria spake: ... the people at work are a lot more point and clickly if you know what I mean. These get my vote: PACy -- point and clicky OR: GUIPy -- GUI prone Sy -- scripty (gnuish?) OR: CLIO -- Command line-oriented WWNN -- "if you know what I mean" OR "wink, wink, nudge, nudg

1.7 setup.exe overwrites softlink for home

2010-04-04 Thread Peter Wohlers
Since upgrading to 1.7, I keep seeing weird problems with deletion of my homedir symlink. Before running setup: pwohl...@h1n1 ~ $ ll / total 172 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 62 2010-02-13 09:53 Cygwin.bat -rw-r--r-- 1 root 7022 2010-02-13 09:53 Cygwin.ico drwxr-xr-x+ 1 root

Re: WTF & NEW acronyms Was: Re: Making package installation default

2010-04-04 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Hi Lee, > Is anyone maintaining WTF? That would be me, but... > Would anyone object to my changing the nature of WTF, so that it > automatically updates it's database from the OLOCA web page? (in Perl) > Rather than requiring a re-release each time the DB changes. If you would like to take it o

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gsl-1.14-1

2010-04-04 Thread A.R. Burgers
Dear all The cygwin gsl package (GNU Scientific Library) has been updated to 1.14-1 This is a new upstream release. For the announcement of gsl version 1.14 see: http://cygwin.com/ml/gsl-announce/2010/msg0.html The homepage for the GSL is http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ The gsl package c

Re: scp no longer reports incremental progress

2010-04-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 02:45:17PM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >>Fixed with Cygwin 1.7.3 > >Unfortunately I'm still experiencing the issue. Is there anything I >can do to help debug it? Sure. When I say "This is fixed in the latest snapshot" you can try the snapshot and report back rather than

installing openssh

2010-04-04 Thread T T
Hi, Sorry if the question seems dummy but I really can't figure that out. It says in the user guide: "You may search for specfic tools by using the Setup Package Search (http://cygwin.com/packages/) at the Cygwin web site". I want to install openssh but it isn't in the version, the latest, that

gitk won't start after upgrade

2010-04-04 Thread Remi
Today I've deleted my Cygwin installation, which I've used for a year without problems and installed the new version - I believe it's 1.7.3. Problem? gitk won't start: /usr/bin/gitk: line 10: package: command not found /usr/bin/gitk: line 11: proc: command not found /usr/bin/gitk: line 12: global:

Re: installing openssh

2010-04-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 05:56:17PM -0700, T T wrote: >Sorry if the question seems dummy but I really can't figure that out. > >It says in the user guide: "You may search for specfic tools by using >the Setup Package Search (http://cygwin.com/packages/) at the Cygwin >web site". I want to install o

Re: installing openssh

2010-04-04 Thread T T
Thanks for the response, but unless I misunderstand it, it describes how to proceed with packages that are available locally. openssh does not show on the list when I run setup.exe. Am I missing something? Thanks, Anthony - Original Message From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.c

Re: scp no longer reports incremental progress

2010-04-04 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
>>Unfortunately I'm still experiencing the issue.  Is there anything I >>can do to help debug it? > > Sure.  When I say "This is fixed in the latest snapshot" you can try the > snapshot and report back rather than waiting for a new release. Fair enough, unfortunately this time around the new relea

Re: Subversion 1.6.9 doesn't return to prompt(cygwin 1.7.2/vista)

2010-04-04 Thread Denis P
now works in 1.7.3-1 many thanks! since i got no answer from my previous email, was it a known bug or i didnt report the problem the right way or at the right mailling list? Le 2010-04-03 02:12, Denis P a écrit : Hi i am new to all this stuff, i'm not even sure that i send this to the right a

Re: want to continue using Cygwin 1.5

2010-04-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/4/2010 12:50 AM, prakash babu wrote: Since MS-DOS style path is not supported by chmod in Cygwin 1.7, I want to continue using Cygwin 1.5 on my new Windows box. Seems like a long way to go to keep support for a minor feature, which was buggy to start with. While it's certainly your choice

Re: installing openssh

2010-04-04 Thread Jeremy Bopp
T T wrote: > Thanks for the response, > but unless I misunderstand it, it describes how to proceed with packages that > are available locally. openssh does not show on the list when I run setup.exe. > Am I missing something? > Thanks, > Anthony Are you referring to the page at http://www.cygwin.c

Re: gitk won't start after upgrade

2010-04-04 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/4/2010 9:04 PM, Remi wrote: Today I've deleted my Cygwin installation, which I've used for a year without problems and installed the new version - I believe it's 1.7.3. Problem? gitk won't start: /usr/bin/gitk: line 10: package: command not found /usr/bin/gitk: line 11: proc: command not fou

Re: installing openssh

2010-04-04 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 04/04/2010 06:17 PM, T T wrote: Thanks for the response, but unless I misunderstand it, it describes how to proceed with packages that are available locally. openssh does not show on the list when I run setup.exe. Am I missing something? Yes you are. OpenSSH is not set to install by def