Octave 3.2.3: wrong matrix calculation

Hi All, I use octave 3.2.3 under Cygwin (windows 7) for my math application. I discovered a bad calculation calling the function det(). The step to reproduce is this: > A = [1,2,3;4,5,6;7,8,9]; > det(A) ans = -9.5171e-16 The matrix is singular so I expected the resul was 0 and not a very very l

Re: chown in vista not work because of permission denied

On May 3 00:26, Matthias Meyer wrote: > Hello, > > I have a cygwin 1.5.25 installation on a vista client. > I can access the vista client by ssh. For that I use an account > called "backup". > > I want use the ssh account for backup/restore with rsync. > The Backup work well but the restore not

Re: perl6 fails -

2010/4/30 David Vergin: > on 4/29/2010 11:46 PM Reini Urban said the following: >> >> ...I think we are onto something. PMC perms probably. >> The complete strace please: >>   strace perl6 --version&>  perl6_strace.log >>   gzip perl6_strace.log > > Your humble servant hears and responds. Attached.

Re: "Error opening terminal: cygwin." when attempting to start lynx

On 5/1/2010 3:23 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Ken Brown! I'm receiving this error message when trying to start lynx browser: [C:\]$lynx Error opening terminal: cygwin. Hello, What does `echo $TERM' tells you? (I'm guessing TERM=cygwin) Does `export TERM=xterm' solve the problem? Note

R: Octave 3.2.3: wrong matrix calculation

--- Lun 3/5/10, texsit ha scritto: > Hi All, > I use octave 3.2.3 under Cygwin (windows 7) for my math > application. > I discovered a bad calculation calling the function det(). > The step to reproduce is this: > > > A = [1,2,3;4,5,6;7,8,9]; > > det(A) > ans = -9.5171e-16 > > The matrix is si

$PS1 doesn't appear to work the same after version 1.7

I use the following to setup my $PS1 bash prompt: PS1="\[\033]0;\w\007\033[32m\...@\h\[\033[36m \W\033[0m\]> " This attempts to emit the usern...@hostname current_folder> (in color) This still works on my Linux and Solaris boxes. It used to work under Cygwin, but I believe that it began faili

Re: File extension for the copy of python2.5.exe

Yaakov, On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 08:16:43PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 2010-05-02 16:48, Jason Tishler wrote: > >Unfortunately when I converted to using cygport, I forgot about the > >functionality in my build script to workaround the above issue. > > > >I will try to figure out how to co

Re: perl6 fails -

on 5/3/2010 4:15 AM Reini Urban said the following: 1. Do you see any missing dll dependency in cygcheck /usr/lib/parrot/2.3.0/dynext/perl6_group.dll cygcheck /usr/lib/parrot/2.3.0/dynext/perl6_ops.dll These commands list a bunch of file paths and then both end with: cygcheck: track_d

Re: perl6 fails -

David Vergin wrote: > on 5/3/2010 4:15 AM Reini Urban said the following: >> 1. Do you see any missing dll dependency in >>cygcheck /usr/lib/parrot/2.3.0/dynext/perl6_group.dll >>cygcheck /usr/lib/parrot/2.3.0/dynext/perl6_ops.dll > > These commands list a bunch of file paths and then bot

Re: chown in vista not work because of permission denied

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 3 00:26, Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a cygwin 1.5.25 installation on a vista client. >> I can access the vista client by ssh. For that I use an account >> called "backup". >> >> I want use the ssh account for backup/restore with rsync. >> The Ba

Re: perl6 fails -

2010/5/3 David Vergin: > on 5/3/2010 4:15 AM Reini Urban said the following: >> >> 1. Do you see any missing dll dependency in >>   cygcheck /usr/lib/parrot/2.3.0/dynext/perl6_group.dll >>   cygcheck /usr/lib/parrot/2.3.0/dynext/perl6_ops.dll > > These commands list a bunch of file paths and then b

Re: $PS1 doesn't appear to work the same after version 1.7

lynn wrote: > I use the following to setup my $PS1 bash prompt: > > PS1="\[\033]0;\w\007\033[32m\...@\h\[\033[36m \W\033[0m\]> " > > This attempts to emit the usern...@hostname current_folder>  (in color) You've got the \W and the space before it inside \[...\] which tells readline not to count it

Emacs scroll bar under Cygwin

Is there a way to change the scrollbar behavior in Emacs on Cygwin? On a Linux system the Emacs scroll bar works as one would expect in that you can select the scroll bar with the left mouse button and drag it up and down to move the position in the buffer that displays in the frame. This is also t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rakudo-201004-2 (aka perl6)

I updated the Cygwin distribution to rakudo-201004-2 to fix a wrong dependency to the outdated /bin/cyggcc_s.dll, which was imported from a private old lib in /usr/local/lib, which took precedence of one of the standard libs. Thanks to David Vergin for reporting and testing. Note that current

Re: Emacs scroll bar under Cygwin

On 5/3/2010 3:06 PM, Steven Collins wrote: Is there a way to change the scrollbar behavior in Emacs on Cygwin? On a Linux system the Emacs scroll bar works as one would expect in that you can select the scroll bar with the left mouse button and drag it up and down to move the position in the buff

Re: perl6 fails - RESOLVED

Thanks, Reini. To confirm: The updated rakudo-201004-2, which you uploaded and then announced on this list an hour after your post below, runs without complaint. See you down the bitstream. Cheers, David on 5/3/2010 11:15 AM Reini Urban said the following: 2010/5/3 David Vergin: on 5/3/201

Re: cygwin with microsoft remote desktop

On 2010-05-02 06:57, Eric Friedman wrote: Hi all, I am using windows remote desktop to access cygwin on a remote machine with a disk on my local computer remote mounted, via remote desktop. On the remote machine this disk shows up under my computer but is not assigned a drive letter. How do I a

1.7: hostname resolution works for Windows programs, but not Cygwin programs

Hello, I have a new installation of Cygwin 1.7 on Windows 7 Professional 32-bit on brolin-V13, my Dell Vostro V13 laptop. Windows (non-Cygwin) programs, such as nslookup, can resolve the hostnames of Ubuntu PCs on the LAN, but Cygwin programs, such as ssh from OpenSSH, cannot resolve the sa

Error buildind cross development tools with crosstool-ng on Cygwin

I am trying to build PowerPC development tools using crosstool-ng in Cygwin. I have successfully build a toolchain in Linux with crosstool-ng but have not been successful in Cygwin. I get through many of the steps but it fails on CT_DoExecLog when building the final compiler. It appears to fa

Re: Error buildind cross development tools with crosstool-ng on Cygwin

I've successfully build a cross-tool for arm, everything seems fine. I use cygwin 1.7.5 with WinXP 32-bit. 2010/5/4 Jeff Gilton > > I am trying to build PowerPC development tools using crosstool-ng in Cygwin. > I have successfully build a toolchain in  Linux with crosstool-ng but have > not bee

Re: PostgreSQL plperl crash on Cygwin 1.7.5

Reini Urban wrote: 2010/5/2 Andrew Dunstan : On Cygwin version 1.7.5 I am trying to run set up a member of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm . We have a current Cygwin member (run by me) using Cygwin version 1.5.25, which for the most part runs with

Re: 1.7: hostname resolution works for Windows programs, but not Cygwin programs

Brolin Empey wrote: Hostname resolution stopped working for Cygwin programs in 2 other Cygwin installations which were upgraded from Cygwin 1.5 too: one of these installations is on howard, which is a desktop running Windows 2000 Professional Edition SP4 i386. The other is optiplex960, a tower ru

How to remove those previously downloaded packges?

hi community, Every time when I was installing a cygwin, I run the setup twice. The first time is to download only, then the second is to install from local directory. To doing like this is to keep the installed packages under a specified directory, then later on I can re-install from there if

Re: How to remove those previously downloaded packges?

I've write a script when Cygwin 1.7 is in beta phase, please see this mail on old.nabble.com http://old.nabble.com/Cygwin-setup.exe%3A-Clean-historical-setup-packages-ts26569064.html Here's the updated version for Cygwin-1.7 and Cygwin-Legacy(1.5): http://old.nabble.com/file/p28443671/cleanOldPac