Re: LANG=ru_RU.cp1251, but binutils use UTF-8.

On 21 June 2010 09:14, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: > I globally set LANG=ru_RU.cp1251 for Russian Windows. > All command work as expected (from coreutils, svn, etc.). > > But objdump, nm, objcopy use UTF-8 instead recode to cp1251: > >  $  objdump --help | head -n 2 > Рспользование: objdum

Re: character set for building cygwin documentation ?

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 18:35 +, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Hi, > trying to build last snapshot, every thing go fine, except > documentation. > > cd cygwin-ug-net && docbook2pdf ../cygwin-ug-net.sgml > Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/xml-docbook-4.5.cat > Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:30:43PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: >Hello! >Sometimes when I open a terminal window, and Fortune promptly displays >an appropriately witty saying, I then see the quote from Star Trek >surface. That's okay I created a script to do so based on one used by >my Linux system.

Re: Question...has this been raised before? why domain\user instead of domain/user?

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:34:20PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >Eric Blake wrote: >>> Isn't this inconsistent? Any plans to fix this? >--- >Given the difficulting in building the cygin executable, I doubt it. > >Most projects, I get the tarball, or check it out. Do a configure, or >run the bootstra

Re: LANG=ru_RU.cp1251, but binutils use UTF-8.

On 22.06.2010 9:00, Andy Koppe wrote: On 21 June 2010 09:14, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: I globally set LANG=ru_RU.cp1251 for Russian Windows. All command work as expected (from coreutils, svn, etc.). But objdump, nm, objcopy use UTF-8 instead recode to cp1251: $ objdump --help | head -n 2 РСЃ

Re: cygwin 1.7.5, 'id -ng' fails when /etc/group is a symlink

On Jun 21 22:21, Ken wrote: > >> Also, for reference, I have been successfully using a symlink for > >> the /etc/group and /etc/passwd files for years in Cygwin 1.5x > >> without issue and I would like to continue doing so in 1.7x. > > >That won't be possible using Cygwin symlinks. If you're runn

Re: Bug report / Cygwin prob...

On Jun 21 14:22, Linda Walsh wrote: > I have two accounts on my client machine. One is m...@workstation, > the other is m...@domain. They are both me and I need to have them > be able access each other's files mostly transparently. > > As a result, in windows, I setup a group (megroup) that cont

AW: ls -l does not work correkt

Corinna Vinschen - corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: > On Jun 16 15:43, cygwin.20.maillingl...@spamgourmet.com wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen - corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: >>> On Jun 16 10:11, cygwin.20.maillingl...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm migrating from an old pc to an

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:30:43PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: >>Hello! >>Sometimes when I open a terminal window, and Fortune promptly displays >>an appropriately witty saying, I then see the quote from Star Trek >>surface. That's okay I

svn do nothing

Hi, After I upgrade my cygwin to the latest version. the 'svn' program always returns nothing for me for any svn commands including the very simple 'svn --version' command. It just simply return to the next command prompt without any output or an error. What's wrong with it? -- Life is the onl

[1.7.5] python2.5 bad installation?

Hi, I just updated my cygwin installation and it looks like my old python2.5 installation has been corrupted? /usr/python2.6 has all the usual packages but /usr/lib/python2.5 is missing everything. I have attached my latest cygcheck -s -v -r output and the corresponding setup.log.full from my

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: archivemail 0.7.2-1 -- Archive and compress old email

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Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:10:14AM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: >On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Christopher Faylor > wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:30:43PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: >>>Hello! >>>Sometimes when I open a terminal window, and Fortune promptly displays >>>an appropriately witty

Re: Fw: Using cron with network share

- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" To: cygwin Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 22:06 | On 6/21/2010 2:08 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: | > ** apologies about the bad formatting in the earlier reply ** | > | > Well, I apologize for being dense, but I'm not getting it. I read the | >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bzr 2.1.2-1 -- Python based distributed version control (DVCS)

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Re: svn do nothing

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:14:38 +0800, Steven Woody wrote: > Hi, > > After I upgrade my cygwin to the latest version. the 'svn' program > always returns nothing for me for any svn commands including the very > simple 'svn --version' command. It just simply return to the next > command prompt withou

Re: Fw: Using cron with network share

On Jun 22 10:37, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" > To: cygwin > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 22:06 > > > | On 6/21/2010 2:08 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: > | > ** apologies about the bad formatting in the earlier reply ** > | > > | > Well, I apol

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Re: 1.7.x: svn does nothing and returns

On 2010-06-22 14:57Z, Steven Woody wrote: > > After I upgraded my cygwin to the latest version. Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.7.1 Build date: Mon Dec 7 11:48:55 CET 2009 I think the latest is 1.7.5 . > the 'svn' program > always returns nothing for me for any svn c

Re: 1.7.x: svn does nothing and returns

On 22 June 2010 23:18, Greg Chicares wrote: > On 2010-06-22 14:57Z, Steven Woody wrote: >> >> After I upgraded my cygwin to the latest version. > >    Cygwin DLL version info: >        DLL version: 1.7.1 >        Build date: Mon Dec 7 11:48:55 CET 2009 > > I think the latest is 1.7.5 . it's stran

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

> You're exaggerating. Most of the time when maintainers receive private > email they redirect it to this list with a polite request to keep the > discussion public. There is no "head handing". O RLY? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 07:40:50PM +0200, Alexander T wrote: >On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:35:30AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>You're exaggerating. Most of the time when maintainers receive private >>email they redirect it to this list with a polite request to keep the >>discussion public. T

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: python-paramiko 1.7.6-2 -- Python library for SSH2 connections

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Re: 1.7.x: svn does nothing and returns

On 6/22/2010 9:49 AM, Steven Woody wrote: > On 22 June 2010 23:18, Greg Chicares wrote: >> On 2010-06-22 14:57Z, Steven Woody wrote: >>> >>> After I upgraded my cygwin to the latest version. >> >>Cygwin DLL version info: >>DLL version: 1.7.1 >>Build date: Mon Dec 7 11:48:55 CET

Re: 1.7.x: svn does nothing and returns

On 6/22/2010 1:55 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: In your cygcheck output, I see that the version of the DLL in c:\cygwin\bin is 1.7.1, but setup believes 1.7.5 is installed. Perhaps the DLL was in use when you last updated and it was never successfully replaced. You should shut down all your Cygw

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Re: Using cron with network share

I did finally get it to work by using the UNC path. I had thought that it was always preferable to use a unix-style path, particularly since cygwin now warns about using W32-style paths. Thanks very much for the help. Re: Fw: Using cron with network share * From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin

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Re: Using cron with network share

On 6/22/2010 2:20 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: I did finally get it to work by using the UNC path. I had thought that it was always preferable to use a unix-style path, particularly since cygwin now warns about using W32-style paths. If you're talking about using '\' as the path separator, yes, it

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

> Lets all say it together > One more time > Now cover your eyes and see if you can say it without reading it > Close enough. Humorous? To me, as a newcomer, no. Funny? Hardly. Insulting? I would say so. I don't mind jokes and hints, but I must say that that is a pretty depreciative answer to some

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > You're exaggerating.  Most of the time when maintainers receive private Not by much. When Gregg had the temerity to even suggest informing a package maintainer, you threw a public tantrum. Are you aware how obnoxious you sound to oth

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:56:21PM -0400, David Eisner wrote: >On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>You're exaggerating. ?Most of the time when maintainers receive >>private > >Not by much. When Gregg had the temerity to even suggest informing a >package maintainer, you

libproxy-devel-0.4.0-1 missing libproxy.la

My subversion build dies because it can't find /usr/lib/libproxy.la. libproxy-devel-0.2.3-1 contained this file, but -0.4.0-1 does not. Is this a packaging error? Or do I need to try to work around this in the subversion build? -- David Rothenberger daver...@acm.org This night methinks i

Re: libproxy-devel-0.4.0-1 missing libproxy.la

On 6/22/2010 1:47 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: > My subversion build dies because it can't find /usr/lib/libproxy.la. > libproxy-devel-0.2.3-1 contained this file, but -0.4.0-1 does not. > > Is this a packaging error? Or do I need to try to work around this in > the subversion build? It seems th

Re: Using cron with network share

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: > On 6/22/2010 2:20 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: >> >> I did finally get it to work by using the UNC path. I had thought that it >> was >> always preferable to use a unix-style path, particularly since cygwin now >> warns about using W32-st

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Alexander T <> wrote: >> Lets all say it together >> One more time >> Now cover your eyes and see if you can say it without reading it >> Close enough. > > Humorous? To me, as a newcomer, no. Funny? Hardly. Insulting? I would > say so. I don't mind jokes and hints,

Re: libproxy-devel-0.4.0-1 missing libproxy.la

On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 14:06 -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 6/22/2010 1:47 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: > > My subversion build dies because it can't find /usr/lib/libproxy.la. > > libproxy-devel-0.2.3-1 contained this file, but -0.4.0-1 does not. > > > > Is this a packaging error? Or do I

Re: 1.7.5: vim SEGV on write of /etc/hosts

On 6/22/2010 5:17 PM, Bill Ross wrote: Whenever I vi /etc/hosts and write a change I get -bash-3.2$ vi /etc/hosts Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV Tho the change gets written ok. It seems to have started with 1.7.5. No problem seen with other files. -bash-3.2$ ls -l /etc/hosts lrwxrwxrwx 1 bross

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

Paraphrasing: >[C]haracter flaws [of Cygwin project participants] have nothing to do >with cygwin itself. I'd disagree with that. The Cygwin project is a volunteer effort, correct? Potential developers are more likely to volunteer if they see respect and cooperation on lists such as this. I'v

Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

Hello! I've been trying to update this 1.7.5 release of Cygwin since 11AM EDT, based on the multiple announcements of updated packages. Each time I select a mirror and select those packages I want to update, the process starts. It continues up to some particular point, and then I get the incomplet

Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

On 6/22/2010 7:44 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! I've been trying to update this 1.7.5 release of Cygwin since 11AM EDT, based on the multiple announcements of updated packages. Each time I select a mirror and select those packages I want to update, the process starts. It continues up to some pa

Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

On 2010-06-22 23:44Z, Gregg Levine wrote: > > I've been trying to update this 1.7.5 release of Cygwin since 11AM > EDT, based on the multiple announcements of updated packages. That was nine hours ago. Propagation time could be twelve hours if everything is working as described here: http://cygwi

Re: Trouble with vimdiff and strace on most recent cygwin

Here are the error messages (from the attachment text) that vimdiff and strace gave: $ vimdiff /etc/skel/.bashrc ~/.bashrc 2 files to edit 7 [?47h [27m [24m [0m [H [J [25;1H"/etc/skel/.bashrc" 130L, 3754C "~/.bashrc" [25;13H [K [25;13H135L, 3884C 1 [main] gvim 1752 exception::handle: Excep

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.6.12-1

New upstream release. CYGWIN NEWS: This version is built using swig 1.3.40. At the time of this announcement, the latest package available for Cygwin is 1.3.38-1, which fails to build correct bindings with Python 2.6. The swig maintainer has promised to release 1.3.40 soon. One test

Re: Need swig 1.3.40 for Subversion

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 14:04 -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: > It seems that swig-1.3.38 has a bug that produces invalid Python > bindings with Python 2.6. I first hit this when building > subversion-1.6.11-2 for Python 2.6, but I dismissed the test case > failures at the time. > > Today I built s

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 04:14:54PM -0700, Stacey Campbell wrote: >Paraphrasing: >>[C]haracter flaws [of Cygwin project participants] have nothing to do >>with cygwin itself. > >I'd disagree with that. Doesn't matter. This is not a democracy where random people who figure out how to send email to

Re: cygwin 1.7.5, 'id -ng' fails when /etc/group is a symlink

>> >> Also, for reference, I have been successfully using a symlink for >> >> the /etc/group and /etc/passwd files for years in Cygwin 1.5x >> >> without issue and I would like to continue doing so in 1.7x. >> >> >That won't be possible using Cygwin symlinks. If you're running >> >Vista or later,

Re: cygwin 1.7.5, 'id -ng' fails when /etc/group is a symlink

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Ken <> wrote: > I was of the understanding that junctions were not supported over a CIFS > share (my ultimate target; as with 1.5x).  Perhaps you have information to > the contrary? > > Since I have to manage the Win XP side for the foreseeable future, it > appears