Re: Bug in fork() while in a thread

2010-08-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 14:53, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 07:42:01PM +0200, Jason Curl wrote: > >Is it allowed to issue the fork() system call while not in the main > >thread? When I read the OpenGroup specifications I don't seem to find > >anything against allowing this. > > > >In par

Re: extending a VS python with cygwin

2010-08-16 Thread Jason Tishler
Tom, On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:11:21AM -0400, Tom Roche wrote: > I tried to take the advice offered, but fail: > > m...@cygwinbox ~/bin/duplicity-0.6.09$ python -c mingw32 setup.py install > [snip] > > What's the appropriate syntax here? Or how else should I fix this > build problem? Searching

Re: Bug in fork() while in a thread

2010-08-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:05:52AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 15 14:53, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 07:42:01PM +0200, Jason Curl wrote: >> >Is it allowed to issue the fork() system call while not in the main >> >thread? When I read the OpenGroup specifications

Re: UTF-8 breaks 'ascii'

2010-08-16 Thread Charles Wilson
On 4/14/2010 11:45 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > Kenneth wrote: >> Maybe it shouldn't attempt to display code points 128..255 >> since they aren't really ascii. > > You're probably right. Originally, ascii didn't display those code > points; I added it back when a big concern was getting the "corre

make not working in cygwin when trying to install a framework!

2010-08-16 Thread Mahesh P
hi! 1)I unzipped the CUnit test framework from the bash shell in cygwin and tried installing it ./configure-works make command gives me an error saying cd . && autoheader /bin/sh : autoheader:command not found make:*** [config.h.in]Error 127. make install works make clean works I am not able to

Re: cygstart version 1.4 bug in "cygstart --reference"

2010-08-16 Thread Charles Wilson
On 6/11/2008 8:14 PM, SJ Kissane wrote: > In cygstart 1.4, "cygstart --reference" opens a web browser to > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/Shell/reference/functions/shellexecute.asp > > which microsoft redirects to: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ms123402.aspx > > w

Re: Broken process substitution

2010-08-16 Thread Daniel Colascione
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Yep, it was another problem.  At one point the code missed to copy > over information about a file descriptor.  I applied a fix to CVS. I'm running a DLL built from the latest CVS, and all is well. Thanks for the fix! -- Problem reports:

Re: make not working in cygwin when trying to install a framework!

2010-08-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/16/2010 12:47 PM, Mahesh P wrote: hi! 1)I unzipped the CUnit test framework from the bash shell in cygwin and tried installing it ./configure-works make command gives me an error saying cd .&& autoheader /bin/sh : autoheader:command not found make:*** [config.h.in]Error 127. make install

Re: Where's my home? (lost in my domain)

2010-08-16 Thread Linda Walsh
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/4/2010 4:22 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: When I log in, I seem to be placed in "/Users/law.Bliss". IF I type "cd" and hit return, then I'm in "//Bliss/law". In other words, the value of HOME is [My home vars:] HOME='//Bliss/law' HOMEPATH='\'HOMEDRIVE='i' H

gcc-4.5 notes

2010-08-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Dave, Several notes about gcc-4.5.0: 1) I'm using a new FIONREAD patch for Classpath which solves several issues. Matching patch for gcc-4.5 attached. 2) fix-libtool-scripts-for-latest-gcc-runtimes.sh doesn't actually do anything; 's|echo sed|sed|g' fixes that. 3) libgnat import libs are missi

Cygwin 1.7.5 segfault during setup

2010-08-16 Thread Steve Marotta
I am using Cygwin 1.7.5, upgraded from 1.5, or so I think. I am trying to run setup.exe so I can install new packages. I select "Install from Internet" and "Direct Connection", and my network connection itself works fine. When setup tries to download the mirrors list, it says, "This application has

Re: Cygwin 1.7.5 segfault during setup

2010-08-16 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/16/2010 5:32 PM, Steve Marotta wrote: > I am using Cygwin 1.7.5, upgraded from 1.5, or so I think. I am trying > to run setup.exe so I can install new packages. I select "Install from > Internet" and "Direct Connection", and my network connection itself > works fine. When setup tries to downlo

Existence check fails on Cygwin Perl

2010-08-16 Thread Andrew DeFaria
This is strange. I usually tend to use Cygwin's Perl as it is more full featured and works well but there are times when I am forced to use "cqperl" - a Perl that comes with Rational Clearquest - at my clients. Here it seems that Cygwin's Perl utterly fails the test where as cqperl - a derivat

Postinstall for mintty fails when installing "just for me"

2010-08-16 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
$ bash --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/mintty.sh /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/c/Documents and Settings/All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin': Permission denied mkshortcut: Saving "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Cygwin\mintty.lnk" failed; does the target direc

Path conversion issue

2010-08-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! Trying to find differences between local and remote file, I run into an issue: diff.exe -cdb -x "CVS" -x ".svn" -I "\$Id.*\$" --strip-trailing-cr -- "C:\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php" "\\REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php" diff: \REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php: N

Re: 1.7.5 XWin trouble

2010-08-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/16/2010 7:50 PM, Russell Peterson wrote: Hello, After having recently upgraded to cygwin 1.7.5, I have noticed a strange problem with my xterm windows. Everything works just fine until I use windows remote desktop to "control" the system with the XWin server and xterm windows on it. At th

Re: Path conversion issue

2010-08-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/16/2010 10:03 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, All! Trying to find differences between local and remote file, I run into an issue: diff.exe -cdb -x "CVS" -x ".svn" -I "\$Id.*\$" --strip-trailing-cr -- "C:\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php" "\\REMOTE\C$\...\php-tools\GalleryClass.php" diff:

Re: diff /usr/include/endian.orig.h /usr/include/endian.h > endian.h.diff

2010-08-16 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
As this thread went nowhere, I searched for the BSD code: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/stable/8/sys/sys/endian.h?revision=199583&view=markup It uses x to represent the variable as I did; but it also casts the variable. I think that casting is not desirable because I like to see warnin

Re: Postinstall for mintty fails when installing "just for me"

2010-08-16 Thread Andy Koppe
On 17 August 2010 02:26, Buchbinder, Barry wrote: > $ bash --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/mintty.sh > /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/c/Documents and Settings/All > Users/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin': Permission denied > mkshortcut: Saving "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start > Me

Re: 1.7.5 XWin trouble

2010-08-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/16/2010 9:11 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Since your issue is with Cygwin-X, you should send it to the cygwin-xfree > list. Or, just install ssh and run X over SSH. Problem solved wit PuTTY and Portable Xming. (I do this all the time at unive