Full install problem

2010-08-23 Thread Milos Puchta
Hello At the end of full install I have obtained message about problems: Package: boxes boxes.sh exit code 2 Package: libglade2.0_0 libglade2.0.sh exit code 2 Package: docbook-xsl docbook-xsl.sh exit code 1 Package: docbook-xml412 docbook-xml412.sh exit code 1 Packag

1.7.6.-1: ldd always fails with "No such file or directory"

2010-08-23 Thread Dirk Sondermann
After the update to Cygwin 1.7.6.-1, ldd always fails with the error "No such file or directory". $ ls /bin/ls /bin/ls $ ldd /bin/ls ldd: /bin/ls: No such file or directory I have checked the available old snapshots. It seems that it is the update from 20100801 to 20100804 that breaks ldd. $ un

Re: kernel32.dll breakage (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1)

2010-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 21 19:04, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > On 21/08/2010 3:47 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > > On 21/08/2010 3:35 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Chris [Sutcliffe], can we please revert this change for now? > It breaks > building Win32 apps, if the link order prefers kernel32.a > over a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 22 10:57, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Larry Hall wrote: > >>Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>- Improve performance of stat and a few other functions. ls(1) should > >>> be up to 30% faster > >> > >>I have a directory (500MB, 30 files) which contains mainly 'exe' (setups > >>for TB, FF, OO etc.).

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-23 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I can't reproduce such a problem and I don't have AVG9 (virus scanner?). Am I indiscreet if I ask you what AV are you using? Just a curiosity... Anyway thanks for clarification. Ciao, Angelo. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: 1.7.6.-1: ldd always fails with "No such file or directory"

2010-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 23 11:50, Dirk Sondermann wrote: > After the update to Cygwin 1.7.6.-1, ldd always fails with the > error "No such file or directory". > [...] > $ ldd /bin/ls > ldd: /bin/ls: No such file or directory Thanks for the report. I fixed this in CVS. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: perl: Net::DNS requires Win32::IPHelper

2010-08-23 Thread Reini Urban
2010/8/23 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) : > Reini, > > The Net::DNS module, which you ship with perl, depends on perl-libwin32 > (packaged separately) and Win32::IPHelper, the latter of which depends > on Win32::API and enum modules.  Win32::API needs a custom typemap file > in order to compile on Cygwin, whic

Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

2010-08-23 Thread Fergus
(Very sorry if this arrives twice: one sent 3H ago seems not to have made it and I think maybe a AV induced signature was the cause: not provided with this despatch.) Ouch, this is weird and inexplicable. Somehow diff identifies differences in two identical binary files. In the following exam

Re: perl: Net::DNS requires Win32::IPHelper

2010-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 23 15:36, Reini Urban wrote: > 2010/8/23 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) : > > Reini, > > > > The Net::DNS module, which you ship with perl, depends on perl-libwin32 > > (packaged separately) and Win32::IPHelper, the latter of which depends > > on Win32::API and enum modules.  Win32::API needs a custom ty

Re: perl: Net::DNS requires Win32::IPHelper

2010-08-23 Thread Reini Urban
2010/8/23 Corinna Vinschen : > On Aug 23 15:36, Reini Urban wrote: >> 2010/8/23 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) : >> > Reini, >> > >> > The Net::DNS module, which you ship with perl, depends on perl-libwin32 >> > (packaged separately) and Win32::IPHelper, the latter of which depends >> > on Win32::API and enum m

Re: perl: Net::DNS requires Win32::IPHelper

2010-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 23 16:34, Reini Urban wrote: > 2010/8/23 Corinna Vinschen PCYM...? > > Why does the Net::DNS module, which provides only a resolver API, depend > > on a Win32-related package at all?  Cygwin 1.7 provides a BSD compatible > > resolver API (res_init, res_query, etc) which should be used, ju

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-5.6p1-1

2010-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the Cygwin version of OpenSSH to 5.6p1-1. This is a new major upstream release. The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla sources. The official release message of 5.6p1: OpenSSH 5.6 has just been release

Old newlib/libc/string/wcsncpy.c in cygwin-1.7.*-src.tar.bz2

2010-08-23 Thread Christian Franke
According to src tarball and CVS tags, recent cygwin 1.7 DLL releases still use newlib/libc/string/wcsncpy.c r1.2 from 2005-10-28. Is this intentional? CVS HEAD wcsncpy.c r1.3 from 2009-08-18 likely fixes this bug: http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2009/msg00812.html BTW: - CVS tag cygwin-1_7_6-

Re: Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

2010-08-23 Thread Fergus
~> diff -s INTERVAL.pdf /d/INTERVAL.pdf Files INTERVAL.pdf and /d/INTERVAL.pdf differ ~> diff -s ./INTERVAL.pdf /d/INTERVAL.pdf Files ./INTERVAL.pdf and /d/INTERVAL.pdf differ ~> diff -s ~/INTERVAL.pdf /d/INTERVAL.pdf Files /home/user/INTERVAL.pdf and /d/INTERVAL.pdf differ ~> diff -s /home/user/I

Re: Old newlib/libc/string/wcsncpy.c in cygwin-1.7.*-src.tar.bz2

2010-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 23 17:23, Christian Franke wrote: > According to src tarball and CVS tags, recent cygwin 1.7 DLL > releases still use newlib/libc/string/wcsncpy.c r1.2 from > 2005-10-28. > > Is this intentional? No, that's unintentional. Thanks for the info. I fixed that locally for the next release, as

Python, Gentoo Prefix, Cygwin: Import Error time, cStringIO, Permission denied

2010-08-23 Thread Al
Hello all, I freshly subscribed to this list, because I search a solution for a very special problem. Context == I try if it is possible to bootstrap Gentoo Prefix with Cygwin. Gentoo Prefix is similar to Cygwin itself, a Linux inside something else, but compiled from sources. It depends on

Re: perl: Net::DNS requires Win32::IPHelper

2010-08-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 16:07 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Here's a question: > > Why does the Net::DNS module, which provides only a resolver API, depend > on a Win32-related package at all? Cygwin 1.7 provides a BSD compatible > resolver API (res_init, res_query, etc) which should be used, ju

Postinstall error (partly solved)

2010-08-23 Thread Milos Puchta
Hello I had created by mc new directory \etx\xml and postinstall has not announce any error concerning xml documents. However some error persists: Package: boxes boxes.sh exit code 2 Package: libglade2.0_0 libglade2.0.sh exit code 3 Package: exim exim.sh exit code 1 Package

Re: Building a custom cygwin1.dll library

2010-08-23 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 8/22/2010 2:30 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:32:47PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: Is it possible to build a custom cygwin1.dll library? I'm in the process of setting up a Win2K8 or Win2K3 server, and I would like to install a personalized install of Cygwin there. No

Re: Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

2010-08-23 Thread Fergus
> Nothing to do with cygwin1.dll 1.5 to 1.6? > Reverted to [prev] diffutils v.2.8.7-2 and > this strange contradiction went away ... Not quite. Still with cygwin v.1.6 but having reverted to diffutils v.2.8.7-2 I'm still getting weird responses (though many fewer). The two directories explored

Re: Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

2010-08-23 Thread Andy Koppe
On 23 August 2010 14:57, Fergus wrote: > (Very sorry if this arrives twice: one sent 3H ago seems not to have made it > and I think maybe a AV induced signature was the cause: not provided with > this despatch.) > > Ouch, this is weird and inexplicable. > > Somehow diff identifies differences in tw

Re: Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

2010-08-23 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-08-23 09:57, Fergus wrote: Somehow diff identifies differences in two identical binary files. In the following example two duplicate files are located (i) in my home directory (/m/home/user) and (ii) at the root of a different drive (D:). [snip] ~> diff -s INTERVAL.pdf /d/INTERVAL.pdf

RE: Postinstall error (partly solved)

2010-08-23 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Milos Puchta sent the following at Monday, August 23, 2010 2:22 PM >Hello > boxes.sh exit code 2 > libglade2.0.sh exit code 3 > exim.sh exit code 1 > mined.sh exit code 1 > boxes.sh exit code 2 > exim.sh exit code 1 > libglade2.0.sh exit code 3 > mine

Building Emacs-trunk with gcc >= 4.5.1 and libelf installed

2010-08-23 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Trying to build Emacs-trunk on Cygwin with GCC >= 4.5.1, I have found a problem if also the package 'libelf0' is installed. The build fails in this way: = ./configure [...] checking for elf_begin in -lelf... yes [...] make [...] gcc-4.6... In file included fr

Network drives & ssh access

2010-08-23 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
I have a network drive set up to auto-reconnect at startup, which appears to work fine. If I start cygwin after logging in, I can see the drive in the /cygwin directory. However, I cannot see the drive in the /cygwin directory when connecting via Cygwin's OpenSSH. My guess is that ssh starts

Re: Building a custom cygwin1.dll library

2010-08-23 Thread Chiheng Xu
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: >  On 8/22/2010 2:30 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:32:47PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: >>> >>> Is it possible to build a custom cygwin1.dll library? I'm in the >>> process of setting up a Win2K8 or Win2K3 serv

Re: Building a custom cygwin1.dll library

2010-08-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:22:41AM +0800, Chiheng Xu wrote: >On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: >> ??On 8/22/2010 2:30 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:32:47PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: Is it possible to build a custom cygwin1.dll li

Re: Network drives & ssh access

2010-08-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/23/2010 7:47 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: I have a network drive set up to auto-reconnect at startup, which appears to work fine. If I start cygwin after logging in, I can see the drive in the /cygwin directory. However, I cannot see the drive in the /cygwin directory when connecting via

Re: Building a custom cygwin1.dll library

2010-08-23 Thread Gregg Levine
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Christopher Faylor <> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:22:41AM +0800, Chiheng Xu wrote: >>On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Lee D. Rothstein <> wrote: >>> ??On 8/22/2010 2:30 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:32:47PM -0400, Gregg L

Re: Building Emacs-trunk with gcc >= 4.5.1 and libelf installed

2010-08-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 01:31 +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Trying to build Emacs-trunk on Cygwin with GCC >= 4.5.1, I have found a > problem if also the package 'libelf0' is installed. [snip] > and the following test in 'configure' script is true: [snip] > i.e. SVR4 is _defined_. But... 'src/xfac

Re: Building a custom cygwin1.dll library

2010-08-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Gregg Levine! > At the moment I am only asking. I've downloaded the snaps from the > past two days, haven't used them, and simply asked these questions. > Chris, I only asked, I don't want to add, or subtract any features. Yet again, why do you want to (re)build cygwin1.dll in first p

Re: Building a custom cygwin1.dll library

2010-08-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:37:16PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:22:41AM +0800, Chiheng Xu wrote: >>On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Lee D. Rothstein >>wrote: >>> ??On 8/22/2010 2:30 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:32:47PM -0400, G

Re: Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

2010-08-23 Thread Fergus
I'd suspect that /m and /d are on text mounts and your home directory is on a binary mount, or vice versa. Thank you. Something's changed though not quite as described above. Has something changed in the conventions for default mounts? I've either missed something, or I'm doing something wrong