Re: Cygwin 1.7.8 on Windows 7 Pro x64 Doesn't See Programs Added to C:\Windows\System32 Directory

2011-04-16 Thread marco atzeri
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Leon Vanderploeg wrote: > Greetings, > > I recently loaded Windows 7 Pro x64 on my laptop, and installed Cygwin > 1.7.8.  I run a (GCC Compiled) backup program that calls diskshadow.exe -- > which I added to the C:\Windows\System32 directory.  The program faults >

'Cygwin FAQ' translation

2011-04-16 Thread Bohdan Zograf
Hi! I'm willing to translate publication located at http://cygwin.com/faq.html to the Belorussian language (my mother tongue). What I'm asking for is your written permission, so you don't mind after I'll post the translation to my blog. The translation is intended only for web, no print copie

Bad HTML on http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

2011-04-16 Thread Jens Schweikhardt
Dear Cygwin Web Site Maintainer, the bulleted list of mirrors on http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html looks like it has a problem. Africa: South Africa: ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirrors/cygwin/";>ftp.is.co.za(ftp) <--- this should not be there. Asia: The same goes for the other co

Interaction between GDB and python in cygwin - sys.stderr/sys.stdout broken

2011-04-16 Thread Arkadiy Belousov
Hello All! I was trying to debug a C module I wrote for Python, and I've discovered a nasty surprise: Python's sys.stderr.write(...) and sys.stdout.write(...) do not work when Python is running under GDB. As you can see from GDB session transcript below, calls to write() result in no output, whi

How is setup.ini generated these days?

2011-04-16 Thread Jens Schweikhardt
hello, world\n I'm trying to make a package server as described on http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html I've rsynced the complete "release" tree (skipping *-legacy). However, running genini release/* > setup.ini with genini 1.13 from http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/genin

RE: Bad HTML on http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

2011-04-16 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Jens Schweikhardt sent the following at Saturday, April 16, 2011 11:48 AM >the bulleted list of mirrors on http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html looks >like it has a problem. > Africa: > South Africa: href="ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirrors/cygwin/";>ftp.is.co.za(ftp) > Asia: > > <--- this should not be t

Re: Bad HTML on http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

2011-04-16 Thread Jens Schweikhardt
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 04:14:15PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: ... # Does that work for you? I can't test this easily. The file identifies itself as "DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict" but doesn't conform. All that's needed is to make it proper XHTML. The web maintainer can verify this wit

Re: Python Configuration for Cygwin

2011-04-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 11:32 -0700, Gary Furash wrote: > Given that I've installed python via the (excellent) Cygwin exe, and > it seems to be working fine: > 1. what else do I need to setup and how Nothing. > (e.g., how should PYTHONPATH look on Cygwin) Unset. > 2. does Cygwin include the easy

Re: How is setup.ini generated these days?

2011-04-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 21:01 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > I'm trying to make a package server as described on > http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html > > I've rsynced the complete "release" tree (skipping *-legacy). However, > running > > genini release/* > setup.ini > > wi