iconv capability removed from rsync 3.0.8

Hello, I have noticed that the iconv capability is not activated anymore in rsync 3.0.8, while in rsync 3.0.7 it is. When cally rsync --version, in 3.0.7 iconv is listed in the capabilities section, while in 3.0.8 it appears as 'no iconv'. I use it, so I had to downgrade. Does anybody know wh

Missing dependency cmake => libidn

Dear CygWin community, After installing 2.8.4-1 I discovered that is depends on libidn, which was not automatically installed by setup (missing dependency?). When this library was manually installed, I was able to run cmake. $ cmake /usr/bin/cmake.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygidn

Making gvim with Make_cyg.mak: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crt2.o, -lmingw32, -lmoldname, etc.

Hi, I am trying to compile vim 7.3.206 from source on Cygwin, according to the advice on: http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compile.htm but get the following linker failures: ~/vim/build/vim73/src # make -f Make_cyg.mak ARCH=i686 PERL_VER=512 DYNAMIC_PERL=no GUI=yes gcc -O3 -fomit

Re: Making gvim with Make_cyg.mak: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crt2.o, -lmingw32, -lmoldname, etc.

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Ingram, Clyde wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to compile vim 7.3.206 from source on Cygwin, according to the > advice on: > http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compile.htm than you should ask him ;-) > > but get the following linker failures: > > ~/vim/b

Re: User name in screen caption not displaying with snapshot from 28th

> I have these two lines in my .screenr: > > backtick 0 0 0 echo $LOGNAME > caption always "%{= c}[%0`@%H:%n%f %{w}%t %{r}loadavg: %l %=%{g}%Y-% > m-%d %0c:%s]%{d}" > > Screen always displayed this until cygwin1-20110520.dll as > [thorsten@hombre:0$loadavg: 0.00 0.00 0.00 2011-05-30

Re: quote needed

' I had an extra one! ;-) -- Andrew DeFaria If at first you DO succeed, try not to look astonished! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Don't use snapshots until I send all-clear

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 08:19:29AM +0200, marco atzeri wrote: >On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Recent snapshots have pipe problems. Please don't use them. >> >> cgf >> > >I noticed, but I am glad to tell you that the plotting problem with octave >doesn't not appear w

Re: Don't use snapshots until I send all-clear

On 31/05/2011 10:54 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Oh, and, btw: All clear! So cygwin1-20110531.dll.bz2 is good? -Edward -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info

Re: mintty font test

On 5/27/2011 1:29 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 27 May 2011 06:26, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 26 May 2011 16:53, Warren Young wrote: >>> It might be good if this xgraphics file you have were distributed with >>> mintty in the doc directory, so others can repeat the test on their system >>> with other fon

Compiler for building Cygwin

It should probably noted on the website that building Cygwin requires the gcc4 package. For example, here: http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin -Edward -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentatio

Re: mintty font test

Am 31.05.2011 17:17, schrieb Charles Wilson: On 5/27/2011 1:29 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 27 May 2011 06:26, Andy Koppe wrote: On 26 May 2011 16:53, Warren Young wrote: It might be good if this xgraphics file you have were distributed with mintty in the doc directory, so others can repeat the te

Re: iconv capability removed from rsync 3.0.8

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:03:06AM +0200, Fernando Molina Ortiz wrote: > I have noticed that the iconv capability is not activated anymore in > rsync 3.0.8, while in rsync 3.0.7 it is. When cally rsync --version, > in 3.0.7 iconv is listed in the capabilities section, while in 3.0.8 > it appears as

scp Counters seem to freeze

Hello, I'm using cygwin 1.7.7 on a Win2k3 R2 system. When I scp a file from a remote host running RHEL 4.7, e.g.: ... Administrator@sm-i222 /cygdrive/d/somedir scp root@linux_host:/someotherdir/some.file . ... The percentage, transfer amount, rate and transfer times all start out registeri

Re: Don't use snapshots until I send all-clear

* Edward Lam (Tue, 31 May 2011 10:58:51 -0400) > On 31/05/2011 10:54 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > Oh, and, btw: All clear! > > So cygwin1-20110531.dll.bz2 is good? It still has the screen issue I reported yesterday and that issue sounds to me suspiciously "pipish&

Re: User name in screen caption not displaying with snapshot from 28th

* Andrew Schulman (Tue, 31 May 2011 10:20:16 -0400) > > I have these two lines in my .screenr: > > > > backtick 0 0 0 echo $LOGNAME > > caption always "%{= c}[%0`@%H:%n%f %{w}%t %{r}loadavg: %l %=%{g}%Y-% > > m-%d %0c:%s]%{d}" > > > > Screen always displayed this until cygwin1-20110520.dll as

Why does windows have such probs with dynamically loaded libs?

Christopher Faylor wrote: If you have an application which uses a lot of dlls then best practice for Windows DLLs is to build them with unique load addresses. Barring that you could rebase them with cygwin's rebase or rebaseall utilties. Setting unique base addresses will actually cause your app

Re: Why does windows have such probs with dynamically loaded libs?

On 05/31/2011 05:18 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Other than the stock answer of poor design, it seems loading a > dynamically linked library at run-time shouldn't be a difficult task. Poor design of Windows, not of cygwin. > When Cygwin forks, how different is it from linux (other than stock > answer

Re: allowed Linux characters (and windows substitutes)...

sweinberger wrote: Since ":" and "\" are not acceptable characters in a Linux path, I had to work around the problem. I don't know where you got this idea, but on linux, you can put : and "\" in filenames just fine. Only "/" and "\000" (ASCII NUL) can't be in a _file_name ("/", obvio

Re: Why does windows have such probs with dynamically loaded libs?

Eric Blake wrote: " By loading the same dlls in the child as in the parent, and _hoping_ that windows loads them at the same address as the parent." --- Ah-hah!...that's the main rub. I could see that other pages would have to be copied 'manually', baring some kernel call (probably an

Re: mintty font test

On 31 May 2011 16:17, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 5/27/2011 1:29 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 27 May 2011 06:26, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> On 26 May 2011 16:53, Warren Young wrote: It might be good if this xgraphics file you have were distributed with mintty in the doc directory, so others can