Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Andy Koppe
On 8 December 2011 00:33, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: >> >> Just so it's clear why I did that, maybe you want to have a look into >> the brief discussion on the cygwin-developers list: >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2011-11/msg0.html > > All good reasons, but

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 8 00:33, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > > Just so it's clear why I did that, maybe you want to have a look into > > the brief discussion on the cygwin-developers list: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2011-11/msg0.html > > All good reasons, but you

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 7 16:47, Lars Bjørndal wrote: > On on., des. 07, 2011 at 01:40:25 +0100, Lars Bjørndal wrote: > > [Corinna] > > > On Dec 7 10:23, Lars Bjørndal wrote: > > > > [Corinna] > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > Btw., "brltty doesn't work" is a bit low on detail. It would also be > > > > > helpful

Unable to install Cygwin on Windows XP: the actual messages.

2011-12-08 Thread Helio C. Bortolon
Dear colleagues, I will repost the same question I did before, correcting my lack of imagination in working around some restrictions on file attachments. The setup I am using is the 2.761. I downloaded all the packages, including all the suggested dependencies, in advance and made the installatio

Re: Unable to install Cygwin on Windows XP: the actual messages.

2011-12-08 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/8/2011 11:40 AM, Helio C. Bortolon wrote: Dear colleagues, Pressing 'retry', the window keeps refreshing continuously. Pressing 'continue' leads to a hang in the process, and canceling it leads to: ""Cannot open log file D:\"Documents and Settings"\CXZH/var/log/setup.log for writing""

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Heiko Elger
Hello, I upgrade from snapshot 20110829 to current 20111208 qand I update the tools too. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 PCFX167 1.7.10s(0.255/5/3) 20111208 06:50:31 i686 Cygwin I did rebaseall and peflagsall. I got some "Bad address" errors while compiling with make while run

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-08 Thread Robert Miles
On 12/4/2011 4:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 4 02:55, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/11/2011 10:47 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Hello, * On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 07:59:58PM -0500 Ryan Johnson wrote: Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 machine causes it to be

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Which raises the question why the Cygwin version of lyx uses > cygwin_conv_path at all. Does it call Windows functions with the paths? > If so, why? If not, why are the paths converted to Windows? Because the user *could* enter Windows paths (e.g., for including ima

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Ken Brown
n/strace_20111208_snap.out By the way, ssh doesn't work with this snapshot; I get the error message "PRNG is not seeded" when I run "ssh user@host", and I also can't start sshd. (/var/log/sshd.log contains the same "PRNG is not seeded" error message.) Sigh.

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-08 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 08/12/2011 6:18 AM, Robert Miles wrote: On 12/4/2011 4:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Anyway, stoppping the PCA service and setting its start mode to "Manual" does the trick for me. While I was at it I also disabled Superfetch, which drops the memory usage of this svchost to a fraction of wh

Re: Unable to install Cygwin on Windows XP: the actual messages.

2011-12-08 Thread heliocbortolon
marco atzeri gmail.com> writes: > > On 12/8/2011 11:40 AM, Helio C. Bortolon wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > > > > > > Pressing 'retry', the window keeps refreshing continuously. Pressing > > 'continue' leads to a hang in the process, and canceling it leads to: > > > > ""Cannot open log file D:\"D

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Enrico Forestieri writes: > > However, I experimented a bit with the last snapshot, and even using Greek > or Japanese characters in file names, lyx seems to be working fine. Sorry, it was a cursory test. Actually, cygwin_conv_path is only called for absolute paths. Using an absolute Windows path

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Andy Koppe writes: > > On 8 December 2011 00:33, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > >> > >> Just so it's clear why I did that, maybe you want to have a look into > >> the brief discussion on the cygwin-developers list: > >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2011-11/msg000

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/8/2011 9:48 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Andy Koppe writes: On 8 December 2011 00:33, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: Just so it's clear why I did that, maybe you want to have a look into the brief discussion on the cygwin-developers list: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-

make with g++

2011-12-08 Thread Fitzy
Alright so I'm a complete newbie when it comes to anything linux related. And so I cannot figure out how make is supposed to work under cygwin, even creating the simplest makefile produces "Error: 'g++' not found" Which doesn't make much sense to me, given that I can run g++ from the cygwin co

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Ken Brown writes: > > I don't use lyx (though I use tex extensively), so maybe there's > something I don't understand. But is it really necessary for Cygwin's > lyx to support a native Windows tex? Necessary? No. Useful? Yes. > Wouldn't it be more reasonable for > users of a native Windows t

Re: make with g++

2011-12-08 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi, On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Fitzy wrote: >  Alright so I'm a complete newbie when it comes to anything linux related. > > And so I cannot figure out how make is supposed to work under cygwin, > even creating the simplest makefile produces > > "Error: 'g++' not found" Did you actually run

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Bengt Larsson
With the DLL from 20111208, a bug seems to have returned: Wildcard match fail from a windows shell with non-ASCII characters http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-12/msg01079.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/8/2011 10:56 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Ken Brown writes: I don't use lyx (though I use tex extensively), so maybe there's something I don't understand. But is it really necessary for Cygwin's lyx to support a native Windows tex? Necessary? No. Useful? Yes. Wouldn't it be more reas

Re: make with g++

2011-12-08 Thread Fitzy
>Just for curiosity, try changing your makefile to the following and >running make: >all: which g++ g++ main.cpp -o test >Hope this helps, >Csaba Hi Csaba, When I run that it shows this in the cygwin console: $ make which g++ /user/bin/g++ It doesn't run g++ though, not sure i

RE: Cygwin slow on x64 systems?

2011-12-08 Thread Tim McDaniel
Tim McDaniel: BLODA is the Big List Of Dodgy Apps, apparently from http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda 44. What applications have been found to interfere with Cygwin? In case anyone cares about the details of my datum, and in case anyone ever searches for the exact system

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Ken Brown writes: > > On 12/8/2011 10:56 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: [...] > > Until recently, the only Cygwin TeX engine was teTeX, which does not > > support XeTeX. If you wanted a Cygwin version of lyx, you could not > > have used XeTeX, unless you used MikTeX, for example. > > That changed a

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems?

2011-12-08 Thread Marco Moreno
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Tim McDaniel wrote: > After uninstalling Symantec Endpoint Protection (no changes to > Superfetch or PCA Service): > > $ time echo hi | read x > > real    0m0.093s > user    0m0.000s > sys     0m0.061s > > Unfortunately, now I'm required to reinstall. Any chance t

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems?

2011-12-08 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Marco Moreno wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Tim McDaniel wrote: (You quoted my e-mail address there, which may get you dinged by the admins, but I'm cool with my e-mail addy going out -- I put it in my sig and all.) After uninstalling Symantec Endpoint Protection

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 05:06:21PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: >With the DLL from 20111208, a bug seems to have returned: > >Wildcard match fail from a windows shell with non-ASCII characters > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-12/msg01079.html PLEASE be precise when reporting prob

Starting Z-shell via telnet connection to XP box

2011-12-08 Thread Mike Brown
While I can use remote desktop to get from my Solaris server to the XP box, doing so while at some place other than the LAN, the DSL connection speed tends to cause the RD to fail and close. And since I don't really need a graphical connection, I figured that I would just start the XP Pro telnet s

Re: CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
I'm having problems with cpan/perl run in an xterm. I searched the recent list archives for cpan/perl but found nothing. Running Windows XP SP3 and this snapshot: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 LTDENA-REISERT 1.7.10s(0.255/5/3) 20111208 06:50:31 i686 Cygwin This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i686-c

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Bengt Larsson
Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 05:06:21PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: >>With the DLL from 20111208, a bug seems to have returned: >> >>Wildcard match fail from a windows shell with non-ASCII characters >> >>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-12/m

dll search path

2011-12-08 Thread gblorf
How do I influence the run-time search path for dlls? I tried LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and PATH, with no success. I've build a binary against the build directory of a library, which leaves the library in ${SRC}/.libs (a libtool convention, I believe), by passing in -L${SRC}/.libs. The link went ok, but w

Re: Confusion with ACLs and Perl's file tests...maybe bug???

2011-12-08 Thread Reini Urban
Thanks for the nice testcase. I'll try to take it upstream. But I'm not too confident that p5p will fix it, e.g. they refused to fix File::Copy::cp, keeping the perms as with /bin/cp for several years. I could recently fix the cygwin write check if you had admin rights though. -- Reini Urban http:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:00:11PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 05:06:21PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote: >>>With the DLL from 20111208, a bug seems to have returned: >>> >>>Wildcard match fail from a win

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/7/2011 8:56 AM, marco atzeri wrote: For the spinning problem I put the test case here: http://matzeri.altervista.org/works/test_case/prova2.tar.bz2 running ./system_test.sh some of the tests should dump and return. ++ ./xprobe_3dnow.exe ./system_test.sh: line 14: 3256 Illegal instructi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-08 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 12:18 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 7 04:33, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 22:08 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 06:45:35PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >On Dec 6 15:39, marco atzeri wrote: > > > >> On 12/