Hi xmoon,
Please don't top-post (http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU)
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:25 AM, xmoon 2000 wrote:
> @Csaba Yes - that works.
>
> Actually that's a big help - because within my looping bash script
> that is keeping the window title up/changing until scripts stops .
> Which i
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2014-04-09 12:47, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2014-04-09 10:59, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
Trying to build heimdal to debug other problem. Installed sources,
installed missing dependency of gettext-devel, hit a pre
On Apr 10 05:58, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Steven Penny!
>
> > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Warren Young wrote:
> >> If you think web code repository searching and a public bug tracker are
> >> primary barriers to contribution, you aren't being honest with yourself.
> >> They are nice,
On Apr 10 09:42, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > On 2014-04-09 12:47, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 2014-04-09 10:59, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
> Trying to build heimdal to debug other problem. Installed sources,
> insta
On Apr 9 23:50, Christian Franke wrote:
> Achim Gratz wrote:
> >Christian Franke writes:
> >>Attached is an updated version of:
> >>https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00806.html
> >I'll put this on hold until the AD integration has landed in Cygwin
> >(which will require some larger chang
> I've had more time to look around. If you add the following to the file
> ~/.config/fish/config.fish (create it if you haven't already got one),
> then things should work as intended:
>
> if status --is-login
> set PATH /usr/local/bin /usr/bin $PATH
> end
>
> Alternatively drop it in th
Hi David,
Hi Ken [in CC],
On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Apr 7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote:
> >>> I'm having a problem doing hostname resolution on one of my Windows
> >>> 7 64 machines after upd
> I've had more time to look around. If you add the following to the file
> ~/.config/fish/config.fish (create it if you haven't already got one),
> then things should work as intended:
>
> if status --is-login
> set PATH /usr/local/bin /usr/bin $PATH
> end
>
> Alternatively drop it in th
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes:
> I'm wondering, though, couldn't the cygport script contain something
> like this to give warning that the so-and-so devel packages are required
> before building? Does cygport support this already, perhaps, and I just
> missed it?
Yes it can check for prere
On 4/10/2014 5:15 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi David,
Hi Ken [in CC],
On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote:
I'm having a problem doing hostname resolution on one of my Wi
On Apr 10 11:18, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes:
> > I'm wondering, though, couldn't the cygport script contain something
> > like this to give warning that the so-and-so devel packages are required
> > before building? Does cygport support this already, perhaps, and I j
On Apr 10 07:47, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 4/10/2014 5:15 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Ken, I would also be greatful if you could give this snapshot a try.
> >You came up with so fascinating testcases. I tried running emacs-X11 -Q
> >with this new code and it still works(*), so I'm hopeful the worka
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> If all the point you want to make is that YOU don't want to spend time
> supporting the toolset you're using daily, please save your energy.
> My Care-o-meter shows negative readings.
Hey buddy, if you want to spend your days with ad hominem at
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes:
> Skimming the cygport manual, I just can't find the keyword to specify
> the build reqs.
That would be the "Checks" section, note that you need to check for the
presence of specific headers, libs, programs or package configs (as well as
language / interpreter
On Apr 10 13:14, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes:
> > Skimming the cygport manual, I just can't find the keyword to specify
> > the build reqs.
>
> That would be the "Checks" section, note that you need to check for the
> presence of specific headers, libs, programs or pa
On 4/10/2014 9:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 10 13:14, Achim Gratz wrote:
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes:
Skimming the cygport manual, I just can't find the keyword to specify
the build reqs.
That would be the "Checks" section, note that you need to check for the
presence of spe
Hi folks,
The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again.
It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group
account creation without requiring the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
files.
Not a lot has changed since we made a break to test for 1.7.29,
but there's one
On Apr 10 10:01, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 4/10/2014 9:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Apr 10 13:14, Achim Gratz wrote:
> >>Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes:
> >>>Skimming the cygport manual, I just can't find the keyword to specify
> >>>the build reqs.
> >>
> >>That would be the "Checks" sect
Steven Penny wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Hey buddy, if you want to spend your days with ad hominem attacks that is your
business. The point of my emails was not my contributions, but Christopher's
complaining.
You know, I've read this whole thread. There's only
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
* cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching.
All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd
and group entries from cygserver. While this is probably a bit
slow at the start, the longer cygserver runs, the more information
On Apr 10 11:19, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >* cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching.
> >
> > All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd
> > and group entries from cygserver. While this is probably a bit
> > slow at the s
Corinna Vinschen writes:
> But even without /etc/group, the administrator's group will have the
> gid 544. I think such a test should be sufficient?
That's what I've been using for quite some time and I guess that's the
right thing to check for.
Regards,
Achim.
--
+<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 N
Ken Brown writes:
> Actually I think what you're looking for is "DEPEND"
> (/usr/share/doc/cygport/manual.html#robo821).
I've stopped using this one since it doesn't tell you which of the
potentially many dependencies failed and it just stops the compilation
cold. The individual check_* functions
On my old 32-bit Win7 box running Cygwin 1.7.26, I have an executable script
that is intended to be symlinked to and executed as the symlink name. This
works fine.
On my new 64-bit Win7 box running Cygwin 1.7.29, I created the symlink using
"ln -s" as before. When I try to execute the script
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 9 23:50, Christian Franke wrote:
I used the registry check in the past because it only uses shell
builtins and does not rely on specific SID->gid mappings in
/etc/group.
Especially given that in future there might be no /etc/group to begin
with.
But even without
On Apr 10 15:51, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> On my old 32-bit Win7 box running Cygwin 1.7.26, I have an executable script
> that is intended to be symlinked to and executed as the symlink name. This
> works fine.
>
> On my new 64-bit Win7 box running Cygwin 1.7.29, I created the symlink using
> "ln -
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC],
>
> On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>> On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote:
> I'm having a problem doing hostname resolution on one of my
>
> -Original Message-
> Vinschen
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:00 AM
> Subject: Re: symlinks to scripts not found in path
>
> On Apr 10 15:51, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> > On my old 32-bit Win7 box running Cygwin 1.7.26, I have an executable
> > script that is
> intended to be symlinked to
David Rothenberger wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC],
>>
>> On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> I'm having a problem doing hostn
On 4/10/2014 10:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi folks,
The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again.
It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group
account creation without requiring the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
files.
Not a lot has changed since we
On Apr 10 13:21, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 4/10/2014 10:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >
> >The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again.
> >It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group
> >account creation without requiring the /etc/passwd a
On Apr 10 10:12, David Rothenberger wrote:
> David Rothenberger wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC],
> >>
> >> On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
> >>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr 7 11:49, David
On 4/10/2014 09:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
The only reason I dislike backslash a bit is, that the backslash is
the escape char in the shell, so you would have remember every time
you type in such an account name to escape the account name,
DOMAIN\\username or "DOMAIN\username"
Is this DOMAIN\
On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
* Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username.
This is a really fat problem.
Who needs this functionality?
Is it some legacy of passwd(5) compatibility, such as the wish to have
colons in Windows login names?
Does the mov
On Apr 10 12:39, Warren Young wrote:
> On 4/10/2014 09:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> >The only reason I dislike backslash a bit is, that the backslash is
> >the escape char in the shell, so you would have remember every time
> >you type in such an account name to escape the account name,
> >DOM
On Apr 10 12:42, Warren Young wrote:
> On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >* Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username.
> >
> > This is a really fat problem.
>
> Who needs this functionality?
I don't remember, but some user on this list wrote in February about
On Apr 10 21:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 10 12:42, Warren Young wrote:
> > On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >* Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username.
> > >
> > > This is a really fat problem.
> >
> > Who needs this functionality?
>
> I don't r
Corinna Vinschen writes:
> * cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching.
>
> All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd
> and group entries from cygserver. While this is probably a bit
> slow at the start, the longer cygserver runs, the more informati
David Rothenberger wrote:
> David Rothenberger wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC],
>>>
>>> On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Apr 7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote:
David Rothenberger wrote:
> David Rothenberger wrote:
>> David Rothenberger wrote:
>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC],
On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Apr 7 1
On 4/10/2014 3:04 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I like slashes a lot more for obvious reasons. But maybe, and that
wouldn't be too hard to implement, we could accept account names with
slash and with backslash, just as we do with pathnames. Output of
usernames would be with slashes, of course.
W
On 04/10/2014 01:46 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> * cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching.
>>
>> All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd
>> and group entries from cygserver. While this is probably a bit
>> slow at the st
On 04/10/2014 01:04 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> A local cygwin user told me that the users in their company would
> probably be confused by the '+ or, FWIW, any other non-backslash char,
> because they were drilled to see and use usernames always in domain\name
> form, or even in domain\\user
David Rothenberger wrote:
> David Rothenberger wrote:
>> David Rothenberger wrote:
>>> David Rothenberger wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC],
>
> On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>> On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna
On 4/10/2014 14:20, Eric Blake wrote:
is BOUND to go wrong. The expression
~a/b/file
is NOT requesting 'file' within user 'a/b's home, but 'b/file' within
user 'a's home.
Excellent point.
Doesn't that also argue against backslash, due to the DLL's attempts to
automatically cope with DOS pa
On 10/04/2014 11:06, Ronald Fischer wrote:
I've had more time to look around. If you add the following to the file
~/.config/fish/config.fish (create it if you haven't already got one),
then things should work as intended:
if status --is-login
set PATH /usr/local/bin /usr/bin $PATH
end
On 2014-04-09 19:05, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> And, this gives me the opportunity to say a belated thank-you to you and
> other people who have managed, despite all odds, to contribute.
>
> Here's a knocked together list from the last 13-or-so years of Cygwin.
*snip*
> Apologies if I missed an
David Rothenberger wrote:
> David Rothenberger wrote:
>> David Rothenberger wrote:
>>> David Rothenberger wrote:
David Rothenberger wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC],
>>
>> On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
> I admit that Christopher can be gruff at times. And I think that sometimes
> he has a bit of an attitude. But, honestly I don't blame him for that. Look
> at it from his perspective.
Christopher Faylor is an invaluable part of this projec
Steven Penny wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got.
If Christopher wants to gripe on the mailing that his business, but he and
everyone else need to get realisic about the fact that not everyone is
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
>>> So, like Andy, pardon me if I'm not moved to tears by your difficulties
>>> submitting patches.
> So, again, pardon me if I'm not moved to tears by your difficulties.
Oops, sorry folks it looks like I trigged a broken record. Sir, I have
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 01:15:12AM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote:
>On 2014-04-09 19:05, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> And, this gives me the opportunity to say a belated thank-you to you and
>> other people who have managed, despite all odds, to contribute.
>>
>> Here's a knocked together list from the
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:11:20PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 10 12:42, Warren Young wrote:
> > On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >* Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username.
> > >
> > > This is a really fat problem.
> >
> > Who needs this funct
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 07:39:49PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
So, like Andy, pardon me if I'm not moved to tears by your difficulties
submitting patches.
>> So, again, pardon me if I'm not moved to tears by your difficulties.
>
>Oo
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 04:30:36PM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote:
>PEBCAK. Totally my fault. Nothing to do with Cygwin.
>
>Cygwin snapshot is doing fine for me. Sorry for all the noise.
Been there many times. Thanks for your unflagging persistence in
dealing with these issues.
cgf
--
Problem
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 07:11:02PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
>> I admit that Christopher can be gruff at times. And I think that sometimes
>> he has a bit of an attitude. But, honestly I don't blame him for that. Look
>> at it from his per
On 4/10/2014 20:16, Duncan Roe wrote:
Yes, I'm one of those users. I need my login name to match the Linux systems so
I can use rsh and not be challenged for a password when the cygwin host name is
in ~/.rhosts
If you switch to SSH, you can solve this by putting this into your
~/.ssh/config fi
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:47:26PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
> On 4/10/2014 20:16, Duncan Roe wrote:
> >Yes, I'm one of those users. I need my login name to match the Linux systems
> >so
> >I can use rsh and not be challenged for a password when the cygwin host name
> >is
> >in ~/.rhosts
>
> If
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