Re: setup.exe crashes when downgrading gcc4

2010-08-27 Thread Andy Koppe
the Exp or Keep radio buttons? Did you downgrade all three packages you mentioned? Did it crash straight away, after some delay, or only when it got to the 'Progress' page? Another thing to try is to simply click Next without changing anything, because setup automatically downgrades yo

Re: Upgrading to cygwin 1.7.6 vs gcc 4.5

2010-08-27 Thread Andy Koppe
On 18 August 2010 21:19, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 18 August 2010 06:25, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 18 August 2010 00:09, Eric Blake wrote: >>> On 08/17/2010 04:54 PM, Ross Smith wrote: >>>> I've installed the experimental gcc 4.5 packages (because that's th

Re: gitk unusable in cygwin-1.7.6-1 because tcltk-20080420-1 is native win32 app.

2010-08-27 Thread Andy Koppe
it's a "virtual" directory such as /proc. > 2. I understand that the reason to have tcltk-20080420-1 as a win32 app is > to have a graphical insight that does not depend on X Window. Cygwin programs can have Win32 interfaces actually, as proven by the likes of rxvt, mintty, and th

Re: Support for the TIOCINQ ioctl

2010-08-27 Thread Andy Koppe
of fd? select() of course can tell you whether there are any bytes available to be read from an fd, and usually that's all one needs to know. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: setup.exe crashes when downgrading gcc4

2010-08-30 Thread Andy Koppe
ory had somehow got into an inconsistent state. Of course that shouldn't cause a crash, but if you do want to use that mirror again you could try deleting its subdirectory. If you do see the crash again, sending /var/log/setup.log.full may be helpful too. Andy -- Problem reports: http://c

Re: scp and cygwin randomly and automatically converts text files from utf-8 to windows encoding (cp1251)

2010-08-31 Thread Andy Koppe
ygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html for lots more on that. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

libc and libm info files

2010-09-01 Thread Andy Moreton
Hi, I've noticed that the info files for libc and libm get installed twice: ~> cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/libm.info cygwin-1.7.7-1 ~> cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/libm.info.gz cygwin-doc-1.7-1 ~> cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/libc.info cygwin-1.7.7-1 ~> cygcheck -f /usr/share/info/libc.info.gz cyg

Re: Windows File permissions are not being inherited - Cygwin 1.7 - Windows 7

2010-09-01 Thread Andy Koppe
> administrators/system/users are not even being listed in the security > properties of those installed folders. Administrators can grant themselves the right to access those folders though. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.co

Re: Fwd: Windows File permissions are not being inherited - Cygwin 1.7 - Windows 7

2010-09-01 Thread Andy Koppe
ns and therefore it is disabled through /etc/fstab". It shouldn't surprise you that that doesn't put it high on anyone's list of priorities. So why do you care about permissions on files that come with setup.exe packages? Setup.exe won't touch /home or anything outside t

Re: Fwd: Windows File permissions are not being inherited - Cygwin 1.7 - Windows 7

2010-09-01 Thread Andy Koppe
ordinary user, and no, I can't modify anything in /etc. And that's no accident of course, because a lot of work has gone into mapping POSIX permissions to NTFS permissions in a sensible way. Andy ps: Please don't top-post. http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU -- Problem reports:

Re: can't compile setup.exe

2010-09-01 Thread Andy Koppe
ouch this file. I installed all required packages and > followed instruction in README file. Hmm, newly fails for me too, and I can't work out why, given that the line in question is ancient code. I configured thusly: ./configure -C --disable-shared --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --build=i686-pc-

Re: How to get a script file to use bash and ssh

2010-09-02 Thread Andy Koppe
eed for passwords can be reduced. That shouldn't be an issue, because HOME, if not set already, is set automatically based on the user's /etc/passwd entry or the Windows HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH variables when the initial Cygwin process is started. Andy -- Problem reports: http:

Re: Fwd: Windows File permissions are not being inherited - Cygwin 1.7 - Windows 7

2010-09-02 Thread Andy Koppe
properties? Did you confirm that users really were able to modify files they weren't supposed to? Could the offending privileges have been inherited from the directory Cygwin was installed in? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin

Re: How does one change the default shell?

2010-09-02 Thread Andy Koppe
meters into a shortcut (or copy the one in the start menu and edit it): Target: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty -p 70,0 -t Console - That avoids a console window flashing up when starting it. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docum

Re: simulating console input

2010-09-03 Thread Andy Koppe
ator.exe ? > - If yes, what is the degree of difficulty to write that? I've written a utility called 'conin' that translates pty input to console events. Perhaps that'll do the job. See here: http://groups.google.com/group/mintty-discuss/browse_thread/thread/1f9cf480117b8a0b

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-09-03 Thread Andy Koppe
that haven't been rebuilt could still be made to work by switching the option back on. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: simulating console input

2010-09-03 Thread Andy Koppe
On 3 September 2010 10:01, Peter Münster wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: > >> I've written a utility called 'conin' that translates pty input to >> console events. Perhaps that'll do the job. See here: >> >> http://groups.go

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.8.3-1

2010-09-05 Thread Andy Koppe
mintty 0.8.3-1 is on its way to the Cygwin mirrors. This is a bugfix release. DESCRIPTION === Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user interface and minimalist design. Among its features are Unicode support and a graphical options dialog. Its terminal emulation i

Re: LC_ALL=ru_RU.cp1251 ls -l encoding problem.

2010-09-06 Thread Andy Koppe
his, i.e. interpreting the files as UTF-8 and interpreting > parameters/results according to current locale? > (getpwuid, getpwnam, getlogin, ...) Makes sense, me thinks. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: cygwin-1.7.7-1 setup.exe errors and cygwin.bat/bash anomalies

2010-09-06 Thread Andy Koppe
, NOTHING DONE HERE -> detects error, > but click to continue. > > That's all I did. I would like to know if anybody has/had a similar problem > before I (figure out how to send a) bug report. Thank you, have a nice day. I couldn't make any sense of that. Please

Re: Windows-style pathname does not work as command - why?

2010-09-08 Thread Andy Koppe
coLinux. While Cygwin's lower resource usage is nice to have, that's easily outweighed by the inevitable compatibility and performance drawbacks that come with building on top of Win32. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cy

Re: Question marks in localized man pages

2010-09-11 Thread Andy Koppe
herwise you end up in the ASCII-only C locale. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: {lp,cb}Reserved2 under Windows 7 and file descriptors

2010-09-12 Thread Andy Koppe
ough. For example, when running cmd.exe through fdev and invoking isatty.exe from there, it's all zeroes from isatty() again. I suspect the common case is to run Windows programs directly from bash though, so this might still be worth having in spawn()/exec(). Alternatively, it could be prov

Re: {lp,cb}Reserved2 under Windows 7 and file descriptors

2010-09-12 Thread Andy Koppe
On 12 September 2010 22:39, Daniel Colascione wrote: > On 9/12/10 2:29 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> This does appear to work! Proof-of-concept code attached, along with a >> couple of tests. Running in mintty: > > Awesome. Thanks for doing this work. I believe the Cygwin deve

Re: {lp,cb}Reserved2 under Windows 7 and file descriptors

2010-09-12 Thread Andy Koppe
stop anyone ... (Btw, the _isatty() documentation actually mentions "terminal" as a character device alongside "console". What could they mean by that?) > I'm not going to keep looping on this argument, making the same points > over and over.  I'm not wi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-x86_64-gcc-4.5.1-1

2010-09-13 Thread Andy Koppe
ingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++ and > mingw64-x86_64-gcc-fortran for binaries. Great stuff. First issue: Is this to be expected? $ x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc hello.c [compiles fine] $ /bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc hello.c /Users/Andy/AppData/Local/Temp/cckcwv49.s: Assembler messages: /Users/Andy/AppData/Local/Te

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-x86_64-gcc-4.5.1-1

2010-09-14 Thread Andy Koppe
On 14 September 2010 11:15, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> > Is this to be expected? >> > >> > $ x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc hello.c >> > [compiles fine] >> > >> > $ /bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc hello.c >> > /Users/Andy/AppData/Local/Temp/cckcwv4

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-x86_64-gcc-4.5.1-1

2010-09-14 Thread Andy Koppe
On 14 September 2010 11:40, JonY wrote: > On 9/14/2010 18:46, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> On 14 September 2010 11:15, Marco Atzeri wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Is this to be expected? >>>>> >>>>> $ x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc hell

Re: Security Warning: Re: Behaviours of Terminal Versus Script when using "<<"

2010-09-16 Thread Andy Koppe
7;s normally bash that's processing your commands. To summarise: Console/terminal: conhost, mintty, rxvt, xterm ... Command processor/shell: cmd, bash, tcsh, zsh, ... There are important differences between Windows consoles and Unix terminals as well, but let's leave those fo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Testing: mintty-0.9b1-1

2010-09-18 Thread Andy Koppe
mintty 0.9b1-1 is on its way to the Cygwin mirrors. This is a test release. To install it using setup.exe, find mintty on the package selection screen and click on the cycle symbol by its version number until the required version appears. Make sure the checkbox in the 'Bin?' column next to it is t

Re: Cygwin and symlink

2010-09-19 Thread Andy Koppe
PDF files icon. > > When there was the 'transmutation'?  :-) Cygwin 1.7. Set CYGWIN=winsymlinks to switch to the old behaviour. See also http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html. Or use a hard link instead of a symlink. Or, if you're on Vista or 7, create a native

Re: Cygwin and symlink

2010-09-19 Thread Andy Koppe
On 19 September 2010 11:39, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 19 September 2010 11:26, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >> I remember that some time ago (don't when, sigh!) if I had >> >> $ ln -sf foo.pdf slnk_foo.pdf >> >> I was able to read 'slnk_foo.pdf' double cl

Re: It's raining stackdumps

2010-09-21 Thread Andy Koppe
t; > Until we're corrected on this score, I suppose we'll have to ass-u-me that > emacs and the dot we're on to the right of "Sexy and 1.7" are not getting > along as swimmingly as they could be. > > "A splendid time is guaranteed for some" (sorry JWOL

Re: how to enable the very convenient copy/paste editing method in Cgywin?

2010-09-21 Thread Andy Koppe
> while putty may do it as you wich (middle or right > button), both may copy on select w/ left button. That's optional in mintty too: Options->Mouse->Right Click Action->Paste/Extend/Show Menu Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: how to enable the very convenient copy/paste editing method in Cgywin?

2010-09-21 Thread Andy Koppe
wouldn't recommend > it to anyone looking for a tabbed terminal emulator. > > How's mintty on that btw? It'll start your Cygwin shell unless told otherwise on the command line. Lines wrap at the screen edge. There are no tabs (but you can switch among mintty windows wit

Re: Instead of a gripe, a memory-jog.

2010-09-21 Thread Andy Koppe
. Here's a sample: >> >> Saving to: “gae77-7748-244-958stck.jpg†That looks like wget is using UTF-8 yet your terminal is using ISO-8859-1. The Cygwin console as well as all the terminals shipped with Cygwin (except for rxvt) use UTF-8 by default. With other terminals, you mi

Re: Odd apparent cursor movement in mintty (+emacs)

2010-09-22 Thread Andy Koppe
's your locale environment variables? > > In that case wouldn't it also happen when mintty was not maximised? Quoting Simon Tatham yet again: "In bug reports, try to make very clear what are actual facts and what are speculations. Leave out speculations if you want to, but

Re: how to enable the very convenient copy/paste editing method in Cgywin?

2010-09-22 Thread Andy Koppe
them minimised? - Can you reproduce the problem? If you want a workaround, you can disable the Ctrl[+Shift]+Tab shortcuts on the Keys page of the options, in which case they'll send keycodes to the application instead. (Btw, those can be mapped to switch session in GNU screen.) Andy -- Problem

Re: how to enable the very convenient copy/paste editing method in Cgywin?

2010-09-22 Thread Andy Koppe
On 22 September 2010 13:51, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Andy Koppe  wrote: >> On 22 September 2010 11:11, Csaba Raduly wrote: >>> I just tried Ctrl+Tab and the mintty window simply disappeared, >>> leaving the shell process (bash or s

Re: Instead of a gripe, a memory-jog.

2010-09-22 Thread Andy Koppe
On 22 September 2010 14:29, SJ Wright wrote: > Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> On 22 September 2010 00:29, SJ Wright wrote: >> >>>> >>>> Yes. I noticed where I had the territory mis-cased the next time I ran >>>> wget. In the line that identified t

Re: how to enable the very convenient copy/paste editing method in Cgywin?

2010-09-24 Thread Andy Koppe
sue go away, so perhaps there was a gcc-3 bug here. I guess I should just avoid obscure compiler features like that. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Testing: mintty-0.9b2-1

2010-09-26 Thread Andy Koppe
mintty 0.9b2-1 is on its way to the Cygwin mirrors. This is a test release. To install it using setup.exe, find mintty on the package selection screen and click on the cycle symbol by its version number until the required version appears. Make sure the checkbox in the 'Bin?' column next to it is t

Re: My bash shell suddenly has "X-ray vision"

2010-09-26 Thread Andy Koppe
ll of the character encodings supported by Cygwin. > the mouseless approach vi and nano restrict one to. They do you have some mouse support actually. Enable with ':set mouse=a' in vim, and with Alt+m in nano. > ~/.Xresources: Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode text,

Re: Have idea for titlebar tweak -- need help with syntax

2010-09-28 Thread Andy Koppe
hough to execute a command just before a command is executed, and $BASH_COMMAND will tell you what that command is. Here's one way to put this to use: trap 'printf "\e]0;%s\a" "$BASH_COMMAND"' DEBUG Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html F

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Testing: mintty-0.9b2-1

2010-09-28 Thread Andy Koppe
t; - 'Extended Mouse Mode' as introduced in xterm #262 is now supported. >> This allows row/column positions greater than 255 (and up to 2015) to >> be reported, in case you do get that 30'' monitor ... > > Woohoo! :) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: mintty window won't open

2010-09-28 Thread Andy Koppe
gh, because the ssh server isn't connected to your desktop session. (Xterm of course connects to your X server rather than using Windows stuff directly). Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: mintty window won't open

2010-09-28 Thread Andy Koppe
On 28 September 2010 14:38, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 28/09/2010 13:18, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 28 September 2010 11:31, Ryan Johnson wrote: >>>> I switched from rxvt to mintty yesterday, and it worked great all day. >>>> However, today when I try to open a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Testing: mintty-0.9b2-1

2010-09-28 Thread Andy Koppe
On 28 September 2010 14:27, Ryan Johnson wrote: >  On 9/28/2010 2:05 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 27 September 2010 17:02, Ryan Johnson wrote: >>> >>> FYI, it looks like you can enable extended mouse mode manually (echo -ne >>> '\e[?1005h'), and

Re: mintty window won't open

2010-09-30 Thread Andy Koppe
I make this a warning rather than an >> error? >> > I have a feeling it could be useful someway. Why not a command switch: > --allow_null_desktop or something? Because there's a good chance that no-one would ever need it. ;) I'll make this a warning (or possibly

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.9.1-1

2010-10-03 Thread Andy Koppe
mintty 0.9.1-1 is on its way to the Cygwin mirrors. This is a feature release. DESCRIPTION === Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user interface and minimalist design. Among its features are Unicode support and a graphical options dialog. Its terminal emulation

1.5 to 1.7 upgrade.

2010-10-04 Thread Andy Hall
thing because I never had any mount points to begin with. I don't particularly want to ask the sys admins to upgrade Samba and am looking for a workaround. Any help would be appreciated. Andy Hall -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:/

1.5 to 1.7 upgrade.

2010-10-04 Thread Andy Hall
hing because I never had any mount points to begin with. I don't particularly want to ask the sys admins to upgrade Samba and am looking for a workaround. Any help would be appreciated. Andy Hall -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: htt

In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-05 Thread Andy Hall
-l of repos1 shows $ ls -l /repos1 total 2048 drwxr-xr-x 36 ahall None 0 2010-10-04 16:30 builds drwxr-xr-x 17 ahall None 0 2010-10-04 15:23 releases Why am I getting -1 for the uid and gid when I mount to /cygdrive/f but not to /repos1? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: mintty postinstall failure

2010-10-06 Thread Andy Koppe
alling for All Users, try setting CYGWINFORALL=-A when running it by hand. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: mintty postinstall failure - attn: cygutils maintainer

2010-10-06 Thread Andy Koppe
On 6 October 2010 15:39, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/06/2010 06:28 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> On 6 October 2010 12:54, Eric Blake wrote: >>> >>> Any reason why with my setup, mintty.sh exits with status 3 when run by >>> setup.exe, but with st

RE: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Andy Hall
the documentation changes. I have to leave this to somebody else more qualified. Cheers, Andy > On Oct 6 1:48 Corinna Vischen wrote: > > > On Oct 5 15:40, Andy Hall wrote: > > If instead, I map F: to /cygdrive/c with the following entry in > /etc/fstab > >

RE: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Andy Hall
t mounting of //vega/repository is the workaround I eventually settled on. Andy > On Oct 6 12:43, Corinna Vischen wrote: > On Oct 6 13:19, Andy Hall wrote: > > Notice that the test -w /cygdrive/f/builds reports that > /cygdrive/f/builds > > is not writeable, yet yo

Re: mintty postinstall failure - attn: cygutils maintainer

2010-10-06 Thread Andy Koppe
On 7 October 2010 04:12, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 10/6/2010 2:44 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> I can't see anything obviously wrong with mkshortcut. > > Nor can I. > >> It converts the >> link name with cygwin_conv_to_win32_path(), adds '.l

Re: Problem with man and scrolling

2010-10-07 Thread Andy Koppe
sable the scrollbar on the Window page of the options dialog.) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: 1.7.7-1: troubleshooting "couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487" [resolved]

2010-10-10 Thread Andy Koppe
nder what their excuse is for dabbling in system-wide DLL injection. Thanks for tracking down the problem. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http

Re: the Windows %PATH% env. variable isn't updated

2010-10-17 Thread Andy Koppe
ual Cygwin use, where you run bash in the default console or one of the other terminals, and also because it may cause conflicts with other software on the system. You can add it yourself on the Advanced tab of the System control panel, or using the setx utility. Andy -- Problem reports: h

RE: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-18 Thread Andy Hall
fstab actually seems to work, although it simply > reproduces the same behavior as the default. > > Even if I understood the actual behavior, I regret that am not familiar > with the ways of Cygwin source maintenance to make the documentation > changes. I have to l

Re: Sending signals to a subprocess

2010-10-18 Thread Andy Koppe
the right process group ID to pass to 'kill'. >>>> On systems that have TIOCGPGRP, emacs uses the following code (in >>>> src/process.c) to get this ID: >> >> If it helps, I can implement TIOCGPGRP so it will be available in Cygwin >> 1.7.9. &g

Re: Sending signals to a subprocess

2010-10-19 Thread Andy Koppe
n -1 since fd 3 isn't the controlling terminal of the calling process, but the Linux behaviour is rather useful. Perhaps they decided to apply that restriction only to the slave side? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.c

Re: Sending signals to a subprocess

2010-10-20 Thread Andy Koppe
On 20 October 2010 12:21, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/20/2010 1:09 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> Emacs creates a subprocess that runs an interactive bash shell.  Emacs >>> wants >>> to get the PGID of the foreground process group associated to the tty of >>> th

Re: Sending signals to a subprocess

2010-10-20 Thread Andy Koppe
On 20 October 2010 13:20, Andy Koppe wrote: >> Corinna made tcgetpgrp return 0 instead of -1 in some circumstances (see >> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2009-q4/msg00045.html) because she >> saw Linux doing that.  But when I run Corinna's test on my Linux system

Re: updated: unison2.40

2010-10-21 Thread Andy Moreton
On Thu 21 Oct 2010, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> I've been using unison to sync files via ssh without problems. >> Unison 2.40.16-2 works fine for me, but 2.40.61-1 fails. > > Thanks for reporting that. I've uploaded a new test release. Would you > mind trying it out? Hi Andrew, The 2.40.61-2 ver

Re: Bash problems, strace, performance, etc.

2010-10-21 Thread Andy Koppe
, or anywhere else. It gets loaded by /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh, which is sourced by /etc/profile. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: R: nondosfilewarning help

2010-10-21 Thread Andy Koppe
has an extra 'n' in it). Does 'echo $CYGWIN' within bash show what's expected? Is that perl script run with Windows perl or Cygwin perl? Perhaps it overrides the CYGWIN variable? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

Re: resolving directories

2010-10-21 Thread Andy Koppe
data/files_that_it_needs--- worked like a > charm. > > So with that as background would I be correct in that one of the > significant differences from version 1.5.25 to version 1.7.7 might lie > in directory resolution? Yes: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html#ov-new1.7-f

Re: Subversion mangling names in .svn/entries metadata file

2010-10-22 Thread Andy Koppe
#x27;which svn' and 'svn --version' to make sure you're really getting the Cygwin version. $ svn --version svn, version 1.6.13 (r1002816) compiled Oct 4 2010, 09:08:12 Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Sending signals to a subprocess

2010-10-24 Thread Andy Koppe
apshot, as far as emacs is concerned. Works for mintty too. Thanks very much! >  I no longer see any difference between Cygwin and Linux there.  I also get > the expected results when I run the test cases that Andy posted.  But when I > run the original test case that you posted in >

Pending RFU for unison 2.40

2010-10-25 Thread Andy Moreton
Hi folks, Andrew Schulman posted an RFU for unison2.40-2.40.61-2 on the apps list last week [1], but it seems to have been overlooked. Could somebody please upload the new version ? Thanks, AndyM [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.applications/21209 -- Problem reports:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.9.2-1

2010-10-27 Thread Andy Koppe
mintty 0.9.2-1 has been uploaded. This is a maintenance release. DESCRIPTION === Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user interface and minimalist design. Among its features are Unicode support and a graphical options dialog. Its terminal emulation is largely com

Re: Cygwin c compiler and c99

2010-10-31 Thread Andy Koppe
/* prints Hello World!!! */ >>> return EXIT_SUCCESS; >>> } >>> > > > But why do I have to include ? Because 'bool', 'true' and 'false' are not defined in the C99 language, but in the C99 library, as macros in the stdbool.h head

Re: SSH - Can't Login

2010-10-31 Thread Andy Koppe
Jun 2010  - > http://obviouslies.net/share/strace-old-ssh > > SFVs of my cygwin1.dll for the old and new environments: > cygwin1-new.dll B6328143 > cygwin1-old.dll   DFB07A25 > > Anything else that I can add that would be useful? http://cygwin.com/problems.html Andy -- Problem r

Re: SSH - Can't Login

2010-10-31 Thread Andy Koppe
On 31 October 2010 17:02, James Broadhead wrote: > On 31 October 2010 16:51, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 31 October 2010 16:45, James Broadhead wrote: >>> I also have this problem; >> >> Context? > > The 10 or so messages in the archive with the same subject line.

Re: SSH - Can't Login

2010-10-31 Thread Andy Koppe
delayed update not working under some circumstances, but nothing definitive. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: SSH - Can't Login

2010-10-31 Thread Andy Koppe
On 31 October 2010 17:39, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 31 October 2010 17:12, Brian Wilson wrote: >> In my case the context was that suddenly ssh stopped working and would only >> give the usage message no matter what I tried.  I ran the "cygcheck -svr" and >> noted that I

Re: Is part of gcc3 missing?

2010-11-02 Thread Andy Koppe
atal error: Cannot find file "libgcc_s" libgcc_s ships with gcc4 only, so it looks like ocaml depends on gcc4 now, probably since its recent update. You may not need the OCaml bindings being built there though. I see you can disable them with the --disable-caml-bindings configure option. Andy

Re: Is part of gcc3 missing?

2010-11-03 Thread Andy Koppe
s nothing wrong with (parts of) the ocaml package depending on it. But I guess the ability to switch the default compiler back to gcc-3 should come with a health warning: it may break stuff. Time to get rid of the gcc alternatives setup perhaps, and require users to specify gcc-3 e

Re: R: Why mc start without subshell by default?

2010-11-03 Thread Andy Koppe
th mc started from bash running in it, the mc process doesn't get killed. Bash does of course forward the SIGHUP it gets from the terminal to its child processes, and manually sending SIGHUP to the orphaned mc does get rid of it. A similar issue was previously reported against the joe and

Re: Cygwin paths in mingw64

2010-11-04 Thread Andy Koppe
27;re having though. Your original message seemed to say that you had successfully used Cygwin's mingw64-x86_64 toolchain to build your program. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.co

Re: Cygwin paths in mingw64

2010-11-04 Thread Andy Koppe
nly know nothing about it, and you got me quite confused by jumping between requirements regarding the build system and the actual program. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.9.2-3

2010-11-04 Thread Andy Koppe
mintty 0.9.2-3 has been uploaded. This fixes a packaging bug. CHANGES === - Ensure the mintty start menu entry is created correctly if the start menu path contains non-ASCII characters. DESCRIPTION === Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user interface and m

File name completion broken in 1.7.7?

2010-11-05 Thread Andy Hall
I have recently upgraded to 1.7.7 from 1.5.X. In 1.5.X, it used to be that in bash I could type lines like P4 edit hydra_c and hit the tab key to complete the file name. A command like p4 edit hydra_config would be then executed. In 1.7.7, when I type P4 edit hydr

RE: File name completion broken in 1.7.7?

2010-11-05 Thread Andy Hall
On 11/5/2010 David Rothenberger wrote: > > On 11/5/2010 10:13 AM, Andy Hall wrote: > > I have recently upgraded to 1.7.7 from 1.5.X. In 1.5.X, it used to be > that > > in bash I could type lines like > > > > P4 edit hydra_c > > > > and hit the

Re: Cygwin not able to read C:\windows\system32 on Win7-64. Workaround?

2010-11-07 Thread Andy Koppe
: /Windows/Sysnative For some reason it doesn't appear when listing the Windows directory, which is why updatedb wouldn't have seen it, but it really is there. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: How to debug mintty or screen freeze

2010-11-08 Thread Andy Koppe
then mintty from the command line. You could also try hammering the keyboard during the screen updates in question to see whether you can force the issue. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Syntax highlighting not working in vim73

2010-11-08 Thread Andy Koppe
's something that makes me > unique.  Or maybe I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know. > > What should I try next?  Thanks. Which terminal are you using? What's the TERM setting? Are you sure you're using Cygwin vim, i.e. what does 'which vim' s

Re: Installing new versions of vim doesn't uninstall old versions

2010-11-11 Thread Andy Koppe
lable or installing from a local mirror. And of course the .new files, once they're there, aren't going to go away. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: How to debug mintty or screen freeze

2010-11-15 Thread Andy Koppe
On 15 November 2010 10:25, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Andy Koppe writes: > >> On 8 November 2010 10:15, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >>> Bear with me please, this is moderately complex: >>> >>> . . .the whole thing freezes solid. >>> >>> s

Re: Installation with setup.exe failed on Win7 Pro 32bit

2010-11-17 Thread Andy Koppe
24) >  11143 [main] bash 4908 exception::handle: Error while dumping state (probably > corrupted stack) > . > > I have disabled DEP and Virusscanner, but which no effect. > > Let me know, if you need more information. > > Any hints? Please help. cygwin is a must have

Re: How to debug mintty or screen freeze

2010-11-28 Thread Andy Koppe
On 27 November 2010 10:49, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Andy Koppe writes: >>> [screen + mintty freezing] > >> Another thing you could try is to enable logging to a file using the >> --log command option. Perhaps that will show what control sequence >> triggers the

Re: File paths redirected to MSYS directory

2010-11-28 Thread Andy Koppe
k that with the which command. Ensure that you do have the Cygwin versions of those installed, and that the Cygwin bin directory comes before MSYS's in the Cygwin PATH. To avoid such confusion, you might want to remove MSYS's bin directory from the global Windows path, a

Re: File paths redirected to MSYS directory

2010-11-29 Thread Andy Koppe
fore MSYS's in the Cygwin PATH. To avoid such confusion, you might >> want to remove MSYS's bin directory from the global Windows path, >> assuming that's where it came from. >> >> Andy > > Thanks for your help. I have fixed the Windows path but C

Re: 1.7.7: Open BASH Shell Here goes to wrong location

2010-11-29 Thread Andy Koppe
#x27;t necessarily set the current directory to the one you're looking at. Apparently that could be due to a shell extension, according to this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2010/11/09/10087919.aspx > Any ideas? As Matt said: use 'chere'. That's what it&#x

Re: Issue with Left/Right Arrow Keys

2010-12-01 Thread Andy Koppe
/cygwin.com/problems.html Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: 1.7.7: sshd time skew

2010-12-02 Thread Andy Koppe
st's password: >  Mon Nov 29 11:02:56 CUT 2010 >  Mon Nov 29 11:02:34 CUT 2010 > > > I'm running on a Windows Server 2008 and cygwin dll 1.7.7. Could be the same issue as reported and explained here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-11/msg00312.html Andy -- Problem repo

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

2010-12-02 Thread Andy Koppe
havior in urxvt. > > I've seen it ctrl-c'ing to get out of a tail in an xterm, so it isn't > specific to mintty. Yeah, I wouldn't have thought so given that 'stty sane' fixes it. That affects the terminal driver ("termios") settings only, which aren&

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