Hello,
I support an internal development group and I need to have a number of
people install and use cygwin.
I've had more then a few problems with "Human Factors Problems"
- Missed packages that should have been installed but where not...
- Wrong versions installed
- New
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on
12/13/2005 10:40:24 AM:
> assuming that it was more than just frustrated venting about possible
> cockpit problems, in a perfect world, people who report bugs would also
> provide details about the bugs rather than just making assertions of
> proble
somebody>> We have loads of suggestions for changes to Cygwin or setup.exe.
somebody>> Where can I get the these suggestions ?
somebody>> the mailing list.
I speak up about this.
I and others have asked for the ability to specify a "group of packages
to install"
The use-case/example is thi
I'm only reporting an issue, I don't have a solution other then the
'hatchet' job workaround.
I just installed cygwin +3 days ago, using what ever is the latest
version of what ever on a freshly minted winXP machine.
A package I am using links using "libtool" - which uses and finds:
/usr/
duane> yet, there is no 'libpopt' I can find to link against.
david.korn> Let me introduce you:
david.korn> http://cygwin.com/packages
[snip]
david.korn> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=libpopt.la
Thanks, at times finding things is a "maze of twisty passages all alike"
I need a simple standard (and script friendly) means of determining what
is and is not installed under cygwin.
(effectively, I need to write a script to verify that certain cygwin
tools are, or not already installed).
Option 1:
Parse the output of 'cygcheck -s'
doable... but might chan
(Sorry I cannot reply directly to the previous email I just subscribed to the
list, I am quoting from the list archive)
>> (from the archive - permissions inside and outside of /cygwin get messed up)
I think this is *THE* cause of my problems.
My question is how do I turn this of 100% totally -
[paraphrased, and edited]
(Duane) describing the problem
(Barry) .. click click click right click .. click click to undo this crazyness
(steve) DO not do this .. you can break things in really bad ways
I would agree, I did not have time to reply yet.
My comment would be this:
This is
> The problem has only been seen with the git
> that ships with 64-bit cygwin.
Use “ldd” - against the executable, determine the exact file (absolute path) of
every dll that is used/required.
Including any missing DLLs.
You might also need to walk through your “Python Library” (where all of th
> I'm using cygwin for years already.
> I didn't use to have this problem in the past. It's something
> relatively new, that became way more intense in the past few months
> where I both re-installed windows at home, and got a fresh PC at work.
I had similar problems - and to fix them I did this:
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