Re: perl 5.8.0 debugger requires double ENTER key to act on commands: cygwin 1.3.22

2003-04-05 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Gerrit suggests: See the second link above, try to set: $ export PERLIO=perlio in your environment. This also fixes a problem I've had for a long time: I was unable to install Bundle::LWP from CPAN with 5.8.0-2 (many self-tests failed). -- I ... don't want programming to be "really

xmllint -dtdvalid fails to report invalid XML

2003-07-01 Thread Eric Hanchrow
This is libxml2 2.5.7. Here's the input DTD, and the input XML: 10:21:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] examples]$ cat /tmp/tiny.dtd 10:25:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] examples]$ cat /tmp/tiny.xml Here's xmllint working properly (with the `-valid' switch):

Re: ssh with keys to Cygwin/Openssh on Windows XP

2003-07-14 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeffrey> Thanks everyone for all of the help... it seems that my Jeffrey> problem was a permission one, and combined the last post, Jeffrey> I figured it out... it seems that all of the files in Jeffrey> ~/.ssh need to b

HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1]

2002-11-25 Thread Eric Hanchrow
For what it's worth, I too had this problem on Windows 2000, but I was able to work around it by putting set HOME=/home/Administrator into my cygwin.bat. -- PGP Fingerprint: 3E7B A3F3 96CA 8958 ACC5 C8BD 6337 0041 C01C 5276 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-

Re: HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1]

2002-12-03 Thread Eric Hanchrow
ncerned with, as Joseph> our machines are single user laptops/clients); The following genuine fix worked for me: From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1] To: Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: W

"The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022)" -- cause and cure

2002-12-12 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I think this is unrelated to previous messages on this list with a similar subject. Instead, it pertains to a problem that I encountered and solved myself; I thought it might benefit others to hear about it, so here it is. The symptom is that I was trying to start a non-Cygwin program that I'd j

Emacs: completion of buffer names ignores case

2002-12-12 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I'm using emacs-21.2-10. I frequently want to switch to the buffer named `*shell*', so I type C-x b * s h e SPC RET expecting that, since `*shell*' is the only buffer whose name begins with `*she', the SPC will cause its complete name (`*shell*') to appear in the minibuffer, and the RET

Re: please try the latest snapshot

2003-01-17 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "cgf" == Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cgf> The latest snapshot should fix some /etc handling problems cgf> (thanks to ideas and code from Pierre Humblet), like the cgf> dreaded BSOD. Where can I read more about that BSOD problem? I'm getting blue-screens mysel

Re: Win32 emacs, Cygwin emacs...and PATH

2003-02-11 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Elfyn" == Elfyn McBratney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I want to be able to type "emacs" and have it run my Win32 >> emacs. Put this in your .bashrc: function emacs () { /c/path-to/win32-emacs/emacs.exe "$@" } -- PGP Fingerprint: 3E7B A3F3 96CA 8958 ACC5 C8BD 6337 004

emacs -nw : M-C-K does nothing

2003-03-07 Thread Eric Hanchrow
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 alpha 1.3.20(0.73/3/2) 2003-02-08 12:10 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin Emacs 21.2-12 I have set CYGWIN to "tty nontsec", if it matters. When I start `emacs -q -nw' from a Win32 console, I see these problems: * Meta-Control-K does nothing. For example, I type c M-C-k, expecting to

Re: snapshot now == 1.5.7 soon, please try

2004-01-20 Thread Eric Hanchrow
For what it's worth, the snapshot seems to fix a couple of problems that I didn't understand, couldn't reliably reproduce, and wasn't able to describe :) -- A hacker would consider being asked to write add x to y giving z instead of z = x+y as something between an insult to his int

Re: NTEmacs problem with Cygwin DLL 1.5.6-1?

2004-01-24 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "John" == John Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> M-x find-name-dired Find-name (directory): c:/tmp/ Find-name John> (filename wildcard): * John> I recieve John> c:/tmp/: find . \( -name '*' \) -exec ls -ld {} \; John> drwxr-xr-x 2 jwharris None 0 Mar 20 20

Re: Is it possible to move emacs from one computer to another?

2004-02-03 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Charles" == Charles Plager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> Is it possible to move the emacs from that distribution Charles> to a computer where emacs isn't working? I think what you want to do is simply uninstall the version that's not working, and then install an older vers

Re: Remove Cygwin entirely from Windows 2000 Server SP3

2004-03-22 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Corinna" == Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Corinna> There shouldn't be any cyg* files in the system folder. Corinna> If you want to have it entirely clean, you'd have to Corinna> delete all registry keys */Software/Cygnus Corinna> Solutions/Cygwin with * being

Re: gcc -mno-cygwin finds the wrong include files

2004-04-13 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Hi, could someone please confirm that this is a bug, and not a problem that exists only on this computer. I just tried it, and got reasonable-looking output: # 1 "" # 1 "" # 1 "" # 1 "" # 1 "/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.3.1/include/stddef.h" 1 3 4 # 158 "/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.

Re: Application failed to initialize (0xc0000022)

2004-04-20 Thread Eric Hanchrow
This has burned me often enough that I've made a little shell function that reminds me: if [ "$OSTYPE" = "cygwin" ]; then unzip () { command unzip "$@" echo If you are unzipping DLLs, be sure to make them executable. > /dev/stderr } fi -- If you can't change your unde

Re: problems with autoconf and libiconv

2004-05-02 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Ricardo" == Ricardo Varela [phobeo] writes: Ricardo> ... checking for iconv_open in -liconv... no I don't think the iconv library defines a function named iconv_open. Try `libiconv_open' instead. -- |\ _,,,---,,_ ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ |,4-

Re: PLEASE TEST: Latest Cygwin snapshot == 1.5.10 alpha

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Hanchrow
For what it's worth, the snapshot appears to fix a problem that I've had building CVS guile -- briefly: the built guile would (when used to build the documentation) immediately die with an error message from Windows. I'd be happy to provide more details if anyone's interested. -- If you can't cha

Frequent crashes in 2.194.2.22 setup.exe

2002-04-09 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Windows Version: 4.0 Current Build: 1381 Service Pack: 6 Current Type: Uniprocessor Free Registered Organization: Confounded Computer Company Registered Owner: Eric Hanchrow *> Task List <* 0 Idle.exe 2 System.exe

Re: Frequent crashes in 2.194.2.22 setup.exe

2002-04-10 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I know this behaviour... And a report for the same bug was posted some messages before yours "Cygwin 1.3.10 Setup.exe 2.194.2.22 Install Problems With MSVCRT.DLL and ..." I saw that, but that post describes behavior that is somewhat different, since in my case it crashes before it sh

Re: Re[2]: Frequent crashes in 2.194.2.22 setup.exe

2002-04-10 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Pavel" == Pavel Tsekov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pavel> Are you sure that you're using 2.194.2.22 ? Yes, that's what it says on the splash screen. Pavel> Setup.Exe causes Application Error at 0x78001750 Pavel> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-03/msg01135.html Pa

Re: Re[4]: Frequent crashes in 2.194.2.22 setup.exe

2002-04-10 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Pavel" == Pavel Tsekov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pavel> I've earlier today submited a patch for this and you just Pavel> have to wait until the new setup.exe is released. Sounds good to me! Thanks very much. -- PGP Fingerprint: 3E7B A3F3 96CA 8958 ACC5 C8BD 6337 0041 C01C 52

Re: 1.5 is coming... please test away!

2003-08-22 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Elfyn" == Elfyn McBratney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Elfyn> Now what would be nice(tm), is if users of these packages Elfyn> could test them out[1] as much as possible before they go Elfyn> current, so as to make sure they're working OK (for you, at Elfyn> least). Here's w

Re: perl-5.8.1-1 problem: TW.dll is 182 megabytes

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "cgf" == Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cgf> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:50:57AM -0700, Peter J. Stieber wrote: >>> This perl is a test release which requires cygwin-1.5.3. cgf> This is my fault. I somehow made 5.8.1 the default. I've cgf> fixed this now bu

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] new package: fltk-1.1.4

2003-10-19 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Great! I sometimes used to build flwm for Cygwin; I assume it will now be easier for me to do that. -- The whole point of loud music is to make it possible to date without talking. -- Roger Ebert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: ht

Re: Restructuring the automake and autoconf packages

2001-12-02 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Corinna" == Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Corinna> This message is VERY important. PLEASE read the whole Corinna> thing -- it will save everyone a lot of time and a lot of Corinna> FAQs. Thanks so much for taking the time to both implement the wrapper scheme, a

Bash fails to source .bashrc after upgrade to cygwin 1.3.6-1

2001-12-03 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I upgraded my system to cygwin 1.3.6-1. (I shut down all running Cygwin apps first). Then, when I started bash, instead of grinding away for a few seconds (processing my .bashrc, which is big), it immediately printed bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! bash-

Re: Invoking Miktex in Cygwin

2006-03-18 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Tong" == Tong Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tong> Hi you guys, I have Miktex installed( in C:\Program Files), Tong> and am trying to invoke Latex.exe from Shell and Tong> got some trouble. Heres what I did : 1. make a Tong> soft link by: ln -s

Re: hook scripts in Subversion..

2006-04-18 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Take a look at http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#hook-debugging -- Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry. -- Eric Raymond -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Prob

Re: Cygwin and Emacs: How to exit?

2006-05-09 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Try putting set CYGWIN=tty in your c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat. -- This delightful, self-describing sentence, created 16 February 2005 in honor of Katie Drake, has seven As, three Bs, four Cs, six Ds, forty-five Es, fifteen Fs, five Gs, thirteen Hs, eighteen Is, one J, three Ks, four Ls, one M, twe

Re: find dir -o does not work

2006-06-20 Thread Eric Hanchrow
find common -type f -o -type l (get nothing here ) Your problem is with "find", not with Cygwin. Try find common -type f -o -type l -print -- As economics is known as "The Miserable Science", software engineering should be known as "The Doomed Discipline" -- Edsger Dijkstr

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-01 Thread Eric Hanchrow
For what it's worth, I'm at this very moment moving my company's build system away from Cygwin, for precisely reason number 4: I cannot tell customers which Cygwin version to get. -- The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic backgrou

Re: Rebaseall fails with error 6 ...

2004-06-26 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I've had rebaseall fail with error 6, even when (as far as I knew) there were no running processes that had any Cygwin DLL mapped. (I also made sure the DLL was writable). Out of frustration I completely uninstalled, then reinstalled, all of Cygwin, and that fixed the problem :-) I now suspect t

Re: How to delete rogue nul files

2004-07-21 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I've been using this: #!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; die "This program is only useful on Cygwin.\n" unless ($^O eq "cygwin"); my $filename = shift; $filename =~ s(/nul$)()i; $filename = qx(realpath $filename); chomp $f

Re: Need a copy of bash.bat

2004-07-23 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Bob" == Bob Kuhfahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> My install seems to not lay this down. Can someone post a Bob> copy; anything just to get started. Thanks! I think you're confused -- Cygwin doesn't install a file named bash.bat. It does, however, install bash.exe. -- Okay,

Re: bash script doesn't wait for commands to complete -- me too

2004-09-10 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Dolton" == Dolton Tony AB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> So, if you are starting more than around 62 subprocesses then >> things probably won't work right. >> >> cgf Dolton> Thanks for that. However, although the problem occurs Dolton> most frequently with

Re: Bash returns incorrect process status

2004-09-21 Thread Eric Hanchrow
This patch also fixes a long-standing problem that I've had: My .bash_profile is rather complex (actually, it sources .bashrc, which is where most of the complexity is), and at the end it runs a program called `keychain'. That program always does some output and sometimes does some input.

Re: Bash returns incorrect process status

2004-09-21 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Larry" == Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> You forgot to include the patch. Actually, I was attempting to follow up to an existing post that contained the patch; I assumed that it would be easy to navigate from my article to that previous one. In any case, here is the ori

Re: Bash is very, very stable

2004-09-24 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Phil" == Phil Betts writes: Phil> Under cygwin, this breaks down. The output from echo is not Phil> correctly interleaved with the output of the external Phil> command Phil> b) the external commands are run asynchronously as Phil> background tasks. Did you see the pa

Re: keychain doesn't properly cache ssh key

2006-08-10 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Dominik" == Dominik Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dominik> Is anyone aware of anything that would help me to get Dominik> keychain work adequately? You have to source the files that keychain creates, like this: $ . ~/.keychain/hostname-sh -- Native Americans used eve

Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

2006-08-20 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I installed the FreeNX Windows client (http://freenx.berlios.de/), hoping to access my server machine remotely. I didn't know it at the time, but the Windows client includes a Cygwin DLL -- and it clobbered by existing Cygwin installation, somehow (I forget the details -- I think it modified impor

Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

2006-08-20 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Larry" == Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> This has also been discussed before. If you'd like to Larry> understand the options, I'd recommend reviewing the email Larry> archives for threads on this issue. Thanks; I assume you mean the thread that starts w

Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

2006-08-22 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Gosh, thanks for the well-written description! Sure sounds like a lot of work, though :-| -- ... belief in the omniscient hacker is indistinguishable from belief in a Supreme Being. There is simply no argument one can give that will dissuade a true believer, yet when the believer is asked for a

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "John" == John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Hi everyone. I just installed cygwin on WinXP and I'm John> wondering if there is a way to copy and paste in the command John> prompt, like in Linux? Sure. But it's a feature of cmd.exe, not of Cygwin. In other words,

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "mwoehlke" == mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mwoehlke> Awesome? It appears to be xterm No, it's rxvt. Different program. mwoehlke> which needs an X server True for xterm; false for rxvt.

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Igor" == Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> For Emacs users, the keyboard is somewhat better: various >> combinations of keys that include Escape actually get sent to >> Emacs. I forget which though. Igor> Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Space. But you can achieve the same eff