Re: Setting up Cygwin to install ecos

Ajit Bhanot, Gurgaon wrote: I am trying to use the wget function on Cygwin. The internet access is through a proxy server. Can I configure cygwin to access the internet through the proxy to download the ecos installation files? You can configure wget by setting following parameters in your ~/.wgetr

Re: PATH and HOME in cygwin

Hello David Fay wrote: I am trying to set my PATH and HOME in cygwin. Under the /etc/profile file it says to change the bashrc.bash file and I have amended this but still no change. I also see there is a .bash_profile file in both the /etc/defaults/etc/skel and /etc/skel. I originally thought th

some missing defines in .h files

Hello Recently I've ported some NetBSD soft to Cygwin and encountered some incompatibilites in header files that are not caught by configure. I wonder whether this should be fixed in Cygwin? #define TM_YEAR_BASE1900 Is not defined in tzfile.h #define _PATH_TMP "/tmp/" or

Problem with poll function

Hello I've tried to build latest Curl on Cygwin and encountered problem reason of which is very nicely summarized on the following page http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2001/06/poll.html It shows that behaviour of cygwin poll when socket is closed (fourth column in table) is only compatible

Problem with mined 2000.12-1

Hello It seems to me that mined.exe in latest mined package is broken. It gives access violation when running and content of it doesn't really look like valid .exe file. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.ht

Missing include in mntent.h

Hello I think #include is needed in mntent.h for definition of FILE. Here is patch for it. --- mntent.h.old2006-06-12 19:39:27.0 +0400 +++ mntent.h2006-06-12 19:56:23.015625000 +0400 @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ }; #ifndef _NOMNTENT_FUNCS +#include /* needed for FILE */ FILE *s

Problems with localization

Hello I want to see localized messages from cygwin programs. I've set environment variables LANG=ru_RU.CP1251 and OUTPUT_CHARSET=CP1251. While most programs work with such settings some of them do not, namely grep and programs from binutils package. They understand language part of LANG variabl

Patch for variable page width in man

Hello I've made small patch for man with which it uses screen width when displaying man pages. Also there seems to be missing build dependency in readme for lndir which is in xorg-x11-bin-lndir package. diff -upr man-1.5o1/configure man-1.5o1-patched/configure --- man-1.5o1/configure 2005-03-07

Problem with ssmtp / procmail / cygwin 1.5.10-3

Hello I have problem using ssmtp from procmail after upgrading to cygwin 1.5.10-3. It only exists when ssmtp is called from procmail, when it is called directly it works fine. Does anyone have any idea what's wrong with it? Such problem was already posted recently to this maillist, but there

Question for cURL maintainer

Hello Could you please update cURL to latest upstream version? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/