gcc -MM and #include

2003-03-21 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
I'm sure the answer to this already exists, but googling didn't turn anything up, and I'm not the GCC expert I wish I were. :-( I'm using "gcc -MM" to build make dependencies. It used to skip anything included in <>, but now it uses some other mechanism to decide which headers are "system". This d

RE: gcc -MM and #include

2003-03-21 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
I wrote: > Meanwhile, I'm looking for a workaround (-I- didn't > help). I'll poke around other lists, but I'd bet > somebody's already run into this with Cygwin. "Piss > off but have a nice day anyway" is an acceptible > response, but any web/FAQ/message/etc. references > would be highly appreciate

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Randall R Schulz wrote: > Obligatory disclaimer: I ANAL. You? You'd better make that IANASCJ gsw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: swig-1.3.19-1

2003-04-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
I've updated the version of SWIG to 1.3.19-1. Tarballs should be available on the Cygwin mirrors shortly. As per the SWIG web page (http://www.swig.org): SWIG (Simplified Wrapper Interface Generator) is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety o

RE: Assembler

2004-02-17 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > I wanted to test some of my linux assembler code on my > Windows-Cygwin box. > Is it possible at all? I don't know about using BIOS calls, etc., but I've assembled and linked a few NASM assembly functions. I didn't use ELF format, though. There's a gnuwin32 format that w

RE: Assembler

2004-02-17 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > What about Linux syscalls? Will Cygwin emulation layer match > it? I just Googled "int 0x80". So THAT'S what you're trying to do. :-) No, I think your experiment shows that Cygwin is not emulating Linux syscalls at that level. Nor would I have expected it to. On the ot

RE: Assembler

2004-02-18 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > Why not? c code, translated to asm with -c -S on linux box, > can be later compiled and linked with Cygwin's gcc and works > fine. As you see, I have a good reason to believe that nasm's > int 0x80 will work too. So maybe I should simply look for a > nasm -> gcc's assembl

RE: Assembler

2004-02-20 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > I gave up. I see no chance to compile Line at all. And even > if I succeed, Line will probably bail out. Yes, I noticed that LINE was a dead project after you mentioned that you were trying to recompile it. I was hoping you would have success, since it sounded like a wor

RE: WinMain in an own static lib -> _WinMain@16 undefined reference ?! ;.(

2004-03-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
G.-B. Hauck wrote: > g++ -mwindows -mno-cygwin -o test.exe test.o -L./ -lmaintest > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.3.1/../../../../i686-pc-min > gw32/lib/libmingw32.a(main.o)(.text+0x9b):main.c: undefined > reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status This isn't sp

RE: GVIM

2004-03-12 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Phil Crescioli wrote: > [...] For now I'm just curious. I have other pressing Cygwin > things to dive into before the gvim thing, but when the time > is right, I will gladly contribute to the gvim deal since I > am a very content Cygwin user :) It's been a while since I've done it, but gvim use

RE: zsh as login shell

2005-10-25 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I started using zsh about 10 months ago myself. Now I can have my favorite ksh feature (two argument cd) as well as all the things I like in BASH. But I digress... I edited my /etc/profile, replacing bash with zsh, though that of course doesn't help me start ZSH from Windows. To get that, I copie

RE: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.4 (2005 Oct 15, compiled Oct 17 2005 11:54:34

2005-10-26 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > You're doing something differently here, perhaps in vim itself. For example, the following? :set nobackup nowritebackup If you disable both backup and writebackup, it leaves the file name unchanged when you write to it. So there's a workaround if you don't care about th

RE: syntax highlighting in vim

2005-11-23 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Alireza Ghasemi wrote: > I have the same problem about ls too. Do they > ever support syntax highlighting ? For ls, this might work for you: alias ls='ls -color=auto ' -gsw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.ht

RE: syntax highlighting in vim

2005-11-23 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Eric Blake wrote: > Actually, a better spelling would be > alias ls='ls --color=auto' Oops, I should have used cut and paste rather than typing it. I meant this of course: alias ls='ls --color=auto ' > The use of a trailing space in the alias controls > whether the next word on the command lin

RE: syntax highlighting in vim

2005-11-23 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Eric Blake wrote: > Wrong again - alias expansion in bash starts ONLY at the > first word, and only progresses on to the next word if > the current alias expansion ended in a space. I stand corrected. In the first job where I used ksh, they had set up aliases for everything with the spaces at the

RE: font

2005-12-01 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Chris Taylor wrote: > Yes. Don't use the cmd-based cygwin interface. > Use rxvt. Agreed. However, expect the occasional surprise when running non-Cygwin console binaries since they won't recognize that they are running on a terminal. I use a Tcl-based debugger at work, and when running it in Win32

RE: Re: font

2005-12-01 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> Rxvt.font1: "Lucida Console-10" >> Rxvt.font2: "Lucida Console-13" >> Rxvt.font: "Lucida Console-16" ... > What do these do? font sets the default font. The others set alternate fonts like the ones you normally get on the right mouse button in xterms. At least in my config

RE: Re: font

2005-12-02 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Too many things? Other than I/O (which I agree is important) > of certain Windows only programs what else does rxvt do wrong? This is getting a bit off-topic, but one thing that bothers me is "normal" resizing under Windows. I'd rather it behave like it does under X (and co

RE: encoding scripts (so that user can't see passwords easily)?

2005-12-06 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> But I don't really know where to start (which tool should I use for >> it?) > > Umm, "crypt"? Or better yet, ccrypt. Check its manpage. gsw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem re

RE: encoding scripts (so that user can't see passwords easily)?

2005-12-07 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Ehud Karni wrote: > [I think this discussion is off topic for cygwin] Agreed, which is why I didn't elucidate earlier. If I were inclined to do something like your second script and override normal passphrase security, I'd probably use another mechanism (maybe an environment variable?) to avoid th

RE: Clearing the COMPLETE screen.

2006-02-24 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Dave Korn wrote: > I generally use a line like this: > alias cls='cmd -c cls' For me, that has to read 'cmd /c cls' or it doesn't work. :-P This was mildly annoying me for a while as well. I finally broke down and took a look into it. It looks like the ESC c (reset terminal) control works und

RE: Question about rxvt

2006-02-24 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
MaurĂ­cio wrote: >I've been using rxvt, as recommended by chere man page. I have a > problem: in some non-cygwin console programs (ghci, the Haskell > interpreter, and others) the up arrow key doesn't work as expected. This has been discussed here previously. Non-cygwin programs don't recognize

RE: Clearing the COMPLETE screen.

2006-02-27 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Igor Peshansky wrote: > YA typo. The above should read: > > alias cs='echo -ne "\ec"' Yes, this is what you need to do under BASH. I thought I had verified it there, but I guess I wasn't getting what I thought I was getting. (I mostly use ZSH--at least I knew better than to write "print -n $'\ec

RE: Clearing the COMPLETE screen.

2006-02-27 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Igor Peshansky wrote: > Yes, but "printf '\ec'" works ju-ust fine in bash... :-) Even better. That works unchanged in both bash and zsh. > Do you set your TERM to "rxvt" or "xterm"? The control sequence in > the terminfo database may be wrong if you don't use the native "rxvt" > terminal setting

RE: Geomview & Cygwin setup

2006-04-28 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
If you need to find out what gcc is targeting, perhaps you should use "-dumpmachine" instead. $ gcc -dumpmachine i686-pc-cygwin $ gcc -dumpmachine -mno-cygwin i686-pc-mingw32 Lloyd Wood wrote: > cygming, not cygwin? ('ming' is a strong insult in the UK. I get > the impression the writer doesn

RE: Re: Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully

2006-05-23 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
mwoehlke wrote: > (Speaking of case sensitivity, is it a Windows limitation that Cygwin > can't do this? I'm pretty sure it isn't an NTFS limitation, > as Interix has true case-sensitivity.) You are right--NTFS can handle it, although the normal Windows file and directory handling routines cannot.

RE: UNIX Network Programming (unpve13e) make failing (AF_INET6 undeclared).

2006-06-08 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Huw wrote: > The first issue was an omission of #defines. IPv6 isn't a > necessity for the UNP source, I believe. I'd say the real issue is a failure to protect the use of AF_INET6. You'll notice that it's protected by an #ifdef earlier. > The next issue I have is: > > mcast_leave.c: In functio

RE: Fortran Compiler Error CMBFAST

2006-06-26 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Brad Krane wrote: > I'm trying to compile the scientific package CMBFAST-4.5.1 in the > cygwin environment using g77. I get the following error... > > f77 -O2 -c -o jlgen.o jlgen.F > jlgen.F: In program `jlgen': > jlgen.F:14: > include 'cmbfast.inc' > ^ > Unable to open INCLUDE f

RE: Fortran Compiler Error CMBFAST

2006-06-27 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) wrote: > This is not really a cygwin problem. I guess you didn't see my post--if the compiler should be able to find an include file in the same directory as the source file (and/or the current directory, since they are the same in this case), then it is a cygwin prob

RE: Fortran Compiler Error CMBFAST

2006-06-27 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Dave Korn wrote: > We *need* to see the actual command line. That was in the original post (sorry, I should have made sure it was included in the text when I CC'ed you...): > f77 -O2 -c -o jlgen.o jlgen.F The command was being executed from the same directory as jlgen.F, which also contains

RE: Fortran Compiler Error CMBFAST

2006-06-28 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Igor Peshansky wrote: > Doesn't foo.F represent a FORTRAN file that needs to be preprocessed > by the C preprocessor? Changing foo.F to contain > > #include "foo.inc" > > makes it work for me. That is no doubt the difference. As I said, I don't use FORTRAN enough to know what others would expec

3PP: SUPER/ERightSoft

2006-07-07 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Presumably somebody from RedHat has already contacted the ERightSoft folks for illegally distributing cygwin1.dll & cygz.dll without the source (as part of their SUPER package). However, they also install those files into /WINDOWS/SYSTEM32 *and* mark them both SYSTEM and HIDDEN. This may be the ca

RE: INFO Death

2004-11-03 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Dave Korn wrote: > Should it perhaps say > > > for d in /usr/info /usr/share/info ${INFOPATH} do Aha! So THAT'S what happened to my info directory! I hadn't really looked into it, since usually I just type "info bletch" anyway. I ran a modified version of that script and it's back to normal now.

RE: looking for an arm9 cross-compiler

2004-11-11 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I've had some luck with the ECOS version. You can find it at http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/ -Jerry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: h

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
> [ ] Offended. Think about the children! > [ ] Not offended. Stop bothering me with your Puritanical values. > [ ] Don't care. Can we go back to talking about how > negative this list is now? > [x] Not offended. Clean it up anyway. It's unprofessional > in the extreme and can only r

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
OK, anybody still reading this thread probably already knows how to do this, but just in case, here's what you need to do to clean up your fortune files (other than just deleting them): First, make sure you have the tools you need and double-check that the "offensive" files are in plaintext: $ ls

RE: Cannot link ___assert, __impure_ptr with -mno-cygwin

2005-03-29 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Matt Olson wrote: > I've narrowed my problems down to a relatively small test case: [...] > Makefile: [...] > LINKFLAGS = -g -L/lib/mingw -mwindows -mno-cygwin > LIBS = -lmingw32 > > foo: foo.o > gcc $(LINKFLAGS) -o foo foo.o $(LIBS) [...] > Compiler output: > $ make > gcc -g -L. -L/h

RE: Cannot link ___assert, __impure_ptr with -mno-cygwin

2005-03-29 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Matt Olson wrote: > Unfortunately, while "compile .o files with -mno-cygwin" fixes my toy > example, it doesn't help the real code I'm trying to build: [...] > If the problem is object files being compiled without -mno-cygwin and > linked with it, do I need to make sure that all of the (static?) >

RE: Building GCC-4.0-20050430

2005-05-10 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Anh Vo wrote: > I successfully built it for three languages Ada, C, C++ with > configured as --enable-languages=ada,c,c++ > --enable-threads=gnat. A number of Ada Conformance Assessment > Test Suite (ACATS) failed. Further testing reveals that the > Ada runtime tasking support was not included

RE: Re: PATH oddity

2005-05-26 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Karl M wrote: >>> While looking at my PATH environment variable (in response to the >>> recent postings about sshd and environment variables), I noticed >>> that "." was included. >>> >>> It was caused by a double ; ( a ";;" sequence) in my PATH as >>> defined in the Windows XP My Computer Proper

RE: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

2005-06-03 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Keith, you don't have a complete reference for the Nt functions do you? Keith Moore wrote: > So, unfortunately, I don't have a complete reference, but there are > enough "islands of information" around for us to piece together > everything we need. Have you looked at

RE: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-07 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Not that I know of. We're discussing to convert Cygwin's path > handling to use Unicode for a while now, but it will take time. > Don't expect this any time soon. I've been off of the developer list for a while now, and now the archives are subscriber only. :-( How are

RE: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-08 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I wrote: >> However, it was NTFS-specific and Cygwin went a different >> route (which has path length limitations, but I digress). Christopher Faylor wrote: > And, Joshua could I get a FAQ entry about this, too? This > has got to be at least the fifth time that someone has felt > compelled to mak

RE: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-09 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
> Of course we would be glad to have more people working on > the DLL (and sign the copyright assignment, sigh), Yes, the assignment was/is a hurdle for me. It turns out to be much easier to release something into the public domain (at least at my company), thus my approach. I had actually made so

RE: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-09 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > But releasing something to the public domain doesn't help > Cygwin. [...] The problem is that you still have to verify > that the sources are truly public domain and how do you do > that without getting a disclaimer from a person's employer? [...] > I truly hate all of t

RE: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-10 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I wrote: >> [...] If a disclaimer is all that you want, I'm sure you/I can get >> it. In fact, as long as they know about the uncopyrighted code and >> don't do anything about it, they've given up rights to it. Christopher Faylor wrote: > And you prove that they don't know anything about it by...

RE: how do I cite cygwin for academic publication?

2005-06-14 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Peter Waltman wrote: >> since I used cygwin to implement my masters project (which I'm not >> getting into publishable form), Arturus Magi wrote: > Also, as a note: submitting a masters project may still be considered > distribution. You may want to solicit advice from a legal authority, > if p

RE: Where is the gnu/cygwin GUI Source code debugger?

2004-07-12 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Richard Heintze wrote: > I explicitly downloaded insight seperately and had > troubles with that too, see my earler post. (gdb.exe > started the GUI interface, but it could not load the > source code file -- something to do with stat failing. > chmod 777 test.c did not help). You shouldn't have to

Re: zmodem port?

2004-08-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
On Wednesday, July 28, Scott Evans asked: > Has anyone successfully ported sz/rz to Cygwin? I searched earlier posts, and it is clear that it had been done. So I tried grabbing rzsz.sip from www.omen.com and building it. No problem. Just modify the makefile to add .exe to the executable names when

RE: Python 2.4.1 locking bug. (was: Re: rebaseall failure?)

2005-07-28 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> semaphore::_trywait doesn't have anything to do with pthread >>> mutexes, AFAIK. Douglas Philips wrote: >> The real issue is that Python broke with 1.5.18, either because of >> the pthread change or not. Be that as it may, should I report this >> bug in another forum?

mount -X and FAQ (was RE: Cygwin build system SOOOO SLOOOWWWW ???)

2005-09-15 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > I've mentioned this many times before (and suspect that > someone else is frantically typing this in right now) but > mounting directories which contain executable files with > the -X option makes things a little faster for cygwin: > > mount -f -b -X c:/cygwin/bin /bi

RE: Tasking not implemented on this configuration

2005-09-29 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Anh Vo wrote: > If you need both Ada compiler with run-time support and cygwin, do > the following. ... > 3. Unzip them in cygwin installed directory. Remember to keep > the directory structure intact when Unzipping. In addition, > select over all when prompted by WinZip. This sounds dangerous to

RE: Tasking not implemented on this configuration

2005-09-29 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I wrote: >> 3. Unzip them in cygwin installed directory. Remember to keep >> the directory structure intact when Unzipping. In addition, >> select over all when prompted by WinZip. > > This sounds dangerous to me. Anh Vo wrote: > It is not all. What it does is to replace the Ada compiler > (GNAT)

RE: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-18 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Eric Blake wrote: > Your situation isn't normal because you didn't stop all cygwin > services. While the idea has been tossed around on this list > that it would be nice if setup.exe could stop services for you, > to date, it does not. Therefore, IT IS UP TO YOU to stop services > beforehand. Th

RE: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-19 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Eric Blake wrote: > I believe you are referring to the recent question about whether > cygwin services must be stopped during a WINDOWS upgrade, My mistake. Thanks for the script. gsw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

RE: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-19 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Eric Blake wrote: > Setup requires a reboot only when Windows reports that a file that was > being replaced was in use at the time. Therefore, if setup requires a > reboot, then you didn't properly shut down all cygwin services, shells, > and apps. Probably true 99.9% of the time, although couldn

Re: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.4 (2005 Oct 15, compiled Oct 17 2005 11:54:34

2005-10-21 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Shankar Unni wrote: > But I think it's worth mentioning that 6.3 doesn't do this (change the > case of the name when writing back). It overwrites the old file when > writing back, thus preserving its case. More to the point, the windows version of vim 6.4 doesn't do this, either. So there is some

RE: Read not honouring "-r"?

2006-09-19 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Doug Irwin wrote: > One would expect a "read -r fs t2 t3" to process this without > attempting to expand slashes. But I can't seem to get this bit > working... And I can't seem to find any doco on doing that in Cygwin. > > I've attached the files I am testing with in the hope that someone > can h

RE: Read not honouring "-r"?

2006-09-19 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I wrote: > This seems to be particularly tied to ksh, and specifically > when you use "<" to redirect a file. If you simply pipe the > output of grep to the while loop, it works. Interestingly, > sh, bash, and zsh all give the behavior you were expecting. I couldn't resist trying it out on my Linu

RE: How to run rxvt

2006-09-21 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Fabrizio Salvatore wrote: > C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fn 7x14 -g 120x24 -si -sk -sb -sl 1000 -fg > black -bg white -T "cygwin terminal Window" -e /usr/bin/tcsh -l In case you didn't know, if you some settings most of the time, you can specify them in ~/.Xdefaults (even if you're not running X). For

DLL error messages suppressed under zsh/RXVT

2006-09-22 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I recently ran into a problem where DLL error messages were apparently suppressed under zsh/RXVT though they appeared under bash/CONSOLE. I was trying to build Subversion 1.4.0, and it at one point configure runs the following command: ruby -r mkmf -e 'exit(have_func("rb_hash_foreach") ? 0 : 1)

Re: DLL error messages suppressed under zsh/RXVT

2006-09-26 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Shankar Unni wrote: > Before sending your cygcheck.out, try checking the archives. > This problem was talked about a couple of months ago. Thanks for the reference. The problem I reported (check the OP) may be related but isn't exactly the same. AFAICT, suppression of those DLL error messages shou

RE: Re: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?

2006-10-03 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Coatimundi wrote: > If paths are included in the archive (which is typical for > libs created by Visual Studio), then ar may in some cases > claim that members (displayed with 'ar t') do not exist > when doing "ar x lib.a {object}" either by path/name.obj > or just name.obj. I think you need to us

RE: Re: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Coatimundi wrote: > Thank you for bringing this up. I forgot to mention (a sure > sign that my multitasking scaling is rolling over) that I also > tried the P option. > While this usually works, I found cases where it did not. [...] > Since I see nothing wrong with the source and I am short on >

RE: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > At the risk of being over-obvious, Linux users... use Linux. In such > an insular environment, perhaps they have the luxury of only using > the One True Text File Format (whatever that is). We're you the one who brought up Unicode earlier? Besides, there are numerous si

Subversion 1.4

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Has anybody successfully built subversion 1.4 (or alternately, is a release planned soon)? It didn't build OOTB for me, and I'd rather not duplicate effort. gsw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > If 'ar' insists on backslash separators that is surely a bug. You may be right, but please stop calling me Shirley. :-) Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Why is that? If 'LIB.EXE' will work with either and 'ar' as a Cygwin > app prefers '/', why would working with a .lib p

RE: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > The dilemma here is that I read other mailing lists besides > cygwin where people are trying to use Cygwin but are close > to giving up because it is so slow. So, making bash faster > for people who are using it correctly is very desirable. Which is why we need to get

RE: Subversion 1.4

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
David Rothenberger wrote: > I successfully built it with the attached patch. I haven't > actually used it yet, since some other tools I use don't > yet support 1.4, but it passed all tests except the ruby > tests. Thanks. I'll give it a try. I meanwhile found an earlier post that recommended "./co

RE: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-05 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > You haven't been paying attention, it seems. > > We've already been over this ground. The performance impact > for turning on bash's automatic CRLF handling is profound. > That's why we're here. I guess WJM around here. :-) But perhaps I've been paying more attention

RE: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?

2007-01-31 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > When I was maintaining cygwin's gcc, I often thought about eliminating > -mno-cygwin and just providing a pure mingw cross compiler in the > distribution. I completely agree. Anybody depending on -mno-cygwin can create their own shell wrapper. I personally don't care so

RE: stupid spaces in environment vars

2007-02-09 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
David Bear wrote: > I would like to have used something like > > cd $USERPROFILE > > in a bash script but since windows insists on putting spaces in > names, this seems impossible. You might be happier writing your scripts in zsh: bash% cd;pwd /home/gsw bash% export SP="silly path" bash% mkd

RE: Using dos2unix and attaching it to a while loop

2007-04-09 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am dealing with DOS text files and need to output DOS text files. [...] > I found dos2unix, but I do not know how to properly implement it. The > following Bash code is a work-in- progress. Please let me know if a more > efficient approach exists. > > while read line

RE: .exe magic

2007-04-18 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Dave Korn wrote: > Hear, hear. I don't think anything so drastic as this should be attempted > without a deprecation period of a year or so for the old behaviour. And in > fact I think it would probably transpire to be a serious limitation on the > utility of cygwin. Remember, if you just want

RE: GCC 4.1.1

2007-06-26 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Brian Dessent wrote: > With that out of the way, it's possible to get -mno-cygwin working with gcc4 > just fine, it shouldn't take any patches. You'll of course have to build gcc > again as the MinGW version, and set up some symlinks. See the postinstall of > the gcc package for details. On a re

RE: Looking for man pages

2007-08-08 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Brian Dessent wrote: > The idea behind texinfo is a format-independent way of writing > documentation. 'info' is just one of a million ways to view this same > documentation. [...] Yes, especially for make, I've found the info files to be the best reference, and they're easily navigable. I'm in t

RE: Interesting looking terminal emulation for cygwin

2007-08-13 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Has anyone used this? > http://en.poderosa.org/ Looks interesting. Too bad they don't provide console emulation to Windows. BTW, I noticed that they include a binary version of cygterm.exe (in Protocols/Cygterm), which links cygwin1.dll. I didn't see a link to the Cygw

RE: Help needed with Big List of Dodgy Apps

2007-09-07 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Jim Kleckner wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: [...] >> I'm adding code to cygcheck to detect whether any of the software that has >> been known at some time to cause these kinds of problems are installed on >> the target system being cygchecked. [...] > Do you think a "tester" for API sanity is possible?

RE: cygpath -u doesn't seem to convert spaces properly

2007-09-26 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Brian Dessent wrote: >> $ cd $ttt >> bash: cd: /cygdrive/c/Program: No such file or directory > > Yes, that's wrong. [...] It's got nothing to do with > cygpath and everything to do with proper portable scripting practice. Quite true. When you're using bash or sh, you must *quote your arguments*

RE: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-16 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
As a long-time Cygwin user, I can say that I would very much appreciate as much information as possible about "known good" and "known bad" antivirus, firewall, and anti-spyware tools or combinations thereof, including what Windows version was used, what special steps needed to be taken, etc. The p