Re: Does anyone use insight on cygwin?

2008-08-04 Thread henman
I planned to start learning and using insight soon. I also agree that its an important package to keep. Wynfield -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

stdio.h

2006-05-25 Thread Wynfield Henman
I have run into problems with getline being defined in stdio.h I understand that a GNU system has it defined there but not any other system. Please look into where "getline" should be defined in stdio.h or not. Thank you. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Prob

Re: stdio.h

2006-05-29 Thread Wynfield Henman
1.) Any idea of when a release of cygwin will be made of the "current versions" contiaining the _GNU_SOURCE to avoid collision with old-style declarations? Thank you all for the assistance . Darel Henman -- On 5/27/06, Christopher Faylor On Fri, May 2

debug information

2006-05-31 Thread Wynfield Henman
If anyone would give me a lead as to how to get a more meaningful backtrace from gdb, I would appreciate it. I was wandering if I have to build a new cygwin.dll (using cygwin) with symbol information or it that is even possible. cygwin version 5.19.4 Thanks

Re: debug information

2006-06-15 Thread Wynfield Henman
Brian, thanks for the lead and helpfull information regarding SIGSEGV. Henman On 6/2/06, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... Please search the archives for the many recent threads on this topic. What you are seeing is not an actual SIGSEGV, it is a bug/limitation in gdb related

Re: Running dselect

2006-06-19 Thread Wynfield Henman
I downloaded, ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gdb/snapshots/branch/gdb-6.4.91.20060615.tar.bz2 and built it successfully in the cygwin environment and with cygwin tools. But, the resulting binary seems to have bugs in it either something to do with the termainal or what I'm not sure as it just cra

New cygwin verson breaks emacs

2006-07-26 Thread Wynfield Henman
This happened to a perfectly good pre-cygwin update emacs. This also happened after a new rebuild of emacs with the new cygwin system. ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[3060]: GSlice: failed to allocate 504 bytes (alignment: 512): Function not implemented My cygwin information is given as: CYGWIN_NT-5.

Re: New cygwin verson breaks emacs

2006-07-26 Thread Wynfield Henman
any clues please let me know. I would think that the function is "GSlice", but I have no idea what or where that is. Have there been any major changes in Xwin and GTK related programs that might have this affect. Thanks Henman On 7/26/06, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: New cygwin verson breaks emacs

2006-07-28 Thread Wynfield Henman
changes n failure. Further indication that GTK related code has a bug in it. Henman The problem only occurs when trying to run emacs from xterm. So only when X-Windows functions or related GTK functions are needed. On 7/26/06, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: libungif and emacs-cvs

2006-09-11 Thread Wynfield Henman
case it is a problem with libungif. Or something else completely unrelated that caused the test program to fail, thus making configure think that it didn't have a valid -lungif. HTH, Igor -- Perhaps try uninstalling and reinstalling the ungif library. Regards, Henman -- Unsubscr

fontconfig & imagemagick

2006-09-18 Thread Wynfield Henman
ow to find out who is in charge of the fontcont, but it should be updated for everyone. I don't beleive I found ImageMagick in cygwin's respository, but is was a straight process to build. Regards, Henman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

by the way ..Re: New fontconfig

2006-09-19 Thread Wynfield Henman
dependendent upon it. Is there some nifty way I can tell setup.exe that the dependencies are satisfied with the locally built and installed new "fontconfig" code? Or give me a URL to an explanation for it Thanks. Henman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Probl

gdb with X-win problem

2006-09-27 Thread Wynfield Henman
6/bin/cygXpm-4.dll emacs: standard input is not a tty Program exited with code 01. (gdb) C --- Any comments are welcome. Thanks, Henman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: gdb with X-win problem

2006-09-27 Thread Wynfield Henman
echo $CYGWIN ==> ntsec If this is wrong, let me know. Regards, Henman --- On 9/28/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wynfield Henman wrote: > I am not able to get the new gdb to handle any x-window applications > or even on the non-x window invocation of emac

aspell

2006-10-12 Thread Wynfield Henman
I am trying to run down a problem with using aspell with cygwin. aspell: International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.4) Cygwin: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.21(0.156/4/2) 2006-07-30 Symptom: (run the following on the bash or zsh command line) $ aspell -a -m -d ameri

Re: aspell

2006-10-12 Thread Wynfield Henman
> Symptom: (run the following on the bash or zsh command line) >$ aspell -a -m -d american >Error: nroff: dlopen returned "No such file or directory". On 10/12/06, Gareth Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . I suspect you don't have nroff installed. If that is not the probl

Re: GMP-4.2, MPFR-2.2, was Re: Problems with GMP in latest Cygwin

2006-10-23 Thread Wynfield Henman
sts passed make install Regards, Darel Henman On 10/24/06, Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Brooks Moses > Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > Tim Prince wrote: > >>This is not such a new problem, but I have not been able to get a > >

Re: emacs 21.3.50.1 and cc-mode

2006-10-23 Thread Wynfield Henman
source) you might as well try the latest emacs Darel Henman P.S. Since I am using GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1, built from cvs, I can't duplicate your environment. Sorry. > william xue wrote: > >> It's annoying. Anybody could tell me how to workaro

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

2006-10-25 Thread Wynfield Henman
I don't know about corkscrew, but some variation of the below which I use may be helpful to you. Regards, Darel Henman -- # Example: ## Get connect (small yet good) # wget http://www.taiyo.

Re: emacs hangs at start, or sometime later

2006-10-25 Thread Wynfield Henman
Eric, please give us the 1st line of the output of $ emacs --version. Was it downloaded using setup.exe? What OS and version are you using? Thanks. On 10/26/06, Eric Twietmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: Re: emacs hangs at start, or sometime later > Eric Twietmeyer terrex.com>

Re: Running a command on cygwin launch

2006-10-25 Thread Wynfield Henman
Larry, at the prompt type: echo $HOME then put the BASH comnmands you want to be executed in the $HOME/.bash_profile file. If there isn't one, make one ( a plain text file with /n line endings). Normally this is were you set enviroment variables, etc. Cheers. On 10/26/06, Larry Hall (Cyg

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

2006-10-26 Thread Wynfield Henman
ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/corkscrew proxy.domain.com:8080 %h %p The above looks good. ~/.ssh/jrdepriest.auth I don't know about the above, I jus t use "id_dsa.pub" for cvs access When I run ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED], it automatically invokes the corkscrew command which reads my user na

Re: Cygwin help!!!

2006-11-01 Thread Wynfield Henman
Anja, use backquotes ` instead of quotes ' for process substitution. Example use: echo Today is `date` or even echo "Today is `date`" Cheers, Henman On 10/30/06, anja_22 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hallo, brauche drinegnd helfe mit CYGWIN ich wollte zum test fol

Re: Problem building ImageMagick 6.3.0

2006-11-01 Thread Wynfield Henman
Modifying the configure.ac file may take away the "undefined CXX" messages, but it didn't do anything else in my case. I can only get a successfull build of ImageMagick by configuring as below: ./configure --without-perl To get rid of trying to build perlmagick Because makng PerlMagick fails

Re: ImageMagick Cygwin Port

2006-11-09 Thread Wynfield Henman
On 11/10/06, Volker Quetschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having said that, I don't appreciate personal mail with regard to cygwin packages. Please use the mailing list, I'm reading it. Bitte schön > I tried to build ImageMagick recently and was successfull for all but > "perl-Image-Magick".

How to obtain a patch for viewing

2006-11-09 Thread Wynfield Henman
Yaakov mentioned "A fix for this is part of ports/apps/imagemagick/ImageMagick-6.2.9.8-1.src.patch; I don't think it's perl's fault, but rather the package's for putting a link library in LDFLAGS instead of LIBS." How can I get the patch, mentioned above, i.e., "ports/apps/imagemagick/ImageMagic

Re: How to obtain a patch for viewing

2006-11-09 Thread Wynfield Henman
Re: ImageMagick On 11/10/06, Volker Quetschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about looking at the patch that's used for the cygwin package? In case this wasn't clear enough, there is a "Src?" box behind most cygwin packages when you use setup.exe, if you check that you will find the source pac

GPGME

2006-11-29 Thread Wynfield Henman
Has anyone successfully built the encrypt/decrypt GPG library GPGME on cygwin? It is necessary along with GTK+ for building the user interface program, GPA, for Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG). Thanks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwi

gpgme

2006-12-04 Thread Wynfield Henman
I saw the reference to "gpgme" with some misleading (to me) version number, such as 1.1.2, tacked on and said it was in ...somewhere like ../cygwin/ports. .. The the real version number is 1.0.3 for the latest stable, but I guess cygwin rules/convention requires a different numbering system??

Re: gpgme

2006-12-04 Thread Wynfield Henman
On 12/4/06, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you really need to start a new thread for this? Two issues where mentioned, which you apparently missed. Wynfield Henman wrote: > I saw the reference to "gpgme" with some misleading (to me) version > number, su

libraries

2006-12-13 Thread Wynfield Henman
I have managed to confuse myself regarding libraries under cygwin, after reading extensively on building dlls under cygwin. Please check if my understanding is correct. (1) For simple static libraries ld's output is fine. Because only cygwin code will access it. (2) Does this follow with

Re: libraries

2006-12-17 Thread Wynfield Henman
Larry, thank you for the explanation regarding libraries. On 12/14/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wynfield Henman wrote: > I have managed to confuse myself regarding libraries under cygwin, > after reading extensively on building dlls under cygwin. > &g

Re: emacs trouble

2006-12-17 Thread Wynfield Henman
Lorenzo, I had the problem as well, but it was long ago. The problem has to do with the terminal emulator, as I recall. I switched from using the default windows prompt terminal to Putty and I think that solved the problem. Also putty has nice features should as allowing cut and paste. Read m

Re: Opening a file with a Windows App which is not in Windows File Association

2006-12-26 Thread Wynfield Henman
Thanks for the info. I use zsh suffix aliases, so I don't need to worry about "MS Windows" file associations. If you use zsh and set suffix aliases in your zsh startup file, such as ~/.zshenv Then all you have to do to view you file is $ logo.jpg #zsh will see the jpg suffix and find the appli

file descriptiors

2007-01-19 Thread Wynfield Henman
Can we pass file descriptors within the cygwin enviroment. For example such as those required by libassuan? Thanks, henman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: file descriptiors

2007-01-21 Thread Wynfield Henman
Thanks Eric. I am trying to build the source for libassuan found in libassuan-1.0.1.tar.bz2. configure and make work file. But, "make check" gives me the following information. ...Entering directory `/usr/src/assuan/libassuan-1.0.1/tests' fdpassing[3648.4] DBG: -> OK Pleased to meet you fdpass

Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?

2007-02-01 Thread Wynfield Henman
n, it can be delevoped and maintained at its own pace. As mentioned it will caused some problems with existing build scripts I've written, but in time the bifricated situation will trickle down to be normal in time, I should think. Regards, Henman RE:

cygrunsrv problem

2007-02-01 Thread Wynfield Henman
dn't. The "cygrunsrv -Q " definitely is buggy to me. When I started up my system "privoxy" is indeed up and running as it should be. But, when I do a cygrunsrv -Q it shows that the service is stopped, yet it isn't. Thanks for investigation this problem. Henman ---

Re: cygrunsrv problem

2007-02-04 Thread Wynfield Henman
Brian, thanks for the informative explanation about cygrunsrv and demon processes. On 2/2/07, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wynfield Henman wrote: > The "cygrunsrv -Q " definitely is buggy to me. > When I started up my system "privoxy" is indeed

Re: Build problems --- putty-0.58-cygterm-20060525.tar.gz and putty-0.58.tar.gz-----0.59 WORKS

2007-02-15 Thread Wynfield Henman
want to build programs Henman On 2/10/07, Keith Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dave Korn wrote: > On 07 December 2006 16:00, Keith Christian wrote: > >>Baffling. Any ideas? > > Different binutils versions? make versions? Run "cygcheck -s -v -r"

unkown proc directory in root

2007-02-19 Thread Wynfield Henman
Y_DYN_DATA HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA which contains, a very long list of data. Has this /proc always been with cygwin? And why the huge registry data subdir? Just trying to make sense out of this, having never seen or recall reading about this directory before. Thanks Henman -- Unsubscribe info:

PAM

2007-03-06 Thread Wynfield Henman
Are there any Plugable Authentication Module (PAM) libraries ported to cygwin? Or is there an source that will build readily in the cygwin environment? Thanks, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim as service

2007-03-12 Thread Wynfield Henman
grep exim That fact was that exim was running. Also I had priviledge problems that I got around with chmod. Henman -- On 3/12/07, Peatey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Success! your showing me about cygcheck solved it. Now I'm moving on to configuring /etc/exim.co

graphical took kit

2007-03-13 Thread Wynfield Henman
Re: GTK+ Me and many people have had problems with cygwin's gtk+ library. I am thankful to all who have made it possible to have gtk+ functionality. However, I (and I believe many others) have run into a problem. The gist of it is that "memalign" needs to be handled specially as cygwin does with

Re: graphical took kit

2007-03-18 Thread Wynfield Henman
t the slip. The problem one should thinks is that it could only get worse with vista... Thanks. On 3/14/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wynfield Henman wrote: > Re: GTK+ > > Me and many people have had problems with cygwin's gtk+ library. > I am than

Fwd: glib/graphical took kit mem error

2007-03-18 Thread Wynfield Henman
t the slip. The problem one should thinks is that it could only get worse with vista... Thanks. On 3/14/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wynfield Henman wrote: > Re: GTK+ > > Me and many people have had problems with cygwin's gtk+ library. > I am than

Fwd: graphical took kit

2007-03-18 Thread Wynfield Henman
t the slip. The problem one should thinks is that it could only get worse with vista... Thanks. On 3/14/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wynfield Henman wrote: > Re: GTK+ > > Me and many people have had problems with cygwin's gtk+ library. > I am than

cygcheck output

2007-03-19 Thread Wynfield Henman
uot;OK" is what I am concerned about. Empty package atk-runtime atk-runtime 1.10.3-1 OK Thanks, Henman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/do

is perl braindead?

2007-06-23 Thread Wynfield Henman
From what I read the following should work, but it doesn't. Can one of you familiar with cygwin's perl help me out. Why doesn't the test, -d, for directory work on the subdirectory? It should, in my considered opinion. Below is sufficient code to perform a simple test. Your help is appreciated

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-23 Thread Wynfield Henman
er fonts and then give these a session name and click [Save]. Then everytime you invoke cygwin the putty terminal will come up, without having the putty configuration screen always come up. thanks! lou Another really great thing about putty terminals is that you can cut and paste. This

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-26 Thread Wynfield Henman
nloading the emacs binaries that cygwin has and try it. Ah.. and run "startx &" to get into an X-windown terminal and then run emacs to get the X-window graphic emacs (from cygwin or built by yourself) running. Regards, Henman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#un

clamav antivirus software

2007-06-26 Thread Wynfield Henman
lamAv virus filter for cygwin? regard, henman -- 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/

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-26 Thread Wynfield Henman
Larry, I tried using "run.exe" as you suggested in "cygwin.bat" but it does not work. The issue is not emacs, but the initial login terminal. Besides I don't see that it does emacs any good at all (1) it causes emacs to fail in a std tty window. and (2) from an x-window it doesn't do anything t

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-27 Thread Wynfield Henman
On 6/27/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wynfield Henman wrote: > Larry, > I tried using "run.exe" as you suggested in "cygwin.bat" but it does > not work. The issue is not emacs, but the initial login terminal. Why are you starting emacs f

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-07-02 Thread Wynfield Henman
Some people like to associate Cygwin tools with certain mime types so it's possible to click on a file in the explorer, for example, and have their favorite Cygwin tool open the file. Ah.. I see. That makes sense. I use zsh's suffix aliases and completion. I just enter the file name and zsh k

Audio coding/encoding conversions

2007-12-13 Thread Wynfield Henman
Has anybody had any success building --> ffmpeg on cygwin. It has a rich set of codecs it can convert to and from. My main concern is to convert .3gp audio files into .wav, or .mp3 formats regards -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:/

Re: how to install libtoolize

2009-02-05 Thread Wynfield Henman
Though I am building a different package, I have the same problem as mentioned below. The libtool package downloaded is 46 bytes (effectively null) and get stashed into the _obsolete folder without ever getting installed. Another problem just noticed is that the setup process is appending a "/" c

How to keep a dependency from [continually] appearing in setup

2012-07-29 Thread Wynfield Henman
I use the in-the-wild, 'texlive 2012' distribution, which I like to tinker with and customize. Due to a, what I believe is a dependency by auctex on texlive for some reason, I keep getting a list of about 10 texlive related packages automatically appended to what I want to install and I have to kee

TexLive's ConTeXt runtime error..

2012-08-20 Thread Wynfield Henman
TeXLive Version: 2012 ("--all" updated to August 20th, 2012) Downloaded from: REPOSITORY="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet"; Yes, this is the wild verison. ConTeXt changes very rapidly and I fancy following and testing those changes. Thanks to cygwin for allowing me to do that. The a

Re: TexLive's ConTeXt runtime error..

2012-08-22 Thread Wynfield Henman
at 11:24 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Wynfield Henman gmail.com> writes: >> This results in: "PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API >> (zlib library version does not match - >> header: 1.2.5, library: 1.2.7)" > > Reinstall zlib

Re: TexLive's ConTeXt runtime error..

2012-08-22 Thread Wynfield Henman
/22/2012 2:06 PM, Wynfield Henman wrote: >> >> Ken, >>thanks for replying and helping. Here is the information that you >> asked about. >> >> The example ConTeXt file, example.tex, is attached hereto. >> >> PATH is in the cygcheck.out file. >&g

Re: multiwindow X11 and Emacs

2012-09-13 Thread Wynfield Henman
emacs hangs for me when invoking it from putty which has been initiated by cygwin X11 which I start with startx. But, I usually always have emacs up all the time and its not a big pain. I would be nice for it not to freeze when being re-activated. On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Achim Gratz w

Re: multiwindow X11 and Emacs

2012-09-14 Thread Wynfield Henman
nd you can work in the normal buffer. On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 9/14/2012 1:56 AM, Wynfield Henman wrote: >> >> emacs hangs for me when invoking it from putty which has been >> initiated by cygwin X11 which I start with startx. >> But, I usu

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-25 Thread Wynfield Henman
I don't agree. The solution should not be to install an unnecessary package and waste space and complicate by having to check order in the PATH variable. It would be better that a.) installation scripts check for the existence of the necessary commands first and not brute force the installation o

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Wynfield Henman
In my humble opinion cygwin should be open to improvement and, we should keep cygwin's purpose as a base system, which is as full, and as easy, and as close to a *nix environment as possible. On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote: . snipped > >> I don't agree. The solution sh

Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?

2013-01-03 Thread Wynfield Henman
Why are invoking 'echo' and not just simply PATH=$PATH:/newdir ? Which is faster & take less resources..I On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Aaron Schneider wrote: > I've tried this: > > export PATH=`echo $PATH`:/newdir/ > > And PATH contains the new dir, but after closing and reopening mi

database related

2013-03-19 Thread Wynfield Henman
The database MariaDB looks good. It does have a windows version available, but I, like others would prefer to learn it on a Posix system like cygwin if at all possible. The only information I could find matching MariaDB and cygwin as at least a couple of years old as I recall. Has anyone built

PostgreSQL not working from start

2013-03-22 Thread Wynfield Henman
This is apparently a common problem. I' m trying to install and get PostgreSQL up and running. Yes, CYGWIN, the environment variable is set to "server" and file/dir permissions are set for the user and have r/w permissions. No matter if I use: initdb or pg_ctl initdb -D $DBDIR -l $DB_ADMINLO

perl (why 64int on 32int machine)

2013-03-22 Thread Wynfield Henman
I just downloaded and tried to build and install Perl's Database Interface, DBI (yes the hard way, using Marefile.PL). Configure completed fine, but make fails with: " make gcc-4 -c-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -g -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -DUSEIMPORTLIB -O3 -DVER

the DBI for perl

2013-03-23 Thread Wynfield Henman
Thank you Csaba and Reini for the information in helping me build the Perl database interface code. I downloaded the gcc-4 and the build process worked. And Reini, thanks for the 64 number significance explanation. Regards -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: