Re: Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81?

2006-07-27 Thread mwoehlke
Michael Hirsch wrote: On 7/21/06, mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Hirsch wrote: > Here is a sample Makefile that breaks with Gnu Make 3.81-1 under > Cygwin, but works fine with Gnu Make 3.80-1. We have been writing > these types of Makefiles for years, using both Win

Re: tar, win-path conversion bug

2006-07-27 Thread mwoehlke
Linda Walsh wrote: I think I've run into a bug concerning "tar" and the use of windows format paths. It's not a bug that is difficult to work around, but it still seems as though it is a bug that someone may wish to address (in their spare time, of course :-). I wanted to save a list of files i

Re: Can NTFS junctions be listed?

2006-07-27 Thread mwoehlke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] Another annoying fact is that we have three different types of symlinks then. Sigh. Four, if Interix symlinks were supported :-(. -- Matthew Ok, so the quotes aren't entirely original. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-28 Thread mwoehlke
Michael Eager wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:09:16PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: In fact, I'm wondering if there is an advantage to building GNU make using the Cygwin environment, vs. using a native MingW (for example) build of GNU make? I'm afraid I'm woefully ign

Re: Revised: ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory

2006-08-01 Thread mwoehlke
Warren Young wrote: Andrew Schulman wrote: On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:15:44AM -0600, Monte Riding wrote: I have an issue when trying to run ls in the root of my C: drive that's cropped up recently, not sure what's happened - Morale of the story: Use POSIX paths, i.e. "cd /cygdrive/c". OK, b

Re: 1.5.21: ssh client failure

2006-08-01 Thread mwoehlke
Hans wrote: My cygwin ssh client (OpenSSH 4.3p2) has a problem: it does not send the ID string to the sshd server. I have attempted to log in to two remote servers, and also to localhost ($ ssh localhost). In all cases, the logs of the server I am attempting to log in to say: "Did not receive

Re: 1.5.21: ssh client failure

2006-08-01 Thread mwoehlke
mwoehlke wrote: Hans wrote: My cygwin ssh client (OpenSSH 4.3p2) has a problem: it does not send the ID string to the sshd server. I have attempted to log in to two remote servers, and also to localhost ($ ssh localhost). In all cases, the logs of the server I am attempting to log in to say

Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links

2006-08-03 Thread mwoehlke
Adam Wolbach wrote: I'm a new subscriber looking to get some information relevant to the Coda File System development at Carnegie Mellon University, which uses cygwin as a platform to run on Windows 2000/WinXP. We rely heavily on symbolic links for a number of different features, most significa

Re: installer: select packages: text background color

2006-08-07 Thread mwoehlke
Daniel Convissor wrote: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 06:46:52PM +, Eric Blake wrote: This bug was also reported about a year ago, and fixed about a year ago. Great, thanks. See http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/ for a snapshot with the fix incorporated, and then join the crusade to get the sn

Re: installer: select packages: text background color

2006-08-07 Thread mwoehlke
Igor Peshansky wrote: On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: Daniel Convissor wrote: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 06:46:52PM +, Eric Blake wrote: This bug was also reported about a year ago, and fixed about a year ago. Great, thanks. [snip] However, be aware that the most recent build I&#x

Re: Linux to Windows Rsync Permission Problems

2006-08-07 Thread mwoehlke
Jimmy McMillan wrote: I've had this problem for some time now, and just getting around to doing something about it. I'll keep the description as brief as possible. I'm rsyncing from a linux server to a Windows XP machine's firewire drive via SSH\cygwin\rsync. The linux server pushs with the

Re: Linux to Windows Rsync Permission Problems

2006-08-07 Thread mwoehlke
(ugh, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU... no fake meat for me, please!) Jimmy McMillan wrote: mwoehlke wrote: Jimmy McMillan wrote: I've had this problem for some time now, and just getting around to doing something about it. I'll keep the description as brief as possible. I&

Re: Fw: GCC - 64bit long long type, support in lib

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
Note: not all of us like Asian food (http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU). Also, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. fred wrote: The gcc supports 64bit int it seems, but the library as downloaded does not, for example try long long ldec = 0x110LL; printf("%s: 0x%Lx,%Ld; %s\n","tes

Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more "normal" (man1 pages, for instance)

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
mwoehlke wrote: I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more "nor

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
mwoehlke wrote: mwoehlke wrote: I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in troff format. I do note that other manpages seem

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that goes to cygwin.patches? No, that would be appropriate only if the man page was found in the winsup hierarchy. The first line of printf(3) says

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
infoterror wrote: Under windows, programs are installed by default in "C:\Program Files." cygwin's preferred "c:\cygwin" is foolish and makes an unnecessary mess of installations. Cygwin's "c:\cygwin" contains AN ENTIRE (virtual) FILESYSTEM. I don't know about you, but *I* sure don't want that

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: mwoehlke wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that goes to cygwin.patches? No, that would be appropriate only if the man page was found in the winsup

Re: Ansi escape sequences showing in Man pages

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
No http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU please, and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR... thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, jbonnett wrote: I am having a problem where escape sequences, rather than colour highlighting, appear when I display man page

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-10 Thread mwoehlke
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On 8/9/06, mwoehlke wrote: I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in troff format. I do note

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-10 Thread mwoehlke
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On 8/10/06, mwoehlke wrote: Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > Yes, it's sort-of my fault. I just have a Perl script that chunks the > newlib libc.info files into faux man pages. Ah, ok, makes sense. Too bad newlib doesn't have proper manpages, in tha

Re: Rsync over ssh (pulling from Cygwin to Linux) stalls..

2006-08-14 Thread mwoehlke
Darryl Miles wrote: I do have questions, they may seem daft, but this issue is legal thing so the finer points are important: [snip] I'd be happy to put the bugfixes for this particular problem in the public domain, thus confirming my original legal entitlement to copyright and waivering that

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-14 Thread mwoehlke
William A. Hoffman wrote: At 04:16 PM 8/14/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm not 100% clear on what you're saying but if cmake distributed with Cygwin is producing makefiles with MS-DOS SYNTAX then, actually it should either be fixed to not do that or it should be pulled from the distribution.

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
William A. Hoffman wrote: At 10:40 PM 8/14/2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: - The other option is to use mingw-make, and only use cygwin make for cygwin linked programs only. Incorrect. If you use Cygwin make, it's very easy to invoke Windows programs by converting their arguments with "cygpath -w"

Re: Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
Chuck wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Chuck wrote: My winXP ID was recently moved from one domain to another. Now when I log in to cygwin, I don't have permissions to access some of my own files - like my ssh id_rsa file for example. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this? Also, th

Re: openmotif, .rdata, shared libs and runtime linking/loading problem

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
Avi Cohen Stuart wrote: [snip] gdb reports the following: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [snip] The address it is trying to write to appears to be a read only address in the attempt to resolve some adresses and updating pointers it crashes. I've no idea why openmotif/wha

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-15 Thread mwoehlke
John W. Eaton wrote: On 15-Aug-2006, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: Clearly, developers make a huge contribution, nobody is denying this, but to suggest that *only* developers contribute and everybody else should therefore just shut up I never said everyone else should "just shut up". My point wa

Re: group"S-1-2-0"(users who login locally)in ssh;windows 2003

2006-08-16 Thread mwoehlke
Tom Rodman wrote: Hosts effected: several boxes running windows 2003 server w/cygwin (1.5.20s(0.155/4/2) 20060403 13:33:45) Problem (or feature?): when you ssh to these boxes, and run: $WINDIR/system32/whoami /all |grep -q S-1-2-0 || echo OOPs # "OOPS" echos :-< "S-1-2-0" ==

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-16 Thread mwoehlke
Igor Peshansky wrote: Alternatively, you can try to implement a $(cygpath ...) function in make and submit *that* to the upstream maintainers. That way, the Cygwin make will not have to invoke a separate process to convert the paths that it (as a program linked to cygwin1.dll) already knows how

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-16 Thread mwoehlke
Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: Alternatively, you can try to implement a $(cygpath ...) function in make and submit *that* to the upstream maintainers. That way, the Cygwin make will not have to invoke a separate process to convert the paths

Re: Start up Script Question

2006-08-17 Thread mwoehlke
Rich Mayo wrote: What script (or scripts) adds Cygwin directories to the existing environment variables? I use xterm under the Cygwin X Server as my user environment and I'm not happy with the way my INCLUDE, LIB, and PATH variables are laid out. 'man bash' -- Matthew Websites such as ... Wik

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-17 Thread mwoehlke
Olivier Langlois wrote: Just for the records: My design goals for Cygwin are that it works fine as a POSIX environment, not that it works fine to run DOS tools. That's a nice side-effect at best. It seems to me that Cygwin design goals have changed recently otherwise if offering a POSIX enviro

Re: cygwin running from ext. USB HD

2006-08-17 Thread mwoehlke
Dirk Schleicher wrote: Hello there, it is possible to install cygwin on a external USB-hd? I think yes. I use W2k and want to store my mails from Sylpheed claws there. Or install cygwin normal and store the whole mails at the USB HD. To do this I have to mount the USB HD to cygwin. How to do thi

Re: group"S-1-2-0"(users who login locally)in ssh;windows 2003

2006-08-18 Thread mwoehlke
Tom Rodman wrote: Yes I see the local group "S-1-2-0", but when I ssh'd in, I typed the password in for this session and so I expect "whoami /all" to return the username that goes with the password - more importantly I need the credentials to write to the network shares, that I normally get when

Re: Send command and parameters into cygwin.bat

2006-08-18 Thread mwoehlke
mocs wrote: Ive would like to edit my cygwin.bat so a command into "cygwin" starts automatically with a document and some parameters, how should i write? 'man bash' -- Matthew KATE: Awesome Text Editor -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Looking for mkdirhier !

2006-08-22 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 22 August 2006 07:50, Guillaume MARTIN wrote: How could I install mkdir in cygwin ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp> alias mkdirhier='mkdir -p' ...but you would have to set that alias in whatever this script is... Better: $ cat > /bin/mkdirhier : mkdir -p "$@" ^D $ chmod +x /bi

Re: Usage Of Cron and AT commands

2006-08-22 Thread mwoehlke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (again): Hi CygWinners, I would like to know the syntax of crontab, cron and at commands for its use in task scheduling. [snip] Please read the replies to your first post instead of posting again. And please lose the obnoxiously long signature and unenforceable d

Re: Looking for mkdirhier !

2006-08-22 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 22 August 2006 16:57, mwoehlke wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 22 August 2006 07:50, Guillaume MARTIN wrote: How could I install mkdir in cygwin ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp> alias mkdirhier='mkdir -p' ...but you would have to set that alias in whatever this script

Re: coreutils 5.97; mkdir -p; mkdir: cannot create directory `name': File exists

2006-08-22 Thread mwoehlke
Rolf Campbell wrote: I believe there is a race-condition in "mkdir -p". Specifically, if the directory does not exist *yet* when stat is called on line #98 of "coreutils-5.97/lib/mkdir-p.c", but the directory *does* exist by the time line #190 of the same file calls mkdir(), then the program w

Re: Usage Of Cron and AT commands

2006-08-23 Thread mwoehlke
Ugh, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - reformatted (but the .sig looks better, thanks!) Also, PCYMTNQREAIYR (although the cruddy line wrapping just barely saved mine from being quoted raw). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mwoehlke wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (again): Hi CygWinners, I would

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread mwoehlke
John Salerno wrote: Hi everyone. I just installed cygwin on WinXP and I'm wondering if there is a way to copy and paste in the command prompt, like in Linux? I figured the cygwin terminal would look and act more like the bash shell, but so far it doesn't for me. Does this mean I'm still using a

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-23 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Hanchrow wrote: "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 Cygwi

Re: no message or dialog when a DLL is missing

2006-08-23 Thread mwoehlke
Pierre Baillargeon wrote: Problem: when running a program from bash and the program requires a DLL that is missing (or lacks a particular function), I do not get any error message nor dialog box. Only a exit status of 128. Can I change this behavior? What I expected is a dialog would pop-up s

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread mwoehlke
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: mwoehlke Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what it's like. It's awesome, if you're still using the DOS box change over immediately. Believe

Re: FW: Issue using regtool on a 64-bit Windows host

2006-08-24 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Fay wrote: I am writing a PERL script to verify registry entries on a 64-bit Windows R2 system. It appears that when doing the regtool command "regtool list /HKLM/SOFTWARE/..." regtool is actually looking at "/HKLM/Software/Wow6432Node/...". I am unable to get the registry info for

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

2006-08-24 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Hanchrow wrote: "mwoehlke" == mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Please configure your e-mail program to omit this obnoxious header that includes the spam-invitation of quoting raw e-mail addresses (see also PCYMTNQREAIYR). All those '>'s confuse

Re: POSIX names for drive letters

2006-08-25 Thread mwoehlke
Schwarz, Konrad wrote: Hi, I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin file-system name space. The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps `//./C/'). The reasons for this mappin

Why is $DISPLAY wrong? (was: copying and pasting in the terminal window?)

2006-08-28 Thread mwoehlke
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Oh, and... "rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0" I think you have either installed the wrong one or have DISPLAY set wrong. Of course $DISPLAY is set wrong. /etc/prodile.d/qt3.3.sh sets it unconditionally to 127.0.0.1:0, which also breaks 'ssh -X'. Anyone know *wh

Re: Why is $DISPLAY wrong?

2006-08-28 Thread mwoehlke
Igor Peshansky wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Oh, and... "rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0" I think you have either installed the wrong one or have DISPLAY set wrong. Of course $DISPLAY is set wrong. /etc/prodile.d/qt3.3.sh sets it

Re: Why is $DISPLAY wrong?

2006-08-28 Thread mwoehlke
mwoehlke wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Oh, and... "rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0" I think you have either installed the wrong one or have DISPLAY set wrong. Of course $DISPLAY is set wrong. /etc/prodile.d/q

Re: no message or dialog when a DLL is missing

2006-08-28 Thread mwoehlke
Shankar Unni wrote: Pierre Baillargeon wrote: Thanks for the information. I will not submit a patch because I suspect the current behavior is prefered by the majority: having a dialog pop-up in the middle of scripts is much more catastrophic is most case than having a return code, for unatten

Re: Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-29 Thread mwoehlke
Grant Miller wrote: I just rebooted one of the Windows systems and tried to SSH in to a now clean system (nobody else logged in since booting) with ssh keys and a script in my .bash_profile to attach to a drive letter and I got the same error (System error 85 has occurred). I also changed the dr

Re: Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-29 Thread mwoehlke
Grant Miller wrote: On 8/29/06, mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Grant Miller wrote: I just rebooted one of the Windows systems and tried to SSH in to a now clean system (nobody else logged in since booting) with ssh keys and a script in my .bash_profile to attach to a drive letter

Re: Unable to automatically map a drive letter at login

2006-08-30 Thread mwoehlke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 29 16:25, mwoehlke wrote: Ok, because I've noticed that the 32-bit 'net.exe' on 64-bit systems seems to be Just Plain Broken. Sorry that wasn't it... :-) Really? It works for me, at least for the `net use' case... Honest. On my 64-

Re: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters

2006-08-30 Thread mwoehlke
Schwarz, Konrad wrote: Also, someone called Interix a POS, which I can't find on http://cygwin.com/acronyms, but I guess is derogatory (I originally though "POsix Simulation" or something, to tell the truth). Is there a list of reasons of the drawbacks of Interix somewhere? Um, yeah, that woul

Re: Color Schemes

2006-08-30 Thread mwoehlke
Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote: Noobie cygwin alert! Hopefully this isn't too verbose... Well, I stopped reading about halfway through... I like color-coding of ls and vim and man and all that. But I can't handle the default color scheme. My eyes are too old. So I changed the colors in c

Re: Color Schemes

2006-08-30 Thread mwoehlke
Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote: I'm starting cygwin from the Start menu that cygwin installed, which windows 'properties' show as mapped to: C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat I used the 'Properties' in that window to get the scheme I wanted, and applied to the thingie that launched this shell. I've als

Re: Color Schemes

2006-08-30 Thread mwoehlke
Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dave Korn Sent: Wed 8/30/2006 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPAM] RE: Color Schemes [snip] Eek! Please, PLEASE http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR, especially if it's dropping the

Re: Color Schemes

2006-08-30 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 30 August 2006 23:02, mwoehlke wrote: Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote: Noobie cygwin alert! Hopefully this isn't too verbose... Well, I stopped reading about halfway through... Just a moment too soon, alas. I like color-coding of ls and vim and man and all

Re: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script

2006-08-31 Thread mwoehlke
CARTER Alan wrote: In any case, it's pretty weird that bash randomly fails to spawn child processes! It wreaks havoc on a number of my scripts. Thought: Silent failure to spawn used to happen on some UNIX boxen when the process table was full (or one slot remained and user != root). Might some

Re: Color Schemes

2006-08-31 Thread mwoehlke
(Still can't decide if I should TITTTL this...) Dave Korn wrote: AFAIUI, the mapping of escape codes to which visual colours they mean is utterly fixed by ANSI, and it is, as you say, the termulator's job to display the correct visual colour. We could attempt in cygwin's console-handling code

Re: Color Schemes

2006-08-31 Thread mwoehlke
George wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:44:51AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: Dave Korn wrote: AFAIUI, the mapping of escape codes to which visual colours they mean is utterly fixed by ANSI, and it is, as you say, the termulator's job to display the correct visual colour. We could attem

Re: Color Schemes

2006-08-31 Thread mwoehlke
Aha! Clicking on the icons and spinning the number wheels is NOT the same thing at all! :-( Right. The real issue I'm having as the naive user is the colors dialog GUI human interface. ...and for the record, I hate that UI. :-) It isn't very well designed IMO. [snip] As I understand it, t

Re: 1.5.21: fork in find/ls failing, simple test case

2006-08-31 Thread mwoehlke
John Hartman wrote: Okay, when I stopped the 'Logitech Process Monitor' service the problem goes away. Thanks for the quick diagnosis. [snip] Can you tell me what the root cause is? Logitech's drivers suck? :-) You might want to search the archives for 'logitech', just to see what other pr

Re: Color Schemes

2006-09-01 Thread mwoehlke
George wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:59:09PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: George wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:44:51AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: Dave Korn wrote: [...] and I am not aware of any way to examine the terminal's "palette", nor should you need to. If a user wants

Re: nfs in client mode (winxp => linux)

2006-09-01 Thread mwoehlke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see lots of past messages here about setting up NFS in server mode, but very little in the other direction. Going far enough back there was quite a long thread about SFU (Services for unix) but I haven't been able to get that NFS client to work. In fact I can't even r

Re: cygwin fork()

2006-09-01 Thread mwoehlke
Brian Dessent wrote: "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: AFAIK, Cygwin's lseek should handle seeking on text streams. DJ implemented that years ago. Last I looked, which was admittedly also years ago, it was "#if 0"'ed out, with a comment to the effect of "Nobody has any business seeking around in text

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7

2006-09-11 Thread mwoehlke
I can gauge from mailing list traffic that it is safe to promote to current. When starting the experimental version with "c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -l". I get: mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/mwoehlke\r': No such file or directory Copying skeleton files. These files are

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7

2006-09-11 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 01:04:30PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: Eric Blake wrote: NOTICE: === This version removes several outdated #defines that were once necessary in older versions of cygwin, but which made bash on cygwin different and slower than bash on Linux. In

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7

2006-09-11 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Blake wrote: mwoehlke tibco.com> writes: So $HOME is being set wrong. "echo $HOME | od -c" gives " / h o m e / m w o e h l k e \r \n". "echo %HOME%" from a fresh cmd.exe gives "C:/Documents and Settings/mwoehlke". I

Re: Mount does not show Samba files

2006-09-12 Thread mwoehlke
Arun Biyani wrote: [download$:575] ls //goddard/y ls: //goddard/y: No such file or directory [download$:576] ls //goddard/abiyani ls: //goddard/abiyani: No such file or directory [download$:577] Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: what does 'ls /cygdrive/y' say? You didn't answer this, and it may be

Re: bash-3.1-7 BUG

2006-09-13 Thread mwoehlke
Shankar Unni wrote: Eric Blake wrote: But I intend that on binary files, \r\n line endings will treat the \r as part of the line, so at least binary mounts won't suffer from the speed impact of treating a file as unseekable the way bash 3.1-6 does. Would it be possible to do this dynamically

Re: Setup of cygwin unsuccessful

2006-09-13 Thread mwoehlke
Michael Pusch pasted cygcheck output... Dave Korn wrote: Give that a go and send your cygcheck results as an attachment. In the future, please remember to *attach*, not paste. :-) -- Matthew 80% of all statistics are made up on the spot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsub

Re: bash-3.1-7 BUG

2006-09-13 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Blake wrote: mwoehlke tibco.com> writes: Would it be possible to do this dynamically (instead of keying off of mounts, etc.): if the first line of the file read by bash has a \r\n, use text-mode (1-char-at-a-time) semantics, else use binary semantics (lseek)? I hate to say this,

Re: bash-3.1-7 bug

2006-09-14 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 06:09:03PM -0700, Volker Quetschke wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:46:28PM -0700, Volker Quetschke wrote: (snip) Do I have to make the observation again that whether this is the case or not, it is not a primary goal

Re: MINGW GCC WIN64 port?

2006-09-18 Thread mwoehlke
William Deegan wrote: This may be a little off topic, but I beleive there's enough of an audience here to make it worthwhile. One of my clients is interested in getting MINGW working on win64. We're considering engaging codesourcery to do the work. Anyone out there interested/able to co-funding

Re: MINGW GCC WIN64 port?

2006-09-18 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:26:31PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: William Deegan wrote: This may be a little off topic, but I beleive there's enough of an audience here to make it worthwhile. One of my clients is interested in getting MINGW working on win64.

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 18 September 2006 19:37, Francis Rossi wrote: As would mounting and/or deleting a separate Windows partition, no? No, because the virtual Cygwin partition would be one Windows file. One file is much easier to delete than the whole C: drive, isn't it? Two words: Quick Fo

Re: Bash problem - v3.1.17(8) - syntax error

2006-09-26 Thread mwoehlke
Arun Biyani wrote: I just upgraded to the current bash. Now I am getting an error. I reinstalled, rebooted the machine. Still get the same error. The variable $HOME is set correctly. > bash: /c/home/abiyani/.bash_login: line 7: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~

Re: make 3.81-1 problems with DOS-paths

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Knut Schwichtenberg wrote: I've udated on 14.Sep.06 my Cygwin make to 3.81-1. The C-project I was compiling generated dependency files including system files. For system files the full path in DOS notation is entered into the dependency file. Make stops the execution of the makefile with the "

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Malcolm Nixon wrote: I recently updated to Bash 3.1.17(8) and found my local build system failing due to the removal of CR/LF support: "A script on a binary mount that uses \r\n line endings will probably encounter syntax errors or odd variable assignments, because the \r is treated literally. I

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Jonathan Arnold wrote: Malcolm Nixon wrote: Unfortunately simply running "d2u" isn't a solution because: * Some revision control systems make the files read-only. I would venture to guess that *all* sccs make a file read-only. I know svn doesn't... rcs's that have a concept of "edit" usua

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 27 September 2006 20:42, Malcolm Nixon wrote: In my opinion a better solution would have been to err on the side of compatibility and only use the new fast readline code if manually enabled. Then according to your opinion, everyone else in the world has to suffer from cri

Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Larry Breyer wrote: What changed from bash 3.1.17 to 3.1.18 ? Did you bother reading the ANNOUNCEMENT? I blindly performed a cygwin update, rebooted, and attempted startx. X came up OK but the terminals would not respond to keyboard input. Looking at the output of startx it became apparent so

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Malcolm Nixon wrote: So why isn't using a textmode mount a solution? Packages generally contain the sources, build scripts, tools binaries, etc in a single directory tree. For example a ./configure script located in the package root directory along side other project files. As such placing just

Re: reading directory .: No such file or directory

2006-09-28 Thread mwoehlke
Lee Maschmeyer wrote: I've never had ls say it can't read ., but I do remember having path completion problems. I think that's why I use symbolic links instead of mount for drives; something like: cd / ln -s /cygdrive/c etc. Then I just cd /c and seldom have to use /cygdrive at all. I'm sure

Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Blake wrote: According to Eric Blake on 9/27/2006 7:02 PM: change the script to ignore whitespace (make the first non-comment line set IFS appropriately, as in this snippet: IFS=' '''' ' I retract this third suggestion. On investigation of the bash source, bash still treats \r as

Re: sqlplus and end-of-line problem in shell script code

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Thomas Porschberg wrote: Hi, I want to use our shell script collection which includes sqlplus calls under Cygwin. I have the following problem with this code snippet: #!/bin/bash RESULT=`sqlplus -s myuser/[EMAIL PROTECTED] < Um, if by "the code" you meant the above script, then no. Otherwise i

Re: cygwin detection

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Kenneth Nellis wrote: Couldn't find anything relevant in the archives or the documentation... I have bash scripts that I want to run identically under Cygwin and Linux, which sometimes require the scripts to detect the environment and branch accordingly. There are numerous ways to do Cygwin de

Re: New windows from cygwin in ssh

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Pavel Ivanoff wrote: The sshd service is running under my account. I go to Linux (via ssh). Then run ssh there, login onto my computer under my account, try to run any desktop program and it doesn't show any windows. My friend on another computer does all the same but with his account and his com

Re: New windows from cygwin in ssh

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Pavel Ivanoff wrote: Pavel Ivanoff wrote: The sshd service is running under my account. I go to Linux (via ssh). Then run ssh there, login onto my computer under my account, try to run any desktop program and it doesn't show any windows. My friend on another computer does all the same but wi

Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Wilks, Dan wrote: So we just got the short-end? A long(?) standing behavior of cygwin and DOS paths and a recent change to bash that eliminates support for \r's. I guess we were living on the edge of something that wasn't supposed to work at all and didn't even know it. :/ We'll try to figu

Re: updated bash to latest 3.1.17(8)-release; startup has errors now

2006-10-02 Thread mwoehlke
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: As I often do after an absence, I ran setup.exe on my system and updated my cygwin installation. After doing this, I get some wacky errors when I try to run a bash shell (double-clicking the cygwin icon). I don't know why I'm wasting my breath; no one that needs to re

Re: updated bash to latest 3.1.17(8)-release; startup has errors now

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: This google search was pretty much worthless when I ran it before I sent my message in: bash "command not found" site:cygwin.com inurl:ml If you've STFLA'd, it is good to mention this when asking your question. :-) vi did not show any unusual line endings (CR/LF) in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.1-9

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Blake wrote: Second, this release adds a new shopt, igncr, which dynamically tells bash to ignore all \r in the input file when it is set; however, it defaults to unset. So, I keep wanting to know if you are thinking about submitting this upstream (or have you done so already?)... -- Ma

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.1-9

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:28:13PM +, Eric Blake wrote: mwoehlke writes: Eric Blake wrote: Second, this release adds a new shopt, igncr, which dynamically tells bash to ignore all \r in the input file when it is set; however, it defaults to unset. So, I keep

Re: gcc build problem - make vpath

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
Michael Eager wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 03 October 2006 03:10, Michael Eager wrote: It looks like make is not recognizing VPATH correctly. I'm using make-3.80-1. This is unlikely. Gcc is known to build on cygwin. I do it all the time and it has no problem for me. Perhaps something else is

Re: gcc build problem - make vpath

2006-10-03 Thread mwoehlke
Michael Eager wrote: [snip] Building gcc using the mozilla version of make-3.80 fails as previously described. I assumed that this version of make was the same as the one which I previously installed. Apparently, it isn't or there is some other incompatibility. Sounds like that might be a MinG

Re: bash scripts fail with bash3.1-8

2006-10-04 Thread mwoehlke
Thomas Porschberg wrote: Am Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:02:29 +0100 schrieb "Dave Korn" : On 03 October 2006 16:43, Turly O'Connor wrote: By way of an example as to what broke, note that in the following that "cleartool" is not a cygwin tool (it's a Windows executable), writing its CRLF-terminated outp

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