setup-1.7: Wrong install directory

2009-06-12 Thread Georg Blaschke
Hi, When installing cygwin (1.7) on a Windows XP machine without administrator rights the root directory is ignored when extracting the cygwin packages. All packages are extracted to C:\cygwin instead. However, in the root directory specified in the respective dialog a directory structure is

Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-10

2009-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 11 11:43, Ken Brown wrote: Since no one objected to my proposal for promoting emacs-23 to current (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2009-06/msg00090.html), I've prepared new emacs packages for cygwin 1.7. I've bumped the package version to -10, following Chuck's model for

Re: Permission problems in release-2

2009-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 11 21:09, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 07:56:27PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 11/06/2009 11:04, Christopher Faylor wrote: After checking the mount man page, I found an option that can be used to control umask on a per-mount setting. I just made '002' the

Re: Permission problems in release-2

2009-06-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:25:21AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 11 21:09, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 07:56:27PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 11/06/2009 11:04, Christopher Faylor wrote: After checking the mount man page, I found an option that can be used to

Emacs FAQ patch

2009-06-12 Thread Ken Brown
The attached patch brings the emacs FAQ entry up to date for cygwin 1.7. Ken --- faq-using.xml.orig 2009-06-11 16:18:19.0 -0400 +++ faq-using.xml 2009-06-12 08:21:42.403451200 -0400 @@ -820,8 +820,14 @@ questionparaIs there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs?/para/question answer

Re: Permission problems in release-2

2009-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 12 10:10, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:25:21AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm wondering about the reason for this new permission problem. Can't we just return to the old behaviour? I AM trying to reinstate the old behavior. We had a system crash last

Re: Emacs FAQ patch

2009-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 12 11:09, Ken Brown wrote: The attached patch brings the emacs FAQ entry up to date for cygwin 1.7. Thank you! Applied. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat

Xwin does not start because CYGWIN_ROOT is wrong in startxwin.bat

2009-06-12 Thread Frédéric Bron
This bug is valid for 1.5 and 1.7: I have installed cygwin in D:\cygwin-1.5 but startxwin.bat contains SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin It should be updated to SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin-1.5 Can someone change this in the installation process? Also the Start in directory should also be D:\ or D:\cygwin-1.5

missing package dependency

2009-06-12 Thread Toralf Förster
I installed cygwin w/ X11 unde Windows XP, created a .Xdefaults file and ran $xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults which gave me an error that cpp is missed - probably a missing dependency isn't it ? Please Cc: me b/c I'm not suscribed to this list. -- MfG/Sincerely Toralf Förster pgp finger print: 7B1A

Importing and Compiling with the GSL In cygwin

2009-06-12 Thread Cameron Williams
Hi, I installed cygwin so that I could work in a computational physics group as an undergrad. As such, It would be wonderful to be able to use the GSL, which I understand is an auto-installed package and when I try import it using #include gsl/gsl_math.h #include gsl/gsl_deriv.h #include

RE: Importing and Compiling with the GSL In cygwin

2009-06-12 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Cameron Williams Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 10:45 AM I installed cygwin so that I could work in a computational physics group as an undergrad. As such, It would be wonderful to be able to use the GSL,

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog posix_ipc.cc

2009-06-12 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-06-12 09:50:06 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog posix_ipc.cc Log message: * posix_ipc.cc (check_path): Fix typo in comment. Align naming convention rules to Linux. Add

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog posix_ipc.cc

2009-06-12 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-06-12 09:52:06 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog posix_ipc.cc Log message: Improve ChangeLog entry. Fix posix_ipc.cc copyright Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog Makefile.in

2009-06-12 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-06-12 10:19:36 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog Makefile.in Log message: * Makefile.in (SUBLIBS): Add librt.a. (librt.a): New rule to build librt.a. Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog localtime.cc

2009-06-12 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-06-12 15:06:27 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog localtime.cc Log message: * localtime.cc (time2): Add workaround for spring gap problem. Add explaining comment. Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog localtime.cc

2009-06-12 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-06-12 15:08:43 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog localtime.cc Log message: * localtime.cc (time2): Change spring gap to spring forward gap in comment. Patches:

src/winsup/doc ChangeLog faq-using.xml

2009-06-12 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-06-12 15:16:27 Modified files: winsup/doc : ChangeLog faq-using.xml Log message: * faq-using.xml (faq.using.emacs): Update. Patches:

Re: [1.7.0-49] DuplicateHandle failed

2009-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 11 13:41, Andrew Schulman wrote: Every time I run ipconfig from bash, I get the following: $ ipconfig 3 [main] bash 1192! _pinfo::dup_proc_pipe: DuplicateHandle failed, pid 1192, hProcess 0x65C, wr_proc_pipe 0x704, Win32 error 5 The command then runs apparently normally, so

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 12 01:50, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: Does the function sem_open work for anyone using Cygwin 1.7.0 ? Yes. How to use semtool ? What is semtool? I wrote an example that works on Jaunty on x86-64 but not on Cygwin: http://www.izecksohn.com/pedro/c/semaphores/semaphores.tar.gz Works

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 12/06/2009 03:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Even if linking against librt.a would be necessary on Cygwin But a stub librt.a would be helpful nonetheless. It looks like most of the relevant symbols are in posix_ipc.cc, timer.cc, and times.cc, but there are other symbols defined in the

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 12 04:47, Yaakov S wrote: On 12/06/2009 03:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Even if linking against librt.a would be necessary on Cygwin But a stub librt.a would be helpful nonetheless. It looks like most of the relevant symbols are in posix_ipc.cc, timer.cc, and times.cc, but there

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 12 12:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 12 04:47, Yaakov S wrote: On 12/06/2009 03:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Even if linking against librt.a would be necessary on Cygwin But a stub librt.a would be helpful nonetheless. It looks like most of the relevant symbols are in

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 12 10:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: SUSv4 states: The name argument conforms to the construction rules for a pathname, except that the interpretation of slash characters other than the leading slash character in name is implementation-defined, [...] If name begins with the

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 12 01:50, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: Also: gcc4 does not understand the option -lrt so it must be removed. Even if linking against librt.a would be necessary on Cygwin, which it isn't, the gcc call is wrong. The libs must always follow the object files which

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 12 12:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 12 04:47, Yaakov S wrote: On 12/06/2009 03:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Even if linking against librt.a would be necessary on Cygwin But a stub librt.a would be helpful nonetheless. It looks like most of the relevant

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 12 11:51, Dave Korn wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 12 12:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 12 04:47, Yaakov S wrote: On 12/06/2009 03:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Even if linking against librt.a would be necessary on Cygwin But a stub librt.a would be helpful nonetheless.

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 12 11:51, Dave Korn wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 12 12:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 12 04:47, Yaakov S wrote: On 12/06/2009 03:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Even if linking against librt.a would be necessary on Cygwin But a stub librt.a would be

Re: Can I install cygwin from my own setup.ini?

2009-06-12 Thread Pan ruochen
Well, I was always confused in selecting/deselecting packages during setup. And I often got the information about some package is required by another in the final step. So I decided to try patching the setup source code to make the setup more easy for me (and maybe for other people). Until now

Re: Can I install cygwin from my own setup.ini?

2009-06-12 Thread Ralph Hempel
Pan ruochen wrote: Well, I was always confused in selecting/deselecting packages during setup. And I often got the information about some package is required by another in the final step. So I decided to try patching the setup source code to make the setup more easy for me (and maybe for other

ioctl(sock, SIOCGIFHWADDR, ifr) fails with 1.7

2009-06-12 Thread Frédéric Bron
I used the following program to obtain mac address and ip of network adpaters. It works fine with 1.5 but not with 1.7. Output with 1.5: sock=3 trying eth0 mac: 00.1f.3c.57.XX.XX, ip: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX trying eth1 mac: 00.1d.09.df.XX.XX, ip: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX trying eth2 mac: 08.00.27.00.XX.XX, ip:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-10

2009-06-12 Thread Ken Brown
New releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages, 23.0.92-10, are now available for those testing cygwin 1.7, leaving 21.2-13 as previous. These are essentially the same as the experimental versions that were made available a few weeks ago, but they have now been promoted to current.

Re: [1.7.0-49] DuplicateHandle failed

2009-06-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:26:25AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 11 13:41, Andrew Schulman wrote: Every time I run ipconfig from bash, I get the following: $ ipconfig 3 [main] bash 1192! _pinfo::dup_proc_pipe: DuplicateHandle failed, pid 1192, hProcess 0x65C, wr_proc_pipe

Re: Can I install cygwin from my own setup.ini?

2009-06-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 07:16:55PM +0800, Pan ruochen wrote: Well, I was always confused in selecting/deselecting packages during setup. And I often got the information about some package is required by another in the final step. So I decided to try patching the setup source code to make the setup

Re: ioctl(sock, SIOCGIFHWADDR, ifr) fails with 1.7

2009-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 12 14:30, Fr?d?ric Bron wrote: I used the following program to obtain mac address and ip of network adpaters. It works fine with 1.5 but not with 1.7. Output with 1.5: sock=3 trying eth0 mac: 00.1f.3c.57.XX.XX, ip: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX trying eth1 mac: 00.1d.09.df.XX.XX, ip:

Re: Garbage man pages

2009-06-12 Thread Bill McCormick
Bill McCormick wrote: Hello, There's something wrong with my man pager; it's producing garbage output. My ~/.bashrc has these entries: export MANPAGER='less -isrR' export PAGER='less -r' I've looked the the archives and others have other problems and solutions that are documented (ref:

Re: Garbage man pages

2009-06-12 Thread Bill McCormick
Bill McCormick wrote: Bill McCormick wrote: Hello, There's something wrong with my man pager; it's producing garbage output. My ~/.bashrc has these entries: export MANPAGER='less -isrR' export PAGER='less -r' I've looked the the archives and others have other problems and solutions that

Re: Garbage man pages

2009-06-12 Thread Bill McCormick
Bill McCormick wrote: Bill McCormick wrote: Bill McCormick wrote: Hello, There's something wrong with my man pager; it's producing garbage output. My ~/.bashrc has these entries: export MANPAGER='less -isrR' export PAGER='less -r' I've looked the the archives and others have other

Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests]

2009-06-12 Thread Thomas Wolff
IWAMURO Motonori wrote to me by private mail: I oppose your proposal because I think that it is useless for us. 2009/6/6 Thomas Wolff t...@towo.net: the intention is that the codepage information should be the same for all locales having thbe UTF-8 (or any other) charmap. So you cannot

Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests]

2009-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 12 17:38, Thomas Wolff wrote: IWAMURO Motonori wrote to me by private mail: I oppose your proposal because I think that it is useless for us. 2009/6/6 Thomas Wolff t...@towo.net: the intention is that the codepage information should be the same for all locales having thbe UTF-8

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 12/06/2009 05:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 12 12:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Certainly a good idea. I don't know if it would hurt if too many symbols could be linked against via librt.a. We could move the realtime functions from timer.cc and times.cc into its own source file. Or we

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
Corinna Vinschen read my mind. What is semtool? semtool - A utility for tinkering with semaphores USAGE: semtool (c)reate semcount (l)ock sem # (u)nlock sem # (d)elete (m)ode mode It comes in some package available

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 12 15:56, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: Corinna Vinschen read my mind. What is semtool? semtool - A utility for tinkering with semaphores USAGE: semtool (c)reate semcount (l)ock sem # (u)nlock sem # (d)elete

Re: cygwin Digest 12 Jun 2009 14:51:53 -0000 Issue 6486

2009-06-12 Thread Paul August
I believe this is for the trouble I previously reported. David, thanks for the further information. I will try to follow your steps exactly (except for a fresh installation of Windows part) and see what happens. Paul. -Inline Message Follows- What's your trouble? 2009/6/12

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
  The persistence of the semaphore also works for you?   For me, using the unpatched version, (not the CVS version), the persistence works some times only. At other times the semaphore disappears with the Control c. The semaphore is backed by a file on disk.  If you don't call sem_unlink

Re: Garbage man pages

2009-06-12 Thread Dave Korn
Bill McCormick wrote: Bill McCormick wrote: Bill McCormick wrote: Hello, There's something wrong with my man pager; it's producing garbage output. My ~/.bashrc has these entries: export MANPAGER='less -isrR' export PAGER='less -r' I've looked the the archives and others have other

Re: FW: OpenSSH server installation error on Windows Vista Business/Ultimate

2009-06-12 Thread Paul August
This message was sent with wrong subject line. So I try again. Paul I believe this is for the trouble I previously reported. David, thanks for the further information. I will try to follow your steps exactly (except for a fresh installation of Windows part) and see what happens. Paul.

RE: FW: OpenSSH server installation error on Windows Vista Business/Ultimate

2009-06-12 Thread David Christensen
Paul August wrote: David, thanks for the further information. I will try to follow your steps exactly (except for a fresh installation of Windows part) and see what happens. YW. :-) Please feel free to expand, clarify, edit, and/or otherwise improve upon the procedure and repost. For

Re: 1.7.0 sem_open

2009-06-12 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
--- I wrote:   For me, using the unpatched version, (not the CVS version), the persistence works some times only. At other times the semaphore disappears with the Control c. It is not reproducible. I'm sorry from wasting your time. -- Unsubscribe info:

[1.7] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-10

2009-06-12 Thread Ken Brown
New releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages, 23.0.92-10, are now available for those testing cygwin 1.7, leaving 21.2-13 as previous. These are essentially the same as the experimental versions that were made available a few weeks ago, but they have now been promoted to current.