Re: pipe data form windows program to cygwin program

2004-10-27 Thread bertrand marquis
Le mer 27/10/2004 Ã 21:37, Bob Byrnes a Ãcrit : > > I'm writing a program which need to send data to a cygwin program using > > a pipe on the stdin (actually data to compress using gzip). > > > > All is working well but at the end of the program when i close the pipe > > it seems that gzip doesn't

Re: Revised precompiled header support on cygwin

2004-10-27 Thread Earl Chew
Christopher Faylor wrote: What do you suggest? If you have a patch that's ready to go, I'll review it. If it isn't ready to go then there's not anything for me to do as far as I can tell. If you're asking me to work on it, then that is something I don't have time to do. Chris, I'm asking whether I

Re: Avail for test: libtool-devel-1.9f_20041024-1, libltdl6-1.9f_20041024-1

2004-10-27 Thread Charles Wilson
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: "make install-strip" on a shared library strips the import lib, not the dll which was what I was hoping for. Not a show-stopper I suppose... Yes, this is a showstopper! Import libraries may be broken after stripping. I'm going out of town for a few days, so in the words of

RE: sync(2)

2004-10-27 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> sync() should flush all open or cached file data and > metadata. and volume master blocks. > Not according to POSIX: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/sync.html "The sync() function causes all information in memory that updates file systems to be scheduled for writing out to al

Re: Revised precompiled header support on cygwin

2004-10-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 04:00:08PM -0700, Earl Chew wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I don't understand what you are implying. Is this patch ready to go >>or does it need more work? > >Please refer to my reply to your previous response: > >http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-10/msg01996.html

Re: How to install a individual package

2004-10-27 Thread Yin Ming
But, the version of vim package is too new, it's 6.3-1, but my cygwin is only 1.9.10-1 ( the version of cygwin package ). Must I update the whole. And, from my home, it's very slow to download packages via setup.exe, is there a fast http/ftp url to download the whole package ? On Thu, 28 Oct 200

Re: How to install a individual package

2004-10-27 Thread Yin Ming
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:52:54 -0400 (EDT) Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Yin Ming wrote: > > > HI, all > > > > Greeting to all mates. This is my first time here. > > > > I installed from a local downloaded directory. (Since I cannot access > > Internet in my o

Problem with pthead.h - child's thread ending, causes main program to exit

2004-10-27 Thread jdeifik
I have a somewhat complex program that I rewrote to use pthreads. It uses threads in a very simple fashion. Though I don't have much experience with pthreads, the program works fine using mandrake 10.0 linux. Using cygwin and windows xp sp2, when one thread reaches the end of execution, the entire

Re: Revised precompiled header support on cygwin

2004-10-27 Thread Earl Chew
Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't understand what you are implying. Is this patch ready to go or does it need more work? Chris, Please refer to my reply to your previous response: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-10/msg01996.html What do you suggest? Earl -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Chuck McDevitt
The test case I originally sent in to demonstrate the problem was using pdksh, not bash, so the problem isn't isolated to bash P.s. Sorry about the top post -- Lotus notes seems to force it to be that way. Brian Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/27/2004 05:11 PM Pleas

Re: windows specific code

2004-10-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:20:55PM +0100, Colin JN Breame wrote: >Where does the windows specific code live for libc? > >e.g. > >newlib/libc/stdio/fopen.c: fopen calls _open_r >newlib/libc/reent/openr.c: _open_r calls _open > >where does _open live? egrep -w _open on the cygwin (not newlib) sou

Re: windows specific code

2004-10-27 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Colin JN Breame wrote: > Where does the windows specific code live for libc? > > e.g. > > newlib/libc/stdio/fopen.c: fopen calls _open_r > newlib/libc/reent/openr.c: _open_r calls _open > > where does _open live? winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Sof

windows specific code

2004-10-27 Thread Colin JN Breame
Where does the windows specific code live for libc? e.g. newlib/libc/stdio/fopen.c: fopen calls _open_r newlib/libc/reent/openr.c: _open_r calls _open where does _open live? Colin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

Filename limits

2004-10-27 Thread Colin JN Breame
As I understand, relative paths in windows suffer from a 255 character limit (or something like that). However, I have heard rumour that absolute paths in windows are limited to 32k characters. Would it not solve the problem of the "File name too long" errors if paths were first converted to

Re: Setup.exe hangs forever...

2004-10-27 Thread Gabriel
Even more details: I noticed that if I install Cygwin with the default packages everything works fine. But if I do an installation of Cygwin, from scratch (new system, new Windows XP SP2) and try to install _everything_ by clicking on "Default" and changing it to "Install" then setup.exe hangs

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: clamav-0.80-2

2004-10-27 Thread Reini Urban
I have updated the version of clamav on cygwin.com to 0.80-2. This fixes only a minor problem with the patch in the src package, as reported here: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg01222.html The binary package is effectively the same. Note: There seem to be some bugs with clamd, wh

Re: Status of nl_langinfo and CODESET

2004-10-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:10:10PM +0100, Colin JN Breame wrote: >I've been investigating the dreaded "Can't recode string" error in >subversion. This error occurs when a string contains characters that >cannot be converted into the equivalent characters in the users locale. > >It seems that nl_

Re: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Pablo Ruiz Garcia wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Brian Ford" > To: "Pablo Ruiz Garcia" > Cc: I'm sure you don't care, but... http://cygwin.com/acronyms/index.html#PCYMTNQREAIYR > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:47 PM > Subject: Re: HyperThreading > >

Re: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Pablo Ruiz Garcia
- Original Message - From: "Brian Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pablo Ruiz Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:47 PM Subject: Re: HyperThreading On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Pablo Ruiz Garcia wrote: Well I found a minor workaround.. set Affini

Status of nl_langinfo and CODESET

2004-10-27 Thread Colin JN Breame
I've been investigating the dreaded "Can't recode string" error in subversion. This error occurs when a string contains characters that cannot be converted into the equivalent characters in the users locale. It seems that nl_langinfo always returns US-ASCII (at least on my system), even if LC_

Re: pipe data form windows program to cygwin program

2004-10-27 Thread Bob Byrnes
> I'm writing a program which need to send data to a cygwin program using > a pipe on the stdin (actually data to compress using gzip). > > All is working well but at the end of the program when i close the pipe > it seems that gzip doesn't see that the pipe has been closed and so it > stay open.

Re: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Pablo Ruiz Garcia wrote: > Well I found a minor workaround.. set Affinity of proccess to only use > one CPU (Thread). Threads and CPUs are not remotely the same things, so I don't know why you have that in parenthesis. But, I guess it's nice to know that you found a workarou

Re: Problems with 'emacs -nw'

2004-10-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, kynn wrote: > I just installed Cygwin on my desktop. Everything works OK, except > 'emacs -nw'. > > If I invoke Emacs in a Cygwin terminal as 'emacs -nw', the backspace > key behaves like C-h, i.e. the prefix for Emacs' help commands (C-h > still behaves like C-h). More biza

Re: How to install a individual package

2004-10-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Yin Ming wrote: > HI, all > > Greeting to all mates. This is my first time here. > > I installed from a local downloaded directory. (Since I cannot access > Internet in my office), and after installed that, I found I missed vim > and w32api, these two tar.gz file were broken.

sync(2)

2004-10-27 Thread Reini Urban
Is anybody aware of any cygwin app (supported or not) which uses/needs the sync() system call? I found some occasional encounters of fsync(), but luckily no sync() yet. only in some unused testsuites :) sync() should flush all open or cached file data and metadata. and volume master blocks. Th

php 5/apache2 on cygwin

2004-10-27 Thread Marek Lewczuk
Hello, I'm new on the list, so forgive me if this subject was already mentioned. My problem is related to PHP 5, which is not (officially) supported by Cygwin and PHP team doesn't support Cygwin, as a platform for use with PHP. However I really would like to use PHP on cygwin (there are a lot o

Re: Setup.exe hangs forever...

2004-10-27 Thread Gabriel
More information: Every day the hanging place changes, today it hangs while trying to install xpdf, in particular: /etc/postinstall/xpdf.sh, but this has changed over the days. Brand new installation on brand new XP systems with nothing else but SP2 and all the Windows Update patches. Any sug

Setup.exe hangs forever...

2004-10-27 Thread Gabriel
I've been having problems with setting up a fresh install of Cygwin. The setup hangs forever (more than 12 hours), I click on Cancel and nothing happens but after a while I get the following error: Cannot open log file C:\cygwin/var/log/setup.log yes, the first one is a backslack (\) and the ot

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: guile-1.6.5-1

2004-10-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Volker Zell writes: > The man page is in the wrong directory: > > /usr/share/man/man/man1/guile.1 Thanks for spotting that. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: guile-1.6.5-1

2004-10-27 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > I have updated Guile to the new upstream version 1.6.5. The man page is in the wrong directory: /usr/share/man/man/man1/guile.1 instead of /usr/share/man/man1/guile.1 > Enjoy, > Jan. Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

Do you know a 3D Graphic Accelerator Expert?

2004-10-27 Thread jorg
Dear Business Professional, You were referred you to me by an online listing about 3D graphic accelerators and I contacted you for a well-paid part-time consulting opportunity as an "Expert Witness". In behalf of my client, I am looking for people who ideally have a Ph.D. and that are inter

Re: Bug tracking services?

2004-10-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:42:11AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: >On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> I find myself wishing for a bug tracker for setup. >> >> Is there any likelyhood of sources.redhat.com provided bug-trackers in the >> future? >> >> For now, I'm contemplating throwing a quick

Re: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Pablo Ruiz Garcia
Well I found a minor workaround.. set Affinity of proccess to only use one CPU (Thread). -- Pablo Ruiz Garcia (Pci) Security Consultancy - Tiger Team Enterasys ESE/CISSP/CISA Certified Meet just your security needs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Original Message - From: "Richard Campbell" <[EMAIL

Problems with 'emacs -nw'

2004-10-27 Thread kynn
I just installed Cygwin on my desktop. Everything works OK, except 'emacs -nw'. If I invoke Emacs in a Cygwin terminal as 'emacs -nw', the backspace key behaves like C-h, i.e. the prefix for Emacs' help commands (C-h still behaves like C-h). More bizarrely, when I hit the combination C-x C-c,

Re: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

2004-10-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Schmidt Sent: 25 October 2004 22:56 Mark Paulus wrote: Have you tried using a -- to indicate end of arguments to cygstart: cygstart -- tail --version Thanks! No, I hadn't, and that works great. I still find the usa

Re: Fwd: Cygwin startup problem

2004-10-27 Thread Liang Wang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Robin, > > No such luck! By the way I did the install again and now the /tmp warning > is gone.. > But now I cannot figure out how to get to home with this "bash-2.05b$"in > the console. > Used to be that when I started Cygwin it got me to my home directory. > Now it

Re: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Pablo Ruiz Garcia wrote: > I'm having some problems with hyperthreading machines and cygwin. > > AFAIK there was some kind of problem with hyperthreading on cygwin, > do anyone know if this problems has been fixed? It'd be much more helpful if you actually tried to describe t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: check-0.9.1-1

2004-10-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
check-0.9.1-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. Check is a unit test framework for C. It features a simple interface for defining unit tests, putting little in the way of the developer. Tests are run in a separate address space, so Check can catch both assertion failures and code e

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expat-1.95.8-1

2004-10-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
expat-1.95.8-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. Expat is an XML parser library written in C. It is a stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for things the parser might find in the XML document (like start tags). Homepage: http://www.libexpat.org/ CH

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: guile-1.6.5-1

2004-10-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
I have updated Guile to the new upstream version 1.6.5. Also available, in the test distribution, is a 1.7.1 CVS snapshot. Guile CVS has, amongst other things, gmp rationals and a new garbage collector by Han-Wen, which is most helpful for development, esp. debugging. Enjoy, Jan. To update

RE: HyperThreading

2004-10-27 Thread Richard Campbell
>AFAIK there was some kind of problem with hyperthreading on cygwin, >do anyone know if this problems has been fixed? No. And they won't be fixed until someone sends a system or enough money to buy a system with to CGF. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00082.html http://www.cygwin.com

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.1.1-1

2004-10-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Roland Schwingel wrote: Hello Max... I recently encountered a cygwin specific problem with 1.1.x of subversion. If your cygwin homeaccount resides on an UNC network share the cygwin binary cannot find/create the .subversion folder there. I know. I mentioned that (admittedly in more general terms) i

pipe data form windows program to cygwin program

2004-10-27 Thread bertrand marquis
Hi, I'm writing a program which need to send data to a cygwin program using a pipe on the stdin (actually data to compress using gzip). All is working well but at the end of the program when i close the pipe it seems that gzip doesn't see that the pipe has been closed and so it stay open.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Packages: libgnomeprint22-2.8.0-1, libgnomeprintui22-2.8.0-1

2004-10-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been recently added to the Cygwin distribution: *** libgnomeprint22-2.8.0-1 *** libgnomeprintui22-2.8.0-1 These two libraries make up the GNOME Printing Architecture. PLEASE NOTE: 1) Printing from GNOME programs using th

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: gnome-keyring-0.4.0-1

2004-10-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following package has been recently added to the Cygwin distribution: *** gnome-keyring-0.4.0-1 GNOME Keyring is a system to store passwords and other sensitive data in a standardized way across all GNOME applications. A keyring stores a collect

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: exim-4.43-1

2004-10-27 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
I have updated Exim, the Mail Transfer Agent, to exim 4.43. News - This port of exim is now compiled with openldap support, as well as support for "dsearch" lookups. - For changes to exim proper, see

Re: Avail for test: libtool-devel-1.9f_20041024-1, libltdl6-1.9f_20041024-1

2004-10-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Peter wrote: > Chuck wrote: >> New alpha versions of libtool available for test. This is >> very close to what libtool-2.0 will be. Please evaluate. > "make install-strip" on a shared library strips the import > lib, not the dll which was what I was hoping for. > Not a show-stopper I suppose..

RE: Avail for test: libtool-devel-1.9f_20041024-1, libltdl6-1.9f_20041024-1

2004-10-27 Thread Peter Ekberg
Chuck wrote: > New alpha versions of libtool available for test. This is > very close to what libtool-2.0 will be. Please evaluate. "make install-strip" on a shared library strips the import lib, not the dll which was what I was hoping for. Not a show-stopper I suppose... /bin/sh ../libtool -

Re: Setup.exe: Can't download sources for older (not latest) version of port

2004-10-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Jacek Trzmiel wrote: > BUG: Files in download directory (release\subversion\): > subversion-1.0.6-1.tar.bz2 > subversion-1.1.1-1-src.tar.bz2 > > EXPECTED: Files in download directory (release\subversion\): > subversion-1.0.6-1.tar.bz2 > subversion-1.0.6-1-src.tar.bz2 I believe this is by

Setup.exe: Can't download sources for older (not latest) version of port

2004-10-27 Thread Jacek Trzmiel
setup.exe 2.427, win2ksp4+patches Steps to reproduce: 1. Start setup.exe 2. Click "Next >" 3. Select "Download from Internet" 4. Click "Next >" 5. Browse for download directory 6. Click "Next >" 7. Select "Direct Connection" 8. Click "Next >" 9. Select "ftp://ftp-stud.fht.esslingen.de"; 10. Clic

RE:my .....

2004-10-27 Thread ppaisan
Content is not scanned for virus due to error or constraint (code 65458), and is dropped. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwi

RE: Avail for test: libtool-devel-1.9f_20041024-1, libltdl6-1.9f_20041024-1

2004-10-27 Thread Peter Ekberg
Chuck wrote: > Peter Ekberg wrote: >> I have a problem with "make install" of a built executable. > In your case, you have a wrapper script -- but an empty > noninst_deplibs. One of two things is true: > > (1) your exe really truly does not depend on any uninstalled > libraries. --> so need

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.1.1-1

2004-10-27 Thread Roland Schwingel
Hello Max... I recently encountered a cygwin specific problem with 1.1.x of subversion. If your cygwin homeaccount resides on an UNC network share the cygwin binary cannot find/create the .subversion folder there. I filed an issue on that yesterday in the subversion issue tracker (#2108). I also

Re: Missing DocBook XML DTD

2004-10-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Maybe the docbook-xml42 maintainer could help us all out with this one? ~ Or Gerrit, what did you do for gtk-doc? gtk-doc requires 'OpenSP openjade perl', should it depend on docbook-x* too? At least the postinstall script to install the default cat

Re: Missing DocBook XML DTD

2004-10-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Maybe the docbook-xml42 maintainer could help us all out with this one? ~ Or Gerrit, what did you do for gtk-doc? gtk-doc requires 'OpenSP openjade perl', should it depend on docbook-x* too? At least the postinstall script to install the default catalogs should be in the do