Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....
Igor Peshansky writes: > I haven't looked at it in detail: does cyg-apt properly run preremove and > postinstall scripts? No. If running on Cygwin, it will run .sh scripts. > Besides, it can use the same replace-on-reboot mechanism as setup > uses -- is there a similar API for python? If it is, I'm not saying Google's magic words. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- 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/
installation location of packages
It seems to me that the cygwin packages are installed in different locations than the locations they would go if ./compile make make install are performed on the source. Is that true and if yes are there anywhere instructions where these locations are so that they can be pointed to applications depending on them, when such applications are compiled. At the moment I am trying to compile Cyrus IMAP and as it seems I have to compile from source a lot of stuff it requires because things do not seem to find the cygwin packages, though these packages are installed. Thanks, Iv -- 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: Running php scripts under cygwin
Thanks for the tips. Luckily I came back to the list after trying to build PHP with some options with no luck. I only need a static build and that installed fine. Then I had a warning about using date() and set the default timezone prior to the call in the script to get by that. Now it says mail() is an unknown function. What is this missing? Here is how I compile php 5.x under cygwin. I have these cygwin modules (may be you do not need all, just I do not know which you need) - bison, bzip2, cvs, flex, gcc, gd, grep, keychain, libtool1.5, libxml, libxml2, libxml2-devel, make, openssh, perl, readline, rsync, subversion, unzip, vim, whois, zip Get Apache 1.3.34 sources and php 5.1.1 sources. Go into Apache sources directory and do ./configure Go into php sources directory and do ./configure --with-apache=PATH_TO_APACHE_SOURCES --without-pear (--without-pear is needed - otherwise does not work) make make install make install will suggest that you add /usr/local/lib/php to your php.ini include_path. Copy the php.ini into /usr/local/lib/php.ini and edit if needed. Go back to the Apache sources directory. ./configure --activate-module=src/modules/php5/libphp5.a make make install You might need to do mv /usr/local/apache/libexec/libhttpd.dll /usr/local/apache/bin With this you will have php cli, I believe, so you can execute scripts with cron. Iv -- 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/
Cyrus IMAP
Has anybody compiled successfully Cyrus IMAP under cygwin. Thanks, Iv -- 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: installation location of packages
pobox wrote: It seems to me that the cygwin packages are installed in different locations than the locations they would go if ./compile make make install are performed on the source. Is that true No, not generally. Of course, if you're having a specific issue and want to post the details, then perhaps someone on the list can make a more specific comment or suggestion. and if yes are there anywhere instructions where these locations are so that they can be pointed to applications depending on them, when such applications are compiled. At the moment I am trying to compile Cyrus IMAP and as it seems I have to compile from source a lot of stuff it requires because things do not seem to find the cygwin packages, though these packages are installed. Did you run configure? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
Please assist with details regarding uninstalling
Hello, I have a need to uninstall cygwin completely from my system. I found the instructions to do this in the faq/Seting up cygwin/answer #14. I am writing to request more detailed information regarding instructions #1 and #2, as I am not a PC programmer and need more specific directions. Here is instruction #1 from the faq: "1. Remove all Cygwin services. If a service is currently running, it must first be stopped with cygrunsrv -E name, where name is the name of the service. Then use cygrunsrv -R name to uninstall the service from the registry. Repeat this for all services that you installed. Common services that might have been installed are sshd, cron, cygserver, inetd, apache, and so on." Here are my questions regarding step #1: A. How do I tell what services I have installed? (Basically I originally loaded everything, but then I uninstalled/re-installed picking just the default, so I believe I have the default). B. How do I tell what services are currently running? (I am running Windows XP Home. Can the program manager tell me this? If so, what specific names do I need to look for in the program manager?) B. Please confirm: "Remove all cygwin services" is the same as "uninstalling ...[each]... service from the registry". C. Are these commands simply typed into the command prompt screen? When I bring up the command prompt, a path comes up after the C drive name. I get: C:\Documents and Settings\Dan> Do I need to change this at all or just type the commands after the ">" symbol? Here is instruction #2 from the faq: "2. Stop the X11 server if it is running, and terminate any Cygwin programs that might be running in the background. Remove all mount information by typing umount -A and then exit the command prompt and ensure that no Cygwin processes remain. Note: If you want to save your mount points for a later reinstall, first save the output of mount -m as described at http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount."; Here are my questions on instuction #2: A. How do I tell if any cygwin programs are running in the background? B. After I have the answer to my question A, how do I terminate them (i.e., the Cygwin programs that are running in the background)? C. How do I tell if any cygwin processes remain after entering the umount command? Thanks in advance for your assistance! Dan -- 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: Please assist with details regarding uninstalling
Dan M wrote: Hello, I have a need to uninstall cygwin completely from my system. I found the instructions to do this in the faq/Seting up cygwin/answer #14. I am writing to request more detailed information regarding instructions #1 and #2, as I am not a PC programmer and need more specific directions. Here is instruction #1 from the faq: "1. Remove all Cygwin services. If a service is currently running, it must first be stopped with cygrunsrv -E name, where name is the name of the service. Then use cygrunsrv -R name to uninstall the service from the registry. Repeat this for all services that you installed. Common services that might have been installed are sshd, cron, cygserver, inetd, apache, and so on." Here are my questions regarding step #1: A. How do I tell what services I have installed? (Basically I originally loaded everything, but then I uninstalled/re-installed picking just the default, so I believe I have the default). 'cygrunsrv -L' will tell you. B. How do I tell what services are currently running? (I am running Windows XP Home. Can the program manager tell me this? If so, what specific names do I need to look for in the program manager?) 'net start' Look for any services with names like you found from the above command. The names could vary a bit but it's still pretty obvious. B. Please confirm: "Remove all cygwin services" is the same as "uninstalling ...[each]... service from the registry". No. It's a combination of stopping all running services and then removing all the installed services. The former may be a subset of the latter. C. Are these commands simply typed into the command prompt screen? When I bring up the command prompt, a path comes up after the C drive name. I get: C:\Documents and Settings\Dan> Do I need to change this at all or just type the commands after the ">" symbol? It could be done this way but based on your previous questions, I would say you would have more luck running these from the bash prompt. You can get the bash prompt by clicking on the "Cygwin" icon on your desktop or by typing "C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat" into the prompt you note above, assuming that you installed Cygwin into the "C:\cygwin" directory. Here is instruction #2 from the faq: "2. Stop the X11 server if it is running, and terminate any Cygwin programs that might be running in the background. Remove all mount information by typing umount -A and then exit the command prompt and ensure that no Cygwin processes remain. Note: If you want to save your mount points for a later reinstall, first save the output of mount -m as described at http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount."; Here are my questions on instuction #2: A. How do I tell if any cygwin programs are running in the background? 'ps -ef' Anything that results from that which is not '/usr/bin/bash' or '/usr/bin/ps' is most likely going to be a background process. B. After I have the answer to my question A, how do I terminate them (i.e., the Cygwin programs that are running in the background)? 'kill -9 ' where is the number in the second column of the line from 'ps -ef' for the process you want to kill. C. How do I tell if any cygwin processes remain after entering the umount command? 'ps -ef' In all honesty, if you don't know whether you have a service running or not, you don't recognize any of the service names listed above, and no one else has installed and/or used Cygwin other than you, you won't have to worry about stopping or removing any Cygwin service. These have to be explicitly set-up and run by you or by invoking a configuration script to do this for you. Unless you have done this, you can skip this step. Ditto for the background processes. If you didn't start any, you don't need to look for any. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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: Please assist with details regarding uninstalling
Dan M wrote: > A. How do I tell what services I have installed? (Basically I > originally loaded everything, but then I uninstalled/re-installed > picking just the default, so I believe I have the default). Services are never automatically installed, only by action of the user -- for example by running a script such as /usr/bin/cron-config. So, if you did not manually do this you probably do not have any services to uninstall. Nevertheless, the command "cygrunsrv -L" should give you a list of all installed Cygwin services. (Note that this -L functionality of cygrunsrv did not exist at the time that the above FAQ entry was written, otherwise it would have been mentioned there.) If cygrunsrv -L does not list anything, then you probably have nothing to stop or remove. Run "cygrunsrv --help" or "man cygrunsrv" for more information on using the command. > B. How do I tell what services are currently running? (I am running > Windows XP Home. Can the program manager tell me this? If so, what > specific names do I need to look for in the program manager?) Use "cygrunsrv -Q name" to query the state of the service named "name". So for example if you installed the cron service, then running "cygrunsrv -Q cron" might include a line that says "Current State: Running". You can also determine this by looking at the list of services in the Windows control panel, but they will be hard to pick out of the long list without some prior knowledge. > B. Please confirm: "Remove all cygwin services" is the same as > "uninstalling ...[each]... service from the registry". Yes. Although the details of how the service is removed is not relevant, because cygrunsrv -R handles everything. Perhaps the FAQ should not mention the registry at all. > C. Are these commands simply typed into the command prompt screen? > When I bring up the command prompt, a path comes up after the C drive > name. I get: > > C:\Documents and Settings\Dan> > > Do I need to change this at all or just type the commands after the ">" > symbol? You should probably type these from the Cygwin bash prompt/shell, not a regular Windows command prompt, unless you have the cygwin directory added to the Windows path. > A. How do I tell if any cygwin programs are running in the background? Normally you would know this because you launched them in the background yourself, e.g. by using "&" when starting them. You can use the "ps" command to list running processes, e.g. "ps aux". Again, see the --help output or manpage for more details. > B. After I have the answer to my question A, how do I terminate them > (i.e., the Cygwin programs that are running in the background)? There are a number of ways, but again the specifics depend on the details of the programs and how they were launched. For example if you launched a program with "&" then it will show up in the output of "jobs" and you can use the %-sign notation to kill it, e.g. "kill %1". Or you can just kill them by PID. And if you try to exit from a login shell with background processes, the shell will warn you. That you are asking about this at all implies that none of this matters in your case, because people that launch background processes tend to know how to terminate them as well. Most of this verbiage in the uninstall procedure is there to account for possible things that a user might have installed or might have running. But if you haven't done any of these things then it's a no-op. > C. How do I tell if any cygwin processes remain after entering the > umount command? What the FAQ entry is trying to express is that you should kill all cygwin processes except for a single bash shell, then run umount from that shell, then close the shell (by typing ^D or "exit"). It wouldn't have made much sense if it said "kill all cygwin processes" and then "run this umount command from a shell" because running the shell itself is a cygwin process. Brian -- 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/
Perl under cygwin in CPAN problem
Was trying to load some new packages in CPAN under perl in cygwin. I noticed a problem when it asked for prereqs: It wouldn't accept "CR" to terminate the input -- only "LF". I tried reloading CPAN -- that pulled up the reconfigure dialog for some new parameters -- then I find the same problem in the config dialog where CPAN wants all of it's parameters (to create a new "~/.cpan/CPAN/Myconfig.pm"). I try typing the first param and hitting "LF" and the the configure dialogue whips by takin the defaults for all of the configure questions. At this point, I don't know if it is "cygwin", cygwin-perl or something else. I don't get the same behavior on my linux box but the installed packages are not identical. Anyone else seeing problems like this or have ideas how to find where the problem might be? thanks, Linda -- 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/
Cygwin Setup: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception
I went into setup and asked it to install from local directory. It went past the root dialog, then displayed the local pacakge directory \\server\share\software\cygwin, hit Next initializes and starts parsing ini file, then I see it parsing some package, then a popup dialog that displays read-only, uncopyable text: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception Thread: DialogProc Type: 9Exception Message: Package validation failure for file://\\server\share\software\Cygwin/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.kernel.org%2fsources.redhat.com%2fcygwin/release/X11/fontconfig/libfontconfig-devel/libfontconfig-devel-2.2.2-1.tar.bz2 AppErrNo: 1 Deleting the package brought progress, but I then get an error in the same server directory, but for another app package: X11/freetype2/libfreetype2-devel/libfreetype2-devel-2.1.5-1.tar.bz2 Is an application crash the expected behavior when package validation fails? Maybe it should mark it unusable or delete it? -- 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: Cygwin Setup: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception
Linda Walsh wrote: > Is an application crash the expected behavior when > package validation fails? Maybe it should mark it unusable > or delete it? At the moment, yes. It's a consequence of a change in the md5 checking. It just means you need to delete the package, as it has the wrong size or checksum. It's on the todo list to clean this up. Brian -- 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/
