On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:38:03PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
To the patch package maintainer - (which is?)
Looks like it's Corinna. Corinna is on vacation for a couple of weeks.
I don't know if she will be reading email or not.
Funny, but I thought she'd updated this recently.
cgf
patch
Robert Collins wrote:
2) It seems that when uninstalling (or upgrading), if the uninstalled
package leaves behing a directory that is empty, the directory is not
removed. Not a big deal, and certainly not a showstopper.
Hmm, has that behaviour changed? I'll add a TODO for it.
Actually,
Just a quick note to whoever looks after the startup .bat file:
You can use the dos %VAR% to set the /B switch or not, thereby reusing
the same commands for the nt/2000 as for 95/98.
cheers
Andrew
REM
REM Use the /B switch only when we can positively confirm that the OS
REM is Windows
Andrew,
Interesting point.
I'll look into that.
Thanks,
Harold
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew G. Wilson
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 10:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: tweak to startxwin.bat
Just a quick note
Hello,
I have a problem running KDE 2 under Cygwin
1.3.9 / XFree 4.2.0: it
says The procedure entry point XShmAttach could
not be located in the
dynamic link library libXext.dll. Really,
there's no such entry point
in that DLL. I've tried to use DLL from XFree
4.1.0 but it doesn't
dont do that Andreas!! the XFree86 4.2.0 binaries can easily be
converted into a cygwin installer package..
you need to do 2 things... create a cygwin package and create a hint
file to install it...
download the cygwin binaries
uncompress them all...
this should convert the cygwin Xfree86
setup.exe: version 2.125.2.10
WinXP
Sometimes the '.Xmodmap' file is not loaded on startup :(
Philippe Bastiani
/ Sylvain Petreolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| --- matt rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
| dont do that Andreas!! the XFree86 4.2.0 binaries
| can easily be
| converted into a cygwin installer package..
|
| if this is so easy, why don't we have now one official
| ?
| XFree86 4.2.0 is on the
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From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:44 PM
First thoughts, do a package with all required tgz's and then
do packages with the fonts not required.. docs..
Hmm what more is needed?? ;-)
Here's the easiest way to
A file, startxwin.bat used to be included with earlier versions of
cygwin-xfree. I just installed the (required) packages of cygwin-xfree
4.2, and couldn't find the file. Has it been removed? startxwin is a
convelient way of starting up X because it also starts up twm and xterm
on the same time.
The following patch allows arch's with-ftp command to run under cygwin.
Chris, any objections?
ChangeLog:
2002-03-15 Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* fhandler.h (fhandler_termios::lseek): Override lseek.
* fhandler_termios.cc (fhandler_termios::lseek): Implement this.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:15:07PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
The following patch allows arch's with-ftp command to run under cygwin.
Chris, any objections?
Nope. Please check it in.
cgf
Hello folks,
I want to poll some sockets other machines deliver data to. I have to wait a
maximum amount of time until ALL sockets should have received an arbitrary
amount of data, to put the incoming data into time slots. So I have to do
subsequent poll()s or select()s, each with a timeout of
The latest snapshot of setup.exe setup-20020317.exe seems to be free of all
the screen presentation problems that afflicted earlier versions in W98/SE.
Is its size an accident or a necessary consequence of the cure?
setup.exe218,112
setup-20020224.exe 353,792
setup-20020225.exe
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The latest snapshot of setup.exe setup-20020317.exe seems to be free of all
the screen presentation problems that afflicted earlier versions in W98/SE.
Is its size an accident or a necessary consequence of the cure?
That's an accident. Try downloading
Hello fergus,
Monday, March 18, 2002, 10:00:50 AM, you wrote:
fbun Is its size an accident or a necessary consequence of the cure?
fbun setup.exe218,112
fbun setup-20020224.exe 353,792
fbun setup-20020225.exe 354,816
fbun setup-20020315.exe 355,328
fbun setup-20020317.exe
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to version 2.53-1. Recall that this package is not the
REAL autoconf. It's a set of wrapper scripts that call
the REAL autoconf from autoconf-stable or autoconf-devel,
depending on the needs of your target. See this message
/ Robert Mark Bram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Howdy and thanks for the response!
|
| I have changed ROOTDIR so it is now C:\cygwin but I am still getting these
| problems:
BTW My rootdir isn't set to anything, try and not setting it.
| When I run Cygwin it is putting me in a home directory of
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From: Robert Mark Bram [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Andrew Markebo [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Cygwin
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Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 4:26 AM
Subject: RE: terminal is not fully functional ***Rootdir problems***
Howdy and thanks for the response!
I have changed
Hi
I'm curious, how does everyone start cygwin? I use a shortcut
C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sl 200 -fg white -bg black -geometry
110x43+0+0 -backspacekey ^H -fn 8x16 -e /bin/bash --login -i, starting in
C:\cygwin\bin (the geometry matches my screen resolution) Is there a
smarter/faster way to start
Hi again Andrew!
I have Cygwin DLL version 1.3.10 - I downloaded it only last week!
| I have changed ROOTDIR so it is now C:\cygwin but I am still getting
these
| problems:
BTW My rootdir isn't set to anything, try and not setting it.
Tried this and it had no effect!
| When I run Cygwin
[...]
| What does ncurses do?? Creative error messages? :)
ncurses is library that replaces curses, generic interface for moving
around the cursor in a text-terminal, drawing text-lines and so
on. Works on many terminal-types.
Not the problem here, well a bit of the problem could it be, ncurses
Perfect!
Some massaging in the batch file and I can keep Rose happy too..
Thank you Andrew and Oleg for your advice!
Rob
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From: Phil Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:27 PM
To: Jesper Eskilson
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duplication of effort
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:48:01AM
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From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Isn't there also entries in /etc/setup that may be needed to
be able to update later on? (of course in case we would like
to avoid full scripted re-install in case of
I have installed Cygwin as per the user guide, run startxwin.sh as instructed and got
the expected gui showing. However, I can't connect to any remote boxes because I don't
have either telnet (in /usr/bin) or ssh.
Any ideas what I might have missed during the installation?
Cheers,
/ Alyn Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I have installed Cygwin as per the user guide, run startxwin.sh as instructed and
|got the expected gui showing. However, I can't connect to any remote boxes because I
|don't have either telnet (in /usr/bin) or ssh.
|
| Any ideas what I might have
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 09:14:59PM -0500, Oleg wrote:
Hi
How can I get copying and pasting to work in rxvt like it does under X? I
want to be able to slect text with the left button and paste it with the
middle button (emulated actually: I just press both left and right buttons
at the same
Hi all!
Today I have spent a few hours debugging cygwin.bat which starts up Cygwin
and runs DOS commands.
How can I set up a starting script that will be run in Cygwin?
Thanks!
Rob
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Oleg,
Montag, 18. März 2002 15:32:41, du schriebst:
I'm curious, how does everyone start cygwin? I use a shortcut
C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sl 200 -fg white -bg black -geometry
110x43+0+0 -backspacekey ^H -fn 8x16 -e /bin/bash --login -i, starting in
C:\cygwin\bin (the geometry matches my
Lars,
Montag, 18. März 2002 15:37:33, du schriebst:
How can I get copying and pasting to work in rxvt like it does under X? I
want to be able to slect text with the left button and paste it with the
middle button (emulated actually: I just press both left and right buttons
at the same
At 09:28 AM 3/18/2002, Robert Mark Bram wrote:
Hi all!
Today I have spent a few hours debugging cygwin.bat which starts up Cygwin
and runs DOS commands.
How can I set up a starting script that will be run in Cygwin?
Thanks!
Rob
Check out documentation on bash (i.e. man bash). It describes
Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Faster: C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i , starting in C:\cygwin\bin
Smarter: No.
Smarter: ssh fred@doos. You don't need to get-up and walk over to the
windows box (not even be at same site the windows box is at). You get
to keep your favourite,
| How can I set up a starting script that will be run in Cygwin?
Eh exactly what do you want??
A starting script that will be run in cygwin, you mean you want to
doubleclick a .sh file and it will be thrown on bash?? Or??
/Andy
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:27:15PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:48:01AM +0100, Jesper Eskilson wrote:
I've been looking for this script. Come to papa! ;-)
Won't this leave out the necessary updates to the registry?
Or does mount
take care of that?
The
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 04:37:18PM +1100, Robert Mark Bram wrote:
Howdy all!
I am running Cygwin on Win2K and I have also installed Rational Rose.
When installed, Rational Rose changed my rootdir variable to this:
ROOTDIR='C:\PROGRA~1\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT'
Cygwin does not use the ROOTDIR
cURL has been updated to version 7.9.5-1.
There are a few new or updated features, as well as a whole host of
bugfixes in this version. There was no cygwin release of version 7.9.4,
due to some bugs discovered within hours of that version's release.
Complete release announcements with details
Hi Gerrit,
# Make Home work
\e[7~: beginning-of-line
# Make End work
\e[8~: end-of-line
# Make Delete work
\e[3~: delete-char
# make Insert work
\e[2~: paste-from-clipboard
is there any documentation for the key mappings ? I tried without success to
bind something to ALT+CurUp or ALT+CurDown.
Jorg,
Here's what I did: I used od -c to determine what are the actual
sequences generated by the keys I cared to map and then wrote a .inputrc
file based on that.
Here's a hint, RXVT and the Windows console do not agree fully on key
mappings (nor are the completely distinct).
Here's the
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:54:48PM +, David Starks-Browning wrote:
On Monday 11 Mar 02, Corinna Vinschen writes:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 10:18:47AM +, John Beranek wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:05:01PM +, Don Sharp wrote:
I can confirm that there
Jörg,
Montag, 18. März 2002 18:58:50, du schriebst:
Hi Gerrit,
# Make Home work
\e[7~: beginning-of-line
# Make End work
\e[8~: end-of-line
# Make Delete work
\e[3~: delete-char
# make Insert work
\e[2~: paste-from-clipboard
is there any documentation for the key mappings ? I tried without
I am hoping some people can give me ideas on how to debug a problem I am
having with rm when invoked from cygwin's make.exe, which is using sh as
its shell. Basically, when I call rm -r -f from a makefile, it gives
me errors about Permission Denied, Directory Not Empty. This is the
same error
At 01:18 PM 3/18/2002, Peter Buckley wrote:
I am hoping some people can give me ideas on how to debug a problem I am having with
rm when invoked from cygwin's make.exe, which is using sh as its shell. Basically,
when I call rm -r -f from a makefile, it gives me errors about Permission Denied,
So I'm trying to work out a way to have socket passing using
DuplicateHandle. Unfortunately I don't think that sendmsg works
correctly.
I use socketpair to create a pair of connected Unix Domain sockets. Then I
fork. Then I create a socket which I want to pass to the child. But when I
call
Windows 2000 has added service failure actions that can be taken when
a service fails. Details are available at
http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=8943 and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnw2k/html/shc.asp
I would find it helpful to be able
Hello,
Sorry to bother you, but I am trying to get cron to
work on my Windows 2000 machine.
I installed cron as instructed here:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00077.html
which was:
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
My $(id) was:
uid=500(Administrator)
Why is MAX_DELQUEUES_PENDING set only to 100? Sometimes I want to delete
more than 100 files (quite often in fact). Any good reason for this or is it
an arbitary limit? If so, could it be upped to something a bit larger
please?
It seems the current limit of 100 was chosen arbitarily by Geoffrey
At 04:22 PM 3/18/2002, Chris January wrote:
Why is MAX_DELQUEUES_PENDING set only to 100? Sometimes I want to delete
more than 100 files (quite often in fact). Any good reason for this or is it
an arbitary limit? If so, could it be upped to something a bit larger
please?
It seems the current
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:22:43PM -, Chris January wrote:
Why is MAX_DELQUEUES_PENDING set only to 100? Sometimes I want to delete
more than 100 files (quite often in fact). Any good reason for this or is it
an arbitary limit? If so, could it be upped to something a bit larger
please?
It
I have recently compiled the latest 3.1 branch (grabbed directly via cvs)
for cygwin (1.3.9) and am having problems when using anything related at
all
to input streams.
See this:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-06/msg00841.html
then try rebuilding libstdc++ with
#define
I have installed CygWin on numerous machines using teh nice setup program at
cygwin.com. Recently, however, I have installed CygWin on two machines (one
a W2K machine and the other a Win98SE machine) and when I tried to run rxvt
I got strange behavior for the prompt. If I bring up a bash shell
Hello,
Has anyone tried the above two apps on the latest cygwin? If so, how did
you get them to work?
Thanks.
Dave.
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Jon,
For whatever reason, you've managed to invoke /bin/sh (ash) instead of BASH
in the RXVT emulator context. Ash doesn't interpret the escape sequences in
the PS1 variable set up by /etc/profile to make the prompt conform to
someone's idea of utility and aesthetic merit.
I don't know why
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:34:20 -0800
Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jon,
For whatever reason, you've managed to invoke /bin/sh
(ash) instead of BASH in the RXVT emulator context. Ash
doesn't interpret the escape sequences in the PS1
variable set up by /etc/profile to make the
I get the same rxvt behavior, so I start it with `rxvt -e /bin/bash`
Oleg
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: termcap problem in RXVT?
Jon,
For whatever reason,
Howdy all!
Read the documentation.. made my .bashrc script!
Here it is so far:
function ll
{
ls -l
}
function m
{
man $1 | less
}
Any one have any other nice tricks they use in theirs?
Rob
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Cc: Cygwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 8:21 PM
Subject: RE: Start up script
Howdy all!
Read the documentation.. made my .bashrc script!
Here it is so far:
Oleg,
At 18:06 2002-03-18, Oleg wrote:
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...
are the ones I use often. No need for function BTW
You'll need functions when it's not sufficient to have the parameters to a
command simply tacked onto the end of the alias expansion.
If I recall, this is one place
I meant that there was no need for function in both of the examples given
by the previous poster. Yes, of course function has more functionality
than alias, but here, it's an overkill.
Consider
alias l='ls'
vs
function l() { /bin/ls $@; }
HTH
Oleg
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From: Randall R
I tried this #define (in the newlib bits directory - cygwin uses newlib
right?), reconfigured and recompiled gcc 3.1, but the same problem occurs -
segmentation fault on the simplest bit of code that uses cin or ifstream or
stringstream. ( cout etc. works fine by the way).
I'll repeat the code
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:20:07PM -0800, max wrote:
OK that's an inappropriate example.
Back to my original question. My cygwin is of version
1.3.10. The command dd failed because it does know
/dev/fd0.
$ dd conv=sync if=install/bin/redboot.bin of=/dev/fd0
dd: opening `/dev/fd0': No such file
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:20:07PM -0800, max wrote:
OK that's an inappropriate example.
Back to my original question. My cygwin is of
version
1.3.10. The command dd failed because it does know
/dev/fd0.
$ dd conv=sync
Hi all!
When I try man read or man diff I am told by Cygwin No manual entry for
read or No manual entry for diff.
Was there a setup option with Cygwin I didn't include in order to get all
the manuals?
Is there a way for to download them?
Thanks!
Rob
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Hmm.. I noticed some talk on a mailing list somewhere about problems with
locales... could it be to do with input streams trying to look up locale
info and getting null ptrs as a result?
I'll try compiling libstdc++-v3 with -g and -O0 and see how far I can get -
does gdb 5.1 work ok with gcc 3.1
Hi folk,
A new release of setup.exe has been made. As usual it's
accessible at http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe.
It includes the following key new features:
* New GUI that should be less prone to 'disappearing'.
* Can download from multiple mirrors - use CTRL-Click or Shift-Click in
the
I once asked along same lines and I was told that originally in GNU info was
going to be the replacement to man system... Why I am not sure but that must
have not worked out really well since half the stuff info digs up seems to
be manpages but without the eyecandy (highlighting and underline).
I tried the new SETUP.EXE. The problem is it doesn't recognize my previous
installation or rather my previous downloads! Instead it creates another
folder named according to the server it connected and download the packages
into it. Anyone can help me with this?
Thanks,
Benny Ng
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Importance: High
I tried the new SETUP.EXE. The problem is it doesn't
recognize my previous installation or
Just a curiousity...
I've a mental concept I've been batting around for a while - about how can we
drastically increase configure and related script performance on cygwin...
AFAICT the largest performance issue is fork() and exec(). File access is quite fast,
as is networking. Unix sockets
See the FAQ entry:
Why do I get a message saying Out of Queue slots?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC65
It's an oldie but a goodie! ;-)
Which suggests I should remove the warning about it possibly being out
of date. I'll fix that. Thanks for the reference.
David
(Cygwin FAQ
I think clever (or not so clever) examples of .bashrc or whatever are
off-topic for this list, unless it is something specifically relevant
to Cygwin.
David
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Hello,
I am hoping that I'll get some helpful hints by posting this. I've been
running Cygwin under Win98SE for months now without the CYGWIN env
variable set in Windows at all. I have FAT and FAT32 partitions. My
mounts are all binmode. Now I am looking at setting CYGWIN thus:
SET
cURL has been updated to version 7.9.5-1.
There are a few new or updated features, as well as a whole host of
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