Re: cygwin patches integrating back into standard gnu

Robert Collins wrote: But they didn't really pursue this too strongly -- instead, they focused on attempting to make the transition smooth ('autoupdate', etc). They ignored the network-stasis effects (essentially, a classic 'deadlock' problem: you first, no you first...) Yes, and IMO a nutso

Re: problem with lftp 2.6.8-1 postinstall script

I apologize for the trouble this is causing people. I'm looking into this problem now. I didn't test the install with setup. I just ran my postinstall script by hand to test it. I don't know why installing with setup is having this effect. For now I suggest that no one installs the lftp-2.6.8 p

lftp 6.8.1-1

It hangs. In the /var/log, it created a file that was over 4 gigabytes before I stopped it. It was hanging with lftp.sh. Bobby McNulty Junior -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cy

Re: cygwin patches integrating back into standard gnu

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 14:28, cwilson wrote: > > It'd probably be wise to integrate this with setup.exe so you would > > have the option to install packages in a non-standard place. > > Oh god no. "Click here to automatically fsck-up all the binaries I just > installed" THAT's a GREAT idea!

Re: gcc 3.3.1-3, loading .la files from gcj-compiled apps

Charles Wilson wrote: Or rebuild libjava so that it uses the system-installed version of cygltdl-3.dll and not a self-compiled one. It looks to me like everything would work (assuming dlopen works), provided the libjava linked against the Cygwin libltdl instead of the one it subsumes from itsel

Re: cygwin patches integrating back into standard gnu

cwilson wrote: So that YOU don't have to? (And wait. What are the current cygwin maintainers doing so badly that you want to take over and redo their jobs for them?) Look. Patches should go back to the upstream package. There should not be a bunch of extant, uncommitted patches laying about

Re: cygwin patches integrating back into standard gnu

Edward S. Peschko wrote: See, to build a shared lib, you really really need to use libtool-devel, which is libtool-1.5, and which requires automake > 1.5.0 and autoconf > 2.50. However, those packages are just now -- after 1.5 years -- coming into widespread use, because that's just silly. Gnu

Update: df . accessing A: filemon info

All, As requested I downloaded FileMon & set it up to just catch accesses to A:. df.exe:1892 OPEN A:\ SUCCESS Options: Open Access: All df.exe:1892 QUERY INFORMATION A:\ SUCCESS Attributes:D df.exe:1892 CLOSE A:\ SUCCESS So I take this to mean that it is the df program performing the access an

Re: gcc 3.3.1-3, loading .la files from gcj-compiled apps

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 12:33, Charles Wilson wrote: > the > cygwin-provided, fork()-friendly dlopen stuff). Just for clarity, the fork() support in dlopen is really just tracking base addresses and order of opening.(from slightly rusty memory). -- GPG key available at:

Re: gcc 3.3.1-3, loading .la files from gcj-compiled apps

Robert Collins wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 12:11, Charles Wilson wrote: GVV went one better, and re-activated the LoadLibrary stuff, with cygwin compatibility code, as a FALLBACK option if-and-only-if dlopen on cygwin fails. THAT is what got committed to libtool CVS HEAD, and it's Gary's cont

Re: gcc 3.3.1-3, loading .la files from gcj-compiled apps

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 12:11, Charles Wilson wrote: > GVV went one better, and re-activated the LoadLibrary stuff, with cygwin > compatibility code, as a FALLBACK option if-and-only-if dlopen on cygwin > fails. THAT is what got committed to libtool CVS HEAD, and it's Gary's > contribution, not m

Re: gcc 3.3.1-3, loading .la files from gcj-compiled apps

Marcus G. Daniels wrote: As of yesterday, I believe Charles Wilson has convinced the libtool maintainers to install the needed patches. It uses dlopen if it can, and then falls back to LoadLibrary if that fails. Actually, that change is all Gary V. Vaughan. Here's the story: contrary to my p

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: fetchmail-6.2.5-2

Jason Tishler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any Windows 9x/Me fetchmail users willing to help? If so, Sure. :) > then please test this release and report back to list whether or not the > rcfile permission check is truly disabled on your platform. If fetchmail > doesn't display an err

Re: Perl page fault - old news ??

Greg Matheson wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: John K wrote: I'm learning Cygwin and Perl. Perl is currently 5.8.0 under Windows 98. I have run setup today so I think everything is current. $ perldoc CGI results in a Windows pop which contains ... PERL caused an invalid pa

Re: Bad interpreter?

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Shaffer, Kenneth wrote: > If the first line of scripts is #!bash.exe, I get back a bad interpreter > message. > Did you try it without the .exe? I think this works in Cygwin, but is, AFAIK, unportable. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation

Bad interpreter?

If the first line of scripts is #!bash.exe, I get back a bad interpreter message. Is there a way that I can get the above line to correctly find bash? I thought if the full path wasn't specified, that PATH would be used to find it. (I've tried copying bash.exe to / and c: and get the same error m

Re: gcc 3.3.1-3, loading .la files from gcj-compiled apps

Tom Tromey wrote: "Marcus" == Marcus G Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcus> Would it be possible to add a -D_WIN32 to the libjava/libltdl Marcus> Makefile for Cygwin? It looks like it would be a bit more in line with existing code to just add it to libltdl/ltdl.h. Could you loo

Re: How to do a disk image

well, I sent it to this newsgroup by mistake, as you can see if you read my reply message :) "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:58:45AM -0800, Totte Karlsson wrote: > >I'm running qnx6.2 using two hardrives, one containing

Re: "df ." run from C: accesses floppy drive

Have you run it with 'filemon' to see what is causing the access? (filemon from sysinternals site) Bill Priest wrote: All, I googled and didn't see anything relevant. I'm a long time cygwin user/fan and have noticed that "df ." accesses a: when it doesn't need to df --help Usage: df [OPTION]...

Re: Can I read the name of a shell function?

Thanx Everybody, function bx() { echo $FUNCNAME } What I love, about UseNet is that Igor also shows me how 2 use info's search (which I am also learning) info bash --index-search="functions, shell" /param zzapper -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http:

Re: gcc 3.3.1-3, loading .la files from gcj-compiled apps

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 07:31, Tom Tromey wrote: > > "Marcus" == Marcus G Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Marcus> Would it be possible to add a -D_WIN32 to the libjava/libltdl > Marcus> Makefile for Cygwin? Just caught up with this. -DWIN32 is usually wrong for cygwin. Cygwin programs s

Re: gcc 3.3.1-3, loading .la files from gcj-compiled apps

[reply-to set] On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 01:31:52PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: >> "Marcus" == Marcus G Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Marcus> Would it be possible to add a -D_WIN32 to the libjava/libltdl >Marcus> Makefile for Cygwin? > >It looks like it would be a bit more in line with exis

Re: gcc 3.3.1-3, loading .la files from gcj-compiled apps

> "Marcus" == Marcus G Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcus> Would it be possible to add a -D_WIN32 to the libjava/libltdl Marcus> Makefile for Cygwin? It looks like it would be a bit more in line with existing code to just add it to libltdl/ltdl.h. Could you look at how the upstream l

Sorry wrong newsgroup!

"Totte Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > I'm running qnx6.2 using two hardrives, one containing DATA and one just > containing the operating system + some other programs. > I need to be able to switch the SYSTEM hard drive real fast (in case of any > fa

Re: cygpath Suggestion

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:06:24PM -0800, Barry Buchbinder wrote: >It might be useful to have a cygpath option that >outputs %COMSPEC% and exits directly and without >needing to do > `cygpath "$COMSPEC"` > >(I know -- PTC -- but I'm not a programer.) This isn't a PTC. It is so trivially easy to

Re: How to do a disk image

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:58:45AM -0800, Totte Karlsson wrote: >I'm running qnx6.2 using two hardrives, one containing DATA and one >just containing the operating system + some other programs. I need to >be able to switch the SYSTEM hard drive real fast (in case of any >failure). To make this co

cygpath Suggestion

It might be useful to have a cygpath option that outputs %COMSPEC% and exits directly and without needing to do `cygpath "$COMSPEC"` (I know -- PTC -- but I'm not a programer.) - Barry Buchbinder __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail Address

How to do a disk image

Hi, I'm running qnx6.2 using two hardrives, one containing DATA and one just containing the operating system + some other programs. I need to be able to switch the SYSTEM hard drive real fast (in case of any failure). To make this convenient, I want to create a partition of the System disk (and ke

Re: ssh-agent on cygwin

Robert Mecklenburg wrote: > I'm having trouble getting ssh-agent to work. I've tried both dsa > and rsa keys with and without a passphrase and every time I'm still > prompted for a password on the remote system. I've looked at the ssh > faq and googled the cygwin list. I can login remotely witho

ssh-agent on cygwin

I'm having trouble getting ssh-agent to work. I've tried both dsa and rsa keys with and without a passphrase and every time I'm still prompted for a password on the remote system. I've looked at the ssh faq and googled the cygwin list. I can login remotely without a password using authorized_key

RE: ln -s on win2K

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Cary Lewis wrote: > Unsubscribe > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_

Re: cygwin patches integrating back into standard gnu

> See, to build a shared lib, you really really need to use libtool-devel, > which is libtool-1.5, and which requires automake > 1.5.0 and autoconf > > 2.50. However, those packages are just now -- after 1.5 years -- coming > into widespread use, because > > 1) autoconf 2.5x is in some ways

RE: ln -s on win2K

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Re: Problem with windows-style paths in recent Cygwin install

Peter Shenkin wrote: > DLL version: 1.5.5: (incorrect result) > edith> c:\\Perl\\bin\\perl.exe -e 'print int($]*1000),"\n"' > -bash: c:\Perl\bin\perl.exe: command not found Interestingly enough, if any *one* of those "\\" is replaced by "/", it works fine. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

RE: ln -s on win2K

unsubscribe -Original Message- From: Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ln -s on win2K Hi; I used the ln -s command to make a link to a directory, but when I use cd on it I get error messages. Do links work in cygwi

ln -s on win2K

Hi; I used the ln -s command to make a link to a directory, but when I use cd on it I get error messages. Do links work in cygwin, did I do something wrong, or do I need to do something to set it up? Steve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Process hang(100% CPU Usage) when concurrent calling select(),cygwin1.5.5-1 WinXP/Win2000

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:44:20AM -0500, Joe Buehler wrote: >zhouxin wrote: >>If the udp worker's count greater than 18,some thread's select() hang >>and process take 100% cpu: > >Interestingly, there is a static pool of 18 threads internally before >switching to dynamically created threads. So t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.8.2-1

perl-5.8.2-1 release has been uploaded to sourceware -- it should be on the mirrors soon. News: - Cygwin Perl now with threads support. - No IPC support yet, helpers wanted. - perl-5.8.1 introduced some features which makes it binary incompatible with perl-5.8.0 in certain ca

PostgreSQL/Apache dying

I'm running PostgreSQL with Apache/mod_php under cygwin and Windows 98SE. A perl script makes various HTTP requests, munges the results, and uses DBI:Pg to insert the results into pgsql. Various PHP scripts then use pg_* functions to extract the data for presentation. I find that after a small nu

RE: problem with lftp 2.6.8-1 postinstall script

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Waltman > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: problem with lftp 2.6.8-1 postinstall script > > I don't know if anyone else has run into this, but thought

unknow error...

Hello, I'm under Windows NT 4 (Services Pack 6) with Cygwin 1.5.*. And recently, I have an error but I don't know what it means : 9 [sig] bash 459 winpids::enumNT: error 0xC005 reading system process information any idea ? Thank Etienne -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#un

Re: Can I read the name of a shell function?

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, zzapper wrote: > HiYaAll > > I have created a lot of functions in my .profile > > When I try to read the function name from within the function $0 just > returns bash. Is there any way of reading the functions name?? > > zzapper info bash --index-search="functions, shell" /par

RE: Can I read the name of a shell function?

Did You try $FUNCNAME? See also "man bash" :-) as in "fn () { echo $FUNCNAME ; }" > -Original Message- > From: zzapper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Can I read the name of a shell function? > > > HiYaAll > > I ha

problem with lftp 2.6.8-1 postinstall script

For me when installing lftp 2.6.8-1 the postinstall script at /etc/postinstall/lftp.sh gets stuck in an infinite loop on lines 23-27 if you have and existing /etc/lftp.conf file. The output gets set to the /var/log/setup.log.full file filling up the disk. I cancelled the install and found that the

package installation probs

First off, it looks like the postinstall for lftp-2.6.8-1 is expecting user input, and therefore hangs when run in the Cygwin installer (which no longer pops up a postinstall output window). Also (and it might just be me, I dunno) I can download/install gcc-core and gcc-testsuite-3.3.1-3, but they

Re: Problem with windows-style paths in recent cygwin install

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:47:59AM -0500, Peter Shenkin wrote: >We have been using Cygwin, DLL version 1.3.22, with success. We >recently upgraded to DLL version 1.5.5, and with this version, we are >unable to use Windows-style paths from within Cygwin. I'd appreciate >any insight anyone might ha

RE: Can I read the name of a shell function?

Please provide an example of what you are doing, along with what results you are getting, and what results you expect. > -Original Message- > From: zzapper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 7:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Can I read the name of a shell

unable to compile ddd anymore

Hi all, I used to be able to compile ddd just fine. Then I ran cygwin update. Then ddd 'stopped' working. It always just seemed to do nothing when I tried to debug. It used to just say 'waiting for GDB', but GDB never came :). So I thought I'd recompile in. So I did a full recompile (co

Problem with windows-style paths in recent Cygwin install

Hi, We have been using Cygwin, DLL version 1.3.22, with success. We recently upgraded to DLL version 1.5.5, and with this version, we are unable to use Windows-style paths from within Cygwin. I'd appreciate any insight anyone might have as to how to fix the behavior for 1.5.5. Details below; f

Re: Fltk install hangs

Aaron Humphrey wrote: > It got as far as fltk and then hung on the one file, > /usr/share/doc/fltk-1.1.4/fl_color_chooser.jpg. [...] > It went from about 10 megabytes to 24 megabytes in less than a minute, > which is an unusual size for a JPG in any event. During the setup I went out to drink a

Re: colours for info & man displays

> >I would definitely try rxvt with the --bg and --fg parameters to set the >colors. I use CMD.EXE as little as possible these days, it seems like >rxvt just plain works better for just about every aspect. > Brian I'd use rxvt but I don't like "Unix Paste" where anything highlighted is automatica

Re: Multiple cygwins/ Distributing cygwin apps

The correct solution for dealing with multiple cygwins on your system is to remove all of the older DLLs. If you have a distribution which distributes cygwin and that distribution screws up an existing cygwin installation, then complain to the people who provided the distribution. Their installat

Re: colours for info & man displays

zzapper wrote: > Thanx very much for your very useful reply. However Man & Info don't > seem to inherit the values of PS1, so I guess their colours must be > set elsewhere (DOS window) I would definitely try rxvt with the --bg and --fg parameters to set the colors. I use CMD.EXE as little as pos

Re: Process hang(100% CPU Usage) when concurrent calling select(),cygwin1.5.5-1 WinXP/Win2000

zhouxin wrote: > If the udp worker's count greater than 18,some thread's select() hang and process > take 100% cpu: My vague recollection is that Cygwin allocates threads to handle select(). Interestingly, there is a static pool of 18 threads internally before switching to dynamically created

RE: The incredible shrinking PATH

Mark Sheppard wrote on Friday, November 07, 2003 3:33 PM: > We're getting a problem where a native windows console > program invoked from an interactive Cygwin bash shell seems > to be getting a truncated PATH environment variable. The > windows program in question is Boost Jam and for some people

Re: colours for info & man displays

On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 07:01:04 -0800, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Thanx very much for your very useful reply. However Man & Info don't seem to inherit the values of PS1, so I guess their colours must be set elsewhere (DOS window) zzapper -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: wget-1.9-1

DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the two most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without Xsupport, etc. CYGWIN NEWS: - moved documen

Re: colours for info & man displays

zzapper wrote: > I always use a Win32 Console for CYGWIN with light turquiose set as > background colour and black for text. This is setup via Win32 Console > properties. > > The Cygwin prompt color is green. My problem is that in INFO or MAN > pages this green is practically invisible against th

The incredible shrinking PATH

Hi, We're getting a problem where a native windows console program invoked from an interactive Cygwin bash shell seems to be getting a truncated PATH environment variable. The windows program in question is Boost Jam and for some people it can't find a compiler that's definitely in a directory in

Can I read the name of a shell function?

HiYaAll I have created a lot of functions in my .profile When I try to read the function name from within the function $0 just returns bash. Is there any way of reading the functions name?? zzapper -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tip

colours for info & man displays

HiYa I always use a Win32 Console for CYGWIN with light turquiose set as background colour and black for text. This is setup via Win32 Console properties. The Cygwin prompt color is green. My problem is that in INFO or MAN pages this green is practically invisible against the highlight colour use

a try at killall

Not complete, but usually works for me 0=) $ cat /usr/local/bin/killall #!/bin/sh ps -s | sed -re "/$1$/s/^ +([0-9]+).*$/\1/;t fine;d;:fine" | xargs kill $2 $3 $4 -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796) -- Unsubscribe info:

Re[2]: terms

I've tried that but it doesnt work, i mean that when i do a ls in a dir with jp/chinese named files it will just put "?" everywhere I'm running a jp win2k with jp locales any idea? > - Original Message - > From: "Paul-Kenji Cahier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Se