R: Change path for php

2004-09-03 Thread Mirko Tebaldi \(Indirizzo Pubblico\)
ok, now the path is correct, thanx ! i've used php succesfully... now i've an error, but i ask into php ML. Thanx ! --- > in /etc/profile i indicate PATH as : > > PATH="cygdrive/c/php4/cli:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH" > > it is correct ? so why configure doesn't find it !? I

Re: how to link without libutil.so? [repost]

2004-09-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
> "the link still fails" provides almost zero useful information. True. > Since Corinna went to some effort to add libutil functionality to the > cygwin DLL a while ago and since I can't see any functions in libutil.so > which are missing from cygwin1.dll, I don't see why this didn't work. Okay,

Re: how to link without libutil.so? [repost]

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:18:06PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: >>>cannot find -lutil >> >>As you noted, the file doesn't exist in the cygwin distribution. It's >>possible that you could just get by with removing it from

Re: how to link without libutil.so? [repost]

2004-09-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
>>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: >>cannot find -lutil > > As you noted, the file doesn't exist in the cygwin distribution. It's > possible that you could just get by with removing it from the link line > entirely since it looks like most of the functions

Re: how to link without libutil.so? [repost]

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:14:43PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >I'm trying to build Unison version 2.9.99.??Compilation?succeeds,?but? >the link step fails with > >/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: >cannot find -lutil > >after running a gcc command that inc

how to link without libutil.so? [repost]

2004-09-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
I'm trying to build Unison version 2.9.99.  Compilation succeeds, but  the link step fails with /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -lutil after running a gcc command that includes '-lutil'.  I've searched the  Cygwin packages, and it does seem th

Re: Change path for php

2004-09-03 Thread Brian Dessent
"Mirko Tebaldi (Indirizzo Pubblico)" wrote: > in /etc/profile i indicate PATH as : > > PATH="cygdrive/c/php4/cli:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH" > > it is correct ? so why configure doesn't find it !? If that is the actual line you are using and not a typo then it would seem

Re: /proc registry access

2004-09-03 Thread linda w
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Yes. Cygwin will not process paths that contain a ":" -- perhaps erroneously, as it should probably check that the ":" is the second character, preceded by a letter. . --- Do you think it would be desirable to have cygwin not encumber

Re: Keeping a local mirror up to date (cy: addressed to exclusive sender for this address)

2004-09-03 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:04:19PM +0100, Paul wrote: > Similarly it seems to download over and over again components I have > downloaded but not installed. Never done that for me (so long as the previous download's mirror is still chosen) Are you changing mirrors? -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: Keeping a local mirror up to date

2004-09-03 Thread Robert Pendell
You can also do what I do. Run rsync and sync up with a mirror. The way I have it configured takes a little but at most maybe about 30 minutes to update every so often. Depends on what has been updated. My sync deleted outdated files (ones that don't need to be there) and downloads new files.

Re: Installing php 5

2004-09-03 Thread Robert Schmidt
Reini Urban wrote: mirko tebaldi schrieb: Please, someone can help me (eventually in private mailing) step by step for installing php 5 ? > Go to http://www.php.net Neither PHP4 nor 5 take part of cygwin because the package was broken. I'm also anxious to see it back in! I succeeded installing t

Re: openldap 2.2.15-2

2004-09-03 Thread Robert Schmidt
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Robert Schmidt wrote: I have problems running openldap 2.2.15-2 (cygwin is up-to-date as of this moment). You have minires-0.97-1 installed. The latest version is 0.98-3. Try upgrading to it. The API has apparently changed between the versions, though

Re: Keeping a local mirror up to date (cy: addressed to exclusive sender for this address)

2004-09-03 Thread Paul
Dave Korn wrote: By design, setup searches through all the download directories, keeps track of all the versions, should know exactly what you've already got and never re-download something you already have; if it ever does, it's a bug. For me setup.exe always seems to compare what I actually hav

Re: can't open file for writing

2004-09-03 Thread Brian Ford
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, C Schreiner wrote: > I can not save to a nonexistant file name under > Cygwin, but I can under Windows. [snip] > I have not seen anything about this in the Cygwin FAQ > or in two mailing list archive searches. If there is > already documentation about this, please point me to

Re: can't open file for writing

2004-09-03 Thread Peter Rehley
On Sep 3, 2004, at 2:33 PM, C Schreiner wrote: I can not save to a nonexistant file name under Cygwin, but I can under Windows. When I type: cat "hello" > foo.txt Does the file "hello" exist? Try echo "hello" > foo.txt under Cygwin I get this error message: bash: foo.txt: No such file or dir

can't open file for writing

2004-09-03 Thread C Schreiner
I can not save to a nonexistant file name under Cygwin, but I can under Windows. When I type: cat "hello" > foo.txt under Cygwin I get this error message: bash: foo.txt: No such file or directory (unless foo.txt already exists in the current directory). This only happens with network

Re: Problem executing a .bat script in a directory with spaces using bash

2004-09-03 Thread Mark Bohlman
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mark Bohlman wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mark Bohlman wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote: I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documen

Re: e2fsprogs

2004-09-03 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:07 PM 9/3/2004, CGF wrote: >On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:37:27PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>>(trying to move to the next iteration so that I can be mean) >> >>Does shameless, willful baiting qualify?I can handle that. Can I do >>it? Huh? Huh? Please can I do it?? ;-) > >Sure, I don't s

RE: BUG gcc-mingw 20040810-1 library search path

2004-09-03 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase > Sent: 03 September 2004 16:08 > To: Igor Pechtchanski > Hallo Igor, I'm not Igor! Heh, PMFBI! > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >> >> This is in binutils/ld/configure.tgt: > >> >> i[3-7]86-*-cygwi

Re: OpenSSH on windows Problem

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:34:15PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >It is Red Hat's intent that the only acceptable use of the cygwin DLL ^ , barring any other arrangements made directly with Red Hat, >should be in accordance with the GPL as described on the cygwin >

Re: e2fsprogs

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:37:27PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>(trying to move to the next iteration so that I can be mean) > >Does shameless, willful baiting qualify?I can handle that. Can I do >it? Huh? Huh? Please can I do it?? ;-) Sure, I don't see why not. Go for it! cgf -- Unsubsc

Re: e2fsprogs

2004-09-03 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:04 AM 9/3/2004, you wrote: >On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:55:48PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>Thats it, thank you for the analysis, I just thought all the time >>after the thread, why are all libraries found, but uuid isn't? >>I remember now that I also have e2fsprogs installed and libwin32

Change path for php

2004-09-03 Thread Mirko Tebaldi \(Indirizzo Pubblico\)
when i execute autoconf and then ./configure --with-lang=it i obtain and error of php not present. i installed then windows 32 binaries of php4. so i obtain to have c:\php\cli\php.exe like requested from documentations ()php-doc ho to) i quote the documentation: - You also n

Re: OpenSSH on windows Problem

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 08:35:01AM -0700, David A. Case wrote: >On Thu, Sep 02, 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>This is really really simple and I don't know why it is so confusing. >> >>If your program uses the cygwin DLL, then your program is GPLed. > >On possible reason for confusion is that s

RE: e2fsprogs

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > > Sent: 03 September 2004 16:04 > > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:55:48PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > >Thats it, thank you for the analysis, I just thought all the time

Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror? (gold star alert)

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 05:58:03PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >Christopher Faylor schrieb: >>On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:49:40PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall Sent: 03 September 2004 02:41 >>> Cygwin-specific expertise,

Re: Problem executing a .bat script in a directory with spaces using bash

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mark Bohlman wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mark Bohlman wrote: > > > > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote: > > > > > > > > > I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected: > > > >

Re: OpenJade and phpdocs

2004-09-03 Thread Reini Urban
Mirko Tebaldi (Indirizzo Pubblico) schrieb: i would like to make from phpdoc tree a html, pdf, rtf, and so on... i installed cygwin 'full optional', so openjade is actually present and installed. can some one guide me through the process ? i read instruction at: http://it.tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-Ope

Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror? (gold star alert)

2004-09-03 Thread Reini Urban
Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:49:40PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall Sent: 03 September 2004 02:41 Cygwin-specific expertise, and move on. The worst experiences, in my opinion, are like this one, that seem t

Re: windows dlls?

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mike wrote: > I use an application that allows the calling of external, user > created DLLs. I have created these DLLs previously using Microsoft's > VC++. Can I instead create the DLLs using gcc/cygwin? Yes. See > I'm a unixhead fr

Re: Perl searching in wrong path for modules?

2004-09-03 Thread Reini Urban
Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: perl looks in the wrong folder for the Perl Modules, for example if i want to load Archive::Zip, it trys to load it from D:\usr\lib\perl5\site_perl\5.8.5\XML\Simple.pm instead of D:\cygwin(\usr)\lib\perl5\site_perl\5.8.5\XML\Simple.pm. So i wonder if this is a bug in cygw

Re: Problem executing a .bat script in a directory with spaces using bash

2004-09-03 Thread Mark Bohlman
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mark Bohlman wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote: I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:46 511$ cat test.bat echo %1 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OpenSSH on windows Problem

2004-09-03 Thread David A. Case
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > This is really really simple and I don't know why it is so confusing. > > If your program uses the cygwin DLL, then your program is GPLed. On possible reason for confusion is that statments like this one (which have appeared many times on this

Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror? (gold star alert)

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:49:40PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall > >> Sent: 03 September 2004 02:41 > > > >>Cygwin-specific expertise, and move on. The worst experiences, in

Re: Problem executing a .bat script in a directory with spaces using bash

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mark Bohlman wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote: > > > > > I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:46 > > > 511$ cat test.bat > > > echo %1 >

Re: duplicated doc directories in ctetris-0.29-1

2004-09-03 Thread Reini Urban
Dr. Volker Zell schrieb: There are 2 dirs /usr/share/doc/ctetris-0.29 /usr/share/doc/ctetris in ctetris-0.29-1 yes, sorry. gbs is quite complicated with the docs, and I didn't check. the next release will be better. -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: OpenJade and phpdocs

2004-09-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Mirko, Am Donnerstag, 2. September 2004 um 11:23 schriebst du: > i would like to make from phpdoc tree a html, pdf, rtf, and so on... > i installed cygwin 'full optional', so openjade is actually present and > installed. > can some one guide me through the process ? i read instruction at:

RE: e2fsprogs

2004-09-03 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: 03 September 2004 16:04 > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:55:48PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >Thats it, thank you for the analysis, I just thought all the time > >after the thread, why are all libraries found

Re: BUG gcc-mingw 20040810-1 library search path

2004-09-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Igor, Am Montag, 30. August 2004 um 16:14 schriebst du: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> >> This is in binutils/ld/configure.tgt: >> >> i[3-7]86-*-cygwin*) targ_emul=i386pe ; >> >> targ_extra_ofiles="deffilep.o pe-dll.o" >> >>

Re: Perl searching in wrong path for modules?

2004-09-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Frank, > perl looks in the wrong folder for the Perl Modules, for example if i > want to load Archive::Zip, it trys to load it from > D:\usr\lib\perl5\site_perl\5.8.5\XML\Simple.pm instead of > D:\cygwin(\usr)\lib\perl5\site_perl\5.8.5\XML\Simple.pm. So i wonder if > this is a bug in cygwi

RE: Keeping a local mirror up to date

2004-09-03 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: Keith Christian > Sent: 03 September 2004 15:27 > To: Dave Korn Oops! We should always keep questions and replies on the list - that way they're there in the web archive for anyone else in future who comes along with the same problem > Thanks - one mor

Re: e2fsprogs

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:55:48PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Thats it, thank you for the analysis, I just thought all the time >after the thread, why are all libraries found, but uuid isn't? >I remember now that I also have e2fsprogs installed and libwin32 >failis for me with exactly the same

Re: Keeping a local mirror up to date

2004-09-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Keith Christian wrote: Scenario: A few months ago I used SETUP.EXE to "download from internet" to a local hard drive, which I copied to a CD to make it easier to install Cygwin on workstations. When I want to update this local disk mirror with the latest packages, which option do I choose to dow

Re: e2fsprogs

2004-09-03 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Reini, Am Montag, 30. August 2004 um 08:13 schriebst du: > Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: >>>$ export tooldir=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32 >>>$ ls -ld ${tooldir}/../lib/w32api >>>drwxrwxr-x+ 2 Administ SYSTEM 0 Jul 30 17:25 >>>/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/../lib/w32api/ >>>$ >> >>>To the OP: your pro

windows dlls?

2004-09-03 Thread Mike
I use an application that allows the calling of external, user created DLLs. I have created these DLLs previously using Microsoft's VC++. Can I instead create the DLLs using gcc/cygwin? I'm a unixhead from way back and don't like the Microsoft stuff. I much prefer to stick with what I'm comfortable

Re: Problem executing a .bat script in a directory with spaces using bash

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Cobb
Igor Pechtchanski cs.nyu.edu> writes: > I believe you're missing the point. Try > > ./test.bat "hello world" > > and you'll get the error. I use the following shell function cmd() to invoke batch files. It removes cygwinisms from the PATH and the environment first and does some argument pre-p

Re: How to detect a broken cygwin mirror? (gold star alert)

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:49:40PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall >> Sent: 03 September 2004 02:41 > >>Cygwin-specific expertise, and move on. The worst experiences, in my >>opinion, are like this one, that seem to come down to

Re: Problem executing a .bat script in a directory with spaces using bash

2004-09-03 Thread Mark Bohlman
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote: I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:46 511$ cat test.bat echo %1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:48 511$ ./test.bat C:\Documents

RE: Keeping a local mirror up to date

2004-09-03 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Keith Christian > Sent: 03 September 2004 15:09 > Scenario: > > A few months ago I used SETUP.EXE to "download from internet" > to a local hard > drive, which I copied to a CD to make it easier to install Cygwin on > workstations. >

Keeping a local mirror up to date

2004-09-03 Thread Keith Christian
Scenario: A few months ago I used SETUP.EXE to "download from internet" to a local hard drive, which I copied to a CD to make it easier to install Cygwin on workstations. When I want to update this local disk mirror with the latest packages, which option do I choose to download ONLY updated or br

Re: Problem executing a .bat script in a directory with spaces using bash

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote: > I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:46 > 511$ cat test.bat > echo %1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:48 > 511$ ./test.bat > > C:\Documents and S

Re: Problem executing a .bat script in a directory with spaces using bash

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Cobb
I get different results than you do. It seems to work as expected: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:46 511$ cat test.bat echo %1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Documents and Settings 09:45:48 511$ ./test.bat C:\Documents and Settings>echo ECHO is on. -- Unsubscribe info: http:

RE: How does a script find where Cygwin is installed?

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: luke.kendall > > Sent: 03 September 2004 08:17 > > > (I'm doing this to try to ensure that if a SysAdmin user installs > > Cygwin for the actual owner of the machine, the owner will later have > > permission to update or

Re: env -i specialities on cygwin

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Christian Weinberger wrote: > If one want´s to start a new process without an environment, env -i will be > the choice. > In the cygwin enviroment this leads to problems if /bin or /usr/bin are not > added to the PATH in the new process. In this case the cygwin1.dll is not > in

Re: man pages taking long to show

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Gorden Jemwa wrote: > I'm running cygwing on a WIN XP SP2 platform. When I invoke the MAN > command for help it is taking unusually long to show. What could be the > problem? There could be many reasons. Please review and follow > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

RE: Problem executing a .bat script in a directory with spaces us ing bash

2004-09-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
Since nothing in the batch file refers to the directory, it looks like cmd.exe/command.com received the full path when executed. Compare the following under cmd.exe (XP pro) and bash. === c:\tmp> type t.bat echo x %0 x echo %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 c:\tmp> t.bat a b c d e f g h

Re: openldap 2.2.15-2

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Robert Schmidt wrote: > I have problems running openldap 2.2.15-2 (cygwin is up-to-date as of this > moment). > > Running slapd or slurpd produces the following error: > > "The procedure entry point __dn_expand could not be located in the dynamic > link library cygminires.dll."

Re: /proc registry access

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, linda w wrote: > 2 questions on the registry access in /proc. > 1) Any idea on why find would choke on registry subtrees containing ":"? Is > some part of the path expansion going through Windows? Yes. Cygwin will not process paths that contain a ":" -- perhaps erroneously,

RE: How to detect a broken Cygwin mirror?

2004-09-03 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall > Sent: 03 September 2004 02:41 > Cygwin-specific expertise, and move on. The worst experiences, in my > opinion, are like this one, that seem to come down to a broken mirror: > our mirror rsyncing to it and breaking, and

RE: How does a script find where Cygwin is installed?

2004-09-03 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of luke.kendall > Sent: 03 September 2004 08:17 > (I'm doing this to try to ensure that if a SysAdmin user installs > Cygwin for the actual owner of the machine, the owner will later have > permission to update or even uninstall Cygwin t

Re: Why is there a ZZZRemovedpackages?

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Carlo Florendo wrote: > Hello, > > I'm actually not encountering any problem with cygwin now. It has > actually been performing impressively! Thanks to all you cygwin people. That's good to know. > In any case, we keep a mirror of the cygwin releases and I was just > curiou

Re: compilig error: storage size of `st' isn't known

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: > I'm trying to compile Linux program that starts like this: > > int main(int argc, char **argv) > { > char **dirname = NULL; > int i,j,n,p,q,dtotal,ftotal,colored = FALSE; > struct stat64 st; > > But the compiler says: > >

Re: How does a script find where Cygwin is installed?

2004-09-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, luke.kendall wrote: > $ CYGPATH=`cygpath -w /` > $ echo $CYGPATH > C:\cygwin > $ CYGPATH=`cygpath -u "$CYGPATH"` > $ echo $CYGPATH > / > > What I really want to get is "C:/cygwin" $ cygpath -m / > or "/cygdrive/c/cygwin", in my case. $ cygpath -m / | sed 's,^\([A-Za-z]\):,/c

Re: openldap 2.2.15-2

2004-09-03 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Robert Schmidt writes: > I have problems running openldap 2.2.15-2 (cygwin is up-to-date as of > this moment). > Running slapd or slurpd produces the following error: > "The procedure entry point __dn_expand could not be located in the > dynamic link library cygminires.

Re: ghostscript?

2004-09-03 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> sven geier writes: > This may be a stupid-newbie-mistake or something, but I installed ghostscript > and gv and when I type at the prompt > % gv /path/to/some/ps/document > gv comes up fine, then gives me an error alert-box that > says "Unknown device: x11" > Ind

Re: XEmacs and Windows Fonts

2004-09-03 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Jaap-Henk Hoepman writes: > I installed xemacs 21.4.15 yesterday (on cygwin 1.5.10-3) using the cygwin > netinstaller and still see the same problem (including weird truncation > characters, instead of the usual arrows i saw in previous versions, and > failure to redisplay p

duplicated doc directories in ctetris-0.29-1

2004-09-03 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi There are 2 dirs /usr/share/doc/ctetris-0.29 /usr/share/doc/ctetris in ctetris-0.29-1 Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

env -i specialities on cygwin

2004-09-03 Thread Christian Weinberger
If one wantÂs to start a new process without an environment, env -i will be the choice. In the cygwin enviroment this leads to problems if /bin or /usr/bin are not added to the PATH in the new process. In this case the cygwin1.dll is not in the path and will not be found be the process that just tr

Re: Locking down cygwin for security

2004-09-03 Thread egor duda
Colin JN Breame wrote: Is it possible to disabled certain features to make cygwin secure over ssh such that the logged in user cannot: - cd into any /cygdrive drives - mount any local or UNC drives but still: - access a system wide mount to a local drive You will gain little additional security b

Re: Locking down cygwin for security

2004-09-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 3 12:11, Colin JN Breame wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to disabled certain features to make cygwin secure over > ssh such that the logged in user cannot: > > - cd into any /cygdrive drives > - mount any local or UNC drives > > but still: > > - access a system wide mount to a local

Locking down cygwin for security

2004-09-03 Thread Colin JN Breame
Hello, Is it possible to disabled certain features to make cygwin secure over ssh such that the logged in user cannot: - cd into any /cygdrive drives - mount any local or UNC drives but still: - access a system wide mount to a local drive ??? Thanks, Colin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.

man pages taking long to show

2004-09-03 Thread Gorden Jemwa
I'm running cygwing on a WIN XP SP2 platform. When I invoke the MAN command for help it is taking unusually long to show. What could be the problem? thanks, Gorden -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentat

Re: Installing php 5

2004-09-03 Thread Reini Urban
mirko tebaldi schrieb: Please, someone can help me (eventually in private mailing) step by step for installing php 5 ? i hve yet the full cygwin installed Go to http://www.php.net click on "downloads" click on "PHP 5.0.1 installer" at "Windows binaries" select your mirror. To check if a package is

Re: Cygwin ssh session privileges differ from console privileges?

2004-09-03 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Thank you Corinna. Your suggestion worked. You are too cool for school :-D. - Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" To: Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 6:13 PM Subject: Re: Cygwin ssh session privileges differ from console privileges? The bottom line is, if you need all the user

Installing php 5

2004-09-03 Thread mirko tebaldi
Please, someone can help me (eventually in private mailing) step by step for installing php 5 ? i hve yet the full cygwin installed mirko --supplying -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

/proc registry access

2004-09-03 Thread linda w
2 questions on the registry access in /proc. 1) Any idea on why find would choke on registry subtrees containing ":"? Is some part of the path expansion going through Windows? 2) The user-guide implies read-write access to the registry-fs: "As anytime you deal with the Windows registry, use caut

openldap 2.2.15-2

2004-09-03 Thread Robert Schmidt
I have problems running openldap 2.2.15-2 (cygwin is up-to-date as of this moment). Running slapd or slurpd produces the following error: "The procedure entry point __dn_expand could not be located in the dynamic link library cygminires.dll." I also tried adding openldap-devel, with no change.

Re: How to check your local mirror

2004-09-03 Thread luke . kendall
On 3 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are 3 parts to what the script does: > > 1. checks the timestamp on your local setup.ini with the one currently on > the mirror; > 2. checks that the files you've got match the ones you should have (this > just checks the names); > 3. checks

Why is there a ZZZRemovedpackages?

2004-09-03 Thread Carlo Florendo
Hello, I'm actually not encountering any problem with cygwin now. It has actually been performing impressively! Thanks to all you cygwin people. In any case, we keep a mirror of the cygwin releases and I was just curious why there is a ZZZRemovedpackages directory under /release. What's

Re: How to check your local mirror

2004-09-03 Thread Fergus Daly
Too hasty: the file chk.us that I attached assumes your local file setup.ini and your local directory release/ are both located at /f/Cyg0. Sorry. (Luke's approach looks much more sophisticated.) Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

compilig error: storage size of `st' isn't known

2004-09-03 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.linux
I'm trying to compile Linux program that starts like this: int main(int argc, char **argv) { char **dirname = NULL; int i,j,n,p,q,dtotal,ftotal,colored = FALSE; struct stat64 st; But the compiler says: tree.c: In function `main': tree.c:204: error: storage size

How does a script find where Cygwin is installed?

2004-09-03 Thread luke . kendall
$ CYGPATH=`cygpath -w /` $ echo $CYGPATH C:\cygwin $ CYGPATH=`cygpath -u "$CYGPATH"` $ echo $CYGPATH / What I really want to get is "C:/cygwin" or "/cygdrive/c/cygwin", in my case. Look at the weird messages I get from this chmod: $ chmod -R ug+rwX,o+rX / chmod: getting attributes of `//bin: No

How to check your local mirror

2004-09-03 Thread fergus
If you want to check the integrity of your local mirror you might find the attached script useful (as it stands, or as the basis for something you write yourself). The syntax is chk.us mydir where mydir might be /f/Cyg0 or /cygdrive/c/cygmirror or wherever it is you keep the file setup.ini