Re: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout

2004-11-17 Thread Reini Urban
Dave schrieb: Here's a simple and useful patch for setup. Might reduce queries about unattended installs, and save people having to resort to source. Patch is against CVS (as of yesterday). Modify the leader text as you see fit :)

Re: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout

2004-11-17 Thread Reini Urban
Dave schrieb: Here's a simple and useful patch for setup. Might reduce queries about unattended installs, and save people having to resort to source. Patch is against CVS (as of yesterday). Modify the leader text as you see fit :) Dave Kilroy.

Re: The allegation is that setup is keeping open handles around...

2004-11-17 Thread Reini Urban
Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:28:27AM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote: So it looks like the package files aren't being closed somewhere. Taking a look at the source, and trying to figure out where something like this might occur, I ended up in in install.cc, where I saw the

[ITP] m4

2004-11-17 Thread Eric Blake
It appears, according to http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00287.html, that m4 has no a maintainer. It was last uploaded 2 years ago, and 1.4.2 has since been released with a security fix that I would like to see. So, I am offering to become the maintainer. I have plans to

Re: (TRY 2) Re: many complaints about setup and X

2004-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:47:20PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Are any of the setup.exe developers attempting to get to the bottom of the problems that have been reported lately when installing X? I see that Igor is attempting to help but it seems like we're seeing

Re: [ITP] m4

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:12:47AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: It appears, according to http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00287.html, that m4 has no a maintainer. It was last uploaded 2 years ago, and 1.4.2 has since been released with a security fix that I would like to see.

Re: (TRY 2) Re: many complaints about setup and X

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:46:04PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:47:20PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Are any of the setup.exe developers attempting to get to the bottom of the problems that have been reported lately when installing X? I see

Re: The allegation is that setup is keeping open handles around...

2004-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: ...is it true? Is very definitely true. I've committed a fix, but as I began to test the new setup for release, I discovered a regression since 2.427 (I finally reproduced the Unregistered URL scheme), and a further crash in 2.427. And now I'm stuck with a

Re: The allegation is that setup is keeping open handles around...

2004-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: ...is it true? Is very definitely true. I've committed a fix, Ooops, no I haven't, it's still in my WC. but as I began to test the new setup for release, I discovered a regression since 2.427 (I finally reproduced the Unregistered URL scheme), and a

Re: The allegation is that setup is keeping open handles around...

2004-11-17 Thread Reini Urban
Max Bowsher schrieb: Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: ...is it true? Is very definitely true. I've committed a fix, Ooops, no I haven't, it's still in my WC. but as I began to test the new setup for release, I discovered a regression since 2.427 (I finally reproduced the Unregistered

RE: The allegation is that setup is keeping open handles around...

2004-11-17 Thread Robb, Sam
(where I'm assuming that 'delete tmp' is the proper way to deal with a pointer returned by io_stream::open()...) You cannot directly delete tmp. This is delegated to the stream provider. That's what I was afraid of. Leaving a returned pointer hanging around is such an obvious problem, I

Re: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout

2004-11-17 Thread Reini Urban
Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:10:58AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Dave schrieb: Here's a simple and useful patch for setup. Might reduce queries about unattended installs, and save people having to resort to source. Patch is against CVS (as of yesterday). Modify the leader

Re: [ITP] imlib-1.9.14-1

2004-11-17 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: | I would like to contribute imlib to the Cygwin distribution. This | package is in Fedora Core and Debian testing, so all it needs is a GTG | review. Ping? Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Cygwin)

Re: [ITP] gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-1

2004-11-17 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: | I would like to contribute gdk-pixbuf to the Cygwin distribution. As | this is included in Fedora Core and Debian testing, all it needs is a | GTG review. Ping? Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4

Re: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout

2004-11-17 Thread Dave
cgf said: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:53:41PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:10:58AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Actually, there was a thread about this on the cygwin list not too long ago. Yep. This suggested a complicated trick. I found an easier

Re: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:27:20PM -0800, Dave wrote: Hmmm. Just wonderring... Yep. OK. I see the output of stdout when setup is run from bash. It doesn't appear if running from cmd. That explains it. You must be using CYGWIN=tty then, maybe? That would explain this. Revised patch

Re: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave wrote: Definitely go for a dialog box. Revised patch attached. Should these be directed exclusively at bugzilla now? I haven't tried your patch, but if you make a dialog how about one that you can select and copy the text from, like a simple read-only richedit control? I always hated

Re: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout

2004-11-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: Dave wrote: Definitely go for a dialog box. Revised patch attached. Should these be directed exclusively at bugzilla now? I haven't tried your patch, but if you make a dialog how about one that you can select and copy the text from, like a

RE: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout

2004-11-17 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] I really don't understand why we should stand on our heads to make setup.exe a console subsystem program (you don't need to both specify -mwindows and -Wl,--subsystem=console, btw) when you can just open up a dialog box to display the options, like every other windows program in

Re: GLX acceleration

2004-11-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Lester Ingber wrote: Yes, XWin_GL seems to run OK, though I have not seen any dramatic speedup yet. glxgears shows the fps and has a dramatic speedup. It is likely that part of this may be due to memory problems I seem to be having in the latest xorg downloads, with XWin and now also with

1,440 symbolic links

2004-11-17 Thread Dick Repasky
The tree /etc/X11/xserver contains 720 symbolic links. The vast majority of of them are locale specific and point to the directory /etc/X11/xserver/C. The only thing in /etc/X11/xserver/C is a tree called print. The tree /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver seems to be identical to /etc/X11/xserver.

Re: 1,440 symbolic links

2004-11-17 Thread Reini Urban
Dick Repasky schrieb: The tree /etc/X11/xserver contains 720 symbolic links. The vast majority of of them are locale specific and point to the directory /etc/X11/xserver/C. The only thing in /etc/X11/xserver/C is a tree called print. The tree /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver seems to be identical to

Re: 1,440 symbolic links

2004-11-17 Thread Dick Repasky
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Reini Urban wrote: You got that wrong. the above cited msg is right. I am very glad to have been wrong. Thanks, Dick - Dick Repasky Bioinformatics Support UITS Cubicle 101.08 Indiana University USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:26:05AM -0800, Lester Ingber wrote: I was wrong in assuming this was a cygwin base problem. It must be a cygwin-xfree problem. I have no problems I can see in a cygwin console window, only in an xterm (or rxvt) window running under XWin -unixkill -emulate3buttons

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Bobby McNulty
Luke Kendall wrote: On 16 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: Then I'm not the only one noticing this? No, myself and one other person here have begun noticing it. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: GLX acceleration

2004-11-17 Thread Lester Ingber
Alexander: I believe the problem to be with the new xorg files, but there are quite a few and I don't have time to reinstall them all. I assume I'll just wait until the next update, but I hope the maintainers will at least keep this potential problem in mind. I have this CPU problem under xterm

Re: GLX acceleration / Re: new cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-17 Thread Lester Ingber
I just saw Christopher's posting re my posting of 12 Nov, explaining that indeed this is a Cygwin-specific problem. Lester +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Alexander: I believe the problem to be with the new xorg files, but there are quite a few and I don't have

Re: GLX acceleration

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:14:37AM -0800, Lester Ingber wrote: I believe the problem to be with the new xorg files, but there are quite a few and I don't have time to reinstall them all. I assume I'll just wait until the next update, but I hope the maintainers will at least keep this potential

Re: GLX acceleration

2004-11-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Lester, Exactly what kind of speedups are you expecting here? AFAIU, the GLX-accelerated XWin will give you speedup only for programs that use the GLX extension, which automatically excludes most standard X clients (e.g., xterm, emacs, etc). For applications not using the GLX extension, the

Reconnect to X session

2004-11-17 Thread Junkmail
Hi all, Searched the mailing list for this FAQ but no joy, so here we go How can I reconnect to a Cygwin/X server created X session started on a Linux server (Debian Sarge) ? How I currently connect ? From my XP desktop, open Cygwin Bash Shell Type X -broadcast Get the KDM log in screen from

src/winsup/cygwin cygthread.cc dcrt0.cc debug. ...

2004-11-17 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Branch: noreparent Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-11-18 00:48:42 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : cygthread.cc dcrt0.cc debug.cc exceptions.cc fhandler_tty.cc fork.cc pinfo.cc pinfo.h

src/winsup/cygwin cygthread.h pinfo.cc

2004-11-17 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Branch: noreparent Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-11-18 02:55:44 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : cygthread.h pinfo.cc Log message: race Patches:

src/winsup/utils ChangeLog cygcheck.cc

2004-11-17 Thread bavag
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-11-18 05:20:23 Modified files: winsup/utils : ChangeLog cygcheck.cc Log message: * cygcheck.cc (eprintf): New function. Patches:

a newbie's question about directory

2004-11-17 Thread ZF Tang
Hi,all I'm a newbie to cygwin/linux/unix. Can somebody tell me what's the difference between the directories /bin, /usr/bin, and /usr/local/bin ? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Sound generator starting package for Linux/Cygwin

2004-11-17 Thread Reini Urban
Theo Verelst schrieb: I've started a sound generator package on Linux and Cygwin consisting of a sound server program based on Portaudio library connected with a Tcl/Tk script with user interface, in this case starting with a 8 harmonics sliders like in an organ. See:

Re: a newbie's question about directory

2004-11-17 Thread Marcel Telka
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 04:27:47PM +0800, ZF Tang wrote: Hi,all I'm a newbie to cygwin/linux/unix. Can somebody tell me what's the difference between the directories /bin, /usr/bin, and /usr/local/bin ? http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html --

Re: Sound generator starting package for Linux/Cygwin

2004-11-17 Thread Theo Verelst
Reini Urban wrote: Theo Verelst schrieb: I've started a sound generator package on Linux and Cygwin consisting ... http://82.168.209.239/Soundtest Why not use the standard puredata, which is also based on tcl/tk and portaudio, but is stable and mature? Well, as quick response, to begin with I

Re: Sound generator starting package for Linux/Cygwin

2004-11-17 Thread Reini Urban
Theo Verelst schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: Theo Verelst schrieb: I've started a sound generator package on Linux and Cygwin consisting ... http://82.168.209.239/Soundtest Why not use the standard puredata, which is also based on tcl/tk and portaudio, but is stable and mature? Well, as quick

Re: Oracle, ProC and cygwin - troubles

2004-11-17 Thread Bødker . Martin Hendersen MHB
Thanks for your reply. We have now modified the registry with the keys, as described by Gerrit, to increase the heap size. The result is the same. I can give some more details that we have encountered. It is possible to run the program in gdb, but only if we compile and link with oraSQL10.lib:

chown

2004-11-17 Thread George
From the Recovering from Windows penchant for spaces in user and file names Department: Maybe I'm being really dense, but the --from switch isn't quite working as advertised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test $ ls -ln -rwxrwxrwx1 544 51348 Nov 17 03:59 testfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Clapack on Cygwin

2004-11-17 Thread Eleftheria Kavoussanaki
Hello! I tried to install clapack on cygwin and errors occurred. I would very much appreciate your help. In particular: I downloaded clapack.tgz from http://www.netlib.org/clapack/, unpacked it with WinRAR and followed steps 1-5 of the clapack readme.install successfully. I used the

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Luke Kendall wrote: I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to stick at the stage where it is installing the zip package), that setup.log was not

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: Guys, theres a major problem with setup. According to the error I just got, setup is not closing any of its files after writing them. I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info. I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck. I can confirm

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-17 Thread Sam Steingold
when I use setup to upgrade, I still get gcc 3.3.3. when I try clicking New to get 3.4.1, gcc-core keeps jumping to Keep. when will 3.4 become the default version? -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k http://www.camera.org http://www.iris.org.il http://www.memri.org/

Re: a newbie's question about directory

2004-11-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Marcel Telka wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 04:27:47PM +0800, ZF Tang wrote: Hi,all I'm a newbie to cygwin/linux/unix. Can somebody tell me what's the difference between the directories /bin, /usr/bin, and /usr/local/bin ? http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

Re: chown

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 04:25:30AM -0800, George wrote: From the Recovering from Windows penchant for spaces in user and file names Department: Maybe I'm being really dense, but the --from switch isn't quite working as advertised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test $ ls -ln -rwxrwxrwx1 544 513

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:58:47AM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: when I use setup to upgrade, I still get gcc 3.3.3. when I try clicking New to get 3.4.1, gcc-core keeps jumping to Keep. when will 3.4 become the default version? Sometime within the next year. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Sam Steingold wrote: when I use setup to upgrade, I still get gcc 3.3.3. when I try clicking New to get 3.4.1, gcc-core keeps jumping to Keep. Umm, first off, where did you find New in setup? Secondly, gcc-3.4.1 is an experimental package, so you should select the Exp

Re: chown

2004-11-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, George wrote: From the Recovering from Windows penchant for spaces in user and file names Department: Maybe I'm being really dense, but the --from switch isn't quite working as advertised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/test $ ls -ln -rwxrwxrwx1 544 51348

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-17 Thread Sam Steingold
* Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-17 10:23:49 -0500]: On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Sam Steingold wrote: when I use setup to upgrade, I still get gcc 3.3.3. when I try clicking New to get 3.4.1, gcc-core keeps jumping to Keep. Umm, first off, where did you find New in setup? select

Can't create Bash here document.

2004-11-17 Thread YorkshireSkier
Hi, I've installed Bash on several Win2k workstations. Most are working fine, but one particular machine is giving trouble. I am attempting to install only the base package - no compilers, editors, X11 or anything else. The setup program appears to run correctly. After the installation

long command executed via a variable fails

2004-11-17 Thread Geoffrey KRETZ
Hello, I've got a problem with a shell script used with Cygwin 1.5.10-3 on W2000 SP4 and W XP SP 2. The following part of code works on all the Unix I've tested (HP-UX/AIX/Sun Solaris/Linux). With Cygwin, it doesn't :( *Code:* cmd=long shell command with differents parameters if [ ! eval $cmd

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-17 Thread Sam Steingold
* Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-17 10:24:21 -0500]: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:58:47AM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: when I use setup to upgrade, I still get gcc 3.3.3. when I try clicking New to get 3.4.1, gcc-core keeps jumping to Keep. when will 3.4 become the default version?

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Luke Kendall wrote: On 17 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system starts page faulting and the number of handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies I can add this: At the crash point, setup.exe has some 600 open handles and 2 Gb of VM. It's accumulated 2.5 million page faults.

Re: Clapack on Cygwin

2004-11-17 Thread Lionel B
Eleftheria Kavoussanaki writes: Hello! I tried to install clapack on cygwin and errors occurred. I would very much appreciate your help. /.../ How can I make the process of timing the clapack routines run in a reasonably finite amount of time? Not sure about clapack, but I have

Re: long command executed via a variable fails

2004-11-17 Thread Reini Urban
Geoffrey KRETZ schrieb: I've got a problem with a shell script used with Cygwin 1.5.10-3 on W2000 SP4 and W XP SP 2. The following part of code works on all the Unix I've tested (HP-UX/AIX/Sun Solaris/Linux). With Cygwin, it doesn't :( *Code:* cmd=long shell command with differents parameters

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-17 Thread Reini Urban
Sam Steingold schrieb: * Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-17 10:23:49 -0500]: Secondly, gcc-3.4.1 is an experimental package, so you should select the Exp radio button on the Select Packages screen to get it. WFM. when will 3.4 become the default version? Sorry, can't answer that. who

Re: g++ 3.4.1

2004-11-17 Thread Sam Steingold
* Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-17 17:19:33 +0100]: Sam Steingold schrieb: * Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-17 10:23:49 -0500]: when will 3.4 become the default version? Sorry, can't answer that. who can? gerrit (the maintainer) can. Gerrit, could you please speak up?

cygwin1 dll and JAVA-JNI dll loading is buggy

2004-11-17 Thread Gilles Bourgeois
Hello Next year (using the current version of cygwin which I can not remember), I managed to load from java (JNI) a dll (build against cygwin1.dll) compiled with gcc under cygwin. Now , I have updated my cygwin (1.5.9 for me tooday), and it does not work any more. I saw on the cygwin mailing

installer crash on post-instal scripts

2004-11-17 Thread Kris Matthews
When I try to install cygwin on windows xp, the installer hangs at around 90%, when it's running the X post install scripts. (From a full install) My logs are at: It seems to be related to: http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com/msg12903.html -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: installer crash on post-instal scripts

2004-11-17 Thread Kris Matthews
Crap crap crap crap. My apologies, I *started* writing this email, then found a solution to the problem, then went back in to _delete_ this message, and sent it instead. Sheesh :) Kristopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Kris Matthews wrote: When I try to install cygwin on windows

Re: new cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:26:05AM -0800, Lester Ingber wrote: I was wrong in assuming this was a cygwin base problem. It must be a cygwin-xfree problem. I have no problems I can see in a cygwin console window, only in an xterm (or rxvt) window running under XWin -unixkill -emulate3buttons

RE: scp exits often with -1

2004-11-17 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jörg Schaible Sent: 16 November 2004 17:39 Hi folks, after upgrading to latest cygwin1.dll and openssh I have massive problems with ssh/scp. Using e.g. the same scp command it fails from time to time called from the command

RE: scp exits often with -1

2004-11-17 Thread Jörg Schaible
Dave Korn wrote on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:18 PM: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jörg Schaible Sent: 16 November 2004 17:39 Sure. How about 200k of unintelligible gibberish? I'm sure we'd all _love_ to see it. At least it contained more useful

RE: scp exits often with -1

2004-11-17 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: Jörg Schaible Sent: 17 November 2004 17:22 Dave Korn wrote on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:18 PM: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jörg Schaible Sent: 16 November 2004 17:39 Sure. How about 200k of unintelligible

Re: long command executed via a variable fails

2004-11-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Reini Urban wrote: Geoffrey KRETZ schrieb: I've got a problem with a shell script used with Cygwin 1.5.10-3 on W2000 SP4 and W XP SP 2. The following part of code works on all the Unix I've tested (HP-UX/AIX/Sun Solaris/Linux). With Cygwin, it doesn't :(

Re: long command executed via a variable fails

2004-11-17 Thread Geoffrey KRETZ
Reini Urban wrote: Geoffrey KRETZ schrieb: I've got a problem with a shell script used with Cygwin 1.5.10-3 on W2000 SP4 and W XP SP 2. The following part of code works on all the Unix I've tested (HP-UX/AIX/Sun Solaris/Linux). With Cygwin, it doesn't :( *Code:* cmd=long shell command with

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Bobby McNulty
Luke Kendall wrote: On 16 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: Then I'm not the only one noticing this? No, myself and one other person here have begun noticing it. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Bobby McNulty
Max Bowsher wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: Guys, theres a major problem with setup. According to the error I just got, setup is not closing any of its files after writing them. I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info. I'll rerun setup to get a

RE: scp exits often with -1

2004-11-17 Thread Jörg Schaible
Dave Korn wrote on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:24 PM: I beg to differ. My post contained the useful information that dumping a couple of hundred Kb of unsolicited strace output on the list is a pointless waste of time. Yours contained a couple of hundred Kb of unsolicited strace

Re: long command executed via a variable fails

2004-11-17 Thread Reini Urban
Geoffrey KRETZ schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC43 cygwin's /bin/sh is ash, on most other platforms it is /bin/bash. If you want it to behave it exactly like on other platforms, and you use bash specific constructs, use the /bin/bash shebang. If I specified #!

Re: long command executed via a variable fails

2004-11-17 Thread Geoffrey KRETZ
Actually my original unix script use : if ! $cmd; then ... fi AND if ! eval $cmd; then ... fi And it works perfectly I'm forced to use eval because I'm of the structure of my $cmd variable. Just a few samples : - cmd=$LDPRELOAD $FGLRUN ${mainname}.42r -db $dbname -dt $dbtype -ho $QAHOST

Re: scp exits often with -1

2004-11-17 Thread Reini Urban
Jörg Schaible schrieb: I know, that there were massive changes handling fork() and the pipes. So what shall I do, if a the problem now only manifests regularly if scp is called by Java calling a dos batch calling a shell script ? Using strace the problem is going to happen much more unlikely. So

[OT] RE: scp exits often with -1

2004-11-17 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jörg Schaible Sent: 17 November 2004 17:41 Dave Korn wrote on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:24 PM: *Mine* contained more useful info and was a fraction of the size. Well, nonetheless, none of your comments really help with the

Re: scp exits often with -1

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:20:56PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: or if you like living on the edge there's a new experimental noparent branch for cygwin1.dll Sigh. Do not use this branch. It is not intended for anyone but me. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

RE: Can't create Bash here document.

2004-11-17 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
YorkshireSkier BLOB aol.com wrote: ... However, if I try to use a command that uses the here document, I see the following error: $ cat fred 1 2 3 fred bash: cannot create temp file for here document: No such file or directory I can confirm that the variables TEMP and TMP (and

installer crash on post-instal scripts

2004-11-17 Thread Jing Zhou
Hi Kris, I have the same problem of installing full cygwin 1.5.12.1. It froze at 93% when installing postinstall in X11 directory. The disk size continued growing. It was 2G when I eventally decided to delete it. Then my computer crashed. It seems to me that you found a solution. Could you

Re: installer crash on post-instal scripts

2004-11-17 Thread Kris Matthews
What worked for me: 1. Completely wipe out existing cygwin installation 2. Install all of cygwin *except* X. 3. .. Install X stuff, by itself. Regards, Kristopher On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Jing Zhou wrote: Hi Kris, I have the same problem of installing full cygwin 1.5.12.1. It froze at 93% when

Re: installer crash on post-instal scripts

2004-11-17 Thread Bobby McNulty
Kris Matthews wrote: What worked for me: 1. Completely wipe out existing cygwin installation 2. Install all of cygwin *except* X. 3. .. Install X stuff, by itself. Regards, Kristopher On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Jing Zhou wrote: Hi Kris, I have the same problem of installing full cygwin 1.5.12.1. It

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Luke Kendall
On 17 Nov, Max Bowsher wrote: Luke Kendall wrote: I should also add that after a setup.exe crash at 9:38am after being left running overnight, later attempts to install that day (with the VM size steadily increasing, and setup.exe appearing to stick at the stage where it is installing

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:09:26AM +1100, Luke Kendall wrote: Sorry to be causing you such hassles. I'm hoping to get a chance to try the latest Cygwin: You can try the latest cygwin. Just install everything in two or three steps. This is not the final solution, of course, but this problem

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Luke Kendall wrote: I can confirm this. We took a snapshot of October 26th (setup-timestamp: 1098732614), and in that version of setup, That number you quoted identifies the version of the setup.ini datafile, not the setup.exe program. Sorry, how's this? $ bunzip2 -c setup.bz2 |

Re: Problem with setup

2004-11-17 Thread Bobby McNulty
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:09:26AM +1100, Luke Kendall wrote: Sorry to be causing you such hassles. I'm hoping to get a chance to try the latest Cygwin: You can try the latest cygwin. Just install everything in two or three steps. This is not the final solution,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: m4-1.4.2-1

2004-11-17 Thread Eric Blake
m4 has been updated to version 1.4.2 NEWS This release patches a security hole in m4 1.4: the maketemp macro now creates the temporary file, rather than just returning an unused filename. Additionally, the documentation has been moved to the /usr/share/info directory. DESCRIPTION

Perl-tk?

2004-11-17 Thread dwycoff
I tried using a perl-tk script in cygwin that I wrote more than a year ago. Whenever I run it it dies at: Can't locate Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5... I did a search and couldn't find Tk.pm. So I looked to the cygwin website, but didn't find any mention of it there, either.

Re: Perl-tk?

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Dessent
dwycoff wrote: I tried using a perl-tk script in cygwin that I wrote more than a year ago. Whenever I run it it dies at: Can't locate Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5... I did a search and couldn't find Tk.pm. So I looked to the cygwin website, but didn't find any

RE: scp exits often with -1

2004-11-17 Thread Jörg Schaible
Reini Urban wrote on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:21 PM: Hi Jörg :) So, if you can't or won't help, I prefer no answer. Downgrading to cygwin-1.3.11 should help. Hmmm. My old cygwin.dll was not *that* old. 1.5.9 or so (unfortunately I deleted my download cache to be sure to gain the

Updated: m4-1.4.2-1

2004-11-17 Thread Eric Blake
m4 has been updated to version 1.4.2 NEWS This release patches a security hole in m4 1.4: the maketemp macro now creates the temporary file, rather than just returning an unused filename. Additionally, the documentation has been moved to the /usr/share/info directory. DESCRIPTION