Re: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?

2004-12-22 Thread Rajesh Balakrishnan
--- Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Faylor schrieb: We REALLY need to get setup fixed. Is there any hope that you are close to getting this fixed, Max? Why not get rid of the complicated tar = bz2 stack and just check for .tar.bz2 and use a simplified approach then,

Re: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?

2004-12-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Rajesh Balakrishnan wrote: Since postinstall seemed to be a candidate for the hang, I'm wondering if we could tap at the following code in script.cc In run(), there is an infinite wait WaitForSingleObject (pi.hProcess, INFINITE); Should we use a wait period like

Re: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?

2004-12-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: We REALLY need to get setup fixed. Is there any hope that you are close to getting this fixed, Max? I've finally managed to reproduce it! (today) Let's see what tonight's debugging brings to light. Max.

Re: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?

2004-12-22 Thread Max Bowsher
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 22 15:49, Max Bowsher wrote: Reini Urban wrote: Christopher Faylor schrieb: We REALLY need to get setup fixed. Is there any hope that you are close to getting this fixed, Max? Why not get rid of the complicated tar = bz2 stack and just check for .tar.bz2 and use a

Re: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?

2004-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 04:43:38PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: We REALLY need to get setup fixed. Is there any hope that you are close to getting this fixed, Max? I've finally managed to reproduce it! (today) Let's see what tonight's debugging brings to light. Woo hoo.

bc and readline

2004-12-22 Thread Lapo Luchini
man bc states that bc can be compiled to support readline library. This could be very handy.. why cygwin's bc does not? Problems specific to Cygwin or simply it is not default and no one felt it necessary? Lapo -- Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it

Tetex-2.0.2-15: source tarball invalid

2004-12-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
BTW, the tetex-bin source tarball is invalid. For example, the directory tetex-bin-2.0.2-15/texk/oxdvik/texmf is a symlink to ../xdvik/texmf; however, the tarball contains files in the symlinked directory (which seem to be replicas of the files in the target directory, FWIW). Igor --

Re: Having XP and KDE desktops togather

2004-12-22 Thread Andrew Schulman
The KDE Desktop occupies whole of XP screen and remains in foreground, can not be moved and can not be iconized. So Windows becomes practically inaccessible until I kill KDE Desktop. Any suggestions to make both desktops co-exist? I use bosskey (http://keir.net/booskey.html) to set up

Re: Having XP and KDE desktops togather

2004-12-22 Thread Andrew Schulman
The KDE Desktop occupies whole of XP screen and remains in foreground, can not be moved and can not be iconized. So Windows becomes practically inaccessible until I kill KDE Desktop. Any suggestions to make both desktops co-exist? I use bosskey (http://keir.net/booskey.html) to set up

Re: Having XP and KDE desktops togather

2004-12-22 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 04:46:15AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: The KDE Desktop occupies whole of XP screen and remains in foreground, can not be moved and can not be iconized. So Windows becomes practically inaccessible until I kill KDE Desktop. Any suggestions to make both desktops

Antwort: Re: Having XP and KDE desktops togather

2004-12-22 Thread Hermann-Josef Beckers/Kreis-Steinfurt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 22.12.2004 11:07:01: ... Any suggestions to make both desktops co-exist? I use bosskey (http://keir.net/booskey.html) to set up multiple virtual desktops in Windows. Exactly what I do, except that I use Ontrack's (now V-Com) toolbar from their

Re: Can't open display - Failed initializing GUI, exiting

2004-12-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Smagul wrote: Dear cygwin-xfree people, I am trying to compile xmgrace and to run under Cygwin. I have already compiled it successfully on my PC with my WindowsME. However, I could not get it to run on Cygwin. When I type xmgrace, am getting ERROR message Can't

xwin hangs at startup - no xterm display

2004-12-22 Thread kumarchi
here is the fulll log file. Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.1.0-8 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens

Cannot Start XFree version 4.4.0

2004-12-22 Thread Terrence White
I have cygwin installed, and now I am installing XFree 4.4.0. The istallation Xinstall.sh script ran with no errors. After the installation completes, the instructions direct me to configure XFree by running: XFree86 -configure But I cannot find an executable by this name. I do not have the

Re: Cannot Start XFree version 4.4.0

2004-12-22 Thread Jim Drash
How about reading the documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/configure.html On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:08:27 + (UTC), Terrence White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have cygwin installed, and now I am installing XFree 4.4.0. The istallation Xinstall.sh script ran with no errors. After the

Re: Cannot Start XFree version 4.4.0

2004-12-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Terrence White wrote: I have cygwin installed, and now I am installing XFree 4.4.0. I don't believe you need to run the -configure, since the cygwin X server does not (unlike the Unix server) contain a variety of loadable drivers. XFree86 -configure -- Thomas E. Dickey

Re: Cannot Start XFree version 4.4.0

2004-12-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Terrence White wrote: I have cygwin installed, and now I am installing XFree 4.4.0. The current version is xorg-x11 6.8.1. XFree 4.4 is not supported anymore and very outdated. I recommend to install the xorg-x11 packages from cygwin setup as outlined in the cygwin-x users

Re: Having XP and KDE desktops togather

2004-12-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Vinod Gupta wrote: My cygwin and xfree86 installed fine on my Windows XP machine. I would like to have both local XP desktop and remote KDE Desktop from Linux server, togather. Works almost OK when I do the following: - Execute startxwin.bat which launches xserver as:

Re: Having XP and KDE desktops togather

2004-12-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Any suggestions to make both desktops co-exist? Try omitting the -multiwindow parameter. Please note that in conjunction with run.exe you will have to specify at least -nodecoration. run XWin will hide the mainwindow. Other working modes are

perl debugger not working in xterm

2004-12-22 Thread Tom Goetze
I was very happy a few days back to install Cygwin/X and get xterm's working (I do startx from a cygwin terminal window and it launches an xterm for me). Something very strange I discovered today, however, is that if I try to use the perl debugger like this: perl -d -e 0 (which is how I often

Re: perl debugger not working in xterm

2004-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:51:04PM -0800, Tom Goetze wrote: Something very strange I discovered today, however, is that if I try to use the perl debugger like this: perl -d -e 0 then the perl debugging prompt does not appear in the xterm window, but instead it appears (with mangled characters)

lower falf of text missing in x-apps

2004-12-22 Thread Bharat Sinha
Hi, I have just started using cygwin/X11, and the problem is that all X apps seem to be shifted up a bit relative to the mouse/cursor on the moniter. For example I type in a textbox of an x-app, I can't see the lower half of the text I am typing. What lower fraction of the text I can't see

cygnome 1.4 question about initial installation

2004-12-22 Thread Bharat Sinha
Hi, I wanted to install cygnome (1.4), and did it directly though cygwin setup. I have no experience in this, so all I did was get the packages and installed them directly though setup. Now to run it, I call startgnome. It opens a XWindow, then I see a beautiful picture and it starts to load

Re: cygnome 1.4 question about initial installation

2004-12-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Bharat Sinha wrote: from the future to us. Would you please set the correct date at your machine? Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: Having XP and KDE desktops togather

2004-12-22 Thread Vinod Gupta
Any suggestions to make both desktops co-exist? Vinod Try omitting the -multiwindow parameter. That way, the KDE desktop will be started in one Windows window that you can manipulate normally. If you also want to open local X clients in multiwindow mode, you can start another (windowed)

xwin hangs at startup - no xterm display

2004-12-22 Thread kumarchi
hello: I did som more investigation. when I startup xwin , I found there were xwin processes. If I killed one of them then xwindow comes up. However the xwin.log is constantly growing with the following message winClipboardProc - Could not open display try:30 sleeping: 4 winClipboardProc -

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog path.cc

2004-12-22 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-12-22 11:31:32 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog path.cc Log message: * path.cc (set_normalized_path): Allow empty pathnames. Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygthread.cc cygth ...

2004-12-22 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-12-22 16:19:29 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygthread.cc cygthread.h Log message: * cygthread.h (cygthread::release): Just declare here. * cygthread.cc

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygthread.cc

2004-12-22 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-12-22 17:10:20 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygthread.cc Log message: * cygthread.cc (cygthread::stub): Make diagnostic output more informative. Patches:

PATCH: Replace spaces with tabs in /proc/pid/status.

2004-12-22 Thread Chris January
2004-12-22 Chris January [EMAIL PROTECTED] * fhandler_process.cpp (format_process_status): Use tabs in formatting instead of spaces. Chris -- http://www.atomice.com fhandler_process_status_tabs.patch Description: Binary data

Re: PATCH: Replace spaces with tabs in /proc/pid/status.

2004-12-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 22 09:51, Chris January wrote: 2004-12-22 Chris January [EMAIL PROTECTED] * fhandler_process.cpp (format_process_status): Use tabs in formatting instead of spaces. Applied. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to

Re: [Patch] Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole.

2004-12-22 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
I tried my spawn(P_DETACH) example (updated since yesterday) with the latest snapshot, this time on NT. #include stdio.h #include unistd.h #include process.h main() { spawnl(_P_DETACH, /c/WINNT/system32/notepad, notepad, 0); printf(Spawn done\n); /* Keep working */ sleep(10);

Re: [Patch] Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole.

2004-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 11:13:30AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: I tried my spawn(P_DETACH) example (updated since yesterday) with the latest snapshot, this time on NT. #include stdio.h #include unistd.h #include process.h main() { spawnl(_P_DETACH, /c/WINNT/system32/notepad, notepad, 0);

Re: [Patch] Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole.

2004-12-22 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: When running try_spawn with the snapshot, during the sleep period ps reports 690 443 6902320 11054 10:32:21 defunct 464 690 6904640 11054 10:32:21 /c/WINNT/system32/notepad FWIW, I was thinking about this

Re: [Patch] Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole.

2004-12-22 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Pierre A. Humblet wrote: When running try_spawn with the snapshot, during the sleep period ps reports 690 443 6902320 11054 10:32:21 defunct 464 690 6904640 11054 10:32:21 /c/WINNT/system32/notepad

How can I specify home directory.

2004-12-22 Thread niac78
Hi all, I have a different Cygwin home directory than the common C:\Documents and Settings\username. It was no problem to specify the set HOME=C:\myHome in the cygwin.bat. The problem comes when a postinstall script tries to modify files in the home directory. setup.exe understands $HOME or ~ as

Re: c++ code executes very slowly - sjlj EH to blame?

2004-12-22 Thread Adam McKee
Hi Bill, Here's what I did to build gcc-3.4.3 with dwarf2 EH: First, get the gcc sources (duh) and Danny Smith's patch to support dwarf2 EH on cygwin: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-11/msg01989.html The patch is meant for gcc-4.0 but it worked for me on 3.4.3. % cd / % mkdir

libtool creating DLLs called .exe

2004-12-22 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit wrote (in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00558.html): | Sometimes it switches to .exe instead of .dll. Will investigate | this further. My current theory is that -o soname just missed | the .dll extension and .exe is then taken as

Re: Tetex-2.0.2-13: texdoc bug/suggestion

2004-12-22 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Igor Pechtchanski writes: This won't fix the _ps and _pdf cases. I still think that fixing texdoc itself is the right way (as the user's environment sometimes gets truncated), however, you're the maintainer. If you decide to set them in /etc/profile.d/tetex.sh, please also

Ghostscript-8.15 has the man pages in the wrong directory...

2004-12-22 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
should be /usr/share/man instead of /usr/man There are also some documentation files missing which are hyperlinked in /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-8.15/Readme.htm for example: History7.htm History8.htm Issues.htm Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: How can I specify home directory.

2004-12-22 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-12-22 09:59 +0100) I have a different Cygwin home directory than the common C:\Documents and Settings\username. It was no problem to specify the set HOME=C:\myHome in the cygwin.bat. The problem comes when a postinstall script tries to modify files in the home

RE: How change libtool rule of naming dlls from cygFOO-version.dll to FOO.dll?

2004-12-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:44 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote: -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaos. Windows does not support loading of DLLs through links. Thanks Larry, another validation of my distrust of windoze :-) OK, well then I guess I should do a little work to

Re: How change libtool rule of naming dlls from cygFOO-version.dll to FOO.dll?

2004-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:44:45AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: At 01:44 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote: -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaos. Windows does not support loading of DLLs through links. Thanks Larry, another validation of my distrust of windoze

Cygserver 100% CPU

2004-12-22 Thread Patrick Samson
Corinna, I just want to make sure you didn't miss my post in november, about this same subject: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00749.html If you read it and didn't have anything to suggest it's fine for me and sorry for this remainder. If you didn't, please have a look. I don't

Re: Cygserver 100% CPU

2004-12-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 22 08:03, Patrick Samson wrote: Corinna, I just want to make sure you didn't miss my post in november, about this same subject: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00749.html If you read it and didn't have anything to suggest it's fine for me and sorry for this remainder.

Re: libtool creating DLLs called .exe

2004-12-22 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: I'll try to debug it this evening, on the train, on my way home... hope to find the problem and/or a fix. In the libtool generated for sqilte I found the bug to be that $soname is defined with $shared_extension, which in turn is defined with $shrext, but the file contained

coreutils link

2004-12-22 Thread Isaac Foraker
Can anyone tell me what the purpose of the coreutils `link' program is? It seems to just be a less functional version of `ln', so I don't know why anyone would bother including it. It definately breaks my builds by supplanting MSVC's `link' program in my path. I'd like to just remove it

Re: Tetex-2.0.2-13: texdoc bug/suggestion

2004-12-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Igor Pechtchanski writes: This won't fix the _ps and _pdf cases. I still think that fixing texdoc itself is the right way (as the user's environment sometimes gets truncated), however, you're the maintainer. If you decide to set them in

Re: coreutils link

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Isaac Foraker wrote: Can anyone tell me what the purpose of the coreutils `link' program is? It is for creating a hard link. Jeremy C. Reed technical support remote administration http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/

Re: Ghostscript-8.15 has the man pages in the wrong directory...

2004-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:55:41PM +0100, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: should be /usr/share/man instead of /usr/man There are also some documentation files missing which are hyperlinked in /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-8.15/Readme.htm for example: History7.htm History8.htm Issues.htm I'm hoping that our

where are the dirname and basename functions?

2004-12-22 Thread Hans Horn
Group, can somebody tell me where the objects for the dirname and basename functions have gone? Way back when (say summer 2003) both lived in libfetish.a. Currently (since summer 2004) I can find only basename (in libiberty.a). thx, H. p.s. the timestamps on the two libraries on my system are

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: - cp(1), install(1), ln(1) and mv(1) contain patches to deal with .exe suffixes more or less transparently. How does the cygwin project choose which tools are patched for dealing with .exe and what is not? Thank you for fixing cp. My next

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: - cp(1), install(1), ln(1) and mv(1) contain patches to deal with .exe suffixes more or less transparently. How does the cygwin project choose which tools are patched for dealing with .exe and what

lower falf of text missing in x-apps

2004-12-22 Thread Bharat Sinha
Hi, I have just started using cygwin/X11, and the problem is that all X apps seem to be shifted up a bit relative to the mouse/cursor on the moniter. For example I type in a textbox of an x-app, I can't see the lower half of the text I am typing. What lower fraction of the text I can't see

Re: where are the dirname and basename functions?

2004-12-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hans Horn wrote: Group, can somebody tell me where the objects for the dirname and basename functions have gone? Way back when (say summer 2003) both lived in libfetish.a. Currently (since summer 2004) I can find only basename (in libiberty.a). What is libfetish, never heard this name? I have

Bug: link.exe

2004-12-22 Thread Isaac Foraker
The recent change of installing coreutils with `link.exe' has introduced a *new* problem with configurations using Microsoft Visual C++ with Cygwin's GNU `make'. Previously, one could specify LD=link in a Makefile, but now the corutils `link' will supplant Microsoft's linker, breaking builds.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: [snip] Instead of attempting to fix every command with this problem, I'd prefer to not have the .exe extension in the first place. How do I disable this not-needed feature in gcc? (I will not use old Windows that needs it.) I've answered this one

Re: cp and are the same file

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The suffix is required on Win9x, AFAIK, so this is not a viable route. That said, I believe the OP didn't request that gcc not produce .exe files by default, only how can *he* make gcc not produce the .exe suffix. What you have to do is add a .

Re: gnome-vfs problems with XP SP2

2004-12-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello Walter, Many thanks for this report this is actually the first feedback I receive at all for gnome-vfs;) Walter Landry wrote: Greetings, I have just installed cygwin yesterday, and I am having problems getting gnome-vfs to work. It always hangs in the postinstall. Looking at the script it

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Instead of attempting to fix every command with this problem, I'd prefer to not have the .exe extension in the first place. How do I disable this not-needed feature in gcc? Let me rephrase this: How can I configure gcc to not add the .exe?

Re: where are the dirname and basename functions?

2004-12-22 Thread Hans Horn
Hallo Gerrit, libfetish.a seems to be related to GNU coreutils (google on it). Maybe one of the hardcore cygwin gurus could shed a light on this? In the meantime I have helped myself lifting the dirname source (actually it's dir_name) from the new cygwin coreutils package. thx, H. Gerrit P.

Re: cp and are the same file

2004-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:05:50PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The suffix is required on Win9x, AFAIK, so this is not a viable route. That said, I believe the OP didn't request that gcc not produce .exe files by default, only how can *he* make gcc

Re: where are the dirname and basename functions?

2004-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:15:28PM -0800, Hans Horn wrote: libfetish.a seems to be related to GNU coreutils (google on it). Maybe one of the hardcore cygwin gurus could shed a light on this? I think Gerrit qualifies as a hardcore cygwin guru. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: cp and are the same file

2004-12-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The suffix is required on Win9x, AFAIK, so this is not a viable route. That said, I believe the OP didn't request that gcc not produce .exe files by default, only how can *he* make gcc not produce the .exe suffix. What you have

Re: cp and are the same file

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: So, what are you expecting then? If this isn't going to work for you and modifying your makefiles isn't a going to be a solution in any event, it's difficult to see what you are hoping for. A magic environment variable maybe? If so,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Where is gcc configured or patched to add the .exe in the first place? It is in in gcc/config/i386/cygming.h: #define TARGET_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX .exe Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: By the way, where do I download the files like shown at http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=gcc-core%2Fgcc-core-3.4.1-1-srcgrep=gcc-core ?) I'm sure you saw this link at the website: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: cp and are the same file

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
In other thread: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: It is in in gcc/config/i386/cygming.h: #define TARGET_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX .exe Awesome! Thank you. This is what I was asking about. On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: PTA, please provide a patch (tested) which adds a flag

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Jeremy C. Reed wrote: By the way, where do I download the files like shown at http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=gcc-core%2Fgcc-core-3.4.1-1-srcgrep=gcc-core ?) I'm sure you saw this link at the website:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Jeremy C. Reed wrote: By the way, where do I download the files like shown at http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=gcc-core%2Fgcc-core-3.4.1-1-srcgrep=gcc-core ?) I'm sure you saw this link at the website:

bug? cp and coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread sam
Just updated my Cygwin. If I use cp to copy a file, in this case an executable, I get This program cannot be run in DOS mode when I try to run the copied file. The copied file also now differs from the original. $ ls -l /bin/sum.exe -rwxr-x---+ 1 sam Users 26624 Dec 21 02:32 /bin/sum.exe $ cp

Re: where are the dirname and basename functions?

2004-12-22 Thread Hans Horn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:15:28PM -0800, Hans Horn wrote: libfetish.a seems to be related to GNU coreutils (google on it). Maybe one of the hardcore cygwin gurus could shed a light on this? I think Gerrit qualifies as a hardcore cygwin guru. I did think so! I

Re: bug? cp and coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Raye Raskin
Just updated my Cygwin. If I use cp to copy a file, in this case an executable, I get This program cannot be run in DOS mode when I try to run the copied file. The copied file also now differs from the original. $ ls -l /bin/sum.exe -rwxr-x---+ 1 sam Users 26624 Dec 21 02:32 /bin/sum.exe $ cp

Re: bug? cp and coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Raye Raskin
Just updated my Cygwin. If I use cp to copy a file, in this case an executable, I get This program cannot be run in DOS mode when I try to run the copied file. The copied file also now differs from the original. $ ls -l /bin/sum.exe -rwxr-x---+ 1 sam Users 26624 Dec 21 02:32 /bin/sum.exe $ cp

cygnome 1.4 question about initial installation

2004-12-22 Thread Bharat Sinha
Hi, I wanted to install cygnome (1.4), and did it directly though cygwin setup. I have no experience in this, so all I did was get the packages and installed them directly though setup. Now to run it, I call startgnome. It opens a XWindow, then I see a beautiful picture and it starts to load

Re: bug? cp and coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Vaughan
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Raye Raskin wrote: Just updated my Cygwin. If I use cp to copy a file, in this case an executable, I get This program cannot be run in DOS mode when I try to run the copied file. The copied file also now differs from the original. $ ls -l /bin/sum.exe -rwxr-x---+ 1 sam

g95 executables on Windows require cygwin1.dll on PATH

2004-12-22 Thread Mark Hadfield
Hello folks This is a contribution to a thread on comp.lang.fortran, but I thought it might be of interest on the Cygwin mailing list also. My apologies if it appears twice. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If one creates an executable using g95 on Windows, one needs a DLL to be on the PATH of the

ls -F // doesn't work

2004-12-22 Thread Mark Paulus
When I do an ls -F, I get expected results: $ ls -F / bin/ cygwin.bat* home/ run.groff tmp1/ xfer/ cron_diagnose.sh* cygwin.ico* lib/ sbin/ usr/ cygdeb/etc/ mountem* tmp/ var/ However, when I do ls -F //, then I get bad results: $ ls -F

Re: ls -F // doesn't work

2004-12-22 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Mark Paulus wrote: When I do an ls -F, I get expected results: $ ls -F / bin/ cygwin.bat* home/ run.groff tmp1/ xfer/ cron_diagnose.sh* cygwin.ico* lib/ sbin/ usr/ cygdeb/ etc/ mountem* tmp/ var/ However, when I do ls -F //, then I get bad results: $ ls -F // ls: //bin: No such file or directory

cygwin python thread support

2004-12-22 Thread John A Meinel
First off, thanks for the great set of utilities. Pretty much any computer I come close to gets cygwin installed, it's very nice to have a real shell. I'm working on a project that is using python with threads and readline. As near as I can figure out, the default cygwin python has threads

Re: bug? cp and coreutils-5.2.1-2

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Vaughan
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Raye Raskin wrote: Just updated my Cygwin. If I use cp to copy a file, in this case an executable, I get This program cannot be run in DOS mode when I try to run the copied file. The copied file also now differs from the original. $ ls -l /bin/sum.exe -rwxr-x---+ 1 sam

Re: where are the dirname and basename functions?

2004-12-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hans Horn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:15:28PM -0800, Hans Horn wrote: libfetish.a seems to be related to GNU coreutils (google on it). Maybe one of the hardcore cygwin gurus could shed a light on this? I think Gerrit qualifies as a hardcore cygwin guru. I did think

Re: cygnome 1.4 question about initial installation

2004-12-22 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Bharat Sinha wrote: from the future to us. Would you please set the correct date at your machine? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: How change libtool rule of naming dlls from cygFOO-version.dll to FOO.dll?

2004-12-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:02 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:44:45AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: At 01:44 AM 12/22/2004, you wrote: -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaos. Windows does not support loading of DLLs through links. Thanks Larry, another

Re: gnome-vfs problems with XP SP2

2004-12-22 Thread Walter Landry
Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Walter, Many thanks for this report this is actually the first feedback I receive at all for gnome-vfs;) Walter Landry wrote: Greetings, I have just installed cygwin yesterday, and I am having problems getting gnome-vfs to work. It

RE: How change libtool rule of naming dlls from cygFOO-version.dll to FOO.dll?

2004-12-22 Thread Mike Kenny - BCX - Professional Services JHB
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Even if it was ln -s, it's hardly fair to blame windows for not honoring a cygwin invention -- symbolic links. My intent was not to blame windows for not honoring a cygwin(?) invention, but for not having

Re: How change libtool rule of naming dlls from cygFOO-version.dll to FOO.dll?

2004-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:23:37AM +0200, Mike Kenny - BCX - Professional Services JHB wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Even if it was ln -s, it's hardly fair to blame windows for not honoring a cygwin invention -- symbolic links.