Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

2005-05-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:54:28PM -0700, Andy Ross wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Gee, I'm sorry you thought I was being "snippy". You apparently missed >>that I was just providing you with some obvious advice. > >Indeed. To paraphrase: "Fix it yourself, not my problem." Actually, I think

Why "ISO C++ forbids..."

2005-05-27 Thread Alireza Ghasemi
Hello, While compiling many g++ programs I got a ;ong list of errors with the same messgae like "ISO C++ forbids declaration of '...' with no type" whereas rhese files are compltely compiled with g++ on linux. What's the problem? Can I 'not' use ISO? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygw

Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

2005-05-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:29:54PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote: >But Mr. Faylor, no offense, but you *are* snippy. I think we've recently demonstrated that this type of discussion is not appreciated in the main cygwin list so my response to this message will be in cygwin-talk. Please redirect all

Re: Updated: coreutils-5.3.0-6 [FAQ alert]

2005-05-27 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 5/27/05, Eric Blake wrote: > Therefore, http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC45 is out of date, and we > need a FAQ update. It is now possible to do `mkdir -p > //MACHINE/Share/path/to/new/dir' and everything just works fine! However, > `mkdir -p machine\\share\\path' fails, because coreu

Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

2005-05-27 Thread Andy Ross
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Gee, I'm sorry you thought I was being "snippy". You apparently > missed that I was just providing you with some obvious advice. Indeed. To paraphrase: "Fix it yourself, not my problem." > It seems like if this was a really serious problem you'd be actively > working

Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

2005-05-27 Thread Edward Peschko
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 08:50:54PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 05:04:02PM -0700, Andy Ross wrote: > >Christopher Faylor quipped: > >> It seems pretty clear to me that if this is a really serious problem > >> for you then the best way to get it fixed is to gain more th

Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

2005-05-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 05:04:02PM -0700, Andy Ross wrote: >Christopher Faylor quipped: >> It seems pretty clear to me that if this is a really serious problem >> for you then the best way to get it fixed is to gain more than zero >> knowledge of cygwin. > >Gee, thanks. Very helpful. Can you at l

Re: error during install

2005-05-27 Thread Richard Copley
Briefly to confirm that this can be reproduced: I tried to install all of Cygwin on an XP box, and Setup hanged (hung?) (with some nonsense about Error Reporting) at 47% (on mhash (0.9.1, I think)) for me too. Cygwin installed properly when I asked for everything but mhash. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

2005-05-27 Thread Andy Ross
Christopher Faylor quipped: > It seems pretty clear to me that if this is a really serious problem > for you then the best way to get it fixed is to gain more than zero > knowledge of cygwin. Gee, thanks. Very helpful. Can you at least type the commands in and verify the problem for me before yo

Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

2005-05-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 03:38:03PM -0700, Andy Ross wrote: >At FlightGear, we have a bunch of users building on Cygwin as their >environment (MSVC and mingw builds are possible but non-trivial, and >the configure scripts work out-of-the-box on cygwin) and complaints of >performance problems have be

Re: pthreads, cygwin and pthread_mutex_lock not blocking

2005-05-27 Thread Peter Rehley
On May 27, 2005, at 1:28 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:57:34AM -0700, Peter Rehley wrote: I'm trying to use pthread in cygwin, and I'm expecting the function pthread_mutex_lock to block when used. However it is returning error 45 (EDEADLK).I'm using a static ini

Re: Updated: coreutils-5.3.0-6 [FAQ alert]

2005-05-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 5/27/2005 6:38 AM: > A new release of coreutils, 5.3.0-6, is available. > > This release changes dd(1) to default to binary mode, and adds command > line options iflag=text and oflag=text to specify binary. It also fixes >

Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

2005-05-27 Thread Andy Ross
At FlightGear, we have a bunch of users building on Cygwin as their environment (MSVC and mingw builds are possible but non-trivial, and the configure scripts work out-of-the-box on cygwin) and complaints of performance problems have been persistent. When it was recently pointed out that the simul

Re: error during install

2005-05-27 Thread Robert
Cygwin setup versions are 1.5.17-1 and 1.5.15-1. I have a screen shot of all the errors up if you want to see that showing it on mhash. If you state that /usr/share/mc/syntax/xml.syntax is not in the mhash package then how, if I unselect the mhash package, does it install just fine on both versio

Re: pthreads, cygwin and pthread_mutex_lock not blocking

2005-05-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:57:34AM -0700, Peter Rehley wrote: >I'm trying to use pthread in cygwin, and I'm expecting the function >pthread_mutex_lock to block when used. However it is returning error >45 (EDEADLK).I'm using a static initializer for the thread so the >mutex is type PTHREAD_

Re: pthreads, cygwin and pthread_mutex_lock not blocking

2005-05-27 Thread only4
try posting some explaining code -- -- I use PGP/GPG. Ask for my key if interested. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin

Re: tchar.h

2005-05-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Alireza Ghasemi wrote: > Hello, > While compiling Tcl/Tk it worked successfully with VC6 but with cygwin it > wanted me "tchar.h".I could not find it in /usr/include and I don't know > which package it is in.Please tell me what package to download.

slow windows foreground operation after installing cygwin-1.5.17-1

2005-05-27 Thread Charles D. Russell
The new cygwin1.dll (1.5.17-1) now lets me run fortran programs with large static arrays that occupy most of the available memory, but it is no longer possible to run Windows programs (MSWord or even Windows Explorer) in the foreground while a big math problem is chugging along in the background.

Re: error during install

2005-05-27 Thread Reini Urban
Robert schrieb: It looks as though mhash is causing the problem. I did another full install and unselected mhash and it installed just fine. I did this test with a 2 month old release of setup.exe and the latest. I will have to test the different packages to see if there is anything that is ma

pthreads, cygwin and pthread_mutex_lock not blocking

2005-05-27 Thread Peter Rehley
Hi, I'm trying to use pthread in cygwin, and I'm expecting the function pthread_mutex_lock to block when used. However it is returning error 45 (EDEADLK).I'm using a static initializer for the thread so the mutex is type PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT. When I look through the pthread code I see th

RE: error during install

2005-05-27 Thread Mike Marchywka
I did verify that I was able to get both of my problems resolved by using an earlier version of setup.exe but neither example was particularly clean. The "clean" install was on a dual boot machine with little windoze space and the earlier version of setup failed due to lack of disk space. It eventu

tchar.h

2005-05-27 Thread Alireza Ghasemi
Hello, While compiling Tcl/Tk it worked successfully with VC6 but with cygwin it wanted me "tchar.h".I could not find it in /usr/include and I don't know which package it is in.Please tell me what package to download. Thanks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Prob

Re: cygcheck/strace results in Program Error post-cygwin-1.5.17-1 installation

2005-05-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Perhaps setup should offer to reboot for you, instead of popping up a > > dialog saying "in-use files were replaced"... Then the act of not > > rebooting will require clicking "No, I'll reboot later", or something. > > As

Re: Wide character support for GCC?

2005-05-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:57:54PM -0400, Beman Dawes wrote: >What's the story on wide character support for GCC? Are wchar_t, >std::wstring, etc., still not supported by cygwin? Not fully, no. >If not, what would it take to get wide character support working? Is >there a lot of work involved?

Re: Boost Your Trading and Profits With This Pick

2005-05-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
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Re: cygcheck/strace results in Program Error post-cygwin-1.5.17-1 installation

2005-05-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Perhaps setup should offer to reboot for you, instead of popping up a > dialog saying "in-use files were replaced"... Then the act of not > rebooting will require clicking "No, I'll reboot later", or something. As > much as I hate this feature of Windows installers, it

Re: cygcheck/strace results in Program Error post-cygwin-1.5.17-1 installation

2005-05-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > Michael PARKER wrote: > > > > Moving '/bin/cygwin1.dll.new' to '/bin/cygwin1.dll' did the trick, > > however. > > That means you ran setup when cygwin1.dll was in use, and it told you to > reboot but you didn't. The new strace and cygcheck requires the

Re: Problems building functional ddd using latest cygwin

2005-05-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Matt Fyles wrote: > When building any version of the ddd source under cygwin from 3.3.9 onwards > including the source supplied with cygwin I get this error in a dialog box. > > ddd.exe ? Application Error: > > The application failed to initialize property (0xc005). Click on Ok to > terminat

Re: cygcheck/strace results in Program Error post-cygwin-1.5.17-1 installation

2005-05-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Michael PARKER wrote: > > Moving '/bin/cygwin1.dll.new' to '/bin/cygwin1.dll' did the trick, however. That means you ran setup when cygwin1.dll was in use, and it told you to reboot but you didn't. The new strace and cygcheck requires the latest version of the dll or else you will get that error

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2005-05-27 Thread Alex Beamish
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RE: Cygwin Setup Fails at 43%.

2005-05-27 Thread Robert
You might want to have checked before you posted as I posted the same issue just 7 hours before. Refer to the following posts that are associated to it: RE: error during install Thanks Robert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin

RE: error during install

2005-05-27 Thread Robert
It looks as though mhash is causing the problem. I did another full install and unselected mhash and it installed just fine. I did this test with a 2 month old release of setup.exe and the latest. I will have to test the different packages to see if there is anything that is malfunctioning. Tha

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-5.3.0-6

2005-05-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 5.3.0-6, is available. NEWS This is a minor patch release. The overall 5.3.0 series was designated unstable by the upstream author (compared to the stable 5.2.1), because it introduces some POSIX-compliance fixes for

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2005-05-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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Problems building functional ddd using latest cygwin

2005-05-27 Thread Matt Fyles
When building any version of the ddd source under cygwin from 3.3.9 onwards including the source supplied with cygwin I get this error in a dialog box. ddd.exe ? Application Error: The application failed to initialize property (0xc005). Click on Ok to terminate the application. All other x a

Cygwin Setup Fails at 43%.

2005-05-27 Thread Terence Song
I'm attempting to install Cygwin, but setup.exe always fails at 43%, while installing mhash-0.9.1-1 (/usr/share/mc/syntax/xml.syntax). I've search the web, cygwin mailing list archives, cygwin documentation, etc. but have failed to find the solution. Can anyone help me out please? Thank you. B

Wide character support for GCC?

2005-05-27 Thread Beman Dawes
What's the story on wide character support for GCC? Are wchar_t, std::wstring, etc., still not supported by cygwin? If not, what would it take to get wide character support working? Is there a lot of work involved? Is it something an outside developer could contribute? --Beman Dawes -- Uns

RE: error during install

2005-05-27 Thread Mike Marchywka
I do seem to have finally gotten my old install back into a usable state by using an older version of setup.exe. It prompted several times that there is a newer version and had a few missing-dll dialog boxes but at least now I am back to where I started. > -Original Message- > From: [EMA

RE: cygcheck/strace results in Program Error post-cygwin-1.5.17-1 installation

2005-05-27 Thread Michael PARKER
Moving '/bin/cygwin1.dll.new' to '/bin/cygwin1.dll' did the trick, however. Mike > -Original Message- > From: Mike Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 May 2005 11:38 > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' > Subject: cygcheck/strace results in Program Error > post-cygwin-1.5.17-1 installation

cygcheck/strace results in Program Error post-cygwin-1.5.17-1 installation

2005-05-27 Thread Michael PARKER
Hi, Following the installation of cygwin-1.5.17-1, all my attempts at running 'cygcheck' or 'strace' result in a Windows Program Error: cygcheck.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. etc.etc Cygwin's running on a Win2K machine. Cheers,

Re: xml parser

2005-05-27 Thread Geoffrey KRETZ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm using xsltproc tool on unix to parse a xml file and i'm wondering if the same command exist for cygwin ? Yes, it's in the libxslt package. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=xsltproc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Re: xml parser

2005-05-27 Thread thomas . revell
>Hello, > >I'm using xsltproc tool on unix to parse a xml file and i'm wondering if >the same command exist for cygwin ? Yes, it's in the libxslt package. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=xsltproc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

xml parser

2005-05-27 Thread Geoffrey KRETZ
Hello, I'm using xsltproc tool on unix to parse a xml file and i'm wondering if the same command exist for cygwin ? Regards, Geoffrey Kretz -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://

RE: error during install

2005-05-27 Thread Mike Marchywka
This sounds similar to a problem I've had with both a clean install and an attempt to update a working install. I keep trying to get cygiconv-2 to load by playing with the setup install options. I think I could make this work but sometimes default+install UNINSTALLS stuff making this approach u

Re: How to install perl modules?

2005-05-27 Thread Reini Urban
Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: George wrote: Sorry to go off on a slight tangent here, but is there any documentation anywhere that describe which Win32 modules are problematic, as it's most likely that for Cygwin users the Win32 modules are of particular interest, no? And installing both Cygwin's Pe