Slow performance following upgrade

2007-03-22 Thread Zak Johnson
I recently installed Cygwin (1.5.24(0.156/4/2)) on a new (dual-core) machine, and am seeing much slower performance than a February install of Cygwin on an older machine (no longer available for comparison, I'm afraid). I suspect it is a problem with disk IO, mostly because it is more noticable in

perl fork errors with a cygwin dll?

2007-03-22 Thread cygwin
This happens about 50% of the time when I run some kind of fork from perl in cygwin: Executing: rsync -a --delete --delete-excluded --stats -v --progress '/cygdrive/d/coLinux' '/cygdrive/h/Backup/coLinux' 9648 [main] perl 4064 d:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap d:\cygwin

Re: Building GCC 4.3.0 on Cygwin...

2007-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 06:55:16PM -0700, Tim Prince wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>There is no conspiracy. What is needed is for there to be a vocal >>advocate on the gcc list for Windows patches. I can only approve a very >>limited amount of stuff so we need gcc global maintainers to approv

Re: Building GCC 4.3.0 on Cygwin...

2007-03-22 Thread Tim Prince
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no conspiracy. What is needed is for there to be a vocal advocate on the gcc list for Windows patches. I can only approve a very limited amount of stuff so we need gcc global maintainers to approve the majority of Windows fixes. I didn't call it a conspiracy,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-5.2.2-7, libreadline6-5.2.2-7

2007-03-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline and libreadline6, 5.2.2-7, is available for use, replacing 5.2.1-6 as the current version. 5.1-5 remains the previous version, to match the fact that a previous version of bash 3.1 is still available. NEWS: = This incorp

Re: Building GCC 4.3.0 on Cygwin...

2007-03-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Angelo Graziosi wrote: > As I wrote: > > >> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31039 Ah, okay. I failed to see that you'd posted the config.log there. (And I mentioned gmp/mpfr as I have seen that cause the build to fail in exactly the way you described, but it's clearly not the case

Re: sshd-started sessions don't see system environment?

2007-03-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Brian Dessent wrote: I suppose a way to reconcile these would be a utility that you call from ~/.profile that enumerates the list of environ key/value pairs from the registry and installs them into the process' environment. That's an interesting idea. regtool list -v "/machine/SYSTEM/Curren

Re: sshd-started sessions don't see system environment?

2007-03-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Shankar Unni wrote: > (Though I wonder how it improves security to ignore env vars from > /etc/profile or the system environment..) Suppose you, as root, ran "/etc/init.d/openssh start", or whatever the appropriate command to launch the ssh daemon on your *nix system, and you happen to have some

Re: slow bash spawn

2007-03-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Marc Compere wrote: cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() for drive E: failed: 2 cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() for drive Y: failed: 53 cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() for drive Z: failed: 53 These wouldn't be drive letters assigned by your Sonic DLA, wo

Re: sshd-started sessions don't see system environment?

2007-03-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Brian Dessent wrote: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00729.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00397.html My bad. Sorry, didn't search diligently enough. (Though I wonder how it improves security to ignore env vars from /etc/profile or the system environment..) -- U

Re: Building GCC 4.3.0 on Cygwin...

2007-03-22 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Brian Dessent wrote: > You'll have to look at config.log but this is probably a problem with > your system lacking all the required gmp and mpfr library packages. > Make sure you have them all. I have obviously GMP and MPFR installed and, as I wrote >>... >> The last 4.3.0 source that builds

Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...

2007-03-22 Thread Kevin Markle
Pierre A. Humblet expressed precisely : - Original Message - From: "Kevin Markle" To: Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:45 PM Subject: Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server... Larry Hall (Cygwin) explained on 3/15/2007 : Kevin Markle wrote: Hello, I'm attempting to install cr

Re: Doing additions in cygwin?

2007-03-22 Thread Kevin Markle
It happens that Thrall, Bryan formulated : Kevin Markle wrote on Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:49 PM: Hello, I'm attemping to use the expr variable and am having problems. when I type test=expr 1+1 or test=`expr 1+1` or test='expr 1 + 1' or with and without quotes?? I just want to create a variab

Re: rxvt isatty

2007-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:34:21PM +0100, PCJohn wrote: >> You quoted my message but ignored it. > >Don't worry. Your message made me thinking for certain amount of time. >The most important decision was that it is not possible to compile the >project by Cygwin - dependencies on several "problemat

Re: Doing additions in cygwin?

2007-03-22 Thread Kevin Markle
After serious thinking Thrall, Bryan wrote : Kevin Markle wrote on Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:49 PM: Hello, I'm attemping to use the expr variable and am having problems. when I type test=expr 1+1 or test=`expr 1+1` or test='expr 1 + 1' or with and without quotes?? I just want to create a vari

RE: Doing additions in cygwin?

2007-03-22 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Kevin Markle wrote on Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:49 PM: > Hello, > > I'm attemping to use the expr variable and am having problems. when I > type test=expr 1+1 or > test=`expr 1+1` or > test='expr 1 + 1' or > > with and without quotes?? I just want to create a variable based on > and expression?

Re: It works...

2007-03-22 Thread Kevin Markle
Kevin Markle formulated on Thursday : I was able to finally get it to work. I had to remove the service, reboot the server to completly remove the cron service and then run the cron-config again. Thanks for all of the help! I think the toilet (my head) just needed to be flushed! Sorry I put

Doing additions in cygwin?

2007-03-22 Thread Kevin Markle
Hello, I'm attemping to use the expr variable and am having problems. when I type test=expr 1+1 or test=`expr 1+1` or test='expr 1 + 1' or with and without quotes?? I just want to create a variable based on and expression? Thanks! Kevin M -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

It works...

2007-03-22 Thread Kevin Markle
I was able to finally get it to work. I had to remove the service, reboot the server to completly remove the cron service and then run the cron-config again. Thanks for all of the help! I think the toilet (my head) just needed to be flushed! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Re: rxvt isatty

2007-03-22 Thread PCJohn
> You quoted my message but ignored it. Don't worry. Your message made me thinking for certain amount of time. The most important decision was that it is not possible to compile the project by Cygwin - dependencies on several "problematic" libraries. I guess, at that point everything is clear a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cpio-2.7-2

2007-03-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of cpio to 2.7-2. This is a bugfix release. It contains a patch which re-enables the -m option in copy-pass mode. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.15-13

2007-03-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.2.15-13, has been uploaded, replacing 3.2.10-12 as current. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release. It incorporates five new official upstream patches (Solaris fix, AIX fix, readline fix, properly handling null IFS, and pr

Re: openssh 4.6p1-1 ssh-add fails for Windows 2000

2007-03-22 Thread Jeff Hawk
From: Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: openssh 4.6p1-1 ssh-add fails for Windows 2000 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:36:22 +0100 On Mar 21 23:15, Scott Reed wrote: > Jeff Hawk's message received 3/21/2007 3:19 PM: > >Hi All, > > > >I

Re: 2.7-1 cpio -pm file modification time not retained

2007-03-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 22 16:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 15 21:25, Mike Ryan wrote: > > When I use the -m flag during a cpio -p copy, the file > > modification times are not retained. > > [...] > > Confirmed. Looks like a bug in cpio 2.7 since it still works with 2.6 > independent of the Cygwin version.

Re: Building GCC 4.3.0 on Cygwin...

2007-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:23:46AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Charles Wilson wrote: > >> I'm sorry, but the concerns expressed in the messages above are rank >> paranoia. *Microsoft* has nothing to do with the lack of operable >> modern gcc's on windows, and there is no conspiracy to break gcc o

Re: openssh 4.6p1-1 ssh-add fails for Windows 2000

2007-03-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 21 23:15, Scott Reed wrote: > Jeff Hawk's message received 3/21/2007 3:19 PM: > >Hi All, > > > >In the new version of OpenSSH (4.6p1-1), ssh-add fails with error code > >128 on Windows 2000. It works fine on Windows XP. > > > >strace output: > >0> ssh-add > >128> strace.exe ssh-add > >--- P

Re: 2.7-1 cpio -pm file modification time not retained

2007-03-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 15 21:25, Mike Ryan wrote: > Hello, > > When I use the -m flag during a cpio -p copy, the file > modification times are not retained. The -m flag > worked before I upgraded to the latest cygwin version. Confirmed. Looks like a bug in cpio 2.7 since it still works with 2.6 independent of

Re: How to Set MSGMAX value?

2007-03-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 21 16:44, neo napster wrote: > In Cygipc, MSGMAX can be defined in msg.h. > I am using a value of 4096. > > Similarly, I want to know how do we set same > value in Cygserver? > > Please suggest... Did you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygserver.README as I suggested? The max message size is

Re: Building GCC 4.3.0 on Cygwin...

2007-03-22 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Brian Dessent wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > > [snip] > > (2) the java runtime library is huge, and to even attempt to link it > > as a DLL requires massive (>1GB) amounts of RAM. I seem to recall > > that this is due to inefficiencies in the way ld creates import > > libra

Re: undefined ifr_ifindex problem

2007-03-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 12:30, Domen Vrankar wrote: > Hi, > > I am building a program in Cygwin and I get the folowing errors > > error: structure has no member named `ifr_ifindex' Not yet supported. This only exists in the current developer snapshots. > error: `PF_PACKET' undeclared (first use in this func

Re: Building GCC 4.3.0 on Cygwin...

2007-03-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Charles Wilson wrote: > I'm sorry, but the concerns expressed in the messages above are rank > paranoia. *Microsoft* has nothing to do with the lack of operable > modern gcc's on windows, and there is no conspiracy to break gcc on cygwin. Yes, that's pure FUD. > But having an active maintainer

Re: Building GCC 4.3.0 on Cygwin...

2007-03-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Angelo Graziosi wrote: > checking for i686-pc-cygwin-gcc... /tmp/gcc/.build/./prev-gcc/xgcc > -B/tmp/gcc/.build/./prev-gcc/ -B/usr/local/gfortran/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ > checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C > compiler cannot create executables > See `config.log' f

Re: Sysdef Command not avaliable?

2007-03-22 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, neo napster wrote: > > > In Unix, we have sysdef command to know the > > system wide defined values with sysdef command. > > > > Can I know what is similiar command in Cygwin? > > I don't know of a similar command in Cygwin. > > > O

Re: Sysdef Command not avaliable?

2007-03-22 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, neo napster wrote: > In Unix, we have sysdef command to know the > system wide defined values with sysdef command. > > Can I know what is similiar command in Cygwin? I don't know of a similar command in Cygwin. > Or how would I get to know system wide defined values > in Cyg

Re: Building GCC 4.3.0 on Cygwin...

2007-03-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Angelo Graziosi wrote: It is almost a month that the build og gcc-core 4.3.0 on Cygwin is broken: The last 4.3.0 source that builds fine is GCC-4.3.0-20070224-trunk-122292. The strange thing is not that a development version of GCC is broken, but that there is NOT much will to solve it for CY

OpenSSH: error "getpeername: Operation not permitted" still existent during key-authentication...

2007-03-22 Thread Carsten . Porzler
Dear Cygwin community, unfortunately the error message "getpeername: Operation not permitted" is still there present on our systems, if we try key authentication on OpenSSH! We are running cygwin with cygwin1.dll in version 1.5.24-cr-0x5f1 on server and client. The problem occurs on Windo

Building GCC 4.3.0 on Cygwin...

2007-03-22 Thread Angelo Graziosi
It is almost a month that the build og gcc-core 4.3.0 on Cygwin is broken: --- ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/gfortran \ --enable-languages=c,fortran \ --enable-bootstrap \ --enable-libgomp \

Re: missing audio folder in cygwin octave-forge installation

2007-03-22 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Luyi, On 21/03/07, Luyi Chen wrote: Thanks, but they are audio package with octave core. What I want is packages from octave forge. I have looked at the downloaded packages by cygwin setup script. The audio packages are missing. Looks like it's not popular enough to be taken care of. You co