Corinna Vinschen wrote:
it just occured to me that I need the exact key name which setup will
use to store the root directory of the installation. I nedd it to get
cygcheck working, even if it's not installed into the same path as the
Cygwin DLL.
{HKLM,HKCU}\Software\Cygwin\???
??? =
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
it just occured to me that I need the exact key name which setup will
use to store the root directory of the installation. I nedd it to
get cygcheck working, even if it's not installed into the same path
as the Cygwin DLL.
Jörg Schaible wrote:
That reminds me of something... I've always been a bit annoyed that
people always resort to manually editing the registry to
remove Cygwin,
when umount is the documented and preferred method. But now, we will
have no such utility to suggest and so to remove Cygwin
On Apr 21 23:02, Brian Dessent wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
it just occured to me that I need the exact key name which setup will
use to store the root directory of the installation. I nedd it to get
cygcheck working, even if it's not installed into the same path as the
Cygwin DLL.
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I would suggest to use a setup subkey, because you might find that
you have to store more than one value at one point. It would be
cleaner this way, imho. And originally we came up with the version
number, too, so what about setup-2 or setup?
Traditionally setup has
On Apr 22 02:46, Brian Dessent wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I would suggest to use a setup subkey, because you might find that
you have to store more than one value at one point. It would be
cleaner this way, imho. And originally we came up with the version
number, too, so what about
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I don't know either. I'm not going to change what's in Cygwin
right now since it's seldomly used anyway. So, for now, let's
just agree on
\Software\Cygwin\setup\rootdir
so I can patch utils/path.cc and upload a new cygwin 1.7.0-4, ok?
Okay, let's go with
On Apr 22 01:25, Brian Dessent wrote:
I suppose I didn't state my point very well. Yes, there are Cygwin
tools for manipulating the registry. But the registry is an
implementation detail, and you should not need to know anything about
registry keys to uninstall Cygwin. At the moment this
Brian Dessent wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I don't know either. I'm not going to change what's in Cygwin
right now since it's seldomly used anyway. So, for now, let's
just agree on
\Software\Cygwin\setup\rootdir
so I can patch utils/path.cc and upload a new cygwin 1.7.0-4, ok?
Does
P?teris K?avi? wrote:
Does the Cygwin DLL know its own path? If so, how about
\Software\Cygwin\path-to-dll
... to allow multiple parallel Cygwin installs?
I think you've missed the context of this discussion. This key will
never be read or written by the DLL, and the DLL already
Brian Dessent wrote:
P?teris K?avi?š wrote:
Does the Cygwin DLL know its own path? If so, how about
\Software\Cygwin\path-to-dll
... to allow multiple parallel Cygwin installs?
I think you've missed the context of this discussion. This key will
never be read or written by the DLL, and
On Apr 22 04:07, Brian Dessent wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I don't know either. I'm not going to change what's in Cygwin
right now since it's seldomly used anyway. So, for now, let's
just agree on
\Software\Cygwin\setup\rootdir
so I can patch utils/path.cc and upload a
P?teris K?avi? wrote:
Hmm. Well, if it's only setup that needs the registry entry, and if
multiple setups, regardless of path-to-setup, are using the same fixed
registry entry serially, what's the point of the registry entry?
So that when you run setup it can start out with the same root
Brian Dessent wrote:
the DLL already supports
parallel installs by the fact that it uses /etc/fstab.
Only in very limited cases:
(1) we're talking about cygwin-1.7.x
(2) Either
(a) only one of those parallel instances is in use at a time,
including installed services,
or
(b)
On Apr 22 11:51, Charles Wilson wrote:
Brian Dessent wrote:
the DLL already supports
parallel installs by the fact that it uses /etc/fstab.
Only in very limited cases:
(1) we're talking about cygwin-1.7.x
(2) Either
(a) only one of those parallel instances is in use at a time,
Charles Wilson wrote:
(1) we're talking about cygwin-1.7.x
(2) Either
(a) only one of those parallel instances is in use at a time,
including installed services,
or
(b) all of those parallel instances have exactly the same version of
the DLL
Right, I don't think anyone
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:07:34 -0700, Brian Dessent said:
Charles Wilson wrote:
(1) we're talking about cygwin-1.7.x
(2) Either
(a) only one of those parallel instances is in use at a time,
including installed services,
or
(b) all of those parallel instances have
Brian Dessent wrote:
P?teris K?avi?š wrote:
So that when you run setup it can start out with the same root that you
last used so that you don't have to type it in every time.
That, and also so that the native tools like cygcheck can locate the
root dir.
So why can't the registry entry be
Updated to 2.8.0, switched to cygport build framework, and renamed
xerces-c-devel package to libxerces-c-devel. Also, added xerces-c-test
package containing test and utility programs, installed into
/usr/lib/xerces-c-test/.
http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/xerces-c-2.8.0-1-src.tar.bz2
I am a newbie to Cygwin, and just installed Cygwin with Xemacs. The first
problem I encountered is this find-file. In solaris, when I do c-x c-f it
will show the files in the current directory; in my Cygwin Xemacs, however
it always shows the root directory (where I start off the xemacs)
CVSROOT:/cvs/src
Module name:src
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-04-22 14:42:05
Modified files:
winsup/utils : ChangeLog cygcheck.cc path.cc
Log message:
* cygcheck.cc (dump_sysinfo): Fix multiple Cygwin DLL test.
* path.cc: Fetch mount points
CVSROOT:/cvs/src
Module name:src
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-04-22 16:55:23
Modified files:
winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin.din
winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin: version.h
Log message:
* cygwin.din (fmemopen): Export.
(open_memstream):
CVSROOT:/cvs/src
Module name:src
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-04-22 20:56:26
Modified files:
winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog dcrt0.cc
Log message:
* dcrt0.cc (dll_crt0_0): Move CWD initialization from here...
(dll_crt0_1): ...to here.
Patches:
Hi,
I am using gvim in X window of cygwin. I selected a font Lucida
Typewriter same as I set for my windows version of gvim. Lucida
Typewriter looks good in windows version of gvim, but in cygwin's
gvim, it's ugly, looks like there is a space between every character
and the letters are very
On 07/04/2008, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The next one. There is no next one so far.
I tried the 2008-04-08-7 snapshot and this seemed fine on my machine.
I also tried rsync again and it all seemed good. The only strange
thing I noticed was that a /cygwin directory was created
* Charles Wilson (Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:34:52 -0400)
The other issue is related, I think. I'm using keychain from my
~/.bashrc, so it should start an ssh-agent if none is running, and then
save that PID to a file. Then any new shell can check for the PID in
that file, contact the exising
On Apr 21 23:36, Charles Wilson wrote:
However, the bash shell for the remote login is running at the Untrusted IL
in session 0, unlike the bash shell for the current at-the-keyboard login,
which is running at the Medium IL in session 1.
I'm not sure that's what I'd want...I think I'd want
Hi Chuck...
The other issue is related, I think. I'm using keychain from my
~/.bashrc, so it should start an ssh-agent if none is running, and then
save that PID to a file. Then any new shell can check for the PID in
that file, contact the exising ssh-agent, and continue.
Just a
I am trying to install Cygwin on a Windows XP PC that has not previously
had it installed. Since I want to install the exact same distribution
on multiple PCs, I am selecting the Download Without Installing option
to just get the packages I want first.
I have attempted the operation on 4
Steven Woody wrote:
What can I do with cygwin's font? Thanks in advance.
This should probably be asked on the Cygwin/X list (or even
better the VIM list).
I'm not currently using that particular version of VIM, but
you may need to simply escape the spaces:
set guifont=FontName\ With\ Spaces
Bruce Dobrin wrote:
I noticed that others had a problem running GraphicsMagick (gm.exe) on
Vista but saw no solution in my search of site:cygwin.com. It appears
to me that (for once) Vista isn't completely at fault. If you do a
cygcheck on gm.exe you will noticed Error: could not find
I am trying to compile a C program using gcc on
cygwin. This program has compiled on tru64, AIX, Sun,
MAC, ect...but now need it for a Windows box. I've
only used cygwin for 2 days and have researched this
problem, but have had no luck. I send my apologies if
this has already been answered, but
Robby Gieringer wrote:
gcc -o code48_win -I/usr/include/ncurses -lncurses
-D_WIN_ code_v49w.c
(It gives a few warnings which are fine...then)
: undefined reference to `_initscr'
: undefined reference to `_newwin'
: undefined reference to `_LINES'
: undefined reference to `_COLS'
:
Steven Woody wrote on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:32 AM::
Hi,
I am using gvim in X window of cygwin. I selected a font Lucida
Typewriter same as I set for my windows version of gvim. Lucida
Typewriter looks good in windows version of gvim, but in cygwin's
gvim, it's ugly, looks like there
Hi
I had posted a few days ago about facing problems installing DBD::Oracle with
Oracle 10g client under Cygwin.
Though those were circumvented successfully, when I try to run a simple script
that calls DBI-Connect, I get
DBI connect() failed: ERROR OCIEnvNlsCreate. Check ORACLE_HOME env
The newest Cygwin clearly does NOT include this file.
I have lots of machines here with lots of different version of cygwin.
The date of the file I used is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/bin ls -al | grep cygdp
-rwxr-x--- 1 dobrin Domain Users 248320 Jul 20 2006 cygdps-1.dll
-rwxr-x--- 1
Hi,
I have been scratching my head for a while... to no avail. I have
compiled a simple source file with and without -fno-leading-underscore
flag, and the objects generated seem to have exactly the same names
for all symbols, always having a leading underscore.
What I do:
1- Compile the source
Bruce Dobrin wrote:
I have a machine that still 1.5.18 on it and it has an earlier dated
version of these files from 2005, but the same file size as the one I
used. My upgrade history is .18 to .21 to .24 to .25 so the file I used
was most likely from .21 or .24. Again. I'm not a the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do not know how to get rid of the leading underscores in Cygwin. I
have other sources compiled in Linux, and they do not have a leading
underscore added.
As I understand it, the -fleading-underscore flag is only useful to add
a leading underscore for targets that do
I'd be interested in it :)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Karl M
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:09 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Vista + cygwin basics
Hi Chuck...
The other issue is related, I think. I'm using keychain from
On 4/22/2008 4:25 PM, Mark Moriarty wrote:
On 4/22/2008 2:09 PM, Karl M wrote:
My solution was to launch ssh-agent as a service (one for each user that
wants it). That service spawns the agent and updates the user environment in
the registry so that other processes can find the ssh-agent
Hi everyone,
I've been Google-ing like crazy to find some information which I believe
deserves its own HOWTO or FAQ, ultimately I registered here to ask. I
apologize if it's something obvious or that has been asked so many times
everyone is bored, if that's the case I only need a pointer, and
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Phil Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steven Woody wrote on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:32 AM::
Hi,
I am using gvim in X window of cygwin. I selected a font Lucida
Typewriter same as I set for my windows version of gvim. Lucida
Typewriter looks good
Karl M wrote:
Just a comment...keychain is pretty heavy for what you get in Cygwin. I had
problems a long time ago with a slow laptop running XP SP2 with Cygwin windows
taking a long time to open if I kicked off several at once, particularly at
boot time.
My solution was to launch ssh-agent
Hi Eric,
You are genius! :)
I change the path to use /cygdrive/d/ and it works!
Cheers,
Lian
Eric Blake wrote:
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According to nlian on 4/17/2008 9:58 PM:
| Hi,
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| I have a bash script (e.g. test.sh), and I have the following command
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Charles Wilson wrote:
Karl M wrote:
Just a comment...keychain is pretty heavy for what you get in Cygwin. I had
problems a long time ago with a slow laptop running XP SP2 with Cygwin
windows taking a long time to open if I kicked off several at once,
particularly at boot time.
My
Karl M wrote:
Karl M wrote:
Just a comment...keychain is pretty heavy for what you get in
Cygwin.
My solution was to launch ssh-agent as a service (one for each
user that wants it). That service spawns the agent and updates
the user environment in the registry so that other processes can
find
Hi all,
Does cygwin fully supported on windows server 2008??
Thanks
Manjunath A
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Charles Wilson wrote:
It seems to do what I want, but as you say, keychain does slow down the
login process quite a bit. Other drawbacks to my approach:
(1) the console user's ssh-agent does not survive logoff (but remote
logons' ssh-agents do, since they all live in session 0).
(2)
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