Re: #ifdef WIN32 in setup sources

2008-08-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 11 15:54, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:56:11PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: can somebody explain to me why we have a lot of places related to file I/O where setup.exe has two codepaths, along the lines of #if defined(WIN32) !defined (_CYGWIN_) ...

Setup for 1.7 must still handle 9x?

2008-08-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
And the next question. I have hacked up a version of setup which handles most of the stuff necessary to install Cygwin 1.7 now. However, it contains changes which are hard to implemented transparently on 9x. For instance, all local file access is now using wide char functions which are usually

Re: Setup for 1.7 must still handle 9x?

2008-08-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 12 17:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And the next question. I have hacked up a version of setup which handles most of the stuff necessary to install Cygwin 1.7 now. However, it contains changes which are hard to implemented transparently on 9x. For instance, all local file access is

Re: Setup for 1.7 must still handle 9x?

2008-08-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:02:15PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 12 17:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is it worth it at all? Isn't it sufficient to keep the 1.5 installer on the branch and use it for 9x installations in future only? Never mind. Baring any dumb mistakes, it's apparently not

Re: Setup for 1.7 must still handle 9x?

2008-08-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 12 16:25, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:02:15PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 12 17:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is it worth it at all? Isn't it sufficient to keep the 1.5 installer on the branch and use it for 9x installations in future only? Never

Re: Setup for 1.7 must still handle 9x?

2008-08-12 Thread Ralph Hempel
Corinna Vinschen wrote: It works for me(TM), so I don't know what I screwed up. But at least we have finally a version of setup which can be used by all package maintainers. If nobody beats me to it, I'll upload this version as setup-1.7.exe to http://cygwin.com tomorrow. Glad to see you've

Re: emacs open display problem

2008-08-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/10/2008 2:48 PM, parminides wrote: emacs just flat-out refuses to open a display window. You might need to install or reinstall libncurses7. See http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2007-03/msg00081.html Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: changed behaviour in date command

2008-08-12 Thread Nicholas Volk
Hi Brian, Thanks for the reply. I'll switch to %H. My mistake. br, Nicholas Nicholas Volk wrote: After I updated cygwin today (bash updated) this no longer works as such, because the behaviour of %k has changed: instead of the usual 07 I now get 7. Is this intentional? At least in my

Re: perl.exe: fatal error on Vista

2008-08-12 Thread Reini Urban
2008/8/12 hce: I installed cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe on Vista. I am building the VLC at the moment and had following error for cygwin perl.exe. Could anyone advise what I was missing? + autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4 4 [main] perl 920

Re: Cygwin installation breaks ALL telnet clients

2008-08-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 12 00:16, David Greenhouse wrote: We are seeing an issue where after installing Cygwin and including the inetutils package in order to get telnet access, none of the telnet clients on the system will work properly (not Cygwin's, Microsoft's, PuTTY, nothing). The issue persists even

Re: Cygwin installation breaks ALL telnet clients

2008-08-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* David Greenhouse (Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:16:54 -0400) We are seeing an issue where after installing Cygwin and including the inetutils package in order to get telnet access, none of the telnet clients on the system will work properly (not Cygwin's, Microsoft's, PuTTY, nothing). The issue

Re: How do I fetch files from the web?

2008-08-12 Thread circ ular
well it is there but I dion't get how t download it and it doesn't seem to be included in my download since it says curl command not found. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: circ ular wrote: there is no option to install curl or cweb from setup.exe.

Re: How do I fetch files from the web?

2008-08-12 Thread circ ular
Well it is there but I don't get how to download it and it doesn't seem to be included in my download since it says: curl command not found. On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:45 AM, circ ular [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well it is there but I dion't get how t download it and it doesn't seem to be

OpenSSH_5.1p1 - Connection failed - xmalloc: zero size

2008-08-12 Thread d . choulette
Hi, I recently upgraded my ssh ( to OpenSSH_5.1p1 )and I can no more connect to some Solaris servers (SunOS 5.9). The message I get is: xmalloc: zero size and the connection is closed. I switched back to the previous version of Openssh (OpenSSH_5.0p1 ) and the problem disappeared. In both

cygrunsrv process logs

2008-08-12 Thread Pierre-Philipp Braun
Hi, Since I used cygrunsrv against fetchmail, I don't get fetchmail logs anymore. Here's how I made it, cygrunsrv.exe --install fetchmail \ --path /usr/bin/fetchmail \ --env HOME=$HOME \ --user ppbraun \ --args '--nodetach' \ --shutdown Into

RE: Cygwin installation breaks ALL telnet clients

2008-08-12 Thread Mike Marchywka
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:40:37 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin installation breaks ALL telnet clients On Aug 12 00:16, David Greenhouse wrote: We are seeing an issue where after installing Cygwin and including the inetutils package in order to get

Re: emacs open display problem

2008-08-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/10/2008 2:48 PM, parminides wrote: emacs just flat-out refuses to open a display window. You might need to install or reinstall libncurses7. See http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2007-03/msg00081.html Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin installation breaks ALL telnet clients

2008-08-12 Thread Robert Pendell
On 8/12/08, Mike Marchywka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:40:37 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin installation breaks ALL telnet clients On Aug 12 00:16, David Greenhouse wrote: We are seeing an issue where after installing

Re: Cygwin installation breaks ALL telnet clients

2008-08-12 Thread Mark J. Reed
$ telnet rd00d20 Trying 172.28.48.32... Connected to rd00d20. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. (In other words, the connection is opened and immediately closed.) ...by the foreign host. The telnet clients appears to be working properly. I would suspect a

Re: How do I fetch files from the web?

2008-08-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU. Reformatted and edited accordingly. circ ular wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com wrote: ^^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. circ

cygwin-developer

2008-08-12 Thread Hans L
Hi. I have a problem that I'll have tryed to get allong with for several days. I have searched the mailing list archive, nothing found. I hope to get an answer now. I am trying to install a CFD-program called OpenFoam (OF) with Cygwin, The problem I have incountered are that OF requires a remote

ash-20040127-3: Invalid behavior of negated pipeline

2008-08-12 Thread Dmitry Semyonov
Hello all, -- begin -- $ bash -c '! true | false; echo $?' 0 $ ash -c '! true | false; echo $?' 1 -- end -- Mostly if conditions are affected by this issue. Quote[1] from the Shell Command Language standard: If the reserved word ! does not precede the pipeline, the exit status shall be the

Re: ash-20040127-3: Invalid behavior of negated pipeline

2008-08-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 12 19:36, Dmitry Semyonov wrote: Hello all, -- begin -- $ bash -c '! true | false; echo $?' 0 $ ash -c '! true | false; echo $?' 1 -- end -- Mostly if conditions are affected by this issue. Quote[1] from the Shell Command Language standard: If the reserved word ! does

Re: cygwin-developer

2008-08-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Hans L wrote: Hi. I have a problem that I'll have tryed to get allong with for several days. I have searched the mailing list archive, nothing found. I hope to get an answer now. I am trying to install a CFD-program called OpenFoam (OF) with Cygwin, The problem I have incountered are that OF

Re: OpenSSH_5.1p1 - Connection failed - xmalloc: zero size

2008-08-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 12 11:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded my ssh ( to OpenSSH_5.1p1 )and I can no more connect to some Solaris servers (SunOS 5.9). The message I get is: xmalloc: zero size and the connection is closed. I switched back to the previous version of Openssh

Re: openssh, XP and network drives not working *with* password auth

2008-08-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 11 10:04, Jamie Lokier wrote: Hi, I have a problem which at first seems to have been asked a hundred times: How do I access network shares from an ssh session? The trouble is, everything I found via Google, the Cygwin docs, FAQ etc. says the same thing: It works fine if you

Re: emacs open display problem

2008-08-12 Thread Sam Hanes
parminides wrote: I've tried the following commands in an xterm, all to no avail: emacs emacs -d :0 emacs -d 0:0 I infer from the '-d :0.0' and the XTerm that you're trying to open Emacs in X. Some X applications have problems with specifying the X display on the command line, even if

Re: cygrunsrv process logs

2008-08-12 Thread René Berber
Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote: Since I used cygrunsrv against fetchmail, I don't get fetchmail logs anymore. Here's how I made it, cygrunsrv.exe --install fetchmail \ --path /usr/bin/fetchmail \ --env HOME=$HOME \ --user ppbraun \ --args '--nodetach' \

RE: cdargs usage

2008-08-12 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Robert Bram wrote on Monday, August 11, 2008 1:30 AM: The cdargs manpage says: ENTER select current entry. But when I go to cdargs browse or list mode, I exit cdargs but the directory hasn't changed. Have I misinterpreted how cdargs works in Cygwin? No, not exactly. It sounds

Re: /etc/group manual-edits-workaround still reqd in 1.7?

2008-08-12 Thread Tom Rodman
On Mon 7/28/08 10:18 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 26 09:12, Tom Rodman wrote: I use cygwin in a large domain, from time to time my account is added or removed from domain groups without any warning (last time 'IT' added 'Domain Users' to some other domain group - so all domain

issues with xemacs and cygwin

2008-08-12 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Hi, I updated recently cygwin. My cygwin1.dll has the version : 1.5.25-cr-0x5f1, built on 2008-06-12 19:34. I am running the latest available version of XEmacs for cygwin, 21.4 (patch 21) Educational Television XEmacs Lucid of Tuesday, Dec 4 2007 on vzell-de. When I am running functions of

Re: issues with xemacs and cygwin

2008-08-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote: Hi, I updated recently cygwin. My cygwin1.dll has the version : 1.5.25-cr-0x5f1, built on 2008-06-12 19:34. I am running the latest available version of XEmacs for cygwin, 21.4 (patch 21) Educational Television XEmacs Lucid of Tuesday, Dec 4 2007 on vzell-de. When

Re: cygwin-developer

2008-08-12 Thread Bernd Prager
Hans L wrote: Hi. I have a problem that I'll have tryed to get allong with for several days. I have searched the mailing list archive, nothing found. I hope to get an answer now. I am trying to install a CFD-program called OpenFoam (OF) with Cygwin, The problem I have incountered are that OF

Re: ash-20040127-3: Invalid behavior of negated pipeline

2008-08-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 8/12/2008 9:40 AM: | On Aug 12 19:36, Dmitry Semyonov wrote: | Hello all, | | -- begin -- | $ bash -c '! true | false; echo $?' | 0 | | $ ash -c '! true | false; echo $?' | 1 | -- end -- | | Mostly if conditions are

Re: perl.exe: fatal error on Vista

2008-08-12 Thread hce
On 8/12/08, Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/12 hce: I installed cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe on Vista. I am building the VLC at the moment and had following error for cygwin perl.exe. Could anyone advise what I was missing? + autoreconf --install --force