[ITP, RFU] Unison: new, updated, and obsoleted packages

2009-04-30 Thread Andrew Schulman
Changes to the Unison packages: New package: unison2.31. Updated: unison2.27. Please leave version 2.27.57-1 as the previous version (per the commands below). Obsoleted: unison2.13, unison2.17. Please upload for 1.5 and 1.7. Thanks, Andrew. ## ## 1.7 ## cd release-2/unison wget -x -nH

Re: 1.5.25: cygwin executeables are crashing from time to time (Windows 2003 Server Ver 5.2 Build 3790 Service Pack )

2009-04-30 Thread Stefan Walter
Mark Geisert schrieb: Stefan Walter writes: Attached now the cygcheck.out. Maybe someone can give me now a hint for the crashes. Additional: There is no Antivirus as well as Firewall running on the System. [...] Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Apr 14

Re: 1.5.25: cygwin executeables are crashing from time to time (Windows 2003 Server Ver 5.2 Build 3790 Service Pack )

2009-04-30 Thread Mark Geisert
Stefan Walter writes: Additional: There is no Antivirus as well as Firewall running on the System. Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Apr 14 11:02:39 2009 Windows 2003 Server Ver 5.2 Build 3790 Service Pack 2 Running under WOW64 on AMD64 Running in

luit-1.0.3-1: Couldn't allocate pty: No such file or directory

2009-04-30 Thread neomjp
$ cygcheck -c luit Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus luit 1.0.3-1OK $ /usr/bin/luit.exe Couldn't allocate pty: No such file or directory This error is caused by trying to opening a pseudo terminal in a BSD way (instead of in a SVR4 or

Bash problem

2009-04-30 Thread Ken Brown
A build script I was running failed because it had a command of the form 'eval foo=bar time command'. Here's a simple test case: $ eval foo=bar time true -bash: time: command not found It works fine without foo=bar: $ eval time true real0m0.060s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s I have

Re: Bash problem

2009-04-30 Thread david sastre
2009/4/30 Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu: A build script I was running failed because it had a command of the form 'eval foo=bar time command'.  Here's a simple test case: $ eval foo=bar time true -bash: time: command not found It works fine without foo=bar: $ eval time true real    

RE: Can cygwin boot faster?

2009-04-30 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Lenik wrote on April 29, 2009, at 7:44 PM: I feel it has been slightly faster in cygwin-1.7 than cygwin-1.6. But it is still very slow compared to msys-1.10. What does cygwin indeed execute when start up? I found that bash-completion slowed startup a LOT. If you have it, you might try not

Re: Bash problem

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ken Brown on 4/30/2009 5:27 AM: A build script I was running failed because it had a command of the form 'eval foo=bar time command'. Here's a simple test case: This is not cygwin specific. $ eval foo=bar time true -bash: time:

Moving Cygwin

2009-04-30 Thread Tim Visher
Hello Everyone, I originally installed cygwin in the default `C:\cygwin` directory. I'd like to move it from there to `C:\`. Is there any easy way to do this? Thanks in advance! -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail --

Re: Moving Cygwin

2009-04-30 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2009-04-30 12:27Z, Tim Visher wrote: I originally installed cygwin in the default `C:\cygwin` directory. I'd like to move it from there to `C:\`. Is there any easy way to do this? Please consider advice to the contrary, e.g.: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.c

Re: Can cygwin boot faster?

2009-04-30 Thread Barry Kelly
Lenik wrote: Because of the slow speed, when I'm programming with cygwin, I will carefully to invoke command calls to the cygwin executables, to reduce the start up cost. I've sometimes wondered if it would be worth it to have busybox ported to Cygwin, just to cut out the forking cost for

Cygwin 1.7 ACLs

2009-04-30 Thread Darren Syzling
I'm trying cygwin 1.7 for the first time. I have an existing subversion area created with a windows version of subversion. I used patch to apply a diff to an individual file. Before the patch the file permissions were inheriting from it's parent - which included the Users group,

Re: Moving Cygwin

2009-04-30 Thread Tim Visher
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Greg Chicares gchica...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 2009-04-30 12:27Z, Tim Visher wrote: I originally installed cygwin in the default `C:\cygwin` directory. I'd like to move it from there to `C:\`. Is there any easy way to do this? Please consider advice to the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] pl-0.10.2-1 - the Parma Polyhedra Library

2009-04-30 Thread David Billinghurst
Version ppl-0.10.2-1 of the Parma Polyhedra Library (PPL) has been released. PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/ License : GNU GPL 3 or later The Parma Polyhedra Library (PPL) provides numerical abstractions specially targeted at applications in the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] mpclib-0.6-1

2009-04-30 Thread David Billinghurst
mpclib-0.6-1 has been released for cygwin 1.7. PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.multiprecision.org/mpc Download: http://www.multiprecision.org/index.php?prog=mpcpage=download License: Gnu Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later MPC is a C library for the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] cloog-ppl-0.15.3-1

2009-04-30 Thread David Billinghurst
cloog-ppl-0.15.3-1 has been released for cygwin 1.7. PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.cloog.org/ Download: ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/. License: GPL version 2 or later CLooG - the Chunky Loop Generator - is free software and library to generate code

Re: Bash problem

2009-04-30 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/30/2009 7:56 AM, Eric Blake wrote: time is a special case. It is BOTH a bash reserved word and an external command (assuming you've installed the external package). The difference is what syntax you use. Thanks for the explanation. My problem, obviously, is that I hadn't installed the

Re: Bash problem

2009-04-30 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Ken Brown A build script I was running failed because it had a command of the form 'eval foo=bar time command'. That won't work because time is a special shell keyword, and as such only recognized when it's the first word on the command line. The same is true

Re: Weird problem when opening MSWORD docs via SSH session to Cygwin

2009-04-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Perry Ng wrote: Hi All. I've been trying to get Cygwin to open up a MSWORD document via a vbs using cscript but have struck a weird problem when attempting to do so. I've created a VBS, it opens the word document and prints it. Using Cscript + vbs, it works fine from the Cygwin shell,

Re: Moving Cygwin

2009-04-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tim Visher wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Greg Chicares gchica...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 2009-04-30 12:27Z, Tim Visher wrote: I originally installed cygwin in the default `C:\cygwin` directory. I'd like to move it from there to `C:\`. Is there any easy way to do this? Please

gnuc on cygwin? need help!

2009-04-30 Thread fuzzylogic25
Hi everyone i have a big problem if anyone could help me that would be great. i have a project which runs a make file to compile and when i run it on cygwin i get this error: - $ make gnuc -g -O0 -Wno-long-long -c -o disksched.o

Re: gnuc on cygwin? need help!

2009-04-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
fuzzylogic25 wrote: Hi everyone i have a big problem if anyone could help me that would be great. i have a project which runs a make file to compile and when i run it on cygwin i get this error: - $ make gnuc -g -O0 -Wno-long-long -c

Re: gnuc on cygwin? need help!

2009-04-30 Thread fuzzylogic25
yep i installed full cygwin so i got gcc. i always used gcc. but now this makefile uses gnuc. ok so what i did was edit the section in make that i showed u to CC =gcc instead of CC = gnuc and well it seems to be working. but i dont know anything about this compiler stuff and the extra

Re: gnuc on cygwin? need help!

2009-04-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
fuzzylogic25 wrote: yep i installed full cygwin so i got gcc. i always used gcc. but now this makefile uses gnuc. ok so what i did was edit the section in make that i showed u to CC =gcc instead of CC = gnuc and well it seems to be working. but i dont know anything about this compiler

Perl ExtUtils::MakeMaker 'make install' not generating manual page for script

2009-04-30 Thread David Christensen
Cygwin: I've packaged a Perl script into a module distribution using ExtUtils::MakeMaker: http://www.holgerdanske.com/system/files/newest-1.012.tar.gz When I build the module on a Linux machine, a manual page is created. But when I build the script on Cygwin (console session follows), a

Re: Moving Cygwin

2009-04-30 Thread Andy Koppe
This means either installing Cygwin in the root directory of the drive that you'll commonly be working in with both Windows and Cygwin tools Speaking of which, it would be nice if setup.exe warned about doing this only once when you first decide to install in the root directory. Currently it

Re: Moving Cygwin

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Backus
Tim Visher writes: On 2009-04-30 12:27Z, Tim Visher wrote: I originally installed cygwin in the default `C:\cygwin` directory. I'd like to move it from there to `C:\`. Is there any easy way to do this? Maybe the context for my question would help. I'm attempting to follow advice

[1.7.0-46] cygcheck and alternatives both exit with status 127

2009-04-30 Thread Andrew Schulman
Cygwin 1.7.0-46. I try to use alternatives, but every time I do it does nothing except to exit with status 127. So I started to file a bug report, and ran cygcheck -svr. To my surprise, cygcheck also exits part of the way through with status 127. It does give some output first-- attached here.

Re: [1.7.0-46] cygcheck and alternatives both exit with status 127 - cygcheck.out

2009-04-30 Thread Andrew Schulman
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I'd like to have an unreadable file

2009-04-30 Thread Tim McDaniel
I'd like to test a script by giving it an unreadable file as an argument. I usually log in as a user, but one that's in the Administrators group. I made the file (a text file containing just hello) owned by user Administrator with absolutely no permissions for anyone else. In Windows Explorer,

Normalized directory name

2009-04-30 Thread Tim McDaniel
I have access to a Windows 2003 system. Cygwin is running case-insensitive, so while the directory name is E:\CM\BuildUtil, I can type cd /cm/buildutil and get there (E:\CM is mounted on /cm). And if I do that particular cd, then pwd, /bin/pwd, and echo $PWD all say /cm/buildutil. For

Re: I'd like to have an unreadable file

2009-04-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tim McDaniel wrote: I'd like to test a script by giving it an unreadable file as an argument. I usually log in as a user, but one that's in the Administrators group. I made the file (a text file containing just hello) owned by user Administrator with absolutely no permissions for anyone else.

Re: I'd like to have an unreadable file

2009-04-30 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Larry Hall wrote: It's a known fact that Cygwin allows users that are members of the Adminstrators group access to any file, regardless of its permissions. Thank you for the quick reply. (Though I find it scary that Cygwin can escalate privileges so very much.) I guess

Re: I'd like to have an unreadable file

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Blake
Tim McDaniel tmcd at panix.com writes: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Larry Hall wrote: It's a known fact that Cygwin allows users that are members of the Adminstrators group access to any file, regardless of its permissions. Thank you for the quick reply. (Though I find it scary that Cygwin

Re: I'd like to have an unreadable file

2009-04-30 Thread Sylvain RICHARD
Tim McDaniel wrote: I'd like to test a script by giving it an unreadable file as an argument. I usually log in as a user, but one that's in the Administrators group. I made the file (a text file containing just hello) owned by user Administrator with absolutely no permissions for anyone else.

Re: Normalized directory name

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Blake
Tim McDaniel tmcd at panix.com writes: For tidiness, if nothing else, I'd like to get the normalized form, in much the same way how, in CMD, I can do E:\cd cm\buildutil and have the prompt become E:\CM\BuildUtil In the case of cd, I'm not going to patch bash to do this by default.

Re: Normalized directory name

2009-04-30 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Eric Blake wrote: But beware that with cygwin 1.7, you can have directories which are case sensitive, in which case the glob may return multiple files. A few questions out of curiosity, since I've not read up on Cygwin 1.7: What does Cygwin 1.7 do in that case with

iconv: Xft UTF-8 rendering

2009-04-30 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Chuck, I'm having some issues with iconv, Xft, and UTF-8 rendering. Could you please help me look into this: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10122 The easiest of those to reproduce is probably blackbox:

gcc4: goodbye const struct problems?

2009-04-30 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 With 1.7, gcc4, and the same binutils, I no longer see the const struct .rdata issues that we had with some packages with 1.5 and gcc3. Is that to be expected, what changed to cause this to occur, and can I rely on this for the future? Yaakov

Re: gcc4: goodbye const struct problems?

2009-04-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: With 1.7, gcc4, and the same binutils, I no longer see the const struct .rdata issues that we had with some packages with 1.5 and gcc3. Is that to be expected, what changed to cause this to occur, and can I rely on this for the future? See full explanation here:

Re: iconv: Xft UTF-8 rendering

2009-04-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Right now, I want to figure out if the problem is with Cygwin, iconv, libXft, or these packages (although I doubt the latter). Any assistance you can provide would be appreciated. I wouldn't be surprised if the issue is libiconv. The current version for 1.7 was built

[1.7] mpclib-0.6-1

2009-04-30 Thread David Billinghurst
mpclib-0.6-1 has been released for cygwin 1.7. PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.multiprecision.org/mpc Download: http://www.multiprecision.org/index.php?prog=mpcpage=download License: Gnu Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later MPC is a C library for the