Re: Cygwin 1.7 & mintty error - cannot run mintty more than once at a time

2009/9/30 David Antliff: >> From http://cygwin.com/problems.html: "Run 'cygcheck -s -v -r >>>cygcheck.out' and include that file as an attachment in your report. > > Done, although I've manually stripped out some company-specific info > I'd rather not publish on the Internet. Good idea. >> Also,

Re: authentication data for X11 issue

X queries belong on the cygwin-xfree@ list; setting Reply-To: accordingly. On 30/09/2009 00:42, diego menezes wrote: After installing Cygwin (default installation) and trying to connect to my machine at Fermilab I got this message: Starting SSH connection to senna-clued0.fnal.gov... Could not c

authentication data for X11 issue

Dear all, After installing Cygwin (default installation) and trying to connect to my machine at Fermilab I got this message: Starting SSH connection to senna-clued0.fnal.gov... Could not create directory '/home/diego/.ssh' Warning: no xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding

Re: rsync server prints error message

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Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 09/29/2009 11:16 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: On 9/29/2009 6:06 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 09/29/2009 07:47 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: fwiw, are you aware that the 1.7 FAQ at http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.html does not have a link to http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.setup.html ? I se

Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 9/29/2009 6:06 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > On 09/29/2009 07:47 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: >> >> fwiw, are you aware that the 1.7 FAQ at >> http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.html does not have a link to >> http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.setup.html ? > > I see it in the second link, "Setting u

Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 09/29/2009 07:47 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: On 9/29/2009 4:33 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 09/29/2009 07:25 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: i looked and did not notice any uninstall information in the 1.7 FAQ. is the recommended 1.7 uninstall procedure the same as 1.5?

Re: Where's ash.exe in 1.7.0?! (trying to rebase 1.7.0 in Win7)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ed Gaines on 9/29/2009 3:45 PM: > 1) Where the heck is ash.exe? the rebase-3.0.1.README file still says I > need to run rebaseall from > within ash, but I couldn't find it in the cygwin 1.7.0 setup options, > and of course, it didn't inst

Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 9/29/2009 4:33 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 09/29/2009 07:25 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: >> >> i looked and did not notice any uninstall information in >> the 1.7 FAQ. is the recommended 1.7 uninstall procedure >> the same as 1.5? > >

Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 09/29/2009 07:25 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: On 9/29/2009 1:40 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 09/29/2009 04:15 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: how do i completely uninstall cygwin so that when i re-run cygwin setup, setup has absolutely no idea that cygwin was ever installed?

Re: querying cygwin version

thanks for all the suggestions! -- david -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 9/29/2009 1:40 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 09/29/2009 04:15 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: > >> how do i completely uninstall cygwin so that when i >> re-run cygwin setup, setup has absolutely no idea that >> cygwin was ever installed? > >

Re: [1.7] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-1

Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > This version works OK in a cygwin shell, but not in a Windows command > prompt, because gcc.exe is a symbolic link. Indeed. Use gcc-3 or gcc-4 explicitly from a windows shell (or even use 'bash "-c gcc ... "' to chase the link). There's no one answer that would suit

Re: rsnapshot 1.3.1

> rsnapshot is already part of the distro.  It is maintained by Jari > Aalto (bcc'ed). That will teach me for not checking the packages page... Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/f

Re: [1.7] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-1

On 09/29/2009 05:59 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: This version works OK in a cygwin shell, but not in a Windows command prompt, because gcc.exe is a symbolic link. Is this a packaging problem? No. Use the target of the link directly or create a small batch file for yourself. gcc now uses the

Re: Where's ash.exe in 1.7.0?! (trying to rebase 1.7.0 in Win7)

ash-ewww! Ah, excuse me. My allergies. ;-) On 09/29/2009 05:45 PM, Ed Gaines wrote: I'm just installed Cygwin 1.7.0 on Windows 7. I use BitDefender 2010, so I know I have to rebase the cygwin.dll file (at a minimum). However, I have 2 questions: 1) Where the heck is ash.exe? the rebase-3.0.1.

Re: [1.7] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-1

This version works OK in a cygwin shell, but not in a Windows command prompt, because gcc.exe is a symbolic link. Is this a packaging problem? - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Where's ash.exe in 1.7.0?! (trying to rebase 1.7.0 in Win7)

I'm just installed Cygwin 1.7.0 on Windows 7. I use BitDefender 2010, so I know I have to rebase the cygwin.dll file (at a minimum). However, I have 2 questions: 1) Where the heck is ash.exe? the rebase-3.0.1.README file still says I need to run rebaseall from within ash, but I couldn't find

Re: querying cygwin version

On 29/09/2009 16:14, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: There are a few options: * uname -r * cygcheck -cd cygwin * Change your PS1 in $HOME/.bash_console. ^^^ s/console/profile/. For example: PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\...@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\] \n[1.7]$ ' re

R: querying cygwin version

--- Mar 29/9/09, David M. Besonen ha scritto: > Da: David M. Besonen > Oggetto: querying cygwin version > A: "cygwin users" > Data: Martedì 29 settembre 2009, 23:04 > assuming i have both 1.5 and 1.7 > installed, is there a way > for me to determine from a cygwin bash shell which version > of >

Re: querying cygwin version

On 29/09/2009 16:04, David M. Besonen wrote: assuming i have both 1.5 and 1.7 installed, is there a way for me to determine from a cygwin bash shell which version of cygwin i'm using? There are a few options: * uname -r * cygcheck -cd cygwin * Change your PS1 in $HOME/.bash_console. Yaakov

Re: querying cygwin version

On 09/29/2009 05:04 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: assuming i have both 1.5 and 1.7 installed, is there a way for me to determine from a cygwin bash shell which version of cygwin i'm using? uname -r -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc.

querying cygwin version

assuming i have both 1.5 and 1.7 installed, is there a way for me to determine from a cygwin bash shell which version of cygwin i'm using? thanks, david -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.

RE: completely uninstall cygwin

> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:40:15 -0400 > From: lh > Subject: Re: completely uninstall cygwin > >> has anyone created an automated procedure that will >> completely remove cygwin? > > Not that I'm aware of. > I believe Microsoft has. :-) But a complete reinstall of your flavor of Windows may be

Re: completely uninstall cygwin

On 09/29/2009 04:15 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: how do i completely uninstall cygwin so that when i re-run cygwin setup, setup has absolutely no idea that cygwin was ever installed? . i assuming there are some registry branches

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

Charles Wilson wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> ︶ㄣ無名氏 wrote: >>> here is a tree command >> You just distributed the binary of a program that is linked against the >> Cygwin DLL, and hence is covered by the GPL. Please send me the source. > > Not to mention that there no one should EVER run an executa

Re: rsnapshot 1.3.1

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:47:35PM -0700, David M. Besonen wrote: >On 9/29/2009 11:58 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>rsnapshot is already part of the distro. It is maintained by Jari >>Aalto (bcc'ed). > >thanks. > >where can i find a list of the cygwin package maintainers? We use the mailing lis

completely uninstall cygwin

how do i completely uninstall cygwin so that when i re-run cygwin setup, setup has absolutely no idea that cygwin was ever installed? i assuming there are some registry branches i might need to remove. has anyone created an automated procedure that will completely remove cygwin? thanks, david

Re: Cygwin Set up - Migrate to new machine

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 03:42:52PM -0400, Kevin Holleran wrote: > I am building a new laptop and was wondering if there was a way I > could copy some ini or setup file from cygwin to the new one so that > the cygwin installer would install the same packages as opposed to > having to go through and

Re: Num lines in dirs: C:\cygwin\bin = 1152 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin = 289 WHY SO FEW?

On 09/29/2009 04:04 PM, smo...@exis.net wrote: Chris Cormie (Cygwin) wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 09/28/2009 10:31 PM, Chris Cormie wrote: I don't think you are doing anything wrong David. setup-1.7.exe appears to default to just the Base category packages. The 1.5 setup.exe selects ma

RE: Num lines in dirs: C:\cygwin\bin = 1152 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin = 289 WHY SO FEW?

Chris Cormie (Cygwin) wrote: >Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> On 09/28/2009 10:31 PM, Chris Cormie wrote: >>> I don't think you are doing anything wrong David. setup-1.7.exe appears >>> to default to just the Base category packages. The 1.5 setup.exe selects >>> many more packages outside the Base c

Re: rsnapshot 1.3.1

On 9/29/2009 11:58 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > rsnapshot is already part of the distro. It is maintained > by Jari Aalto (bcc'ed). thanks. where can i find a list of the cygwin package maintainers? -- david -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Wish/tcltk & DISPLAY is not set

On 09/29/2009 03:07 PM, FyD wrote: Quoting "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" : Thanks. So I should miss something because I think what I did is correct ;-) - I start cygwin using the icon from the Wi

Re: Wish/tcltk & DISPLAY is not set

Quoting "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" : When I execute "wish" under cygwin (wish test.tcl), I get the following error message: /usr/bin/xterm: DISPLAY is not set I think this problem has been reported in 2006 @ http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00090.html & http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygw

Re: rsnapshot 1.3.1

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:44:46PM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >>>any chance rsnapshot 1.3.1 will be made available for cygwin anytime >>>soon? >> >>should i be inquiring elsewhere about this? > >If you would be willing to package and maintain it, I'm sure the Cygwin >developers would be glad to

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:46:32PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: >On 29/09/2009 10:18, Luke Kendall wrote: >> The URL http://cygwin.com/licensing.html (in summary) says that most >> Cygwin software is licensed under GNU GPL, X11 copyright (not sure how >> that's a license), and some are public domain. >

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:56:13PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >You just distributed the binary of a program that is linked against the >Cygwin DLL, and hence is covered by the GPL. Please send me the >source. Not only that but this puts the onus on cygwin.com to distribute the sources too. I've del

Re: rsnapshot 1.3.1

>> any chance rsnapshot 1.3.1 will be made available for >> cygwin anytime soon? > > should i be inquiring elsewhere about this? If you would be willing to package and maintain it, I'm sure the Cygwin developers would be glad to add it to the distro. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedeskto

RE: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

Bruno Galindro da Costa sent the following at Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:44 AM > >Works great! Thank you very much Chuck! >> Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote: >>>Thank you very much for the answer. In the package "psmisc", the >>> "tree" tool doesn't exists, only the tool "pstree". I have sear

Re: Num lines in dirs: C:\cygwin\bin = 1152 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin = 289 WHY SO FEW?

On 09/29/2009 03:16 AM, Chris Cormie wrote: Could you explain how the installer chooses a default set of packages to install for a fresh Cygwin install? Basically, it installs the packages in the 'Base' category and any dependencies of those packages. -- Larry Hall

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

Dave Korn wrote: > ︶ㄣ無名氏 wrote: >> here is a tree command > You just distributed the binary of a program that is linked against the > Cygwin DLL, and hence is covered by the GPL. Please send me the source. Not to mention that there no one should EVER run an executable, posted to a public mailing

Re: rsnapshot 1.3.1

On 9/21/2009 12:24 PM, David M. Besonen wrote: > any chance rsnapshot 1.3.1 will be made available for > cygwin anytime soon? should i be inquiring elsewhere about this? thanks, david -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docu

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

︶ㄣ無名氏 wrote: > here is a tree command > ad...@ubik /tmp/tree > $ 7z x tree.7z > > 7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30 > p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs) > Can't load '/usr/lib/p7zip/Codecs/.keep-p7zip' (Permission denied) > > Processing arc

Re: Wish/tcltk & DISPLAY is not set

On 09/29/2009 09:02 AM, FyD wrote: Alberto, When I execute "wish" under cygwin (wish test.tcl), I get the following error message: /usr/bin/xterm: DISPLAY is not set I think this problem has been reported in 2006 @ http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00090.html & http://www.mail-archive.co

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

On 29/09/2009 10:18, Luke Kendall wrote: The URL http://cygwin.com/licensing.html (in summary) says that most Cygwin software is licensed under GNU GPL, X11 copyright (not sure how that's a license), and some are public domain. That should probably read "X11 license" rather than "X11 copyright"

Re: SOLVED Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin

Charles Wilson wrote: Chris Cormie wrote: In 1.5 setup.ini @ subversion requires: cygwin libapr1 libaprutil1 libdb4.2 libexpat1 libintl8 libneon27 libsasl2 libserf0_0 libsqlite3_0 zlib In 1.7 setup.ini @ subversion requires: libapr1 libaprutil1 libdb4.2 libexpat1 libgcc1 libintl8 libneon27 lib

Re: Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:48:28PM +1000, Chris Cormie wrote: >Additional note for the last reply: even hacking >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 >and >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 >doesn't get me back into the earlier install of cygwin.

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:32:06PM +1000, Luke Kendall wrote: >As an engineer, it seems inefficient if every company that wants to use >Cygwin first has to spend several days/weeks finding all the licenses >across 2000(?) packages, distilling the license files down into a set, >find any that forbid

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:54:01PM +1000, Luke Kendall wrote: >I don't think you mean it is saying "you are not allowed to use Cygwin >within a company, Cygwin is only for personal or scientific >non-commercial research", and I'm happy that I can't see that. :-) Cygwin is basically GPL-based. H

Re: The C locale

On Sep 29 23:13, IWAMURO Motonori wrote: > 2009/9/29 Corinna Vinschen : > > The downside is that a user, who needs to work under the default ANSI > > codepage for some reason, has to know the name of the default ANSI > > codepage. > > If the problem is a problem of 1.5->1.7 migration, how about bu

Re: cygwin 1.7 has moved to utf8?

Charles Wilson wrote: > Things are still in flux, in cygwin-1.5. See the current thread 'The C ^^ cygwin-1.7 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

Re: cygwin 1.7 has moved to utf8?

Sven Köhler wrote: > is it just me, or does cygwin 1.7 return a utf8 encoded strings for > filenames and the like? > > I wonder, because rxvt and xterm show two strange characters for each > german umlaut when I use "ls -la" or the like. > > Well, I don't think that rxvt will ever work, because i

Re: The C locale

2009/9/29 Corinna Vinschen : > I asked if the default charset for the japanese language should be set > to EUCJP rather than SJIS.  The actual implementation would have been > like this > >  if (lang="xx or lang="xx_XX" with x in [a-z] and X in [A-Z]?) >    set_charset_from_codepage() > >  set_char

Re: SOLVED Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin

Chris Cormie wrote: > In 1.5 setup.ini > @ subversion > requires: cygwin libapr1 libaprutil1 libdb4.2 libexpat1 libintl8 > libneon27 libsasl2 libserf0_0 libsqlite3_0 zlib > > In 1.7 setup.ini > @ subversion > requires: libapr1 libaprutil1 libdb4.2 libexpat1 libgcc1 libintl8 > libneon27 libsasl2 l

cygwin 1.7 has moved to utf8?

Hi, is it just me, or does cygwin 1.7 return a utf8 encoded strings for filenames and the like? I wonder, because rxvt and xterm show two strange characters for each german umlaut when I use "ls -la" or the like. Well, I don't think that rxvt will ever work, because it doesn't support unicode. A

Re: The C locale

2009/9/29 Corinna Vinschen : > The downside is that a user, who needs to work under the default ANSI > codepage for some reason, has to know the name of the default ANSI > codepage. If the problem is a problem of 1.5->1.7 migration, how about building in the wizard which sets the locale environmen

Re: The C locale

2009/9/29 : > Also the following be suitable if possible.. >        LANG=ja -> iso-2022-jp >     LANG=ja_JP -> iso-2022-jp Hmmm, I think that it is unreal. -- IWAMURO Motnori -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: SOLVED Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin

> -Original Message- > From: Chris Cormie > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:25 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: SOLVED Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin > > Hi, > > I managed to get back into my bad install of Cygwin and ran > $strace svn > > As you suspected a m

SOLVED Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin

Hi, I managed to get back into my bad install of Cygwin and ran $strace svn As you suspected a missing dependency popped up: /usr/bin/cygz.dll cygz.dll is the only file in the libz0 package: $ cyg-apt filelist zlib usr/share/doc/ usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ usr/share/doc/Cygwin/zlib.README usr/share/

Re: Cygwin portable bash

On 09/29/2009 12:51 AM, Andy Holt wrote: ok, all apologies. I am familiar with mount, but if there is something extra special about how it works w/in cygwin I will check the Users Guide. I appreciate the direction, sorry I misunderstood (thought he was just telling me to 'man mount' and I felt th

Re: Wish/tcltk & DISPLAY is not set

Alberto, When I execute "wish" under cygwin (wish test.tcl), I get the following error message: /usr/bin/xterm: DISPLAY is not set I think this problem has been reported in 2006 @ http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00090.html & http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg65756.html

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

here is a tree command tree.7z Description: application/download -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: The C locale

On Sep 29 13:05, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> In theory this sounds like a good idea to be used for all locales which >> don't specify the charset explicitely, because that results in using the >> same charset, "UTF-8", for all such locales. "C", "ja" or "en_US" >> would all de

Re: Wish/tcltk & DISPLAY is not set

Do you have the X server running? Alberto -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

Works great! Thank you very much Chuck! 2009/9/28 Charles Wilson : > Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote: >>    Thank you very much for the anwser. In the package "psmisc", the >> "tree" tool doesn't exists, only the tool "pstree". I have searched in >> http://cygwin.com/packages/ for the tree tool, but

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

Stephen Bennett wrote: Um, and assuming that we found a list of packages that had no licenses, and a list of packages with licenses that we can't accept, is there any way to supply setup with a pre-defined list of packages to include or exclude? Or would everyone installing Cygwin at our company

Wish/tcltk & DISPLAY is not set

Dear All, When I execute "wish" under cygwin (wish test.tcl), I get the following error message: /usr/bin/xterm: DISPLAY is not set I think this problem has been reported in 2006 @ http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00090.html & http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg65756.ht

Re: The C locale

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 29 01:03, IWAMURO Motonori wrote: 2009/9/27 IWAMURO Motonori : LANG="ja" -> EUCJP LANG="ja_JP" -> EUCJP Hmmm, It is a difficult problem. I think selecting UTF-8 is good because eucJP is legacy. But, for interoperability with other UNIX-like sys

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.5] Updated: mercurial-1.3.1 -- Python based distributed version control (DVCS)

For Cygwin 1.5 PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/ License : GPL Distributed, efficient Python based source control system. Mercurial is designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects. Features include: CHANGES SINCE LAST RELE

RE: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

> Um, and assuming that we found a list of packages that had no licenses, > and a list of packages with licenses that we can't accept, is there any > way to supply setup with a pre-defined list of packages to include or > exclude? Or would everyone installing Cygwin at our company have to > read t

Re: The C locale

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > The downside is that a user, who needs to work under the default ANSI > codepage for some reason, has to know the name of the default ANSI > codepage. Mhhh... IMHO any user interested int his probably knows his own ANSI codepage all too well (CP1252 for me), but maybe tha

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 29 20:32, Luke Kendall wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: So, sure, Red Hat *could* do that, but that would mean to take over responsibility for something which is in the responsibility of the user in the first place. Eventually only a lawyer can make sure you comply

Re: Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin

Additional note for the last reply: even hacking HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 doesn't get me back into the earlier install of cygwin. I find the process of where "mount" gets its mount point informa

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

On Sep 29 20:32, Luke Kendall wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> So, sure, Red Hat *could* do that, but that would mean to take over >> responsibility for something which is in the responsibility of the user >> in the first place. Eventually only a lawyer can make sure you comply, >> but, apart f

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 29 19:18, Luke Kendall wrote: The URL http://cygwin.com/licensing.html (in summary) says that most Cygwin software is licensed under GNU GPL, X11 copyright (not sure how that's a license), and some are public domain. I'm just wondering what's the recommended w

Re: Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin

David Rothenberger wrote: On 9/25/2009 10:49 PM, Chris Cormie wrote: I updated Cygwin today via setup.exe and Subversion ceased working: $ svn status $ ie no output whatsoever regardless of what command is given to svn including --help. [snip] I hadn't updated for several months so a dozen o

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

On Sep 29 19:18, Luke Kendall wrote: > The URL http://cygwin.com/licensing.html (in summary) says that most > Cygwin software is licensed under GNU GPL, X11 copyright (not sure how > that's a license), and some are public domain. > > I'm just wondering what's the recommended way to check that u

Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

The URL http://cygwin.com/licensing.html (in summary) says that most Cygwin software is licensed under GNU GPL, X11 copyright (not sure how that's a license), and some are public domain. I'm just wondering what's the recommended way to check that use of Cygwin internally at a company (no re-di

Re: ls / does not show /c with cygdrive prefix=/

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I don't know what you would like to read. It's part of the way the > Cygwin DLL handles that stuff. To enumerate the available > directories, > the directory opened with opendir() must have been recognized as the > cygdrive directory. If that happens, *only* drives a

Re: Installing 1.7 alongside 1.5 - can it be done safely?

On Sep 29 08:41, Dave Korn wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Sep 29 03:11, Dave Korn wrote: > > >> You get precisely one chance and once chance only to make setup-1.7 > >> perform > >> a parallel installation for you. The very first time you ever run it you > >> must > >> select a new i

Re: ls / does not show /c with cygdrive prefix=/

On Sep 29 17:08, Mikel Ward wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Is there any way to disable this special case to get the behavior I want > > > with prefix=/? > > > > No, sorry. > > OK. > > I don't understand why, but if you don't have time to explain, that's > fine. I don't know what you wou

Re: Installing 1.7 alongside 1.5 - can it be done safely?

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 29 03:11, Dave Korn wrote: >> You get precisely one chance and once chance only to make setup-1.7 perform >> a parallel installation for you. The very first time you ever run it you >> must >> select a new installation dir, and a new local package cache dir, an

Re: Installing 1.7 alongside 1.5 - can it be done safely?

On Sep 29 03:11, Dave Korn wrote: > David Antliff wrote: > > Is it a simple matter of installing to a different path (e.g. > > c:\cygwin1.7), or will the 1.7 install overwrite anything (e.g. > > environment variables, registry entries) that 1.5 might require? > > It is moderately tricky. > >

Re: Num lines in dirs: C:\cygwin\bin = 1152 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin = 289 WHY SO FEW?

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 09/28/2009 10:31 PM, Chris Cormie wrote: I don't think you are doing anything wrong David. setup-1.7.exe appears to default to just the Base category packages. The 1.5 setup.exe selects many more packages outside the Base category by default and that's the differenc

Re: ls / does not show /c with cygdrive prefix=/

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Is there any way to disable this special case to get the behavior I want > > with prefix=/? > > No, sorry. OK. I don't understand why, but if you don't have time to explain, that's fine. But are there any other possible problems with having prefix=/ that I should be

Re: ls / does not show /c with cygdrive prefix=/

On Sep 29 09:19, Mikel Ward wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Mikel Ward wrote: > > > If I use a standard install with the cygdrive prefix as /cygdrive, the > > > drive letters appear in a directory listing: > > > > > > $ ls /cygdrive > > > c d w > > > > > > But if I change cygdrive to /, they

Re: The C locale

On Sep 29 05:27, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/9/28 Corinna Vinschen > > The downside is that a user, who needs to work under the default ANSI > > codepage for some reason, has to know the name of the default ANSI > > codepage.  Right now any user who needs the default ANSI codepage can > > simply set L