run2: make 0.3.1-1 current

2009-12-01 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Chuck, We've been bombarded as of late with the bug in checkX (run2) 0.3.0 not respecting the -t option. 0.3.1-1 seems to fix that; could this be made curr: ASAP? Yaakov Cygwin/X

Re: run2: make 0.3.1-1 current

2009-12-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: We've been bombarded as of late with the bug in checkX (run2) 0.3.0 not respecting the -t option. 0.3.1-1 seems to fix that; could this be made curr: ASAP? run2-0.3.2-1 should hit the mirrors any time now (no code changes from 0.3.1-1 except to bump to an even micro

RE: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-01 Thread Timares, Brian (Patriot)
Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Just to be clear from the start, Cygwin 1.7 not 1.5. ACK. *blush* Sorry! ... Thus, once more: What does md5sum /usr/bin/checkX yield? a827086e9cbb331ef49d416b3cb1b135 or a36409714f5ce9d01e8dfb4cb38b7216? The 2nd:

Re: [OT] Mailing list problems

2009-12-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 12/01/2009 12:29 PM, Mike Ayers wrote: Apologies for sending this to the list, but I could not find the answer on the web pages. I'm having a few quirks with the mailing list that I'd like to ask the postmaster about, but I can't find a contact point. Does anyone know of one?

cygwin-x xterm not compatible with windows 7?

2009-12-01 Thread wgweis
Hi All: This is my first post here. I've never had a problem I couldn't fix with cygwin-x before. Here is the deal: I just bought a new PC with windows 7 64 bit, build number 7600, version 6.1. I downloaded a fresh install of cygwin and cannot get cygwin-x xterm running. Cygwin

Re: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-01 Thread Lothar Brendel
Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: [...] Thus, once more: What does md5sum /usr/bin/checkX yield? a827086e9cbb331ef49d416b3cb1b135 or a36409714f5ce9d01e8dfb4cb38b7216? The 2nd: vhaisbtim...@isb-timaresbrian-lt ~ $ md5sum /usr/bin/checkX

RE: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-01 Thread Timares, Brian (Patriot)
Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: $ checkX -v run2 0.3.0 So, you've got the situation I surmised in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-11/msg00200.html Grr, I saw that, went and _thought_ I got the right version but it seems the right version

Re: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-01 Thread Lothar Brendel
Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: $ checkX -v run2 0.3.0 So, you've got the situation I surmised in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-11/msg00200.html Grr, I saw that, went and _thought_ I got the right version

RE: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-01 Thread Timares, Brian (Patriot)
Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: The X window showed up, but it blew up real good (the windows disappeared, then the X icon. After a rebootit didn't launch at all. I ran startxwin.sh from the Cygwin Bash Shell, and it started. At least we're getting *somewhere* :-)

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_registry.cc

2009-12-01 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-12-01 16:31:04 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_registry.cc Log message: * fhandler_registry.cc (fhandler_registry::open): Mark /proc/registry directory and

Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 20:53, Robert Pendell wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Angelo Graziosi angelo.grazi...@alice.it wrote: Robert Pendell wrote: P.S. - On linux (when I tested) TEMP, TMP, and TMPDIR were not set and patch defaulted to /tmp. I noticed that too... Ken Brown wrote:

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 17:04, Ken Brown wrote: The discussion currently going on in the thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892 makes me think that the section on environment variables in the user's guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html) could use some

Re: [1.7] cvs over ssh hangs on completion

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 26 22:42, Jeremy Hetzler wrote: I have cvs on a client machine connecting to a host over ssh. The cvs procedure finishes, but the connection does not terminate until I hit ctrl-c. The cvs process is then left running on the host. Regular ssh

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2009-12-01 Thread John Morrison
On Tue, December 1, 2009 9:15 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 30 20:53, Robert Pendell wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Angelo Graziosi angelo.grazi...@alice.it wrote: Robert Pendell wrote: P.S. - On linux (when I tested) TEMP, TMP, and TMPDIR were not set and patch defaulted

Issues with find in /proc

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Hi All, I'm not sure if this is expected behaviour or not, but I've noticed the following: csutc...@eush65 /proc $ find . . ./loadavg ./meminfo ./registry find: `./registry': Bad file descriptor ./stat ./version ./uptime ./cpuinfo ./partitions ./self ./mounts ./registry32 find:

My DIY solution Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-12-01 Thread LiuYan 刘研
After I viewed setup.ini, I decide to write a little script to do this. Currently, it scans all the sub-directory of cygwin local package directory, and delete all the old files which not listed in setup.ini or setup-2.ini. Wish it can help someone like me. download it from nabble.com:

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2009-12-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/1/2009 5:44 AM, John Morrison wrote: On Tue, December 1, 2009 9:15 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm wondering if /etc/profile is actually the right place for unsetting TMP and TEMP. What about etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc instead? It allows every user simple access to the setting of TMP

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2009-12-01 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: Here's one possibility, but it may be a little too verbose: Melius abundare quam deficere! I want just to flag that in the next release of base-files package, one should remove '/usr/X11R6/bin' from the definition of PATH. But, perhaps, this is already in John's ToDo list.

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2009-12-01 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/12/1 Ken Brown: On 12/1/2009 5:44 AM, John Morrison wrote: Unsetting them in the skel .bashrc files shouldn't be a problem to do, but on my system... $ echo $TMP /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/morrijr/LOCALS~1/Temp Tue Dec 01 10:40 AM $ unset TMP Tue Dec 01 10:40 AM $ echo $TMP Tue Dec

Re: My DIY solution Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:31:48AM -0800, LiuYan ?? wrote: After I viewed setup.ini, I decide to write a little script to do this. Currently, it scans all the sub-directory of cygwin local package directory, and delete all the old files which not listed in setup.ini or setup-2.ini. You didn't

Re: My DIY solution Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-12-01 Thread LiuYan 刘研
Hi Christopher, I've figure out one reason in my first post: Our servers have NO internet connection, so I'd better to keep a local copy of install packages, so that I can upgrade cygwin on servers by choose Install from Local Directory setup type. There's another reason I don't want to talk

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Reinier Post
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 07:40:51PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote: [...] If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid running under an environment modified by /etc/profile. It doesn't add, actually -

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/12/1 Reinier Post: If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid running under an environment modified by /etc/profile. It doesn't add, actually - it replaces it. You're wrong. The Cygwin

Re: My DIY solution Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:15:43AM -0800, LiuYan ?? wrote: Hi Christopher, I've figure out one reason in my first post: Our servers have NO internet connection, so I'd better to keep a local copy of install packages, so that I can upgrade cygwin on servers by choose Install from Local

Re: Issues with find in /proc

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 06:31, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: Hi All, I'm not sure if this is expected behaviour or not, but I've noticed the following: csutc...@eush65 /proc $ find . . ./loadavg ./meminfo ./registry find: `./registry': Bad file descriptor This is a bug in Cygwin. It misses to set a

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 08:12, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/1/2009 5:44 AM, John Morrison wrote: They don't get 'reset' to the windows default... but then, I've not really been following this thread. Is that what's wanted? No, they're not expected to get reset. Also, $PATCH and $TMPDIR weren't defined on my

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 14:24, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ken Brown wrote: Here's one possibility, but it may be a little too verbose: Melius abundare quam deficere! I want just to flag that in the next release of base-files package, one should remove '/usr/X11R6/bin' from the definition of PATH. But,

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2009-12-01 Thread Robert Pendell
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:44 AM, John Morrison wrote: On Tue, December 1, 2009 9:15 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 30 20:53, Robert Pendell wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Robert Pendell wrote: P.S. - On linux (when I tested) TEMP, TMP, and TMPDIR were

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/1/2009 4:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 30 17:04, Ken Brown wrote: The discussion currently going on in the thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892 makes me think that the section on environment variables in the user's guide

RE: Nasty permissions / pathing bug in perl on 1.7

2009-12-01 Thread Dan Offord
Hi, After testing this with a latest version of perl (5.10.1-1) / cygwin (1.7), we still see: [r...@quad32]~: perl --version This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i686-cygwin-thread-multi-64int (with 12 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2009, Larry Wall Perl may be

Re: Nasty permissions / pathing bug in perl on 1.7

2009-12-01 Thread Steven Hartland
Just to be 100% clear its not the fact that the script errors, its the fact that the permissions after the initial DOS pathed chmod doesn't actually set the permissions correctly and doesn't throw any error. Regards Steve - Original Message - From: Dan Offord

Re: Nasty permissions / pathing bug on 1.7

2009-12-01 Thread Dave Korn
Steven Hartland wrote: Just to be 100% clear its not the fact that the script errors, its the fact that the permissions after the initial DOS pathed chmod doesn't actually set the permissions correctly and doesn't throw any error. Also, it's not just perl, you can reproduce it in a shell:

Re: Nasty permissions / pathing bug on 1.7

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 17:42, Dave Korn wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: Just to be 100% clear its not the fact that the script errors, its the fact that the permissions after the initial DOS pathed chmod doesn't actually set the permissions correctly and doesn't throw any error. Also, it's not just

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 11:32, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/1/2009 4:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 30 17:04, Ken Brown wrote: I would be willing to take a stab at writing a patch if the developers think this would be useful. That sounds like a nice idea. OK, my patch is attached. It anticipates the

Update Re: My DIY solution Re: Cygwin setup.exe: Clean historical setup packages

2009-12-01 Thread LiuYan 刘研
update: added -p option, which will treat files listed in [prev] section of setup.ini as old. now, run ./cleanOldPackages_UTF8.sh -p -d will clean files listed in [prev] sectoin. download it from nabble.com: http://old.nabble.com/file/p26594254/cleanOldPackages_UTF8.sh cleanOldPackages_UTF8.sh

Re: Nasty permissions / pathing bug on 1.7

2009-12-01 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: That's by design. When you use Win32 paths, instead of POSIX paths, you will get Win32 default permission handling. Or, in other words, for all DOS paths the mount mode is noacl. Cheers, I was just off looking that up. It's obviously what's happening for perl

Re: Nasty permissions / pathing bug on 1.7

2009-12-01 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen That's by design. When you use Win32 paths, instead of POSIX paths, you will get Win32 default permission handling. Or, in other words, for all DOS paths the mount mode is noacl. Ok that begs the questions:- 1. What was the reasoning

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:32:43AM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: They are not reset but during an strace I discovered that cygwin will internally default to the system defined TEMP if one isn't defined in cygwin. In other words if it has been unset. This is similar to linux using /tmp by default

Re: Nasty permissions / pathing bug on 1.7

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 18:03, Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen That's by design. When you use Win32 paths, instead of POSIX paths, you will get Win32 default permission handling. Or, in other words, for all DOS paths the mount mode is noacl. Ok that begs the

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/1 Reinier Post: If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid running under an environment modified by /etc/profile. It doesn't add,

Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67)

2009-12-01 Thread Robert Pendell
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:32:43AM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: They are not reset but during an strace I discovered that cygwin will internally default to the system defined TEMP if one isn't defined in cygwin.  In other words if it has

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread John Morrison
On Tue, December 1, 2009 4:32 pm, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/1/2009 4:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 30 17:04, Ken Brown wrote: The discussion currently going on in the thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892 makes me think that the section on environment

Base-Files (was Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile?)

2009-12-01 Thread John Morrison
Ok, I've removed the X11R6 from the path and unset TMP and TEMP in the skel/.bashrc. Are there any other changes folks would like before I roll this up? :) Regards, J. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Nasty permissions / pathing bug on 1.7

2009-12-01 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen Win32 path - No POSIX path - no POSIX permissions. So then why does it have any permissions support at all? By allowing permissions to be read and obeyed, but not written, your sending out very much mixed messaging which is confusing at

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Jeremy Bopp
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/1 Reinier Post: If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid running under an environment modified by

Re: Base-Files (was Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile?)

2009-12-01 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 01/12/2009 19:37, John Morrison wrote: Ok, I've removed the X11R6 from the path and unset TMP and TEMP in the skel/.bashrc. Are there any other changes folks would like before I roll this up? It would be nice to audit all the existing packages to see if there are any which still install

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
To verify it, all you have to do is open a bash prompt (Cygwin.bat, mintty, rxvt, whatever) and then launch a cmd.exe or powershell. Check the path in the bash prompt and you will see the cygwin stuff at the beginning of it. Check the path in the cmd.exe or powershell prompt which was run

[1.7] git-difftool paths unusable by win32 kdiff3

2009-12-01 Thread David Antliff
My subject keeps getting blocked due to spam-like keywords, perhaps it will work this time: I'd like to report this here but I don't really have a general solution. Perhaps someone who knows better can comment. In git-1.6.1.2 [1.5] and git-1.6.4.2 [1.7] there is a command called 'git-mergetool'

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: To verify it, all you have to do is open a bash prompt (Cygw 0/tty2W0(2)$ echo $PATH /home/lmaschm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/c/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Windows Live:/c/WINDOWS

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Dave Korn
Lee Maschmeyer wrote: To verify it, all you have to do is open a bash prompt (Cygwin.bat, mintty, rxvt, whatever) and then launch a cmd.exe or powershell. Check the path in the bash prompt and you will see the cygwin stuff at the beginning of it. Check the path in the cmd.exe or powershell

Re: Nasty permissions / pathing bug on 1.7

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 19:37, Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: Corinna Vinschen Win32 path - No POSIX path - no POSIX permissions. So then why does it have any permissions support at all? By allowing permissions to be read and obeyed, but not written, your sending out very

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 1 19:24, John Morrison wrote: On Tue, December 1, 2009 4:32 pm, Ken Brown wrote: OK, my patch is attached. It anticipates the change to the default .bashrc file that we've been discussing in the thread cited above. Hi Ken, While I think it's a good idea to point out that they

Re: [1.7] git-difftool paths unusable by win32 kdiff3

2009-12-01 Thread Jeremy Bopp
David Antliff wrote: In git-1.6.1.2 [1.5] and git-1.6.4.2 [1.7] there is a command called 'git-mergetool' that is used as a wrapper for various graphical merging tools, such as kdiff3. It makes local copies of the relevant commits and brings up an interactive gui for resolving merge conflicts.

Re: Base-Files (was Re: Unset TMP/TEMP in profile?)

2009-12-01 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 01/12/2009 20:17, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 01/12/2009 19:37, John Morrison wrote: Ok, I've removed the X11R6 from the path and unset TMP and TEMP in the skel/.bashrc. Are there any other changes folks would like before I roll this up? It would be nice to audit all the existing packages to see

cygwin2 performance issue during compilation with autotools

2009-12-01 Thread kiorky
Hello, While making effort to port minitage [1] to windows, i had in mind to test cygwin2 (setup-1.7.exe as i understood) as it as improved support for some things like getaddrinfo and posix threads. Indeed the goal is to recompile a bunch of libraries from sources, then make them link together,

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
ran cmd.exe from start menu And that gets the info into Cygwin - how? -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

[OT] Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Dave Korn
Lee Maschmeyer wrote: ran cmd.exe from start menu And that gets the info into Cygwin - how? Yet another false inference. You were being shown an illustrative comparison that was supposed to demonstrate a point about the underlying mechanisms in play, not an answer to the original

Re: [1.7] git-difftool paths unusable by win32 kdiff3

2009-12-01 Thread David Antliff
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:11, Jeremy Bopp wrote: David Antliff wrote: On the other hand, this command does work: kdiff3 --auto --L1 build.xml (A) --L2 build.xml (B) c:/cygwin-1.7/tmp/Vc0BZy_build.xml build.xml As a fairly simple workaround, you could create a wrapper script which takes the

Re: [1.7] git-difftool paths unusable by win32 kdiff3

2009-12-01 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/12/1 David Antliff: I need a way to translate /tmp to the Cygwin installation directory. I.e. it's not a simple case of replacing /tmp with c:/tmp but rather $CYGWIN_INSTALL_DIR/tmp and I'm not sure CYGWIN_INSTALL_DIR or anything similar exists. Have a look at the cygpath utility. Andy

Re: [1.7] git-difftool paths unusable by win32 kdiff3

2009-12-01 Thread Jeremy Bopp
David Antliff wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:11, Jeremy Bopp wrote: David Antliff wrote: On the other hand, this command does work: kdiff3 --auto --L1 build.xml (A) --L2 build.xml (B) c:/cygwin-1.7/tmp/Vc0BZy_build.xml build.xml As a fairly simple workaround, you could create a wrapper

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/1/2009 4:08 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 1 19:24, John Morrison wrote: On Tue, December 1, 2009 4:32 pm, Ken Brown wrote: OK, my patch is attached. It anticipates the change to the default .bashrc file that we've been discussing in the thread cited above. Hi Ken, While I think

Re: cygwin2 performance issue during compilation with autotools

2009-12-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/01/2009 04:27 PM, kiorky wrote: Hello, While making effort to port minitage [1] to windows, i had in mind to test cygwin2 (setup-1.7.exe as i understood) as it as improved support for some things like getaddrinfo and posix threads. Indeed the goal is to recompile a bunch of libraries from

Re: [1.7] git-difftool paths unusable by win32 kdiff3

2009-12-01 Thread David Antliff
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:58, Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net wrote: There is a purpose built tool specifically to handle this which I mentioned in my reply. My apologies - I am familiar with the cygpath tool but I had never realised that it treats paths in the cygwin directory like that. I had

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Reinier Post
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:42:01PM -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/1 Reinier Post: If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Reinier Post
Windows programs will only ever see a Windows-style PATH no matter what; however, they WILL see the Cygwin paths converted to Windows-style and prepended IF they were run from a login shell under Cygwin. Yes, that's how I'm getting these Message too long messages. -- Reinier -- Problem

Re: [1.7] cygwin2 performance issue during compilation with autotools

2009-12-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/01/2009 05:31 PM, kiorky wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) a écrit : Can we see *attached* cygcheck output for your 1.7 and 1.5 installs, as 1.out - cygwin 2.out - cygwin2 Thanks. Since cygcheck for 1.5 doesn't find gcc and you have tools from other sources installed, I have to ask, are

You're Invited to Join Blastoff!

2009-12-01 Thread SEANPAUL JONES
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You're Invited to Join Blastoff!

2009-12-01 Thread SEANPAUL JONES
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Re: [1.7] cygwin2 performance issue during compilation with autotools

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 06:28:47PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 12/01/2009 05:31 PM, kiorky wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) a ??crit : Can we see *attached* cygcheck output for your 1.7 and 1.5 installs, as 1.out - cygwin 2.out - cygwin2 Thanks. Since cygcheck for 1.5 doesn't find gcc

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:28:31AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote: Windows programs will only ever see a Windows-style PATH no matter what; however, they WILL see the Cygwin paths converted to Windows-style and prepended IF they were run from a login shell under Cygwin. Yes, that's how I'm getting

Re: You're Invited to Join Blastoff!

2009-12-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/01/2009 04:34 PM, SEANPAUL JONES wrote: Hi Cygwin Codyburrows. Here's a clue... -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com If god wanted people to believe in him, then why did he invent logic?. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

odd segfault with my c program using cygwin 1.7

2009-12-01 Thread jeffunit
My program ran fine under cygwin 1.5 as well as many versions of linux including mandriva 2009, mandriva 2009.1 and mandriva 2010.0 When compiled with gcc cal.c -o cal and run with cal 2009 I get a segmentation fault. When I uncomment line 62, the program runs successfully. I have had other

Re: Issues with find in /proc

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/1/2009 9:13 AM: This one appears to be a bug in find. It looks like it's using its own version of the fts(3) functions. AFAICS, what happens is that find uses fstatat(fd = /proc/$PID/fd, name=6) in the first

Re: Environment variable documentation

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ken Brown on 12/1/2009 2:59 PM: I agree. A revised patch is attached. +You may therefore want to unset them by adding the following two lines +to your filename.bashrc/filename file: filename~/.bashrc/filename - -- Don't work too

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run2-0.3.2-1

2009-12-01 Thread Charles Wilson
The run2 package provides two utilities: 'run2' and 'checkX' (as the package is actually a renamed and updated successor to the now-obsoleted checkx package). The first utility is a more powerful replacement for the venerable 'run' utility that has long been a part of the cygwin distribution. The

Re: rsync pull problem and possible solution

2009-12-01 Thread Linda Walsh
Linda Walsh previously wrote: Dunno about the rest, but I rsync from a mounted MS-Windows ^^^ CIFS share every night to a linux server. It's never hung. So I don't know about the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.1.12-2

2009-12-01 Thread Charles Wilson
The run package provides a simple application to launch console programs with their console hidden. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] CHANGES since run-1.1.12-1 * Ensure stdout and stderr in inferior are distinct. -- Charles Wilson volunteer run maintainer for

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: run-1.1.12-11

2009-12-01 Thread Charles Wilson
The run package provides a simple application to launch console programs with their console hidden. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-1 ]] CHANGES since run-1.1.12-10 * Ensure stdout and stderr in inferior are distinct. -- Charles Wilson volunteer run maintainer for

Re: odd segfault with my c program using cygwin 1.7

2009-12-01 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/12/2 jeffunit: My program ran fine under cygwin 1.5 as well as many versions of linux including mandriva 2009, mandriva 2009.1 and mandriva 2010.0 When compiled with gcc cal.c -o cal and run with cal 2009 I get a segmentation fault. When I uncomment line 62, the program runs

Re: odd segfault with my c program using cygwin 1.7

2009-12-01 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/2 jeffunit: My program ran fine under cygwin 1.5 as well as many versions of linux including mandriva 2009, mandriva 2009.1 and mandriva 2010.0 When compiled with gcc cal.c -o cal and run with cal 2009 I get a segmentation fault. When I uncomment line 62, the

Re: odd segfault with my c program using cygwin 1.7

2009-12-01 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/12/2 Dave Korn: Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/2 jeffunit: My program ran fine under cygwin 1.5 as well as many versions of linux including mandriva 2009, mandriva 2009.1 and mandriva 2010.0 When compiled with gcc cal.c -o cal and run with cal 2009 I get a segmentation fault. When I

Updated: run-1.1.12-2

2009-12-01 Thread Charles Wilson
The run package provides a simple application to launch console programs with their console hidden. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] CHANGES since run-1.1.12-1 * Ensure stdout and stderr in inferior are distinct. -- Charles Wilson volunteer run maintainer for

[1.7] Updated: run-1.1.12-11

2009-12-01 Thread Charles Wilson
The run package provides a simple application to launch console programs with their console hidden. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-1 ]] CHANGES since run-1.1.12-10 * Ensure stdout and stderr in inferior are distinct. -- Charles Wilson volunteer run maintainer for