Re: Update problems

2010-01-11 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/10 6:45 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > So your argument is based on the desire to have *another* package > manager application, besides 'setup.exe', that could be used from within > Cygwin applications to update Cygwin applications? Something like that, yes. The idea that one should b

Re: Missing documentation on bash

2010-01-11 Thread Chip Panarchy
Paul, it appears for me. Perhaps you haven't install man (or manpages, man-db) On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Cliff Hones wrote: > Paul McFerrin wrote: > >> I can't seemed to find any man pages for bash or other documentation. >> I'm having terriable problems is getting my .bat/.sh script wor

"mbox note: Can't open file://L:\ods\rtoy\Cygnus/ for reading: Unrecognisable file format" errors whilst executing setup.exe

2010-01-11 Thread Richard Toy
Both at work and home I install Cygwin on several machines and I keep a local cache of the Cygwin install files to reduce the time to update. I always run setup.exe and perform a full install of everything. Since upgrading to the latest version of setup, when performing the local install from the

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 10 21:01, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 01/10/2010 06:33 PM, sbre...@hotmail.com wrote: > > > >Hello, > > > >I am trying to run Cygwin from an NFS drive. Everything works fine as > >long as no symbolic link executables are invoked: > > > >$ awk > >bash: /usr/bin/awk: Permission denied >

Re: rsync hanging

2010-01-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Kevin Bond (Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:42:19 -0500) > > No, no tunneling or remote shell.. > > I am not sure how to run it without ssh. That's the default. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.co

Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2010-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 30 12:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 29 16:27, Karl M wrote: > > > From: corinna-cygwin > > > The cygdrive prefix is explicitely ignored when calling mount -a. > > > The problem is, I'm not sure anymore *why* I did it that way. > > > I added it to my TODO list, at least to figure out t

1.7.1: probelms with git

2010-01-11 Thread Jay Heaslip
Some of the git commands don't seem work. I able to "init" a git repository and check in changes, but commands like "git log" & "git diff" are not working. When I try to run them, they just return to the shell prompt without any output. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks, Jay -- Problem rep

Re: 1.7.1: probelms with git

2010-01-11 Thread Eric Blake
According to Jay Heaslip on 1/11/2010 6:10 AM: > Some of the git commands don't seem work. I able to "init" a git > repository and check in changes, but commands like "git log" & "git > diff" are not working. > When I try to run them, they just return to the shell prompt without any > output. Has

'/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Aaron Gray
I have upgraded Cygwin and am trying to build 'llvm-gcc' which is essentially the same as gcc and get the following :-     bash: /home/ang/svn/llvm-gcc/configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Many thanks in advance, Aaron -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: offlineimap 6.2.0+nmu1-1 -- IMAP/Maildir synchronization and reader

2010-01-11 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/offlineimap License : GPL Read the same mailbox from multiple computers, and have your changes (deletions, etc.) be automatically reflected on all computers. CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE == No

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:41:11PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: >I have upgraded Cygwin and am trying to build 'llvm-gcc' which is >essentially?the same as gcc and get the following :- > >?? ?bash: /home/ang/svn/llvm-gcc/configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: >Permission denied > >Many thanks in advance,

RE: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2010-01-11 Thread Karl M
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:15:29 +0100 > From: corinna > Subject: Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix > > On Dec 30 12:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Dec 29 16:27, Karl M wrote: From: corinna-cygwin The cygdrive prefix is explicitely ignored when calling mount -a. >>>

Re: rsync hanging

2010-01-11 Thread David Christensen
* Kevin Bond (Sat, 9 Jan 2010 10:10:08 -0500) Hello, I am trying to use rsync in cygwin but it seems to be hanging. Right after it asks me for password of my host the 'building file list...' message displays then hangs. I can ssh into the host fine. Any ideas? I was having rsync issues under C

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:12:48PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: >2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor : >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:41:11PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: >>>I have upgraded Cygwin and am trying to build 'llvm-gcc' which is >>>essentially?the same as gcc and get the following :- > >I have tried bui

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Aaron Gray
2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor : > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:12:48PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: >>2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor : >>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:41:11PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: I have upgraded Cygwin and am trying to build 'llvm-gcc' which is essentially?the same as gcc and get

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:33:20PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: >2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor: >> Have you tried reinstalling bash via setup.exe? > >Okay, working now after 2 bash reinstalls ! > >Many thanks Christopher, You're welcome but it still raises the question of why this was needed. Do you po

Re: 1.7.1: probelms with git

2010-01-11 Thread Jay Heaslip
After setting GIT_TRACE to1, I get the following when running "git log": trace: run_command: 'sh' '-c' 'less' trace: exec 'sh' failed: No such file or directory I've attached my cygcheck output. Thanks, Jay Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Mon Jan 11 11:00:38 2010 Windo

Re: 1.7.1: probelms with git

2010-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:39:42AM -0500, Jay Heaslip wrote: >After setting GIT_TRACE to1, I get the following when running "git log": > >trace: run_command: 'sh' '-c' 'less' >trace: exec 'sh' failed: No such file or directory > >I've attached my cygcheck output. Wow, an epidemic. See: http://cy

Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2010-01-11 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2010-01-11 16:16Z, Karl M wrote: > > I just reviewed chapter 3 of the user guide and found no mention of posix=0 > as the default for /cygdrive. http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html | To ease the pain, the /cygdrive path is case-insensitive by default | and you have to

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Aaron Gray
2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor : > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:33:20PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: >>2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor: >>> Have you tried reinstalling bash via setup.exe? >> >>Okay, working now after 2 bash reinstalls ! >> >>Many thanks Christopher, > > You're welcome but it still raises the

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Aaron Gray
2010/1/11 Aaron Gray : > 2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor : >> Also, you have c:\cygwin\bin in your path three times.  One is sufficient.   >> :-) > > Right thanks for pointing that out, they left over from the older installs. They don't seem to be in my system path. Aaron -- Problem reports:

ntEmacs has trouble with cygwin terminal...

2010-01-11 Thread aputerguy
Here is the situation: Running from a cygwin 1.7 bash terminal: $ emacs -nw $emacsclient -nw *ERROR*: Not using an ASCII terminal now; cannot make a new ASCII frame $echo $TERM cygwin Running from within screen within cygwin: $ emacs -nw emacs: standard input is not a tty $ emacsclient -nw *

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-01-11 Thread Kevin Layer
Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Kevin Layer on 1/8/2010 11:01 AM: >> > Has anyone in the cygwin group reproduced this? >> >> Yes, as maintainer of the git package on cygwin, I've seen sporadic >> failures of the git protocol, which I have always ended up working around >> by switching over to

Re: '/bin/sh' gone cannot build gcc

2010-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:45:58PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: >2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor : >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:33:20PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: >>>2010/1/11 Christopher Faylor: Have you tried reinstalling bash via setup.exe? >>> >>>Okay, working now after 2 bash reinstalls ! >>> >>>

Re: HOME environment variable set in Windows

2010-01-11 Thread WeyHan
dsula1 wrote: > > Howevever I wasn't able to find any reference to a HOME variable in > windows. I don't know why and whre it get's set. And it's for sure not to > be seen in My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables. > > It looks like my problem is beyond advanced. *smile*. >

RE: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2010-01-11 Thread Karl M
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:45:28 + > From: gchicares > Subject: Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix > > On 2010-01-11 16:16Z, Karl M wrote: >> >> I just reviewed chapter 3 of the user guide and found no mention of posix=0 >> as the default for /cygdrive. > > http://www.cygwin.

Re: 1.7.1: problem with public key authentication on domain accounts

2010-01-11 Thread Greg Fury
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Thomas Nisbach wrote: > Here is my SOLUTION and what I additionally found: > Using LSA-package (running cyglsa-config script and reboot) is (the only?) > solution (Larry recommended, too)! > I read Corinna's message (also linked by CYGWIN User's Guide, > http://cy

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-01-11 Thread Kevin Layer
Eric Blake wrote: >> Yes, as maintainer of the git package on cygwin, I've seen sporadic >> failures of the git protocol, which I have always ended up working around >> by switching over to an http protocol. I'm assuming that it might either >> be BLODA or an actual bug in cygwin1.dll regarding

Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix

2010-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 09:46, Karl M wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:45:28 + > > From: gchicares > > Subject: Re: "mount -a" has no effect on the cygdrive prefix > > > > On 2010-01-11 16:16Z, Karl M wrote: > >> > >> I just reviewed chapter 3 of the user guide and found no mention of posix=0 > >> as

Re: HOME environment variable set in Windows

2010-01-11 Thread dsula1
I don't have sysedit. Where is that supposed to be? I'm running vista x64 and searched the complete HD. Does it need to be installed seperatly. WeyHan wrote: > > > dsula1 wrote: >> >> Howevever I wasn't able to find any reference to a HOME variable in >> windows. I don't know why and whre it

Re: Update problems

2010-01-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/11/2010 03:23 AM, Steven Monai wrote: I will do that. Thanks for your time. I think this will give you a good background for understanding why 'setup.exe' exists and some of the history for its initial and continued development and the alternatives that have been discussed over time. Som

Re: HOME environment variable set in Windows

2010-01-11 Thread WeyHan
dsula1 wrote: > > I don't have sysedit. Where is that supposed to be? I'm running vista x64 > and searched the complete HD. > Does it need to be installed seperatly. > As far as I know, it comes with Windows since 3.0 and Google tells me that MS have a version of it in Vista as well. However,

Re: Combined tree fails to build -- libtool version mismatch?

2010-01-11 Thread DJ Delorie
> DJ, can you add these files to the list that we get email about? Added: ltgcc.m4 ltmain.sh ltoptions.m4 ltsugar.m4 ltversion.m4 lt~obsolete.m4 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.h

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 10 21:01, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: No. If the R/O attribute is supported, then a fourth option would It isn't. NFS only handles POSIX permissions. However, if you're using the Microsoft NFS client, you can convert the Cygwin syste

Re: ntEmacs has trouble with cygwin terminal...

2010-01-11 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/11 aputerguy > > Here is the situation: > > Running from a cygwin 1.7 bash terminal: > $ emacs -nw > > > $emacsclient -nw > *ERROR*: Not using an ASCII terminal now; cannot make a new ASCII frame > > $echo $TERM > cygwin > > Running from within screen within cygwin: > $ emacs -nw > emacs: s

Re: 1.7.1: probelms with git

2010-01-11 Thread Jay Heaslip
On 01/11/10 11:43 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:39:42AM -0500, Jay Heaslip wrote: After setting GIT_TRACE to1, I get the following when running "git log": trace: run_command: 'sh' '-c' 'less' trace: exec 'sh' failed: No such file or directory I've attached my cyg

Re: ntEmacs has trouble with cygwin terminal...

2010-01-11 Thread aputerguy
Andy Koppe writes: > 2010/1/11 aputerguy >> Note though that there are good reasons why I use ntEmacs and not >> cygwin Emacs > > Such as? Well 2 main reasons. First, I use emacs all the time and keep it open my whole session long. Now sometimes when upgrading cygwin, I have found myself locked

Cygwin upgrade

2010-01-11 Thread Tod
I'm upgrading to 1.7.1 from the previous version which I was pretty good at keeping up to date. I ran into a problem installing openssh which locked the install forcing me to cancel. I stopped the openssh service and cygwin service and tried again. It completed with me ok'ing past pointer er

Re: Cygwin upgrade

2010-01-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/11/2010 03:46 PM, Tod wrote: I'm upgrading to 1.7.1 from the previous version which I was pretty good at keeping up to date. I ran into a problem installing openssh which locked the install forcing me to cancel. I stopped the openssh service and cygwin service and tried again. It completed

scrotwm on cygwin

2010-01-11 Thread Marco Peereboom
I ported scrotwm to cygwin. Instructions at: http://scrotwm.org/cygwin.html Enjoy. -- 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-s

Re: scrotwm on cygwin

2010-01-11 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/11 3:22 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: > I ported scrotwm to cygwin. Nice package. -SM -- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Tried out cygwin-inst-20100111.tar.bz2

2010-01-11 Thread Karl M
Hi All... I just tried out the latest snapshot and had two problems on a Vista Business SP2 machine. The first problem was that in bash shell launched from the cygwin.bat file in a console window, the backspace did nothing. I also received the following error from find: $ find / -name '

Redirecting $TEMP or a certain directory to /tmp

2010-01-11 Thread Thomas Wiedmann
Hello, how can in Cygwin the directory, which is in Windows configured as $TEMP, or a certain other directory, be redirected to /tmp? Thomas Wiedmann -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwi