Re: bash exits when test or [ ] is used in Windows Server 2008

Dear Corinna, I am using the Cygwin 1.5.19 in Windows XP for a long time without any issue. Rightnow i am porting the build environvent to Windows Server 2003, but i am getting the Cygwin Issue continuously. I have stopped the DEP and Terminal Services in Windows Server 2003 and tried the build

Re: can't find documentation on cron command

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Paul McFerrin <> wrote: > I've delayed many months for installing the "/usr/sbin/cron.exe" command. >  Mainly due to lack of documentation. Are you saying that 'man cron' and 'man crontab' don't do anything for you? Install cron and you get man 1 cron man 5 cront

Re: How to get older version of cygwin (need to install perl 5.8 - not 5.10)

2010/3/18 jvsrvcs: > I inherited some code at work that is dependent on a number of .pm that will > only run with perl 5.8.  I can not upgrade the pm's so must use perl 5.8. > > I have cygwin installed but it will only let me install perl 5.10.1.  I want > to roll back to perl 5.8.  I tried ActiveS

can't find documentation on cron command

I've delayed many months for installing the "/usr/sbin/cron.exe" command. Mainly due to lack of documentation. Bam, at my weakest moment, . I found the documentation embeeded in the "cron" command itself. Just by adding a -? or --help I got two pages of very helpfull output. Just about when

Re: can't find online mainling list

On 2010-03-22 04:09Z, Paul McFerrin wrote: > Is this http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/ what you seek? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

Can't find mailist archives

I can't find the mailing lists archive. Did they get moved but just didn't update the links?? I can't seem to Navigate around to find the pages entitled "Mailing List Archive s". When ever I click upon it's link (discussion) , it taked me to the top of it's current page" which is at: http:/

can't find online mainling list

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Re: cygwin builds and unicode support

On 3/21/2010 4:24 PM, mike marchywka wrote: cygwin 1.5.25-15 Yes, that's Cygwin 1.5. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889

Re: 1.7.1- Scheduled Tasks runs but lacks 'du -kh' output

On 3/21/2010 1:10 PM, computer tech wrote: I have a .bat file, that is scheduled to run as NT Authority\System every morning. The schedule tasks calls the run.bat file. The script is running at the schedule time, but when I check the files in the morning the only output is from the 'echo' comman

Re: Cygwin & Virus

On 3/21/2010 9:06 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Karthik Balaguru <> wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: ^^^ Thanks. <> On 3/13/2010 7:26 PM, K

Re: cygwin builds and unicode support

On 3/21/10, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 2010-03-21 13:06, mike marchywka wrote: >> I'm trying to build QT webkit on cygwin and running into >> all kinds of confusions over char and wide char- it compiled right >> away on debian. I'm not entirely sure this is an issue with cygwin as much >> as th

Re: mintty - char encoding problems

David Balažic: > Hi! > > I have again LANG=SL  in  minTTY. > > I also see LANG=SL in cmd.exe. > > No idea where it came from. > > Info: > Regional: standards and formats: Slovenian; Location: United States; > Languages (kbd): English > > > I'll post more as I discover things. Any luck with this?

Re: cygwin builds and unicode support

On 2010-03-21 13:06, mike marchywka wrote: I'm trying to build QT webkit on cygwin and running into all kinds of confusions over char and wide char- it compiled right away on debian. I'm not entirely sure this is an issue with cygwin as much as this project and something stupid I'm missing but I'

Re: cygwin builds and unicode support

On 21/03/2010 18:06, mike marchywka wrote: > I'm trying to build QT webkit on cygwin and running into > all kinds of confusions over char and wide char- The most likely cause of the problem is that cygwin uses 16-bit wide chars, where linux has 32-bit ones. How you solve that is going to depen

cygwin builds and unicode support

I'm trying to build QT webkit on cygwin and running into all kinds of confusions over char and wide char- it compiled right away on debian. I'm not entirely sure this is an issue with cygwin as much as this project and something stupid I'm missing but I'll see what kind of response I get here as ma

Re: Very strange response when starting Cygwin

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 01:21:12PM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: >Hello! >I brought up the Cygwin prompt with the intentions of checking on a >program I had written, and I saw this stuff surface amongst the >fortune program output: > 2 [main] bash 2648 child_copy: linked dll data write copy faile

Very strange response when starting Cygwin

Hello! I brought up the Cygwin prompt with the intentions of checking on a program I had written, and I saw this stuff surface amongst the fortune program output: 2 [main] bash 2648 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed, 0x33D000 ..0x3414A4, done 0, windows pid 2648, Win32 error 487

1.7.1- Scheduled Tasks runs but lacks 'du -kh' output

I have a .bat file, that is scheduled to run as NT Authority\System every morning. The schedule tasks calls the run.bat file. The script is running at the schedule time, but when I check the files in the morning the only output is from the 'echo' commands(see hello-fs2.sh script below). I don't se

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.5.5-1

New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.5.5-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following are the changes since the previous release: o update to Python 2.5.5 o build against Cygwin 1.7 o build using cygport o split in

Re: Assembly language exit() syscall does not return correct value

On 21/03/2010 15:44, Brandon Chase wrote: > Thanks a lot! So I need to do all c-style syscalls for Cygwin? Yep, absolutely, should all be pretty much as simple as that. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com

Re: Assembly language exit() syscall does not return correct value

>On 16/03/2010 17:08, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Brandon Chase wrote: > " DaveK wrote: > " " Brandon, Cygwin isn't compatible with Linux at the assembler-code > level, > " So I cannot compile assembly language with Cygwin? Do I need a linux shell? > > No, that's not what anyone said. You c

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

On 21/03/2010 07:16, Andy Koppe wrote: > Perhaps it would work Cygwin 1.5 actually, which you can install using > http://www.cygwin.com/setup-legacy.exe. Someone else would need to > confirm this, but I think that was still getting compiled for 586. To be precise, it was all i386 until the swit

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

On 21/03/2010 07:42, Scott Little wrote: > True, but I can tell the noisier advocates claiming open source can save > my old hardware to STFU ;) No, you can't actually. Every Linux distro comes in i386 as well as i686 flavours, which will run just fine on your old hardware - as you already kno

Re: cygwin.com website

Thank you for your feedback. Firstly, I'd just like to say that my proposal was inspired almost entirely by the current site. I'm happy to adapt any ideas/comments/feedback or even consider a different approach. > There was another proposal and discussion about redesign in December and the > idea

RE: Cygwin & Virus

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Karthik Balaguru > Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 9:06 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Cygwin & Virus > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Karthik Balaguru > wrote: > > On Sun, Mar

Re: Cygwin & Virus

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) > wrote: >> On 3/13/2010 7:26 PM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> Since cygwin is a windows utility that provides linux environment. >>> What is the probability of the linux env

Re: cygwin.com website

This guy just redid http://mingw-w64.sf.net/ and it looks GREAT! I highly recommend his work. There was another proposal and discussion about redesign in December and the idea to spend effort on this wasn't too well-received... :-\ Yet I dare to add my comments: * I would refrain from

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

Scott Little: >> Where do you get that idea from that CMOV is optional? Yes, there's a >> CPUID feature bit representing CMOV, but that's always set on the >> i686, its descendants, and compatible processors. Pre-Nehemiah C3s are >> not fully 686-compatible, simple as that. > > Old flamewars, eg. >

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

> Where do you get that idea from that CMOV is optional? Yes, there's a > CPUID feature bit representing CMOV, but that's always set on the > i686, its descendants, and compatible processors. Pre-Nehemiah C3s are > not fully 686-compatible, simple as that. Old flamewars, eg. http://www.mail-archiv

Re: Cygwin vs Via C3: nothing happens, no output

scott: > According to the internets... the C3 purports to be a i686-class > processor, and has MMX/3DNow, but does not have the supposedly optional > CMOV instruction that other processors of its class have.  Some people > managed to get i686 kernels to run, some didn't, depending on the distro. P