Re: scp and cygwin randomly and automatically converts text files from utf-8 to windows encoding (cp1251)

On 31 August 2010 20:23, rPman wrote: > It happens when files are copied from cygwin windows machines to any linux > (tried different versions of ubuntu and gentoo with utf-8 locale). Cygwin does not change the encoding of file content when copying files. Cygwin 1.7 does translate file names betwe

Re: Building Mutt: configure: invalid value of canonical build

Download the mutt 1.5.20 source from the mutt website.. it configures fine for me (had to add some dev libs, etc) ...snip... checking wctype.h usability... yes checking wctype.h presence... yes checking for wctype.h... yes checking for iswalnum... yes checking for iswalpha... yes checking for isw

Re: Support for the TIOCINQ ioctl

On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: On 27 August 2010 23:31, Brennan Peter Sellner wrote: By any chance, has support for the TIOCINQ ioctl on file descriptors (used to check how many bytes of data are in the input buffer) been added to Cygwin?  It hadn't as of 2004:  http://sourceware.org/ml

Re: endless problems with SSHD - bug ??

On 8/18/2010 11:24 PM, Bob Goldberg wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner We don't encourage feeding the spammers around here. Thanks. Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 1:04 PM To: cygwin ^^ Ditto. And

Re: Building Mutt: configure: invalid value of canonical build

Am 01.09.2010, 01:37 Uhr, schrieb Michael Ludwig: Matthias Andree schrieb am 31.08.2010 um 00:58 (+0200): On 30.08.2010 23:52, Michael Ludwig wrote: >The mutt mail reader shipping with Cygwin does not have SMTP >enabled, which I'd like to give a try. So I tried to build mutt, >but encountered p

Re: Building Mutt: configure: invalid value of canonical build

Am 01.09.2010, 01:37 Uhr, schrieb Michael Ludwig: Matthias Andree schrieb am 31.08.2010 um 00:58 (+0200): On 30.08.2010 23:52, Michael Ludwig wrote: >The mutt mail reader shipping with Cygwin does not have SMTP >enabled, which I'd like to give a try. So I tried to build mutt, >but encountered p

Re: Building Mutt: configure: invalid value of canonical build

Csaba Raduly schrieb am 31.08.2010 um 09:17 (+0200): > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Michael Ludwig wrote: > > > > It is only after receiving an error because of the script's failure > > to guess the build system that I added the --build option to > > configure. But obviously I didn't fill in

Re: Building Mutt: configure: invalid value of canonical build

Matthias Andree schrieb am 31.08.2010 um 00:58 (+0200): > On 30.08.2010 23:52, Michael Ludwig wrote: > >The mutt mail reader shipping with Cygwin does not have SMTP > >enabled, which I'd like to give a try. So I tried to build mutt, > >but encountered problems. > > [... long whine about non-workin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.7-1

Corinna Vinschen schrieb: - Fix long-standing problem that calling select(2) on /dev/windows hangs for timeout, if no new messages arrived in the message queue since the last call to select. Yeah! Will test tcltk immediately and report back. This was my only blocker. Maybe I can even per

Re: Cygwin for windows 7

On 8/31/2010 6:31 PM, charl...@stny.rr.com wrote: Hello, I just downloaded and installed the new cygwin for windows 1.7.7-1. I am having trouble issuing basic ls commands against network drives. For example,after I NET USE to a network drive and cd to it (I.e. Cd /cygdrive/z/test) and then iss

Cygwin for windows 7

Hello, I just downloaded and installed the new cygwin for windows 1.7.7-1. I am having trouble issuing basic ls commands against network drives. For example,after I NET USE to a network drive and cd to it (I.e. Cd /cygdrive/z/test) and then issue the ls command, I get "invalid argument".

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: m4-1.4.15-1

A new release of m4, 1.4.15-1, is available for download, leaving 1.4.14-1 as previous. NEWS This is a new upstream release, with upstream NEWS attached. See also /usr/share/doc/m4/. You must rebuild from source if you want the experimental changeword feature enabled, as using it can slow d

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems

Sagi Ben-Akiva graphtech.co.il> writes: > For the last couple of weeks I'm trying to identify the cause for cygwin > slowdown on x64 machines which was reported by David Morgan about 6 > months ago. <...> > Any help will be appreciated. I did some testing on my 64-bit Vista system, and it ap

scp and cygwin randomly and automatically converts text files from utf-8 to windows encoding (cp1251)

It happens when files are copied from cygwin windows machines to any linux (tried different versions of ubuntu and gentoo with utf-8 locale). As it is not possible to understand in what cases are re-encoding, sometimes enough to add one blank line in a text file that, when the transfer encoding ha

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 05:26:24PM +, Magnus Holmgren wrote: >Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: >>Here's what I'm saying: It makes absolutely no sense that moving the >>call would have any effect. The code is the way it is for a reason so >>we're not going to just revert the change. > >I

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems

Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > Here's what I'm saying: It makes absolutely no sense that moving the > call would have any effect. The code is the way it is for a reason > so we're not going to just revert the change. I think it makes sense, if the signal thread initialization takes t

Re: Linking shared libraries problem

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/29/2010 7:08 PM, Tomás Staig wrote: Hi, I have been trying to port some software from Linux (Scientific Linux/RedHat) to windows using Cygwin. I have been able to port most of it with little changes but I encountered a problem when linking shared libraries. It

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:18:39AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote: >On 8/31/2010 10:08 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Here's what I'm saying: It makes absolutely no sense that moving the >>call would have any effect. The code is the way it is for a reason so >>we're not going to just revert the change.

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems

On 8/31/2010 10:08 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Here's what I'm saying: It makes absolutely no sense that moving the call would have any effect. The code is the way it is for a reason so we're not going to just revert the change. I don't think anyone is asking to revert the change. In any

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:32:41AM +0200, Roland Schwingel wrote: >Hi Sagi and all others, > >Thanks Sagi for your investigation! > >This is great news that it could finally be tracked down. I am also >suffering badly here from this >speed drop. I haven't yet tried myself to revert this change to

Re: Keyboard issue: unresponsive keystroke

Thanks for the response, Eric, it helped me troubleshoot the issue. Seems I never set my HOME environment variable (sigh), so it all ended up in my Windows home directory. Asserting ~/.inputrc did not have DOS line endings didn't have any effect, but removing the file allowed me to type all chars

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems

Edward Lam wrote: Just curious, has the performance characteristics of your test changed with the lastest cygwin snapshot? The affected code has moved somewhat since revision 1.288. I ran my test script on version 1.7.6 and on the release from today, i.e. 1.7.7-1, and performance are even wor

Re: xfig startup with latest user versions of xfig

On 8/30/2010 9:14 PM, Carl Lund wrote: Hi-- After updating to the latest version of xfig, I got the following error message from xfig when I ran (countr.fig is a new figure I am building): xfig countr.fig& -error message The app-defaults file (version: 3.2.

Gentoo Prefix on Cygwin

Hello Cygwin community! I try to install Gentoo Prefix onto Cygwin. My goal is to get a second level administration tool, that I can run on Mac, Windows and Linux from the userspace. This way I can customize the environment for any software project in a platform independent way. That is especiall

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.7-1

Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released 1.7.7-1. This release fixes a bunch of bugs, some of them freshly introduced with 1.7.6. It also introduces a very few number of new features. Most notably it partially reverts a backward incompatibility which affects Cygwin applications which also

Re: setup.exe crashes when downgrading gcc4

On Tue, Aug 31 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: > The Bochum http mirror works fine for me, but the ftp one just stops > during the download of setup.bz2, so it seems something's not right > with that server. Which one were you using? The http server. > Regarding the crash, I can only guess that the Boc

Re: Building Mutt: configure: invalid value of canonical build

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Michael Ludwig wrote: > > It is only after receiving an error because of the script's failure to > guess the build system that I added the --build option to configure. > But obviously I didn't fill in a correct value. What should I try? Try: i686-pc-cygwin This