Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs While that sounds nice, doesn't that introduce more puzzled questions? I can easily imagine people thinking they

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Reini Urban
2011/2/3 Corinna Vinschen: On Feb  2 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs Shouldn't we start to seperate pure mingw executables from cygwin somewhen? Then we

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Charles Wilson
On 2/3/2011 8:13 AM, Reini Urban wrote: 2011/2/3 Corinna Vinschen: On Feb 2 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs Shouldn't we start to seperate pure mingw

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:24:58PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs - Add a start menu item pointing to that copy of setup.exe - Type 'cygwin-setup -q -Ppackage'

[RFU] slang-2.2.3-1

2011-02-03 Thread marco atzeri
new upstream version to download : wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=2 http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin-1.7/slang/index.html libslang-devel/libslang-devel-2.2.3-1.tar.bz2 libslang-devel/setup.hint libslang2/libslang2-2.2.3-1.tar.bz2 libslang2/setup.hint setup.hint slang-2.2.3-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread marco atzeri
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:24:58PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs - Add a start menu item pointing

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Copy setup.exe to /bin/cygwin-setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Reini Urban
2011/2/3 Charles Wilson: On 2/3/2011 8:13 AM, Reini Urban wrote: 2011/2/3 Corinna Vinschen: On Feb  2 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote: Make a copy of setup.exe as /bin/cygwin-setup.exe. This enables a few useful things: - Register that copy of setup.exe with Add/Remove programs Shouldn't we start

Re: Where to find a reliable provider of CygwinX?

2011-02-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Jørgen Steensgaard (Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:34:15 +0100) I want to terminate this discussion, originating from my concern for consistency among distribution providers. Originally I reported on a successful installation of basic Cygwin, i.e. without X, followed by a failing attempt to install

Re: 16-bit wchar_t on Windows and Cygwin

2011-02-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 3 01:12, Bruno Haible wrote: Hi Eric, I was asking: should wwchar_t (or xwchar_t, but not xchar_t) be 2-bytes on cygwin, but unlike the POSIX definition of wchar_t being always 1 character per unit, the new type is explicitly documented as being multi-unit on some platforms

Re: directories named '...' (dotdotdot) do not work

2011-02-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 3 06:38, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello, and thanks for investigating this, On 02/02/2011 02:53 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Given that it works fine on Vista and Windows 7 anyway, is it really worth to add this extra code just to support an old OS in a very rare situation?

Re: file command missing magic file (problem and solution)

2011-02-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 21:16, Andy Sun wrote: Apparently, somewhere between version 4.xx and 5.xx, the magic file which used to be /usr/share/file/magic (all my Unix life I knew magic as an ASCII text file), has now become a directory /usr/share/misc/magic/ with many small files for ease of maintenance.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: file-5.05-1

2011-02-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the Cygwin 1.7 version of file to 5.05-1. This is an update to the latest official upstream version 5.05. The Cygwin version is build from the vanilla sources. It brings back the 'magic file which can be used to recompile the magic file using the `file -C' command. To update your

Re: 16-bit wchar_t on Windows and Cygwin

2011-02-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Corinna Vinschen wrote: isn't wwchar_t equivalent to wint_t on all platforms? On UCS-4 platforms sizeof(wint_t) == sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 because there's no reason to make it bigger. On UCS-2 and UTF-16 platforms sizeof(wint_t) == 4 because it must be able to hold EOF as well. So, why not

Default state of the desktop shortcut checkbox in setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Bruce Cran
Hi, I'd like to suggest making the default state of the desktop shortcut checkbox in setup.exe unchecked. This would make it follow Microsoft's desktop guidelines at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511450.aspx . I don't know about other people but it often irritates me that I need to

Re: Default state of the desktop shortcut checkbox in setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Rafael Kitover
On 2/3/2011 6:26 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: Hi, I'd like to suggest making the default state of the desktop shortcut checkbox in setup.exe unchecked. This would make it follow Microsoft's desktop guidelines at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511450.aspx . I don't know about other people

Re: [OT] Default state of the desktop shortcut checkbox in setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:43:48 -0500 Rafael Kitover rkito...@cpan.org wrote: By the way, I LOVE mintty, it is awesome :) Thinking about doing some work on it to read .Xdefaults for the color scheme (or at least have a configurable color scheme) and an option to detect URLs like the matcher

Re: Default state of the desktop shortcut checkbox in setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Andy Koppe
On 3 February 2011 11:43, Rafael Kitover wrote: By the way, I LOVE mintty, it is awesome :) Thanks! Thinking about doing some work There's plenty to choose from at http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues. on it to read .Xdefaults for the color scheme (or at least have a configurable color

Re: bug#7948: 16-bit wchar_t on Windows and Cygwin

2011-02-03 Thread Ulf Zibis
Hi, I think there is a kind of similar bug in discussion on GNU: bug#7960: [PATCH] fmt: fix formatting multibyte text (bug #7372) -Ulf Am 02.02.2011 18:51, schrieb Paul Eggert: On 02/02/11 03:29, Bruno Haible wrote: - Define a type 'wwchar_t' on all platforms, equivalent to uint32_t

User Guide, Internationalization fixes

2011-02-03 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
In the User Guide section on Internationalization [1], in the List of supported character sets, it says: Especially in case of the CPxxx style charsets, always use them with the trailing CP. Instead of trailing, it should say leading. Another editing fix that could be made on the same page in

Re: Windows 2008 64-bit install

2011-02-03 Thread Bryan Slatner
Jeremy Bopp jeremy at bopp.net writes: Could this be related to this earlier thread? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00212.html -Jeremy I think you're right, Jeremy. Once I stopped looking for my specific error message, it seems this is just a general problem with AWS images. And

Library missing, but do not know which one :-(

2011-02-03 Thread Muzzy
Hello, when I start bc command in cygwin following error occurs: /usr/bin/bc.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory What can I do in this case ? I installed only bash, bc and xterm packages. cygcheck -s -v -r

RE: Default state of the desktop shortcut checkbox in setup.exe

2011-02-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Bruce Cran sent the following at Thursday, February 03, 2011 6:26 AM I'd like to suggest making the default state of the desktop shortcut checkbox in setup.exe unchecked. This would make it follow Microsoft's desktop guidelines at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511450.aspx . I don't

Re: -static not working with gcc 4.3.4

2011-02-03 Thread gvidaver
It still requires the cygwin1.dll: $ g++ -v ... gcc version 4.5.0 (GCC) $ g++ test.c -o test -static $ ldd test.exe ... cygwin1.dll = /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll (0x6100) ... And apparently the only alternative is mingw, see:

Re: -static not working with gcc 4.3.4

2011-02-03 Thread marco atzeri
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:34 PM, gvidaver wrote: what is a new game to continue a thread after 3-4 months ? It still requires the cygwin1.dll: of course it is a cygwin program built by the gcc for cygwin . $ g++ -v ... gcc version 4.5.0 (GCC) $ g++ test.c -o test -static $ ldd

Re: Library missing, but do not know which one :-(

2011-02-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/3/2011 11:35 AM, Muzzy wrote: Hello, when I start bc command in cygwin following error occurs: /usr/bin/bc.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory What can I do in this case ? I installed only bash, bc and xterm packages.

Re: -static not working with gcc 4.3.4

2011-02-03 Thread Charles Wilson
On 2/3/2011 2:34 PM, gvidaver wrote: It still requires the cygwin1.dll: $ g++ -v ... gcc version 4.5.0 (GCC) $ g++ test.c -o test -static $ ldd test.exe ... cygwin1.dll = /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll (0x6100) ... Uhm, yes. The cygwin-provided gcc is a cygwin

Re: Library missing, but do not know which one :-( [attn bc maintainer]

2011-02-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/03/2011 12:50 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: 'cygcheck bc' should tell you which DLL is missing. Looking at the list, there's not allot that's Cygwin there: C:\bin\cygreadline6.dll C:\bin\cygncurses-9.dll C:\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll And of course cygwin1.dll. Aircrack has

Re: Library missing, but do not know which one :-( [attn bc maintainer]

2011-02-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/03/2011 01:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote: C:\bin\cygreadline6.dll C:\bin\cygncurses-9.dll C:\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll Aha. Bash used to pull in libncurses9 by default, but now it pulls in libncursesw10. This is a setup.hint issue; bc was listing libncurses8 instead of

Re: Library missing, but do not know which one :-(

2011-02-03 Thread Muzzy
Looks to me, though, like you're missing the libncurses9 package. I'd try that. libncurses9 was the missing one :-) Thanks a lot ! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Library-missing%2C-but-do-not-know-which-one-%3A-%28-tp30837080p30839158.html Sent from the Cygwin list

Re: Library missing, but do not know which one :-( [attn bc maintainer]

2011-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 01:04:22PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: I've updated the hint on cygwin's site, but the maintainer needs to fix it locally for the next time bc is updated In this particular case the maintainer has asked that changes not be made to his packages since he is capable of making

Re: -static not working with gcc 4.3.4

2011-02-03 Thread gvidaver
To clarify : you can't make an executable that copies the dll or library code into the executable itself. When the exe launches it will look for cygwin1.dll in /usr/bin. So it will fail to launch on a system that doesn't have cygwin installed. If I understand the cygwin license, this is

1.7: Setting noacl (or how do I get modified files to not become executable)

2011-02-03 Thread Edward Lam
Dear Cygwin gurus, I'm hoping to find some solution to the problem where if a file is modified by a native Windows application, it becomes executable according to cygwin. After some searching, it appears that the only way to do this is by setting the noacl mount option by appropriately

Re: -static not working with gcc 4.3.4

2011-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 01:21:39PM -0800, gvidaver wrote: To clarify : you can't make an executable that copies the dll or library code into the executable itself. When the exe launches it will look for cygwin1.dll in /usr/bin. So it will fail to launch on a system that doesn't have cygwin

Re: ssh-keygen command not doing anything OR github problem

2011-02-03 Thread Reini Urban
2011/2/2 mearrex: In my cygwin installation, I cannot seem to use github.com. However, here are the problems I am seeing. When I type in: git remote add origin g...@github.com:username/first_app.git I got no issue. However, when I type in: git push origin master I get an error: fatal: The