Re: chmod indicates success, but does not succeed

2011-02-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 02/15/11 19:40, hardya wrote: MSYS is described as a fork of cygwin that's specially suited to being used with win32. How would MSYS be any more "specially suited to being used with win32" than Cygwin itself, is it already "specially suited to being used with win32"?!? Marketing people...

Re: chmod indicates success, but does not succeed

2011-02-15 Thread hardya
That clears it up then thanks. At least as far as my post here is concerned any way. MSYS is described as a fork of cygwin that's specially suited to being used with win32. I guess I hadn't expected this particular problem to be related to the fork. Any way, as you rightly say, it is 'not' cyg

Re: chmod indicates success, but does not succeed

2011-02-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 15 11:27, hardya wrote: > > First let me appologise for the bad subject line and lack of explicit > content. I realise the importance of following forum guidelines and I shall > try to be clearer, at least within my ability. > > As mentioned at the beginning of my post, though perhaps not

RE: Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe

2011-02-15 Thread Karl M
> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:19:20 -0700 > From: eblake > Subject: Re: Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe > > Hmm. Does your $PATH include '.' somewhere near the beginning? That > may be the culprit; I _never_ run with '.' at the beginning (too much > risk of a trojan horse executable taki

chmod indicates success, but does not succeed

2011-02-15 Thread hardya
First let me appologise for the bad subject line and lack of explicit content. I realise the importance of following forum guidelines and I shall try to be clearer, at least within my ability. As mentioned at the beginning of my post, though perhaps not so clearly as I should. Cgywin was provid

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

2011-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:57:42PM +, Greg Chicares wrote: >On 2011-02-15 16:52Z, hardya wrote: >[...] >> Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples >> $ chmod -v 777 Simulation >> mode of `Simulation' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) >> >> Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-Sen

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

2011-02-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/15/2011 09:52 AM, hardya wrote: > > Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples > $ ls -l Simulation > -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy Administrators 238835 Oct 28 2005 Simulation > > Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples > $ chmod -v 666 Simulation > mode

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

2011-02-15 Thread Brian Wilson
> I cannot chmod files I untarred into a folder and I cannot > chmod a file I create in cgwin myself. > > I understood that you could do this if the file system was NTFS. > The bottom line is I have an executable that is not executable. In > addition to solving that though it might be nice to

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

2011-02-15 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2011-02-15 16:52Z, hardya wrote: [...] > Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples > $ chmod -v 777 Simulation > mode of `Simulation' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) > > Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples > $ ls -l Simulation > -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy

Re: Preremove/postinstall scripts fail with snapshot installed

2011-02-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/15/2011 12:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 17:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 10:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 13 18:07, Ken Brown wrote: On 2/13/2011 12:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote: $1 ls 0 [main] bash 2220 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION Yes

Re: Preremove/postinstall scripts fail with snapshot installed

2011-02-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 14 17:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 14 10:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 13 18:07, Ken Brown wrote: > > > On 2/13/2011 12:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > > > $1 ls > > > 0 [main] bash 2220 exception::handle: Exception: > > > STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION > > > > Yes, I encountered

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

2011-02-15 Thread hardya
Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples $ ls -l Simulation -rw-r--r-- 1 Andrew Hardy Administrators 238835 Oct 28 2005 Simulation Andrew Hardy@ANDREWHARDY ~/mywsn/LSU-SensorSimulator/samples $ chmod -v 666 Simulation mode of `Simulation' changed to 0666 (rw-rw-rw-) Andrew H

Re: svn

2011-02-15 Thread David Rothenberger
On 2/15/2011 3:09 AM, Gary wrote: > David Rothenberger wrote: >> On 2/14/2011 12:11 AM, Gary wrote: > >>> If I can replace svn in the sequence with something else, for example >>> tortoise, and everything then works, then Cygwin/svn *is* the culprit. >> >> If the bits are identical, then what else

Re: Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe

2011-02-15 Thread L Anderson
Eric Blake wrote: On 02/15/2011 12:58 AM, L Anderson wrote: 3rd--I ran 'cygport coreutils-8.10-1 compile', which appeared to work ok until it exited with a "make error" as shown by the following last few lines of the output: All those steps match what I do when building coreutils. CCLD

Re: Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe--Solved

2011-02-15 Thread L Anderson
L Anderson wrote: I'm trying to build coreutils and I've run into a problem that has me puzzled. I'd greatly appreciate any ideas or pointers on what might be causing the problem and steps I could take to figure it out. The problem is repeatable, stopping at the exact same place. I'm running 'Xp

Re: Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe

2011-02-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/15/2011 12:58 AM, L Anderson wrote: > 3rd--I ran 'cygport coreutils-8.10-1 compile', which appeared to work > ok until it exited with a "make error" as shown by the following last > few lines of the output: All those steps match what I do when building coreutils. > CCLD pwd.exe > CCLD

Re: Please add 'AVG Internet Security 2011' to the BLODA list (and cygport also :-) ).

2011-02-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/14/2011 10:13 PM, L Anderson wrote: > Thanks for the hint--it allowed me to by-pass the test. However, for > the record, based on 'coreutils-8.10-1--configure[3295,3296]', I think > you meant: > >> $ cat>> /usr/share/config.site<<\EOF >> # configure gets the right answer, but only after ha

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

2011-02-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* hardya (Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:48:58 -0800 (PST)) > I am running cgwin (for omnet++, but that's a BTW) on Windows 7 > (NTFS). I cannot chmode files I untarred into a folder and I cannot > chmod a file I create in cgwin myself. "I cannot [whatever]" is a bit weak. Can you be a bit more specific? Wh

Re: [g++] Problems linking boost.system and boost.regex

2011-02-15 Thread lampak
Greg Chicares-2 wrote: > > Last I heard, boost lost its Cygwin maintainer; and old libraries aren't > likely to work with a newer compiler. This page > http://cygwin.com/packages/boost-devel/boost-devel-1.43.0-1 > confirms that: > "boost-devel: Obsolete package (installed binaries and suppor

Newbie confused about chmod

2011-02-15 Thread hardya
I am running cgwin (for omnet++, but that's a BTW) on Windows 7 (NTFS). I cannot chmode files I untarred into a folder and I cannot chmod a file I create in cgwin myself. I understood that you could do this if the file system was NTFS. The bottom line is I have an executable that is not executa

Re: [g++] Problems linking boost.system and boost.regex

2011-02-15 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2011-02-15 11:57Z, lampak wrote: > > Hi. I'm trying to compile on windows one linux app of mine which uses a few > boost libraries. I've got g++ and boost (1.43.0-1) installed through > setup.exe. I use g++ through Eclipse IDE. I've managed to get the program > compiled but I'm getting linking

Re: building a cross-compiler for Linux/OSX

2011-02-15 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 22:01 +0100, Fabiano Sidler wrote: > Not without any further difficulties, but at least with a different error: > > /opt/devel/cygwin/src/cygwin-1.7.6-1/winsup/utils/mingw: couldn't find > i686-pc-m > ingw32 directory > make[3]: *** [crt1.o] Error 1 You need to have mingw.o

Re: m4: cannot open `gcc': No such file or directory

2011-02-15 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi, On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Hilariousity wrote: > > I'm trying to compile the GNU multiple precision arithmetic library from > source in cygwin and after the command > > m4 gcc  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D__GMP_WITHIN_GMP -DOPERATION_add_n add_n.asm >>tmp-add_n.s > > I get an error saying > > m4:

[g++] Problems linking boost.system and boost.regex

2011-02-15 Thread lampak
Hi. I'm trying to compile on windows one linux app of mine which uses a few boost libraries. I've got g++ and boost (1.43.0-1) installed through setup.exe. I use g++ through Eclipse IDE. I've managed to get the program compiled but I'm getting linking errors. Eclipse executes the following comma

Re: The tree command

2011-02-15 Thread Rafael Kitover
On 2/15/2011 4:17 AM, Fergus wrote: >>> The source is here: >>> ftp://mama.indstate.edu/linux/tree/ >>> edit the Makefile to uncomment the Cygwin section and it will build > cleanly. > > Yes, works perfectly. > FWIW: I wish I'd edited the Makefile additionally to so that > prefix = /usr/local > ra

Re: The tree command

2011-02-15 Thread Fergus
>> The source is here: >> ftp://mama.indstate.edu/linux/tree/ >> edit the Makefile to uncomment the Cygwin section and it will build cleanly. Yes, works perfectly. FWIW: I wish I'd edited the Makefile additionally to so that prefix = /usr/local rather than the default /usr (but this is just a p

Re: The tree command

2011-02-15 Thread Rafael Kitover
On 2/14/2011 4:23 PM, Mark Hobley wrote: > It would be really useful to have a tree command available from the > cygwin shell. has anyone managed to find a working tree command yet? We could > really do with this in the cygwin archive. The source is here: ftp://mama.indstate.edu/linux/tree/ edi