cmake 2.8.4 release ?

2011-03-04 Thread marco atzeri
Bill, when do you plan to package cmake 2.8.4 ? it will be nice to have finally: Cygwin: Do not define 'WIN32' (#10122) ;-) I think Yaakov also will appreciate. Thanks Marco http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/CMakeChangeLog-2.8.4 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: cygcheck failing verification on latest snapshots

2011-03-04 Thread marco atzeri
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 26 13:33, marco atzeri wrote: >> On recent snapshots I noticed that >> cygcheck is reporting as missing the files under the mount points >> /usr/bin >> /usr/lib >> >> $ mount >> E:/cygwin2/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) >>

Re: cygwin 1.7.8-1: No output from ps and mount

2011-03-04 Thread marco atzeri
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Graham Benton wrote: > After intsalling cygwin 1.7.8-1 package, I get no output from ps or mount > commands.  There may have been problems with the output of other commands, > but after trying a reboot, I downgraded back to 1.7.7-1 after finding the > problem, an

Re: Windows Shortcut That Runs Cygwin Command

2011-03-04 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/4/2011 7:38 PM, Panos Katergiathis wrote: Hello all. How would i go about creating a shortcut in Windows 7, that would run a cygwin-only command along with parameters if required? Rsync is the one i wish to run at the moment, but i also have a few more in mind like ssh etc. To run bash (fo

Windows Shortcut That Runs Cygwin Command

2011-03-04 Thread Panos Katergiathis
Hello all. How would i go about creating a shortcut in Windows 7, that would run a cygwin-only command along with parameters if required? Rsync is the one i wish to run at the moment, but i also have a few more in mind like ssh etc. Please assist Panos -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: Doubtful about unison

2011-03-04 Thread Olivier Lefevre
On 3/4/2011 10:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: [...] Thanks. Now that's clear. -- O.L. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

Fwd: X session turns white after display is turned back on

2011-03-04 Thread Natarajan Murugaiyan
I am using cygwin on a Dell windows 7 laptop, running X windows through startx command with fvwm2 window manager. The laptop display is turned off after a period of inactivity. When I log back in, the X session and all clients inside  it are white. I have no problems with the X session prior to wh

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 07:26:11PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Since fmtutil-sys is apparently the core of the problem, and given >> my total lack of knowledge about the Tex/Latex system, is there any >> simple call to fmtutil-sys with which I can reproduce the problem

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Since fmtutil-sys is apparently the core of the problem, and given my total lack of knowledge about the Tex/Latex system, is there any simple call to fmtutil-sys with which I can reproduce the problem without having to install texlive? You are right. I will try... ...no

Re: LS and TAR don't see any file permissions ("ls -l" shows "----------+ ...")

2011-03-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/04/2011 11:12 AM, Peter Binney wrote: > When running "ls -l" the permissions field shows as "--+". Which means that the owner has no permissions, but that there are ACLs which allow others permissions. Not entirely unusual, given Windows' ability to create files with a different own

LS and TAR don't see any file permissions ("ls -l" shows "----------+ ...")

2011-03-04 Thread Peter Binney
When running "ls -l" the permissions field shows as "--+". Oddly, "ls -l" shows the correct permissions if the pathname uses the windows drive letter syntax. eg: $ pwd /cygdrive/c $ ls -l tmp/plb.txt --+ 1 ga2binn Domain Users 5527 Mar  3 13:54 tmp/plb.txt $ ls -l c:/tmp/plb.txt -r

Re: cygwin.com facelift

2011-03-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:03:10AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> I just stopped in at cygwin.com for the first time in a month or two. Whoa. > >> Guess I missed the announcement of the facelift. > > > >Question: On the gold stars page, we had retired the old headings of > >About, Current, a

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 17:49, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Ken Brown wrote: > >I think fmtutil creates the files in a temporary directory (using TMPDIR, > >TEMP, or TMP if they exist) and then mv's them. Could this be your problem? > >What happens if you unset those variables before installing texlive? > > It is

Re: Detect mintty in .zshrc?

2011-03-04 Thread Rafael Kitover
On 3/4/2011 7:26 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 3 March 2011 18:31, Rafael Kitover wrote: >> I put this block at the top of my .zshrc: >> >> if [ "$TERM" = "cygwin" -o "$TERM" = "dumb" ]; then >> export RUNNING_IN_CONSOLE=1 >> export TERM=cygwin >> fi >> >> later I switch on "$RUNNING_IN_CONSOLE" to

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: I think fmtutil creates the files in a temporary directory (using TMPDIR, TEMP, or TMP if they exist) and then mv's them. Could this be your problem? What happens if you unset those variables before installing texlive? It is some time that my Cygwin installation does not set

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: If you see that behaviour as part of a perl script, you should also see that which every other tool, even simple stuff like `echo foo > bar'. Really the perl script, at some time, calls (in a posta install action) 'fmutil-sys --all', which creates the .fmt file with wro

Re: cygwin.com facelift

2011-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:03:10AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> I just stopped in at cygwin.com for the first time in a month or two. Whoa. >> Guess I missed the announcement of the facelift. > >Question: On the gold stars page, we had retired the old headings of >About, Current, and Past awar

Re: cygwin.com facelift

2011-03-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I just stopped in at cygwin.com for the first time in a month or two. Whoa. > Guess I missed the announcement of the facelift. Question: On the gold stars page, we had retired the old headings of About, Current, and Past awardees. Is there a particular reason you restored them, or was that an

Re: winmm.dll error 487 is easily reproducible

2011-03-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 3/4/2011 10:11 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 05:03:53AM -0500, Rafael Kitover wrote: >> I was just shutting everything down, going to c:\cygwin and untarring >>from msysGit. > > I don't understand why that would be if you're using a version of > Cygwin's tar. He's not

Re: winmm.dll error 487 is easily reproducible

2011-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:11:17AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 05:03:53AM -0500, Rafael Kitover wrote: >>I was just shutting everything down, going to c:\cygwin and untarring >>from msysGit. >> >>But apparently that's not correct because now I have stuff in >>C:\cygwin

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/3/2011 4:23 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: The last steps of installation regard the generation of format file for all users (-rw-r--r-- root root), but with recent snapshots the format file are creted only for root (-rwx-+) (**) : these permissions resemble those created when one installs n

Re: Doubtful about unison

2011-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:47:25AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Mar 4 08:08, Olivier Lefevre wrote: >> I think the english message should have been "The procedure >> entry point __ctype_ptr__ could not be located in the dynamic >> link library cygwin1.dll"; I mistranslated "procedure" as >>

Re: cygwin.com facelift

2011-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 09:53:19AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: >I just stopped in at cygwin.com for the first time in a month or two. Whoa. >Guess I missed the announcement of the facelift. > >Anyway, nice work. I didn't announce it since I didn't think it was all that newsworthy. But, thanks.

Re: winmm.dll error 487 is easily reproducible

2011-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 05:03:53AM -0500, Rafael Kitover wrote: >On 3/4/2011 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Mar 4 05:09, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> On 2 March 2011 13:08, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: P.S.: By the way, what is the normal way to install snapshots? It is easy to replace cygwin

cygwin.com facelift

2011-03-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
I just stopped in at cygwin.com for the first time in a month or two. Whoa. Guess I missed the announcement of the facelift. Anyway, nice work. Andrew. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

RE: ssh and user env vars from control panel

2011-03-04 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
> From: Rafael Kitover > > I made this block for my .zshrc and .bashrc : > maybe someone else will find it useful. Seems more appropriate for .bash_profile than .bashrc. --Ken Nellis

Re: winmm.dll error 487 is easily reproducible

2011-03-04 Thread Andy Koppe
On 4 March 2011 09:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar  4 05:09, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 2 March 2011 13:08, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: >> > P.S.: By the way, what is the normal way to install snapshots? It is >> > easy to replace cygwin1.dll (keeping around the working one), but in order >> > to test

Re: Detect mintty in .zshrc?

2011-03-04 Thread Andy Koppe
On 3 March 2011 18:31, Rafael Kitover wrote: > I put this block at the top of my .zshrc: > > if [ "$TERM" = "cygwin" -o "$TERM" = "dumb" ]; then >  export RUNNING_IN_CONSOLE=1 >  export TERM=cygwin > fi > > later I switch on "$RUNNING_IN_CONSOLE" to see if I'm in a real console. How come you need

Re: winmm.dll error 487 is easily reproducible

2011-03-04 Thread Rafael Kitover
On 3/4/2011 5:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 4 05:03, Rafael Kitover wrote: >> On 3/4/2011 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Mar 4 05:09, Andy Koppe wrote: On 2 March 2011 13:08, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: > P.S.: By the way, what is the normal way to install snapshots? It is

Re: distributing executables for windows

2011-03-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:11:23 -0500 Charles Wilson <> wrote: > 'Course, this list will support neither you nor your users if ever > they run into a problem with the installation that results. We don't > have time to support every frankenstein "cygwin" bowdlerization on > the planet... > > Still,

Re: winmm.dll error 487 is easily reproducible

2011-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 05:03, Rafael Kitover wrote: > On 3/4/2011 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 4 05:09, Andy Koppe wrote: > >> On 2 March 2011 13:08, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: > >>> P.S.: By the way, what is the normal way to install snapshots? It is > >>> easy to replace cygwin1.dll (keeping aroun

Re: SSHD [Windows Domain Controller]: fatal: chown(/dev/tty0, 500, 513) failed: Bad file descriptor.

2011-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 16:32, Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote: > Hi! > >I´ve installed cygwin + sshd on a Windows Domain Controller. On the > install process, I´ve runed ssh-host-config to configure the sshd > service. >The name of my domain is INTERNAL and the user that runs sshd > service is cyg_server

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 22:23, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >What about some helpful details which allow to reproduce your problem? > >Like, say, how to get the packages, how you install them, stuff like > >that. You seem to imply that everybody knows how to do that. I don't. > > Sorry,

Re: winmm.dll error 487 is easily reproducible

2011-03-04 Thread Rafael Kitover
On 3/4/2011 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 4 05:09, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 2 March 2011 13:08, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: >>> P.S.: By the way, what is the normal way to install snapshots? It is >>> easy to replace cygwin1.dll (keeping around the working one), but in order >>> to test the

Re: winmm.dll error 487 is easily reproducible

2011-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 05:09, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 2 March 2011 13:08, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: > > P.S.: By the way, what is the normal way to install snapshots? It is > > easy to replace cygwin1.dll (keeping around the working one), but in order > > to test the cygwin1 package in full (eg to check within stdi

Re: Doubtful about unison

2011-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 08:08, Olivier Lefevre wrote: > I think the english message should have been "The procedure > entry point __ctype_ptr__ could not be located in the dynamic > link library cygwin1.dll"; I mistranslated "procedure" as > "program". So this just means that the procedure __ctype_ptr__ > cannot

Re: 1.7.8: mq_timedreceive() blocks, mq_receive() with O_NONBLOCK blocks, too

2011-03-04 Thread Manuel Wienand
Hi Corinna, thanks for the quick fix, I tested both mq_timedreceive and mq_timedsend and they are working as expected. Sorry for the false alarm though, I overlooked that those are two parameters. This should be the correct call: msgQueue = mq_open(QUEUE_NAME, O_RDWR | O_C