Re: cygport: user-supplied download action?

2012-06-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 19 15:06, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-06-19 14:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 19 03:10, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Sorry for the delay. How about the attached patch, adding SRC_DIR=src before the inherit cvs in your .cygport? If I add SRC_DIR=src, what of the above is

Re: [Patch] Rebase: new switch --ephemeral

2012-06-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 19 21:24, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: The implementation of -E is a bit lacking, IMHO. Fair enough. The description implies that the ephemeral file list gets also rebased. So I take it that there are two lists of files, the ones which get rebased and are

Re: [RFC] Incremental autorebase

2012-06-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 3 18:02, ASSI wrote: As suggested in http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/132585 I have implemented a rebase script that (except for the first invocation) incrementally builds the rebase list by checking which package lists are older than the last time autorebase has been

Re: [Patch] Rebase: new switch --ephemeral

2012-06-20 Thread ASSI
Corinna Vinschen writes: If you really want -E to be an exclusive option, then what I'm missing is the enforcement on the command line. Yes, this still needs to be implemented, if there is consensus that the idea itself is sound. It may even be possible to process both options correctly, that

Re: [RFC] Incremental autorebase

2012-06-20 Thread ASSI
Corinna Vinschen writes: I just had a look into the script and the idea looks good to me. Thanks. How do you imagine to integrate that script into the normal flow? As far as I'm concerned, it would be most helpful to integrate the functionality into the rebaseall script, which can also be

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.12.2-1

2012-06-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** xorg-server-1.12.2-1 *** xorg-server-common-1.12.2-1 *** xorg-server-dmx-1.12.2-1 *** xorg-server-extra-1.12.2-1 *** xorg-server-devel-1.12.2-1 These packages contain XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. In addition to

Re: Xserver crash

2012-06-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 20/05/2012 20:48, marco atzeri wrote: I just noticed that latest xorg-server-1.12.1-1 is crashing when using octave with fltk interface. Reverting to xorg-server-1.12.0-5 solves the issue $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 MARCOATZERI 1.7.16s(0.261/5/3) 20120517 02:19:46 i686 Cygwin

Re: Taskbar buttons for remote xterms do not appear

2012-06-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 05/06/2012 05:35, David Thompson wrote: I upgraded Cygwin/X to XWin 1.12.1-1 built 2012-05-02 and now I'm seeing an annoying problem when starting remote xterm windows: the taskbar button for the xterm window does not appear until I give it focus. Thanks for the detailed bug report.

Re: Xserver crash

2012-06-20 Thread marco atzeri
On 6/20/2012 8:58 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 20/05/2012 20:48, marco atzeri wrote: I just noticed that latest xorg-server-1.12.1-1 is crashing when using octave with fltk interface. Reverting to xorg-server-1.12.0-5 solves the issue $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 MARCOATZERI 1.7.16s(0.261/5/3)

Re: Xserver crash

2012-06-20 Thread marco atzeri
On 6/20/2012 9:27 PM, marco atzeri wrote: Hi Jon, 1.12.1-2 does not crash, but also does not plot. the plot window is empty. I will check 1.12.2-1 Regards Marco 1.12.2-1 plots fine Thanks Marco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Taskbar buttons for remote xterms do not appear

2012-06-20 Thread David Thompson
--- On Wed, 6/20/12, Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote: I've uploaded 1.12.2-1 which hopefully contains a fix which closes this timing window. When it reaches the mirrors, perhaps you could try it and see if it fixes things for you? 1.12.2-1 works fine now Thanks! --

cygwin terminal acting strange, backspace not working

2012-06-20 Thread hutauf
Hey, I've just freshly installed and reinstalled and reinstalled cygwin, currently I got the full installation. On another maschine, everything works fine. The strange things here are: 1) no color! Well, I don't care, but I think I should see my user-name in front of each line and it should be

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-20 Thread marco atzeri
On 6/20/2012 7:26 AM, richw wrote: marco atzeri-4 wrote: cool down your message of 19 Jun http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-06/msg00336.html ... has still an old one cygcheck.out as link. so please so kind to provide us the right and updated info Regards Marco I apologize. I have

Ask for help on running interactive cmd in Mintty!

2012-06-20 Thread Tian You
Hi All I'm running a perl program like this: ## script start ## print Please input:; my $input = STDIN; chomp $input; system(ssh to a remote machine to run an command); print done\n; ## script done ## But after I input something and press enter, I can not see the output of the ssh command.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: GraphicsMagick-1.3.15-1

2012-06-20 Thread marco atzeri
Version 1.3.15-1 of GraphicsMagick libGraphicsMagick-devel libGraphicsMagick3 perl-Graphics-Magick have been uploaded for cygwin DESCRIPTION GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing. It provides a robust and efficient collection of tools and libraries which support

Problem with path in Makefile / Expansion of environment variables

2012-06-20 Thread Henrik Stentjärn
In this Makefile (between the --- lines (and attached)), the foo example doesn't work although the bar example works (if the files foo.cc and bar.cc exists in the right places). --- /cygdrive/c/tmp/foo: /cygdrive/c/tmp/foo.cc g++ -Wall -W -o

Re: Problem with path in Makefile / Expansion of environment variables

2012-06-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Henrik Stentjärn wrote: Version of make: GNU Make 3.81 I suspect the make being used isn't a cygwin build. The ``make --version'' also states ``This program was build for ...''; what does it say? -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd --

Re: RCS file corruption.

2012-06-20 Thread Richard Gribble
I have experienced this problem several times.  In my case it seemed to be a problem between 'Unix' and 'DOS' files.  In each case, I have been able to fix it by editing the RCS file using vim and deleting all the extraneous carriage returns - :%s/^M$//enter Sometimes I've had to do it twice.

Re: Ask for help on running interactive cmd in Mintty!

2012-06-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Tian You wrote: Hi All I'm running a perl program like this: ## script start ## print Please input:; my $input = STDIN; chomp $input; system(ssh to a remote machine to run an command); print done\n; ## script done ## But after I input something and

Re: Problem with path in Makefile / Expansion of environment variables

2012-06-20 Thread Henrik Stentjärn
Thank you. Embarrasing; it was another software that had installed a make.exe and put it earlier in my path. /hs On 20 June 2012 13:09, Earnie Boyd ear...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Henrik Stentjärn wrote: Version of make: GNU Make 3.81 I suspect the

Re: RCS file corruption.

2012-06-20 Thread Otto Meta
I have experienced this problem several times. In my case it seemed to be a problem between 'Unix' and 'DOS' files. In each case, I have been able to fix it by editing the RCS file using vim and deleting all the extraneous carriage returns - :%s/^M$//enter Sometimes I've had to do it

Re: gcc: turning off large-address awareness

2012-06-20 Thread Daniel Diaz
Hi Christopher, have you integrated the --disable option for --large-address-aware in binutils ? Daniel On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:01:03 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 02:48:27PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/14/2012 1:33 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: You're right

GNU screen not seeing $SHELL env var?

2012-06-20 Thread Tom Rodman
Not sure when this problem started. The issue: GNU screen is starting w/an empty or undefined value for $SHELL, so the login shell for all screen windows is incorrect: $ uname -a; cygcheck -c cygwin CYGWIN_NT-5.1 aqua 1.7.16s(0.261/5/3) 20120604 01:26:35 i686 Cygwin Cygwin Package

Re: GNU screen not seeing $SHELL env var?

2012-06-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/20/2012 07:20 AM, Tom Rodman wrote: $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ bash -c 'echo SHELL: $SHELL' # does this prove SHELL is exported? SHELL: /bin/bash No. And in fact, bash does not export SHELL by default, but defaults to defining SHELL as a shell-local variable. You have to

Re: gcc: turning off large-address awareness

2012-06-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 01:18:54PM +0200, Daniel Diaz wrote: Hi Christopher, have you integrated the --disable option for --large-address-aware in binutils ? There hasn't been a new release of binutils since that message, no. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: GNU screen not seeing $SHELL env var?

2012-06-20 Thread Tom Rodman
On Wed 6/20/12 8:07 MDT Eric Blake wrote: On 06/20/2012 07:20 AM, Tom Rodman wrote: $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ bash -c 'echo SHELL: $SHELL' # does this prove SHELL is exported? SHELL: /bin/bash No. And in fact, bash does not export SHELL by default, but defaults to defining

Re: Ask for help on running interactive cmd in Mintty!

2012-06-20 Thread Tian You
I run the perl script in mintty. If I run it in a Windows cmd.exe terminal, that works normally. The ssh.exe is compiled in the Cygwin by myself. Any other ideas about it? What make me confusing is that why it behavious differently if I get input from STDIN or not. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:14

Re: GNU screen not seeing $SHELL env var?

2012-06-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 20 09:53, Tom Rodman wrote: On Wed 6/20/12 8:07 MDT Eric Blake wrote: On 06/20/2012 07:20 AM, Tom Rodman wrote: $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ bash -c 'echo SHELL: $SHELL' # does this prove SHELL is exported? SHELL: /bin/bash No. And in fact, bash does not export

Backspace

2012-06-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Have you ever had the backspace key not go backward on character erasing the previous character in Windows programs? Neither have I. This has been bothering me for a while so... I have properly set stty erase ^h and from the bash command line backspace works as expected. But I often find

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-20 Thread richw
marco atzeri-4 wrote: On 6/20/2012 7:26 AM, richw wrote: marco atzeri-4 wrote: cool down your message of 19 Jun http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-06/msg00336.html ... has still an old one cygcheck.out as link. so please so kind to provide us the right and updated info Regards

Re: Ask for help on running interactive cmd in Mintty!

2012-06-20 Thread Tian You
Here is the front part of the output, but I do not understand it very well. Could you find any clue from it? $ cygcheck.exe -v /bin/ssh.exe C:\MyApp\bin\ssh.exe - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 Warning: C:\MyApp\bin\cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll hides C:\MyApp_old\bin\cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll

Re: Ask for help on running interactive cmd in Mintty!

2012-06-20 Thread Tian You
Here is also some library info: $ cygcheck.exe /bin/ssh.exe C:\MyApp\bin\ssh.exe C:\MyApp\bin\cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll C:\MyApp\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll C:\MyApp\bin\cygz.dll C:\MyApp\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll

Re: GNU screen not seeing $SHELL env var?

2012-06-20 Thread Tom Rodman
On Wed 6/20/12 17:24 +0200 Corinna wrote: On Jun 20 09:53, Tom Rodman wrote: On Wed 6/20/12 8:07 MDT Eric Blake wrote: On 06/20/2012 07:20 AM, Tom Rodman wrote: $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ bash -c 'echo SHELL: $SHELL' # does this prove SHELL is exported? SHELL:

stdout not visible on some programs after upgrading from to 1.7.11-1 to 1.7.15-1

2012-06-20 Thread Brian Cavagnolo
Hello, I use cygwin on a windows 7 machine to automate a Visual Studio 10 build from the command line. To do this, I invoke MSBuild.exe with a wrapper script called msbuild.sh (see below). Under cygwin 1.7.11-1, the stdout from msbuild.exe appears on the console where I invoke msbuild.sh as

piping input to executable reading from /dev/tty?

2012-06-20 Thread Dan B.
Is there any way to redirect /dev/tty similarly to how stdin can be redirected (e.g., like echo ... | someexecutable)? I'm working with an executable (openssl in ocsp mode) that reads a password via /dev/tty (instead of stdin) because normally it wants to get that password from the user even if

Re: piping input to executable reading from /dev/tty?

2012-06-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/20/2012 10:33 AM, Dan B. wrote: Is there any way to redirect /dev/tty similarly to how stdin can be redirected (e.g., like echo ... | someexecutable)? Yes; use 'expect'. Does Cygwin (or Unix/Linux, for that matter) have any equivalent way of redirecting /dev/tty? Can /dev/tty be

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-20 Thread Achim Gratz
richw writes: I believe what needs to be studied is why an access from a remote system to an nfs file system before opening a bash prompt causes the automatic mount of /usr/bin and /usr/lib to be skipped. With the most likely problem apparently out of the way, let's look at the second: when

Re: Ask for help on running interactive cmd in Mintty!

2012-06-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Tian You wrote: Here is the front part of the output, but I do not understand it very well. Could you find any clue from it? $ cygcheck.exe -v /bin/ssh.exe You gave an absolute path which isn't what I asked for. I asked for cygcheck.exe -v ssh Stop top

Re: Backspace

2012-06-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/20/2012 11:35 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Have you ever had the backspace key not go backward on character erasing the previous character in Windows programs? Neither have I. This has been bothering me for a while so... I have properly set stty erase ^h and from the bash command line

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-20 Thread richw
ASSI wrote: richw writes: I believe what needs to be studied is why an access from a remote system to an nfs file system before opening a bash prompt causes the automatic mount of /usr/bin and /usr/lib to be skipped. With the most likely problem apparently out of the way, let's look at

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-20 Thread Achim Gratz
richw writes: when you access the NFS export, three daemons get started (mountd, nfsd and portmap) under their own account (apparently .\nfs?). The daemons are apparently started before the NFS export is accessed. At least, the windows services report shows them as started. The logon Is .\nfs

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-20 Thread richw
ASSI wrote: Those should see the following mount points according to cygcheck3.out: C:\cygwin/ system binary,auto C:\cygwin\bin/usr/bin system binary,auto C:\cygwin\lib/usr/lib system binary,auto cygdrive prefix /cygdrive userbinary,auto and

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-20 Thread richw
So the domain is . and the account nfs? I have no idea what .\nfs means. I'm just reporting what services reports. Those should see the following mount points according to cygcheck3.out: I don't have /usr/bin or /usr/lib in exports, but I think you are saying that if I did, I could access

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-20 Thread marco atzeri
On 6/20/2012 8:45 PM, richw wrote: ASSI wrote: Those should see the following mount points according to cygcheck3.out: C:\cygwin/ system binary,auto C:\cygwin\bin/usr/bin system binary,auto C:\cygwin\lib/usr/lib system binary,auto cygdrive prefix /cygdrive

Re: A little annoiance after modifying my .bashrc file to add an alias to edit files

2012-06-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/20/2012 2:13 PM, gialloporpora wrote: Hi all, I have found this good tip: http://www.mikaelkrok.net/component/content/article/44-java/131-use-cygwin-with-your-best-external-windows-text-editor to use my Windows text editor to modify files. I have added this line to my .bashrc file: alias

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-20 Thread Achim Gratz
richw writes: I modified /etc/exports to read / (ro,no_root_squash) /usr/bin (ro,no_root_squash) /usr/lib (ro,no_root_squash) and then tried a mount. I was surprised that I could not mount /usr/bin, but I could mount /bin. (Is that correct? Why?) It probably means that /usr/lib and

RE: stdout not visible on some programs after upgrading from to 1.7.11-1 to 1.7.15-1

2012-06-20 Thread James Johnston
-Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 16:27 Subject: stdout not visible on some programs after upgrading from to 1.7.11- 1 to 1.7.15-1 Hello, I use cygwin on a windows 7 machine to automate a Visual Studio 10 build from the command line. To do this, I invoke

Re: piping input to executable reading from /dev/tty?

2012-06-20 Thread Dan B.
Eric Blake wrote: On 06/20/2012 10:33 AM, Dan B. wrote: Is there any way to redirect /dev/tty similarly to how stdin can be redirected (e.g., like echo ... | someexecutable)? Yes; use 'expect'. Does Cygwin (or Unix/Linux, for that matter) have any equivalent way of redirecting /dev/tty?

Re: piping input to executable reading from /dev/tty?

2012-06-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/20/2012 03:20 PM, Dan B. wrote: Eric Blake wrote: On 06/20/2012 10:33 AM, Dan B. wrote: Is there any way to redirect /dev/tty similarly to how stdin can be redirected (e.g., like echo ... | someexecutable)? Yes; use 'expect'. Does Cygwin (or Unix/Linux, for that matter) have any

Re: Backspace

2012-06-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 6/20/2012 11:05 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I see the same thing if I set stty erase (in bash) as you did and start a new shell (bash again) from it. Of course, the parent shell outputs ^? for any press of backspace. This behavior is the same for bash started from a command prompt and

Re: Ask for help on running interactive cmd in Mintty!

2012-06-20 Thread Tian You
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Earnie Boyd ear...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Tian You wrote: Here is the front part of the output, but I do not understand it very well. Could you find any clue from it? $ cygcheck.exe -v /bin/ssh.exe You gave an absolute

Re: Backspace

2012-06-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/20/2012 8:06 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 6/20/2012 11:05 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I see the same thing if I set stty erase (in bash) as you did and start a new shell (bash again) from it. Of course, the parent shell outputs ^? for any press of backspace. This behavior is the same

Re: Backspace

2012-06-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 06/20/2012 07:05 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Stated differently, I want the backspace key to move backwards one space and to erase the previous character, like, for example, the less man page says it's supposed to. Now methinks you're just being obtuse. I'm not trying to be obtuse. I

Updated: GraphicsMagick-1.3.15-1

2012-06-20 Thread marco atzeri
Version 1.3.15-1 of GraphicsMagick libGraphicsMagick-devel libGraphicsMagick3 perl-Graphics-Magick have been uploaded for cygwin DESCRIPTION GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing. It provides a robust and efficient collection of tools and libraries which support