Re: gcc-4.8.2-1: /bin/gcc fails

2013-11-04 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andrey Repin! > Is this the reason for behavior such as this? > $ which -a test > /usr/bin/test > /usr/bin/test Hurr... disregard this. It appears, my problem was (is) in /etc/profile, which forces additional copy of /usr/bin to be injected into $PATH. Whoever maintain /etc/defaults/

Is there a way to acess expanded value of REG_EXPAND_SZ ?

2013-11-04 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! Started to write scripts, that rely on registry, and hit a nail right off the bat. I need to access expanded value of REG_EXPAND_SZ type. Reading documentation doesn't help. Is this possible? Or should I go through a loop of calling cmd.exe to manually expand variables? -- WBR,

Re: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership

2013-11-04 Thread D. Boland
Thanks for the input, guys. I think I have new information on the stealing of ownership. Below test has been performed on the Apache folder, placed in the Windows Program Files folder by the Apache msi installer: "/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Apache Group/Apache2/" But if I perform the same

Re: Cygwin exe magic does not understand .com extension? [or .exe sometimes]

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:44:35PM +1100, wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:52:44AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >> >Greetings, All! >> > >> >$ mode >> >mode.com modemui.dll modex.dll >> >> That would be /bin/sh exe magic from the looks of it. It is probably >>

Re: Cygwin exe magic does not understand .com extension?

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 10:58:21PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:52:44AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >>Greetings, All! >> >>$ mode >>mode.com modemui.dll modex.dll > >That would be /bin/sh exe magic from the looks of it. It is probably >just trying to find anythi

Re: Cygwin exe magic does not understand .com extension? [or .exe sometimes]

2013-11-04 Thread cygwin
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:52:44AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: > >Greetings, All! > > > >$ mode > >mode.com modemui.dll modex.dll > > That would be /bin/sh exe magic from the looks of it. It is probably > just trying to find anything with an executable bit set, ju

Re: gcc-4.8.2-1: /bin/gcc fails

2013-11-04 Thread Robert Pendell
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Robert Pendell wrote: > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >>> On Nov 2 23:54, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2013-11-02 04:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Nov 1 23:23, David Rothenberger wrote: >>Wi

Re: Cygwin exe magic does not understand .com extension?

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:52:44AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >Greetings, All! > >$ mode >mode.com modemui.dll modex.dll That would be /bin/sh exe magic from the looks of it. It is probably just trying to find anything with an executable bit set, just like on Linux. >$ mode >bash: mode: com

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: astyle-2.04-1

2013-11-04 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
I've uploaded a new version astyle, 2.04-1, in keeping with the current upstream release. For a list of changes check out http://astyle.sourceforge.net/notes.html . *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the

Re: gcc-4.8.2-1: /bin/gcc fails

2013-11-04 Thread Robert Pendell
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >> On Nov 2 23:54, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >>> On 2013-11-02 04:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >On Nov 1 23:23, David Rothenberger wrote: >>> >>With gcc-4.8.2-1, the following fails: >>> >> >>> >>% touch /tmp/

Re: gcc-4.8.2-1: /bin/gcc fails

2013-11-04 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > On Nov 2 23:54, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> On 2013-11-02 04:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >On Nov 1 23:23, David Rothenberger wrote: >> >>With gcc-4.8.2-1, the following fails: >> >> >> >>% touch /tmp/t.c >> >>% /bin/gcc -c /tmp/t.c >> >>gcc: error: spawn: No suc

Re: gcc-4.8.2-1: /bin/gcc fails

2013-11-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2013-11-04 08:45, Charles Wilson wrote: My about-to-be-uploaded inetutils update puts the servers in libexecdir aka /usr/libexec/ -- and changes the /etc/defaults/ associated xinetd and inetd.d configuration files as appropriate. 'Course, my to-be-written update announcement will be a horrifi

Re: Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?

2013-11-04 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Kenneth Wolcott! > I was going to execute a MS-VC++ compiler command, not a DOS/Windows > command. > I want to do as much as I could for capturing the stdout/stderr > output and for capturing the exit status like I would as if I were on > a Linux system, or the best that I can und

Re: Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?

2013-11-04 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Kenneth Wolcott! > >> Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or >> not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands from Cygwin? > > If you clarify, what exactly you are trying to achieve, it would b

Re: package for "fop" ?

2013-11-04 Thread Warren Young
On 11/4/2013 16:05, David Stacey wrote: I believe that Warren Young was looking at modernising the Cygwin documentation. That work is mostly done. There's just one thing on the 'round-tuit list: the automatic dependency generator isn't as smart as it should be. There are several ways to tou

Re: package for "fop" ?

2013-11-04 Thread Warren Young
On 11/4/2013 15:34, David Stacey wrote: This sounds like Apache FOP [1]. This is probably a native executable; Nope. FOP is written in Java. Yaakov's fop package uses gcj rather than the native Windows JRE, so it plays well with Cygwin. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

Re: package for "fop" ?

2013-11-04 Thread David Stacey
On 04/11/13 22:42, marco atzeri wrote: Il 11/4/2013 11:34 PM, David Stacey ha scritto: On 04/11/13 21:54, marco atzeri wrote: building cygwin from cvs I just hit xsltproc --xinclude ../../../../src_new/winsup/doc/fo.xsl ../../../../src_new/winsup/doc/cygwin-ug-net.xml | fop -q -fo - cygwin-ug-

Cygwin exe magic does not understand .com extension?

2013-11-04 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! $ mode mode.com modemui.dll modex.dll $ mode bash: mode: command not found Now, I see two issues. First, it is that it see .dll files as executables. Which is true in essence, but rather suspicious, as .dll files are normally not directly executable. Would really like an exp

Re: Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?

2013-11-04 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Kenneth Wolcott! > Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or > not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands from Cygwin? If you clarify, what exactly you are trying to achieve, it would be immensely easier to answer your question, and the answer wi

Re: package for "fop" ?

2013-11-04 Thread marco atzeri
Il 11/4/2013 11:34 PM, David Stacey ha scritto: On 04/11/13 21:54, marco atzeri wrote: building cygwin from cvs I just hit xsltproc --xinclude ../../../../src_new/winsup/doc/fo.xsl ../../../../src_new/winsup/doc/cygwin-ug-net.xml | fop -q -fo - cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.pdf /bin/sh: fop: comm

Re: package for "fop" ?

2013-11-04 Thread David Stacey
On 04/11/13 21:54, marco atzeri wrote: building cygwin from cvs I just hit xsltproc --xinclude ../../../../src_new/winsup/doc/fo.xsl ../../../../src_new/winsup/doc/cygwin-ug-net.xml | fop -q -fo - cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.pdf /bin/sh: fop: command not found Any idea which package should c

package for "fop" ?

2013-11-04 Thread marco atzeri
building cygwin from cvs I just hit xsltproc --xinclude ../../../../src_new/winsup/doc/fo.xsl ../../../../src_new/winsup/doc/cygwin-ug-net.xml | fop -q -fo - cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.pdf /bin/sh: fop: command not found Any idea which package should contain it ? found nothing as obvious on

Re: Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 4:31 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 04:00:08PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 11/4/2013 3:35 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: Hi; Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands f

Re: Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 04:00:08PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 11/4/2013 3:35 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >> Hi; >> >>Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or >> not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands from Cygwin? > >I think there would just b

Re: Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 3:35 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: Hi; Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands from Cygwin? I think there would just be cons to using "cmd.exe" commands from within Cygwin. ;-) Obviously, this can

Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?

2013-11-04 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands from Cygwin? Thanks, Ken Wolcott -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:13:41PM +, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] sent the following at Monday, November >04, 2013 1:28 PM >>Thanks for the suggestion. My Systems team need to install from >>scratch on bare boxes, from only an image DVD (whic

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread marco atzeri
Il 11/4/2013 8:27 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] ha scritto: genini --recursive x86 > x86/setup.ini That's an interesting piece of information, thanks! Where can I get "genini" or "upset" from? Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI genini: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cg

RE: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] sent the following at Monday, November 04, 2013 1:28 PM >Thanks for the suggestion. My Systems team need to install from >scratch on bare boxes, from only an image DVD (which contained all the >requisites of the future machine, including CYGWIN's setup and the

RE: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> you're adding additional requirements Rather revealing them... The procedure is still to grab the current setup, make package selection, download with satisfying the dependencies, then install on a bunch of boxes in the batch mode, unattended. When a new set of machines is to be built, repeat

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] writes: >> Alternatively, you can grab the sources for setup and add an option > to do what you want the way you want it. > > Well, that's a trivial option with open source, of course. But also > it means to maintain a branch of our own setup.exe, which is the

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] writes: >> I have an install script for Cygwin. It's not offline > > Thanks for the suggestion. My Systems team need to install from scratch > on bare boxes, from only an image DVD (which contained all the requisites of > the future machine, including CYGWIN's

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 07:11:33PM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >> Alternatively, you can grab the sources for setup and add an option >to do what you want the way you want it. > >Well, that's a trivial option with open source, of course. But also >it means to maintain a bra

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] writes: > As far as they can tell, there is no such an installation option that > tells to install "everything from the download directory". What they > do is that they run setup.exe to manually check everything from the available > packages that they want to h

RE: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> genini --recursive x86 > x86/setup.ini That's an interesting piece of information, thanks! Where can I get "genini" or "upset" from? Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 2:11 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Alternatively, you can grab the sources for setup and add an option to do what you want the way you want it. Well, that's a trivial option with open source, of course. But also it means to maintain a branch of our own setup.exe,

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 2:04 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Are you saying this won't work? Or do you just not like it? A little bit of both, actually. Windows CMD.EXE has an 8K limit on the command line length, AFAICT. Even if that was not exceeded first time the package list was crea

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-11-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Charles Wilson writes: > On 11/4/2013 11:00 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:32:10AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>> I've got a few cleanups, and then I'll share the result. It's already >>> helped me generate a few re-packaging requests I plan to post over on >>> cygwi

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-11-04 Thread David Stacey
On 04/11/13 17:30, Charles Wilson wrote: On 11/4/2013 11:00 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:32:10AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: I've got a few cleanups, and then I'll share the result. It's already helped me generate a few re-packaging requests I plan to post over on

RE: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> Alternatively, you can grab the sources for setup and add an option to do what you want the way you want it. Well, that's a trivial option with open source, of course. But also it means to maintain a branch of our own setup.exe, which is the least favorable of all. Anton Lavrentiev Contractor

RE: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> Are you saying this won't work? > Or do you just not like it? A little bit of both, actually. Windows CMD.EXE has an 8K limit on the command line length, AFAICT. Even if that was not exceeded first time the package list was created, it may easily get there on a complete re-run of the install

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread marco atzeri
Il 11/4/2013 7:03 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] ha scritto: Just make a list from that as part of your install script. That is the problem, right there. I counted some 150 directories, many of which contain 10+ packages, easily. A manageable install command would have looked like "

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 1:03 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Just make a list from that as part of your install script. That is the problem, right there. I counted some 150 directories, many of which contain 10+ packages, easily. A manageable install command would have looked like "setup

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:27:48PM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >> I have an install script for Cygwin. It's not offline > >Thanks for the suggestion. My Systems team need to install from scratch >on bare boxes, from only an image DVD (which contained all the requisites of >

Re: Building a snapshot ("Not an ELF file" error)

2013-11-04 Thread marco atzeri
Il 11/4/2013 6:13 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] ha scritto: Hello All, I'm using some recent (not the latest, though) CYGWIN release, and trying to build a CYGWIN snapshot (for the first time)... When I deployed the snapshot source, ran configure, then make, I saw this: checking for

RE: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> I have an install script for Cygwin. It's not offline Thanks for the suggestion. My Systems team need to install from scratch on bare boxes, from only an image DVD (which contained all the requisites of the future machine, including CYGWIN's setup and the downloaded directory, as I previously d

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Eric Lilja
On 2013-11-04 19:03, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Just make a list from that as part of your install script. That is the problem, right there. I counted some 150 directories, many of which contain 10+ packages, easily. A manageable install command would have looked like "setup.

RE: Building a snapshot ("Not an ELF file" error)

2013-11-04 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> does not cause any ill side-effects, either (just as yet, at least). Maybe I spoke too soon, or maybe it's not at all related, but my build finally failed like this: ... make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/lavr/cygwin-snapshot-20130925-1/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/lsaauth' make[3]: Entering directory

RE: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> Just make a list from that as part of your install script. That is the problem, right there. I counted some 150 directories, many of which contain 10+ packages, easily. A manageable install command would have looked like "setup.exe -L directory -a" to get and install everything it could have f

Re: Optimized Cygwin package

2013-11-04 Thread David Stacey
On 04/11/13 14:24, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/11/2013 7:47 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Kptain! Today my Cygwin package is around 1.4Gb. I've tried to restrict amount of package required by distribution, it seems lot of dependencies are required. Does someone know how to restrict and op

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 12:22 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Though I haven't experimented with this myself, I'd recommend looking at using "setup*.exe" on the command line and listing the packages to install there. Thanks. But I P.S.'d about that option as undesirable -- as it requires

Re: gcc-4.8.2-1: /bin/gcc fails

2013-11-04 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Charles Wilson! > On 11/4/2013 6:42 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Nov 2 23:54, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >>> So, while I'm not convinced that this is a huge issue overall, if >>> "don't do that" isn't good enough, the easiest workaround is to >>> configure GCC with --libexecdir=/usr

RE: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> Though I haven't experimented with this myself, I'd recommend looking at > using "setup*.exe" on the command line and listing the packages to install > there. Thanks. But I P.S.'d about that option as undesirable -- as it requires to maintain quite a long list of packages, all listed individual

Building a snapshot ("Not an ELF file" error)

2013-11-04 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hello All, I'm using some recent (not the latest, though) CYGWIN release, and trying to build a CYGWIN snapshot (for the first time)... When I deployed the snapshot source, ran configure, then make, I saw this: checking for .preinit_array/.init_array/.fini_array support... readelf: Error: Not a

Re: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 11:22 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Hello All, I am trying to help my site's Systems team to straighten up CYGWIN installation process, which they will need to perform to build new PCs, and I have volunteered to ask on their behalf here.. As far as they can tell,

Re: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership

2013-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/4/2013 9:50 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Haha, yes. But if my students have to administer remote production-machines, most of the time they have no other option. I want them to succeed where others fail. Reading this thread, it looks like it digressed far away from the

Re: SV: Some first questions.

2013-11-04 Thread D. Boland
Gert Koefoed Andersen wrote: > > I have compiled lot of sources on linux systems and got now errors here but > on cygwin on my windows 7 32bit things not like to work for me. > What I ever I have done for it, like: > Cd /cygdrive/k/huskysrc/smapi > Or copied it to /src/src/huskysrc > Cd /usr/src/h

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-11-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/11/2013 11:00 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:32:10AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: On 10/30/2013 9:51 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/10/2013 8:48 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: Yeah; even for my stripped-down version, I need to pre-process the setup.ini and remove all

Re: Optimized Cygwin package

2013-11-04 Thread Kptain
Thanks all for your fast replies! Probably I've missed something after package selection to prevent loader to include useless packages. I'll restart from scratch a new selection expecting to reach something like 400MB. Please note that packages representing biggest size are located from /usr/shar

Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

2013-11-04 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hello All, I am trying to help my site's Systems team to straighten up CYGWIN installation process, which they will need to perform to build new PCs, and I have volunteered to ask on their behalf here.. As far as they can tell, there is no such an installation option that tells to install "everyt

Re: How about a 64-bit installer that doesn't require UAC?

2013-11-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 4 10:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 12:53:43PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Nov 3 14:13, Bill Welch wrote: > >> My apologies for the snark. The list archive ends at the same > >> message as the top of the second page of the nabble rendering and I > >> didn'

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:32:10AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >On 10/30/2013 9:51 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> On 30/10/2013 8:48 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: >>> Yeah; even for my stripped-down version, I need to pre-process the >>> setup.ini and remove all mentions of cygwin, libstdc++6, libgcc1, et

Re: How about a 64-bit installer that doesn't require UAC?

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 12:53:43PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Nov 3 14:13, Bill Welch wrote: >> My apologies for the snark. The list archive ends at the same >> message as the top of the second page of the nabble rendering and I >> didn't immediately see the additional messages in nabble t

RE: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership

2013-11-04 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> > Haha, yes. But if my students have to administer remote > production-machines, most of the time they have no other option. I want them > to succeed where others fail. Reading this thread, it looks like it digressed far away from the original point ($subject) as to why "vi" did not keep the ori

Re: gcc-4.8.2-1: /bin/gcc fails

2013-11-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/4/2013 6:42 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 2 23:54, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: So, while I'm not convinced that this is a huge issue overall, if "don't do that" isn't good enough, the easiest workaround is to configure GCC with --libexecdir=/usr/lib. That would be the safer option, I

Re: Optimized Cygwin package

2013-11-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/11/2013 9:24 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/11/2013 7:47 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Kptain! Today my Cygwin package is around 1.4Gb. I've tried to restrict amount of package required by distribution, it seems lot of dependencies are required. Does someone know how to restrict an

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-11-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/30/2013 9:51 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/10/2013 8:48 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: Yeah; even for my stripped-down version, I need to pre-process the setup.ini and remove all mentions of cygwin, libstdc++6, libgcc1, etc. The ncurses DLLs are also a huge nexus. (It's probably easier to excl

Re: Optimized Cygwin package

2013-11-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/11/2013 7:47 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Kptain! Today my Cygwin package is around 1.4Gb. I've tried to restrict amount of package required by distribution, it seems lot of dependencies are required. Does someone know how to restrict and optimize Cygwin packages knowing I'm using i

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package : gl2ps-1.3.8.-1

2013-11-04 Thread marco atzeri
Version 1.3.8-1 of gl2ps, libgl2ps1, libgl2ps-devel have been uploaded for cygwin (32 and 64 bit) GL2PS is a C library providing high quality vector output for any OpenGL application. The main difference between GL2PS and other similar libraries is the use of sorting algorithms capable o

Re: Optimized Cygwin package

2013-11-04 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Kptain! > Today my Cygwin package is around 1.4Gb. > I've tried to restrict amount of package required by distribution, it seems > lot of dependencies are required. > Does someone know how to restrict and optimize Cygwin packages knowing I'm > using it only for this applications? Give

Re: Still confused about cyg_server vs. user id when logging in via ssh

2013-11-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 3 15:03, frigging raw email address wrote: > When I login via ssh, I *appear* at first glance to have the same id > and privileges as I do when I log in directly. > > a) If I am an administrator, then 'id -a' gives the following >consistent answer for both direct and ssh login: >

Re: How about a 64-bit installer that doesn't require UAC?

2013-11-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 3 14:13, Bill Welch wrote: > My apologies for the snark. The list archive ends at the same > message as the top of the second page of the nabble rendering and I > didn't immediately see the additional messages in nabble that > include a workaround. Setup should work for admins in the first

Re: gcc-4.8.2-1: /bin/gcc fails

2013-11-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 2 23:54, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 2013-11-02 04:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Nov 1 23:23, David Rothenberger wrote: > >>With gcc-4.8.2-1, the following fails: > >> > >>% touch /tmp/t.c > >>% /bin/gcc -c /tmp/t.c > >>gcc: error: spawn: No such file or directory > > Curious, are y

RE: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership

2013-11-04 Thread Brian S. Wilson
> Haha, yes. But if my students have to administer remote production-machines, most of the time they have no other option. I want them to succeed where others fail. If this is the case, why not use the Apache instance available through Cygwin itself instead of implementing this Windows/Cygwin hybri

Optimized Cygwin package

2013-11-04 Thread Kptain
Hi, Today my Cygwin package is around 1.4Gb. I've tried to restrict amount of package required by distribution, it seems lot of dependencies are required. Does someone know how to restrict and optimize Cygwin packages knowing I'm using it only for this applications? - gcc - python - per

SV: Some first questions.

2013-11-04 Thread Gert Koefoed Andersen
> > Hello list. > > > > I have some first questions for cygwin works on windows 7 by compile > > sources I normally just fine compile on my linux systems but not like > > to compile well and by cygwin. > > The sources I trying to compile is been packed on linux with tar > > archiwing program so I c