RE: Distribute gcc minus gcj? (was Re: Questions about Cygwin's "jar" command)

2003-06-23 Thread Shankar Unni
Larry Hall wrote: > I know I shouldn't answer a question with a question but you > intend this to be rhetorical, right? > > Never mind. I'll bite. If you or someone else is interested > in providing a gcj package, I expect Chris would work with that > person to avoid any package clash. No,

Distribute gcc minus gcj? (was Re: Questions about Cygwin's "jar"command)

2003-06-23 Thread Shankar Unni
Larry Hall wrote: > David M. Karr wrote: It doesn't appear to be in a separate Cygwin package, so I guess I can't use Cygwin setup to "uninstall" it. Right, unless you don't want gcc, which is the package it comes with. Is there any way we can persuade cgf to build the gcc distribution without

Re: eBay Fraud (OT)

2003-06-19 Thread Shankar Unni
Randall R Schulz wrote: [FJR: Guarantees are only as good as the guarantor. There ain't no free lunch. When will people take security seriously?] [This one is a long and ugly story. PGN] Still OT, sorry. What they were complaining about was a new "affiliated service" (or whatever EBay calls

Re: cygpath bug?

2003-06-13 Thread Shankar Unni
BB wrote: Shouldn't GetShortPathName() == 0 always cause the get_short_name() function to fail? I would sincerely hope not. I see no reason why cygpath conversion has to be tied to the existence of files. We often need to use cygpath to convert between formats for files which we are about to cre

Re: Swapping CTRL & CAPS

2003-06-13 Thread Shankar Unni
Karr, David wrote: Go to http://www.sysinternals.com and get the "Ctrl2Cap" tool. That one installs a DLL (kernel driver that intercepts keypresses) to do the keymapping, and is an excellent introduction to driver writing for NT. It's also possible to do this less invasively with a simple regist

RE: latest version of vi messes up bash for me

2003-06-10 Thread Shankar Unni
Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The bash man page says >An interactive shell is one started without non-option >arguments and without the -c option whose standard input >and output are both connected to terminals (as determined >by isatty(3)), or one start

Re: latest version of vi messes up bash for me

2003-06-10 Thread Shankar Unni
Larry Hall wrote: Also, it would be useful to know if vim works for you if you > login to Windows and use cygwin.bat instead. * If I run cygwin.bat directly from Start/Run..., it works fine. (I mean I can start vim, exit, and echo is OK). (I don't have CYGWIN or TERM set in the native Windows

Re: Vim and the navigating with arrow keys

2003-06-10 Thread Shankar Unni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KUDOS - I had the following setting in the registry: /usr/bin/inetd.exe REG_SZ binmode tty ntsec I don't know that that's the culprit - I just set CYGWIN=tty and TERM=cygwin, and started a fresh bash from a cmd shell, and vim worked fine with your example

Re: sharing hd partition betw Linux and Cygwin

2003-06-05 Thread Shankar Unni
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Just to clarify, cvs client works fine regardless of mount; it's the server that is almost guaranteed to work on binmounts only. I got the impression that the poster was going to use cvs with a "local" repository (in that shared vfat filesystem), in which case the caveat

Re: Inability to resize/rearrange controls/windows

2003-06-04 Thread Shankar Unni
Biju G C wrote: I really appreciate any comments. Looks interesting, with a bizarre quirk: if you try to resize below its minimum size, it regrows the window on the other side so that it says the minimum size. Any way to just not allow the resize below the minimum size? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: sharing hd partition betw Linux and Cygwin

2003-06-04 Thread Shankar Unni
Soren Andersen wrote: Now sharing the drive space between the cvs tool (and cpan, too!) works, I think (haven't actually tried cvs yet but had to work on cpan a few minutes ago, and discovered it was suffering from the same difficulty). I'd be amazed if this all works seamlessly. Nevertheless, rem

Re: Question about "rexec"

2003-05-31 Thread Shankar Unni
Andrew DeFaria wrote: It's not obvious to me, which is why I asked the question. BWJM. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwi

Re: 1.3.22: (gcc) problem using gettimeofday with -mno-cygwin

2003-03-31 Thread Shankar Unni
Rob Siklos wrote: Does anyone know if Windows provides something similar? If so, how would I access it from my program? The best thing would be to visit http://msdn.microsoft.com and read the library (the Win32 SDK). There have also been various attempts to provide "very thin" (usually partial

RE: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-26 Thread Shankar Unni
Pavel Tsekov wrote: > ghostscript-x11 ghostscript-x11-7.05-2.tar.bz2 0 (Clap to forehead!). Sorry, and thanks for spotting that one.. -- Shankar. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://

RE: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-26 Thread Shankar Unni
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Currently, the list of installed packages is stored in > /etc/setup/installed.db (subject to change at any time). It > should be updated on every install/uninstall/upgrade. Attached is my installed.db (I've named the attachment .txt so that it's easy to display). No

RE: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-26 Thread Shankar Unni
Pavel Tsekov asked: > Is it possible that the problematic box has X already installed > on it ? If there is an older version of a package already > installed, setup will try to upgrade it. No, it doesn't. The "current" column is blank. Also, there are no XFree86 packages in the download direct

Re: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-26 Thread Shankar Unni
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: It could be some package dependence that's dragging them in. Do you have the same packages installed on both machines? If not, comparing the software might be a place to start... I'll do that, though I'm pretty darn sure I have the same set on both. -- Shankar. -- Unsu

Re: RPM-4.1 port to Cygwin available

2003-03-26 Thread Shankar Unni
Yann Crausaz wrote: The version of setup.exe I propose must be a bit old, isn't it ? If there's a real interest, I'm OK to care about the latest version, but will poeple really use RPM under Cygwin ? Good point. The real benefit to porting RPM or apt-get or whatever to Windows is as a possible

Re: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-26 Thread Shankar Unni
Robert Collins wrote: A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed. I've been using it for a couple of days on a WinXP SP1 box and a Win2K SP2 box. No problems on either. However, one of the installations has had a long-stand

Re: where is /bin/bash ?

2003-03-25 Thread Shankar Unni
Martin Gainty wrote: Does anyone know the location of /bin/bash? Might it be in "/bin"? :-) (Sorry, couldn't resist..) -- Shankar. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.h

Re: procps and top output

2003-03-25 Thread Shankar Unni
Randall R Schulz wrote: What options to procps are you using to get that output format? I cannot reproduce it. It's the output of "top", and yes, I see the problem too. The "size" column is always around 400 (+/-) MB, however large or small the process. The RSS size is correct - it matches the

Re: ls -l --time-style=full-iso does not work ?!?!

2003-03-21 Thread Shankar Unni
reynir wrote: that I get when I run : ls -l --time-style=full-iso in linux. This seems to be an option in newer versions of fileutils. For instance, "ls" from fileutils 4.1 (in RedHat 7.3, and Cygwin) doesn't have this option, while the one in fileutils 4.1.9 (in RH 8.0) does. Perhaps it's just

Re: Latest snapshot fixes some reported problems -- please try

2003-03-17 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: I found and fixed two bugs with the "setsid console handling". I don't know if this will have any bearing on the reported emacs problem but it should fix the 'long hang after control-c' problem. Excellent. It also fixed this other problem I was having in that 1.3.21 s

Re: Weird stuff in /proc/cpuinfo

2003-03-14 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Should be fixed in CVS now. And another thing I just noticed: on my PIII-733 laptop (a Mobile PIII), /proc/cpuinfo says: processor : 0 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1133MHz ... cpu MHz : 731 Where does it get this 1133 from,

RE: man problems - how to get a pre 1.5g-2 binary?

2003-03-10 Thread Shankar Unni
Please reply to the list. Anyway, the only fishy thing I saw was: > adding /cygdrive/c/data/MyDocRalf/bin/cgywin/usr/man to > manpath adding /cygdrive/c/data/MyDocRalf/McKBrC/man to manpath Is this a cut-and-paste error from your screen? In any case, it looks like "man" normally uses a built-

Re: file name case sensitivity

2003-02-26 Thread Shankar Unni
Gerald S. Williams wrote: As you may have guessed, I've been working on this problem recently. I just put a request into SourceForge to create a new project: a library I've been calling CaseWise. It's only for Windows NT/2000/XP since it uses the Native API, but I'm hoping to get Cygwin to use it

Re: file name case sensitivity

2003-02-25 Thread Shankar Unni
Thorsten Kampe wrote: Yes, but in my opinion it could be of use to John Williams because he wanted to "case sensitivity in filenames under Cygwin". No, it won't work, because if you remember, he said that he had files with the same name but different case *in the same directory*. This expressl

Re: to use dup() in cygwin

2003-02-21 Thread Shankar Unni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /*close the display exit and send it to the socket*/ close(1); iError=dup(iDescSock); Shouldn't you be using dup2() for this? It's time to step into the 1990s here, methinks.. -- Shankar. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug

Re: man problems - how to get a pre 1.5g-2 binary?

2003-02-20 Thread Shankar Unni
Ralf Hauser wrote: /cygdrive/c/data/MyDocRalf/bin/cgywin/usr/man:/cygdrive/c/data/MyDocRalf/McKBrC/man I also tried the version with it ending in a colon - no change Can you attach the output of "man -d" (as a text attachment, pls)? That'll tell you in full detail what man is doing. -- Shanka

Re: cygpath problem in 1.3.20

2003-02-19 Thread Shankar Unni
whorfin wrote: I'll toss this on Jakarta's doorstep (or, if I get really ambitious, attempt to fix their script myself). This would be the "ant" shell script, no? I've opened up bug 17212 (http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17212) at issues.apache.org. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: vim can't handle DOS line endings in .vimrc (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]Updated: vim-6.1.300-1)

2003-02-10 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Change it to UNIX lineendings. I'm surprised that it worked for you with 6.1-2 (must be a pure coincidence since it doesn't work for me with 6.1-2) since it was never supported at least since 6.0. Guess I shoulda read the VIM release notes more carefully along the way.

vim can't handle DOS line endings in .vimrc (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]Updated: vim-6.1.300-1)

2003-02-09 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I've updated the version of vim to 6.1.300-1. I've just updated to the latest everything (cygwin 1.3.20, vim 6.1.300-1). I normally leave the CYGWIN env var undefined (i.e. cygwin defaults). Vim now complains about my .vimrc file (which has DOS line endings). CYGWIN se

Re: assimilation cmd towards cygwin/bash

2003-02-07 Thread Shankar Unni
As long as you don't mind hitting after the ^D, this seems to work: c:\> doskey ^D=exit Now, if you hit ^D (the is unfortunately required), CMD.EXE will exit. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentati

Re: cygwin Compile of NetBSD 1.6

2003-02-03 Thread Shankar Unni
Or, even, just give up since the likelihood of actually being able to build NetBSD under Cygwin with little or no knowledge of cross compilers or symlinks or log files is remote at best. Or wait! Maybe he can recompile Windows with Cygwin and run it on Linux! Yeah! -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: emacs in separate window

2003-02-03 Thread Shankar Unni
Joe Buehler wrote: A Cygwin emacs with a Windows GUI would certainly look like NTEmacs, but it would function a bit differently -- it would support the Cygwin shell in various places, etc. Ooh, that would be definitely interesting, and worth switching to.. -- Shankar. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: emacs in separate window

2003-01-31 Thread Shankar Unni
Joe Buehler wrote: Another approach is to massage the existing NT code in emacs to use the native windowing system instead of X11. It probably would not be too hard to do. Err, wouldn't that just be "NTEmacs"? I thought the Cygwin build disabled all the NT-specific code in Emacs. Or doesn't i

jar.exe (part of Gcc) crash if started from non-cygwin shell

2003-01-27 Thread Shankar Unni
Jar.exe (now part of GCC!) crashes on *some* jar files, if it's started from a non-cygwin shell (e.g. CMD). Don't think it's a problem in jar per se, however. It works if it's started from another cygwin program (even "env"). And it works on many jar files (including all the Jars shipped with J

RE: Bug in rm -r with locked files

2003-01-22 Thread Shankar Unni
Larry Hall writes: >>Now why was it important to do this "delayed remove" semantics? > [...] the current behavior is meant to combat the "my script/program > deletes the file/directory then tries to recreate it - why isn't the > file/directory deleted when unlink() returns?" issue. Ah. I ha

Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files

2003-01-21 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: It's not a completely intractable problem. I think that someone (Chris January?) provided a workaround at one point. "cygserver" could also provide a possible solution someday. Right. I went back and re-read those archives. Interesting problem. Now why was it import

RE: Bug in rm -r with locked files

2003-01-21 Thread Shankar Unni
Max corrected me: > No. The thing that rm -rf gets stuck on is vim .swp recovery file. Ah. Sorry. Should have straced the thing before shooting off. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http:

Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files

2003-01-21 Thread Shankar Unni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may find the 'handle' utility from www.sysinternal.com a handy (no pun intended :-) ) tool for determining which files are opened by which processes. I don't think that was the primary issue. The issue was that if a process is using a directory as its working dire

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-14 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: Hmm. Would that even work? Yes. Hmm again. It'll be interesting to see this in action.. -- Shankar. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/doc

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-13 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: I remember speculating at one point about creating wrappers to the win32 functions like CreateFile, MoveFile, etc. which would understand cygwin paths. You could theoretically modify an .exe to load cygwin1.dll and use the wrapper functions. Or you could use some of W

Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semanticpath analysis

2003-01-10 Thread Shankar Unni
linda w (cyg) wrote: What were the _original_ design goals of Cygwin -- i.e. as sponsored by "RedHat"? Cygwin predates RedHat. See http://cygwin.com/history.html (the earliest date in the file is Dec 1995). RedHat bought Cygnus Solutions (which was a shop for commercial support for GNU soft

Re: javac on cygwin

2003-01-04 Thread Shankar Unni
Randall R Schulz wrote: Javac is not particularly special. It is a Windows-native program, and as such requires absolute file and directory names be provided in Windows format (forward slashes are OK, but drive letters are required and the Cygwin notion of root is completely unknown to such pr

Re: Setup vertical scrollbar doesn't display

2003-01-03 Thread Shankar Unni
Elfyn McBratney wrote: Redirecting to the correct mailing-list. I think this one belongs right here, though. He's talking about the setup app (part of cygwin core) misbehaving, not asking for help installing XFree.. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug rep

Re: rxvt, once again...

2002-12-28 Thread Shankar Unni
Dockeen wrote: Hmmm, my results are pretty much the opposite. In Win2000, I can only resize the window in the vertical direction. In Win98SE I could only resize it very slightly, if at all. Argh. Let's put an end to this once and for all. In the NT-based series (WinNT4, Win2K, XP Pro), the c

Re: Repeated gcc yields differing .exe files

2002-12-20 Thread Shankar Unni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fact that hello.exe alters seems a bit non-optimal to me, given that md5sums are a pretty standard way for people like you and me to check that we're running the same stuff, intended to do the same thing. Incidentally, it's always the same two bytes that alter: As e

Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it

2002-12-19 Thread Shankar Unni
Mark Blackburn wrote: If I type: $ grep -e hello -r . I get: grep: .: File exists and grep doesn't search the contents of any files Data point: doesn't happen with the stock grep 2.5-1 on 1.3.17-1 on WinXP Pro SP1 (everything's the same except the OS). Works fine here. -- Unsubscribe

Re: cygwin License related Query....

2002-12-18 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: Btw, I was trying to move this discussion off of the public list because it probably isn't of much interest to people there. Well, .. The Red Hat Cygwin Product pages are marvelously content-free when it comes to cost and content (i.e. which version) information. O

Re: free ATMEL 8051 c cross compilers - SDCC ..... any more ???

2002-12-17 Thread Shankar Unni
Karthik Bala Guru wrote: I came across SDCC that supports ATMEL in Windows platform . Is there any other Free cross cross compilers for ATMEL 8051 in windowz ?? Why don't you Google for this sort of stuff instead of trying to get others to do it for you? The answer seems to be no. Gcc doesn't

Re: IBM Java 13 + JNI + Cygwin fails

2002-12-16 Thread Shankar Unni
Frank Traenkle wrote: Calling a DLL under Cygwin from IBM Java13 via JNI fails if the DLL depends on cygwin1.dll. That may be because the JNI loader looks for its libraries along the path defined by the Java property "java.library.path". Do a System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.librar

Re: completion-ignore-case (was: /tmp)

2002-12-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Michael A Chase wrote: # Ignore case while completing set completion-ignore-case on Hmm. Thanks! Now that I RTFM more closely, I also see "set complete=enhance". Is there a difference? The latter seems to work as I'd expect it to, so I'm now beginning my Big Move To Cygwin Tcsh :-/.

Re: GCC Include Paths

2002-12-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Vijay Sampath wrote: I just tried out a line with 2 characters and it works fine on bash as an input to GCC. I think that direct Cygwin-to-Cygwin invocation has a higher limit. If you're calling a Cygwin program from a non-Cygwin program (e.g. CMD.EXE), you're still stuck with Windows limi

Re: /tmp

2002-12-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Soren A wrote: > [...] you can nenver tell another person what they should like in a shell. Well (sorry for OT drift), the main thing was the case-insensitive filename completion, which is invaluable on Windows. I need to look at the tcsh source and see if it is implemented within an "#ifdef

Re: cd accepting paths with trailing dots that don't exist (bashand tcsh)

2002-12-10 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Honestly, it's a Windows thingy. Windows allows any number of trailing dots for a path or file name. Go figure! And ".." is handled as a special case somewhere in Win32. For giggles, try "cd ..." or "cd ". Both behave like "cd .". Anyway, it's not a cygwin bug.

Re: ls .. not respecting symbolic links

2002-12-10 Thread Shankar Unni
Robb, Sam wrote: I see the same behavior under Linux, so the question is: is this a bash bug, or expected behavior? Expected behavior. This has been a well-known feature of symlinks - the kernel-level APIs can only follow physical paths, not logical paths. *Some shells* have explicit code t

Re: /tmp

2002-12-10 Thread Shankar Unni
Vince Hoffman wrote: I'm intrigued, where would you have it point then ? c:\temp ? c:\tmp ? No, to \tmp. Ditto for /etc. I had tried this same thing earlier: I was using a mount map where "/" was mounted on "c:/" (I have only one disk), and I had a c:/usr directory containing symlinks to c:/

Re: 1.3.15 on W2K: return codes, bash, cmd.exe

2002-12-06 Thread Shankar Unni
Stephen Powell wrote: Try it without the /b, just "exit 1". Notice that she said she tried it, it works, but is not an option for her because they need to be invoked from DOS command shells as well, and she doesn't want the bat files to cause those shells to exit. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: ls.exe shows windows system hidden files

2002-12-03 Thread Shankar Unni
Wendell Pinegar wrote: The MKS Toolkit for instance does properly ignore these file types. Not surprising. The goals of the two products are somewhat different. MKS is trying to make their environment look exactly like the native Windows. They have written most of their tools from scratch to

Re: mno_cygwin gcc 3.2

2002-11-20 Thread Shankar Unni
Shankar Unni wrote: He has a valid question: why is "-lm" an alias to -lcygwin Never mind - I saw the followup a few posts later. Still, it would be nice to be able to leave "-lm" in the link list even if linking -mno-cygwin, for the sake of Makefile cle

Re: mno_cygwin gcc 3.2

2002-11-20 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:44:13AM +0100, Denis Dupeyron wrote: >Is there any reason for -lm to be an alias >of -lcygwin ? I looks rather confusing. Reason? Nah, it's all just random guesswork. Now, now. :-) He has a valid question: why is "-lm" an alias to -lcygw

Re: Searching on Mailing list and Update on fvwm2 for Cygwin

2002-11-13 Thread Shankar Unni
markem wrote: Search Function on web site: Actually, trying this on several people's names turned up that even though I could see the person's name next to their entry - search refused to locate their messages. Umany ideas? It's a giant global conspiracy to suppress the voices of skep

Re: 1.3.15: "ls -l" integer overflow

2002-11-08 Thread Shankar Unni
Rares Boian wrote: However, "ls -lh" seems to be able to deal with that number and reports it correctly as 16-exabytes. ^ What?!? 16 exabytes?! That's what? 16 * 10^18? Are you joking? All the disks on earth wouldn't add up to that capacity. (Well, maybe they would in th

Re: Q: python compiled with gcc-3.2?

2002-11-05 Thread Shankar Unni
On 11/5/2002 8:01 AM, Schnörr, Claudius Dr. wrote: Now I wish to build a dynamic module for python in cygwin, which is compiled with gcc-2.95. Is the python module API a C++ API (i.e. does it use C++ classes to communicate with modules)? Or a plain C API? C should be binary compatible - try i

Re: undefined ELF header when porting .so file from cygwin to linux

2002-11-05 Thread Shankar Unni
On 11/5/2002 4:47 PM, Alfred Lam wrote: > I need the equivalent .so for linux, which I have obtained in > cygwin with: g++ *.o scard.lib -o libscard.so. Now I'm trying to use it in Red Hat Linux, [Boggle!] You can't do that. Cygwin is not binary compatible with Linux - it's binary compatible w

Re: 1.3.13: problem using ntohs() in asm/bytorder.h in gcc 3.2.

2002-11-04 Thread Shankar Unni
On 11/4/2002 1:12 PM, Jens Yllman wrote: In C++ it is recommended to use other constructs then #define, like const or enum or inline. But I see the use of #define. And that is unfortunately necessary, since the worse evil is maintaining separate copies of for C and C++ compilers - that could

Re: Sample makefile

2002-11-04 Thread Shankar Unni
On 11/4/2002 9:18 AM, Brunda Sathi wrote: Here is the output from the linker D:\Oracle\ora92\oci\samples>ld -o cdemo81 cdemo81.o d: \oracle\ora92\oci\lib\msvc \oci.lib d:\oracle\ora92\oci\lib\msvc\msvcrt.lib -lc Whoa. Why are you linking "msvcrt.lib"? I suspect your problems are because you're

Re: link troubles with wcslen

2002-10-28 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/27/2002 5:07 PM, Xavier Pianet wrote: I can only manage to get errors : /c/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/ccDaW1wr.o(.text+0x38):Blah.cc: undefined reference to `wcslen(wchar_t const*)' This looks like the "wcslen" declaration isn't being protected by an 'extern "C"' block. I notice tha

Microsoft and POSIX (was Re: no dice yet on .net server?)

2002-10-25 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/24/2002 11:09 PM, CBFalconer wrote: tprinceusa wrote: .NET [...] will NOT support anything which supports posix, [...] It specifically states that one of the design objectives > was a complete Posix layer, on an equal basis with the W32 layer. Both of you: this has nothing to do with

Re: Windows 64 Bit Edition version?

2002-10-24 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/24/2002 1:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't seen any traffic on this list about 64 bit versions of Cygwin. If there's any efforts going on "out there", they haven't been communicated to the Cygwin community. For starters, you'd need an IA64+Windows port of gcc. Is there one availa

Re: What's going on here with directory contents?

2002-10-24 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/24/2002 10:18 AM, CBFalconer wrote: That seems to tell me how to get the effect, but nothing about what is going on. I would expect to see some sort of hidden file in ...\usr\bin to cause the effect, but there is nothing there. Oh, you want to know how mount works.. Well, the "open" cyg

Re: Is cygwin newlib reentrant??

2002-10-21 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/15/2002 11:41 PM, Anurag Sharma wrote: I haven't had any response to this question. Can someone please tell me who the maintainer of the cygwin/newlib package is? Well, what the -DREENTRANT_SYSCALLS_PROVIDED does is to compile newlib so that guaranteed reentrant versions of certain syst

Re: paths like //usr/local

2002-10-15 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/15/2002 1:05 PM, Sven Köhler wrote: > the sollution that paths like //comp/share are interpreted like an > UNC-path is just not compatible with an application might expect from a > unix-environment. And there are other things too. Perhaps cygwin should ban "\" file separators in paths?

Re: paths like //usr/local

2002-10-15 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/15/2002 1:05 PM, Sven Köhler wrote: > the sollution that paths like //comp/share are interpreted like an > UNC-path is just not compatible with an application might expect from a > unix-environment. Don't be silly - there are Unix-y environments where "//" doesn't work the way you think

Re: 1.3.12-2: bug with ar tool (Windows 200)

2002-10-11 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/10/2002 1:06 PM, Hart, William E wrote: > BFD: BFD 2.12.90 20020706 internal error, aborting at > /netrel/src/binutils-20020 > 706-2/bfd/coffcode.h line 823 in handle_COMDAT > BFD: Please report this bug. > > In this example, tmp.a is a dummy file that is empty. The problem is likely

Re: Cross compiling on one OS for another

2002-10-10 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/9/2002 2:02 PM, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Can I cross compile the binaries for, say, GNUMach for the Hurd, using > Cygwin? In theory, yes. You have to build a cross-compiler for GNUMach/Hurd using Cygwin ("host" will be Cygwin, "target" will be GNUMach/Hurd - don't know exactly what either

Re: What's a good term setting for rlogin?

2002-10-09 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/9/2002 8:31 AM, Charles Krug wrote: > I copied these lines from /Cygwin/etc/termcap into $HOME/.termcap: > > cygwin:\ > :xn@:op=\E[39;49m:Km=\E[M:te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:tc=linux: > > Setting TERM to "cygwin", I get: > homer:charles% info termcap > info: Terminal type `cy

RE: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Shankar Unni
Yu Wang writes: > Did you met any problem when you use tail.exe on a > file with long filename. > The command: tail paratestdatalog.out Works. > The command: tail paratestdatalog.gold Works. > The command: tail parate~1.gold Does not work. If part of the filename is using the "short notation

Re: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP

2002-10-07 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/7/2002 8:45 AM, Yu Wang wrote: > Thank you so much for kind reply. I ran the tail.exe > directly from \cygwin\bin directory and got the > problem, I thought I was using correct tail.exe, any > thought? And more, have you ever run tail.exe > successfully on XP? Yes, for several months now (

Re: Patch to get bc 1.06 to compile under Cygwin with readline library.

2002-10-07 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/5/2002 12:52 AM, Soren A wrote: > I cannot verify the need for or methodology of your patch, yet, but > thanks for posting. The need for it is obvious, if you look at the declaration he patched out: readline() is actually declared (in readline.h) as taking a _const_ char * parameter, w

Re: .dll question

2002-10-02 Thread Shankar Unni
On 10/2/2002 4:19 PM, Robert Collins wrote: > No it can't. In general, C++ compilers don't interoperate. The C++-Lite > FAQ has a section on this. > From memory, the issues are: > *VMT layout > [..] And before someone jumps up and asks why this can't be reverse engineered - apart from the gene

Re: [Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

2002-09-27 Thread Shankar Unni
On 9/26/2002 9:38 PM, Doru Carastan wrote: > How about breaking free from using the windoze registry. There is > absolutely no special need to use it IMO. All the mount info can > be stored in a plain ASCII file like 'cygwin.cfg'. As part of its > initialization the cygwin1.dll can use GetM

Re: Request:

2002-09-26 Thread Shankar Unni
Do you have the Administrator password for your laptop? Or do you have an administrator who does? If so, you can just log in as Administrator (or anyone else with Administrative privileges on your laptop), and run User Manager to forcibly change the password to something else. After you log i

Re: df --local

2002-09-19 Thread Shankar Unni
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > -# ifdef __CYGWIN__ > -# define ME_REMOTE(fs_name, fs_type) (strchr (fs_name, ':') == 0) > -# else > # define ME_REMOTE(fs_name, fs_type) (strchr (fs_name, ':') != 0) > -# endif You're sure it's not possible to end up with a local path without a ":" (e.g. just \window

Re: libpng not found.

2002-09-18 Thread Shankar Unni
Soren A wrote: > Your message text reading "my application" conveys ambiguous meaning to me. > [ much detail deleted ] Could you maybe have started off by suggesting that he install "libpng" from the "Libs" section during the setup? -- Shankar. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: Annoying cmd console spawn with remote access and Win 2000

2002-05-17 Thread Shankar Unni
Charles Wilson wrote: > (b) You guys suck! I'm angry! I spent all day downloading cygwin and > it doesn't do what I want! FIX IT!!! NOW! Now, now.. He didn't say that, or even anything even remotely like that.. I think we have a major cultural divide (a chasm!) here. In other parts of th

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'm thinking about making binmode the default, too. Woo - watch out. I use "cvs" (the cygwin port) in :pserver: mode, and recently, when I changed my system mount point to binmode, "cvs login" stopped working. I would do "cvs login", and it would prompt for a pass

Re: Changes in latest snapshot

2002-05-15 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'm thinking about making binmode the default, too. Woo - watch out. I use "cvs" (the cygwin port) in :pserver: mode, and recently, when I changed my system mount point to binmode, "cvs login" stopped working. I would do "cvs login", and it would prompt for a pas

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