Re: Memory leak problem reported with gfortran

2008-02-04 Thread Jerry DeLisle
Dave Korn wrote: On 04 February 2008 22:25, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:25:27PM -0800, Jerry DeLisle wrote: The test also appears very clean on Linux. The gfortran library is implemented in C. I need to examine some dumps from the compiler and I will get back

Memory leak problem reported with gfortran

2008-02-03 Thread Jerry DeLisle
here. Is this a bug in Cygwin memory management? I will be happy to provide additional information as soon as I know what is pertinent. I have latest Cygwin as of about two weeks ago and I can provide a gfortran binary if needed. Regards, Jerry -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: Memory leak problem reported with gfortran

2008-02-03 Thread Jerry DeLisle
Dave Korn wrote: On 03 February 2008 19:24, Jerry DeLisle wrote: I have confirmed this problem on Cygwin reported here: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35063 Those of you most familiar with the Windows environment could perhaps help here. Is this a bug in Cygwin memory

Re: Memory leak problem reported with gfortran

2008-02-03 Thread Jerry DeLisle
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Jerry DeLisle wrote: I have confirmed this problem on Cygwin reported here: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35063 I do not know if this can help, but... Building the above test with G95, it does not fail! If I have understood it, I have pressed 1

Re: what's the difference between /dev/tty1 and /dev/console

2008-01-24 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Yue Chen wrote: I have two hosts installed with cygwin. When I click the cygwin icon on host1, the prompt CLI window's tty is /dev/console. However, when I click the icon on host2, the CLI window's tty turns to be /dev/tty1. In the first window, all windows applications run very well. But in

Re: setup.exe fails uninstalling cygrunsrv

2008-01-22 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
When I run setup.exe, it seems to want to update cygrunsrv. However, after downloading and while trying to uninstall cygrunsrv, it fails giving me the Windows fault message. It apologises, but that does not seem to be much consolation. Any suggestions? You stopped all the cygrunsrv

Re: 'read -p' in ash

2008-01-15 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
According to its man page, 'ash' supports the '-p' option on 'read'. However, the following: #!/bin/ash read -p'Hit CR to exit: ' x produces: read: Illegal option -p Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? Delving into the source, it appears that 'ash' was built with

'read -p' in ash

2008-01-15 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
According to its man page, 'ash' supports the '-p' option on 'read'. However, the following: #!/bin/ash read -p'Hit CR to exit: ' x produces: read: Illegal option -p Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Cygwin updates

2007-12-25 Thread Jerry DeLisle
I ssh into my remote Cygwin box. Is there a way to run a script to check for updates, download them, and install? Thanks, Jerry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: Cygwin updates

2007-12-25 Thread Jerry DeLisle
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Jerry DeLisle wrote: Is there a way to run a script to check for updates, download them, and install? I download the updates using a combination of a my script (getcurr.sh) and one (clean_setup.pl) found following the Cygwin lists. See the attachment in [1]. In any

Re: Struggling to setup sshd with Windows Vista

2007-12-24 Thread Jerry DeLisle
Brian Dessent wrote: Kevin Hilton wrote: Let me just make sure I know what you are telling me to do, since I already did this and it didnt make a difference. As an administrator, I: 1. Delete the sshd user -- Ok I manually edited the /etc/passwd file and deleted this user No, I mean delete

Stop turning CPAN modules into Cygwin packages

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Eric Blake wrote: A new package, perl-Error-0.17010-1, is now available for use. NEWS: = This is a new package, providing the Error module for perl. What is the point of making this a Cygwin package? There are no Cygwin specific changes, and it it can be installed directly from CPAN

Re: Updated: [experimental] cygwin-1.5.25-6

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Changes since version 1.5.25-5: - tzset is now thread safe. This appears to have fixed the problem I reported. Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Stop turning CPAN modules into Cygwin packages

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Eric Blake wrote: A new package, perl-Error-0.17010-1, is now available for use. Jerry D. Hedden wrote: What is the point of making this a Cygwin package? Brian Mathis wrote: Because when you package something using a distro's packaging system, you can start to have other programs

Re: Stop turning CPAN modules into Cygwin packages

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
perl-Error Required by git. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-12/msg00094.html This needs to be updated in git's 'requires' section in setup.ini. perl-ExtUtils-Depends perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig buildtime-only requirement for the Perl GNOME bindings

Re: BUG: Timezone failures with threads under Cygwin 1.5.25

2007-12-11 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Jerry D. Hedden wrote: [...] Under 1.5.24, this test always passes. Under 1.5.25, it is now frequently failing. If I add a debugging call in the central most loop: print(got: $lt exp: $localtime\n); I get the following as typical of the problem: 5 perl-current ./perl

BUG: Timezone failures with threads under Cygwin 1.5.25

2007-12-10 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
(CC'ed to perl5-porters for reference.) The Perl test suite contains a file (perl-current/ext/threads/t/libc.t) that exercises the 'localtime' call under threads. Here's the main code: my $i = 10; my $y = 2; my %localtime; for (1..$i) { $localtime{$_} =

Re: Failure in building GFortran on Cygwin

2007-12-01 Thread Jerry DeLisle
thanks, Angelo. Yes, many thanks Corinna. Jerry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Failure in building GFortran on Cygwin

2007-11-30 Thread Jerry DeLisle
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [Forgot to CC the fortran list. Re-sending...] On Nov 29 17:05, Jerry DeLisle wrote: Angelo Graziosi wrote: /tmp/gcc/libgfortran/intrinsics/system_clock.c: In function 'system_clock_4': /tmp/gcc/libgfortran/intrinsics/system_clock.c:67: error: storage size of 'tzp

Re: Failure in building GFortran on Cygwin

2007-11-29 Thread Jerry DeLisle
a regression somewhere. Its not on the gfortran side which has not touched that file for several months. It could be something broke in the configure for cygwin. The error occurs in a conditional comapile: #if defined(HAVE_SYS_TIME_H) defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY) I will open a PR to track this. Jerry

RE: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-16 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
remain a Vista machine), so I'm in the market for a new set of internet security solutions. -Jerry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

RE: cygpath -u doesn't seem to convert spaces properly

2007-09-26 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Brian Dessent wrote: $ cd $ttt bash: cd: /cygdrive/c/Program: No such file or directory Yes, that's wrong. [...] It's got nothing to do with cygpath and everything to do with proper portable scripting practice. Quite true. When you're using bash or sh, you must *quote your arguments* if

RE: Help needed with Big List of Dodgy Apps

2007-09-07 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Jim Kleckner wrote: Dave Korn wrote: [...] I'm adding code to cygcheck to detect whether any of the software that has been known at some time to cause these kinds of problems are installed on the target system being cygchecked. [...] Do you think a tester for API sanity is possible? i.e.

RE: Interesting looking terminal emulation for cygwin

2007-08-13 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Christopher Faylor wrote: Has anyone used this? http://en.poderosa.org/ Looks interesting. Too bad they don't provide console emulation to Windows. BTW, I noticed that they include a binary version of cygterm.exe (in Protocols/Cygterm), which links cygwin1.dll. I didn't see a link to the

RE: Looking for man pages

2007-08-08 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
*Text.font: {Lucida Console} 12 -Jerry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Upgrade gcc please

2007-07-31 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
The gcc version for Cygwin is currently 3.4.4, which was release by the gcc group in May '05. Since then 3.4.5 and 3.4.6 have been release. In addition, gcc 4 has been released with the lastest version being 4.2.1. gcc 4 support mudflaps for finding memory issues. I'm sure many would find that

RE: [PATCH] - setup.exe --mirror-list option (nudge, nudge)

2007-07-30 Thread Hicks, Jerry - ACD
, Jerry - ACD wrote: No comments? I have two comments but neither is probably anything you want to hear. 1) I don't care if the developers want to consider this patch but since setup.exe is not supposed to be a generic install utility but I could see if they they would rather forgo installing

[PATCH] - setup.exe --mirror-list option (nudge, nudge)

2007-07-27 Thread Hicks, Jerry - ACD
No comments? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hicks, Jerry - ACD Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:11 PM To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: [patch] - setup.exe --mirror-list option Hi, I've been setting up a package server that does

Re: Updated: perl-libwin32-0.27-1

2007-07-23 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Reini Urban wrote: This email is to inform you about the release of the updated perl-libwin32 package, matching the current perl-5.8.8, through http://cygwin.com/setup.exe. I obtained the source for this module, and tried to build it. I produced the following error: ODBC.xs:34:23:

RE: GCC 4.1.1

2007-06-26 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Brian Dessent wrote: With that out of the way, it's possible to get -mno-cygwin working with gcc4 just fine, it shouldn't take any patches. You'll of course have to build gcc again as the MinGW version, and set up some symlinks. See the postinstall of the gcc package for details. On a

RE: .exe magic

2007-04-18 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Dave Korn wrote: Hear, hear. I don't think anything so drastic as this should be attempted without a deprecation period of a year or so for the old behaviour. And in fact I think it would probably transpire to be a serious limitation on the utility of cygwin. Remember, if you just want

RE: Using dos2unix and attaching it to a while loop

2007-04-09 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am dealing with DOS text files and need to output DOS text files. [...] I found dos2unix, but I do not know how to properly implement it. The following Bash code is a work-in- progress. Please let me know if a more efficient approach exists. while read line

RE: stupid spaces in environment vars

2007-02-09 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
David Bear wrote: I would like to have used something like cd $USERPROFILE in a bash script but since windows insists on putting spaces in names, this seems impossible. You might be happier writing your scripts in zsh: bash% cd;pwd /home/gsw bash% export SP=silly path bash% mkdir $SP

RE: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?

2007-01-31 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: When I was maintaining cygwin's gcc, I often thought about eliminating -mno-cygwin and just providing a pure mingw cross compiler in the distribution. I completely agree. Anybody depending on -mno-cygwin can create their own shell wrapper. I personally don't care so

RE: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-05 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: You haven't been paying attention, it seems. We've already been over this ground. The performance impact for turning on bash's automatic CRLF handling is profound. That's why we're here. I guess WJM around here. :-) But perhaps I've been paying more attention than

Orphaned packages

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Is there a current list of orphaned packages? gsw

RE: Re: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Coatimundi wrote: Thank you for bringing this up. I forgot to mention (a sure sign that my multitasking scaling is rolling over) that I also tried the P option. While this usually works, I found cases where it did not. [...] Since I see nothing wrong with the source and I am short on

RE: Bash and CR/LF line-endings

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: At the risk of being over-obvious, Linux users... use Linux. In such an insular environment, perhaps they have the luxury of only using the One True Text File Format (whatever that is). We're you the one who brought up Unicode earlier? Besides, there are numerous

Subversion 1.4

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Has anybody successfully built subversion 1.4 (or alternately, is a release planned soon)? It didn't build OOTB for me, and I'd rather not duplicate effort. gsw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

RE: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: If 'ar' insists on backslash separators that is surely a bug. You may be right, but please stop calling me Shirley. :-) Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Why is that? If 'LIB.EXE' will work with either and 'ar' as a Cygwin app prefers '/', why would working with a .lib

RE: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Christopher Faylor wrote: The dilemma here is that I read other mailing lists besides cygwin where people are trying to use Cygwin but are close to giving up because it is so slow. So, making bash faster for people who are using it correctly is very desirable. Which is why we need to get

RE: Subversion 1.4

2006-10-04 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
David Rothenberger wrote: I successfully built it with the attached patch. I haven't actually used it yet, since some other tools I use don't yet support 1.4, but it passed all tests except the ruby tests. Thanks. I'll give it a try. I meanwhile found an earlier post that recommended

RE: Re: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs?

2006-10-03 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Coatimundi wrote: If paths are included in the archive (which is typical for libs created by Visual Studio), then ar may in some cases claim that members (displayed with 'ar t') do not exist when doing ar x lib.a {object} either by path/name.obj or just name.obj. I think you need to use the

Re: DLL error messages suppressed under zsh/RXVT

2006-09-26 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Shankar Unni wrote: Before sending your cygcheck.out, try checking the archives. This problem was talked about a couple of months ago. Thanks for the reference. The problem I reported (check the OP) may be related but isn't exactly the same. AFAICT, suppression of those DLL error messages

DLL error messages suppressed under zsh/RXVT

2006-09-22 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I recently ran into a problem where DLL error messages were apparently suppressed under zsh/RXVT though they appeared under bash/CONSOLE. I was trying to build Subversion 1.4.0, and it at one point configure runs the following command: ruby -r mkmf -e 'exit(have_func(rb_hash_foreach) ? 0 : 1)'

RE: How to run rxvt

2006-09-21 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Fabrizio Salvatore wrote: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fn 7x14 -g 120x24 -si -sk -sb -sl 1000 -fg black -bg white -T cygwin terminal Window -e /usr/bin/tcsh -l In case you didn't know, if you some settings most of the time, you can specify them in ~/.Xdefaults (even if you're not running X). For

RE: Read not honouring -r?

2006-09-19 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Doug Irwin wrote: One would expect a read -r fs t2 t3 to process this without attempting to expand slashes. But I can't seem to get this bit working... And I can't seem to find any doco on doing that in Cygwin. I've attached the files I am testing with in the hope that someone can help me

RE: Read not honouring -r?

2006-09-19 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I wrote: This seems to be particularly tied to ksh, and specifically when you use to redirect a file. If you simply pipe the output of grep to the while loop, it works. Interestingly, sh, bash, and zsh all give the behavior you were expecting. I couldn't resist trying it out on my Linux box,

3PP: SUPER/ERightSoft

2006-07-07 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Presumably somebody from RedHat has already contacted the ERightSoft folks for illegally distributing cygwin1.dll cygz.dll without the source (as part of their SUPER package). However, they also install those files into /WINDOWS/SYSTEM32 *and* mark them both SYSTEM and HIDDEN. This may be the

RE: Fortran Compiler Error CMBFAST

2006-06-27 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) wrote: This is not really a cygwin problem. I guess you didn't see my post--if the compiler should be able to find an include file in the same directory as the source file (and/or the current directory, since they are the same in this case), then it is a cygwin

RE: Fortran Compiler Error CMBFAST

2006-06-27 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Dave Korn wrote: We *need* to see the actual command line. That was in the original post (sorry, I should have made sure it was included in the text when I CC'ed you...): f77 -O2 -c -o jlgen.o jlgen.F The command was being executed from the same directory as jlgen.F, which also contains

RE: Fortran Compiler Error CMBFAST

2006-06-26 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Brad Krane wrote: I'm trying to compile the scientific package CMBFAST-4.5.1 in the cygwin environment using g77. I get the following error... f77 -O2 -c -o jlgen.o jlgen.F jlgen.F: In program `jlgen': jlgen.F:14: include 'cmbfast.inc' ^ Unable to open INCLUDE file

RE: UNIX Network Programming (unpve13e) make failing (AF_INET6 undeclared).

2006-06-08 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Huw wrote: The first issue was an omission of #defines. IPv6 isn't a necessity for the UNP source, I believe. I'd say the real issue is a failure to protect the use of AF_INET6. You'll notice that it's protected by an #ifdef earlier. The next issue I have is: mcast_leave.c: In function

RE: Re: Handling special characters (\/:*?|) gracefully

2006-05-23 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
mwoehlke wrote: (Speaking of case sensitivity, is it a Windows limitation that Cygwin can't do this? I'm pretty sure it isn't an NTFS limitation, as Interix has true case-sensitivity.) You are right--NTFS can handle it, although the normal Windows file and directory handling routines cannot.

RE: Geomview Cygwin setup

2006-04-28 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
If you need to find out what gcc is targeting, perhaps you should use -dumpmachine instead. $ gcc -dumpmachine i686-pc-cygwin $ gcc -dumpmachine -mno-cygwin i686-pc-mingw32 Lloyd Wood wrote: cygming, not cygwin? ('ming' is a strong insult in the UK. I get the impression the writer doesn't

RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-04-26 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
While I was watching the tumbleweeds blow by, I did some more investigation on the problems I've been encountering with snapshots. First of all, I tested every snapshot (always the FULL snapshot, of course) from 2006-03-09 onwards with the following results: 20060309 - Last non-problematic

RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-04-25 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Jerry D. Hedden wrote: I have a cron job (a bash script) that runs every 6 minutes, polling and downloading info off the web. The problem is the script hangs at various places and the stuck processes keep building up. Further, I have to kill these processes using the task monitor: kill reports

RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-04-25 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Jerry D. Hedden wrote: I have a cron job (a bash script) that runs every 6 minutes, polling and downloading info off the web. The problem is the script hangs at various places and the stuck processes keep building up. Further, I have to kill these processes using the task monitor: kill reports

RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-04-25 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Ernie Coskrey wrote: it's possible that Jerry has found a scenario that causes this problem to occur. Maybe not, but if he can reproduce it it would be worth checking. I can reproduce the problem. That's not the issue. I cannot provide a little test app to produce the problem

RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-04-24 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Corinna Vinschen wrote: It's time again to release a new Cygwin version. We're on the way to 1.5.20, and we're hoping that this release solves or at least workarounds a couple of problems introduced in earlier versions. Seems to have created some new ones. I have a cron job (a bash script)

RE: How to prevent duplicate cron jobs?

2006-04-21 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
I have a cron job running perl and it is taking a very long time -- sometimes over 24 hours. How can I have cron schedule my job daily, or even hourly, and have the perl code exit if a previouse instance of the job is still running? Use Proc::Daemon in conjunction with Proc::PID::File.

BUG: /sbin in util-linux package

2006-04-14 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
I noticed that the util-linux module places several apps in /sbin. Tue Mar 7 23:34:41 2006 12800 sbin/agetty.exe Tue Mar 7 23:34:37 2006 9728 sbin/fsck.cramfs Tue Mar 7 23:34:37 2006 20992 sbin/fsck.minix Tue Mar 7 23:34:41 2006 26624

BUG: 'run -p' fails if path contains spaces

2006-04-06 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
run 1.1.8-1 fails if the path used with the -p option contains any spaces. The following works: run '/cygdrive/c/Program Files/vim/vim64/gvim.exe' The following fails with a dialog box stating that it can't find gvim.exe: run -p '/cygdrive/c/Program Files/vim/vim64' gvim.exe --

RE: BUG: 'run -p' fails if path contains spaces

2006-04-06 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Jerry D. Hedden wrote: run 1.1.8-1 fails if the path used with the -p option contains any spaces. The following works: run '/cygdrive/c/Program Files/vim/vim64/gvim.exe' The following fails with a dialog box stating that it can't find gvim.exe: run -p '/cygdrive/c/Program Files/vim/vim64

BUG: 'cron' fails to stop with -i flag

2006-04-06 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
I have installed 'cron' as a service using the following: cygrunsrv -I cron -d CYGWIN cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e CYGWIN=server ntsec tty -i The -i flag is needed for certain cron job scripts. It starts and runs fine using: cygrunsrv -S cron A reading of the services shows:

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.1.8-1

2006-04-04 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
run-1.1.8-1 is now available on Cygwin mirrors. Changes === * Remove quotes from exename. Fixes problem with spaces in filenames After installing this version of 'run', I found that the behaviour reported in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-03/msg00866.html is still the same.

'cron' fails to stop

2006-04-01 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
' is attached. Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Sat Apr 01 20:59:46 2006 Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Path: C:\cygwin\home\Jerry\bin C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin C:\WINDOWS\system32 C:\WINDOWS C

RE: 'cron' fails to stop

2006-04-01 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Jerry D. Hedden wrote: I have installed 'cron' as a service using the following: cygrunsrv -I cron -d CYGWIN cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e CYGWIN=server ntsec tty -i René Berber replied: First mistake, you should have read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README and, following those

RE: rxvt-W

2006-03-30 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Charles Wilson wrote: Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Well, it's already better than the existing rxvt in at least one way: [...] Well, maybe so. But sucking 100% CPU *while doing nothing* is just not acceptable to me -- or, I suspect, to anyone else. However, my rxvt-unicode-X package

'run' command quirks

2006-03-29 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
I am trying to run the Windows version of gVim from a bash script using the 'run' command. Starting gVim directly (i.e., without using 'run') works: '/cygdrive/c/program files/vim/vim64/gvim.exe' Using 'run' works if I 'cd' to the gVim directory first: cd '/cygdrive/c/program

RE: rxvt-W

2006-03-27 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Charles Wilson wrote: I'm ITP'ing it as a call for assistance, and it'll remain in 'test' state until libW11 + libXpm-W11 + rxvt-W works as well or better than the existing rxvt in native mode. Well, it's already better than the existing rxvt in at least one way: Have you ever tried running

USERNAME disappears from cron with 20060318 snapshot

2006-03-20 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
I have cron scripts that make use of the USERNAME environment variable. With the 20060309 snapshot, USERNAME is available to the scripts. With the 20060318 snapshot, USERNAME is not there, just LOGNAME. Why the change? Or is this a bug? -- Unsubscribe info:

Rxvt+Bash dumps using 2006-03-15 snapshot

2006-03-17 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
After installing cygwin-inst-20060315.tar.bz2 (full snapshot 2006-03-16 03:13 GMT), I am unable to bring up Bash inside an RXVT window. The window appears for a second and then goes away, leaving a bash stackdump in my home directory. Attached are the base stackdump and the cygcheck output. The

RXVT+Bash cores with 2006-03-15 snapshot

2006-03-17 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Using the full 2006-03-15 snapshot, I am unable to bring up Bash inside an RXVT window. The window opens for a moment and then closes. A base stackdump is left in my home dir. The 2006-03-09 snapshot works okay. Below are the stackdump and cygcheck output. (I tried to send them as

RE: Find tool contained in unknown pkg

2006-03-17 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
I've just installed a very minimal cygwin. I noticed the `id' tool is not present and looking on the packages page I don't see it listed separately so I'm guessing it is contained in a package whos name may not reflect its presence. Anyone know which package that might be? coreutils --

RE: phread_join problem

2006-03-16 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
res = pthread_cancel(the_handle); assert(res == 0); cout cancelled, joining\n; res = pthread_join(the_handle, NULL); You can't join to a cancelled thread. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Apache failure with 2006-03-01/2 snapshots

2006-03-09 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Jerry D. Hedden wrote: Combination: cygwin-inst-20060302.tar.bz2 (2006-03-02 17:00 GMT) snapshot apache-1.3.33-2.tar.bz2 Apache won't start, and outputs the following in its log: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/mod_env.dll into server: Bad address Christopher Faylor replied

RE: Starting gvim from Windows

2006-03-09 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Neil Watson asked: I have X running. How can I start Cygwin's build of Gvim from Windows, without doing from an xterm? I tried issuing gvim from a cmd window but I receive an error cygice-6.dll was not found. I don't use X. I just use RXVT windows on top of the Windows Desktop. I don't use

cvs 1.11.21-1 still experimental

2006-03-06 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
The experimental version of cvs (1.11.21-1) has been in the experimental state since November. Isn't it ready for 'current' status yet? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: Apache failure with 2006-03-01/2 snapshots

2006-03-03 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Jerry D. Hedden wrote: Combination: cygwin-inst-20060302.tar.bz2 (2006-03-02 17:00 GMT) snapshot apache-1.3.33-2.tar.bz2 Apache won't start, and outputs the following in its log: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/mod_vhost_alias.dll into server: Bad address The same holds

RE: 'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

2006-03-02 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Jerry D. Hedden wrote: Using cygwin-inst-20060301.tar.bz2 (dll, exes, libs, headers, etc) from the 2006-03-01 (23:10 GMT) snapshot, I'm still getting these errors when building Perl: /c/perl_tmp/perl-5.8.8/libperl.a(pp.o):pp.c:(.text+0x643b): undefined reference to `___isnand' /c/perl_tmp

libm.info missing from snapshot?

2006-03-02 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
While diff'ing snapshots, I noted that libm.info is in the 2006-02-24 snapshot, but is not in the 2006-03-01 snapshot. Is this an oversight? (Is there some chance that this relates to the missing isnand problem?) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

RE: libm.info missing from snapshot?

2006-03-02 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
While diff'ing snapshots, I noted that libm.info is in the 2006-02-24 snapshot, but is not in the 2006-03-01 snapshot. Is this an oversight? (Is there some chance that this relates to the missing isnand problem?) To clarify the parenthetically question, I know that libm.info is docs; not

Improper snapshot install [was 'missing isnand']

2006-03-02 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
I figured out my problem. Instead of installing the snapshot using the procedure documented here: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC21 (which I apologize for not knowing about), I installed it by untarring the snapshot and then copying the usr and etc dirs to C:\cygwin using Explorer.

Apache failure with 2006-03-01/2 snapshots

2006-03-02 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Combination: cygwin-inst-20060302.tar.bz2 (2006-03-02 17:00 GMT) snapshot apache-1.3.33-2.tar.bz2 Apache won't start, and outputs the following in its log: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/mod_env.dll into server: Bad address The same holds for the 2006-03-01 Cygwin snapshot. Apache

'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

2006-03-01 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Using the full (inst) 2006-03-01 (23:10 GMT) snapshot, I'm still getting these errors when building Perl: /c/perl_tmp/perl-5.8.8/libperl.a(pp.o):pp.c:(.text+0x643b): undefined reference to `___isnand' /c/perl_tmp/perl-5.8.8/libperl.a(pp.o):pp.c:(.text+0x64f2): undefined reference to `___isnand'

RE: 'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

2006-03-01 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Jerry D. Hedden wrote: Using the full (inst) 2006-03-01 (23:10 GMT) snapshot, I'm still getting these errors when building Perl: /c/perl_tmp/perl-5.8.8/libperl.a(pp.o):pp.c:(.text+0x643b): undefined reference to `___isnand' /c/perl_tmp/perl-5.8.8/libperl.a(pp.o):pp.c:(.text+0x64f2

Missing isnand in 2006-02-27 snapshot

2006-02-28 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
I can build Perl just fine with the 2006-02-24 snapshot. When I use the 2006-02-27 snapshot (2006-02-28 04:45 GMT), I get the following failures: /c/perl_tmp/perl-5.8.8/libperl.a(pp.o):pp.c:(.text+0x643b): undefined reference to `___isnand'

Re: experimental coreutils-5.94-4

2006-02-28 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Using Cygwin snapshot 2006-02-24 and coreutils 5.94-4, I ran the test suite for Perl 5.8.8. It completed with no failures. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

RE: Clearing the COMPLETE screen.

2006-02-27 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Igor Peshansky wrote: YA typo. The above should read: alias cs='echo -ne \ec' Yes, this is what you need to do under BASH. I thought I had verified it there, but I guess I wasn't getting what I thought I was getting. (I mostly use ZSH--at least I knew better than to write print -n $'\ec'.)

RE: Clearing the COMPLETE screen.

2006-02-27 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Igor Peshansky wrote: Yes, but printf '\ec' works ju-ust fine in bash... :-) Even better. That works unchanged in both bash and zsh. Do you set your TERM to rxvt or xterm? The control sequence in the terminfo database may be wrong if you don't use the native rxvt terminal setting. I've

Re: d_ino bug in //

2006-02-27 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
On Feb 27 17:22, Eric Blake wrote: It looks like d_ino is not being correctly populated within //. Corinna Vinschen replied: I've applied a fix. I tried the fix in the 20060227 snapshot. It did not fix the 'pwd' problems I noted in: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00933.html (If it

Re: experimental coreutils-5.94-3

2006-02-26 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Using Cygwin snapshot 20060224, I ran the test suite for Perl 5.8.8. With coreutils5.94-1, there are no failures. With coreutils5.94-3, there are several failures that stem from using `pwd` that complain with: pwd: couldn't find directory entry in `../../../..' with matching i-node --

RE: Clearing the COMPLETE screen.

2006-02-24 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Dave Korn wrote: I generally use a line like this: alias cls='cmd -c cls' For me, that has to read 'cmd /c cls' or it doesn't work. :-P This was mildly annoying me for a while as well. I finally broke down and took a look into it. It looks like the ESC c (reset terminal) control works

RE: Question about rxvt

2006-02-24 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
MaurĂ­cio wrote: I've been using rxvt, as recommended by chere man page. I have a problem: in some non-cygwin console programs (ghci, the Haskell interpreter, and others) the up arrow key doesn't work as expected. This has been discussed here previously. Non-cygwin programs don't recognize

Apache2 Threads

2006-02-17 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
The 'worker' MPM for Apache2 uses threads. According to its docs: By using threads to serve requests, it is able to serve a large number of requests with less system resources than a process-based server. Yet it retains much of the stability of a process-based server by keeping multiple

RE: [PATCH] Add -p option to ps command

2006-02-16 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
On Feb 14 07:12, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: Attached is a patch to add a -p option to the ps command to show information for only a single PID: ps -p PID Corrina Vinschen replied: Thanks for the patch. It's barely short enough so that we decided to put it in despite the fact that you have

RE: [PATCH] Add -p option to ps command

2006-02-16 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Original Message Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add -p option to ps command From: Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, February 16, 2006 10:09 am To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com On Feb 16 07:58, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: Thanks. I realized one minor oversight. Using -p

[PATCH] Add -p option to ps command

2006-02-14 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
Attached is a patch to add a -p option to the ps command to show information for only a single PID: ps -p PID This option is available on other implementations of ps (e.g., Solaris). Index: winsup/utils/ps.cc === --- ps.cc.orig

Building Cygwin

2006-02-14 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
I downloaded the source for cygwin-1.5.19-4, and successfully compiled it using: ./configure make My interest was in the ps command. It runs fine, but when I looked at the size of the executable: 146 cygwin-1.5.19-4 ls -l i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/utils/ps.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 jhedden

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