Re: Compile dclock fails

2004-01-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
Yup, it does fail. This is because it's written in improper C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gzip -dc dclock_2.1.2.orig.tar.gz |tar xvf - dclock/ dclock/Dclock.c dclock/Dclock.h dclock/DclockP.h dclock/Imakefile dclock/README dclock/TODO dclock/dclock.c dclock/Dclock.ad

Re: auto_ptr gcc version 3.3.1 (cygming special) problem

2004-01-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
#1) This is not a cygwin issue, so it's off-topic here. #2) This is not even really a gcc issue, it's a C++ issue. #3) The problem is that you are trying to use static_cast too much. It should only be used for built-in types (int, float, various pointers). The older gcc seemed to allow

List responces (Was: Re: Third-party products that include Cygwin)

2003-12-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
Larry Hall wrote: At 05:24 PM 12/13/2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen you wrote: PLEASE NOTE: ** on a mailing list; please keep replies on that particular list ** I'm a little confused by the intent of your note above. If this is directed at me, I replied to your message the way I always reply, with

Re: 1.5.1: can't open files beginning with ...

2003-10-24 Thread Rolf Campbell
To make things even more interesting, it thinks that anything starting with '...' is a character device? /home/rcampbell ll .. crw-rw-rw-1 rcampbel 0, 0 Oct 24 14:28 .. /home/rcampbell touch ... touch: creating `...': No such device or address Chris Moore wrote: I

Re: Program too big to fit in memory - Previous hints didn't work

2003-10-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
E G wrote: I run the max_memory program included in Chapter 3 of the users manual I think, and it reports 1560 kB. So I'm discarding real memory problems. Well, that's the problem, you only have 1.5 Megs of ram free. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Possible bug in text/binary mode handling in cygwin1.dll version 1.5

2003-10-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
Vladimir Vysotsky wrote: Hi, I'm using the following sequence of actions to reproduce this problem: C:\testbash bash-2.05b$ echo Test /c/test/test1.txt bash-2.05b$ echo Test c:/test/test2.txt bash-2.05b$ ls -l total 2 -rw-r--r--1 vvysotsk mkpasswd6 Oct 10 19:49

Recent snapshots and bash/stopping processes

2003-10-06 Thread Rolf Campbell
Open one window (rxvt): $ sleep 1000 Open a seperate window (rxvt): $ ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND 1716 11716 1716 con 11643 18:57:52 /usr/bin/rxvt 163617161636 17240 11643 18:57:52 /usr/bin/bash 1832 1

Re: Recent snapshots and bash/stopping processes

2003-10-06 Thread Rolf Campbell
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:00:53AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: Open one window (rxvt): $ sleep 1000 Open a seperate window (rxvt): $ ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND 1716 11716 1716 con 11643 18:57:52 /usr/bin/rxvt

Re: Recent snapshots and bash/stopping processes

2003-10-06 Thread Rolf Campbell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:00:53AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: Open one window (rxvt): $ sleep 1000 Open a seperate window (rxvt): $ ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND

Re: Out of Memory

2003-09-28 Thread Rolf Campbell
read the faq wrote: Dear All, My System Environment as below: Windows 2000 Professional Cygwin version 2.78.2.9 Phyical Memory: 256M Virtual Memory: 1.5G Perl v5.6.1 built for cygwin-multi When I run my perl program which needs about 1G memory, the following happened: Out of

Google (Was: Re: __CYGWIN__ ++ (RE: getuid() and root))

2003-09-24 Thread Rolf Campbell
Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: Searching the archives, w google (I'm VERY negative vs htdig right now) +CYGWIN +-mno-cygwin site:cygwin.com inurl:ml gives 1450 hits... I'm out of ideas on how to refine this - to find anything that matches __NOCYGWIN__ or similar. At times I'm

Re: feature requests for setup

2003-09-23 Thread Rolf Campbell
peter garrone wrote: - Have setup check with the mirror to see if the setup program itself has been upgraded. For people who dont read announcements. It does. After it's been 'officially' released. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Invocation of executable file on a machine which doesn't have Cygwin installed

2003-09-22 Thread Rolf Campbell
Not unless you install at least the cygwin base package on the 2nd machine. Or compile with -mno-cygwin. Alex Vinokur wrote: Windows 2000 --- 1. Machine#1. Cygwin is installed. foo.cpp is some c++ program $ g++ foo.cpp -o foo.exe

Re: objdump : inaccurate demangling for foo(char* const)

2003-09-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
foo(char* const) is no different from foo(char*), from the perspective of linking/overloading. Did you mean foo(char const *)? Alex Vinokur wrote: == Windows 2000 Professional CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.5.4(0.94/3/2) GNU gcc version 3.2 20020927 (prerelease) GNU

^C not getting to sub, sub, sub, sub processes (was: Re: 1.5.4s assertion hsig_inited failed)

2003-09-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:10:12PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 04:44:58PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: I started a large build, then hit ^Z. Then fg, and this is what happened: A large build shouldn't even recognize

Re: ^C not getting to sub, sub, sub, sub processes

2003-09-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I have a reproducable (at least on my machine) of some ^C handling issues. #!/bin/python import sys, os, select if(int(sys.argv[1]) 0): os.system(sys.argv[0] + %d % (int(sys.argv[1])-1)) else: select.select([], [], [], 10) Try running this as ./deep.py 0, and then,

Re: getopt: ugly linker messages

2003-09-18 Thread Rolf Campbell
Bryan Higgins wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: You can use unistd.h if you want. If you knew this already why were you asking the question? From the gnu getopt(3) man page (mysteriously missing in cygwin): #include unistd.h int getopt(int argc, char * const argv[],

1.5.5s + ^C or ^Z = bad

2003-09-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
Rolf Campbell wrote: Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: From: Alexander Osipenko I can't reproduce that... BUT having a plain prompt like this in rxvt: $ and hitting CTRL-C makes bash bail out. (i.e. the rxvt window closes) And I cannot reproduce either problem. After upgrading

Re: bash-2.05b-15 still broken

2003-09-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I can't reproduce that... BUT having a plain prompt like this in rxvt: $ and hitting CTRL-C makes bash bail out. (i.e. the rxvt window closes) And I cannot reproduce either problem. I can. It's odd. I wonder why I didn't notice this in my own testing since I did

Re: Setup installation order?

2003-09-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Rick Rankin wrote: I ran into a situation I hadn't seen before a few days ago when I used setup to update my Cygwin installation from 1.5.3 to 1.5.4. What happened was that there were several packages, in addition to cygwin-1.5.4, that had updates

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Bash package available for download

2003-09-15 Thread Rolf Campbell
Thanks Ronald, seems to run just as good as -13 now. Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: New News: = Version 2.05b-15 of the Bash package is now available for download. This is a bugfix release relative to 2.05b-14, and fixes the bug reported in

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT for bash?

2003-09-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
Oops, s/th/sh/ Rolf Campbell wrote: I noticed there's a new version of bash out -14, but no announcement? -Rolf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

Re: bash-2.05b-14 broken!

2003-09-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
Yeah, this bash has the same problems that -12 did, and more. PS1='\[\]$PWD\[\]\[\] ' There are some literal escape chars in that... I get a colored prompt like this: /home/rcampbell if I type ttabtab, then I see a list of possible completions, and: /home/rcampbell t t

Re: Available for testing: gcc-3.3.1-1 and gcc-mingw-20030911-1

2003-09-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:20:39PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: Is this new gcc supposed to be ABI compatible with 3.2.x? Because I can't link in libraries compiled with an older version of cygwin g++. /c/temp/cppunit-1.8.0/src/cppunit/TestSucessListener.cpp

/bin/kill -f complains but succeeds for non-cygwin apps

2003-09-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
/c/base2/node notepad [1] 1888 /c/base2/node ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND 1936 11936 1936 con 11643 13:35:48 /usr/bin/rxvt 139219361392 20400 11643 13:35:48 /usr/bin/bash 188813921888 18880

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.4-1

2003-09-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
Which mirror did you use? Try rcn.net Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.4-1 I get cygwin1.dll 1.3.22-dontuse-21 by running setup.exe and cycling to All @ Install in package selection, i.e. postinstall stuff barfs out. Hrm... setup.exe

Re: Available for testing: gcc-3.3.1-1 and gcc-mingw-20030911-1

2003-09-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
Danny Smith wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:43:38PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:20:39PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: Is this new gcc supposed to be ABI compatible with 3.2.x? Because I can't link in libraries compiled with an older version

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.4-1

2003-09-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
uname -a Editor of PoliSource wrote: 1.5.4-1 is obviously later than what I got, but how would I find the version number of my current version? It doesn't seem to be in the file name. _ Use custom emotions -- try MSN Messenger

1.5.4s assertion hsig_inited failed

2003-09-08 Thread Rolf Campbell
I started a large build, then hit ^Z. Then fg, and this is what happened: begin make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/base2/node/comp/DiagNodeScheduler' make[2]: Entering directory `/c/base2/node/comp/equipConf' [1]+ Stopped nice -20 make -rsw -C pload/SCC target

Re: 1.5.4s assertion hsig_inited failed

2003-09-08 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 04:44:58PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: I started a large build, then hit ^Z. Then fg, and this is what happened: A large build shouldn't even recognize the ^Z if you are running this from the console. Your TERM=xterm below. Are you running

Re: Problem with COM1 port from with GDB 5.3 under Cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
Creighton MacDonnell wrote: Can other people use the COM1 port OK with the new Cygwin? I did notice a difference. Specifically, opening COM1 no longer opens the com port. You must use /dev/com1 now. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-2.05b-13

2003-09-03 Thread Rolf Campbell
Thanks for fixing this problem. I still notice one other problem (this has not been recently introduced). RXVT: If the prompt string is longer than the width, then bash will not wrap it correctly. It seems to introduce EOL at (w+8) and 2w (where w is the real terminal width). I've tested

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-2.05b-12

2003-09-02 Thread Rolf Campbell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I've updated the version of bash to 2.05b-12. This bash now uses the new capabilities and therefore requires Cygwin 1.5.3 ff. The package now adheres to the filesystem hirarchy standard (FHS). Corinna, There is a minor

Re: ftp crash with latest inetutils and cygwin 1.5

2003-08-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
I was able to reproduce using the latest snapshot on Win2000 SP4. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 05:36:51PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: The following is 100% reproducible with ftp from inetutils 1.3.2-23 and -24, and any Cygwin 1.5.X. I have not tried other combinations.

Re: ftp crash with latest inetutils and cygwin 1.5

2003-08-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 10:22:28PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: I was able to reproduce using the latest snapshot on Win2000 SP4. That's odd. I thought you couldn't run any programs at all. cgf It's nice that some of us can remain so objective and professional. You

Re: ftp crash with latest inetutils and cygwin 1.5

2003-08-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 10:57:47PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 10:22:28PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: I was able to reproduce using the latest snapshot on Win2000 SP4. That's odd. I thought you couldn't run any

Re: how can i use my own func in stdio.a?,such as printf

2003-08-29 Thread Rolf Campbell
From: Rolf Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how can i use my own func in stdio.a?,such as printf Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:39:51 -0400 why would you want to use your own printf? zhao mindong wrote: i want to use my own printf,but i must use the other function declared

Re: parallel make

2003-08-28 Thread Rolf Campbell
make -j does work in cygwin, to an extent. If you try to use too many processes, cygwin seems to flip out. -j20 does seem to work fine though (it only starts acting strang around -j100). On my large build system, we have a slow disk, and I find that when the disk cache is empty, -j4 speeds

Re: parallel make

2003-08-28 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:15:19PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: make -j does work in cygwin, to an extent. If you try to use too many processes, cygwin seems to flip out. -j20 does seem to work fine though (it only starts acting strang around -j100). More likely

Re: parallel make

2003-08-28 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:03:55PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:15:19PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: make -j does work in cygwin, to an extent. If you try to use too many processes, cygwin seems to flip out. -j20

Re: how can i use my own func in stdio.a?,such as printf

2003-08-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
why would you want to use your own printf? zhao mindong wrote: i want to use my own printf,but i must use the other function declared in stdio.h,there is always an errorprevious defined,how can i solve the problem. another question,how can i build the cygwin1.dll?any reference or document

1.5.3s: /dev/clipboard does not work for non-cygwin programs

2003-08-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
$ ipconfig /dev/clipboard $ ipconfig | cat /dev/clipboard The first command does *nothing* to the content of the clipboard. The 2nd command does what I expected the first command to do. Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Wed Aug 27 11:47:50 2003 Windows 2000

Re: 1.5.3s: /dev/clipboard does not work for non-cygwin programs

2003-08-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:51:20AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: $ ipconfig /dev/clipboard $ ipconfig | cat /dev/clipboard The first command does *nothing* to the content of the clipboard. The 2nd command does what I expected the first command to do

Re: 1.5.3s: /dev/clipboard does not work for non-cygwin programs

2003-08-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
chris wrote: Rolf Campbell wrote: $ ipconfig /dev/clipboard $ ipconfig | cat /dev/clipboard The first command does *nothing* to the content of the clipboard. The 2nd command does what I expected the first command to do. Unfortunatly under windows it is up to the application to handle things

1.5.3s and rxvt and keypad = double keys

2003-08-22 Thread Rolf Campbell
When running the new snapshot, I noticed something strange. When using rxvt, the keypad keys + and - produce ++ and -- respectively. There was a post about this before, but then it only seemed to happen with CYGWIN set to tty. Mine is set to binmode. A normal Win2000 console operates

Re: Bare minimum packages to DL for install?

2003-08-22 Thread Rolf Campbell
I believe the min is the default. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi -- I have an unreliable internet connection, so I can't use the internet install with setup.exe. I am trying to install cygwin after first downloading the packages, but there are way too many for me to download all of them. I have

Re: 1.3.22-1 on XP: malloc returns overlapping buffers

2003-08-20 Thread Rolf Campbell
Unable to reproduce using Win2000 SP4 (cygwin 1.5.2). roconnor wrote: I am finding that under some circumstances a buffer returned by malloc will overlap with a buffer returned by a previous call to malloc that has not been freed. I was able to reduce it to the following test case. Running

Re: cygwin as a replacement for explorer.exe

2003-08-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
S. L. wrote: Ralf, [...] If you're asking whether you can replace the Explorer desktop, taskbar, and window manager with Cygwin tools/programs, I'm not sure if it's possible This is one of the goals of the KDE/cygwin project. [...] I think you and Igor gave a too complicated answer. The short

Re: ash 20020731-3 and/or cygwin 1.5.2 directory vs. executable problem

2003-08-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
Jason Tishler wrote: Corinna, On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:05:39PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:06:13PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: Since the source of ash 20020731-1 seems identical to ash 20020731-3, this seems to indicate a build and/or cygwin problem... It's a

Re: problem Compiling hello world C Program.

2003-08-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
Well, to start, that's not a valid C-program. To end, http://www.cygwin.com/problems.html Jag wrote: Hi, I have downloaded cygwin onto one of my pcs, but when i try to compile a simple program, I get loads of errors hello.c is #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include string.h printf(Hello

Re: Backtick does not work

2003-08-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
That's not a bash script, that's an 'sh' script. Which is ash on cygwin. Maybe ash doesn't support back-tick? If you change your /bin/sh to /bin/bash it should work. Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED) wrote: From the bash shell the ` (backtick or command execution) work. But when I spawn a

Re: Win2k and cygwin memory leak

2003-08-14 Thread Rolf Campbell
Well, you could look at the task manager to see where all the memory is going (you can enable current memory allocation per process columns). Also, you could use 'ps' to see if old cygwin processes are still running. R. Boon wrote: Hello list, I noticed a problem with cygwin. It seems that

Re: Win2k and cygwin memory leak

2003-08-11 Thread Rolf Campbell
This may be a Win2000 problem, not a cygwin problem...What service pack are you running? You can try one more thing: after you run out of memory and kill mozilla, exit all your cygwin processes, and check to see if the cygwin1.dll file is locked (try renaming it using windows explorer, but,

Re: Win2k and cygwin memory leak

2003-08-08 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: As described, the memory leak is obviously not in cygwin. It is in windows. I was adding some clarification to the issue by changing a may be to a definitely is. I think that this kind of clarification is more useful than your message, which essentially says If we could

Re: 1.5.1 issue?

2003-08-04 Thread Rolf Campbell
I have seen this as well. Difficult to reproduce (seems to work correctly 99% of the time). I was running a 1.5.0 snapshot (from several weeks ago) when I saw it. Charles Wilson wrote: When (re)compiling some of my packages, I noticed that (some) signals are not being propagated to

2.05b-11 doesn't display prompt with hidden characters correctly

2003-08-03 Thread Rolf Campbell
I just upgraded my bash to 2.05b-11. I use ANSI color codes in my PS1 prompt, and in 2.05-10, they worked fine. Now with -11, if I hit 'cTABTABn', I expect to see: /home/rcampbell c Display all 190 possibilities? (y or n) /home/rcampbell c But, instead, I see: /home/rcampbell c Display all

Re: FAQ page margin width issue

2003-08-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
Larry Hall wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: On cygwin.com, there are two versions of the FAQ page. The first is http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html and is the direct output of texi2html. The second is http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html which is the same content except the texi2html output is in a TABLE, with

Re: 1.5.0: rxvt copy/paste problems

2003-07-19 Thread Rolf Campbell
installation with only Base package this morning and the problem still occurs. Rolf, do you use tty in your CYGWIN variable? If not, can you try it? If so, would you mind posting your cygcheck output, or emailing it to me privately, so I can investigate further? -Dave Rolf Campbell writes: I am

Re: Anyone trying 1.5.0 for anything other than managed mode?

2003-07-17 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: I've been using 1.5.0 for my large build environment since it was released. No problems yet. Same story here, with one exception, discussed later. I used all the latest [test] libs, bash, etc at work all day today, rebuilt gcc from cvs, re-autox-ed source trees,

Re: [PATCH] : make cygpath use multiple filename arguments

2003-07-17 Thread Rolf Campbell
What about filenames with spaces in them? Wouldn't the output be ambiguous? Mark Blackburn wrote: Dunno if anybody will find this useful or not: Currently if you say: # cygpath -w /usr /lib you get a usage error. With my patch you get: # cygpath -w /usr /lib c:\cygwin\usr c:\cygwin\lib

Re: Anyone trying 1.5.0 for anything other than managed mode?

2003-07-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
I've been using 1.5.0 for my large build environment since it was released. No problems yet. (in fact, I notice the speed improvement over 1.3.22 -- you know, that sparse file thing). Christopher Faylor wrote: Can I take the silence on bug reports for anything other than managed mode as a

Re: Backing up cygwin

2003-07-13 Thread Rolf Campbell
Luciano wrote: Well, thanks for making me aware of the other two things that he mentioned, although I still have no idea of what he is talking about :-) Now, why not store these things in goold old fuzzy and warm text files? Registry sucks, and it sucks badly. The reason why the mount table

Re: 1.5.0: rxvt copy/paste problems

2003-07-12 Thread Rolf Campbell
I am unable to reproduce using 1.5.0/Win2000ProSp4 David Rothenberger wrote: I'm seeing some weird, new behavior with rxvt under cygwin-1.5.0-1 related to copy/paste and its interaction with the Windows clipboard. All of the weirdness described below goes away when I revert to 1.3.22. I'm

Re: Restricted

2003-07-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
Martin Gainty wrote: Hello All- Anyone run across the keywork 'restricted'? What does it mean? Many Thanks, -Martin It means that children must be accompanied by an adult. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

website broken

2003-06-25 Thread Rolf Campbell
When I view www.cygwin.com, I get an empty page. /home/rcampbell wget -S www.cygwin.com --16:57:26-- http://www.cygwin.com/ = `index.html' Resolving www.cygwin.com... done. Connecting to www.cygwin.com[66.187.233.205]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... End of

Sparse file performance (Was: Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction- binutils produces sparse .exe .dll files)

2003-06-06 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I remade the executables in an old version of inetutils. The numbers below show that only the larger ones are sparse (so the relative overhead is small) and that stripping them removes sparseness. This is exactly the kind of data I was looking for. It seems to me that

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-03 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Rolf, TEST.PL: 1:#!/bin/perl 2:$/ = \r\n; 3: 4:open( LOG, in ) || 5: die Could not open log.\n; 6:binmode LOG, :crlf; 7: 8:$in = LOG; 9:print $in; Ok, so you get the same results as me. They are both wrong. The script should only print the first line. I just

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-03 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Rolf, So, I've recieved confirmation that this problem is only with cygwin perl, and not with GNU/Linux perl (5.8). So, please file a bugreport, perlbug is included in the dist. Gerrit Which ports is perlbug for? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: setup.exe troubleshooting snapshot

2003-04-02 Thread Rolf Campbell
Max Bowsher wrote: I've uploaded a new setup troubleshooting snapshot: http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3-no-set_default_sec.exe This is simply 2.340.2.3 with the recently-added ntsec code deactivated. Please could anyone who can reproduce crashes with 2.340.2.3 give this a try.

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-02 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Rolf, Am Dienstag, 1. April 2003 um 18:13 schriebst du: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Rolf schrieb: So, is this a cygwin perl problem? Or has the stock perl decided to only work with magic ENV variables? I don't see the problem in the latest Perl (5.9.0) and I'm trying to

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-02 Thread Rolf Campbell
Rolf Campbell wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Rolf, Am Dienstag, 1. April 2003 um 18:13 schriebst du: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Rolf schrieb: So, is this a cygwin perl problem? Or has the stock perl decided to only work with magic ENV variables? I don't see the problem in the latest Perl

Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Rolf schrieb: So, is this a cygwin perl problem? Or has the stock perl decided to only work with magic ENV variables? I don't see the problem in the latest Perl (5.9.0) and I'm trying to figure out how it can be fixed, in the meantime, please try to use the magic

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
Peter Davis wrote: Ok. There ain't much worth cracking my system for anyway. Here's the /etc/passwd file from one machine below. Thanks for any help with this! -pd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote: Peter Davis wrote: Ok. There ain't much worth cracking my system for anyway. Here's the /etc/passwd file from one machine below. Thanks for any help with this! -pd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administrators:*:544:544:,S-1-5

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:17:48AM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: Peter Davis wrote: Ok. There ain't much worth cracking my system for anyway. Here's the /etc/passwd file from one machine below. Thanks for any help with this! -pd SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
Peter Davis wrote: To recap, this same exact .bashrc file used to work, on my previous Windows(2000) machine. Now, on WinXP, it doesn't. In fact, even if I explicitly type source~/.bashrc at the shell prompt, it doesn't work. This is because ~ expands to ${HOME}, which is /cygdrive/c/home. I

cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed (was: Re:Updated: perl-5.8.0-2)

2003-04-01 Thread Rolf Campbell
Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: Rolf Campbell wrote: /home/rcampbell cygcheck -svr /tmp/cygcheck.txt cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 53 I got $ cygcheck -svr /tmp/cygcheck.txt cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 1005 cygcheck: dump_sysinfo

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

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Rob Siklos wrote: Hello, I am trying to compile the following trivial program: #include stdio.h #include sys/time.h int main() { struct timeval tv; gettimeofday(tv, NULL) ; printf(%ld %ld\n, tv.tv_sec, tv.tv_usec); return 0; } When I use gcc with no options, everything

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

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:10, Vince Hoffman wrote: Ok, well this is 'not good' :}. At what point does it crash? At start before any window appears. Shuttting down cygwin services made no difference. let me know if there is any more i can do to help the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: perl-5.8.0-2 release has been uploaded to sourceware -- it should be on the mirrors soon. Several problems with this version. A bunch of my scripts have stopped working, and when I tried to figure out why, I got some very strange behavior from the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-2.7.10-1

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
The icon associated with the rxvt window has changed (to the windows icon). Steve O wrote: rxvt is a terminal program that can be used instead of the windows command shell. It does not require an X server. Geoff Wing has recently released rxvt 2.7.10, a development version that disables features

RE: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
So, is this a cygwin perl problem? Or has the stock perl decided to only work with magic ENV variables? -Original Message- From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 3:30 PM To: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-2 Hallo Rolf

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

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Max Bowsher wrote: Rolf Campbell wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:10, Vince Hoffman wrote: Ok, well this is 'not good' :}. At what point does it crash? At start before any window appears. Shuttting down cygwin services made no difference. let me know

OT: disk structure (was Re: Determining the location of a Cygwininstallation)

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rolf Campbell Software packages belong in C:\Program\* and nowhere else (Note that this is equal to C:\Program Files\* on ENGLISH Win98. Ahhh... yeah. So, what is the rest of the disk

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Peter Davis wrote: I recently switched from Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 to Windows XP. I installed cygwin freshly on both systems. Now I'm noticing that on both systems, .bashrc seems to be completely ignored. I haven't changed this file at all, but suddenly the aliases I define and export are

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: P.S. On an unrelated note, the use of shell functions is recommended over the use of aliases. Why is that? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Peter Davis wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:15:13 -0500 Rolf Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Davis wrote: I recently switched from Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 to Windows XP. I installed cygwin freshly on both systems. Now I'm noticing that on both systems, .bashrc seems to be completely

Re: bash hang ( G:\Cygwin\bin\find.exe: *** WFSO timed out for afterlongjmp)

2003-03-31 Thread Rolf Campbell
Elfyn McBratney wrote: Hi, I've seen this quite a lot of hangs over the last 3-4 months when doing large find's and it's not always easy reproduce and normally occurs when find has finished and returned, but not always. If you run the following from a bash prompt (seen it in cmd.exe and rxvt) and

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

2003-03-29 Thread Rolf Campbell
Robert Collins wrote: Regarding XFree auto-installation... Cygwin Package Information ... libPropList 0.10.1-3 This requires XFree86-base. So setup is doing the right thing. Rob Well, unistalling that makes this setup work the same as the old setup. So, does this setup do

Re: accessing drives at block level in win98

2003-03-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I have searched but have been unable to solve the following problem: Can win98 access /dev/sda directly? the article here suggests that only NT+ can do this??? http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html That article is correct. You can't do

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

2003-03-27 Thread Rolf Campbell
And about searching for bin/cygwin1.dll. You could first try C:\cygwin\bin\ (which should match 99% of all cases), Sorry. I count for more than 1% ;-) just this time; to break your assumption Software packages belong in C:\Program\* and nowhere else (Note that this is equal to C:\Program

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

2003-03-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
Robert Collins wrote: A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed. The new version is available from http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.exe (binary) and

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

2003-03-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
You mean cygpath -w -p /bin, because he said I need to determine the native path to the directory containing cygwin1.dll John Morrison wrote: You didn't say whether you wanted it for a script or exe, for a script... cygpath -w -p / works for me :) J. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

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

2003-03-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 03:15, Rolf Campbell wrote: Robert Collins wrote: A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed. The new version is available from http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

2003-03-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Elfyn McBratney wrote: But as cgf (the Really Cool Manager) said the registry keys are not to be relied on as they might not be there forever. Yeah but what I'm saying is that there should be a commitment to at least one registry entry which denotes the [active]

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

2003-03-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
Francis Litterio wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Secondly, if I could get my users to set their ApplicationPaths I could as easily get them to set their PATHs. The real world situation is that this is not the case and neither PATH nore ApplicationPaths are set. Here's an idea: Traverse the

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

2003-03-26 Thread Rolf Campbell
Robert Collins wrote: A new release of setup.exe is imminent. There are many changes, and to reduce problems, feedback from YOU, is needed. The new version is available from http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.340.2.3.exe (binary) and

Re: allocating large amounts of memory fails

2003-03-20 Thread Rolf Campbell
Michel G rimminck wrote: I have been trying to run my application under cygwin 1.3.22, but I have some problems with memory allocation with malloc() under gnuC. I have set heap_chunk_in_mb to 4095 in order to assign cygwin more memory. But for some reason I can not allocate more than 1536 Mb. My

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gawk-3.1.2-1

2003-03-17 Thread Rolf Campbell
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I've updated the version of GNU awk to 3.1.2-1. This is a official release update. The Cygwin release is based on the original sources with just one tweak to regex.c which disallowed building gawk under Cygwin 1.3.21. Why would you tweak it to make it not build under

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.21-1

2003-03-16 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm looking forward to seeing someone debug what the problem is here. Me too. Just to be clear: I don't know emacs. I'm not refusing to work on the problem. I don't know how to duplicate it and I don't have the time to track it down now if I did. Ok, had some time to

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