Re: perl -r says readable dir is unreadable

2009-04-25 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, April 25, 2009 9:37 pm, Mikel Ward wrote: The key is that the -r (file is readable) operator returns false for directories that I CAN read. test and ls prove that I can read them. -r does not test to see if you can read a file, it tests whether the mode gives you read access to the

Re: GREP: Memory Exhausted

2009-04-17 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, April 15, 2009 12:46 pm, Dave Korn wrote: Letters in an error message don't just randomly change between upper and lower case for no reason. Either you two are using different versions of grep, or Shailesh did not accurately report the *actual* error message that he was *actually*

[attention base-files maintainer] copying /bin files to home dir on first run of cygwin.bat

2009-02-15 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
I did a base install of cygwin 1.7 (using setup-1.7.exe), and the first time I ran cygwin.bat, it gave the following: Copying skeleton files. These files are for the user to personalise their cygwin experience. They will never be overwritten nor automatically updated. bash: cd: /etc/skel:

Re: CygWine 1.0 Beta -- an new cygwin package manager

2009-02-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
I'd rather see the common code put into a library (and available in both cygwin and mingw flavors). Then it would be pretty easy to have a Cygwin::Setup perl extension and command line tools using it. (Substitute your other glue language of choice as desired.) On Thu, February 12, 2009 10:17 am,

Re: is it an FAQ: cygwin startup sequence

2008-12-21 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, December 21, 2008 4:56 pm, Kermit Tensmeyer wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Eric Blake e...@byu.net wrote: My guess is that you might have PATH problems. But if you had followed these directions: and that's why I'm asking for the documentation. I don't need/want you to

RE: Cygwin Design

2008-09-13 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, September 12, 2008 3:08 pm, Jason Pyeron wrote: I am deeply interested in implementing a simple command interpreter in Windows XP platform as a part of my summer project, so will you please give me some hint on implementing it. Isn't summer over? Do I detect the taint of

Re: Cygwin Design

2008-09-13 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, September 12, 2008 9:38 am, RD wrote: I am deeply interested in implementing a simple command interpreter in Windows XP platform as a part of my summer project, so will you please give me some hint on implementing it. I suspect cygwin will be of little use to you in pursuing such a

Re: why the strange stack stuf in cygwin?

2008-09-02 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
(reformatted) On Tue, September 2, 2008 12:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped the drivel ... The code seems very wierd in places. I don't like it. I know, boo hoo, whine whine whine. It seems to work but it makes me nervous. - Jay Jay, rather than

Re: How do I fetch files from the web?

2008-08-11 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, August 11, 2008 2:50 am, circ ular wrote: 1. how do I install packages once I already have installed cygwin? Use http://cygwin.com/setup.exe to select additional packages. 2. what do I write do download from a specific internetadress. This list is for cygwin-specific questions, not

Re: programming API to determine whether in 'Cygwin environment'

2008-07-10 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, July 10, 2008 10:06 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:49:06PM -0700, Tony Last wrote: My console program is built for native Windows (thus does not reply on cygwin1.dll). So I'm looking for a boolean method which will allow a program to tell whether it was run

Re: Ugrent !! Reg. Executing the EXE generated by Cygwin

2008-06-13 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, June 13, 2008 2:23 am, Mani kandan wrote: This problem is probably due to using incompatible versions of the cygwin DLL. Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start-Find/Search facility and delete all but the most recent version. The most recent version *should* reside in

Re: building perl-5.8.8-4 from source 'perl-5.8.8-ext-Win32CORE.tar.bz2 not found'

2008-05-25 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, May 24, 2008 8:45 am, David Christensen wrote: I am attempting to build Perl from source (I'm curious about Perl's regression test), but it appears that the current Cygwin source distribution is incomplete: If you don't want to duplicate the exact cygwin binary distribution, but don't

Re: please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature to setup.exe

2008-05-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, May 23, 2008 10:03 pm, Soren Andersen wrote: On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:23:13 -0400 Chris Sutcliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setup.exe is a great tool, but could you please add a find-the-fastest-mirror-automatically feature? That would require making a connection attempt to every

Re: Putting my packages up for adoption

2008-04-30 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, April 30, 2008 3:27 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: According to Max Bowsher on 4/29/2008 4:47 PM: | Farewell, of sorts, and thanks everyone for helping make Windows a nice | place to be the past many years! Sad ACK. I've marked all your packages as orphaned now. Would not a farewell

Re: Add OpenSC packages to cygwin?

2008-04-25 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, April 25, 2008 2:16 pm, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: Is anyone interested in maintaining a cygwin packages for OpenSC projects? To whit: http://www.opensc-project.org/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Win32Core module question

2007-09-10 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, September 10, 2007 12:34 pm, Reini Urban wrote: John Neil schrieb: Thanks. For now I installed the previous version of the Cygwin perl-libwin32 package, but I agree there should be some way to access the non-core Win32 routines that were previously available without having to

Re: Cygwin Perl and -Duselongdouble

2007-07-26 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, July 26, 2007 5:19 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 26 22:09, Sisyphus wrote: I'd like to have a perl on Cygwin built with -Duselongdouble, so I tried *** You requested the use of long doubles but you do not seem to have *** the following mathematical functions needed for long

Re: perl-5.9.5

2007-06-20 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, June 20, 2007 6:39 pm, Reini Urban wrote: I almost have that ready, I just wait for some of my cygwin patches upstream. With current blead (5.9.5) I get now the same number of failing tests as with 5.8 ../lib/Net/Ping/t/500_ping_icmp.t21 50.00% 2 being the only

Re: [ITP] perl-5.8.8

2007-06-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, June 19, 2007 7:24 pm, Reini Urban wrote: I want to it take over from Gerrit. Thank you so much. If it were up to me, you'd get three gold stars. Please try to test it. It's a really weird build system. But I'm quite happy with this 5.8.8

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me

2007-02-14 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 13 21:02, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: And approximately what is the timeframe to 1.7.0; weeks, months, next year? Is HEAD stable enough for those not working on cygwin1.dll to be testing? Months. It's stable enough now but it's constantly changing.

Re: Perl bug?

2007-01-31 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Jan 28 11:57, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Thanks for the info. It's interesting to know. What I still don't get, however, is the fact that the same statement does not waste memory on the x86 Linux Perl 5.8.5, but does on the x86 Cygwin Perl 5.8.7

Re: Perl bug?

2007-01-28 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 27 23:17, Reini Urban wrote: Václav Haisman schrieb: If I were you I would report it as a bug to their bug tracker. It's no bug, it's a perl feature, Uh, right, a *feature* ;) and often defended. Even dll's are not unloaded. If you want to free it, free

Re: Perl inefficiency...

2007-01-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Linda Walsh cygwin at tlinx.org writes: I understand perl may not be as efficient in data storage as C, but seems like expanding a 100MB string to take 200MB is wasting 100MB. Is this what you were referring to, Corinna? No, the inefficiency is that it stores the 100MB string in two

Re: Perl bug?

2007-01-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 22 11:26, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Corinna wrote: $a = a x (100 * 1024 * 1024); sleep 5; a -- malloc (2 bytes) x 100 Megs -- realloc (100 Megs) + malloc (100 Megs) So the result is that each string of 100 Megs requires 200 Megs

Re: cygwin source question

2007-01-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Dave Korn writes: On 21 January 2007 14:38, Christopher Layne wrote: I notice in some places, there are double-negates, like: me-read_ready |= ret || !!(events (FD_READ | FD_ACCEPT | FD_CLOSE)); What's the rationale for these? To enforce either a 0 or 1, to be directly in line

Re: Perl bug?

2007-01-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Hi, consider the following statement: $a = a x (100 * 1024 * 1024) When you create a script which does this over and over again, you'll observe a strange memory problem. Can you show your script? By stracing I found that for each of these statements the following happens: a

Re: activestate perl on cygwin

2007-01-09 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Kevin T Cella kcella at nycap.rr.com writes: Using the version of perl installed with cygwin is not really an option since I already have scripts written that utilize windows specific modules. Out of curiousity, which modules are those? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: perl script dies with The instruction at

2006-12-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
moka writes: Larry Hall wrote: Don't mix and match perl modules. If you're using Cygwin's perl, use modules built and be sure _not_ to use any ActiveState Perl modules and vice-versa. Well, I did not mean to mix. In fact I think I did not ask cygwin to install perl, but I am not sure. I do

Re: perl script dies with The instruction at

2006-12-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Harold Fuchs harold at wolfeden.demon.co.uk writes: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: How are you starting your script? Can you put: print $^O: $]\n or something at the beginning and verify for sure which perl you are using? At a command prompt (DOS/CMD or cygwin) do perl -version

Re: cygwin 1.5.22 - cpan core dumping on initial

2006-12-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
jake writes: $ cpan There seems to be running another CPAN process (pid 2064). Contacting... Other job not responding. Shall I overwrite the lockfile? (Y/N) [y] ... Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Segmentation fault (core dumped) I have

Re: Problem with perl debugger and stdin

2006-12-04 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 02:25:24PM -0800, Andrew Certain wrote: In a normal UNIX environment, you can run the perl debugger and still redirect an input file to stdin. In other words, perl -d myscript mydata does the right thing, namely, that you enter the debugger, the debugger reads

Re: Perl output dropped when invoking itself

2006-11-28 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Michael Adler wrote: I'm having Perl I/O problems on one machine that keep me from getting CPAN installations to work. On this machine if I execte: perl -e 'print `perl -e require 5; print qq{VER_OK\n}`;' from bash there is no output. On all

Re: fortune-1.99.1-2

2006-10-09 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:24:18PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 11 19:10, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-01/msg00113.html Is it time to remove the test designation? I removed the test, curr and prev lines from setup.hint.

Re: Perl's use locale don't work on Cygwin ?

2006-09-25 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Sergei Kolodka wrote: YST Letting perl know what the encoding of your data is should enable /i to work YST correctly. How you would do this depends on what exactly you are doing; it YST may just require a use encoding 'cp1251';. (I assume 2151 was a typo.) Well, all I got was perfectly

pathconf/fpathconf failing in some cases

2006-09-10 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
The perl tests for pathconf/fpathconf are showing some failures (perl translates -1 to undef, and the fpathconf calls are made on an fd opened to the path mentioned in the following pathconf calls): 1..84 ok 1 - calling fpathconf(3, _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED) not ok 2 - checking that the returned

Re: Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied

2006-08-10 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:53:55PM +1200, Steve Keate wrote: Are there any useful resources on finding out exactly what security mode to choose when using Cygwin, also, are there any resources on how to use mkpasswd and what arguments to use. I have scoured the net for two days looking for

Re: Where is complex.h

2006-07-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 01:36:47PM -0700, TV JOE wrote: Hi, I've a C program referencing complex.h. But make can't find it and the only copy I see is in /usr/include/mingw which I don't think is the right version. Advice welcomed. Comment out the complex.h, see what errors you get,

RE: Perl failure

2006-07-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it with 1.5.20 and 1.5.21s 20060718. But Alas no better luck. Any Idea if this is Cygwin or Perl? I'm betting on cygwin. I hope to look more into this soon. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Perl failure

2006-07-13 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:08:43PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote: Hi, I have a server that has been doing back end maintenance using perl on cygwin for 6 years now. I recently upgraded from win2k and cyg1.5.9 to XP sp3 and cyg1.5.19 (to be fare, I also cleaned up the perl code a bit). The

Re: Perl failure

2006-07-13 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:53:09AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:08:43PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote: Hi, I have a server that has been doing back end maintenance using perl on cygwin for 6 years now. I recently upgraded from win2k and cyg1.5.9 to XP

Re: Crashes/defunct processes after upgrade to cygwin-1.5.20

2006-07-11 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:46:58PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 11 July 2006 14:12, Harald Anlauf wrote: Corinna, Nope, I'm not Corinna! I have now attached the output of cygcheck of my system that should be current except for cygwin1 which 1.5.19-4. I have verified that there

Re: Is anything getting through to the list?

2006-07-11 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:21:51AM -0400, Chuck wrote: I have been trying to post a question to this list for over a week and it never appears, not does it bounce back indicating a problem. I've tried to email the list owner and haven't gotten any help there either. I guess I have to run my

Re: FW: Cygwin Perl bug -- pod2usage(-verbose = 0) pod2usage(-verbose = 1)

2006-07-10 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 04:35:29PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: Cygwin Perl: This issue is still present. Reini's PERLIO suggestion functions as a work-around on Cygwin. Who decides if/when to use Reini's suggested patch? If that decision has already been made in the negative,

Re: In scripts suddenly must use perl.exe rather than perl

2006-07-10 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 10:38:19PM +, zzapper wrote: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 12:23:24PM +, zzapper wrote: Hi, I have a few (ancient) shell scripts which call perl scripts (which perform MySql

Re: In scripts suddenly must use perl.exe rather than perl

2006-07-09 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 12:23:24PM +, zzapper wrote: Hi, I have a few (ancient) shell scripts which call perl scripts (which perform MySql queries), since a few days these have stopped working (may have been since recent coreutils update) What does stopped working mean?

Re: Bug list posted on alpha centauri for 50 years!

2006-07-07 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Dave Korn wrote: That's a false positive and you're about the fifteenth person this month to report it to the list without having bothered to search the archives first. --- Yeah -- the buglist has been clearly posted on Alpha Centauri for the past 50 years. There's no reason why

Re: Which list should cygwin development be discussed on ?

2006-07-04 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 01:28:08PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And of course the discussion and methodology behind the internal development of the cygwin libraries, issues, and future ideas is - in true opensource form (NOT) - on a completely closed list, invite-only, with no public access

Re: Copyright Assignment received from Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes

2006-06-25 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:50:42AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Patch as patch can, Yitzchak! I started with a new employer at the end of April, and have been expecting to get an assignment from them any day now. But since it's been so long I thought I'd let you all know.

Re: CygPerl hangs opening FIFO after fork (in both parentchild)

2006-06-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 06:53:38PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: The attached test case is simple and fairly short. It does not depend on File::BOM (and has none of the code from it). It's only dependency (other than perl) is the POSIX module, where, from, the fifo

Re: Maintainer searched

2006-06-14 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:36:46PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 4 18:06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:24:19PM +0200, wrote: Hello, there is not enough time to maintain all my packages. Who wants to maintain one or more of my packages

Re: cygwin non-posix problems

2006-06-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Linda Walsh wrote: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Can he or you reduce the problem to a non-File::BOM dependent test script What part of the perl module File::BOM should I throw out before it's no longer File::BOM? It's just perl code. It's freely downloadable through CPAN, so I can't make

Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?

2006-06-07 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:30:43PM -0700, Linda W wrote: A problem I reported in trying to install File::BOM (module to handle files with Unicode Byte-Order-Marks) under CPAN originally here: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00238.html last February is still a problem. I bounced it

Re: Reading Term::ReadKey support for ActiveState Perl and Cygwin

2006-05-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 09:39:16PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Mon, 22 May 2006, Paul Dorman wrote: Hi all, I've been racking my brains trying to read keystrokes in a Cygwin shell with ActiveState Perl. Has anyone worked out how to read individual keystrokes with a Perl script

Re: perl reading ^M on text mounts

2006-05-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:28:52PM +, Michael Lemke wrote: Dave kilroyd at googlemail.com writes: Have you tried setting the environment variable PERLIO? I'm not a heavy PERL user, but I tend to have PERLIO=crlf if I'm likely to see CRLFs. Thanks, I tried that. It

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-05-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:38:58AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:30:50PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:50:59PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:47:09AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-05-10 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:38:58AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:30:50PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:50:59PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:47:09AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-05-09 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:50:59PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:47:09AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:11:57PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:12:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Please

Re: Maintainer searched

2006-05-04 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:24:19PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello, there is not enough time to maintain all my packages. Who wants to maintain one or more of my packages, maybe Yaakov wants to take over some of the GTK+ related packages? Then there are some more major packages which

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-05-02 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:12:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Please test the latest snapshot (at least 2006-Apr-24) from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please report back in this thread when you encounter a problem, which you can't reproduce with 1.5.18 or 1.5.19. We're interested in

Re: how t o read env variable in cygwin

2006-03-28 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:12:01AM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Eric Blake wrote: According to cyg_win_user on 3/27/2006 3:12 AM: i m trying to read environment variable in perl using $OSTY = $ENV{OSTYPE}; this will return os type as linux or solaris.

Re: PING binutils maintainer (was: Re: Can we get a new release of binutils?)

2006-03-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:20:09PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:00:52AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:17:37AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Can we get a new release of binutils? Nope. cgf OK. -- Unsubscribe info

PING binutils maintainer (was: Re: Can we get a new release of binutils?)

2006-03-22 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:17:37AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Can we get a new release of binutils? Thanks. See: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00758.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Can we get a new release of binutils?

2006-03-06 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Can we get a new release of binutils? Thanks. See: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00758.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

(ATTN: binutils maintainer) Re: cygwin ld --out-implib treats informational message as warning

2006-02-27 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Can cygwin binutils be updated to include this patch? Thanks. On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 05:26:37PM +, Nick Clifton wrote: Hi Yitzchak, 2006-01-27 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [EMAIL PROTECTED] * pe-dll.c (pe_dll_generate_implib): Issue Creating library file: as informational

Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

2006-02-21 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:25:45AM -0600, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: (2) Rebase the CygWin DLL so that it loads by default into a space not used in either memory map (I'd need help in choosing such a space). I've tried both Microsoft's rebase and CygWin's rebase, but the

Re: cygheap base mismatch detected ( Attn: rebase maintainer )

2006-02-21 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Jason, are you following this? On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:12:02PM -0600, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: We are finally zeroing in on the problem. Mark Geisert writes: The code at /src/rebase-2.3.1/rebase.c:255 assumes the signature is at offset 0x80 in the image. This was true in the early

Re: cygwin ld --out-implib treats informational message as warning (attn: binutils maintainer)

2006-02-21 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Can cygwin binutils be updated to include this patch? Thanks. On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 05:26:37PM +, Nick Clifton wrote: Hi Yitzchak, 2006-01-27 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [EMAIL PROTECTED] * pe-dll.c (pe_dll_generate_implib): Issue Creating library file: as informational

Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

2006-02-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:12:02PM -0600, Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: So, I have a workaround of sorts. I can have my script launch my app by writing the command line to a .bat file and executing it. Definitely not something I can use to convince my management to go with CygWin. Wouldn't

Re: CPAN: issues with homedirs containing spaces; how to install globally?

2006-02-17 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:32:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I think there's a bug with cpan and names containing spaces. Please report bugs in CPAN.pm to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This isn't unique to cygwin. I suggest you remove the space. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: The purpose of /etc/default ?

2006-02-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 06:29:40PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: The package contributors guide http://cygwin.com/setup.html Is silent about /etc/defaults. As is FHS 2.3. I don't even see any discussion of /etc/defaults on the FHS discussion list. /usr/share/foo/ may be a more

Re: make: rm: command not found

2006-02-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 03:15:37AM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: At 08:40 AM 2/10/2006, JefV wrote: -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/make%3A-rm%3A-command-not-found-t1100243.html#a2873151 Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: default PATH

2006-02-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:57:00AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: If we don't get a single person indicating that they rely on the current behavior then I'm ok with changing it. We have a patch ready to be checked in, in fact. I assume that: $ PATH=/foo::$PATH cmd /c printenv PATH will

Re: strange cygstart bug with current Cygwin versions

2006-02-06 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:40:22PM +0100, Michael Schaap wrote: What we basically need to do, is copy the Cygwin environment to the Windows environment, taking care of path conversion for all the appropriate variables. Maybe start with:

Re: readdir after rewinddir not working in 20060128 snapshot

2006-02-04 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:39:48AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 30 00:29, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: After a rewinddir, readdir seems to return as many empty entries as there were actual entries left to read, followed by . and .. Thanks for the testcase! Since the underlying

Re: g-b-s patch: upstream patch list

2006-01-30 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:45:10AM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: 2006-01-30 Eric Blake ebb9atbyu.net * templates/generic-build-script: Add ability to apply upstream patches, listed in CYGWIN-PATCHES/upstream_patches.lst. Now, for the upstream patches functionality, I think it

Re: /proc/pid/exe points to void

2006-01-30 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:45:28PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 20 13:50, Sam Steingold wrote: On Mar 10 16:00, Sam Steingold wrote: /proc/pid/exe points to foo, not to foo.exe, so it cannot be opened c. how do I find out which file is

Re: Heads-up: G-B-S changes (bash, logging)

2006-01-28 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 03:43:43PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: I've just committed a change that turns off logging functionality in the generic-build-script by default. Um, why?

Re: LD_PRELOAD regression on 1.5.19-4 ? no more loaded library in child process

2006-01-28 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 06:31:29PM +0100, Louis Lecaroz wrote: from cmd.exe -Start bash --All environment variables from cmd.exe were propaged in bash environment+.profiles one. --Start vi sample.txt from this bash instance A new instance of bash is loaded with also all environment

binutils testsuite failures? (was: Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19)

2006-01-27 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:28:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I should point out that I didn't rebuild my packages under 1.5.19 either so I'm just as guilty as any other package maintainer in this regard. Speaking of which, in the course of making a small patch to ld (which I hope the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU CLISP 2.38 (2006-01-24) released

2006-01-26 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:07:28AM +0100, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Sam Steingold writes: o There is NO requires line in setup.ini at least at the following download side: http://mirrors.kernel.org whereas the clisp executables depend on various dlls. setup.hint contains

Re: new cygwin dlls

2006-01-25 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:43:29AM +0900, djh wrote: Has a fix been found for building emacs on the new cygwin versions 5.19 and up yet? There is at least one problem with d_ino as you know. I thought you said you'd worked around that (though you didn't share what your actual changes). An

Re: apache 1.3.34 can not compile anymore

2006-01-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:31:11AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried to roll back to 1.5.18-1 from the setup.exe, but now I get 10s of error messages from packages who do not find getline in the cygwin dll. You would have to also use a previous version of any

Re: Cygwin Setup: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception

2006-01-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:56:39PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote: Moving to cygwin-apps, as this is likely to get technical. On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: I've looked at this a bit. Here's the weird part: the error says Uncaught Exception, but all

Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19

2006-01-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:43:30PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used cygwin happily for very long time to compile apache/php/postgresql and enjoy symlinks, and now I am cut-off from one day to the next. The apache folks do not seem to care. The bug I submitted is still without reply -

Re: Cygwin Setup: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception

2006-01-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:37:12PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: Is an application crash the expected behavior when package validation fails? Maybe it should mark it unusable or delete it? Yuck. I went through this, too. It appeared to me that there were a large

Re: can I tell setup.exe NOT to upgrade a specific package from now on?

2006-01-23 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:54:05PM +, Urs Rau wrote: I need to keep a version of postgresql server at level 7.x, but now that 8.x is out setup.exe suggests an upgrade every single time it runs. And one of these days I am going to forget to manually toggle the entry back to 'keep'

snapshot installation bat file (was: Re: [PATCH] Proposed clarification of the snapshot installation FAQ)

2006-01-19 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:41:27PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On 1/13/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: It would be nice to have a sample batch file that automated the cygwin1.dll replacement, too. I've prettied up a batch file I use for installing cygwin-inst-* snapshots

please upload fortune-1.99.1-2

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
http://zipcon.net/~sthoenna/fortune/fortune-1.99.1-2-src.tar.bz2 http://zipcon.net/~sthoenna/fortune/fortune-1.99.1-2.tar.bz2 http://zipcon.net/~sthoenna/fortune/setup.hint setup.hint: sdesc: Print a random, perhaps interesting, adage; may contain offsensive material category: Games requires:

Re: please upload fortune-1.99.1-2

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:58:15AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 16 00:08, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: http://zipcon.net/~sthoenna/fortune/fortune-1.99.1-2-src.tar.bz2 http://zipcon.net/~sthoenna/fortune/fortune-1.99.1-2.tar.bz2 http://zipcon.net/~sthoenna/fortune/setup.hint

some comments on the generic build script

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
I'd like some feedback on changes I made to the gbs for fortune-1.99.1-2. --- gbs.sh 2006-01-15 17:46:43.875859200 -0800 +++ fortune-1.99.1-2.sh 2006-01-15 22:26:48.129188800 -0800 @@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ fi export src_orig_pkg=${topdir}/${src_orig_pkg_name} +export

findutils maintainer: setup.hint lost?

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Last I checked findutils had: curr: 4.2.25-2 prev: 20041227-1 test: 4.2.27-1 Now I see: curr: 20041227-1 prev: 4.2.27-1 as if the test: line were gone and 20041227 is assumed to be curr because it's greater than 4.

Re: findutils maintainer: setup.hint lost?

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Subject should have been setup.hint test: lost? On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:10:42AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:52:37PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Last I checked findutils had: curr: 4.2.25-2 prev: 20041227-1 test: 4.2.27-1 Now I see

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:08:03AM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote: On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what this approach buys you over running setup.exe in unattended install mode on a copied local package cache, except fragility

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fortune-1.99.1-2 (experimental)

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
This version of fortune contains many tweaks to the fortune data files from the debian 1.99.1-2 and 1.99.1-3 releases, including the new off/disclaimer file, and adds a new, undocumented, -u switch to fortune. It is now built using the cygwin generic build script, and requires a recent snapshot

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:23:00PM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote: On 1/16/06, Chris Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Maier wrote: On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the key word there is does not yet *support*. Run setup --help from a command

Updated: fortune-1.99.1-2 (experimental)

2006-01-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
This version of fortune contains many tweaks to the fortune data files from the debian 1.99.1-2 and 1.99.1-3 releases, including the new off/disclaimer file, and adds a new, undocumented, -u switch to fortune. It is now built using the cygwin generic build script, and requires a recent snapshot

Re: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

2006-01-15 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:58:32PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:35:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:46:24PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Just in case it's relevant, note that I have experimental bash, readline

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-15 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:59:25PM -0500, Brett Serkez wrote: [snip] Not particularly, assuming you use the same local package cache on each machine, especially if you use the trick for pulling in all the packages you want automatically. Right. I don't know about chere, chere must

Re: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing

2006-01-14 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:35:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:46:24PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: Just in case it's relevant, note that I have experimental bash, readline, libreadline6, findutils, and coreutils. Does the latest snapshot behave any

Re: Please upload: perl-Tk-804.027-4

2006-01-13 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 04:40:43PM -0600, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please upload: ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/cygwinports/release/perl/perl-Tk/perl-Tk-804.027-4-src.tar.bz2

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