Re: cygwin on a 386?

2000-10-19 Thread jurgen . defurne
These instructions have their equivalent since the first 80x86. LOCK INC dest LOCK XCHGdest,src Of course, these operate at most between a register and memory, not between memory and memory. Jurgen [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 19/10/2000

Re: [PORTS] [PATCH]: Building PostgreSQL 7.0.2 on Cygwin 1.1.4 (T ake 2)

2000-10-19 Thread Pete Forman
Jason Tishler writes: Unfortunately, two different version of the Cygwin DLL can not coexist on the same system. So, if some app needs the b20 DLL and PostgreSQL needs the 1.1.4 DLL you are SOL. Why so? I have both B20.1 and 1.1.4 on my system at the moment. PATH determines which is

Re: ps output format

2000-10-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
TWIMC, I have no idea what would be the implications of or requirements for implementing it under Cygwin, but the /proc file system is the way to free programs of parsing "ps" and related program output. Even though /proc doesn't solve the problem of standardizing the information content

Re: Why does ls report some directory dates as future?

2000-10-19 Thread Don Sharp
Setting aside the fact that the PATH would guarantee which ls was used, the output from the other "ls" is shown below and agrees with the version from cmd's "dir". Has noone else noticed this behaviour? Cheers Don $ /dosj/usr/local/bin/ls -lt total 135 -rw-rw-rw- 1 00

logging onto a PC running Cygwin from another workstation

2000-10-19 Thread Charles Werner
Greetings, Is it possible to rlogin onto a NT4 worksation from another workstation = while cygwin is running on the PC? What needs to be changed on the PC side, or run in cygwin to get this to = work? I have a hosts file in /etc/hosts and a .rhosts file in my home directory. I have read the

www.cygwin.com: images missing on list search results

2000-10-19 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
I did a search via http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/. On the results page all images were missing. Example uf URL for such an image is http://www.cygwin.com/htdig/star_blank.png -andrej Have a nice DOS! B -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: logging onto a PC running Cygwin from another workstation

2000-10-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Charles Werner wrote: Greetings, Is it possible to rlogin onto a NT4 worksation from another workstation = while cygwin is running on the PC? It is. What needs to be changed on the PC side, or run in cygwin to get this to = work? inetd I have read the FAQs and read the material

Re: cygwin problem...

2000-10-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Thomas Bouve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi Thomas, I read on the cygwin mailing list that you are a cygwin user and I was wondering if you could help me out. I'm using the latest build (cygwin 1.1.4) and I try to run edit.com in bash. The problem is that it doesn't start. I

Re: Why does ls report some directory dates as future?

2000-10-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice you have many utilities that have copies in your j:\USR\LOCAL\BIN. Are you sure that you're invoking the Cygwin version of ls and not something else? To find out do `cygcheck ls' and if the output list contains a

Re: FAQ about make

2000-10-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Chris Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:14:57PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote: Wait, I'm confused now. Red Hat will ship with the environment variable MAKE_MODE=win32 set? Or will ship a version of make where --win32 behavior is the default? The latter.

RE: cygwin problem...

2000-10-19 Thread Andrej Borsenkow
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: cygwin users Subject: Re: cygwin problem... --- Thomas Bouve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi Thomas, I read

Re: logging onto a PC running Cygwin from another workstation

2000-10-19 Thread David Starks-Browning
Please do not reply to me directly. Use the list. On Thursday 19 Oct 00, Charles Werner writes: David, Thanks for the rapid reply-- I appreciate this very much. The PC is running NT4 under cygwin ="CYGPC". The workstation is a SUN running Solaris="SUN". I want CYGPC to act as a server: I

Re: Adding Cygwin FAQ to distro

2000-10-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:14:06PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: You realize that a FAQ included in a distribution is guaranteed to be out-of-date almost immediately, right? However, if we add a cygwin/cygwin-faq-MMDD.tar.gz to latest, it

Re: [PORTS] [PATCH]: Building PostgreSQL 7.0.2 on Cygwin 1.1.4 (T ake 2)

2000-10-19 Thread Jason Tishler
Peter, On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 08:07:39AM +0100, Pete Forman wrote: Jason Tishler writes: Unfortunately, two different version of the Cygwin DLL can not coexist on the same system. So, if some app needs the b20 DLL and PostgreSQL needs the 1.1.4 DLL you are SOL. Why so? I have

Re: Adding Cygwin FAQ to distro

2000-10-19 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Wednesday 18 Oct 00, Christopher Faylor writes: Ok. Actually, maybe this could be part of a cygwin-docs distro. We could include all of the cygwin documentation there. OK (although I am in principle opposed to anything that creates more work for me). This should probably be something

Re: logging onto a PC running Cygwin from another workstation

2000-10-19 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Thursday 19 Oct 00, Charles Werner writes: thanks I had not stumbled across the readmes until I was quite far along. . I've read them now... Many things have to be in order for this to work... its really not that simple. A HOWTO or FAQ would be really helpful on all the steps that

broken patch program

2000-10-19 Thread stefan
Hello Cygwin'ers is it known to you that `patch' does not apply `diff's output in most cases ? It always looks like this. . . . patching file `gdbm-1.8.0/gdbmerrno.c' assertion "hunk" failed: file "/src/patch/patch.c", line 334 0 [sig] PATCH 1001 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to

Re: broken patch program

2000-10-19 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:53 AM 10/19/2000, stefan wrote: Hello Cygwin'ers is it known to you that `patch' does not apply `diff's output in most cases ? It always looks like this. . . . patching file `gdbm-1.8.0/gdbmerrno.c' assertion "hunk" failed: file "/src/patch/patch.c", line 334 0 [sig] PATCH

RE: Why does ls report some directory dates as future?

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Haynes
I've got the same problem with just one of about 15 users, but the bogus time appears on some files on the local hard drive (but not on LAN drives). We kept thinking it was a problem with backup sofware or auditing software that was screwing up the time stamps. I didn't realize it was a Cygwin

Re: Adding Cygwin FAQ to distro

2000-10-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:56:12PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote: On Wednesday 18 Oct 00, Christopher Faylor writes: Ok. Actually, maybe this could be part of a cygwin-docs distro. We could include all of the cygwin documentation there. OK (although I am in principle opposed to anything

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-2.04-3

2000-10-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
John Wiersba wrote: I notice that the new version says (to bash --version): GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) whereas the previous version said: GNU bash, version 2.04.0(3)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) Yup. I didn't care for the internal version information when I

Arbitrary commands hanging in bash?

2000-10-19 Thread Brian . P . Kasper
Hello. With alarming frequency, bash will hang after I type a command and hit enter. The problem is intermittant, but if it occurs, all I can do is kill that window and open a new bash session. It happens for any command, but appears random and intermittant. I'm using the latest cygwin

Re: FAQ about make

2000-10-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 06:07:23AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: --- Chris Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:14:57PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote: Wait, I'm confused now. Red Hat will ship with the environment variable MAKE_MODE=win32 set? Or will ship a version of

Re: documentation

2000-10-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:11:13PM -0500, Gongtao Wang wrote: Can someone tell me where to find some good documents about c++ library of unix process/thread programming? Thank you. You're in the wrong mailing list. I'd suggest searching www.google.com or dejanews.com. cgf -- Want to

RE: Make --win32 shell bug?

2000-10-19 Thread Town, Brad
Attached is a patch to winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc -- it's the final piece of the puzzle. It and the patches I sent yesterday fix the make --win32/cmd.exe problem. Details: When you provide both the first and second parameters to CreateProcess, it doesn't use the search path to find the executable.

win2k problem

2000-10-19 Thread Dmitri Shparber
hello, I have a following question: I have installed cygwin running on 64 bit machine on Win2K, and tried to run the xrvt program. The error message I have got was: E:\cygwin\binrxvt 0 [main] rxvt 1000 sync_with_child: child 2184(0x6C4) died before initiali zation with status code 0x80

binutils-2.10/configure complains about invalid configuration, unrecognized machine host system

2000-10-19 Thread Stokes Bill Contr
I have Cygwin 1.1.4 on my x86 PC with NT4/ SP6. (See cygcheck output at end of this post) I am trying to build a gcc compiler for an M68K target. binutils-2.10/configure fails with complaints about invalid configuration and unrecognized machine host system name. configure defaults to "i586"

New bash + 10/17 snapshot = worst 'autologout' problems yet

2000-10-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Just downloaded the latest bash. Running on the 10/17 snapshot, EOF-induced 'autologout' seems to be the worst it's ever been. Cygcheck below. Gary R. Van Sickle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Braemar Inc. 11481 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337 Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System

Re: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters

2000-10-19 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:50 PM 10/19/2000, John Pollock wrote: With the echo command, using -n or -e alone with sh works fine: $ echo -e blah blah $ echo -n blah blah$ but when you try to use both flags at once, sh seems to get confused: blah$ echo -n -e blah -e blah$ Is there a workaround? John Use

Latest net release: setup does not install packages without versionnumber

2000-10-19 Thread Sebastiano Vigna
I have just downloaded the latest net release (1.1.4) and the following problem occurred: setup.exe installed just the packages that have a version number, e.g., bash (bash-2.04-3.tar.gz) but not the fileutils, that are just called fileutils.tar.gz. All files without version numbers were listed

Re: Tk Interface to PERL 5.6.0?

2000-10-19 Thread Charles S. Wilson
See this message: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-08/msg01201.html --Chuck Steve Cutcomb wrote: Dear Charles, I recently installed CygWin PERL 5.6.0 and was happily scripting away, when an assertive user requested a GUI interface. The Tk modules released via

[Fwd: echo with sh.exe doesn't understand multiple parameters]

2000-10-19 Thread Bob McGowan
I managed a reply to the original poster only. For what its worth, here is my 2 cents worth ... Bob McGowan wrote: These are mutually exclusive options. The -n makes echo emulate the old Bourne shell behavior, -e the new. echo -n test and echo -e 'test\c' Are equivalent.

Re: ImageMagick

2000-10-19 Thread Jerome Benoit
It works ! Thank you very much ! "Charles S. Wilson" wrote: Jerome Benoit wrote: Hi ! I try to build ImageMagick: the `configure' script (generate by `autoconf' since the distributed one fails) recognizes some packages (jpeg,z) not someothers (bzip2,png): it seem that the

Help!

2000-10-19 Thread streetstories
Oct. 18, 2000 Hi, Tonight I downloaded two softwares, GMT and Cygwin. Apparently I need Cygwin to operate GMT. When I tried to download Cywgin, I got the message: "unable to down load latest opengl/opengl.10-2tar.gz. I don't know what that means but I am unable to operate either Cygwin or

Re: [cgf: Re: rxvt SEGV (Win98, 1.1.5s/2000-10-08)]

2000-10-19 Thread Jonathan Kamens
A few days ago, I wrote: If you're really motivated, you can build cygwin yourself Alas, much easier said than done. My attempt to build was failing in all kinds of strange ways, apparently related to configure getting the wrong answers about the questions it was asking. The first