Robert Collins wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 10:10 PM
To: Torsten Giebl
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Install-Info not found during installing CYGIN
Torsten,
I
the same directory as the
normal one.
Regards,
Stan
--- Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, folks, proof is in the experimentation.
http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-guitest-20020328.exe
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Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Movies - coverage
two and a half problems: window order, nothig to be installed,
and unclear if it handles the FTP timeout.
--- Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, folks, proof is in the experimentation.
http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-guitest-20020328.exe
--- Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's supposed to let folk - like me - who want to madly change revision
levels, be able to do so.
But why do you want this in the graphical setup utility?
Isn't it better to have a command-line (for cmd.exe, cygwin dll-independent)
setup utility,
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From: Stanislav Sinyagin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 12:13 AM
To: Robert Collins; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: setup.exe gui testing
--- Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's supposed to let folk - like me - who want
--- Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that is a fine goal, but I don't see why that means removing
functionality from the gui.
ok, then I see the difficulty with the current setup layout.
Maybe then it's worth refusing from step-by-step windows, but instead
one Explorer-like
--- Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that is a fine goal, but I don't see why that means removing
functionality from the gui.
once I've started dreaming, what about another pretty thing -- Jumpstart?
A text file describing all setup options and packages, so that you
easily
At 09:37 AM 3/28/2002, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
--- Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that is a fine goal, but I don't see why that means removing
functionality from the gui.
once I've started dreaming, what about another pretty thing -- Jumpstart?
A text file describing all
Hack wrote:
[...]
Note this doesn't happen for wget. I've just checked.
[...]
As you can see in /etc/postinstall/wget.sh.done when wget is
installed/updated it will install the info files only if texinfo is
already installed (wget does not depend/require texinfo). Otherwise it's
I'd prefer a seperate dir not hidden too deep in the tree,
where all
the ast utilities (including ksh) get installed, e.g.
/usr/ast/ bin
fun
lib
man
Bad. With one exception, we've decided not to clutter the top level
/usr directory with
Hack Kampbjørn wrote:
Note this doesn't happen for wget. I've just checked.
texinfo.
Should be in base (IMHO).
No! Anything that has info pages should depend on texinfo. That's what
dependencies ARE FOR.
Anything that installs .info files should have texinfo in its dependency
list.
First, read my other message (sent immediately prior to this one)
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:21:22AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote:
Would other executables that are not stub executables but alternative
version to existing commands go there, too? ATT have own
I dunno if it's the old behaviour, when setup window is covered by
another window, and you click the icon on the taskbar,
cygwin setup window does not come to top.
That's not new to Rob's latest EXE, but it is new as of the latest released
wizardized setup, because the wizardization was not
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:48:34AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
Hack Kampbj?rn wrote:
Note this doesn't happen for wget. I've just checked.
texinfo.
Should be in base (IMHO).
No! Anything that has info pages should depend on texinfo. That's what
dependencies ARE FOR.
Anything that
Charles Wilson wrote:
Hack Kampbjørn wrote:
Note this doesn't happen for wget. I've just checked.
texinfo.
Should be in base (IMHO).
No! Anything that has info pages should depend on texinfo. That's what
dependencies ARE FOR.
Anything that installs .info files should have
Take a look at your .xsession-errors file on the solaris machine AFTER your
loging fails. There is probably something wrong with your .xinitrc or
.xsession files. Possibly go downt to minimal files there, and try again? But
the .xsession-errors very often will give you a hint in that case.
If you are using IPX, and I think you have told me so, the Novell client
resets the order for the name resolution . Usually the timeout is about 1-2
minutes. Could you try to uninstall the whole novell client with IPX on a
client?
I think I've tracked down the problem to a ATI graphic card
*My* problem in this situation turned out to be that the XDMCP session from
Solaris needed Solaris fonts which are not available by default on
Cygwin/XFree86.
I solved my problem by having my XWin use the font server on the Solaris
box:
XWin -from $MyPC -query $SolarisBox -fp
Joe,
Have you done an actual file search for multiple versions of cygwin1.dll, or
have you just assumed that since you only installed Cygwin once that you
only have one copy of cygwin1.dll? If you've just assumed, then you need to
do a file search, as lots of software comes with its own copy of
I updated the Cygwin/XFree86 FAQ to answer the question about the font path
with Solaris (Q 4.9):
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-solaris-fonts
I also added a Q/A for the slowdown caused by ATI2evxx.exe (Q 6.1):
Joe,
Well, it goes in now that it is useful to someone.
Harold
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Hello,
I know I'm not the only one with this prob...here is what i did to get it up. I'm not
sure how much of this is overkill though...
(for some reason, just reinstalling xfree didn't fix it)
1. delete cygwin and all shortcuts
2. run regedit, delete all cygwin entries
3. reinstall cygwin
4.
Hello Falser,
Thursday, March 28, 2002, 9:50:39 AM, you wrote:
FK Hello.
FK Since my upgrade to the latest make and cygwin a previously working makefile
stopped to work.
FK The make program tries to execute the commandline directly and cygwin execvp()
could not find the file.
FK The command
Hello CYGWIN Users !
I install CYGWIN with the following packages :
Admin
NOCHANGE
Archive
zip
unzip
Base
NOCHANGE
Database
NOCHANGE
Devel
autoconf
automake
binutils
bison
ctags
cvs
flex
gcc
gdb
gettext
libtool
make
mingw-runtime
Doc
man
newlib-man
Editors
vim
Games
Torsten,
I install CYGWIN with the following packages :
[long list w/o texinfo]
First the Setup.exe untgz and unbz2 the selected Packages into the install dir,
then it starts some SH Window. In that window i see often the message
Install-Info not found. Is there a package i forgott to
I've 256MB RAM and more than 4GB of free disk space, so I settled the
maximum dimension of the virtual memory at 3GB (under w2k) and the
heap_chunk_in_mb at 2GB (using regedt32).
Nevertheless the bash does not start and gives a win32 error 8.
The maximum value accepted for heap_chunk_in_mb
-Original Message-
From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 10:10 PM
To: Torsten Giebl
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Install-Info not found during installing CYGIN
Torsten,
I install CYGWIN with the
Robert Collins wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 10:10 PM
To: Torsten Giebl
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Install-Info not found during installing CYGIN
Torsten,
I
Is there any objection to remove the test label from this package?
Has anybody tested it? Are there any problems that should be addresses
before releasing it as stable?
Hack 8-)
Hack Kampbjørn wrote:
TEST RELEASE. PLEASE test that this new package works as expected and
doesn't break
Hello,
It seems that /usr/lib/mingw/libm.a is missing from the
mingw-runtime-1.2-1.tar.gz package.
This make compiling with -mno-cygwin and -lm use the cygwin
/usr/lib/libm.a and hence yields to a cygwin1.dll dependency in the
resulting executable which not what we want with -mno-cygwin...
The
Hello,
I would like to know if functions like clock_gettime,
clock_getres, nanosleep, time_out for select or sem_wait
functions, are implemented in CYGWIN.
Thank you for any response.
Herve BAILLY
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Dear all,
is there a way to create (and print) a procedure traceback from within an
executable that is invoked upon error condition?
This is possible on many other platforms.
I've read about strace, but that seems to be not what I want, as to my
understanding the executable needs to be run under
Hello everyone,
I´m using cygwin for some time now but today i ran into a problem.
I´ve got a user-request that they want to be able to scp files to a
host without entering their password everytime. No problem i
thought, deploy the public-key on the server and that should do it,
On Thursday 28 Mar 02, Daniel Holtkamp writes:
Hello everyone,
I´m using cygwin for some time now but today i ran into a problem.
I´ve got a user-request that they want to be able to scp files to a
host without entering their password everytime. No problem i
thought, deploy the
At 02:09 AM 3/28/2002, Chris Polley wrote:
Well, inetd is running from the system account (18). The user account
I was using to run strace has local (machine) administrator privileges
(i.e. is in the machine's Administrators group.) Is this
sufficiently privileged?
No. Look at
Hack wrote:
[...]
Note this doesn't happen for wget. I've just checked.
[...]
As you can see in /etc/postinstall/wget.sh.done when wget is
installed/updated it will install the info files only if texinfo is
already installed (wget does not depend/require texinfo). Otherwise it's
Hi,
I'm trying to schedule a bash script to run using at on a NT4 box
The script is located in /d/test.sh
test.sh is very simple just to test it
If i type d:\Runscript /d/test.sh then it works fine.
However I've tried
at 16:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su cmd /c d:\RunScript.bat /d/test.sh
It
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:09:29AM -0600, Chris Polley wrote:
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:20:19 -0500, you wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002@02:20:35PM -0600, Polley Christopher W wrote:
Are there more complete instructions to strace besides --help, the
Cygwin user guide, or winsup/utils/utils.sgml (all
At 10:17 AM 3/28/2002, Hans Horn wrote:
Thanks a lot.
But I'm sorry - I've never dealt with the Win32 API. Don't you have to join
Micro$haft in order to access the MSDN site?
H.
No, I didn't. Try http://msdn.microsoft.com/library. Poke around and see
what you can find. Hm, try looking
At 10:23 AM 3/28/2002, Justin MacCarthy wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to schedule a bash script to run using at on a NT4 box
The script is located in /d/test.sh
test.sh is very simple just to test it
If i type d:\Runscript /d/test.sh then it works fine.
However I've tried
at 16:00
I found ssmtp works on command line mannually,
but I guess I can join it with mutt MUA so
when I want to only send a mail, I won't need any
graphical mail agent.
but I could not find man pages how to configure
ssmtp.conf file and how to make work mutt with
ssmtp.exe.
where can I find sample or
Larry, Spot on, thanks Justin
The first most
likely problem is that your mount table is not system-wide. Start there.
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Hello, all,
I just wanted to ask is it known issue that new setup version 2.194.2.21
has problems when trying to install from local dir. Parse errors occur
(parsing setup.ini) from the very first line.
I use WinXP. Using usual user and Administrator user doesn't change
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:30:39AM -0800, Hans Horn wrote:
is there a way to create (and print) a procedure traceback from within an
executable that is invoked upon error condition?
This is possible on many other platforms.
I've read about strace, but that seems to be not what I want, as to my
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 12:38:59AM +0900, jinhyuk choi wrote:
where can I find sample or doc's on it?
The README file:
/usr/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-2.38.7.README
Jason
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I loved this cygwin compiler before my computer crashed, and now I cannot get
it to work... I installed from the internet and get no cygwin1.dll file with
it. I downloaded the dll from the internet, and it still doesn't work... It
gives me this error...
$ make
gcc -c -Wall -O -g act_comm.c
Hi there.
I've
installed the latest version on my XP Pro and the 'more' command
dissapeared.
Please
read the following extract.
Thanks.
Administrator@MQUINTEROS ~$ uname
-aCYGWIN_NT-5.1 MQUINTEROS 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686
unknown
Administrator@MQUINTEROS ~$ ls -l
|
At 11:42 AM 3/28/2002, Milton Quinteros S. wrote:
Hi there.
I've installed the latest version on my XP Pro and the 'more' command
dissapeared.
Really? I'm going to ask the dumb question because you didn't provide any
information that would make it pointless: did you install the 'more'
Let's keep official Cygwin discussions on the list. Believe it or not, others
may have your same problem and actually search the mail list archives to find
a solution.
Sorry. You assume too much. 'more' is indeed a package, albeit a new one.
If it's not an option for you, you're using a
Hello,
My question was bad asked. Time functions are very usefull for my
application. And I would like to know if time functions are not implemented
because of unsovable problems with Windows or if they will be implemented
in a near feature.
Thank you for any
On Thursday 28 Mar 02, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes:
David (Starks-Browning), would it be worthwhile to add the How do I find out
what package utility XXX is in? to the FAQ?
What packages should I download? is already there.
David
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implemented because no one has contributed them. If you're interested,
feel free to take a crack at the functions you require and contribute
them.
Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RFK Partners, Inc.
At 06:09 AM 3/28/2002, G.Spagnuolo wrote:
I've 256MB RAM and more than 4GB of free disk space, so I settled the maximum
dimension of the virtual memory at 3GB (under w2k) and the heap_chunk_in_mb at 2GB
(using regedt32).
Nevertheless the bash does not start and gives a win32 error 8.
The
If you can, please help.
I made sure that:
- my /bin directory (C:\cygwin\bin) is in your system PATH (e.g. set for the entire
system from the My Computer properties) (Chuck msg 9/2001)
- The PATH is set correctly (Kurt msg 9/2001) Just for kicks i copied cygwin1.dll to
C:\WINNT too
- The
Hack Kampbjørn wrote:
Note this doesn't happen for wget. I've just checked.
texinfo.
Should be in base (IMHO).
No! Anything that has info pages should depend on texinfo. That's what
dependencies ARE FOR.
Anything that installs .info files should have texinfo in its dependency
list.
I'm working on a way to pass file descriptors between processes.
I've already got it functioning by using writes to pass the
file handle (using get_osfhandle) and the current processId using
GetCurrentProcessId
the receiving side then calls Duplicate Handle to create the handle. Then
I do a
I'm seeing this problem also (running latest Cygwin and sshd on Winnt
4.0, SP6). Maybe someone on the list can provide some pointers on the
best way for us to debug this problem (and, ultimately, contribute a
patch)?
-Original Message-
From: John Barnard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Corinna's had allot to say in the past on debugging sshd issues. You might
want to review the email list archives to see if any of her previous
suggestions help you debug this problem.
At 02:46 PM 3/28/2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
I'm seeing this problem also (running latest Cygwin and sshd on
BTW, has any thought been given to providing HTML at the end of these
messages that provides a one-click access to the mailing list
archives? much like is already being done with the unsubscribe, bugs,
docs and FAQ?
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From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
It's in the headers, as noted below. Or were you objecting to it's placement?
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Dear cygwin,
I have installed a version of the EGCS compiler as part of a development kit
(NNDK) supplied by NetBurner Inc. of San Diego CA.
The tool chain has worked perfectly under WIN98 and W2000 but I am getting
an error running bash.exe (as called from main.mak) under Windows XP.
The
Where then would I get this information for gcc? Or if I were to ask this on a
gcc list, what is the relationship between Cygwin version numbers and gcc
version numbers?
(My apology to anyone who gets this twice.)
Thanks,
Mike.
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
At 03:34 PM 3/28/2002, you
http://www.cygwin.com/packages/gcc/ tells you the version of gcc that Cygwin
currently uses. That would be 2.95.3. You can find out other versions by
looking at www.cygwin.com/packages and selecting the appropriate package.
The versions all match the GNU versions of the like packages. I
Unfortunately, those headers are visible to a lot of people who read the
list (Outlook users, anyone else?), so maybe adding the List Archive
link to the footer would help to get people to search the archive?
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From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 08:44:27AM -0800, Hans Horn wrote:
where does cygwin_stackdump() live?
I searched through the entire cygwin inst tree, but couldn't find any header
where it is defined.
If it is a function I just invoke, where does it write the trace dump to?
stdout? stderr?
I suggest
Chris,
I'm afraid not, as I do not know what files to #include so the runtime will
find cygwin_stackdump().
H.
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:13:15PM -0800, Hans Horn wrote:
I'm afraid not, as I do not know what files to #include so the runtime will
find cygwin_stackdump().
I guess you're out of luck then.
cgf
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At 06:05 PM 3/28/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:13:15PM -0800, Hans Horn wrote:
I'm afraid not, as I do not know what files to #include so the runtime will
find cygwin_stackdump().
I guess you're out of luck then.
A shadowy apparition appears, shrouded in a brown,
For the archives
Downloading *everything* with setup.exe.
First-off, setup.exe uses information contained in /etc/setup/ to
determine whats pacakges are not installed, and then looks in your
'local package dir' at *every mirror site you chose* to determine what
is missing and needs
Rob --
Thanks for the information. I'm downloading now.
It was the presence of /etc/setup that was messing
up my earlier attempts.
-Brian
Robert Collins wrote:
For the archives
Downloading *everything* with setup.exe.
First-off, setup.exe uses information contained in /etc/setup/ to
I've searched the FAQ list archives, but didn't find anything that matches this.
There's a strange interaction between globbing and expanding a path with a
drive-letter-colon-backslash.
For the example, I set up three variables pointing to the cygwin/sbin
directory, with 0, 1, or 2
Chris,
If you're going to take the time to respond, the least you could do is give
a useful answer.
Since unlike Chris, I do not know the answer, I'll illustrate how I
discovered it.
Hans is correct that there is no prototype for this function in any file
under /usr/include, though there
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:32:36PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
If you're going to take the time to respond, the least you could do is
give a useful answer.
Since unlike Chris, I do not know the answer, I'll illustrate how I
discovered it.
[snip]
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 05:17:51PM -0500,
Chris,
I'm sorry.
I missed that suggestion.
But I do enjoy jumping through hoops at times.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 17:06 2002-03-28, you wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:32:36PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
If you're going to take the time to respond, the least you could
Is it unreasonable to find appalling the suggestion to use an
undocumented function?
Richard
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:17:51 -0500, you wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 08:44:27AM -0800, Hans Horn wrote:
where does cygwin_stackdump() live?
I searched through the entire cygwin inst tree, but
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:48:34AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
Hack Kampbj?rn wrote:
Note this doesn't happen for wget. I've just checked.
texinfo.
Should be in base (IMHO).
No! Anything that has info pages should depend on texinfo. That's what
dependencies ARE FOR.
Anything that
Charles Wilson wrote:
Hack Kampbjørn wrote:
Note this doesn't happen for wget. I've just checked.
texinfo.
Should be in base (IMHO).
No! Anything that has info pages should depend on texinfo. That's what
dependencies ARE FOR.
Anything that installs .info files should have
Hello,
I've got a win2k box with cygwin on it. Apparently something got
corrupted somewhere, i can no longer run cygwin, the shortcut does nothing.
I'm thinking it's an association issue, can someone tell me what file
association to use?
Thanks.
Dave.
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:46:52PM -0800, Richard Hitt wrote:
Is it unreasonable to find appalling the suggestion to use an
undocumented function?
Are you volunteering to write documentation?
That would be great! We really need someone to work on documentation! It
seems that people frequently
Dear all,
I just tried Chris' little test and got: something like this:
Stack trace:
Frame Function Args
0022FE84 00401073 (00401244, , 0022FEA4, 00401063)
0022FE94 00401073 (610A0368, 0001, 0022FEB4, 00401054)
0022FEA4 00401063 (00D0, , 0022FF10, 61003F42)
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:05:32PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
For the record, I don't know anything about what is required to
interface with bfd. I'm offering this information so that Robert
Randall
Schulz won't accuse me of being
An even better FAQ entry, at least for this package, is this:
Q. Where can I find more?
A. Use less instead.
A much better solution than installing the more package!
No disrespect to the more package maintainer, though. :-)
(That's me.) Very true. Actually, that's pretty
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:57:58PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
The funny thing is, after a big discussion on cygwin-apps, 'more' was
put in the BASE category, which means it is installed by default
unless someone un-checks it in setup.exe. I hope that in this case the
mirror just hadn't
I have attempted to install the 1.3.10 release of Cygwin a couple of
times now, using both the Install from Internet and Install from Local
Directory options. Everything runs smoothly through the Select
Packages to Install screen. After clicking Next on that screen, the
Progress dialog appears
I downloaded setup_old.exe (version 2.125.2.10) from the ftp mirror
where I downloaded the Cygwin packages, and it works perfectly,
without causing a stack fault. That would indicate to me that the
problem is with setup.exe itself and not with any of the
packages. Hopefully this nugget of
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