Re: Postinstall failure

I reset the entire C drive's permissions to Everyone -- Full Access, installed cygwin, then reset the drive back to SYSTEM/Administrators the way it was before and added Everyone -- Execute to the cygwin directory. Works fine now. Thanks for your help. - Original Message - From: "Igor Pe

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Re: Postinstall failure

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Nebob wrote: > I searched don't hit me! > > The problem is that the postinstall scripts fail to execute properly and > leave me with a non-functional cygwin installation. ie: clicking the cygwin > shortcut leads to a "bash-2.05b$" prompt from which no commands work. System > i

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Postinstall failure

I searched don't hit me! The problem is that the postinstall scripts fail to execute properly and leave me with a non-functional cygwin installation. ie: clicking the cygwin shortcut leads to a "bash-2.05b$" prompt from which no commands work. System is XP SP1. setup.exe is 2.340.2.5. I located s

Re: snapshot compilation failure

Hallo peter, Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2003 um 08:31 schriebst du: > Attempting to compile the latest snapshot, > (by untaring cygwin-src-20030823.tar.bz2 and winsup-src-20030823.tar.bz2 in /, and > creating /src as a symbolic link, > creating /obj, /install, entering /obj, /src/configure --pre

parallel make

Hi folks, Currently our build environment uses parallel make (-j jobs option) on all our unixes using gnu tools. We use an older version of gnu tools on our windows boxes. The older make on the windows box does not do parallel make (or at least correctly). I want to upgrade to the latest cygwin

Re: Speclib's new perl patch --> Cygwin snapshot compilation failure

Hallo Kelley, Am Mittwoch, 27. August 2003 um 19:26 schriebst du: > I was seeing the exact same failure on attempting to compile the recent > 8-23-2003 cygwin snapshot as Peter Garrone > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg01381.html > I was compiling under stock cygwin 1.5.2 with a

Problem configuring clisp cvs head using 1.5.2-1 test release

During the configure of clisp, using the current cvs, with the following configure line, ./configure --with-threads=POSIX_THREADS testthread The configure process fails with the following error: configure: error: invalid package name: threads I tracked the problem down to the portion of the config

Re: Install battle over, how to set up user?

Ok. Your cygcheck output says that you're a domain user, and that domain groups are not part of /etc/group: C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe output (ntsec) UID: 38685(d1wmw01) GID: 28109(mkgroup_l_d) ^ ^^^ This is what's cauing the message you saw. Now, as Pierre said

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

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:08:48PM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I would be astonished if a non-cygwin program could understand a >>cygwin-specific device like /dev/clipboard. > >I was running this all from bash. Isn't it bash that sets up the it's >i/o handles before fo

Speclib's new perl patch --> Cygwin snapshot compilation failure

I was seeing the exact same failure on attempting to compile the recent 8-23-2003 cygwin snapshot as Peter Garrone http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg01381.html I was compiling under stock cygwin 1.5.2 with all the experimental packages of 8/27/2003 -- including Perl 5.8.0-3. It se

Re: Install battle over, how to set up user?

Ok, I ran cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out, and I attached the cygcheck.out file to this email. > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi - >> >> I finally got cygwin to install, after downloading lots and lots of >> packages and with everyone's helpful hints on this mailing list.

Re: HDF libary

Guosheng schrieb: > I am wondering whether somebody successfully compiled HDF libaries > (http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/) under CYGWIN. thanks. Which version are you looking for? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwi

Information Request

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HDF libary

I am wondering whether somebody successfully compiled HDF libaries (http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/) under CYGWIN. thanks. Guosheng Liu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/d

Re: patch.exe missing from cygwin? [Newbie]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, WINDOWS 98 wrote: > Hi. Just installed Cygwin, looking for patch.exe. It has diff.exe, but > no patch! Any idea how I can get this utility? It doesn't necessarily > have to be through Cygwin. > > Thanks for your help, > - AAA The package search page (

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

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

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

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. And is this a r

Re: patch.exe missing from cygwin? [Newbie]

WINDOWS 98 wrote: Hi. Just installed Cygwin, looking for patch.exe. It has diff.exe, but no patch! Any idea how I can get this utility? It doesn't necessarily have to be through Cygwin. Thanks for your help, - AAA If you go to the cygwin home page you'll find a link marked "find a pack

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

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 like | , > , e

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

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. And is this a regression? I would be

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

$ 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 Profe

patch.exe missing from cygwin? [Newbie]

Hi. Just installed Cygwin, looking for patch.exe. It has diff.exe, but no patch! Any idea how I can get this utility? It doesn't necessarily have to be through Cygwin. Thanks for your help, - AAA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: htt

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Re: Install battle over, how to set up user?

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi - > > I finally got cygwin to install, after downloading lots and lots of > packages and with everyone's helpful hints on this mailing list. Thanks a > lot to all of you. > > So, I started cygwin, and I get this message at the top of the screen >

Install battle over, how to set up user?

Hi - I finally got cygwin to install, after downloading lots and lots of packages and with everyone's helpful hints on this mailing list. Thanks a lot to all of you. So, I started cygwin, and I get this message at the top of the screen above the bash prompt: Your username or group hasn't be

Re: perl test fails

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Rob Clack wrote: > Hmmm, don't see how it can have anything to do with the mapping of a > networked drive, since the problem started on the NT4 box, at which time > the scriptlet was located in /cygdrive/e/cygwin/rnc/try. > > Since I wanted to demonstrate that it worked on the

tee core dumped

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Re: newlib: conflicting types for `_fstat64_r'

Hello Corinna , > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:01:46AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm gettting this error when compiling newlib with fresh updated CVS >> source : >> /winsup/src/newlib/libc/reent/fstat64r.c:61: error: conflicting types for >> `_fstat64_r' >> /winsup/src/newlib/l

Use HOME and END in emacs

I access cygwin via ssh using putty. I am a vim user and want to learn some basic knowledge about emacs. When I entered emacs, I found that I cannot move the cursor using HOME key and END key to the beginning or end of the line. C-a and C-e works though. I check my keybind using C-h b and found

Libxml2 package problem?

Hello libxml2 maintainer, currently I try to compile davtool-0.1.0 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/davtool), a command line utulity I would expect to build OOTB on Cygwin. Unfortunately the configuring fails due to an unfound parser.h in the xml-package, see output: == snip ===

FW: Libxml2 package problem?

Hi, sorry for wrong alarm. I realized, that configure is writing a log file and I detected that it misses the development environment for libiconv. Installed that and building succeeds without any problem. Regards, Jörg -Original Message- From: Jörg Schaible Sent: Wednesday, August 27

error in upx

Hello! I decided to try to upx all the .exes and .dlls in the cygwin distribution to save space, and found the following problem. The error occurs with the "captoinfo.exe" I have (which I have uploaded to http://www.bubblescope.net/captoinfo.exe in case the version online changes, if anyone wa

Re: newlib: conflicting types for `_fstat64_r'

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:01:46AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hello, > > I'm gettting this error when compiling newlib with fresh updated CVS > source : > /winsup/src/newlib/libc/reent/fstat64r.c:61: error: conflicting types for > `_fstat64_r' > /winsup/src/newlib/libc/include/reent.h:89: er

Re: perl test fails

Hmmm, don't see how it can have anything to do with the mapping of a networked drive, since the problem started on the NT4 box, at which time the scriptlet was located in /cygdrive/e/cygwin/rnc/try. Since I wanted to demonstrate that it worked on the Linux box (having tripped over that one orig

Re: RedHat7.3 and Windows

Mats Bengtsson writes: > Cygwin mirror (preserving the directory structure). The main > practical problem is to selectively download only the packages > you need, since a full copy may be to large to handle. I wrote a silly python script for that: http://lilypond.org/cygwin/cyg-apt Sadly, s

snapshot installation confusion

Referring to the faq question "how do i rebuild the tools on my NT box" the instructions are to "install everything", after the "make install" and "make check" steps. I understand the dll swapping trickery, but exactly what directories are to be copied where with the "install everything" step? --

Using gdb on cygwin library/dll functions

How to do this? If I attempt to set a breakpoint at, say, pthread_cancel, I get Cannot access memory at address 0x25 although pthread_cancel exists at 0x5a79f0 according to the map file. If I attempt to link with -static, I get a -lX11 library lookup failure. If I attempt to link in the releva

snapshot compilation failure

Attempting to compile the latest snapshot, (by untaring cygwin-src-20030823.tar.bz2 and winsup-src-20030823.tar.bz2 in /, and creating /src as a symbolic link, creating /obj, /install, entering /obj, /src/configure --prefix=/install, then make.) The make fails with libm.a. Relevant messages ar

RE: newlib: conflicting types for `_fstat64_r'

I've seen similar a few years back, under Cygwin 1.1.x Every now and then, a library function (like this one) is added in a new location, and the old one is not erased. That is what the problem here is. Not your fault. Or anyones. Gotta go Robert McNulty Junior -Original Message- From: [EM

newlib: conflicting types for `_fstat64_r'

Hello, I'm gettting this error when compiling newlib with fresh updated CVS source : /winsup/src/newlib/libc/reent/fstat64r.c:61: error: conflicting types for `_fstat64_r' /winsup/src/newlib/libc/include/reent.h:89: error: previous declaration of `_fstat64_r' Anyone seen this before? Gerrit --

Re: perl test fails

At 09:36 AM 8/26/2003, Rob Clack you wrote: >Gerrit > >I've been away for a week, hence the delayed response. > >Thanks for this and clearly my scriptlet was broken. I've now tried both >alternatives as suggested below. Both work perfectly under Linux. Neither works >under NT4. > >Linux output

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

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:09:37AM +0800, 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 error"previous defined",how can i solve >the problem. Either you define your printf exactly the same way it is declared in stdio.h or

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

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 error"previous defined",how can i solve the problem. another question,how can i build the cygwin1.dll?any reference or documen

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

Read http://wingimp.hp.infoseek.co.jp/gimp/docs/README.win32 Particulary the part about *NOT using cygwin runtime* With gcc I mean gcc-2.95.2 as distributed by Mumit Khan, either as a mingw version (preferred), or running under cygwin. To successfully use gcc, follow the instructions below. We w

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

i want to use my own printf,but i must use the other function declared in stdio.h,there is always an error"previous defined",how can i solve the problem. another question,how can i build the cygwin1.dll?any reference or document here? thanks. ___

Re: compile gtk2 applications on cygwin?

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > There are some gnome2 patches available, there is xlocale used where > it is needed, see here for a starting point: > http://cygnome2.sourceforge.net/test-patches/ When I tried to compile GLib 2.2.2 or CVS with or without the patch I got a lot of unde

RE: Failing to delete files that is hold by makegroup

At 07:59 AM 8/26/2003 -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >Johan, > >Well, for one, why not use "rm -rf" instead? I'm not at all sure the -d >flag is even implemented on Cygwin. > >Also, the value "mkgroup_l_d" for your group means that your /etc/group >doesn't contain the group of the file owner. Pl