Updated: unison2.10.2-5 and unison2.12.0-3

2005-06-13 Thread Schulman . Andrew
These are bugfix releases. They incorporate multiple patches released by the Unison developers over the last few weeks. Please upload. Thanks, Andrew. http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison2.10.2/unison2.10.2-2.10.2-5.tar.bz2

Re: Updated: unison2.10.2-5 and unison2.12.0-3

2005-06-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 13 14:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are bugfix releases. They incorporate multiple patches released by the Unison developers over the last few weeks. Please upload. Thanks, Andrew. http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/unison2.10.2/unison2.10.2-2.10.2-5.tar.bz2

Re: Ok. I give. We need a way to install snapshots via setup.exe.

2005-06-13 Thread Warren Young
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: It's a magical Windows batch/Perl script combo in a single file. If this were distributed along with Cygwin, it would be even simpler. Just tell the person to go to c:\cygwin\bin in explorer and double-click this script to run it. (Can't ask them to run it from

RE: Ok. I give. We need a way to install snapshots via setup.exe.

2005-06-13 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip snapshot intsaller description] I think this would be adequate for my purposes. I just want something which decreases the barrier to someone installing a snapshot. Do you want to post the script? cgf Attached, in .tar.bz form soas not to be blocked for anybody using Outlook.

Re: Problem with xtartx

2005-06-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Edson Vernek wrote: I have instaled cygwin in my laptop and I'm having some problem with wehn I try to start X. When I type startx the following messages appear: $ startx Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-2 Contact:

Re: startx hangs in sh.exe when initializing german keyboard

2005-06-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Othmar Marti wrote: Hello Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-2 hangs when initializing the german keyboard I have disabled the firewall http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#freeze-at-startup bye ago --

Re: startx hangs in sh.exe when initializing german keyboard

2005-06-13 Thread Othmar Marti
Hello and thanks for the hint. It did not work. I am not using Zonelabs, I am using McAfee. remounting /tmp did not work either. Playing around I discovered that setxkbmap.exe hangs with the same symptoms. The task manager shows sh.exe with 99% activity over minutes (until you stop it)

Re: startx hangs in sh.exe when initializing german keyboard

2005-06-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Othmar Marti wrote: Hello and thanks for the hint. It did not work. I am not using Zonelabs, I am using McAfee. remounting /tmp did not work either. Mayn personal firewalls and virus scanners alter the behaviour of the windows sockets. Because of the difficulty of

cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-13 Thread Peiva Jan
Hi, our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but not on Cygwin when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down and as a result: What is the reason for naming /usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and not cygfreetype.dll ? We are using Coin for 3D rendering and it

Re: cyg/lib DLL naming

2005-06-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-2] Pe?iva Jan wrote: Hi, our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but not on Cygwin when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down and as a result: What is the reason for naming /usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and not

Re: startx hangs in sh.exe when initializing german keyboard

2005-06-13 Thread Othmar Marti
Hello, thanks for the message. I do ned the german keyboard, because the laptop has it (and I hate remembering the keys). bye Othmar Marti On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Othmar Marti wrote: Hello and thanks for the hint. It did not work. I am not

nedit windows don't raise under Cygwin/X

2005-06-13 Thread William Croft
Hi, I recently sent this note to the nedit discussion list, but everyone there believes that this is a problem with Cygwin/X. Would someone here have a workaround I can use, other than the kludge I mention below? Thanks much --Bill -- Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005

RE: nedit windows don't raise under Cygwin/X

2005-06-13 Thread Sterling Baker
I use this setup, the relevant parts of my startxwin.bat; REM run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error run XWin REM run twm run openbox run xsetroot -solid aquamarine4 then Openbox is a separate window, that can me maximized/minimized as needed. It's easy to open multiple instances

Re: Re: Error piping data through a cygwin command using rsh (write system call fail)

2005-06-13 Thread Johnny B. Goode
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 23:55:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Thanks for the testcase. It took some time to reproduce it (actually the error occured with quite different result on my machine) and to track it down, but I think I have found the culprit, an uninitialized variable in the socket

RE: lrint() incorrect results.

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Luke Hutchinson Sent: 04 June 2005 18:27 Is there any particular reason the same inline functions as defined in the MinGW header files are not used? They work correctly, and being inlined, are more efficient. Well, the main reason is that cygwin uses newlib

Question about tab completion

2005-06-13 Thread Mikael
Hello, I've altered my mounts so I can do: $ cd /c/somedirectory instead of $ cd /cygdrive/c/somedirectory The ouput of mount is: $ mount C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) c: on /c type system

Re: Question about tab completion

2005-06-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Mikael wrote: But say I type /ctab, instead of stopping at c as I thought would happen, /cyg is completed and these three are displayed: cygdrivecygwin.bat cygwin.ico Why? Why doesn't it stop at c? Have I done something wrong with my mounts or is this as it should be? Tab completion

RE: Question about tab completion

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Mikael Sent: 13 June 2005 10:39 Hello, I've altered my mounts so I can do: $ cd /c/somedirectory instead of $ cd /cygdrive/c/somedirectory The ouput of mount is: $ mount C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system

adding to the path

2005-06-13 Thread community help
Hi everybody, I've installed a software in ns. Now i want to add this software to the path. There is no .bash_profile and no root directory. Please tell me where is located the file where i can add to the path. Thank you __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of

Re: mcedit stackdumps

2005-06-13 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: Yes, that's it! mcedit failes after F10 if I used Ctrl + O earlier. Sometimes it's not even a stackdump, but an infinite loop with 100% CPU usage. In any case - please try using the user menu and then quit to see if you'll manage to

Undefined references

2005-06-13 Thread Alireza Ghasemi
Hello, When compiling libyahoo2 everything went OK.but when I tried to compile a program with it,I got a very very big list of undefined references like this : /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/../../../libyahoo2.a(libyahoo2.o)(.tex t+0x 38): In function `yahoo_log_message':

How to get version-information of executeable

2005-06-13 Thread Oliver Geisen
Hello, how can i read the version-number of an windows *.EXE file out of a bash-script ? Some windows-programs doesn't deliver the version information using commandline-switches. Instead they show it in a Window on the local console session. That's bad for me. Regards, Oliver Geisen

Re: Directory c:\%USERPROFILE% created

2005-06-13 Thread Oliver Geisen
Hi, i was wandering about strange folders created in the root directory of my Cygwin-Enhanced PCs and found out that everytime i start installer programs from within a cygwin shell, a folder called %USERPROFILE% is created in the base directory of the pc's harddisk. Sure it's not something

Re: Directory c:\%USERPROFILE% created

2005-06-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 13 16:16, Oliver Geisen wrote: Hi, i was wandering about strange folders created in the root directory of my Cygwin-Enhanced PCs and found out that everytime i start installer programs from within a cygwin shell, a folder called %USERPROFILE% is created in the base directory of

Install problems on XP with setup.exe

2005-06-13 Thread Keith Weintraub
Folks, I have tried to install Cygwin numerous times on XP professional version 2002 Service Pack 2. I have tried to install the base plus other individual packages but finally just tried the default install. I've tried it for all users and just me, I've tried it for both Unix and DOS

Re: Directory c:\%USERPROFILE% created

2005-06-13 Thread Oliver Geisen
Hi, I tested this again. After starting a local bash (local means i start it via doubleclick from within windows) i can see a USERPROFILE env.-var. If i do this in an bash started remotely (via sshd) i can't see it anymore. So i think this variable comes from Explorer of whatever and is not

RE: Undefined references

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Alireza Ghasemi Sent: 13 June 2005 12:45 Hello, When compiling libyahoo2 everything went OK.but when I tried to compile a program with it,I got a very very big list of undefined references like this

RE: Install problems on XP with setup.exe

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Keith Weintraub Sent: 13 June 2005 15:40 ---snip!--- I have tried to install Cygwin numerous times on XP professional version 2002 Service Pack 2.

RE: Install problems on XP with setup.exe

2005-06-13 Thread Keith Weintraub
Dave, Thanks for the reply. I tried a couple of different mirrors (sorry I didn't put that in my original post. The last one I tried was http://planetmirror.com. In addition my list of mirrors in setup.exe never shows me anything but ftp:// or http:// sites. Thanx, KW -Original

Re: ri dumps core

2005-06-13 Thread Jason Tishler
Corinna, On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 11:01:00AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 11 12:42, Jason Tishler wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:04:22PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: I just noticed that ruby uses .so for the name of its dynamic modules, but I think the rebaseall script only

tcsh doesn't find commands that end with .exe

2005-06-13 Thread Volker Quetschke
I have the following problem with tcsh: tcsh doesn't find the program if the .exe extension is given. whoami is only an example, this also happens to other programs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which whoami /usr/bin/whoami [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which whoami.exe whoami.exe: Command not found. [EMAIL

Re: How to get version-information of executeable

2005-06-13 Thread Jason Tishler
Oliver, On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:03:21PM +0200, Oliver Geisen wrote: how can i read the version-number of an windows *.EXE file out of a bash-script ? See the following: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00882.html Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or

Re: Directory c:\%USERPROFILE% created

2005-06-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 13 16:48, Oliver Geisen wrote: It's set inside of Cygwin if possible. It opens the registry and tries to read the following key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\$USERNAME\ProfileImagePath If it's available, it's used as $USERPROFILE, otherwise

Re: tcsh doesn't find commands that end with .exe

2005-06-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 13 11:34, Volker Quetschke wrote: I have the following problem with tcsh: tcsh doesn't find the program if the .exe extension is given. whoami is only an example, this also happens to other programs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which whoami /usr/bin/whoami [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which

Re: tcsh doesn't find commands that end with .exe

2005-06-13 Thread Volker Quetschke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have the following problem with tcsh: tcsh doesn't find the program if the .exe extension is given. whoami is only an example, this also happens to other programs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which whoami /usr/bin/whoami [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which whoami.exe whoami.exe:

Re: tcsh doesn't find commands that end with .exe

2005-06-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 13 12:09, Volker Quetschke wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have the following problem with tcsh: tcsh doesn't find the program if the .exe extension is given. whoami is only an example, this also happens to other programs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which whoami /usr/bin/whoami

Re: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Shankar Unni wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: So, in conversation with Corinna, I think that we're starting to lean towards making /bin/sh == bash sometime soon. Excellent idea. And it even seems to handle the automatic switch to POSIX mode correctly when called

Request MD5 checksum for cygwin setup.exe

2005-06-13 Thread Amanda Waltman
Hi, A user within my company is wanting to install Cygwin (may 26 2005 version) to use for NetCDF library files. Due to security requirements, I am required to obtain a digital signature on a download before installing software. Can someone please provide me with a MD5 checksum (hash) on Cygwin

Re: tcsh doesn't find commands that end with .exe

2005-06-13 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Dunno why it prints cmd.exe but by design (minus flaws) tcsh only starts applications given w/o path if the application is in the internal hash table. The internal hash table stores the application names w/o .exe suffix. Odd. The native build of tcsh on Win32 seems to

question: high virtual memory usage

2005-06-13 Thread Alexey Fayans
All programs that use cygwin1.dll report very high virtual memory usage. For example, bash from standard package report usage of ~420MB. Is it how it should be? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

bug(?): 100% CPU usage

2005-06-13 Thread Alexey Fayans
This may not be a CYGWIN bug, but happens only with CYGWIN apps only. When I'm trying to see which dll's a CYGWIN process is using with sysinternals' process explorer, this CYGWIN process starts using 100% CPU power. This also happens if I try to see CYGWIN process' threads. -- Unsubscribe

Re: tcsh doesn't find commands that end with .exe

2005-06-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 13 11:35, Shankar Unni wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Dunno why it prints cmd.exe but by design (minus flaws) tcsh only starts applications given w/o path if the application is in the internal hash table. The internal hash table stores the application names w/o .exe suffix. Odd.

No local keystroke echo in bash after running nano/less/vim/man

2005-06-13 Thread Topaz
After running nano/less/vim/man (and probably others), local keystroke echo in bash stops. This is only the case when I use `export CYGWIN=tty' in my .bashrc file, which is there so nano receives ctrl-c. During noecho, 'stty sane' tells me stty: standard input: unable to perform all requested

Re: bug(?): 100% CPU usage

2005-06-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Alexey Fayans wrote: This may not be a CYGWIN bug, but happens only with CYGWIN apps only. When I'm trying to see which dll's a CYGWIN process is using with sysinternals' process explorer, this CYGWIN process starts using 100% CPU power. This also happens if I try to see CYGWIN process'

RE: Install problems on XP with setup.exe

2005-06-13 Thread Keith Weintraub
After further tests I realized that the package that was having a problem is: groff-1.18.1-2.tar.bz2 When I unchecked this file (which is part of the default) the download and setup works. Next I will check to see if I can include other packages as well. KW -Original Message-

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cpio-2.6-3

2005-06-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of cpio to 2.6-3. This is a bugfix release. A non-standard way to call a function resulted in cpio not being able to recognize all option characters. The patch has been send upstream. To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the

how do I cite cygwin for academic publication?

2005-06-13 Thread Peter Waltman
Hello - since I used cygwin to implement my masters project (which I'm not getting into publishable form), I'd like to check to see if there is a preferred citation that the mainainers want used when citing cygwin. Do you have one? thanks, Peter Waltman -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: automatic generation of resolv.conf

2005-06-13 Thread Ross Boulet
On Jun 9 15:25, Brian Dessent wrote: Ross Boulet wrote: I recently downloaded and compiled dig from the bind website. [...] Since that functionality already exists, your best bet would be to either a) use the win32 port b) patch dig to include that functionality when compiling

Re: Request MD5 checksum for cygwin setup.exe

2005-06-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Amanda Waltman wrote: A user within my company is wanting to install Cygwin (may 26 2005 version) to use for NetCDF library files. Due to security requirements, I am required to obtain a digital signature on a download before installing software. Can someone please

Re: question: high virtual memory usage

2005-06-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Alexey Fayans wrote: All programs that use cygwin1.dll report very high virtual memory usage. For example, bash from standard package report usage of ~420MB. Is it how it should be? Hard to say without more information. Please see the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines

Re: question: high virtual memory usage

2005-06-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Alexey Fayans wrote: All programs that use cygwin1.dll report very high virtual memory usage. For example, bash from standard package report usage of ~420MB. Is it how it should be? Hard to say without more information. Please see the Cygwin

RE: Bug in chere

2005-06-13 Thread Dave
chere adds a bash here context menu just fine. However: 1) You have to click on a folder icon, clicking in a folder that's open does not work 2) It opens the shell not in the folder you clicked on, but in the parent folder Thanks for the report. Now how did that go unnoticed? More explicit

Re[2]: question: high virtual memory usage

2005-06-13 Thread Alexey Fayans
All programs that use cygwin1.dll report very high virtual memory usage. For example, bash from standard package report usage of ~420MB. Is it how it should be? Hard to say without more information. Please see the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html.

Re: question: high virtual memory usage

2005-06-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Alexey Fayans wrote: Look at screenshot: http://home.shad.pp.ru/tmp/cygwin.png You're using process explorer, not task manager, and process explorer does not interact well with Cygwin for whatever reason. In this case it seems the procexp is computing the VM size wrong. If you use task

Re[2]: question: high virtual memory usage

2005-06-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Alexey Fayans wrote: All programs that use cygwin1.dll report very high virtual memory usage. For example, bash from standard package report usage of ~420MB. Is it how it should be? Hard to say without more information. Please see the Cygwin problem reporting

Re[2]: bug(?): 100% CPU usage

2005-06-13 Thread Alexey Fayans
This may not be a CYGWIN bug, but happens only with CYGWIN apps only. When I'm trying to see which dll's a CYGWIN process is using with sysinternals' process explorer, this CYGWIN process starts using 100% CPU power. This also happens if I try to see CYGWIN process' threads. This is

Re: question: high virtual memory usage

2005-06-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: You're using process explorer, not task manager, and process explorer does not interact well with Cygwin for whatever reason. In this case it seems the procexp is computing the VM size wrong. If you use task manager and look at the VM size column it will be correct.

Re: tcsh doesn't find commands that end with .exe

2005-06-13 Thread Volker Quetschke
I have the following problem with tcsh: tcsh doesn't find the program if the .exe extension is given. whoami is only an example, this also happens to other programs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which whoami /usr/bin/whoami [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which whoami.exe whoami.exe: Command not found. (snip)

RE: Missing __msize Symbol / Function

2005-06-13 Thread Anh Vo
Hi Stephan; I worked as you suggested. Again, thanks very much for your help. Thank you very much for your advice. I will explore malloc_usable_size as you suggested. AV Stephan Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/04/05 10:44 PM You may want to see if malloc_usable_size can be substituted (see

Re: Question about /etc/profile

2005-06-13 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:47 AM 6/13/2005, you wrote: Hello, I'm having problems understanding how cygwin handles the loading of /etc/profile: - My cygwin.bat says the following: @echo off F: chdir F:\cygwin\bin bash --login -i So, 'bash' supposedly goes and looks for /etc/profile

Re: Question about tab completion

2005-06-13 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:05 AM 6/13/2005, you wrote: Mikael wrote: But say I type /ctab, instead of stopping at c as I thought would happen, /cyg is completed and these three are displayed: cygdrivecygwin.bat cygwin.ico Why? Why doesn't it stop at c? Have I done something wrong with my mounts or is this

Re: question: high virtual memory usage

2005-06-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: Just to clarify: taskman's Mem usage column == procexp's Working set column and this is the amount of memory that is actually being used by the process. taskman's VM size column == procexp's Private bytes column and this is the total amount of code+data that has been

Re: question: high virtual memory usage

2005-06-13 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Alexey Fayans wrote: All programs that use cygwin1.dll report very high virtual memory usage. For example, bash from standard package report usage of ~420MB. Is it how it should be? Hard to say without more information. Please see the Cygwin

Re: question: high virtual memory usage

2005-06-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Andrew DeFaria wrote: That may be but it does represent the footprint of the process or at least the amount of memory + swap reserved (doesn't it?). As such I seek to minimize such usage. No, I don't think so. Taskman's VM size is what you are thinking of, and is what procexp calls private

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: unison2.10.2 and unison2.12.0

2005-06-13 Thread Schulman . Andrew
Updated versions of the unison2.10.2 and unison2.12.0 packages are now available in the Cygwin distribution. These are bugfix releases. They fix multiple minor problems, including an incomplete fix to the diff-over-ssh problem patched in the last release. Unison is a file synchronizer for

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-13 Thread Beman Dawes
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:08:30PM -0400, Beman Dawes wrote: I've been in contact with Newlib people working on the problem in, which is where the problem needs to be solved. They really need encouragement that people

Re: how do I cite cygwin for academic publication?

2005-06-13 Thread Arturus Magi
Peter Waltman wrote: since I used cygwin to implement my masters project (which I'm not getting into publishable form), I'd like to check to see if there is a preferred citation that the mainainers want used when citing cygwin. Do you have one? Our preferred citation is pretty much

How to Find/Generate Core Files

2005-06-13 Thread Matthew Johnson
Hi- I did a few searches in Yahoo!, in Cygwin FAQ and a few others places, I can find _mention_ of the word 'core', or even that gdb _uses_ core files, but none about how to configure Cygwin/g++ to _generate_ the core files. As it is, I get core dumped frequently from the application I am

Re: How to Find/Generate Core Files

2005-06-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Matthew Johnson wrote: I did a few searches in Yahoo!, in Cygwin FAQ and a few others places, I can find _mention_ of the word 'core', or even that gdb _uses_ core files, but none about how to configure Cygwin/g++ to _generate_ the core files. As it is, I get core dumped frequently from

Updated: cpio-2.6-3

2005-06-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of cpio to 2.6-3. This is a bugfix release. A non-standard way to call a function resulted in cpio not being able to recognize all option characters. The patch has been send upstream. To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the

Updated: unison2.10.2 and unison2.12.0

2005-06-13 Thread Schulman . Andrew
Updated versions of the unison2.10.2 and unison2.12.0 packages are now available in the Cygwin distribution. These are bugfix releases. They fix multiple minor problems, including an incomplete fix to the diff-over-ssh problem patched in the last release. Unison is a file synchronizer for