Re: weft 0.4

2006-10-26 Thread Oliver Wienand
We install weft on every pc/server we need cygwin on. As I wrote in my readme, we use a lot of bash scripts on our Windows servers and often just by double clicking them in the Explorer. I am interested in this package. But I just came back from a long trip and have to catch up with things

development packages

2006-10-26 Thread djh
Forgive my ignorance, but I did read the chapter for managing packages and it explained up to boffo being an application and a library (external source usage), but I didn't see any reference to what exactly goes into the packages with -devel names.. I can only think about header files needed

RE: GNU Emacs screen size after screen size switching

2006-10-26 Thread Glew, Andy
I am using GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, X toolkit) of 2004-03-22 on cm-test on cygwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] 506$ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PXPL8591 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-20 13:28 i686 Cygwin using X [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] 507$ XWin -v Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The

Delay using Konsole with Xwin

2006-10-26 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello, I've been using Xwin under cygwin 1.26 (and the same Xwin which came with the same version). I know, a bit old, but it has been serving me very well since around 2002, and I have no apparent reason to upgrade. Or maybe... The only thing that really annoys me, is that every time I

Easy? sed syntax

2006-10-26 Thread fergus
Please can anybody help with a simply-stated sed problem? I realise this is not Cygwin-specific, but it is Cygwin-relevant because it is required in order to write a script to mount a portable Cygwin system on any host machine, so I hope it's all right to ask for help here. The problem reduces

Re: Easy? sed syntax

2006-10-26 Thread Brian Dessent
fergus wrote: In any string (eg xaaabababbbxaabbbabx) remove all instances of ab and keep on doing this as long as you can. Do it once: echo xaaabababbbxaabbbabx | sed 's/ab//g' xaabbxabbx echo xaaabababbbxaabbbabx | sed -e :a -e 's/ab//' -e ta See section 3.7 of the sed

RE: Easy? sed syntax

2006-10-26 Thread fergus
echo xaaabababbbxaabbbabx | sed -e :a -e 's/ab//' -e ta Thank you. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Cygwin (1.5.21) crash in Windows XP

2006-10-26 Thread Khokan C. Paul
To whom it may concern, In the requirement of using Linux machines from a remote Windows machine, I’ve searched and found Cygwin as the perfect solution. Following on-line instructions I’ve installed in my XP machine and tried to work on Linux machines. I don’t have any problem entering Linux

Re: Cygwin (1.5.21) crash in Windows XP

2006-10-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 06:03:45PM +0900, Khokan C. Paul wrote: To whom it may concern, You got two bounces which told you that this message was off-topic for this list. That should have served as a clue that this was not the right place to discuss xterm or cygwin/x. Please use the cygwin-xfree

[Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fontconfig-2.4.1-1

2006-10-26 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: I've made a new version of fontconfig available for installation. This is new upstream release. All 3 packages libfontconfig1... libfontconfig-devel... fontconfig... coatain a directory /etc/hints with the setup.hint file. These directories should be

Changing Windows hidden and system attributes?

2006-10-26 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Aside from using cmd /c attrib, is there a way in cygwin for me to change the Windows hidden or system attributes of a file? There don't seem to be any extensions to chmod that will accomplish this, and I'm wondering if there is a cygwin-specific utility that I might be able to use for this

RE: Problem with Cygwin Installation

2006-10-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 26 October 2006 03:51, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Champ Mendis on 10/25/2006 6:59 PM: I installed Cywin in my Desktop Windows XP SP2 last year. I used gcc 3.3.3.3 to compile my code. It worked fine and I had more than 20 of my

Re: igncr vs text mode mounts, performance vs compatibility

2006-10-26 Thread Lewis Hyatt
There are a few other things to think about with your initial attempt. Right now, igncr is an all or nothing setting, can be inherited into child processes via SHELLOPTS, but can only be changed by explicit user action. Your patch only ever turns it on without user intervention, not off. You

Re: igncr vs text mode mounts, performance vs compatibility

2006-10-26 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Eric Blake wrote: There is also the possibility of making bash turn igncr on by default, but /bin/sh leaving it off, since only /bin/sh is specified by POSIX; but that also gives me the willies thinking about people who will complain why their script doesn't work when they change from

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

2006-10-26 Thread Teggy P Veerapen
Hi, Thanks guys for all these informations ... In fact, I have tried both solutions connect and corkscrew but I haven't been able to connect through the proxy with neither utility. I am getting a forbidden message and if I turn debug option on when using connect, I get something like that:

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

2006-10-26 Thread Brett Serkez
snip Thanks guys for all these informations ... In fact, I have tried both solutions connect and corkscrew but I haven't been able to connect through the proxy with neither utility. I am getting a forbidden message and if I turn debug option on when using connect, I get something like that:

Re: Changing Windows hidden and system attributes?

2006-10-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Lloyd Zusman (Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:31:39 + (UTC)) Aside from using cmd /c attrib, is there a way in cygwin for me to change the Windows hidden or system attributes of a file? Yes, attrib (without the cmd /c) There don't seem to be any extensions to chmod that will accomplish this,

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

2006-10-26 Thread Robert McKay
On 10/26/06, Teggy P Veerapen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks guys for all these informations ... In fact, I have tried both solutions connect and corkscrew but I haven't been able to connect through the proxy with neither utility. I am getting a forbidden message and if I turn debug option

GCC 4.1.1?

2006-10-26 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
I'm sure this is a FAQ, but I didn't see it anywhere on line. How long before GCC 4.1.1 is available in CygWin, and what can we users do to accelerate the progress towards said availability? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

2006-10-26 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Brett Serkez wrote: While this is being addressed as a technical issue, the proxy server is presumably used to implement company policy. While you will likely succeed in circumventing the proxy server, will this put you in violation of company policy? What might the consequences be if a

Re: Updated: lilypond-2.8.7-2

2006-10-26 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: I've made a new version of lilypond available for installation. This is a major new upstream release. For a brief description of this package, and a listing of the files it contains, see http://cygwin.com/packages/lilypond . The project web page has more details:

RE: Problem with Cygwin Installation

2006-10-26 Thread Kenneth Nellis
FWIW, This sounds somewhat like what I reported in http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00139.html although the version numbers probably don't match up. --Ken Nellis -Original Message- From: Champ Mendis [mailto colon c_mendis at hotmail dot com] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Re: [Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fontconfig-2.4.1-1

2006-10-26 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Dr. Volker Zell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All 3 packages Thanks for the detailed report, I'll have a look. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info:

Problem Installing cygwin

2006-10-26 Thread Rukmini Sarvamangala
While installing cygwin,I came across a similar installation error as the one in the mailing list

Does exit code 53 mean missing DLLs?

2006-10-26 Thread Steve Robbins
Hello, I have built a complicated piece of code that depends on several 3rd party libs. When I run it, however, it exits prematurely with no output to stdout nor stderr, no corefile, nothing. But the exit status is always 53. I'm beginning to wonder if this is telling me something ;-)

Re: device drivers - general info

2006-10-26 Thread George Locke
thanks for your reply. the header for the for the external library does exist as source code, eg #include foo.h where foo.h is C++ source code, but the functions aren't defined within that file (just prototyped), and afaik they are not defined anywhere in raw source code format. If that is good

Re: Does exit code 53 mean missing DLLs?

2006-10-26 Thread René Berber
Steve Robbins wrote: I have built a complicated piece of code that depends on several 3rd party libs. When I run it, however, it exits prematurely with no output to stdout nor stderr, no corefile, nothing. But the exit status is always 53. I'm beginning to wonder if this is telling me

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

2006-10-26 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/26/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Brett Serkez wrote: While this is being addressed as a technical issue, the proxy server is presumably used to implement company policy. While you will likely succeed in circumventing the proxy server, will this put you in violation of company

Re: Does exit code 53 mean missing DLLs?

2006-10-26 Thread Steve Robbins
Thank you Rene, for alerting me to cygcheck! It tells me that the DLL I suspected was missing is, indeed, not on the PATH. Once I rectified that, the application works. -Steve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: igncr vs text mode mounts, performance vs compatibility

2006-10-26 Thread Lev Bishop
One additional thing I'd like to say, if people are considering possibly making a decision based off the line ending of the first line of the file: it's worth bearing in mind that it's quite possible for a file to end up with mixed line endings. Most editors are at least smart enough to convert

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-10-26 Thread gdiviney
Yep, I agree whole-heartedly. I ran across this thread because (guess what?) the install package did not deliver this file (and I can only guess which others). I’ve reviewed the thread and, as you note, you were attacked for pointing out the obvious… Apparently, if you’re a Cygwin believer or

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-10-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 04:51:23PM -0700, gdiviney wrote: Yep, I agree whole-heartedly. I ran across this thread because (guess what?) the install package did not deliver this file (and I can only guess which others). I???ve reviewed the thread and, as you note, you were attacked for pointing out

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-10-26 Thread gdiviney
I'm not going to get into a discussion about my assumptions or yours. You have no idea who I am, what I have done or not done to solve this problem, or even if I have solved this problem. You have no idea what forums I have been in, how often I encounter or use Cygwin, or what my level of

Re: Problem Installing cygwin

2006-10-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Rukmini Sarvamangala on 10/26/2006 2:57 PM: After I download and install cygwin I get the following text when I start cygwin: mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such

Re: GCC 4.1.1?

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Prince
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I'm sure this is a FAQ, but I didn't see it anywhere on line. How long before GCC 4.1.1 is available in CygWin, and what can we users do to accelerate the progress towards said availability? Why specifically 4.1.1? 4.2.0 has a lot of advantages. Not many people

Re: device drivers - general info

2006-10-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
George Locke wrote: On 10/25/06, Gary R. Van Sickle g.r.vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net wrote: From: George Locke Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:48 PM Subject: device drivers - general info Hi group, I am running windows 2k with the most recent Cygwin version 1.5.21-1, just

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-10-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
gdiviney wrote: I'm not going to get into a discussion about my assumptions or yours. You have no idea who I am, what I have done or not done to solve this problem, or even if I have solved this problem. You have no idea what forums I have been in, how often I encounter or use Cygwin, or what my

Re: Problem Installing cygwin

2006-10-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/26/2006, Rukmini Sarvamangala wrote: I'm not sure what or why it's trying to do with an h: drive. I have a local c and d drive. You must be using a domain login. According to the domain, your home is H:. If you want to override that, you can simply edit '/etc/passwd' to point to a

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

2006-10-26 Thread Wynfield Henman
ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/corkscrew proxy.domain.com:8080 %h %p The above looks good. ~/.ssh/jrdepriest.auth I don't know about the above, I jus t use id_dsa.pub for cvs access When I run ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED], it automatically invokes the corkscrew command which reads my user

Piping to the 'read' command

2006-10-26 Thread cwmail
Can anyone explain what is happening here (using pdksh as my shell) when I try to set an environment variable using 'read': This works: $ read VAR1 Test1 $ echo VAR1 is $VAR1 VAR1 is Test1 This doesn't work: $ echo Test2 | read VAR2 $ echo VAR2 is $VAR2 VAR2 is This works within the 'while'

autoconf2.5: AC_PATH_XTRA in 2.60

2006-10-26 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles, autoconf-2.60 needs a patch to fix AC_PATH_XTRA (XrmInitialize is defined in libX11, not libXt), see below. Yaakov * START PATCH * - --- libs.m4.orig2006-10-26 22:03:30.12825 -0500 +++ libs.m4 2006-10-26

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

2006-10-26 Thread David Christensen
Marek: Thank you. :-) David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:15 PM To: David Christensen Cc: 'Reini Urban'; pod-people@perl.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'cygwin' Subject: RE: FW: Cygwin Perl bug -- pod2usage(-verbose

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-10-26 Thread gdiviney
Oh, i though otherwise. never mind then :) -g Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: It is not a goal of this project to have these tools be used by the windows community. However, if individuals or groups in this community find the tools useful, it is also not a goal to keep them from using