Hi list I am fairly new to cygwin and am writing to ask a few questions
about selecting packages when installing cygwin.
My problem I am facing is this.
I am blind, as a result in order to use a computer I use a program called a
screen reader. The screen reader allows me to do most things on
alex wallis wrote:
Hi list I am fairly new to cygwin and am writing to ask a few questions
about selecting packages when installing cygwin.
My problem I am facing is this.
I am blind, as a result in order to use a computer I use a program
called a screen reader.
snip
Fortunately, the
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
Jon TURNEY wrote:
So I guess suspicion first falls that this leak is somewhere in one of
the updated X DLLs...
The question is then, how can we track this down?
This actually turned out to be easier to track down than I thought. Using
process explorer on 'wmaker
2009/1/27 Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk:
Jana Skleničková wrote:
I upgraded to latest (I believe) version of Cygwin (uname
-a=CYGWIN_NT-5.1 my_computer_name 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34
i686 Cygwin) and after that I experience problem running XWin to a
computer running Solaris
Here's a copy of a post I sent previously about Solaris and X server
issues. Could be useful in this context.
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You know, as it so happens, I've been tracking down a solution to a
similar problem I just started experiencing today.
Hi,
I was intrigued by this one, but could not reproduce.
In Xming I got a crash due in -internalwm mode due to a message handler
collision (WM_WM_MAP(2) was shared badly).
I fixed this by adding yet another handler, i.e. WM_WM_MAP3, to give
separation..
This is probably not related.
Thanks
Howdy!
I have a pretty interesting problem, I installed a new version of matlab on
an ubuntu linux box. Two users in my group are using cygwin on their PC's to
connect and export the matlab displays back to their local machines. Both
users are having problems with the Matlab gui; both are
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Charles Wilson wrote:
Right, if I'm building a compiler. I'm not -- although that wasn't very
clear, since the only examply I gave was Danny's incantation for
building gcc, a compiler. Oops.
I'm talking about building, say, ncurses so that
On Jan 27 19:35, Siegmar Gross wrote:
*** Info: Note that the CYGWIN variable must contain at least ntsec
*** Info: for sshd to be able to change user context without password.
*** Query: Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: [ntsec] ntsec tty server
*** ERROR: Only [no] check_case:strict
Hi folks,
I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-39.
Just download http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe and use that setup tool
to install Cygwin 1.7. As usual, please report bugs and problems to
the mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com.
I'm not quite sure I already mentioned that
Hi Chuck,
On Jan 28 11:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 27 19:35, Siegmar Gross wrote:
*** Info: Note that the CYGWIN variable must contain at least ntsec
*** Info: for sshd to be able to change user context without password.
*** Query: Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: [ntsec]
On Jan 28 12:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
What I'm planning to do is this:
- In cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh I would like to drop the
check for the content of CYGWIN entirely.
- In ssh-host-config I'd like to set the default for the CYGWIN settings
to an empty string.
...
Charles Wilson wrote:
Pursuant to a discussion on the libtool list, I'm trying to get a feel
for how many cygwin users rely on the cygwin environment to drive the
*native* MinGW gcc compiler. That is, incantations like this:
snip
I find myself bouncing around between cygwin and mingw because
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:38:47 -0500, Ralph Hempel rhem...@bmts.com wrote:
Charles Wilson wrote:
Pursuant to a discussion on the libtool list, I'm trying to get a feel
for how many cygwin users rely on the cygwin environment to drive the
*native* MinGW gcc compiler. That is, incantations like
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:14:40AM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
Charles Wilson wrote:
This led to a suggestion that --build=cygwin --host=mingw32 should
always be interpreted as: mingw32-gcc is a cygwin-hosted cross
compiler, NOT the native MinGW-project supported gcc (and if it IS the
native
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:05:55PM +0100, Vincent R. wrote:
Actually I am using cygwin because there are many packages, adn a good
installer but I will
switch completely to mingw if I could get the same.
Couldn't be possible to share more things between the two projects ?
I mean for instance
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
What was the exact reason to restrict the input for the CYGWIN settings
in csih? I don't quite understand why a lot of options are disallowed
at all, for instance winsymlinks, ntea, etc.
Inherited from pre-existing code (either old ssh-*-config or exim-config).
IMHO
Hi all,
Someone ran into a problem with sscanf %f conversion on the Lout
list. It appeared that one specific case fails. I am running
cygwin-1.5.25-15. Test cases:
#include stdio.h
int main()
{
char *foo1 = 10i;
char *foo2 = 0i;
char *foo3 = 0.0i;
char *foo4 = 1.0i;
char
Charles Wilson wrote:
Pursuant to a discussion on the libtool list, I'm trying to get a feel
for how many cygwin users rely on the cygwin environment to drive the
*native* MinGW gcc compiler. That is, incantations like this:
1a)
cygwin$ some-src-pkg/configure \
--build=i686-pc-cygwin
Charles Wilson wrote:
Pursuant to a discussion on the libtool list, I'm trying to get a feel
for how many cygwin users rely on the cygwin environment to drive the
*native* MinGW gcc compiler.
- I currently use Cygwin for cross-platform development of software and
firmware.
- I use
On Jan 28 10:17, Charles Wilson wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
What I'm planning to do is this:
- In cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh I would like to drop the
check for the content of CYGWIN entirely.
OK.
Fine. I'll apply a patch at one point today.
- In ssh-host-config
I am hoping that there is a simple fix to this. I am new to cygwin and tinyos
and when running cygwin it immediately runs with this first line 'bash: [:
/home/Chris: binary operator expected'. With this problem I seem to get
errors whenever I try to 'make' anything.
If anyone knows how to fix
I am new and know that I have done something wrong, but haven't been able to
find the solution in the FAQ or archives.
when I type
.\configure
I am getting the
configure: command not found
message.
However, if I type
sh .\configure
it works fine. This happens when trying to install
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:08:24AM -0800, syllk wrote:
I am hoping that there is a simple fix to this. I am new to cygwin and
tinyos and when running cygwin it immediately runs with this first line
'bash: [: /home/Chris: binary operator expected'. With this problem I
seem to get errors whenever
Charles Wilson schrieb:
I just want to get an idea of how many people are currently,
actually, successfully, doing something like 1a) or 1b) above.
I never do serious cross-compiling from or to mingw in a cygwin shell.
When testing mingw I do it from cmd.exe and the mingw toolkit and no
* Bill Klein (Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:40:48 -0600)
I am new and know that I have done something wrong, but haven't been
able to find the solution in the FAQ or archives.
when I type
.\configure
I am getting the
configure: command not found
message.
The path separator on Unix is /. So
From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Thorsten Kampe
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:59 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: New Cygwin install and configure: command not
found installing other packages
* Bill Klein (Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:40:48
Bill Klein wrote:
A) my hope is to use as little shell as possible. I am installing Cygwin
in order to be able to use a specific product that does not (normally)
require shell programming.
B) I am using the commands as they appear in the INSTALL file for the
packages that I am using. (I
I'm forwarding this problem to the newlib list. I checked against
the latest Cygwin from CVS and the problem still exists, afaics.
- Forwarded message from KHMan -
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:19:07 +0800
From: KHMan
Subject: Possible sscanf %f conversion glitch
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Sjors Gielen
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:21 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: New Cygwin install and configure: command not
found installing other packages
snip
That's because when you type
Patch has been made. The vfscanf code to look for inf and nan was
not stopped if we
had only collected zeroes to that point so it thought it was processing
an invalid infinity.
-- Jeff J.
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I'm forwarding this problem to the newlib list. I checked against
the latest
Jeff Johnston wrote:
Patch has been made. The vfscanf code to look for inf and nan was
not stopped if we
had only collected zeroes to that point so it thought it was processing
an invalid infinity.
Thanks.
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I'm forwarding this problem to the newlib list. I checked
Thank you.
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On 2009-01-28 05:28Z, Charles Wilson wrote:
Greg Chicares wrote:
On 2009-01-28 02:21Z, Charles Wilson wrote:
Pursuant to a discussion on the libtool list, I'm trying to get a feel
for how many cygwin users rely on the cygwin environment to drive the
*native* MinGW gcc compiler.
I use the
Charles Wilson wrote:
Pursuant to a discussion on the libtool list, I'm trying to get a feel
for how many cygwin users rely on the cygwin environment to drive the
*native* MinGW gcc compiler. That is, incantations like this:
[snip]
I hope this is considered on-topic here, because I'm
The importlib /usr/lib/w32api/libglut32.a has some problems. Linking
to the dll directly works fine.
$ cat test.c
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include GL/glut.h
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
if(glutInit == NULL) {
printf(glutInit is NULL\n);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
2009/1/28 Reini Urban:
The importlib /usr/lib/w32api/libglut32.a has some problems. Linking
to the dll directly works fine.
$ cat test.c
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include GL/glut.h
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
if(glutInit == NULL) {
printf(glutInit is NULL\n);
Hi,
That makes sense. I changed ENOSHARE to ENOENT throughout.
I upgraded my cygwin 1.7 today, but cygwin+find+UDFS still
reboots my windows 2000 computer. Was the above change
supposed to have solved the problem?
Thank you,
Greg
Greg Sharp
gregsh...@geocities.com
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According to Gregory Sharp on 1/28/2009 4:46 PM:
Hi,
That makes sense. I changed ENOSHARE to ENOENT throughout.
I upgraded my cygwin 1.7 today, but cygwin+find+UDFS still
reboots my windows 2000 computer. Was the above change
supposed to
Greg Chicares wrote:
On 2009-01-28 05:28Z, Charles Wilson wrote:
First, thanks for your detailed response. It was very helpful.
Do you use gnu-style configured projects (autoconf, automake, libtool,
all that?) -- or some other build framework?
Yes. I use autotools to build native versions
Hi folks,
I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-39.
Just download http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe and use that setup tool
to install Cygwin 1.7. As usual, please report bugs and problems to
the mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com.
I'm not quite sure I already mentioned that
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