[RFU 1.5 and 1.7] subversion-1.6.5-1 and -2

2009-08-28 Thread David Rothenberger
Please leave the latest 1.6.4 release as previous. 1.5 --- wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/subversion/setup.hint \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/subversion/subversion-1.6.5-1-src.tar.bz2 \

Subject: [RFU 1.7] flac-1.2.1-2

2009-08-28 Thread David Rothenberger
wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/flac/flac-1.2.1-2-src.tar.bz2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/flac/flac-1.2.1-2.tar.bz2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/flac/setup.hint \

Re: Subject: [RFU 1.7] flac-1.2.1-2

2009-08-28 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/28/2009 10:02 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/flac/flac-1.2.1-2-src.tar.bz2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/flac/flac-1.2.1-2.tar.bz2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/flac/setup.hint \

Re: [RFU 1.7] flac-1.2.1-2

2009-08-28 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/28/2009 10:02 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/flac/flac-1.2.1-2-src.tar.bz2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/flac/flac-1.2.1-2.tar.bz2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/flac/setup.hint \

Ping: [RFU 1.5] task-1.8.1-1

2009-08-28 Thread Federico Hernandez
Ping? - A new version of task has been release. Please upload. --- wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=3 \ http://taskwarrior.org/download/cygwin15/task/setup.hint \ http://taskwarrior.org/download/cygwin15/task/task-1.8.1-1.tar.bz2 \

Problems starting rxvt from startxwin.bat

2009-08-28 Thread Jose Luis
Hi, I can start xterm from startxwin.bat: %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l but no rxvt: %RUN% rxvt -bg white -fg black -e /bin/bash although it can be started from command line: jlfd...@jlfdiazwxp ~ $ rxvt -bg white -fg black -e /bin/bash Why does

RE: Automatically positioned mouse movements are off target

2009-08-28 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree- ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Brian Sheppard I am testing a Java application using a tool called Abbot. Abbot launches your Java Swing app within Abbot’s JVM. Abbot reads the coordinates of Swing components from internal Java

Re: [1.7] On checkX

2009-08-28 Thread Charles Wilson
[Redirecting to cygwin-xfree; Reply-To set] Angelo Graziosi wrote: /usr/bin/checkX || start_XWin [...] Now, it happens that, often (perhaps always), if the x-server is not running, then checkX stackdumps, in the sense I find checkX.exe.stackdump in HOME, but it is empty! 0 bytes. What

Re: [1.7] On checkX

2009-08-28 Thread Charles Wilson
[redirecting, AGAIN, to cygwin-xfree. This is OT for the main cygwin list] Unfortunately, I can't reproduce. Try running checkX with (progressively): --no-silent --verbose --debug --debug=2 --debug=3 --debug=4 this should help to narrow down how far it gets (and perhaps why) before

[1.7] Admins can write to readonly files

2009-08-28 Thread Christian Franke
For members of Admin group, Cygwin 1.7 allows to overwrite files without write permission, but Cygwin 1.5 does not. Is this a intended change of 1.7 ? I would suggest to add a note to http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html Testcase (WinXP SP2 and 3, Cygwin 1.7.0-60): $ touch foo

Re: [1.7] Admins can write to readonly files

2009-08-28 Thread Dave Korn
Christian Franke wrote: For members of Admin group, Cygwin 1.7 allows to overwrite files without write permission, but Cygwin 1.5 does not. You are the root user, this is Unix. Of course you can overwrite files without write permission. Is this a intended change of 1.7 ? Yep, think so.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {glpk,libglpk0,libglpk-devel}-4.39-1

2009-08-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version 4.39-1 of glpk,libglpk0,libglpk-devel have been uploaded for cygwin-1.7. The GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) package is intended for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems. It is a set of routines written in ANSI C and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {libhdf5_0,libhdf5-devel,hdf5}-1.6.9-1

2009-08-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version {libhdf5_0,libhdf5-devel,hdf5}-1.6.9-1 for cygwin-1.7 have been uploaded. DESCRIPTION HDF5 is a suite/library that makes possible the management of extremely large and complex data collections. HOMEPAGE http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/ CHANGES This is a new bugfix upstream relase. For

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {fftw3,fftw3-doc,libfftw3-devel,libfftw3_3}-3.2.2-1

2009-08-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
Versions 3.2.2-1 of fftw3, fftw3-doc ,libfftw3-devel, libfftw3_3 have been uploaded for cygwin-1.7. DESCRIPTION FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions. HOMEPAGE http://www.fftw.org/ CHANGES This is a new bugfix and performance

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: GraphicsMagick-1.3.6-1

2009-08-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version 1.3.6-1 of GraphicsMagick libGraphicsMagick-devel libGraphicsMagick3 perl-Graphics-Magick have been uploaded for cygwin-1.7 DESCRIPTION GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing. It provides a robust and efficient collection of tools and libraries which

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {octave,octave-devel,octave-doc}-3.2.1-0

2009-08-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
New versions of {octave,octave-devel,octave-doc}-3.2.2-1 for cygwin-1.7 are available in the Cygwin distribution: This is a minor bugfix relase versus previous 3.2.0-2 For all the main changes http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-3.2.html DESCRIPTION The GNU Octave language for numerical

Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile

2009-08-28 Thread ken j
Hi, I am a COMPLETE newby at programming but am trying hard to get as far as I can on my own. I have installed Cygwin, with the gcc compiler package, and it all seems to be working OK. I'm using the 'Hello World' sample program used in the tutorial at cplusplus.com - code is as follows: // my

Re: Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile

2009-08-28 Thread Mark J. Reed
You named your program with a .c and ran gcc on it. Both of those mean C, which is a different language from C++. A C++ compiler will compile a C program, but not the other way around. Rename your file to end in .cc, .c++, .cpp, or .cxx, your choice (or capital .C if you have case sensitivity

Re: Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile

2009-08-28 Thread ken j
That was it - using g++ as the compiler and changing the file name to .cpp The executable file was placed in my cygwin/home/username folder. Do I have to specify that folder in the set path variable for Cygwin to see it? I'm not entirely clear on this issue. I really appreciate the help! Ken

Re: Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile

2009-08-28 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:51 AM, ken j wrote: That was it - using g++ as the compiler and changing the file name to .cpp The executable file was placed in my cygwin/home/username folder. Do I have to specify that folder in the set path variable for Cygwin to see it? I'm not entirely clear on

Re: Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile

2009-08-28 Thread Matthias Andree
ken j schrieb: Hi, I am a COMPLETE newby at programming but am trying hard to get as far as I can on my own. I have installed Cygwin, with the gcc compiler package, and it all seems to be working OK. I'm using the 'Hello World' sample program used in the tutorial at cplusplus.com - code is as

Trying to make a proper CYGWIN build for Apache 2.2.13

2009-08-28 Thread Jeffrey C. Jacobs
I've hacked the Apache 2.2.6 source to make it match Apache 2.2.13, updated the patch file and am trying now to build using the template of the 2.2.6 patch. When I build Apache using the updated apache2-2.2.13-1.sh script, I can get through most phases of the build but when I get to the the

Re: Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile

2009-08-28 Thread ken j
OK that helps. I'm new to Linux/Unix but I have some experience with DOS and batch files, etc. Some things in Cygwin don't follow the same conventions as DOS (or a DOSBox), obviously, like for example in DOS if an exe file is in the directory you are in, you can just type the file name and it

Re: Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile

2009-08-28 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:34 AM, ken j wrote: BTW I've found that I do NOT need to type './' but rather only '/' to get an exe file to run in Cygwin. That's only true if the executable is in the root directory (c:\cygwin in Windows, / in Cygwin). Also, all of my compiled executables go to

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-28 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Have we arrived at the end of the thread yet? You know who else liked Usenet better than mailing lists? HITLER! There. Thread over. :) -- Mark J. Reed markjr...@gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

1.7: cygrunsrv and google desktop search (was: cygrunsrv will not start services most of the time)

2009-08-28 Thread Jonathan Manning
I've been tearing my hair out for weeks trying to get sshd running again after it stopped working. Came across this old thread on cygwin discuss from 3/26/09 describing the same problem but no resolution. I finally found a fix, so I'm posting it here for the record in case it helps others. (And

unlink()/rmdir() on busy file on MVFS

2009-08-28 Thread Eric Blake
I noticed this inconsistency: shell 1: $ df -T /cygdrive/[mu] FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on M:mvfs 1024000512000512000 50% /cygdrive/m U: smbfs83886080 76761088 7124992 92% /cygdrive/u $ cd /cygdrive/u $ mkdir dir $

Re: BitDefender again

2009-08-28 Thread Wilfried
Michael Kairys kai...@comcast.net wrote: (3) http://www.f-prot.com Thanks for the suggestion... Seems some reviews give them low marks on detection rates: http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/RAP/RAP-quadrant-Feb-Aug09.jpg http://www.virus-centre.com/ ... and some low marks on features (19

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Mark J. Reed wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Have we arrived at the end of the thread yet? You know who else liked Usenet better than mailing lists? HITLER! There. Thread over. :) Actually Hitler preferred the Enigma machine! There - *NOW* the thread's

Re: 1.7: cygrunsrv and google desktop search (was: cygrunsrv will not start services most of the time)

2009-08-28 Thread Dave Korn
Jonathan Manning wrote: I've been tearing my hair out for weeks trying to get sshd running again after it stopped working. Came across this old thread on cygwin discuss from 3/26/09 describing the same problem but no resolution. Cause: Google Desktop Search's AppInit_DLL. This injects their

Re: Cygwin, symlinks, and wine

2009-08-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/28/2009 01:36 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:31:11AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:52:26PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: Although it seems strange to run cygwin on top of wine, doing so would make it possible to run a lot of build scripts

Re: Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile

2009-08-28 Thread ken j
Mark J. Reed wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:34 AM, ken j wrote: BTW I've found that I do NOT need to type './' but rather only '/' to get an exe file to run in Cygwin. That's only true if the executable is in the root directory (c:\cygwin in Windows, / in Cygwin). OK I see that now -

Re: Cygwin, symlinks, and wine

2009-08-28 Thread Dan Kegel
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: This leads me to believe the best course of action is to solve this problem in Wine and/or through  Unix/Linux means, rather than relying on patches to the apps running in Wine. I tend to agree. I'm

Re: Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile

2009-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 09:42:57AM -0700, ken j wrote: Mark J. Reed wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:34 AM, ken j wrote: BTW I've found that I do NOT need to type './' but rather only '/' to get an exe file to run in Cygwin. That's only true if the executable is in the root directory

Re: Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile

2009-08-28 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-08-28, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm not seeing a whole-lot of cygwin-specific issues here. The cygwin list is not here to help people get up to speed on how to program or how to use UNIX. I've been hoping that I won't have to step in and be mean but I would appreciate it if you

Re: Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile

2009-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:05:50AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-28, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm not seeing a whole-lot of cygwin-specific issues here. The cygwin list is not here to help people get up to speed on how to program or how to use UNIX. I've been hoping that I won't have to

Re: [1.7] Admins can write to readonly files

2009-08-28 Thread Christian Franke
Dave Korn wrote: Christian Franke wrote: For members of Admin group, Cygwin 1.7 allows to overwrite files without write permission, but Cygwin 1.5 does not. You are the root user, this is Unix. Of course you can overwrite files without write permission. This is not true when

Re: unlink()/rmdir() on busy file on MVFS

2009-08-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 28 14:59, Eric Blake wrote: shell 2: $ ls ls: cannot open directory .: Permission denied $ cd .. shell 1: $ ls -d dir ls: cannot access dir: No such file or directory Yes, the file and directory are being closed when the last client closes its handles, but it leads to

Re: Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile

2009-08-28 Thread ken j
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: I've been hoping that I won't have to step in and be mean but I would appreciate it if you would find some other forum for working out your beginner programming issues. Sorry for pursuing a meaningful dialogue with a helpful fellow user in the wrong space.

Re: [1.7] Admins can write to readonly files

2009-08-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 28 19:57, Christian Franke wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Christian Franke wrote: For members of Admin group, Cygwin 1.7 allows to overwrite files without write permission, but Cygwin 1.5 does not. You are the root user, this is Unix. Of course you can overwrite files without

Re: Adding packages (was: mkfs.jffs2 support in CYGWIN)

2009-08-28 Thread Andy Koppe
Larry Hall: Adding a link to http://cygwin.com/setup.exe shouldn't be allot of work and may help if the menu was properly named. Good idea. I'll throw a name into the ring: Cygwin package manager.  Beyond that requires significant changes to 'setup.exe' What would be needed beyond the

Re: [1.7] Admins can write to readonly files

2009-08-28 Thread Christian Franke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 28 19:57, Christian Franke wrote: This is not true when 'chmod -w ...' was done before the upgrade to 1.7. Cygwin 1.5 sets R/O attribute, then open for write fails with permission denied also on 1.7. That's why 1.7 tries not to set the R/O DOS

Re: Adding packages

2009-08-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/28/2009 02:55 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: Larry Hall: Adding a link tohttp://cygwin.com/setup.exe shouldn't be allot of work and may help if the menu was properly named. Good idea. I'll throw a name into the ring: Cygwin package manager. While I personally would think that's fine, I'm not

Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows

2009-08-28 Thread jprice
I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos prompt or some other comparable method. This method needs to be automated and kicked off in Windows at certain times, so executing Cygwin, then manually typing in the script to run in the Cygwin prompt is out of the question. I

Re: Cannot get 'Hello World' to compile

2009-08-28 Thread Dave Korn
ken j wrote: Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: I've been hoping that I won't have to step in and be mean but I would appreciate it if you would find some other forum for working out your beginner programming issues. Sorry for pursuing a meaningful dialogue with a helpful fellow user in the

RE: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows

2009-08-28 Thread Mike Marchywka
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:04:44 -0700 From: ddjo...@gmail.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos prompt or some other comparable method.

Re: Adding packages

2009-08-28 Thread Dave Korn
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 08/28/2009 02:55 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: Larry Hall: Adding a link tohttp://cygwin.com/setup.exe shouldn't be allot of work and may help if the menu was properly named. Good idea. I'll throw a name into the ring: Cygwin package manager. While I personally

Re: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows

2009-08-28 Thread Jeremy Bopp
jprice wrote: I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos prompt or some other comparable method. This method needs to be automated and kicked off in Windows at certain times, so executing Cygwin, then manually typing in the script to run in the Cygwin prompt is out of

RE: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows

2009-08-28 Thread jprice
Mike Marchywka-2 wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:04:44 -0700 From: ddjo...@gmail.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos prompt or some

RE: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows

2009-08-28 Thread David Christensen
jprice wrote: I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos prompt or some other comparable method. I was hoping there would be some way to ... feed it a string of commands to execute upon opening I wrote a Bash/ Perl backup/ archive/ shutdown solution for my Windows/

Re: Adding packages

2009-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 03:27:27PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 08/28/2009 02:55 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: which would require some volunteer effort to make it happen. Don't think I've got spare cycles to commit, unfortunately. Yes, this is a common problem and a recurring theme. I

Re: [1.7] On the problems of git and rsync

2009-08-28 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: Perhaps the following can be useful for others... Referring to [1], I encounter similar problems with git, i.e. it hangs on Cygwin-1.7. These problems, of rsync and git, are solved adding them to the exclusions of NOD32. Gulp!! +xdvi-xaw ...otherwise it does

[1.7] On checkX

2009-08-28 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Just for completeness... I have a few scripts containing the following code: [...] start_XWin() { # Cleanup from last run. rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error } /usr/bin/checkX || start_XWin [...] Now, it happens that, often (perhaps always), if

Re: [1.7] On checkX

2009-08-28 Thread Charles Wilson
[Redirecting to cygwin-xfree; Reply-To set] Angelo Graziosi wrote: /usr/bin/checkX || start_XWin [...] Now, it happens that, often (perhaps always), if the x-server is not running, then checkX stackdumps, in the sense I find checkX.exe.stackdump in HOME, but it is empty! 0 bytes. What

Re: [1.7] On checkX

2009-08-28 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Charles Wilson wrote: What version of checkX.exe? Obviously the current, 'run2' and 'cygwin', packages: $ cygcheck -cd checkx run2 Cygwin Package Information Package Version run2 0.3.0-1 $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 homepc 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-08-20 10:56 i686

Re: [1.7] On checkX

2009-08-28 Thread Charles Wilson
[redirecting, AGAIN, to cygwin-xfree. This is OT for the main cygwin list] Unfortunately, I can't reproduce. Try running checkX with (progressively): --no-silent --verbose --debug --debug=2 --debug=3 --debug=4 this should help to narrow down how far it gets (and perhaps why) before

Re: BitDefender again

2009-08-28 Thread Joe Smith
Michael Kairys kai...@comcast.net wrote in message news:h73co7$tt...@ger.gmane.org... Thanks for the replies... the suggestion to use a base address in the 0x3500 area (or indeed any of the others they mentioned) is going to horribly frag your heap and bork your maximum allocatable

Re: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows

2009-08-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
jprice wrote: I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos prompt or some other comparable method. This method needs to be automated and kicked off in Windows at certain times, so executing Cygwin, then manually typing in the script to run in the Cygwin prompt is out

[1.7] Updated: {libhdf5_0,libhdf5-devel,hdf5}-1.6.9-1

2009-08-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version {libhdf5_0,libhdf5-devel,hdf5}-1.6.9-1 for cygwin-1.7 have been uploaded. DESCRIPTION HDF5 is a suite/library that makes possible the management of extremely large and complex data collections. HOMEPAGE http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/ CHANGES This is a new bugfix upstream relase. For

[1.7] Updated: GraphicsMagick-1.3.6-1

2009-08-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version 1.3.6-1 of GraphicsMagick libGraphicsMagick-devel libGraphicsMagick3 perl-Graphics-Magick have been uploaded for cygwin-1.7 DESCRIPTION GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing. It provides a robust and efficient collection of tools and libraries which