Re: [ITP] mingw-w64 (32-bit)

2010-09-17 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/16/2010 9:38 AM, JonY wrote: I have uploaded the 32bit toolchain, I hope there are no thinkos when adapting the cygport files. All packages rebuild from source ok. Packaging looks good; I used them to build a working xz and liblzma with no trouble. genini is happy with the setup.hints

Re: [ITP] Onigurama-5.9.2

2010-09-17 Thread David Sastre
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:12:48PM +, Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Gio 16/9/10, David Sastre ha scritto: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:08:54AM +, Marco Atzeri wrote: Hi thinking about packaging slrn I decided to start from its dependency Oniguruma - S-lang - slrn Just

Re: [ITP] Onigurama-5.9.2

2010-09-17 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Ven 17/9/10, David Sastre ha scritto: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:12:48PM David, I guess you are using a patched version of s-lang, but your source is not reachable   cygport slang-2.2.2-1.cygport almostall Preparing slang-2.2.2-1 *** ERROR: Cannot find source package

New package: mingw64-i686-headers-1.0b_svn3433-1

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
Version 1.0b_svn3433-1 of mingw64-i686-headers has been uploaded. mingw64-i686-headers contains headers for Windows development. This package is specifically for the 32bit target toolchain. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the

Re: New package: mingw64-i686-headers-1.0b_svn3433-1

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
Sorry, wrong list, please ignore.

Re: [ITP] mingw-w64 (32-bit)

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
On 9/17/2010 16:17, Charles Wilson wrote: On 9/16/2010 9:38 AM, JonY wrote: I have uploaded the 32bit toolchain, I hope there are no thinkos when adapting the cygport files. All packages rebuild from source ok. Packaging looks good; I used them to build a working xz and liblzma with no

Re: [ITP] mingw-w64 (32-bit)

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 04:17, Charles Wilson wrote: On 9/16/2010 9:38 AM, JonY wrote: I have uploaded the 32bit toolchain, I hope there are no thinkos when adapting the cygport files. All packages rebuild from source ok. Packaging looks good; I used them to build a working xz and liblzma with no

[ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread David Sastre
Hello, Regarding the ITA of these packages, and the proposed patches, I have some thoughts to share and discuss before I repackage them. 1 http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00521.html case sensitivity of system32 dir (win7 and vista) 2 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00503.html

Re: [ITA] ocaml 3.12.0

2010-09-17 Thread Damien Doligez
On 2010-09-13, at 06:12, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: gcc3 is deprecated; distro packages should be built with gcc4, and all Ports packages for Cygwin 1.7 are built with gcc4. So OCaml definitely builds with gcc4. I checked and yes it works. How soon can you rebuild ocaml with gcc4 and

Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:59:32PM +0200, David Sastre wrote: 4 Can we consider this? what are the circular dependencies in that scenario? AFAICT, including base-passwd in base-files, and afterwards dropping base-passwd dependencies anywhere else should be harmless. Unless Corinna disagrees, I'd

Re: [ITP] mingw-w64 (32-bit)

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 10:33, Charles Wilson wrote: On 9/17/2010 7:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: cygwin-pkg-maint? Done. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat

Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 13:59, David Sastre wrote: Hello, Regarding the ITA of these packages, and the proposed patches, I have some thoughts to share and discuss before I repackage them. 1 http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00521.html case sensitivity of system32 dir (win7 and vista) 2

Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread David Sastre
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:50:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 17 13:59, David Sastre wrote: Regarding the ITA of these packages, and the proposed patches, I have some thoughts to share and discuss before I repackage them. 2 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00503.html

Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 18:47, David Sastre wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:50:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: What's wrong with the proposed patch? The only problem I have with it is the fact that it uses tr and sed to find out what shell it's running in. There is probably a way to do this

Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread Andy Koppe
On 17 September 2010 15:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: 5 As stated in the referenced thread, there is no way to prevent attackers to create a user's home dir before she/he logins the first time other than disallowing anyone but the Administrator to do that. If the proposed workaround (issuing a

Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 21:23, Andy Koppe wrote: On 17 September 2010 15:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: 5 As stated in the referenced thread, there is no way to prevent attackers to create a user's home dir before she/he logins the first time other than disallowing anyone but the Administrator to do that.

[RFU] mintty-0.9b1-1

2010-09-17 Thread Andy Koppe
Please upload: wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.9b1-1.tar.bz2 wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.9b1-1-src.tar.bz2 wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.9-beta1/cygport/setup.hint This is a test release. The postinstall/preremove scripts put setup.exe's new

Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread Andy Koppe
On 17 September 2010 21:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 17 21:23, Andy Koppe wrote: On 17 September 2010 15:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: 5 As stated in the referenced thread, there is no way to prevent attackers to create a user's home dir before she/he logins the first time other than

Cygwin X causes system pauses

2010-09-17 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
I have a recurring problem with Cygwin-X. First off, I'm my work laptop is running Win XP SP3. In general, the applications I have open are MS Outlook 2007, RealVNC, and of course xterm/xemacs. X1 (email indexing) runs in the background). I'm running some sort of Norton Enterprise Anti-virus

[Fwd: Fw: res_send() doesn't work with osquery enabled]

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
- Forwarded message from Pierre A. Humblet - Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:43:33 -0400 From: Pierre A. Humblet Subject: Fw: res_send() doesn't work with osquery enabled To: Corinna Vinschen cori...@vinschen.de Corinna, this has not made it to the list so far, not sure why. I am

Re: [Fwd: Fw: res_send() doesn't work with osquery enabled]

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 09:03, Corinna Vinschen wrote: - Forwarded message from Pierre A. Humblet - | Sorry, an earlier answer was rejected due to inappropriate subject. In theory, that should be fixed. | After thinking about it, I don't like mixing calls to the Windows resolver | for

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: Onigurama {libonig2,liboning-devel}-5.9.2

2010-09-17 Thread Marco Atzeri
Hi, Onigurama library is now available for cygwin. The version 5.9.2-1 of libonig2 liboning-devel have been uploaded. DESCRIPTION Oniguruma is a regular expressions library. The characteristics of this library is that different character encoding for every regular expression object can be

Re: Cygwin + Python: unable to remap

2010-09-17 Thread Reini Urban
2010/9/17 Mark Geisert: Al writes: 2010/9/16 Mark Geisert:     cygncurses5.dll = /home/prefix/gentoo/usr/bin/cygncurses5.dll (0x1000) This one is below the sixty million value that Reini described as suspicious. Now what do I make of that. Do I tell it to be loaded elsewhere?

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 16 20:14, Paul McFerrin wrote: Sorry for double posting, went to wrong mailing list!! - Hello: I guess I should have attached my httpd.conf file since I had to make changes in my configuration to avoid more changes.. For the

warning messages while deleting cygwin folder

2010-09-17 Thread bobby_2010
hi, i am trying to completely delete cygwin from my system, as it is taking up too much hard disk space. i followed the instructions at the cygwin.com FAQ by first removing any subscribed services. this worked fine. then, i went on to delete the c:\cygwin folder. but i received 2 warning

cygwin 1.7 / windows2008 R2 : system32 commands not found with cygwin

2010-09-17 Thread sven-eric.berard
Hi, I have windows 2008 R2 servers with cygwin 1.7 installed. When i want to execute the cluster.exe command, I have : seber...@flosapptest02 /cygdrive/c/windows/system32 $ ./cluster res bash: ./cluster: No such file or directory On a DOS prompt the command works.. Then I do a 'ls cluster*' in

Re: Cygwin + Python: unable to remap

2010-09-17 Thread Al
It's not that simple :) rebaseall only rebases the exact dll's which were installed from your packager (setup.exe), but not any other dll's used at run-time - shadowing system dll's as in your case, or added dependencies as with perl or python. Hmmm, that leads to the conclusion, that I

Re: cygwin 1.7 / windows2008 R2 : system32 commands not found with cygwin

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 10:57, sven-eric.ber...@sanofi-aventis.com wrote: Hi, I have windows 2008 R2 servers with cygwin 1.7 installed. When i want to execute the cluster.exe command, I have : seber...@flosapptest02 /cygdrive/c/windows/system32 $ ./cluster res bash: ./cluster: No such file or directory

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread Al
The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would like to take over maintainership. There is an oss freak in Thuringia, currently working out the idea of a common patch repository to bring the DRY principle

On the new mingw64-i686 packages

2010-09-17 Thread Angelo Graziosi
First of all, thanks a lot for having added these packages to Cygwin :-). I have installed gcc-core, gfortran and g++ and want to flag the following. I have a few applications which I compile like this on Cygwin: $ gfortran -O3 -Wall -mwindows foo.f90 bar.cpp -lstdc++ -s -o foobar (notice the

Re: Cygwin + Python: unable to remap

2010-09-17 Thread Jason Tishler
Al, On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:24:10AM +0200, Al wrote: It's not that simple :) rebaseall only rebases the exact dll's which were installed from your packager (setup.exe), but not any other dll's used at run-time - shadowing system dll's as in your case, or added dependencies as with

Re: Cygwin + Python: unable to remap

2010-09-17 Thread Al
The following is the rebaseall command line syntax:    rebaseall [-b BaseAddress] [-o Offset] [-T FileList | -] [-v] where:    -b = base address used by rebase (default: 0x7000)    -o = offset between each DLL rebased (default: 0x1)    -s = specify DLL suffix, use multiple if

Re: On the new mingw64-i686 packages

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
On 9/17/2010 18:48, Angelo Graziosi wrote: First of all, thanks a lot for having added these packages to Cygwin :-). I have installed gcc-core, gfortran and g++ and want to flag the following. I have a few applications which I compile like this on Cygwin: $ gfortran -O3 -Wall -mwindows

AW: [bulk] - Re: Some manpages are missing

2010-09-17 Thread DEWI - N. Zacharias
Moin, Von: Bengt Larsson [] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. September 2010 23:16 Betreff: [bulk] - Re: Some manpages are missing DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: Hi, it seems to me that some manpages are missing: man printf yields the manpage for man 1 printf Actually they are available but

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-i686-headers-1.0b_svn3433-1

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
Version 1.0b_svn3433-1 of mingw64-i686-headers has been uploaded. mingw64-i686-headers contains headers for Windows development. This package is specifically for the 32bit target toolchain. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-i686-runtime-20100809-1

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
Version 20100809-1 of mingw64-i686-runtime has been uploaded. mingw64-i686-runtime provides library to interface with Windows. This package is specifically for the 32bit target toolchain. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-i686-binutils-2.20.51-1

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
Version 2.20.51-1 of mingw64-i686-binutils has been uploaded. mingw64-i686-binutils provides binutils support for the 32bit target toolchain. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-i686-pthreads-20100619-1

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
Version 20100619-1 of mingw64-i686-pthreads has been uploaded. mingw64-i686-pthreads provides 32bit pthreads support. It is used by GCC for OpenMP. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-i686-gcc-4.5.1-1

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
Version 4.5.1-1 of mingw64-i686-gcc has been uploaded. mingw64-i686-gcc contains GCC sources used by the 32bit target toolchain. See mingw64-i686-gcc-core, mingw64-i686-gcc-objc, mingw64-i686-gcc-ada, mingw64-i686-gcc-g++ and mingw64-i686-gcc-fortran for binaries. ***

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: mingw64-i686 cross toolchain

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
The mingw64-i686 cross toolchain set has been uploaded to the Cygwin mirrors. It is used to build 32bit Windows applications and programs. As with all software releases, it may contain bugs, please report bugs to mingw-w64-public [at] lists.sourceforge.net. Notes: Avoid calling the cross

Re: On the new mingw64-i686 packages

2010-09-17 Thread Angelo Graziosi
JonY wrote: It should be in /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll. Yes, I know this... so, if I have understood, we *need* to add, manually, '/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin' to PATH. Right? Perhaps, you have to create a mingw32-stdc++-6.dll to put in /usr/bin

Re: On the new mingw64-i686 packages

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
On 9/17/2010 19:30, Angelo Graziosi wrote: JonY wrote: It should be in /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libstdc++-6.dll. Yes, I know this... so, if I have understood, we *need* to add, manually, '/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin' to PATH. Right? No, its not a good idea IMHO

ccache dependency

2010-09-17 Thread Marco Atzeri
Hi, trying to remove the gcc-3 package I noticed that ccache requires gcc that pulls gcc-3, gcc-mingw-g++, and gcc4. As now we have multiples gcc compilers can we remove the dependency ? Marco PS x cgf : I also noticed that after years of hibernation, ccache is now at 3.x version. --

Re: Cygwin + Python: unable to remap

2010-09-17 Thread Al
The rebase README indicates the following: The following is the rebaseall command line syntax:    rebaseall [-b BaseAddress] [-o Offset] [-T FileList | -] [-v] where:    -b = base address used by rebase (default: 0x7000)    -o = offset between each DLL rebased (default: 0x1)    

simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Al
To rebase I currently have to do the following steps: Open a windows command shell (cmd): P:/cygwin/bin/ash /bin/rebaseall exit exit I wonder if there could be a more simple way, i.e. putting it into a *.bat script and binding it to an task icon. I am thinking of something in this sense:

RE: warning messages while deleting cygwin folder

2010-09-17 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
bobby_2010 sent the following at Friday, September 17, 2010 4:19 AM hi, i am trying to completely delete cygwin from my system, as it is taking up too much hard disk space. i followed the instructions at the cygwin.com FAQ by first removing any subscribed services. this worked fine. then, i went

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
Al wrote: The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would like to take over maintainership. There is an oss freak in Thuringia, currently working out the idea of a common patch repository to bring the

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Al
A second thought. I wonder if reabaseall could be improved to run from within bash, without the need to close down all running windows. Then it could even be included into build scripts to be run after each build. Assuming that those DLL which are up and running typically don't need to be

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread David Rothenberger
On 9/17/2010 12:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would like to take over maintainership. apache2 is a build dependency for subversion, so if you remove it from the

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/17/2010 10:39 AM, Al wrote: A second thought. I wonder if reabaseall could be improved to run from within bash, without the need to close down all running windows. Then it could even be included into build scripts to be run after each build. No, because the DLLs used by bash are OFTEN

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 07:43, David Rothenberger wrote: On 9/17/2010 12:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would like to take over maintainership. apache2 is a build

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread David Rothenberger
On 9/17/2010 8:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 17 07:43, David Rothenberger wrote: On 9/17/2010 12:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would like to take over

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/17/2010 10:50 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 9/17/2010 10:39 AM, Al wrote: A second thought. I wonder if reabaseall could be improved to run from within bash, without the need to close down all running windows. Then it could even be included into build scripts to be run after each build.

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Al
And it invites casual use without understanding the what and why.  This means more people using it for no reason and more problems using it when it is needed because people don't understand the requirements to make it work (i.e. *nobody* will read the readme... wait, there's a readme? ;-) ).

Re: Cygwin + Python: unable to remap

2010-09-17 Thread Jason Tishler
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 02:53:53PM +0200, Al wrote: You just need to use the -T option and specify the addition DLLs to rebase. Thank you very much. You are quite welcome. [snip] To give the future reader of this thread some additional value. I first gave the DLL file itself to the

Re: ssh from linux to cygwin + CUI + Ctrl-C

2010-09-17 Thread Chan Kar Heng
Actually, why do you use cmd? On 2010-09-17 13:58, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 09/16/2010 12:05 PM, Ilia K. wrote: Have you tried to ssh to cygwin, then run cmd.exe (to get a dos prompt) and then press Ctrl-C? Good lord man! Why would I want to do that?!? In my case this terminates cmd.exe and

Unacceptable behavior -- slowing down script execution

2010-09-17 Thread SJ Wright
Hi folks. Through fits and starts, and with no more feedback from the list than Dave Korn's self-admitted wild guess about gcclib1 folders etc, my Cygwin is no longer shedding empty shell stack-dump files like dandruff. But certain things are continuing to alarm me. I'll put them in the form

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/17/2010 12:18 PM, Al wrote: And it invites casual use without understanding the what and why. This means more people using it for no reason and more problems using it when it is needed because people don't understand the requirements to make it work (i.e. *nobody* will read the

Re: Cygwin + Python: unable to remap

2010-09-17 Thread Al
Or, read from stdin as follows:    $ something that generates extra DLL list | rebaseall -T - ... As example, something that gernates extra DLL list looks in my case like this. PREFIX=/home/prefix/gentoo find $PREFIX/bin/ -name *.dll -o -name *.so find $PREFIX/lib/ -name *.dll -o -name *.so

where was mention of what creates NUL files?

2010-09-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
Does anyone recall a mention of what in CygWin (or possibly Emacs) creates files with a simple name of NUL? Thanks, Daniel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: where was mention of what creates NUL files?

2010-09-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/17/2010 11:12 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Does anyone recall a mention of what in CygWin (or possibly Emacs) creates files with a simple name of NUL? Windows automagically maps the file named NUL, in any directory, to the equivalent of Unix' /dev/null. Cygwin doesn't create it, but all

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Al
Hi, I appreciate you take the time to contribute all that information. Hope it is not only red by me. Now, surely that is a lot of hunting around -- but I can only assume that many people did so, since you are apparently the first person to fail to locate the documentation when faced with

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread David Sastre
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 07:38:03PM +0200, Al wrote: Hi, Hello, It's familiar that regular programs have a doc, man etc. It's also familiar that small maintenance scripts don't have. Even your posting has more lines the he rebaseall script itself. So you wouldn't really follow the search

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Al
I guess for many people cygwin is their first contact with a *NIX like environment, but given your previous knowledge in Linux, it could also have been and option to inspect the package contents: cygcheck -l rebase It's not only that many people have in Cygwin their first contact with the

Transfer of installation settings

2010-09-17 Thread Milos Puchta
I have installation of Cygwin that I want to transfer on another computer with Windows 7 operating system on both computers (editions are the same). I would not like to do it item by item. In my understanding setup -P {list of packages} would help, if I have this listBut how to take list of

Re: Transfer of installation settings

2010-09-17 Thread David Sastre
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:02:23PM +0200, Milos Puchta wrote: I have installation of Cygwin that I want to transfer on another computer with Windows 7 operating system on both computers (editions are the same). I would not like to do it item by item. In my understanding setup -P {list of

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread David Sastre
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:01:23PM +0200, Al wrote: I guess for many people cygwin is their first contact with a *NIX like environment, but given your previous knowledge in Linux, it could also have been and option to inspect the package contents: cygcheck -l rebase It's not only that

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:43:42AM +0200, Al wrote: The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would like to take over maintainership. There is an oss freak in Thuringia, currently working out the idea of a

Re: ccache dependency

2010-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:45:16PM +, Marco Atzeri wrote: PS x cgf : I also noticed that after years of hibernation, ccache is now at 3.x version. Yes. I know. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/17/2010 1:38 PM, Al wrote: Hi, I appreciate you take the time to contribute all that information. Hope it is not only red by me. Now, surely that is a lot of hunting around -- but I can only assume that many people did so, since you are apparently the first person to fail to locate the

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:01:23PM +0200, Al wrote: I guess for many people cygwin is their first contact with a *NIX like environment, but given your previous knowledge in Linux, it could also have been and option to inspect the package contents: cygcheck -l rebase It's not only that many

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread Al
A pdf is not going to cause a maintainer to materialize.  Especially when the pdf is unloadable. Hm, I did read it with SumatraPDF. A repository of patches will not create a maintainer directly, but it is more likely that somebody takes up the task, if maintenance becomes more easy and eats

RE: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Bill Ross
This discussion seems to boil down to Someone should add words about rebaseall to the FAQ. -bash-3.2$ /bin/rebaseall --help rebaseall: only ash or dash processes are allowed during rebasing Exit all Cygwin processes and stop all Cygwin services. Execute ash (or dash) from Start/Run...

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Al
This discussion seems to boil down to Someone should add words about rebaseall to the FAQ. If words to the FAQ, then: 1.) a matching header 2.) including link to the readme 3.) including the famous error messages people enter into the search machines: *** fatal error - unable to remap to

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:48:47AM -0700, Bill Ross wrote: This discussion seems to boil down to Someone should add words about rebaseall to the FAQ. -bash-3.2$ /bin/rebaseall --help rebaseall: only ash or dash processes are allowed during rebasing Exit all Cygwin processes and stop all

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:49:04PM +0200, Al wrote: This discussion seems to boil down to Someone should add words about rebaseall to the FAQ. If words to the FAQ, then: 1.) a matching header 2.) including link to the readme 3.) including the famous error messages people enter into the

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread David Rothenberger
On 9/17/2010 8:10 AM, David Rothenberger wrote: On 9/17/2010 8:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 17 07:43, David Rothenberger wrote: On 9/17/2010 12:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. Maybe it's time to pull it from the

Re: Transfer of installation settings

2010-09-17 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 9/17/2010 1:07 PM, David Sastre wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:02:23PM +0200, Milos Puchta wrote: I have installation of Cygwin that I want to transfer on another computer with Windows 7 operating system on both computers (editions are the same). I would not like to do it item by item.

RE: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Bill Ross
-bash-3.2$ /bin/rebaseall --help rebaseall: only ash or dash processes are allowed during rebasing Exit all Cygwin processes and stop all Cygwin services. Execute ash (or dash) from Start/Run... or a cmd or command window. Execute '/bin/rebaseall' from ash (or dash). Maybe

Re: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Al
If that is the only doc to point to, then you are right. Alternatively, the recent archives might point to how hard existing docs are to find. Good doc is availble. Unfortunatly it is badly linked. http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/rebase/rebase-2.4.2.README It's not the first thing you

Re: where was mention of what creates NUL files?

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 11:22, Eric Blake wrote: On 09/17/2010 11:12 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Does anyone recall a mention of what in CygWin (or possibly Emacs) creates finicking It's Cygwin, not CygWin. /finicking files with a simple name of NUL? Windows automagically maps the file named NUL, in any

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 11:55, David Rothenberger wrote: apache2-devel is not needed by subversion if I don't build the apache2 module. I do need to install a native apache2 instance with subversion support in order to test the http support in the client, but I suppose I can do that. So it only makes sense

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread David Rothenberger
On 9/17/2010 12:39 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 17 11:55, David Rothenberger wrote: apache2-devel is not needed by subversion if I don't build the apache2 module. I do need to install a native apache2 instance with subversion support in order to test the http support in the client, but I

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 09:37 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would like to take over maintainership. Apache2 is too important to lose from the distro, so:

Re: Unacceptable behavior -- slowing down script execution

2010-09-17 Thread SJ Wright
SJ Wright wrote: Hi folks. Through fits and starts, and with no more feedback from the list than Dave Korn's self-admitted wild guess about gcclib1 folders etc, my Cygwin is no longer shedding empty shell stack-dump files like dandruff. But certain things are continuing to alarm me. I'll put

Re: Unacceptable behavior -- slowing down script execution

2010-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/17/2010 6:46 PM, SJ Wright wrote: The above message:http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00568.html I have found other messages that discuss the 100% CPU load issue in previous versions of Cygwin. No wonder no one's bothered to answer my questions yet -- evidently one should take it

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread Brian Wilson
The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would like to take over maintainership. Apache2 is too important to lose from the distro, so: I agree. I've been using the Apache2 binaries to run servers

Re: where was mention of what creates NUL files?

2010-09-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
Corinna Vinschen wrote: ... Note: Don't use DOS device names in Cygwin! Wrong: $ echo foo NUL $ echo foo nul $ echo foo nul: Right: $ echo foo /dev/null Yes, I know. I'm not using NUL (or nul or nul:, etc.), but something is. (Now I'm thinking that it's an

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread David Rothenberger
On 9/17/2010 3:16 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 09:37 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would like to take over maintainership. Apache2 is too

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread Stacey Campbell
I gave up on Cygwin apache2 some time ago, but under Windows 7 it had a tendency to crash the system in its default configuration. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00017.html I've been using lighthttp since. Stacey -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: awk gsub problem

2010-09-17 Thread Lee
On 9/16/10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 15 18:30, Lee wrote: I don't know if this is just a problem with the cygwin version of awk, me misunderstanding something or what, but it looks like gsub isn't working correctly in awk: $ sh /tmp/test.awk s= ::0:: should = ::S0:: $ cat

RE: warning messages while deleting cygwin folder

2010-09-17 Thread bobby_2010
thanks, did as you said and nothing seems amiss. Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: bobby_2010 sent the following at Friday, September 17, 2010 4:19 AM hi, i am trying to completely delete cygwin from my system, as it is taking up too much hard disk space. i followed the instructions

git and ssh issue

2010-09-17 Thread Frédéric Bron
using cygwin 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 I have right now an example where I cannot fetch with the following error message: remote: Counting objects: 534, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (210/210), done. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: early EOFs: 39%

New package: Onigurama {libonig2,liboning-devel}-5.9.2

2010-09-17 Thread Marco Atzeri
Hi, Onigurama library is now available for cygwin. The version 5.9.2-1 of libonig2 liboning-devel have been uploaded. DESCRIPTION Oniguruma is a regular expressions library. The characteristics of this library is that different character encoding for every regular expression object can be

New package: mingw64-i686-headers-1.0b_svn3433-1

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
Version 1.0b_svn3433-1 of mingw64-i686-headers has been uploaded. mingw64-i686-headers contains headers for Windows development. This package is specifically for the 32bit target toolchain. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the

New package: mingw64-i686-runtime-20100809-1

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
Version 20100809-1 of mingw64-i686-runtime has been uploaded. mingw64-i686-runtime provides library to interface with Windows. This package is specifically for the 32bit target toolchain. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the

New package: mingw64-i686-gcc-4.5.1-1

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
Version 4.5.1-1 of mingw64-i686-gcc has been uploaded. mingw64-i686-gcc contains GCC sources used by the 32bit target toolchain. See mingw64-i686-gcc-core, mingw64-i686-gcc-objc, mingw64-i686-gcc-ada, mingw64-i686-gcc-g++ and mingw64-i686-gcc-fortran for binaries. ***

New package: mingw64-i686 cross toolchain

2010-09-17 Thread JonY
The mingw64-i686 cross toolchain set has been uploaded to the Cygwin mirrors. It is used to build 32bit Windows applications and programs. As with all software releases, it may contain bugs, please report bugs to mingw-w64-public [at] lists.sourceforge.net. Notes: Avoid calling the cross