Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-26 Thread Andy Koppe
On 25 May 2011 16:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 25 09:54, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 25.05.2011 09:43, schrieb Andy Koppe: ... Ah, sorry, I didn't realise that the desktop shortcut at the moment was simply called Cygwin rather than Cygwin Bash Shell. I suppose that could just stay like that

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 08:00, Andy Koppe wrote: On 25 May 2011 16:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 25 09:54, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 25.05.2011 09:43, schrieb Andy Koppe: ... Ah, sorry, I didn't realise that the desktop shortcut at the moment was simply called Cygwin rather than Cygwin Bash Shell.

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-26 Thread Andy Koppe
On 26 May 2011 09:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 08:00, Andy Koppe wrote: On 25 May 2011 16:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 25 09:54, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 25.05.2011 09:43, schrieb Andy Koppe: ... Ah, sorry, I didn't realise that the desktop shortcut at the moment was

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 12:33, Andy Koppe wrote: On 26 May 2011 09:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 08:00, Andy Koppe wrote: - Offer the start menu item creation unless either Console or Terminal is present in the Cygwin folder. If requested, remove Cygwin Bash Shell and create Console and

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-26 Thread Andy Koppe
On 26 May 2011 12:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On a closely related note, there's the issue of the mintty postinstall script. Simply dropping the mintty shortcut creation when setup.exe is changed would mean that the shortcut would disappear without replacement for people updating with a

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 13:09, Andy Koppe wrote: On 26 May 2011 12:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: That begs for the question why the start menu entry isn't managed entirely by mintty's postinstall/preremove scripts.  In theory we can reduce setup to ask for the desktop icon.  The start menu entry is

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-26 Thread Andy Koppe
On 26 May 2011 13:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 13:09, Andy Koppe wrote: On 26 May 2011 12:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: That begs for the question why the start menu entry isn't managed entirely by mintty's postinstall/preremove scripts.  In theory we can reduce setup to ask for the

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog mount.h

2011-05-26 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2011-05-26 19:30:01 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog mount.h Log message: * mount.h (MAX_MOUNTS): Raise to 64. Patches:

Re: Cygwin 1.7.x on Windows 7: Exit statuses of Win32 executables are sometimes wrong

2011-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 29 11:35, John Dong wrote: Hi, Cygwin on Windows 7, seems to exhibit a rather peculiar behavior: Sometimes the exit status of a Win32 process is incorrectly captured by Cygwin. Please: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU [...] int _tmain(int

Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

2011-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 25 22:48, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 25.05.2011 20:05, schrieb Ryan Johnson: On 25/05/2011 12:55 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 25 May 2011 17:13, Ryan Johnson wrote: How do you get mintty to see Liberation Mono? I downloaded the family from redhat, installed it on my w7-x64 machine, made sure

Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)

2011-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote: On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: I guess somebody needs to file a bug with fedorahosted.org, but I didn't see an obvious way to request an account with them. Do you have one by chance? Nope, sorry.

Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote: On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: I guess somebody needs to file a bug with fedorahosted.org, but I didn't see an obvious way to request an account with them. Do

Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)

2011-05-26 Thread KHMan
On 5/26/2011 8:09 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 5/26/2011 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote: On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: I guess somebody needs to file a bug with fedorahosted.org, but I didn't see an

Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)

2011-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 08:09, Charles Wilson wrote: On 5/26/2011 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote: On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: I guess somebody needs to file a bug with fedorahosted.org, but I didn't see an

Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)

2011-05-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 26/05/2011 9:19 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 08:09, Charles Wilson wrote: On 5/26/2011 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote: On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: I guess somebody needs to file a bug with

Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)

2011-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 09:42, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 26/05/2011 9:19 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 08:09, Charles Wilson wrote: On 5/26/2011 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote: On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: I

New to cygwin, trouble using GSL

2011-05-26 Thread Rufus_Darkstar
So, I have recently attempted to install gsl on in cygwin. Here is the output i get from using the make command: http://old.nabble.com/file/p31708242/Untitled.png Untitled.png I'm really not sure what this means. Is there a particular directory I have to compile everything in? Any advice is

Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 9:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 26 09:42, Ryan Johnson wrote: BTW, is there an easy way to get the F14 version of the font http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=liberation-mono-fonts Yep, and then once you have the rpm, you can do this on cygwin: rpm2cpio

Re: IFS not fixing carriage returns

2011-05-26 Thread Luke Kendall
Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com writes: On 03/25/2011 10:35 AM, Tim McDaniel wrote: Although it's not documented in man bash on the latest Cygwin, I did find set -o igncr and it seems to work well. I documented it in the cygwin bash release notes, so it is in

Troubleshooting SSH connection as SYSTEM user.

2011-05-26 Thread Matthew Leonhardt
Hello all, I'm trying to install a service to keep some SSH tunnels alive using the following script: $ cat ssh_tunnel.exe #!/usr/bin/bash while : do /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/netstat -an | grep 192\.168\.0\.1:139 \ | grep LISTENING /dev/null if (( $? )); then /usr/bin/ssh -v -v

Re: New to cygwin, trouble using GSL

2011-05-26 Thread marco atzeri
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Rufus_Darkstar wrote: So, I have recently attempted to install gsl on in cygwin.  Here is the output i get from using the make command: http://old.nabble.com/file/p31708242/Untitled.png Untitled.png I'm really not sure what this means. Is there a particular

Re: Can't talk to X server through ssh tunnel after ~ 18 minutes

2011-05-26 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 26/05/2011 00:47, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 5/25/2011 11:01 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 5/25/2011 12:43 PM, Andrew DeFaria said this: I ssh from my Cygwin box to a Linux machine (happens with Solaris machines too) and I can run X applications back to Cygwin/X without a problem. However,

Re: mintty font test

2011-05-26 Thread Warren Young
On 5/25/2011 7:42 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: FYI: http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/mintty-font-test/ Ok, I redid the screenshots, but this time I made sure to cat the xgraphics file again after changig the font. This is really valuable, Chuck! I'd already independently settled on Deja Vu and

Keyboard problem

2011-05-26 Thread phiroc
Hello, I use an US - International keyboard on my PC. Sometimes, when I switch from cygwin-x-xterm to another Windows application and return to xterm, Alt-K displays an accented e on the terminal instead of clearing the screen, as expected. If Iright-click the top of the cygwin-x-xterm window

help developing a good problem report

2011-05-26 Thread Rance Hall
I've been noticing an issue with cygwin that I find annoying and would like to fix. Ive never submitted a cygwin problem report before so this is a first. My issue now is that I dont actually understand the problem well enough to give a good report. Here is what is happening: I'm using mintty

file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-26 Thread Lee Rothstein
Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option: glob:noignorecase What follows is an edited transcript of my confusion about trying to find the command xwin (and eventual resolution), having forgotten about its capitalization. More specifically, I was trying to figure out if it

Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Lee Rothstein
I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never even been able to install it successfully. I admit it, I'm a dolt. Anybody have the magic beans on this? I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work. Here's some feedback from my last install attempts: --

Re: help developing a good problem report

2011-05-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 26/05/2011 1:10 PM, Rance Hall wrote: I've been noticing an issue with cygwin that I find annoying and would like to fix. Ive never submitted a cygwin problem report before so this is a first. My issue now is that I dont actually understand the problem well enough to give a good report.

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 26/05/2011 2:33 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never even been able to install it successfully. I admit it, I'm a dolt. Anybody have the magic beans on this? I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work. As it happens,

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/26/2011 3:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 26/05/2011 2:33 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never even been able to install it successfully. I admit it, I'm a dolt. Anybody have the magic beans on this? I've tried installing and

Re: help developing a good problem report

2011-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:10:27PM -0500, Rance Hall wrote: I've been noticing an issue with cygwin that I find annoying and would like to fix. Ive never submitted a cygwin problem report before so this is a first. My issue now is that I dont actually understand the problem well enough to give a

Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread sweinberger
Hi, I am using Cygwin 1.7.9-1 on my Windows desktop. I ran into a problem a few weeks ago using the dmake.exe uiliy, wherein dmake wanted the project that I was builing to be not in Linu convetion, but rather in a Windows notation. Since : and \ are not acceptable characters in a Linux path,

Re: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:28:53PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote: Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option: glob:noignorecase What follows is an edited transcript of my confusion about trying to find the command xwin (and eventual resolution), having forgotten about its

Re: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-26 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
On 5/26/2011 3:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:28:53PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote: Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option: glob:noignorecase What follows is an edited transcript of my confusion about trying to find the command xwin (and

Re: Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 3:32 PM, sweinberger wrote: Cygwin is supposed to provide an isolated environment totally shielding applications that run on the inside from even knowing that a Windows anything exists. I don't know where you got that idea. It's perfectly fine to use w32api functions in

Re: Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread sweinberger
Here's your problem: binutils and gcc don't support compiling in the source tree. You need to create a separate, empty build directory *outside* the src directory, and run configure/make in there. I did just that. I downloaded binutils-2.21 and expanded everything into a new empty folder.

Re: Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 4:17 PM, sweinberger wrote: Here's your problem: binutils and gcc don't support compiling in the source tree. You need to create a separate, empty build directory *outside* the src directory, and run configure/make in there. I did just that. I downloaded binutils-2.21

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
tetex is dead and buried. Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says: --- De-support notice I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any more (May 2006). --- In fact, newer (la)tex packages

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread marco atzeri
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: tetex is dead and buried. Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says: --- De-support notice I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any more (May 2006).

Re: Troubleshooting SSH connection as SYSTEM user.

2011-05-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 5/26/2011 11:10 AM, Matthew Leonhardt wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to install a service to keep some SSH tunnels alive using the following script: $ cat ssh_tunnel.exe #!/usr/bin/bash while : do /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/netstat -an | grep 192\.168\.0\.1:139 \ | grep LISTENING

Re: Cygwin and Windows Paths Leaking Through

2011-05-26 Thread sweinberger
Hi Chuck, You are right. I had to create a separate folder, which in my case I used your advice and did /usr/local/build-binutils. I also found out that the reason for my earlier problems with the make file complaining about carriage returns was because I used WinZip to expand the

Re: Troubleshooting SSH connection as SYSTEM user.

2011-05-26 Thread Matthew Leonhardt
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 5/26/2011 11:10 AM, Matthew Leonhardt wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to install a service to keep some SSH tunnels alive using the following script: $ cat ssh_tunnel.exe #!/usr/bin/bash while : do  

rsync, network shares, and soft links

2011-05-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, I'm using rsync to make backups of my laptop to a windows share, and with the -l option it copies over links, but apparently does so as linux-style rather than cygwin-style. When I do it to a local dir, the link is recognized as such and not re-sent: $ cd test; ln -s ../apps; ll; cd

Re: Troubleshooting SSH connection as SYSTEM user.

2011-05-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 5/26/2011 5:46 PM, Matthew Leonhardt wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 5/26/2011 11:10 AM, Matthew Leonhardt wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to install a service to keep some SSH tunnels alive using the following script: $ cat ssh_tunnel.exe

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: tetex is dead and buried. Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says: --- De-support notice I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of

Re: select() hanging after terminal killed

2011-05-26 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 29.04.2010 17:21, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 05:11:00PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 29 12:53, Thomas Wolff wrote: If a terminal gets killed, its tty/pty is not properly closed. This is likely to confuse applications and let them hang, as observed with mined

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Eliot Moss
On 5/26/2011 6:39 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: tetex is dead and buried. Well, hold on there, cowboy. Jan Nieuwenhuizen is listed as the teTeX maintainer for cygwin; I think to proper course is

cmake broken with Cygwin CVS HEAD

2011-05-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
cmake 2.8.4 does not run with Cygwin CVS HEAD, but does with 1.7.9. Please let me know if you need further information to diagnose. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: Can't talk to X server through ssh tunnel after ~ 18 minutes

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 05/26/11 08:39, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 26/05/2011 00:47, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 5/25/2011 11:01 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 5/25/2011 12:43 PM, Andrew DeFaria said this: I ssh from my Cygwin box to a Linux machine (happens with Solaris machines too) and I can run X applications back to

Re: mintty font test

2011-05-26 Thread Andy Koppe
On 26 May 2011 16:53, Warren Young wrote: It might be good if this xgraphics file you have were distributed with mintty in the doc directory, so others can repeat the test on their system with other fonts. It's not mintty-specific and it's not documentation, so no. Find it attached though.

Re: mintty font test

2011-05-26 Thread Andy Koppe
On 27 May 2011 06:26, Andy Koppe wrote: On 26 May 2011 16:53, Warren Young wrote: It might be good if this xgraphics file you have were distributed with mintty in the doc directory, so others can repeat the test on their system with other fonts. It's not mintty-specific and it's not

Re: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 26 15:57, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: On 5/26/2011 3:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:28:53PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote: Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option: glob:noignorecase What follows is an edited transcript of my confusion

Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?

2011-05-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/26/2011 9:13 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: I observe that I installed and use MiKTeX, which is a native Windows TeX/LaTeX, but I call it fine from cygwin scripts and such without difficulty. It was a seamless cutover. Me too. So ... I am not sure that there is any great benefit to a