64-bit Cygwin - Missing packages and mintty issue

2013-09-04 Thread Bogdan
Hi, I've just installed the 64-bit Cygwin port but encountered a few problems. First of all, there seems to be a problem with the mintty package. While it's marked as installed in the setup, /bin/mintty does not exist so I cannot fire up the terminal. I suspect the package has not been

Re: 64-bit Cygwin - Missing packages and mintty issue

2013-09-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 11:07:07PM -0700, Bogdan wrote: Hi, I've just installed the 64-bit Cygwin port but encountered a few problems. First of all, there seems to be a problem with the mintty package. While it's marked as installed in the setup, /bin/mintty does not exist so I cannot fire up

Re: 64-bit Cygwin - Missing packages and mintty issue

2013-09-04 Thread marco atzeri
Il 9/4/2013 8:07 AM, Bogdan ha scritto: Hi, I've just installed the 64-bit Cygwin port but encountered a few problems. wrong mailing list for problems use cygwin (at) cygwin.com First of all, there seems to be a problem with the mintty package. While it's marked as installed in the setup,

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2013-09-04 Thread Iade

RE: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-04 Thread Jim Garrison
Am I missing something, or is there a reason one would want to run a Linux emulator under a Windows emulator on Linux?

abort: address space needed by 'cygXcursor-1.dll ... is already occupied

2013-09-04 Thread Septimus Stevens
I'm novice but stumbled into a configuration that works OK for me. I type 'startx' and get an X environment with three xterms. Yesterday I meant to type 'cat Foo Bar' but accidentally left off the ''. Foo was a binary file and that xterm became unusable. Today I type 'xstart' and get only two

Re: abort: address space needed by 'cygXcursor-1.dll ... is already occupied

2013-09-04 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On 4 September 2013 15:19, Septimus Stevens wrote: I'm novice but stumbled into a configuration that works OK for me. I type 'startx' and get an X environment with three xterms. Yesterday I meant to type 'cat Foo Bar' but accidentally left off the ''. Foo was a binary file and that xterm

Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 03:36:46PM +, Jim Garrison wrote: Am I missing something, or is there a reason one would want to run a Linux emulator under a Windows emulator on Linux? That is the question I've been asking for years. Someone always has an answer but I'm never been convinced that it

Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-04 Thread Warren Young
On 9/4/2013 09:36, Jim Garrison wrote: Am I missing something, or is there a reason one would want to run a Linux emulator under a Windows emulator on Linux? For myself, it is occasionally nice to have a Cygwin sandbox environment to play with when I'm on one of my Macs, away from a Windows

config.guess and config.sub older than new Cygwin64

2013-09-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
Just a note to those of you using Cygwin64 to build packages. You will need to most likely replace the config.guess and config.sub files in those packages with newer ones from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/ because it won't guess your system correctly. Twice now I've seen on config-patches a

Re: config.guess and config.sub older than new Cygwin64

2013-09-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/4/2013 5:43 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: Just a note to those of you using Cygwin64 to build packages. You will need to most likely replace the config.guess and config.sub files in those packages with newer ones from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/ because it won't guess your system correctly.

Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 9/4/2013 09:36, Jim Garrison wrote: Am I missing something, or is there a reason one would want to run a Linux emulator under a Windows emulator on Linux? For myself, it is occasionally nice to have a Cygwin sandbox environment to play

rsync failing to see drive path

2013-09-04 Thread Mike Cappella
Hi Folks, I'm trying to use rsync on a USB (fat) drive, but it fails on the cygdrive path: $ rsync --dry-run --delete -uvxhir /cydrive/m/Music Converted /cygdrive/G/ sending incremental file list rsync: change_dir /cydrive/m failed: No such file or directory (2) and I'm not sure why as it

Re: config.guess and config.sub older than new Cygwin64

2013-09-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2013-09-04 17:13, Charles Wilson wrote: On 9/4/2013 5:43 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: Just a note to those of you using Cygwin64 to build packages. You will need to most likely replace the config.guess and config.sub files in those packages with newer ones from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/

Bad feeling

2013-09-04 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
http://cygwin.com welcomes us with a: Cygwin Get that Linux feeling - on Windows! Really? *Linux*?? Where's the kernel??? Please, replace it by: Get that GNU feeling - on Windows! See: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html

Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 03:26:10PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: This bug could well be Wine's, rather than Cygwin's. Wine can always play the It's not documented to work that way card but the bottom line is still that it is not a platform that we are interested in devoting time to. cgf -- Problem

Re: rsync failing to see drive path

2013-09-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 03:41:04PM -0700, Mike Cappella wrote: Hi Folks, I'm trying to use rsync on a USB (fat) drive, but it fails on the cygdrive path: $ rsync --dry-run --delete -uvxhir /cydrive/m/Music Converted /cygdrive/G/ sending incremental file list rsync: change_dir /cydrive/m failed:

Re: Bad feeling

2013-09-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 12:58:19AM +0200, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: http://cygwin.com welcomes us with a: Cygwin Get that Linux feeling - on Windows! Really? *Linux*?? Where's the kernel??? Please, replace it by: Get that GNU feeling - on Windows! See:

Re: config.guess and config.sub older than new Cygwin64

2013-09-04 Thread Robert McBroom
On 9/4/2013 6:13 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 9/4/2013 5:43 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: Just a note to those of you using Cygwin64 to build packages. You will need to most likely replace the config.guess and config.sub files in those packages with newer ones from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/

Re: Fwd: Re: Trying to build rxvt on Cygwin64.

2013-09-04 Thread Robert McBroom
On 9/2/2013 5:23 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: Are you using the -src package from the cygwin mirrors, and the cygport script? The rxvt shipped by cygwin has been heavily patched from upstream to support our (32bit) platform; at *minimum* you will need those patches to build the 64 bit version.

Re: config.guess and config.sub older than new Cygwin64

2013-09-04 Thread Robert McBroom
On 9/4/2013 6:44 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2013-09-04 17:13, Charles Wilson wrote: On 9/4/2013 5:43 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: Just a note to those of you using Cygwin64 to build packages. You will need to most likely replace the config.guess and config.sub files in those packages with

Re: rsync failing to see drive path

2013-09-04 Thread Robert McBroom
On 9/4/2013 6:41 PM, Mike Cappella wrote: Hi Folks, I'm trying to use rsync on a USB (fat) drive, but it fails on the cygdrive path: $ rsync --dry-run --delete -uvxhir /cydrive/m/Music Converted /cygdrive/G/ sending incremental file list rsync: change_dir /cydrive/m failed: No such file or

Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-04 Thread Warren Young
On 9/4/2013 15:54, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Warren Young wrote: Wine is cheaper than a VM in terms of hardware requirements and licensing. You must have some very expensive hardware. I figure a VM costs me $25-50 in RAM and SSD space. Because it's not a full OS,

Python enabled gdb? (for pretty printing stl containers)

2013-09-04 Thread manuel gonzález
The latest version of cygwin and the included gdb (x64, win7) says it is not python enabled, yet many IDEs require a python enabled gdb to pretty-print the contents of stl vectors. Is there a way to get such a version of gdb or has this been solved some other way? Have been reading and trying