Re: ps weirdness...

2013-10-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/24/2013 6:03 AM, Anthony Geoghegan wrote: I was intrigued by Jeff's post so I tried a couple of experiments of my own and was able to duplicate the same behaviour - including the bash process being shown as a Windows process -

Re: ERRORLEVEL not returning to Cygwin shell

2013-10-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) On 10/11/2013 8:27 AM, paul hermeneutic wrote: I am using CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PAC047922 1.7.25(0.270/5/3) 2013-08-31 20:39 i686 Cygwin An exit code returned by a DOS batch file does not seem to be coming back

Re: Tried to remove cygdrive prefix, ended up lost in my filesystem

2013-10-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Diego Mesa wrote: I tried removing the first line, but still appear in some no mands land directory: :cat /et/fstab # For a description of the file format, see the Users Guide # http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table Seems the

Re: Running setup-x86_64.exe without admin privileges

2013-09-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Am 24.09.2013 23:49, schrieb Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]: Trying to compress it with upx failed with an error message: upx: setup-x86-64.exe: CantPackException: can't pack new-exe So others are using mpress instead.

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

2013-09-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 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

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

2013-09-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 05/09/2013 8:08 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 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

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: 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

Re: Why are the 32- and 64-bit cygwin1.dlls incompatible?

2013-08-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I was having a private chat with Corinna about this. Her doubts above mirror mine. I wonder if this will add to the traffic from people who, e.g., expect their java apps to understand Cygwin ptys. Now we will have people who don't

Re: .tar.xz for snapshots?

2013-08-23 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:29:03AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: Corinna, would you please consider moving to .tar.xz for snapshots? --8-- Poll: Does anyone care if we move from bz2 to xz for snapshots? FYI, MinGW.org uses lzma format

Re: Why are the 32- and 64-bit cygwin1.dlls incompatible?

2013-08-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: When execveing a Cygwin process, a lot of data is submitted via shared memory, via data copying, and via a special parameter to the CreateProcess call with the mysterious name lpReserved2. One problem is the differences in basic

Re: Source a .bat file from bash

2013-08-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Csaba Raduly rcs...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Saurabh, On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Saurabh T wrote: Is there a way to source a .bat file from bash and have the paths and other environment variables set in it apply in cygwin? Note that to source in UNIX

Re: Source a .bat file from bash

2013-08-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Csaba Raduly rcs...@.xxx wrote: Sorry, for feeding spammers. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

Re: Redirecting cat and paste to file gives garbage

2013-08-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: Indeed, I generally try to redirect my cat away from ANY paste! Name your cat doc and then just call to it like cat heredoc food heredoc -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports:

Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...)

2013-08-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: Hello Linda, It seems to be the only reliable 32-bit redirection -- and MS chose to put it in the /windows dir... so they must want customers to put anything needing that feature in that dir...right?? ;-) Oi... Absolutely not what MS

Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...)

2013-08-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Earnie Boyd wrote: However you the user have a choice of where to put things. Frankly, I would use /cygwin and /cygwin32 And how does that get you the autoredirection I suggested with the links in Windows/syswow64

Re: Mingw build problem for TCL

2013-07-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 19 11:47, Jonathan Kelly wrote: Hi, sorry if this isn't the correct place. I have previously used the mingw-* packages to create a Windows compile of tcl8.6.0, but currently it doesn't work. It compiles without error as far as I

Re: mingw.org cross compiler [Was: problem with cvs binary?]

2013-07-16 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 7/16/2013 9:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Are the mingw cross compilers still necessary, now that we have modern mingw-w64 toolchains? On Fedora they aren't shipped since F17, which already came with mingw-w64 toolchains either.

Re: Problems with patch

2013-06-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 7:13 AM, marco atzeri wrote: Il 6/27/2013 12:49 PM, Alexey Pavlov ha scritto: Prereq: Having two files with the same name in directory. One file without extension, second with .exe. For example: configure and configure.exe. I want patch configure. During patch

Re: cygwin1.dll was not found

2013-06-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/6/25 2:25 AM, marco atzeri wrote: cygwin package is missing, nothing will work without it I'm afraid I don't know what that means. What should I install? What should I look for? Where should I look? When I find it, where would I

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Using another build system doesn't mean you can't switch to the better one. That depends on one's view of better and Chris already believes he uses the better one. That is why is refuses to use something else. -- Earnie --

Re: Using cygpath with backticks

2013-06-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Matt D. wrote: Maybe I've just had a long week but I can't seem to get this to work: alias pathw='echo `cygpath -w $@`' I think all you want is alias pathw='cygpath -w' pathw /cygdrive/g/ The result of this will then be G:\ -- Earnie --

Re: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin

2013-06-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: I assume that, eventually and as-needed, a *small* number of additional hooks could be added to other code paths than exec/spawn/etc -- such as the aforementioned uname(3) thing. (One of the deltas between cygwin and msys was msys used a

Re: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin

2013-06-19 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Алексей Павлов wrote: I want to add MSYS functionality to Cygwin. One issue with that would be copyright assignment. Alexey has been in the MSYS code so someone who hasn't looked would need to implement similar functionality. -- Earnie --

Re: UNC and POSIX paths

2013-06-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: And, it nontrivially complicates path handling since we'd have to make decisions about whether to honor // or not. I'd suggest using /// for UNC, dropping exactly one / if FILEPATH[0] and FILEPATH[1] is equal to /. -- Earnie --

Invalid link on acronym page

2013-06-16 Thread Earnie Boyd
The link to the list of Big List Of Dodgy Apps is invalid and no longer directs correctly. http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda should become http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports:

Re: Patch for shutdown

2013-05-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: At the other hand, IMHO, Windows .bat scripts are never run from wihin bash, and vice versa, UNIX .sh scripts are never run from within cmd.exe... I do this. Create a null (native, i.e. non-cygwin) program named #! and put it in PATH.

Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories

2013-05-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 17 16:45, Warren Young wrote: On 5/17/2013 12:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is that ENOFEL or EFLOCK? It depends. ENOFEL is the BSD way, but POSIX standardized the SysV error constant, EFLOCK. Linux supports both, of course,

Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories

2013-05-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 04:58:18PM +, Stephan Mueller wrote: On May 17 16:45, Warren Young wrote: On 5/17/2013 12:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is that ENOFEL or EFLOCK? It depends. ENOFEL is the BSD way, but POSIX

Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories

2013-05-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: So it sounds like we may have a feline inavailability deadlock. Is that ENOFEL or EFLOCK? I think it's ENOPURR . ROFLMAO. Maybe ENOMEW would be better. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports:

Re: postgresql-devel package missing pg_config?

2013-05-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: win32for Win32 with VC++ and gdk based GUI win32gcc for Win32 with cygwin/gcc That's just some bad juju. What kind of witchcrafter came up with these bad tokens? Who in their right minds would think

Re: cygwin install failed, need help troubleshooting

2013-05-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:01 PM, John Guad wrote: What does running cygcheck without the redirection do? No results. I execute the program in a command window, current directory at c:\cygwin\bin, simply typed in the comand as above -- tried multiple times both with and without the redirection

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-30 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Said that, it IS possible to create a symbolic link to a file in Windows XP, even though you can't access it afterward. I think you mean a junction (reparse point) instead of a symbolic link. Yes, it is possible to have a junction to a file

Re: /usr vanished

2013-04-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de wrote: Septimus Stevens septimus.stevens at gmail.com writes: But my /usr suddenly disappeared, as though I'd done a 'rm -r /usr' but it seems VERY unlikely I typed that. ( /bin and /lib are still there) Any idea how this could

Re: BASH and MAN failure

2013-04-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 6:52 PM, rodmedina wrote: I one runs tzset.sh directly the message is not writen, but still TZ is not set. $ /etc/profile.d/tzset.sh $ set ... SYSTEMROOT='C:\WINDOWS' TEMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/rmedina/CONFIG~1/Temp TERM=xterm-256color

Re: X windows behavior

2013-04-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Richard Gribble wrote: I believe you'll find this is the default behavior with Windows XP and Windows 7 as well. In my experience, the issue is that windows remember where they were last, and reopen there. Thus if you had Firefox open in the secondary

Re: ffmpeg

2013-04-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:06 AM, wrote: HOW CAN CYGWIN capture W32 Programs WinSTD out as minty and putty do? I am use several programs that are native windows compiled, such as ffmpeg. I am writing a sheel script to get video clip information provided by ffmpeg, but I can't capture the

Re: But it is cygwin related.

2013-04-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Frank Farance wrote: I haven't posted in a long while, but the question seems reasonable and relevant to cygwin. If one were writing assembler code to be compatible with cygwin, one would need the answer to the question originally posed. I don't see this as a

Re: username case sensitive with the sshd service

2013-04-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Maxime LAMBERT wrote: I installed the last version of Cygwin (2.774) with the OpenSSH package on a Windows Server 2012 and when I tried to establish a connection in ssh, I noticed that the username was case sensitive (username@IP). With old versions of Cygwin

Re: username case sensitive with the sshd service

2013-04-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Maxime LAMBERT wrote: On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Maxime LAMBERT wrote: I installed the last version of Cygwin (2.774) with the OpenSSH package on a Windows Server 2012 and when I tried to establish a connection in ssh, I noticed that the username was case

Re: username case sensitive with the sshd service

2013-04-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Why not just getting used to entering the username casesensitive, as on any other system? Would modifying the /etc/passwd file to lowercase names support what the OP wants to do? Not that he should but is that possible? -- Earnie --

Re: winProductName for Windows 2012 - CSIH

2013-03-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:38 AM, BGINFO4X wrote: Hello, I'm using winProductName.exe(from the csih packgae) in a Windows 2012 Server. I'm using the last version 0.9.6, and the output information is not managed correctly: The output obtained is: Microsoft Windows Server 8 unknown, 64-bit

Re: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Frank Fesevur wrote: 2013/3/23 David T-G: % This would still conflict with the -H of the ones above, but I have no % problem with it. Anyone against changing hibernate to -H? What about 'b' for hi'b'ernate? That was my original suggestion, but Anthony liked

Re: cvs changes to support CR/LF in Root Repository files

2013-03-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: I was able to access a sandbox (first checked out with Cygwin CVS) with WinVCS and (windows)Eclipse's own CVS client. Maybe it'll work for Tortoise also. Yes, but the reverse isn't always true. Windows OS will read LF only files just fine

Re: [closed] Intel FORTRAN time_and_date function returns UTC instead of local time

2013-03-14 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Marten Jan de Ruiter wrote: Today, the problems with the date_and_time function were gone. I have no clue what solved the issue. I did not install upgrades from Cygwin. I did not recompile the program. Maybe a time shift issue? a.k.a. Daylight Savings Time

Re: Regression: Python 2.7.3 socket Module Not Compiled with SSL Support?

2013-03-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Erik Knowles wrote: WFM. Try cygcheck /usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/_ssl.dll and see if any DLLs are missing, and if so, install them. That check led me to a probable version mismatch. /bin held a cygcrypto-1.0.0.0.dll.new file -- apparently there was a

Re: Shouldn't gcc-4 depend on libmpfr4 ?

2013-03-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: I Bcced David, but if David has moved away from Cygwin, we will need a new maintainer for the aforementioned packages, plus ppl and cloog-ppl. If someone can sell me a clue on why

Re: startxwin started bash does not read .bashrc or .bash_profile

2013-03-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Kevin Layer wrote: Earnie Boyd wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: Did you read the original report and all the replies in the chain? ...it requires my .bashrc to be sourced (.bash_profile merely sources .bashrc

Re: startxwin started bash does not read .bashrc or .bash_profile

2013-02-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: Did you read the original report and all the replies in the chain? ...it requires my .bashrc to be sourced (.bash_profile merely sources .bashrc). Then what is the value of $SHELL? -- Earnie --

Re: startxwin started bash does not read .bashrc or .bash_profile

2013-02-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: That was one of the experiments I did, and I saw no evidence that any commands were executed. I even passed it as the argument to the invocation. As for the assumption, I understand that an error could have short-circuited the processing

Re: Minor Bug in setup.exe for Cygwin 1.7.17-1

2013-02-23 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Bailey T. Furrow wrote: I noticed a minor bug when updating/installing packages, where the percentage completed and the Total progress bar are way off than how much is actually done, giving me percentages that should be impossible. Last night, the progress bar

Re: psql crashes with snapshot

2013-02-18 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: What can I do - if anything at all - to debug the issue? Obviously, I cannot test every single snapshot after October last year and see where the crash starts... Work it descending order with a set number limit. -- Earnie --

Re: mintty session with a particularly fork-unfriendly address space layout

2013-02-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html This ^ I nearly missed This ^ and started thinking you missed some content. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports:

Re: How to rsh in windows using cygwin

2013-01-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/16/2013 08:27 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/16/2013 07:24 AM, Tim Prince wrote: I still remember the occasion 15 years ago when I entered rsh tim and found myself logged in as the head of corporate IT with

Re: Intermittent failures with ctrl-c

2013-01-16 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Tom Honermann thonerm...@coverity.com wrote: On 01/16/2013 11:53 AM, marco atzeri wrote: On 1/16/2013 5:37 PM, Tom Honermann wrote: 4) Launch mintty using an existing Cygwin installation. Naturally, this will run a shell from the existing Cygwin install.

Re: RES: hiding cursor on text terminals

2013-01-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Probably just sheer orneriness. We like to leave some things undone just to mess with people's minds. Or in other words, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BWAM -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports:

Re: cygwin make fails when calling mkdir in Windows 7

2013-01-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:02 AM, David Stacey wrote: On 03/01/13 22:49, Warren Young wrote: If this were affecting everyone, you'd be seeing a lot of yelling on this list. (More than normal I mean. :) ) Those of us who maintain Cygwin packages would all be affected, for instance. I may

Re: cygpath not working properly when the windows path argument ends in backslash

2013-01-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Aaron Schneider wrote: cygpath.exe -a c:\Users\All Users /cygdrive/c/Users/All Users cygpath.exe -a c:\Users\All Users\ Probably this trailing backslash is interpreted by shell, what to do about this? Not probably, it is exactly that. cygpath.exe -a

Re: argv @-expansion with pathname containing spaces

2012-12-20 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Denis Excoffier wrote: However i don't see how to derive the 8.3 form from my original filename, using DOS only. The /X argument to cmd.exe's dir command will give you the 8.3 name if it exists. Note that your system can be configured to not produce the 8.3

Re: [ATTN: Git maintainer] Is there a reason Git package depends on cvs/cvsps ?

2012-12-06 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, All! Is there a reason Git package depends on cvsps (and in result - cvs) package? It doesn't looks like cvsps is required for daily Git operations. Am I missing something? Git has MPs to allow you to clone a CVS repository using

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: By my understanding, if you're distributing GPLv3+ software such as cygwin1.dll, these are not rights you can withhold on that software. This is true for all GPL versions. Cygwin's license is GPL with an exception to allow any Open Source

Re: Passwordless authentication between two domains.

2012-11-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 11/28/2012 1:21 PM, anulav2 wrote: Andrew, Keys will ALWAYS be different irrespective if it is two servers on same or different domain. That is the whole point of copying keys to remote servers authorized_keys file. I don't think

Re: Package update request: python-2.7

2012-11-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Out of curiosity, what typically holds back releasing a new version? Usually it is a round tuit. (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/round_tuit) -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports:

Re: Info for the item does patch.exe work different than other unx patch tools? (i.e. hunk 1 out of 3 hunks failed)

2012-11-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Thomas Höhenleitner wrote: So now I had a closer look to the diff generated my.patch file and I found out, that the file had somehow hybrid line endings: * the header with the file names was unix-like * the body with the diff info was dos-like The reason

Re: Info for the item does patch.exe work different than other unx patch tools? (i.e. hunk 1 out of 3 hunks failed)

2012-11-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Thomas Höhenleitner wrote: Please do not top post. Thanks a lot, Earnie, for your answer. I do not know whitch patch command line switch do you mean. With -l I had already tried. I should have said diff instead of patch. --strip-trailing-cr -- Earnie --

Re: Command line arguments

2012-11-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 11/1/2012 10:54 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: I got in the habbit of always using the {} (even if they aren't absolutely necessary) to avoid such issues on general principal. I don't think it's conducive to productivity to constantly type

Re: Command line arguments

2012-11-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Brian Wilson wrote: % ${1}, ${2}, etc. Also, you may want to read up on the getopts command as a % way to process command line arguments. % Technically, the {}'s are not needed. You can access them with $1, $2, ... % /path/to/$1.save/dir but not

Re: permission on *.dbg files

2012-10-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:23 AM, marco atzeri marco.atz...@gmail.com wrote: Just a curiosity, why on/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin all the files have 755 permissions except cygwin1.dbg with 644 ? Does make any difference ? No, cygwin1.dbg is not an executable file so the executable bit isn't

Re: real beginer

2012-10-23 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Trixie yell...@beotel.net wrote: Please help! I desperately need to start that program :((( What is the name of the program and where is it located? Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Start here. -- Earnie --

Re: Bold color in cygwin bash shell

2012-10-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Saurabh T wrote: Hi, For various reasons, I cannot switch to rxvt or similar, and am stuck using the cygwin bash shell (which runs on top of the dos cmd window). Here, the background color defaults to black and foreground to light. I reversed this using

Re: latex no longer works after update

2012-10-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Josef Wolf wrote: The last line automatically gets rid of the /cygdrive path part, so all drive letters appear at the root of the Cygwin path tree. I'm not sure I understand this. Should I remove all my fstab entries and replace with the three lines shown

Re: PATH issue

2012-10-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Frank P Esposito wrote: I have an issue now that bash can't find script, but which locates it -- is there a way to debug this? What does ``ls -l `which FOO`'' report? -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports:

Re: hdparm 6.9-1 will not function as expected

2012-10-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Sean Murphy wrote: That did it. Placed the executable in /bin, and it ran as expected. You should not move /usr/sbin files to /bin. You should use /usr/sbin/BINARY or add /usr/sbin to the PATH variable. You'll get confused when an update seemingly replaces

Re: SMB symlink compatibility between Cygwin, Windows XP, and Windows 7

2012-10-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Brian Alexander wrote: Anyone have any other ideas of how to make a shortcut to a SMB path that will work in both Windows XP and Windows 7, and is also traversable by cygwin? I'm not familiar with CYGWIN=winsymlink to understand what it does; I can guess but

Re: Fifo blocking and performance issues

2012-10-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:15 PM, bob wrote: While this hack works the performance under Cygwin is orders of magnitude slower than the equivalent Linux performance. Any suggestions on how we can achieve a higher performance blocking read on a Cygwin RDWR fifo? You expect too much, it is

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Adam Kessel wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Adam Rosi-Kessel a...@rosi-kessel.org wrote: Cygwin used to run very quickly for me; now it doesn't. Not sure when it stopped -- last few weeks. Another data point: I just did a completely fresh (i.e. from

Re: [BUG] Cygwin default mounts in 1.7

2012-09-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: Jiri Engelthaler wrote: 2012/9/23 marco atzeri : And if I'm looking a way how to avoid this ...buggy feature..., my answer is yes. If someone can help me with how to run gcc compiler (see first post) which looks in ../libexec/.. for

Re: [BUG] Cygwin default mounts in 1.7

2012-09-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: Earnie Boyd wrote: Not in total. /usr/bin would only be available if the working device is the same as the device containing the link. ??? I think you are confusing junctions with symlinks. symlinks can point to another device

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:03:46AM -0700, Wynfield Henman wrote: In my humble opinion cygwin should be open to improvement and, we should keep cygwin's purpose as a base system, which is as full, and as easy, and as close to a *nix

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 26/09/2012 2:17 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 02:13:20PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:03:46AM -0700, Wynfield Henman wrote

Re: Autocompletion of shell variables

2012-09-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Jovan Grbic wrote: Hello, I have an irk with Cygwin 1.7.16. The problem is that the autocompletion of shell variables is not functioning if I don't use full windows executable name of standard linux tool. For example. I have variable SERVER=a.b.c.d. When i

Re: Cygwin corrupted taskkill in windows commandline

2012-09-25 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Hazel wrote: What is it that's so hard to understand?. C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe Can not execute native functions. This is on *XP Pro 32bit* as already stated. Then you have an issue that is not related to Cygwin even though the issue may have begun

Re: Win PTY library.

2012-09-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Sorry for the slip on removing the email address. Won't even think about 100ms / result. tried... now my head hurts. However, if I start the windows ftp program if the ideas behind

Re: Cygwin corrupted taskkill in windows commandline

2012-09-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Voris, Ben wrote: On my system, taskkill is /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/taskkill. That is, it is not part of Cygwin but is part of Windows. I suspect either that your PATH no longer includes /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32 or that taskkill.exe has been removed

Re: Win PTY library.

2012-09-17 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: If your pty layer refreshes every 100ms and your program updates at 20, 40, and 80ms, you'll lose all but the last update. I'm not interested in writing a testcase to demonstrate a perfectly foreseeable problem. So create a patch

Win PTY library.

2012-09-15 Thread Earnie Boyd
I just discovered https://github.com/rprichard/winpty and thought Cygwin users and developers may be interested. The license is MIT style. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: FREQ: cloud: /usr/cloud/bin/latex or /cloud/bin/latex

2012-09-13 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 05:29:47PM +0300, Jari Vuoksenranta wrote: (I do not follow cygwin's mailing lists) I don't think he will see ... I use occasionally software that I *really* would not like to install on my computer. I'd like

Re: (core dumped) mkshortcut

2012-09-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Robert Mark wrote: Hi Earnie, As per a previous message (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00215.html) I am still finding that mkshortcut causes core dumps (Windows 7, 64 bit). I have tried a few different options: -P or -D still cause dumps. I have

Re: Problem during C source code compilation

2012-09-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:27 PM, JonY wrote: On 9/10/2012 01:22, Earnie Boyd wrote: Fear of the unknown is a great sale pitch. What I really dislike are those who distribute things like virus protection embedded in their own product installation. I upgraded Java and ended up requesting

Re: (core dumped) mkshortcut

2012-09-10 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Denis Excoffier wrote: On 2012-09-10 at 14:54, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Robert Mark wrote: Hi Earnie, As per a previous message (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00215.html) I am still finding that mkshortcut causes core

Re: Problem during C source code compilation

2012-09-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 9/7/12 1:17 PM, Fausto Arinos Barbuto wrote: You need *a* firewall and *an* antivirus, but not necessarily *those* specific products. If you're serious about using Cygwin, you'll want to find alternatives that aren't BLODA. You

Re: (core dumped) mkshortcut

2012-09-09 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Robert Mark wrote: Hi All, As per a previous message (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00215.html) I am still finding that mkshortcut causes core dumps (Windows 7, 64 bit). I have tried a few different options: -P or -D still cause dumps. I have checked

Re: Compilation issue after upgrading cygwin from 1.7.9 to 1.7.16

2012-09-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:27 AM, marco atzeri wrote: On 9/4/2012 4:42 PM, Caporossi Jérôme wrote: Hi, I've got a compilation issue after upgrading Cygwin. I am working with Metaware IDE, calling a dedicated compiler/linker called mcc. All the makefiles are generated by Metaware and the

Re: stuff running slowly

2012-08-31 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Aharon Robbins wrote: Hi. Just a note to say THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to reply to me. I hope that a blanket thanks will do. :-) I've come to the conclusion that it is indeed BLODA. The box in question is my Corporate IT Laptop With All The

Re: mingw32-gcc and posix paths

2012-08-30 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Sven Köhler wrote: Am 29.08.2012 18:08, schrieb thoni56: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc (which it is in my cygwin) works perfectly. Thanks! That is actually not MinGW (formely known as mingw32), It is no such thing. It is known as MinGW.org. but MinGW-w64 (a new

Re: Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 29 August 2012 19:02, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/29/2012 12:58 PM, Mike Casile wrote: New install of latest cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20 22:55) on a new Windows 7 system. When I do ftp host it prompts for

Re: Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/29/2012 2:48 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 29 August 2012 19:02, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/29/2012 12:58 PM, Mike Casile wrote: New install of latest cygwin (CYGWIN_NT

Re: gzip 1.4-1 creates corrupt archive

2012-08-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:38 AM, K Stahl wrote: Missed that section, was reading from my phone. Anyway, how about instead of chastising someone for trying to help, you come up with an alternative solution? Stating that you missed something in a post isn't really chastising as much as it is

Re: rmdir limitation to 3192 directories

2012-08-24 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:58 AM, genonceauxwrote: I try to delete empty directories with this command : /bin/find /path -depth -type d -empty -execdir rmdir \{\} \; If you change this to /bin/find /path -depth -type d -empty -delete If the number of empty directories to remove greater

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2012-08-23 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Martin.Fitzpatrick wrote: Hi, I have just completed a cygwin install, which seemed to take an extraordinary length of time, so I started googling and found the article If you do the same with the anti-virus disabled does it change the length of time? --

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