Re: Syntax for sed .. altered?

find archive -type f | xargs sed -i 's/string1/string2/g' real1m2.587s user0m1.200s sys 0m12.884s More than a minute for 90 files is just extraordinary. Anybody else having a similar experience? (Thank you again.) Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Syntax for sed .. altered?

es are all text files, no binaries or anything awkward. Just don't understand it. (By contrast find dirname -type f | xargs md5sum still works just fine. 6000 files in less than a second.) Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:/

Consequences of mount -c

I have set /bin/mount -c "/" in ‎~/.bashrc with many subsequent easements in use.  In /usr/share/fonts/microsoft/ there are unfortunately multiple links referring to files in /cygdrive/c/Windows/Fonts/; all broken.  Similarly in‎ /etc/, several links pointing to files in /cygdrive/c/Windows/System3

timestamp 1462839105 iso-codes missing under release/

The latest setup.ini refers to new updates under release/iso-codes but the files and the entire subdirectory including [orev] files is missing on at least 3 mirrors that I tried.  Fergus‎ Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.‎ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

setup.ini.sig failing to verify, timestamp 1458038415

Probably a temporary glitch, same on three mirrors, probably all will be fine at the next update. But it's the first time this has happened AFAIK. ‎Just sharing.  Fergus‎ ‎ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Fw: libtermcap.a

I‎s there a package that includes /lib/libtermcap.a? I've tried Search Packages with nil response so I'm not hopeful but reckoned it worth asking.  Thank you.  Fergus ‎ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Doc

Re: Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.872)

I always install / update Cygwin from a x86/release/ directory located on my hard drive, and kept up to date. The new setup-x86.exe requires setup.ini.sig located in x86/ as well as setup.ini. Easy to manage, but is this additional requirement intentional? Fergus -- Problem reports: http

RE: Fonts reorganization and additions

y during step 3.] 3. Reinstall xorg-x11-fonts-dpi75 and xorg-x11-fonts-misc. Perfect. Fully functional again. Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Fonts reorganization and additions

e provide a recipe e.g. a sequenced re-installation?!) or are we awaiting a fix with a new timestamp? Just a question, not a nag ... thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2

> .. No, you're the first to report it (so 8.24-2 has the same issue), but > now that I know about it, it will get fixed soon. Fantastic, thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2

ended property of the update?? I have not tried [test]: coreutils-8.24-2 and I do not know whether this and maybe other peculiarities of 8.24-1 have been identified and corrected, but hope that this will eventually happen? Thank you! Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

Fw: What generates colossal 1.4G /usr/share/icons

ll to reduce the size of these 2 subdirectories?  If you have not, that explains your small usage.  Thank you! Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: h

Re: What generates colossal 1.4G /usr/share/icons

ultiple symlinks are recovered. ‎ Can you say what original package installation might have induced this directory? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

What generates colossal 1.4G /usr/share/icons/

rough "requires:" in setup.ini but got lost.   Thank you! Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

RE: Recurrent error message on exiting setup: 0p_000_autorebase.dash exit code 1

Such a good hint, thank you! I re-installed rebase (and _autorebase) and the problem has gone away. Fergus -Original Message- From: Andrey Repin [mailto:anrdae...@yandex.ru] Sent: 13 April 2015 15:15 To: Fergus Daly; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Recurrent error message on exiting setup

Recurrent error message on exiting setup: 0p_000_autorebase.dash exit code 1

Windows 7, Cygwin-32. Lately the error message below occurs on every completion (otherwise successful) of setup-x86. Package: 0/Perpetual 0p_000_autorebase.dash exit code 1 Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

md5sums in setup.ini setup-timestamp: 1428012611

/dos2unix-7.2.1-1.tar.xz 218200 d873 . . . . 54c3 (128 characters) source: x86/release/dos2unix/dos2unix-7.2.1-1-src.tar.xz 409100 5db5 . . . . 6c6d (128 characters) Has the checksum convention in setup.ini altered? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Compiling nano from source

the script Makefile that I need to attend to? (Actually it's not obvious to me that src/text.o exists.) Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

RE: Altered behaviour of grep

grep -Pl "\xmn" used to find files containing the ASCII character mn. For instance grep -PL "\x0d" or "\x0a" or usefully "\x00". ^ I did mean grep -Pl in both cases. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Altered behaviour of grep

grep -Pl "\xmn" used to find files containing the ASCII character mn. For instance grep -PL "\x0d" or "\x0a" or usefully "\x00". This seems to have been lost with the current version. Is this an error? If not, can anybody tell me what new syntax will recov

RE: Build script using gcc fails - missing ncurses?

allation script to build Cygwin has not altered, taking the form > setup-x86 -P (list of packages} > unchanged between and installation, today> PS Adding ',ncurses' to {list of packages} has made no difference: still getting error message ".. cannot find -lncurses

Build script using gcc fails - missing ncurses?

the installation 3 months ago and the installation today is unchanged, something has led to the reduced provision. Can anybody help me recover whatever is necessary to make the line gcc ... -lncurses work as it used to? Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

fdisk -l is mute

If util-linux is installed then $ /usr/sbin/fdisk returns a list of options as expected; but choosing one of them $ /usr/sbin/fdisk -l is mute. In the past this has returned filesystem summaries as expected. Windows 7, all up to date. Anybody else? Fergus -- Problem reports: http

Changed syntax for rename

this change intended? Was the update to cygwin1.dll the cause? Any other consequences that users have found? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http

Missing links

rm -> ../6b/kon /usr/share/terminfo/terminfo -> ../share/terminfo Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Repeated errors message when starting lyx

::convertFromUnicode: using Latin-1 for conversion, iconv_open failed The lyx window opens and, as far as I can tell, everything works. Can anybody please tell me the likely cause of the error messages and whether/ how I can mend my system? Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: Need help with reported cygwin snapshot problem

we're keen on getting this resolved. Well: not very helpful, sorry. I downloaded this large file 40 times in 50 minutes, using the latest snapshot, and had no problems, no messages, no stalls whatsoever. Generally about 60s / download with min 50s max 110s. Fergus -- Problem repo

On attempting to install w32api-headers-3.0b_svn5591-1

On attempting to install w32api-headers-3.0b_svn5591-1: Error message: Unable to extract /usr/include/w32api/agtctl.h -- corrupt package? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

What has happened to release-legacy?

this a glitch or something else? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Something breaks unattended setup: think it's just version no / filename of latest gt5 release

ase/gt5/gt5-1.5.0~20111220+bzr29-1.tar.bz2 17876 5665c1607f2b958b7edfa271b4d20aae source: release/gt5/gt5-1.5.0~20111220+bzr29-1-src.tar.bz2 105709 1f1ae1e59bf68448216800a4e2938ca0 Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Do

Cygwin 1.7.17 breaks unattended setup

It's the @gt5 paragraph in setup.ini (I think). It certainly breaks the build process for me. sdesc: and ldesc: are properly enclosed with "". Dunno: maybe it's the ~ in the filename. It is indeed the only occurrence of that punctuation under release/. Fergus @ gt5 sdes

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

nags, but this is a potential hassle-saving suggestion ... ?? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

release/ruby/ has become release/Ruby/ in setup.ini 1346110211

? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Glitch-free texlive-collection-basic.sh and other uses of setup v.2.510.2.2

Sorry was away. Sent to your own email now. Thanks. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Glitch-free texlive-collection-basic.sh and other uses of setup v.2.510.2.2

as an instrument of Cygwin installation and maintenance didn't pick this up. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Glitch-free texlive-collection-basic.sh and other uses of setup v.2.510.2.2

and reliance upon this old favourite. Otherwise I would use it the whole time. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

TeX now vs. Tex in legacy version

all those years ago. Have I mis-remembered? There's no entry in /etc/setup/installed.db. Don't want to have to re-install, and if so, what package? There's no xdvi under release-legacy/. Thank you, sorry for mind gaps, Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

Compare two directories, architecture only

t the entire content under any non-matching subdirectories, when all I need is the fact of the non-match. (i.e. I need diff -rq d1 d2 | sed ' /^Files /d'ORdiff -rq d1 d2 | grep '^Only' without the scrutiny of file content that diff provides.) Thank you! Fergus --

Re: pdftex shared library error

yrus-sasl. Thereafter, perfect. Should I have known about this requirement (or maybe just libsasl2)? Can it be included, as a requirement, somewhere appropriate? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://c

pdftex shared library error

? cygcheck -srv attached. Thank you. Fergus cygcheck.srv.bz2 Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: texlive-collection-*-20120312-1

drawn out. Thanks for your help. Fergus /usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 5 dirs /usr/share/fonts/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 192 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic: caching, new cache contents: 0

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: texlive-collection-*-20120312-1

that was TeX-related"? I have to say, I zoomed in on this convenient catch-all only after much scrutiny of setup.ini and very careful note of what "required" what. Thanks very much, anyway. I'll pull down libfontconfig-devel and see how things go from there ... Fergus -- Prob

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: texlive-collection-*-20120312-1

texextra.sh exit code 146 texlive-collection-pictures.sh exit code 146 texlive-collection-science.sh exit code 146 Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsub

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: texlive-collection-*-20120312-1

write cache /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/times: failed to write cache /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/zapfchan: failed to write cache /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/zapfding: failed to write cache 2012/03/14 07:29:42 abnormal exit: exit code=146 Fergus Error messages as fo

fontconfig.sh exit code 210

.) Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

to the un-installation of the existing tcl-tk. Any ideas? Q2 In some other contexts Cygwin provides "nox" versions additionally to versions requiring a running X server. Is there any chance that tcl-tk-8.4 could be recovered and offered as a nox version? Thank you. Fergus -- Probl

Links: +S attribute removed: recover?

Links of the style $ ls -al /bin/awk lrwxrwxrwx 1 fergus hdd 8 Feb 28 07:27 /bin/awk -> gawk.exe* are located on the drive as readonly +R .lnk files or +S system files. Suppose through a keyboard slip outside Cygwin all the file attribites on a Cygwin filesystem are lost. Then +R attributes

Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

raded package led to this: tcl-tk or tcltk or ... Have I identified a real glitch and if so can this problem be addressed? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

base-files : versions in setup.ini 1329084611

The current setup.ini timestamp 1329084611 mentions both base-files-4.0-9.tar.bz2 (current) base-files-4.0-8.tar.bz2 (prev) but mirrors now have only 0-5, 0-6, 0-9. Please could setup.ini be revised (or mirrors resourced) so that all of [prev] are available? Thank you. Fergus -- Problem

Cannot implement -x switch for diff

ergo comparison, only the subdirectories are skipped.) Any ideas? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Another call for filesystem testing

> Btw., can you please provide the output from > /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /x/wrk > I never saw the volume information returned by this ext2 driver yet. ~> /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /x/wrk Device Type: 7 Characteristics: 20 Volume Name: <> Serial Number : 2548180820 Max

Re: Another call for filesystem testing

failed, status code 0xc03a Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Shell script - is this expected behaviour?

>> Never feed 'read' unterminated input. Always end your text files with a newline. Yay. Please could /etc/setup/timestamp be terminated? Currently it is not, causing minor grief e.g. when using a shell script to check for updates. Fergus -- Problem reports: h

Faulty reference to release/ subdirectory in latest setup.ini timestamp 1321833972

All install: references in latest setup.ini timestamp 1321833972 are to /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin/release/.. instead of release/.. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Changed timestamp in setup-legacy.ini

provision. (Oh no - hate odd-numbered timestamps.) Fergus ~ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: /etc/fstab

quot;What Is This and Why Does It Seem To Matter So Much?") Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

gnucap: packaging problem

y bzip2 and > bunzip2 release/gnucap/gnucap-2009.12.07-1-src.tar.bz2 >bunzip2: gnucap-2009.12.07-1-src.tar.bz2 is not a bzip2 file Any chance of a revised .bz2? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentat

Re: Random fork failures

re, or even of the problem is common or well understood; maybe "rxvt -tn rxvt" would be a better switch to use. (People recommend mintty for 1.7 and probably with very good reasons, but I still quite like rxvt.) Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

Re: an updated howto on a portable/usb cygwin installguide?

; (I have been using this portable architecture for so long that (line 1) I can't remember where PATH is conventionally set; also (line 2) I prefer accessing other drives from / rather than /cygdrive/.) Hope this helps. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.c

Still using gcc 3.4.4 - problem with -lncurses

ave others tripped up? Is there a good cure? Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: if [ -w branching: how to spot a locked USB stick

I meant to say ~> # ... but gn shows up as drwx not d-wx NOT SO GOOD dr-x Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: h

Re: if [ -w branching: how to spot a locked USB stick

GOOD ~> ls -alR sc ... sc/d: ... -r--r--r-- 1 fergus q.1.74829 Feb 16 07:00 amy.d ... sc/l: drwxr-xr-x 1 fergus q.1.7 0 Mar 8 14:56 gn/ ... and if [ -w ... also gets things wrong: ~> if [ -w sc/d/amy.d ] ; then echo +W ; else echo -W ; fi -W ~> if [ -w sc/l/gn ] ; then echo +W

Re: if [ -w branching: how to spot a locked USB stick

B stick to hand*. Q1. Is the "laughably simple ... fix" that was "tested" (presumably successfully) now implemented in Cygwin? Q2. If not, can it be? * Sorry, I know that's a pathetic excuse and I really ought to answer Q1 myself. Fergus -- Problem reports:

Windows OS and uname; compatability

that 1.5 on W7-64 (or any 64?) and 1.7 on W98 are both non-runners? Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

Re: The tree command

usr (but this is just a personal preference for the location of extras). Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Accessing folders elsewhere than C:\cygwin

hange mount points which are currently conventionally defined. Is there a way I can get to Q:\else without knowing the drive name Q:? Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwi

Brand new setup ends up not where intended (?but at default)

s Solutions, though essentially empty. Could this be the problem? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: dd to linux partition

. Can you read/write/copy/move files from/to your /dev/sda5 when identifying it as H: (or whatever letter you've given it) in Windows Explorer or in a DOS box? And as /cygdrive/h/ in Cygwin? What do you get from /usr/sbin/tune2fs.exe -l /dev/sda5 (if anything)? Fergus -- Problem reports:

Re: dd to linux partition

he Linux partition initially. You might need a bit of reconfiguring before you can finally back up your partition but Ext2IFS (or similar and possibly better) is an invaluable pathway into your system. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cy

Re: dd to linux partition

or other than ID b i.e. ext2; and only on the XP platform. Maybe it is extensible (ext3 etc; Vista, W7) or maybe googling for something similar will get you something more elaborate, if you need it. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: htt

Re: Portable Cygwin: replacing drivename in a text file

7; echo 123 | sed "s/2/'"$HOME"'/g" echo 123 | sed 's/2/@$HOME@/g' Thank you (again). Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Portable Cygwin: replacing drivename in a text file

Can anybody help, please? Thank you very much. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Postinstall errors on new install

font-winitzki-cyrillic.sh exit code 1 font-xfree86-type1.sh exit code 1 fontconfig.sh exit code 14 mined.sh exit code 1 Some systematic error at source? or just me being an idiot and maybe mis-typing something? Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

rebaseall on [1.7] : first glitch for ages

simply work its way through bin/ lib/ [and others] looking for executables and .dlls, and do stuff to them? Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubs

Making a tailored Cygwin, something between Base and Full

but unsuccessfully now? Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Perplexing endless setup at /etc/postinstall stage: 2 hours and counting

d see. Any clues? Anything odd/ miscast about coreutils.sh which [for the moment] I'm not in a position to scrutinise myself? Thank you, Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/

Portable Cygwin 1.5 compiled using XP fails to run on W7 64

er stick with Cygwin 1.7 on it and am not expecting problems (but haven't yet tried) running it on the W7 64 machine. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Un

setup hangs at perl-min

Cygwin 1.7 (not 1.5 where there is no such problem).) Thank you, Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

> Found it. > Fixed in CVS. Downloaded cygwin1-20100824.dll. Working perfectly. Thanks so much. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

sibly one or both eccentricities contributes to the unwelcome mode change: but, as I say, it never occurred with cygwin-1.7.5. What does your /etc/fstab say? Maybe I should use it and report back. But as a lover of sparse systems it's a pain to introduce even 1 file where previously

Re: Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

orever in advance of making it). Please can you confirm (intended change), or is this a glitch (unintended change, to be corrected) or has my installation become de-railed (1.7.6 should be binmode like 1.7.5; somehow, in this local case, is textmode and needs mending locally)? Fergus -- Problem

Re: Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

my machine, X-rayed it or dropped it in a magnetic field resonator, though I agree this behaviour is suggestive of any or all of these! Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html U

Re: Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

.8.7-2 and this strange contradiction went away (that is: all files, however accessed, were shown as identical using diff -s, as they should be). Upgraded, again, to [curr] diffutils v.2.9-1 and the problem came back: identical files were reported to be different, using diff -s. Fergus --

Wrong/ inconsistent responses from diff

d the snapshot dated 20100822. Attached, cygcheck.out. Fergus cygcheck.out.bz2 Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

XWin shows in "ps -a" but not in "ps"

that there is a procedure built in that will achieve this? Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Colours used in mintty

cho $'\e]4;6;139, 69, 19\a' # color6 for links in .bashrc with the consequence that each new mintty terminal starts with 2 blank lines. Is there a way I can set the colors but suppress the newlines? Use echo -n. (Sorry for public soliloquy.) Fergus -- Problem reports:

Re: Colours used in mintty

3 for devices echo $'\e]4;6;139, 69, 19\a' # color6 for links in .bashrc with the consequence that each new mintty terminal starts with 2 blank lines. Is there a way I can set the colors but suppress the newlines? Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Coping with large iso files for network-independent Cygwin installation

[1.7] on a machine without network access? Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Failed links for [1.7] (and some more for [1.5])

/man/man1/autoreconf.1.gz -> autoreconf-2.63.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/autoscan.1.gz -> autoscan-2.63.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/autoupdate.1.gz -> autoupdate-2.63.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/config.guess.1.gz -> config.guess-2.63.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/config.sub.1.gz -> con

rebaseall [1.7]: cyggcc_s-1.dll error

gcc /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ~> set-gcc-default-3.sh # ie use gcc-3 ~> bash makesc # exe building script involving gcc ~> # script runs to effective conclusion

Uncaught Exception during setup

-0.4.4-2-src.tar.bz2: trailing garbage after EOF ignored (I realise that with high probability nobody will want to fiddle with the legacy release.) Thank you, Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: h

Desperately seeking "rename"

st. Do I choose one to install? I've already got some of them including binutils and cygutils (in either of which I thought I might have found rename). Thanks, Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

rxvt : 1.5 vs. 1.7

1.7] overwriting the version there. What a horrid "fix"! But it seems to work just fine. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Colours used in mintty

Sorry: just seen in the manual: write echo $'\e]4;3;255,255,0\a' and similarly, in a script. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://

Colours used in mintty

ctories) and (I think) color10 (executables). But not color14 (links). (Incidentally, is it picking up the ones it does pick up correctly from rxvt*color?? or xterm*color?? or somewhere else entirely?) Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Using mount in [1.7] from a Windows command prompt

r me? The -f option does not make any difference. Thank you. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: often does not successfully exit rxvt and close it down

oblem does not occur when exiting a bash terminal: only rxvt. I am using XP Pro SP3 on FAT32. Attached: cygcheck -srv. Any insights/ suggestions/ similar experiences welcome. Thank you. Fergus cygcheck.out.bz2 Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

often does not successfully exit rxvt and close it down

s is today about 80%. Anybody else? Attached: cygcheck.out. Incidentally I experienced the shutdown difficulty after just 3 lines: cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.out bzip2 cygcheck.out ls -al and actually later after just a one-line activity: cat .bash_history Thank you, Fergus cygcheck.out.bz

Re: Redaction request

t with who knows what consequences. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

to no avail. And also I see the / after the listing: ls -al /m total 16 drwxr-xr-x 14 fergus ver_1.50 Jan 1 1970 ./ drwxr-xr-x 14 fergus ver_1.50 Jan 1 1970 ./ drwxr-xr-x 15 fergus ver_1.50 Jan 1 1970 ../ The following is just a stream of findings. 1. From within the host C

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