On 4/2/2010 9:56 AM, wefwef wefwef wrote:
Is it possible that the installer is getting confused by my existing
cygwin installation?
Yes, if you attempt to download only with setup.exe, it will use your
most recent Cygwin installation path to figure out what packages you
already have installed
On 4/2/2010 6:31 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
I maintain a local repository of Cygwin (IOW I download to a local
directory and then install from there). I let others use my repository.
I want to make it such that OpenSSH and rxvt are installed by default
but when they run setup.exe and point it
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 4/3/2010 12:34 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
On 04/02/2010 09:28 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
And yes a .bat file that you double click would probably suffice however
there is something in the whole setup structure that make certain
packages install by default
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
On 04/02/2010 10:19 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
It gets even better once you look through the other command line options
listed with --help because you can automate installation selections to
the point that the users don't have to do anything more than run your
batch file
Markus Hoenicka wrote:
Phil Couling coul...@gmail.com was heard to say:
I have cygwin pre installed on a pc I'm using. I'd like to change the
home directory ($HOME) but I'm having some trouble finding where it's
been set. Currently it points to a drive letter q: . I'd much prefer
to point
On 3/31/2010 12:13 PM, Rance Hall wrote:
Today I tried to install cygwin on a work machine that I do not have
permission to admin.
I'm a Math Prof here so I just get to use the machine on my desk.
on my laptop I am the admin so I installed cygwin for all users. No
biggie, only user is
On 3/25/2010 1:27 PM, Gary Spivey wrote:
I am running Cygwin on Windows 7. When I use the bash terminal, all of the
font characters look fine – man pages render with color and bold. However,
when I use rxvt, I cannot seem to find a font/terminal setting that will
render fonts properly. I
On 3/18/2010 11:43 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
Rance Hall ran...@gmail.com was heard to say:
this is the old cygwin 1.5 setup still active but unsupported. It may
contain the perl version you want.
No promised, I don't have 1.5 installed anymore, and dont have the
time to look in the
On 3/16/2010 10:30 AM, Dan Sandberg wrote:
Hi,
I recently upgraded a computer running XP Embedded to Cygwin 1.7.1.
When I ssh from another computer, and run a graphical program (such as
the calculator included in Win XP), it doesn't display correctly.
If I run the program from a local
On 3/16/2010 10:50 AM, Dan Sandberg wrote:
Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for the response. I tried setting TMP and TEMP to /tmp but the
calculator came up in the same messed up manner in 1.7.1.
I've included my environment variables below.
Thanks for the help!
-Dan
ENV:
On 3/16/2010 2:44 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Where would I find out what the version of LibUSB that is supplied with
Cygwin?
http://cygwin.com/packages/
-Jeremy
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:
Roe, Kevin L. wrote:
So a complete uninstall (by deleting the directory and removing registry
references) followed by a complete install fixed all my problems except one:
My rxvt shortcut results in a prompt that has not read my .bashrc file. So I
hacked the /etc/profile file to include
Olle Olsson wrote:
Have good installations of cygwin on some computers. But these were
manually setup using the interactive cygwin setup tool. Always forgot
to install a couple of packages.
Can a fresh install be made using an existing installation as
template? Is there a way to use the
On 2/18/2010 6:40 AM, Marta Ghidella wrote:
Jeremy Bopp jeremy at bopp.net writes:
I've not used that script before, but from that text it seems that the
script can only migrate user mounts, not system mounts. I get the
impression that this problem is resulting from system mounts going
On 2/19/2010 11:11 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:50:16AM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
The only mount specification in /etc/fstab which appears to be ignored
is the one for /. I can't say why that is so, and I don't know a way
around that fact. I think Corinna manages
Eric Blake wrote:
According to Gary on 2/18/2010 3:49 AM:
Is it already possible to somehow save the value of the Create Shortcut
on Desktop checkbox? If not, would it be possible to add this feature
at some point (yeah, I know, PGA/TC :-) ? I'm sure I'm not the only one
who doesn't want a
On 2/11/2010 5:37 PM, Mahzari, Milad wrote:
Hi,
I am having some problems with tcsh. I installed it using cygwin setup. I
checked my bin and it is in there. I can also see the manual entry for it
when I type man tcsh. However, I can not log into it. When I type the
following command in
On 2/10/2010 5:03 PM, steenreem wrote:
Whenever I mount a drive in cygwin it works for that session. But when I
close cygwin and boot it up again then the mounted drive is gone and has to
be mounted again. I think cygwin doesn't store my configuration or
You need to edit your /etc/fstab file
On 2/9/2010 2:41 AM, Jurgen Defurne wrote:
To be more complete :
1) These are the mount points on my portable :
C:/Documents and Settings on /home type ntfs (binary)
C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin on / type
On 2/8/2010 6:30 AM, Jurgen Defurne wrote:
Dear all,
I have the following mounts on my test verification system for Cygwin 1.7.
C:/Documents and Settings on /home type ntfs (binary,exec)
C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
raphael() wrote:
The problem is that AS Perl cannot find the Perl script I invoke on
the command line as the script's PATH that Cygwin reports to AS Perl
is a unix one i.e. /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/.../bin whereas AS Perl
requires it in C:\cygwin\home\...\bin\. The Perl script is in PATH.
On 1/29/2010 8:14 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote:
Hi all,
i have just updated to 1.7.1 an run in trouble. During the previous
installations there was a switch which sets the used file format Dos/Unix.
This switch did not only disappear also the former uses file format (DOS) was
set to
On 1/29/2010 8:48 AM, Marc Doesburg wrote:
Hello All,
I hope I'm at the right place. I'm pretty new to Cygwin, so sorry in
advance if this is a noob question.
What I'm trying to do is the following:
Connect using telnet to a local installed Cygwin. Then using the
Cygwin to rlogin to a
On 1/29/2010 9:07 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
Jeremy Bopp:
DEWI - N. Zacharias:
i have just updated to 1.7.1 an run in trouble. During the previous
installations there was a switch which sets the used file format Dos/Unix.
This switch did not only disappear also the former uses file format (DOS
On 1/28/2010 12:13 PM, David Balažic wrote:
Hi!
I already have the old version (v1.5.25) of cygwin installed and I
wonder if is it safe (supported) to run v1.7.1 at the same time ?
So I can evaluate v1.7.1 and eventually remove the other.
I know the FAQ says multiple setups ov v1.7.
On 1/28/2010 12:20 PM, Heath Kehoe wrote:
Anyway, for now I'm going to just comment out the call to note() at
install.cc:295 so that my users can do installations without having to
dismiss that popup 52 times.
Rather than build your own copy of setup.exe while you wait for this
defect to be
On 1/28/2010 2:15 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 02:02:44PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
On 1/28/2010 12:20 PM, Heath Kehoe wrote:
Anyway, for now I'm going to just comment out the call to note() at
install.cc:295 so that my users can do installations without having
On 1/28/2010 3:19 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 02:54:30PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
On 1/28/2010 2:15 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 02:02:44PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
On 1/28/2010 12:20 PM, Heath Kehoe wrote:
Anyway, for now I'm going to just
On 1/25/2010 11:51 AM, David Heyman wrote:
Do you have any further help as to how I would achieve that? I am new to
cygwin and *Nix, so any basic help is appreciated. How to I set it up that
all text file will have DOS line endings?
On 1/22/2010 5:28 AM, Richard Dickinson wrote:
Hi
I am still not able to compile gtk+ or gtkmm programs in cygwin on my Vista
machine I would
appreciate some advice on how to do this. I have already posted recently
about this and I had a
reply but as yet no further help to my follow up
On 1/21/2010 10:10 AM, carsten.porz...@spb.de wrote:
Dear Cygwin Community,
my problem described is solved now.
The change to Windows Server 2003 is the fact, that the OpenSSHd Server
service must run under a user account, SYSTEM account is not enough!
The choosen user account must
On 1/21/2010 4:55 PM, Brian Keener wrote:
I want to upgrade to 1.7 but would like to get a backup of the full 1.5
install before hand. I know in the past just doing copies some files
didn't or couldn't get copied. Also in the unix world seems as though
I recall tar and cpio have
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:00:00PM -0600, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
When using setup-legacy.exe version 2.677 to install Cygwin 1.5, the
installation process appears to complete successfully, but the mount
points for /, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib are not created. This leads
Gary . wrote:
Okay, this is confusing me. What exactly is being checked for this
wanring to be displayed?
I get
cygwin warning:
MS-DOS style path detected: c:\programme\develop\ruby\bin\inputrc.euro
Preferred POSIX equivalent is (blah)
Okay. Except I can't find a file anywhere
Damo, David wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to use Cygwin to launch expect from a simple shell script. In my
case I am launching the shell script from a JSP, and the shell script gets
called properly, however I can do everything from the shell script but call
expect. For example touch ls, pwd,
Damo, David wrote:
No errors. :( Just does not run from the shell script when called from the
JSP, however the script works when called from command prompt. This same
configuration works in UNIX. We need to call expect from the shell script
through the JSP to capture the output.
Perhaps
On 1/14/2010 5:23 PM, Damo, David wrote:
Hi,
I have fixed the problem. It seems in cygwin it spawns a subshell even under
bash. I used a for loop instead and everything worked nicely.
for line in `sed 's/\$/^/g' $propfile`
do
nvpair=$(echo $line | awk -F= '{print $1,$2}')
On 1/13/2010 10:32 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
Another workaround would be from the mintty window to enter some
command that would bring up a Windows Command Prompt window so
that Windows FTP and Telnet would work. I tried the command cmd,
but that executes within the mintty window. What
On 1/12/2010 12:08 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
After installing Cygwin 1.7.1, I noticed ugly man pages because
LANG=UTF-8 causes man pages to be formatted with U+2010 hyphens,
which aren't supported by Windows, so I took another's advice and
installed mintty, which seemed to work just fine
On 12/16/2009 11:45 AM, Jacobs, Todd wrote:
I'm running the 1.7 beta, and am finding that git repositories on
Windows shares now exhibit permissions problems. For example:
What do you mean by a Windows share? Are you talking about a
directory on your local machine or a network share provided
Chip Panarchy wrote:
Hello
First I copied: cygiconv-2.dll, cygintl-3.dll, cygintl-8.dll, find.exe
(renamed to find2.exe) sed.exe to the %WINDIR%.
Don't do that. Install Cygwin using setup.exe and leave the files where
setup places them. You're asking for so much trouble doing what you
DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
2009/12/1 Reinier Post:
If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you
will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid
running under an environment modified by
David Antliff wrote:
In git-1.6.1.2 [1.5] and git-1.6.4.2 [1.7] there is a command called
'git-mergetool' that is used as a wrapper for various graphical
merging tools, such as kdiff3. It makes local copies of the relevant
commits and brings up an interactive gui for resolving merge conflicts.
David Antliff wrote:
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:11, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
David Antliff wrote:
On the other hand, this command does work:
kdiff3 --auto --L1 build.xml (A) --L2 build.xml (B)
c:/cygwin-1.7/tmp/Vc0BZy_build.xml build.xml
As a fairly simple workaround, you could create a wrapper
Gary Johnson wrote:
On 2009-12-01, ??? wrote:
$PATH returns the value of PATH. For example, to display the path, use echo
$PATH.
This is not Cygwin-specific though so further discussion is likely to be
off-topic for this list.
What i mean is that, how to only get the env path
lemke...@t-online.de wrote:
mintty is the right tool for replacing rxvt for not X11.
on XP I have no problem to build a file like
$ touch ÄÄÆÉßü
and to have exactly the same on explorer and from
cmd.
I just gave it a try. It seemed to have solved the character
problem but I now have
Warren Young wrote:
Huang Bambo wrote:
The leak is a result of the parent process not calling wait(2) or
waitpid(2) to reap the child process.
There's some diffirence between cygwin and other *nix:
In other *nix with this condition, those ended child process could be
list by ps command
aputerguy wrote:
Currently when upgrading the base 'cygwin' package, the installer only warns
you midway through the installation after some files have been
removed/replaced.
If you have other cygwin processes running, you may be left in an incomplete
state where you can't or don't want to
aputerguy wrote:
Jeremy Bopp writes:
Well, it's a bit of a hack, but you could try something like the
following:
$ dirname $(cygpath -u C:/)
This assumes that there is always a C: drive and converts the path to
the root of that drive into a POSIX path which will include the cygdrive
aputerguy wrote:
In particular, I can't use mount -p to distinguish between prefixes that
might have (variable) number of trailing spaces (which is allowed).
I believe that you want to use the cygpath program if you want to
convert POSIX paths to Windows paths reliably. Assuming the default
Gery Herbozo Jimenez wrote:
I have a simple script:
#include
#include
int main()
{
clrscr();
coutHallo;
getch();
}
It looks like your include statements are missing what they are supposed
to include. I made a guess that they should be as follows:
#include
David Tazartes wrote:
System facts:
snip
- My username has a space in it, and the CWD for the script is
C:\Users\user name\Desktop\another folder (another folder has a space)
aka /cygdrive/c/Users/user name/Desktop/another folder
snip
Observations:
- When using bash -x, most of the time
David Tazartes wrote:
Let's say we focus on the echo | cut slowness I mentioned earlier. This is
independent of the CWD and doesn't cause the explorer.exe spike but is still
200 times slower on my Vista laptop than on a low-powered Linux server. If
we correct this problem, I'm pretty confident
David Tazartes wrote:
The true loop is only about 3 times slower on Cygwin than Linux. But: true
is a bash built-in, so there is no forking going on. So I'd argue this
absolutely shows there is a forking problem. (time true and time echo hi
both give all 0's.)
Good point. You might also try
Andrew Schulman wrote:
Personally, I much prefer PuTTYcyg. rxvt and MinTTY are also popular, but
they both require X. You might also like Poderosa
(http://en.poderosa.org/).
Actually, neither rxvt nor MinTTY require X. I use them both without X
daily. I believe MinTTY is actually based on
David Christensen wrote:
I am having trouble using pipelines with paths containing spaces:
This is not technically a Cygwin-specific issue, so I'm going to try to
keep this short.
2009-08-31 01:16:50 administra...@p43400e ~
$ ls -d /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/ | xargs ls
jprice wrote:
I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos prompt
or some other comparable method. This method needs to be automated and
kicked off in Windows at certain times, so executing Cygwin, then manually
typing in the script to run in the Cygwin prompt is out of
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote:
Also the command od -c test1-mike.pl, shows \n ONLY throughout the file
excepts a couple sots near the end of the file. Do I need to worry
about those couple spots \n\n doubles appears.
No, you don't need to worry about \n\n sequences. They just indicate
that
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote:
Before I go and end this thread can you tell me if the Perl.exe I have
in Cygwin looks correct?
I can cd /usr/bin
and the Perl there is:
dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin
$ ls -la Perl.exe
-rwxrwxrw-+ 1 dextem mkgroup-l-d 34304 Jul 19 2007 Perl.exe
I am
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote:
It seems my Cygwin has attached itself to the PERL on my C drive and not
the cygwin Perl. How do I change that? Also debugger seemed to work
too.
dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin
$ which perl
/cygdrive/c/PERL/BIN/perl
dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin
$ which
Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dexter Michael wrote:
$ echo $PATH
[...]
Holy giant PATH, Batman! That's like 1800 characters long! Not that
that's necessarily a problem on its own...
I'm curious about this bit:
...:C:/Program Files/Common Files/EMC:...
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote:
Hello,
I installed Cygwin yesterday and when I run it and look at pwd my path
is set to: /cygdrive/h
I read the FAQ and when I type set HOME from a Windows CLI, it is set
to:
HOME=H:\
I am using Cygwin for PERL.
I just took a PERL course and in
Please make sure to reply to the list so that others can benefit from
what we discover. We can take this off list if the moderators decide
this is not the appropriate forum for our discussion.
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote:
Hi Jeremy,
Thank you - I see I should elabore and include my error
Purrer Wolfgang wrote:
I want to provide X – Services on a Windows Terminal Server.
Cygwin is on a file share
To get xwin to work, i have to mount /tmp to %temp%
But with 1.7 the mount points aren’t saved in the registry any more
So a „Windows - batch – file „ like this doesnt work
Paul McFerrin wrote:
When I first generated my 1.7 cygwin system, it created the System mount
points for me. In looking the documentations for mount, I can not find
the necessary info to create a persistance system mount. Anything I
mount get taged as a user mount. What's the secret. I use
Kilian Krockauer wrote:
Hello there,
I have quite a disturbing task my colleque gave to me.
He uses CygWin and has up to 10 Windows opened, now he's getting tired of
looking through every single Window when he searches for a specific one. To
be exact, he uses ssh to connect to our
Mark J. Reed wrote:
Putting title-setting escape sequences in PS1 has the unfortunate side
effect that the shell thinks that it has output those characters, and
shrinks the length of the line readline has to work with by that
amount.
I have set everything in PS1 for a long time without any
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 10 16:24, Steven Hartland wrote:
It might be a silly idea but would it potentially be an option to alter
this behaviour based on an cygwin environment variable, so that the past
behaviour is restored for wider compatibility.
Sorry, but no. The switch existed
Summary:
Version 2.510.2.2 of setup.exe segfaults when attempting to reinstall
the same version of a package that has a modified yet valid checksum.
This happens on Windows 2000 SP4, Windows 98 SE, and Windows XP SP2.
To reproduce the problem:
1) Generate and install a package as usual.
2) Keep
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