autorebase

2012-05-14 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, Did I miss an announcement? I notice now in my setup log: 2012/05/14 10:27:13 running: cmd.exe /c C:\cygwin\etc\postinstall\autorebase.bat Does this mean that I do not need anymore to run in an ash shell: ./rebaseall ./peflagsall followed with (in bash): perlrebase ...after an update?

Re: startx with different displays

2012-04-25 Thread Marc Girod
Back to my original problem... I tried startxwin (as suggested by a colleague) and this one accepts to start XWin on DISPLAY :0 Are all my problems related to startx? I can see that defaulting to the highest display found in /tmp/.X* seems to comes from it... Does anybody use startx with success?

Re: startx with different displays

2012-04-25 Thread Marc Girod
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Of course. Thanks. Sorry, this was a stupid question: even I use it on my other laptop, without problem. OK: with the two glitches I described. Marc -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/startx-with-different-displays-tp33702991p33749731.html Sent

Re: startx with different displays

2012-04-24 Thread Marc Girod
Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote: Get rid of the real dups. You only need the one in /usr/bin. I don't know how they got there. They are not in my normal path. Somehow my procedure to run cygcheck must have injected them. I add them in neither .bash_profile nor .bashrc. Marc -- View this

Re: startx with different displays

2012-04-24 Thread Marc Girod
Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote: Don't worry about the duplicated paths. I'm saying get rid of the actual duplicated DLLs. Sorry, but I have none. My understanding is that the report was only the result of the duplicated paths. Running cygcheck again doesn't find duplicated DLLs. Marc --

Re: startx with different displays

2012-04-23 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, I try a fresh start, not being clear about my complete failure to get any reply. I use XWin and GNU emacs (X11 version). My startup script is: /usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/emacs -g 90x37+150+0 -- /usr/bin/X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard This used to work for a few years, but recently started to

Re: startx with different displays

2012-04-23 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: I used Gmane and uploaded my cygcheck.out. Incidentally, I saw there: Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path So, I checked: bin for d in $(echo $PATH | tr : '\n'); do if [ -r $d/cygwin1.dll ]; then echo $d; fi; done /usr/bin /usr/bin bin echo $PATH | tr

startx with different displays

2012-04-17 Thread Marc Girod
I have intermittent problems to start XWin. My client would wait for an accessible server. In recent times, when this happens with :0, I try to use :1 instead, which usually works. Today, the two processes interferred. I was waiting on :0, and as I started a sttrax session on :1, both clients

Re: using a makefile to create an executable file

2012-04-11 Thread Marc Girod
Eliot Moss wrote: A quick look at the wikipedia page for cmake shows that cmake is a tool that generates a Makefile suitable for the platform at hand. So, I think you need at least these steps: I am quite sure it would be more beneficial to learn the syntax of makefiles and to write

RE: How to run bash shell script in cygwin?

2012-04-03 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, Dave Korn wrote: Hey, why not plug our own faq while we're at it? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.not-found One minor comment I have about point 12 in the FAQ, now that I went reading. The following advice is given: You should rather install sshd and use ssh

Re: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .

2012-03-25 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: Obviously, the X server is up and running, only the client cannot connect to it. Also, choosing a different display (i.e. :1 instead of :0 in my startup command) works. So... is this enough to conclude that the issue is bound to the port (some other unknown application

Re: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .

2012-03-20 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: It started to work again...!? I know I should buy a computer, but this is what I got as working environment. The problem pops up for some time (hours...?) every now and then, and disappears. Rebooting doesn't help systematically; i.e. it may help, who knows, but not every

Re: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .

2012-03-05 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . I thought this was related to my working from home over our VPN (called here RVI, and actually a product of Juniper). But now I am back at work, on LAN, and I get the same behaviour. Panic! How do I debug

Re: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .

2012-03-05 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: The most probable is that our 'support' pushed some system upgrade/security patch which breaks Xfree... Checked that no firewall blocks port 6000 (it should be what the X server listens to for display :0, right?) It started to work again...!? I had just disabled

Re: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .

2012-03-03 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . I started looking at the .server* and .Xauthority files. Found that .Xauthority keeps growing (but not since the origin of times--and see below: cleaned up after timeout!). Now, I removed a previous version so that I

Re: you online this am?

2012-03-03 Thread Marc Girod
ed-644 wrote: are you online this am...? I am...? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/waiting-for-X-server-to-begin-accepting-connections-.-tp33432156p33434205.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info:

waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .

2012-03-02 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, Tonight, from home, over my employer's VPN connection: impossible to start Gnu emacs over X. After the usual expr dumping core: /usr/bin/startx: line 47: 6444 Segmentation fault (core dumped) expr $1 : ':[0-9][0-9]*$' /dev/null 21 I get an effect which I have already seen, but

gcc-4 segmentation fault while compiling Tk (from CPAN)

2012-01-27 Thread Marc Girod
I just filed a report to gcc bugzilla: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52017 for compiling Tk-804.030 on Cygwin 1.7.9 with gcc-4 4.5.3-3 . Marc -- View this message in context:

Re: Get errors while startx

2012-01-18 Thread Marc Girod
Pan ruochen wrote: I got the following errors while running startx: I get the same, and I have just been too lazy/too unsure about where to report them to tell. Or maybe I did mention the first 6 months ago when it first came... The first is trivial: the code removes the .serverauth file

Re: Stackdump at every second startup

2012-01-03 Thread Marc Girod
marco atzeri-4 wrote: C:\cygwin\binash ./rebaseall chdir c:\cygwin\bin dash -l -i -c rebaseall Er... this should not have resulted in anything different from the previous, right? I know there was another failing attempt, but this was already corrected... My real question now: is the

Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Girod
gabier wrote: 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory. The mintty console opens in /cygdrive/c/Users/username/Desktop/FREENAS, which is merely the link to the icon used to open the console. I created a home user directory and now if I enter cd ~/ I am in

Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Girod
gabier wrote: 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory. The mintty console opens in /cygdrive/c/Users/username/Desktop/FREENAS, which is merely the link to the icon used to open the console. I created a home user directory and now if I enter cd ~/ I am in

Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Girod
gabier wrote: 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory. ... I created a home user directory and now if I enter cd ~/ I am in it. But mintty still opens in its own link directory. Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two sources for

Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Girod
gabier wrote: 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory. ... I created a home user directory and now if I enter cd ~/ I am in it. But mintty still opens in its own link directory. Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two sources for

Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Girod
gabier wrote: 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory. ... I created a home user directory and now if I enter cd ~/ I am in it. But mintty still opens in its own link directory. Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two sources for

Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Girod
gabier wrote: So it seems quite correct. ... I noticed the following entry. ... Does it seem also correct ? If not it could explain my sshd problems ? Yes: your home seems correct. I didn't install sshd on my PC so that I cannot comment your sshd account, but it doesn't seem wrong.

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-24 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: Sorry. This made a difference on the command line, but not in the file. Is there something wrong in redirecting xauth's stderr to /dev/null? It complains that the file doesn't exist, and indeed just made sure to remove it... trap rm -f '$xserverauthfile' HUP INT QUIT

Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-23 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I just ran setup, but could not run rebaseall: this one (4.0.0-1 iirc) failed to access a rebasedb file (under a non-existing /usr/etc directory). I reverted to 3.0.1-1. Is the following output normal (I find it short): ~ cygcheck -c rebase-3.0.1-1 Cygwin Package Information Package

Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-23 Thread Marc Girod
I try here to send my cygcheck output as an attachment. This relates to a report made a few minutes ago using the old nabble site, with the same subject. Last time, my sending mail failed. Marc cygcheck.rvc Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-23 Thread Marc Girod
Thanks Ken, Ken Brown-6 wrote: This looks like a packaging bug. The rebasedb file is supposed to go in /etc, not /usr/etc. I suspect that Jason forgot to specify --sysconfdir=/etc when configuring. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-09/msg00025.html However, there was

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-23 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: To be honest, I find that cygcheck too behaves strangely: ... ~ cygcheck -l rebase-3.0.1-1 OK: my mistake (Thanks Marco): ~ cygcheck -c rebase Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus rebase 3.0.1-1OK ~ cygcheck -l

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-23 Thread Marc Girod
Thanks again Marco, marco atzeri-4 wrote: As workaround with rebase-4.0.0-1 you can, from ash, mkdir /usr/etc rebaseall the database will be created as /usr/etc/rebase.db.i386 I did, and it worked. As for the xauth error, it is in /usr/bin/startx: ~ xauth -q -f $xserverauthfile

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-23 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: It seems that xauth doesn't like the double-quote around the filename... Sorry. This made a difference on the command line, but not in the file. Marc -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Install-error-with-rebase-4.0.0-1-tp32705124p32705441.html Sent

Re: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2011-10-03 Thread Marc Girod
jan.kolar wrote: If you do not succeed with snapshots (I'm curious to know), Thanks for your help, and sorry to disappoint you: I cannot afford in the current situation to invest the time and effort to learn to install snapshots, build debuggable versions, and actively compare fixes. I

Re: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2011-10-02 Thread Marc Girod
marco atzeri-4 wrote: My experience is that using the standard problem report improve the chance to correctly identify the root cause and reduce the number of guess that everyone could have. One problem I have is that I use this list via the (old) nabble web site, and this one doesn't let

STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2011-09-30 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I keep my installation up-to-date on a weekly basis, and never fail to rebaseall/peflagsall as many times as needed to be able to start emacs in an X session without fork errors. Then I do a perlrebase. However, I eventually get STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION errors, in various contexts, e.g.

Re: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2011-09-30 Thread Marc Girod
marco atzeri-4 wrote: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html so at least we have an idea of your system in addition, have you checked http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda Antivirus and driver are the most likely culprits. Yes, I know both pages...

Re: Random fork failures

2011-07-11 Thread Marc Girod
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: Actually, I think it is more likely BLODA. The other standard reply (I am surprised not to read it in this thread) is rebaseall. I boot my laptop about weekly. That's the moment I use to refresh cygwin, especially if there has been some forced upgrades (frequent

Re: Multi-term in Emacs under Cygwin doesn't correctly identify terminal type?

2011-06-03 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, duncan_bayne wrote: Could someone please suggest a way of getting this working? Sorry, this is not an exact reply to your question, but... I use shell instead of term, and have no problem having as many as I wish (one just needs to rename the buffers). But OK, shell doesn't support the

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-12 Thread Marc Girod
Jon TURNEY wrote: A brief glance at the man page should discover 'cygpath -w -f-' Indeed... Sorry for missing this... Reini Urban wrote: $ perldoc perlcygwin and Thanks for that which is exactly what I needed! And which I had missed as well! Marc -- View this message in context:

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-11 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: You should use the cygpath utility to translate Cygwin paths to Windows paths, rather than just changing slashes and prefixing with C:\cygwin. OK. Done. Now, my script will fork this for every argument... Can I spawn a 'cygpath -w', put it in the background, and get it to

Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-08 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I am enhancing/fixing a perl tool (published to CPAN) which allows to import files into a ClearCase database (vob): synctree. Among the enhancements is support for cygwin. While testing it on cygwin, I tried and failed to import it itself, from the perl install directory, which is under

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-08 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: You should use the cygpath utility to translate Cygwin paths to Windows paths, rather than just changing slashes and prefixing with C:\cygwin. Apart from everything else, Cygwin might be installed somewhere other than C:\cygwin. I cope for that last problem with df

/etc/profile in base-files 4.0-5

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, Just upgraded, and got a new glitch: /etc/profile: line 39: ${p}: ambiguous redirect It sounds ${p} should be quoted to take care of possible spaces in the path to the Windows device: # Define default printer p='/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows

Re: Start a crontab service

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Girod
Larry W. Virden-2 wrote: If you find a sequence of steps that gets it working correctly, please let me know. Not yet... but found some doc I had missed: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-59.README as part of the cron package (I looked at the crontab one so far...). This sends me to:

Re: Start a crontab service

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: Still reading... Actually... in my very simple case, running: /usr/bin/cron-config and accepting the defaults (recording my own password) was enough to get cron the work... $ cygrunsrv -L cron $ crontab ~/cron/mg $ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master

Start a crontab service

2011-03-17 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I tried to install cron locally on my laptop, and could not find instructions to proceed. I found FAQ 41, and failed to start sshd as well. I have now the two services installed: ~ cygrunsrv --verbose --list Service : sshd Current State : Stopped Command :

Re: ssh error

2010-06-06 Thread Marc Girod
Gary .-4 wrote: (Or, IOW: I, at least, have seen your post, but I can't help you. Sorry.) Neither am I able to provide a competent answer, or to reproduce your problem (Vista client to Solaris sshd only). On the surface, it seems to be a bash error to load a dll (?). Did you run

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-30 Thread Marc Girod
Ken Brown-6 wrote: What if you just use a smaller font, for instance by putting the following in your ~/.Xdefaults: Emacs.font: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-9 Thanks Ken. This solved the problem. Ironic is that this is what I'd have done if I had not been sure my *font* had not

Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I just upgraded for the first time for a few months. Starting my Gnu emacs under X11, I notice that my font (and frames) is larger than previously, by a factor ~1.5. I did record the following last October, and it stayed the same now: ~ cygcheck -c | egrep 'bitstream.*vera'

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Marc Girod
I just thought I'd add my /var/log/XWin.0.log file, which contains my X startup string... The complete startup string, from /Emacs.bat, is: bash --login -c /usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/emacs -g 90x37+150+0 -- /usr/bin/X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard Thanks, Marc

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Marc Girod
Ken Brown-6 wrote: [This should have gone to the cygwin-xfree list. I've set the reply-to accordingly.] Sorry... I wasn't sure whether it was emacs or X. I reply via nabble: hope it will follow the reply-to. This is a result of the change in the default server DPI announced in

Re: MIT krb5 on cygwin?

2010-03-11 Thread Marc Girod
Alec Kloss-17 wrote: FYI, I did submit some fixed to make heimdal work under cygwin... depending on what you're trying to accomplish with LDAP heimdal should be sufficient. Thanks! At least, it was enough for me to build GSSAPI-0.26. I had however to add -heimsqlite to the value of

Re: MIT krb5 on cygwin?

2010-03-10 Thread Marc Girod
Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote: Let me put it this way. We would be really glad to have a Cygwin maintainer for an MIT krb5 package. I see... I gave a try now to krb5-1.8 (instead of looking at the Windows port). Configure dies in: configure:7006: error: Shared libraries are not yet supported

Re: Fwd: 1.7.1 setup mirrors list is empty

2010-03-09 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: Setup stays in download mode (setup.bz2), empty progress bar, now from sunet.se as well as all the others. And suddenly it started to work again from heanet.ie. Thanks, Marc -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Fwd%3A-1.7.1-setup-mirrors-list-is-empty

Problems installing Text-Iconv-1.7 (perl module)

2010-03-09 Thread Marc Girod
As part of Net::LDAP, I try to install Text-Iconv-1.7, and it fails. I installed libiconv (I already had libiconv2), but 'perl Makefile.PL' has a comiple test which fails. I reproduced on the command line, removing the redirections to /dev/null: Text-Iconv-1.7 gcc -I/usr/include

Re: Problems installing Text-Iconv-1.7 (perl module)

2010-03-09 Thread Marc Girod
Reini Urban wrote: you need gcc-4 Thanks, to both of you (Corina and Reini). Do I understand right that perl was built with gcc 4 and -fstack-protect? So, shouldn't gcc 4 be the default? OK... It has been beaten to death and I just didn't notice or look for it... Text-Iconv-1.7 gcc

Re: Problems installing Text-Iconv-1.7 (perl module)

2010-03-09 Thread Marc Girod
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Did you install it? I installed libiconv, but there is no dll in it: an archive, and this dll.a file, of which I don't what to think: ~ cygcheck -l libiconv | grep lib/libiconv /usr/lib/libiconv.a /usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a /usr/lib/libiconv.la ~ file

Re: Problems installing Text-Iconv-1.7 (perl module)

2010-03-09 Thread Marc Girod
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Sorry. Reread the thread. You forgot to put the -liconv at the end. Remember, Windows != UNIX/Linux. ;-) Thanks! It worked, and then I read the makefile better, and it did it correctly, only the second time: it made a first attempt without it (in case the

MIT krb5 on cygwin?

2010-03-09 Thread Marc Girod
Still trying to install Net::LDAP, I am now in GSSAPI-0.26. This one requires... An installed Version of GSS-API bindings, e.g MIT Kerberos http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/ Heimdal http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/ VAS http://www.quest.com/ It goes on indicating that... -

Re: Fwd: 1.7.1 setup mirrors list is empty

2010-03-08 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, Nazar Gabriel wrote: After stepping through the screens the list for mirrors to choose from is empty. I don't have an empty list, but I do have some problems with them. The Swedish mirror has an older version of setup.exe. The installation from funet.fi couldn't complete, and later I

Re: Fwd: 1.7.1 setup mirrors list is empty

2010-03-08 Thread Marc Girod
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: There is only one Swedish mirror: ftp.sunet.se. It has a recent version of setup.ini. Mirrors are not supposed to keep copies of setup.exe and, in fact, I don't see one at that site. My mistake: I meant setup.ini. setup.exe 2.686, which I downloaded yesterday

Re: Questions about gnu debug

2009-12-24 Thread Marc Girod
Eliot Moss wrote: And this may add a little to your understanding: Few of which pertains to cygwin... Eliot Moss wrote: Hope these distinctions help They are matters of taste, and of experience. I have an other taste and an other experience. Hard to compare, I know. Eliot Moss wrote:

ttyfier (was: /dev/conout)

2009-12-20 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: I am still looking forward to tfy... Building it, I get a exe called tfy.exe, and a ttyfier1.dll shared library. I try: ./tfy cleartool -ver in the cygwin console and in an xterm I get a 'flash' then nothing, and the process seems to hang. I can kill them

Re: ttyfier

2009-12-20 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: I start playing with gdb... I don't get very far: it returns directly to the shell prompt. I did a make clean, uncommented the DEBUG = -g, and make again, but to no avail. ttyfier file tfy.exe tfy.exe: PE32 executable for MS Windows (console) Intel 80386 32-bit Marc

/de/conout (was: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application)

2009-12-18 Thread Marc Girod
defaria wrote: the problem is that cleartool is written for Windows thus uses /dev/conout I can see /dev/conout, but what can I do with it? I found one hit in the docs: http://www.cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html Thanks, Marc -- View this message in context:

Re: /dev/conout

2009-12-18 Thread Marc Girod
defaria wrote: So I've always just used something like cleartool ci -c 'my comment' file or cleartool ci -nc file and if I ever do a cleartool command and it seems to hang the first thing I think of is Oh I bet it's that pty thing. I believe I have better than that with my

Merits of ClearCase (was: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application)

2009-12-14 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: In my opinion, the MVFS file system is a piece of trash. It has so many corner cases that intentionally _break_ POSIX rules and thus get in the way of normal assumptions about how file systems should work Maybe. The question is: is it worth it? I believe it is. Eric

Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: That's a workaround, not a solution. Any VCS that requires an O(n) (n as the number of files being labeled) labeling post-processing pass in order to create enough records in the database to track commits atomically, when there are O(1) solutions like git where commits

Re: ttyfier (was: Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application)

2009-12-14 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: Thanks, I had't heard of ttyfier. Interesting stuff! More comprehensive than my 'conin' attempt because it tranlates output as well as input. I downloaded the sources and built it. My first try at using it wasn't very convincing: it didn't display anything and I had to

Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-13 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin. In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user for an interactive decision. I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X --emacs shell or xterm-- or the Cygwin terminal. My process just

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-13 Thread Marc Girod
Dave Korn-6 wrote: *shudder* Er? Dave Korn-6 wrote: It's almost certainly not hung: it's printed the prompt, which has gotten lost somewhere, and it's now waiting for your input. Try hitting enter. This is what I meant. I thought I had tried hitting Enter... It works. Under

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-13 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: Did you restart your Cygwin session? I think that setting only gets read once at the start of the first Cygwin process. No: I only set the environment varaible in the console shell. I am now updating cygwin... I didn't do that for a few weeks. Andy Koppe wrote: Oh

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-13 Thread Marc Girod
Dave Korn-6 wrote: Ghastly top-heavy over-engineered UML-laden bloatware that comes with its own non-standard filing system does tend to make me do that ;-) There's a gem well hidden inside. Dave Korn-6 wrote: That'll teach you to choose the wrong side in the One True Editor wars!

Re: mark/copy text to clipboard without a mouse in rxvt or mintty

2009-10-26 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: Apple's Terminal.app has such a feature, but I don't know of any open source terminal that has it. Except for the special case of GNU screen, although there you're limited to copypasting within screen, but perhaps that'd be sufficient? GNU emacs shell too. And probably

Re: Can't rm file, but no error message

2009-10-05 Thread Marc Girod
Ronald Fischer-6 wrote: I think we can derive it from the CYGWIN environment variable, isn't it? It is set to 'smbntsec'. The system is a pretty standard Windows 2000 machine, so it should be the filesystem which Microsoft usually installs... There is a nice utility to tell you the

Re: xauth data + X connection to localhost:10.0 broken problem

2009-09-30 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, diego menezes wrote: Does anyone have any idea on what's going on? I used to get something similar, which I worked around by setting my DISPLAY to: $($WHOAMI|sed -e 's/^.*(\(.*\)).*$/\1/'):0.0 (but this worked only for one hop)... until I read the FAQ again and added to my

GNU emacs fonts again

2009-09-30 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, My last cygwin upgrade changed the fonts used in GNU emacs. This is: xorg-server 1.6.3-1 OK emacs23.1-10OK cygwin 1.7.0-61 OK font-alias1.0.1-1OK Until now, I belive I was using:

Re: GNU emacs fonts again

2009-09-30 Thread Marc Girod
Hi Andy, Andy Koppe wrote: In case you want Lucida back: Thanks, but no... This wasn't my question. In fact, I do have the package installed and up to date. Now, GNU emacs seemed to use it and doesn't anymore. I didn't change my settings. But, I liked the Lucida Sans Typewriter font on

Re: GNU emacs fonts again

2009-09-30 Thread Marc Girod
Thanks Ken, Ken Brown-6 wrote: I think emacs is selecting Bitstream Vera Sans Mono by default. It looks good to me. I had to install it, but indeed, emacs picked it. There must be some preference order. This is what must have changed recently as somebody else decided that Lucida Sans

Re: XWin not working on vista?

2009-09-30 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, I saw Larry's reply to go to the cygwin-xfree list, and I am OK with that, but you didn't yet, did you? Then just to tell that at least I do successfully use XWin on Vista. Mike Eggleston-2 wrote: Suggestions on what to try next? Well, comparing our respective logs: - I use:

Re: -clipboard has been broken by Microsoft .NET sp1

2009-08-11 Thread Marc Girod
Duane Krings wrote: removing the -clipboard option to the XWin and everything works fine again (except of coarse copying between X and windows) I am using Vista, and XWin -clipboard I had, long ago already, to disable the 'Office Clipboard', which I did from Outlook, by clicking away

Re: emacs shell: Can't exec program: /usr/bin/bash

2009-08-11 Thread Marc Girod
Hi Ken, Marc Girod wrote: Not yet, but now I downloaded it... Now I installed it (and ran rebaseall/peflagsall). ~ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0 EV0016D4A35054 1.7.0s(0.212/5/3) 20090804 23:19:31 i686 Cygwin It seems indeed to work much better than 56! Thanks, Marc -- View this message

emacs shell: Can't exec program: /usr/bin/bash

2009-08-10 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I upgraded to 1.7.0-56, then did my usual rebaseall/peflagsall. It went well, but now, I keep getting failures to start new shells under GNU emacs. I get the following error: Can't exec program: /usr/bin/bash Process shell4 exited abnormally with code 127 It succeeded first a few

Re: emacs shell: Can't exec program: /usr/bin/bash

2009-08-10 Thread Marc Girod
Ken Brown-6 wrote: Have you tried the latest snapshot (2009-08-04)? Not yet, but now I downloaded it... In fact, I'll try it only if things become unbearable, or if my X crashes. I tend to keep my things up for a few days... It takes some time to set everything up. Thanks, Marc -- View

MVFS on cygwin: Thanks, and plug for ClearCase::Wrapper::MGi

2009-07-29 Thread Marc Girod
Thanks for the recent fixes to make cygwin support mvfs for handling the emacs symlink locks! I keep updating my CPAN modules to run ClearCase from cygwin. With the recent ClearCase::Argv 1.46, and ClearCase::Wrapper::MGi 0.11, I get the following kind of transcripts: ClearCase-Wrapper-MGi

Re: volinfo (was: MVFS results)

2009-07-20 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: Oh - that's why I didn't find it - csih renamed it to getVolInfo, and it is not part of the default PATH. Very nice... and I found that I can mount my views on cygwin the 'standard' way! info mkdir /view info mount //view/emagiro_86 /view/emagiro_86 mount: warning -

Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???

2009-07-17 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: Just two fixes for now: My emacs crashed (Memory Full). I don't know whether this may be related. It had not done so for long. This might well be a side-effect of this purify-flag... Maybe I could set it to nil on some later function? Otherwise, my hack seems to work well

Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???

2009-07-17 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: You shouldn't need the hack at all, once the next cygwin snapshot is made available. Oh! This fast! I just thought I would have to live with this longer. Thanks, Marc -- View this message in context:

Re: MVFS results

2009-07-16 Thread Marc Girod
Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote: Been there. It's a remote trial over Web Browser for 3 hours. That's not exactly helpful. Oh well. The other option is the source code for linux. It is Open Source. I can find it from my release area (since I do not have a linux client):

Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???

2009-07-15 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: Thanks. I'll try that. That was: 'CYGWIN=winsymlinks tty' The result is not fully satisfying. E.g.: lrwxrwxrwx 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers45 Jul 14 11:57 .#common.mk - emag...@ev0016d4a35054.eemea.ericsson.se.4708 in a dired buffer, and which I cannot remove

Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???

2009-07-15 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: I'll report my results... Here is what I did, to make it practical: (defun clearcase-no-lock() Under ClearCase, in Cygwin, do not create lock symlinks. Either format (old: Windows shortcuts; new: real symlinks with utf name) are bad for different reasons. The only way

Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???

2009-07-15 Thread Marc Girod
Just two fixes for now: Marc Girod wrote: This function is intened as a find-file-hook. ... (set (make-local-variable 'purify_flag) t intended purify-flag Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/.-*-lock-files-under-X%2C-for-files-I-edit

Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???

2009-07-15 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: (set (make-local-variable 'purify_flag) t Setting purify-flag wasn't working for me (emacs gave a message about an assertion failure). Huh? Nothing like that here. In fact, it works... Wait: - I still have the 'CYGWIN=winsymlinks' setting --although unsetting

Re: browse-url in emacs (was Re: w32-shell-execute function definition is void)

2009-06-18 Thread Marc Girod
Ken Brown-6 wrote: On 6/17/2009 12:15 PM, Ken Brown wrote: Marc, if you want to test it, delete the stuff you added to your .emacs and carry out the following steps: ... OK, I ran this. I did it from within emacs, which was maybe not bright. Anyway, I got a couple of glitches in the

Re: w32-shell-execute function definition is void

2009-06-16 Thread Marc Girod
Mark Fisher-4 wrote: i cannot seem to be able to use/find w32-shell-execute. Same thing on 23.0.92 The error comes e.g. as I do: M-x browse-url I can find the function definition in the C sources: src/w32fns.c but I remember that this object is not linked to the cygwin emacs. So, there

Re: Garbage man pages

2009-06-16 Thread Marc Girod
Bill McCormick-4 wrote: Here's some sample output: u9Fman.1Z[waAE~i_NE}2Fg'vHjxD.%9x# OdG FaD'?~eO4(Ex ... Writing is easy, reading is hard. Nothing new. Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Garbage-man-pages-tp23989626p24050746.html Sent from the

Re: w32-shell-execute function definition is void

2009-06-16 Thread Marc Girod
Ken Brown-6 wrote: I haven't tried to write a full-blown replacement, but the following works for me. It is now in my .emacs as well. Er... (browse-url file://c:/cygwin2/home/emagiro/public_html/index.html nil) I even get it twice! Yes, I know... call that ingratitude... Thanks! Marc --

Re: fatal error - fork: can't reserve memory for stack

2009-06-16 Thread Marc Girod
Frank-136 wrote: As you see, I already tried with Cygwin 1.5 and 1.7 and I also ran the rebase tool under Cygwin 1.5, but no success. You need to run it for Cygwin 1.7 as well. I also run, in the same ash window, after every install, a ./peflagsall With those, and since I installed a

Re: Problems with gmp and mpfr after rebasing - was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] gmp-4.3.1-1 for cygwin-1.7

2009-06-07 Thread Marc Girod
David Billinghurst wrote: The new builds are available for testing. You really only need the new DLLs. These are in - libgmp3-4.3.1-3.tar.bz2, - libgmpxx4-4.3.1-3.tar.bz2 - libmpfr1-2.4.1-3.tar.bz2 I could once again download them with wget, but not find them from any mirro.

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