Re: Error when compiling mySQL client libraries

On 1/27/2010 5:53 AM, Jurgen Defurne wrote: In which package is sys/ttydefaults.h supposed to be ? One answers such questions with this: http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ The answer is "no package", which then calls into question how the MySQL maintainers came to believe they should #include th

Re: Why require ps -W and kill -f

On 1/22/2010 4:15 PM, Don Beusee wrote: I am a unix user that has moved to windows. I want unix commands on windows that function like their unix counterparts. That is supposed to be one of cygwin's missions, is it not? Sorry, but you're not exactly on the side of the angels when you argue t

Re: Design issue with new MS-DOS style path warning?

On 1/22/2010 10:23 AM, Eric Vautier wrote: AndroidApp BUILD FAILED C:\dev\prj\app4\AndroidApp\build.xml:343: Warning: Could not find file C:\cygdrive\c\dev\prj\app4\Common\target\Common.jar to copy. My first thought when I see things like this isn't "oh, bad id

Re: Why require ps -W and kill -f

On 1/21/2010 7:09 PM, Don Beusee wrote: ps -e on Unix displays “every process running on the system”. Not on every *ix. On FreeBSD, if you give -a (the BSD equivalent of -e) as an unprivileged user, you can't see other people's processes, for security reasons. It would be nice if every *ix

Re: How do I disable old SSH protocol

On 1/7/2010 4:19 PM, raytheman wrote: My cygwin supports all the old SSH protocol, I need to disable them in order to meeting the security requirement, please help. Same way you do this on any other OS with OpenSSH. I don't have sshd here, but I imagine it's /etc/sshd_config or /etc/ssh/sshd

Re: The need for cygwin

On 1/7/2010 3:04 PM, mike marchywka wrote: It isn't so much the work-with-windoze aspect as much as "why do you need a command line thing when you have a gui?" You really should just have a one-link answer that explains that. http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html -- Problem reports:

Re: Cygwin and raw sockets - Windows XP with SP2 , Vista and later

On 1/6/2010 3:04 PM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: - For pure Windows applications(Windows Native approach) that require raw sockets, we can use winpcap. WinPCap is not "raw sockets". The term "sockets" refers to the BSD Sockets programming API, or related ones like Winsock. WinPCap is a complete

Re: Problem with wildcard from Windows

On 12/30/2009 11:33 AM, Bengt Larsson wrote: It doesn't work for echo because "echo" is a builtin in the Windows shell. Okay, imatwit, of course it is. One bug, then. :) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Problem with wildcard from Windows

On 12/30/2009 11:16 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 12/30/2009 01:08 PM, Warren Young wrote: Another thing that doesn't work: c:\> echo W* Ah, right. So my idea doesn't make sense. Never mind. ;-) I think we're looking at two bugs, though. The original post appe

Re: Problem with wildcard from Windows

On 12/30/2009 10:18 AM, Bengt Larsson wrote: Try "noglob" if your shell is not Cygwin-aware. Eh? The problem is that it doesn't glob when it should. The shell is standard CMD.EXE, ie Windows console. The behavior you're relying on is a nonstandard Cygwin extension which most Cygwin users, I

Re: Cygwin Apache installation problem

On 12/30/2009 8:23 AM, mtuma wrote: checking for APR... reconfig configuring package in srclib/apr now /bin/sh: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or directory configure failed for srclib/apr It's clearly barfing on the space in "c:\Documents and Settings". The question is why it thinks it

Re: 1.7.1: Mintty/bash window start: -bash: regtool: command not found

On 12/23/2009 3:15 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: I can reproduce this as follows: - Leave a Cygwin session open. - Run setup.exe - Select reinstall for cygwin-1.7.1-1. - Click next - "in-use files detected" appears - Click retry. I saw the same symptom, but by a slightly different path. On updating

Re: NEW major release: cygwin-1.7.1-1

On 12/23/2009 2:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: after an exceptionally long time of development and testing we're proud to release Cygwin's next major version 1.7.1. I know it says "no donations" on the site, but is this EU regulation...flexible? Perhaps I am interested in sending you a Chri

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sqlite3-3.6.21-3

The previous -2 release had a completely wrong source patch relative to the original sources, which caused it to be all but useless. Thus, everyone who got the -2 should upgrade. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentati

cygwin_conv_path() documentation RFE

On this page http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-api/func-cygwin-conv-path.html the size parameter should say whether it's measured in bytes or characters. For instance, if I pass CCP_POSIX_TO_WIN_W for the first parameter and a pure ASCII file name for the 'from' parameter, it's obvious th

Re: ATTN sqlite3 maintainer: Re: libsqlite3_0-3.6.21-2 breaks subversion

On 12/17/2009 4:28 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: This appears to be a problem with sqlite3 itself. Actually, SQLite itself is fine. The problem is a patch I made to it to move away from a deprecated Cygwin 1.5 API function, which SQLite used. That patch did several different things, most of

Re: libsqlite3_0-3.6.21-2 breaks subversion

On 12/17/2009 4:30 AM, Christian Franke wrote: After upgrading from libsqlite3_0 from 3.6.2-1 to 3.6.21-2, svn is broken. 3.6.2-1 was just copied over from the Cygwin 1.5 repository, so it was built with old tools. This means gcc 3 ABI, no Unicode support in Cygwin, etc. 3.6.21 is the firs

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sqlite3-3.6.2-2

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://sqlite.org/ License : Public Domain (no, really!) SQLite is a C library providing local database storage with a SQL interface. Unlike most SQL database systems, SQLite does not accept connections from remote users. Access to the databa

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: doxygen-1.6.1-1

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://doxygen.org/ License : GNU GPL Doxygen is a program source code documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL, Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and D. CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE == "id"s refer to Doxyg

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sqlite3-3.6.2-1

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://sqlite.org/ License : Public Domain (no, really!) SQLite is a C library providing local database storage with a SQL interface. Unlike most SQL database systems, SQLite does not accept connections from remote users. Access to the databa

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ctags-5.8-1

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ License : GNU GPL Ctags generates an index (or tag) file of language objects found in source files that allows these items to be quickly and easily located by a text editor or other utility. A tag signifies a lang

Re: General questions about upgrading to 1.7

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 8 13:45, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: I'm plannig to migrate my production env (i.e. my XPSP3 box at work 8-D), from 1.5.25 to 1.7 as soon as there is an official release, There's no reason not to use the current beta. True. Many of us have been using it

Re: SOCK_RAW raw socket and cygwin

Leyendecker, Robert wrote: Is it possible to use a SOCK_RAW in cygwin for read and write of IP packets? While it's possible Cygwin is breaking something here, I'd first verify that you're not exceeding the underlying stack's capabilities. See the Winsock Programmer's FAQ, item 4.1:

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

Jeremy Bopp wrote: Is anyone else receiving another copy of this message every half hour or so? I've received 5 copies so far, all apparently identical. Yes. I only sent the message once, and I only see it once in the archives, so either the list server is sending the extra copies (but why

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

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 with tag How much sense

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.1-1

Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/10/16 Eric Backus: Unfortunately, cygwin's terminfo/termcap entries for XTERM say that the backspace key returns ^H. xterm does still send ^H, but I agree both xterm and its termcap entry ought to be changed to match the new Cygwin 1.7 default and the Linux world. I sh

Re: UNZIP: Why don't .exe/.dll files get eXecute privs?

Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I can't control how the ZIP file gets created, but I do expect that when I unzip a file, that the .exe will actually execute without having to change permissions! I guess it comes down to a question of whether *.exe implies chmod +x. It doesn't in any "native" *ix pack

Re: gold star requests

Andrew Schulman wrote: All back-ordered gold stars should also now have been awarded. You might look at old ITA messages, too. I'm sorta owed some for adopting orphaned packages. I don't know that I really deserve them, since I don't release new versions very often, but maybe others who a

Re: Installed Cygwin 1.7 - no X?

Christopher Faylor wrote: (who wonders if he should make good on this threat to merge the cygwin-xfree and cygwin mailing lists) I thought that was a done deal, just waiting on someone to get around to it. MHO: go, go! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

Edward Lam wrote: No, they just aren't as mean as we are. We like to make things purposely slow because then people suffer. I asked what I thought was a sensible question for someone who doesn't know the internal workings of cygwin/mingw. It wasn't meant as a flame bait. Flame? Oh, my n

Re: Call for TESTING (was Re: [1.7.0-50] scp progress counter flies through first 175 MB or so)

Corinna Vinschen wrote: Just try it and report what happens for you. I'm seeing similar results to your above benchmarks now, with 20090701: upload: 30 MB/s download: 47 MB/s This on the Vista-64 machine that was seeing the original reported problem of near-instant 100% on

Re: Call for TESTING (was Re: [1.7.0-50] scp progress counter flies through first 175 MB or so)

Corinna Vinschen wrote: What's still not clear is why the ssh process takes so much CPU. Too many buffer copies? It takes a surprising amount of CPU power to fill a gigabit pipe from userland. Double or triple that workload with unnecessary copies, and there goes your transfer rate, evapora

Re: Call for TESTING (was Re: [1.7.0-50] scp progress counter flies through first 175 MB or so)

I scp'd a 1.6 GB file back and forth to a Linux server over GigE to a fast new RAID-10. I tested 1.7.0-50 and 20090629. Results: On a 32-bit XP box, 1.7.0-50 gives about 15 MByte/sec for both upload and download. (This box can't really hit GigE speeds due to crappy cabling and a low-quality

Re: What is Cygwin DLL & emulation Layer ?

Neeraj Sahu wrote: Why you have designed cygwin as DLL ? What's the advantage ? The advantage relative to what? Propose another way it could work, and we can compare and contrast the alternatives. What is Cygwin emulation layer ? cygwin1.dll. It sits between POSIX type programs and the

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

Corinna Vinschen wrote: This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a search field, Someone's getting a gold star for this, I hope? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: BLODA list

Greg Chicares wrote: On 2009-02-21 12:23Z, Vincent R. wrote: Is there any BLODA list ? Yes, it's in the FAQ: It's also built into cygcheck -s. Look for "app conflicts". -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: CygWine 1.0 Beta -- an new cygwin package manager

Brant Young wrote: I have launched a opensource project -- CygWine ( a cygwin package management utility, project homepage: http://cygwine.googlecode.com ) My initial thought on seeing the name is that it was a port of Wine to Cygwin, which would be tres silly. We don't really need two diff

Re: install on vista64 - cygreadline6.dll not found

Terry wrote: This application has failed to start because cygreadline6.dll was not found... There was a thread started just an hour before yours, also mentioning cygreadline6.dll. Does my reply there help? If not, maybe we have something different happening. Please report here either way.

Re: cydwin not starting - cygreadline6.dll missing

luca.maltagli...@aero.jussieu.fr wrote: I installed cydwin (I have windows XP (SP3)) with the setup.exe, adding only the openssh to the basic. I don't suppose you tried, first, to install Cygwin 1.7, then later installed 1.5? If so, this and other bad things will happen. See: http

Re: RFD: cygwin + *native* MinGW compiler

Charles Wilson wrote: Pursuant to a discussion on the libtool list, I'm trying to get a feel for how many cygwin users rely on the cygwin environment to drive the *native* MinGW gcc compiler. I do half of what you're asking: use Cygwin's bash shell as an environment to drive mingw32-make on Mi

Re: ???????? owner and group

Corinna Vinschen wrote: Have a look into the ACL by using Windows Explorer properties/security dialog. What you see is thatthe user and group for a file on the share is "Unix User\yourunixuser" and "Unix Group\yourunixgroup". These accounts are missing in your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.

Re: 1.5 / 1.7 setup.exe entanglement?

Corinna Vinschen wrote: Yes, the reason is that setup looks into c:\cygwin by default and if it finds setup files there, it will use them Thought so. A wishlist item, then: add something to 1.5's setup.exe to detect that c:\cygwin is from a later version, and refuse to use information found

1.5 / 1.7 setup.exe entanglement?

I got a new machine at work a few weeks ago, and decided to install Cygwin 1.7 on it, and not even mess with 1.5. Can't test what you don't use, right? For reasons that aren't important here, today I decided I needed a copy of 1.5 as well. This means I have the reverse of the recommended set

Re: MinTTY

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: What do any of the programs you've listed have to do with ssh? Not a thing. But if we can't tolerate two ssh implementations, why can we tolerate two command line web page fetchers? Or two FTP clients? Or two web clients? Or two graphics manipulation packages

Re: MinTTY

Christopher Faylor wrote: I think the only reason to use cygwin.bat is to set the cygwin environment variable before bash starts. There's no way to do that with a shortcut is there? In this case, it could be one of MinTTY's settings, because it can set up the environment before calling bash.

Re: MinTTY

Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't really feel comfortable having another ssh implementation in Cygwin. wget, curl lftp, ncftp links, lynx GraphicsMagic, ImageMagick ash, bash, tcsh, zsh, scsh, pdksh, posh vim, nano, emacs, joe, xemacs, nedit, xedit, gvim need I go on? Not that I'm pushin

Re: Cygnus (Systems) Files Patent Suit Against Microsoft, Google, Apple

Reini Urban wrote: Has this anything remotely to do with us? I don't think so. First, their About Us page doesn't say they're part of Red Hat. No mention of stock symbols or anything. Public companies are usually all too eager to give investor information here. Second, they're in Michig

Re: Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

Matt Wozniski wrote: to have a list of what we get for being able to drop this cursed loadstone. ^^^ I lol'ed at the reference Glad someone got it. :) Why don't you run

Re: Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:41:38PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: after a rather long period of time of development, Is this going to change for the next major release? There's an awful lot to absorb in this one. If you mean for 1.9.x

Re: Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

Corinna Vinschen wrote: after a rather long period of time of development, Is this going to change for the next major release? There's an awful lot to absorb in this one. - No more support for Windows 95/98/Me. Awesome. Can you talk about the positive consequences? Obviously there's

Re: Socket programming with Cygwin

John Emmas wrote: confused about why the program worked when I built it under Linux. As Brian said, glibc's inet_pton() is apparently doing something beyond what the standard requires. Cygwin doesn't use glibc, it uses a different standard C library called newlib. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Running Linux Application on Windows

Emil Tan wrote: Is the documentation kinda wrong? Yes, but that's something you'll have to take up with the people who maintain that file, presumably on the Samhain mailing list. Whoever wrote it doesn't realize that /usr, /home, etc aren't created in c:\, they're mount(1) aliases for dir

Re: python package missing _sqlite3.dll in /usr/lib/python2.5/sqlite3

Jason Tishler wrote: I thought this was fixed 2 months ago: It was -- see the following thread for the details: Okay, so what am I missing? I assume Tim isn't making the error report up. Why is he having trouble if this is fixed? It'd be best if Python and SQLite can remain separate W

Re: python package missing _sqlite3.dll in /usr/lib/python2.5/sqlite3

Tim Hoel wrote: But when I did "import sqlite3", I got the following error: ImportError: No module named _sqlite3 I thought this was fixed 2 months ago: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00156.html Cygwin's Python currently links to SQLite statically, but from that thread,

Re: cygwin-make issue

Clearcase Administrator wrote: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. File locking semantics are different on Windows -- far more strict -- than on your average *ix where GNU make normally lives. Things you can get away with on *ix are often prohibite

Re: utf-8 problems using cygwin

Alexander Brosch wrote: My problem is that these 2 programs need different versions of the cygwin1.dll. id3v2.exe needs version 1005.24.0.0, otherwise german ä,ö,ü are not written correctly sh.exe needs version 1005.25.0.0, otherwise greek characters are not written correctly We on this list

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sqlite3-3.6.2-1

Version 3.6.2-1 of the SQLite library has been uploaded. SQLite is a C library providing local database storage with a SQL interface. Unlike most SQL database systems, SQLite does not accept connections from remote users. Access to the database requires access to the file system hosting it;

Re: Python and sqlite3

Warren Young wrote: Anyway, I've rebuilt the packages, So...did you try them? Did they fix the problem? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

Re: Python and sqlite3

Jason Tishler wrote: Does sqlite3 have a maintainer? Me, sort of. :) I adopted it reluctantly, because I use it on other platforms, and because it looked like no one else was going to do it. This is why I'm not releasing new versions to track upstream. Using it on Cygwin really isn't my

Re: Probably stupid make question

Phil Smith wrote: exactly what part of "(obviously I can figure this out, but if I knew offhand it would save me some hassle)" was unclear? He's saying try it and find out: $ cat > foo.sh #!/bin/sh echo $# ^D $ chmod +x foo.sh $ ./foo.sh -Dsomething=c:/Documents and Settings/whatever 3 $ ./foo

Re: apache

mattias wrote: How to start apache in cygwin? $ less /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/apache* -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.c

Re: Cygwin compiler and linker options

Ralph Hempel wrote: I know I can install MinGW, but keeping track of their releases and having to download custom versions of this and that to get all the parts to play nicely together is such a huge PITA. Building cross-compilers is easier? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#uns

Re: Cygwin compiler and linker options

Ralph Hempel wrote: what I think I hear you saying is that when -mno-cygwin is fully deprecated I'll need to build a cross compiler for native Windows executables Or, you could install MinGW. Cygwin and MinGW will coexist, side by side, without conflict, if you arrange it so only one is in

Re: Compiling cdecl and c++decl for cygwin?

leeand00 wrote: cdecl.c:141: error: conflicting types for 'setprogname' /usr/include/cygwin/stdlib.h:22: error: previous declaration of 'setprogname' was here Remove line 141 from cdecl.c. It's almost certainly a C prototype, included for some blinkered system where that function isn't decla

Re: scheme implementations for cygwin

Nathan Thern wrote: What does ITP stand for, anyway? http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#ITP Search for that in the subject line of some recent messages to see what an ITP message normally looks like, then do that. :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repor

Re: Problems installing Cygwin

Bryan A. Zimmer wrote: there is not even a default path Perhaps your /etc/profile is damaged. If you open it in a text editor and it looks okay to you, diff it against /etc/defaults/etc/profile, that being the version that's installed when the Cygwin package that owns this file (dunno what

Re: use 'insmod' inside cygwin

Sam Hanes wrote: `insmod` is the POSIX command ... insmod is a Linux-specific command, not POSIX. I don't believe POSIX has anything to say about device drivers, in fact. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

Re: user shared size version mismatch while trying scp

Thomas Wiedmann wrote: How can scp be called and run successfully within the Cygwin console Run setup.exe again and select openssh, in the Net category. without getting this mismatch error message That error message won't go away as long as you try to use two cygwin1.dlls on the same syste

Re: MySql doesn't work in cygwin

Please keep replies on the mailing list. Berable wrote: I can access the my mysql running in windows from cygwin, instead of mysql that I have installed in cygwin environment? How can I do this? I prefer this way... but I'm newbie in this subjectr If you install the Windows port of

Re: MySql doesn't work in cygwin

Berable wrote: "can't connect to local Mysql Server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'" [snip] socket = /var/tmp/mysql.sock Try changing /var/tmp to /tmp. Error 2003 (HY000):Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (111) What are the results of this command: $ netstat -na

Re: Trouble compiling C++ package

Richard Querin wrote: I removed all the Sonic products If you reinstall, just elect not to install the DLA piece. It's what lets you use a rewritable optical disk as if it were a floppy. Such software often causes problems, not just with Cygwin, due to the nature of the task. (CDs weren

Re: Trouble compiling C++ package

Richard Querin wrote: 2 [main] ? 3312 init_cheap: Couldn't reserve 3600336 bytes of space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 487 C:\cygwin\lib\gcc\i686-pc-cygwin\3.4.4\cc1plus.exe (3312): *** AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x6182, RegionSize 0x36, State 0x1 This is the real sympt

Re: Question about link.exe?

Chris Howell wrote: What I want is link to be the path that is found under my BIN directory of my DevStudio install. However possibily because they're the same name when I query link, or try and use it to make a dll. Bash thinks I am using link to make a symbolic link as opposed to a dll. Yo

Re: Recently installed cygwin - cannot install gcc

David Ziants wrote: Explicitly tried to install/reinstall the "develop" package where gcc is supposed to be installable from. While setup.exe will let you install the entire Devel category, that's probably not what you actually did, nor do you generally want to. There's a whole lot of stuff

Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin

Mark wrote: I had thought that by modifying my etc/profile to pick up mingw istead of the GCC bundled in cygwin If that's the limit of your goal, then yes, it can be done, but it's a bit more involved than just changing the PATH. Here's the Bourne shell script I use, which I call 'mingw':

Re: Cygwin setup: DL rate should show as kB/s not kb/s ?

Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: My point stands though: it would be a useful addition to have this user-selectable, as in some other file transfer programs. But my counterpoint also stands: no options dialog. I guessbut I don't see why this is a blocking issue. Fix the text now, and put "opti

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

Brian Dessent wrote: FAQ already has a single page version at . I said in my previous message that I was aware of it and want to talk about something else. We have a behavioral psychology problem here, not a technology problem: if the item of intere

Re: Uninstalling Cygwin

Christopher Faylor wrote: Good point. Do you (or anyone) want to suggest some wording for that section of the FAQ? I think the biggest problem with the FAQ is that the first page you come to doesn't list all of the questions. You have to figure out what section to look in first. In this c

Re: problem with setup

Amadeus W.M. wrote: Is there a way to completely remove cygwin as if it was never there? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

Michael Kairys wrote: I want to type "perl foo.pl" at the Bash prompt [snip] I suppose I could rewrite my Bash aliases so "foo" equals "/c/Perl/bin/perl foo.pl" The solution is to break your habit of saying "perl foo.pl". If the first line of a text file begins with "#!" and a valid pat

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

Michael Kairys wrote: I wish Setup could recognize that I already have a Perl installation... The two may be compatible at the Perl source level, for the most part[*], but I doubt they're binary compatible. A lot of Perl modules contain parts compiled from C and linked into the interpreter

Re: Cannot compile C++ files

rw0 wrote: I even tried reinstalling G++ as.exe is part of binutils. Try reinstalling that instead. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Running two different profiles based on user loggin

Spencer Bailey wrote: I don't want to have to maintain all the .profiles in users directories. You don't have to. Add something like this to each ~/.profie: . /etc/profile-class1 Unless users change classes frequently over time, you never touch the .profile again. All changes happe

Re: Running two different profiles based on user loggin

Spencer Bailey wrote: I've created two different profiles in /etc. profile.1 and profile.2 which both contain different aliases etc. Based on the user logging in I want to be able to run the correct profile. Is it possible to put in a check in the /etc/profile that is a certain user logs in to

Re: How is cron started

Vidiot wrote: Just where is cron stated in an XP SP2 system? Start | Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html F

Re: Home directory

Gmain User wrote: Thanks, Brian. I was actually asking in the context of not updating cygwin right away. Whether or not one could access up-to-date accumulation of release notes, possibly on the web. Cygwin doesn't have monolithic "releases". Every individual package is on its own release

Re: llrint implementation in Cygwin

Diego Biurrun wrote: Perhaps if you would submit a patch to newlib, something may happen. Telling me what newlib is would greatly help in this regard :-) The first Google result for 'newlib' is: http://sourceware.org/newlib/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

Re: Bash -c without exiting

patrickinminneapolis wrote: I modified Cygwin.bat to the following, bash --login -i -c 'cd /cygdrive/c && exec bash' and it still exits. I think you can get the effect you want by changing your home directory in /etc/passwd to /cygdrive/c -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

Will Parsons wrote: why would cygwin be less secure? The more moving parts, the more things there are to break. Postulate that you have a program that's been audited to the point that you're absolutely certain it's 100% secure when run on Linux. Then you port it to Cygwin. Is it secure? T

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ctags-5.7-1

This is just a straight packaging of a new upstream release. Change log for this version: * Added support for DIM AS [Freebasic, Bug #1741778]. * Added support for arbitrary nesting depth [Python, Bug #1684786, Debian bug #409078]. * Added support for verbatim string literals [C#, Bug #1515910

Re: ls / rm etc return "no such file or directory"

TomL wrote: cmd.exe: H:\some_dir>rd /s .tmp1732200708091223 .tmp1732200708091223, Are you sure (Y/N)? y Access is denied. How is this a Cygwin issue if regular Win32 commands give the same problems? This is likely yet another example of why enabling file locking by default is brain damaged,

Re: EAGAIN Error while processing a batch of transaction messages.

neo napster wrote: I am soory for that, we did not use NOWAIT option, Then please keep working to improve your English writing skills. You won't get very good help if you ask questions that are different from than the ones you actually want answers to. then can i know why we will get this

Re: EAGAIN Error while processing a batch of transaction messages.

neo napster wrote: My applications want to process messages in Block mode so i am using NOWAIT option. You've just contradicted yourself. NOWAIT means non-blocking. If you want your program to block, waiting for messages, you don't set the NOWAIT option... you wait. That's what blocking

Re: Where can I find the /usr/bin/tbl?

Yiran Guo wrote: I am using man in cygwin, but get this message: $ man man sh: /usr/bin/tbl: No such file or directory where can I get this tbl? The answer to that sort of question is always answered by the Cygwin packages list page: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=

Re: A regrettable oversight

Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: So I eventually switched to Linux, again, because of Cygwin. I think that that might even be one if Cygwin's unstated goals. That, and to make the time one must spend in Windows more palatable. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Probl

Re: vi / vim command

Shahed wrote: I tried that, but didn't work. i have downloaded the vim-7.0.tar.bz2 file Downloading individual packages and trying to install them by hand is not supported. If you keep insisting on trying to fix the problem this way, you will probably annoy everyone and won't get any help a

Re: Where is Gnu compiler itself?

Smith, Glenn wrote: I have downloaded the complete Cygwin environment I doubt it. The default install of Cygwin is far from "complete". This is a feature. If it really installed absolutely everything by default, it'd be absolutely huge. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Re: Can't find netstat utility

Dennis Rooks wrote: Can anyone confirm whether netstat was at one time part of the distribution? What are you trying to achieve that you can't with the native netstat? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Doc

Re: Revised: ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory

Andrew Schulman wrote: On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:15:44AM -0600, Monte Riding wrote: I have an issue when trying to run ls in the root of my C: drive that's cropped up recently, not sure what's happened - Morale of the story: Use POSIX paths, i.e. "cd /cygdrive/c". OK, but mightn't it be con

Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...

Linda Walsh wrote: Really? a 6 y/o, 800MHz Celeron w/512M, & 4MB video taken out of main memory? You have alot more patience than me. That's well over VMWare's recommended minimum configuration. I'm pretty sure the first machine I used VMware on was in roughly that same class. I was using

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