latex bug

2004-06-14 Thread Chris Jefferson
There appears to be a slightly annoying bug in latex (and tex) where they won't support filenames with spaces in. $latex a\ b.tex This is TeXk, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) %-line parsing enabled. ! I can't find file `a'. * a b.tex Please type another input file name: $latex a b.tex This

[OT] Re: g++ libcygwin.a has an undefined reference

2004-05-18 Thread chris jefferson
Christian Rudiger wrote: Hello Al, thank you, it worked. i putted one at the end of the program just writing : }; // end of class int main(){} why does that work? I think thats strange. Regards Christian Rudiger snip I thought I would post this to the list, because it's nice to have complete

Re: are rand48() Co implemented now?

2004-05-03 Thread chris jefferson
electa wrote: i have used #include stdlib.h but gcc still prints implicit declaration of function lrand48(), and srand48(). Just checking, are you using the -mno-cygwin flag on gcc/g++? This would cause that error. If so, then you are using mingw and should really go and ask them why it

Re: Cygwin setup window size, why no maximize button enabled ?

2004-04-17 Thread Chris Jefferson
utomo wrote: And also better if the setup can download simultaneusly, or preparing for the next file. Now if we look at the download process, the connecting time (for each file) is consuming time. If the download process can reduce this, I believe the download will be much faster. A much

Re: Souldn't we put [Cygwin] or [CygXwin] here depending on the question?

2004-04-16 Thread Chris Jefferson
Jim Scheef wrote: Dave and all, I have been trying for weeks to find a way to sort these messages in the Netscape 7 version of Mozilla Mail. Nothing has worked. Adding a consistent flag to the subject line like [cygwin] would make the sorting trivial. If it took the list administrator 15

Re: gcc -mno-cygwin finds the wrong include files

2004-04-15 Thread Chris Jefferson
Volker Quetschke wrote: Hi, could someone please confirm that this is a bug, and not a problem that exists only on this computer. Thanks Volker Volker Quetschke wrote: Hi, when I use the following command gcc finds the wrong include file. $ echo #include stddef.h | gcc -mno-cygwin -E -

Re: gcc -mno-cygwin finds the wrong include files

2004-04-15 Thread Chris Jefferson
... Hi self! I've been having a play around and I believe this problem is connected to #include_next not respecting the -mno-cygwin. My knowledge of gcc is however nowhere near enough for me to be sure. I just wanted to say this to perhaps save someone else some small amount of time. Chris

Re: compilation with -mno-cygwin

2004-04-13 Thread Chris Jefferson
Hans Horn wrote: I light of the recent gcc performance comparison, I tried to compile a number crunching application (for which I have noticed a significant performance degradation of a factor 2-3 since the days of gcc2.9.x) using the -mno-cygwin flag. I get a shitload of crap like the following

Re: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files.

2004-04-05 Thread Chris Jefferson
Ken Thompson wrote: I don't think the behavior should be changed. d2u stands for dos to unix which means \r\n to \n. Why would one expect a dos to unix utility to convert mixed line terminator files. If you need such a utility, then add one but don't take a utility that does dos to unix and try

Re: On forming a SC [was Re: ITP moratorium still in effect?]

2004-03-28 Thread chris jefferson
Yes, someone did. I have no problem with moving to a new installer interface but, given the current level of development, I don't see who's going to do the work. If we don't have a volunteer available to do the work of adapting NSIS but we do have volunteers available to keep setup.exe working

Suggestion to alteration of DDD

2004-03-21 Thread Chris Jefferson
Hello While DDD can be a frontend for a number of debuggers, it is I think most often used as a front end for gdb (and if I simply type ddd from the command line without gdb being installed, I am told gdb could not be started , exit/help. Therefore I suggest that gdb is added as a dependancy

Re: Pending Packages List, 2004-03-13

2004-03-15 Thread Chris Jefferson
To help clean up the ITP list, I've been working on this for a while. It is possible to get something which mostly works by simply compiling everything under cygwin (and this is actually how the offical windows distribution works). There are however quite a large number of additional libraries

Re: Cygwin Mailing list

2004-02-17 Thread Chris Jefferson
Gareth Pearce wrote: As obviously you're a mailing list professional, I'm sure you checked the mailing list archives before posting on this topic. Hence there is no need for me to reply. As implied by my above statement, the topic has already been discussed. Therefore given the subject line of

NTFS links

2004-02-12 Thread Chris Jefferson
Cygwin includes quite a number of symlinks. I personally have changed a number of the cygwin-style symlinks to windows-style ones to fix (as has been mentioned recently) the problem that cygwin-style symlinks don't work from cmd Would it be possible to automagically change all the

Modular setup?

2004-02-02 Thread Chris Jefferson
Hello. I suspect that this is a FAQ, but I haven't found it, so I'll ask it! Unlike linux / *BSD / etc distributions, it doesn't seem easy to automate the cygwin install utility. I don't seem able to get a list of installed packages, give a package to install from a given file, examine the

Re: Cut-down Cygwin on a USB Memory Stick?

2004-01-28 Thread Chris Jefferson
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, zzapper wrote: Hi Y'All Anyone investigated putting a cutdown version of CygWin onto a memory stick (128MB or bigger). What would you need the dlls vim,find,grep,ls etc?? zzapper (vim cygwin zsh) Sure. Google for Cygwin on CD. Some

latex crash

2003-11-17 Thread chris jefferson
Hello! I've recently found that latex has begun crashing if I execute it from a windows xp (or 2000) cmd prompt. It happens by simply typing latex at a cmd prompt. I get (in a windows error box) 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe - latex The NTVDM CPU has encountered an