Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-05 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, Just installed the latest cygwin (including Cygwin's build of perl 5.8.7) on Windows Vista Business (64) on an AMD64 box. Trying to access perl documentation using 'perldoc' throws an error: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_32/working/math-gmpz/Math-GMPz-0.22 $ perldoc ExtUtils::MakeMaker Error in tempfile() using ./XX: Parent directory (./) is not writable at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1483 tempfile() is trying to create the tempfile in the current

Re: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-05 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: Andrew Schulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . I wonder, do you have TMPDIR set? Try setting it, e.g. export TMPDIR=/tmp/Rob Yep - that fixes it. Both TEMP and TMP were set, but not TMPDIR. How do I make that alteration a permanent fixture, so that I don't

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 5 04:09, goetz fischer wrote: hello, i know this has been discussed but sadly not enough. i just used a nightly dll and the error message is gone but it still doesn't work. the prompt just keeps empty like it's working. to be clear this is about using rsh with cygwin on vista.

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 5 11:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 5 04:09, goetz fischer wrote: hello, i know this has been discussed but sadly not enough. i just used a nightly dll and the error message is gone but it still doesn't work. the prompt just keeps empty like it's working. to be clear

Test file is not readable when running 'make test' (Perl)

2007-07-05 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, I'm trying to build a very small (and simplistic) perl module that I've created (Foo-0.01): [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_32/comp/Foo-0.01 $ perl Makefile.PL Writing Makefile for Foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_32/comp/Foo-0.01 $ make test

Re: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Sisyphus on 7/5/2007 3:15 AM: Yep - that fixes it. Both TEMP and TMP were set, but not TMPDIR. How do I make that alteration a permanent fixture, so that I don't have to do it every time I open a new shell ? I tried editing

Re: Test file is not readable when running 'make test' (Perl)

2007-07-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Sisyphus on 7/5/2007 4:32 AM: $ ls -l total 1 --+ 1 Rob None 46 Jul 5 13:37 test.t Hmm, you have non-default ACLs associated with this file (perhaps they were inherited from the directory?) The commands getfacl and setfacl

Problem with setup.exe

2007-07-05 Thread David Kastrup
Hi, I have downloaded and non-installed a number of packages. Now I call setup.exe in a batch file with setup -n -N -d -A -L -q -R %CYGWIN_HOME% and this works in that it installs what is cached in the local directory, but!!! just the default minimal selection, not what I have additionally

Problem: Java interpreter does not work

2007-07-05 Thread Dan N
I tried to run Java interpreter, but it doesn't work. Here is how it looks like: [~/Java] cat HelloWorld.java public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(Hello world!); } // main } [~/Java] jikes -bootclasspath

Re: Problem: Java interpreter does not work

2007-07-05 Thread Jan Moesen
[~/Java] gij HelloWorld.class Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: HelloWorld.class Shouldn't you leave out .class there? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 05:19:28PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Brian Salter-Duke wrote: work. Have things changed with these libraries since last year. This was, BTW, I relative new install of cyqwin. I just copied the gfortran and gcc4 executables over from an older machine. I think this

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread goetz fischer
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 5 04:09, goetz fischer wrote: hello, i know this has been discussed but sadly not enough. i just used a nightly dll and the error message is gone but it still doesn't work. the prompt just keeps empty like it's working. to be clear this is about using rsh

Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
Good morning, I have a POS emulation program written in C. It uses two threads, two condition variables and a mutex. One thread receives from a serial port, the other sends. The condition variables and mutex are used to create a message queue between the two threads to pass received ACK/NAK to

Re: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:10:36AM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: Good morning, I have a POS emulation program written in C. It uses two threads, two condition variables and a mutex. One thread receives from a serial port, the other sends. The condition variables and mutex are used to create a

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 15:11, Bob McConnell wrote: Good morning, I have a complex system with multiple interactions that a rough overview of is utterly inadequate to attempt to diagnose complicated interlocking or race problems. Is this a known issue? What, your program having a bug? Nope,

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 05:19:28PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Brian Salter-Duke wrote: work. Have things changed with these libraries since last year. This was, BTW, I relative new install of cyqwin. I just copied the gfortran and gcc4 executables over from an older

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread goetz fischer
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I started an inetd w/ rsh and rlogin on another box and that box was a 'real' unix box? no but? and tried to login from my vista test machine to that box. rlogin, rsh and rcp worked fine. We'd need a much more detailed problem description to help you.

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:54 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows On 05 July 2007 15:11, Bob McConnell wrote: Good morning, I

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 5 14:59, goetz fischer wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 5 04:09, goetz fischer wrote: hello, i know this has been discussed but sadly not enough. i just used a nightly dll and the error message is gone but it still doesn't work. the prompt just keeps empty like it's

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 5 17:28, goetz fischer wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I started an inetd w/ rsh and rlogin on another box and that box was a 'real' unix box? no but? Another Cygwin box. What about my request of a more detailed problem description instead? I don't know what this

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 16:33, Bob McConnell wrote: If I read this right, you are saying there are no reported conflicts in pthread resources between multiple processes. That is all I wanted to know. I don't like to waste time diagnosing known problems and then be told much later that there is an

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 16:16, Bob McConnell wrote: But unless you can http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPAST, you're just holding up a black box and saying There's magic stuff in here and it's broke, does anyone know why, to which the only answer is of course Depends what the magic stuff in the box is

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:59 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Interference between instances on MS-Windows On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:10:36AM -0400, Bob McConnell

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:48 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows On 05 July 2007 16:33, Bob McConnell wrote: If I read this

RE: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 17:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 5 18:00, goetz fischer wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Another Cygwin box. not the best test i'd say. As valid as any other test. Did you try against a Cygwin box? What about my request of a more detailed problem description

RE: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 10:15, Sisyphus wrote: How do I make that alteration a permanent fixture, so that I don't have to do it every time I open a new shell ? I tried editing etc/profile (in wordpad), but only succeeded in stuffing up the line endings - and had to replace that file with a copy of

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Bob McConnell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:47 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows On 05 July 2007 16:16, Bob McConnell wrote: But unless you can

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 5 18:00, goetz fischer wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Another Cygwin box. not the best test i'd say. As valid as any other test. Did you try against a Cygwin box? What about my request of a more detailed problem description instead? what else should i say? i submitted the

Re: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread goetz fischer
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 5 17:28, goetz fischer wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I started an inetd w/ rsh and rlogin on another box and that box was a 'real' unix box? no but? Another Cygwin box. not the best test i'd say.

RE: vista rsh problem

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 17:01, goetz fischer wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: What about my request of a more detailed problem description instead? what else should i say? i submitted the cygcheck output and there's nothing left to tell. There's just about /everything/ left to tell. What type of

RE: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 17:17, Bob McConnell wrote: All of the timing is based on the serial data being exchanged with the host system. Without that interaction, there is nothing left to examine. Without testing it you have no way of knowing whether that is important or not. It could be that

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: However I have to say that I think that this is very much a cygwin question. Knowing what packages to install before doing something is a cygwin question and I got no sense that I had to do this on the gfortran site before downloading the tar file of executables for

Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Lee Rhodes
Hello, I have installed the GSL libs via setup and am trying to get the following example program to work: #include stdio.h #include gsl/gsl_sf_bessel.h int main (void) { double x = 5.0; double y = gsl_sf_bessel_J0 (x); printf (J0(%g) = %.18e\n, x, y); return

Re: Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Lee Rhodes wrote: Hello, I have installed the GSL libs via setup and am trying to get the following example program to work: #include stdio.h #include gsl/gsl_sf_bessel.h int main (void) { double x = 5.0; double y = gsl_sf_bessel_J0 (x); printf (J0(%g) = %.18e\n,

Re: Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Lee Rhodes wrote: The compiler/linker is able to locate the header ok, but the error message I get on the line that calls the function is: undefined reference to `_gsl_sf_bessel_J0' Somehow the function name got mangled with an added underscore, and of course, it doesn't exist.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

2007-07-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lev Bishop, le Wed 04 Jul 2007 23:54:32 -0400, a écrit : Is there a way I can investigate this without needing special braille hardware Well, there is a virtual braille device, but it can't replace the fast physical sense of braille dots. Samuel -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Lee Rhodes
Lewis, Thanks, OK, I was able to compile it ok from the command line as you suggested. However, the plot thickens, and I should have mentioned, that I am attempting to compile/build using Eclipse (using the Generated Makefile Builder). So my problem may be configuring Eclipse, which is

Re: Interference between instances on MS-Windows

2007-07-05 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Dave Korn wrote: On 05 July 2007 17:17, Bob McConnell wrote: Sending a copy of it to one support tech to debug that vendor's library does not constitute distribution, AFAICT. Utterly comprehensively wrong. Sorry. Really? You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose of

Re: Slow directory listing

2007-07-05 Thread Anton Ivanov
I experience a problem whereby 'ls' of a directory takes upwards of 20 seconds. I've searched around the archives and found reports of issues that could be similar (i.e. slow bash completion) but it didn't seem like any action was taken. Cygwin is slow. This is by design. 20 seconds even

Re: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-05 Thread Thomas Berger
Andrew Schulman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_32/working/math-gmpz/Math-GMPz-0.22 $ perldoc ExtUtils::MakeMaker Error in tempfile() using ./XX: Parent directory (./) is not writable at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1483 tempfile() is trying to create the

Re: Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Lee Rhodes
Brian, Thanks. Here is the output from Eclipse: make -k all Building file: ../main.cpp Invoking: GCC C++ Compiler g++ -O0 -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -MMD -MP -MFmain.d -MTmain.d -omain.o ../main.cpp Finished building: ../main.cpp Building target: TestGSL.exe Invoking: GCC C++ Linker

Re: Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Lee Rhodes wrote: Brian, Thanks. Here is the output from Eclipse: make -k all Building file: ../main.cpp Invoking: GCC C++ Compiler g++ -O0 -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -MMD -MP -MFmain.d -MTmain.d -omain.o ../main.cpp Finished building: ../main.cpp Building target: TestGSL.exe

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- A few months ago this did not happen (same building procedure). ___ You posted this several places, and they're still arriving. Apparently, nothing has changed, except they've added this warning that the maintainers of this

Re: Slow directory listing

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Anton Ivanov wrote: As I said the directory for which the listing takes a long time to produce contains only 22 entries. I tried 'ls', not 'ls -l'. Note that sometimes even plain 'ls' requires a full stat call on each file, such as if you have coloring enabled via an alias or for the printing

Re: Help with strange compiler error linking to GSL

2007-07-05 Thread Lee Rhodes
Lewis, Thanks! I found where to add the library reference in the Eclipse dialog hierarchy: Project/properties/C/C++ Build/GCC C++ Linker/Libraries/ insert -lgsl. I also had to add c:\cygwin\lib\lapack to the PATH environment variable so it could find cyglas.dll. Thank you for your

RE: Slow directory listing

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 20:55, Anton Ivanov wrote: It still appears to me that in my particular case the slow-down is not necessary. Could be something else interfering. Known culprits include: Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component Norton/MacAffee/Symantec antivirus or

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:47:28AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Brian Salter-Duke wrote: However I have to say that I think that this is very much a cygwin question. Knowing what packages to install before doing something is a cygwin question and I got no sense that I had to do this on the

Re: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

2007-07-05 Thread Pavel Kudrna
Christopher Faylor wrote: I suppose it is possible that we'd consider a nicely written, minimally intrusive patch to use these but I'm not 100% certain that it is even possible to do this cleanly given the way the environment variable/path conversion handling works. Lets look back to

Re: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

2007-07-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Pavel Kudrna wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I suppose it is possible that we'd consider a nicely written, minimally intrusive patch to use these but I'm not 100% certain that it is even possible to do this cleanly given the way the environment variable/path conversion handling works. Lets

Re: Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Salter-Duke wrote: I understand all this, but this case seems an odd one to me. If I am missing a library I expect to find a clear error message that it needs it, but here I just got nothing. I agree that this not a cygwin problem. I have yet to update my old gfortran 4.2. on linux to

Re: Slow directory listing

2007-07-05 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Could be something else interfering. Known culprits include: Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component Norton/MacAffee/Symantec antivirus or antispyware Logitech webcam software with Logitech process monitor service Kerio, Agnitum or ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall Iolo System

Re: bug in cygwin_conv_to_posix_path() caused by period in win32 path

2007-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 06:50:45PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Pavel Kudrna wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I suppose it is possible that we'd consider a nicely written, minimally intrusive patch to use these but I'm not 100% certain that it is even possible to do this cleanly given the

Re: setup.hints which mention Base in their category

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 6 21:10, Brian Dessent wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Ok, I cleaned up all of the above. Thanks. As a further optimization, we should move: libncurses5 libncurses6 libreadline4 to category _obsolete because they are not used by anything. libreadline5 is

Re: setup.hints which mention Base in their category

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 5 11:40, John Morrison wrote: On Thu, July 5, 2007 11:28 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: John, any problem to update the units package to the latest 1.86 version? Hi Corinna, Sorry, missed this thread - no problem afaik; I'm afraid I probably won't be able to do this before next

Re: setup.hints which mention Base in their category

2007-07-05 Thread John Morrison
On Thu, July 5, 2007 11:28 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: John, any problem to update the units package to the latest 1.86 version? Hi Corinna, Sorry, missed this thread - no problem afaik; I'm afraid I probably won't be able to do this before next weekend though. I'll also look at upgrading the

Re: [RFU] lftp-3.5.11

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
Done. Do you want me to remove 2.6.10-2 and 3.5.1-1? Yes, please. Thanks, Andrew.

Re: [RFU] lftp-3.5.11

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 5 09:27, Andrew Schulman wrote: Done. Do you want me to remove 2.6.10-2 and 3.5.1-1? Yes, please. Thanks, Andrew. Done. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat

Cygwin/X error loading non-US keyboard (Vista)

2007-07-05 Thread Mayeul Rousselet
Hi, I have a Vista Prenium edition with cygwin. By default in XWin, the keyboard in configured for US mode whereas I have a french keyboard. I've tried all the solutions given in the FAQ (http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-non-U.S.-keyboard-layout) but it fails. The last stuff

Windoze XP Clipboard errors on Red Hat Linux

2007-07-05 Thread Mark Forsyth
Cygwin X works perfectly on SuSE Linux (latest) but I cannot get the clipboard to work on Red hat 2.6.9 Linux Kernel. I'm running XP Pro. My DOS window shows: winClipboardIOErrorHandler! winClipboardProc - setjmp returned for IO Error Handler. winProcSetSelectionOwner - OpenClipboard ()

src/winsup/cygwin cygwin.din

2007-07-05 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-07-05 07:36:11 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : cygwin.din Log message: Check in missing cygwin.din change from 2007-06-29. Patches:

Updated: SWI-Prolog-5.6.36-1

2007-07-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of SWI-Prolog to 5.6.36-1. This is the long overdue update to the latest stable upstream release. The Cygwin version has a few minor patches which I will send upstream. The differences between the former 5.2.6 version are too numerous to be listed here. From the