RE: PING Jan Nieuwenhuizen re libguile17

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote on 25 March 2008 09:50: Brian Dessent: I rebuilt libguile with gcc 3.4.4-1 (without any PR24196 patches) and an autogen using it passes all tests. So it seems this is simply an ABI incompatibility between 4.1 and 3.4. Thanks. I'll start a test using

RE: gmp-4.2.2-1 and and mpfr- for upload

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
David Billinghurst wrote on 24 March 2008 03:43: The version number of libgmpxx was bumped in the upstream files to correct the shared library numbers. I reverted this change in the cygwin build as the cygwin shared library is backwards compatible with gmp-4.2.1 - the 4.2.1 testsuite passes

Re: gmp-4.2.2-1 and and mpfr- for upload

2008-03-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Dave Korn wrote: David Billinghurst wrote on 24 March 2008 03:43: The version number of libgmpxx was bumped in the upstream files to correct the shared library numbers. I reverted this change in the cygwin build as the cygwin shared library is backwards compatible with gmp-4.2.1 - the 4.2.1

Some X programs won't start up

2008-03-25 Thread Robert Latest
Hello people, I've recently installed cygwin-xfree and I'm loving it. Finally, my beloved fvwm on my Windows PC at work! Anyway, while some X apps start right up without trouble (fvwm, xcalc, xterm...), others (xmgrace, for example) don't start at all. I type xmgrace at the command prompt, and

Re: Some X programs won't start up

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:17:47PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote: Hello people, I've recently installed cygwin-xfree and I'm loving it. Finally, my beloved fvwm on my Windows PC at work! Anyway, while some X apps start right up without trouble (fvwm, xcalc, xterm...), others (xmgrace, for example)

Re: Some X programs won't start up

2008-03-25 Thread Robert Latest
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try running cygcheck on the full path of the program in question to see if you're missing a DLL, e.g.: cygcheck /usr/bin/xmgrace This is what I get: $ cygcheck /usr/bin/xmgrace C:\cygwin/bin\xmgrace.exe $ No

RE:Some X programs won't start up

2008-03-25 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi, On 25 Mar 2008 12:17:47 +0100 Robert Latest wrote: Anyway, while some X apps start right up without trouble (fvwm, xcalc, xterm...), others (xmgrace, for example) don't start at all. I type xmgrace at the command prompt, and the prompt comes right back without anything happening. ps afx shows

Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-25 Thread Robert Latest
Hello friends, Years ago, I heard of cygwin and installed it on a Windows PC that I occasionally had to use -- just to have access to bash and find, actually. Well, I liked it OK but viewed it as a more or less superfluous toy. I mean, why use cygwin when you can have a native, full-blown Linux

RE: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
Robert Latest wrote on 25 March 2008 08:50: Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ Windows PC. God, I hadn't known just how much Windows sucks. Everything around here is done with Access and Excel and lots of ultra-slow

Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-25 Thread Scott Wegner
Hello, I am trying to create a wrapper Cygwin bash script to add functionality to an existing Windows batch script. In my Cygwin script, I would like to call the batch file with something like: ... cmd.exe /k batch-script.bat params ... Calling the script in this fashion seems to generally

MD Cygwin mirror

2008-03-25 Thread Chelban Vasile
Good day, How can someone become public Cygwin mirror (listed at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html) ? Currently FedoraMD.org has Cygwin mirror at http://repo.fedoramd.org/mirrors/cygwin/ Country: Moldova Country code: MD City: Chişinău Chelban Vasile FedoraMD.org site administrator --

Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-25 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2008-03-25 13:30Z, Scott Wegner wrote: I am trying to create a wrapper Cygwin bash script to add functionality to an existing Windows batch script. In my Cygwin script, I would like to call the batch file with something like: ... cmd.exe /k batch-script.bat params ... Calling

Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-25 Thread Scott Wegner
Greg Chicares wrote: On 2008-03-25 13:30Z, Scott Wegner wrote: I am trying to create a wrapper Cygwin bash script to add functionality to an existing Windows batch script. In my Cygwin script, I would like to call the batch file with something like: ... cmd.exe /k batch-script.bat params

Wrong links?

2008-03-25 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have noticed that if I do 'ls -l /bin' I get the following wrong links: X11 - ../X11R6/bin pnmnoraw - pnmtoplainpnm.exe [1] rcs2log - ../share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log webcheck - ../share/webcheck/webcheck.py If I do 'ls -l /usr/bin', only [1] is still wrong, the remaining links

RE: Wrong links?

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
Angelo Graziosi wrote on 25 March 2008 14:38: I have noticed that if I do 'ls -l /bin' I get the following wrong links: X11 - ../X11R6/bin In what sense is that wrong? pnmnoraw - pnmtoplainpnm.exe [1] rcs2log - ../share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log webcheck -

Re: Wrong links? (Attn: netpbm, cvs, and webcheck maintainers)

2008-03-25 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Angelo Graziosi wrote: I have noticed that if I do 'ls -l /bin' I get the following wrong links: X11 - ../X11R6/bin pnmnoraw - pnmtoplainpnm.exe [1] rcs2log - ../share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log webcheck - ../share/webcheck/webcheck.py If I do 'ls -l

Re: Wrong links? (Attn: netpbm, cvs, terminfo, and webcheck maintainers)

2008-03-25 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Igor Peshansky ha scritto: On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Angelo Graziosi wrote: I have noticed that if I do 'ls -l /bin' I get the following wrong links: X11 - ../X11R6/bin pnmnoraw - pnmtoplainpnm.exe [1] rcs2log - ../share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log webcheck - ../share/webcheck/webcheck.py

Re: Wrong links?

2008-03-25 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Dave Korn ha scritto: What do you mean by wrong? 'ls -l /bin' shows them in RED (as if they were unresolved), instead 'ls -l /usr/bin' shows them in CYAN, i.e. pointing to the right files. Cheers, Angelo. --- Physics is like sex: sure it may give some pratical results, but that's not why

Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Kairys
Scott Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... However, I'd rather find a solution where the batch script can remain unaware of its Cygwin context. Once I get things working, I plan on creating bash script wrappers for many Windows batch scripts, so I'd like to

RE: Using curses with -mno-cygwin

2008-03-25 Thread Stepp, Charles
I'd bet a shiny new quarter that cygwin supports linking to the ncurses library. Both aalib (aafire) and mc (Midnight Commander) work just fine, which indicates that curses is a go. ncurses(3X) ncurses(3X) NAME

RE: Using curses with -mno-cygwin

2008-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
Stepp, Charles wrote on 25 March 2008 17:33: I'd bet a shiny new quarter that cygwin supports linking to the ncurses library. Well, if that was germane to the point, you'd be up a quarter, but as it stands, nobody said cygwin doesn't! Perhaps http://cygwin.com/acronyms#YSHFRTT?

Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Scott Wegner wrote: My question is, whether there is a way to easily strip the Cygwin entries from the path for the batch call. Hopefully the solution would be portable, and not affect the environment outside of the bash script. PATH is just a regular variable like any other. If you want to

Re: Using curses with -mno-cygwin

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:33:14AM -0700, Stepp, Charles wrote: I'd bet a shiny new quarter that cygwin supports linking to the ncurses library. Both aalib (aafire) and mc (Midnight Commander) work just fine, which indicates that curses is a go. Uh, no one said that cygwin did not support linking

Re: GNU M4 diversion error

2008-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please post to an appropriate mailing list, rather than to an individual developer - your question will likely be answered faster, because more people can contribute, and the answer will be archived in case someone else comes across the same issue.

Re: GNU M4 diversion error [SOLVED] [attn FAQ maintainer]

2008-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Kaarlo Räihä on 3/25/2008 10:42 AM: | I found the issue. It is called Avira AntiVir. When enabled, it causes | issues for m4. Sorry that I bothered you. Just as I suspected. I guess we have another BLODA entry to check for. - -- Don't

Re: Remove Cygwin Path for Called Batch Script

2008-03-25 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello $ cygpath --help Is this infomation useful for you? Rerads Tatsuro --- Scott Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Chicares wrote: On 2008-03-25 13:30Z, Scott Wegner wrote: I am trying to create a wrapper Cygwin bash script to add functionality to an existing Windows batch

1.5.24-2: Applications automatically restart on crash

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Morlier
Hi Everyone, For a couple of years I have noticed that when I run programs from within Cygwin (currently 1.5.24-2), if the program crashes (ie segfault) then the program gets automatically restarted. This is primarily a problem when compiling/testing a windows program I am developing

Re: MD Cygwin mirror

2008-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Chelban Vasile wrote: Good day, How can someone become public Cygwin mirror (listed at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html) ? http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216

Re: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-25 Thread Reini Urban
2008/3/25, Dave Korn: Robert Latest wrote on 25 March 2008 08:50: Enter corporate IT. For four weeks now I've been holding my first real industry job. And I'm locked into a M$ Windows PC. God, I hadn't known just how much Windows sucks. Everything around here is done with Access and

announcing allmydata.org Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.0

2008-03-25 Thread zooko
Folks: I relied on cygwin extensively while developing this project. Nowadays the end-user customers who use this product use the Native- Windows build, but I continue to maintain the cygwin version, both to keep our options open in the future and because I have a special fondness for

where is `getopt` ?

2008-03-25 Thread PRC
I want to update the `getopt` utility in my cygwin, since the current version cannot support `-a` option. But I don't know which package this utility is in. I check `setup.ini` file in the `release` diretory. There is only a little informatation about `getopt`, like

Re: where is `getopt` ?

2008-03-25 Thread Brian Dessent
PRC wrote: I want to update the `getopt` utility in my cygwin, since the current version cannot support `-a` option. But I don't know which package this utility is in. I check `setup.ini` file in the `release` diretory. There is only a little informatation about `getopt`, like $ cygcheck -f