File permissions on samba network share

2010-03-25 Thread Chris
Dear fellow Cygwinners, I use Cygwin to work on a samba network drive and am unable to execute bash scripts from there because bash: ./amssetup: Permission denied. I think this is due to the missing owner/group info: $ ls -l amssetup -rwxrw 1 1014 2009-12-15 14:16 amssetup

1.7.1-1.7.2 binary compatibility

2010-03-25 Thread Uri Simchoni
Hi, Can an executable that has been linked against 1.7.2 work with cygwin1.dll version 1.7.1? I'd like to upgrade my build env, but not the runtime env of stable releases of a program. Thanks, Uri. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.2-1

2010-03-25 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko
On 2010.03.24 10:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Cygwin friends and users, we're proud to present the next Cygwin release 1.7.2. This release contains some changes, some new functionality, and a good amount of bugfixes. Thanks for bugfix! -- Problem reports:

Re: File permissions on samba network share

2010-03-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 25 06:50, Chris wrote: Dear fellow Cygwinners, I use Cygwin to work on a samba network drive and am unable to execute bash scripts from there because bash: ./amssetup: Permission denied. I think this is due to the missing owner/group info: $ ls -l amssetup -rwxrw 1

Re: 1.7.1-1.7.2 binary compatibility

2010-03-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 25 03:07, Uri Simchoni wrote: Hi, Can an executable that has been linked against 1.7.2 work with cygwin1.dll version 1.7.1? I'd like to upgrade my build env, but not the runtime env of stable releases of a program. Yes, except if it uses an API new to Cygwin 1.7.2 (for instance,

Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Jonathan Cummings
Sir/Madam, Is it possible to get a setup.ini file to use along side setup.exe to allow us to install cygwin on multiple servers in our organisation? -I would then like to add the details of the packages to be installed in to the setup.ini file for a silent installation across network on to

Core dump after reading from /proc/registry

2010-03-25 Thread DEWI - N. Zacharias
Hi All, To read the content of a registry key I use : my $ww = IO::File-new(/proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/shbox/freepdfxp/fpDir); my $Reg_FreePdf_Path = $ww; $ww-close(); It works but a subsequent call system(cd /cydrive/c/whatever) crashes with a core dump. The strange

Re: File permissions on samba network share

2010-03-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 25 09:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 25 06:50, Chris wrote: Dear fellow Cygwinners, I use Cygwin to work on a samba network drive and am unable to execute bash scripts from there because bash: ./amssetup: Permission denied. I think this is due to the missing owner/group

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25/03/2010 09:02, Jonathan Cummings wrote: Sir/Madam, Please feel free not to stand on formality round here :) Is it possible to get a setup.ini file to use along side setup.exe to allow us to install cygwin on multiple servers in our organisation? -I would then like to add the

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Christoph Herdeg
Hello Jonathan, I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer (setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Given is a destination directory of c:\cygwin: - First you need to create a customized

Re: Cygwin 1.7.1 breaks git on netapp shared drives

2010-03-25 Thread Steve Bray
On 03/24/2010 04:15 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 23 16:37, Chris Idou wrote: After a heck of lot of screwing around, I got this mount point stuff working. Now when I create files under cygwin they have the same permissions profile as they do when I create them under windows. BUT...

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Ralph Hempel
Christoph Herdeg wrote: Hello Jonathan, I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer (setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Given is a destination directory of c:\cygwin: - First you need to

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Ralph Hempel
RESEND - NOW WITH SPELLING MISTAKES FIXED... Christoph Herdeg wrote: Hello Jonathan, I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer (setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Given is a destination

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:39:22PM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer (setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Funny how your email comes *after* someone

Re: The Cygwin Mount Table

2010-03-25 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 Corinna Vinschen wrote: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table [Extract name=using.html] The Cygwin Mount Table [snip] The Cygwin DLL supports user specific fstab files. These are stored in the directory /etc/fstab.d and the name of the file is

Re: The Cygwin Mount Table

2010-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:47:17PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: Hi there, On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 Corinna Vinschen wrote: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table [Extract name=using.html] The Cygwin Mount Table [snip] The Cygwin DLL supports user specific fstab files. These are

Re: Cygwin 1.7.1 breaks git on netapp shared drives

2010-03-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 25 07:17, Steve Bray wrote: On 03/24/2010 04:15 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 23 16:37, Chris Idou wrote: After a heck of lot of screwing around, I got this mount point stuff working. Now when I create files under cygwin they have the same permissions profile as they do when

Re: Setup.ini file for Silent Install

2010-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25/03/2010 12:46, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:39:22PM +0100, Christoph Herdeg wrote: I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer (setup.exe) it's a real pain in the

changing setup executable

2010-03-25 Thread Rance Hall
This question is more for my personal curiosity than any problem I'm having. I've noticed that setup.exe has been updated several times recently and I'm curious as to whats in setup that would need to be changed. I understood setup-legacy when we switched from 1.5 to 1.7 As far as I know,

Re: 1.7.2-1: Problems with regtool and cyglsa.

2010-03-25 Thread tony
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: Don't do that. It has to be a REG_MULTI_SZ value with at least the entry msv1_0. Right you are. I have (re)created the key as type REG_MULTI_SZ, restored the msv1_0 AND the cyglsa path on separate lines, and all is well. Thanks! --

Re: changing setup executable

2010-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25/03/2010 13:37, Rance Hall wrote: This question is more for my personal curiosity than any problem I'm having. I've noticed that setup.exe has been updated several times recently and I'm curious as to whats in setup that would need to be changed. I understood setup-legacy when we

R: changing setup executable

2010-03-25 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Gio 25/3/10, Rance Hall ha scritto: This question is more for my personal curiosity than any problem I'm having. I've noticed that setup.exe has been updated several times recently and I'm curious as to whats in setup that would need to be changed. I understood setup-legacy when

Re: changing setup executable

2010-03-25 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Gio 25/3/10, Rance Hall ha scritto: Marco Atzeri wrote: snip Hi Rance, Setup is a program and as such has its own fixed bugs and feature improvements that require updated release. See here from the source the Changelog

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.4-2

2010-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
With the release of cygwin 1.7.2, the coreutils-8.4-2 release has been promoted to current, replacing 7.0-2. NEWS: = Compared to the previous cygwin release of coreutils, this is a major upgrade, with a number of new upstream features. A NEWS summary of the relevant upstream changes is

Re: modified cygwin.bat for rxvt - window does not stay up in 1.7.2

2010-03-25 Thread j8raa6t5a9
Corinna Vinschen wrote at 21:20 +0100 on Mar 24, 2010: On Mar 24 20:16, Andy Koppe wrote: Andy Koppe: j8raa6t5a9: I updated to 1.7.2 and the cygwin.bat I modified ages ago to run rxvt does not work anymore. The window pops up and quickly disappears (I'm using\ Windows XP).

Re: Core dump after reading from /proc/registry

2010-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/25/2010 03:07 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: To read the content of a registry key I use : my $ww = IO::File-new(/proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/shbox/freepdfxp/fpDir); my $Reg_FreePdf_Path = $ww; $ww-close(); It works but a subsequent call system(cd

Re: modified cygwin.bat for rxvt - window does not stay up in 1.7.2

2010-03-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 25 14:40, j8raa6t...@snkmail.com wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote at 21:20 +0100 on Mar 24, 2010: On Mar 24 20:16, Andy Koppe wrote: Andy Koppe: j8raa6t5a9: I updated to 1.7.2 and the cygwin.bat I modified ages ago to run rxvt does not work anymore. The window pops up and

Cygwin doesn't install gcc even though I select it

2010-03-25 Thread steenreem
When using setup.exe to install cygwin, I select gcc: C compile upgrade helper from the category devel in the package menu. However, when I then check in my cygwin bin folder there is no gcc, although there is gcc-3.exe. I cannot use the gcc command in cygwin bash: gcc command not found. When I

Haskell\bin/windres: can't open temporary file `\/cca08368.irc': No such file or directory

2010-03-25 Thread steenreem
When performing 'cabal install' in cygwin, to install a haskell package, I get the following error: D:\Haskell\bin/windres: can't open temporary file `\/cca08368.irc': No such file or directory cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install: GalaxyCompiler-0.0.1 failed during the building

Re: Cygwin doesn't install gcc even though I select it

2010-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/25/2010 1:25 PM, steenreem wrote: When using setup.exe to install cygwin, I select gcc: C compile upgrade helper from the category devel in the package menu. However, when I then check in my cygwin bin folder there is no gcc, although there is gcc-3.exe. I cannot use the gcc command in

Re: Haskell\bin/windres: can't open temporary file `\/cca08368.irc': No such file or directory

2010-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/25/2010 1:46 PM, steenreem wrote: When performing 'cabal install' in cygwin, to install a haskell package, I get the following error: D:\Haskell\bin/windres: can't open temporary file `\/cca08368.irc': No such file or directory cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:

FW: special font characters in rxvt

2010-03-25 Thread Gary Spivey
I am running Cygwin on Windows 7. When I use the bash terminal, all of the font characters look fine – man pages render with color and bold. However, when I use rxvt, I cannot seem to find a font/terminal setting that will render fonts properly. I get a lot of gobbeldy-gook in rxvt. For

Re: FW: special font characters in rxvt

2010-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/25/2010 2:27 PM, Gary Spivey wrote: I am running Cygwin on Windows 7. When I use the bash terminal, all of the font characters look fine – man pages render with color and bold. However, when I use rxvt, I cannot seem to find a font/terminal setting that will render fonts properly. I get a

Re: FW: special font characters in rxvt

2010-03-25 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/25/2010 1:27 PM, Gary Spivey wrote: I am running Cygwin on Windows 7. When I use the bash terminal, all of the font characters look fine – man pages render with color and bold. However, when I use rxvt, I cannot seem to find a font/terminal setting that will render fonts properly. I

Re: Cygwin doesn't install gcc even though I select it

2010-03-25 Thread steenreem
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/25/2010 1:25 PM, steenreem wrote: When using setup.exe to install cygwin, I select gcc: C compile upgrade helper from the category devel in the package menu. However, when I then check in my cygwin bin folder there is no gcc, although there is gcc-3.exe.

Re: Cygwin doesn't install gcc even though I select it

2010-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/25/2010 3:03 PM, steenreem wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/25/2010 1:25 PM, steenreem wrote: When using setup.exe to install cygwin, I select gcc: C compile upgrade helper from the category devel in the package menu. However, when I then check in my cygwin bin folder there is

Re: Cygwin doesn't install gcc even though I select it

2010-03-25 Thread steenreem
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/25/2010 3:03 PM, steenreem wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/25/2010 1:25 PM, steenreem wrote: When using setup.exe to install cygwin, I select gcc: C compile upgrade helper from the category devel in the package menu. However, when I then check

Re: Cygwin doesn't install gcc even though I select it

2010-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/25/2010 3:59 PM, steenreem wrote: Sorry I was unclear. gcc4.exe is also in /bin, together with gcc3.exe. However there is no gcc symbolic link. I have tried copy and renaming gcc4.exe to gcc.exe but that leads to the error C compiler cannot create executables Reinstall gcc4 then. You're

Re: Cygwin doesn't install gcc even though I select it

2010-03-25 Thread steenreem
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/25/2010 3:59 PM, steenreem wrote: Sorry I was unclear. gcc4.exe is also in /bin, together with gcc3.exe. However there is no gcc symbolic link. I have tried copy and renaming gcc4.exe to gcc.exe but that leads to the error C compiler cannot create

Re: Cygwin doesn't install gcc even though I select it

2010-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/25/2010 4:50 PM, steenreem wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/25/2010 3:59 PM, steenreem wrote: Sorry I was unclear. gcc4.exe is also in /bin, together with gcc3.exe. However there is no gcc symbolic link. I have tried copy and renaming gcc4.exe to gcc.exe but that leads to the error

Re: Cygwin doesn't install gcc even though I select it

2010-03-25 Thread steenreem
Maybe. We'd need more information about your installation at least. See http://cygwin.com/problems.html. I guess you are reffering to output from cygcheck as described on the website. Here it is: http://old.nabble.com/file/p28035089/cygcheck.out cygcheck.out Thanks for all the help so

Re: Cygwin doesn't install gcc even though I select it

2010-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/25/2010 5:23 PM, steenreem wrote: Maybe. We'd need more information about your installation at least. Seehttp://cygwin.com/problems.html. I guess you are reffering to output from cygcheck as described on the website. Here it is: http://old.nabble.com/file/p28035089/cygcheck.out

UTF8 and cvs issues in 1.7.2

2010-03-25 Thread lemkemch
Some time ago in cygwin 1.5 I did this: orion cvs ci äppel.txt /home/michael/Repos/äppel.txt,v -- äppel.txt initial revision: 1.1 orion orion cvs -qn up orion Exactly the expected behavior. Now in my new 1.7.2 installation the cvs up gives this (in an rxvt window): orion cvs -qn up U

Re: File permissions on samba network share

2010-03-25 Thread Chris
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: ... This lets the script execute, but I am a little bit worried about the other permissions, -rw-r--r-- instead of -rwxrw. Why are the permissions different? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table

Re: UTF8 and cvs issues in 1.7.2

2010-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/25/2010 6:34 PM, lemke...@t-online.de wrote: Some time ago in cygwin 1.5 I did this: orion cvs ci äppel.txt /home/michael/Repos/äppel.txt,v -- äppel.txt initial revision: 1.1 orion orion cvs -qn up orion Exactly the expected behavior. Now in my new 1.7.2 installation the cvs up gives

Re: File permissions on samba network share

2010-03-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/25/2010 6:38 PM, Chris wrote: snippage Sorry I forgot to mention that the permissions on the Linux machine running the Samba server are more similar to the ones when I mount the network drive without the noacl option in Cygwin. This is the ls line from the Linux machine: -rwxrw 1

Re: UTF8 and cvs issues in 1.7.2

2010-03-25 Thread lemkemch
Larry Hall wrote: With Google. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-03/msg00899.html Pretty easy to find, eh? You practically bumped into each other. Thanks for the quick answer, but sorry, no, mintty doesn't help: orion cvs -qn up -l U äppel.txt cvs update: warning: `▒ppel.txt' is not (any

Re: UTF8 and cvs issues in 1.7.2

2010-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/25/2010 05:05 PM, lemke...@t-online.de wrote: orion cvs -qn up -l U äppel.txt cvs update: warning: `▒ppel.txt' is not (any longer) pertinent And frankly, I can't see how the terminal could influence the behavior of the cvs executable. I am not talking about the displayed characters

Re: UTF8 and cvs issues in 1.7.2

2010-03-25 Thread lemkemch
Erik Blake wrote: On 03/25/2010 05:05 PM, lemkemch wrote: orion cvs -qn up -l U Ãppel.txt cvs update: warning: `âppel.txt' is not (any longer) pertinent And frankly, I can't see how the terminal could influence the behavior of the cvs executable. I am not talking about the displayed

binutils: status update?

2010-03-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Dave, Could you provide an update on some of the outstanding binutils issues? 1) dlltool DATA exports incompatible with auto-import http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00083.html This is preventing me from updating GNOME Evolution. 2) weak symbol linkage

Re: binutils: status update?

2010-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 07:00:25PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Dave, Could you provide an update on some of the outstanding binutils issues? 1) dlltool DATA exports incompatible with auto-import http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00083.html This is preventing me from updating GNOME

Re: setup: use external crypto libraries

2010-03-25 Thread Charles Wilson
On 3/18/2010 8:40 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: Here's the promised patch. You need to install mingw-libgpg-error-devel and mingw-libgcrypt-devel and re-run bootstrap.sh in both setup's src dir and the libgetopt++ subdir. 2010-03-18 Charles Wilson ... Use external crypto

Re: setup: use external crypto libraries

2010-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:05:51AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: On 3/18/2010 8:40 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: Here's the promised patch. You need to install mingw-libgpg-error-devel and mingw-libgcrypt-devel and re-run bootstrap.sh in both setup's src dir and the libgetopt++ subdir.

Re: R: [ITP] iperf 2.0.4

2010-03-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 20 21:04, Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Mar 16/3/10, Mike White ha scritto: Thanks for taking a look at the iperf package. I have updated setup.hint, changed to using cygport, and added a cygwin-specific README. Please review for inclusion in cygwin. As before, files are:

[RFU] mintty-0.6.1-1

2010-03-25 Thread Andy Koppe
Please upload: wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.6.1-1.tar.bz2 wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.6.1-1-src.tar.bz2 wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.6.1/cygport/setup.hint 0.5.7-1 can be deleted. Thanks, Andy

Re: [RFU] mintty-0.6.1-1

2010-03-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2010-03-25 15:40, Andy Koppe wrote: Please upload: wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.6.1-1.tar.bz2 wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-0.6.1-1-src.tar.bz2 wget http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.6.1/cygport/setup.hint 0.5.7-1 can be deleted. Done and done.

Re: setup: use external crypto libraries

2010-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25/03/2010 16:55, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd rather get verification that it works in the native environment for someone else. Testing now. cheers, DaveK

Re: setup: use external crypto libraries

2010-03-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 26/03/2010 01:26, Dave Korn wrote: On 25/03/2010 16:55, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd rather get verification that it works in the native environment for someone else. Testing now. WJFFM, both before and after deleting the libgcrypt/libgpg-error subdirs from my sandbox. Thanks

winsup/doc ChangeLog pathnames.sgml

2010-03-25 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: c...@sourceware.org 2010-03-25 12:52:33 Modified files: doc: ChangeLog pathnames.sgml Log message: * pathnames.sgml: Clarify wording of user-specific fstab files. Fix typo. Patches: