Re: cygwin path problems

Igor, Soren, At 16:36 2003-01-28, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Soren A wrote: > ... > > Or re-invent that wheel, your choice ;-) > > Soren A Why, one doesn't have to be a "cygpath" guru at all! A little judicious application of sed, and you can turn a space-separated path in

Re: tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh83.exe

Charles Wilson wrote: tcl/tk folks over on the insight list. For the record, I have these in my /usr/lib dir: /usr/lib/libcygitcl32.a /usr/lib/libcygtcl83.a /usr/lib/libtcl8.3.a <<<-- /usr/lib/libcygitclstub32.a /usr/lib/libcygtclstub83.a /usr/lib/tclConfig.sh /usr/lib/libtcl8.3

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:47:12PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >$ cygcheck -s -v -r | grep '[px]info' >pinfo 0.6.6p1-1 >texinfo 4.2-4 Just a FYI: cygcheck -c pinfo texinfo should perform much more quickly than the above. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > Soren A wrote: > > "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 28 Jan 2003 > > 01c201c2c714$951686b0$78d96f83@pomello:">news:01c201c2c714$951686b0$78d96f83@pomello: > > > >> And it's also worth pointing out that "pinfo" makes info pages > >> viewable. (

Re: cygwin path problems

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Soren A wrote: > Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 27 Jan 2003 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Note, too, that if you have a classpath variable in POSIX format > > (colons and no drive letters), you'll need to use something like > > "$(cygpa

Re: DOS <-> Bash interaction...

* Soren A (03-01-28 23:31 +0100) > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 28 Jan 2003 > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wow, what an attribution novel^Wline... >> This issue isn't Cygwin specific, since setting of the SHELL >> environament variable is handled by the shell itself. > >> A

Re: DOS <-> Bash interaction...

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Soren A wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 28 Jan 2003 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > If you get something different as the first entry, your /etc/profile does > > *append* the standard paths to the contents of $PATH. This means y

Re: tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh83.exe

Peter A. Castro wrote: If that is NOT what you are suggestion -- e.g. that only tclsh83 should be renamed -- why? Why is tclsh83 special? By that same token, why do the tcl libraries have "cyg" in their name? Eg: libtcl83.a is named libcygtcl83.a. Why? It's still tcl. Why are the libraries

Re: Solving the "relink exe's" libtool problem[take4]

Boehne, Robert wrote: Charles, Since I haven't heard any complaints about this patch, I'll assume the Cygwin people are OK with it, and check it in. Thanks. Looks good here (cygwin), causes no problems on non-windows (linux), and Earnie is happy with it on mingw. So go for it. --Chuck

Re: sh/rm bug -- rm doesn't remove a file when run from cmd

Found the problem: I had a file named `rm': D:\acl62\src\cl\src>ls -l rm -rw-r--r--1 layerNone0 Jan 28 15:47 rm D:\acl62\src\cl\src>getfacl rm # file: rm # owner: layer # group: None user::rw- group::r-- other:r-- mask:rwx D:\acl62\src\cl\src> Now, it seems odd that `sh' (but

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 28 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > At 10:50 PM 1/28/2003 -, Max Bowsher wrote: >>Soren A wrote: >>>I don't know what 'pinfo' is or why I'd need it. >> >>Another info viewer that looks nicer and uses intuitive key bindings >>

Re: sh/rm bug -- rm doesn't remove a file when run from cmd

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:19:07PM -0800, Kevin Layer wrote: >Does anyone have any clue where I can look? This bug is killing me. The obvious observation would be that you have another non-cygwin version of rm in your Windows path. cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sendin

Re: DOS <-> Bash interaction...

Original Message: - >From: Soren A [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 22:31:18 + (UTC) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: DOS <-> Bash interaction... > > >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 28 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>

Re: sh/rm bug -- rm doesn't remove a file when run from cmd

An easier way of reproducing it: d:\acl62\src\cl\src>ls -l foo.out -rw-r--r--1 layerNone6 Jan 28 14:39 foo.out d:\acl62\src\cl\src>sh -c 'rm foo.out' d:\acl62\src\cl\src>ls -l foo.out -rw-r--r--1 layerNone6 Jan 28 14:39 foo.out d:\

sh/rm bug -- rm doesn't remove a file when run from cmd

I'm on Windows 2000sp3. I've seen this bug before, but it disappeared. Now, it's back. I recently updated to cygwin 1.3.19. Nothing else on my system has changed in a really long time. I rebooted, and that didn't fix it. Here's bug2.sh: ls -l $2 echo "removing $2..." rm $2 ls -l $2 First, i

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

At 10:50 PM 1/28/2003 -, Max Bowsher wrote: >Soren A wrote: >>I don't know what 'pinfo' is or why I'd need it. > >Another info viewer that looks nicer and uses intuitive key bindings >(lynx-like). Navigating info documents in info is a challenge to say the >least. Keybindings are vi-like. pi

Re: sh/rm bug -- rm doesn't remove a file when run from cmd

I just found a case of `rm' failing in a makefile. I added SHELL = bash and the rm worked. Looks like the same deal. This seems pretty broken. I'm really wondering if anyone else Note: I have CYGWIN defined as "nontsec". Also, I forgot to include a cygcheck: D:\acl62\src\cl>cygcheck -s -h

Re: ftp server showing date as part of the file/directory name

> hi Dave, > > you were right - my group is "Domain Users", so a line from 'ls' looks > like > > -rw-rw-rw-1 rsiklos Domain U 23 Jan 23 16:18 .bashrc > > any way to solve this problem without changing group? Far as I'm aware, nope. For maximum compatible across OSs, usernames and group

Re: ftp server showing date as part of the file/directory name

Rob Siklos wrote: > hi Dave, > > you were right - my group is "Domain Users", so a line from 'ls' > looks like > -rw-rw-rw-1 rsiklos Domain U 23 Jan 23 16:18 .bashrc > > any way to solve this problem without changing group? Edit the first field of the relevant line in /etc/group from Do

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

"Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 28 Jan 2003 01c201c2c714$951686b0$78d96f83@pomello:">news:01c201c2c714$951686b0$78d96f83@pomello: > And it's also worth pointing out that "pinfo" makes info pages viewable. > (The "info" program itself is a nightmare to use.) I suspect that my ignor

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

Soren A wrote: > "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 28 Jan 2003 > 01c201c2c714$951686b0$78d96f83@pomello:">news:01c201c2c714$951686b0$78d96f83@pomello: > >> And it's also worth pointing out that "pinfo" makes info pages >> viewable. (The "info" program itself is a nightmare to use.) > >

Re: Solving the "relink exe's" libtool problem[take4]

Charles, Since I haven't heard any complaints about this patch, I'll assume the Cygwin people are OK with it, and check it in. Thanks, Robert -- Robert Boehne Software Engineer Ricardo Software Chicago Technical Center TEL: (630)789-0003 x. 238 FAX: (630)789-0127 email: rboehne

Re: DOS <-> Bash interaction...

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 28 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > This issue isn't Cygwin specific, since setting of the SHELL > environament variable is handled by the shell itself. > As such, discussion of this is really off-topic for this list. C

Re: ftp server showing date as part of the file/directory name

hi Dave, you were right - my group is "Domain Users", so a line from 'ls' looks like -rw-rw-rw-1 rsiklos Domain U 23 Jan 23 16:18 .bashrc any way to solve this problem without changing group? Rob. - Original Message - From: "Dave Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: SSH and Home

"Kevin Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 27 Jan 2003 000101c2c62d$d84b59c0$0200a8c0@milo:">news:000101c2c62d$d84b59c0$0200a8c0@milo: > You're absolutely right - I've gone through the process of changing to a > name with no spaces but the problem persisted. After reading this I > changed my

Re: cygwin path problems

Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 27 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Note, too, that if you have a classpath variable in POSIX format > (colons and no drive letters), you'll need to use something like > "$(cygpath -pm "$POSIXCLASSPATH")" to convert it. >

Re: ftp server showing date as part of the file/directory name

> When I log in to the ftp server from a win32 client such as ws_ftp, the > file and directory names include the dates as part of the actual name. This can happen if the group and/or user name has spaces in it - the de-facto directory listing format for FTP assumes a fixed number of fields and wil

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

Soren A wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 27 Jan 2003 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> Scott, >> >> "mount" is part of the "cygwin" package, so it should work if you've >> installed Cygwin. "man mount" is another story, however. A search >> for "man1/m

RE: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 27 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Scott, > > "mount" is part of the "cygwin" package, so it should work if you've > installed Cygwin. "man mount" is another story, however. A search for > "man1/mount.1" on

RE: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

Very interesting. I don't use X windows under Cygwin so I would not have noticed this fact myself. This is something that makes sense to bring up on the cygwin-xfree list, assuming it hasn't been discussed there already. That list deals with issues that are X specific. Larry Original Message

Re: DOS <-> Bash interaction...

This issue isn't Cygwin specific, since setting of the SHELL environament variable is handled by the shell itself. As such, discussion of this is really off-topic for this list. I found a quick check of the bash man page and searching for SHELL shed allot of light on the subject however. You mig

Re: Save typing /cygdrive/c?

"Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 27 Jan 2003 000701c2c643$25729550$78d96f83@pomello:">news:000701c2c643$25729550$78d96f83@pomello: > Rob Siklos wrote: >> running "mount --change-cygdrive-prefix /" will make all your drives >> be subdirectories of "/" instead of "/cygdrive". > And t

Re: postgresql feature request

Joseph, On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:45:36PM -0500, Joseph Tate wrote: > I would like the contrib code built into the postgresql binary > package, or perhaps into a separate postgresql-contrib package. It's > as simple as adding a "make -C contrib" and a "DESTDIR=$TmpDir make -C > contrib install"

Re: ftp server showing date as part of the file/directory name

Not sure if this got through last time - sorry if it's a repeat. I'm running cygwin with dll v1.3.19 on win2000. I have the ftp server set up running under inetd. I am experiencing the following behaviour: When I log in to the ftp server from a win32 client such as ws_ftp, the file and director

Re: DOS <-> Bash interaction...

Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 28 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > If you get something different as the first entry, your /etc/profile does > *append* the standard paths to the contents of $PATH. This means you've > probably changed it at some point in

Hang inside Cygwin's guts. Can anyone give me a hint?

I've been working on the rsync occasional hang problem. I've managed to capture this backtrace data from a hung process. Can anyone assist me with interpreting this? Thanks, Max. (gdb) thread 1 [Switching to thread 1 (thread 3972.0xc70)]#0 0x7ffe0304 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x7ffe0304 in ?? () #

RE: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

If I remove the PS1 variable setting in /etc/profile, the problem goes away. But my prompt becomes "bash-2.05b$" instead of the current directory I'm in. And I checked /etc/passwd file, I didn't see any /bin/sh, they are all /bin/bash. So I didn't change that file. And then I found out that the pro

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expect-20030128-1, gdb-20030128-1, tcltk-20030128-1

I've made a new version of expect, GDB, and tcltk available for downloading. These versions are a refresh from sources.redhat.com. The intent of this release is to release the freshly minted support for tcl/tk 8.4.1. Martin Hunt (one of the insight maintainers) has gone to great effort to import

Re: DOS <-> Bash interaction...

Sorry Igor. You're right. Boy did I put my foot in my mouth on that one! I'll go sit in the corner now... Larry Original Message: - From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:23:45 -0500 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DOS <-

socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fd) failing: errno 112, Address already in use

I'm seeing rsync failiures due to socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fd) failing with errno 112, Address already in use. As far as I know, this shouldn't be able to occur. This seems to me like a Cygwin bug? If it is, then this is a bug report. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

Re: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

> After I started x-windows. There are strange extra > characters on the top of every window (login, xterm) > which look like the following: > \[\033]0;\w\007 > \022[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] It would appear that you are running sh (/bin/sh) with bash escapes in your PS1 environment variab

Re: compilation errors

Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > While compiling gettext (0.11.5) under windows 2000 with cygwin > (1.3.19.1), gcc (version 3.2 20020927), and GNU make (version 3.79.1), I > ran into the following error messages: > > = > gcc -g -O2 -o .libs/msgcmp.exe msgcmp.o > .libs/li

running brite with cygwin

Hi, I am new to cygwin newsgroup. I am trying to install BRITE (www.cs.bu.edu/brite) topology generation in windows using cygwin toolkit. has anyone here tried that before and been successful? i have jdk 1.4 installed. i am also able to install cygwin on my machine. I am using Windows 2000.

Re: DOS <-> Bash interaction...

Looks like no one read my email either... ;-) Igor On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Looks like no one read Hannu's email, including Hannu! ;-) > > The output included clearly shows that his Cygwin installation > contains the default path setting from /etc/profile. Cygwin p

Re: DOS <-> Bash interaction...

Looks like no one read Hannu's email, including Hannu! ;-) The output included clearly shows that his Cygwin installation contains the default path setting from /etc/profile. Cygwin paths are first. There override the Windows path. The Windows 'find' *is* hidden by the Cygwin version (see belo

RE: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

You're running /bin/sh as your shell but have bash specific escape sequences in your prompt. Change your prompt (/etc/profile, ~/.profile, etc) or change your shell (/etc/passwd) to /bin/bash. Larry Original Message: - From: Quan Ding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:4

Re: cygwin Release process

Mark, At 09:38 2003-01-28, Mark Himsley wrote: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:27:26 -0800 Randall R Schulz wrote: >>Arthur Dent got an announcement before his home was demolished >>for a bypass (apologies to those who don't get the HHGTTG reference). :-) > >Isn't "hitchhiker" one word? (Even Eudora's m

postgresql feature request

I would like the contrib code built into the postgresql binary package, or perhaps into a separate postgresql-contrib package. It's as simple as adding a "make -C contrib" and a "DESTDIR=$TmpDir make -C contrib install" to the build process. Thanks, Joseph -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwi

strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

After I started x-windows. There are strange extra characters on the top of every window (login, xterm) which look like the following: \[\033]0;\w\007 \022[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] These two lines will show up again after each command I execute in the xterm window. They look like termina

Re: cygwin Release process

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:27:26 -0800 Randall R Schulz wrote: >>Arthur Dent got an announcement before his home was demolished >>for a bypass (apologies to those who don't get the HHGTTG reference). :-) > >Isn't "hitchhiker" one word? (Even Eudora's meager dictionary thinks so.) Not in this contex

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bison-1.875-1

I've made a new version of 'bison' available for download. This updates the package to the latest version available from ftp.gnu.org. For a brief descripton of this package, see http://cygwin.com/packages/ . To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin

Re: DOS <-> Bash interaction...

Umm, I don't think this is dependent on the Windows version... My (mostly standard, slightly edited) /etc/profile *prepends* "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/X11R6/bin" to the PATH... Yours probably does too. Thus, /bin/find.exe should hide /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/COMMAND/find.exe

RE: cygwin Release process

Scott, At 08:02 2003-01-28, Scott Prive wrote: ... I don't disagree that the change was "announced". In hindsight, I see it was. Arthur Dent got an announcement before his home was demolished for a bypass (apologies to those who don't get the HHGTTG reference). :-) Isn't "hitchhiker" one wor

DOS <-> Bash interaction...

NOTE: Running Win98SE Don't know how this affects Win on 2002-12-25 at 13:37 i wrote about a problem with $SHELL versus 'startx' i.e: startx won't work if $SHELL contains 'command.com' (or any DOS-stuff maybe?). The contents of DOS-$SHELL gets copied into bash-$SHELL -> not good. There is another

RE: cygwin Release process

> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 6:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cygwin Release process > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:54:25PM -0500, Scott Prive wrote: > >William, > > > >The "ntsec" problem by

Bug in gdb (memory leak?)

Hello all, I've found a bug in gdb that I'm pretty sure is a memory leak (either that or an infinite regression). Here's the general description of how I produced it: I have a fairly small program that uses Xerces-C. When run normally (or under Linux's gdb) there is no problem at all. When run

Re: wpd2pdf

Anthony, On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:26:07AM -0500, Anthony Rotger wrote: > Jason, I am trying to convert Wordperfect 9 files to PDF using cygwin > by using a batch process within the same folder on our network. Do you > know how to do this or someone who does? Please post instead of sending priva

Re: bug: select() for sockets returned by accept() returns always ready for write (sel.always_ready 1)

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:44:51AM +0200, Risto Virkkala wrote: > After looking select.cc fhandler.cc fhandler_socket.cc I think that the reason could >be that in fhandler_socket::accept the socket is not set to CONNECTED state and in >fhandler_socket::select_write sets write_ready if socket is i

Re: tclsh83.exe should be cygtclsh83.exe

If this was REALLY a full tclsh83.exe, I would have less of a problem with it. However, this is some small sub-set of tclsh83 that replaces a FULL cygtclsh80.exe. Perhaps this one should be called cyg-gdb-tclsh.If you have programs like cmake or configure scripts that look for tclsh, they find

rsync hang - strace output - any ideas?

I was running the rsync testsuite, and an rsync process hung. I did "strace -p ", and got 1 line of trace: 4 4 [sig] rsync 2540 wait_sig: looping Does this mean anything to any Cygwin gurus? I got this from gdb: (gdb) bt #0 0x77f767ce in ?? () i.e. nothing useful. If anyone has any su

Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > In any case, seeing the behaviour of the exec-permission bits, I have a > > "wouldn't it be nice if...": wouldn't it be nice if the executable > > permission bits would act