x-windows won't start

hey- i just finished installing cygwin on a windows xp home box. i tried starting x using the startx command and i got the following message: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.7.0.0-9 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XWin was started with the following command

compilation error

Hi, I would like to compile a python module under cygwin. It fails with the following error: gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=BibTeX -I/opt/gnome2/include/glib-2.0 -I/opt/gnome2/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/python2.3 -c bibtexmodule.c -o

OT: signatures (RE: script command)

From: Brian Dessent What ever happened to the internet where netiquette actually meant anything? You know, that whole thing about keeping signatures to less than 4 lines x 72 chars, not quoting entire messages, not sending HTML email to public lists, and so on? Unfortunately I have a

sys.executable broken under 2.3.4

Hi all: I reported this in python 2.2.2 in December, and it's still an issue on one of my systems with python 2.3.4. When running python -c import sys; print sys.executable it prints the current working directory rather than the path to python unless I invoke python with the full path. I can't

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.3.4-1

* Jason Tishler (2004-06-11 20:17 +0100) New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.3.4-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following is the only notable change since the previous release: o upgrade to Python 2.3.4 Old

temp directory handling in Cygwin (bash/zsh)

Is there a change in the handling of the $TMP directory in recent Cywin?! I never set this environment variable in my .zshrc or .bashrc and nevertheless it alway pointed to /tmp (or at at least all Cygwin applications I used created their temp files in /tmp. Now I noticed that $TMP points to

Re: temp directory handling in Cygwin (bash/zsh)

At 12:31 PM 6/12/2004, you wrote: Is there a change in the handling of the $TMP directory in recent Cywin?! I never set this environment variable in my .zshrc or .bashrc and nevertheless it alway pointed to /tmp (or at at least all Cygwin applications I used created their temp files in /tmp. Now I

Re: __getreent undefined on linux app build

At 06:11 PM 6/11/2004, you wrote: Larry Hall wrote, On 6/11/2004 5:22 PM: Yes, libcygwin.a is the import library. But I don't understand why you need it (or -lc either for that matter). Just compiling with Cygwin's gcc/g++ gets you all this, unless you're using -mno-cygwin, in which case you're

Re: [OT] RE: Bash hangs in WaitForMultipleObjects

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 06:12:05PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Now quote *that* line at the top of the snapshots page. I dare you! Done. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin Package: python-2.3.4-1

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:44:52PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: Jason Tishler wrote: New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.3.4-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. (snip) In the US,

Unable to open files including Korean names

I've updated to cygwin dll 1.5.10 a few days ago. (I'm using Cygwin with Windows XP SP1, Korean version.) And today I found a problem with the accessing files. I was trying to use rsync to sync some of my files to another place, but rsync was telling me those files had vanished, like: file has

Re: sys.executable broken under 2.3.4

John P. Rouillard wrote: When running python -c import sys; print sys.executable it prints the current working directory rather than the path to python unless I invoke python with the full path. I can't reproduce this on a win 98 box, but on a windows 2k sp4 things are broken. Can

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin Package: python-2.3.4-1

Hello from Gregg C Levine It happens I did just that, the first few times I tried downloading my Cygwin materials from sites here in the US. The people there ignored my mail, or just plain deleted it unread. I don't know why. I also reported to them the problems with downloading the materials

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin Package: python-2.3.4-1

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 06:56:24PM -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote: I also reported to them the problems with downloading the materials from them, when the site would inexplicably interrupt the process. What do you feel about deleting them from the list of allowable mirrors? We can include the

RE: Unable to open files including Korean names

I did some test and found out that ``every file whose path includes Korean characters weren't openable.'' Still, I could move arround those [snip] I just installed the XP SP2 preview or whatever they call it. One of the things in the very long list of things it claims to fix is some problem