help :- startx doesn't work on Cygwin.

2007-04-25 Thread Nisha
Hello, I installed cygwin on my WinXP system and accoording to the further instructions given, i try to run startx. I am getting the following error. Please help. The extract of the last error is as below (I am attaching the full error with this email.) 6 [main] xterm 144 child_copy:

Re: pygtk installs only in python2.4?

2007-04-25 Thread Jason Tishler
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:45:39PM +0200, Helge Stenstr?m wrote: Mark Wendell mark dot wendell at gmail dot com said: The current python version installed by setup is 2.5. However, it looks like the pygtk setup package wants to install itself in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages, even if that

Throwing c++ exception across threads

2007-04-25 Thread Eric Lilja
Hello! I'm developing a simple IRC bot using the cygwin tools. It actually comes with a GUI and I'm writing it using Win32. I don't compile it with -mno-cygwin, because it's using cygwin sockets and pthreads. When the user of the program connects to an irc server a thread is spawned that

RE: Throwing c++ exception across threads

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25 April 2007 15:20, Eric Lilja wrote: When the user of the program connects to an irc server a thread is spawned that handles communication with the irc server. Any messages are displayed in an editbox. If a severe error occurs, an exception is thrown. Will there be any problems if I

Re: Throwing c++ exception across threads

2007-04-25 Thread Eric Lilja
Dave Korn wrote: On 25 April 2007 15:20, Eric Lilja wrote: When the user of the program connects to an irc server a thread is spawned that handles communication with the irc server. Any messages are displayed in an editbox. If a severe error occurs, an exception is thrown. Will there be any

perl DBD::mysql under cygwin question

2007-04-25 Thread fungazid fungazid
Hello the cygwin people, I decided to use cygwin because I'm working with biological packages that run on linux unix, and I work mainly on windows. I have only little experience with linux\unix. I installed cygwin on my windows xp recently, with all modules. I had no problems with running perl

Re: perl DBD::mysql under cygwin question

2007-04-25 Thread Brian Dessent
fungazid fungazid wrote: Then I tried to install DBD::mysql. ccording to the instructions I have to first download mysql linux source, to compile it and install it under cygwin. here are the instruction - http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-mysql/lib/DBD/mysql/INSTALL.pod I followed them but

Re: perl DBD::mysql under cygwin question

2007-04-25 Thread fungazid fungazid
Brian Hello, The input of make install for mysql ends with the following list: /usr/bin/install: `bench-count-distinct' and `/home/mysql-5.0.37/sql-bench/bench -count-distinct' are the same file make[3]: *** [install-benchSCRIPTS] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory

Re: perl DBD::mysql under cygwin question

2007-04-25 Thread fungazid fungazid
It gave errors is way too vague. You'll have to describe exactly what you did and exactly what the output was if you want help. Ok: 1) cygwin is installed under C:\cygwin folde. 2) I unpacked mysql linux source to C:\cygwin\home. 3) I CD to the new folder (C:\cygwin\home\mysql-5.0.37). 4)

Re: ImageMagick display and convert fail with a Visual C++ runtime error

2007-04-25 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Dmitry Golovaty wrote: Thanks - the culprit is the MATLAB entry /cygdrive/c/Program Files/MATLAB/R2007a/bin/win32 in the path; removing it fixes the problem ... is there way to pluck it out automatically (e.g. in .bashrc) when the path is imported from Windows at

Re: perl DBD::mysql under cygwin question

2007-04-25 Thread Brian Dessent
[ There is no need to email me directly. I set the reply-to to the list. ] fungazid fungazid wrote: 1) cygwin is installed under C:\cygwin folde. 2) I unpacked mysql linux source to C:\cygwin\home. 3) I CD to the new folder (C:\cygwin\home\mysql-5.0.37). 4) run the command: ./configure

RE: how to run shell script

2007-04-25 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Dave Korn wrote: On 23 April 2007 10:42, sg wrote: hi friends,, how to run shell script on cygwin in windows.. chmod a+x ./script-name ./script-name i.e. it has to have the executable bit set, and you need to specify the current directory as part of the path

Re: ImageMagick display and convert fail with a Visual C++ runtime error

2007-04-25 Thread Dmitry Golovaty
Thanks, Igor. PATH is usually processed left-to-right. As an alternative to what Brian suggested, simply prepending C:\cygwin\bin to the PATH should work. C:\cygwin\bin has been in the PATH all the time; the problem seems to have been that the PATH statement contained a MATLAB directory

Newbie question on current version running established perl program

2007-04-25 Thread Jennifer Young
Thank you very much for your help. Very new user installing cygwin for the first time on new pc. Trying to run perl program that has been used a number of times (probably not the problem) Followed all the instructions on install and all instructions in faq and user docs that could assist.

Re: Newbie question on current version running established perl program

2007-04-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Jennifer Young wrote: to run my program, I was instructed to use command: $ perl preprocesstest.pl -o buffer -n 2 -t 00:00:000 -l 300 (-o = output, -n = number in test, -t = start time, -l = length of time of test) system returns: bash perl: command not found This would indicate

Re: perl DBD::mysql under cygwin question

2007-04-25 Thread fungazid fungazid
Brian hello, Thank you a lot, this specific problem is solved. I used 1)./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --without-server 2) make 3) make install 4) cd /usr/local/mysql/bin 5)./mysql -h 127.0.0.1 I tested mysql and it works. I still have some little problem with user access to mysql

1.5.24-2 continues Re: 1.5.20: Occasional crash at address 0x6100365f (cygthread::stub() in cygthread.cc)

2007-04-25 Thread Phil Edwards
Super short version: the problem explored in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/subjects.html#00239 (fractured replies) continues in 1.5.24. Details: cygcheck output is below. I could reliably get 1 to 4 popups occurring during a long sequence of several short sh invocations such as make

Re: Newbie question on current version running established perl program

2007-04-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Jennifer Young (Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT)) Very new user installing cygwin for the first time on new pc. Trying to run perl program that has been used a number of times (probably not the problem) Followed all the instructions on install and all instructions in faq and user

Re: Mapping windows drives in cygwin?

2007-04-25 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 4/24/07, Jeff Hawk Jeff.Hawk::navigon.com wrote: -Original Message- You're still missing a '\' before the \c$ I believe /you/'re still missing the reply that already said that on Friday and Kevin's Thanks, that did it response from Saturday last week. Ah, the joys of

Re: Mapping windows drives in cygwin?

2007-04-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:00:23PM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote: couldent you just mount /cygdrive/(driveletter)/ (mountpoint) ? No. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: