Re: Workaround for foreign keyboard problem to be entered in FAQ section 4.1.6
rdiezmail-cygwinxfree wrote: Hi all: I recently hit the foreign keyboard problem described in section 4.1.6 of the Cygwin/X FAQ. That is, I started with: $ setxkbmap.exe de -model pc105 Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property [...] and then I tried what the FAQ said, but I got the following error: $ xkbcomp -w 3 -xkm -m de /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 localhost:0.0 Error:Can't find file xfree86 for keycodes include Exiting Abandoning keycodes file it I googled for it, and after a while, I found the solution: I had the same problem... By copying the /etc/X11/xkb directory into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb It seems to work pretty well now... (just in case, I renamed the existing file C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\xkb.lnk beforehand to xkb.bak.lnk before copying over) ... Well, I _think_ I know what has happened here as it happened to me as well. I had to copy my cygwin environment, and I made a copy on a DVD (of my whole c:\cygwin directory), and re-installed on a freshly created system. When this is being done, I believe all symbolic links, that Windows doesn't know about are being changed to Windows shortcuts with a .lnk extension. Hence, what used to be real (from a cygwin perspective) symbolic links named e.g. xkb are changed into Windows shortcuts and renamed xkb.lnk during this process. Subsequently, X doesn't start properly and you can e.g. not use the setxkbmap command. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Workaround-for-foreign-keyboard-problem-to-be-entered-in-FAQ-section-4.1.6-tp13797565p14730929.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
X win can't start under vista 64 bit
I am installing cygwin-x windows-gnuplot under vista 64 bit. After I finished installing x windows(X11R6),it can't open the black bash window. A X is on the right corner of the disktop. Can anyone help me on this? Thank you! Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
can I forward X packets for windows application to Linux Desktop?
In other words, I want to do the opposite of everyone else. I want to run an application on windows and see it remotely from Linux machine. From linux I would: ssh -Y machine.that.goes.ping to windows host running cygwin/X. Then execute something like explorer.exe and have the windows explorer running remotely on the windows machine popup on my linux desktop. Is this possible? I know about VNC and RDesktop. I want to just have the application window not a window with the full desktop. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: memmem issues
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/20/2007 3:11 AM: | + /* FIXME - this algorithm is worst-case O(l_len*s_len)... | | or what about Boyer-Moore instead: | | http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer-Moore-Algorithmus (in German) | | Using one of them is certainly not a licensing violation since all code | examples are more or less the published examples from well-known | textbooks (Knuth, Sedgewick, et al.). Given that, I don't think you're | actually tainted. An actual implementation would be much better than | a forlorn comment in an unimpressive file in some subdirectory. I took you up on that, and submitted an even better implementation to the newlib list, shared among memmem, strstr, and strcasestr (Knuth-Morris-Pratt and Boyer-Moore both require memory allocation, but not Two-Way). If Jeff gives the go-ahead for newlib, then we'll need to delete cygwin's copy of memmem.cc. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhu6l84KuGfSFAYARAg4WAJ9+8FkRcJlFaFYG/ouvK+4x/VQIlQCeJ03y e9u22aTS92xNaLELTW+otK4= =9rXA -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Suggestions for 'chere' package
Da Idiocrat wrote: I was wondering if there was any way to get chere to add an entry to the context menu when you right-click the BACKGROUND of Windows Explorer so that I don't have to go to the parent folder just to open Cygwin shell in the folder I want? Maybe I missed an option or something? I know it's not important but it really annoyed me... You can right-click the icon of explorer window to get the context menu of the current directory. Regards, Frank -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygwin, g++ and boost? Do I need dll.a?
adam99 wrote, On 9.1.2008 5:57: I downloaded boost packages under cygwin (both boost and boost-devel). My first problem is unit test framework was not installed through this installation. I have tried to create it through bjam and created a library file at I was about to reply that the Boost.Test library is there but then I noticed the version of the package on mirrors is only -3. I have built updated package with Boost.Test enabled some moths ago but I forgot to actually have it uploaded. I will release the -4 package ASAP. [...] -- VH signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Suggestions for 'chere' package
Check out the Subject: using chere thread from June 2007 in this list. I think what you are requesting is discussed there and why is not implemented. Da Idiocrat wrote: Hey everyone, I downloaded chere since I wanted to get an Open Bash Here menu item to make things easier, but uninstalled it because it didn't work out for me. I was wondering if there was any way to get chere to add an entry to the context menu when you right-click the BACKGROUND of Windows Explorer so that I don't have to go to the parent folder just to open Cygwin shell in the folder I want? Maybe I missed an option or something? I know it's not important but it really annoyed me... So I uninstalled chere-1.0.1 and I had to make a .reg file to add this functionality instead, but I'm just wondering if there is a way to do it in chere instead, since I don't like messing around in the registry myself. Just curious, Julian S. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: asciidoc-8.2.5-1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new version of the asciidoc package, asciidoc 8.2.5-1, is now available for download, replacing 8.2.4-1 as current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, with upstream changes listed below. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/asciidoc-8.2.5/. Version 8.2.5 (2007-11-18) ~ Bug fixes ~ * Fixed exception thrown by illegal command-line arguments. ~ * Rolled back the with warning bug fix introduced in 8.2.4 -- it was ~ incompatible with Python 2.5. I've additionally incorporated a patch from Alexey Borzenkov that fixes the generation of links within the git documentation; expect a new git upload soon. DESCRIPTION: AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing short documents, articles, books and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML and DocBook markups using the asciidoc(1) command. AsciiDoc is highly configurable: both the AsciiDoc source file syntax and the backend output markups (which can be almost any type of SGML/XML markup) can be customized and extended by the user. UPDATE: === To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'asciidoc' from the 'Devel' category. DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin asciidoc maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: = To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhiGq84KuGfSFAYARAgCJAKDNwyJxYGniMR+dgb7PWfAwign7LQCgr0GR k77OcXKXaMH2BBf7qY2ywh8= =0HQr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to use encrypted folder (or filesystem)
On Jan 9, 2008 10:11 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CABROL PERALES Alexandre wrote: Hi everybody, i'm using Cygwin Easy version on an usb disk. This is really a question that is more appropriately directed towards the maintainers of Cygwin Easy, since that's a separate project and anything we might say here may not be appropriate for Cygwin Easy. That said... I would like to kow if we can use encrypted FileSystem or folder with cygwin. e.g.: mount -t vfat info.img info/ -oencrypted=aes128 or another way. Cygwin is not Linux (or Unix or BSD or) It has no file-system drivers and relies on Windows to provide file access. Translation - you cannot mount a file system with Cygwin like you show above. Cygwin's mount is not too much more than a mapping of Windows-style paths to POSIX ones. Purpose: be able to use mobile cygwin with an encrypted device (partition, folder, fs image) without have to alter hoster system (no modifications on the operating system, even on c: drive). Do you have any idea? In general, if you can do it with Windows, you should be able to do it with Cygwin and that may translate into being able to do it with Cygwin Easy. But to do it with Windows means you need an NTFS file system on your USB disk. If that's a problem for you, then I believe you have provided the answer to yourself. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 Though not part of cygwin, truecrypt is an excellent and open source utility that will allow you to make and encrypted disk. Then you can install whatever you like on it. http://www.truecrypt.org/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to use encrypted folder (or filesystem)
Brian Mathis a écrit : On Jan 9, 2008 10:11 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CABROL PERALES Alexandre wrote: Hi everybody, i'm using Cygwin Easy version on an usb disk. This is really a question that is more appropriately directed towards the maintainers of Cygwin Easy, since that's a separate project and anything we might say here may not be appropriate for Cygwin Easy. That said... I would like to kow if we can use encrypted FileSystem or folder with cygwin. e.g.: mount -t vfat info.img info/ -oencrypted=aes128 or another way. Cygwin is not Linux (or Unix or BSD or) It has no file-system drivers and relies on Windows to provide file access. Translation - you cannot mount a file system with Cygwin like you show above. Cygwin's mount is not too much more than a mapping of Windows-style paths to POSIX ones. Purpose: be able to use mobile cygwin with an encrypted device (partition, folder, fs image) without have to alter hoster system (no modifications on the operating system, even on c: drive). Do you have any idea? In general, if you can do it with Windows, you should be able to do it with Cygwin and that may translate into being able to do it with Cygwin Easy. But to do it with Windows means you need an NTFS file system on your USB disk. If that's a problem for you, then I believe you have provided the answer to yourself. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 Though not part of cygwin, truecrypt is an excellent and open source utility that will allow you to make and encrypted disk. Then you can install whatever you like on it. http://www.truecrypt.org/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ I tryed TrueCrypt but Security Policy on my professional laptop forbid use of it own driver. I tryed too Cross Crypt but the problem is the fact that this tool need to modify register. Any other idea? Thanks for your help. -- Alexandre Cabrol-Perales portable: 06 98 82 03 06 -- ADSSI Association pour le Développement de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information site web: http://www.adssi.fr s'abonner à la liste de discussion: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: how to check email through cygwin
thanks. On 1/10/08, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:45:39 +, morgan gangwere 0[dot]fractalus[at]gmail[dot]com wrote: thanks, after config can I reply mails by vi in cygwin? thats all mutt's job. Most console mode mail user agents and newsreaders expect the user to specify an editor-- even PINE accepts an alternate editor. I'm sure that mutt is no different. -- Sorry, my life is still in beta, and nowhere near stable enough for a release. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Suggestions for 'chere' package
Da Idiocrat wrote: I downloaded chere since I wanted to get an Open Bash Here menu item to make things easier, but uninstalled it because it didn't work out for me. Sorry to hear that. I was wondering if there was any way to get chere to add an entry to the context menu when you right-click the BACKGROUND of Windows Explorer so that I don't have to go to the parent folder just to open Cygwin shell in the folder I want? Maybe I missed an option or something? I know it's not important but it really annoyed me... Please see the thread Paul Mallas identified. There is also an older thread discussing this (2006ish). So I uninstalled chere-1.0.1 and I had to make a .reg file to add this functionality instead, but I'm just wondering if there is a way to do it in chere instead, since I don't like messing around in the registry myself. I'd be interested in hearing the advantage of your .reg files over the chere script, and how it accomplishes it. The scripts should be able to duplicate anything that a .reg file does. Thanks, Dave. chere maintainer. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
where is pdflatex gone?
Hi, can the tetex packages be fixed, so that they supply a pdflatex link? I checked all of the *.gz files in /etc/setup and all the scripts in /etc/postinstall. It doesn't seem, like packages is supposed to install pdflatex link :-( I have the following tetex packages installed: tetex-base,bin,extra,tiny,x11 Since it was missing, i created a link pdflatex - pdfetex myself already. Regards, Sven -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
[BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
Hi, so i have a latex file here. pdflatex document.tex works. But run pdflatex document.tex does not. run.exe seems to be the best way to call cygwin application from external windows apps. But the seems to be some difference from invoking by a shell. pdfetex seems to check the name by it has been invoked. When invoking from the shell, it correctly finds out, that it has been invoked as pdflatex but when invoked via run.exe, this check seems to lead to the wrong result. I guess, it's a bug of run.exe which might do more work, than it should (like following symbolic links, or such stuff). Regards, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
problem message when I start Cygwin bash shell
Hi, When I start Cygwin bash shell, I get the folowing message: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe (740): *** couldn't allocate cygwin heap, Win32 error 0, base 0xA1, top 0xA19000, reserve_size 36864, allocsize 36864, page_const 409 6 4 [main] bash 1072 sync_with_child: child 740(0x114) died before initializ ation with status code 0x1 208 [main] bash 1072 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for longjmp bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable bash-2.05b$ Anyone help to fix a problem? I am using Windows Vista, I set my Home variable to C:\Users\myusername, Cygwin installation is by default in C:\cygwin. I also set PATH variable in System properties to include /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin I would appreciate any help. Rakun -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem-message-when-I-start-Cygwin-bash-shell-tp14742356p14742356.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, so i have a latex file here. pdflatex document.tex works. But run pdflatex document.tex does not. run.exe seems to be the best way to call cygwin application from external windows apps. But the seems to be some difference from invoking by a shell. pdfetex seems to check the name by it has been invoked. When invoking from the shell, it correctly finds out, that it has been invoked as pdflatex but when invoked via run.exe, this check seems to lead to the wrong result. I guess, it's a bug of run.exe which might do more work, than it should (like following symbolic links, or such stuff). This is not really a bug in run.exe, because it was never documented to work correctly with symlinks, and you'd get the same problem with any pure Windows way of invoking pdflatex anyway. But it is, arguably, a deficiency in run.exe. You can do a few things. One is to pass an explicit parameter that tells pdfetex to use pdflatex mode (i.e., -fmt pdflatex). Another is to invoke pdflatex via bash (i.e., run bash -c 'pdflatex ...'). Finally, you can look at the sources for run.exe (available via Cygwin setup) and submit a patch (look at the first argument to CreateProcess). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it. -- Rabbi Hillel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
so i have a latex file here. pdflatex document.tex works. But run pdflatex document.tex does not. run.exe seems to be the best way to call cygwin application from external windows apps. But the seems to be some difference from invoking by a shell. pdfetex seems to check the name by it has been invoked. When invoking from the shell, it correctly finds out, that it has been invoked as pdflatex but when invoked via run.exe, this check seems to lead to the wrong result. I guess, it's a bug of run.exe which might do more work, than it should (like following symbolic links, or such stuff). This is not really a bug in run.exe, because it was never documented to work correctly with symlinks, and you'd get the same problem with any pure Windows way of invoking pdflatex anyway. But it is, arguably, a deficiency in run.exe. Hmm. I looked at the man pages, which says, that run's purpose is to hide the console windows. Hmm. Maybe i'm kind of misusing the problem right now. But is there another easy way to execute cygwin programs from outside cygwin? I think of symlinks, shell-scripts, perl-scripts, etc... Using run.exe is quite handy for these cases. You can do a few things. One is to pass an explicit parameter that tells pdfetex to use pdflatex mode (i.e., -fmt pdflatex). That's maybe a good idea - but won't work for pslatex, since pslatex is a shell script. Another is to invoke pdflatex via bash (i.e., run bash -c 'pdflatex ...'). Actually i HATE the bash -c command param1 param2 ... way of invoking commands. It needs special escaping of white spaces and other special characters, which usually nobody takes cares about causing unexpected behaviour. The way run.exe or sudo do it is much more elegant and transparent. Finally, you can look at the sources for run.exe (available via Cygwin setup) and submit a patch (look at the first argument to CreateProcess). I'm not a unix-programmer unfortunatly. I'm not very familiar with the APIs. Well, i will look into the source and try to find out, what run.exe is actually doing. But CreateProcess sounds like a windows API call. Wouldn't it be more elegant to use a cygwin-call similar to the one bash uses? But is run.exe linked against cygwin.dll? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
Finally,
you can look at the sources for run.exe (available via Cygwin setup) and
submit a patch (look at the first argument to CreateProcess).
Hmm. So indeed run seems to use the Windows-API to create the new
rprocess. But that pdfetex knows, that is has been invoked by the name
pdflatex, must be an internal cygwin thing. Because actually, when
executing pdflatex from bash, cygwin must follow the symlink and then
executed pdfetex.exe. Still, cygwin reports to pdfetex, that it was
invoked with the command pdflatex.
So i have no clue where to start here.
Actually, i wrote a small C program. And sure, it will not hide the
console window, when startes. But it simply uses execve to start the
program given in the parameter list:
#include stdio.h
#include unistd.h
int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
if (argc 2)
{
printf(you must give some parameters\n);
return 1;
}
int i = execve(argv[1], argv+1, NULL);
printf(execve failed: %i\n, i);
return 2;
}
I'm amazed, it even works. Anyway: after compiling it under cygwin and
putting it to /bin/myrun.exe it's possible for me to successfully start
pdflatex by using
c:\path\to\cygwin\bin\myrun.exe /usr/bin/pdflatex document.tex
Hmm. I'm not sure, in which troubles i get by going this way.
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Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Sven Köhler wrote:
Finally, you can look at the sources for run.exe (available via Cygwin
setup) and submit a patch (look at the first argument to
CreateProcess).
Hmm. So indeed run seems to use the Windows-API to create the new
rprocess. But that pdfetex knows, that is has been invoked by the name
pdflatex, must be an internal cygwin thing. Because actually, when
executing pdflatex from bash, cygwin must follow the symlink and then
executed pdfetex.exe. Still, cygwin reports to pdfetex, that it was
invoked with the command pdflatex.
So i have no clue where to start here.
Try MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682425(VS.85).aspx
(MSDN used to have much MUCH nicer URLs that actually contained the name
of the function the page described, but someone at Microsoft must've
decided that it made life too easy for the programmers).
Actually, i wrote a small C program. And sure, it will not hide the
console window, when startes. But it simply uses execve to start the
program given in the parameter list:
#include stdio.h
#include unistd.h
int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
if (argc 2)
{
printf(you must give some parameters\n);
return 1;
}
int i = execve(argv[1], argv+1, NULL);
printf(execve failed: %i\n, i);
return 2;
}
I'm amazed, it even works. Anyway: after compiling it under cygwin and
putting it to /bin/myrun.exe it's possible for me to successfully start
pdflatex by using
c:\path\to\cygwin\bin\myrun.exe /usr/bin/pdflatex document.tex
Hmm. I'm not sure, in which troubles i get by going this way.
No need to be amazed, once you've read the spec for execve and understood
the purpose of each parameter.
What you're essentially doing here is exactly what using bash -c
would've done, but without bash (kinda like that thing with Einstein
explaining radio). In fact, you can do this with bash as well, by noting
that the arguments do not have to appear in quotes (try running the
following:
bash -c exec /bin/echo \$@ some arguments here
and see what's printed; then read the bash man page for why this happens).
However, the above is *not* equivalent to using run.exe in that it will
not hide the console window (try it from a GUI). To do this hiding,
run.exe *has* to use Win32 API like CreateProcess. This isn't to say,
though, that the code cannot be fixed to do what you asked.
Igor
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Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
I just tried to run pslatex (which is a shell-script) with run.exe. And actually, it won't run. There is a box saying Error: could not start c:\cygwin\bin\pslatex. Well, it's not an exe-file. It's basically a textfile to windows. Hence the error, i guess. Now i wonder, if it's already safe or if it would be possible to use cygwin API (for example execve) from run.exe. To fix all the issues, run.exe really would have to use cygwin to start the command since only that will resolv all the issues (analysing the shebang, following symlinks, etc.). Just modifying the CreateProcess won't do. Or we would have to rewrite all the shebang/symlink stuff ourselves which is error prone. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
Now i wonder, if it's already safe or if it would be possible to use cygwin API (for example execve) from run.exe. To fix all the issues, run.exe really would have to use cygwin to start the command since only that will resolv all the issues (analysing the shebang, following symlinks, etc.). OK, we cannot use execve, right? If we would, it would open yet another console window will be opened for the program we'd like to exec, right? So is there any cygwin call to analyse a path? A call, that simply returns the program to execute, the parameters to pass, etc.? It really would really be better pass all the work (finding shebang, etc.) to cygwin so that it's consistent. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
bash -c exec /bin/echo \$@ some arguments here and see what's printed; then read the bash man page for why this happens). Oh, that possibility was new to me. All i wonder, is why the some gets lost. Only arguments here is printed. And actually i would like to argue, that $@ instead of $@ should be used. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: where is pdflatex gone?
Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... can the tetex packages be fixed, so that they supply a pdflatex link? My understanding is that support for tetex has been stopped and that in its place texlive is available.. TeX live is a TeX distribution which is advised as the replacement of its no-longer supported counterpart teTeX TeX live has been developed since 1996 by collaboration within the TeX Users Group. It follows the TeX Directory Structure. http://www.tug.org/texlive/ Are there any plans to adopt the texlive package for cygwin? I would if I had a good understanding of TeX, but I don't. MikTex is a Windows specific implementation and is not aware of posix pathnames, etc..., so a native cygwin tex package would be welcome. regards -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
Sven Köhler schrieb: I just tried to run pslatex (which is a shell-script) with run.exe. And actually, it won't run. There is a box saying Error: could not start c:\cygwin\bin\pslatex. Well, it's not an exe-file. It's basically a textfile to windows. Hence the error, i guess. Now i wonder, if it's already safe or if it would be possible to use cygwin API (for example execve) from run.exe. To fix all the issues, run.exe really would have to use cygwin to start the command since only that will resolv all the issues (analysing the shebang, following symlinks, etc.). Just modifying the CreateProcess won't do. Or we would have to rewrite all the shebang/symlink stuff ourselves which is error prone. Check the cygstart utility. I thing it works with symbolic links. Dirk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:13:59AM +0100, Sven K?hler wrote: bash -c exec /bin/echo \$@ some arguments here and see what's printed; then read the bash man page for why this happens). Oh, that possibility was new to me. All i wonder, is why the some gets lost. Only arguments here is printed. And actually i would like to argue, that $@ instead of $@ should be used. Because, as on linux, the arguments are taken to be argv[0 - 2]. bash -c exec /bin/echo \\$0\ \[EMAIL PROTECTED] will get you all of the arguments. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
Check the cygstart utility. I thing it works with symbolic links. Hmm. The cygstart utility is for starting application / opening files as if they were double clicked in the explorer. So you can do: cygstart my.pdf (will open acrobat reader) cygstart pdflatex (will open a windows console windows which will execute pdfetex, but not in pdflatex mode) cygstart pslatex (will not work, since windows doesn't know how to start a shell script) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
However, the above is *not* equivalent to using run.exe in that it will not hide the console window (try it from a GUI). Just tested it. It's not true. I compiled my program with gcc -o /bin/myrun.exe -mwindows and executed c:\cygwin\bin\myrun.exe /bin/sleep 60 from Windows Explorer. No console window and sleep.exe runs. Also c:\cygwin\bin\myrun.exe /bin/rxvt works as expected. No console window. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Sven Köhler wrote: Now i wonder, if it's already safe or if it would be possible to use cygwin API (for example execve) from run.exe. To fix all the issues, run.exe really would have to use cygwin to start the command since only that will resolv all the issues (analysing the shebang, following symlinks, etc.). OK, we cannot use execve, right? If we would, it would open yet another console window will be opened for the program we'd like to exec, right? Exactly. So is there any cygwin call to analyse a path? A call, that simply returns the program to execute, the parameters to pass, etc.? It really would really be better pass all the work (finding shebang, etc.) to cygwin so that it's consistent. Yes, there is a well-known extensively tested way of handling shell scripts, symlinks, etc. It's called using a shell. Just execve your favorite shell (/bin/bash is most likely to be present in all installs, and /bin/sh in Cygwin is the same as bash), and pass it the executable path as an argument. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it. -- Rabbi Hillel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:13:59AM +0100, Sven K?hler wrote: bash -c exec /bin/echo \$@ some arguments here and see what's printed; then read the bash man page for why this happens). Oh, that possibility was new to me. All i wonder, is why the some gets lost. Only arguments here is printed. And actually i would like to argue, that $@ instead of $@ should be used. Because, as on linux, the arguments are taken to be argv[0 - 2]. bash -c exec /bin/echo \\$0\ \[EMAIL PROTECTED] will get you all of the arguments. Or, in other words, read the bash man page for why this happens (in particular, the part that talks about the -c argument). :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it. -- Rabbi Hillel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Suggestions for 'chere' package
Dave wrote: Da Idiocrat wrote: I downloaded chere since I wanted to get an Open Bash Here menu item to make things easier, but uninstalled it because it didn't work out for me. Sorry to hear that. I was wondering if there was any way to get chere to add an entry to the context menu when you right-click the BACKGROUND of Windows Explorer so that I don't have to go to the parent folder just to open Cygwin shell in the folder I want? Maybe I missed an option or something? I know it's not important but it really annoyed me... Please see the thread Paul Mallas identified. There is also an older thread discussing this (2006ish). So I uninstalled chere-1.0.1 and I had to make a .reg file to add this functionality instead, but I'm just wondering if there is a way to do it in chere instead, since I don't like messing around in the registry myself. I'd be interested in hearing the advantage of your .reg files over the chere script, and how it accomplishes it. The scripts should be able to duplicate anything that a .reg file does. A disadvantage of .reg files is that some organizations have windows policies that require administrator rights to use regedit.exe; .ref files don't work for non-administrators (like me). And so I need to give a BIG THANKS to the people who wrote regtool.exe and the code for /proc/registry/, and also the setup.exe coders who remembered to give us a just for me option. - Barry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Sven Köhler wrote: However, the above is *not* equivalent to using run.exe in that it will not hide the console window (try it from a GUI). Just tested it. It's not true. I compiled my program with gcc -o /bin/myrun.exe -mwindows and executed c:\cygwin\bin\myrun.exe /bin/sleep 60 from Windows Explorer. No console window and sleep.exe runs. Also c:\cygwin\bin\myrun.exe /bin/rxvt works as expected. No console window. Actually, -mwindows just says that myrun.exe should not pop up a console window. The child process is a console app, and would have still popped up a console. Except that in Cygwin 1.5.x, spawnve always set wShowWindow to SW_HIDE before calling CreateProcess if the parent didn't have a tty, so, in effect, execve was doing the same as what run.exe was doing. Now, in Cygwin 1.7.x (a.k.a. CVS HEAD), this is no longer the case (since revision 1.243 of spawn.cc). The comment simply says Drop pty_needs_alloc_console check -- maybe Corinna can explain why it was dropped. So your program will not work as expected in the snapshots. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it. -- Rabbi Hillel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
Now, in Cygwin 1.7.x (a.k.a. CVS HEAD), this is no longer the case (since revision 1.243 of spawn.cc). The comment simply says Drop pty_needs_alloc_console check -- maybe Corinna can explain why it was dropped. So your program will not work as expected in the snapshots. OK, thanks for the explanation. But ... wouldn't that mean that any command executed would open a console window? In your other responses, you said, that using the shell is the most preferrable way. Unfortunatly, i cannot use the shell. The method is well understood. I could easily execute cygwin stuff by using: bash -c exec \\$0\ \[EMAIL PROTECTED] program param1 param2 ... The program from which i want to execute pdflatex/pslatex/etc. (which is Texlipse, a Latex plugin for Eclipse) doesn't allow me to do so. But aside from that: is the shell really the preferred way of doing this? Doesn't the shell simply call execve again? Following what you said, it should be best to call bash.exe from run.exe to solve all the issues. So the question is: who does all the checks (shebang, etc.)? - the execve implementation? (which is cygwin, right?) - the shell? - both? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: where is pdflatex gone?
Sven Köhler wrote: can the tetex packages be fixed, so that they supply a pdflatex link? You can simply make a link from pdflatex to pdfetex in /usr/bin and everything should be fine. I seem to recall this was one of the solutions required to get tetex working properly with make pdf on packages with texinfo documentation. I know it would be nice if the package was fixed to do this automatically, but it's a simple workaround. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: where is pdflatex gone?
Brian Dessent wrote: Sven Köhler wrote: can the tetex packages be fixed, so that they supply a pdflatex link? You can simply make a link from pdflatex to pdfetex in /usr/bin and Sigh. Obviously I fail at reading comprehension today. I missed the part where you said you already did that. Sorry for the noise. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: git-1.5.3.8-1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of git, 1.5.3.8-1, has been uploaded, replacing 1.5.3.5-1 as the current version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/git-1.5.3.8/, along with the attached upstream release notes. When compiled out of the box, the upstream git maintainers cater to older cygwin releases, and intentionally disable certain features that have been reported on their mailing list, even though they work with the latest cygwin. Therefore, this build turns those features back on. However, it means that this version does assume that you are not using FAT or FAT32 to hold your repositories, since they do not store file permissions very accurately. DESCRIPTION: Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used mainly for various open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel. Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools, similar to e.g. GNU Arch or Monotone (or BitKeeper in the proprietary world). Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. UPDATE: === To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'git' from the 'Devel' category. DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin git maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: = To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhuve84KuGfSFAYARAl0nAKCMM2fGbFcakbFMWdFa8O83I9DAVgCeNkzS udJbz1pS0xz/X5K2Kw2a5iE= =HH5I -END PGP SIGNATURE- GIT v1.5.3.8 Release Notes == Fixes since v1.5.3.7 * Some documentation used email.com as an example domain. * git-svn fix to handle funky branch and project names going over http/https correctly. * git-svn fix to tone down a needlessly alarming warning message. * git-clone did not correctly report errors while fetching over http. * git-send-email added redundant Message-Id: header to the outgoing e-mail when the patch text already had one. * a read-beyond-end-of-buffer bug in configuration file updater was fixed. * git-grep used to show the same hit repeatedly for unmerged paths. * After amending the patch title in git-am -i, the command did not report the patch it applied with the updated title. GIT v1.5.3.7 Release Notes == Fixes since v1.5.3.6 * git-send-email added 8-bit contents to the payload without marking it as 8-bit in a CTE header. * git-bundle create a.bndl HEAD dereferenced the symref and did not record the ref as 'HEAD'; this prevented a bundle from being used as a normal source of git-clone. * The code to reject nonsense command line of the form git-commit -a paths... and git-commit --interactive paths... were broken. * Adding a signature that is not ASCII-only to an original commit that is ASCII-only would make the result non-ASCII. git-format-patch -s did not mark such a message correctly with MIME encoding header. * git-add sometimes did not mark the resulting index entry stat-clean. This affected only cases when adding the contents with the same length as the previously staged contents, and the previous staging made the index entry racily clean. * git-commit did not honor GIT_INDEX_FILE the user had in the environment. * When checking out a revision, git-checkout did not report where the updated HEAD is if you happened to have a file called HEAD in the work tree. * git-rev-list --objects mishandled a tree that points at a submodule. * git cvsimport was not ready for packed refs that git gc can produce and gave incorrect results. * Many scripted Porcelains were confused when you
cron does not work: no error message
Hi, I upgraded my cygwin recently to the latest cron (4.1-6), and it seems to have stopped working. I did a cygrunsrv -E cron when the setup asked me to kill cron, and cygrunsrv -S cron to start it after the upgrade finished. Now the application log shows that /usr/sbin/cron actually runs, but instead of running the command from the crontab, it simply does a tabs reload. The following are relevant lines from cygbug.txt, the first one shows an instance of the old cron, the second one an instance of the new one. 2008/01/10 00:21:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 1412: (HP_Owner) CMD (ls) ... 2008/01/10 20:50:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 3104: (HP_Owner) RELOAD (tabs/HP_Owner) The only thing that jumped out at me was that /var/cron/cron.log and /var/run/cron.pid have user SYSTEM and group root, and afaict these are the only files in the cygwin space with that user+group pair. Is this right? Also the cron.log file is empty. Any thoughts? Thank you. saurabh Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Convert windows shortcuts to cygwin soft links
I must have done something to my cygwin folder, but all my ln'ed soft links on cygwin have gotten replaced by *.lnk windows files. Is there a utility to convert windows links to cygwin soft links? I dont want to have to go and do everything manually (there's at least a hundred files!). Thank you. saurabh Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Convert windows shortcuts to cygwin soft links
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Saurabh Tendulkar wrote: I must have done something to my cygwin folder, but all my ln'ed soft links on cygwin have gotten replaced by *.lnk windows files. Is there a utility to convert windows links to cygwin soft links? I dont want to have to go and do everything manually (there's at least a hundred files!). Thank you. Try attrib +R *.lnk from a cmd prompt. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it. -- Rabbi Hillel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Sven Köhler wrote: Now, in Cygwin 1.7.x (a.k.a. CVS HEAD), this is no longer the case (since revision 1.243 of spawn.cc). The comment simply says Drop pty_needs_alloc_console check -- maybe Corinna can explain why it was dropped. So your program will not work as expected in the snapshots. OK, thanks for the explanation. But ... wouldn't that mean that any command executed would open a console window? Yes, unless one is already allocated. So, when you run cygwin.bat, that opens the console, and this console is used for subsequent apps. However, if you tried to invoke a Cygwin application via Start-Run, you'd get a console. In your other responses, you said, that using the shell is the most preferrable way. Unfortunatly, i cannot use the shell. The method is well understood. I could easily execute cygwin stuff by using: bash -c exec \\$0\ \[EMAIL PROTECTED] program param1 param2 ... The program from which i want to execute pdflatex/pslatex/etc. (which is Texlipse, a Latex plugin for Eclipse) doesn't allow me to do so. Yet it would allow you to use run.exe in place of bash -c 'exec $0 $@'? This is weird. But aside from that: is the shell really the preferred way of doing this? Doesn't the shell simply call execve again? Not quite. The shell will also set the right program name for executables/symlinks, or interpret the shebang line and invoke the interpreter via execve, rather than the script. Following what you said, it should be best to call bash.exe from run.exe to solve all the issues. Indeed. So, your invocation would be run bash -c 'exec $0 $@' pdflatex your args or something like that. So the question is: who does all the checks (shebang, etc.)? - the execve implementation? (which is cygwin, right?) - the shell? - both? The shell. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it. -- Rabbi Hillel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:47:08 +0100, Sven Köhler skoehler[at]upb[dot]de wrote: But is there another easy way to execute cygwin programs from outside cygwin? I think of symlinks, shell-scripts, perl-scripts, etc... The easiest or best depends partly upon what you use to provide your console window. Do you run bash in a native Windows console? Do you 'export CYGWIN=tty' to make this console window more POSIX-like? Or, perhaps, maybe you use a terminal program. Cygwin RXVT can run in native mode using the built-in W11 code, or it can be used with an X server. If you have X11 installed, you can use xterm, and perhaps other things. I read somewhere that some people use putty... It also depends on which Windows subsystem you are using to launch your Cygwin app. Are you adding registry entries to create Explorer context menu commands and/or file type associations? Are you calling your Cygwin app from a DOS batch file (and do you need the control to be returned to your batch file once your Cygwin app completes)? Are you calling it from a native Windows console mode app that accepts or expects user-defined external apps for some functions? Or, perhaps, you just want to create a desktop shortcut to your Cygwin app. There has been a fair amount of discussion of this topic in the last two months. I described my own solutions in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-12/msg00506.html. And yes, some of this discussion has been about shell quoting. I'm not a unix-programmer unfortunatly. I'm not very familiar with the APIs. Free documentation is available. The Single Unix Specification ver.2 (susv2) is downloadable at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/download/. susv3 is available at http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/; you must register first, then you can navigate your way to the downloads page. I also managed to find some Redhat linux manual pages (probably in an RPM); section 2 of the manual also documents the APIs. I don't recall where on RedHat's site I found them, I would have to dig for them again. These two resources, plus the Cygwin user's guide, should give you everything you need. Jeff -- Sorry, my life is still in beta, and nowhere near stable enough for a release. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Updated: asciidoc-8.2.5-1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new version of the asciidoc package, asciidoc 8.2.5-1, is now available for download, replacing 8.2.4-1 as current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release, with upstream changes listed below. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/asciidoc-8.2.5/. Version 8.2.5 (2007-11-18) ~ Bug fixes ~ * Fixed exception thrown by illegal command-line arguments. ~ * Rolled back the with warning bug fix introduced in 8.2.4 -- it was ~ incompatible with Python 2.5. I've additionally incorporated a patch from Alexey Borzenkov that fixes the generation of links within the git documentation; expect a new git upload soon. DESCRIPTION: AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing short documents, articles, books and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML and DocBook markups using the asciidoc(1) command. AsciiDoc is highly configurable: both the AsciiDoc source file syntax and the backend output markups (which can be almost any type of SGML/XML markup) can be customized and extended by the user. UPDATE: === To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'asciidoc' from the 'Devel' category. DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin asciidoc maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: = To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhiGq84KuGfSFAYARAgCJAKDNwyJxYGniMR+dgb7PWfAwign7LQCgr0GR k77OcXKXaMH2BBf7qY2ywh8= =0HQr -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Updated: git-1.5.3.8-1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of git, 1.5.3.8-1, has been uploaded, replacing 1.5.3.5-1 as the current version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/git-1.5.3.8/, along with the attached upstream release notes. When compiled out of the box, the upstream git maintainers cater to older cygwin releases, and intentionally disable certain features that have been reported on their mailing list, even though they work with the latest cygwin. Therefore, this build turns those features back on. However, it means that this version does assume that you are not using FAT or FAT32 to hold your repositories, since they do not store file permissions very accurately. DESCRIPTION: Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used mainly for various open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel. Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools, similar to e.g. GNU Arch or Monotone (or BitKeeper in the proprietary world). Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. UPDATE: === To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'git' from the 'Devel' category. DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin git maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: = To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhuve84KuGfSFAYARAl0nAKCMM2fGbFcakbFMWdFa8O83I9DAVgCeNkzS udJbz1pS0xz/X5K2Kw2a5iE= =HH5I -END PGP SIGNATURE- GIT v1.5.3.8 Release Notes == Fixes since v1.5.3.7 * Some documentation used email.com as an example domain. * git-svn fix to handle funky branch and project names going over http/https correctly. * git-svn fix to tone down a needlessly alarming warning message. * git-clone did not correctly report errors while fetching over http. * git-send-email added redundant Message-Id: header to the outgoing e-mail when the patch text already had one. * a read-beyond-end-of-buffer bug in configuration file updater was fixed. * git-grep used to show the same hit repeatedly for unmerged paths. * After amending the patch title in git-am -i, the command did not report the patch it applied with the updated title. GIT v1.5.3.7 Release Notes == Fixes since v1.5.3.6 * git-send-email added 8-bit contents to the payload without marking it as 8-bit in a CTE header. * git-bundle create a.bndl HEAD dereferenced the symref and did not record the ref as 'HEAD'; this prevented a bundle from being used as a normal source of git-clone. * The code to reject nonsense command line of the form git-commit -a paths... and git-commit --interactive paths... were broken. * Adding a signature that is not ASCII-only to an original commit that is ASCII-only would make the result non-ASCII. git-format-patch -s did not mark such a message correctly with MIME encoding header. * git-add sometimes did not mark the resulting index entry stat-clean. This affected only cases when adding the contents with the same length as the previously staged contents, and the previous staging made the index entry racily clean. * git-commit did not honor GIT_INDEX_FILE the user had in the environment. * When checking out a revision, git-checkout did not report where the updated HEAD is if you happened to have a file called HEAD in the work tree. * git-rev-list --objects mishandled a tree that points at a submodule. * git cvsimport was not ready for packed refs that git gc can produce and gave incorrect results. * Many scripted Porcelains were confused when you
