Starting a new thread from an email from about a month ago...
I've got a series of three patches from Reini as follows:
For reference:
The current three command-line patches at the tracker are all against
current HEAD and should applied in the following order:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christopher Faylor wrote:
For the time being, you should be able to dump the mount table to a .bat
file with mount -m and then run the .bat on the system that has the
copied installation.
This technique probably won't work in Cygwin 1.7.x when it is released,
though.
Funny enough, this is
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Using setup.exe for this task makes me think that people believe
setup.exe is doing something mysterious. It really isn't. Even if you
wanted to go to the effort of unpacking tar.bz2 files you could still do
it all with bash, tar, and mount, avoiding setup.exe
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.2-1.
There is no 16-bit DOS version, the executable is too big to fit in the
limited memory space.
I guess Bill Gates was wrong :-)
Note that I'm not bashing Microsoft here, I'm just amused because
I've got more
Yes, I've read the FAQ on making Cygwin portable :-)
I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH
drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in
my HOME directory will be awfully slow.
Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory on a local
hard drive to the cygwin
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Yes, I've read the FAQ on making Cygwin portable :-)
I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH
drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in
my HOME directory will be awfully slow.
Why is that?
Creating, wand
Dave Korn wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on 20 August 2008 19:22:
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory on a local
hard drive to the cygwin /home/username/ directory?
No, not across volumes.
Huh? I must be misunderstanding what you mean here:
/ $ df
Albrecht Schlosser wrote:
Ralph Hempel wrote:
mount -f -s -b d:\my_home /home/username
and umount after you are done with it ?
That sounds more like what I want. I really do know how
to do all of this under Linux.
The main reason I'm asking the question here is that some
of you will have
Phil Betts wrote:
It would be nice if the cygwin-specific options were documented in the
gcc info file, but they don't appear to be. Don't expect -mno-cygwin
to appear there soon either, because my understanding is that the
-mno-cygwin option will be removed soon because of the surprising
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Phil is 100% correct here. It's heartening to see someone so thoroughly
getting it after having to so frequently deal with the misconceptions
about -mno-cygwin. Confusion about -mwindows is new though.
I'm counting the days until -mno-cygwin disappears. It is a
Christopher Faylor wrote:
.
As one of those people I wonder if it will still be possible to
generate executables that do not depend on cygwin DLLs using
cygwin's gcc?
No, we're changing the laws of the universe to make this a physical
impossibility. At your first attempt to generate a mingw
Warren Young wrote:
Ralph Hempel wrote:
what I think I hear you saying is that when
-mno-cygwin is fully deprecated I'll need to build a cross compiler
for native Windows executables
Or, you could install MinGW. Cygwin and MinGW will coexist, side by
side, without conflict, if you arrange
Jason Tishler wrote:
If you are going to release another Cygwin 1.5, would you be willing to
back port this fix? Otherwise, Python 3.0 will not be able to run under
Cygwin 1.5.
And the madness begins
Ralph
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Nose wrote:
Hello everybody!
I've got a makescript which doesn't run with the new cygwin version.
When I switch back to the new cygwin version nothing seems to be the matter
but when I switch to the new version things are getting weird.
As Groucho Marx might have said on this list:
Then
I'd just like to clear up some confusion on my part
about install as distributed with Cygwin.
I'm building Lua, an MIT licensed scripting language.
Part of the lua make install process calls install
as follows:
cd src install -p -m 0755 lua luac /usr/local/bin
And sure enough, lua and luac
DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Ralph Hempel wrote:
I'd just like to clear up some confusion on my part
about install as distributed with Cygwin.
SNIP
Does this help?
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id318321
Yes, but then this part
Dave Korn wrote:
Mark J. Reed wrote on 07 October 2008 14:30:
While you can copy and paste with the standard DOS box window, it is
not easy, and copying is especially laborious. It requires an extra
step (you have to go into mark mode via Edit-Mark before you can
select anything);
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 2 11:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 1 09:27, Herb Maeder wrote:
With a fresh install of cygwin-1.7 on a vanilla Vista system, I see that
the 'mv' command appends a .exe extension to the destination file for any
source files that have a .bat or .com
Eric Blake wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/9/2008 7:05 AM:
Install seems to strip the .exe extension in the process of copying
files to the destination directory.
Install *copies* files. The resulting filename is not under control of
Reid Thompson wrote:
Dirk Napierala wrote: , but what I do not understand is
that after we found that only replacing the dll cause the prob and
fix it again when reverted, why isn't that enough to troubleshoot
the dll now? Also because it does not work with the 1.7 version.
I think if you'll
Peter Ross wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Mark Geisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Ross writes:
I've written an application which does some initialization and then
does a tcp accept. 5 minutes and 20 seconds give or take after doing
the tcp.accept the application aborts with exit
Eric Blake wrote:
Whats the official release date for cygwin1.7( also QT4,QWT5.. ). Please let me
know
When it's good and ready. Read the archives; this is a volunteer process,
so no one is getting paid to make a release by a certain date (although
before the end of this year would has been
Manning, Sid wrote:
I've been happily using cygwin for many years but I recently loaded
VMware on my system and it seemed pretty snappy, so much so I decided
to see how it compared to native execution. I was surprised to see
that I could compile much faster under VMware than on Cygwin on the
Mark J. Reed wrote:
Long story short, this is probably not so much a Cygwin issue
as general Windows issue...
No, I think that's going too far. It's a mismatch between the Windows
and UNIX process models, and the fact that compilation via make(1) is
optimized for the latter.
Agreed. I was
Manning, Sid wrote:
I appreciate everyone's insight and I will definitely checkout
Mecklenburg's make book to get hard stats on the differences.
Mecklenburg's book is much better put to use as the definitive
reference for make :-)
Chapter 10 Improving the Performance of make pp182-195 is
John Emmas wrote:
Is there a simple solution to this?
In general, no. Writing portable code is hard and requires
quite a bit of thought and perhaps more importantly, experience.
First, use the strictest possible warning setting on the compiler
and strive for warning free compiles.
Then what
Thrall, Bryan wrote:
For example (untested), to install vim and bc:
setup.exe -d -q -R 'c:\cygwin' -s 'http://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/'
-l 'c:\cygwin\home\thrall' -P vim,bc
I'm not sure, but I _think_ the -P is only available in the 1.7
setup.
The -D and -L options are not specified in
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
From: Eric Blake
It is not portable to platforms with 16-bit int (although
these days, such platforms are museumware).
That, or:
- Running your car's engineware.
- Exploding an airbag into your face on detecting a collisionware.
- Recording your vital signsware.
-
Barnhart, Robert M. wrote:
I suspect a couple of things that might be affecting cygwin since yesterday:
1) I installed VMware Player 2.5.0 build-118166, but have not run it yet.
2) I loaded a VM image of about ~30GB onto my hard drive, but did not execute
it.
3) Our company (SAIC) may be
Andrew Schulman wrote:
increase in email
traffic for people who just want to hear about cygwin/x.
... or just want not to.
I've got my email client (Thunderbird) set to move messages
from mailing lists that I subscribe to into different folders
based on the To: field.
I'm probably not the
Linus Hicks wrote:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Yeah, right, if this were in fact the 21st century, why would we ever
have to deal with a 30 year old, idiotic-from-the-start text file format
using two line ending chars?
How quickly we forget...
snip
Great
John Emmas wrote:
Actually, this is turning out to be slightly more complicated than
I thought. Member alignment for very simple structs seems to correlate
pretty well but more complex structs cause subtle (though hopefully not
insurmountable) problems..
snip
Is it possible (in Cygwin) to
John Emmas wrote:
Christopher / Reini - thanks for your tips.
John, here's a quote from your original email:
As things stand, both client and server use System V shared memory and
everything works well if I compile under Cygwin or Linux. Ultimately
however, there'll be no Linux clients.
Charles Wilson wrote:
Pursuant to a discussion on the libtool list, I'm trying to get a feel
for how many cygwin users rely on the cygwin environment to drive the
*native* MinGW gcc compiler. That is, incantations like this:
snip
I find myself bouncing around between cygwin and mingw because
Here's how I do it in a little batch file that I put on
my USB pen drive:
It's in the attached .TXT file - you'll need to rename
it to .BAT
Note that this batch file will OVERWRITE your fstab so
please review it before installing and using it on your
system.
Basically, it lets me carry Cygwin
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
This can be done now, if you look back through the thread to all the
different options I outlined and even a few scripts others have thrown
in. What Linda is proposing here is simply having the mechanism for
communicating this be an environment variable. While this
Dave Korn wrote:
I'm taking a quick browse through the code. I see that you've based it on
chunks of the core setup.exe code, somewhat refactored and restructured. I
wonder if we couldn't merge the two codebases, in such a way that there's one
common 'setup engine' with a couple of
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you're
trying to run a Linux system on a Windows machine,
why not download the FREE VMWare Server 2.0 and
install Linux as a VM?
You can give the VM a couple of virtual network
adapters and use one for a host-only network and
the other for connectins on
Duane Ellis wrote:
I and others have asked for the ability to specify a group of packages
to install
setup -p comma,separated,list,of,packages
Ralph
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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
No, it's only the 289th time, which probably accounts for why you couldn't
find it with Google. ;-) These kinds of features are missing from
'setup.exe' because there hasn't been a volunteer contributor for them.
If you're interested in contributing something, see
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
No, it's only the 289th time, which probably accounts for why you
couldn't
find it with Google. ;-) These kinds of features are missing from
'setup.exe' because there hasn't been a volunteer contributor for them
Kevin and Nancy wrote:
Ok, I take it back. setup.exe -q will work on an SSH remote
connection. It remains to be seen if it actually updates packages, but
a GUI setup display did not appear on the the local Windows display with
a remotely invoked setup.exe -q. Thus, I question if setup.exe
ycol...@freesurf.fr wrote:
If you want make to understand MinGW paths generated by a MinGW
compiler, you should use a MinGW make, not a Cygwin make.
Is there any mingw make shipped with cygwin ? I can't find one in my
current installation ...
I think Dave wants you to get the mingw-make
y???...@f??f.fr wrote:
Apologies for not mangling the email address in my other
response to that note.
Turns out that if you make your email address the display
name, then it forces the person sending a reply to do
extra work so that your email address isn't visible
everywhere.
Ralph
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Jason Pyeron wrote:
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html says: Unfortunately
setup.exe does not yet support unattended installs.
snip
Is kludging the package list file the best way to go?
The HEAD of the setup tree does support unattended scripted
installs of whatever
Dave Korn wrote:
Shailesh Dadure wrote:
Hello All,
I am a support engineer from Microsoft trying to help my Customer Maziyar
Samadzadeh. We have been notified by Maziyar that when they perform a Query
on a bigger database using GREP we get the following error
Would you like to use one of
Fergus wrote:
I run both [1.5] and [1.7] off portable drives plugged into whatever
host machine I'm using.
snip
Can I write /etc/fstab more generally so that [1.7], like [1.5], can be
made to run off a portable drive without needing to specify (or even
know) the driveletter allocated by the
I had the opportunity to test the latest cygwin-1.7 today after
my USB stick got trashed.
Using setup 2.625 the combination of -D -L on the command line
does not result in the expected download and install operation.
I have to run setup twice, once with -D to download to pull the
files into a
Or you can just use the -P option from the setup command line and
get exactly the packages you want!
Ralph
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
I see that the patch to support both is in CVS as version
2.18.6.1 but not in 2.19 (HEAD)
Is this an oversight or do I just need to wait until the streams
get merged?
It's an oversight. What is the ChangeLog entry for this change?
File:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:44:52PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:37:09PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote:
I see that the patch to support both is in CVS as version
2.18.6.1 but not in 2.19 (HEAD)
Is this an oversight or do I just need to wait
Pan ruochen wrote:
Well, I was always confused in selecting/deselecting packages during
setup. And I often got the information about some package is required
by another in the final step. So I decided to try patching the setup
source code to make the setup more easy for me (and maybe for other
Christopher Faylor wrote:
You can just rm -r all of the directories that setup creates when
installing packages. There is no reason to keep any of them around.
I think he's talking about the old versions of the .bz2 files that live
in the local download folders.
I may have a similar usage
Christopher Faylor wrote:
But those folders do fill up with old cruft after a while.
But you wouldn't want to keep different versions of bz2 files around in
that case.
Right. But I do want to keep only the most current versions.
Not to belabour the point, but if you do a Download to local
Christopher Faylor wrote:
That's what I meant, yes. I think many people don't understand that
those files don't need to be there and since we advocate using
just the straight install from internet, we probably should be nice
and delete the files.
Whenever the next round of changes to setup
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:39:05AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote:
Whenever the next round of changes to setup happens, and the talk gets
around to Removing the Download to Local Directory or Should we
Delete the Downloaded Files, please consider saying No to both
Christopher Faylor wrote:
I think setup really should just delete the files when it is done with
them if you choose install from internet
install from internet != install from local directory
Ah, now I understand why I was jumping to conclusions. Thanks for
clearing that up.
And contrary to
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I just uploaded another new setup-1.7.exe (2.629) to
http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe, which contains the following
changes and bug fixes:
- Add support for both -D and -L on the command line.
I just tested this and can confirm that it works. No more invoking
setup -P
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Hopefully this is the end of the How can I customize setup.ini to
make it easier to get the packages I want discussion.
I wrote a program in SNOBOL to do this! It is awesome!
Did you have to refer to the big green book?
Ralph
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Mark Harig wrote:
While running setup-1.7.exe (with no arguments) from a cygwin 1.5 bash
shell prompt, the following (error?) messages were displayed:
I think the only argument you'll get is that you're not supposed to run
setup while Cygwin is running.
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Phil Betts wrote:
mkdir -p foo/c:
cd foo
rm -rf c:/
In case you can't see why that's bad, DON'T TRY IT!! Don't even copy
it, because you will accidentally paste it into a terminal window, you
will get to say oopsy! [1], and you will hurt your forehead on
your keyboard.
[OT]
I have a
Andy Koppe wrote:
Where can I find documentation on the setup-1.7.exe command line
options, in particular the one for installing packages without
invoking the GUI that I think was added last year?
I had a look in all the places I could think of, but without success,
and invoking setup with -h,
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Andy Koppe wrote:
Where can I find documentation on the setup-1.7.exe command line
options, in particular the one for installing packages without
invoking the GUI that I think was added last year?
I had a look in all the places I could think of, but without success
Dave Korn wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rcc/?S_TACT=105AGX28S_CMP=DLMAIN
Been there. It's a remote trial over Web Browser for 3 hours.
BWAAhahahahhhaahahaa! Remote trial in a web browser? For 3 hours?
Are they kidding? It's like
Christoph Herdeg wrote:
Hey what's up with you? Wasn't my message nice or informative enough for
you? I thought my description would be helpful and you guys were interested
in optimizing packages. Obviously I am wrong:
snippety snip snip
I'm not sure how cgf and Corinna manage to move let
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:54:58AM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote:
Christoph Herdeg wrote:
Hey what's up with you? Wasn't my message nice or informative enough for
you? I thought my description would be helpful and you guys were interested
in optimizing packages. Obviously
Will Parsons wrote:
Is there no way of just creating the file without using crontab -e?
Sure. I've been editing crontabs for years and have never once used
crontab -e. What I do:
crontab -l crontab.lst edit crontab.lst crontab crontab.lst
I always just use the toggle switches on the front
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Coincidentally, enough, I've been thinking about reworking it lately
after having to deal with it for firos.
Is that the new first-in random-out data structure I've been
hearing about lately?
Ralph
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
(And to be honest I don't see the point in Cygwin 1.7 still supporting
NT4. Anyone willing to stick with an OS that's been unsupported for
five years should be more than happy to stick with Cygwin 1.5.)
I know it's unsupported but people still use it and, perhaps
Ian Kelling wrote:
Excerpt from ./setup-1.7.exe --help:
-P --packages Specify packages to install
-l --local-package-dir Local package directory
I know from the faq that -l takes an argument of the package directory.
This should be expressed in the
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:54:28PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 08/10/2009 12:44 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
snip
And there's no way back after an update. But as I noted in my zillion
(apparently unread) test announcements, it's no problem to run 1.5 and
Christoph Herdeg wrote:
Hello Jonathan,
I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is
definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer
(setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Given is a destination directory
of c:\cygwin:
- First you need to
RESEND - NOW WITH SPELLING MISTAKES FIXED...
Christoph Herdeg wrote:
Hello Jonathan,
I can't stand seeing this question come up every week again... Yes, this is
definitely possible, but due to Cygwin's completely crappy installer
(setup.exe) it's a real pain in the ass. Given is a destination
Christoph Herdeg wrote:
snip
- Dave, thank so much you for posting setup.exe's command line switches.
That was probably the 1st thing Jonathan did.
- Christopher, thank you so much for telling the world how dumb everybody
is, that doens't do something your way.
- Ralf, thank you so much for
Just for fun, I googled ralph hempel cygwin mailing list archive
Guess what the first hit is?
Ralph
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Alexander T wrote:
It would also be great to make your own repos and update cygwin
locally from the repo, like the setup.exe 'local install' does, but
then command-line based.
So I'm wondering if there are any news on this front.
Since you did a search back to 2003, I'm surprised you did not
Dr. Christoph Gille wrote:
Closest mirror? I'm not sure what you mean by this. 'setup.exe' does not
require this as a setting. Actually, there is no such concept. You need to
specify
a mirror to work with but you can do that with '-s'.
With each superfluous click I lose a user, so it
Harald Joerg wrote:
... -- EXCEPT...at the end -- how many times do I have to tell setup
that I *STILL* don't want the icon on my desktop??!
I eventually got around that one.
I found that I do not want *any* icons on my desktop and switched them
off completely. There is an option in the
Larry W. Virden wrote:
I regularly am forced to deal with a variety of logfiles on Windows,
and so in hopes of being able to do so with some grace, I took a
crack at accessing the files via Cygwin.
Larry, there's a Tcl package for Cygwin :-)
Ralph
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Ken Jackson wrote:
I agree. And even for simple operations I find it a bother to have to
start up a gui to install a package or check for updates.
It would be great to have a command-line package management tool. For
example, if yum were ported to Cygwin, for the case you cite, you could
do
Christopher Faylor wrote:
It's on my todo list to get rid of the GUI pop-up from setup.exe when
-P is used. I know that won't make it like rpm/yum/apt/dpkg/emerge.
Not to put too fine a point on it but ... if I ever want to uninstall
a package (rarely) here's what I do:
1. Rename my current
Steven Woody wrote:
so, to uninstall 1 package, what you did is actually download the
other 99 packages?
No, I have a local download directory that I keep current.
To be precise, I installed the other packages from my local download
directory. No additional internet bandwidth was harmed
paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps you or someone is already doing this, so my suggestion may be
moot. For each package, could the package name be prefixed by an
operator to indicate what action to take?
+ install default, assumes install if no operator specified as is
done currently
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 8 14:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Btw., the check for mmap in grep's configure file is broken. It tries
to mmap to a fixed address formerly allocated via malloc(). This doesn't
work on Windows. An autoconf run with a newer version of autoconf would
be nice.
I
Linda Walsh wrote:
1) why does it re-ask me for my proxy and not remember my server choice
each time I enter setup.
2) why does it maximize each time I enter the package choice? Ouch! hard
on the eyes to have my entire screen filled with white!
3). How do I make the type larger? 6pt font is
Dave Korn wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
On 11/12/2009 12:46 PM, Ralph Hempel wrote:
These three items are easily adressed with the command line options
in setup, and by keeping track of the packages you have installed
in a little text file.
Without splitting hairs too finely, I don't
Erez Zilber wrote:
Hi,
I'm running Win XP on VirtualBox on an Ubuntu machine. I'm trying to
install the latest cygwin version (http://cygwin.com/setup.exe). I
started the installation and selected 'Install from Internet'. Then, I
expected to see a list of mirrors but it was empty. If I try the
I've got a few apps that still use serial ports, and now
that I'm using Bluetooth devices under XP, the serial
port numbers are getting really big - like COM40.
Yes, I've read about how to change the port number, and
for the Toshiba Bluetooth stack on my Dell D610, it's
not an option.
Yes, I've
Dave Korn wrote:
Ralph Hempel wrote on 01 May 2008 16:37:
So now the question is, where do we poke around in the
source to increase the limit of serial ports under
Cygwin?
Look at winsup/cygwin/devices.in, which is a template that is used to
auto-generate the code in winsup/cygwin
Mark J. Reed wrote:
You can also get UWIN there, as an alternative to Cygwin, which includes ksh.
Thank you, Mr. Korn.
OT, and probably a stupid question, but is the Dave Korn on this
list the same Dave Korn that, ummm, wrote the Korn shell?
Cheers, Ralph
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On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Ralph Hempel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OT, and probably a stupid question, but is the Dave Korn on this
list the same Dave Korn that, ummm, wrote the Korn shell?
Nope. And I used to wonder the same thing, so it can't possibly be a
stupid
Dave Korn wrote:
Jamie Cole wrote on 04 June 2008 12:56:
Also we have an identical physical (e.g. non VMWare) machine running the
same tools and version of Cygwin which does not seg fault. Is it possible
there is a actually a bug in Cygwin which is causing these problems when
running on a
With all of the talk about setup package selection and
install procedures, I have a little story.
One of the things I do for fun is write replacement firmware for
the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT - specifically pbLua. I needed an easy way
to build the ARM7 cross compiler, and to locate and program the
cuicui wrote:
You need to modify the setup.ini file, create virtual (empty)
package that belongs to the Base category and make all the additional
packages you want dependant of this virtual package by filling the
requires field.
Ok, so how do you keep the setup.ini from being downloaded every
Dave Korn wrote:
That being said, I CAN run setup.exe in unattended quiet mode and
get a BASE cygwin install done, and I'm quite happy with that. But
I'd really, really like to specify packages on the command line.
Can I help by offering to update the patch to the current setup?
Reini Urban wrote:
You mean the patch from
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.applications/16502 ?
I meant this one:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-03/msg00109.html
Ralph
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Dave Korn wrote:
As it turns out that's the same patch by the same author only in an
earlier stage of development! We'll go with the later version :)
Sorry if I'm trimming too much from the msgs...
Are you saying that the patch pointed to by Reini is ready
to be integrated into the
Dave Korn wrote:
Well, it needs a little debugging first, but it shouldn't be tricky to
bash into shape.
Sorry for taking so long, but here's what we have so far. The newer
patch referred to by Reini is against but the patch is against 2.590
which looks like it's a bout 2 point releases
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Bad form, I know, but let me make the following sentence at least
readable...
Sorry for taking so long, but here's what we have so far. The newer
patch referred to by Reini is against 2.590 which looks like it's
about 2 point releases behind the current version in the 1.7
Christopher Faylor wrote:
If you are going to be discussing setup development you should subscribe
to the cygwin-apps mailing list.
I can't speak for the setup.exe developers but I suspect that you should
be just using the CVS head for all of your development.
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