Re: binutils 20021009 cvs trunk on cygwin: ld failuers

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:32:50PM +0200, Christian Jönsson wrote: > >From the log files of relating to my message at > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-10/msg00183.html > > I have the following: > > Running >/usr/local/src/gcc-binutils/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-bootstrap/bootstrap

Re: Named pipes problem

Hi! Thursday, 10 October, 2002 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C> I have recently installed Cygwin (version 1.3.12-2) on Windows 2k (SP2) and C> have been trying to evaluate by developing some small programs. One of these C> uses named pipes. However none of the named pipes functions seem to work

conflict between cygrunsrv and fixing heap_chunk_in_mb in registry

Recently I wanted to increase the program/data memory limit for cygwin. As mentionned in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00254.html I have added a registry DWORD value in "HKCU/Sofware/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin" and restarted my computer. But I still get the 256 Mb limit. After several trial

Re: Origin

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 16:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I"m right here. > > You can't be, because I'm right here and I know that you're not. Pats self, with concerned look on face - "you know, you're right, I'm *not here*. Hlp" Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.a

RE: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

> Sheryl, > > What is "the XP shell?" > I'm sure she's referring to cmd.exe, the embarrassment of the CLI world. Well, second only to <=Win9x's command.com. No, on second thought, command.com is really more of a sickening freakshow than an embarassment. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot.

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

Sheryl, What is "the XP shell?" Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 16:58 2002-10-09, Sheryl McKeown wrote: >Hi Igor, > >I too am an avocate for find. However, I can't seem to >master it's usage in XP's shell. > >For instance, the find command you suggested > >"find . -name *.vb* -exec gre

Re: emacs on cygwin

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:10:31PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >I was looking at the FAQ and realized some questions need an update. >I plan to do this. However, some of them I don't have the knowledge >to frame a correct updated answer. One I particularly noticed was: > >>Is there a Cygw

emacs on cygwin

I was looking at the FAQ and realized some questions need an update. I plan to do this. However, some of them I don't have the knowledge to frame a correct updated answer. One I particularly noticed was: >Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs? > >No. If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths,

Re: Semi-OT - interesting link

Hi Chris, Nice link, reminds me of a philosophy course I did back in sixth form. At the time, I thought about it quite a lot from the p.o.v of day to day arguments, but I decided it's all irrelevant. I reckon arguments are completely in the realm of emotions, totally separate from the logic real

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

>Ok, I can live with that. For my understanding, what >does the -R expand then? I had visualized that -R >with grep was simular to ls -R. Where ls -R magically >displays all files with out having to specify a search >path. So I was thinking that grep -R magically >searched all the files wit

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

Hi Michael, Thanks for the response. > >>.grep -i -R path32 * > > This isn't a "dot problem". This is a grep usage > problem. > > Specifically, you're telling grep to only look in > directories which have > '.vb' in their name. Ok, I can live with that. For my understanding, what

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

Hi Igor, I too am an avocate for find. However, I can't seem to master it's usage in XP's shell. For instance, the find command you suggested "find . -name *.vb* -exec grep -ni path32 {} \; -print" returns the error find: missing argument to `-exec' in the XP shell. The command works fin

Cannot use named pipes

Hi there, I have recently installed Cygwin (version 1.3.12-2) on Windows 2k (SP2) and have been trying to evaluate by developing some small programs. One of these uses named pipes. However none of the named pipes functions seem to work - all return -1. Example: retcode = unlink ("aPipe"); retc

Named pipes problem

Hi there, I have recently installed Cygwin (version 1.3.12-2) on Windows 2k (SP2) and have been trying to evaluate by developing some small programs. One of these uses named pipes. However none of the named pipes functions seem to work - all return -1. Example: retcode = unlink ("aPipe"); retc

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

On 10-10-2002 1:24, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Sheryl McKeown wrote: > > >>Better titled, "That dot thing again on Windows XP >>Pro..." >> >>Ok, again I'm trying to search recursively through a >>directory structure looking for specific values. >> >>According to grep --help g

Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Sheryl McKeown wrote: > Better titled, "That dot thing again on Windows XP > Pro..." > > Ok, again I'm trying to search recursively through a > directory structure looking for specific values. > > According to grep --help grep -R should walk the > directory structure. Cool. >

grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*

Better titled, "That dot thing again on Windows XP Pro..." Ok, again I'm trying to search recursively through a directory structure looking for specific values. According to grep --help grep -R should walk the directory structure. Cool. So, "grep -i -R path32 *" returns, as expected, .grep -i

Semi-OT - interesting link

I found this a fascinating link: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ It illustrates a lot of the methods used in arguments that are used here when a heated discussion erupts, as in the recent newsgroup thread. Unfortunately, I see that I have used a couple of the fallacious techniques myse

New version of Xfree is available

Hello from Gregg C Levine There is a newer version of Xfree available. Currently I do not see a pre-built binary for Cygwin, on the mirror that I use for specific binaries, so I am asking here about that. The version number now, is 4.2.1 and it fixes a security violation. Should I bring this to th

binutils 20021009 cvs trunk on cygwin: ld failuers

src/gcc-binutils/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/cross2.t tmpdir/cross3.o /usr/local/src/gcc-binutils/trunk/objdir-binutils/ld/ld-new: BFD 2.13.90 20021009 assertion fail /usr/local/src/gcc-binutils/trunk/src/bfd/stabs.c:783 FAIL: NOCROSSREFS 2 testcase /usr/local/src/gcc-binutils/trunk/src

Re: How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

on failed UNRESOLVED: selective5 ERROR: /usr/local/src/gcc-binutils/trunk/src/ld/testsuite/ld-selective/5.cc: compilation failed UNRESOLVED: selective6 === ld Summary === # of expected passes11 # of unexpected failures12 # of expected failures 2

Re: The Perl Journal needs help

Hallo Nenad, Am Mittwoch, 9. Oktober 2002 um 11:11 schriebst du: > I assume most of you cygwin hackers make good use of Perl. > If so you might be interested to know about the current > predicament of TPJ. > Please help saving a great publication! > This is from http://use.perl.org/article.pl?si

Cross compiling on one OS for another

Hello from Gregg C Levine Can I cross compile the binaries for, say, GNUMach for the Hurd, using Cygwin? I still haven't succeded in building the things, and I thought, I'd try here, and using the absolute latest binaries for Cygwin. Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh my!" The Second Doctor's ne

pthreads

Gang: I've got a body of code that is running successfully on Linux. It's mostly also working fine with Cygwin, but am having a problem in one area: It starts up several threads (pthread_create), all detached. One of them blocks on pthread_timed_wait(), the rest do not. Later on when exiting, i

pthreads

ERROR in my original posting: Below wher eit says "pthread_timed_wait()" it should say "pthread_cond_timedwait(). -- Forwarded by Fred Smith/Computrition on 10/09/2002 04:19 PM --- Fred Smith 10/09/2002 04:18 PM Sent by: Fred Smith To: [EMAIL

Re: How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:14:45PM +0200, Christian Jönsson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:48:59PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:37:06PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > >On Oct 9, 2002, Christian J?nsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> grep: /usr/l

RE: ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed

> -Original Message- > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:19 PM > To: Scott Prive > Cc: Elfyn; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: ssh service staring problem "bad owner > /var/empty" but not > fixed > > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Scott Pr

Can sshd server use NT/WIN2K's internal password database?

All, 1) Is it possible for sshd to use the NT box's PDC password server? Is there a HOW-TO? I checked the FAQ, and many of the hits I got on Google. 2) If PDC authentication is not possible, can I use the "local NT password database" (created using NT's user tools)? For now, I just manually "

RE: ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Scott Prive wrote: > Attempting to run the sshd server as Administrator was purely an act of > desperation. All along until them I've left it at default Local System. > > On my sshd-working system, all of those files belong to "None". > > On the other, broken-sshd system, all

Re: How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:48:59PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:37:06PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >On Oct 9, 2002, Christian J?nsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> grep: /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory > >> sed: can't read /usr/lib/libic

RE: ALMOST RESOLVED: ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed (now password sync issue)

OK, done. "qacontrol" is the system where sshd works... "qa2000test" is the system where sshd fails to start. I ran cygcheck and diffed my results: the broken system lacked the CYGWIN=tty sec variable, which I added in the WIN2K GUI, restarted all my shells and verified the variable was being

Re: What's a good term setting for rlogin?

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:31:32 -0400, Charles Krug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:26:45AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why not just copy the Cygwin termcap entry to the machines that you log > > into? > > > > I copied these lines from /Cygwin/etc/termcap into $HOM

Re: How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:37:06PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Oct 9, 2002, Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > grep: /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory > > sed: can't read /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory > > Looks like you're missing this libr

Re: How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:26:47PM +0200, Manfred Hollstein wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 19:11, Christian Jönsson wrote: > > I have just a small question... how do I compile binutils cvs trunk > > under cygwin? > > I've never built binutils (or anything else) on Cygwin, but adding > "--disable-

Re: How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:37:06PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >On Oct 9, 2002, Christian J?nsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> grep: /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory >> sed: can't read /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory > >Looks like you're missing this library, t

Re: How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

On Oct 9, 2002, Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > grep: /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory > sed: can't read /usr/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory Looks like you're missing this library, that's probably a dependency of some other library you have installed an

RE: ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed

Attempting to run the sshd server as Administrator was purely an act of desperation. All along until them I've left it at default Local System. On my sshd-working system, all of those files belong to "None". On the other, broken-sshd system, all of those files belong to Administrator:None. H

Re: ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed

Hi, Can you do a cygcheck on all of your cygwin machines so we can compare what exactly has changed `cygcheck -s -s -r'... it has to be a change in package. ill go through latest changes to see what has be upgraded in packages released in the last couple of weeks. I got people pis*ed because of

Re: ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed

Hey... All i have done is install it. it hasnt even run yet. I did reboot the sys just to see if there was a lib change one of the other admins may have applied by no-diff... Elfyn - Original Message - From: "Marius Seritan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Elfyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed

RE: ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed

I can say this works fine on one system, which I installed a while back. Then I got it working on a SECOND system, which worked fine UNTIL I updated Cygwin. Then it broke. I sent an email to this list but never got a reply. Then I tried a THIRD system, and even a fresh install did not work. T

Re: ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed

I am not sure if I understand all the details of your setup but here are some comments. Unless you typed an user name and password in the sshd service setup box you are running sshd as SYSTEM. SYSTEM is totally different from Administrator, the 2 accounts different sids, different privileges, n

Re: ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed

Its pretty funky that this has started happening OOTB (out of the blue). have you had a working sshd? ... i forget. have you installed new soft,libs recently... have you downloaded new net-release packages as well? All ive done is install mysql-3.23.52 on cygwin-1.3.12-2, cant see that making a d

RE: ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed

Looks like our problems are somewhat related. I wonder if anyone else has ideas... > -Original Message- > From: Elfyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 1:44 PM > To: cygml; Scott Prive > Subject: Re: ssh service staring problem "bad owner > /var/empty" but n

Re: What's a good term setting for rlogin?

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:35:22AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > And is this machine that you copied this line to, a linux machine? Or > does it otherwise already know about the "linux" term type? If not, > you'll have to copy over the "linux" termcap entry as well.. > -- > Shankar. >

Re: ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed

Hey, What i meant by shared-server is that more than one person (other than you) would be accessing the server. So if it is a shared environment you might want to tighten security. In general you should run things like crond,sshd etc. as the SYSTEM user as Administrator doesnt have the required

Re: What's a good term setting for rlogin?

On 10/9/2002 8:31 AM, Charles Krug wrote: > I copied these lines from /Cygwin/etc/termcap into $HOME/.termcap: > > cygwin:\ > :xn@:op=\E[39;49m:Km=\E[M:te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:tc=linux: > > Setting TERM to "cygwin", I get: > homer:charles% info termcap > info: Terminal type `cy

RE: ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed

> -Original Message- > From: Elfyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 12:02 PM > To: cygml > Subject: Re: ssh service staring problem "bad owner > /var/empty" but not > fixed > > > Hi, > > I had that when i first installed it... i take it the > permission

How do I compile binutils on cygwin?

I have just a small question... how do I compile binutils cvs trunk under cygwin? This was on a Windows XP SP1/cygwin P4 system with these packages: binutils 2.12.90 20020706 (cygwin ver. 20020706-2) cygwin1.3.12-4 dejagnu 1.4.2.x (cygwin ver. 20010117-1 + cvs 20020428 on top)

Re: grep = * vs grep = * > foo

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:15:01PM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: >On 9-10-2002 2:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>You'll see that delme is not listed. Cygnus wildcard expansion follows >(snip) > >Cygnus? Who's that? ;-) OOPS! Slap! How embarrassing. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.

Re: your command request

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:21:25PM +1000, Gareth Pearce wrote: >> BTW, did someone try to build on cygwin gcc 3.2 with ada support ? > >Try the message list archives - I believe a binary was offered for download >from someone in the last couple of months. Yep. And the URL was actually provided y

Re: Gnat for win32 does not search include and library paths

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:04:01PM +0200, Jerry van Dijk wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: >>We do have a buy-out license but I don't see how it applies here. > >So I get free licenses You can use the software for free. The GPL says that you just have to provide your customers with source. >an

Re: ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed

Hi, I had that when i first installed it... i take it the permissions on files like /etc/sshd* /etc/ssh_host* are exclusive to the SYSTEM account (if your running a shared-style server) and the service is running as SYSTEM. i got around that problem my making the system user the owner of /var/emp

Re: The UID of cygwin packages for installation

Redirected to correct mailing list. On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:46:41AM -0700, James Michael DuPont wrote: >Please excuse my ignorance on this issue, >I am a very happy user of cygwin, and would like to port more packages >to cygwin. > >I have tried to find this information in the documents >http

Re: What's a good term setting for rlogin?

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:26:45AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why not just copy the Cygwin termcap entry to the machines that you log > into? > I copied these lines from /Cygwin/etc/termcap into $HOME/.termcap: cygwin:\ :xn@:op=\E[39;49m:Km=\E[M:te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:t

ssh service staring problem "bad owner /var/empty" but not fixed

Hello, I understand the problem I am about to ask is not uncommon, and I have made considerable effort to look for the answers in the archive... On an up-to-date (today) Cygwin install, sshd refuses to start (the MS Management console gives a useless error). On other systems, I have installed

Re: What's a good term setting for rlogin?

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:26:45AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why not just copy the Cygwin termcap entry to the machines that you log > into? > I can do that? If I can, then that's exactly the answer I needed which I didn't have. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

Re: Problem with Station/Desktop permissions

Hi all, Just to let you know that I fixed my desktop permissions problem on the application side by making sure that I do not add ACEs to an empty DACL. Details When doing a suid (CreateProcessAsUser) cygwin sets up a null Security Descriptor (SD) for Station and Desktop that opens

RE: What's a good term setting for rlogin?

Why not just copy the Cygwin termcap entry to the machines that you log into? Larry Original Message: - From: Charles Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:46:11 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What's a good term setting for rlogin? List: I ne

RE: Cygnus 32 beta 19 under Win 95

Nah, B14 is the way to go. I don't know what all the hoopla about the 1.3.12 Cygwin DLL is. Cygwin used to do everything anyone would need back around '96. It's a shame people are still wasting their time working on creating new versions of Cygwin for general and free use. For those who misse

Re: Can't run NumTut on cygwin-hosted python

Jeff, On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:04:09PM -0500, Jeff Perry wrote: > TclError: couldn't open "[EMAIL PROTECTED]": no such file or directory It took downloading Numeric and NumTut, building and installing Numeric, and reproducing the error to realize what should have been obvious (to me

What's a good term setting for rlogin?

List: I need a good TERM setting. I'm using rlogin from bash to connect to a solaris machine. On those odd occasionions when I can use CDE, I can resize my terminals and my slang programs work across the full terminal size. When I connect from Cygwin-bash, slang programs seem to think I've a f

RE: Cygnus 32 beta 19 under Win 95

> Subject: Cygnus 32 beta 19 under Win 95 ^^^ you should probably try beta 20b. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com

Re: Apparent bug with vim

Abhishek, Dev wrote: > > Problem description: When a file with extension ".con" is opened with vim, > it produces an error message such as the following. In /usr/share/vim/vim61/filetype.vim, find the "Century Term Command Scripts" line and comment it out. That will probably fix the problem.

Cygnus 32 beta 19 under Win 95

Hi, I use touch.exe to change a hour of files to an earlier hour. for example: touch -t 10091020 These always work but to day when i write this after the execution the hour of the file is 1 hour older than the stamp. The hour of the PC is correct, in the date/time properties we are in the time z

MessageWall (http://messagewall.org) porting problem in firedns lib

Hello, MessageWall (see http://messagewall.org) is potentially good and full-featured spam-filtering SMTP proxy. so I tried to make cygwin port. all compiled and linked OK, but it doesn't make a DNSBL search via firedns lib. (http://messagewall.org/firedns.html) below is the log of firedns/test

Re: [gnatlist] Re: your command request

Pierre Habraken writes: > The aim of what I want to do is to provide our students (undergraduate > level) with a posix programming environment (including Ada) that they > can easily install and use at home on their own machine. If you just need a programming environment, you could also use a

Re: your command request

> BTW, did someone try to build on cygwin gcc 3.2 with ada support ? Try the message list archives - I believe a binary was offered for download from someone in the last couple of months. Gareth -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cy

Re: Gnat for win32 does not search include and library paths

Christopher Faylor writes: > We do have a buy-out license but I don't see how it applies here. So I get free licenses and support for my paying customers ? Anyway, this is not the place to repeat business discussions from the past. I prefer looking to the future. And my main concern now is g

Re: grep = * vs grep = * > foo

On 9-10-2002 2:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > You'll see that delme is not listed. Cygnus wildcard expansion follows (snip) Cygnus? Who's that? ;-) - Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documenta

Apparent bug with vim

Platform: NT/2000 Problem description: When a file with extension ".con" is opened with vim, it produces an error message such as the following. command: vim foo.con screen dump: "foo.con" [New File] Error detected while processing /usr/s line 42: E64: \? follows nothing Invalid argument: ct

Re: your command request

Preben Randhol wrote: > > > I presume that the only thing I can do is to re-build Gnat from source > > using ACT binaries and gcc 2.8.1 sources. > > Or using Linux in stead of Win32 :-) The aim of what I want to do is to provide our students (undergraduate level) with a posix programming enviro

Re: setup.exe Runtime error!

In August 1st I wrote: > For a some time I have experienced a major problem with Cygwin > setup.exe. Otherwise it runs normally (I can select download > site, packages, it downloads packages) but it does not > install/uninstall anything. Instead it crashes to "Runtime > error" every time it shoul

The Perl Journal needs help

I assume most of you cygwin hackers make good use of Perl. If so you might be interested to know about the current predicament of TPJ. Please help saving a great publication! This is from http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/08/1835219: rochlin writes "Looks like The

Re: ntea dilemma

Larry, [...] > to a file in that FAT(32) partition. Just run "chmod +rw " for > > some and the "EA DATA .SF" should appear if you're running with > "ntea" > enabled. Make sure that "ntea" is set *before* the Cygwin DLL is loaded > > (before any Cygwin processes start). [...] no, it does no