Moving devices from 98SE to XP and back again

This is a file-handling problem that I have noticed in other contexts too. Windows 98/SE is good (faultless?) at preserving upper case and lower case in filenames, whether long or short or with spaces. However, I have noticed when moving devices back and forth between 98 and XP machines, that XP i

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Perry Pupp wrote: > --- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > ... > > > -rw-rw-rw-1 usernamemkgroup 925 Mar 8 2003 bootstrap.sh > > ^^ > > This is your problem right here -- bootstrap.sh is invoked directly, > > not via "sh". Since it doesn't have executable per

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

--- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: ... > > -rw-rw-rw-1 usernamemkgroup 925 Mar > 8 2003 bootstrap.sh > ^^ > This is your problem right here -- bootstrap.sh is > invoked directly, not > via "sh". Since it doesn't have executable > permission, it is reported as > "not found"..

Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:09:39AM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: >Thanks, I'll do that. I remember when I tried as a symlink and >something hung setup (I guess setup doesn't handle them ?). setup isn't a cygwin application. symlinks are a cygwin invention. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: h

Re: Is multithreaded profiling on cygwin possible?

Sorry for the delay, or the repeat information, my original reply is lost. Brian Ford wrote: >peter garrone wrote: > >>If I profile my multi-threaded application, it appears that only the main >>thread is profiled. >> >Currently, yes. Actually, I think I was only partially correct. Time for the

Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

Thanks, I'll do that. I remember when I tried as a symlink and something hung setup (I guess setup doesn't handle them ?). It wasn't the XFree86-bin-icons issue, which also hung when I reverted the symlink. I'll go through the archives to see what I should do for XFree86-bin-icons since I had to u

Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > > Perhaps the setup postinstall scripts should change to using > > bash. Its behavior is correct and will avoid frustrations. > > It'd be nice it I could get rid of it. I have to use > #!/bin/bash

Re: cygwin-1.5.4-1 breaks fetchmail on Win9x

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:13:00PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >BTW, there seemed to be some gyration regarding this section of unlink() >during that time period: ...which might be illuminated by reading the archives, I suspect... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Perhaps the setup postinstall scripts should change to using > bash. Its behavior is correct and will avoid frustrations. It'd be nice it I could get rid of it. I have to use #!/bin/bash in my scripts, change rxvt (the X11 version) because it default

Re: cygwin-1.5.4-1 breaks fetchmail on Win9x

Chris, On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:45:20AM +1000, Mark Ord wrote: > The source for cygwin-1.3.22 has the line code segment > (winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc - unlink() ): > > if (GetFileAttributes (win32_name) == INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES > || (!win32_name.isremote () && wincap.has_delete_on_close ())

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Perry Pupp wrote: > --- Max Bowsher wrote: > > Perry Pupp wrote: > ... > > > > $ cd setup > > > > > > $ sh bootstrap.sh > > > Running bootstrap.sh in libgetopt++ > > > ./bootstrap.sh: not found > > > > Well, that obviously isn't right. > > Is there no libgetopt++/bootstrap.sh i

Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

The problem recently reported by Tim Dierks in turns out to be identical to the one investigated in The scripts are executable but ash refuses to execute them. Ash uses various methods

Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues

At 10:12 PM 10/5/2003, Tim Dierks wrote: At 08:24 PM 10/5/2003, Tim Dierks wrote: The tail end of /var/log/setup.full is: 2003/10/05 20:07:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh: not found [... elided ...] And, in fact, thos

Re: wide string methods, round two

(I've CC:d this reply back to the Cygwin ml.) On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:21:15PM -0400, URANGA,TONY (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > I am having the exact same problem you described below in compiling the > id3lib library. Did you resolve your problem or find a work-around? Nope... sorry :( I've been ver

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 05:17, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > Hannu said: > > > > Are you implying that setup isn't that well coded? ;-) > > > I have yet to look at the code. > > > > Robert Collins said: > > Please do, before you redesign from scratch. > > Ehrm? Is this to be ironic

Re: Cygwin Setup application dialog size

> You can easily build your own with a larger > dialog. For now though, there is a patch > going through rather hideous merging pains, > which gives us a resizable chooser. There goes my incentive to get the cygwin setup program configurable & buildable here; I was going to try to write a patch

Re: Cygwin Setup application dialog size

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 02:15, Anand Kumria wrote: > I assume the size is specified, and enforced, somewhere? :}. You can easily build your own with a larger dialog. For now though, there is a patch going through rather hideous merging pains, which gives us a resizable chooser. Rob -- GPG key ava

Re: Command substitution

Sorry. But it's not the path. This doesn't work also on a win98 system: 1|Picture=greta_08.jpg 2|identify.exe $Picture 3|PicWidth=`identify.exe $Picture; ` 4|echo "Picture With: $PicWidth !" 5|echo "That's it." Now identify.exe is available via PATH and the Picture is in my home-dir. Line 2 print

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

--- Max Bowsher wrote: > Perry Pupp wrote: ... > > > > $ cd setup > > > > $ sh bootstrap.sh > > Running bootstrap.sh in libgetopt++ > > ./bootstrap.sh: not found > > Well, that obviously isn't right. > Is there no libgetopt++/bootstrap.sh in your > checkout? > ** (from bld subdirectory, wher

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

Perry Pupp wrote: > --- Max Bowsher wrote: >> >> Please give more context, starting from "cvs >> checkout setup". Something >> rather odd is happening. >> > > (Good idea. Here is my procedure from scratch, > with a couple versions thrown in, and entire > configure output.) > > (PS: Yep, I did r

Re: GCC Compilation Error

Igor, Never mind. I think I was able to get this.. I included a '.' in the PATH variable, and everything is fine. Thank you again for your help. Paul On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Paul Bezzam wrote: > > Igor, > > Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction. I did install the > package, and th

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

--- Max Bowsher wrote: > > Please give more context, starting from "cvs > checkout setup". Something > rather odd is happening. > (Good idea. Here is my procedure from scratch, with a couple versions thrown in, and entire configure output.) (PS: Yep, I did run the bootstrap; actually I didn't

Re: GCC Compilation Error

Igor, Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction. I did install the package, and there was no error message. However, when I try to execute the .exe file that results in compiling the C file(hello.c), I get: bash: hello.exe: command not found Can you please offer your insight? Thanks

Re: Setup disabling of nonexistent virus scanners

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any response on this? Yes, sorry - I've had your email flagged for a response for a while now. > Is this the correct mailing list for this type of question? See http://cygwin.com/lists.html. Quoting here: [cygwin-apps] This mailing list is the preferred location for de

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configuNo such file or directory

Perry Pupp wrote: > > ../cfgaux/configure: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file > > or directory > > configure: error: /bin/bash ../cfgaux/configure failed > > for libgetopt++ Isn't this the error you get if you fail to execute the bootstrap.sh script??? Did you run the bootstrap script Perry. bk

Re: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:55:12PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: >> From: Igor Pechtchanski >> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:40 PM > >> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: >> >> > > From: Igor Pechtchanski >> > > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:44 AM >> > >> > > It would be eas

Re: configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

Perry Pupp wrote: > configure: configuring in libgetopt++ > configure: running /bin/bash ../cfgaux/configure > --prefix=/usr/local --cache-file=/dev/null > --srcdir=../../libgetopt++ > ../cfgaux/configure: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file > or directory > configure: error: /bin/bash ../cfgaux/con

configuring cygwin-setup: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory

configure: configuring in libgetopt++ configure: running /bin/bash ../cfgaux/configure --prefix=/usr/local --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=../../libgetopt++ ../cfgaux/configure: ../cfgaux/configure: No such file or directory configure: error: /bin/bash ../cfgaux/configure failed for libgetopt++

[cygwin setup from cvs] string: present but cannot be compiled

Pulled cygwin setup source from cvs (as suggested here: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html, I used: cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin-apps co setup I got the following warning: ** BEGIN QUOTE ** checking string presence... yes configure: WARNING: string: present bu

Re: messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session

Hi Pierre, I forgot to clarify the user account differences. Ignore my first post regarding the Administrators group. I thought I had put my id in the admin group but I must have hit cancel because when I checked today it wasn't there. If the user account is in an admin group (Domain admins or

Re: Setup disabling of nonexistent virus scanners

Any response on this? Is this the correct mailing list for this type of question? -Steve -Original Message- From: CEC - Cleary, Stephen Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 3:13 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Setup disabling of nonexistent virus scanners Hello, all - I have

text/binary strangeness in cygwin1.dll

I think I've found a bug, possibly in the Cygwin 1.5.5-1 DLL. See if my reasoning makes any sense. I use Joseph Allen's text editor, ver. 2.9.8 which has been stable and working very nicely under Cygwin (which itself has been very stable under WinXP Pro SP1, build 2600). Originally written for

Re: messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session

James D Below wrote: > > If I knew installing a snopshot was so convenient and easy, I would have > done it prior to sending out my previous response. > > I installed the cygwin-inst-20031002.tar.bz2 but the error still occurs. > > Here is how I reproduce the error: > I launch my rdp Terminal Se

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

> From: Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:40 PM > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:44 AM > > > > > It would be easy to check if the above was the reason for the hang by > > > trying to call the

Re: compiling glib on cygwin

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:50:46PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: Thanks, that was a good starting point. > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg01373.html It lead me to: http://cygnome2.sourceforge.net/test-patches/> unfortunately the patch there for glib is essential

Re: messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session

If I knew installing a snopshot was so convenient and easy, I would have done it prior to sending out my previous response. I installed the cygwin-inst-20031002.tar.bz2 but the error still occurs. Here is how I reproduce the error: I launch my rdp Terminal Server Client, connect to server, log i

compiling glib on cygwin

Hi, I've been trying to replicate the build that Masahiro Sakai (CC'd) has on his web page http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~s01397ms/cygwin/index.html.en> of Gnome on cygwin. I've tried both with, and without, the patch on his website and things seem to fail in the same place. Here is where things g

Re: messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session

In further troubleshooting, I verified the w2k sp4 the policy settings with another w2k sp4 system that works. No differences were found. I did find that the version of cygwin that I was running was different. The version of cygwin on the working system is 1.3.22-1. I removed my broken install

Re: GCC Compilation Error

At 11:58 AM 10/6/2003, Paul Bezzam you wrote: >Hello, > >I have a question: I recently installed Cygwin, and I am trying to compile >a C program. But I get this message after I use the compile command: > >/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.0/../.i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: Cannot find >-luser32 >collec

Re: GCC Compilation Error

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Paul Bezzam wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question: I recently installed Cygwin, and I am trying to compile > a C program. But I get this message after I use the compile command: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.0/../.i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: Cannot find > -luser32 > collect

GCC Compilation Error

Hello, I have a question: I recently installed Cygwin, and I am trying to compile a C program. But I get this message after I use the compile command: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.0/../.i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: Cannot find -luser32 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I am pretty new at this

Re: Recent snapshots and bash/stopping processes

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:00:53AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: Open one window (rxvt): $ sleep 1000 Open a seperate window (rxvt): $ ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND 17

Re: Recent snapshots and bash/stopping processes

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:00:53AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: > > > >>Open one window (rxvt): > >>$ sleep 1000 > >> > >>Open a seperate window (rxvt): > >>$ ps > >> PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAN

Re: Recent snapshots and bash/stopping processes

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:00:53AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: Open one window (rxvt): $ sleep 1000 Open a seperate window (rxvt): $ ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND 1716 11716 1716 con 11643 18:57:52 /usr/bin/rxvt 1

Re: 1.5.4-1: Problem with XEmacs, fonts, and subprocesses.

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> If you're _really_ obsessive (like me :-( about launching from an > >> icon, compile the following and point the icon at it. > >> > >> Hope this helps, > >> ht > >> [code snipped] > >>if (C

Re: CVS and CR/LF

Stephen, This doesn't belong on the cygwin-apps list (see ). I've redirected this to the correct list and set the Reply-To appropriately. Please remove cygwin-apps from further discussion on this. Igor On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'll

Re: 1.5.4-1: Problem with XEmacs, fonts, and subprocesses.

Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If you're _really_ obsessive (like me :-( about launching from an >> icon, compile the following and point the icon at it. >> >> Hope this helps, >> ht >> [code snipped] >>if (CreateProcess (NULL, "c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash -c >> \"/usr/local/bin

socket operation on non-socket errors

Hello, I recently upgraded my cygwin installation to the latest version: 1.5.5-1 on a win2K system with service pack 4. The kit works great except when running simple basic commands like rsh or rlogin (telnet seem to work). When trying to login to cvs to get the sources for rsh to rlogin to see wh

Re: 1.5.4-1: Problem with XEmacs, fonts, and subprocesses.

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Terrence Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>I have just recently upgraded to the latest Cygwin and latest XEmacs. > >>Now, whenever I invoke a subprocess in XEmacs, all text in the XEmacs > >>frame goes blank. I am using zsh as my shell, but th

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] notice of package removal: gcc2-2.95-*

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:52:44PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > > >At 01:13 AM 10/5/2003, Christopher Faylor you wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Oh, and I probably have to say that the gcc 3.3.1 package will still be > > >>available. > > > > > >Yes but will

Re: Recent snapshots and bash/stopping processes

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:00:53AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote: > Open one window (rxvt): > $ sleep 1000 > > Open a seperate window (rxvt): > $ ps > PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND > 1716 11716 1716 con 11643 18:57:52 /usr/bin/rxvt > 1636

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:44 AM > > > It would be easy to check if the above was the reason for the hang by > > trying to call the following program from a postinstall script and seeing > > if it also hangs: > >

Recent snapshots and bash/stopping processes

Open one window (rxvt): $ sleep 1000 Open a seperate window (rxvt): $ ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND 1716 11716 1716 con 11643 18:57:52 /usr/bin/rxvt 163617161636 17240 11643 18:57:52 /usr/bin/bash 1832 1

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

> From: Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:44 AM > It would be easy to check if the above was the reason for the hang by > trying to call the following program from a postinstall script and seeing > if it also hangs: It doesn't hang. :-I /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.

Re: 1.5.4-1: Problem with XEmacs, fonts, and subprocesses.

Terrence Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I have just recently upgraded to the latest Cygwin and latest XEmacs. >>Now, whenever I invoke a subprocess in XEmacs, all text in the XEmacs >>frame goes blank. I am using zsh as my shell, but the problem always >>occurs whether I am invoking a subsh

Re: *** unable to allocate heap, heap_chunk_size 0, Win32 error 0

First of all, sorry, but I still don't know how to post a reply when I'm registered on the mailinglist in digest mode. And nobody seems to be able to tell me ! Last week I asked a question about failing scripts (error: unable to allocate heap. See mail of 29/9). I was then pointed to the page e