Re: Is the Cygwin installation process likely to change significantly anytime soon?

2005-08-02 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:21 PM 8/2/2005, Jonathan Turkanis wrote: >Jonathan Turkanis wrote: > >Here's what I've written so far; I'd like to know if there are any errors and >how it might be improved. I discuss Cygwin in two places, which I've labelled >"Installing Cygwin" and "Discussion of Cygwin and MinGW." >

Re: cygintl-3.dll not found exception

2005-08-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/2/2005 12:27 PM: > Hi, > iam facing the problem in running cygwin.exe and it is the giving the error > followed. > i have downloaded setup.exe from http://www.cygwin.com and while running > this > i am getting this e

Re: Is the Cygwin installation process likely to change significantly anytime soon?

2005-08-02 Thread Jonathan Turkanis
Jonathan Turkanis wrote: > ... Therefore I'd like to know if there are plans to change the installation process in the near future. For example, it would be very helpful to know how stable the following features of the current installation process are: Thanks for all the responses to my init

Trouble making .so (undefined symbols)

2005-08-02 Thread Warren Young
I maintain MySQL++ (http://tangentsoft.net/mysql++/), a C++ API for MySQL. It builds fine under Cygwin when we create a static library, but linking fails due to undefined symbols when we ask for a shared object. The symptom is the libtool error "libtool: link: warning: undefined symbols not a

Re: Compiling bootparamd for cywin 1.5.18-1 (linux/nfs.h: No such file or directory)

2005-08-02 Thread Clay Oehlke
Brian Dessent wrote: > I'm not familiar with this particular program at all. But it is a bootp > daemon, yes? Surely there are various implementations of this daemon, > why not try a different one. Doesn't ISC provide a portable bootp > server? > > Brian > Sad to say, bootp and bootparam are

Re: Compiling bootparamd for cywin 1.5.18-1 (linux/nfs.h: No such file or directory)

2005-08-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Clay Oehlke wrote: > I think the lack of /linux/nfs.h may be the main cause, but am unsure > of what else might be missing in a cygwin environment. Would the > installation of a package help, or is the lack of an NFS client > ability in Cygwin the cause. Is there anywhere else I can point the > ab

Re: Command line edit of binary file

2005-08-02 Thread Brian Dessent
David Vergin wrote: > sed 's/F:\\/C:\\/g' pugs.exe > pugsfixed.exe That should work fine, except for the problems of line endings. The cygwin build system itself uses something along the lines of the following to modify a binary file. perl -pe 'BEGIN{binmode(STDIN); binmode(STDOUT);}; s/F:

Compiling bootparamd for cywin 1.5.18-1 (linux/nfs.h: No such file or directory)

2005-08-02 Thread Clay Oehlke
Hope this is the right group: I am trying to compile bootparamd for cywin 1.5.18-1. I have sunrpc, and the nfs server installed, but when I try to use make, I get the following errors: make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/netkit-bootparamd-0.17/rpc.bootpara md' gcc -O2 -Wall -W -Wpointer-arit

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: file-4.14-1

2005-08-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of file to 4.14-1. This version is an update to the official version 4.14 patchlevel 1, mainly a bug fix release as well as improved ELF file recognition. The Cygwin sources are build from the vanilla sources with just an additional `-no-undefined' on the libtool command

Re: bug report: abort in g++ 3.4.4 generated DLL & client

2005-08-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Gerrit P. Haase Sent: 02 August 2005 20:16 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I get the same result when running a binary compiled with gcc-3.4.4 / binutils-20050608-2 / cygwin-1.5.17, here it is running fine, running the idebntical executable at anot

Re: Command line edit of binary file

2005-08-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
David Vergin wrote: I want to write a script to do a minor edit of a binary file. I don't use sed, but as best I can say, what I need would be the equivalent of: sed 's/F:\\/C:\\/g' pugs.exe > pugsfixed.exe But sed (in my unfamiliar hands) seems to mung the binary (beyond what I have ask

Re: Query

2005-08-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:18:41PM +0530, Sundara Pandian wrote: > Hello Sir > > can u guide me with a tutorial for using Cygwin. > > i need to compile / execute the .c files in the cygwin environment. > > > > Thanks and regards Please check out the project web page for links to available

RE: bug report: abort in g++ 3.4.4 generated DLL & client

2005-08-02 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Gerrit P. Haase >Sent: 02 August 2005 20:16 > Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >> I get the same result when running a binary compiled with gcc-3.4.4 / >> binutils-20050608-2 / cygwin-1.5.17, here it is running fine, running >> the idebntical executable at another box with

Re: bug report: abort in g++ 3.4.4 generated DLL & client

2005-08-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: I get the same result when running a binary compiled with gcc-3.4.4 / binutils-20050608-2 / cygwin-1.5.17, here it is running fine, running the idebntical executable at another box with cygwin-1.5.18 gives me the crash. I should mention that it works also the other way r

Re: bug report: abort in g++ 3.4.4 generated DLL & client

2005-08-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Stein Somers wrote: Below is minimalistic textbook "how to generate a DLL" code, brought to flavour by a grain of C++ salt. However it abort if compiled and run with the latest gcc 3.4.4.1 and binutils 20050610-1 releases (as opposed to the alternative 3.3.3.3, and I suspect any other version

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sharutils-4.4-1

2005-08-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of sharutils to 4.4-1. This is an official upstream release. The Cygwin version builds from the vanilla sources. NEWS relative to the previous 4.3.80 release: Version 4.4 - July 2005, by Bruce Korb * autotool cleanup * Make a non-alpha release this time. * Ensure

Command line edit of binary file

2005-08-02 Thread David Vergin
I want to write a script to do a minor edit of a binary file. I don't use sed, but as best I can say, what I need would be the equivalent of: sed 's/F:\\/C:\\/g' pugs.exe > pugsfixed.exe But sed (in my unfamiliar hands) seems to mung the binary (beyond what I have asked for). I assume this

bug report: abort in g++ 3.4.4 generated DLL & client

2005-08-02 Thread Stein Somers
Below is minimalistic textbook "how to generate a DLL" code, brought to flavour by a grain of C++ salt. However it abort if compiled and run with the latest gcc 3.4.4.1 and binutils 20050610-1 releases (as opposed to the alternative 3.3.3.3, and I suspect any other version this century). When

Re: Is window manipulation available in perl?

2005-08-02 Thread Reini Urban
... >>> So the question is: "how to I send keystrokes to a Windows window >>> with cygwin Perl"? ... > I don't know why this message shows up now, however Alan Napier posted > his reply to this list, today. The original question is from 2002: > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00587

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tcsh-6.14.00-5

2005-08-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of tcsh to 6.14.00-5. This is a Cygwin bugfix release. It solves the following problem when calling `cd ..': $ pwd /foo/bar $ cd .. $ pwd /foo $ cd .. $ pwd // So when moving up in the / directory hirarchy, it hits '//' eventually instead of '/'. The ne

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: bashdb-3.00_0.02-2

2005-08-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The bashdb-3.00_0.02-2 package has recently been added to the Cygwin distribution. DESCRIPTION: A bash shell script debugger, with command line, emacs, and ddd interfaces. It is possible to debug a bash shell script using 'bashdb file' o

RE: Is window manipulation available in perl?

2005-08-02 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Gerrit P. Haase >Sent: 02 August 2005 14:23 > I don't know why this message shows up now, however Alan Napier posted > his reply to this list, today. The original question is from 2002: > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00587.html I think it's p

Re: Is window manipulation available in perl?

2005-08-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
alan napier wrote: If you want to use the cygwin perl you will have to download then extract each component of the cpan library modules to their respective directories: \doc \lib ect. Much easier use the active perl which does all that for you. Just make sure the active perl comes before the

Re: Is window manipulation available in perl?

2005-08-02 Thread alan napier
If you want to use the cygwin perl you will have to download then extract each component of the cpan library modules to their respective directories: \doc \lib ect. Much easier use the active perl which does all that for you. Just make sure the active perl comes before the cygwin perl in the w

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Re: YNT: YNT: Problem on the re-compling of g77 for the increasing of MXUNIT in fio.h

2005-08-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Semih Ergintav wrote: Hi, I ignored installs2 and run other steps. Except for 'spkg' steps, everything was succesfull. At this stage, it try to copy the other compiler packages between directories I installed the tar files which have executables to my system but I didn't run my example c

Re: Re: problem with starting programs via ssh / cannot see environment variable

2005-08-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 2 07:42, Giger Mathias wrote: > > the variables are system variables. it's quite mysterious, but only some of > the > defined system variables can be seen when logging in via ssh. As already > mentioned, > in a cygwin console on the respective host all the variables are available. > >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-11

2005-08-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.0-11, is available, replacing 3.0-8. NEWS: = This is a minor bug-fix update, and includes all official upstream patches. It also contains various cygwin-specific patches to work around known bugs in the 2.05b release that

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-5.0-4, libreadline6-5.0-4

2005-08-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline, 5.0-4, is available, replacing 5.0-2. NEWS: = This is a minor bug-fix update, and includes all official upstream patches. It also contains various cygwin-specific patches to speed up completion within the // file system

YNT: YNT: Problem on the re-compling of g77 for the increasing of MXUNIT in fio.h

2005-08-02 Thread Semih Ergintav
Hi, I ignored installs2 and run other steps. Except for 'spkg' steps, everything was succesfull. At this stage, it try to copy the other compiler packages between directories I installed the tar files which have executables to my system but I didn't run my example code which has big MAXUNI