Re: Regression with snap-20050828 ?

2005-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Angelo Graziosi on 8/29/2005 5:26 PM: > $ ./test-strerror.exe > strerror returned pointer 0x22fa00 > string is "Unknown error 4294967288" > > ___ > > Perhaps, this is not a regression

Re: no place like /home

2005-08-29 Thread beau
On 8/29/05, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, following the problem reporting guidelines outlined at > would have provided some additional > information from which I could have made a better guess at your > problem. Very graciously put. ;) Don't know I

Re: no place like /home

2005-08-29 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:15 PM 8/29/2005, you wrote: >Hi all, > >Maybe I haven't been reading the list closely enough. I just finished >installing cygwin on my new laptop and was surprised to find that >instead of a /home/me directory cygwin seems to be using Documents and >Settings/me. Is this tremendously difficu

Re: Matlab Segmentation Fault error

2005-08-29 Thread René Berber
Joe Andersen wrote: > Not sure if this is a Cygwin problem, but it seems to be. I just > installed cygwin so I could run Matlab on the unix servers at school > from my windows laptop. Now that I;ve got rid of zonealarm, cygwin > generallty works fine. However, when I try to run matlab after having

no place like /home

2005-08-29 Thread beau
Hi all, Maybe I haven't been reading the list closely enough. I just finished installing cygwin on my new laptop and was surprised to find that instead of a /home/me directory cygwin seems to be using Documents and Settings/me. Is this tremendously difficult to change back to the old way? -- R

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: esound-0.2.36-1, libesound0-0.2.36-1, libesound-devel-0.2.36-1

2005-08-29 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** esound-0.2.36-1 *** libesound0-0.2.36-1 *** libesound-devel-0.2.36-1 EsounD mixes multiple digitized audio streams and samples together for playback by a single audio device. It

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnome-keyring-0.4.3-1

2005-08-29 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** gnome-keyring-0.4.3-1 GNOME Keyring is a system to store passwords and other sensitive data in a standardized way across all GNOME applications. A keyring stores a collection o

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libgnomeprintui22-2.10.2-1

2005-08-29 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** libgnomeprintui22-2.10.2-1 This is the GUI front-end of the Gnome Printing Architecture. IMPORTANT: Before printing from a GNOME application for the first time, be sure to read

Re: perlcc and permissions

2005-08-29 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 10:08:34PM +0200, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > Baksik, Frederick (NM75) wrote: > > > The command /usr/bin/perlcc is actually a perl script that performs > the -r > > check to test if it can open the file. > > Thanks for explanation. I assumed that perlcc is a binary file. IIR

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libgnomeprint22-2.10.3-1

2005-08-29 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** libgnomeprint22-2.10.3-1 This is a back-end implementation of the Gnome Printing Architecture. IMPORTANT: Before printing from a GNOME application for the first time, be sure t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libgnomecanvas2-2.10.2-1

2005-08-29 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** libgnomecanvas2-2.10.2-1 The GNOME canvas is an engine for structured graphics that offers a rich imaging model, high performance rendering, and a powerful, high-level API. It

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libglade2-2.5.1-1

2005-08-29 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** libglade2-2.5.1-1 Libglade is an alternative to using Glade's code generation. Instead of generating code from the XML interface description, libglade loads and parses the descr

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-29 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 8/29/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Well, I didn't figure out how to do it in DocBook, but it was no > > problem with sed: > > > > sed -i 's;;;g' faq/faq*.html > > BTW, I don't think I saw the "id\d+" form of reference ever used in the > FAQ, but just in case, to fully preserve the prior fun

Matlab Segmentation Fault error

2005-08-29 Thread Joe Andersen
Hi all. Not sure if this is a Cygwin problem, but it seems to be. I just installed cygwin so I could run Matlab on the unix servers at school from my windows laptop. Now that I;ve got rid of zonealarm, cygwin generallty works fine. However, when I try to run matlab after having ssh'ed to cres

Regression with snap-20050828 ?

2005-08-29 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Some weeks ago, someone sends the following test programs that did not worked with the snap of that time: -- /* test-strerror.c */ #include #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char *s; s = strerror(-8); printf("strerror returne

Re: find -L

2005-08-29 Thread Svend Sorensen
It's 'find -L ./ -print', From the man page: SYNOPSIS find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] (-H, -L, -P, goes before the path) On 8/29/05, Hans Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Group, > > I was trying to use cygwin's find with the -L (follow symlinks), but I'm > getting: > > > fi

find -L

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Horn
Group, I was trying to use cygwin's find with the -L (follow symlinks), but I'm getting: > find ./ -L -print find: invalid predicate `-L' The man page seems to be wrong about this. What is the option to do this that works? H. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simp

Re: script hangs with 20050716/20050826 snapshot but not with 1.5.18 dll

2005-08-29 Thread Volker Quetschke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 12:45:45AM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: The following script hangs after running a short while when using the 20050716/20050826 snapshots, but works with the 1.5.18 dll. --- start tcsh_hang.csh --- #!/bin/tcsh while (1) # perl -e 'print("12

Re: Cron Issues

2005-08-29 Thread madjaejorl
Disregard this message as it was a problem with another application using its own cygwin1.dll. On 8/29/05, madjaejorl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having problems getting cron to successfully process my crontab. > It appears as if my cron service is successfully installed and > running, but it

Re: Cygwin on CD?

2005-08-29 Thread Jason Pyeron
thats interesting... but it is in the UK... I think one of our engineers here has a local mirror, for media and shipping costs we could mail it out. On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Larry Hall wrote: At 10:23 PM 8/27/2005, you wrote: Is there anyplace I can buy a *recent* copy of the full Cygwin distr

Re: Cygwin on CD?

2005-08-29 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:23 PM 8/27/2005, you wrote: >Is there anyplace I can buy a *recent* copy of the full >Cygwin distribution on CD? I live in the US in a place where >only modem internet connections are available and Cygwin >is a bit big to download that way... Thanks... There's been offers in the past by

Alternative to Cron Jobs with cygrunserv

2005-08-29 Thread M Maki
I was having a terrible time trying to get cron jobs running with cygrunsrv on a Windows 2003 Server so I thought I would try the Windows Scheduler Service. First I created the bash shell script in cygwin I wanted to run (an rsync backup) and made sure it worked on it's own. I then created a Win

Re: Latest findings on zsh hang was Re: Re: zsh: command not found => hangs

2005-08-29 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >The sigsuspend() function does one simple thing - it calls > >handle_sigsuspend(). > >handle_sigsuspend() sets the signal mask to the one passed to sigsuspend() > >and then calls cancelable_wait() to wait for a signal which is not in the >

Re: Latest findings on zsh hang was Re: Re: zsh: command not found => hangs

2005-08-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:45:43PM +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >Hello, > >> in cancelable_wait(). The signal handler returns to the wrong place (?) and >> ends up in WaitForMultipleObjects() instead after the sigsuspend() call in >> zsh. I'll see what I can find out. If I find out something which ma

Re: pgsql on cygwin problem

2005-08-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, yuri wrote: > Hello. I had a problem at installation postgesql as service nt. I do all > under the documentation which is in a file > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.4.5.README > On item 8 at me there is a mistake at initialization of a database. > > $ initdb -D /var/postgr

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

2005-08-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 8/18/05, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > > On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > Heh, this is the first time I accessed the FAQ aft

pgsql on cygwin problem

2005-08-29 Thread yuri
Hello. I had a problem at installation postgesql as service nt. I do all under the documentation which is in a file/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.4.5. README On item 8 at me there is a mistake at initialization of a database. $ initdb -D /var/postgresql/data The files belonging to this databas

Latest findings on zsh hang was Re: Re: zsh: command not found => hangs

2005-08-29 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, > in cancelable_wait(). The signal handler returns to the wrong place (?) and > ends up in WaitForMultipleObjects() instead after the sigsuspend() call in > zsh. I'll see what I can find out. If I find out something which makes more > sense that what I currently know I'll post. I have new

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-Win32-GUI-1.02-1

2005-08-29 Thread Reini Urban
I've updated the version of perl-Win32-GUI to the stable version 1.02 and properly rebased it against most binaries. This version is is the same as it would have been installed via cpan, since all cygwin patches are accepted upstream. Win32::GUI is a Perl extension allowing creation of native Win3

Re: Problems with Windows threads and cygwin sleep()

2005-08-29 Thread Raul Metsma
> No, I tested with just two cmd windows. The joke is that I don't see the Cygwin process doing anything suspicious. In my test I just started tcsh under strace to see if it begins to behave weird when the threads application is running, but it just waits in ready_for_read for user input. Neve

mingw personality under cygwin

2005-08-29 Thread Christian Joensson
I would like to have the ability to "set" personality to mingw under a cygwin shell... Like, under sparc64, I can use [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sparc32 uname -a Linux ultra10.j-son.org 2.6.11-1.1305sp1 #1 Thu Jul 21 18:03:33 CEST 2005 sparc sparc sparc GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ or [EMAIL PROT

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: file-4.15-2

2005-08-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of file to 4.15-2. This release fixes a braindead packaging bug introduced in 4.15-1. 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. Then, run setup and answer all of the