Re: Cygwin and Windows Vista Beta 2

2006-06-06 Thread Robin Walker
--On 06 June 2006 20:11 -0400 Chuck McDevitt wrote: Just an FYI: Cygwin's fork() implementation has an intermittent bug when running on Windows Vista Beta 2 The odd thing is that it sometimes works, and sometimes gives this error. It isn't just under Vista - this is an issue I am seeing unde

Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?

2006-06-06 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:30:43PM -0700, Linda W wrote: > A problem I reported in trying to install "File::BOM" (module to handle > files with Unicode Byte-Order-Marks) under CPAN originally here: > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00238.html last February > is still a problem. I bounc

Re: Warning to use mkpasswd

2006-06-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 06/06/2006, Mister Fred Ma wrote: Larry Hall wrote: > Mister Fred Ma wrote: >> -- >> cygcheck -cvs output, as queried from NonAdminAccount >> -- > >

Re: Cygwin and Windows Vista Beta 2

2006-06-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Chuck McDevitt wrote: Just an FYI: Cygwin's fork() implementation has an intermittent bug when running on Windows Vista Beta 2 (Beta 2 will be released to the general public soon). Here's an example error (from running bash -l ): 6 [main] ? (3572) c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal err

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2006-06-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Maurice Hüllein wrote: I'm currently developing a c++ plugin for a windows simulator environment, which accepts plugins in form of a dll. For doing so my dll needs to include a library of this simulator program which is only supported in ".a" format. I solved this problem by cross compiling the

Re: Warning to use mkpasswd

2006-06-06 Thread Mister Fred Ma
Larry Hall wrote: Mister Fred Ma wrote: Using an administrator account, I installed cygwin & sshd for all users on Windows XP. The administrator account is local to the machine, while my nonadministrator account is a domain power user account. When I launch a cygwin bash shell as administrator

Re: exceptions in c++

2006-06-06 Thread Brian Dessent
m r wrote: > Hi: I'm doing my beginnings in Cygwin and cannot solve > errors of type > "undefined reference __gxx_personality... > "undefined reference __gxa_end_catch... > etc. when compiling with gcc if I use throw or catch. > I use -fexceptions, and nothing. Can you help me? Thx. You haven't g

exceptions in c++

2006-06-06 Thread m r
Hi: I'm doing my beginnings in Cygwin and cannot solve errors of type "undefined reference __gxx_personality... "undefined reference __gxa_end_catch... etc. when compiling with gcc if I use throw or catch. I use -fexceptions, and nothing. Can you help me? Thx.

Re: Subject: Bug: run emacs: fatal error reading the windows environment

2006-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:33:54PM -0400, Kirk Hilliard wrote: >Hi All, > >On 03 March I pointed out a bug that caused ``run emacs'' to fail with > > 12 [main] emacs 900 C:\cygwin\bin\emacs.exe: *** fatal error - > internal error reading the windows environment -- > too many environment variable

Re: Subject: Bug: run emacs: fatal error reading the windows environment

2006-06-06 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi All, On 03 March I pointed out a bug that caused ``run emacs'' to fail with 12 [main] emacs 900 C:\cygwin\bin\emacs.exe: *** fatal error - internal error reading the windows environment -- too many environment variables? The response was promising: Corinna Vinschen wrote: > After some

Re: cygport pkgcheck

2006-06-06 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reini Urban wrote: > I added a function pkgcheck, which checks for duplicate and missing > files comparing inst to the generated binpkg files. > To check if the manually written pkg_names[] array is correct. > This is only useful for splitted packages.

Cygwin and Windows Vista Beta 2

2006-06-06 Thread Chuck McDevitt
Just an FYI: Cygwin's fork() implementation has an intermittent bug when running on Windows Vista Beta 2 (Beta 2 will be released to the general public soon). Here's an example error (from running bash -l ): 6 [main] ? (3572) c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't alloc ate h

Re: UTF-8 Cygwin

2006-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:24:29PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >SUZUKI Hisao wrote: >>I made a patch to cygwin1.dll to support UTF-8. >> >>It allows you to use all of characters and file (or path) names >>allowed in Windows, while keeping binary-compatibility with the >>current Cygwin. It is fairly

Re: UTF-8 Cygwin

2006-06-06 Thread Linda Walsh
When will we see this in the main-stream cygwin? Soon? :-) linda SUZUKI Hisao wrote: I made a patch to cygwin1.dll to support UTF-8. It allows you to use all of characters and file (or path) names allowed in Windows, while keeping binary-compatibility with the current Cygwin. It is fairly perf

Re: Trying to run VBScript from Cygwin

2006-06-06 Thread Linda Walsh
Dean Steve wrote: I'm also opening a ssh connection from a Linux box to a Windows machine to run a Windows process using CreateObject within VBScript. I have been able to replicate the problem using Excel so I know it's not my other program that is causing the problem. When I run the script, th

rxvt has --enable-smart-resize

2006-06-06 Thread G
The latest rxvt 20050509-2 added the flag --enable-smart-resize that seems to cause problems for the non-X11 use of changing font sizes. Can that option be removed from the default distribution until it is tested and confirmed to work well with both X and non-X behavior? I've compiled the source

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: swig-1.3.29-1

2006-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
SWIG, the Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator, is a tool for easing the interfacing of C/C++ libraries to scripting languages. Its package in the Cygwin net distribution has been updated to version 1.3.29-1. This is a new upstream release. Max Bowsher. -- To update your installation,

Re: cygwin fork problem maybe?

2006-06-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Linda W wrote: > Windows just doesn't support forking at all, as far as I know. > activeperl emulates forking using win32 threads. I don'tknow how cygwin > handles it, but my guess is that it's not very well :-( This smells like total FUD. This person that admittedly does not use Cygwin nor obvi

cygwin fork problem maybe?

2006-06-06 Thread Linda W
A problem I reported in trying to install "File::BOM" (module to handle files with Unicode Byte-Order-Marks) under CPAN originally here: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00238.html last February is still a problem. I bounced it off of the module maintainer, and he believes the problem

C++ compiling => Converting .a into .lib?

2006-06-06 Thread Maurice Hüllein
I am really sorry for sending this mail at first without a header! I'm currently developing a c++ plugin for a windows simulator environment, which accepts plugins in form of a dll. For doing so my dll needs to include a library of this simulator program which is only supported in ".a" form

cygwin@cygwin.com

2006-06-06 Thread Maurice Hüllein
I'm currently developing a c++ plugin for a windows simulator environment, which accepts plugins in form of a dll. For doing so my dll needs to include a library of this simulator program which is only supported in ".a" format. I solved this problem by cross compiling the dll from cygwin for th

Re: Please update SWIG to current version 1.3.29

2006-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Richard Graham wrote: > It would be helpful if the swig application distributed with > cygwin was updated to the latest version (1.3.29). Done. Max. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

cygport pkgcheck

2006-06-06 Thread Reini Urban
Hi Yaakov, I added a function pkgcheck, which checks for duplicate and missing files comparing inst to the generated binpkg files. To check if the manually written pkg_names[] array is correct. This is only useful for splitted packages. I found it useful for postgresql, which is quite split up

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: apache2-2.2.2-1

2006-06-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Apache HTTPD version 2 has been updated to 2.2.2-1. This is a new upstream security and bugfix release. Additionally, in Cygwin-local news: The handling of the "2" suffixation that disambiguates from Apache HTTPD 1.3.x has been reworked to produce more correct results from apxs2. Please address

dialog/Xdialog or substitution in Cygwin ?

2006-06-06 Thread LiuYan
Is there a dialog and/or Xdialog package release in cygwin ? If not, can I found a substitution of it or will it be migrated to cygwin ? The dialog/Xdialog is very useful to write a GUI script. Thanks ! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: 1.5.19-4: sshd: "child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed" after computer reboot (Windows 2003 Server SP1)

2006-06-06 Thread René Krell
Hello René, Thanks for your notes, comments below: On Sunday 04 June 2006 23:22, René Berber wrote: > René Krell wrote: > > Well, following the last recommendations I re-installed Cygwin with > > opensshd from scratch (see also attachment: cygcheck.out) and launched > > ssh-host-config like this:

Re: 1.5.19-4: sshd: "child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed" after computer reboot (Windows 2003 Server SP1)

2006-06-06 Thread René Krell
Hi Larry, that's what I already did, used the "-i" flag. Please just give it a try - registering a service using cygrunsrv with another account (user name, password) using "-i" - it won't work. Believe me that I tried what I wrote here ;-) R.K. On Friday 02 June 2006 17:42, Larry Hall (Cygwin)