Re: Older postgresql versions [changed]

2006-08-09 Thread Reini Urban
Reini Urban schrieb: alecswan schrieb: I installed Cygwin on my desktop long time ago. So, now I have old versions of different packages, such as PostgreSQL 7.3.4 set up on my desktop. I am currently trying to set up my laptop and I want to have identical setup to my desctop. Which mean that

re: emacs (21.2-13) freezing with cygwin 1.5.21-2

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Taylor
From: Eric Twietmeyer To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:19:42 -0700 Subject: FW: emacs (21.2-13) freezing with cygwin 1.5.21-2 Reply-to: ept at terrex dot com I'm on a brand new machine, there may be some kind of hardware / driver issues with it, but if so, only emacs is be

Re: Can't link TclMagick anymore

2006-08-09 Thread Dave Bodenstab
Danny Smith wrote: Sorry about breaking thread. I suppose I should give in and re-subscribe here. Dave Bodenstab wrote at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00264.html Warning: .drectve `-defaultlib:MSVCRT ' unrecognized Warning: .drectve `-defaultlib:OLDNAMES ' unrecognized These are h

Re: [DOC PATCH] - was Re: I18 support in cygwin

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 8/7/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: So there is. Hm. Oh well. Joshua, here's a patch, if you think using it is less effort than just deleting the line yourself. Of course I'll use it. How else would I know which was the duplicate? :) It wasn't in the cygwin-doc-1.4-4 I posted a few minute

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 8/9/06, mwoehlke wrote: I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more "normal" (

Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied Permission denied

2006-08-09 Thread Steve Keate
Are there any useful resources on finding out exactly what security mode to choose when using Cygwin, also, are there any resources on how to use mkpasswd and what arguments to use. I have scoured the net for two days looking for anything. Is cygwin now abandonware, or is support just abyssmally p

Re: Infinite loop in Numeric-24.2-1 for eigenvalues (Workaround)

2006-08-09 Thread Jim Kleckner
Jim Kleckner wrote: This patch mentions: # Optionally, you can run # python setup.py config first. This fixes a bug in LinearAlgebra on Cygwin (and possibly # other platforms). but "python setup.py config" fails to compile with the message: unable to execute _configtest.exe: No such f

Re: Older versions

2006-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:35:49PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >alecswan wrote: >>Christopher, >> >>I must have messed something up while zipping up and copying cygwin from my >>desktop to my laptop. Now I am getting this error: >> >>"'bash' is not recognized as an internal or external comman

Re: qt-mt pkgconfig file - missing -lresolv

2006-08-09 Thread Rafal Mantiuk
On 8/9/06, Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Rafal Mantiuk wrote: > I noticed that qt-mt.pc pkg-config file contains -lresolv, but this > library does not exist in the cygwin distribution. It does, actually, but you can't find it on the package search page. That's be

Re: Ansi escape sequences showing in Man pages

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
No http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU please, and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR... thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, jbonnett wrote: I am having a problem where escape sequences, rather than colour highlighting, appear when I display man page

RE: Ansi escape sequences showing in Man pages

2006-08-09 Thread jbonnett
Thanks for your reply. Unset PAGER did not fix things, but after reading some man pages on the Internet, I discovered a way to make things work for me. PAGER="less -r" Export PAGER After that I get readable highlighted man pages. Thanks for giving me the clue where to look. John B. -Origi

RE: 1.5.18-1: incorrect cron "script not found" message (Win2k).

2006-08-09 Thread Irwin, Doug
Hi Larry, > Nope. You were right. I was conveniently looking at another > cygcheck.out. > I hate when that happens. LOL! NP! In my role as DBA that happens frequently... To me! :D > There's nothing obvious from the configuration. I assume that only > HA\sybase has cron jobs running or have

Re: Older versions

2006-08-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
alecswan wrote: Christopher, I must have messed something up while zipping up and copying cygwin from my desktop to my laptop. Now I am getting this error: "'bash' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." Do you have any idea what I messed up? Yo

Re: Where is Makedepend?

2006-08-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Hi, I'd like to modify makedepend. To do this I'd like to select the Install Source Code option for it in the setup program. I know it comes with Cygwin, but I can't seem to figure out which package (or install module) it is in. Can anyone point me in the right direc

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
mwoehlke wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: mwoehlke wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that goes to cygwin.patches? No, that would be appropriate only if the man page was fou

Re: system() call returns 127 in windows xp

2006-08-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jeff Lu wrote: I ran into a brick wall and could not find anything on the web and on the post to resolve the problem I'm having, which is a strange one. I have a C program that call system("ls -la > dir.txt") that works fine within bash cygwin. It also has been working on the computers runni

Re: Older versions

2006-08-09 Thread alecswan
Christopher, I must have messed something up while zipping up and copying cygwin from my desktop to my laptop. Now I am getting this error: "'bash' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." Do you have any idea what I messed up? -- View this message

Where is Makedepend?

2006-08-09 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, I'd like to modify makedepend. To do this I'd like to select the Install Source Code option for it in the setup program. I know it comes with Cygwin, but I can't seem to figure out which package (or install module) it is in. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I figure I could obtain

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: mwoehlke wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that goes to cygwin.patches? No, that would be appropriate only if the man page was found in the winsup

system() call returns 127 in windows xp

2006-08-09 Thread Jeff Lu
I ran into a brick wall and could not find anything on the web and on the post to resolve the problem I'm having, which is a strange one. I have a C program that call system("ls -la > dir.txt") that works fine within bash cygwin. It also has been working on the computers running windows xp with

Re: crontab and windows 2003

2006-08-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Kevin Markle wrote: Hello, I'm attempting to setup crontab on a windows 2003 box and am having problems getting the jobs to run. I have tried running the service as a local administrater and domain admin and the service starts and stops and then tells me that "some services will only start whe

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:38:47PM -0700, infoterror wrote: >Remember, I predicted the "thin intelligences" would lash out at those from >outside their tribe who dare comment on their work. It really isn't that hard to predict what kind of response you'll get. When one uses confrontational languag

Re: Download w/o Installing - No md5 check sums

2006-08-09 Thread mrcub
Chris, After many machinations I may found what works for my downloading process. setup.ini was modified to reflect the absolute path for the tar-balls. The /release directory, setup.exe and setup.ini were moved to the root. Temporary file writing location was set to /release and voila; setup.

crontab and windows 2003

2006-08-09 Thread Kevin Markle
Hello, I'm attempting to setup crontab on a windows 2003 box and am having problems getting the jobs to run. I have tried running the service as a local administrater and domain admin and the service starts and stops and then tells me that "some services will only start when needed". I have te

Re: Download w/o Installing - No md5 check sums

2006-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:15:37PM -0700, mrcub wrote: >Thanks for the clarification and I retract my editorial comments. Simply >put, I selected "ALL" packages for "Download without installing" and >received copies of all the tarballs but none of the md5's. My recollection >may be a bit hazy, bu

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-08-09 Thread infoterror
> Have you tried this with the recently announced setup.exe snapshot? If it was announced after the first reply I made to this list, no. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cygintl-3.dll-was-not-found-tf869884.html#a5733352 Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com.

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-08-09 Thread infoterror
>Cygwin's "c:\cygwin" contains AN ENTIRE (virtual) FILESYSTEM. I don't > know about you, but *I* sure don't want that sort of thing under > "Program Files" (besides which, POSIX-ish systems don't really > appreciate spaces in file/path names). 1. You're running cygwin on a Windows system. Local

Re: uid having logged in with ssh

2006-08-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Andy Keane wrote: Hi I am running sshd having set up the sshd service using ssh-host-config with privilege separation and with sshd running as a server owned by the local sshd_server user. All is working fine and I can log in using my keys without the need for passwords or without keys and using

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
mwoehlke wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that goes to cygwin.patches? No, that would be appropriate only if the man page was found in the winsup hierarchy. The first line o

RE: uid having logged in with ssh

2006-08-09 Thread Andy Keane
Hi I am running sshd having set up the sshd service using ssh-host-config with privilege separation and with sshd running as a server owned by the local sshd_server user. All is working fine and I can log in using my keys without the need for passwords or without keys and using passwords. My probl

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-08-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/09/2006, infoterror wrote: Under windows XP, download setup.exe. Run it and select "download files for installation." Save these files to CD-R and carry to remote location. When you install cygwin, and attempt to run bash, it will come up with the cygintl-3.dll error. Have you tried thi

Re: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
infoterror wrote: Under windows, programs are installed by default in "C:\Program Files." cygwin's preferred "c:\cygwin" is foolish and makes an unnecessary mess of installations. Cygwin's "c:\cygwin" contains AN ENTIRE (virtual) FILESYSTEM. I don't know about you, but *I* sure don't want that

RE: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-08-09 Thread infoterror
Remember, I predicted the "thin intelligences" would lash out at those from outside their tribe who dare comment on their work. They're underconfident and unstable, and would rather accuse others of being wrong than admit problems exist. Watch: >This thread was over a month ago and the guy went a

Re: Download w/o Installing - No md5 check sums

2006-08-09 Thread mrcub
Chris, Thanks for the clarification and I retract my editorial comments. Simply put, I selected "ALL" packages for "Download without installing" and received copies of all the tarballs but none of the md5's. My recollection may be a bit hazy, but once upon a time the proper md5 was required in

Re: 1.5.21 -- XEmacs becomes defunct while running?

2006-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 03:18:45PM -0700, Ed Hirgelt wrote: >I realize that this isn't the best of all possible bug reports. But >it is the most information I have been able to get in the past few >weeks. No, but I can't think of much more data I could ask for to help narrow this down. >I've bee

logon failure from subauth in 2006-08-02 snapshot

2006-08-09 Thread David Rothenberger
I've noticed repeated logon failures in my Security event log with the 2006-08-02 snapshot. (I have security auditing enabled.) It looks like these failures occur when cron runs a job. I attached strace to cron and saw the following: 2315 31545159 [main] CRON 4164 subauth: LsaLogonUser: -1073741

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that goes to cygwin.patches? No, that would be appropriate only if the man page was found in the winsup hierarchy. The first line of printf(3) says

Re: Download w/o Installing - No md5 check sums

2006-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:27:37AM -0700, mrcub wrote: >Thanks for the snippy remark. The fact is the packages weren't (note the >modal tense) acknowledged by setup.exe unless associated with an md5. >You've succeeded at providing a sarcastic response to an easily addressable >part of my dilemma.

Re: Download w/o Installing - No md5 check sums

2006-08-09 Thread mrcub
Chris, Thanks for the snippy remark. The fact is the packages weren't (note the modal tense) acknowledged by setup.exe unless associated with an md5. You've succeeded at providing a sarcastic response to an easily addressable part of my dilemma. For the more challenging aspect, why won't setup

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >mwoehlke wrote: >>mwoehlke wrote: >>>I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see >>>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened >>>it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARG

FW: emacs (21.2-13) freezing with cygwin 1.5.21-2

2006-08-09 Thread Eric Twietmeyer
> On 09 August 2006 17:42, Eric Twietmeyer wrote: > > > I recently installed the entire cygwin and cygwin/X > environment from > > scratch on a new machine. After some minutes the main thread of > > emacs.exe (according to Sysinternal's Process Explorer) starts > > consuming all the resources o

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
mwoehlke wrote: mwoehlke wrote: I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more "n

Re: Download w/o Installing - No md5 check sums

2006-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:52:29AM -0700, mrcub wrote: >Returning after 2 year hiatus. Have a clean machine for Cygwin install, but >"Download without installing" and "Installing from local directory" simply >provides a smattering of basic packages available. Despite having Selected >ALL==>Install

Download w/o Installing - No md5 check sums

2006-08-09 Thread mrcub
Returning after 2 year hiatus. Have a clean machine for Cygwin install, but "Download without installing" and "Installing from local directory" simply provides a smattering of basic packages available. Despite having Selected ALL==>Install for CUR packages. Directories and tar-babies are created

Re: qt-mt pkgconfig file - missing -lresolv

2006-08-09 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Rafal Mantiuk wrote: I noticed that qt-mt.pc pkg-config file contains -lresolv, but this library does not exist in the cygwin distribution. It does, actually, but you can't find it on the package search page. That's because it's a symlink to /usr/lib/libminires.dll.a that i

Re: Older versions

2006-08-09 Thread Reini Urban
alecswan schrieb: I installed Cygwin on my desktop long time ago. So, now I have old versions of different packages, such as PostgreSQL 7.3.4 set up on my desktop. I am currently trying to set up my laptop and I want to have identical setup to my desctop. Which mean that I want an old version of

qt-mt pkgconfig file - missing -lresolv

2006-08-09 Thread Rafal Mantiuk
Hi, I noticed that qt-mt.pc pkg-config file contains -lresolv, but this library does not exist in the cygwin distribution. pkg-config qt-mt --libs -L/usr/lib/qt3/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lqt-mt -lGL -lXmu -lXi -lXrender -lXrandr -lXcursor -lXft -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lre

RE: Colon in dependencies

2006-08-09 Thread Brian Hassink
The original poster, to which my post was a reply, claimed to have searched for the answer in the newsgroups and not found anything. Silly me for taking him at his word. Regardless, it doesn't give you the excuse to jump on me so just back off. Cheers, Brian -Original Message- From: [EM

autom4te-2.13 missing in autoconf2.1-2.13-1

2006-08-09 Thread Reini Urban
Hi Charles, Please see below. Charles Wilson schrieb: This announcement comes somewhat late, but is provided so that there exists some record of this change in the cygwin-announce mailing list archive. On July 1, 2005, the existing autotools on cygwin were all obsoleted by new versions, whe

RE: emacs (21.2-13) freezing with cygwin 1.5.21-2

2006-08-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 August 2006 17:42, Eric Twietmeyer wrote: > I recently installed the entire cygwin and cygwin/X environment from scratch > on a new machine. After some minutes the main thread of emacs.exe > (according to Sysinternal's Process Explorer) starts consuming all the > resources of one of the pro

RE: make 3.81-1 vs. 3.80-1 and C:\... style dependency handling differences

2006-08-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 August 2006 17:26, Buster wrote: >> It seems that http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-ex-win.html needs to >> be amended because it says (copy of the last sentance)... >> >> All tools may be used from the Microsoft command prompt, with >> full support for normal Windows pathnames. > >

Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
mwoehlke wrote: I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more "normal" (man1 pag

Re: make 3.81-1 vs. 3.80-1 and C:\... style dependency handling differences

2006-08-09 Thread Buster
It seems that http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-ex-win.html needs to be amended because it says (copy of the last sentance)... All tools may be used from the Microsoft command prompt, with full support for normal Windows pathnames. I don't think so. The previous sentences restrict that 'a

RE: Colon in dependencies

2006-08-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 August 2006 15:45, Brian Hassink wrote: > Thank-you. This reply was far more helpful than the previous. That reply was a fish. The previous reply was teaching you to fish. If you had bothered to do your elementary background research, you would already have seen all those scripts, an

Re: make 3.81-1 vs. 3.80-1 and C:\... style dependency handling differences

2006-08-09 Thread Mark Millard
Hi. It seems that http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-ex-win.html needs to be amended because it says (copy of the last sentance)... All tools may be used from the Microsoft command prompt, with full support for normal Windows pathnames. === Mark Millard -- Unsubscribe info: http

Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more "normal" (man1 pages, for instance)

Re: Fw: GCC - 64bit long long type, support in lib

2006-08-09 Thread mwoehlke
Note: not all of us like Asian food (http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU). Also, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. fred wrote: The gcc supports 64bit int it seems, but the library as downloaded does not, for example try long long ldec = 0x110LL; printf("%s: 0x%Lx,%Ld; %s\n","tes

RE: Colon in dependencies

2006-08-09 Thread Brian Hassink
Thank-you. This reply was far more helpful than the previous. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:17 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Colon in dependencies On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02

Re: installing/configuring tcllib under tcltk

2006-08-09 Thread Charles D. Russell
Problem solved. The installation instructions give two options: 1) .\configure; make install or 2) installer.tcl. It says that make simply calls installer.tcl, so it would seem unlikely that it would make a difference. However option 2) works and option 1) does not. tcllib is pretty big and

Re: Colon in dependencies

2006-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:10:15PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 09 August 2006 13:23, Brian Hassink wrote: >> From: Rene Nitzsche >> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:08 AM > >>>how can I use a colon in dependencies for make? If a dependency >>>contains a colon, I get the error *** target pattern

Re: Older versions

2006-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:53:50AM -0700, alecswan wrote: >I installed Cygwin on my desktop long time ago. So, now I have old versions >of different packages, such as PostgreSQL 7.3.4 set up on my desktop. > >I am currently trying to set up my laptop and I want to have identical setup >to my descto

Infinite loop in Numeric-24.2-1 for eigenvalues

2006-08-09 Thread Jim Kleckner
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: The following package has been added to the Cygwin net release: *** Numeric-24.2-1 Numerical Python provides a fast, compact, multidimensional array language facility as a Python module. This package requires python-2.4.x and is listed under the Python category.

Re: CreateFileMapping Problem

2006-08-09 Thread a . heider
hi, yesterday we upgraded the cygwin.dll to version 1.5.21-2 (just the dll, that why cygcheck still reports 1.5.20-1). our nighty build (takes a few hours) ran successfully. but this morning, as multiple users were logged in, we got the same CreateFileMapping error again. as a workaround we re

RE: Colon in dependencies

2006-08-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 August 2006 13:23, Brian Hassink wrote: > -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Rene Nitzsche > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:08 AM >> how can I use a colon in dependencies for make? If a dependency contains a >> colon, I get the error *** target pattern contains

RE: Colon in dependencies

2006-08-09 Thread Brian Hassink
I've run into the same problem after upgrading to 3.81-1 with dependencies that contain a drive letter (e.g., x:\foo\bar.c). For now I've downgraded back to 3.80-1, but would obviously be interested in a better solution. -Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Colon in dependencies

2006-08-09 Thread Rene Nitzsche
Hello, how can I use a colon in dependencies for make? If a dependency contains a colon, I get the error *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. I use GNU Make 3.81 for i686-pc-cygwin, GNU bash, version 3.1.17(6)-release (i686-pc-cygwin). I had search for a solution in many newsgroups, but I

Older versions

2006-08-09 Thread alecswan
I installed Cygwin on my desktop long time ago. So, now I have old versions of different packages, such as PostgreSQL 7.3.4 set up on my desktop. I am currently trying to set up my laptop and I want to have identical setup to my desctop. Which mean that I want an old version of PG. So, my questi

RE: Cygintl-3.dll was not found

2006-08-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 August 2006 02:44, infoterror wrote: This thread was over a month ago and the guy went away happy with a solution to his problems. What exactly do you have to add to it? > Based on two installs I did, it's easy to get the "cygintl-3.dll problem" > without doing anything wrong. Sometimes

RE: make 3.81-1 vs. 3.80-1 and C:\... style dependency handling differences

2006-08-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09 August 2006 09:30, Mark Millard wrote: > Does the Cygwin 3.81-1 make at least match RMS's June 2004 definition > of what make 3.81 should be like on MS-Windows? No, the _mingw_ version of make 3.81 matches RMS's definition of what make 3.81 should be like on MS-Windows. The cygwin vers

RE: make 3.81-1 vs. 3.80-1 and C:\... style dependency handling differences

2006-08-09 Thread Mark Millard
I got out my GNU Make (for 3.81) book by R. M. Stallman and others and find on page 22 (4.3.2): QUOTE Microsoft operating systems (MS-DOS and MS-Windows) use backslashes to separate directories in pathnames, like so: c:\foo\bar\baz.c This is equivalent to the Unix-style 'c:/foo/bar/baz