Re: Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

2006-08-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Øyvind Harboe wrote: One of the reasons that companies distribute Cygwin (often breaching the GPL by not including the source) is that Cygwin setup sucks(I do believe that there is a consensus that Cygwin setup sucks). If the Cygwin install process rocked (e.g. like Debian there was some known s

Re: reproducible cygwin memory problems

2006-08-19 Thread emacs user
ok, let me try again. here is a case in which I try to run latest cvs gnu emacs under gdb and this just immediately freezes x windows. surely someone in the cygwin/ emacs teams would be interested in figuring this out...? ~ $ startx& [1] 304 ~ $ Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin

octave compiled with gcc-3.4.4-2 - error messages during make check

2006-08-19 Thread James R. Phillips
I've built a test version of octave 2.1.73 on cygwin using the experimental gcc-3.4.4-2 compiler. Thanks to Brian Dessent for pointing out a packaging problem with the compiler and a workaround: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00620.html . The build is successful, but several of the t

Those nasty bundled Cygwin's

2006-08-19 Thread Øyvind Harboe
One of the reasons that companies distribute Cygwin (often breaching the GPL by not including the source) is that Cygwin setup sucks(I do believe that there is a consensus that Cygwin setup sucks). If the Cygwin install process rocked (e.g. like Debian there was some known stable/unstable/testing