Re: A regrettable oversight

2006-12-13 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I was just reading Chuck Wilson's recent email and thinking to myself > how lucky we are to have someone who has stuck with the project for so > long and made so many valuable contributions. I mentioned to my wife > "You've heard me mention Chuck W

Re: Cygutils patch: fix cygstart under recent snapshots

2006-12-13 Thread Michael Schaap
Charles Wilson wrote: Michael Schaap wrote: Can you apply the patch and release a new Cygutils version, at your convenience? Done. I'll announce 1.3.1-1 after the mirrors have had a chance to get it. (FYI: your next 'cvs update' you'll need to explicitly get the newly added m4/ and build-a

A regrettable oversight

2006-12-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
I was just reading Chuck Wilson's recent email and thinking to myself how lucky we are to have someone who has stuck with the project for so long and made so many valuable contributions. I mentioned to my wife "You've heard me mention Chuck Wilson, right?" and she nodded. So, you'd think that by

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils-1.3.1-1

2006-12-13 Thread Charles Wilson
Cygutils is a collection of useful(?) tools for the cygwin platform. This is a bugfix release. Changes from version 1.3.0-1 * Bugfix for cygstart with new cygwin snapshots (1.5.22+) from Michael Schaap. * Update to latest autotools (ac-2.61, am-1.10, gt-0.15) * Many other improvements to inte

Re: print from xfig

2006-12-13 Thread Charles Wilson
Jay Abel wrote: Apparently someone started working on lpr, and it does work for local printers, just doesn't work for network printers. Say what? $ which lpr /usr/bin/lpr $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/lpr cygutils-1.3.0-1 $ lpr -Pmyserver\\myprinter /usr/share/ghostscript/8.50/examples/chess.

Re: strange problems with bash after cygwin update

2006-12-13 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Jonathan Arnold wrote: See much discussion and, most importantly, the release notes for the latest Base. Clearly that was meant to say "bash". Don't go looking for release notes for "base", you won't find them. :-) -- Matthew "unsubscribe me plz!!" -- Newbies -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: strange problems with bash after cygwin update

2006-12-13 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Philippe Fremy wrote: Hi, My cygwin installation is pretty old, so I decided to update it. After running the update, bash has a very very strange behaviour. I wrote a test-bash.sh file with: ==[ content of test-bash.sh ] echo this is a test of bash == When I run i

Re: xargs gives grep/gawk too much

2006-12-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:17:56PM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote on Sunday, December 10, 2006 1:34 AM: >>On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 01:21:19AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:31:05AM -0800, Karr, David wrote: If the point

tar exabyte 8500 under xp

2006-12-13 Thread Tim Scoggins
I am trying to get a tar off an old Exabyte 8500 tape drive using cygwin under XP. The tape was written under Solaris. I have set the blocksize to 0 mt -f /dev/nst1 setblk 0 No errors. I can status the tape. But when I try to extract tar xvf /dev/nst1 I get tar: Cannot read: Invalid a

"/bin/bash: permission denied" using Cygwin ssh/sshd under WinXP 2003 x64: resolved

2006-12-13 Thread Brian Kasper
I've been having terrible problems getting Cygwin ssh/sshd to work under the x64 version of WinXP 2003 SP1. The basic symptom has been that if I ran sshd as a service, I was unable to run any executables during the ssh login procedure. This included bash.exe, so my attempts to ssh into localh

Re: cygwin finally installed on vista but now other errors (fixed)

2006-12-13 Thread Mike Knope
Well, I did AFTER you reminded me and I removed my head from my a... Now everything is happy in Vista land once more. Thanks, Mike >Mike Knope wrote: >I finally got cygwin installed. It seems that the download site I >used was not up to a recent build or something. However, now that I >h

Is it possible to use self compiled mtx with connected scsi tape ord cd roboters?

2006-12-13 Thread Pierre Bernhardt
Hello, I want to use my changer (cd roboter) which could be used under linux with mtx on my cygwin on windows. I think no really problem to compile mtx, but how can I access the scsi device (under windows named 4:1) which is connected? MfG... Pierre Bernhardt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: cygwin finally installed on vista but now other errors

2006-12-13 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Mike Knope wrote: 191 [main] xterm 3256 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed, 0x2AB000..0x2AB440, done 0, windows pid 2273236, Win32 error 487 AFAIK, you need to be a member of the debugger users group (or be an admin) for child_copy to work. Magnus -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: xargs gives grep/gawk too much

2006-12-13 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
Christopher Faylor wrote on Sunday, December 10, 2006 1:34 AM: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 01:21:19AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:31:05AM -0800, Karr, David wrote: >>> If the point of this note is to get your pipeline to work, would it >>> help if you added somethi

Cygwin slower on one computer

2006-12-13 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Hi, I'm trying to figure out why Cygwin build things so much slower on one computer I have. We're talking about more than 3 times slower on a computer that ought to be a bit faster (Athlon64 at 2.2-2.4 GHz, compared to a Pentium M at 1.8 GHz). After digging into strace logs a bit, it seems

Re: print from xfig

2006-12-13 Thread Jay Abel
You can use "net use lpt1: printername" to map a network printer to a local parallel port. Then define a new printer on the local machine that is connected to lpt1: Then use the local share name (not the original network name) by setting the PRINTER environment variable. This works with l

RE: strange problems with bash after cygwin update

2006-12-13 Thread Dave Korn
On 13 December 2006 17:12, Philippe Fremy wrote: > Hi, > > My cygwin installation is pretty old, so I decided to update it. > Any idea what got broken during the update ? Nothing. Your scripts have /always/ had the wrong kind of line endings, it's just that something got fixed, to no

strange problems with bash after cygwin update

2006-12-13 Thread Philippe Fremy
Hi, My cygwin installation is pretty old, so I decided to update it. After running the update, bash has a very very strange behaviour. I wrote a test-bash.sh file with: ==[ content of test-bash.sh ] echo this is a test of bash == When I run it: << [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Blake
Kenneth Nellis syntek-usa.com> writes: > > I'm curious if Eric intends to reference /tmp directly, as opposed to > recognizing environment variable TMPDIR, if defined? Indeed, it appears that there may be an upstream bash bug - 'man bash' claims that $TMPDIR is honored, but in reality, it is o

Re: linked dll data write copy failed

2006-12-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 07:26:57AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >According to dewaalk on 12/13/2006 5:59 AM: >>Bash-3.00$ >... >>I did check that I only have one version of cygwin.dll >>(1.6.9-cygwin-1_6_9) on the system. > >Consider upgrading. Neither of these ancient versions are still >supported on

Re: print from xfig

2006-12-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Steven Woody wrote: On 12/13/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steven Woody wrote: > On 12/5/06, Andrew Louie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Steven Woody gmail.com> writes: >> >> > >> > i can run xfig successuflly, but i can not print our network printer. >> > it reported: >>

Re: cygwin finally installed on vista but now other errors

2006-12-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Mike Knope wrote: I finally got cygwin installed. It seems that the download site I used was not up to a recent build or something. However, now that I have it running I'm seeing errors like this: $ 3 [main] rxvt 1664 D:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap D:\cygwin

Re: libraries

2006-12-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Wynfield Henman wrote: I have managed to confuse myself regarding libraries under cygwin, after reading extensively on building dlls under cygwin. Please check if my understanding is correct. (1) For simple static libraries ld's output is fine. Because only cygwin code will access it. (

Re: print from xfig

2006-12-13 Thread Steven Woody
On 12/13/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steven Woody wrote: > On 12/5/06, Andrew Louie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Steven Woody gmail.com> writes: >> >> > >> > i can run xfig successuflly, but i can not print our network printer. >> > it reported: >> > >> > lpr: printer err

RE: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

2006-12-13 Thread Kenneth Nellis
> From: Eric Blake > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:25 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! > > > Yes, it is annoying that when /tmp is not mounted, and / does not contain > a physical subdirectory named tmp, that bash refuses to

Re: linked dll data write copy failed

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to dewaalk on 12/13/2006 5:59 AM: > Bash-3.00$ ... > I did check that I only have one version of cygwin.dll (1.6.9-cygwin-1_6_9) > on the system. Consider upgrading. Neither of these ancient versions are still supported on this list, and y

Re: bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to João Gonçalves on 12/12/2006 11:22 AM: > I am trying to start cygwin and I get this error message. > I understand, from what I read, that this error is because I am using > a different user. Yes, it is annoying that when /tmp is not mount

Re: print from xfig

2006-12-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Steven Woody wrote: On 12/5/06, Andrew Louie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steven Woody gmail.com> writes: > > i can run xfig successuflly, but i can not print our network printer. > it reported: > > lpr: printer error: can't open 'd:\printersharename' > > what do i do? thank you. > Can you nor

linked dll data write copy failed

2006-12-13 Thread dewaalk
Good day OS: WIN-XP on new DELL 820 laptop. Running Trend Antivirus. Problem: I installed Cygwin latest version (setup,exe version 2.523) this morning and get the following error after starting bash: 8 [main] bash 2852 chiled_copy: linked dll data write copy failed, 0x5CD000.. 0x5CD020, d

cygwin finally installed on vista but now other errors

2006-12-13 Thread Mike Knope
I finally got cygwin installed. It seems that the download site I used was not up to a recent build or something. However, now that I have it running I'm seeing errors like this: $ 3 [main] rxvt 1664 D:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap D:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\cygX

RE: emacs trouble

2006-12-13 Thread Dave Korn
On 13 December 2006 10:14, Mark Fisher wrote: > On 12/13/06, Lorenzo Travaglio wrote: >> I'm experiencing a little problem using emacs. It >> seems that C-x C-c doesn't work, and I leave Emacs via >> F10-f-e. I'm using only text window, not X, and the >> Emacs version is 21.2-13. > > same here i

Re: Midnight Commander problem

2006-12-13 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Ruslan, On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Ruslan Fedyarov wrote: I've experienced problem with %view{ascii} mode in Midnight Commander's bindings. I use enca-like encoding autodetector to tell w3m or another program what the correct input encoding is: [...] I'll investigate - this is just a confirma

RE: building a cross compiler for linux

2006-12-13 Thread Dave Korn
On 13 December 2006 08:51, Domen Vrankar wrote: > I think I wrote what I want to do the wrong way. > > I want to build a cross compiler on linux that would output Cygwin > executables ( Linux host -> Cygwin target). Ah, ok, understood. This is known to be possible. > I downloaded w32api-3.8-

Re: emacs trouble

2006-12-13 Thread Gary
Hi Lorenzo I have the same problem, but using rxvt instead of the normal console cures it so I went with that. Something to do with keyboard layout, possibly, since I am using a German kbd and I imagine you are using an Italian one? For anyone interested in solving this rather than working around

Re: emacs trouble

2006-12-13 Thread Mark Fisher
On 12/13/06, Lorenzo Travaglio wrote: I'm experiencing a little problem using emacs. It seems that C-x C-c doesn't work, and I leave Emacs via F10-f-e. I'm using only text window, not X, and the Emacs version is 21.2-13. same here if i load it from a dos shell, but works fine from within an rx

Umlauts not working

2006-12-13 Thread Gary
Hi, I have two computers with cygwin installed. On one the umlauts solution in .inputrc works fine (set meta-flag on etc.), but on the other I still get a pipe-like symbol for an umlaut-u and nothing at all for umlaut-a and so on (I've also tried putting the meta-flag on entries in .bashrc but tha

emacs trouble

2006-12-13 Thread Lorenzo Travaglio
Hi all, I'm experiencing a little problem using emacs. It seems that C-x C-c doesn't work, and I leave Emacs via F10-f-e. I'm using only text window, not X, and the Emacs version is 21.2-13. May someone help me? TNX Ciao .Lor. __ Do You Yahoo!? Poc

Re: building a cross compiler for linux

2006-12-13 Thread Domen Vrankar
2006/12/12, Vin Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Domen, Domen Vrankar wrote: > I'm using this tutorila: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-build-cross.html > for building a cygwin cross compiler for linux. > > I built binutils sucessfully but when trying to build gcc I get: > > configure: error: ca

Re: building a cross compiler for linux

2006-12-13 Thread Domen Vrankar
But you don't mean to cross-compile: you mean to natively compile something that just happens to be a cross-compiler itself. So you should be using --target instead of --host. cheers, DaveK I think I wrote the question wrong. I want to build Linux->Cygwin cross compiler that run

libraries

2006-12-13 Thread Wynfield Henman
I have managed to confuse myself regarding libraries under cygwin, after reading extensively on building dlls under cygwin. Please check if my understanding is correct. (1) For simple static libraries ld's output is fine. Because only cygwin code will access it. (2) Does this follow with