Re: Graphicks Magic on Vista?

2008-01-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/12/2008, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: P.S. Cygwin folk say Vista is not supported. That's only because they're spoiled sports. They expect things to work. ;-) We do expect things to work but the Cygwin project does (begrudgingly? ;-) ) support Vista. I know. cygcheck output says otherw

Re: Process ends unexpectly

2008-01-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Marc/MDPI314 wrote: Hi, It has been a long time since I last used Cygwin but these past days I did my come back ;-) and I noticed that many processes stops without any message ("joe" editor, the "make" program, "configure" script while I were compiling Videolan VLC, the "cd" command (y

Re: Cygwin install hangs at end every time

2008-01-11 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Joel Braverman wrote: I first encountered this problem months ago while trying to add the xwindows packages to my cygwin isntall - the installer would hang in the middle. I deleted all the cygwin files a few days ago and tried again, with the same problem. It doesn't matter which host I pick to d

Graphicks Magic on Vista?

2008-01-11 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Has anyone gotten gm[.exe] to work on Vista? I keep getting pop-up Windows boxes saying gm has stopped working ... with of course Vistas favorite non-functioning toggle switch line about trying to find a solution, blah, blah, blah, blah. Thanks, Lee P.S. Cygwin folk say Vista is not support

RE: Getting 'Bad file descriptor' error with 1.5.24-2

2008-01-11 Thread anonymous anonymous
Hello, Sorry, I reactivate this thread (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-03/msg00029.html) but I have exactly the same error with process make. bash: cannot duplicate fd 31 to fd 0: Bad file descriptor I ran my process make under strace (strace -ostrace.out bash -c make) and got this (have a l

Process ends unexpectly

2008-01-11 Thread Marc/MDPI314
Hi, It has been a long time since I last used Cygwin but these past days I did my come back ;-) and I noticed that many processes stops without any message ("joe" editor, the "make" program, "configure" script while I were compiling Videolan VLC, the "cd" command (yes, it fails !) and m

Re: need help with bash -c with cygpath

2008-01-11 Thread Jay
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > > > According to Dave Korn on 1/11/2008 9:38 AM: > | I believe what is needed is 1) outer double-quotes, for cmd's benefit, 2) > | inner single-quotes, for bash's benefit, 3) double up the slashes /as well/, > | because there's one more level of quoting being str

Re: need help with bash -c with cygpath

2008-01-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Dave Korn on 1/11/2008 9:38 AM: | I believe what is needed is 1) outer double-quotes, for cmd's benefit, 2) | inner single-quotes, for bash's benefit, 3) double up the slashes /as well/, | because there's one more level of quoting being

Cygwin install hangs at end every time

2008-01-11 Thread Joel Braverman
I first encountered this problem months ago while trying to add the xwindows packages to my cygwin isntall - the installer would hang in the middle. I deleted all the cygwin files a few days ago and tried again, with the same problem. It doesn't matter which host I pick to download from, the result

which mail sending tool I should use?

2008-01-11 Thread sun
hi, retrieve&send mail by cygwin I know fetchmail and mutt are needed to get and view the mails. But I am not sure about the sending tool in cygwin, could you please advise? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Do

RE: Re: need help with bash -c with cygpath

2008-01-11 Thread Dave Korn
On 11 January 2008 15:51, Phil Betts wrote: > If you absolutely MUST have backslashes, from cmd.exe, you need to > double each backslash: > > H:\>C:\cygwin\bin\bash -v -c 'UNC_PATH\\Dir' > That doesn't work for me. Adding the '-x' option to bash is very handy for debugging these sorts of

Re: 1.5.25-7: make -v command does not work

2008-01-11 Thread Rade . Ognjanovic
Dear Greg, Thanks for replying. I ran "cygcheck -s -v -r >cygcheck.out" as requested and the output is enclosed. Best Regards, Rade == Innoval Technology Limited Registration Number: 4583982 in England and Wales VAT Number: GB 811 9811 35 cygcheck.o

Re: Re: need help with bash -c with cygpath

2008-01-11 Thread Jay
> H:\>C:\cygwin\bin\bash -v -c 'UNC_PATH\\Dir' > > (actually only the first really needs to be doubled, because \ has > no special meaning if it's followed by a letter) > > Phil > > I'm getting the path from the registry via a right click menu and passing it into the bash -c command. But

Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex

2008-01-11 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Jan 11 10:11, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > So, what was the reason, then, to remove "si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE" from > > > spawn_guts in CVS? Having it makes it much easier to fix run.exe > > > approp

Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex

2008-01-11 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 11 10:11, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > So, what was the reason, then, to remove "si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE" from > > spawn_guts in CVS? Having it makes it much easier to fix run.exe > > appropriately... > > I would be somewhat surprised if this co

RE: Re: need help with bash -c with cygpath

2008-01-11 Thread Phil Betts
Jay wrote on Friday, January 11, 2008 3:14 PM:: >> That's still somewhat wasteful, starting bash just to get a vim >> alias - why not use the full name gvim, and bypass the bash process >> to begin with? > > you right, i'm going to remove it, thanks. > > My main problem now is that for some rea

Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex

2008-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 10:11, Igor Peshansky wrote: > So, what was the reason, then, to remove "si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE" from > spawn_guts in CVS? Having it makes it much easier to fix run.exe > appropriately... I would be somewhat surprised if this code would have any effect in the trunk. The code in quest

Re: need help with bash -c with cygpath

2008-01-11 Thread Jay
> That's still somewhat wasteful, starting bash just to get a vim alias - > why not use the full name gvim, and bypass the bash process to begin with? you right, i'm going to remove it, thanks. My main problem now is that for some reason the leading backslash on UNC names is getting dropped when

Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex

2008-01-11 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 10 23:57, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Sven Köhler wrote: > > > So the question is: who does all the checks (shebang, etc.)? > > > - the execve implementation? (which is cygwin, right?) > > > - the shell? > > > - both? > > > >

Re: cron does not work: no error message

2008-01-11 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: "Saurabh Tendulkar" <> To: Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:26 PM Subject: cron does not work: no error message | Hi, | | I upgraded my cygwin recently to the latest cron (4.1-6), and it seems to have | stopped working. I did a cygrunsrv -E cron when the

Re: 1.5.25-7: make -v command does not work

2008-01-11 Thread Marco Atzeri
-- Rade.Ognjanovic ha scritto: > Dear Marco, > > Thanks for your quick reply. I simplified the path > variable to just > path=/usr/bin. That did not solve the problem. I > also ran "cygcheck -c" > and the reported status on make is "OK". The > xorg-x11-bin was > "incomplete". All other pa

Re: 1.5.25-7: make -v command does not work

2008-01-11 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2008-01-11 13:53Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for your quick reply. I simplified the path variable to just > path=/usr/bin. That did not solve the problem. I also ran "cygcheck -c" > and the reported status on make is "OK". The xorg-x11-bin was > "incomplete". All other package

Re: 1.5.25-7: make -v command does not work

2008-01-11 Thread Rade . Ognjanovic
Dear Marco, Thanks for your quick reply. I simplified the path variable to just path=/usr/bin. That did not solve the problem. I also ran "cygcheck -c" and the reported status on make is "OK". The xorg-x11-bin was "incomplete". All other packages were "OK". Best Regards, Rade ==

Re: 1.5.25-7: make -v command does not work

2008-01-11 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > Hello, > > I cannot make the "make" command to work in cygwin. > When I type "make -v" > to get its version number it returns nothing, it > simply goes back to the > command prompt as shown below. > > bash-3.2$ make -v > bash-3.2$ > > > Not Found: awk >

1.5.25-7: make -v command does not work

2008-01-11 Thread Rade . Ognjanovic
Hello, I cannot make the "make" command to work in cygwin. When I type "make -v" to get its version number it returns nothing, it simply goes back to the command prompt as shown below. bash-3.2$ make -v bash-3.2$ I would appreciate any suggestion on what I can do to get it to work please. I

RE: problem message when I start Cygwin bash shell

2008-01-11 Thread Dave Korn
On 11 January 2008 08:42, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Rakun (Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:57:46 -0800 (PST)) >> When I start Cygwin bash shell, I get the folowing message: >> >> C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe (740): *** couldn't allocate cygwin heap, Win32 >> error 0, base 0xA1, top 0xA19000, reserve_size 36864

Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex

2008-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 10 23:57, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Sven Köhler wrote: > > So the question is: who does all the checks (shebang, etc.)? > > - the execve implementation? (which is cygwin, right?) > > - the shell? > > - both? > > The shell. > Igor Cygwin's exec(3) calls have shebang

Re: problem message when I start Cygwin bash shell

2008-01-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Rakun (Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:57:46 -0800 (PST)) > When I start Cygwin bash shell, I get the folowing message: > > C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe (740): *** couldn't allocate cygwin heap, Win32 error > 0, > base 0xA1, top 0xA19000, reserve_size 36864, allocsize 36864, page_const > 409 > 6 > 4 [ma