Can't find how to fetch from the web

2008-08-10 Thread Circular Function
Believe me I have googled and read the faqs but I can't find how to download from the web. I have installed cygwin and it works but I think I need a package although web was default in my download. 1. how do I install packages once I already have installed cygwin? 2. what do I write do downloa

cdargs usage

2008-08-10 Thread Robert Bram
Hi All, The cdargs manpage says: select current entry. But when I go to cdargs browse or list mode, I exit cdargs but the directory hasn't changed. Have I misinterpreted how cdargs works in Cygwin? Any help would be most appreciated! Rob :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

2008-08-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Christopher Faylor wrote: | I think it's a good idea to just let _update-info-dir take care of this. | It's going to run anyway so you end up just running install-info twice. Well, there is the "unsupported" case of only updating an external reposi

Re: pkg-config --list-all displays nothing on Vista

2008-08-10 Thread hce
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 2:35 PM, René Berber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hce wrote: > >> Any advice for my first question of "pkg-config --list-all shown >> nothing"? > > Not all packages use the pkg-config database, so if it doesn't list anything > then you don't have any. Do not confuse Cygwin

Re: pkg-config --list-all displays nothing on Vista

2008-08-10 Thread René Berber
hce wrote: Any advice for my first question of "pkg-config --list-all shown nothing"? Not all packages use the pkg-config database, so if it doesn't list anything then you don't have any. Do not confuse Cygwin packages with those that populate the pkg-config DB. For example, but some of t

Re: pkg-config --list-all displays nothing on Vista

2008-08-10 Thread hce
Thanks Larry, I'll check it again. Any advice for my first question of "pkg-config --list-all shown nothing"? I could not even find ldconfig in cygwin. Could anyone advice whether pkgconfig works or not in cygwin? And how to make it work? Thank you. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Larry Hall

Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

2008-08-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 05:55:58AM +0400, Andry wrote: >Hello cygwin, > >>Installing _update_info_dir will cause install-info.exe to also be >>installed since it is a dependency and post install scripts are run >>after all packages are extracted. > >Yes, but "texinfo" has "_update-info-dir" as depe

Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

2008-08-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:20:39PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> Actually, I was debating removing this from cygport and letting >>> _update-info-dir take care of these, as this would appear to >>> significantly reduce the number of postinstall scripts. >> I think it'

Re: pkg-config --list-all displays nothing on Vista

2008-08-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
hce wrote: Hi, I've just installed cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe on vista and also installed other package files to /usr/win32/lib/pkgconfig. Two problems: 2. Could not find "expat" package during the installation of http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe. Perhaps you'll have better luc

pkg-config --list-all displays nothing on Vista

2008-08-10 Thread hce
Hi, I've just installed cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe on vista and also installed other package files to /usr/win32/lib/pkgconfig. Two problems: 1. Typing "pkg-config --list-all" does not show anything also the $PKG_CONFIG_PATH has pointed to /usr/win32/lib/pkgconfig. 2. Could not find

Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

2008-08-10 Thread Andry
Hello cygwin, >Installing _update_info_dir will cause install-info.exe to also be >installed since it is a dependency and post install scripts are run >after all packages are extracted. Yes, but "texinfo" has "_update-info-dir" as dependency, so this is cross reference, what i told about. -- Bes

Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

2008-08-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, I was debating removing this from cygport and letting _update-info-dir take care of these, as this would appear to significantly reduce the number of postinstall scripts. I think it's a good idea to just let _update-info-dir take care of this. It's going to r

Re: RE:Using mutt to sendmail via remote SMTP

2008-08-10 Thread Jake Thompson
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 20:17 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 04:32 +0700, bjoe wrote: > > Thank for the answer, > > > > I finally find tutorial in http://www.andrews-corner.org regarding this > > subject, and successfully sending this mail with mutt. I just want to share > > t

Re: RE:Using mutt to sendmail via remote SMTP

2008-08-10 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 04:32 +0700, bjoe wrote: > Thank for the answer, > > I finally find tutorial in http://www.andrews-corner.org regarding this > subject, and successfully sending this mail with mutt. I just want to share > this link. > > This tutorial point me to using mutt as MUA, msmtp as

Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

2008-08-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 04:59:01PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > | Thanks for the report. That stems from writing a self-contained > | postinstall script, but then cygport adding additional commands. Right > | now, the existence of the _PostInstallLast package takes ca

Re: Funny behavior with echo command in bash_login

2008-08-10 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, B'Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is my bash_login: echo Portable Cygwin v1.0.0.0 alpha echo **NOTE** echo Cygwin making modification in HKCU registry echo To completely clean Cygwin Portable echo installation run clean.bat in root dir

Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

2008-08-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Eric Blake wrote: | Thanks for the report. That stems from writing a self-contained | postinstall script, but then cygport adding additional commands. Right | now, the existence of the _PostInstallLast package takes care of this, so | bypassing th

Re: Funny behavior with echo command in bash_login

2008-08-10 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2008-08-10 21:33Z, Joe's wrote: > > echo [...results in...] > Data Mail max_mem.c mbox msmtp.log procmail.log tmp > > Look at the last line, bash seen interpreted my echo > command in last line as ls command, that not suppose to be. See "shell expa

Re: autoconf/configure problem on text mounts

2008-08-10 Thread Albrecht Schlosser
Eric Blake wrote: According to Dave Korn on 8/10/2008 12:40 PM: | |This is an autoconf bug upstream really. They'd know best what how to | patch it long term. Not only that, I already have patched it long-term, as of autoconf 2.62: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commit

Funny behavior with echo command in bash_login

2008-08-10 Thread B'Joe
Hi, I recently using .bash_login to show some messages when I login to Cygwin with echo command just for fun, but funny behavior happen with echo *** in last line This is my bash_login: echo Portable Cygwin v1.0.0.0 alpha echo **NOTE** echo Cygwi

Re: RE:Using mutt to sendmail via remote SMTP

2008-08-10 Thread bjoe
Thank for the answer, I finally find tutorial in http://www.andrews-corner.org regarding this subject, and successfully sending this mail with mutt. I just want to share this link. This tutorial point me to using mutt as MUA, msmtp as MTA to send mail, fetchmail to retrieve mail from POP serve

Re: autoconf/configure problem on text mounts

2008-08-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Dave Korn on 8/10/2008 12:40 PM: | |This is an autoconf bug upstream really. They'd know best what how to | patch it long term. Not only that, I already have patched it long-term, as of autoconf 2.62: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/git

Re: autoconf/configure problem on text mounts

2008-08-10 Thread lemkemch
lemkemch wrote on 10 August 2008 18:46: I am not familar enough with autoconf to be able to tell how that line gets into configure. I can't find it in configure.in. All I can see is stuff like AH_VERBATIM([HAVE_UINT64_T] and AC_CHECK_TYPES([uint8_t, int8_t, uint16_t, int16_t, uint32_t, int32_t

emacs open display problem

2008-08-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have been an avid cygwin user for several years. I recently bought a new HP laptop with Vista, and I immediately installed cygwin. I had a few glitches but was able to figure out fixes for all of them but one: emacs just flat-out refuses to open a display window. This is the only program which

RE: autoconf/configure problem on text mounts

2008-08-10 Thread Dave Korn
lemkemch wrote on 10 August 2008 18:46: > I am not familar enough with autoconf to be able to tell how that line > gets into configure. I can't find it in configure.in. All I can see is > stuff like AH_VERBATIM([HAVE_UINT64_T] and AC_CHECK_TYPES([uint8_t, > int8_t, uint16_t, int16_t, uint32_t, i

autoconf/configure problem on text mounts

2008-08-10 Thread lemkemch
There seems to be a problem with autoconf generated scripts when running the resulting configure on a text mount. I came across this when trying to compile lame: checking for int64_t... yes configure: error: CHECK_TYPE_uint32_t - please report to lame-dev lists.sourceforge.net I tracke

Re: managed mount and move directory.

2008-08-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 07:44:07AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 8/7/2008 10:27 PM: > | On 08/08/2008, SungHyun Nam wrote: > |> If a directory contains filename whose name includes capital > |> letter, I cannot mov

Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

2008-08-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:54:52PM +0400, Andry wrote: >>On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 01:31:54AM +0400, Andry wrote: So, in other >>words, you redescribing the problem that has already been identified. >>You just wanted to spend a paragraph getting your kick in. >I describing a set of problems. > >>And,

Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

2008-08-10 Thread Andry
Hello cygwin, > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 01:31:54AM +0400, Andry wrote: >So, in other words, you redescribing the problem that has already been >identified. You just wanted to spend a paragraph getting your kick in. I describing a set of problems. >And, unless the packages are doing something od

Re: managed mount and move directory.

2008-08-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 8/7/2008 10:27 PM: | On 08/08/2008, SungHyun Nam wrote: |> If a directory contains filename whose name includes capital |> letter, I cannot move the directory correctly from non-managed |> filesystem to the managed

RE: "fatal error - couldn't allocate heap" after spyware issue

2008-08-10 Thread Dave Korn
Redd Vinylene wrote on 10 August 2008 14:10: > I just had this spyware issue (Antivirus XP 2008), so I installed an > antivirus tool (NOD32) and an antispyware tool (Spyware Doctor). > > Now I can't use cygwin. Some other programs have stopped working too: > > 554 [main] ? (8716) C:\cygwin\bin\b

Re: "fatal error - couldn't allocate heap" after spyware issue

2008-08-10 Thread Albrecht Schlosser
Redd Vinylene wrote: I just had this spyware issue (Antivirus XP 2008), so I installed an antivirus tool (NOD32) and an antispyware tool (Spyware Doctor). Now I can't use cygwin. Some other programs have stopped working too: 554 [main] ? (8716) C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn

Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

2008-08-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE - redirecting to the list According to Albrecht Schlosser on 8/9/2008 7:24 PM: |> | And, additionally, no postinstall is run until after all the tarballs |> | have been unpacked, so making bash be postinstall-less

"fatal error - couldn't allocate heap" after spyware issue

2008-08-10 Thread Redd Vinylene
I just had this spyware issue (Antivirus XP 2008), so I installed an antivirus tool (NOD32) and an antispyware tool (Spyware Doctor). Now I can't use cygwin. Some other programs have stopped working too: 554 [main] ? (8716) C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 e

RE: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

2008-08-10 Thread Jay
[again as plain text] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: cygwin@cygwin.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126" > Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:35:51 + > > [B] From: b

Re: I have installed cygwin under GNU/Linux + Wine, but the file i/o is so slow.

2008-08-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
eric zhao, le Sun 10 Aug 2008 09:14:10 +0800, a écrit : > After install cygwin under wine, > I try to run "tar -xvf linux-2.6.25.7.tar.bz2". > It spent about 20 minutes. > > How to improve the file i/o performance? Errr, by not piling software emulation layers? :) Seriously, why do you need to do

Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"

2008-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 9 18:17, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Brian Dessent on 8/9/2008 3:30 PM: > | Dave Korn wrote: > | > |> The problem is that no matter whether bash or ash install /bin/sh, > |> terminfo is going to be installed first, and that means >