Re: ./configure : no such file or directory

2008-08-20 Thread Tim Prince
noPartition wrote: hi everyone , I'm new to the forum , please don't rank me out :) I'm having trouble with part of the GNU toolchain , specifically 'configure' . I've installed the relevant packages , ie diffutils , but I still get the error titling this message . Most gnu packages come wi

./configure : no such file or directory

2008-08-20 Thread noPartition
hi everyone , I'm new to the forum , please don't rank me out :) I'm having trouble with part of the GNU toolchain , specifically 'configure' . I've installed the relevant packages , ie diffutils , but I still get the error titling this message . -- View this message in context: http://www.

Re: cygwin 1.7.0-28: Broken pipe signal broken?

2008-08-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 8/20/2008 10:07 AM: >> >> Unfortunately, this makes things worse: bash now exits silently on >> $(...) commands, so 'bash --login' fails. > > I think this is fixed now. I spent a lot of time trying to get this > to

Re: sssssh . . . qmail-send is listening

2008-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:29:52PM -0700, Stepp, Charles wrote: > >Using "xhost +" and setting your DISPLAY variable correctly >is...well...obvious, but that's my two cents. Here's my I'm marking this thread as off-topic. Move it to cygwin-xfree please. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: sssssh . . . qmail-send is listening

2008-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:55:11AM -0700, David M. Besonen wrote: >On 8/20/2008 11:32 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >> David M. Besonen wrote: >> >>> this is my second attempt at posting to this list. my prior >>> attempt was stuffed by qmail-send because of an off-topic >>> Subject: line. >>>

Re: sssssh . . . qmail-send is listening

2008-08-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
David M. Besonen wrote: On 8/20/2008 11:32 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: David M. Besonen wrote: sorry for posting to the wrong list but when i tried to subscribe to the cygwin-xfree list the ezmlm mailing list software decided i was a spammer and blocked my email address. i followed the

Re: Cygwin 1.7 on a FLASH Drive

2008-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 20:27, Dave Korn wrote: > Ralph Hempel wrote on 20 August 2008 20:19: > > > > Ooooh. This is nice. How does Cygiwn keep track of this link? Does > > it survive a reboot? > > Yeh, sure, it's a bog-standard softlink implemented using a windows .lnk > shortcut file just like any other

RE: sssssh . . . qmail-send is listening

2008-08-20 Thread Stepp, Charles
Using "xhost +" and setting your DISPLAY variable correctly is...well...obvious, but that's my two cents. Here's my C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat with REM's removed: @echo off SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin SET RUN=%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\run -p /usr/X11R6/bin SE

RE: Cygwin 1.7 on a FLASH Drive

2008-08-20 Thread Dave Korn
Ralph Hempel wrote on 20 August 2008 20:19: > Ooooh. This is nice. How does Cygiwn keep track of this link? Does > it survive a reboot? Yeh, sure, it's a bog-standard softlink implemented using a windows .lnk shortcut file just like any other made by cygwin's "ln" command. cheers,

Re: cygwin 1.7 message queues can't open more than 1 queue?

2008-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 11:02, Linh Phan wrote: > Hi Corina, > > can you give me a time frame when to expect the fix for the message > queues will be in and so that I can get it? Will it be a month? Will you > announce it on this mailling list? It's in -29. I don't announce new 1.7 test releases here, un

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.7-1

2008-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 14:59, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > In the long run, it would be cool if the script would be domain aware, > > of course, but there might be some tweaking of tools necessary before > > we can do that. > > Yes, but I'm afraid I will be completely at the mercy of PTC

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: jikes 1.22-2 -- Fast Java compiler adhering to language and VM specifications

2008-08-20 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jikes License : IBM Public License IBM's Java compiler (now Open Source) that translates Java source files as defined in The Java Language Specification (Addison-Wesley, 1996) into the bytecoded instruction set and

Re: Cygwin 1.7 on a FLASH Drive

2008-08-20 Thread Ralph Hempel
Dave Korn wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on 20 August 2008 19:22: Ralph Hempel wrote: Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory on a local hard drive to the cygwin /home/username/ directory? No, not across volumes. Huh? I must be misunderstanding what you mean here: / $ df

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.8-1

2008-08-20 Thread cygwin
csih (cygwin-service-installation-helper) provides a library of shell functions that can be used by other cygwin packages that provide servers and daemons. It can assist in various service installation tasks, such as: * identifying the underlying Windows OS * detecting whether a "privileged user"

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.7-1

2008-08-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 20 12:35, Charles Wilson wrote: >> csih_make_dir "${SYSCONFDIR}" >> - >> +chmod 755 "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/etc" || /bin/true >> + > > I guess that should have been > >chmod 755 "${SYSCONFDIR}" || /bin/true > Err, yeah... > I got two other problems:

Re: sssssh . . . qmail-send is listening

2008-08-20 Thread David M. Besonen
On 8/20/2008 11:32 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > David M. Besonen wrote: > >> this is my second attempt at posting to this list. my prior >> attempt was stuffed by qmail-send because of an off-topic >> Subject: line. >> >> the original Subject: that i needed to conceal: "x windows >> tips -

RE: Cygwin 1.7 on a FLASH Drive

2008-08-20 Thread Dave Korn
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on 20 August 2008 19:22: > Ralph Hempel wrote: >> Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory on a local >> hard drive to the cygwin /home/username/ directory? > > No, not across volumes. Huh? I must be misunderstanding what you mean here: / $ df . Filesyst

Re: Cygwin 1.7 on a FLASH Drive

2008-08-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Ralph Hempel wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Ralph Hempel wrote: Yes, I've read the FAQ on making Cygwin portable :-) I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in my HOME directory will be awfully slow. Why is that? C

Re: sssssh . . . qmail-send is listening

2008-08-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
David M. Besonen wrote: this is my second attempt at posting to this list. my prior attempt was stuffed by qmail-send because of an off-topic Subject: line. the original Subject: that i needed to conceal: "x windows tips - xfree list has me blocked" this is one tough mailing list configuratio

Re: Cygwin 1.7 on a FLASH Drive

2008-08-20 Thread Ralph Hempel
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Ralph Hempel wrote: Yes, I've read the FAQ on making Cygwin portable :-) I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in my HOME directory will be awfully slow. Why is that? Creating, wand writing

sssssh . . . qmail-send is listening

2008-08-20 Thread David M. Besonen
this is my second attempt at posting to this list. my prior attempt was stuffed by qmail-send because of an off-topic Subject: line. the original Subject: that i needed to conceal: "x windows tips - xfree list has me blocked" this is one tough mailing list configuration - how is one supposed to

Re: Cygwin 1.7 on a FLASH Drive

2008-08-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Ralph Hempel wrote: Yes, I've read the FAQ on making Cygwin portable :-) I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in my HOME directory will be awfully slow. Why is that? Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory

Re: No bash.exe in bin after "successful" installation

2008-08-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Monwhea Jeng wrote: Hi, I'm installing cygwin from downloaded files on my work computers (one running a fresh installation of Windows Vista, and the other running Windows Server 2003). I've downloaded all files for installing everything (not just the defaults). Setup claims a successful setup, a

Re: cygwin 1.7 message queues can't open more than 1 queue?

2008-08-20 Thread Linh Phan
Hi Corina, can you give me a time frame when to expect the fix for the message queues will be in and so that I can get it? Will it be a month? Will you announce it on this mailling list? Thanks again, Linh > Nothing. It's a bug in the DLL and while testing this, I found a > second one.

Cygwin 1.7 on a FLASH Drive

2008-08-20 Thread Ralph Hempel
Yes, I've read the FAQ on making Cygwin portable :-) I'd like to have a complete Cygwin environment on a FLASH drive, but of course using that drive to compile stuff in my HOME directory will be awfully slow. Is there a way to create a symlink of a directory on a local hard drive to the cygwin /

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.7-1

2008-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 12:35, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I would like to propose to do all the work in the csih script, like > > this: > > [...] > > csih_make_dir "${SYSCONFDIR}" > > chmod 755 "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/etc" >^ > I assume you mean "${SYSCO

No bash.exe in bin after "successful" installation

2008-08-20 Thread Monwhea Jeng
Hi, I'm installing cygwin from downloaded files on my work computers (one running a fresh installation of Windows Vista, and the other running Windows Server 2003). I've downloaded all files for installing everything (not just the defaults). Setup claims a successful setup, and the setup.log.full

Re: Local Package Installation Difficulties

2008-08-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Bueno, Denis wrote: Hi Cygwin-ers, First let me say Cygwin is great. ("Oh no," you think. "Another rant crudely self-justified by a thin, introductory compliment.") I promise, I've tried to make this email rant-less and useful to the cygwin community. Cygwin makes my Windows life bearable, e

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.7-1

2008-08-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I would like to propose to do all the work in the csih script, like > this: > > csih_make_dir "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/run" > chmod 1777 "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/run" > csih_make_dir "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log" > chmod 1777 "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log" > csih_make_dir "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/

Local Package Installation Difficulties

2008-08-20 Thread Bueno, Denis
Hi Cygwin-ers, First let me say Cygwin is great. ("Oh no," you think. "Another rant crudely self-justified by a thin, introductory compliment.") I promise, I've tried to make this email rant-less and useful to the cygwin community. Cygwin makes my Windows life bearable, even enjoyable. It is

Re: cygwin 1.7.0-28: Broken pipe signal broken?

2008-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 09:48:14AM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:00:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:55:20PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: >> >>Result on 1.5.25-15: >> >> >> >>$ ./testpipe | dd bs=1 count

Re: cygwin/mysql entering password, some characters plain text

2008-08-20 Thread brubble
William Finn-2 wrote: > > I just freshly installed cygwin along with a variety of other things. When > attempting to connect to mysql from within a cygwin bash shell, it goes > something like this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ mysql -uroot -p > Enter password: **ldk*jvjl* > ERROR 1045 (28000

SSH and reattaching screen

2008-08-20 Thread Derek Schrock
Is there a known problem with Cygwin's SSH and trying to reattach to screen sessions? This seems to be a random occurrence but while trying to reattach to a screen session screen will hang indefinitely. I'm using ssh on a Mac OS X 10.5.4 system to ssh into a Windows 2003 Cygwin installation. Usin

Re: Install runs fine, but Cygwin won't run

2008-08-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Claire Simpson wrote: Hi, The install seemed to run fine, no problems reported but when I run cygwin.bat, the window appears and then disappears immediately. Can anyone help? Start a command prompt from windows and run 'cygwin.bat' in it. This will give you some output that should help and ke

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pngcrush 1.6.7-1 -- Optimize PNG image files

2008-08-20 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush License : GPL An optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files. Its main purpose is to reduce the size of the PNG IDAT data stream by trying various compression levels and PNG filter methods. It also can b

Re: ggi terminal for gnuplot

2008-08-20 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Peter Rosin writes: > Ping. > It's been a while and vacations (or whatever) are over... Sorry I'm busy right now with other things, but I noticed your patch and will release an new gnuplot as soon as I find some time. > Cheers, > Peter Thanks Volker -- Unsubscribe info

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: git-1.6.0-1 [attn: tig maintainer]

2008-08-20 Thread Eric Blake
Eric Blake byu.net> writes: > NEWS: > = > This is a new upstream release. It moves most helper scripts (such as > git-add) out of /bin, so you should now use 'git add' rather than > 'git-add'. At least tig is impacted by this change; I'm now seeing the following: $ tig /bin/sh: git-config:

RE: cygrunsrv pause

2008-08-20 Thread Dave Korn
Unknown wrote on 20 August 2008 14:41: > Because I want to put the thread in suspend mode, instead of just > stopping and restarting. That's a problematical idea. What if the thread has just taken a critical system mutex when you suspend it? > I don't want the cron to start from the beginnin

Re: cygrunsrv pause

2008-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 06:41, Unknown wrote: > Because I want to put the thread in suspend mode, instead of just stopping > and restarting. I don't want the cron to start from the beginning. I'm not sure what the difference is, behaviour-wise, and I'm also not sure if cron doesn't choke on this (cron is known

Re: cygrunsrv pause

2008-08-20 Thread Unknown
Because I want to put the thread in suspend mode, instead of just stopping and restarting. I don't want the cron to start from the beginning. __ Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane with All new Yahoo! Mail:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.7-1

2008-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Chuck, On Aug 16 22:26, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna -- > > Attached see > > (1) bugfix for ssh-user-config -- self-explanatory. > > (2) behavior enhancement for ssh-host-config > > Takes advantage of new functions and cleans up behavior under 1.7 > -- esp. 'mount' doesn't have a -t op

Re: 1.7.0: File permissions: chmod u-x a.exe; chmod u+x a.exe says permission denied

2008-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 14:34, Oliver Wienand wrote: > Hi, > > I am having problems with file permission in Cygwin 1.7. The output of > gcc, i.e. a.exe, is not executable by default. Also after granting > full access to a file with ACL and removing the executable-bit with > chmod I can not set the executable-bi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: git-1.6.0-1, git{k,-gui,-completion}-1.6.0-1

2008-08-20 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A test package of a new release of git, 1.6.0-1, has been uploaded. git-1.5.6.4-1 remains current for a few more days, until it is verified that the new layout works. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. It moves most helper scripts (such as g

Install runs fine, but Cygwin won't run

2008-08-20 Thread Claire Simpson
Hi, The install seemed to run fine, no problems reported but when I run cygwin.bat, the window appears and then disappears immediately. Can anyone help? Thanks, Claire -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docum

Re: cygrunsrv pause

2008-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 12:14, Unknown wrote: > Hi, I need to pause and resume cron's, would this be an easy thing to add to > cygrunsrv? Thanks for the help. What's wrong with cygrunsrv -E cron cygrunsrv -S cron ? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cy