Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

2009-05-06 Thread Frédéric Bron
Sorry, I did not see your previous post "TERM=rxvt-cygwin (X mode) termcap patch". You prefer to add an entry in termcap rather that altering the start menu shortcuts. Thanks, Frédéric -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob

Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

2009-05-06 Thread Frédéric Bron
> Also, are you using the shortcuts in /Cygwin/ that were > created automatically, or ones that you created yourself?  The > auto-created one for rxvt-x has this command line: > > C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/rxvt.exe -display 127.0.0.1:0 -tn > rxvt-cygwin -e /bin/bash --login > > The "-tn rx

Re: [1.5][gcc-3.4.4] python-2.5.4 distutils failed to compile c files

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Korn
Joe Pham wrote: >> Can you just tell windows python to use "gcc-3" in distutils instead >> of "gcc", and not have to munge your cygwin installation? > > Not through any command line parameters. I'd have to change the distutils > source. What about calling distutils.Ccompiler.set_executables(

Re: [1.5][gcc-3.4.4] python-2.5.4 distutils failed to compile c files

2009-05-06 Thread Joe Pham
>Can you just tell windows python to use "gcc-3" in distutils instead >of "gcc", and not have to munge your cygwin installation? Not through any command line parameters. I'd have to change the distutils source. -Joe Pham Click her

Re: [1.5][gcc-3.4.4] python-2.5.4 distutils failed to compile c files

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Korn
Joe Pham wrote: > Using non-cygwin python-2.5.4 ^^ > Apparently, distutils failed to locate the full path to gcc.exe > because /bin/gcc.exe is an s-link instead of a regular file Non-cygwin applications of course do not recognise nor follow Cygwin symlinks. > (os.path.isfile()

[1.5][gcc-3.4.4] python-2.5.4 distutils failed to compile c files

2009-05-06 Thread Joe Pham
Using non-cygwin python-2.5.4, distutils failed to compile c files and generated the following error message: error: command 'gcc' failed: No such file or directory Apparently, distutils failed to locate the full path to gcc.exe because /bin/gcc.exe is an s-link instead of a regular file (os.pa

TERM=rxvt-cygwin (X mode) termcap patch

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Wilson
As pointed out by Frédéric Bron, the default /etc/termcap installed by the termcap package does not contain an entry for the "X"-mode rxvt (TERM=rxvt-cygwin), while it does contain an entry for the native one (TERM=rxvt-cygwin-native). A patch is attached. The only difference between TERM=rxvt, r

Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Frédéric Bron wrote: > I have not defined HOME but I can confirm that rxvt is reading > .Xdefault as I use it to define the window size, colors, font size... > I have tried to add HOME in Windows env. var but it did not change > anything (either with a DOS path or a Cygwin path). You'd use a DOS

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygutils-1.4.0-1

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Cygutils is a collection of useful(?) tools for the cygwin platform. This is a feature enhancement release. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This is the first release from the cygwin-1.7-specific development branch (cygutils-1.4.0 will no longer compile on legacy versions of cygwin; it require

Re: [1.7] cygstart with non-ASCII arguments and UTF-8 locale don't work.

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Wilson
IWAMURO Motonori wrote: > cygstart with non-ASCII arguments and UTF-8 locale don't work on cygwin-1.7.0. > >> ls -l > total 1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 iwa None 7 Apr 28 00:22 αβγ.txt >> cygstart αβγ.txt > Unable to start 'C:\cygwin-1.7\tmp\αβγ.txt': The specified file was not found. Thanks for the patch. I

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Stephan Mueller
Dave Korn wrote: " Ken Brown wrote: " > On 5/6/2009 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: " >> This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, " >> version number is 2.617. " >> " >> This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a " >> search field, top-left in

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Warren Young
Corinna Vinschen wrote: This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a search field, Someone's getting a gold star for this, I hope? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

icu-3.8-5 patches

2009-05-06 Thread Ken Brown
I'm building a program (in cygwin-1.7) that comes with its own version of the icu library. I'd like to patch the source in the same way that cygwin's icu package does this. But there seems to be a packaging problem with the icu-3.8-5 source, so that I'm not sure exactly which patches should b

Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

2009-05-06 Thread Frédéric Bron
> As the default termcap already includes an entry for rxvt-cygwin-native > as a convenience for cygwin users, it should probably be updated to also > include an entry for rxvt-cygwin.  The three entries: rxvt, > rxvt-cygwin-native, rxvt-cygwin > differ only in their ACS (line draw) character stri

Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Frédéric Bron wrote: >>> rxvt-x -> TERM=rxvt-cygwin >>> rxvt-native -> TERM=rxvt-cygwin-native >> That's the problem. /etc/termcap has an entry for rxvt-cygwin-native, >> but not for rxvt-cygwin. What you want in that case is just >> TERM=rxvt. >> >> Not sure where the bug is. Either rxvt is set

Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

2009-05-06 Thread Frédéric Bron
>> rxvt-x -> TERM=rxvt-cygwin >> rxvt-native -> TERM=rxvt-cygwin-native > > That's the problem.  /etc/termcap has an entry for rxvt-cygwin-native, > but not for rxvt-cygwin.  What you want in that case is just > TERM=rxvt. > > Not sure where the bug is.  Either rxvt is setting TERM wrong, or you >

Re: Pyhton script to call another program

2009-05-06 Thread Václav Haisman
mcbenus wrote, On 6.5.2009 17:01: > Hi, > > I am trying to write a simple python script to manipulate files and call > other programs. I have a program installed (rocs) which I run using cygwin > (but is not in python). How can I run a python script and then call the > other program? > > For e

Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

2009-05-06 Thread Mark J. Reed
2009/5/6 Frédéric Bron: > rxvt-x -> TERM=rxvt-cygwin > rxvt-native -> TERM=rxvt-cygwin-native That's the problem. /etc/termcap has an entry for rxvt-cygwin-native, but not for rxvt-cygwin. What you want in that case is just TERM=rxvt. Not sure where the bug is. Either rxvt is setting TERM wron

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Korn
Thrall, Bryan wrote: > Sounds good to me. BTW, thanks to everyone who worked on the search > feature, it is very nice :) Yes, much kudos (and a gold star please?) are due to Andrew Punch for giving us this long-missed feature. > My only (minor) complaint is it lacks a button to clear its conten

Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

2009-05-06 Thread Frédéric Bron
> So you have $TERM set to something that the system doesn't recognize. > What does 'echo $TERM' return in each case (rxvt-x vs rxvt-native)? rxvt-x -> TERM=rxvt-cygwin rxvt-native -> TERM=rxvt-cygwin-native Frédéric -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

2009-05-06 Thread Mark J. Reed
2009/5/6 Frédéric Bron: > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional > -  (press RETURN) So you have $TERM set to something that the system doesn't recognize. What does 'echo $TERM' return in each case (rxvt-x vs rxvt-native)? --Mark J. Reed -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsub

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Dave Korn wrote on Wednesday, May 06, 2009 10:33 AM: > Ken Brown wrote: >> On 5/6/2009 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, version >>> number is 2.617. >>> >>> This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/6/2009 11:33 AM, Dave Korn wrote: Maybe it would suffice if we put some kind of visual indication in the chooser that there were excluded packages? Say we added a dummy entry at the end of the list that couldn't be clicked on and that just said [ ... more packages filtered out by sea

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Korn
Ken Brown wrote: > On 5/6/2009 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, >> version number is 2.617. >> >> This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a >> search field, top-left in the package selection window. >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/6/2009 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, version number is 2.617. This new installer adds the capability to search for package names in a search field, top-left in the package selection window. There's one potential pitfall

Pyhton script to call another program

2009-05-06 Thread mcbenus
Hi, I am trying to write a simple python script to manipulate files and call other programs. I have a program installed (rocs) which I run using cygwin (but is not in python). How can I run a python script and then call the other program? For example: Python Code # this line opens a file Pyt

Re: clone syscall

2009-05-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 6 15:43, T. Horsnell wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to use the clone() (as opposed to fork()) system call > under CYGWIN, but get the complaint that CLONE_VM is undefined. > > Is clone() a supported system function? No, and there are no plans to do that. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: clone syscall

2009-05-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:43:50PM +0100, T. Horsnell wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to use the clone() (as opposed to fork()) system call > under CYGWIN, but get the complaint that CLONE_VM is undefined. > > Is clone() a supported system function? No. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

clone syscall

2009-05-06 Thread T. Horsnell
Hi, I'm trying to use the clone() (as opposed to fork()) system call under CYGWIN, but get the complaint that CLONE_VM is undefined. Is clone() a supported system function? Cheers, Terry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/

Re: base-files (was: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47)

2009-05-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 6 14:54, John Morrison wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 2:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-47. > > > > What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-46 > > === > > > > - Never use HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH to construct a default

base-files (was: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47)

2009-05-06 Thread John Morrison
On Wed, May 6, 2009 2:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-47. > > What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-46 > === > > - Never use HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH to construct a default home directory for > the current user. The mechan

Re: New group alt.comp.cygwin available on usenet

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Koppe wrote: >> There is now a Cygwin related newsgroup alt.comp.cygwin on mainstream usenet >> for >> anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists. This group is available on usenet for >> access using a conventional newsreader. >> >> If this group is not listed on your usenet server, and you requir

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-47

2009-05-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-47. === IMPORTANT NOTE This -47 release is accompanied by a new setup-1.7.exe installer, version number is 2.617. This new installer adds t

WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

2009-05-06 Thread Frédéric Bron
when I want to use man (for example $ man ls), I get this error message (with 1.5 and 1.7): WARNING: terminal is not fully functional - (press RETURN) I am using rxvt-x. This does not happen with rxvt-native. Frédéric -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

Re: New group alt.comp.cygwin available on usenet

2009-05-06 Thread Andy Koppe
> There is now a Cygwin related newsgroup alt.comp.cygwin on mainstream usenet > for > anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists. This group is available on usenet for > access using a conventional newsreader. > > If this group is not listed on your usenet server, and you require access to > this group

New group alt.comp.cygwin available on usenet

2009-05-06 Thread Mark Hobley
There is now a Cygwin related newsgroup alt.comp.cygwin on mainstream usenet for anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists. This group is available on usenet for access using a conventional newsreader. If this group is not listed on your usenet server, and you require access to this group, you will pro