Re: Cygwin, symlinks, and wine

2009-08-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:31:11AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:52:26PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: >>Although it seems strange to run cygwin on top of wine, doing so would >>make it possible to run a lot of build scripts for windows apps >>unchanged, which would be very

Re: Cygwin, symlinks, and wine

2009-08-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:52:26PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: >Although it seems strange to run cygwin on top of wine, doing so would >make it possible to run a lot of build scripts for windows apps >unchanged, which would be very handy in verifying that wine works >properly (see http://wiki.winehq.or

Cygwin, symlinks, and wine

2009-08-27 Thread Dan Kegel
Although it seems strange to run cygwin on top of wine, doing so would make it possible to run a lot of build scripts for windows apps unchanged, which would be very handy in verifying that wine works properly (see http://wiki.winehq.org/UnitTestSuites ). The problem is, wine doesn't support the s

Re: Unable to use cpan

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Reini Urban wrote: 2009/8/20 Andrew DeFaria: Huh? It's not a permissions problem, it's a file naming problem. Removing the /home/p6258c/.cpan/modules to make this simpler, the error message is saying it is unable to rename 03modlist.data.*gz*.tmp3996 because there is no

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/27/2009 09:49 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Dexter_Michael wrote: I think you hit the nail on the head. Apparently yesterday when I entered the path /usr/bin/perl somewhere, Cygwin decided to create a perl directory and automatically put profile files into the directory it created. .bash_hist

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: I think you hit the nail on the head. Apparently yesterday when I entered the path /usr/bin/perl somewhere, Cygwin decided to create a perl directory and automatically put profile files into the directory it created. .bash_history .bash_profile .bashrc .inputrc W

Re: fresh install, tcsh problems

2009-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/27/2009 06:35 PM, Ken R. Dye wrote: On a recent fresh install of cygwin, I had problems with getting the tcsh shell to work. "if: Expression Syntax". I figured out to invoke it with -V to be verbose on the system scripts and found a issue with /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh having problems

fresh install, tcsh problems

2009-08-27 Thread Ken R. Dye
On a recent fresh install of cygwin, I had problems with getting the tcsh shell to work. "if: Expression Syntax". I figured out to invoke it with -V to be verbose on the system scripts and found a issue with /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh having problems with home directory names that have spaces

Re: Adding packages (was: mkfs.jffs2 support in CYGWIN)

2009-08-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:02:08PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Andy Koppe wrote: >>> How to install is here: >>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html >> >>I don't think it's terribly obvious that you simply need to run >>setup.exe again to add more packages after initial installation. This

Re: Adding packages (was: mkfs.jffs2 support in CYGWIN)

2009-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/27/2009 02:59 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: How to install is here: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html I don't think it's terribly obvious that you simply need to run setup.exe again to add more packages after initial installation. This is not a common thing to do with other installer

Re: Adding packages (was: mkfs.jffs2 support in CYGWIN)

2009-08-27 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Koppe wrote: >> How to install is here: >> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html > > I don't think it's terribly obvious that you simply need to run > setup.exe again to add more packages after initial installation. This > is not a common thing to do with other installers, and with s

Adding packages (was: mkfs.jffs2 support in CYGWIN)

2009-08-27 Thread Andy Koppe
> How to install is here: > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html I don't think it's terribly obvious that you simply need to run setup.exe again to add more packages after initial installation. This is not a common thing to do with other installers, and with some installers this might ev

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/27/2009 12:43 PM, Dexter_Michael wrote: Andrew, I think you hit the nail on the head. Apparently yesterday when I entered the path /usr/bin/perl somewhere, Cygwin decided to create a perl directory and automatically put profile files into the directory it created. Ah, of course. This c

RE: Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
Andrew, I think you hit the nail on the head. Apparently yesterday when I entered the path /usr/bin/perl somewhere, Cygwin decided to create a perl directory and automatically put profile files into the directory it created. .bash_history .bash_profile .bashrc .inputrc I moved the "perl" dire

RE: Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
Quoting Windows Style path names does work. -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:39 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: and...@defaria.com Subject: Re: Re: Changing HOME for PERL On Thu, Aug

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: Yes that is SolidState Perl on the C drive. Ah That'd be ActiveState, not SolidState. /usr/bin is in the front. That makes no sense but perhaps it's a clue. As Jeremy mentioned, which takes each PATH component and checks to see if there's a executable of that

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dexter Michael wrote: >> $ echo $PATH > > [...] > > Holy giant PATH, Batman! That's like 1800 characters long! Not that > that's necessarily a problem on its own... > > I'm curious about this bit: > > ...:"C:/Program Files/Common Files/EM

Re: Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dexter Michael wrote: > $ echo $PATH [...] Holy giant PATH, Batman! That's like 1800 characters long! Not that that's necessarily a problem on its own... I'm curious about this bit: ...:"C:/Program Files/Common Files/EMC":... Does quoting the Windows-style pa

Re: howto run /usr/bin/cygserver-config script?

2009-08-27 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Quoting "Neethling, Dirk Johan HOCHTIEF" : Hello, Sorry in adfvance I have a very basic question. In the documentation it sez: " Before you run Cygserver for the first time, you should run the /usr/bin/cygserver-config script once." Err, how do I do that since the file cygserver-config has no

howto run /usr/bin/cygserver-config script?

2009-08-27 Thread Neethling, Dirk Johan HOCHTIEF
Hello, Sorry in adfvance I have a very basic question. In the documentation it sez: " Before you run Cygserver for the first time, you should run the /usr/bin/cygserver-config script once." Err, how do I do that since the file cygserver-config has no ending, and which windows command do I use to

RE: Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
Yes that is SolidState Perl on the C drive. /usr/bin is in the front. dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin/perl $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/EMC/Centera/4_0/GlobalServices/lib:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/EMC/Centera/4_0/GlobalService s/bin:/cygdrive/c

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Jeremy Bopp
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: > It seems my Cygwin has attached itself to the PERL on my C drive and not > the cygwin Perl. How do I change that? Also debugger seemed to work > too. > > dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin > $ which perl > /cygdrive/c/PERL/BIN/perl > > dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin >

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: Hi Andrew, It seems my Cygwin has attached itself to the PERL on my C drive and not the cygwin Perl. How do I change that? Also debugger seemed to work too. dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin $ which perl /cygdrive/c/PERL/BIN/perl dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin $ whi

Re: man objdump: only-keep-debug error

2009-08-27 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: > Reini Urban wrote: >> Christopher, >> >> In man(1) page for objdump (latest binutils 1.7) the list for the >> only-keep-debug steps is below under the >> --subsystem which:major.minor section, and should be moved upwards to >> the only-keep-debug section. > > Thanks for the r

RE: Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
Hi Andrew, It seems my Cygwin has attached itself to the PERL on my C drive and not the cygwin Perl. How do I change that? Also debugger seemed to work too. dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin $ which perl /cygdrive/c/PERL/BIN/perl dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin $ which Perl /cygdrive/c/PERL/BIN/Per

RE: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
Ok Jeremy, Thanks for the information. Mike -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Bopp Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:53 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Changing HOME for PERL dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: > Befor

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: Before I go and end this thread can you tell me if the Perl.exe I have in Cygwin looks correct? I can cd /usr/bin and the Perl there is: dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin $ ls -la Perl.exe -rwxrwxrw-+ 1 dextem mkgroup-l-d 34304 Jul 19 2007 Perl.exe I am not seeing th

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Jeremy Bopp
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: > Before I go and end this thread can you tell me if the Perl.exe I have > in Cygwin looks correct? > > I can cd /usr/bin > and the Perl there is: > > dex...@usendexteml1c /usr/bin > $ ls -la Perl.exe > -rwxrwxrw-+ 1 dextem mkgroup-l-d 34304 Jul 19 2007 Perl.exe >

Re: man objdump: only-keep-debug error

2009-08-27 Thread Dave Korn
Reini Urban wrote: > Christopher, > > In man(1) page for objdump (latest binutils 1.7) the list for the > only-keep-debug steps is below under the > --subsystem which:major.minor section, and should be moved upwards to > the only-keep-debug section. Thanks for the report. The problem originat

RE: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
OK as you and Larry kindly suggest I will go back to basics and re-look at the problem report. Please know that I did read the Cygwin site carefully before submitting so as to not upset and to also respect the folks out here. Before I go and end this thread can you tell me if the Perl.exe I have

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Jeremy Bopp
dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: > Also the command od -c test1-mike.pl, shows \n ONLY throughout the file > excepts a couple sots near the end of the file. Do I need to worry > about those couple spots \n\n doubles appears. No, you don't need to worry about \n\n sequences. They just indicate that

Re: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/27/2009 09:04 AM, dexter_mich...@emc.com wrote: Also the command od -c test1-mike.pl, shows \n ONLY throughout the file excepts a couple sots near the end of the file. Do I need to worry about those couple spots \n\n doubles appears. No. Now when I run the file I am getting same e

RE: Changing HOME for PERL

2009-08-27 Thread Dexter_Michael
Ok passwd is using the original /cygdrive/h now I have removed the HOME user env variable from Windows. When I open Cygwin I am sitting in /cygdrive/h dex...@usendexteml1c ~ $ pwd /cygdrive/h I have run dos2unix on my file. I can verify this because now when I open the file in UltraEdit I get t

man objdump: only-keep-debug error

2009-08-27 Thread Reini Urban
Christopher, In man(1) page for objdump (latest binutils 1.7) the list for the only-keep-debug steps is below under the --subsystem which:major.minor section, and should be moved upwards to the only-keep-debug section. = --only-keep-debug Strip a fil

Re: BitDefender again

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Kairys
(3) http://www.f-prot.com Thanks for the suggestion... Seems some reviews give them low marks on detection rates: http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/RAP/RAP-quadrant-Feb-Aug09.jpg http://www.virus-centre.com/ ... and some low marks on features (19 out of 20): http://anti-virus-software-review.topt

Re: [1.7] On the problems of git and rsync

2009-08-27 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Karl, alias cygwin, wrote: Indeed, there are other applications that have failed for me, e.g. cvs. In my case, 'cvs' works, i.e. the only applications that I have to add to the exceptions, are rsync and git. Regarding rsync, it some times hangs, I have to CTRL-C it, then restart it and it wor

Re: R: mkfs.jffs2 support in CYGWIN

2009-08-27 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Gio 27/8/09, Rahanesh ha scritto: > Da: Rahanesh > Oggetto: Re: R: mkfs.jffs2 support in CYGWIN > A: cygwin cygwin.com > Data: Giovedì 27 agosto 2009, 06:49 > Hi , > > Thanks a lot for that reply!!! > > Which version of cygwin has that support? From where can i > download that version of c