[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have just uploaded an updated GCC-4 package to cygwin.com. It will be arriving at your favourite mirror next time it synchronizes itself with the official Cygwin repository. With this release, the compiler moves out of experimental status and

Re: Cygwin 1.7 & mintty error - cannot run mintty more than once at a time

2009/9/29 David Antliff: > I've been using Cygwin 1.7 alongside Cygwin 1.5 quite happily for the > last few hours, however all-of-a-sudden when I try and run mintty > (from cygstart or from a cmd.exe shell) I get a new window with this > error message: > > Failed to create child process: No such fi

Re: Re: Cygwin portable bash

ok, all apologies. I am familiar with mount, but if there is something extra special about how it works w/in cygwin I will check the Users Guide. I appreciate the direction, sorry I misunderstood (thought he was just telling me to 'man mount' and I felt that would be a waste of time since I am

Cygwin 1.7 & mintty error - cannot run mintty more than once at a time

I've been using Cygwin 1.7 alongside Cygwin 1.5 quite happily for the last few hours, however all-of-a-sudden when I try and run mintty (from cygstart or from a cmd.exe shell) I get a new window with this error message: Failed to create child process: No such file or directory Hitting "enter" mak

Re: The C locale

2009/9/28 Corinna Vinschen >> My conclusion is as follows as a result of hearing other Japanese >> people's opinion: >> >> LANG=ja -> UTF-8 >> LANG=ja_JP -> UTF-8 >> >> Because, we specify "eucJP" explicitly when we need it. > > Hmm. > > That's an interesting point. > > In theory this sounds like a

Re: The C locale

2009/9/29 wynfield: > > Though I'm not an up on the details involved here, I will give > you feedback to the request for information about the locale issue, because > it affects the quick accessability and usage of Japanese language documents. > > Either of the two follow values would be acceptabl

Apache2 on Cygwin 1.7 does not start (cygserver is running)

Today I was able to get Apache2 running on Cygwin *1.5* using these instructions: http://www.issociate.de/board/goto/895433/apache2_does_not_start_in_cygwin.html The "CYGWIN=server" variable was critical. I now have Cygwin 1.7 installed side-by-side with 1.5, and as far as I can tell, the two do

Re: Compiling id3v2

On 26/09/2009 20:35, drbob wrote: I've been trying to compile the id3v2 utility in cygwin. I downloaded, compiled and installed libid3 with no issues. Actually, your issue is id3lib, see below. My first attempt to compile id3v2

Re: Num lines in dirs: C:\cygwin\bin = 1152 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin = 289 WHY SO FEW?

On 09/28/2009 10:31 PM, Chris Cormie wrote: I don't think you are doing anything wrong David. setup-1.7.exe appears to default to just the Base category packages. The 1.5 setup.exe selects many more packages outside the Base category by default and that's the difference you are seeing. There sh

Re: Num lines in dirs: C:\cygwin\bin = 1152 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin = 289 WHY SO FEW?

David Combs wrote: I just now installed 1.7. Where *is* everything? bin has 289 files, whereas the non-beta has 1152. So, just how "beta" is 1.7. "Alpha"? Or am I missing something, eg there's still lots more for me to install "by hand"? Oh, someone tell me how to find the version numb

Re: Installing 1.7 alongside 1.5 - can it be done safely?

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 14:08, Chris Cormie wrote: > I followed this sage advice and so far my parallel 1.5 / 1.7 installs are > not interfering with each other. Thanks Chris, and DaveK. I shall proceed with caution :) -- David. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Installing 1.7 alongside 1.5 - can it be done safely?

David Antliff wrote: > I have found some serious issues with Cygwin 1.5 that I want to test > against in the 1.7 beta, before I commit to abandoning 1.5. > > Is it possible to install Cygwin 1.7 on the same PC/filesystem as > Cygwin 1.5, yet maintain absolute independence between the two > version

Re: gcc 4.3.2 rethrow exception

zevel12 wrote: > Dave Korn-6 wrote: >> It's always best to use the proper language driver for compiling C++ >> instead >> of adding -lstdc++ to the C compiler command-line, in fact it's not a >> supported mode of operation > It did indeed fix the problem. As an added note, I also had to use g

Re: Installing 1.7 alongside 1.5 - can it be done safely?

David Antliff wrote: > I have found some serious issues with Cygwin 1.5 that I want to test > against in the 1.7 beta, before I commit to abandoning 1.5. > > Is it possible to install Cygwin 1.7 on the same PC/filesystem as > Cygwin 1.5, yet maintain absolute independence between the two > version

Re: cygwin can't find any path data after Vista Service Pack 2 upgrade

On 09/28/2009 07:48 PM, John simmons wrote: Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec) UID: 400(strannik) GID: 401(mkpasswd) 401(mkpasswd) What does your '/etc' directory look like? It would appear that you either: a. Don't have access to it anymore (or key files like '/etc/passwd' and '/e

Re: The C locale

Though I'm not an up on the details involved here, I will give you feedback to the request for information about the locale issue, because it affects the quick accessability and usage of Japanese language documents. Either of the two follow values would be acceptable, but I feel that the UTF-8

Re: cygwin can't find any path data after Vista Service Pack 2 upgrade

On 09/28/2009 06:12 PM, John simmons wrote: Shortly after updating vista to service pack 2, Cygwin broke. It can't find anything. The bash shell launches to /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin. No commands work, except for pwd and cd. If I invoke env by ./env (the only way it works) I get:

Installing 1.7 alongside 1.5 - can it be done safely?

I have found some serious issues with Cygwin 1.5 that I want to test against in the 1.7 beta, before I commit to abandoning 1.5. Is it possible to install Cygwin 1.7 on the same PC/filesystem as Cygwin 1.5, yet maintain absolute independence between the two versions? I don't want the 1.7 install

Re: ls / does not show /c with cygdrive prefix=/

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Mikel Ward wrote: > > If I use a standard install with the cygdrive prefix as /cygdrive, the > > drive letters appear in a directory listing: > > > > $ ls /cygdrive > > c d w > > > > But if I change cygdrive to /, they don't: > > > > Is there any way to make /c, etc. ap

Re: cygwin can't find any path data after Vista Service Pack 2 upgrade

On 09/28/2009 06:12 PM, John simmons wrote: Shortly after updating vista to service pack 2, Cygwin broke. It can't find anything. The bash shell launches to /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin. No commands work, except for pwd and cd. If I invoke env by ./env (the only way it works) I get: I tried a com

Re: Num lines in dirs: C:\cygwin\bin = 1152 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin = 289 WHY SO FEW?

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, David Combs <> wrote: > I just now installed 1.7. > > Where *is* everything? > > bin has 289 files, whereas the non-beta has 1152. > > > > > > So, just how "beta" is 1.7.  "Alpha"? > > Or am I missing something, eg there's still lots more > for me to install "by han

cygwin can't find any path data after Vista Service Pack 2 upgrade

Shortly after updating vista to service pack 2, Cygwin broke. It can't find anything. The bash shell launches to /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin. No commands work, except for pwd and cd. If I invoke env by ./env (the only way it works) I get: bash-3.2$ ./env HOMEPATH=\Users\strannik APPDATA=C:\Users

Num lines in dirs: C:\cygwin\bin = 1152 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin = 289 WHY SO FEW?

I just now installed 1.7. Where *is* everything? bin has 289 files, whereas the non-beta has 1152. So, just how "beta" is 1.7. "Alpha"? Or am I missing something, eg there's still lots more for me to install "by hand"? Oh, someone tell me how to find the version number of a cygwin, and I

RESOLVED: Dynamic disk volume question

In order to reference raw dynamic disk partitions I had to do the following. This only works under XP. Under Windows 7 it appears that the HarddiskDmVolumes no longer exists and I could not find its equivalent. - Map a drive letter to the dynamic disk volume of interest (I recommend you use dis

Re: ftp from Win98 in command-only mode?

On 09/28/2009 03:33 PM, I wrote: > If I call Win98's ftp from command-prompt only mode, I get > >This program cannot be run in DOS mode. On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:23:50 +0200, r.liebsc...@gmx.de replied: > Win98 in command-prompt only mode is a pure DOS, so you need a DOS ftp > client. > > Maybe

Re: ftp from Win98 in command-only mode?

Larry Hall (Cygwin) schrieb: > On 09/28/2009 03:33 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: >> If I call Win98's ftp from command-prompt only mode, I get >> >>This program cannot be run in DOS mode. > > OK, I misunderstood what you meant. Cygwin expects Windows > rather than DOS. > Win98 in command-prompt only

Re: gcc 4.3.2 rethrow exception

Dave Korn-6 wrote: > > zevel12 wrote: >> Rethrowing an exception in Cygwin's gcc 4.3.2 causes an abort. This works >> with gcc 3.4.4 and in Linux with gcc 4. Below is an example that is >> compiled >> as: gcc rethrow.cpp -lstdc++. > > This could be a "Well, don't do that then" situation. I

Cygwin Set up - Migrate to new machine

I am building a new laptop and was wondering if there was a way I could copy some ini or setup file from cygwin to the new one so that the cygwin installer would install the same packages as opposed to having to go through and tweak the install to get it the way I want it again. Thanks. Kevin --

Re: ftp from Win98 in command-only mode?

On 09/28/2009 03:33 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: If I call Win98's ftp from command-prompt only mode, I get This program cannot be run in DOS mode. OK, I misunderstood what you meant. Cygwin expects Windows rather than DOS. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Part

Re: ftp from Win98 in command-only mode?

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:11:25 -0400, I wrote: > I need an ftp client that runs on an Intel x86 machine running Win98 SE that > has been booted into mode 5 ("Command prompt only"). Can cygwin provide > this? On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:15:45 -0400, Larry Hall replied: > I expect that the FTP client th

Re: Lifespan of 1.5

On 09/28/2009 03:21 PM, Murphy, John wrote: After 1.7 is released what are the long term plans for 1.5? Just like with the 1.3.x series, the 1.5.x series will be unsupported once 1.7.1 is released. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc.

Lifespan of 1.5

After 1.7 is released what are the long term plans for 1.5? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: ftp from Win98 in command-only mode?

On 09/28/2009 03:11 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: I need an ftp client that runs on an Intel x86 machine running Win98 SE that has been booted into mode 5 ("Command prompt only"). Can cygwin provide this? This is on a lab data-acquisition machine with old D-to-A hardware and software that will only r

ftp from Win98 in command-only mode?

I need an ftp client that runs on an Intel x86 machine running Win98 SE that has been booted into mode 5 ("Command prompt only"). Can cygwin provide this? This is on a lab data-acquisition machine with old D-to-A hardware and software that will only run from Win98 booted into command-prompt mode.

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote: >Thank you very much for the anwser. In the package "psmisc", the > "tree" tool doesn't exists, only the tool "pstree". I have searched in > http://cygwin.com/packages/ for the tree tool, but it doesn't exists > in this link. pstree shows the "process tree" not a

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

Larry, Thank you very much for the anwser. In the package "psmisc", the "tree" tool doesn't exists, only the tool "pstree". I have searched in http://cygwin.com/packages/ for the tree tool, but it doesn't exists in this link. 2009/9/28 Larry Hall (Cygwin) : > On 09/28/2009 12:03 PM, Bruno Gal

Dynamic disk volume question

I'm running cygwin 1.7. I have two disks, both defined as dynamic disks under Windows. The first disk has two partitions, a regular 20GB partition and a second partition that is part of a "spanned volume" as part of the dynamic disk capability. The second disk has just one partition that is part

Re: Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin

On 9/25/2009 10:49 PM, Chris Cormie wrote: I updated Cygwin today via setup.exe and Subversion ceased working: $ svn status $ ie no output whatsoever regardless of what command is given to svn including --help. [snip] I hadn't updated for several months so a dozen or so packages were updated

Re: gcc 4.3.2 rethrow exception

zevel12 wrote: > Rethrowing an exception in Cygwin's gcc 4.3.2 causes an abort. This works > with gcc 3.4.4 and in Linux with gcc 4. Below is an example that is compiled > as: gcc rethrow.cpp -lstdc++. This could be a "Well, don't do that then" situation. I tried your testcase, but I compiled i

Re: XWin not working on vista?

On 09/28/2009 12:08 PM, Mike Eggleston wrote: I've been trying to get XWin to work on Vista without much success. This should be sent to the cygwin-xfree list. That list deals with issues specific to Cygwin-X. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc.

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

On 09/28/2009 12:03 PM, Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote: In which package of cygwin repository I can find and install the tree command? -- Larry Hall

Re: The C locale

On Sep 29 01:03, IWAMURO Motonori wrote: > 2009/9/27 IWAMURO Motonori : > >> LANG="ja" -> EUCJP > >> LANG="ja_JP" -> EUCJP > > > > Hmmm, It is a difficult problem. > > > > I think selecting UTF-8 is good because eucJP is legacy. > > > > But, for interoperability with other UNIX-like system(*), I do

XWin not working on vista?

Morning, I've been trying to get XWin to work on Vista without much success. As administrator I can start XWin (using startxwin.sh from a bash shell), but trying the same as a user, even a user with admin privileges (in the Administrator's group), XWin still does not start. When trying as a user I

Re: The C locale

2009/9/27 IWAMURO Motonori : >> LANG="ja" -> EUCJP >> LANG="ja_JP" -> EUCJP > > Hmmm, It is a difficult problem. > > I think selecting UTF-8 is good because eucJP is legacy. > > But, for interoperability with other UNIX-like system(*), I don't > think selecting UTF-8 is good. > > * Solaris: ja, ja_

Re: syslog-ng: some packaging glitches

On Sep 28 16:46, Julio Costa wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 17:36, Julio Emanuel <> wrote: > > Hi Corinna (I think this is with you), > > > > I've been struggling with a small (but deadly) problem in the current > > syslog-ng package: > > ~ $ cygcheck -c syslog-ng > > Cygwin Package Info

Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

Hi, In which package of cygwin repository I can find and install the tree command? -- Att. Bruno Galindro da Costa bruno.galin...@gmail.com Florianópolis - SC -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http:/

Re: syslog-ng: some packaging glitches

Hi, On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 17:36, Julio Emanuel <> wrote: > Hi Corinna (I think this is with you), > > I've been struggling with a small (but deadly) problem in the current > syslog-ng package: > ~ $ cygcheck -c syslog-ng > Cygwin Package Information > Package              Version        Status >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bzr 2.0.0 -- Python based distributed version control

Available both for Cygwin 1.5 and 1.7 PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Home page: http://bazaar-vcs.org/ License : GPL (Bzr is part of GNU project) Distributed version control that is used in projects like managing Ubuntu packages and it is one of the funded pro

Re: mailing list responses [Re: Console codepage setting via chcp?]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 01:30:17PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Sep 28 13:12, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> [meta-response, irrelevant for topic discussion] That's for sure. >> Corinna wrote: >> > Any reason you redirected your reply to the cygwin list? It doesn't >> > make much sense to disuss t

gcc 4.3.2 rethrow exception

Rethrowing an exception in Cygwin's gcc 4.3.2 causes an abort. This works with gcc 3.4.4 and in Linux with gcc 4. Below is an example that is compiled as: gcc rethrow.cpp -lstdc++. Any insights would be appreciated. -z --- #incl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: irssi-0.8.14-1

Version 0.8.14-1 of irssi has been uploaded. Irssi is a powerful terminal based IRC client. Changes from the previous release: - New mainstream version, http://irssi.org/news/ChangeLog - Filter out invalid characters from autolog file names If you have questions or comments, please send them to

does cygwin mutt work with gmail pop3?

Hi, >From what I could find on google there is an issue supporting the TOP command and indeed mutt complained when I tried. Suggestions? Thanks. -- marchy...@gmail.com Mike Marchywka 586 Saint James Walk Marietta GA 30067-7165 415-264-8477 (w)<- use this 404-788-1216 (C)<- leave message 989-348-

[1.7] Setup won't create local package directory?

On "Cygwin Setup - Select Local Package Directory", it says "The directory will be created if it does not already exist." But if I type in the name of a new folder (whose parent folder exists), and I get this error message: Could not change dir to [...full path...]: The system cannot find the fi

Re: ls / does not show /c with cygdrive prefix=/

On Sep 28 11:04, Mikel Ward wrote: > Hi All > > If I use a standard install with the cygdrive prefix as /cygdrive, the > drive letters appear in a directory listing: > > $ ls /cygdrive > c d w > > But if I change cygdrive to /, they don't: > > $ mount -c / > $ ls / > Cygwin.bat bindev

Re: mailing list responses [Re: Console codepage setting via chcp?]

On Sep 28 13:12, Thomas Wolff wrote: > [meta-response, irrelevant for topic discussion] > > > Corinna wrote: > > Any reason you redirected your reply to the cygwin list? It doesn't > > make much sense to disuss this in two lists and it's breaking the > > threading on the cygwin-developers list f

Re: ls / does not show /c with cygdrive prefix=/

Mikel Ward wrote: Hi All If I use a standard install with the cygdrive prefix as /cygdrive, the drive letters appear in a directory listing: $ ls /cygdrive c d w But if I change cygdrive to /, they don't: $ mount -c / $ ls / Cygwin.bat bindev home optsbin usr Cygwin.ico

mailing list responses [Re: Console codepage setting via chcp?]

[meta-response, irrelevant for topic discussion] Corinna wrote: > Any reason you redirected your reply to the cygwin list? It doesn't > make much sense to disuss this in two lists and it's breaking the > threading on the cygwin-developers list for no apparent reason. No, sorry, I had been cross-