Re: setup messing up ntfs permissions

2010-05-10 Thread Vasya Pupkin
So, I guess there is now way to tell setup.exe to stop messing up NTFS permissions currently. May I ask to add such feature then? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe i

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-10 Thread Klaus Grue
On Mon, 10 May 2010, Steven Collins wrote: ... I'm not a fan of "cpm.exe" for two reasons. 1) ... 2) ... Good points "CygwinPackageManager.exe" communicates clearly what the program is without any further need of explanation. That is a good name. Simple is beautiful. Maybe one should also

Re: V1.7 can not use cursor or backspace within a shell

2010-05-10 Thread Andy Koppe
Matthias Meyer wrote: > cygwin 1.7.5 need, at least, the /usr/share/terminfo/63/cygwin file. > > cygwin 1.7.2, used by the actual copssh distribution, didn't need this file. Third-party Cygwin distributions like copssh aren't supported here. /usr/share/terminfo isn't used by the Cygwin DLL, so th

Re: rxvt : 1.5 vs. 1.7

2010-05-10 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/10/2010 3:18 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: >> My preferred ~/.Xdefaults ? > > That would mean linking against Xlib or reimplementing relevant parts > of the X resource system. Maybe not. rxvt itself does NOT use the Xlib code to read .Xdefaults; it has its own homegrown c

Re: ProcPS tools (top) and cygwin env

2010-05-10 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/10/2010 10:58 AM, Dave Korn wrote: > It looks like Digika is trying to make top run standalone by unpacking the > archive manually and adding a copy of the cygwin1 and cygncurses-8 DLLs. It's > unsurprising that it won't work without the other required parts of the cygwin > installation aro

Re: V1.7 can not use cursor or backspace within a shell

2010-05-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hello, The solution should not be far away ;-) cygwin 1.7.5 need, at least, the /usr/share/terminfo/63/cygwin file. cygwin 1.7.2, used by the actual copssh distribution, didn't need this file. Somebody knows: 1) what is the job of the other directories (41..78) below /usr/share/terminfo ? 2) has

Re: MS-DOS path warning with maven

2010-05-10 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 5/10/2010 3:11 PM, David Balažic wrote: > On 10 May 2010 20:52, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >> What's the output when you run the following? >> >> $ sh -x "$(which mvn)" -version > > I attached it. I don't see the Cygwin warning message in that output. What I did see in the output, though, tells me t

Re: MS-DOS path warning with maven

2010-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:11:33PM +0200, David Bala??ic wrote: >On 10 May 2010 20:52, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >> What's the output when you run the following? >> >> $ sh -x "$(which mvn)" -version > >I attached it. >Also the output of cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out Hmm. All of this time I thought

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-10 Thread Steven Collins
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 13:36, Klaus Grue <> wrote: > > In conclusion, I suggest a new term is invented such as the > Cygwin Package Manager (CPM) > or something like that. Then one could simply write > Cygwin Package Manager under the Cygwin icon and then explain in the text > that: > The Cygw

Re: MS-DOS path warning with maven

2010-05-10 Thread David Balažic
On 10 May 2010 20:52, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > The mvn script also sources /etc/mavenrc and ~/.mavenrc files if they > exist, so it's possible that what you're seeing is the result of > something running in one of them.  I noticed that the path in the I don't have these two files. David -- Problem

Re: MS-DOS path warning with maven

2010-05-10 Thread David Balažic
On 10 May 2010 20:52, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > What's the output when you run the following? > > $ sh -x "$(which mvn)" -version I attached it. Also the output of cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out Regards, David cygcheck.out Description: Binary data outwhich Description: Binary data -- Problem re

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-10 Thread Berthold Barth
Thanks again for all the input. This discussion will help me greatly in producing a design that all users, maintainers and visitors can identify with. Of course, the design can not be made by committee. So if anybody is in contact with either Chris or Corinna, I'd greatly appreciate if you could p

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-10 Thread David Eisner
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Klaus Grue wrote: > I liked the proposal of David Eisner (http://cygwin.codecamel.com/). At Just to clarify, I had nothing to do with that page. The credit goes to Brent Kerr. See the original message here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-03/msg00700.html

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-10 Thread Klaus Grue
It sounds nice that there is a movement to brush up the graphic design of the Cygwin web pages. I have used Cygwin for a couple of years, but on this list I am just a newcomer. I hope it is ok to leave a few comments which you *might* consider. I liked the proposal of David Eisner (http://cy

Re: rxvt : 1.5 vs. 1.7

2010-05-10 Thread Andy Koppe
Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: > On 2010.05.06 8:04, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> Always on the lookout for ways to improve mintty: what mintty >> shortcomings or rxvt features make you prefer rxvt? >> > My preferred ~/.Xdefaults ? That would mean linking against Xlib or reimplementing relevant parts of the

How do I purge old versions?

2010-05-10 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
I'd like to purge old versions of Cygwin packages that I have since updated. Is there an automated way to do this? Thanks - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: MS-DOS path warning with maven

2010-05-10 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 5/10/2010 12:59 PM, David Balažic wrote: > mvn -version also gives the message. > > > $ which -a java > /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/java > > > $ set | grep JAVA > JAVA_HOME='C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20' > > I'm not caiming there is somethng wrong with cygwin, jut find it > surprising

Re: V1.7 can not use cursor or backspace within a shell

2010-05-10 Thread Matthias Meyer
Andy Koppe wrote: > Matthias Meyer: >>> I'm stumped. I think 'cygcheck -svr' output is needed to >>> get any further. Please attach, not include it, and make sure you >>> delete any sensitive info from it first. >> >> see attachment :-) > > You've got Cygwin installed under 'C:/Program Files', wh

Re: MS-DOS path warning with maven

2010-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:59:53PM +0200, David Bala??ic wrote: >mvn -version also gives the message. > > >$ which -a java >/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/java > > >$ set | grep JAVA >JAVA_HOME='C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20' > >I'm not caiming there is somethng wrong with cygwin, jut find it >su

Re: MS-DOS path warning with maven

2010-05-10 Thread David Balažic
On 10 May 2010 16:44, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > On 5/10/2010 4:21 AM, David Balažic wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have cygwin 1.7.5 (up to date as of now) on Windows XP Pro SP3 and >> maven v 2.2.1. >> >> When I start mvn from a shell (I use mintty running bash): i get a warning: >> >> >> cygwin warning: >>  

Re: ProcPS tools (top) and cygwin env

2010-05-10 Thread A.R. Burgers
Even if not attempting to run stand-alone you may see this message. See here for what fixed this issue for me: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00838.html Teun Digika schreef: Can someone explain me why "top" from ProcPs package (ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/sourceware/cygwin/release/proc

Re: changing the VM size in cygwin.

2010-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10/05/2010 13:54, kulalking wrote: > We are running a server on cygwin (on windows 7 , 64 bit , 6 GB RAM ) > After that we tried to get the memory allocation limit, code is given in the > same link. > We are getting only 1596 MB. Unfortunately, Cygwin is only a 32-bit application, so even w

[ANNOUNCEMENT] updated: lftp-4.0.7-1

2010-05-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 4.0.7-1, is now available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release. It fixes a few bugs and adds a few new minor features. Please see http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html for the full changelog. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http/bittorre

Re: run_ctors

2010-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10/05/2010 10:00, Marco Atzeri wrote: > The program works fine, with minor source change, > except the capability to dynamically load dlls to > extend the functionality. > > From the backtrace I have the impression that the loaded > library msh3.dll has a access problem to a constructor > "T

Re: ProcPS tools (top) and cygwin env

2010-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 09/05/2010 18:31, René Berber wrote: > Digika wrote: > >> Can someone explain me why "top" from ProcPs package ... do not want to >> work? I gave him all depends (cygncurses-8.dll and cygwin1.dll) but >> everything I'm getting from it is an error: >> >> C:\Programs\gnutools\procps\usr\bin>t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1

2010-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:30:41AM -0600, Steven Collins wrote: >On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 04:22, Ken Brown <> wrote: >> If you run emacs in the cygwin console, be sure that your CYGWIN environment >> variable (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html) contains tty. > > >Not Found > >The r

Re: Error building PowerPC Toolchain with Crosstool-NG in Cygwin

2010-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 09/05/2010 18:08, Jeff Gilton wrote: > ]checking for gawk... (cached) gawk[ALL ]checking for jar... > no[ALL ]checking for fastjar... no[ALL ]checking for gjar... > gjar[ALL ]checking for zip... no[ALL ]checking for unzip... > /usr/bin/unzip[ALL ]Exception in t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1

2010-05-10 Thread Steven Collins
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 04:22, Ken Brown <> wrote: > If you run emacs in the cygwin console, be sure that your CYGWIN environment > variable (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html) contains tty. Not Found The requested URL /1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html was not found on this ser

Re: MS-DOS path warning with maven

2010-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:21:21AM +0200, David Bala??ic wrote: >Hi! > >I have cygwin 1.7.5 (up to date as of now) on Windows XP Pro SP3 and >maven v 2.2.1. > >When I start mvn from a shell (I use mintty running bash): i get a warning: > > >cygwin warning: > MS-DOS style path detected: F:\winsux\p

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-10 Thread mike marchywka
> As far as the current logo, it has served the project well but it > definitely looks dated. [3] It's basically a two-color unaliased > bitmap that harkens back to icons of 1980's and 1990's. My personal > preference for a new logo would be an evolution of the current design. > Ideally it would

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I've used Cygwin on and off for a few years now, and today while I was > on the site I thought how much a good, recognisable logo and graphic > design could do for Cygwin exposure. For one, more users also mean > more potential contributors, to the project itself and to compatible > software alik

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-10 Thread David Eisner
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Berthold Barth wrote: > PS: On the subject of relevance: Good design (visuals, workings, user > experience) is widely accepted to improve the users' perception of the > functionality. Beautiful things work better. Even if the new design I couldn't agree more, and

Re: Text editor with shell integration

2010-05-10 Thread Luc Hermitte
Hello, "Angelo Graziosi" wrote: > > "lood" wrote : > > Please, read this: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Hum ... I missed that. I was used to less stupid mirrors (and a lot of spam...) > > I have written cyg-wrapper.sh to answer this need. > > http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/#W

changing the VM size in cygwin.

2010-05-10 Thread kulalking
Hi All, We are running a server on cygwin (on windows 7 , 64 bit , 6 GB RAM ), it used to run fine with Linux environment. It is crashing on cygwin when client access the huge memory. We found on debugging that huge memory allocation causing the crash: _buf = new char[array_wid] where array_

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1

2010-05-10 Thread Ken Brown
New releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages are now available, 23.2-1, leaving 23.1-10 as previous. CYGWIN NOTES There is a known bug in the cygwin build of emacs, which affects emacs functions like display-time. See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README for details a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cppcheck-1.43-1

2010-05-10 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Version 1.43-1 of cppcheck has been uploaded, following the upstream release. cppcheck is a tool for static C/C++ code analysis. It tries to detect bugs that your C/C++ compiler don't see. The goal is no false positives. cppcheck is versatile. You can check non-standard code that includes variou

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: tesseract-ocr-2.04-1 et al

2010-05-10 Thread Reini Urban
tesseract-ocr, a command line ocr package, been added to the cygwin distribution. The Tesseract OCR engine was originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005 and Google has lead further development. The Tesseract OCR engine was one of the top 3 eng

MS-DOS path warning with maven

2010-05-10 Thread David Balažic
Hi! I have cygwin 1.7.5 (up to date as of now) on Windows XP Pro SP3 and maven v 2.2.1. When I start mvn from a shell (I use mintty running bash): i get a warning: cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: F:\winsux\prg\apache-maven-2.2.1/boot/ Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/f/w

run_ctors

2010-05-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
Hi Dave, I am trying to build a pure cygwin version of Freefem a C++ software for FEM analysis. http://www.freefem.org/ff++/ The program works fine, with minor source change, except the capability to dynamically load dlls to extend the functionality. From the backtrace I have the impression that