Re: [PACKAGING ERROR] libungif-devel and libXevie-devel reference nonexistant /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.la

2010-05-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2010-05-18 18:57, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: /usr/lib/libXevie.la and /usr/lib/libungif.la reference non existant /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.la in their dependency_libs line. This prevents for example pstoedit from linking. FWIW, these *were* correct at the time it was built, but libxcb-xlib (a priv

Re: A workaround for CTRL-C not working on Windows console apps in ptys

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Wells
Scott Wells hotmail.com> writes: > I'll keep playing with this but, assuming it works as it seems to, this > is great! Okay, scratch that...while the simple build seemed to be working properly when run through the shell script, I tried running a Swing-based sample program and CTRL-C killed the t

Re: A workaround for CTRL-C not working on Windows console apps in ptys

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Wells
Scott Wells hotmail.com> writes: > Hi. I'm a longtime cygwin user (since it was gnu-win32) who has struggled to > solve one particular long-standing disconnect between cygwin and native Win32 > command-line utilities, notably that unless you're using a cygwin shell from a > cmd.exe window (or to

RE: bash pwd returning windows style paths

2010-05-20 Thread Jon Beniston
> POSIX states that a shell is under no obligation to trust a PWD > inherited from the parent process, and that there are unspecified > results if you try to manually change PWD outside of the use of 'cd' > within the shell. Bash, in particular, merely checks whether the > current value of the inh

A workaround for CTRL-C not working on Windows console apps in ptys

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Wells
Hi. I'm a longtime cygwin user (since it was gnu-win32) who has struggled to solve one particular long-standing disconnect between cygwin and native Win32 command-line utilities, notably that unless you're using a cygwin shell from a cmd.exe window (or tools like Console2 that effectively co-opt t

Re: bash pwd returning windows style paths

2010-05-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/20/2010 02:58 PM, Jon Beniston wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get the linuxtools Eclipse autoconf plugin to work on Cygwin. > One problem I'm having is that a configure script (from newlib) is calling > pwd which is returning a Windows style path (e.g. c:/something), which > causes it to fai

bash pwd returning windows style paths

2010-05-20 Thread Jon Beniston
Hi, I'm trying to get the linuxtools Eclipse autoconf plugin to work on Cygwin. One problem I'm having is that a configure script (from newlib) is calling pwd which is returning a Windows style path (e.g. c:/something), which causes it to fail. This appears to be because Eclipse is setting the env

Re: sed doesn't like LANG= anymore

2010-05-20 Thread Andy Koppe
On Thursday, May 20, 2010, Thomas Wolff: > With LANG=anything-unknown, the charmap is set to ASCII, so it works (as > there is at least no multibyte character then). Anything above 0x7F is invalid with charset ASCII though (since 1.7.2). But perhaps sed skips the multibyte conversion functions wh

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cadaver-0.23.3-1: Command-line WebDAV client

2010-05-20 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'cadaver' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Updated to latest upstream release o Build for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 cadaver NEWS: === * Update to neon 0.29.1. CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubsc

Re: new mirror

2010-05-20 Thread James Miller
Hello Christopher, Thank you for the explanations! I wish I understood it in the very beginning... I hope the information about our new mirror will find or found the right person. James On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 05:31:16PM +0200, James

Re: ncurses problem with mvcur function

2010-05-20 Thread Joe Java
Hello Charles Thank you, the old game now compiles OK. Joe --- On Wed, 5/19/10, Charles Wilson wrote: From: Charles Wilson Subject: Re: ncurses problem with mvcur function To: "Cygwin Mailing List" Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 11:28 PM On 5/19/2010 9:09 PM, Joe Java wrote: > I have a

Re: new mirror

2010-05-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 05:31:16PM +0200, James Miller wrote: >You are absolutely right - I had to put my e-mail in plain text just >because I had to let the sourcemaster know the contact e-mail address >due to rules on the page about mirroring. On the other hand our mail >server is very good in sp

Re: sed doesn't like LANG= anymore

2010-05-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 20.05.2010 18:05, schrieb Andy Koppe: On Thursday, May 20, 2010, Jurriaan wrote: A very long sed script that's been working for ages (back from the 1.5 age) here has stopped working. It turned out sed doesn't like some strings anymore when environment variable LANG is empty. With LANG=AS

Re: LANG=ja_JP.Shift_JIS

2010-05-20 Thread Andy Koppe
On Thursday, May 20, 2010, rushojp wrote: > "LANG=ja_JP.Shift_JIS" does not work. > Only SJIS or CP932 support? Yep, and they're both Microsoft's slightly modified variant of standard Shift_JIS. The latter isn't suitable for Windows and Unix command line use because it maps the ASCII backslash cod

Re: LANG=ja_JP.Shift_JIS

2010-05-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 20.05.2010 15:26, schrieb rushojp: "LANG=ja_JP.Shift_JIS" does not work. Only SJIS or CP932 support? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.

Re: sed doesn't like LANG= anymore

2010-05-20 Thread Andy Koppe
On Thursday, May 20, 2010, Jurriaan wrote: > A very long sed script that's been working for ages (back from the 1.5 > age) here has stopped working. > > It turned out sed doesn't like some strings anymore when environment > variable LANG is empty. With LANG=ASCII, there are no problems. > > The act

Re: new mirror

2010-05-20 Thread James Miller
Hello Cliff, You are absolutely right - I had to put my e-mail in plain text just because I had to let the sourcemaster know the contact e-mail address due to rules on the page about mirroring. On the other hand our mail server is very good in spam filtering, so I don't think it will be a problem

Re: new mirror

2010-05-20 Thread Cliff Hones
Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I think it means you should email sourcemaster... > > ARGH. Please don't use raw email addresses in your messages. So far > sourcemaster has remained relatively spam-free. I'd like to keep it > that way. Oops - how silly of me - very sorry. So easy to overlook th

LANG=ja_JP.Shift_JIS

2010-05-20 Thread rushojp
"LANG=ja_JP.Shift_JIS" does not work. Only SJIS or CP932 support? -- 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: new mirror

2010-05-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:38:22PM +0100, Cliff Hones wrote: >James Miller wrote: > >> We have raised a new mirror available at >> http://cygwin.parentinginformed.com/ and physically located in Canada. >> The contact point for this mirror is me, James Miller at >> jmil...@parentinginformed.com. >>

Re: new mirror

2010-05-20 Thread James Miller
Hello Cliff, Thank you very much! I will try that one :) James On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Cliff Hones wrote: > James Miller wrote: > >> We have raised a new mirror available at >> http://cygwin.parentinginformed.com/ and physically located in Canada. >> The contact point for this mirror i

Re: new mirror

2010-05-20 Thread Cliff Hones
James Miller wrote: > We have raised a new mirror available at > http://cygwin.parentinginformed.com/ and physically located in Canada. > The contact point for this mirror is me, James Miller at > jmil...@parentinginformed.com. > > I am not sure whether it should got to this list or not - it is f

new mirror

2010-05-20 Thread James Miller
Hello, We have raised a new mirror available at http://cygwin.parentinginformed.com/ and physically located in Canada. The contact point for this mirror is me, James Miller at jmil...@parentinginformed.com. I am not sure whether it should got to this list or not - it is far from being evident bec

Re: sed doesn't like LANG= anymore

2010-05-20 Thread jurriaan
> A very long sed script that's been working for ages (back from the 1.5 > age) here has stopped working. > > It turned out sed doesn't like some strings anymore when environment > variable LANG is empty. With LANG=ASCII, there are no problems. > > sed -e"s/@a/ a/g;" > > where a is character 0xe

sed doesn't like LANG= anymore

2010-05-20 Thread Jurriaan
A very long sed script that's been working for ages (back from the 1.5 age) here has stopped working. It turned out sed doesn't like some strings anymore when environment variable LANG is empty. With LANG=ASCII, there are no problems. The actual text in the SED command is shown below as spaces, b

Re: Re: Cygwin enviroment !C:=

2010-05-20 Thread S . Baunack
Hello, I can only guess because I read just a few days ago this: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2010/05/06/10008132.aspx This is an interesting information. It seem that I see indeed so called hidden environmental variables of DOS! The are visible or not depending which way cygw