Re: apr hangs with accept4 and cygwin snapshots

2010-07-16 Thread Refr Bruhl
uhh why then is it hanging? A new bug? - Original Message From: David Rothenberger To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Fri, July 16, 2010 4:08:01 PM Subject: Re: apr hangs with accept4 and cygwin snapshots On 7/16/2010 1:56 PM, Refr Bruhl wrote: > I am trying to compile apr-1.4.2 using cygw

Re: apr hangs with accept4 and cygwin snapshots

2010-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 02:25:48PM +0900, dhenman wrote: >I agree that the question (about why you want to ) should not be asked >and agree with rights and benefits of open source software. > >Rather than a seemingly condensending question, a simple factual >statement mentioning the existence of an

Re: apr hangs with accept4 and cygwin snapshots

2010-07-16 Thread dhenman
I agree that the question (about why you want to ) should not be asked and agree with rights and benefits of open source software. Rather than a seemingly condensending question, a simple factual statement mentioning the existence of an existing package (which can be some distance downstream)

Re: apr hangs with accept4 and cygwin snapshots

2010-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 02:25:49AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 16/07/2010 22:08, David Rothenberger wrote: >> On 7/16/2010 1:56 PM, Refr Bruhl wrote: >>> I am trying to compile apr-1.4.2 using cygwin >> >>Why? It's already part of the distribution. > >I don't think we should ever ask that questi

Re: apr hangs with accept4 and cygwin snapshots

2010-07-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16/07/2010 22:08, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 7/16/2010 1:56 PM, Refr Bruhl wrote: >> I am trying to compile apr-1.4.2 using cygwin > > Why? It's already part of the distribution. I don't think we should ever ask that question. It's essential to open-source that people be able to get th

Re: Win64 FS redirectors and Cygwin

2010-07-16 Thread JonY
On 7/17/2010 00:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It's a valid OS path. The unfortunate side effect of its virtuality is that it's not listed in a readdir call, so file completion doesn't work. However, there's a funny workaround. Just start an elevated bash: $ cd /cygdrive/c/Windows $ export

Re: Minimal setup to build apps from source?

2010-07-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 12:15 -0700, Monte Cabet wrote: > "xorg-server" and "xinit" aren't required, but only thing I got to work > with Cygwin. I have to be honest, I don't know how to use Git, CVS, or > even Subversion; but I know some things require them so I added them! > Gzip and Bzip2 are bo

Re: Minimal setup to build apps from source?

2010-07-16 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 7/16/2010 2:15 PM, Monte Cabet wrote: > "xorg-server" and "xinit" aren't required, but only thing I got to work > with Cygwin. I have to be honest, I don't know how to use Git, CVS, or > even Subversion; but I know some things require them so I added them! > Gzip and Bzip2 are both installed by

Re: apr hangs with accept4 and cygwin snapshots

2010-07-16 Thread David Rothenberger
On 7/16/2010 1:56 PM, Refr Bruhl wrote: > I am trying to compile apr-1.4.2 using cygwin Why? It's already part of the distribution. > My cygwin version is 1.7.5 > > I am running into the "hangs with accept4" encountered in cygwin 1.5 as > described here: > http://lists-archives.org/cygwin/5533

apr hangs with accept4 and cygwin snapshots

2010-07-16 Thread Refr Bruhl
Team I am trying to compile apr-1.4.2 using cygwin My cygwin version is 1.7.5 I am running into the "hangs with accept4" encountered in cygwin 1.5 as described here: http://lists-archives.org/cygwin/55337-configure-test-for-accept4-hangs.html It appears a patch was made and committed to CVS.

Re: runas, su, sudo

2010-07-16 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 15/07/2010 20:39, DePriest, Jason R. a écrit : On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Lukas Haase<> wrote: Hi, Is there any (working) way to change privileges in cygwin? Try this: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su It tells you to use s...@localhost but has a link to some m

Re: Minimal setup to build apps from source?

2010-07-16 Thread Monte Cabet
I know Cygwin is not Linux, it's the stepping stone bringing some of the finest programs made to a platform where games are still possible! Since struggling with Cygwin, I've learned a few things that would surely be useful in Linux. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FA

Re: Minimal setup to build apps from source?

2010-07-16 Thread Steven Collins
If you're looking to try out a Linux environment I'd recommend burning one of the Live CD variants of Linux (http://www.livecdlist.com/) and booting it. As has been said before on this list, Cygwin is not Linux, so using Cygwin to make decisions about Linux is most likely not going to be fair to yo

Re: Minimal setup to build apps from source?

2010-07-16 Thread Monte Cabet
"xorg-server" and "xinit" aren't required, but only thing I got to work with Cygwin. I have to be honest, I don't know how to use Git, CVS, or even Subversion; but I know some things require them so I added them! Gzip and Bzip2 are both installed by default (I didn't post the entire list as it'

Re: Minimal setup to build apps from source?

2010-07-16 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Monte Cabet <> wrote: > I always hear some applications thrown out there that you should have to > build software from source like gcc and vim, but is there a more complete > list of what is required? I built up somewhat of a list for myself to track > what I've ins

Re: Win64 FS redirectors and Cygwin

2010-07-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 16 18:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 16 23:15, JonY wrote: > > On 7/16/2010 23:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Jul 16 22:43, JonY wrote: > > >>Hi, > > >> > > >>While working with bash auto-completion in C:\Windows\System32, I > > >>noticed that win64 FS redirectors are not disabled

Re: Win64 FS redirectors and Cygwin

2010-07-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 16 23:15, JonY wrote: > On 7/16/2010 23:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jul 16 22:43, JonY wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>While working with bash auto-completion in C:\Windows\System32, I > >>noticed that win64 FS redirectors are not disabled. > >> > >>This caused some strangeness from the user p

Re: Win64 FS redirectors and Cygwin

2010-07-16 Thread JonY
On 7/16/2010 23:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 16 22:43, JonY wrote: Hi, While working with bash auto-completion in C:\Windows\System32, I noticed that win64 FS redirectors are not disabled. This caused some strangeness from the user perspective, but Cygwin is a normal Win32 program from W

Re: Win64 FS redirectors and Cygwin

2010-07-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 16 22:43, JonY wrote: > Hi, > > While working with bash auto-completion in C:\Windows\System32, I > noticed that win64 FS redirectors are not disabled. > > This caused some strangeness from the user perspective, but Cygwin > is a normal Win32 program from Window's perspective. > > Should

Win64 FS redirectors and Cygwin

2010-07-16 Thread JonY
Hi, While working with bash auto-completion in C:\Windows\System32, I noticed that win64 FS redirectors are not disabled. This caused some strangeness from the user perspective, but Cygwin is a normal Win32 program from Window's perspective. Should FS redirection be disabled for Cygwin? Or