Thanks for noting this. Such an easy fix! It was driving me crazy. I had
installed MikTex just before upgrading so was wasting my time thinking it had
stomped something. -- Alex
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On 18 March 2011 16:48, ralf wrote:
> Eric Blake writes:
>> But you didn't need the setup.exe radio button to get the same effect,
>> instead, just change your mounts manually (/etc/fstab) to set the
>> text-mode mount flag on the subset of directories where it matters to you.
>
> In releases with
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:47:12PM -0400, David Boyce wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> On 3/18/2011 2:39 PM, Alex Khripin wrote:
>> If you're using a native Windows 'make' with a Cywgin shell, you're better
>> off making your tools consistent. ?Quoting mechanis
On 3/18/2011 11:47 PM, David Boyce wrote:
> From the README.W32 file in the source package:
>
>Good news! Make now has native support for Cygwin sh. To enable,
>define the HAVE_CYGWIN_SHELL in config.h and rebuild make
>from scratch. This version of make tested with B20.1 o
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 3/18/2011 2:39 PM, Alex Khripin wrote:
> If you're using a native Windows 'make' with a Cywgin shell, you're better
> off making your tools consistent. Quoting mechanisms for Windows do not
> align with those used by Cygwin/Linux/Uni
On 3/18/2011 2:45 PM, sclaussen wrote:
I have the precisely same problem - were you able to resolve this? I have
tried reinstalling, looked online for others w/a similar issue, but thus far
have run across no solution.
If you're using msysgit, you want to talk to Mingw folks.
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On 3/18/2011 2:39 PM, Alex Khripin wrote:
Hi,
Short summary: getting nested quotes in an argument through to a
Cygwin process from DOS is problematic, and there does not seem to be
any detailed spec for how to escape quotes correctly. Backslash
characters seem to be spuriously generated.
If yo
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 07:39:39PM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote:
>Le 18 mars 2011 ? 19:02, Christopher Faylor a ?crit :
>>Or, are you saying that you still see failures when setting the buffer
>>size down to 64K?
>
>With a buffer 64k all is fine. With a buffer 31*1024*1024, that's
>different. It
Version 4.0-6 of base-files has been uploaded.
Base-files is a set of system configuration and setup files.
Change Log
--
4.0-6
* Re-corrected PRINTER setting.
* Dropped non-POSIX tests in /etc/profile - Eric Blake
* Dropped user's homedir ownership test.
*** CY
I have the precisely same problem - were you able to resolve this? I have
tried reinstalling, looked online for others w/a similar issue, but thus far
have run across no solution.
Thanks!
mearrex wrote:
>
> In my cygwin installation, I cannot seem to use github.com. However, here
> are the pr
Hi,
Short summary: getting nested quotes in an argument through to a
Cygwin process from DOS is problematic, and there does not seem to be
any detailed spec for how to escape quotes correctly. Backslash
characters seem to be spuriously generated.
I'm working on a build system (GNU make, Windows b
Le 18 mars 2011 à 19:02, Christopher Faylor a écrit :
Or, are you saying that you still see failures when setting the buffer
size down to 64K?
With a buffer 64k all is fine.
With a buffer 31*1024*1024, that's different. It seems that
all pipes open at the same time add their buffers up to an
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:43:40PM +0100, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote:
>This follows http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00563.html
>
>> Maybe it has something to do with the nonpaged pool size? MSDN states:
>>
>> "Every time a named pipe is created, the system creates the inbound
>> and/or outbou
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:41:49PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 18 March 2011 16:23, David Sastre wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:17:14PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
> >> On 18 March 2011 13:46, David Sastre wrote:
> >> > All [[, have been changed to a portable [ test.
> >> > I've changed `test
Eric Blake redhat.com> writes:
>
> On 03/18/2011 10:00 AM, ralf wrote:
> >
> > During setup of cygwin you could choose between UNIX ending und DOS ending.
>
> Which was a bug in the GUI for offering it in the first place, because
> it basically set the text-mode mount flag on every single dire
This follows http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00563.html
Maybe it has something to do with the nonpaged pool size? MSDN states:
"Every time a named pipe is created, the system creates the inbound
and/or outbound buffers using nonpaged pool, which is the physical
memory used by the k
On 18 March 2011 16:23, David Sastre wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:17:14PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> On 18 March 2011 13:46, David Sastre wrote:
>> > All [[, have been changed to a portable [ test.
>> > I've changed `test -a' for a portable `test -e', and the -a operator
>> > in the user's
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:14:09AM -0500, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> While you're at it, it would probably be a good idea to:
> $ unset p
> when you're done with it.
Indeed. Already applied. In fact, there was another one (fDest, used in a
loop to copy skel files).
Thanks.
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Huella de clave pri
This follows http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00549.html
You say "change it back" as if that was the only change. It wasn't.
The meaning changed in recent snapshots.
In fact, i created a snapshot 20110313++, where the only change wrt 20110313
was to replace 31*1024*1024 with PREFERRED_IO
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:17:14PM +, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 18 March 2011 13:46, David Sastre wrote:
> > All [[, have been changed to a portable [ test.
> > I've changed `test -a' for a portable `test -e', and the -a operator
> > in the user's home ownership test to a chained test:
> >
> > eli
On 03/18/2011 10:00 AM, ralf wrote:
> Eric Blake redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> On 03/18/2011 09:11 AM, ralf wrote:
>>> I can not understand why this feature has been dropped.
>>
>> What feature? Cygwin was designed with POSIX pathnames in mind. If DOS
>> pathnames work, it is a fortunate side-effec
On Mar 18 12:03, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote:
> This message follows http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00539.html
>
>
> Both system are
> Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3.
>
> The system that produces the "File too large" error is:
> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU
> E6850
From: David Sastre
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:46:26AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> >
> > Le 17/03/2011 23:43, Angelo Graziosi a écrit :
> >
> > >p='/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows
> > >NT/CurrentVersion/Windows/Device'
> > >
> > >[ -e "${p}" ] && read -r PRINTER < "
Marc Girod wrote:
>
> Still reading...
>
Actually... in my very simple case, running:
/usr/bin/cron-config
and accepting the defaults (recording my own password) was enough to get
cron the work...
$ cygrunsrv -L
cron
$ crontab ~/cron/mg
$ crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master
Eric Blake redhat.com> writes:
>
> On 03/18/2011 09:11 AM, ralf wrote:
> > I can not understand why this feature has been dropped.
>
> What feature? Cygwin was designed with POSIX pathnames in mind. If DOS
> pathnames work, it is a fortunate side-effect, but not the primary
> design goal, and
Larry W. Virden-2 wrote:
>
> If you find a sequence of steps that gets it working correctly, please
> let me know.
Not yet... but found some doc I had missed:
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-59.README
as part of the cron package (I looked at the crontab one so far...).
This sends me to:
http://
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:22:01AM -0700, Marc Girod wrote:
> /etc/profile: line 39: ${p}: ambiguous redirect
> It sounds ${p} should be quoted to take care of possible spaces in the path
> to the Windows device:
Thanks for reporting.
A fix is on its way. See
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/m
On Mar 18 10:56, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 03:40:48PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Mar 18 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Mar 18 02:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:47:04AM +, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> > >On 11/03/2011 13:53, R
On 3/18/2011 10:28, Tod wrote:
> I'm going to be migrating to win7 in a few weeks. When I do I'll be
> logging in with a different userid. What's the best way to migrate my
> existing install and home dir to the new userid?
My recommendation is that you back up only your Cygwin home directory
co
I'm going to be migrating to win7 in a few weeks. When I do I'll be
logging in with a different userid. What's the best way to migrate my
existing install and home dir to the new userid?
Thanks - Tod
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Hi,
Just upgraded, and got a new glitch:
/etc/profile: line 39: ${p}: ambiguous redirect
It sounds ${p} should be quoted to take care of possible spaces in the path
to the Windows device:
# Define default printer
p='/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows
NT/CurrentVersion/W
On 03/18/2011 09:11 AM, ralf wrote:
> I can not understand why this feature has been dropped.
What feature? Cygwin was designed with POSIX pathnames in mind. If DOS
pathnames work, it is a fortunate side-effect, but not the primary
design goal, and not subject to stay the same in future release
Eric Blake redhat.com> writes:
>
> On 03/18/2011 01:43 AM, Ralf wrote:
> > I'm using cygwin under windows to change text-files with windows
line-endings
> > (CR and LF). I wrote a lot of shell-scripts which call each other. The
> > filenames in those scripts are sometimes given als windows fi
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 03:40:48PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mar 18 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Mar 18 02:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:47:04AM +, Dave Korn wrote:
>> > >On 11/03/2011 13:53, Rainer Emrich wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> I have to be more
On Mar 18 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 18 02:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:47:04AM +, Dave Korn wrote:
> > >On 11/03/2011 13:53, Rainer Emrich wrote:
> > >
> > >> I have to be more clear. I increased the heap_chunk_in_mb to 1792 using:
> > >> regtool -i
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:25:38AM +0100, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Please consider http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00436.html
I read it. I hadn't had time to look into it.
>In fhandler.h i changed DEFAULT_PIPEBUFSIZE back to contain
>PREFERRED_IO_BLKSIZE (instead of 31*1024*1024)
On 18 March 2011 13:46, David Sastre wrote:
> All [[, have been changed to a portable [ test.
> I've changed `test -a' for a portable `test -e', and the -a operator
> in the user's home ownership test to a chained test:
>
> elif [ ! -O "${HOME}" ] && [ "${HOME#/home/}" != "${HOME}" ]; then ...
Eve
On 03/18/2011 01:43 AM, Ralf wrote:
> I'm using cygwin under windows to change text-files with windows line-endings
> (CR and LF). I wrote a lot of shell-scripts which call each other. The
> filenames in those scripts are sometimes given als windows filenames (e.g.
> c:\temp\file.txt) sometimes
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:46:26AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>
> Le 17/03/2011 23:43, Angelo Graziosi a écrit :
>
> >p='/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows
> >NT/CurrentVersion/Windows/Device'
> >
> >[ -e "${p}" ] && read -r PRINTER < "${p}" && PRINTER=${PRINTER%%,*}
>
On 3/18/2011 5:06 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> BTW, I wonder if we can begin mitigating (2) by not shipping the .la
> files with GCC. This would stop those paths from being hardcoded into
> other .la files, so that eventually only the libtool scripts will need
> to be fixed.
Yes, please. I thi
On 3/18/2011 2:47 AM, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> I will create a branch for cygwin. I think that for temporary and
> redundant options it may be better to silently accept them and not
> document them.
We are still not communicating.
I do NOT propose that the new options -- whether you call the r
> From: David Sastre
> Please test if
>
> [ -e "${p}" ] && read -r PRINTER < "${p}" && PRINTER=${PRINTER%%,*}
>
> works as expected.
No, it doesn't work, probably due to bash subshell or something,
as separating the final assignment from the command line *does*
work:
$ [ -e "${p}" ] && read -r
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Marc Girod wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I tried to install cron locally on my laptop, and could not find
> instructions to proceed.
I understand. I tried so many different things trying to get this to
work a year or two ago and never was successful in getting it to work.
I
This message follows http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00539.html
Both system are
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3.
The system that produces the "File too large" error is:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU
E6850 @ 3.00GHz
3.00 GHz, 3.48 GB of RAM
The system where i'm
On Mar 18 11:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 18 10:25, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Please consider http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00436.html
> >
> >
> > In fhandler.h i changed DEFAULT_PIPEBUFSIZE back to contain
> > PREFERRED_IO_BLKSIZE (instead of 31*1024*1024), inst
On Mar 18 10:25, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please consider http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00436.html
>
>
> In fhandler.h i changed DEFAULT_PIPEBUFSIZE back to contain
> PREFERRED_IO_BLKSIZE (instead of 31*1024*1024), installed the new cygwin1.dll
> and of course, no more proble
On Mar 18 02:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:47:04AM +, Dave Korn wrote:
> >On 11/03/2011 13:53, Rainer Emrich wrote:
> >
> >> I have to be more clear. I increased the heap_chunk_in_mb to 1792 using:
> >> regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1792
> >
Hello,
Please consider http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00436.html
In fhandler.h i changed DEFAULT_PIPEBUFSIZE back to contain
PREFERRED_IO_BLKSIZE (instead of 31*1024*1024), installed the new cygwin1.dll
and of course, no more problem.
I also performed extended tests on another Windows
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 05:18 +, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 18/03/2011 02:50, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > BTW, do you need me to resend my patches for 4.5.2?
>
> Couldn't hurt, I know I had some stuff to dig through my inbox looking for
> but if you wouldn't mind...
My outstanding issues with gc
Op 18-3-2011 7:53, Charles Wilson schreef:
On 3/17/2011 4:36 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
OK, everybody, time out for a minute. Rather than talk vapor, I'll
develop the patches necessary.
Fair warning: I've developed this patch set, and made a cygport-based
package...but I have NOT TESTED the app
I'm using cygwin under windows to change text-files with windows line-endings
(CR and LF). I wrote a lot of shell-scripts which call each other. The
filenames in those scripts are sometimes given als windows filenames (e.g.
c:\temp\file.txt) sometimes relative (e.g. ../tmp/file.txt) sometimes as
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