Re: needed feature in Cygwin fifos

2011-04-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 07:22:57AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >On 04/30/2011 05:31 AM, bob 295 wrote: >>>This is a free software project so you can see for yourself what's >>>needed. The majority of the code is in fhandler_fifo.cc. >> >>Sounds like a perfect candidate for a Google Summer of Code pro

Re: windows cmd for ./configure

2011-04-30 Thread rifter rifter
You don't do ./configure in cmd.exe. You want to start a shell, like bash. cmd doesn't understand forward slashes and does not use . as a part of commands standing for the current directory. Cygwin should put a little shortcut in your start menu for "Cygwin bash shell." There are other ways to s

Re: windows cmd for ./configure

2011-04-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 04/30/11 07:50, Sayth Renshaw wrote: Hi I am haaving trouble locating the answer to this question due to the amount of results configure brings in the archives and google. I am trying to use ./configure && make on the command line however the '.' in ./configure causes an error. It might help

Re: windows cmd for ./configure

2011-04-30 Thread Tim Prince
On 4/30/2011 7:50 AM, Sayth Renshaw wrote: Hi I am haaving trouble locating the answer to this question due to the amount of results configure brings in the archives and google. I am trying to use ./configure&& make on the command line however the '.' in ./configure causes an error. I know my m

windows cmd for ./configure

2011-04-30 Thread Sayth Renshaw
Hi I am haaving trouble locating the answer to this question due to the amount of results configure brings in the archives and google. I am trying to use ./configure && make on the command line however the '.' in ./configure causes an error. I know my make works as I have used it already. What is

Re: needed feature in Cygwin fifos

2011-04-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/30/2011 05:31 AM, bob 295 wrote: >> This is a free software project so you can see for yourself what's >> needed. The majority of the code is in fhandler_fifo.cc. > >> cgf > > Sounds like a perfect candidate for a Google Summer of Code project proposal. Not this year; the deadline's alrea

Re: needed feature in Cygwin fifos

2011-04-30 Thread bob 295
>>>On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:34:16PM -0400, bob 295 wrote: I recognize that Cygwin fifos are "buggy and not suitable for anything but simplest of applications", however in the spirit of seeing if things can be improved here is some more test code which illustrates one of the "bugs"

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-mingw-{core/g++/g77/gdc/java/objc}-20050522-3; Obsoleted: gcc-mingw-gpc-20040810-3

2011-04-30 Thread Charles Wilson
These packages are "addons" to the gcc-3 compiler suite, and provide the necessary files for the -mno-cygwin mode of that compiler. It has LONG been a goal to retire -mno-cygwin, and instead provide a cygwin- hosted mingw cross compiler from the gcc-4.x family. This update is the first step in at