Re: Small request for the new cygwin terminal

2012-06-11 Thread Andy Koppe
On 11 June 2012 21:07, Helmut Karlowski wrote: > I don't get anything for Shift-F4. Works for me, producing "^[[1;2S". > Is this a windows-shortcut? Not that I know of. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Small request for the new cygwin terminal

2012-06-11 Thread Andy Koppe
On 11 June 2012 13:55, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > I don't get > the U+009F result from the "/" key from any combination of Ctrl > and Shift. On a US keyboard, Shift+"/" is "?", and Ctrl+"?" is itself a valid control character combination, producing ^? (i.e. 0x7F). Andy -- Problem reports: ht

HOWTO: cross-compile the Linux kernel on Cygwin

2012-06-11 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Prerequisites: * Cygwin snapshot 1.7.16s/20120611 or newer (DLL and headers) * Cygwin gcc4-core 4.5 or newer, make, perl * Cygwin gettext, libelf-devel, libgmp-devel, libmpc-devel, libmpfr-devel, zlib-devel * (for make menuconfig) libncurses-devel or libncursesw-devel * (for make nconfig

A good free GDB GUI for Cygwin

2012-06-11 Thread Yin Ma
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Re: Small request for the new cygwin terminal

2012-06-11 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Nellis, Kenneth, 11.06.2012 14:55:02: -Original Message- From: Andy Koppe Subject: Re: Small request for the new cygwin terminal On 8 June 2012 19:02, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: -Original Message- From: Andy Koppe Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 2:45 PM Regarding, the "@" key in

Re: ssh logon failure

2012-06-11 Thread marco atzeri
On 6/6/2012 10:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 6 09:04, marco atzeri wrote: I am probably missing something obvious - ssh marco@127.0.0.1 marco@127.0.0.1's password: Last login: Wed Jun 6 06:19:27 2012 from 127.0.0.1 The Hippo says: Welcome to Cygwi

Re: UNIX groups in CYGWIN

2012-06-11 Thread David Boyce
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 6/11/2012 9:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >>> >>>     Perhaps CYGWIN could have used a tab to separate the group names? >> >> What's to say that 'TAB' won't be valid in a group name? > > What's to say that any characters won't be valid in a nam

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

2012-06-11 Thread K Stahl
rebaseall appears to resolved the issue. GVim is running as expected! -- 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: How to avoid the installation of Latex

2012-06-11 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 11/06/2012 11:31 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: I tried to avoid the installation of all the latex stuff because first It consumes a lot of time and second I use Miktex so there is no need for it. It also seems to be impossible to get rid of it after it was installed. I had this problem a whi

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

2012-06-11 Thread Ken Brown
Once again, please don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU . On 6/11/2012 12:14 PM, K Stahl wrote: I've reverted the suggested libraries and still no success with GVim. Keep getting either a failed execution (exit code 127) or bad address for /usr/bin/gvim. Try running rebaseall. If that doesn

Re: How to avoid the installation of Latex

2012-06-11 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/11/2012 11:31 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: Hi all, I tried to avoid the installation of all the latex stuff because first It consumes a lot of time and second I use Miktex so there is no need for it. It also seems to be impossible to get rid of it after it was installed. You must have

Re: UNIX groups in CYGWIN

2012-06-11 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 6/11/2012 9:25 AM, Eric Blake wrote: Perhaps CYGWIN could have used a tab to separate the group names? What's to say that 'TAB' won't be valid in a group name? What's to say that any characters won't be valid in a name? Nothing. You gotta pick something and start somewhere.. -- Andrew

Re: UNIX groups in CYGWIN

2012-06-11 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/11/2012 10:13 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > 2. Since Windows group names can embed spaces, the output of the "groups" > shell command 'groups' is no longer a shell command, but an executable, for several coreutils releases now. >is unparsable in CYGWIN (scripting b

UNIX groups in CYGWIN

2012-06-11 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hi, I have been porting quite a bit of software from native UNIX environment to CYGWIN, and despite there is a very elaborate UNIX group handling/mapping in CYGWIN, there are still a few discrepancies I would like to note: 1. When a user is a member of multiple Windows groups, this fact is not

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

2012-06-11 Thread K Stahl
I've reverted the suggested libraries and still no success with GVim. Keep getting either a failed execution (exit code 127) or bad address for /usr/bin/gvim. > > > On 6/11/2012 9:55 AM, K Stahl wrote: >> >> I've tried to revert the version of GLib 2.0 using the instructions >> provided, but when

CYGWIN app crashes ungracefully when run from the root of a drive

2012-06-11 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
Hi, Maybe it has been covered somewhere -- I could not find the answer, so please excuse the repetition. I observe that if I build an app (consider the simplest "Hello world" program below as an example), and store the executable at a standalone location (not CYGWIN tree), yet supplemented it wi

How to avoid the installation of Latex

2012-06-11 Thread DEWI - N. Zacharias
Hi all, I tried to avoid the installation of all the latex stuff because first It consumes a lot of time and second I use Miktex so there is no need for it. It also seems to be impossible to get rid of it after it was installed. Norbert DEWEK 2012, 11th German Wind Energy Conference, 7-8 No

RE: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-11 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Christopher Faylor sent the following at Monday, June 11, 2012 10:56 AM >On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:51:07PM +0200, Otto Meta wrote: >>cgf wrote: >>> Out of curiosity would downloading setup.exe using wget also work >>>around the problem? >> >>Most likely. I don't think wget cares about protecting

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

2012-06-11 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/11/2012 7:39 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/10/2012 10:54 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-06-10 19:45, Ken Brown wrote: The bisection shows that the first problematic commit is this one: http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=7eae486179e2799c369ed9ffcea663bf9161ce79 A

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-11 Thread Václav Zeman
On 11 June 2012 16:55, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:51:07PM +0200, Otto Meta wrote: >>cgf wrote: >>> Out of curiosity would downloading setup.exe using wget also work >>>around the problem? >> >>Most likely.  I don't think wget cares about protecting Windows users >>from t

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:51:07PM +0200, Otto Meta wrote: >cgf wrote: >> Out of curiosity would downloading setup.exe using wget also work >>around the problem? > >Most likely. I don't think wget cares about protecting Windows users >from their own stupidity. If you use wget, you should know wha

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

2012-06-11 Thread Ken Brown
Please don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU . Thanks. On 6/11/2012 9:55 AM, K Stahl wrote: I've tried to revert the version of GLib 2.0 using the instructions provided, but when I attempt to start GVim nothing happens. The process appears to fail without an explanation. System WinXP and all

Re: gcc not running properly??

2012-06-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:45:31AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >Over at mingw.org we just say that use of the product is not supported >unless you use the shell provided by mingw.org. If you have a >question about why something isn't working and you are using cmd.exe >then try sh.exe first before as

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-11 Thread Otto Meta
> Out of curiosity would downloading setup.exe using wget also work > around the problem? Most likely. I don't think wget cares about protecting Windows users from their own stupidity. If you use wget, you should know what you're doing. How about you just give it a try? Otto -- Problem report

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Otto Meta wrote: >> This is because of the file being downloaded from the web (check file streams > >> for details). >> You can easily cleanup the file metadata by copying it to FAT drive (Flash >> disk/memory card). > > >The file stream with the "downloade

Re: gcc not running properly??

2012-06-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
Over at mingw.org we just say that use of the product is not supported unless you use the shell provided by mingw.org. If you have a question about why something isn't working and you are using cmd.exe then try sh.exe first before asking for help. We do not test and support other scenarios and yo

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-11 Thread Otto Meta
> This is because of the file being downloaded from the web (check file streams > for details). > You can easily cleanup the file metadata by copying it to FAT drive (Flash > disk/memory card). The file stream with the "downloaded from the web" information can easily be removed with the Stream t

Re: make: .exe handling breaks kernel cross-compile

2012-06-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 01:04:22AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> >On 2012-06-10 23:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> If there is a bug it is with make ever equating foo.exe with foo. It's >> undoubtedly happening because of Cygwin's attempts at transparency. >> >> I'm not kidding about EXEEXT.

Re: child_info_fork::abort:

2012-06-11 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 11/06/2012 9:49 AM, Rodrigo Botafogo wrote: Ryan, Thanks also for your reply. In your reply you say that if the system has a very large number of DLL rebase might not work. Just for curiosity, what is a large number of DLL? When do I run a risk of having problems with rebaseall? Short versi

RE: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-11 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Andrey Repin sent the following at Monday, June 11, 2012 10:03 AM >This is because of the file being downloaded from the web (check file >streams for details). You can easily cleanup the file metadata by >copying it to FAT drive (Flash disk/memory card). It worked! For the record, I had to delete

Re: gcc not running properly??

2012-06-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, scotty85! > marco atzeri-4 wrote: >> >> On 6/11/2012 5:37 AM, scotty85 wrote: >>> >>> so your basically saying i shouldnt use cmd? >>> >>> i use it all fine on my laptop, just on my home computer it comes up with >>> what i said so i dont no what to do to fix it.. >>> >> >> please don

Re: gcc not running properly??

2012-06-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, scotty85! > so your basically saying i shouldnt use cmd? Unless you 100% know what you're doing, and familiar with both Unix and DOS shells to work around any issues - it's not recommended. > i use it all fine on my laptop, just on my home computer it comes up with > what i said so i

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]! > I have setup.exe downloaded to /usr/local/bin (and renamed to > getcygwin.exe). When I launch it by hand (but not by cmd /c start), > Windows tells me that the publisher could not be verified and asks > whether I want to run it. This is because of

Re: Shell script loop runs out of memory

2012-06-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]! > Just to complete this topic ... > This gets rid of all the fork-execs in the inner loop except > for sleep. Instead of comparing file contents, it uses > the test builtin to compare time stamps. I /never ever/ rely on timestamps, except for casual

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

2012-06-11 Thread K Stahl
I've tried to revert the version of GLib 2.0 using the instructions provided, but when I attempt to start GVim nothing happens. The process appears to fail without an explanation. System WinXP and all Cygwin libs updated to the latest. On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 6/8/

Re: Trusted Software Vendor

2012-06-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > I have setup.exe downloaded to /usr/local/bin (and renamed to > getcygwin.exe).  When I launch it by hand (but not by cmd /c start), > Windows tells me that the publisher could not be verified and asks > whether I want to r

child_info_fork::abort:

2012-06-11 Thread Rodrigo Botafogo
>>     0 [main] ruby 8140 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed >> by 'cygnetcdf-7.dll' (0x42) is already occupied >>     0 [main] ruby 6960 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed >> by 'cygnetcdf-7.dll' (0x42) is already occupied >>     0 [main] ruby 5692 child_info_fork::abor

Re: s?wprintf family of functions has broken %s formatter output

2012-06-11 Thread Václav Zeman
On 11 June 2012 15:34, Otto Meta wrote: >> I have done some more checking and I might have been wrong about the > >> Ubuntu and Linux in general. It looks like the formatting strings are >> incompatible between MSVC and *NIX. It appears that either %S (SUSv2) >> or %ls (C99) is needed on *NIX. MSVC

Re: s?wprintf family of functions has broken %s formatter output

2012-06-11 Thread Otto Meta
> I have done some more checking and I might have been wrong about the > Ubuntu and Linux in general. It looks like the formatting strings are > incompatible between MSVC and *NIX. It appears that either %S (SUSv2) > or %ls (C99) is needed on *NIX. MSVC switches the meaning of %s for > wprintf() (

Re: s?wprintf family of functions has broken %s formatter output

2012-06-11 Thread Václav Zeman
On 11 June 2012 14:58, Otto Meta wrote: >> `-->  ./testvswprintf.exe > >> this works, 1, 2, 3... >> but the following does not: >> ret: 1 >> buf: >T< >>> T< >> ret: 4 >> wcout: >THIS IS A TEST< >> >> The same code works well on both Ubuntu with GCC and on Windows with >> Visual Studio 2010. > > >

Re: s?wprintf family of functions has broken %s formatter output

2012-06-11 Thread Otto Meta
> `--> ./testvswprintf.exe > this works, 1, 2, 3... > but the following does not: > ret: 1 > buf: >T< >> T< > ret: 4 > wcout: >THIS IS A TEST< > > The same code works well on both Ubuntu with GCC and on Windows with > Visual Studio 2010. I just tried your test with g++ (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ub

RE: Small request for the new cygwin terminal

2012-06-11 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
-Original Message- From: Andy Koppe Subject: Re: Small request for the new cygwin terminal On 8 June 2012 19:02, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Andy Koppe > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 2:45 PM > > > Regarding, the "@" key in the table referenced by your URL,

s?wprintf family of functions has broken %s formatter output

2012-06-11 Thread Václav Zeman
Hi. I believe that I have discovered a bug in Cygwin's/Newlib's implementation of s?wprintf() family of functions. They seem to print only the first character in given string parameter. I am attaching a test case and here is the broken output: `--> ./testvswprintf.exe this works, 1, 2, 3... but

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

2012-06-11 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/10/2012 10:54 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-06-10 19:45, Ken Brown wrote: The bisection shows that the first problematic commit is this one: http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=7eae486179e2799c369ed9ffcea663bf9161ce79 Author: Ryan Lortie Date: Wed Aug 31 22:0

AW: [bulk] - Re: pipe error depending on drive

2012-06-11 Thread DEWI - N. Zacharias
>Von: Larry Hall (Cygwin)> Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Juni 2012 04:31 >Betreff: [bulk] - Re: pipe error depending on drive > >On 6/7/2012 10:30 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have a strange behavior of cygwin here. I have two machines with the >> nearly (*)he same configuration on

Re: gcc not running properly??

2012-06-11 Thread marco atzeri
On 6/11/2012 8:18 AM, scotty85 wrote: i have mintty but i would like to use cmd, so do you no a way of fixing it so i can use cmd instead? it is not a matter of fixing. Command prompt is NOT capable to fully support cygwin. Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems