Re: TexLive's ConTeXt runtime error..

2012-08-22 Thread Wynfield Henman
Ken, your suggestion to put the TeXLive bin dir as the first entry of PATH enabled TeXLive/ConTex. Great. I sincerely appreciate you assistance. Now I will try to ferret out the problem and report on it when I find it. Regards On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 8/22/20

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread L Anderson
Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: I'll just reiterate what Daniel said again: We can't make things like cmd or notepad stop working. That would be a disaster. Yes, and nobody proposed otherwise. I wasn't really following the discussion, and don't really want to check stuff out i

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: > I'll just reiterate what Daniel said again: We can't make things like > cmd or notepad stop working. That would be a disaster. Yes, and nobody proposed otherwise. > I wasn't really following the discussion, and don't really want to check > stuff out in git to see wha

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/22/2012 1:50 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: The issue is that to effect that customization I have to change a file that is not supposed to be changed (since that prevents any updates from getting to it automatically). I've long since (circa 1994 or so) had a script called set_path that I can sour

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 05:18:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'll just reiterate what Daniel said again: We can't make things like > cmd or notepad stop working. That would be a disaster. > I wasn't really following the discussion, and don't really want to check > stuff out in git to see

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:55:08PM +0200, David Sastre Medina wrote: >On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:13:37PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: >> On 8/22/12 12:10 PM, David Sastre Medina wrote: >> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:16:28AM +, Achim Gratz wrote: >> >> I'm removing the Windows PATH in my sta

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrey Repin writes: > Greetings, Achim Gratz! > >>> People execute Windows programs using Cygwin all the time. With this >>> change, basic things like "cmd" and "notepad" will fail to work. >>> Working with Windows programs is the *point* of Cygwin. I really don't >>> think this change should go i

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:13:37PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: > On 8/22/12 12:10 PM, David Sastre Medina wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:16:28AM +, Achim Gratz wrote: > >> I'm removing the Windows PATH in my startup scripts since there's nothing > >> in > >> there that I think shoul

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: > If we are changing a longstanding behavior then I agree with Daniel that > this is a bad idea. You're just asking for people to be confused. Again, I'm not arguing for changing the default. In fact, as long as ORIGINAL_PATH stays available it might even still be adde

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Achim Gratz! >> People execute Windows programs using Cygwin all the time. With this >> change, basic things like "cmd" and "notepad" will fail to work. >> Working with Windows programs is the *point* of Cygwin. I really don't >> think this change should go into the default startup scri

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:24:24PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >Daniel Colascione writes: >> People execute Windows programs using Cygwin all the time. With this >> change, basic things like "cmd" and "notepad" will fail to work. >> Working with Windows programs is the *point* of Cygwin. I really don

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Daniel Colascione writes: > People execute Windows programs using Cygwin all the time. With this > change, basic things like "cmd" and "notepad" will fail to work. > Working with Windows programs is the *point* of Cygwin. I really don't > think this change should go into the default startup scripts

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
David Sastre Medina writes: > I'm having this on github now for easier handling. > Check https://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git Ah, nice. Everythings OK, thank you. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Waldorf Blofeld:

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 8/22/12 12:10 PM, David Sastre Medina wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:16:28AM +, Achim Gratz wrote: >> I'm removing the Windows PATH in my startup scripts since there's nothing in >> there that I think should be accessible from Cygwin. >> For (t)csh this is easy enough to do with droppin

Re: TexLive's ConTeXt runtime error..

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Wynfield Henman writes: > I reinstalled all cygwin zlib modules and the problem persisted. The > only zlib I found was the cygwin installed one. Since it is POSIX > compliant and TeXLive installs with it it shouldn't be a problem, I > should think. But, there is one due to, pdftex I think. The

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 09:15:58PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: > If you'd rather have a complete patch, let me know and I'll > post it or send it to you via email, as you prefer. I'm having this on github now for easier handling. Check https://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git -- Primary key fing

Re: TexLive's ConTeXt runtime error..

2012-08-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/22/2012 2:06 PM, Wynfield Henman wrote: Ken, thanks for replying and helping. Here is the information that you asked about. The example ConTeXt file, example.tex, is attached hereto. PATH is in the cygcheck.out file. No other zlib.h was found. I can't reproduce the problem on my syst

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
David Sastre Medina writes: > All three changes will be available in the next release (profile_d > modification taken from your last version in this thread). > > Thanks. Thank you. If you'd rather have a complete patch, let me know and I'll post it or send it to you via email, as you prefer. Re

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:16:28AM +, Achim Gratz wrote: > I'm removing the Windows PATH in my startup scripts since there's nothing in > there that I think should be accessible from Cygwin. > For (t)csh this is easy enough to do with dropping a script into > /etc/profile.d > that gets execute

Re: TexLive's ConTeXt runtime error..

2012-08-22 Thread Wynfield Henman
I reinstalled all cygwin zlib modules and the problem persisted. The only zlib I found was the cygwin installed one. Since it is POSIX compliant and TeXLive installs with it it shouldn't be a problem, I should think. But, there is one due to, pdftex I think. Regards On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:

Re: Oddity with cygport, debuginfo generation, and rxvt-unicode

2012-08-22 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > Oh, let me think...never. I'm still (re)training people that spaces are > evil. Don't even get me started on hashes and shell metas in filenames... Oh, just rename them to be asc(0x010); that's always good for a laugh. ;) -- Earnie -- ht