[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {rxvt-unicode-X/rxvt-unicode-common}-9.15-1

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Wilson
rxvt-unicode is the successor to the familiar, but no longer maintained, rxvt terminal emulator. This release fixes a catastrophic failure associated with the recent perl update. It also updates to the latest upstream release. NOTE for screen users: upstream, and this release, by default speci

Re: Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/29/2012 6:23 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: This emulator has been mentioned several times in the past. I've suggested that we could use similar techniques in Cygwin for emulating ptys. It's just a lot of work. Ah, OK. I do not read every message on this list so I missed that. Good to hear

Re: Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 04:41:38PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >On 8/29/2012 1:12 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> Yes, if you prefer to use the Cygwin terminal you must use a Cygwin >> client. But you have a choice to use the native terminal with a >> Cygwin shell and native ftp client. You could also

Re: Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/29/2012 1:12 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: Yes, if you prefer to use the Cygwin terminal you must use a Cygwin client. But you have a choice to use the native terminal with a Cygwin shell and native ftp client. You could also do the following if you prefer the Cygwin terminal but do not want the

RE: XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2012-08-29 Thread Thomas Wicklund
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 2:43 PM , Diego García Medina wrote: >I can´t compile packages because of this error: >checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl >checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.14.2 >checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is >required for intltool >I tried to

Re: Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Mike Casile
Earnie Boyd users.sourceforge.net> writes: Not sure where my first follow-up went .. but by using bash and tweaking the environment a little, it all works great. Thanks, Still a long filename issue ... but that's a different topic. Thanks for all that replied so quickly and were patient w/my l

Re: slow ssh login on a cygwin machine

2012-08-29 Thread bbcolo22
No comment. ;) On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Christopher Faylor-8 [via Cygwin] < ml-node+s1069669n92405...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 01:11:43PM -0700, bbcolo22 wrote: > >I tried. They don't know. But thanks anyway. > > If they can't debug problems with the software that

Re: slow ssh login on a cygwin machine

2012-08-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 01:11:43PM -0700, bbcolo22 wrote: >I tried. They don't know. But thanks anyway. If they can't debug problems with the software that they provide then maybe they shouldn't be providing it. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2012-08-29 Thread Diego García Medina
I can´t compile packages because of this error: checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.14.2 checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool I tried to fix it by means of setup.exe and  manually installing perl related pack

Re: Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 8/29/2012 2:48 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >>> >>> On 29 August 2012 19:02, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/29/2012 12:58 PM, Mike Casile wrote: > > > New insta

Re: slow ssh login on a cygwin machine

2012-08-29 Thread bbcolo22
I tried. They don't know. But thanks anyway. On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) [via Cygwin] < ml-node+s1069669n92401...@n5.nabble.com> wrote: > On 8/29/2012 3:43 PM, bbcolo22 wrote: > > > I am having exactly the same problem that Ilya described. The problem > > appeared out of

Re: slow ssh login on a cygwin machine

2012-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/29/2012 3:43 PM, bbcolo22 wrote: I am having exactly the same problem that Ilya described. The problem appeared out of nowhere 1 week ago on many (but not all) of our production servers running COPSSH. No errors, but an SSH login that used to take 3-5 seconds now takes > 90 seconds. I can cl

Re: Strange "mouse" behavior in mintty

2012-08-29 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 29/08/2012 3:15 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 14 August 2012 04:43, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 13/08/2012 10:04 PM, Herbert Stocker wrote: Hi Ryan, On 13.08.2012 15:33, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, I'm hitting a mouse-related (?) problem with mintty in non-mouse mode. STC A: Log into a remote mac

Re: slow ssh login on a cygwin machine

2012-08-29 Thread bbcolo22
I am having exactly the same problem that Ilya described. The problem appeared out of nowhere 1 week ago on many (but not all) of our production servers running COPSSH. No errors, but an SSH login that used to take 3-5 seconds now takes > 90 seconds. I can clear see a delay of exactly 45 seconds he

Re: Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/29/2012 2:48 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 29 August 2012 19:02, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/29/2012 12:58 PM, Mike Casile wrote: New install of latest cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20 22:55) on a new Windows 7 sy

Re: Strange "mouse" behavior in mintty

2012-08-29 Thread Andy Koppe
On 14 August 2012 04:43, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 13/08/2012 10:04 PM, Herbert Stocker wrote: >> >> Hi Ryan, >> >> On 13.08.2012 15:33, Ryan Johnson wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm hitting a mouse-related (?) problem with mintty in non-mouse mode. >>> >>> STC A: Log into a remote machine, invok

Re: Windows clipboard and Emacs yank, kill-region, and kill-ring-save

2012-08-29 Thread Andy Koppe
On 19 August 2012 22:18, Ken Jackson wrote: > On 08/19/2012 03:54 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> >> On 8/19/2012 2:50 PM, Ken Jackson wrote: >>> >>> I have this in my ~/.emacs file on both Linux and Cygwin: >>> (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t) >>> >>> I see in the news file that it's now set by default.

Re: Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 29 August 2012 19:02, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> On 8/29/2012 12:58 PM, Mike Casile wrote: >>> >>> New install of latest cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) >>> 2012-07-20 >>> 22:55) on a new Windows 7 system. When I do ftp it p

Re: Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Andy Koppe
On 29 August 2012 19:02, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 8/29/2012 12:58 PM, Mike Casile wrote: >> >> New install of latest cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) >> 2012-07-20 >> 22:55) on a new Windows 7 system. When I do ftp it prompts for >> uid, then >> prompts for pw (normal). Probl

Re: Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/29/2012 12:58 PM, Mike Casile wrote: New install of latest cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20 22:55) on a new Windows 7 system. When I do ftp it prompts for uid, then prompts for pw (normal). Problem is, password echoes on the screen ... and then it hangs and connect

Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Mike Casile
New install of latest cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20 22:55) on a new Windows 7 system. When I do ftp it prompts for uid, then prompts for pw (normal). Problem is, password echoes on the screen ... and then it hangs and connection is never made. If I do ftp -s:

RE: Sudden failure of ssh sessions since upgrading to 1.7.16-1

2012-08-29 Thread Walker, Leon E
Your snapshot seems to have done the trick - it is no longer crashing. Thanks a bundle! Leon. -Original Message- From: Walker, Leon E Sent: 25 August 2012 12:18 Subject: FW: Sudden failure of ssh sessions since upgrading to 1.7.16-1 Dear CYGWIN, Upgraded to 1.7.16-1 from 1.7.14-1 Seem

Re: mingw32-gcc and posix paths

2012-08-29 Thread thoni56
JonY-6 wrote > > On 8/29/2012 14:15, thoni56 wrote: >> >> thoni56 wrote >>> >>> I'm in the process of going from gcc3 to gcc4. For one project I need to >>> build both cygwin and win32 executables so "-mno-cygwin" to >>> "mingw32-gcc" >>> was an initial hurdle. >>> >>> However that is now sorted

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-headers and mingw64-*-runtime

2012-08-29 Thread JonY
I have just released a refresh build of the mingw-w64 cross compiler headers and runtime. mingw64-*-headers-3.0b_svn5373-1 mingw64-x86_64-runtime-3.0b_svn5373-1 mingw64-i686-runtime-3.0b_svn5373-2 The cross compiler can produce Win32 and Win64 native binaries. As a cross compiler, you may use --h

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: texlive-collection-bibtexextra{,-doc}-20120821-1

2012-08-29 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** texlive-collection-bibtexextra-20120821-1 *** texlive-collection-bibtexextra-doc-20120821-1 This is primarily a packaging change/fix. Starting with this release, /usr/bin/biber.exe will be in the texlive-collection-bibtex

Re: tcsh hang while executing scripts which use pipes with backticks

2012-08-29 Thread Roland Roeder
Referring to this report: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-08/msg00599.html I tried the same scripts here using all the latest cygwin packages and can repro the issue. It didn't repro initially, but after running the script a second or third time it started reproducing with every run. I noticed

Re: mingw32-gcc and posix paths

2012-08-29 Thread JonY
On 8/29/2012 14:15, thoni56 wrote: > > thoni56 wrote >> >> I'm in the process of going from gcc3 to gcc4. For one project I need to >> build both cygwin and win32 executables so "-mno-cygwin" to "mingw32-gcc" >> was an initial hurdle. >> >> However that is now sorted out, but one thing puzzles me.

Re: Build script error (libiconv + custom prefix)

2012-08-29 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Tasos Laskos wrote: > One question though. how do you run a Linux command from Windows? > I tried C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c "ls -la" but it doesn't work in Cygwin. > You could just run C:\cygwin\bin\ls -la or, if C:\cygwin\bin is in the PATH, simply run ls -la

Re: fork() and file descriptors with un-flushed output

2012-08-29 Thread thoni56
Thank you both! You learn something everyday. Thank you very much! The suggestions from Daniel worked beautifully! /Thomas 28 aug 2012 kl. 09:07 skrev "Wolf Geldmacher [via Cygwin]" : > This is not a bug - it's a feature ;-) > > The "issue" you are describing is in fact the standard behav