Re: Has anyone collected a summary of cygwin vs Windows 7 64 bit outstanding issues?

2012-05-23 Thread Bill Ross
> what does "rebase" mean? http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/Rebaseall -- 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: Has anyone collected a summary of cygwin vs Windows 7 64 bit outstanding issues?

2012-05-23 Thread Bill Ross
> The message: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable is often associated with a need to rebase ... EM Solved, thanks! Bill -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info

RE: Has anyone collected a summary of cygwin vs Windows 7 64 bit outstanding issues?

2012-05-23 Thread Bill Ross
On 5/23/2012 9:24 AM, Larry W. Virden wrote: > We are trying to make use of cygwin in several ways on Windows 7 > 64-bit desktops. >  > One of the first things we have noticed is that there are a lot of > processes sitting on the desktop that appear to be related to cygwin > that we didn't see p

RE: No manual entry for awk

2011-01-20 Thread Bill Ross
> Just a heads-up: I expect that few, if any, people on this list find your > observation interesting, and fewer, if any, will think it an issue. (Or > is it the other way around?) Since you do, I'd suggest that you consider > looking over the documentation; doing so may save you a lot of >"int

Re: 1.7.5: fixing git damage

2010-11-22 Thread Bill Ross
From: ... On Behalf Of Jeremy Bopp Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 2:11 PM Subject: Re: 1.7.5: fixing git damage >On 11/22/2010 4:06 PM, Bill Ross wrote: >> >> [git stuff] >> >> *** What I am looking for is a solution to this: >> >> -bash-3.2$ mv test/xl

RE: Subversion mangling names in .svn/entries metadata file

2010-10-26 Thread Bill Ross
> > Maybe I didn't explicitly say that I did reboot the system, but that's > > not a reason to merely assume that I didn't. > > On the contrary, I think it's a great reason to assume you didn't reboot > given your description of how cygwin1.dll eventually got updated and the > following quote:

RE: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Bill Ross
> >-bash-3.2$ /bin/rebaseall --help > >rebaseall: only ash or dash processes are allowed during rebasing > >Exit all Cygwin processes and stop all Cygwin services. > >Execute ash (or dash) from Start/Run... or a cmd or command window. > >Execute '/bin/rebaseall' from ash (or dash). > >

RE: simplifying rebaseall

2010-09-17 Thread Bill Ross
> This discussion seems to boil down to "Someone should add words about > rebaseall to the FAQ". -bash-3.2$ /bin/rebaseall --help rebaseall: only ash or dash processes are allowed during rebasing Exit all Cygwin processes and stop all Cygwin services. Execute ash (or dash) from Start/Run..

RE: dvd has korean file names that are now question marks

2010-08-06 Thread Bill Ross
-Original Message- >From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of >denise >Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 12:17 AM >To: cygwin@cygwin.com >Subject: dvd has korean file names that are now question marks > >hi, >im not a programmer, i know very little MSDOS, i kn

RE: CygWin-1.7.3-1 fails to provide pipe. (still)

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Ross
I've tried with both the latest release and the latest snapshot with the same results.  Is this still an issue? -Craig -Original Message- From: Bill Ross Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 11:00 AM To: 'Craig Martek'; cygwin Subject: RE: CygWin-1.7.3-1 fails to provide pipe. (st

RE: CygWin-1.7.3-1 fails to provide pipe. (still)

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Ross
I tried these 2 orders of ops: $ mkfifo /tmp/p $ ls -l > /tmp/p Other$ cat /tmp/p [hangs] But $ mkfifo /tmp/p Other$ cat /tmp/p $ ls -l > /tmp/p[ls -l appears on other] Bill -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Craig Mart

RE: 1.7.5: ant no longer finds python: upgrade from 1.5 suspected

2010-06-14 Thread Bill Ross
-Original Message- >From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of >Bill Ross >Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 4:36 PM >To: cygwin@cygwin.com >Subject: 1.7.5: ant no longer finds python: upgrade from 1.5 suspected > >Could ant be thrown off

1.7.5: ant no longer finds python: upgrade from 1.5 suspected

2010-06-14 Thread Bill Ross
Could ant be thrown off by a 1.7 upgrade? The upgrade is the only big change since things were last working, and another person who upgraded is showing the same symptom (no one else handy to compare with). An ant build setup no longer finds python. It seems like it used cygwin's python before, b

RE: 1.7: svn/bash can't find $EDITOR after 1.7 upgrade

2010-04-30 Thread Bill Ross
Thanks! Bill -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 1:41 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7: svn/bash can't find $EDITOR after 1.7 upgrade On Apr 30 13:29, Bill Ross

Re: ld not found

2007-02-08 Thread Bill Ross
xit status - Markus Schönhaber wrote: Bill Ross wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Lots of clues there, but nothing that obviously relates to my problem. E.g. searched archives for ld.exe, ld, and compile. Did you actually read th

Re: ld not found

2007-02-08 Thread Bill Ross
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:09:57PM -0800, Bill Ross wrote: I have ld.exe in /cygwin/bin and /cygwin/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin, also made sure cygwin/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/ exists. But (running from ant): [exec] /usr/bin/gcc -D_WIN32 -o /cygdrive/F

ld not found

2007-02-08 Thread Bill Ross
: Invalid argument [exec] collect2: ld returned 255 exit status Any clues? Bill Ross -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Setup.exe stalls on gettext-runtime.mo

2007-02-02 Thread Bill Ross
I tried one more time and the install completed. Thanks for the advice; it seems that removing the installed gettext.exe is what enabled me to get beyond the original blockage. Bill Bill Ross wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: Bill Ross wrote: When Setup.exe gets to gettext-runtime.mo it stalls

Re: Setup.exe stalls on gettext-runtime.mo

2007-02-02 Thread Bill Ross
Brian Dessent wrote: Bill Ross wrote: When Setup.exe gets to gettext-runtime.mo it stalls indefinitely, blinking: /usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo This has happened when downloading from 2 different sites, That's quite strange. I tried to reproduce this

Setup.exe stalls on gettext-runtime.mo

2007-02-02 Thread Bill Ross
When Setup.exe gets to gettext-runtime.mo it stalls indefinitely, blinking: /usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo This has happened when downloading from 2 different sites, ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu ftp.planetmirror.com I have tried removing ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.planetmirror.com