autorebase

2012-05-14 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, Did I miss an announcement? I notice now in my setup log: 2012/05/14 10:27:13 running: cmd.exe /c "C:\cygwin\etc\postinstall\autorebase.bat" Does this mean that I do not need anymore to run in an ash shell: ./rebaseall && ./peflagsall followed with (in bash): perlrebase ...after an updat

Re: using a makefile to create an executable file

2012-04-11 Thread Marc Girod
Eliot Moss wrote: > > A quick look at the wikipedia page for cmake shows that cmake is > a tool that generates a Makefile suitable for the platform at > hand. So, I think you need at least these steps: > I am quite sure it would be more beneficial to learn the syntax of makefiles and to write

RE: How to run bash shell script in cygwin?

2012-04-03 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, Dave Korn wrote: > > Hey, why not plug our own faq while we're at it? > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.not-found > One minor comment I have about point 12 in the FAQ, now that I went reading. The following advice is given: You should rather install sshd and use ssh us

gcc-4 segmentation fault while compiling Tk (from CPAN)

2012-01-27 Thread Marc Girod
I just filed a report to gcc bugzilla: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52017 for compiling Tk-804.030 on Cygwin 1.7.9 with gcc-4 4.5.3-3 . Marc -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/gcc-4-segmentation-fault-while-compiling-Tk-%28from-CPAN%29-tp33213218p33213218.h

Re: Get errors while startx

2012-01-18 Thread Marc Girod
Pan ruochen wrote: > > I got the following errors while running startx: > I get the same, and I have just been too lazy/too unsure about where to report them to tell. Or maybe I did mention the first 6 months ago when it first came... The first is trivial: the code removes the .serverauth fil

Re: Stackdump at every second startup

2012-01-03 Thread Marc Girod
marco atzeri-4 wrote: > >> C:\cygwin\bin>ash ./rebaseall > > chdir c:\cygwin\bin > dash -l -i -c "rebaseall" > Er... this should not have resulted in anything different from the previous, right? I know there was another failing attempt, but this was already corrected... My real question now:

Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Girod
gabier wrote: > > So it seems quite correct. > ... > I noticed the following entry. > ... > Does it seem also correct ? If not it could explain my sshd problems ? > Yes: your home seems correct. I didn't install sshd on my PC so that I cannot comment your sshd account, but it doesn't seem wrong

Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Girod
gabier wrote: > > 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory. > ... > I created a home user directory and now if I enter "cd ~/" I am in it. > But mintty still opens in its own link directory. > Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two source

Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Girod
gabier wrote: > > 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory. > ... > I created a home user directory and now if I enter "cd ~/" I am in it. > But mintty still opens in its own link directory. > Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two source

Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Girod
gabier wrote: > > 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory. > ... > I created a home user directory and now if I enter "cd ~/" I am in it. > But mintty still opens in its own link directory. > Others may answer better than me, but... I think there are two source

Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Girod
gabier wrote: > > 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory. > The mintty console opens in /cygdrive/c/Users/username/Desktop/FREENAS, > which is merely the link to the icon used to open the console. > I created a home user directory and now if I enter "cd ~/" I a

Re: Installation problems with home path and sshd

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Girod
gabier wrote: > > 1. The home path was not created, there was nothing in the home directory. > The mintty console opens in /cygdrive/c/Users/username/Desktop/FREENAS, > which is merely the link to the icon used to open the console. I created a > home user directory and now if I enter "cd ~/" I a

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-24 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > Sorry. This made a difference on the command line, but not in the file. > Is there something wrong in redirecting xauth's stderr to /dev/null? It complains that the file doesn't exist, and indeed just made sure to remove it... trap "rm -f &#x

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-23 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > It seems that xauth doesn't like the double-quote around the filename... > Sorry. This made a difference on the command line, but not in the file. Marc -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Install-error-with-rebase-4.0.0-1-tp32705124p3270

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-23 Thread Marc Girod
Thanks again Marco, marco atzeri-4 wrote: > > As workaround with rebase-4.0.0-1 you can, from ash, > > mkdir /usr/etc > rebaseall > > the database will be created as > /usr/etc/rebase.db.i386 > I did, and it worked. As for the xauth error, it is in /usr/bin/startx: ~> xauth -q -f "$xservera

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-23 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > To be honest, I find that cygcheck too behaves strangely: > > ... > ~> cygcheck -l rebase-3.0.1-1 > OK: my mistake (Thanks Marco): ~> cygcheck -c rebase Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus rebase

Re: Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-23 Thread Marc Girod
Thanks Ken, Ken Brown-6 wrote: > > This looks like a packaging bug. The rebasedb file is supposed to go in > /etc, not /usr/etc. I suspect that Jason forgot to specify > --sysconfdir=/etc when configuring. See > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-09/msg00025.html > However, there

Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-23 Thread Marc Girod
I try here to send my cygcheck output as an attachment. This relates to a report made a few minutes ago using the old nabble site, with the same subject. Last time, my sending mail failed. Marc cygcheck.rvc Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Install error with rebase 4.0.0-1

2011-10-23 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I just ran setup, but could not run rebaseall: this one (4.0.0-1 iirc) failed to access a rebasedb file (under a non-existing /usr/etc directory). I reverted to 3.0.1-1. Is the following output normal (I find it short): ~> cygcheck -c rebase-3.0.1-1 Cygwin Package Information Package

Re: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2011-10-03 Thread Marc Girod
jan.kolar wrote: > > If you do not succeed with snapshots (I'm curious to know), > Thanks for your help, and sorry to disappoint you: I cannot afford in the current situation to invest the time and effort to learn to install snapshots, build debuggable versions, and actively compare fixes. I

Re: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2011-10-02 Thread Marc Girod
marco atzeri-4 wrote: > > My experience is that using the standard "problem report" improve the > chance to correctly identify the root cause and reduce the number of > guess that everyone could have. > One problem I have is that I use this list via the (old) nabble web site, and this one doesn

Re: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2011-09-30 Thread Marc Girod
marco atzeri-4 wrote: > > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > so at least we have an idea of your system > > in addition, have you checked > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda > > Antivirus and driver are the most likely culprits. > Yes, I know both page

STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

2011-09-30 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I keep my installation up-to-date on a weekly basis, and never fail to rebaseall/peflagsall as many times as needed to be able to start emacs in an X session without fork errors. Then I do a perlrebase. However, I eventually get STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION errors, in various contexts, e.g. (

Re: Random fork failures

2011-07-11 Thread Marc Girod
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: > > Actually, I think it is more likely BLODA. > The other standard reply (I am surprised not to read it in this thread) is rebaseall. I boot my laptop about weekly. That's the moment I use to refresh cygwin, especially if there has been some forced upgrades (freque

Re: Multi-term in Emacs under Cygwin doesn't correctly identify terminal type?

2011-06-03 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, duncan_bayne wrote: > > Could someone please suggest a way of getting this working? > Sorry, this is not an exact reply to your question, but... I use shell instead of term, and have no problem having as many as I wish (one just needs to rename the buffers). But OK, shell doesn't support th

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-12 Thread Marc Girod
Jon TURNEY wrote: > > A brief glance at the man page should discover 'cygpath -w -f-' > Indeed... Sorry for missing this... Reini Urban wrote: > > $ perldoc perlcygwin > and Thanks for that which is exactly what I needed! And which I had missed as well! Marc -- View this message in context:

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-11 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: > > You should use the cygpath utility to translate Cygwin paths to > Windows paths, rather than just changing slashes and prefixing with > C:\cygwin. OK. Done. Now, my script will fork this for every argument... Can I spawn a 'cygpath -w', put it in the background, and get it

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-08 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: > > You should use the cygpath utility to translate Cygwin paths to > Windows paths, rather than just changing slashes and prefixing with > C:\cygwin. Apart from everything else, Cygwin might be installed > somewhere other than C:\cygwin. > I cope for that last problem with df

Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

2011-04-08 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I am enhancing/fixing a perl tool (published to CPAN) which allows to import files into a ClearCase database (vob): synctree. Among the enhancements is support for cygwin. While testing it on cygwin, I tried and failed to import it itself, from the perl install directory, which is under /u

Re: Start a crontab service

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > Still reading... > Actually... in my very simple case, running: /usr/bin/cron-config and accepting the defaults (recording my own password) was enough to get cron the work... $ cygrunsrv -L cron $ crontab ~/cron/mg $ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit t

Re: Start a crontab service

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Girod
Larry W. Virden-2 wrote: > > If you find a sequence of steps that gets it working correctly, please > let me know. Not yet... but found some doc I had missed: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-59.README as part of the cron package (I looked at the crontab one so far...). This sends me to: http://

/etc/profile in base-files 4.0-5

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, Just upgraded, and got a new glitch: /etc/profile: line 39: ${p}: ambiguous redirect It sounds ${p} should be quoted to take care of possible spaces in the path to the Windows device: # Define default printer p='/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/W

Start a crontab service

2011-03-17 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I tried to install cron locally on my laptop, and could not find instructions to proceed. I found FAQ 41, and failed to start sshd as well. I have now the two services installed: ~> cygrunsrv --verbose --list Service : sshd Current State : Stopped Command : /u

Re: ssh error

2010-06-06 Thread Marc Girod
Gary .-4 wrote: > > (Or, IOW: I, at least, have seen your post, but I can't help you. Sorry.) > Neither am I able to provide a competent answer, or to reproduce your problem (Vista client to Solaris sshd only). On the surface, it seems to be a bash error to load a dll (?). Did you run ./rebasea

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Marc Girod
Ken Brown-6 wrote: > > [This should have gone to the cygwin-xfree list. I've set the reply-to > accordingly.] > Sorry... I wasn't sure whether it was emacs or X. I reply via nabble: hope it will follow the reply-to. > This is a result of the change in the default server DPI announced in >

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Marc Girod
I just thought I'd add my /var/log/XWin.0.log file, which contains my X startup string... The complete startup string, from /Emacs.bat, is: bash --login -c "/usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/emacs -g 90x37+150+0 -- /usr/bin/X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard" Thanks, Marc http://old.nabble.com/file/p28403944/X

Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I just upgraded for the first time for a few months. Starting my Gnu emacs under X11, I notice that my font (and frames) is larger than previously, by a factor ~1.5. I did record the following last October, and it stayed the same now: ~> cygcheck -c | egrep 'bitstream.*vera' font-bitstre

Re: MIT krb5 on cygwin?

2010-03-11 Thread Marc Girod
Alec Kloss-17 wrote: > > FYI, I did submit some fixed to make heimdal work under cygwin... > depending on what you're trying to accomplish with LDAP heimdal > should be sufficient. Thanks! At least, it was enough for me to build GSSAPI-0.26. I had however to add -heimsqlite to the value of $lib_

Re: MIT krb5 on cygwin?

2010-03-10 Thread Marc Girod
Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote: > > Let me put it this way. We would be really glad to have a Cygwin > maintainer for an MIT krb5 package. > I see... I gave a try now to krb5-1.8 (instead of looking at the Windows port). Configure dies in: configure:7006: error: Shared libraries are not yet support

MIT krb5 on cygwin?

2010-03-09 Thread Marc Girod
Still trying to install Net::LDAP, I am now in GSSAPI-0.26. This one requires... An installed Version of GSS-API bindings, e.g MIT Kerberos Heimdal VAS It goes on indicating that...

Re: Problems installing Text-Iconv-1.7 (perl module)

2010-03-09 Thread Marc Girod
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Sorry. Reread the thread. You forgot to put the -liconv at the end. > Remember, Windows != UNIX/Linux. ;-) > Thanks! It worked, and then I read the makefile better, and it did it correctly, only the second time: it made a first attempt without it (in case the sy

Re: Problems installing Text-Iconv-1.7 (perl module)

2010-03-09 Thread Marc Girod
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Did you install it? > I installed libiconv, but there is no dll in it: an archive, and this dll.a file, of which I don't what to think: ~> cygcheck -l libiconv | grep lib/libiconv /usr/lib/libiconv.a /usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a /usr/lib/libiconv.la ~> file /usr/lib/l

Re: Problems installing Text-Iconv-1.7 (perl module)

2010-03-09 Thread Marc Girod
Reini Urban wrote: > > you need gcc-4 > Thanks, to both of you (Corina and Reini). Do I understand right that perl was built with gcc 4 and -fstack-protect? So, shouldn't gcc 4 be the default? OK... It has been beaten to death and I just didn't notice or look for it... Text-Iconv-1.7> gcc -D

Problems installing Text-Iconv-1.7 (perl module)

2010-03-09 Thread Marc Girod
As part of Net::LDAP, I try to install Text-Iconv-1.7, and it fails. I installed libiconv (I already had libiconv2), but 'perl Makefile.PL' has a comiple test which fails. I reproduced on the command line, removing the redirections to /dev/null: Text-Iconv-1.7> gcc -I/usr/include -DPERL_USE_SAFE_

Re: Fwd: 1.7.1 setup mirrors list is empty

2010-03-09 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > Setup stays in download mode (setup.bz2), empty progress bar, > now from sunet.se as well as all the others. > And suddenly it started to work again from heanet.ie. Thanks, Marc -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Fwd%3A-1.7.1-setup-mir

Re: Fwd: 1.7.1 setup mirrors list is empty

2010-03-08 Thread Marc Girod
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: > > There is only one Swedish mirror: ftp.sunet.se. It has a recent version > of setup.ini. Mirrors are not supposed to keep copies of setup.exe and, > in fact, I don't see one at that site. > My mistake: I meant setup.ini. setup.exe 2.686, which I downloaded yeste

Re: Fwd: 1.7.1 setup mirrors list is empty

2010-03-08 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, Nazar Gabriel wrote: > > After stepping through the screens the list for mirrors to choose from is > empty. > I don't have an empty list, but I do have some problems with them. The Swedish mirror has an older version of setup.exe. The installation from funet.fi couldn't complete, and late

Re: Questions about gnu debug

2009-12-24 Thread Marc Girod
Eliot Moss wrote: > > And this may add a little to your understanding: > Few of which pertains to cygwin... Eliot Moss wrote: > > Hope these distinctions help > They are matters of taste, and of experience. I have an other taste and an other experience. Hard to compare, I know. Eliot Moss w

Re: ttyfier

2009-12-20 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > I start playing with gdb... > I don't get very far: it returns directly to the shell prompt. I did a make clean, uncommented the DEBUG = -g, and make again, but to no avail. ttyfier> file tfy.exe tfy.exe: PE32 executable for MS Windows (console) Intel 8

ttyfier (was: /dev/conout)

2009-12-20 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > I am still looking forward to tfy... > Building it, I get a exe called tfy.exe, and a ttyfier1.dll shared library. I try: ./tfy cleartool -ver in the cygwin console and in an xterm I get a 'flash' then nothing, and the process seems to hang. I

Re: /dev/conout

2009-12-18 Thread Marc Girod
defaria wrote: > > So I've always just used something like "cleartool ci -c 'my comment' > " or "cleartool ci -nc " and if I ever do a cleartool > command and it seems to hang the first thing I think of is "Oh I bet > it's that pty thing". > I believe I have better than that with my ClearCas

/de/conout (was: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application)

2009-12-18 Thread Marc Girod
defaria wrote: > > the problem is that cleartool is written for Windows > thus uses /dev/conout > I can see /dev/conout, but what can I do with it? I found one hit in the docs: http://www.cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html Thanks, Marc -- View this message in context: htt

Re: ttyfier (was: Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application)

2009-12-14 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: > > Thanks, I had't heard of ttyfier. Interesting stuff! More > comprehensive than my 'conin' attempt because it tranlates output as > well as input. > I downloaded the sources and built it. My first try at using it wasn't very convincing: it didn't display anything and I had

Re: Merits of ClearCase

2009-12-14 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: > > That's a workaround, not a solution. Any VCS that requires an O(n) (n as > the number of files being labeled) labeling post-processing pass in order > to create enough records in the database to track commits atomically, when > there are O(1) solutions like git where commi

Merits of ClearCase (was: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application)

2009-12-14 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: > > In my opinion, the MVFS file system is a piece of trash. It has so many > corner cases that intentionally _break_ POSIX rules and thus get in the > way of normal assumptions about how file systems should work > Maybe. The question is: is it worth it? I believe it is. Eri

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-13 Thread Marc Girod
Dave Korn-6 wrote: > > Ghastly top-heavy over-engineered UML-laden bloatware that comes with > its > own non-standard filing system does tend to make me do that ;-) > There's a gem well hidden inside. Dave Korn-6 wrote: > > That'll teach you to choose the wrong side in the One True Editor

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-13 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: > > Did you restart your Cygwin session? I think that setting only gets > read once at the start of the first Cygwin process. > No: I only set the environment varaible in the console shell. I am now updating cygwin... I didn't do that for a few weeks. Andy Koppe wrote: > > O

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-13 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: > > 2009/12/13 Marc Girod: > Surprised it doesn't work in the Cygwin console, unless you've got > CYGWIN=tty set? > I have. Dave Korn told me to take it away. Anyway, no result one way or the other. Andy Koppe wrote: > > The problem likely i

Re: Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-13 Thread Marc Girod
Dave Korn-6 wrote: > > *shudder* > Er? Dave Korn-6 wrote: > > It's almost certainly not hung: it's printed the prompt, which has > gotten > lost somewhere, and it's now waiting for your input. Try hitting enter. > This is what I meant. I thought I had tried hitting Enter... It works. Un

Looking for the 'stdout' of a Windows application

2009-12-13 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin. In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user for an interactive decision. I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X --emacs shell or xterm-- or the Cygwin terminal. My process just h

Re: mark/copy text to clipboard without a mouse in rxvt or mintty

2009-10-26 Thread Marc Girod
Andy Koppe wrote: > > Apple's Terminal.app has such a feature, but I don't know of any open > source terminal that has it. Except for the special case of GNU > screen, although there you're limited to copy&pasting within screen, > but perhaps that'd be sufficient? > GNU emacs shell too. And pro

Re: Can't rm file, but no error message

2009-10-05 Thread Marc Girod
Ronald Fischer-6 wrote: > > I think we can derive it from the CYGWIN environment variable, isn't it? > It is set to 'smbntsec'. > > The system is a pretty standard Windows 2000 machine, so it should be the > filesystem which Microsoft usually installs... > There is a nice utility to tell you

Re: XWin not working on vista?

2009-09-30 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, I saw Larry's reply to go to the cygwin-xfree list, and I am OK with that, but you didn't yet, did you? Then just to tell that at least I do successfully use XWin on Vista. Mike Eggleston-2 wrote: > > Suggestions on what to try next? > Well, comparing our respective logs: - I use: Relea

Re: emacs shell: Can't exec program: /usr/bin/bash

2009-08-11 Thread Marc Girod
Hi Ken, Marc Girod wrote: > > Not yet, but now I downloaded it... > Now I installed it (and ran rebaseall/peflagsall). ~> uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0 EV0016D4A35054 1.7.0s(0.212/5/3) 20090804 23:19:31 i686 Cygwin It seems indeed to work much better than 56! Thanks, Marc -- View

Re: emacs shell: Can't exec program: /usr/bin/bash

2009-08-10 Thread Marc Girod
Ken Brown-6 wrote: > > Have you tried the latest snapshot (2009-08-04)? > Not yet, but now I downloaded it... In fact, I'll try it only if things become unbearable, or if my X crashes. I tend to keep my things up for a few days... It takes some time to set everything up. Thanks, Marc -- Vie

emacs shell: Can't exec program: /usr/bin/bash

2009-08-10 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, I upgraded to 1.7.0-56, then did my usual rebaseall/peflagsall. It went well, but now, I keep getting failures to start new shells under GNU emacs. I get the following error: Can't exec program: /usr/bin/bash Process shell<4> exited abnormally with code 127 It succeeded first a few tim

MVFS on cygwin: Thanks, and plug for ClearCase::Wrapper::MGi

2009-07-29 Thread Marc Girod
Thanks for the recent fixes to make cygwin support mvfs for handling the emacs symlink locks! I keep updating my CPAN modules to run ClearCase from cygwin. With the recent ClearCase::Argv 1.46, and ClearCase::Wrapper::MGi 0.11, I get the following kind of transcripts: ClearCase-Wrapper-MGi> moun

Re: volinfo (was: MVFS results)

2009-07-20 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: > > Oh - that's why I didn't find it - csih renamed it to getVolInfo, and it > is not > part of the default PATH. > Very nice... and I found that I can mount my views on cygwin the 'standard' way! info> mkdir /view info> mount //view/emagiro_86 /view/emagiro_86 mount: warnin

Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???

2009-07-17 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: > > You shouldn't need the hack at all, once the next cygwin snapshot > is made available. > Oh! This fast! I just thought I would have to live with this longer. Thanks, Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/.-*-lock-files-under-X%2C-for-files-I-edit---

Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???

2009-07-17 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > Just two fixes for now: > My emacs crashed (Memory Full). I don't know whether this may be related. It had not done so for long. This might well be a side-effect of this purify-flag... Maybe I could set it to nil on some later function? Otherwise, my hack

Re: MVFS results

2009-07-16 Thread Marc Girod
Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote: > > Been there. It's a remote trial over Web Browser for 3 hours. > That's not exactly helpful. Oh well. > The other option is the source code for linux. It is Open Source. I can find it from my release area (since I do not have a linux client): /cc/releaseArea/v

Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???

2009-07-15 Thread Marc Girod
Eric Blake wrote: > >> (set (make-local-variable 'purify_flag) t > > Setting purify-flag wasn't working for me (emacs gave a message > about an assertion failure). > Huh? Nothing like that here. In fact, it works... Wait: - I still have the 'CYGWIN=winsymlinks' setting --although unse

Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???

2009-07-15 Thread Marc Girod
Just two fixes for now: Marc Girod wrote: > > This function is intened as a find-file-hook." > ... > (set (make-local-variable 'purify_flag) t > intended purify-flag Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/.-*-lock-files-un

Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???

2009-07-15 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > I'll report my results... > Here is what I did, to make it practical: (defun clearcase-no-lock() "Under ClearCase, in Cygwin, do not create lock symlinks. Either format (old: Windows shortcuts; new: real symlinks with utf name) are bad for differen

Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???

2009-07-15 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > Thanks. I'll try that. > That was: 'CYGWIN=winsymlinks tty' The result is not fully satisfying. E.g.: lrwxrwxrwx 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers45 Jul 14 11:57 .#common.mk -> emag...@ev0016d4a35054.eemea.ericsson.se.4708 in a dired buffer

Re: browse-url in emacs (was Re: w32-shell-execute function definition is void)

2009-06-18 Thread Marc Girod
Ken Brown-6 wrote: > > On 6/17/2009 12:15 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > Marc, if you want to test it, delete the stuff you added to your .emacs > and carry out the following steps: ... > OK, I ran this. I did it from within emacs, which was maybe not bright. Anyway, I got a couple of glitches in the

Re: fatal error - fork: can't reserve memory for stack

2009-06-16 Thread Marc Girod
Frank-136 wrote: > > As you see, I already tried with Cygwin 1.5 and 1.7 and I also ran the > "rebase" > tool under Cygwin 1.5, but no success. > You need to run it for Cygwin 1.7 as well. I also run, in the same ash window, after every install, a ./peflagsall With those, and since I installed

Re: w32-shell-execute function definition is void

2009-06-16 Thread Marc Girod
Ken Brown-6 wrote: > > I haven't tried to write a full-blown replacement, but the following > works for me. > It is now in my .emacs as well. Er... (browse-url "file://c:/cygwin2/home/emagiro/public_html/index.html" nil) I even get it twice! Yes, I know... call that ingratitude... Thanks! Ma

Re: Garbage man pages

2009-06-16 Thread Marc Girod
Bill McCormick-4 wrote: > > Here's some sample output: > > u9Fman.1Z[waAE~i_NE}2Fg'vHjxD.%9x# OdG FaD'?~eO4(Ex > ... > Writing is easy, reading is hard. Nothing new. Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Garbage-man-pages-tp23989626p24050746.html Sent from t

Re: w32-shell-execute function definition is void

2009-06-16 Thread Marc Girod
Mark Fisher-4 wrote: > > i cannot seem to be able to use/find w32-shell-execute. > Same thing on 23.0.92 The error comes e.g. as I do: M-x browse-url I can find the function definition in the C sources: src/w32fns.c but I remember that this object is not linked to the cygwin emacs. So, there

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-07 Thread Marc Girod
Reini Urban wrote: > > I successfully ran all Net-SSH-Perl-1.34 tests. > Now I could build Math::GMP, so I did as well. Same problems with make tests for Math::Pari Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Re%3A-Trying-to-install-CPAN-Math%3A%3AGMP.-Can-libgmp3-provid

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-07 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > Thanks to the fixes to libgmp-3 by Bill[...] > I meant David! Sorry. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Re%3A-Trying-to-install-CPAN-Math%3A%3AGMP.-Can-libgmp3-provide--libgmp--tp23850368p23909269.html Sent from the Cygwin list mai

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-07 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > Thanks, because my own (naive) attempt failed on the configure stage, > because of expr dumping core. > Thanks to the fixes to libgmp-3 by Bill, expr works for me now, and I could successfully build and install libssh2-1.1 from the sources. Marc -- View thi

Re: Problems with gmp and mpfr after rebasing - was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] gmp-4.3.1-1 for cygwin-1.7

2009-06-07 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > I'll test them soon now... > Installed, rebased, and yes! At least expr works now! Thanks, Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-ANNOUNCEMENT--gmp-4.3.1-1-for-cygwin-1.7-tp23690044p23908982.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing l

Re: Problems with gmp and mpfr after rebasing - was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] gmp-4.3.1-1 for cygwin-1.7

2009-06-07 Thread Marc Girod
David Billinghurst wrote: > > The new builds are available for testing. You really only need the new > DLLs. These are in > - libgmp3-4.3.1-3.tar.bz2, > - libgmpxx4-4.3.1-3.tar.bz2 > - libmpfr1-2.4.1-3.tar.bz2 > I could once again download them with wget, but not find them from any mir

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-06 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > Reinstall gave me the same versions again. > The last reinstall was thus a noop, but no, my perl broke. 2 [main] perl5.10.0 3236 C:\cygwin2\bin\perl5.10.0.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap \\?\C:\cygwin2\lib\perl5\5.10\i686-cygwin\auto\Socket\Sock

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-06 Thread Marc Girod
Dave Korn-6 wrote: > > As Larry says, I meant reinstall the standard distro versions. > Sorry, did that now, but I couldn't find from the mirror (kernel.org) a new (-2) version of gmp... I still have 4.3.1-1. Reinstall gave me the same versions again. Running the rebase/peflags, I got btw 2 err

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-05 Thread Marc Girod
Dave Korn-6 wrote: > > If you have rebased, please reinstall libgmp/libmpfr. > Er... rebased what? I have rebased all, only expr cannot be rebased (no symbols). Can one rebase optimized executables? Anyway, I used wget as advertised, but what then? And besides... gmp> tar jft gmp-4.3.1-2.ta

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-05 Thread Marc Girod
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > > I'm just taking over libssh2, and it will be updated to 1.0 very soon. > Thanks, because my own (naive) attempt failed on the configure stage, because of expr dumping core. Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Re%3A-Trying-to-install-

Re: expr error

2009-06-04 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > $ nm /usr/bin/expr > nm: /usr/bin/expr: no symbols > This may explain that: libssh2-1.1> rebase -b 0x7000 -v /usr/bin/expr /usr/bin/expr: skipped because not rebaseable tmp> expr a : '\(a\)' Segmentation fault (core dumped) tmp> gdb /

Re: expr error

2009-06-04 Thread Marc Girod
Xima Lenik wrote: > > Yes, I've rebased. After extracted cyggmp-3.dll from libgmp3-4.3, it's > ok now. > Sorry, my expr still keeps dumping core. E.g.: ./configure: line 142: 3840 Segmentation fault (core dumped) expr a : '\(a\)' > /dev/null 2>&1 I have run ./rebaseall (and .peflagsall

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-04 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > My make test fails however: > > Test Summary Report > --- > t/00_Pari.t(Wstat: 65280 Tests: 30 Failed: 0) > Non-zero exit status: 255 > Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 546 tests but ran 30. > ... > If

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-04 Thread Marc Girod
Reini Urban wrote: > > Since Math::Pari does not work, you need Math::GMP, right. > But with this and selecting IDEA and Crypt::RSA > I successfully ran all Net-SSH-Perl-1.34 tests. > > BTW: for reference the pari error: > gcc-4 -c -I ../pari-2.1.7/src -I../pari-2.1.7/src/headers > -I../pari-

Re: Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-04 Thread Marc Girod
Sisyphus wrote: > > Without checking, I think it's just that the version of libssh2 is too old > for Net-SSH2-0.20. > Net-SSH2-0.20 should build against libssh2 versions 0.19 and 1.0. What > version of the library do you have ? You should be able to build > libssh2-1.0 from source, if the binary

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-03 Thread Marc Girod
Excellent! Reini Urban wrote: > > t/01_gmppm.ok > So this seems to be our only difference. Math-GMP-2.05> make testdb TEST_FILE=t/01_gmppm.t /usr/bin/perl.exe -d "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" t/01_gmppm.t Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.3 Editor support available. Enter h

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-03 Thread Marc Girod
Sisyphus wrote: > > Any errors during the 'make test' phase of the Math-GMP-2.05 build ? > Yes. Sorry: I forgot about them. I attach the transcript. I couldn't build Net::SSH2... Marc http://www.nabble.com/file/p23852073/mathgmp.test mathgmp.test -- View this message in context: http://www.

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-03 Thread Marc Girod
Sisyphus wrote: > > I've found Net::SSH2 to be quite good (though I've only used it on > 'native' win32) - haven't tried Net::SSH::Perl. > Thanks. tried it. However, 'perl Makefile.PL' doesn't seem to find the bits I installed from libssh2-devel. I had to set: my $lib = '/usr/lib'; my $inc = '

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-03 Thread Marc Girod
Sisyphus wrote: > > No error there - just a warning, but that's not going to stop the > compilation and should not be a problem. Correct, but after I install the result, trying to use it dumps core, which is why I suspected this (no other errors). e.g. 'perl Makefile.PL' for Net-SSH-Perl-1.34..

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-03 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: > > Where does IV come from is what I'll try to find next. > This seems to be from the perlapi: sv_iv A private implementation of the "SvIVx" macro for compilers which can't cope with complex macro expressions. Always

Re: Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

2009-06-03 Thread Marc Girod
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Try another mirror. It's listed on one or both of the mirrors below: > > ftp://sourceware.mirrors.tds.net > ftp://mirrors.kernel.org > OK, Thanks! Got that from the latter. However now that I compile the perl CPAN module: Math::GMP 2.05, I get a lot of compilati

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