Many Thanks

I've been using Cygwin since 2002 and am quite pleased with it. I had been on various Unix systems since 1982, and later Linux. When I found myself at a job with *NO* Linux/Unix access I was hurting really bad. Then I found Cygwin. While Cygwin may not be perfect, it sure beats the alternative

cygwin autoconf question

Chris W had asked "where is the autoconf macro directory?". Is there any chance that it may be up to you to specify this by using either "-m dir" or "--macrodir=dir" ? neal -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Doc

prime95 adversely affects update on w2k (resolved)

I can not reproduce the problem I had experienced, and after reviewing the setup log, understand my failure to exit all cygwin apps prior to the update played a part in the difficulties I faced. While prime95 may well have been a factor, it was only so in unusual circumstances. To simplify my life

prime95 adversely affects update on w2k

I am writing in the hope of saving others some grief. Prime95 (http://mersenne.org/) soaks up all available background CPU cycles while trying to help find large mersenne primes. Apparently when it is running, it prevents some or all of the postinstall activity from completing. (On windows 2000 an

Setting speed of serial port on Win2K system

AuM. Graefe asked about setting speed of serial ports on Win 2000. I've had success with #include struct termios *serial_config; cfsetospeed( serial_config, B57600); // for example cfsetispeed( serial_config, B57600); in conjunction with a later tcsetattr call...

strange bug : select() always generate 10022 error

Compiling with -E can give some clues. The second case winds up producing some code like ... do { u_int __i;for (__i = 0; __i < ((fd_set *)(&fds))->fd_count ; __i++) { if (((fd_set *)(&fds))->fd_array[__i] == ((unsigned)s)) { break; }}if (__i == ((fd_set *)(&fds))->fd_count) { if (((fd_set *)(&fd

saving problem w/ postgresql

One thing which is real easy to check and modify is the limit on the number of open files. ulimit -n will show the current limit for this. ulimit -n will set this to some new value. Other limits are perhaps not so easily changed. Considering how hard you are running things there might be

compilercache may be helpful

I stumbled across compilercache at http://www.erikyyy.de/compilercache/ and thought I would share it in the hope that some folk might find it useful. I found no prior mention of it on this mailing list. The description at sourceforge is as follows -- Compilercache is a wrapperscript aro

RE: Can someone please answer this question I've posted repeatedly even if it is just to say slag off

I've attached strace output of dumper attempt producing same message. I started a cat >/dev/null in another rxvt window and then after using ps -el strace dumper.exe --verbose -d /bin/cat.exe 4226590139 >dumper.cat.strace The screen had that same setting bfd architecture: No error message. What I f