Re: Fw: Cygwin updates cause rebaseall errors

2012-03-15 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Andrey Repin" I'm a bit dubious about providing a hard link to http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures as it seems like the sort of link that might change. Would "Go to http://cygwin.com/faq/ and see the section 'How do I fi

Re: Fw: Cygwin updates cause rebaseall errors

2012-03-15 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" < I'd highly suggest not including pointers to random web sites as a method to fix this issue but, instead, point to the Cygwin FAQ and the Cygwin mailing list. Seems a sane suggestion to me. I'm a bit dubious about providing a hard l

Re: x86_64-w64-ming32-g++ file not recognized by objdump

2011-08-20 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Thomas D. Dean" #include #include using namespace std; int main() { vector vs; vs.push_back("asdf"); } If I compile with g++, I get an executable that works, i.e. runs without error. This file is recognized by objdump and cygcheck. If I compile with

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-10 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Hugh Myers" Sisyphus, this is off topic slightly, but you might want to adjust the link on the CPAN page: http://www.loria.fr/projets/mpfr/mpfr-current/mpfr.html Yes - thanks. (And it *is* OT :-) That's an old link that I'd overlo

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-10 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Hugh Myers" The OP is trying to build Perl itself, not use it; hence the need for long double support functions... You don't need "long double support functions" to build perl ... unless you want to build a perl whose NV is a long double (instead of a do

Re: newlib and long-double question

2011-04-10 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "marco atzeri" On a Linux system that I have access to, I see that those functions are in /lib/libm.* but cygwin's /lib/libm.* still seems to lack them. Is there any work around or alternate version ofthis lib that actually has these functions. I honestly do

Re: Cross-compiling for i686-pc-mingw32

2010-08-07 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Charles Wilson" However, with cygwin-1.7.5, it doesn't work. For now, use CC='gcc-3 -mno-cygwin'. Soon you'll be able to use a real, honest-to-god cross compiler version of gcc-4 instead (e.g. "i686-pc-mingw32-gcc") Thanks Chuck. That works well I

Cross-compiling for i686-pc-mingw32

2010-08-07 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, With cygwin-1.5.25 I can cross-compile libraries for native win32 by starting with the following configure command: ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --build=i686-pc-cygwin CC='gcc -mno-cygwin' host_alias=i686-pc-mingw32 and that has worked fine on the few occasions that I've tried it.

Re: sshd - sftp problem (perl demo)

2010-07-26 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Sisyphus" I'm also unable to upload files to the Cygwin installation using SCP. (Again, no problems with SCP when connected to the remote linux box.) Where I've written "SCP", I meant "SCP over ssh". Chee

sshd - sftp problem (perl demo)

2010-07-26 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, I have the following perl script that attempts to connect (from native Windows) to an sshd server (either localhost, which is a Cygwin sshd server, or a remote linux host) and create a Net::SSH2::SFTP object. ### use warnings; use Net::SSH2; my ($host, $user,

Re: resolving _glgetstr...@4 by linking to _glGetString

2010-07-11 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Sisyphus" How do I get gcc-3.4.4 to apply those fixups that gcc-4.3.4 applied ? Not so much of an issue any more (still a bit curious about it, but). I soon found that providing a '-lopengl32' link instead of '/cygdrive/c/Wind

resolving _glgetstr...@4 by linking to _glGetString

2010-07-10 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, When building the perl extension OpenGL-0.62 on Cygwin-1.7.5, gcc-4.3.4 I get the warning: Warning: resolving _glgetstr...@4 by linking to _glGetString Use --enable-stdcall-fixup to disable these warnings Use --disable-stdcall-fixup to disable these fixups That's exactly what needs to be

Re: Looking for gcc.exe

2010-06-28 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 7:30 AM Subject: Re: Looking for gcc.exe On 6/28/2010 10:01 AM, Stephen Morton wrote: "Sisyphus" Wrote: I've just installed a fresh "CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 desktop2 1.7

Looking for gcc.exe

2010-06-27 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, I've just installed a fresh "CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 desktop2 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-12 19:07 i686 Cygwin", including gcc-4 (4.3.4-3). According to http://cygwin.com/packages/ there should be an executable named gcc.exe in there - but I see only gcc-4.exe. As a quick fix I've created a copy

Re: 'git commit' problem

2010-01-27 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Matthias Andree" To: "Sisyphus" ; When I try to 'git commit' my amendments I often get hit with "* trailing whitespace (line xxx)" errors. Configure your editor to not leave whitespace at the end of lines (some

'git commit' problem

2010-01-26 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, This might be a general 'git' issue rather than something specific to Cygwin. (The only git I have used is Cygwin's git - version 1.5.4.) When I try to 'git commit' my amendments I often get hit with "* trailing whitespace (line xxx)" errors. Firstly, I'm wondering what's wrong with hav

Re: Can't install Perl modules with new Cygwin because of gcc version

2009-12-25 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Chloe" I might be able to add a cc flag in cpan, but I don't know how to take one out. One hack (which I think should work) would be to remove " -fstack-protector" from the ccflags spec in cygwin/lib/perl5/5.10/cygwin/Config_heavy.pl. (I'm guessing tha

Re: undefined reference

2009-06-26 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Winderson Martins de Souza" To: ; Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:32 PM Subject: Fwd: undefined reference Hello, I'm trying to compile gettext on cygwin, but I'm getting an undefined reference error, could anyone help?? I'm running configure without share

Re: Optimize cygwin on recent windows version (Vista and Seven)

2009-06-16 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Chris Sutcliffe" >> Times taken were: >> Linux : 1.5 mimutes >> XP (mingw): 6.5 minutes >> Vista (mingw): 16.5 minutes >> Vista (cygwin): 23.25 minutes If UAC is disabled, does it improve performance? Yes - for Cygwin it reduced the time taken by 2 mi

Re: Optimize cygwin on recent windows version (Vista and Seven)

2009-06-16 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Edward Lam" Times taken were: Linux : 1.5 mimutes XP (mingw): 6.5 minutes Vista (mingw): 16.5 minutes Vista (cygwin): 23.25 minutes Are these tests on 64-bit or 32-bit Windows? All on 32-bit, except for Vista which is 64-bit. It hadn't really occu

Re: Optimize cygwin on recent windows version (Vista and Seven)

2009-06-15 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Vincent R." To: Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:03 AM Subject: Optimize cygwin on recent windows version (Vista and Seven) Hi, Until now I was using cygwin on Windows XP and I was satisfied by cygwin-1.7 but these last few days I switched to a more power

Re: Copy converts tabs to spaces ?

2009-02-02 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Sisyphus" One workaround is to run 'notepad foo.c' instead of 'cat.c' Hmmm .. doesn't make a lot of sense. I meant "instead of 'cat foo.c'". Cheers, Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

Re: Copy converts tabs to spaces ?

2009-02-02 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "xerces8" Details: - print the content of some text file that has tabs (like a C program source) : cat foo.c - select and copy the text with the mouse - paste (ctrl-V) into WordPad You'll get the same behaviour if, instead of running 'cat foo.c' in the

Re: [perl] Portably linking to libstdc++

2008-10-20 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . Please post the entire link command and not just the error. It's impossible to say what the true nature of the problem is otherwise. For example, if you're trying to link a library and not an executable then the abov

Re: [perl] Portably linking to libstdc++

2008-10-20 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Reini Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . Current cygwin perl already has g++ as LD for some releases. Good - I think that's a step in the right direction. (I wonder how we can get linux builds to start doing the same.) On my 5.8.8, LD is set to ld2 which, I t

Re: [perl] Portably linking to libstdc++

2008-10-19 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> But on cygwin, there is no '-lstdc++' to be found in $Config{libpth}, so MakeMaker decides to not pass the switch on (which has always been MakeMaker's policy in such cases, afaik). This is a pity - there would be no proble

Re: [perl] Portably linking to libstdc++

2008-10-19 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Sisyphus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . How do I write that LIBS assignment so that it would be portable across different *Cygwin* installations ? I still don't know how to do that - though I did come to a better understanding of h

[perl] Portably linking to libstdc++

2008-10-15 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, On linux, I can have my perl distro link to libstdc++ by simply specifying (in the Makefile.PL's %WriteMakefile) : LIBS => ['-lstdc++'], And, for MinGW-built perls on Win32, the same construct works. For Cygwin, it seems that is not sufficient (as the directory that houses libstdc++.a i

Re: ppm disappeared

2008-07-12 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . $ ppm Can't locate ActivePerl/PPM/limited_inc.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/5.10 /usr/ lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-

Re: Perl IPC::Cmd

2008-05-05 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Ronald Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:00 PM Subject: Perl IPC::Cmd I'm using perl 5.8.7 for Solaris perl 5.8.8 for Cygwin perl 5.8.10 for Windows (native) perl 5.8.10 ?? To my surprise, the Cygwin version of Perl does

Re: Building perl-5.10.0

2008-03-30 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Reini Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 3:48 AM Subject: Re: Building perl-5.10.0 Sisyphus schrieb: - Original Message - From: "Matthew Persico" Well after a bit of googling around, the answer

Re: build a GMPlib win32 dll with Cygwin

2008-03-26 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "cyrille37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:36 PM Subject: build a GMPlib win32 dll with Cygwin Hello, I need to use GMPlib (gmplib.org) on windows xp. After compiling GMP with cygwin, for runtime, should I need some cygwin dl

Re: Building perl-5.10.0

2008-03-18 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Persico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . Well after a bit of googling around, the answer is this: 1) In a Windows cmd command prompt, cd where your cygwin lives - mine is at c:\opt\cygwin Mine is at C:\cygwin. 2) cd .. I first ran 'attrib cygwin' to s

Building perl-5.10.0

2008-03-14 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, I thought I might build perl-5.10.0, so I downloaded the perl source into the ~/comp directory, switched to the top level source directory and ran: sh configure -de -Duse64bitint -Dprefix=~/myperl That seemed to run ok - so I then ran 'make'. That process runs for a while but terminates with

rsync

2008-03-10 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, Is there an rsync package for Cygwin ? I ran 'Setup.exe' but couldn't find the beast ... mind you, it's a while since I've run 'Setup.exe' for cygwin, so I might have been missing something that's obvious to the initiated. Cheers, Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#uns

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Michael Kairys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . I'll say it again, it would be wonderful if Perl/Tk would work with regular win32 graphical elements but nobody has bothered to develop that. Well, ActiveState has :) Actually, I don't think ActiveState do anythin

Re: Need help with Perl/Tk

2007-12-13 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Michael Kairys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:26 PM . . Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll' for module Tk: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/DynaLoader.pm line 230. Howev

[Perl] source 'typemap' (only) can't be found

2007-12-05 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, I have a perl source distro - the source files having been written using basic Win32 apps (like wordpad and notepad) : [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_32/working/math-gmpz/Math-GMPz-0.24 $ ls -l total 232 --+ 1 Rob None 1361 Dec 5 21:06 C

Re: "collect2.exe has stopped working"

2007-10-28 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . Um, that particular problem (X_OK and _access()) is 100% irrelevant to Cygwin's gcc Sorry for the noise I had it in my head that the op's post had been sent to the MinGW mailing list. (I'll try to pay better

Re: "collect2.exe has stopped working"

2007-10-27 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Steve Casselman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 11:48 AM Subject: "collect2.exe has stopped working" I have Vista and I'm trying to compile _anything_ with gcc 3.4.4 All I get is "collect2.exe has stopped working" Vista breaks

Re: Once more: performance on Vista

2007-10-18 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . In particular, shell scripts (e.g. "configure" scripts) are ridiculously slow, as is "make" on large projects I find Vista, XP and 2000 are all (roughly) equally slow. That is, I think it's a "Windows" thing rather than a "Vista" th

Re: Danny Smith stepping down as MinGW maintainer

2007-08-31 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . In any event, I hope everyone will join with me to wish Danny the very best of luck in whatever he pursues next. He's going to be an asset whereever he goes and whatever he does. Absolutely !! Cheers, Rob --

Re: Cygwin Perl and -Duselongdouble

2007-07-27 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . If I can successfully run 'gcc script.c' (where 'script.c' contains a call to 'sqrtl') then I'm inclined to say that sqrtl is "available in the C compiler" (or something like that). But you can't. That command shoul

Re: Cygwin Perl and -Duselongdouble

2007-07-26 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:29 PM Subject: Re: Cygwin Perl and -Duselongdouble Sisyphus wrote: I haven't checked for 'modfl' and 'frexpl', but 'sqrtl' at l

Cygwin Perl and -Duselongdouble

2007-07-26 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, I'd like to have a perl on Cygwin built with -Duselongdouble, so I tried building blead (5.9.5) from source with: ./configure -de -Dusemorebits -Dprefix=~/Rob -Dusethreads -Uusemymalloc -Doptimize=-O3 -Dusedevel but that failed, culminating as follows: . . s

Re: Trying to build (perl) Inline::CPP-0.25.

2007-07-24 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Paul Mallas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:05 AM Subject: Re: Trying to build (perl) Inline::CPP-0.25. I ran into a similar problem recently - the standard sort of c++ references were not being found. It turns out that the lin

Re: Trying to build (perl) Inline::CPP-0.25.

2007-07-24 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:48 PM Subject: Re: Trying to build (perl) Inline::CPP-0.25. Dave Korn wrote: That I can't say. But assuming the build uses proper dependencies in the makefile, you should be able

Trying to build (perl) Inline::CPP-0.25.

2007-07-24 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, I'm running Windows Vista Business 64 on an AMD64 box. See below my sig for 'perl -V'. I've built Inline::CPP on previous Cygwin installations (on Windows 2000) and on "native" Win32 builds of perl , but attempts to build this module under Cygwin are now failing under 'make test' with the f

Re: Problem with ping in Windows Vista

2007-07-19 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Arthur Niswar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:10 PM Subject: Problem with ping in Windows Vista Hi, I am using Cygwin on Windows Vista Business. The problem is: whenever I try to ping another host on the local network, it always f

Test file "is not readable" when running 'make test' (Perl)

2007-07-05 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, I'm trying to build a very small (and simplistic) perl module that I've created (Foo-0.01): [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_32/comp/Foo-0.01 $ perl Makefile.PL Writing Makefile for Foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_32/comp/Foo-0.01 $ make test cp

Re: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-05 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . . I wonder, do you have TMPDIR set? Try setting it, e.g. export TMPDIR=/tmp/Rob Yep - that fixes it. Both TEMP and TMP were set, but not TMPDIR. How do I make that alteration a permanent fixture, so that I don't

Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

2007-07-04 Thread Sisyphus
Hi, Just installed the latest cygwin (including Cygwin's build of perl 5.8.7) on Windows Vista Business (64) on an AMD64 box. Trying to access perl documentation using 'perldoc' throws an error: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_