Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?

2011-05-09 Thread rifter rifter
On 5/9/11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 9 17:21, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen writes: >> >> > Chris and I are wondering how many people are using the Windows console >> > as local console window in CYGWIN=tty mode and why. >> >> I am one such. >> >> > Here's why we ask: >> > >>

Re: windows cmd for ./configure

2011-04-30 Thread rifter rifter
You don't do ./configure in cmd.exe. You want to start a shell, like bash. cmd doesn't understand forward slashes and does not use . as a part of commands standing for the current directory. Cygwin should put a little shortcut in your start menu for "Cygwin bash shell." There are other ways to s

Re: error invoking commands preceded by '\' from bash shell

2010-03-23 Thread rifter rifter
you can refer to it by its propoer path; in this case /bin/gcc .. if it is something that is not in the normal cygwin tree, there is a convention for that, too, e.g. instead of c:\myprograms\prog.exe you'd use /cygdrive/c/myprograms/prog.exe the cygdrive part is configurable; you can change it to n