From: michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser) Subject: Re: Cygwin newbie questions 13 Sep 1998 15:21:55 -0700 Message-ID: <35fbc70c.709750.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.weiser.saale-net.de> References: <35F99135 DOT 4E7B94E3 AT sd DOT inri DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: Steve Grubbs Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hello Steve, you wrote: >I just got Cygwin32, and it's great. It's working exactly how I'd expect it for >the most part. The problem is the small things that aren't working really bug >me. I have a feeling these may be linked, and I was hoping someone more >knowledgable could help me here. I can try. :) >1) At my new job, I'm working under WinNT, but we use good ol' CVS for revision >control (archive is on a Unix box). I don't really know the source of the "cvs" >executable (our 2 main sysadmins just left within 2 weeks, so nobody I've asked >really knows where they came from). The problem is that it doesn't work under >cygwin. It works fine from a cmd prompt, but if I run it from cygwin, I get no >output. I don't get "command not found", I just get nothing. Any ideas what's up >with this? >BTW, I test this with safe cvs commands like "cvs -v", which should work even if >cvs settings were messed up. My version of cvs-1.9 downloaded from www.cyclic.com works perfectly under cygwin32. But compiling a 'native' cygwin32 cvs would certainly the cleanest solution. >2) One thought I had was to download cvs source and compile it under cygwin. >When I try to run "configure", though, I get "bash: ./configure: No such file or >directory". But configure IS there.... What's up with that? Does configure not >work? Do I just have to edit the Makefile myself? Have you tried 'sh ./configure' or 'bash ./configure'? Perhaps the file permissions are messed up and you have to set them with chmod. But normally this should give an 'permission denied' error... >3) FTP hangs from cygwin. I assume its calling the WinNT ftp. Does this just not >work? Do I need to get a different ftp for cygwin? You could try the one from Sergey's remote.tgz found on ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Okhapkin_Sergey >4) I've found some WWW pages with ports and stuff, but they don't seem to have a >lot. Anyone know of any hard-to-find pages with good stuff? ftp://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/uwm_coads/X11R6.3 (Arlindo da Silva - X11R6 binaries for cygwin32) ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/fox/cygwin32 (David Fox - RPM for cygwin32) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32 (Michael Hirmke - German mirror and ports collection) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey Okhapkin - fixes and ports) ftp://ftp.parallax.co.uk/pub/andyp (Andy Piper - fixes and ports) ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32 (Mumit Khan - egcs binaries for cygwin32 and mingw32) (Hello Earnie, the mini-FAQ is coming! ;-)))) -- bye, Michael - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".