Problems using 'mkdirhier'

Problems using 'mkdirhier'

[Angelo Graziosi]

Trying to build an application downloaded from the web, the make fails
using 'mkdirhier'. I have reproduced this with the following example:

As Administrator:
-------------------------------------
$ cd
$ mkdirhier /home/Administrator/foo1/foo2/lib
mkdir: cannot create directory `//home': No such host or network path
mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator/foo1': Permission
denied
mkdir: cannot create directory
`//home/Administrator/foo1/foo2': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory
`//home/Administrator/foo1/foo2/lib': Permission denied

-------------------------------------

The system is W2K SP4 with ALL CYGWIN installed.

I am using the snapshot : 1.5.20s(0.155/4/2) 20060614 16:21:31

In cygwin am using the following test packages:


   coreutils-5.96-1
   emacs-21.3.50-2.*
   findutils-4.3.0-1
   lesstiff-0.94.4-1
   tar-1.15.90-1
   xorg-6.8.99.901-1.*


Cheers,

    Angelo.


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Re: Problems using 'mkdirhier'

[Igor Peshansky]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> Trying to build an application downloaded from the web, the make fails
> using 'mkdirhier'. I have reproduced this with the following example:
>
> As Administrator:
> -------------------------------------
> $ cd
> $ mkdirhier /home/Administrator/foo1/foo2/lib
> mkdir: cannot create directory `//home': No such host or network path
> mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator': Permission denied
> mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator/foo1': Permission denied
> mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator/foo1/foo2': Permission denied
> mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator/foo1/foo2/lib': Permission denied
> -------------------------------------
>
> The system is W2K SP4 with ALL CYGWIN installed.
> I am using the snapshot : 1.5.20s(0.155/4/2) 20060614 16:21:31
> In cygwin am using the following test packages:
>
>    coreutils-5.96-1
>    emacs-21.3.50-2.*
>    findutils-4.3.0-1
>    lesstiff-0.94.4-1
>    tar-1.15.90-1
>    xorg-6.8.99.901-1.*

Most of the above is irrelevant.  This sounds like a bug in mkdirhier, and
I also seem to recall that it was mentioned on the Cygwin lists before,
with proposed fixes.  Apparently, the fixes haven't been incorporated in
6.8.99.901-1.

Googling for "mkdirhier site:cygwin.com inurl:ml/cygwin" should turn up
the fixes you need.
HTH,
	Igor
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Re: Problems using 'mkdirhier'

[David Arnstein]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:05:52PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> Most of the above is irrelevant.  This sounds like a bug in mkdirhier, and
> I also seem to recall that it was mentioned on the Cygwin lists before,
> with proposed fixes.  Apparently, the fixes haven't been incorporated in
> 6.8.99.901-1.

On my system, mkdirhier is just a shell script. The program "mkdir"
has an option "-p" that seems to do exactly what mkdirhier does.
Perhaps mkdirhier needs to be retired.

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Re: Problems using 'mkdirhier'

[Angelo Graziosi]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> 
> > Trying to build an application downloaded from the web, the make fails
> > using 'mkdirhier'. I have reproduced this with the following example:
> >
> > As Administrator:
> > -------------------------------------
> > $ cd
> > $ mkdirhier /home/Administrator/foo1/foo2/lib
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `//home': No such host or network path
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator': Permission denied
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator/foo1': Permission denied
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator/foo1/foo2': Permission denied
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `//home/Administrator/foo1/foo2/lib': Permission denied
> > -------------------------------------
> >
> 
> .....
>
> Googling for "mkdirhier site:cygwin.com inurl:ml/cygwin" should turn up
> the fixes you need.

Applying the patch reported in
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-06/msg00374.html seems to solve
the problem!

Thanks,
   
   Angelo.


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Re: Imagemagick / GraphicsMagick on a brand new install

[Angelo Graziosi]

Peter Pimley wrote:

> If I run ImageMagick's convert, mogrify or identify tools (and possibly
> others, I've not tried), they silently fail


As was observed (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2006-05/msg00034.html),
this seems to depend on new xorg*-6.8.99.901-1.

Perhaps you can use Netpbm, instead.


Cheers,

   Angelo.



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Re: 1.5.21 release imminent - please test latest snapshot

[Angelo Graziosi]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> I've just created a snapshot which may, barring any conflagrations, be
> very close to what will show up as 1.5.21.  If there are no major
> regressions from 1.5.20, I plan on releasing cygwin 1.5.21 on Monday.


Which Monday ?


Cheers,

   Angelo.



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Re: 1.5.21 release imminent - please test latest snapshot

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 14 11:32, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> 
> 
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> > I've just created a snapshot which may, barring any conflagrations, be
> > very close to what will show up as 1.5.21.  If there are no major
> > regressions from 1.5.20, I plan on releasing cygwin 1.5.21 on Monday.
> 
> 
> Which Monday ?

Well, Monday.  Isn't that explicit enough?  Do you also need the year?


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Re: 1.5.21 release imminent - please test latest snapshot

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 14 11:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 14 11:32, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > 
> > > I've just created a snapshot which may, barring any conflagrations, be
> > > very close to what will show up as 1.5.21.  If there are no major
> > > regressions from 1.5.20, I plan on releasing cygwin 1.5.21 on Monday.
> > 
> > 
> > Which Monday ?
> 
> Well, Monday.  Isn't that explicit enough?  Do you also need the year?


Just in case somebody's missing the smily:  :)


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Re: 1.5.21 release imminent - please test latest snapshot

[Angelo Graziosi]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Well, Monday.  Isn't that explicit enough?  Do you also need the year?


The original post (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00188.html) was
dated 20060707.

Perhaps it would be sufficient a 1.5.20-2 that fix this
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00145.html.


In any case thanks a lot,

   Angelo.


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Re: 1.5.21 release imminent - please test latest snapshot

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 14 12:16, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > Well, Monday.  Isn't that explicit enough?  Do you also need the year?
> 
> 
> The original post (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00188.html) was
> dated 20060707.
> 
> Perhaps it would be sufficient a 1.5.20-2 that fix this
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00145.html.

Actually, we're trying to get the DLL out as soon as possible.  But you
know what happens.  Every time we prepare a snapshot and really want to
get it done, somebody jumps up from behind a shrub and cries "Hey, I have
a totally new bug here!".  So, we're just not quite finshed.  Stay tuned.


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Re: 1.5.21 release imminent - please test latest snapshot

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 12:16:12PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>> Well, Monday.  Isn't that explicit enough?  Do you also need the year?
>
>
>The original post (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00188.html) was
>dated 20060707.
>
>Perhaps it would be sufficient a 1.5.20-2 that fix this
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00145.html.

Or, maybe you could just assume that if cygwin wasn't released there might
be a reason?  Did you see any actual testing of the snapshot, for instance?

cgf

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Re: 1.5.21 release imminent - please test latest snapshot

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 14 11:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jul 14 11:32, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>>>
>>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've just created a snapshot which may, barring any conflagrations, be
>>>> very close to what will show up as 1.5.21.  If there are no major
>>>> regressions from 1.5.20, I plan on releasing cygwin 1.5.21 on Monday.
>>>
>>> Which Monday ?
>> Well, Monday.  Isn't that explicit enough?  Do you also need the year?
> 
> 
> Just in case somebody's missing the smily:  :)

Oh, I get it.  You're just being silly.  Well, if we can be serious for a
moment, I hope when this is released that you can make the changes available
retroactively.  I mean, think of the b20 users!

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Re: Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Angelo Graziosi]

Andy Rushton wrote:

> Posting this report here with a work-around that fixes it gives those
> who use ImageMagick an insight into the problem as the response from
> Mark shows. If the post was useful, it was relevant.


Thanks a lots Andy for the work-around.

I posted (to the x-cygwin list) the problem some time ago, when I using
the xorg-x11-6.8.99.901-1 package as test. The only workaround I found was
to use netpbm instead.


Cheers,

   Angelo.


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Re: Updated [experimental]: tar-1.15.90-1

[Angelo Graziosi]

According to Eric Blake :

> In other words, to use this, you MUST install a
> recent cygwin snapshot (20060329 or later), or wait for cygwin-1.5.20 to
> be released. 


Cygwin 1.5.20 is out but tar-1.15.90-1 is yet in test section.

Are there special reasons for this to happen?


Cheers,

   Angelo.


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Re: Updated [experimental]: tar-1.15.90-1

[Eric Blake]

Angelo Graziosi <Angelo.Graziosi <at> roma1.infn.it> writes:
> 
> According to Eric Blake :

[Quit commandeering threads.  Because you changed the subject line of an 
unrelated thread, rather than replying to the correct email or starting a new 
thread, I had a hard time finding the thread containing your post in order to 
issue my response.]

> 
> > In other words, to use this, you MUST install a
> > recent cygwin snapshot (20060329 or later), or wait for cygwin-1.5.20 to
> > be released. 
> 
> Cygwin 1.5.20 is out but tar-1.15.90-1 is yet in test section.
> 
> Are there special reasons for this to happen?

Yes.  It is because cygwin is a volunteer project, and I have not had time to 
release tar-1.15.91 yet (yes, upstream has had a new release in the meantime).  
(I have been too busy getting coreutils-5.97, diffstat-1.42 and 1.43, m4-1.4.5, 
and xdelta-1.3.3 released; not to mention I also know that sharutils, 
findutils, and bash-completion all need updates; not to mention that bash-
3.2beta/readline-5.2beta is out, and I would like to play with that; and not to 
mention that bashdb is threatening a new upstream release this week.  About the 
only package I maintain that has not needed attention during the past month is 
cvsutils.)

If I may be permitted to make a hint - the cygwin donations page can be a great 
motivator.  If someone were to be willing to shift my focus via a donation, I 
would be willing to make their highest priority issue become my highest 
priority.  Not that I am hard up on cash (I do have a good day job, after all), 
but that it would be a better indication of where my efforts would be 
appreciated.  And this sentiment probably extends to more cygwin volunteers 
than just me.

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Re: Updated [experimental]: tar-1.15.90-1

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 02:21:09PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>If I may be permitted to make a hint - the cygwin donations page can be a great 
>motivator.  If someone were to be willing to shift my focus via a donation, I 
>would be willing to make their highest priority issue become my highest 
>priority.  Not that I am hard up on cash (I do have a good day job, after all), 
>but that it would be a better indication of where my efforts would be 
>appreciated.  And this sentiment probably extends to more cygwin volunteers 
>than just me.

Yes, money is a great motivator but I wouldn't want people to think that
donating $10 with a comment that says "Please fix cron! It won't access
my network drives!" is going to have much effect.

Nevertheless, anyone who expects that they are owed anything just
because software is available to use needs a clue injection.  I'm not
referring to anyone in specific here but it does seem like the recent
climate in this list has been trending towards expectation of service
which does not match the fact that people like Eric are essentially
doing favors for anyone who uses the software they maintain.

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Re: Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Andy Rushton]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:27:37PM +1200, Mark Hadfield wrote:
>   
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:01:27AM +0100, Andy Rushton wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have found a problem with ImageMagick and a temporary fix.
>>>>
>>>> After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, the convert program
>>>> stopped working. It simply exited silently, though I discover with gdb
>>>> that it was failing with an unknown exception. It turned out that this
>>>> was because of a missing dll, specifically
>>>> /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll, which also requires
>>>> /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll.
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> So, as I said, I don't know whether this could be fixed by you or the
>>>> x11 maintainers. Any thoughts?
>>>>         
>>> Just one:  cygwin/x issues should really go to the cygwin-xfree mailing
>>> list.
>>>       
>> I for one am very glad it has been mentioned on the Cygwin list, as I 
>> had noticed similar behaviour but not bothered to establish the cause. 
>> And I would never have thought it was an X-related problem as convert is 
>> a non-graphical program.
>>     
>
> So maybe you should be reading the cygwin-xfree mailing list then.
>
>   
>> I think it affects GraphicsMagick also.
>>     
>
> It is, without a doubt, a cygwin/x issue.  So please no more whining here.
>   
Who's whining? I just posted a work-around to a Cygwin-related problem. 
In case you're unaware, this is not an X-Windows tool, it is a 
command-line tool so this is the natural mailing list for discussing it. 
The fact that it uses some functionality from X libraries doesn't change 
it's command-line nature

As I see it, it's not for me to say where the problem is. It could be 
that ImageMagick does not need to have a dependency on this DLL, in 
which case it is a problem for the maintainer of ImageMagick. Of course 
it could be that the X people have inadvertently missed out the DLL from 
the latest release, in which case it would *then* be an XFree problem. 
How am I to know which package is the faulty one? .

Posting this report here with a work-around that fixes it gives those 
who use ImageMagick an insight into the problem as the response from 
Mark shows. If the post was useful, it was relevant.

Andy

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Re: Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:27:37PM +1200, Mark Hadfield wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:01:27AM +0100, Andy Rushton wrote:
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I have found a problem with ImageMagick and a temporary fix.
>>>
>>>After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, the convert program
>>>stopped working. It simply exited silently, though I discover with gdb
>>>that it was failing with an unknown exception. It turned out that this
>>>was because of a missing dll, specifically
>>>/usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll, which also requires
>>>/usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>So, as I said, I don't know whether this could be fixed by you or the
>>>x11 maintainers. Any thoughts?
>>
>>Just one:  cygwin/x issues should really go to the cygwin-xfree mailing
>>list.
>
>I for one am very glad it has been mentioned on the Cygwin list, as I 
>had noticed similar behaviour but not bothered to establish the cause. 
>And I would never have thought it was an X-related problem as convert is 
>a non-graphical program.

So maybe you should be reading the cygwin-xfree mailing list then.

>I think it affects GraphicsMagick also.

It is, without a doubt, a cygwin/x issue.  So please no more whining here.

cgf

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Re: Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Mark Hadfield]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:01:27AM +0100, Andy Rushton wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have found a problem with ImageMagick and a temporary fix.
>>
>> After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, the convert program
>> stopped working. It simply exited silently, though I discover with gdb
>> that it was failing with an unknown exception. It turned out that this
>> was because of a missing dll, specifically
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll, which also requires
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll.
>>
 >> ...
>>
>> So, as I said, I don't know whether this could be fixed by you or the
>> x11 maintainers. Any thoughts?
> 
> Just one:  cygwin/x issues should really go to the cygwin-xfree mailing
> list.

I for one am very glad it has been mentioned on the Cygwin list, as I 
had noticed similar behaviour but not bothered to establish the cause. 
And I would never have thought it was an X-related problem as convert is 
a non-graphical program.

I think it affects GraphicsMagick also.


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Re: Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:01:27AM +0100, Andy Rushton wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have found a problem with ImageMagick and a temporary fix.
>
>After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, the convert program
>stopped working. It simply exited silently, though I discover with gdb
>that it was failing with an unknown exception. It turned out that this
>was because of a missing dll, specifically
>/usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll, which also requires
>/usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll.
>
>A bit more digging and I found that these DLLs used to be part of
>package xorg-x11-bin-dlls but has been removed with the latest release -
>6.8.99.901-1.
>
>I've fixed the problem for myself by grabbing these DLLs from the
>previous version of this package (xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.8.2.0) and
>hand-installing them.
>
>So, as I said, I don't know whether this could be fixed by you or the
>x11 maintainers. Any thoughts?

Just one:  cygwin/x issues should really go to the cygwin-xfree mailing
list.

cgf

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Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Andy Rushton]

Hi all,

I have found a problem with ImageMagick and a temporary fix.

After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, the convert program
stopped working. It simply exited silently, though I discover with gdb
that it was failing with an unknown exception. It turned out that this
was because of a missing dll, specifically
/usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll, which also requires
/usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll.

A bit more digging and I found that these DLLs used to be part of
package xorg-x11-bin-dlls but has been removed with the latest release -
6.8.99.901-1.

I've fixed the problem for myself by grabbing these DLLs from the
previous version of this package (xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.8.2.0) and
hand-installing them.

So, as I said, I don't know whether this could be fixed by you or the
x11 maintainers. Any thoughts?

Andy Rushton


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