Re: setup: parameter stickiness

2024-07-22 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 21.07.2024 um 21:46 schrieb Jon Turney: On 21/07/2024 16:21, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps wrote: Hi, if I have two cygwin installations, e.g. C:\cygwin64 and C:\cygwin64test, the setup program is sticky about its root directory, local package directory, and download sites presettings

setup: parameter stickiness

2024-07-21 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Hi, if I have two cygwin installations, e.g. C:\cygwin64 and C:\cygwin64test, the setup program is sticky about its root directory, local package directory, and download sites presettings. They tend to stay at the second installation even after updating the first one, so that I have to fix it

gnupg link to gpg2

2024-07-21 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
The gnupg package is missing a link to the manual page; man gpg should resolve to man gpg2.

Re: Parse output of "net use", but language varies - force language for "net use"?

2024-07-20 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 21.07.2024 um 01:54 schrieb Takashi Yano via Cygwin: On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 15:44:17 +0200 Mark Liam Brown wrote: I am trying to parse the output of "net use" in a bash script, but hit a roadblock: The output of "net use" changes with the language of the system (English, Danish, French,

Re: package upload calm error

2024-06-29 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 29.06.2024 um 11:48 schrieb Jon Turney: On 29/06/2024 10:33, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps wrote: Hi, I had uploaded mintty 3.7.3 with the following added to setup.hint: curr: 3.7.3 prev: 3.7.1 This used to be the way to replace and skip the current version but calm fails

package upload calm error

2024-06-29 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Hi, I had uploaded mintty 3.7.3 with the following added to setup.hint: curr: 3.7.3 prev: 3.7.1 This used to be the way to replace and skip the current version but calm fails on it. What's the way now? Thomas

Re: No Native Language Support in browser started from shell prompt

2024-06-15 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 14.06.2024 um 09:37 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: With qutebrowser and Microsoft Edge started from a cygwin shell prompt, there is no Native Language Support. Started from a cmd prompt, "c:\Program Files\qutebrowser\qutebrowser.exe"

Re: Bug: bash redirect "magic" variable content to input of command hangs (upstream of https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5001)

2024-06-10 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 10.06.2024 um 13:12 schrieb Holger Klene via Cygwin: Hi Cygwin, On reading a magic value back from a bash variable, the involved command (wc, grep, cat, ...) hangs indefinitely and has to be stopped by Ctrl+C Editing it's content by deleting lines, the "magic" goes away. Also as

Re: pagefile.sys is reported as being a directory

2024-05-02 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 03.05.2024 um 01:40 schrieb Bruno Haible via Cygwin: Hi, Ken Brown noticed this: pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys are being reported by Cygwin 3.5.3 as being directories. Cygwin 3.5.3 on Windows 10: $ ls -ld /proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.* drwxr-x--- 17664 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 Jan 1

Re: Change for the initial installation of Cygwin to set the default terminal terminal 256 color

2024-04-12 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 12.04.2024 um 11:18 schrieb Lee via Cygwin: On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 4:05 AM J M wrote: Some examples that I view that can do Cygwin better by default: tput colors 8 echo $TERM xterm I made my mintty changes by point & click experimentation - if you want to make system-wide changes the

Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

2024-03-08 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 08.03.2024 um 11:37 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: Hi Jeffrey, On Mar 6 13:55, Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin wrote: On 3/6/2024 12:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: We can add an explicit call to RtlSetProcessPlaceholderCompatibilityMode (PHCM_EXPOSE_PLACEHOLDERS); [...]

Re: Desktop partially inert with mintty running

2024-02-15 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 15.02.2024 um 09:23 schrieb Bruce Jerrick via Cygwin: Has anyone had this happen: Sometimes when I have a mintty running, the upper-left quandrant of the desktop becomes inert to the mouse -- icons do not respond to hovers or clicks, and the desktop background does not respond to a

Re: mintty ^H weirdness with ssh to one specific Debian 11 system

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 18.01.2024 um 14:08 schrieb Andrey Repin via Cygwin: Greetings, Jim Garrison via Cygwin! Details I have mintty set to term type "mintty" Don't do that. $TERM is not a random made-up string. It should be supported by appropriate terminfo(5) entry on the system. If an entry is not found,

Re: mintty ^H weirdness with ssh to one specific Debian 11 system

2024-01-17 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 16.01.2024 um 22:38 schrieb Jim Garrison via Cygwin: TL;DR New laptop, setting up mintty configuration identical to working desktop system.  When connected to one specific Debian 11 (Bullseye) system (to which I connect often from the desktop with no issues), backspace appears to send

Re: Automatic announcement generation by calm

2024-01-08 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 08/01/2024 um 13:35 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps: On Jan 7 16:12, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: This is an experimental facility, currently only available for packages deployed from the build service [1] (that is, not for self-built packages uploaded with 'cygport up' via

Re: Automatic Cygwin installation for CI ?

2023-12-15 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 15.12.2023 um 18:07 schrieb Mainz, Roland via Cygwin: Hi! Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a CI (Continuous integration) build environment ? Bye, Roland

Re: Cygwin api to punch a hole into a file?

2023-12-05 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 05/12/2023 um 15:40 schrieb Thomas Wolff via Cygwin: Am 05/12/2023 um 14:53 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Dec  5 07:36, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 01.12.2023 um 12:02 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Dec  1 11:22, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: Not all

Re: Cygwin api to punch a hole into a file?

2023-12-05 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 05/12/2023 um 14:53 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Dec 5 07:36, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 01.12.2023 um 12:02 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Dec 1 11:22, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: Not all filesystems have a 128k block/stripe size, and certainly most

Re: Cygwin api to punch a hole into a file?

2023-12-04 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 01.12.2023 um 12:02 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Dec 1 11:22, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: Not all filesystems have a 128k block/stripe size, and certainly most filesystems have smaller minimum hole sizes than 128k (e.g. 512bytes is common, ref pathconf

Re: Cygwin tool to differ junctions from soft links?

2023-11-16 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 16.11.2023 um 21:30 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: On 2023-11-16 11:55, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: On Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 03:50:24 AM EST, Andrey Repin wrote: Does Cygwin have a command line tool (Scriptable!) which can be used to differ between soft links and Windows

Re: sqlite3 outdate

2023-10-12 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 13.10.2023 um 02:41 schrieb xvac--- via Cygwin: zig lang nim lang rust lang also should add to cygwin official repo. The Rust project does not support build on cygwin (see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/79854). Never heard of zig or nim. Oct 13, 2023, 08:39 by x...@tuta.io:

Re: half- and full-width CJK characters

2023-10-08 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 08/10/2023 um 14:55 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: On Sat, 07 Oct 2023, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 07/10/2023 um 14:47 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: On Sat, 07 Oct 2023, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 07/10/2023 um 10:23 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: I am memorializing this for my

Re: half- and full-width CJK characters

2023-10-07 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 07/10/2023 um 14:47 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: On Sat, 07 Oct 2023, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 07/10/2023 um 10:23 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: I am memorializing this for my own benefit here. Benefitting fromhttps://eng-blog.iij.ad.jp/archives/12576 I see that I don't need

Re: half- and full-width CJK characters

2023-10-07 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 07/10/2023 um 10:23 schrieb Dr Bean via Cygwin: I am memorializing this for my own benefit here. Benefitting from https://eng-blog.iij.ad.jp/archives/12576 I see that I don't need to change any envars, but only fonts. The default Lucida Console font renders CJK as half-width chars, on this

Re: Bonfire of the Packages

2023-09-24 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 24.09.2023 um 20:20 schrieb gstrauss via Cygwin-apps: On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 01:32:59PM +0100, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote: Generally, we have a large number of old, unmaintained packages. The policy [1] has always been "Packages without an active maintainer may be pulled from the

Re: Drop djgpp-{binutils,gcc-*,runtime} 32-bit packages

2023-09-24 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 24.09.2023 um 14:32 schrieb Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps: On 08/09/2023 18:29, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote: Hi folks, Thinking we could drop the ancient (8 years) orphaned DJGPP 32-bit (by definition) packages; they are older than djgpp current, never mind beta on gcc 13; from

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.6.5

2023-09-03 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
I have uploaded mintty 3.6.5 with the following changes: Pathname handling   * Fix file link detection (#1208), tweak URL detection (#1209).   * Restore opening of Windows path names (#1219; broken since 2.8.1). Terminal features   * Fix setup of initial status line if monitor DPI is 96.   *

Re: mintty window border?

2023-08-24 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 25.08.2023 um 02:41 schrieb Gary Johnson via Cygwin: On 2023-08-24, Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 11:08 AM Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote: This is an update to a question I had a couple of years ago https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-April/248367.html

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.4.8-1

2023-08-20 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 17.08.2023 um 19:59 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin: The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * cygwin-3.4.8-1 * cygwin-devel-3.4.8-1 * cygwin-doc-3.4.8-1 Bug Fixes - - Make safe for c89 compilations. Addresses:

Re: Cygwin console: Different default background color when terminal runs as Admin?

2023-08-18 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 18.08.2023 um 10:11 schrieb Christian Franke via Cygwin: Jonathon Merz via Cygwin wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:13 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: Just an idea: Could the default background color of the Cygwin console be changed from black to grey (or RED) if the terminal has been

Re: Persistent and same Cygwin session for Windows login and ssh login?

2023-08-18 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 18.08.2023 um 10:47 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: On Aug 17 19:30, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: Good evening! How can I get a Cygwin session for one Windows login, and get the same Cygwin session when I log into the same Windows machine via ssh? You can't. Windows isolates

Re: Entering Cygwin command line (bash login) from Windows cmd.exe ?

2023-08-08 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 07.08.2023 um 06:02 schrieb Roland Mainz via Cygwin: On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 6:18 AM Roland Mainz wrote: Is there an official way to enter the Cygwin command line (e.g. bash login) from Windows cmd.exe, e.g. if someone ssh's into a Windows machine he/she ends/up in a cmd.exe and not

Rare character glitch in pty?

2023-07-20 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
There was a report that on switching terminal windows with the mouse, focus event reports (as enabled with ESC[?1004h) would sometimes get mangled. This is further described in issue reports to mintty/wsltty (https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/issues/335) and also to tmux

Re: [ITP] italic-man

2023-06-25 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 25.06.2023 um 15:36 schrieb Jon Turney: On 21/06/2023 22:45, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps wrote: Am 16.02.2023 um 20:17 schrieb Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps: Am 16.02.2023 um 19:59 schrieb Jon Turney: On 21/01/2023 17:04, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps wrote: italic-man installs two

Re: [ITP] italic-man

2023-06-21 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 16.02.2023 um 20:17 schrieb Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps: Am 16.02.2023 um 19:59 schrieb Jon Turney: On 21/01/2023 17:04, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps wrote: italic-man installs two scripts and hooks them into the workflow of the 'man' command so that the italic attribute of manual pages

Re: mintty 3.6.4 status line problem

2023-06-18 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 18.06.2023 um 22:00 schrieb Ross Boulet via Cygwin: I was looking at the settings for mintty and saw the new option (new as of 3.6.4 from March) for a status line. I decided to try it out. Sure enough, a status line appeared at the bottom. All was well until I tried to open a new mintty

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.4.7-1

2023-06-17 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 16/06/2023 um 16:25 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin: The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * cygwin-3.4.7-1 * cygwin-devel-3.4.7-1 * cygwin-doc-3.4.7-1 Bug Fixes - - Fix CPU_SET(3) macro type mismatch by making the macros

Re: mouse behavior with vim

2023-05-19 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
[just removing mintty from the mail topic as it's quite obviously not related to it] Am 19.05.2023 um 00:11 schrieb Jose Isaias Cabrera via Cygwin: On May 18, 2023 5:12 PM, Brian Inglis expressed: That will depend on the client installed on the remote host! Get them to upgrade to gvim 9 as

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xterm 380

2023-05-15 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
I have uploaded xterm 380. Major changes: * DEC VT320 status line support * improved calculation of dim attribute colour Thomas -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html

cygport injects unexpected parameter

2023-05-10 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
I'm trying to build xterm 380 and got two problems in the cygport compile step: 1. *** ERROR: could not determine the autoconf version used to generate ./configure; perhaps set AUTOCONF_VERSION? I don't know why a tool wants to be told its own version (or what's going on) but the following

Re: Mintty terminal crashes after changing the default home via nsswitch.conf and launch in a new profile in Windows 11

2023-04-05 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 04.04.2023 um 17:13 schrieb Yuta SUZUKI via Cygwin: Hi, I am recently setting up the computer room of my faculty and then encountered the following issue: Short description: Change the default home directory via /etc/nsswitch.conf and make a new Windows user. Login to the new user (and do

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.6.4

2023-03-24 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
I have uploaded mintty 3.6.4 with the following changes: Highlight   * Dynamic support for flags emojis, deployment script. Terminal features   * Tweak response code to XTQALLOWED OSC 60 and XTQDISALLOWED OSC 61 (xterm 378).   * Readline mouse modes (DECSET 2001 / 2002 / 2003, xterm 379).   *

Re: newlocale: Linux incompatibility

2023-03-23 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 23.03.2023 um 20:48 schrieb Ken Brown via Cygwin: I'm reporting this here rather than the newlib list because the behavior is compatible with Posix but not Linux, so I think it's a Cygwin issue. Consider the following test case: $ cat locale_test.c #include #include int main () {  

Re: 'bat' for cygwin

2023-03-10 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 10.03.2023 um 19:18 schrieb marco atzeri via Cygwin: On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 6:58 PM Scott Smith via Cygwin wrote: Has anyone compiled bat for cygwin64? If not, could it be added for consideration to be added to the repository, please? Meanwhile, although I know 0% about Rust, if someone

Re: ACL

2023-02-21 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 21.02.2023 um 14:10 schrieb Jonathan Chapman-Moore via Cygwin-apps: Hi, I was wondering when ACL was going to be added to Cygwin? It's long been available, see /bin/[gs]etfacl

Re: [ITP] italic-man

2023-02-16 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 16.02.2023 um 19:59 schrieb Jon Turney: On 21/01/2023 17:04, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps wrote: italic-man installs two scripts and hooks them into the workflow of the 'man' command so that the italic attribute of manual pages is actually displayed as italics in terminals that support

Re: OpenSSH_9.2p1 sftp prompt now "s " instead of "sftp> "

2023-02-07 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 08.02.2023 um 03:17 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: On 2023-02-07 15:22, Voris, Ben via Cygwin wrote: For example: : sftp user@127.0.0.1 Connected to 127.0.0.1. s bye : type sftp sftp is hashed (/usr/bin/sftp) : ssh -V OpenSSH_9.2p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1s  1 Nov 2022 On Linux with a much

[ITP] italic-man

2023-01-21 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
italic-man installs two scripts and hooks them into the workflow of the 'man' command so that the italic attribute of manual pages is actually displayed as italics in terminals that support it. cygport file attachedNAME=italic-man VERSION=1.0 RELEASE=1 ARCH=noarch SUMMARY="Enabling italic

Re: compiling issue

2023-01-21 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 21.01.2023 um 06:19 schrieb Nathan via Cygwin: The file here for a game I wanted to use is http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/Adventure2.5.tar.gz and it all compiled but one file getting the error is init.c as follows: Leaving out result types isn't legal C nowadays. You

Re: [ITP] ffmpeg (5.1.2)

2023-01-20 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 20.01.2023 um 16:58 schrieb Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps: On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:47:01 +0100 Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 20.01.2023 um 16:28 schrieb Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps: On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:04:46 +0100 Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 20.01.2023 um 11:35 schrieb Takashi Yano via

Re: [ITP] ffmpeg (5.1.2)

2023-01-20 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 20.01.2023 um 16:28 schrieb Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps: On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:04:46 +0100 Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 20.01.2023 um 11:35 schrieb Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps: I would like to propose new package ffmpeg which is well known audio/video tool. ffmpeg is ported to many linux

Re: [ITP] ffmpeg (5.1.2)

2023-01-20 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 20.01.2023 um 11:35 schrieb Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps: I would like to propose new package ffmpeg which is well known audio/video tool. ffmpeg is ported to many linux distributions and other unix like systems as well as widows. Since there is windows build, the demand of cygwin port

Re: [ITA] libsndfile (1.2.0)

2023-01-20 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Am 20.01.2023 um 11:34 schrieb Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps: I would like to take over the maintenance of libsndfile package which is currently orphanded. I have already prepared the updated package at: https://tyan0.yr32.net/cygwin/x86_64/release/libsndfile/ The archive appears to be

Re: Feature request: sudo

2023-01-19 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 19.01.2023 um 20:17 schrieb Jochen Wiedmann via Cygwin: Hi, as someone who is quite used to typing sudo do something I would really like to do the same in my CygWin bash.In my opinion, this could be implemented relatively simply, and straightforward as follows: - Accept an array

Re: GCC doesn't find relative includes when passed paths using backward-slashes

2023-01-15 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 15.01.2023 um 14:51 schrieb Hans-Bernhard Bröker via Cygwin: Am 15.01.2023 um 13:38 schrieb Alexander Grund via Cygwin: The build system, finding it is running on Windows, will pass paths with backward slashes to the compiler. And that's wrong.  Cygwin is not, for practical intents and

calm hint files

2022-12-23 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin-apps
Upload seems to want two hint files, which even have to be different; one needs a homepage entry, the other must not have one, or an error will be reported. Can this please be smoothed out? Thomas

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.6.3

2022-12-17 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
I have uploaded mintty 3.6.3 with the following changes: Terminal features   * Fixed double-width characters not to wrap if auto-wrap disabled.   * TAB may wrap to next line, or cause subsequent wrap, if enabled (#1182).   * Fixed auto-wrap behaviour in double-width lines.   * Overstriking