Re: [Thread reset] GCC4 vs binutils

2009-02-26 Thread Dave Korn
Charles Wilson wrote: So, in short: auto-import has been available for 7.5 years, and has been the default (but whines with info message) on all pe platforms for just under 7 years. I don't think anyone will complain about no longer whining. It's an established tool in the gcc/ld-on-pe

Re: ITP: tack-1.06-1

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Harig
Charles Wilson wrote: cygwin-1.5: http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-1-src.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-1.tar.bz2 Has the correct version of 'tack' been built and packaged? It appears that version 1.05 was built and packaged as version 1.06-1. $

Re: -query not working on cygwin/windows

2009-02-26 Thread Dirk Fassbender
km4hr schrieb: Phil, Thanks for hanging in there and trying your best to help identify my problem. If I ever find the solution I will shout it from the mountain top! I'd like to try cygwin-x on another Windows PC with less software installed but my company's network is configured to block

RE: Reproducing the cygwin X clipboard problems

2009-02-26 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jon TURNEY Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:52 PM I've built a version of 1.5.3-7, with this patch reverted and lots more clipboard debugging added. You can download it from [2] It would be

Re: -query not working on cygwin/windows

2009-02-26 Thread km4hr
Dirk, Thanks for the recommendation. I gave it a try. Still no luck. Dirk Fassbender wrote: km4hr schrieb: Phil, Thanks for hanging in there and trying your best to help identify my problem. If I ever find the solution I will shout it from the mountain top! I'd like to try

Re: Reproducing the cygwin X clipboard problems

2009-02-26 Thread Dan Tsafrir
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote: I've built a version of 1.5.3-7, with this patch reverted and lots more clipboard debugging added.  You can download it from [2] It would be most helpful if you could try this and see if the clipboard problems you

Re: XWin.exe crashing at startup

2009-02-26 Thread Andrew Allen
Thought I'd reply to the list about the resolution to this, since somebody just asked me about this off-list: 'startxwin.sh' from a bash window works whereas 'startx' doesn't (also works: 'startxwin.bat' from a windows cmd line). It seems startx is broken on cygwin. Andrew On Sat, Dec 6, 2008

RE: XWin.exe crashing at startup

2009-02-26 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Allen Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:07 PM Thought I'd reply to the list about the resolution to this, since somebody just asked me about this off-list: 'startxwin.sh' from a bash window

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog dtable.cc fhandler.h s ...

2009-02-26 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: c...@sourceware.org 2009-02-27 00:34:40 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog dtable.cc fhandler.h select.cc shared_info.h Log message: * dtable.cc (dtable::select_read): Add

Re: [Patch] gethostbyname2

2009-02-26 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 04:52 AM 2/26/2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote: | On Feb 25 23:03, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: | I tried to compile Exim with IPv6 enabled and Cygwin 1.7, but it needs | gethostbyname2. | Here is an implementation of that function. | In attachment I am including the same patch as well as a

Re: [Patch] gethostbyname2

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 10:29, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 04:52 AM 2/26/2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote: | On Feb 25 23:03, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: | I tried to compile Exim with IPv6 enabled and Cygwin 1.7, but it needs | gethostbyname2. | Here is an implementation of that function. | In

Re: [Patch] gethostbyname2

2009-02-26 Thread Dave Korn
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: I am still fighting one issue with Windows. On XP, when using the native gethostbyname I can resolve computers on my local net (through NetBIOS or such). But I can't get them with DnsQuery, except my own computer, despite what I think the doc says. Any insight? Are

Re: wget, ssh, ... and cygwin 1.7 issues

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 00:28, Paul McFerrin wrote: Corinnia: I finally got cygwin 1.7 swapped-in to try to reproduce my problem. Good news, after a few hours of pinging a website, ZERO ERRORS for now. Since it is an intermittent error, I'll let it run at 6 seconds interval until tomorrow. Now

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 19:20, Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: snip Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole package is still considered test.  How stable is the actual dll(s).  

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: OpenSSH-5.2p1-1

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 16:12, Frank Fesevur wrote: 2009/2/25 Corinna Vinschen: I've just updated the Cygwin 1.7 version of OpenSSH to 5.2p1-1. This is a new major upstream release.  It fixes a security related issue and introdues a lot of new features.  The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla

Re: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 18:58, Greg Freemyer wrote: I just read the release email for 1.7.0 In part it says: - Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is longer than 260 bytes, or if the current working directory is a virtual path (like /proc, /cygdrive, //server), don't

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: OpenSSH-5.2p1-1

2009-02-26 Thread Frank Fesevur
2009/2/26 Corinna Vinschen: On Feb 25 16:12, Frank Fesevur wrote: Since this is a security fix, will there be a 1.5 update as well? Well, actually I have no intention to update 1.5.x packages anymore. I understand you want us to start using 1.7, but in the announcement of 1.7.0-41 you write

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: OpenSSH-5.2p1-1

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 10:39, Frank Fesevur wrote: 2009/2/26 Corinna Vinschen: On Feb 25 16:12, Frank Fesevur wrote: Since this is a security fix, will there be a 1.5 update as well? Well, actually I have no intention to update 1.5.x packages anymore. I understand you want us to start using 1.7,

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 10:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 25 19:20, Greg Freemyer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: snip Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 I know the whole package is still

Re: ITP: tack-1.06-1

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Has the correct version of 'tack' been built and packaged? It appears that version 1.05 was built and packaged as version 1.06-1. $ cygcheck -c tack Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus tack 1.06-1 OK $ tack -V tack version 1.05

Re: lynx seems broken

2009-02-26 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com writes: Morten Kjærulff wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Morten Kjærulff wrote: Hi, On my machine#2 I just installed lynx, but it just exit without telling anything.

Program hangs on startup

2009-02-26 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi there, I would like to first thank the entire cygwin team for providing such a great tool that saved me countless times in corporate hell. Now, I compiled large application that I am working on from another platform with gcc on cygwin in vista, and I found that it does not even startup

Re: lynx seems broken (Attn: ncurses maintainer)

2009-02-26 Thread David Rothenberger
On 2/26/2009 9:55 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com writes: Morten Kjærulff wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Morten Kjærulff wrote: Hi, On my machine#2 I just installed

Re: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: On Feb 25 18:58, Greg Freemyer wrote: I just read the release email for 1.7.0 In part it says: - Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is   longer than 260 bytes, or if the

RE: 1.5.25: pthread/ofstream problem

2009-02-26 Thread Filipek, Stefan R.
Dave Korn wrote: you should definitely see if it reproduces under 1.7 I tried the latest 1.7 and it hangs instead of segfaulting (less than 500k iterations). This seems like a pretty major problem for any intensive multithreaded application. Though infrequent, it has produced a rather large

[1.7] wctomb bug

2009-02-26 Thread Eric Blake
Simple test case. This application uses the C locale (by virtue of the fact that we did not use setlocale(), and evidenced by mb_cur_max of 1). On Linux, this correctly shows wctomb rejecting the conversion (0x100 is too big to fit in a 1-byte sequence) with EILSEQ, but newlib currently

passwd questions with cygwin 1.7

2009-02-26 Thread Paul McFerrin
OKAY, I have some passwd questions problems associated with cygwin 1.7. PRIOR to 1.7, my UID/GID for Paul account was 501/401 and all of my files have correct ownership. When I created /etc/passwd via: cd /etc mkpasswk -l -p $HOME x vim x { changed: UID/GID to 501/401

Re: Program hangs on startup

2009-02-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: snip I am not able to really see what is going on, process explorer says cygwin1!aclcheck Otherwise, I have seen it hang in some function that I cannot remember exactly ascii convert or something and other vista kernel functions. Basically, I would like

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Re: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:29:57PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote: If the path is short, it uses the full long directory name as expected. If the path exceeds 260, it reverts to using the 8.3 names, thus giving a workaround that will allow you to descend deeper into a directory structure.

Re: [1.7] broken pipe implementation?

2009-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:27:34AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:16:50AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: I'm compiling screen for 1.7. The configure script has a test for a usable pipe implementation, which passes, and another one for a working pipe implementation,

RE: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 18:36 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Another long pathname question On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:29:57PM -0500, Greg Freemyer

Re: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:33:07PM -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote: From: cygwin-ownerX Oh! Is that who it came from? [mailto:cygwin-ownerX Yes. Got that the first time. Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 18:36 Hmm. It's 10:18PM here. To: cygwinX What? You're responding to email to the

Re: lynx seems broken (Attn: ncurses maintainer)

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
David Rothenberger wrote: Rolling back libncurses8 and terminfo to the previous release solves the problem for me. Recompiling lynx from source with the new libncurses8 and terminfo packages also fixes the problem. Confirmed bug. I've pulled the release. Upstream has silently changed the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] WITHDRAWN: {ncurses/libncurses-devel/libncurses8/ncurses-demo}-5.7-1

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
There was an unintended API change in this release, which caused the cygncurses-8.dll to not be backwards compatible with previous DLLs of the same name. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Charles Wilson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] WITHDRAWN: {terminfo/terminfo-extra}-5.7_20090221-1

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
There was an unintended API change in the associated ncurses release. As part of rolling back to the earlier known-good ncurses package, the updated terminfo must also be rolled back. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Charles Wilson -- Unsubscribe info:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] WITHDRAWN: {ncurses/libncurses-devel/libncurses8/ncurses-demo}-5.7-10

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
There was an unintended API change in this release, which caused the cygncurses-8.dll to not be backwards compatible with previous DLLs of the same name. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Charles Wilson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] WITHDRAWN: {terminfo/terminfo-extra}-5.7_20090221-10

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
There was an unintended API change in this release, which caused the cygncurses-8.dll to not be backwards compatible with previous DLLs of the same name. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Charles Wilson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Update config.guess to treat cygwin 1.7 as new system name

2009-02-26 Thread Eric Blake
The upcoming Cygwin 1.7.0 release adds so many APIs and improves so much functionality that it probably deserves a separate designation in config.guess. For reference, notice the size of the most recent beta announcement: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-02/msg00018.html For an example

Problem [1.5] gdbm update failure

2009-02-26 Thread Fergus
Setup stalled: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception Thread: DialogProc Type: 9Exception Message: Package validation failure for release/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.3-9-src.tar.bz2 AppErrNo: 1 Incidentally gdbm-1.8.3-20 installed perfectly well into [1.7]. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Problem [1.5] gdbm update failure

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Fergus wrote: Setup stalled: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception Thread: DialogProc Type: 9Exception Message: Package validation failure for release/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.3-9-src.tar.bz2 AppErrNo: 1 Incidentally gdbm-1.8.3-20 installed perfectly well into [1.7]. Try a different mirror. I just

WITHDRAWN: {terminfo/terminfo-extra}-5.7_20090221-1

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
There was an unintended API change in the associated ncurses release. As part of rolling back to the earlier known-good ncurses package, the updated terminfo must also be rolled back. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Charles Wilson

[1.7] WITHDRAWN: {terminfo/terminfo-extra}-5.7_20090221-10

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
There was an unintended API change in this release, which caused the cygncurses-8.dll to not be backwards compatible with previous DLLs of the same name. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Charles Wilson