cygwin 1.7 fc-cache error: failed to write cache

2009-10-06 Thread Steven Woody
Hi, I removed cygwin1.5 on both of my two computers, one is a laptop and another is a desktop, they are all Windows XP. I then installed cygwin 1.7 for them, the result is strange. The laptop seems okay, but the desktop, I tried re-install many times, always fail when I execute fa-cache on it, t

Re: libtool: rebuild required for gcc-4.3.4

2009-10-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > Now that gcc4 has been promoted to the default compiler on 1.7, libtool > requires a rebuild so that sys_lib_search_path_spec in /usr/bin/libtool > points to the correct directory (/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4 vs. > 3.4.4). This will be necessary each time gcc4 gets

libtool: rebuild required for gcc-4.3.4

2009-10-06 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Chuck, Now that gcc4 has been promoted to the default compiler on 1.7, libtool requires a rebuild so that sys_lib_search_path_spec in /usr/bin/libtool points to the correct directory (/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4 vs. 3.4.4). This will be necessary each time gcc4 gets a version bump (but

Re: latest libstdc++ causing ffmpeg & mplayer to segfault

2009-10-06 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 05/10/2009 23:03, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Just updated to cygwin-1.7.0-62 and gcc4-4.3.4-1 tonight, and it appears *anything* (sub-)dependent on libstdc++6 is segfaulting. Not just MPlayer/FFmpeg (which dep libdirac, a C++ library), but anything based on Qt/KDE, WebKit, Poppler, etc. Not on

gcc4-g++: ilmbase segfaults

2009-10-06 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
I've been having some issues with the OpenEXR libraries (as mentioned on the Ports list), and it looks like the problem is in ilmbase. I have attached the .cygport and a build patch; it has no dependencies besides a C++ compiler. Neither Debian nor Gentoo ship any patches for ilmbase, so I'm

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-62

2009-10-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/6/2009 12:02 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/10/6 Ken Brown: I've tried to view the attached file (extracted from the output of fc-list) in various ways, and here's what I've found (running XP in the U.S., with no language-related customization): - Using emacs under X, emacs recognizes the fi

Re: No CRs in :! command output from vim in rxvt

2009-10-06 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-10-05, Gary Johnson wrote: > When I run vim in an rxvt terminal, and I execute a shell command > such as > > :!ls > > there are no carriage returns in the output, only line feeds at the > ends of the lines, so the lines stair-step across the terminal > window. [...] > This looks to me

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-62

2009-10-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 6 17:02, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/10/6 Ken Brown: > > I've tried to view the attached file (extracted from the output of fc-list) > > in various ways, and here's what I've found (running XP in the U.S., with no > > language-related customization): > > > >  - Using emacs under X, emacs recog

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-62

2009-10-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 6 11:32, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/3/2009 9:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Apart from bugfixes, this patch contains a change to the >> internationalization efforts in Cygwin which cristalized out of a couple >> of longish discussions on the cygwin and cygwin-developer lists. >> >> Here's

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-62

2009-10-06 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/6 Ken Brown: > I've tried to view the attached file (extracted from the output of fc-list) > in various ways, and here's what I've found (running XP in the U.S., with no > language-related customization): > >  - Using emacs under X, emacs recognizes the file as UTF-8 and displays the > fore

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-62

2009-10-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/3/2009 9:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Apart from bugfixes, this patch contains a change to the internationalization efforts in Cygwin which cristalized out of a couple of longish discussions on the cygwin and cygwin-developer lists. Here's how it's supposed to work in future: [...] - T

Re: CFA: pseudo-reloc v2

2009-10-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Oops. Sorry, wrong list. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: CFA: pseudo-reloc v2

2009-10-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna wrote: > The important question here is, will v1 pseudo relocs work as before? > Since we simply don't have applications with v2 pseudo relocs yet and > since the idea is to switch to v2 after giving it a longer grace period, > the v2 functionality is just prep work. I'm all for supporting

Cygwin Chroot security considerations [WAS: "OpenSSH - sftp not working for non-Administrator users"]

2009-10-06 Thread Julio Costa
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I wrote this on this list a couple of times and I'm writing this again, as > long as > anybody wants to read it: Chroot is a bad hack, bad fake on Cygwin and > I curse the day I added this to Cygwin. Please don't. It isn't a bad hack. Its a

Re: OpenSSH - sftp not working for non-Administrator users

2009-10-06 Thread Julio Costa
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct  5 20:18, Julio Costa wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 19:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > Why don't you just put cygwin1.dll into $CHROOT-DIR/bin? >> > >> >> I did. It obviously works. But I see this more as the workaround, not >> the

Re: Gcc 3.2.3 package

2009-10-06 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2009-10-06 12:16Z, Walther Lalk wrote: > > I am trying to get NS 2.26 compiled (There are some specific code > changes that I need to run for a university assignment and they are for > NS 2.26). NS 2.26 requires Gcc 3.2.3 to compile, however I can't seem to > find a cygwin package for it. I

Gcc 3.2.3 package

2009-10-06 Thread Walther Lalk
Good day I am trying to get NS 2.26 compiled (There are some specific code changes that I need to run for a university assignment and they are for NS 2.26). NS 2.26 requires Gcc 3.2.3 to compile, however I can't seem to find a cygwin package for it. I have tried compiling Gcc3.2.3 with 3.4.4

Re: OpenSSH - sftp not working for non-Administrator users

2009-10-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 5 20:18, Julio Costa wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 19:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Why don't you just put cygwin1.dll into $CHROOT-DIR/bin? > > > > I did. It obviously works. But I see this more as the workaround, not > the solution. > > I'm trying to go from the workaround to the ge

Re: passwd -R fails on Server 2008 R2

2009-10-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 5 15:17, Tom Schutter wrote: > I am running Cygwin 1.7 on Windows Server 2008 R2. > The "passwd -R" command fails after I enter my password: > > Enter your current password: > Re-enter your current password: > Storing password failed: Function not implemented > > I am an administrator on

Re: R: 'gm convert' in 1.5 and 1.7

2009-10-06 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Lun 5/10/09, Dave Korn ha scritto: > Da: Dave Korn > Oggetto: Re: R: 'gm convert' in 1.5 and 1.7 > A: cygwin@cygwin.com > Data: Lunedì 5 ottobre 2009, 22:13 > Marco Atzeri wrote: > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.graphicsmagick.help/857 > >   Do let me know how any experiments