[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libarchive/libarchive2/libarchive-devel/bsdtar/bsdcpio}-2.8.3-1

2010-04-12 Thread Charles Wilson
Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants and several cpio formats. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images. The bsdtar program is an implementation of tar(1) that is built on t

Re: DBD-DB2-1.78 driver for Perl V5.10 under CYGWIN 1.7.4

2010-04-12 Thread ERIC HO
Thanks Reini. I suppose Gerrits's advice is to create an import lib of the IBM db2.dll and link against it. Not sure how to do it. Please let me know if someone has done this on a DB2 V9 system. Thanks. Eric -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.5-1

2010-04-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released 1.7.5-1. This release fixes a few bugs, mainly a serious memory leak, and introduces a single new feature. == NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOT

Re: link (corutils) 8.4-2: doesn't link

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Bibbings
Eric Blake writes: > On 04/12/2010 08:15 AM, Paul Bibbings wrote: >>14:57:37 Paul bibbi...@jijou >>/cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $link zoo.exe zoo_link >> >>14:57:54 Paul bibbi...@jijou >>/cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $ls -l >>total 128 >>-rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings N

Re: sh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487

2010-04-12 Thread Ricardo Urbina
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Reini Urban wrote: > 2010/4/9 Ricardo Urbina: >> Hi. Last tuesday I updated my Cygwin installation from 1.7.1 to 1.7.4. >> And then I started getting these errors when running a perl script: >> >> % perlscript >>      3 [main] sh 11716 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fat

Re: link (corutils) 8.4-2: doesn't link

2010-04-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 12 15:15, Paul Bibbings wrote: > In the past I have used corutils' link without any problem. I can't > recall when I last did use it successfully, but certainly prior to > Cygwin 1.7. At the moment, however, link is not actually linking, but > appears rather to be creating a simple copy of

Re: 'mkgroup -lu' error and/or missing group member names

2010-04-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 12 10:06, starli...@binnacle.cx wrote: > Hello, > > When > >mkgroup -lu > > is run on a current (as of today) install of CYGWIN 1.7.4, > it returns the error > >mkgroup (376): [1722] The RPC server is unavailable. > > Running any of > >mkgroup -l -u >mkgroup -u -l >

Re: link (corutils) 8.4-2: doesn't link

2010-04-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/12/2010 08:15 AM, Paul Bibbings wrote: >14:57:37 Paul bibbi...@jijou >/cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $link zoo.exe zoo_link > >14:57:54 Paul bibbi...@jijou >/cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $ls -l >total 128 >-rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings None 65024 Apr 12 14:57 zoo.exe

'mkgroup -lu' error and/or missing group member names

2010-04-12 Thread starlight
Hello, When mkgroup -lu is run on a current (as of today) install of CYGWIN 1.7.4, it returns the error mkgroup (376): [1722] The RPC server is unavailable. Running any of mkgroup -l -u mkgroup -u -l mkgroup -ul does not result in an error message, but also does not include m

link (corutils) 8.4-2: doesn't link

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Bibbings
In the past I have used corutils' link without any problem. I can't recall when I last did use it successfully, but certainly prior to Cygwin 1.7. At the moment, however, link is not actually linking, but appears rather to be creating a simple copy of the file linked to, as the following illustra

Re: Updated: cygwin-doc-1.7-1

2010-04-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:19:07PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 12 10:56, Reini Urban wrote: >> 2010/4/12 Christopher Faylor: >> > I have just uploaded a long-overdue update to the Cygwin documentation >> > package. ?This package provides man and info pages for cygwin utilities >> > and *

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

2010-04-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/12/2010 8:36 AM, Al G. wrote: It sounds as though no change is required in screen for this. Correct. screen is an ancient program from the dim mists of early terminal days, so I'm not surprised that it has some problems of this kind. Don't worry, screen isn't doing anything wrong here.

Re: 1.7.3: Backspace key not working in GNU screen.

2010-04-12 Thread Al G.
>> It sounds as though no change is required in screen for this. > >Correct. > >> screen is an ancient program from the dim mists of early terminal days, so >> I'm >> not surprised that it has some problems of this kind. > >Don't worry, screen isn't doing anything wrong here. Setting the >VERASE k

Re: Updated: cygwin-doc-1.7-1

2010-04-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 12 10:56, Reini Urban wrote: > 2010/4/12 Christopher Faylor: > > I have just uploaded a long-overdue update to the Cygwin documentation > > package.  This package provides man and info pages for cygwin utilities > > and *some* of the Cygwin api.  It reflects the current state of Cygwin > > a

Re: unable to login using ssh and password

2010-04-12 Thread Martin Roecker
Hi, > It looks like you're running 1.7.1 and there were some pretty > serious problems with initializing the user profile that are > now fixed. You might want to try at least 1.7.2 (I think > you'll get 1.7.4 as the default right now). Thank you Eric! I've updated our CygWin installation and eve

Re: sh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487

2010-04-12 Thread Reini Urban
2010/4/9 Ricardo Urbina: > Hi. Last tuesday I updated my Cygwin installation from 1.7.1 to 1.7.4. > And then I started getting these errors when running a perl script: > > % perlscript >      3 [main] sh 11716 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - > couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0

Re: Updated: cygwin-doc-1.7-1

2010-04-12 Thread Reini Urban
2010/4/12 Christopher Faylor: > I have just uploaded a long-overdue update to the Cygwin documentation > package.  This package provides man and info pages for cygwin utilities > and *some* of the Cygwin api.  It reflects the current state of Cygwin > and newlib as of this date. http://cygwin.com/

Some Perl notes

2010-04-12 Thread Reini Urban
Upstream 5.12.0 is to be released today, cygwin not yet. There are not many changes, so an upgrade should be smoother than for 5.10 http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/pod/perl5120delta.pod threads and threads:.shared regression on 5.12 == There's a big re