Re: [RFC] Making Cygwin README optional

2011-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:28:49PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I wish to propose that Cygwin READMEs no longer be absolutely required for Cygwin packages, for several reasons: AFAIK, they never were absolutely required. Hardly any of my packages have one. cgf

Re: RFU: mercurial-1.8.1-1

2011-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 18 01:20, Jari Aalto wrote: New upstream release: wget --recursive --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=3 \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/mercurial/mercurial-1.8.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/mercurial/mercurial-1.8.1-1.tar.bz2 \

Re: RFU: bzr-2.3.1-1

2011-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 18 01:22, Jari Aalto wrote: New upstream release: wget --recursive --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=3 \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/bzr/bzr-2.3.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/bzr/bzr-2.3.1-1.tar.bz2 \

Re: [RFC] Making Cygwin README optional

2011-03-18 Thread Charles Wilson
On 3/17/2011 11:28 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I wish to propose that Cygwin READMEs no longer be absolutely required for Cygwin packages, for several reasons: OK by me, in general. That being said, I quibble about some of the rationale, below... * Most of the information contained therein

Re: RFU: bzr-2.3.1-1

2011-03-18 Thread Jari Aalto
2011-03-18 12:48 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin-rdbxbdvo6bxqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org: | On Mar 18 01:22, Jari Aalto wrote: | | | New upstream release: | | wget --recursive --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=3 \ | http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/bzr/bzr-2.3.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \ |

Re: RFU: bzr-2.3.1-1

2011-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 18 17:58, Jari Aalto wrote: 2011-03-18 12:48 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin-rdbxbdvo6bxqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org: | On Mar 18 01:22, Jari Aalto wrote: | | | New upstream release: | | wget --recursive --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=3 \ |

Re: RFU: mercurial-1.8.1-1

2011-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 18 18:00, Jari Aalto wrote: 2011-03-18 12:31 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin-rdbxbdvo6bxqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org: | On Mar 18 01:20, Jari Aalto wrote: | | | New upstream release: | | wget --recursive --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=3 \ |

[ RFU ] base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-18 Thread David Sastre
Hello, Please upload base-files-4.0-6. It contains corrections for the errors reported regarding PRINTER setting and non-POSIX tests in /etc/profile. http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-6.tar.bz2

Re: [ RFU ] base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 18 18:08, David Sastre wrote: Hello, Please upload base-files-4.0-6. It contains corrections for the errors reported regarding PRINTER setting and non-POSIX tests in /etc/profile. http://crapsteak.org/cygwin/release/base-files/base-files-4.0-6.tar.bz2

Re: [RFC] Making Cygwin README optional

2011-03-18 Thread Warren Young
On 3/18/2011 12:06 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:28:49PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I wish to propose that Cygwin READMEs no longer be absolutely required for Cygwin packages, for several reasons: AFAIK, they never were absolutely required. One could take

Re: [RFC] Making Cygwin README optional

2011-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:20:51PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: On 3/18/2011 12:06 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:28:49PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I wish to propose that Cygwin READMEs no longer be absolutely required for Cygwin packages, for several reasons: AFAIK,

Re: ssh -X user@host konsole opens a tunneled konsole, but then the tunnel lapses

2011-03-18 Thread Phlip
Bump? Should I try a noisier forum, or one for a different layer of the system? On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Phlip phlip2...@gmail.com wrote: CygWinners: For years I have enjoyed one desktop with everything I need on it. Then ssh -X stopped working. Sometimes, if I start a remote

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog mmap.cc

2011-03-18 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2011-03-18 13:38:35 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog mmap.cc Log message: * mmap.cc (mmap_record::page_map): Define as variable array rather than as pointer.

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog mmap.cc

2011-03-18 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2011-03-18 13:42:03 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog mmap.cc Log message: * mmap.cc (class mmap_record): Pack 4 byte-aligned. Convert member dev to plain int.

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog mmap.cc

2011-03-18 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2011-03-18 13:56:57 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog mmap.cc Log message: * mmap.cc (mmap_record::alloc_fh): Initialize nmae strings in fdev to empty strings or suffer a SEGV.

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygwin.sc

2011-03-18 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2011-03-18 18:16:37 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin.sc Log message: * cygwin.sc: Raise default cygheap size to 2 Megs. Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygwin.sc

2011-03-18 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Branch: cv-post-1_7_9 Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2011-03-18 18:16:42 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin.sc Log message: * cygwin.sc: Raise default cygheap size to 2 Megs. Patches:

Re: ld: fatal error - cmalloc would have returned NULL

2011-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:47:04AM +, Dave Korn wrote: On 11/03/2011 13:53, Rainer Emrich wrote: I have to be more clear. I increased the heap_chunk_in_mb to 1792 using: regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1792 I run with this setting all the time, I guess that's why I

Re: Problems with terminal doesn't display visual elements properly

2011-03-18 Thread Andy Koppe
On 17 March 2011 22:09, Diego Queiroz wrote: Hello. I need some help. My terminal started with a very strange behavior today. Many programs are not displaying correctly and I don't know why. I uploaded this picture: http://img851.imageshack.us/i/screenshotfc.png/ The two windows at the top

Re: ITP dos2unix 5.2.1-1

2011-03-18 Thread Erwin Waterlander
Charles Wilson schreef, Op 17-3-2011 21:36: On 3/17/2011 4:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 03/17/2011 01:56 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote: I'm willing to maintain patches for Cygwin, to make the transition easier. But if there is no chance that the package gets accepted, I rather save myself the

Re: ITP dos2unix 5.2.1-1

2011-03-18 Thread Charles Wilson
On 3/17/2011 4:36 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: OK, everybody, time out for a minute. Rather than talk vapor, I'll develop the patches necessary. Fair warning: I've developed this patch set, and made a cygport-based package...but I have NOT TESTED the apps at all. More later, but it's way past my

How to setup cygwin to use always testmode

2011-03-18 Thread Ralf
I'm using cygwin under windows to change text-files with windows line-endings (CR and LF). I wrote a lot of shell-scripts which call each other. The filenames in those scripts are sometimes given als windows filenames (e.g. c:\temp\file.txt) sometimes relative (e.g. ../tmp/file.txt) sometimes

Re: ITP dos2unix 5.2.1-1

2011-03-18 Thread Erwin Waterlander
Op 18-3-2011 7:53, Charles Wilson schreef: On 3/17/2011 4:36 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: OK, everybody, time out for a minute. Rather than talk vapor, I'll develop the patches necessary. Fair warning: I've developed this patch set, and made a cygport-based package...but I have NOT TESTED the

gcc4 outstanding issues (was Re: Cygport woes: CHOST not defined.)

2011-03-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 05:18 +, Dave Korn wrote: On 18/03/2011 02:50, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: BTW, do you need me to resend my patches for 4.5.2? Couldn't hurt, I know I had some stuff to dig through my inbox looking for but if you wouldn't mind... g My outstanding issues with gcc4:

last snapshot (2011-03-13)

2011-03-18 Thread EXCOFFIER Denis
Hello, Please consider http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00436.html In fhandler.h i changed DEFAULT_PIPEBUFSIZE back to contain PREFERRED_IO_BLKSIZE (instead of 31*1024*1024), installed the new cygwin1.dll and of course, no more problem. I also performed extended tests on another Windows

Re: ld: fatal error - cmalloc would have returned NULL

2011-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 18 02:08, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:47:04AM +, Dave Korn wrote: On 11/03/2011 13:53, Rainer Emrich wrote: I have to be more clear. I increased the heap_chunk_in_mb to 1792 using: regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1792 I run

Re: last snapshot (2011-03-13)

2011-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 18 10:25, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: Hello, Please consider http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00436.html In fhandler.h i changed DEFAULT_PIPEBUFSIZE back to contain PREFERRED_IO_BLKSIZE (instead of 31*1024*1024), installed the new cygwin1.dll and of course, no more problem. I

Re: last snapshot (2011-03-13)

2011-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 18 11:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 18 10:25, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: Hello, Please consider http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00436.html In fhandler.h i changed DEFAULT_PIPEBUFSIZE back to contain PREFERRED_IO_BLKSIZE (instead of 31*1024*1024), installed the new

last snapshot (2011-03-13)

2011-03-18 Thread EXCOFFIER Denis
This message follows http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00539.html Both system are Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3. The system that produces the File too large error is: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz, 3.48 GB of RAM The system where i'm

Re: Start a crontab service

2011-03-18 Thread Larry W. Virden
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Marc Girod marc.gi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I tried to install cron locally on my laptop, and could not find instructions to proceed. I understand. I tried so many different things trying to get this to work a year or two ago and never was successful in

RE: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5?

2011-03-18 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: David Sastre Please test if [ -e ${p} ] read -r PRINTER ${p} PRINTER=${PRINTER%%,*} works as expected. No, it doesn't work, probably due to bash subshell or something, as separating the final assignment from the command line *does* work: $ [ -e ${p} ] read -r PRINTER ${p}

Re: ITP dos2unix 5.2.1-1

2011-03-18 Thread Charles Wilson
On 3/18/2011 2:47 AM, Erwin Waterlander wrote: I will create a branch for cygwin. I think that for temporary and redundant options it may be better to silently accept them and not document them. We are still not communicating. I do NOT propose that the new options -- whether you call the

Re: gcc4 outstanding issues (was Re: Cygport woes: CHOST not defined.)

2011-03-18 Thread Charles Wilson
On 3/18/2011 5:06 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: BTW, I wonder if we can begin mitigating (2) by not shipping the .la files with GCC. This would stop those paths from being hardcoded into other .la files, so that eventually only the libtool scripts will need to be fixed. Yes, please. I think

Re: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5?

2011-03-18 Thread David Sastre
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:46:26AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: Le 17/03/2011 23:43, Angelo Graziosi a écrit : p='/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Windows/Device' [ -e ${p} ] read -r PRINTER ${p} PRINTER=${PRINTER%%,*} read -r $p

Re: How to setup cygwin to use always testmode

2011-03-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/18/2011 01:43 AM, Ralf wrote: I'm using cygwin under windows to change text-files with windows line-endings (CR and LF). I wrote a lot of shell-scripts which call each other. The filenames in those scripts are sometimes given als windows filenames (e.g. c:\temp\file.txt) sometimes

Re: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5?

2011-03-18 Thread Andy Koppe
On 18 March 2011 13:46, David Sastre wrote: All [[, have been changed to a portable [ test. I've changed `test -a' for a portable `test -e', and the -a operator in the user's home ownership test to a chained test: elif [ ! -O ${HOME} ] [ ${HOME#/home/} != ${HOME} ]; then ... Even though

Re: last snapshot (2011-03-13)

2011-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:25:38AM +0100, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: Hello, Please consider http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00436.html I read it. I hadn't had time to look into it. In fhandler.h i changed DEFAULT_PIPEBUFSIZE back to contain PREFERRED_IO_BLKSIZE (instead of 31*1024*1024),

Re: ld: fatal error - cmalloc would have returned NULL

2011-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 18 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 18 02:08, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:47:04AM +, Dave Korn wrote: On 11/03/2011 13:53, Rainer Emrich wrote: I have to be more clear. I increased the heap_chunk_in_mb to 1792 using: regtool -i set

Re: ld: fatal error - cmalloc would have returned NULL

2011-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 03:40:48PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 18 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 18 02:08, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:47:04AM +, Dave Korn wrote: On 11/03/2011 13:53, Rainer Emrich wrote: I have to be more clear. I increased

Re: How to setup cygwin to use

2011-03-18 Thread ralf
Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com writes: On 03/18/2011 01:43 AM, Ralf wrote: I'm using cygwin under windows to change text-files with windows line-endings (CR and LF). I wrote a lot of shell-scripts which call each other. The filenames in those scripts are sometimes given als windows

Re: How to setup cygwin to use

2011-03-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/18/2011 09:11 AM, ralf wrote: I can not understand why this feature has been dropped. What feature? Cygwin was designed with POSIX pathnames in mind. If DOS pathnames work, it is a fortunate side-effect, but not the primary design goal, and not subject to stay the same in future

/etc/profile in base-files 4.0-5

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, Just upgraded, and got a new glitch: /etc/profile: line 39: ${p}: ambiguous redirect It sounds ${p} should be quoted to take care of possible spaces in the path to the Windows device: # Define default printer p='/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows

Migrating home dir

2011-03-18 Thread Tod
I'm going to be migrating to win7 in a few weeks. When I do I'll be logging in with a different userid. What's the best way to migrate my existing install and home dir to the new userid? Thanks - Tod -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Migrating home dir

2011-03-18 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/18/2011 10:28, Tod wrote: I'm going to be migrating to win7 in a few weeks. When I do I'll be logging in with a different userid. What's the best way to migrate my existing install and home dir to the new userid? My recommendation is that you back up only your Cygwin home directory

Re: ld: fatal error - cmalloc would have returned NULL

2011-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 18 10:56, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 03:40:48PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 18 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 18 02:08, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:47:04AM +, Dave Korn wrote: On 11/03/2011 13:53, Rainer Emrich

Re: /etc/profile in base-files 4.0-5

2011-03-18 Thread David Sastre
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:22:01AM -0700, Marc Girod wrote: /etc/profile: line 39: ${p}: ambiguous redirect It sounds ${p} should be quoted to take care of possible spaces in the path to the Windows device: Thanks for reporting. A fix is on its way. See

Re: Start a crontab service

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Girod
Larry W. Virden-2 wrote: If you find a sequence of steps that gets it working correctly, please let me know. Not yet... but found some doc I had missed: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-4.1-59.README as part of the cron package (I looked at the crontab one so far...). This sends me to:

Re: How to setup cygwin to use always textmode

2011-03-18 Thread ralf
Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com writes: On 03/18/2011 09:11 AM, ralf wrote: I can not understand why this feature has been dropped. What feature? Cygwin was designed with POSIX pathnames in mind. If DOS pathnames work, it is a fortunate side-effect, but not the primary design goal,

Re: Start a crontab service

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Girod
Marc Girod wrote: Still reading... Actually... in my very simple case, running: /usr/bin/cron-config and accepting the defaults (recording my own password) was enough to get cron the work... $ cygrunsrv -L cron $ crontab ~/cron/mg $ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master

RE: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5?

2011-03-18 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: David Sastre On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:46:26AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: Le 17/03/2011 23:43, Angelo Graziosi a écrit : p='/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Windows/Device' [ -e ${p} ] read -r PRINTER ${p}

Re: last snapshot (2011-03-13)

2011-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 18 12:03, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: This message follows http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00539.html Both system are Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3. The system that produces the File too large error is: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00GHz

Re: How to setup cygwin to use always textmode

2011-03-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/18/2011 10:00 AM, ralf wrote: Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com writes: On 03/18/2011 09:11 AM, ralf wrote: I can not understand why this feature has been dropped. What feature? Cygwin was designed with POSIX pathnames in mind. If DOS pathnames work, it is a fortunate side-effect,

Re: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5?

2011-03-18 Thread David Sastre
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:17:14PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: On 18 March 2011 13:46, David Sastre wrote: All [[, have been changed to a portable [ test. I've changed `test -a' for a portable `test -e', and the -a operator in the user's home ownership test to a chained test: elif [ ! -O

last snapshot (2011-03-18)

2011-03-18 Thread EXCOFFIER Denis
This follows http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00549.html You say change it back as if that was the only change. It wasn't. The meaning changed in recent snapshots. In fact, i created a snapshot 20110313++, where the only change wrt 20110313 was to replace 31*1024*1024 with

Re: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5?

2011-03-18 Thread David Sastre
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:14:09AM -0500, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: While you're at it, it would probably be a good idea to: $ unset p when you're done with it. Indeed. Already applied. In fact, there was another one (fDest, used in a loop to copy skel files). Thanks. -- Huella de clave

Re: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5?

2011-03-18 Thread Andy Koppe
On 18 March 2011 16:23, David Sastre wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:17:14PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: On 18 March 2011 13:46, David Sastre wrote: All [[, have been changed to a portable [ test. I've changed `test -a' for a portable `test -e', and the -a operator in the user's home

last snapshot (2011-03-13)

2011-03-18 Thread EXCOFFIER Denis
This follows http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00563.html Maybe it has something to do with the nonpaged pool size? MSDN states: Every time a named pipe is created, the system creates the inbound and/or outbound buffers using nonpaged pool, which is the physical memory used by the

Re: How to setup cygwin to use always textmode

2011-03-18 Thread ralf
Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com writes: On 03/18/2011 10:00 AM, ralf wrote: During setup of cygwin you could choose between UNIX ending und DOS ending. Which was a bug in the GUI for offering it in the first place, because it basically set the text-mode mount flag on every single

Re: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5?

2011-03-18 Thread David Sastre
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:41:49PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: On 18 March 2011 16:23, David Sastre wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:17:14PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: On 18 March 2011 13:46, David Sastre wrote: All [[, have been changed to a portable [ test. I've changed `test -a' for a

Re: last snapshot (2011-03-13)

2011-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:43:40PM +0100, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: This follows http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00563.html Maybe it has something to do with the nonpaged pool size? MSDN states: Every time a named pipe is created, the system creates the inbound and/or outbound buffers

Re: last snapshot (2011-03-13)

2011-03-18 Thread Denis Excoffier
Le 18 mars 2011 à 19:02, Christopher Faylor a écrit : Or, are you saying that you still see failures when setting the buffer size down to 64K? With a buffer 64k all is fine. With a buffer 31*1024*1024, that's different. It seems that all pipes open at the same time add their buffers up to an

Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes

2011-03-18 Thread Alex Khripin
Hi, Short summary: getting nested quotes in an argument through to a Cygwin process from DOS is problematic, and there does not seem to be any detailed spec for how to escape quotes correctly. Backslash characters seem to be spuriously generated. I'm working on a build system (GNU make, Windows

Re: ssh-keygen command not doing anything OR github problem

2011-03-18 Thread sclaussen
I have the precisely same problem - were you able to resolve this? I have tried reinstalling, looked online for others w/a similar issue, but thus far have run across no solution. Thanks! mearrex wrote: In my cygwin installation, I cannot seem to use github.com. However, here are the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-18 Thread David Sastre
Version 4.0-6 of base-files has been uploaded. Base-files is a set of system configuration and setup files. Change Log -- 4.0-6 * Re-corrected PRINTER setting. * Dropped non-POSIX tests in /etc/profile - Eric Blake * Dropped user's homedir ownership test. ***

Re: last snapshot (2011-03-13)

2011-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 07:39:39PM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: Le 18 mars 2011 ? 19:02, Christopher Faylor a ?crit : Or, are you saying that you still see failures when setting the buffer size down to 64K? With a buffer 64k all is fine. With a buffer 31*1024*1024, that's different. It seems

Re: Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes

2011-03-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/18/2011 2:39 PM, Alex Khripin wrote: Hi, Short summary: getting nested quotes in an argument through to a Cygwin process from DOS is problematic, and there does not seem to be any detailed spec for how to escape quotes correctly. Backslash characters seem to be spuriously generated. If

Re: ssh-keygen command not doing anything OR github problem

2011-03-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/18/2011 2:45 PM, sclaussen wrote: I have the precisely same problem - were you able to resolve this? I have tried reinstalling, looked online for others w/a similar issue, but thus far have run across no solution. If you're using msysgit, you want to talk to Mingw folks. -- Larry

Re: Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes

2011-03-18 Thread David Boyce
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/18/2011 2:39 PM, Alex Khripin wrote: If you're using a native Windows 'make' with a Cywgin shell, you're better off making your tools consistent.  Quoting mechanisms for Windows do not align with those used by Cygwin/Linux/Unix,

Re: Cygwin (1.7.8 and other versions) problems with globbing when invoked from DOS/Windows with nested quotes

2011-03-18 Thread Charles Wilson
On 3/18/2011 11:47 PM, David Boyce wrote: From the README.W32 file in the source package: Good news! Make now has native support for Cygwin sh. To enable, define the HAVE_CYGWIN_SHELL in config.h and rebuild make from scratch. This version of make tested with B20.1 of

Updated base-files-4.0-6

2011-03-18 Thread David Sastre
Version 4.0-6 of base-files has been uploaded. Base-files is a set of system configuration and setup files. Change Log -- 4.0-6 * Re-corrected PRINTER setting. * Dropped non-POSIX tests in /etc/profile - Eric Blake * Dropped user's homedir ownership test. ***