[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: task-2.0.0-1

2012-03-28 Thread Federico Hernandez
This is a new major release version of task for cygwin CHANGES since task-1.9.4-2 == This is a new major release version of task for cygwin. It replaces 1.9.4-2. It is a recommended update. There are too many changes to name them all here in detail - please refer to http://

Re: cygwin-ports git access over http?

2012-03-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-03-29 00:36, Achim Gratz wrote: I'm behind a firewall at work that only allows HTTP access through, so is there a way clone cygwin-ports over HTTP? If not, is there already a Git mirror that provides such access? I'm afraid not; Sourceforge does not provide that as an option. I can c

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:00:48PM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: >On 28/03/2012 6:43 PM, JonY wrote: >> On 3/29/2012 04:21, Brian Wilson wrote: > I hope it doesn't leave the system in an unusable state if some DLL is > still in use. I may be wrong but I'm nearly certain that has been Cori

cygwin-ports git access over http?

2012-03-28 Thread Achim Gratz
I'm behind a firewall at work that only allows HTTP access through, so is there a way clone cygwin-ports over HTTP? If not, is there already a Git mirror that provides such access? Besides, even when cloning without a firewall, I get: git clone git://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/cy

Re: TERM problem with mintty and latest tmux in OpenBSD

2012-03-28 Thread Andy Koppe
On 22 March 2012 21:43, Michael Simpson wrote: > Hi there > > using MinTTY-1.0.3-1 > cygwin-1.7-11-1 > tmux on OpenBSD -current > > > When reattaching tmux (tmux attach) there was a series of 3 sets of > semi-colon separated numbers appearing after the ksh prompt. > This behaviour in tmux only appe

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] update: fltk-1.3 (partially in test)

2012-03-28 Thread marco atzeri
On 3/28/2012 9:41 PM, A.R. Burgers wrote: a recent version of fltk 1.3 has been uploaded. The 1.3 announcement can be found here: http://fltk.org/newsgroups.php?s1+gfltk.announce+v8+T0 from the fltk website: / This is basically FLTK-1.1.10 with extra features, but with an incompatible ABI. The

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-28 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 28/03/2012 6:43 PM, JonY wrote: On 3/29/2012 04:21, Brian Wilson wrote: I hope it doesn't leave the system in an unusable state if some DLL is still in use. I may be wrong but I'm nearly certain that has been Corinna's goal from the start. She is sometimes just a little too M. A lot of her

Giving interact with desktop permission to cyg_server

2012-03-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
I've set up ssh on some Windows 2003 and 2008 servers. These servers are intended to be used to build software and the like driven by using Cygwin's OpenSSH. Largely it works well, however... One process that fails is a Perl process that opens an Excel spreadsheet using OLE. Note that it does

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-28 Thread JonY
On 3/29/2012 04:21, Brian Wilson wrote: >>> I hope it doesn't leave the system in an unusable state if some DLL is >>> still in use. >> >> I may be wrong but I'm nearly certain that has been Corinna's goal from >> the start. She is sometimes just a little too M. A lot of her >> seemingly tireless

Re: gold star for autorebase please?

2012-03-28 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Earnie Boyd! > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Mar 27 13:06, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> I think Corinna's efforts for all of the work that went into getting >>> autorebase working in setup.exe deserve a gold star.  Could she get >>> one please? >> >> He

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: _autorebase. Call rebaseall after installing new or updated DLLs

2012-03-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > I've added a new package called _autorebase to the Cygwin distro. > > This package is usually installed and updated automatically. In the > default view of setup.exe you won't even see it. Thank you very much (even though I'd just added the same functionality to my setu

Re: Query about how to get 'full' Cygwin/unix support

2012-03-28 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 03/28/2012 03:07 PM, AngusC wrote: > > Hello > > I am using cygwin and have copied the core cygwin files to a folder called > binarytools on my Windows PC. This folder is first item in path env > variable. > > When I run make it has commands to do a mkdir -p > > But mkdir -p myfolder creat

Re: Query about how to get 'full' Cygwin/unix support

2012-03-28 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/28/2012 02:07 PM, AngusC wrote: > > Hello > > I am using cygwin and have copied the core cygwin files to a folder called > binarytools on my Windows PC. This folder is first item in path env > variable. > > When I run make it has commands to do a mkdir -p > > But mkdir -p myfolder creat

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-28 Thread Brian Wilson
> >I hope it doesn't leave the system in an unusable state if some DLL is > >still in use. > > I may be wrong but I'm nearly certain that has been Corinna's goal from > the start. She is sometimes just a little too M. A lot of her > seemingly tireless efforts in getting Cygwin working are actual

Query about how to get 'full' Cygwin/unix support

2012-03-28 Thread AngusC
Hello I am using cygwin and have copied the core cygwin files to a folder called binarytools on my Windows PC. This folder is first item in path env variable. When I run make it has commands to do a mkdir -p But mkdir -p myfolder creates a folder called -p and also a folder called myfolder???

[ANNOUNCEMENT] update: fltk-1.3 (partially in test)

2012-03-28 Thread A.R. Burgers
a recent version of fltk 1.3 has been uploaded. The 1.3 announcement can be found here: http://fltk.org/newsgroups.php?s1+gfltk.announce+v8+T0 from the fltk website: /This is basically FLTK-1.1.10 with extra features, but with an incompatible ABI. The new features include: full UTF-8 U

Re: gold star for autorebase please?

2012-03-28 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I think Corinna's efforts for all of the work that went into getting > autorebase working in setup.exe deserve a gold star. Could she get > one please? Awarded: http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#CV -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/f

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 06:39:22PM +0800, JonY wrote: >I hope it doesn't leave the system in an unusable state if some DLL is >still in use. I may be wrong but I'm nearly certain that has been Corinna's goal from the start. She is sometimes just a little too M. A lot of her seemingly tireless ef

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl-7.24.0-3

2012-03-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-03-28 10:13, Daniel Jensen wrote: This update pulls in no fewer than nine Kerberos support packages The grand total of which is only ~1.5MB. Is there some way this could be avoided? Why? Maybe a separate libcurl-kerberos package or something? This is a binary distribution, and t

Re: ps2pdf problem

2012-03-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-03-26 20:24, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: With freetype 2.4.9-1 I'm seeing lot's of GPL Ghostscript 9.04: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1 from ps2pdf14. Should be fixed with libfreetype6-2.4.9-2. Thanks for the report. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http

Re: 1.7.11-1 Update returns non-zero exit codes for coreutils

2012-03-28 Thread Brian Wilson
> > While I can run the Cygwin terminal window, there appears to be a very > > serious > > issue as I can't run commands like "cd", "ls", or "cygcheck" either. > > Can you tell us what this means? How did you determine that you can't run > these commands? I opened the cygwin terminal and got t

Re: rcs 5.8-1 checks out wrong version of file when using similar mark symbols

2012-03-28 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-03-28, Peter Rosin wrote: > Gary Johnson skrev 2012-03-28 08:55: > > On 2012-03-27, Peter Rosin wrote: > >> But the point still stands, don't assume the original authors were > >> idiots, and dig into the reasons for them to not having used > >> strcmp from the start. > > > > I don't know,

Re: 1.7.11-1 Update returns non-zero exit codes for coreutils

2012-03-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/28/2012 1:04 PM, Brian Wilson wrote: While I can run the Cygwin terminal window, there appears to be a very serious issue as I can't run commands like "cd", "ls", or "cygcheck" either. Can you tell us what this means? How did you determine that you can't run these commands? I can't run

1.7.11-1 Update returns non-zero exit codes for coreutils

2012-03-28 Thread Brian Wilson
I did my usual morning updates from Cygwin and saw the following error messages (thank you for the autorebase by the way, long needed, great idea). Package: Unknown package autorebase.bat exit code 1 coreutils.sh exit code 127 I've tried re-installing the coreutils package and st

RE: how to verify setup.exe signature

2012-03-28 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Alexey Luchko wrote on 2012-03-28: > Hi! > > I was concerning how to verify http://cygwin.com/setup.exe for some time. > Today I've got an idea to check for .sig file and it is there too. > > However, cygwin's public key is required to check it. Where is it supposed > to be? I think the links

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl-7.24.0-3

2012-03-28 Thread Daniel Jensen
This update pulls in no fewer than nine Kerberos support packages, and since all kinds of things rely on libcurl, these packages effectively become part of a cygwin base installation. Is there some way this could be avoided? Maybe a separate libcurl-kerberos package or something? -- Problem re

how to verify setup.exe signature

2012-03-28 Thread Alexey Luchko
Hi! I was concerning how to verify http://cygwin.com/setup.exe for some time. Today I've got an idea to check for .sig file and it is there too. However, cygwin's public key is required to check it. Where is it supposed to be? I've found '08 thread on the related subject http://cygwin.com/m

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: texlive-collection-*-20120312-1

2012-03-28 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/28/2012 6:47 AM, JohnPeterson wrote: setup.log.postinstallXa01504 here: http://pastebin.com/ex1TiKGL Your log is full of messages like this: 22807 [main] perl 6644 child_info_fork::abort: unable to remap MD5.dll to same address as parent (00A0) - try running rebaseall You probabl

Re: gold star for autorebase please?

2012-03-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 27 13:06, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I think Corinna's efforts for all of the work that went into getting >> autorebase working in setup.exe deserve a gold star.  Could she get >> one please? > > Hey, I just did my job ;) Yea, but

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-28 Thread JonY
On 3/28/2012 20:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 28 18:39, JonY wrote: >> On 3/28/2012 15:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Mar 28 07:27, JonY wrote: On 3/27/2012 16:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 26 22:59, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> On 26/03/2012 9:40 PM, Jason Tishler wrote: >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: _autorebase. Call rebaseall after installing new or updated DLLs

2012-03-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 28 11:48, Michel Bardiaux wrote: > > I've added a new package called _autorebase to the Cygwin distro. > > This works very well indeed. After reinstalling setup and catching up > with 1 month of updates, bringing me from uname 1.7.10 to 1.7.11 > (which means autorebase MUST have done someth

Re: New package: _autorebase. Call rebaseall after installing new or updated DLLs

2012-03-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 28 03:48, Warren Young wrote: > On 3/27/2012 9:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >Please also note that this package requires at least the new rebase > >version 4.1.0. The changes in rebase 4.1.0 deal gracefully with DLLs > >which are in use while rebaseall runs. > > Does this mean I ca

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 28 18:39, JonY wrote: > On 3/28/2012 15:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 28 07:27, JonY wrote: > >> On 3/27/2012 16:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>> On Mar 26 22:59, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 26/03/2012 9:40 PM, Jason Tishler wrote: > > New News: > > === > > I hav

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: texlive-collection-*-20120312-1

2012-03-28 Thread JohnPeterson
I'll add my report to this. Installing vim 7.3.447-1 from Cygwin setup.exe in CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.11(0.260/5/3) 2012-02-24 14:05. Installation hangs at /etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-fontsrecommended.sh. One perl.exe process running that was started by by the installation C:\Documents\

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-28 Thread JonY
On 3/28/2012 15:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 28 07:27, JonY wrote: >> On 3/27/2012 16:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Mar 26 22:59, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 26/03/2012 9:40 PM, Jason Tishler wrote: > New News: > === > I have updated the version of rebase to 4.1.0-1.

Re: New package: _autorebase. Call rebaseall after installing new or updated DLLs

2012-03-28 Thread Warren Young
On 3/27/2012 9:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Please also note that this package requires at least the new rebase version 4.1.0. The changes in rebase 4.1.0 deal gracefully with DLLs which are in use while rebaseall runs. Does this mean I can continue to leave the cron service running through

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: _autorebase. Call rebaseall after installing new or updated DLLs

2012-03-28 Thread Michel Bardiaux
> I've added a new package called _autorebase to the Cygwin distro. This works very well indeed. After reinstalling setup and catching up with 1 month of updates, bringing me from uname 1.7.10 to 1.7.11 (which means autorebase MUST have done something, right?) I have just made a moderately larg

Re: rcs 5.8-1 checks out wrong version of file when using similar mark symbols

2012-03-28 Thread Peter Rosin
Gary Johnson skrev 2012-03-28 08:55: > On 2012-03-27, Peter Rosin wrote: >> But the point still stands, don't assume the original authors were >> idiots, and dig into the reasons for them to not having used >> strcmp from the start. > > I don't know, the "original" authors seem to have gotten it r

Re: clock_getres(CLOCK_REALTIME, .) may return an outdated and too high resolution

2012-03-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 27 23:28, Christian Franke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Mar 27 20:59, Christian Franke wrote: > Sorry, I probably forgot to mention that NtSetTimerResolution > returns the same useless actual value than NtQueryTimerResolution. > > I would suggest: > >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 28 07:27, JonY wrote: > On 3/27/2012 16:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 26 22:59, Ryan Johnson wrote: > >> On 26/03/2012 9:40 PM, Jason Tishler wrote: > >>> New News: > >>> === > >>> I have updated the version of rebase to 4.1.0-1. The tarballs should be > >>> available on a Cyg