Re: Build script error (libiconv + custom prefix)

2012-08-27 Thread marco atzeri
On 8/28/2012 2:08 AM, Tasos Laskos wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to port my project's [1] build/package script to Cygwin but I'm facing some difficulties during runtime. It runs fine under Linux and OSX but I'm not sure if that's because these environments fulfil a dependency I'm unaware of, whil

Re: fork() and file descriptors with un-flushed output

2012-08-27 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 8/27/2012 11:26 PM, thoni56 wrote: > Is this a known behaviour? Unavoidable in cygwin? (Obviously not, if I'm on > the right track with my guesswork...) If it is a bug, will it be fixed? This behavior isn't Cygwin-specific. In fact, it's longstanding Unix behavior. (The buffering problem is one

Re: stuff running slowly

2012-08-27 Thread Aharon Robbins
Michael, Thanks for your note. I understand that process creation on Windows is slower than on Linux. But what I'm seeing is off by a few orders of magnitude. Cygwin on Windows 7 on a Sandy Bridge Core i5 with 4 Gig of memory is PAINFULLY slower than even my 7 year old Power PC Macbook G4 running

fork() and file descriptors with un-flushed output

2012-08-27 Thread thoni56
Maybe this is an FAQ but I could not find it in it ;-) or in the lists I searched: In cygwin, when you fork() process shares file descriptors. If there happens to be unflushed output in such a shared file descriptor buffer, would that be output by both processes? I have some empirical evidence to

Re: Debug the skipping of .bashrc when bang out from vim PC version

2012-08-27 Thread Andy
On Aug 27, 1:55 am, AndyHancock wrote: > It is often more covenient to use the Windows install of gvim than > to fire up Cygwin's X-windows to run the Cygwin version of gvim. In > order to be able to bang out to run bash commands, I have this in my > vimrc: > >shell=c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe\ -

Re: /bin/bash: Operation not permitted

2012-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/27/2012 9:06 AM, michael pitoniak wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes: Complaints like this are typically caused by commands run by the interpreter (bash in this case). This could be caused by something in your rc files. I'd check bash_profile and /etc/profile first but che

Re: tcsh hang while executing scripts which use pipes with backticks

2012-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/27/2012 8:46 AM, Sunadham, Ajay Kumar wrote: We are facing a similar problem as mentioned in the thread below. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/msg00014.html To reproduce the issue create 2 csh files in the same directory. When you run dotest.csh from a tcsh window, it will hang. I

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-{23.4-3,24.2-1} [SECURITY]

2012-08-27 Thread Ken Brown
The current version of the GNU emacs packages in the Cygwin distribution has been updated to the latest upstream release: *** emacs-24.2-1 *** emacs-X11-24.2-1 *** emacs-el-24.2-1 *** emacs-debuginfo-24.2-1 This is a bugfix release. It fixes a security flaw that allowed automatic code executi

Build script error (libiconv + custom prefix)

2012-08-27 Thread Tasos Laskos
Hi folks, I'm trying to port my project's [1] build/package script to Cygwin but I'm facing some difficulties during runtime. It runs fine under Linux and OSX but I'm not sure if that's because these environments fulfil a dependency I'm unaware of, while Cygwin being a stripped down system d

Re: Glitch-free texlive-collection-basic.sh and other uses of setup v.2.510.2.2

2012-08-27 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/23/2012 5:00 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/23/2012 10:29 AM, Fergus wrote: On today's update of texlive-collection-basic I got the exit message Package: texlive-collection-basic texlive-collection-basic.sh exit code 148 Please send /var/log/setup.log.full so I can see what the errors wer

Re: gzip 1.4-1 creates corrupt archive

2012-08-27 Thread Warren Young
On 8/25/2012 12:11 AM, Peter wrote: cat "$LOG" | gzip > "$LOG.old.gz" Generally speaking, cat with a single file is a sign you're not using redirection to its fullest. In this case, you get the same effect with much less overhead with: gzip < "$LOG" > "$LOG.old.gz" The resulting arc

Re: gzip 1.4-1 creates corrupt archive

2012-08-27 Thread KHMan
On 8/27/2012 8:01 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 27/08/2012 7:29 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:38 AM, K Stahl wrote: [snip snip snip] [snip snip snip] [snip snip snip] Back on topic, I can't repro using text or binary (executable) files, which makes me wonder whether the issu

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ruby-1.9.3-p194-3

2012-08-27 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** ruby-1.9.3-p194-3 *** ruby-doc-1.9.3-p194-3 (NEW) *** ruby-json-1.7.5-1 (NEW) *** ruby-minitest-2.12.1-1 (NEW) *** ruby-rake-0.9.2.2-1 (NEW) *** ruby-rdoc-3.12-1 (NEW) *** ruby-tcltk-1.9.3-p194-3 Ruby is an interpreted scr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: swig 2.0.8-1

2012-08-27 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** swig-2.0.8-1 *** swig-debuginfo-2.0.8-1 SWIG reads annotated C/C++ header files and creates wrapper code (glue code) in order to make the corresponding C/C++ libraries available to the listed languages, or to extend C/C+

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: arpack-3.1.2-1

2012-08-27 Thread marco atzeri
New versions 3.1.2-1 of arpack (source) / libarpack-devel / libarpack0 for cygwin are available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES It is a upstream bugfix release DESCRIPTION ARPACK is a collection of Fortran77 subroutines designed to solve large scale eigenvalue problems. ARPACK software is

Re: /bin/bash: Operation not permitted

2012-08-27 Thread michael pitoniak
Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes: > > > Complaints like this are typically caused by commands run by the interpreter > (bash in this case). This could be caused by something in your rc files. > I'd check bash_profile and /etc/profile first but check them all if these > aren't the source.

tcsh hang while executing scripts which use pipes with backticks

2012-08-27 Thread Sunadham, Ajay Kumar
We are facing a similar problem as mentioned in the thread below. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/msg00014.html To reproduce the issue create 2 csh files in the same directory. First file dotest.csh: #!/bin/csh -f set num=20 set par=10 set i=0 while ( $i < $par ) ./checkspace.csh $num

Re: gzip 1.4-1 creates corrupt archive

2012-08-27 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 27/08/2012 7:29 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:38 AM, K Stahl wrote: Missed that section, was reading from my phone. Anyway, how about instead of chastising someone for trying to help, you come up with an alternative solution? Stating that you missed something in a post i

Re: gzip 1.4-1 creates corrupt archive

2012-08-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:38 AM, K Stahl wrote: > Missed that section, was reading from my phone. Anyway, how about > instead of chastising someone for trying to help, you come up with an > alternative solution? Stating that you missed something in a post isn't really chastising as much as it is

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygport-0.11.0-1

2012-08-27 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
I have just released cygport-0.11.0 for the Cygwin distribution and the Fedora Cygwin repository. New features in this release: * Vastly improved dependency detection (works only on Cygwin): - commands called by unindented fully-qualified path in postinstall/preremove scripts - script interpr