Re: How to bring ddrescue up to date?

Webbed.Pete wrote: (First time poster here. Hi all ;) ) Welcome! The ddrescue package has not been updated in cygwin since 2013. However, the underlying app has gone through a LOT of improvement since then, all the way through this month. I will provide ddrescue 1.21 soon after its release.

Re: __STRICT_ANSI__ and stdio.h

oops! forgot to attach p.c, so resending now... > Hi, > >>> is cygwin's __STRICT_ANSI__ and stdio.h behavior not so compatible to >>> glibc's? >>> especially, i meant routines in POSIX 1003.1:2001 (popen(), pclose(), etc). >>> for a specific example, see a cparser issue[1] i submitted. >>> >> >>

Re: __STRICT_ANSI__ and stdio.h

Hi, >> is cygwin's __STRICT_ANSI__ and stdio.h behavior not so compatible to >> glibc's? >> especially, i meant routines in POSIX 1003.1:2001 (popen(), pclose(), etc). >> for a specific example, see a cparser issue[1] i submitted. >> > > Cygwin isn't wrong. __STRICT_ANSI__ doesn't mix with POSIX

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: varnish-4.1.0-1 (32 and 64 bits)

The package varnish has been upgraded to 4.1.0-1, leaving 3.0.5-1 as previous. PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Varnish is a web accelerator written with performance and flexibility in mind. Varnish store web pages in memory so the web servers don't have to create the same web page over

GCC make check -jN fails with broken pipe

Hi, I'm trying to run the GCC testsuite in parallel (i.e. -j4) on Cygwin, but it fails with " parent: sync byte write: broken pipe": make check-gcc -j4 .. Running /home/me/gcc/testsuite/gcc.c-torture/compile/compile.exp ... Running /home/me/gcc/testsuite/gcc.c-torture/compile/compile.exp ... Run

How to bring ddrescue up to date?

(First time poster here. Hi all ;) ) The ddrescue package has not been updated in cygwin since 2013. However, the underlying app has gone through a LOT of improvement since then, all the way through this month. Questions: * How best to request an update by the maintainer? * How hard for me to

Re: __STRICT_ANSI__ and stdio.h

On 12/12/2015 2:51 AM, KIMURA Masaru wrote: > Hi, > > is cygwin's __STRICT_ANSI__ and stdio.h behavior not so compatible to glibc's? > especially, i meant routines in POSIX 1003.1:2001 (popen(), pclose(), etc). > for a specific example, see a cparser issue[1] i submitted. > Cygwin isn't wrong.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mkvtoolnix-8.6.1-1

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