Stuck with incomplete Cygwin installation

Quick summary: I'm stuck being unable to achieve a working Cygwin installation on a machine that formerly had one. I recently tried to update Cygwin packages using setup, and developed the "bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable" issue which many online posts indicate can be cured

Re: yasm: man7 packaging

On 09/02/17 05:18, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Wrt yasm's manpages, yasm(1) references several yasm_*(7) pages, which are packaged with yasm-devel instead of yasm. As these describe concepts rather than APIs (unlike man3), could you please move them over? Sure - I'll try to take a look later

yasm: man7 packaging

David, Wrt yasm's manpages, yasm(1) references several yasm_*(7) pages, which are packaged with yasm-devel instead of yasm. As these describe concepts rather than APIs (unlike man3), could you please move them over? -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: cygpath -w converts relative paths to absolute windows paths

Hi Andrey, That was probably true in the past, but no longer! I just tested this: `mklink /D testlink "..\All Users"` in cmd and then I went to Cygwin ZSH, and ran `ll`. This showed me: `testlink -> '../All Users'/`. Up one directory relative links do work on Windows! This is a directory

Re: -displayfd outputting some garbage?

On 08/02/2017 01:02, Matt D. wrote: On 2/7/2017 7:46 PM, Matt D. wrote: I have an xinit script which outputs the display id to a file with the following option: xinit .. -displayfd 3 3>$HOME/.display Thanks for reporting this. For future issues, can I ask you to use the cygwin list, per [1]

[PATCH] Cygwin: create separate bits/byteswap.h

Match glibc behaviour to expose the public bswap_* macros only with an explicity #include ; #include'ing should not expose them. Signed-off-by: Yaakov Selkowitz --- winsup/cygwin/include/bits/byteswap.h | 37 +++

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

Am 08.02.2017 um 19:34 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: Further comments welcome, and it's Achim's turn to provide further diagnostics input as requested in another mail. It could also be that screen or tmux simply make invalid assumptions about the setting of Wraparound modes. That

Re: cygpath -w converts relative paths to absolute windows paths

Hi Andrey, Am 08.02.2017 um 11:54 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! Am 07.02.2017 um 16:30 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Roger Qiu! I've found that `cygpath --windows '../` will give back an absolute windows path. ... ".." is a special path, that can't be safely

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gmp-6.1.2-1

On 2017-02-08 15:17, Denis Excoffier wrote: Thank you for libgmp-6.1.2-1 that supersedes 6.1.1-1. I noticed that libgmp.la is no longer present in the distribution (x86). Is it okay? Yes, .la files are generally going away. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gmp-6.1.2-1

> Le 21 janv. 2017 à 20:19, Achim Gratz wrote: > > > GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library > = > > GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on > signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There is > no

Re: perl-DateTime et.al.

Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > On 2017-02-04 10:24, Achim Gratz wrote: >> the versions of these in Cygwin get really long in the tooth and there >> are several packages out there that have started to require the newer >> versions available. Could you please either update them or give me >>

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

Thomas Wolff writes: > Further comments welcome, and it's Achim's turn to provide further > diagnostics input as requested in another mail. It could also be that > screen or tmux simply make invalid assumptions about the setting of > Wraparound modes. That will take a while. I'll have to set up

[ANNOUNCEMENT] fish 2.5.0-1

fish 2.5.0-1 is now available in Cygwin. This is a new upstream release, with lots of fixes and improvements. See https://fishshell.com/release_notes.html for the list. fish is the friendly interactive shell. It's a Unix shell that focuses on interactive use, discoverability, and user

fish 2.5.0-1

fish 2.5.0-1 is now available in Cygwin. This is a new upstream release, with lots of fixes and improvements. See https://fishshell.com/release_notes.html for the list. fish is the friendly interactive shell. It's a Unix shell that focuses on interactive use, discoverability, and user

Re: Segmentation Faults

On 08/02/2017 18:13, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: FWIW, since doing the updates late last month, many programs are seg faulting for me, including XWin, wget, curl, ssh, procps, top, gawk... mintty, bash, vi, cd, and ls still work, so all is not lost, but I'm certainly not able to use cygwin

Segmentation Faults

FWIW, since doing the updates late last month, many programs are seg faulting for me, including XWin, wget, curl, ssh, procps, top, gawk... mintty, bash, vi, cd, and ls still work, so all is not lost, but I'm certainly not able to use cygwin as much as before, and recovery is more difficult

Re: cygpath -w converts relative paths to absolute windows paths

Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > Am 07.02.2017 um 16:30 schrieb Andrey Repin: >> Greetings, Roger Qiu! >> >>> I've found that `cygpath --windows '../` will give back an absolute windows >>> path. >>> ... >> ".." is a special path, that can't be safely converted. > How is the special meaning of ".." so