Re: flex package POSIX violation

2018-01-05 Thread Steven Penny
On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:37:11, Gerrit Haase wrote: Maybe to 'request' something is not the best approach to resolve your issue? yeah, sometimes it is. my original request was Dec 31 [1]. by Jan 1 [2], updated package had been published. A better way to handle issues like this would be: you prov

[ANNOUNCEMENT] texlive-collection-bibtexextra 20180105-1

2018-01-05 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * texlive-collection-bibtexextra-20180105-1 * texlive-collection-bibtexextra-doc-20180105-1 This is an update to the latest upstream release. It includes biblatex-3.10, which is needed for biber-2.10. Ken Brown Cygwin'

[ANNOUNCEMENT] biber 2.10-1

2018-01-05 Thread Ken Brown
The following package has been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * biber-2.10-1 Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX. Biber supports full UTF-8, can (re-)encode input and output, supports highly configurable sorting, dynamic bibliography sets, and many other features. This is

Re: Explicit dash rebaseall instructions from a CMD.EXE shell requested

2018-01-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Herbert Stocker writes: > You can also automate the kill-all-those-processes operation with > this Batch code: Or install procps-ng and just issue a pkill . (yes that works even when started from CMD). > # ash.exe /bin/rebaseall -v Again, you shouldn't be doing that any more. Regards, Achim.

Re: Can't connect to ssh host with Emacs tramp

2018-01-05 Thread George Prikhodko
Hi, Have you tried to set in your ~/.emacs file ‘tramp-verbose’ variable? If not, then add to the file the following line: (setq tramp-verbose 6) In '*debug tramp/scp remote_host_name*' buffer you'll see all interactions between tramp, ssh and your remote host. Good luck! On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 a

Re: Can't connect to ssh host with Emacs tramp

2018-01-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/5/2018 11:37 AM, David Karr wrote: On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:15 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 1/4/2018 5:42 PM, David Karr wrote: I've reviewed some of the Emacs tramp documentation, but I'm not sure what the issue is. If I'm using Cygwin, I don't need the putty components for this, do I? N

Re: Can't connect to ssh host with Emacs tramp

2018-01-05 Thread David Karr
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:15 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 1/4/2018 5:42 PM, David Karr wrote: >> >> I've reviewed some of the Emacs tramp documentation, but I'm not sure >> what the issue is. >> >> If I'm using Cygwin, I don't need the putty components for this, do I? > > > No, I make ssh connections

[ANNOUNCEMENT] icu 60.2-1

2018-01-05 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libicu60-60.2-1 * libicu-devel-60.2-1 * icu-doc-60.2-1 ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. ICU is widely portable and gives appl

Re: flex package POSIX violation

2018-01-05 Thread Gerrit Haase
2017-12-31 22:13 GMT+01:00 Steven Penny writes: > The POSIX standard, at least since 1997 [1], requires the presence of a > "lex" > utility. > > Most systems (including Cygwin) provide a Lex implementation via the "flex" > package. However with other OS, a "lex -> flex" symlink is provided, whereas

Re: Explicit dash rebaseall instructions from a CMD.EXE shell requested

2018-01-05 Thread Herbert Stocker
On 2018-01-04 19:21, Erik Soderquist wrote: When I had to rebase, I had to track down and stop all cygwin services as well. I went to Windows Task Manager, added the image path name and sorted by it to find what all from cygwin was still running, and shut them down. Maybe just for the recor

Startkde issue

2018-01-05 Thread Nero Wolfe Band
Hello everyone. I can't understand why startkde doesn't work in my pc. My PC is a W7 64bit I launch Cygwin Terminal (D:\..\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -) I launch "startkde" but kde can't start. I get the error "$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server." Issue seems to be in k