Re: Where to post instructions on building something under cygwin ...

2020-06-22 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-06-22 18:10, Eliot Moss wrote: > Dear fellow cygwin-ers ... > > A recent poster has prompted me to ask this question: > > Assuming someone wrote up the instructions for building / installing some > python > package under cygwin, where could those instructions go?  Is there a place in >

ImageMagick maybe broken by libgs9 upgrade

2020-06-22 Thread Emily via Cygwin
I use ImageMagick to convert and crop shipping labels from PDFs generated by Ebay.  On 6/8, this command worked: $ convert -density 300 -crop 1500x1200 label.pdf label.png Aborted (core dumped) The command still runs on PDFs that were not generated by Ebay, but I get the same error on old

Where to post instructions on building something under cygwin ...

2020-06-22 Thread Eliot Moss
Dear fellow cygwin-ers ... A recent poster has prompted me to ask this question: Assuming someone wrote up the instructions for building / installing some python package under cygwin, where could those instructions go? Is there a place in the cygwin web pages for such a thing? Or would this

Re: Files and folders created with invalid ACL

2020-06-22 Thread Eliot Moss
On 6/22/2020 3:59 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: On 6/22/2020 2:08 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Maybe you took Andre slightly literally; rephrasing, what are your current Should have read "Andrey"! Eliot -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Files and folders created with invalid ACL

2020-06-22 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-06-22 13:59, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 6/22/2020 2:08 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * Andrey Repin (Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:20:35 +0300) >>> icacls test.txt /verify test.txt: Ace entries not in canonical order. >>> >>> This is normal. All conformant drivers MUST be able to correctly

Re: change in handling quotes in cygwin package from 3.1.4-1 to 3.1.5-1

2020-06-22 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 6/15/2020 12:21 PM, Josh Thompson wrote: We recently noticed a change in double quote (") handling that is causing a command we issue to fail. The command is: [...] 3.1.4: $ cmd.exe /c "echo \"" " 3.1.5: $ cmd.exe /c "echo \"" \" I can confirm this change in behavior, and I thought it

Re: Files and folders created with invalid ACL

2020-06-22 Thread Eliot Moss
On 6/22/2020 2:08 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Andrey Repin (Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:20:35 +0300) >> >>> icacls test.txt /verify >>> test.txt: Ace entries not in canonical order. >> >> This is normal. All conformant drivers MUST be able to correctly process such >> ACL's. "Non-canonical" does not

Re: Files and folders created with invalid ACL

2020-06-22 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Andrey Repin (Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:20:35 +0300) > > Greetings, Thorsten Kampe! > > > I'm experiencing the issue described here[1]: files and folders > > created with Cygwin utilities like touch and mkdir have an > > incorrect ACL ("The access control list (ACL) structure is > > invalid (os

Re: Files and folders created with invalid ACL

2020-06-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Thorsten Kampe! > I'm experiencing the issue described here[1]: files and folders > created with Cygwin utilities like touch and mkdir have an > incorrect ACL ("The access control list (ACL) structure is > invalid (os error 1336)"). > icacls test.txt /verify > test.txt: Ace entries

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

2020-06-22 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
My Name via Cygwin writes: > Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a > directory; so I'll hold off unless you say mkdir is really what I should do: No, the file is correct. The following worked for me: > chmod a+x /etc/xml/catalog >

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

2020-06-22 Thread My Name via Cygwin
BTW, Cygwin Setup 64 showed me that error message at the end of installing this set of Cygwin packages: python27, bzr, emacs-w32, aspell, aspell-en, octave. On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 11:13 PM My Name wrote: > Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a > directory; so

RE: Apparent bug in either (1) Cygwin default Package-list or (2) Package "bzr" dependency-list

2020-06-22 Thread Allen Hewes via Cygwin
> -Original Message- > From: My Name > Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 2:34 AM > To: Allen Hewes > Subject: Re: Apparent bug in either (1) Cygwin default Package-list or (2) > Package "bzr" dependency-list > > > WSL2 > > At your convenience, can you please link to instructions on how to

RE: Apparent bug in either (1) Cygwin default Package-list or (2) Package "bzr" dependency-list

2020-06-22 Thread Allen Hewes via Cygwin
> -Original Message- > From: My Name > Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 2:34 AM > To: Allen Hewes > Subject: Re: Apparent bug in either (1) Cygwin default Package-list or (2) > Package "bzr" dependency-list > > > WSL2 > > At your convenience, can you please link to instructions on how to

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

2020-06-22 Thread My Name via Cygwin
Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a directory; so I'll hold off unless you say mkdir is really what I should do: = $ cat /etc/xml/catalog http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd;> $ = On Sun,