Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread clayton
Thanks to all. I will go back and make sure I have selected bc as well.I clearly did not understand the selection mechanism. > > On Mar 19, 2022 at 5:25 PM, Joel Reeswrote: > > > > > > > > 2022年3月20日(日) 8:19 Eliot Moss : > > >

re: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files

2022-03-19 Thread L A Walsh
New message in tail: Anyone else seen this type of message lately:? tail -f .*log|wc tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files It doesn't seem to be a big issue, but thought I should mention it... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Joel Rees
2022年3月20日(日) 8:19 Eliot Moss : > On 3/19/2022 5:51 PM, Clayton Cramer wrote: > > I installed everything, but that does not seem to include bc. > > So you went through and explicitly asked for each package? > If you did, then that would include bc, since it is one of > the packages. I'm now

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/19/2022 5:51 PM, Clayton Cramer wrote: I installed everything, but that does not seem to include bc. So you went through and explicitly asked for each package? If you did, then that would include bc, since it is one of the packages. I'm now confused. How did you request "everything"?

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-03-19, Clayton Cramer wrote: > On 3/19/2022 2:55 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > >You have to select packages explicitly. > > > >It does not just blindly install all of them - that's a lot of stuff, > >and for various reasons not a great idea.  Install what you need. > I installed everything,

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Clayton Cramer
I installed everything, but that does not seem to include bc. On 3/19/2022 2:55 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: You have to select packages explicitly. It does not just blindly install all of them - that's a lot of stuff, and for various reasons not a great idea.  Install what you need. -- “I look to

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/19/2022 2:33 PM, Clayton Cramer wrote: Cygwin Setup - Select Packages says there are no packages to install or update.  No is there a bc executable under \cygwin You have to select packages explicitly. It does not just blindly install all of them - that's a lot of stuff, and for various

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest release version available on CPAN: x86/x86_64 -- perl-HTML-Parser-3.77-1 perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.62-1 noarch -- perl-Alien-Build-2.48-1 perl-DateTime-TimeZone-2.52-1 -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE

Updated: Perl distributions

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest release version available on CPAN: x86/x86_64 -- perl-HTML-Parser-3.77-1 perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.62-1 noarch -- perl-Alien-Build-2.48-1 perl-DateTime-TimeZone-2.52-1 -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Clayton Cramer
Cygwin Setup - Select Packages says there are no packages to install or update.  No is there a bc executable under \cygwin On 3/19/2022 12:23 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: bc is available in Cygwin. Note that Cygwin is not a single thing, but a library that provides a pretty faithful mapping from

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Eliot Moss
bc is available in Cygwin. Note that Cygwin is not a single thing, but a library that provides a pretty faithful mapping from POSIX library calls to Windows ones, PLUS a large number of packages, individually installable (modulo their dependencies on one another), of Posix compatible tools

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Clayton Cramer
Running bc by itself gave the same error message. Just in case that bc was not part of cygwin, I deleted it and reran the install.  It did not seem to have bc listed as a component to install.  My PATH is now:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl 1.1.1n-1, mingw64-{i686, x86_64}-openssl-1.1.1n-0.1 (security)

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution. This release updates to the latest upstream security patch release and continues to use the Fedora patches from an earlier release (Fedora has already switched to openssl 3.x). * openssl-1.1.1n-1 * openssl-perl-1.1.1n-1 *

Updated: openssl 1.1.1n-1, mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-openssl-1.1.1n-0.1 (security)

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution. This release updates to the latest upstream security patch release and continues to use the Fedora patches from an earlier release (Fedora has already switched to openssl 3.x). * openssl-1.1.1n-1 * openssl-perl-1.1.1n-1 *

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.10.1-2

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
The man-db package is updated to the latest upstream version 2.10.2. Man-db is an implementation of the standard Unix documentation system accessed using the man command. It uses a Berkeley DB database in place of the traditional flat-text whatis databases. This release includes a performance

Updated: man-db-2.10.1-2

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
The man-db package is updated to the latest upstream version 2.10.2. Man-db is an implementation of the standard Unix documentation system accessed using the man command. It uses a Berkeley DB database in place of the traditional flat-text whatis databases. This release includes a performance

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libtool 2.4.7-1

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libtool-2.4.7-1 * libltdl7-2.4.7-1 GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE

Updated: libtool 2.4.7-1

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libtool-2.4.7-1 * libltdl7-2.4.7-1 GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-,}cfitsio-4.1.0-1

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
This is an update to the latest upstream version. cfitsio-4.1.0-1 mingw64-i686-cfitsio-4.1.0-1 mingw64-x86_64-cfitsio-4.1.0-1 Notes - The build enables BZip2, cURL and multithreading support. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the

Updated: {mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-,}cfitsio-4.1.0-1

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
This is an update to the latest upstream version. cfitsio-4.1.0-1 mingw64-i686-cfitsio-4.1.0-1 mingw64-x86_64-cfitsio-4.1.0-1 Notes - The build enables BZip2, cURL and multithreading support. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fetchmail-6.4.28-1 / fetchmailconf-6.4.28-1

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
The current upstream release of fetchmail is now available on Cygwin. The upstream release changelog is here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/ This release uses the Python3 interpreter and has been compiled with support for NTLM, GSSAPI authentication, TLSv1.3 is

Updated: fetchmail-6.4.28-1 / fetchmailconf-6.4.28-1

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
The current upstream release of fetchmail is now available on Cygwin. The upstream release changelog is here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/ This release uses the Python3 interpreter and has been compiled with support for NTLM, GSSAPI authentication, TLSv1.3 is

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Brian Inglis
On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 08:12:15 -0700, Achim Gratz wrote: Clayton Cramer writes: I installed everything from the setup program, but executing bc gives "The code execution cannot proceed because readline4.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem." From where do I get

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tzcode, tzdata 2022a

2022-03-19 Thread Cygwin tzcode/tzdata Maintainer
The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution: * tzcode2022a * tzdata2022a The Time Zone Database (often called tz, tzdb, or zoneinfo) contains data that represents the history of local time for many locations around the world, and supports conversion of

Updated: tzcode, tzdata 2022a

2022-03-19 Thread Cygwin tzcode/tzdata Maintainer
The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution: * tzcode2022a * tzdata2022a The Time Zone Database (often called tz, tzdb, or zoneinfo) contains data that represents the history of local time for many locations around the world, and supports conversion of

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
Clayton Cramer writes: > I installed everything from the setup program, but executing bc gives > "The code execution cannot proceed because readline4.dll was not > found.  Reinstalling the program may fix this problem."  From where do > I get readline4.dll? Cygwin's bc does not depend on this

this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Clayton Cramer
I installed everything from the setup program, but executing bc gives "The code execution cannot proceed because readline4.dll was not found.  Reinstalling the program may fix this problem."  From where do I get readline4.dll? -- “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of