Re: Shouldn't 'man' depend on 'col'? Shouldn't 'col' be easier to find?

2014-07-08 Thread Chris J. Breisch
At Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 8:16:41 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2014-07-08 18:01, Chris J. Breisch wrote: >> At Tuesday, July 8, 2014, 12:15:22 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >>> On 08/07/2014 17:47, Jack Duthen wrote: >>> util-linux is a popular package, so the issue was

Re: Shouldn't 'man' depend on 'col'? Shouldn't 'col' be easier to find?

2014-07-08 Thread Chris J. Breisch
random" collection of utilities? >> >> Am I the only one to get that problem??? > util-linux is a popular package, so the issue was not yet noticed. > man was recently changed, so this dependency was likely missed, > specially as it seems hidden inside the man binary. Yes, this is true. I'll add it. I'm collecting a few things together, and trying to get the DB creation to work a little faster as well. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Why do I need Cygwin for Yeoman?

2014-07-04 Thread Chris J. Breisch
NEED Cygwin to use Yeoman? Can I just install a Cygwin > command prompt and leave the rest? I don't know the answer to the first question, but the answer to the second question is no. However, you can install just the base system. That's what I would recommend. -- Chris J. Bre

Re: man2html alternative?

2014-07-03 Thread Chris J. Breisch
At Thursday, July 3, 2014, 12:43:55 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2014-07-03 11:24, Chris J. Breisch wrote: >> A version of man2html is part of AutoGen. See here: >> http://autogen.sourceforge.net/index.html and here: >> http://autogen.sourceforge.net/man2html.html. >&g

Re: man2html alternative?

2014-07-03 Thread Chris J. Breisch
rtslist.txt), but I don't know if man2html is included in the package. If there's interest, I could look into moving this project out of Cygwin Ports and into Cygwin itself. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://c

Re: gold star (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: man-db-2.6.7-1)

2014-07-02 Thread Chris J. Breisch
me. >> >> Andrew, could you make it so when you have a chance? > Awarded! http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#CB My spam filter ate this one and I only noticed it after switching e-mail apps. Thanks! -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system

2014-07-02 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Hello Andrey, Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 8:37:11 AM, you wrote: > Greetings, Chris J. Breisch! >>> Ok, I think I have figured it out. Will the now unnecessary files >>> created by "makewhatis" be purged or overwritten by mandb? >> Oh, that's a good ques

Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system

2014-07-02 Thread Chris J. Breisch
you install mandb. mandb without any arguments updates the database, and mandb -q updates it quietly. Oh, that's a good question about the unnecessary files. I should add that cleanup to the install scripts, since it obsoletes man. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: htt

Re: Updated Cygwin yesterday, makewhatis is not present on my system

2014-07-01 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Didn't find any references in the mailing list. Keith man has been replaced by man-db, which does not have a makewhatis. mandb -q has similar functionality. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Problems installing man-db

2014-06-19 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Achim Gratz wrote: However, "mandb -dc" ran through This fixed my problem... :-) Awesome. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: Problems installing man-db

2014-06-19 Thread Chris J. Breisch
can find. I can change the postinstall script to do a "mandb -dc" for now, I guess. The "-d" output goes to stderr, I see. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://

Re: Problems installing man-db

2014-06-19 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Chris J. Breisch wrote: > Hmmm...well, that's not good. Can you run /usr/bin/mandb -c yourself > from the command line? It will take a while and may generate several > warnings, such as what you see above. I did this: $ /usr/bin/mandb -c and it prin

Re: Problems installing man-db

2014-06-18 Thread Chris J. Breisch
nstall How to fix this? Hmmm...well, that's not good. Can you run /usr/bin/mandb -c yourself from the command line? It will take a while and may generate several warnings, such as what you see above. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-06-18 Thread Chris J. Breisch
be wrong. As I said, I can take a look into seeing how difficult it would be to create a Cygwin specific version of mandb without browser capabilities. I'm not convinced it's worth crippling mandb just to remove this dependency, however. Finally, I'm not sure that removing this d

Re: How to strictly differentiate .exe with ???

2014-06-18 Thread Chris J. Breisch
-i $file2 | sed -e 's/ .*//') if [ $inode1 -eq $inode2 ]; then echo $file1 is actually $file2 else echo $file1 and $file2 are separate files fi EOF $ chmod +x areFilesSame.sh $ ./areFilesSame.sh bar bar is actually bar.exe -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: man-db-2.6.7-1

2014-06-17 Thread Chris J. Breisch
= http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/ -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Change PS1 when running as administrator

2014-06-16 Thread Chris J. Breisch
is a shorter test equivalent to your example. You might want to look at this thread: https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00256.html I use the registry test, but the id method would also work. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin on Max OS X ?

2014-06-05 Thread Chris J. Breisch
uff is almost certainly easier. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: How to set big font for xterm in cygwin/X

2014-06-04 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Vera Serif Mono XTerm*faceSize: 10 XTerm*toolBar: false XTerm*Background: black XTerm*Foreground: white XTerm*cursorColor: LightBlue XTerm*ScrollBar: true XTerm*rightScrollBar: true -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

Re: It's back -- "gcc: error: spawn: No such file or directory"

2014-05-30 Thread Chris J. Breisch
;, to see what it's attempting to do? -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-30 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Steven Penny wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Do you? https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00284.html From the same thread. Amazing that you missed that. You are out of your element, mate https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00298.html I think you

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-29 Thread Chris J. Breisch
/2014-05/msg00279.html Do you? https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00284.html From the same thread. Amazing that you missed that. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-4.8.3-1 (x86/x86_64)

2014-05-28 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Ken Brown wrote: On 5/28/2014 1:13 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: JonY wrote: gcc-4.8.3-1 is now uploaded for both 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwin. This includes a patch to automatically link in the default manifest for executable files. Known issues: Cygwin 64-bit gcc-4.8.3-1 debuginfo package is

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-4.8.3-1 (x86/x86_64)

2014-05-28 Thread Chris J. Breisch
), for MS Windows $ ldd /usr/bin/g++ ldd: /usr/bin/g++: Exec format error $ ldd /usr/bin/g++.exe ldd: /usr/bin/g++.exe: Exec format error -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

Re: g++ fails in cc1plus due to path

2014-05-20 Thread Chris J. Breisch
you got it working, then I'm happy. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: g++ fails in cc1plus due to path

2014-05-20 Thread Chris J. Breisch
7;t see any initialization path stuff in my strace. I suspect you have an old cygwin1.dll somewhere, and running cygcheck as described on the "Reporting Problems" page linked above will likely point that out. Are you running cc1plus directly? -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports:

Re: More testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-05-16 Thread Chris J. Breisch
in/root ls: cannot access /win/d/cygwin/root: No such file or directory -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Re: Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?

2014-05-16 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 15 09:17, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 14 18:52, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: Yes, this might be better discussed in cygwin-apps. I guess the setting of MANPATH is mainly historical. I'

Re: Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?

2014-05-15 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 14 18:52, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: Yes, this might be better discussed in cygwin-apps. I guess the setting of MANPATH is mainly historical. I'd be happy to not set MANPATH in /etc/profile if we no longer need i

Re: Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?

2014-05-15 Thread Chris J. Breisch
problem I found with man-db and MANPATH is an upstream problem. I have an LFS system that I can use to test that and will do so later today. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?

2014-05-13 Thread Chris J. Breisch
gned, but if so, the design seems flawed from my perspective. From my research, this does not appear to be a Cygwin specific issue, although I haven't yet tried to reproduce it on a Linux system. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Chris J. Breisch
nt to maintain, haven't applied the necessary Cygwin patches, and haven't gotten it to successfully work on your machine, then it's a bit ludicrous to expect someone to name you the maintainer of said package. You haven't shown any evidence of your ability to perform in tha

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Chris J. Breisch
le with coreutils in the past, and I suspect if I had to, I could update it using the patches from the last version as a starting point, but I haven't found a need to do so yet. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://c

Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)

2014-05-07 Thread Chris J. Breisch
s" for any account that it would tend to want to set as "None". That would be some smelly code though. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)

2014-05-07 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 6 14:22, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Windows, users and groups are identified not by uid/gid, but by their SID. The SID is a unique value, but other than that, a SID can be a user or a group and in lots of cases Windows doesn't ca

Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)

2014-05-06 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 6 13:01, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Other than that, I'm open to discuss the necessity(?) to override the primary group by default. But, in fact, I'm not sure this really makes sense. Linux systems default to creating a user-spec

Re: Microsoft Accounts (was Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members)

2014-05-06 Thread Chris J. Breisch
. The Windows Account technique isn't quite as nice, but admittedly, it does its job just as well. Yes, I've experienced that on Linux, but I don't recall having these file permission issues there. Perhaps I just never noticed though. Thanks, Corinna Thanks for looking into al

Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members

2014-05-06 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 05/05/2014 06:39 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: 513/None is in /etc/group. It's the next to last line. The line above is the last line and apparently comes from some prior invocation of 'mkgroup -c'. I never knew until this moment that there was a &#x

Re: printf and echo no longer changing the window title

2014-05-06 Thread Chris J. Breisch
dow title. Note that PS1='\e]0;blah\a' Still works Works for me. Are you sure you don't have PROMPT_COMMAND set, and it's overriding it? -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members

2014-05-05 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 05/05/2014 06:07 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Hmmm, just noticed something in /etc/group: Chris J. Breisch:S-1-5-21-3514886939-1786686319-3519756147-1001:11001: and on another machine where I can reproduce this: Chris:S-1-5-21-1055441198-2882714470-4103286779-1001

Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members

2014-05-05 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Chris J. Breisch wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 05/05/2014 02:56 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 5 12:17, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: An strace of `chmod 400 bar' might sched some light on this issue, but I have a gut feelin

Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members

2014-05-05 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 05/05/2014 02:56 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 5 12:17, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: An strace of `chmod 400 bar' might sched some light on this issue, but I have a gut feeling the underlying WIndows call wil

Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members

2014-05-05 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 5 12:17, Chris J. Breisch wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: An strace of `chmod 400 bar' might sched some light on this issue, but I have a gut feeling the underlying WIndows call will not even return an error code... Attached. Your gut seems to be working

Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members

2014-05-05 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 5 11:23, Chris J. Breisch wrote: In both cases, I am logging on to the machine with a "Microsoft Account": http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/account/default.aspx Hmm, maybe that's the problem. This "Microsoft Account" stuff might influe

Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members

2014-05-05 Thread Chris J. Breisch
ere doesn't appear to be any BLODA. I may try to create a new VM with nothing on it but Cygwin and see what happens. I don't have access to the second machine right now, but I'll dig later. I'll dig a little more on my own. I don't want to waste bandwidth on the Cygwin li

Re: Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members

2014-05-05 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 5 09:49, Chris J. Breisch wrote: As far as Cygwin tools are concerned, the None group is just a normal group like any other group. The behaviour you're observing looks a bit like either your group file is not ok, or you're testing this with the noacl mo

Problem with "None" Group on Non-Domain Members

2014-05-05 Thread Chris J. Breisch
hat's not the best idea in this case. 2) How is this all going to work with Corinna's new stuff? Will I even be able to change my default group with it? Just to be clear, this is only a problem on non-Domain accounts. For a Domain account the default group is "Domain Users&quo

Re: 64-bit vs. 32-bit

2014-04-25 Thread Chris J. Breisch
never dream of sharing /usr/local this way. Oh, finally, I set the title of my mintty or xterm to contain ${PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE} as well, so I don't forget where I am. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-04-24 Thread Chris J. Breisch
r the one test failure for man-db. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-04-23 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Chris J. Breisch wrote: Check-0.9.12 seems to work out-of-the-box. Configure with --prefix=/usr. "make check" on check reports all tests passed, despite what appear to be some failures. The CHANGELOG says that this version should pass all tests on Cygwin. I've just subscribed

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-04-17 Thread Chris J. Breisch
ybe even zero. I'm not sure I get a vote. :) Also obviously, if the decision is to go forward, these three items need to be packaged up appropriately and a package maintainer assigned. Check is already a Cygwin package, but needs updating. Somehow I have a feeling about who will be nom

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Steven Penny wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got. If Christopher wants to gripe on the mailing that his business, but he and everyone else need to get realisic about the fact that not everyone

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Chris J. Breisch
rhaps, only choice? I'd vote against '+' and in favor of '\' as long as there is no potential for confusion with Windows Domains and accounts/machine names, i.e. \{,}. It doesn't sound to me like that would be an issue with how you want to use things, but that&

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Chris J. Breisch
as source control systems go, and submitting patches, I remember using RCS, and before that SCCS. Those worked fine for their time, and I submitted lots of patches using them, even one that made it into the BDS 4.3 Tahoe 'vi' code. So, like Andy, pardon me if I'm not moved to tears

Re: SQL server utility not working when invoked(from a asp.net application) using cygwin

2014-03-25 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Chris J. Breisch! Without additional details on what is or isn't happening, this is as _dosOutput is a more likely offender. Because of backslashes. Since it's unquoted. No, that's from my example, which works, not his. I handle creation of

Re: SQL server utility not working when invoked(from a asp.net application) using cygwin

2014-03-24 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Chris J. Breisch wrote: Without additional details on what is or isn't happening, this is as much assistance as I can provide. I lied. I had one more thought. Your username, password, database name, sql server name don't contain characters that are special to bash, do they? O

Re: SQL server utility not working when invoked(from a asp.net application) using cygwin

2014-03-24 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Chris J. Breisch wrote: Can you give more specifics on how it fails? And is it possible for you to upgrade to a more recent version of Cygwin? I'm doing almost all of this except for the ASP.net part, and I have no problems. I do this at work, and I'm not at the office right now. It&

Re: SQL server utility not working when invoked(from a asp.net application) using cygwin

2014-03-23 Thread Chris J. Breisch
ts differently. I can check in the morning. I also use Windows authentication and not SQL authentication, but that shouldn't matter. In fact, of the two, SQL authentication is the way less likely to cause issues. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-03-15 Thread Chris J. Breisch
he only failure. 6 other tests pass. I'm not yet sure why it can't find "sh" unless it's not looking in $PATH or $PATH has been obliterated somehow. Still digging... -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: htt

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-03-14 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 14 10:24, Chris J. Breisch wrote: I downloaded and built the latest version of check, and it seems to work much better. I still have issues with libpipelines tests. It appears that there is a 32/64-bit issue somewhere. I'm using Cygwin x64. Many of the tests

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-03-14 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Erwin Waterlander wrote: Op 14-3-2014 13:58 Chris J. Breisch schreef: There's also a check 0.9.12 from January of this year. It appears to me that we should upgrade check to at least 0.9.11, as I'm unconvinced that the current version is working. It was in October when I tri

Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

2014-03-14 Thread Chris J. Breisch
r. It appears to me that we should upgrade check to at least 0.9.11, as I'm unconvinced that the current version is working. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-03-12 Thread Chris J. Breisch
package. If you like, you can even do this together. I'm willing to defer to Achim, since he already has some patches, but I'm flexible. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-03-11 Thread Chris J. Breisch
give it a shot. Is the information on this page (http://cygwin.com/setup.html) up-to-date? -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: batch script execution failing with 255 exit code in cygwin 1.7.28

2014-02-17 Thread Chris J. Breisch
as it always has". -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Chris J. Breisch
than it includes. Being able to do so hardly seems like a bug. Frankly, I was surprised the dependency tree for bash was so large. Bash depends on texinfo? I see the chain that gets you there, but it still surprised me. Regards, Achim. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports:

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Chris J. Breisch
No. You told the GUI not to install the base, but only to install bash. You didn't say the same thing when you installed it from the command line. Perhaps if you said to remove category all first, like you did from the GUI. I don't know. I haven't tried it, and can't at

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-28 Thread Chris J. Breisch
endency tree, but it got to painful to type up, and I doubt many would care. I'm surprised there's not such a thing on the Cygwin site somewhere, but perhaps I'm just blind. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: AdminCygwin Release

2014-01-23 Thread Chris J. Breisch
n the release? I'm sure you could get the requisite number of votes to include it. +1 cgf It's something I certainly would want in the release. I've tinkered around with writing something like this myself, as I'm sure many others have. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Pr

Re: Cross-compiling Linux kernel

2013-06-17 Thread Chris J. Breisch
built a Cross Linux From Scratch system under Cygwin earlier this year. I just got back from vacation, though. Give me a day or so, and I'll find my notes on it. I believe most of them have already been posted here in the past, however. Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports:

Re: Problem with relative path containing nonexisting directory

2013-03-14 Thread Chris J. Breisch
On 3/14/2013 9:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 14 13:19, Jacob Kroon wrote: Hi, I'm having problems compiling EGLIBC in Cygwin. I think the reason is the following: Doing "ls foobar/../" in a Cygwin terminal, where the directory "foobar" does _not_ exist, still returns a valid file listi

Re: startxwin started bash does not read .bashrc or .bash_profile

2013-03-01 Thread Chris J. Breisch
On 3/1/2013 10:49 AM, Kevin Layer wrote: Don't have cron running. I start it as me, the logged in user, from a mouse click or running "startxwin" in a mintty. Behaves the same either way. Well, I am unable to duplicate this no matter what I do. I have even launched a dash shell directly fro

Re: wrong performance of malloc/free under multi-threading

2013-02-26 Thread Chris J. Breisch
On 2/26/2013 4:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 26 15:35, MITSUNARI Shigeo wrote: Hi. I found that the performance of malloc/free is wrong under multi-threading. The following test program reproduces the problem. The program repeats malloc and free under multi-thread. I measured the timin

libssp-0.dll appears to be missing from libssp0 package

2012-12-19 Thread Chris J. Breisch
dll which does exist. -- Chris J. Breisch -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Problem building Cygwin from CVS

2012-12-17 Thread Chris J. Breisch
On 12/17/2012 4:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Yes, don't try to build tcl/tk from the sourceware repo. It's old, it's unmaintained. Corinna Ok, thanks. Are there any other parts of the CVS source tree that I should be wary of? -- Chris J. Breisch<http://ww

Problem building Cygwin from CVS

2012-12-15 Thread Chris J. Breisch
./include/w32api/winsock2.h:986:34: error: conflicting types for ‘select’ /usr/include/sys/select.h:31:5: note: previous declaration of ‘select’ was here Makefile:423: recipe for target `tclAlloc.o' failed The -mwin32 option causes tclWinPort.h and therefore winsock2.h to be incl