Re: rebaseall and cygstdc++-6.dll

2011-09-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25/09/2011 21:31, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: On 25 September 2011 02:07, Dave Korn wrote: I finally nailed this one down. Stray base relocs against references to symbols in discarded COMDAT sections remaining in the .eh_frame data cause the stack unwind lookup to get lost. Sourceware CVS

Re: Will cygwin build gcc with --enable-plugin?

2011-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
On 17/09/2011 10:16, xunxun wrote: Hi, all Gcc plugin has landed in the release for a long time. Will cygwin or other windows gcc have possibility to support this function? Not without a lot of work, perhaps adopting something like flexdll, but in windows, although an exe can import

Re: rebaseall and cygstdc++-6.dll

2011-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 13/09/2011 22:20, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 21:57 -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: Just a heads up around an issue I encountered with rtorrent after executing rebaseall. I ran in to some forking issues so I executed rebaseall after which rtorrent started to crash

Re: rebaseall and cygstdc++-6.dll

2011-09-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10/09/2011 02:57, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: Hi All, Just a heads up around an issue I encountered with rtorrent after executing rebaseall. I ran in to some forking issues so I executed rebaseall after which rtorrent started to crash constantly during various operations. Through trial and

Re: rebaseall and cygstdc++-6.dll

2011-09-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 11/09/2011 02:27, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: On 10/09/2011 1:15 PM, Dave Korn wrote: On 10/09/2011 02:57, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: I'm not sure what the issue is with rebasing cygstdc++-6.dll, but I figured I should share my findings in case someone else runs in to a similar issue

Re: rebaseall and cygstdc++-6.dll

2011-09-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 11/09/2011 02:53, Dave Korn wrote: Do you have a copy of the bad DLL that you could send me off-list? Oh, also any of the resulting rtorrent .stackdump files you might have lying around too. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: Invalid Key: setup.exe authenticity

2011-09-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 05/09/2011 06:44, carpe_diem wrote: Upon running the detached signature file through PGP it reports the file setup.exe was signed on 12/7/2010 with an Invalid Key. Could you confirm the origin and safety of setup.exe posted on http://cygwin.com/install.html ? The file downloaded has the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.5.3-2

2011-09-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09/09/2011 05:23, Dave Korn wrote: On 08/09/2011 17:33, Bernd Prager wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 15:44 -0400, Bernd Prager wrote: $ g++ thread.cpp -L /usr/local/lib -lboost_thread /tmp/cccfCagO.o:thread.cpp:(.text+0xa4): undefined reference to `__Unwind_Resume' _Unwind_Resume resumes

Re: chere on Win2008 Server - strange behavior

2011-09-08 Thread Dave Kilroy
bit one. chere uses the 32 bit one. This works on 64 bit Windows 7, but not some others. I thought I'd done a release fixing this. You can try the attached patch, which should make chere play with the appropriate registry. Dave. --- chere.prev 2009-01-29 22:15:52.00100 + +++ chere

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.5.3-2

2011-09-08 Thread Dave Korn
On 08/09/2011 17:33, Bernd Prager wrote: On 9/6/2011 5:27 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 15:44 -0400, Bernd Prager wrote: I recompiled the recent boost libraries with the new gcc-4 package. The thread example fails with: $ g++ thread.cpp -L /usr/local/lib -lboost_thread

Re: /proc file descriptor: Bad address

2011-09-08 Thread Dave Korn
On 08/09/2011 15:50, Marco atzeri wrote: Just noted on latest cvs on XP-SP3: $ ps ax PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND 529647685296 46480 1006 16:43:06 /usr/bin/ps 476836284768 26880 1006 16:43:02 /usr/bin/bash

Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?

2011-09-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03/09/2011 09:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 2 22:15, Dave Korn wrote: On 02/09/2011 19:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: As the subject says, shouldn't we remove gcc3 from the distro finally? We have 3 mingw compilers and gcc4 for Cygwin. What reason is left to stick to gcc 3? Well

Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?

2011-09-02 Thread Dave Korn
On 02/09/2011 19:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: As the subject says, shouldn't we remove gcc3 from the distro finally? We have 3 mingw compilers and gcc4 for Cygwin. What reason is left to stick to gcc 3? Well, it's the only support we have for Pascal and D. Someone might still be using them.

Re: gcc4: upset errors + libmpfr vs mpclib version problems (ping David Billinghurst)

2011-09-01 Thread Dave Korn
On 02/09/2011 05:09, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 04:00 +, upset lived up to its name and complained: upset: *** setup.ini: warning - package gcc4-java requires non-existent package java-ecj That's an artifact from my Ports gcc4 package, as I ship ECJ as part of a

Re: gcc4: upset errors + libmpfr vs mpclib version problems (ping David Billinghurst)

2011-09-01 Thread Dave Korn
On 02/09/2011 05:34, Dave Korn wrote: On 02/09/2011 05:09, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 04:00 +, upset lived up to its name and complained: upset: *** setup.ini: warning - package gcc4-java requires non-existent package java-ecj That's an artifact from my Ports gcc4

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.5.3-2

2011-09-01 Thread Dave Korn
. These issues will be addressed in a future release of the compiler; for now, Java and Ada cannot be considered first-class languages, but remain somewhat experimental. It is likely however that both perform better than the old 3.4 series compilers. Cygwin port maintained by: Dave Korn

Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.5.3-2

2011-09-01 Thread Dave Korn
. These issues will be addressed in a future release of the compiler; for now, Java and Ada cannot be considered first-class languages, but remain somewhat experimental. It is likely however that both perform better than the old 3.4 series compilers. Cygwin port maintained by: Dave Korn

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.21.53-2

2011-08-27 Thread Dave Korn
On 21/08/2011 20:41, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. Heads up; I just noticed that the -src package is truncated about half-way through. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: v*printf functions not available with g++ -std=c++0x

2011-08-27 Thread Dave Korn
On 18/08/2011 15:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: If I try that with Yaakov's 4.5.3 cross compilers, then __STRICT_ANSI__ is not defined with -std=c__0x, unless I also specify `-ansi' on the command line. However, there's a weird warning: $ i686-pc-cygwin-g++ -std=c++0x -dM -E - /dev/null |

Re: GCC dependencies (attn David Billinghurst)

2011-08-16 Thread Dave Korn
(and I don't see why it won't), I'll go ahead and respin releases with the patch. Dave, anything to add here? Perhaps ping DJ over on the GCC list to ask him if he remembers the context behind that comment; maybe whatever was the autoconf problem is indeed now fixed. cheers, DaveK

Re: GCC dependencies (attn David Billinghurst)

2011-08-12 Thread Dave Korn
On 12/08/2011 13:09, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Besides the version update to 4.5.3, there are several changes over the distro 4.5.0, including: * Linked against shared (instead of static) libintl. * Fix shared libgnat installation. * Fix Java NIO (patch may not be required with recent

Re: Shall setup.exe call rebaseall in postinstall?

2011-08-12 Thread Dave Korn
On 12/08/2011 16:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The next rebase application stores rebase data in a database in /etc. The corresponding rebaseall will use this feature. The effect is that the existing DLLs are compared with the database, and only the DLLs which are new or result in collisions

Re: Shall setup.exe call rebaseall in postinstall?

2011-08-12 Thread Dave Korn
On 12/08/2011 17:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 12 16:51, Dave Korn wrote: On 12/08/2011 16:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The next rebase application stores rebase data in a database in /etc. The corresponding rebaseall will use this feature. The effect is that the existing DLLs

Re: GCC dependencies (attn David Billinghurst)

2011-08-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 27/07/2011 04:11, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: David, As mentioned recently on the list, due to Dave Korn's extended absence, I'll be maintaining our gcc packages. Since you maintain several GCC dependencies, we'll need to coordinate. Yaakov, how is this going? I see you haven't uploaded

1.7 (an previous) ln bug

2011-07-15 Thread Garber, Dave (GE Energy, Non-GE)
sense that the ln would only work partially. Thanks! Dave -- 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

startxwin not found; solution

2011-06-04 Thread Dave Matthews
when you've stepped through the intaller to the Select Packages screen, click X11 and set it to Install. - Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ

Re: cyggfortran-3.dll broken ?

2011-03-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29/03/2011 02:24, Daniel Jensen wrote: Since Dave Korn was wondering how many people this would be bothering, I'm just chiming in to say I was bitten by this too (since I both run cygwin setup less often than others and use octave less often than others, and since I'm not subscribed

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29/03/2011 10:12, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Dante Allegria (Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT)) No, turns out it was because someone committed this into the nightly build scripts: rm -rf $(DOES_NOT_EXIST)/* sigh Should cygwin's rm have some built-in safeguards for this? :) Sure, it

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29/03/2011 16:35, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:33:05PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Dave Korn (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:46:13 +0100) On 29/03/2011 10:12, Thorsten Kampe wrote: As for rm, it already does kind-of have safeguards against this, and that's what the -f

Re: Python numpy module is broken

2011-03-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 25/03/2011 01:13, Mark Hadfield wrote: I did try downgrading to gcc-4.3.4-3 yesterday and that didn't fix numpy. It should have worked.. as long as you remembered to downgrade libgfortran rather than gcc4-gfortran... However the problem with cyggfortran-3.dll does *sound* very relevant,

Re: Ooops, minor setup.hint glitch - and announce list bouncing my posts

2011-03-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 22/03/2011 21:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 09:16:58PM +, Dave Korn wrote: Also, I can't post the release announcement, because the spam filter complains that I have things that look like raw email addresses in the body. Mailing the global allow address didn't

Re: cyggfortran-3.dll broken ?

2011-03-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/03/2011 15:02, marco atzeri wrote: Dave, the new cyggfortran-3.dll seems to provide less export than before. This breaks octave. Dependency walker check on octave highlight 3 functions in red clogf, cexpf, csqrtf Is the new fortran library broken, or should I release a new octave

Re: cyggfortran-3.dll broken ?

2011-03-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/03/2011 15:53, Dave Korn wrote: On 23/03/2011 15:02, marco atzeri wrote: Dave, the new cyggfortran-3.dll seems to provide less export than before. This breaks octave. Dependency walker check on octave highlight 3 functions in red clogf, cexpf, csqrtf Is the new fortran library

Re: cyggfortran-3.dll broken ?

2011-03-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/03/2011 16:19, marco atzeri wrote: May be as they are now available from cygwin-1.7.8 ? Yes indeed (and this is why I didn't see any errors during the compiler testsuite), I just had a quick look at the libgfortran autoconfigury, it provides replacements for those functions when the

Re: cyggfortran-3.dll broken ?

2011-03-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/03/2011 16:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is there a way to add symbol forwarding in GCC? There's some method of forwarding symbol references to other DLLs and it's used in Windows itself to forward symbol references to other DLLs. Yes, was using that just the other day myself, to

Re: cyggfortran-3.dll broken ?

2011-03-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/03/2011 16:35, Charles Wilson wrote: I think it would just take a few statements in a .def file like carg = CYGWIN1.carg cargf = CYGWIN1.cargf ccos = CYGWIN1.ccos but I'm not sure... Yes, that's basically it (or equivalent in a .directve section), but, indeed, as you

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-4

2011-03-23 Thread Dave Korn
, there may yet be bugs. Anything abnormal should be reported, in the first instance, to the main Cygwin mailing list. Cygwin port maintained by: Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin AT gmail DOT com BUT use.the.list.please Please address all questions to the Cygwin mailing list at cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

Re: cyggfortran-3.dll broken ?

2011-03-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/03/2011 17:31, Charles Wilson wrote: Err...no, I don't think so. Symbol forwarding is actually implemented as part of the PE-I386 spec, so it resides in the forwardING dll itself, not the import library, and is handled at runtime by the windows loader: Yes yes yes, you're jumping too

Fw: Re: FW: cyggfortran-3.dll broken ?

2011-03-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/03/2011 18:15, Karl M wrote: What if you just put the functions back in until the next gfortran dll version bump? That's a thought too. I could just hack around the autoconf tests and make it keep using its own implementation. Thanks for the suggestion. cheers, DaveK

Re: cyggfortran-3.dll broken ?

2011-03-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/03/2011 19:17, Charles Wilson wrote: On 3/23/2011 1:49 PM, Dave Korn wrote: Hmm, I should probably do this. And send it upstream too. Well, yeah (but does upstream want to explicitly require cygwin-1.7.8 or better? or would you conditionalize it on a configure test: The latter

Ooops, minor setup.hint glitch - and announce list bouncing my posts

2011-03-22 Thread Dave Korn
Hi folks, I just uploaded gcc4-4.3.4-4, and realised the setup.hint requires: lines don't reflect the extra dependencies that 4.5.0-1 requires. There will be a brief window while I fix this when anyone installing 4.5.0 might not get all the libs like MPC GMP etc. that they need. Also,

Re: Ooops, minor setup.hint glitch - and announce list bouncing my posts

2011-03-22 Thread Dave Korn
On 22/03/2011 21:16, Dave Korn wrote: I just uploaded gcc4-4.3.4-4, and realised the setup.hint requires: lines don't reflect the extra dependencies that 4.5.0-1 requires. There will be a brief window while I fix this when anyone installing 4.5.0 might not get all the libs like MPC GMP etc

Re: Ooops, minor setup.hint glitch - and announce list bouncing my posts

2011-03-22 Thread Dave Korn
On 22/03/2011 21:44, Charles Wilson wrote: On 3/22/2011 5:19 PM, Dave Korn wrote: Guess I forgot to actually ask: Do we prefer the situation where all users of curr: packages get a few extra libs that they don't need, or would we prefer not to make them download extra libs and rely on users

[perl #85206] [RESOLVED] op/magic.t test 7 corrupts saved stack on cygwin

2011-03-19 Thread Dave Mitchell via RT
According to our records, your request regarding op/magic.t test 7 corrupts saved stack on cygwin has been resolved. If you have any further questions or concerns, please respond to this message. For other topics, please create a new ticket. URL:

Re: Problem with cygwin1.dll after update

2011-03-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17/03/2011 19:16, Wilfried Fauvel wrote: Hi, I built a very simple program with g++ : int main() { return 0; } from cygwin it always returns 127, and if I try to start it from cmd I have the following message : the procedure entry point _feinitiliase could not be located in the dynamic

Cygport woes: CHOST not defined.

2011-03-17 Thread Dave Korn
Hi list, Attempting to rebuild gcc4-4.3.4-3 from source, I got a bunch of error messages during the install stage of cygport: Fixing libtool modules: /usr/lib/cygport/src_postinst.cygpart: line 763: test: i686-pc-cygwin: unary operator expected [ ... snip several more ... ]

Re: Cygport woes: CHOST not defined.

2011-03-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17/03/2011 19:39, Dave Korn wrote: Looking at the context, I infer that CHOST must be undefined: Ah, it's my cygport script. For some reason I used to have a problem with the setting of CHOST by the default cygport script, so it unsets it. Hopefully I can just omit that with the newer

Re: Cygport woes: CHOST not defined.

2011-03-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 18/03/2011 02:50, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 19:39 +, Dave Korn wrote: Attempting to rebuild gcc4-4.3.4-3 from source, I got a bunch of error messages during the install stage of cygport: [ ... snip several more ... ] Looking at the context, I infer

Re: ld: fatal error - cmalloc would have returned NULL

2011-03-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 11/03/2011 13:53, Rainer Emrich wrote: I have to be more clear. I increased the heap_chunk_in_mb to 1792 using: regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1792 I run with this setting all the time, I guess that's why I haven't seen this problem. Before I did that (couple of

Re: ssh ... PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

2011-03-02 Thread Dave Korn
On 01/03/2011 01:45, Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hello, I am trying to ssh to g...@github.com, and I get the error PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 I get that too, but I also get the You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access message. I think the error

Re: Is C lib thread safe in Cygwin then used with pthread?

2011-02-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/02/2011 16:04, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: Especially when used malloc/free. I assume use default Cygwin compiler (gcc.exe). Yes, no problem (although there may of course be bugs). cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add a self-update mechanism for setup.exe

2011-02-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 02/02/2011 23:24, Jon TURNEY wrote: + /* +XXX: do we need a mechanism for source of setup.exe to be overriden in .ini file +for the benefit of people who use a patched version? Or can they just patch this +as well? :-) + */ +#define SETUP_URL

Re: On write command

2011-01-31 Thread Dave Korn
On 31/01/2011 01:52, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 1/29/2011 8:20 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: I would ask if on Cygwin I can use the 'write' command: write - send a message to another user $ write USER [ttyname] I remember I have used it some years ago, but not remember if it was on

Re: On write command

2011-01-31 Thread Dave Korn
On 31/01/2011 11:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The utmp file is in the old utmp format for backward compatibility. The utx functions are available and return a ut_tv field, but it's just extracted from the utmp ut_time field at function call time. The right thing to do for write is to have a

Re: PATH with spaces

2011-01-30 Thread Dave Korn
On 30/01/2011 12:56, Tim Prince wrote: On 1/30/2011 6:34 AM, Sunoki wrote: $ make cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: /usr/local/bin/C:\Program Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /usr/local/bin/C:/Program CYGWIN environment variable option nodosfilewarning turns off this

Still on target for imminent 1.7.8 release? [was Re: Enable dfp routines in compiler support lib]

2011-01-25 Thread Dave Korn
[ First attempt to post to the main list was blocked because of a bad keyword in the subject; trying again on the theory that the word BID might have been what tripped the spamfilter. ] [ Nope, that wasn't it. Second try. ] On 26/01/2011 01:20, JonY wrote: On 1/26/2011 09:44, Dave Korn wrote

Re: gcc: stable 4.5 soon? (attention Dave Korn)

2011-01-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 26/01/2011 05:08, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 05:45 -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Dave, Our GCC 4.5 packages has been experimental since August. I have been running 4.5.1, and now 4.5.2, with only slight modifications to your patchset since then[1], including

Re: Cygwin 1.7 : Checking -fPIC Failed when building the gcc 4.5.1 with --enable-plugin

2011-01-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/12/2010 05:54, Lucky Lu wrote: I am having trouble with building the gcc 4.5.1 with --enable-plugin on Cygwin. Sorry, GCC plugins are only supported on systems that use the ELF executable file format such as Linux, they can't work on Windows-based systems owing to limitations of the

Re: Reinstalled gcc, make, automake: now BASH stackdumps LR

2010-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14/09/2010 19:47, SJ Wright wrote: Might there be something else a little off? The text from the latest stackdump: Stack trace: Frame Function Args The rest is blank. Should I be concerned, or is this something that will work itself out? This is a bit of a guess, but try

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Dave Korn
On 13/09/2010 17:35, Christopher Faylor wrote: You seem to be approaching this problem as if people will say Ah! Stability issues! Right. Well, ok, here's what you need to know. If we knew of stability issues they would be fixed. Well, I know of one, but haven't had time to fix it yet,

Re: Cygwin instabilities

2010-09-13 Thread Dave Korn
On 13/09/2010 20:23, Christopher Faylor wrote: You've included a patch here but, FYI, I have no idea why. FTR only. It might be useful to others following the list. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [PATCH] Add fenv.h and support.

2010-09-11 Thread Dave Korn
On 11/09/2010 09:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Dave, Morning! On Sep 11 08:11, Dave Korn wrote: So, I ended up committing it like so: Can you please add some words to doc/new-features.sgml? How's this look? winsup/doc/ChangeLog: * new-features.sgml: Mention fenv support

[PATCH] Add fenv.h and support.

2010-09-10 Thread Dave Korn
Hi folks, This patch adds fenv.h and the related support routines in the Cygwin DLL. It's an entirely unencumbered implementation that I wrote from scratch using only the public docs for reference. We've been missing this for a while, what with PR323 and all, and if we add it in we'll be

Re: [PATCH] Add fenv.h and support.

2010-09-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10/09/2010 22:43, Christopher Faylor wrote: Looks nice to me with one HUGE caveat: Please maintain the pseudo-sorted order in cygwin.din. Sorry to have to impose this burden on you. No, that's fine; I've never been sure whether we need to care about the ordinal numbers or not in that

Re: Mounting /tmp at TMP or TEMP as a last resort

2010-09-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 08/09/2010 23:41, Christopher Faylor wrote: Corinna may disagree, Needless to say, I'm not Corinna! but I think we should keep the parsing of /etc/fstab as lean as possible; I don't understand why. How many times per second does /etc/fstab get parsed? cheers, DaveK

Re: Mounting /tmp at TMP or TEMP as a last resort

2010-09-09 Thread Dave Korn
On 09/09/2010 21:53, Earl Chew wrote: On 09/09/2010 1:03 PM, Dave Korn wrote: but I think we should keep the parsing of /etc/fstab as lean as possible; I don't understand why. How many times per second does /etc/fstab get parsed? I interpreted cgf's comment as not wishing to add

Re: Build S-Lang Fail

2010-09-04 Thread Dave Korn
On 02/09/2010 03:20, Steven Woody wrote: Opps, I then tried with Dependency Walker on cc-1.exe, it prompted a warning: Warning: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in a delay-load dependent module. Can't reproduce that back here. But I seems don't

Re: How does one change the default shell?

2010-09-03 Thread Dave No, not /that/ one! Korn
On 02/09/2010 23:29, risin...@nationwide. wrote: I use pdksh as my login shell - I have been using the Korn shell (thanks Dave!) See From: header! cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

Re: The un-notified update of gcc4-4.3.4-3 cause setup failed(build date 2009-12-11 to 2010-08-15, caused file size mismatch)

2010-09-02 Thread Dave Korn
On 02/09/2010 05:32, LiuYan 刘研 wrote: Today I try to setup cygwin on a new server, it keeps failed with a cyggcc_s-1.dll is missed error in the last post-install phase. I'm sorry it caused you a problem, I'm afraid setup.exe was smarter than I am and it spotted the difference when I hoped it

Re: .exe magic in Cygwin

2010-09-02 Thread Dave Korn
On 02/09/2010 21:44, Al wrote: Sounds like you didn't run autoreconf (which would have been done automatically via the supported mechanism). Right. I applied it the traditional way. Ah, you have to understand this about cygport patches: they only contain patches for the source files, not

Re: SEGV in gcc 4.3.4 on cygwin 1.7.6-1

2010-08-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 27/08/2010 09:31, Csaba Raduly wrote: How odd. It seems to crash only with that exact number of parameters. This sounds a lot like a bug I fixed a while ago. Should be OK in 4.5.0 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-05/msg02263.html cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports:

Re: BLODA diagnostics

2010-08-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 27/08/2010 21:44, mike marchywka wrote: On 8/27/10, Baldur Gislason wrote: Hi, what tool is best to track down what BLODA is causing fork failures on my Cygwin installation? There may be a sysinternals tool, I use those to track down open handles that have been a problem on earlier

Re: Windows batch program to open shell at directory specified as argument

2010-08-27 Thread Dave Kilroy
%L to %1. Run 'chere -r' and look for the text associated with the command key. Cheers, Dave. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 20/08/2010 19:01, Christopher Faylor wrote: Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? I would definitely use it, the same way I currently use the GCC bug tracker: I'd set up a whine email reminder, so that I didn't have to exert any extra

Re: setup: CVS HEAD does not install test: releases

2010-08-15 Thread Dave Korn
On 16/08/2010 04:25, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: setup CVS HEAD (2.717) does not download test: releases in either Install from Internet and Download Without Installing modes. I found this out by trying to install gcc4-*-4.5.0-1; after selecting the 4.5.0-1 versions of gcc4-*, they did not show

Re: setup: CVS HEAD does not install test: releases

2010-08-15 Thread Dave Korn
On 16/08/2010 05:40, Andy Koppe wrote: On 16 August 2010 04:25, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkow...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: setup CVS HEAD (2.717) does not download test: releases in either Install from Internet and Download Without Installing modes. I found this out by trying to install

Re: gcc4-core PACKAGE BUG

2010-08-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 13/08/2010 20:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 13 20:31, Dave Korn wrote: On 08/08/2010 17:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Dave, testing with the latest setup.exe I came across an error message in postinstall: gcc4-core.sh, exit code 126 Manuall testing turned up that the script

Re: gcc4-core PACKAGE BUG

2010-08-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14/08/2010 19:19, Eric Blake wrote: On 08/14/2010 12:17 PM, Dave Korn wrote: Come to think of it, wouldn't it be better to just update 4.3.4-3 in place (i.e. without a version bump)? It seems a bit much to force everyone who's already got it installed to redownload that many megabytes

Re: gcc4-core PACKAGE BUG

2010-08-13 Thread Dave Korn
On 08/08/2010 17:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Dave, testing with the latest setup.exe I came across an error message in postinstall: gcc4-core.sh, exit code 126 Manuall testing turned up that the script /usr/sbin/fix-libtool-scripts-for-latest-gcc-runtimes.sh

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: experimental package: gcc4-4.5.0-1

2010-08-13 Thread Dave Korn
is known to have regressions. As this is all still experimental, please watch out for bugs. Anything abnormal should be reported, in the first instance, to the main Cygwin mailing list. Cygwin port maintained by: Dave Korn dave.korn.cyg...@gmail.com.use.the.list.please Please address all questions

Updated: experimental package: gcc4-4.5.0-1

2010-08-13 Thread Dave Korn
is known to have regressions. As this is all still experimental, please watch out for bugs. Anything abnormal should be reported, in the first instance, to the main Cygwin mailing list. Cygwin port maintained by: Dave Korn dave.korn.cyg...@gmail.com.use.the.list.please Please address all questions

Re: CYGWIN UNIX FILE PATH LEAVES FILES UNDELETABLE THROUGH WIN7

2010-08-12 Thread Dave Cottlehuber
\\.\c:\cygwin\dev\nul :: for dirs rd \\.\c:\cygwin\dev\con more info @ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/120716 cheers, Dave -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info

Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud

2010-08-12 Thread Dave Cottlehuber
/EventData /Event Cheers, Dave -- 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: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud

2010-08-11 Thread Dave Cottlehuber
with any further info, as I am not a list subscriber. cheers Dave -- 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

vi and vim

2010-08-11 Thread Dave Robison
Hello, At the risk of bringing down a cascade of derision, is there any way to use vi instead of vim in cygwin? I really prefer vi, but I can't seem to find a binary for it which isn't linked to one iteration or another of vim. If not, c'est la vie. Thanks for your time, Dave

Re: gcc Cygwin package maintainer

2010-08-08 Thread Dave Korn
On 08/08/2010 00:00, Jerry DeLisle wrote: So I have sjlj backwards. I will fix that. Then the following I am not sure about. --disable-__cxa_atexit --enable-static --enable-shared --enable-shared-libgcc Shall I include these? Yes, do. I think they're mostly the default anyway, but

Re: gcc Cygwin package maintainer

2010-08-07 Thread Dave Korn
On 07/08/2010 17:59, Jerry DeLisle wrote: Hi, Who is the Cygwin gcc package maintainer? I've been a bit AWOL recently, but I think that's still me :-/ I want to make sure my gfortran 4.6 experimental builds are consistent with Cygwin distributions. I notice I have far fewer configure

Re: How to pass parameters to a windows application

2010-08-02 Thread Dave Hylands
paths into Win32 paths if you build the cygwin version. If passed a directory name, it does the same as choosing Explore. -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: How to pass parameters to a windows application

2010-08-02 Thread Dave Hylands
(before I even started using cygwin) and I've just been carrying it around with me. I added cygwin path support when I started using cygwin. I've added an alias to alias open to cygstart (I use gnome-open under Ubuntu). Thanks for the tip. -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com

Re: Is there a difference between bash --login and bash --login -i

2010-08-02 Thread Dave Hylands
-i and set Start in to be the directory I want to start things in. I never liked having all those extra copies of cmd running just to start bash. -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

Re: [PATCH] inform user if any postinstall script failed to run

2010-07-30 Thread Dave Korn
On 30/07/2010 15:37, Christopher Faylor wrote: errors page. The only two packages that should have been installed were gcc: C compiler upgrade helper glib: Gnome C function library (1.2 sources) (both of which are selected due to a setup.exe bug) I finally got bored of this one.

Re: [PATCH] inform user if any postinstall script failed to run

2010-07-30 Thread Dave Korn
On 30/07/2010 20:19, Dave Korn wrote: I finally got bored of this one. Turned out to be trivially easy to fix once I looked at it, it's simply an early exit from the install routine when there's nothing to do for a dummy tarball (zero or 46-byte size) that misses out on marking the package

Re: [PATCH] fix build warnings for functions without return value

2010-07-28 Thread Dave Korn
On 29/07/2010 00:19, Daniel Colascione wrote: From: cygwin-patches-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-patches- I don't see why this is needed. Cygwin uses -Werror by default so, if gcc 4.3.4 emitted warnings we wouldn't be able to build a release or make a snapshot. It's because Cygwin uses

Re: strace on a2ps complains about \Device\Harddisk4\DR4

2010-07-27 Thread Dave Korn
On 27/07/2010 06:36, Rasputin Paskudniak wrote: In another thread, DaveK suggested: Try installing libintl2 That worked GREAT! Problem solved. Q: How could I have discovered this if not for Dave's assistance? Error 127 pretty much always means a missing DLL, and running cygcheck

Re: a2ps on Cygwin quietly exits with code 127 on Windows 7

2010-07-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/07/2010 21:23, Beau Nanaz wrote: Greetings. I have a new Windows-7 machine and one of the first things I downloaded was Cygwin, making sure to include a2ps and ps2pdf. Unlike the flawless running (after diddling $HOME/.a2ps/a2psrc) I had under my previous XP box, This one is

Re: strace on a2ps complains about \Device\Harddisk4\DR4

2010-07-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 27/07/2010 04:20, René Berber wrote: Rasputin Paskudniak wrote: $ net helpmsg 127 The specified procedure could not be found. That usually means the program, a2ps, can't find one or more of the dynamic libraries it needs. To find what libraries are missing use: cygcheck `which

Re: Retrieve fails with apparently bad path

2010-07-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/07/2010 20:25, Clark, Raymond (WBST) wrote: Selected All to download only About 31% of the way through, a dialog box with the following popped up: Can't open C:\users\clark\Public\PC-SystemStuff\cygwin-1.7.5_2010.07.23\cygwin-1.7.

Re: cygport cross-compiling beta1

2010-07-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/07/2010 01:47, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Thinking about this further, I think the problem is that we're talking about two entirely different use cases: 1) cross-compiling a package to install into the sysroot, to be used solely on Cygwin for cross-compile other software, which would

Re: When will the next gcc come out

2010-07-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/07/2010 09:24, Huang Bambo wrote: The current gcc( 4.3.4 ) has some bug with O3 option. it will optimized out some needed code in some case. I meet this bug when I compile ACE library. If I use O2 option, everything goes fine. So, maybe many people may waiting for the new version. :

Re: When will the next gcc come out

2010-07-23 Thread Dave Korn
On 23/07/2010 10:02, Huang Bambo wrote: Gcc optimized out some code like *fp++ = *format_string ++; When I gdb to that line and print fp, gdb reported that fp is optized out... You need to check in more detail than that. GCC may have optimised away the fp variable, but kept the

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