can't compile coreutils-9.3 any more after upgrade to cygwin-3.4.8

2023-08-24 Thread Denis Excoffier via Cygwin
/cpuset.h, this is also ok. Regards, Denis Excoffier. In file included from /usr/include/sys/signal.h:23, from /usr/include/signal.h:6, from ./lib/signal.h:52, from /usr/include/time.h:158, from ./lib/time.h:47, from

Re: inside /bin/tar: cannot change mode

2023-06-02 Thread Denis Excoffier via Cygwin
> On 2023-05-28 06:21, Brian Inglis wrote: > > Problem seems to be Cygwin 3.5.0 - reinstall Cygwin stable 3.4.6 and the > problem goes away! > See other thread I just started. Thank you for your help. I’ll stick to pre-2.5.0 for the moment. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem repo

Re: inside /bin/tar: cannot change mode

2023-05-25 Thread Denis Excoffier via Cygwin
> On 2023-05-25 09:52, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > > On 2023-05-24 12:18, Denis Excoffier via Cygwin wrote: >> I have an error (about symlinks it seems) that i have never met in years: >> Cannot change mode. >> Apart from this message (and return code !=

inside /bin/tar: cannot change mode

2023-05-24 Thread Denis Excoffier via Cygwin
tar: mytest/a: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x: Not a directory /bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors % echo $status 2 % /tmp is under ntfs filesystem, all packages are up to date (e.g. /bin/tar --version is 1.34). Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: ht

Re: Errors in building the documentation prevent compilation from completing properly

2022-11-14 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2022-10-20 19:46, Denis Excoffier wrote: > >> On 2022-10-20 12:29, Jon Turney wrote: >> >> On 19/10/2022 18:57, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> Hello, >>> Currently i have docbook2X not working on my system (a perl problem >>> that i don't

Re: Errors in building the documentation prevent compilation from completing properly

2022-10-20 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2022-10-20 12:29, Jon Turney wrote: > > On 19/10/2022 18:57, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Hello, >> Currently i have docbook2X not working on my system (a perl problem >> that i don't know how to repair, but in a few months i will reinstall >> completel

Errors in building the documentation prevent compilation from completing properly

2022-10-19 Thread Denis Excoffier
'make' and then 'make install' properly, i had to apply the following easy patch (below). Hope this helps, Regards, Denis Excoffier. diff -uNr o/newlib-cygwin/winsup/doc/Makefile.am p/newlib-cygwin/winsup/doc/Makefile.am --- o/newlib-cygwin/winsup/doc/Makefile.am 2

Permission denied when moving symlink across filesystems (but works)

2022-09-21 Thread Denis Excoffier
e default one (i can see ‘’ in DOS cmd window). This also occurs (occurred) under 3.3.5, and 3.3.4-2 at least. Could it be intended behavior? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentati

Re: regedit fails with a pop-up

2022-05-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2022-05-13 20:47, Rainer Emrich wrote: > > Am 13.05.2022 um 19:42 schrieb Denis Excoffier: >> It seems that very recently (immediately after i installed 3.3.5), >> /cygdrive/c/windows/regedit /E 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment' >> no longer works (i.e.

regedit fails with a pop-up

2022-05-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
or opening the file. There may be a disk or file system error. % uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0 jupiter 3.3.5(0.341/5/3) 2022-05-13 12:27 x86_64 Cygwin Thank you for your help. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Doc

keyboard problem under X and last snapshot (2022-03-01)

2022-03-09 Thread Denis Excoffier
full content of the failing XWin.0.log. Any ideas? Regards, Denis Excoffier. Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.21.1.3 OS: CYGWIN_NT-10.0-17763 PC17470 3.4.0-341.x86_64.snap 2022-03-01 00:05 UTC x86_64 OS: Windows 10 [Windows NT 10.0 build 17763] x64 Package

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils 1.4.16-8 (Test)

2021-11-14 Thread Denis Excoffier
quot; | putclip | getclip | od -c) 3) I launch ‘xwin’ with ‘option -clipboard’ (the default), i suppose this does not matter 4) It might be related to xorg-server-21.1.0-1 (TEST) that i installed recently (2021-11-04), however xwinclip-21-1.0-1 didn’t come with the rest Regards, Denis Excoffier

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.3.0-0.1.9814cfd8f693 (TEST)

2021-09-18 Thread Denis Excoffier
c.tar.xz. I’m unable to build this release from sources. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: WSL symbolic links

2020-04-04 Thread Denis Excoffier
: Permission denied. % I’m on Windows 7, on a ntfs disk (binary,posix=0,user,nomount,auto). Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-9.2.0-2 (x86/x86_64)

2020-02-26 Thread Denis Excoffier
from test to current. > In order to compile cleanly the last snapshot with gcc 9.2.0, i had to apply the following patch (see below). Otherwise one get an uninitialized variable together with a missing __attribute__. Regards, Denis Excoffier. diff -cNr cygwin-snapshot-20200221-1o/winsup/c

Searching how to replace dosfilewarning functionality

2020-01-29 Thread Denis Excoffier
subsequent shells, like in xterm’s). 4) If I exit from a shell that has displayed "Cygwin WARNING:", I’m sure that no Cygwin process remains (I know that my .cshrc is clean about process creation etc.). Is there any alternative to this almost-functionality if this code is removed? R

Bump DLL version to 3.1.3

2020-01-23 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, The snapshot 20200114 was not announced (yet) however it seems that the usual "Bump DLL version to x.y.z" (with x.y.z=3.1.3) was not included (uname reports "3.1.2s"). Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

GCC release criteria

2019-08-18 Thread Denis Excoffier
i686-mingw32 > * powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.0.0 > * s390x-linux-gnu > This is ok of course, but nowadays, perhaps would it be a better choice that they switch to x86_64-pc-cygwin? What do you think? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Setup 2.895, don't install everything, striking a balance

2019-02-25 Thread Denis Excoffier
h a successful installation. >> Hello, Select "Category", you obtain a single line with "All". Unfold "All". Select "Install" on the line of "All", and "Default" on the line of "Debug". That’s it. "Source" is not

Recent snapshots somewhat fail under W7

2019-01-29 Thread Denis Excoffier
t know the impact on W10. HTH. Denis Excoffier. -- 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: Snapshot 20190112 does not work

2019-01-14 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2019-01-13, 23:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 13 12:45, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The last snapshot (20190112) does not work because many (or all?) >> >> mv /A/B/C /A/B/D >> >> fail with the message "Function

Snapshot 20190112 does not work

2019-01-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, The last snapshot (20190112) does not work because many (or all?) mv /A/B/C /A/B/D fail with the message "Function not implemented". This snapshot was not (until now) properly announced, so this is just FTR. Regards. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://

perhaps not so minor typo in cygwin.com

2018-11-09 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, In http://cygwin.com, please modify: The most recent version of the Cygwin DLL is 2.11.0. into The most recent version of the Cygwin DLL is 2.11.2. Thank you. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com

Re: X Windows does not launch under the 20180309 snapshot

2018-03-28 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2018-03-11 17:10, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > Hello, > > Difficult for me to give more detail: X Windows does not launch under the > last snapshot (dated 20180309), > while everything goes well under the previous one (dated 20180220). > With the updates shown i

X Windows does not launch under the 20180309 snapshot

2018-03-11 Thread Denis Excoffier
4bits (with all packages up to date). Hope this helps, Denis Excoffier. -- 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: rebase-4.4.3-1 regression: Too many DLLs for available address space

2018-01-11 Thread Denis Excoffier
e *.mex and *.oct files from the octave packages (they use nearly 0x3000 bytes), i removed them by patching /usr/bin/rebaselst Hope this helps, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: rebase segmentation fault

2018-01-09 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2017-07-17 11:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jul 17 10:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jul 16 19:16, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have a Cygwin installation under Windows 7 (32 bits). >>> >>> After 'reba

tar-1.29 fails to build probably in relation with SSP

2017-12-06 Thread Denis Excoffier
URCE 0 in tar-1.29/config.h.in), all goes well. In addition, i can tell that this tar-1.29 has built with no problem under the Cygwin packages (cygwin-, cygwin-devel- and cygwin-doc-) that were up to date on the 2017-09-21 (must be one of 2.9.0-1 or -2 or -3). Hope this helps. Denis Excoffier. --

fail to compile last perl source under cygwin 2.9.0

2017-09-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
;#undef HAS_CRYPT_R" in config.h, everything is ok. I cannot say if it works with GCC 5.4.0, but i'm pretty sure that it doesn't. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

cygwin-2.9.0-3

2017-09-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
patch #0002 are lexically unok under GCC 5.4.0. Therefore i added -Wno-error=pragmas to COMMON_CFLAGS in winsup/cygwin/Makefile.in and everything works fine. Thank you for this new version. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

rebase segmentation fault

2017-07-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
er that the list of files is too large (i.e. that the overall amount of DLL sizes is more than 0x07000)? In source code, i found no specific message to indicate this. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin

building libpng-1.6.29 fails with error in signal.h

2017-07-04 Thread Denis Excoffier
318,324 typedef void (*_sig_func_ptr)(int); ! #if __POSIX_VISIBLE >= 99 struct sigaction { I really don't know which (signal.h or libpng) is okay (or none). Will someone investigate this? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gmp-6.1.2-1

2017-02-08 Thread Denis Excoffier
;8--- > Changes in GMP 6.1.2 > (...) > Hello, Thank you for libgmp-6.1.2-1 that supersedes 6.1.1-1. I noticed that libgmp.la is no longer present in the distribution (x86). Is it okay? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.12

2016-08-25 Thread Denis Excoffier
ccur because of the braces. I use 2.6.0-0.12 under CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW, with your fix to __localeconv_l (https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=a703d64ad7edac344e4959e8d624ce1d8012678b) Regards, Denis Excoffier. % cat gugu.c #include #include #includ

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.12

2016-08-24 Thread Denis Excoffier
ally found in coreutils-8.25: "seq -w 1 10" produces the same segmentation fault. In order to reproduce this, you must have coreutils compiled under a recent cygwin1.dll otherwise the strtod_l part of the coreutils code is not selected. Regards, Denis Excoffier. % cat gugu.c //#defi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.3

2016-07-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
ml and > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00308.html. It does fix the 2nd problem. Thanks Corinna. I also have the % locale -a Segmentation fault (core dumped) % Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documen

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.2

2016-07-26 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2016-07-26 16:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Hi Cygwin developers and maintainers, > Hi everyone else, > > > I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.2. > > Supposed to fix the problems reported in > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00274.html and followups. > Hello, Is this

Re: last snapshot is not better than previous version

2016-06-04 Thread Denis Excoffier
Perhaps the noisy logging for select() is an effect of the problem, rather > than its cause. Could you run them again (also with the -d flag, which will > help us see where the time goes), and send them in email? I'll send this by private email. Please wait a little. Regards, Denis E

Re: last snapshot is not better than previous version

2016-05-30 Thread Denis Excoffier
g select records select: recalculating us select: us now 0 -- occur more than 69000 times Something is probably wrong near here. Please tell me what i should experiment next. Al least i have found a wrong line in select.cc: line 4, the copyright year is miss

last snapshot is not better than previous version

2016-05-26 Thread Denis Excoffier
m) or not (login window). Under x86, Windows 7. I switched back to 2.5.1. This message just in case it could be useful. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- 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: build of coreutils fails with many many messages

2016-04-01 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2016-04-01 13:03, Ken Brown wrote: > > On 4/1/2016 2:18 AM, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I tried to build coreutils-8.25 with the latest cygwin (2.5.0-0.10 or >> 2.4.1-1) >> and all the latest packages, and as 'configure' seems t

build of coreutils fails with many many messages

2016-03-31 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, I tried to build coreutils-8.25 with the latest cygwin (2.5.0-0.10 or 2.4.1-1) and all the latest packages, and as 'configure' seems to pass ok, 'make' fails with hundreds of lines of messages like below. Please can someone reproduce this (Windows 7, 32bits)? Regar

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.5.0-0.9

2016-03-26 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2016-03-24 23:07, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > >> On 2016-03-23 21:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> >> I released a new Cygwin TEST version 2.5.0-0.9. >> >> If things are not going very wrong, this is basically what you'll >> ge

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.5.0-0.9

2016-03-24 Thread Denis Excoffier
is makes any difference. I'm under Windows 7 32bits with all packages uptodate. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- 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

name pattern for snapshots has changed

2016-02-12 Thread Denis Excoffier
ION_DLL_MINOR 1 This is unexpected since the 2.4.1-1 version has been out since 2016-01-21. Regards, Denis Excoffier. P.S. Also, see subject. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html U

cannot build cygwin-2.0.2 because of net.cc (or because of some header.h)

2015-05-11 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, In order to successfully build cygwin-2.0.2-1 (for x86, both XP and W7) i had to apply the following patch (below). No such problem with cygwin-2.0.1-1. Regards, Denis Excoffier diff -uNr newlib-cygwin-o/winsup/cygwin/net.cc newlib-cygwin-p/winsup/cygwin/net.cc --- newlib-cygwin-o

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.0.0-5

2015-04-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
in this case. > > I added a change to this effect, but it occuurs to me that this may > be really just a missing test if the uid and gid values are backed by > a real Windows account. It seems better to return EPERM here. > I applied the patch indicated (see in https://cyg

Re: X server sets VMIN? (was Re: Under /bin/script, characters get printed in four-character chunks)

2015-03-25 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-03-24 20:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 24 19:59, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> On 2015-02-28 16:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> I can not reproduce this in mintty, nor in a Cygwin xterm started on a >>> remote X server running under Linux. I can reprodu

Under /bin/script, characters get printed in four-character chunks

2015-03-24 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-02-28 16:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 28 15:19, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> On 2015-02-28 13:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >>> On Feb 28 00:23, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>>> On 2015-02-27 18:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>&g

Re: Cygwin svn vs. TortoiseSVN?

2015-03-18 Thread Denis Excoffier
cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table, especially the word "suddenly". Hope this helps. Denis Excoffier. -- 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: speedup in AD access, thanks

2015-03-02 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-02-28 13:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 28 00:51, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Playing with mkgroup and mkpasswd like others, i also >> noticed some great improvement in performance: >> now less than 5min for 404653 entries (mkpasswd

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] (last?) TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.5

2015-02-28 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-02-28 13:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 28 00:23, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> On 2015-02-27 18:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >>> I released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release. >>> >> I have noticed that the b

Re: Cygwin hangs up if several keys are typed during outputting a lot of texts.

2015-02-28 Thread Denis Excoffier
xterm window hangs. And, the same: with 'stty -echo' the problem does not occur. I'll add that this is not new (occurred for me at least for the last few months, even perhaps years). I'm happy that Takashi found: - a fully reproducible case - that the problem vanishes with stty -

xlaunch small glitch

2015-02-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
; on second line should be changed into "WOW*" (or equivalent) since now the W7 32bits are now called "CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW". Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: h

bad interaction with /usr/bin/make

2015-02-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
usr/mydata, only with /usr/mydata/svn, which is unknown in the Makefile. Do you think that Cygwin has something to do with this or is it exclusively /usr/bin/make's business? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

speedup in AD access, thanks

2015-02-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
an empty group (i.e. line begins with colon) and e.g. ls -al fails miserably in this case (and segfault seems to lie in cygwin1.dll). Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] (last?) TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.5

2015-02-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
quot; the command. Previously, the fourth-character-delay was probably already there, but only for the Return key. Hope this helps. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.3

2015-02-26 Thread Denis Excoffier
the Return key. My shell is tcsh under XP. The typescript file contains Control-M twice (followed by a regular \012), as expected. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://

minor improvement for base-cygwin

2015-02-24 Thread Denis Excoffier
-02-24 20:42:45.0 +0100 @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ # Defaults: # passwd: files db # group:files db +# db_enum: cache builtin # db_home: cygwin desc # db_shell: cygwin desc # db_gecos: cygwin desc Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.1

2015-02-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-02-13 22:30, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > On 2015-02-13 22:04, Warren Young wrote: >> >>> On Feb 13, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Denis Excoffier >>> wrote: >>> >>> I tried (according to the new documentation): >>> >>> db_home: /

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.1

2015-02-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-02-13 22:04, Warren Young wrote: > >> On Feb 13, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Denis Excoffier >> wrote: >> >> I tried (according to the new documentation): >> >> db_home: /%H/%U/cygdir >> >> and that was fine but %H was replaced by the >&g

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.1

2015-02-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
o confess that i used here the nearly-to-be-obsoleted XP SP3. But i also use W7 sometimes, and it would be great if i could have "db_home: /%H/%U/cygdir" in both of them (yes my username has to appear twice): no /etc/passwd any more. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: ht

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-005

2015-01-28 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-01-24 17:45, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > On 2015-01-22 23:07, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> >> % /usr/bin/ls / >> /usr/bin/ls: reading directory /: No such file or directory >> (regular ls output follows) >> % >> > I reinstalled cygwin completely

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-005

2015-01-24 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2015-01-22 23:07, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > % /usr/bin/ls / > /usr/bin/ls: reading directory /: No such file or directory > (regular ls output follows) > % > I reinstalled cygwin completely. The problem is now vanished. No idea what caused the problem. Denis Excoffier.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-005

2015-01-22 Thread Denis Excoffier
w I have to check whether somebody could have applied some antivirus update, software update or anything else on my PC. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscri

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-005

2015-01-21 Thread Denis Excoffier
st snapshot (20150119) has the same problem (again, only for XP). Older snapshots i don't know, but 20150113 was OK. I cannot formally exclude antivirus and all such kinds of things. Probably the bug-make mailing list would be more appropriate. Hope this helps though. Regards, Denis

Re: subversion and permissions

2014-11-28 Thread Denis Excoffier
/mnt/d somefs text 0 0 Thank you and sorry for the noise. Denis Excoffier. -- 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

subversion and permissions

2014-11-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
referably without changing any permissions on the repository? I tried to mount the disk noacl, the problem remains exactly the same. Thank you for your suggestions, Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- 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: Incorrect workaround for KB 823764 in fhandler_socket.cc

2014-11-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-11-14 05:37, Iuliu Rus wrote: > > What is the procedure for submitting patches for cygwin? See https://cygwin.com/contrib.html Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.33-1

2014-11-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-11-13 17:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I just released Cygwin 1.7.33-1. Just to report that 'uname -a' (and also /proc/version) shows 1.7.33-2 for this one. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:

Re: qt5 announce please

2014-11-04 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-11-03 23:17, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >> >> On 2014-11-03 16:10, Denis Excoffier wrote: > >> >>> Perhaps unrelated, i cannot compile cmake-3.1.0-rc1 any more since that. >> >> http://sourceforge.net/p/cygwin-ports/cmake/ci/master/tree/2.8.12-gu

Re: qt5 announce please

2014-11-03 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-11-03 23:17, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On 2014-11-03 16:10, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Could somebody please tell us a little bit more about the new qt5-related >> packages that we received recently (at least for x86)? > > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-a

qt5 announce please

2014-11-03 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, Could somebody please tell us a little bit more about the new qt5-related packages that we received recently (at least for x86)? Perhaps unrelated, i cannot compile cmake-3.1.0-rc1 any more since that. Thanks in advance. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.4

2014-10-29 Thread Denis Excoffier
xact command that i use (in .cshrc) is echo \\ /nonexistent* |& head --lines=-6 in order to show a single line (a single line is enough for a visual indication) Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.3

2014-10-27 Thread Denis Excoffier
or some time now, there are /usr/include/rpc/types.h and /usr/include/rpc/xdr.h which are present in the snapshots but not in releases. This is just a remark and i suppose this is ok. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-25 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-10-25 16:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Oct 25 13:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Oct 24 23:17, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> 2014-10-24 22:16, Christian Franke wrote: >>>> Another possible solution: >>>> Check for e.g. CYGWI

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-24 Thread Denis Excoffier
27; at the beginning of the Makefile will do the job. > > Possible enhancement: If AddDllDirectory() is available (>= Win8), accept a > real search path in CYGWIN_DLLPATH. Also perhaps you can use yet another subitem in the CYGWIN environment variable? Denis Excoffier. -- Problem

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-24 Thread Denis Excoffier
> On 2014-10-24 13:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Oct 23 20:06, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> On 2014-10-22 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >>> - Drop the current working directory from the default DLL search path in >>> favor of Cygwin's /b

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1

2014-10-23 Thread Denis Excoffier
cygheap.cc the line 'wcpncpy (installation_dir, ...' (and also the next one) and the old behaviour is now back. It seems to me that this change is a regression. Could someone please argue? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

suggestion about math.h

2014-08-07 Thread Denis Excoffier
) */ /* Global control over fdlibm error handling. */ Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- 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

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-07-28 Thread Denis Excoffier
lexity would be quite small. > > any feedback on this one? Shall I create a snapshot with a matching > patch? I have nothing to add except that i am a great fan of cygwin snapshots in general, and i suppose that if several posix offsets are set to 0, it is a minor problem if all of them

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-07-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
signment of posixOffsets to various substitutes would be useless. Even assigning the null posixOffsets to non-null values, i’m not convinced of. Denis Excoffier. -- 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: timeout in LDAP access

2014-07-15 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-07-14 15:48 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 14 11:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jul 12 15:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> On 2014-07-09 12:12 Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have encountered this case in real life. The domain a

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-07-12 Thread Denis Excoffier
swd’ executes gracefully in 40 minutes (instead of 60) and ‘getent group’ in 25 minutes (instead of 90). Also quicker is ‘mkpasswd -d secondary_domain’ of course. Patch attached. Regards, Denis Excoffier. posixoffset.patch Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-07-08 Thread Denis Excoffier
he value has still not been fetched. I have encountered this case in real life. The domain admins have set the trustPosixOffset of the secondary domain to zero. This value is therefore never recorded and the cldap->open occurs again and again. Hope this helps. Regards, Denis Excoffier.

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-07-03 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-06-25 23:13 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > You asked for errors being propagated up the chain to the > getpwent/getgrent calls and that's exactly what happens now. There are > a lot of LDAP error codes. How is Cygwin supposed to handle every one > of them? Do we need a list of ignorable an

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-06-25 Thread Denis Excoffier
equivalent) is produced for LDAP_SERVER_DOWN, it probably should be better if this were not the case? I suppose it will need more testing, but i’m currently unavailable for tests, by the way until Friday 08:00 UTC. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-06-23 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-06-23 11:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 19 19:53, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > Do you really *want* to enumerate 500K users when accessing the DCs > remote over a slow DSL line? Isn't this a situation in which you'd > rather like to avoid enumerating acco

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-06-19 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-06-18 20:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 18 10:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> >> The idea I was proposing was just to drop all attempts to seconds guess >> how fast a DC replies. We're going to use LDAP with default settings >> and that's it. Default settings means, every operat

Re: gecos from AD? (was Re: timeout in LDAP access)

2014-06-17 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-06-17 14:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 17 12:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jun 17 12:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Jun 16 22:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>>> Another (unrelated and less important) problem is that 'getent' >>>

Re: gecos from AD? (was Re: timeout in LDAP access)

2014-06-17 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-06-17 12:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 17 12:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jun 16 22:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> Another (unrelated and less important) problem is that 'getent' >>> happily produces lines with some extra ‘:’, in parti

Re: timeout in LDAP access

2014-06-17 Thread Denis Excoffier
(it it works). But in this case, it will not resume to the next domain, and the whole operation (eg getent) is interrupted? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin

timeout in LDAP access

2014-06-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
t was truncated. Another (unrelated and less important) problem is that 'getent' happily produces lines with some extra ‘:’, in particular when the gecos field itself contains ‘:’. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

typo correction (patch)

2014-05-26 Thread Denis Excoffier
->gr_gid; ++cnt; } - *ngroups = cnt; if (cnt > *ngroups) ret = -1; else ret = cnt; + *ngroups = cnt; syscall_printf ( "%d = getgrouplist(%s, %u, %p, %d)", ret, user, gid, groups, *ngroups); Regards, Denis Excoffier. --

Re: getent group fails

2014-05-09 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2014-05-09 11:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 7 19:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: > Thanks for the report. I made a dumb Copy/paste error. This should > be fixed in the today's snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Indeed, it is working now. Also, i have noticed that

getent group fails

2014-05-07 Thread Denis Excoffier
ne where the "Corinna's prize-winning passwd/group rewrite" was reintroduced). It was not present in snapshot 20140305. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http:/

thank you for vsnprintf et al

2014-05-06 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, The recent snapshots (since 20140505) contain (in /usr/include/stdio.h) the declarations of the vsnprintf(), snprintf() etc. functions, including (this is new) for under strict C++11 (i.e. 'gcc -std=c++11’). I think this is worth noting. And thank you. Denis Excoffier. -- Pr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-binutils-2.24.0.3.85cf705-1 (x86/x86_64)

2014-04-16 Thread Denis Excoffier
4 side (Cygwin Windows "native" applications still suffer > the issue). > Me too, see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg3.html Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

gcc-4.9.0-RC-20140411

2014-04-13 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, Yesterday i tried to bootstrap the new gcc-4.9.0-RC-20140411 (with snapshot 20140412 installed), but didn’t manage to come to a satisfactory end. Not the snapshot fault i suppose. For the interested people, see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60830 . Regards, Denis

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-binutils-2.24.0.1.acd6540-1 (x86/x86_64)

2014-04-01 Thread Denis Excoffier
ch the previous one didn’t), but this file is already provided by the binutils-2.24.51-2 package (with the .gz suffix, i must however recognize). Please someone to confirm that this new mingw64-x86_64-binutils package is indeed ok. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: ht

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