Re: See repeated /usr/bin in my path

ch, inside the cgywin environment, is /bin because on my system C:/cygwin64/ is the root e.g. / HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https:/

Re: installed 3.5.1-1 but uname shows 3.4.9-1.x86_64

On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 4:23 PM Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > > On 2024-03-03 15:29, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: > > A recent run of setup showed it installed 3.5.1-1 but uname -a reports > > 3.4.9-1.x86_64 > ... logs in /var/log ... see /proc/version >

installed 3.5.1-1 but uname shows 3.4.9-1.x86_64

es its log files, and is there a way to get extra debugging info to help diagnose this issue. TIA Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://

Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC

in the configuration section to your requirements. You can also edit the generated script, which is created in the same folder as the cygwin setup executable. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com #!/usr/bin/bash -e # djh-reinstall.sh # created by Doug Henderson

Re: Cygwin tool to differ junctions from soft links?

ir command can list links and junctions. The mklink command documentation at https://ss64.com/nt/mklink.html has more information than the "mklink/?" help text about links. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.c

Re: Test for Windows Administrator permissions from Cygwin terminal|script?

I imagine any other Windows app that needs admin permissions would work. I use this to change the color of the prompt ($PS1) for the admin user to red. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

xlsx2csv package may not be required.

. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Stepping down as Maintainer

Hi all, I (Doug Henderson) would like to resign from maintaining these four packages: expat mingw64-i686-expat mingw64-x86_64-expat xxhash I am no longer using cygwin, and have not done anything significant with it in close to five years. A linux laptop and msys64/mingw64 now meet all my

Re: cygpath 3.3.4 : incorrect windows to unix path conversions

bash prompt so PS is embedded in the cygwin environment. Then all the mounts expected by cygwin programs are established, so when you run cygwin programs from PS, they run in the env they expect. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports:

Re: scons v4.3.0-1 outputs nothing on cygwin v2. 3.1

tputs from terminal. > >> > >> Might be more useful running: > >> > >> $ ls -glo /usr/bin/python > >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 24 Feb 17 2021 /usr/bin/python -> > >> /etc/alternatives/python > >> $ alternatives --displa

Re: alternatives-1.3.30c-10 has download errors - tried many Mirror sites

n installed. Doug alternatives maintainer -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.911)

exe is not correctly checking for the "SeCreateSymbolicLink" and/or "Create symbolic links" permission. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Cygwin packages with unnecessary __pycache__ directories

nt after installing the package, I believe the user may need to build them in an elevated shell. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:htt

Re: ssmtp-config fails on step 6

ip3 -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 85 Jun 5 08:46 pydoc3 -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 110 Jun 16 07:34 python -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 89 Jun 5 08:46 python3 -rw-r--r--+ 1 Admin None 59 Jul 16 11:25 python3-config -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports:

Re: ssmtp-config fails on step 6

tput from "uname -a". Also please post the bug number or a link to the bug on bugzilla.redhat.com. Note that alternatives must be run from an elevated cygwin window to add or change the alternatives.configuration. Doug - current cygwin alternatives maintainer -- Doug Henderson, Calga

Re: Ctrl+C is sometimes ignored on Windows Terminal

s-schema is imported at the top of the settings file, so ... IIRC, there is also a system wide settings file that is read before your personal settings file, but I forget where it is. Or maybe there are some builtin settings, eg Ctrl+Shift+C HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils 1.4.16-7

d trip completes, you will paste the previous clipboard contents instead of the expected new content. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: github password policy

They also have a large number of add on features around the Git repositories, aimed at lock-in. Does anyone have online Git servers they use and can recommend? BTW, I have done Google searches, etc. I'm looking for enthusiastic personal endorsements. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

cess running when you run setup may interfere with the rebase. Likewise when you run the rebase all the process. I saw some duplicate folders in your windows path. You don't need both c:\WINDOWS\... and c:\Windows\... for example. -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

[ANNOUNCEMENT] expat 2.4.1-1

parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser before starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may register handlers. -- Doug

expat 2.4.1-1

parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser before starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may register handlers. -- Doug

expat 2.4.1-1

parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser before starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may register handlers. -- Doug

[alternatives] building an app that uses gettext

xtpo-devel and libintl-devel packages, but I can't seem to properly rewrite the CFLAGS or LDFLAGS despite several attempts. Can someone recommend a simple cygwin package that uses gettext and the cygintl-8.dll TIA, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: attention alternatives maintainer

On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 19:56, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote: > > On 7/15/2021 7:07 PM, Doug Henderson via Cygwin-apps wrote: > > Please update alternatives to work properly for a first time install > > of an alternative when CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict. >

attention alternatives maintainer

understand it, Windows symlinks need to :"know" if the target is a file or directory, while the POSIX symlink does not require the target to exist. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: Setup shows errors from gnuplot-base.dash and python38-devel.sh

"On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 05:59, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > On 7/14/2021 9:20 PM, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 16:33, Ken Brown via Cygwin > > wrote: > >> > >> On 7/14/2021 5:08 PM, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote:

Re: Setup shows errors from gnuplot-base.dash and python38-devel.sh

On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 16:33, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > On 7/14/2021 5:08 PM, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 13:03, Achim Gratz wrote: > >> > >> Doug Henderson via Cygwin writes: > >>> The first error message occu

Re: Setup shows errors from gnuplot-base.dash and python38-devel.sh

On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 13:03, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Doug Henderson via Cygwin writes: > > The first error message occurred when I installed all pending packages > > this morning. I hoped to heal the problem by reinstalling the > > installed gnuplot packages. Now

Setup shows errors from gnuplot-base.dash and python38-devel.sh

to heal the problem by reinstalling the installed gnuplot packages. Now I get both the messages. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0 mars 3.2.0(0.340/5/3) 2021-03-29 08:42 x86_64 Cygwin > ver Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19043.1110] Win 10 Pro Any assistance is appreciated. TIA Doug -- Doug Hender

Re: Cygwin, Unicode and "long" path names

r this does not even touch on emojis where a one character emoji can expand to as much as 35 or so bytes! That basically means the end of static allocation for file and directory names and name component buffers. That may be a major job in the cygwin kernel, not to mention all the available pac

Re: Type of symlink file and readshortcut

s the added user(s) to set CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict and create native windows symbolic links in cygwin. This process grants 1 permission which is surely frantin fewer than Developer Mode. I have CYGWIN_NT-10.0 mars 3.2.0(0.340/5/3) 2021-03-29 08:42 x86_64 Cygwin on Microsoft Windows [Version 10

Uninstall python 2.7 fails - alternative dependencies

. Thanks for your consideration, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml

Re: CRITICAL ls MEMORY LEAK

the path to those files where it is safe to disable scanning for that folder and all folders and files within that folder. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/

Re: python update status

n packages where I have updated the package using pip. I'm retired now, but I always asked for local admin or sudo for the 20 odd years when I was a contractor. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: tee: 'standard output': Permission denied

y important! Also note there is no quoting required - a big win. First command in the bash script is usually an "export PATH=..." command. Of course, if there is an actual permissions error, this will not fix it, but it will allow you to more easily diagnose the problem. HTH Doug -- Doug Hen

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

ve-paths unless you educate > operators/users to enter paths with /cygdrive/... I use CYGWIN to work around a stupid design decision made by a small time OS developer more than 40 years ago, and inherited by an OS that did not even have directories in its first release. Doug -- Doug

Re: Unconsistent command-line parsing in case of UTF-8 quoted arguments

compiled for cygwon with gcc, for windows with mingw64 or windows with a native tool chain. Also are you running it from a bash prompt or a cmd.exe prompt? -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: TMP/TEMP environment variable and /tmp

363.1082] (c) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. >set TMP= >set TEMP= > show_tmp $TMP is '(null)' $TMPDIR is '(null)' $TEMP is '(null)' P_tmpdir is '/tmp' tmpnam() is '/tmp/t709.0' tempnam() is '/tmp/d189.2' P_tmpdir is defined in -- Doug Hender

[ANNOUNCEMENT] xxhash 0.8.0-1

and randomness qualities of hash functions. Code is highly portable, and hashes are identical on all platforms (little / big endian). -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq

xxhash 0.8.0-1

and randomness qualities of hash functions. Code is highly portable, and hashes are identical on all platforms (little / big endian). -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: [ITP] xxhash 0.7.4-1

On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 04:41, Ben RUBSON <> wrote: > > On 14 Jul 2020, at 21:51, Doug Henderson via Cygwin-apps <> wrote: > > > > I have patched the Makefile as suggested. The newest version of the > > dist files as located at > > > > https://g

Re: [ITP] xxhash 0.7.4-1

means.) Any way, I would like some critical feedback on the dist packaging. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

[ITP] xxhash 0.7.4-1

he package into devel and non-dev packages..Again, I'm not sure how to do that. Or if that is necessary. I am currently the maintainer for expat, mingw64-i686-expat, mingw64-x86_64-expat packages. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Attention ninja maintainer

Hi, ninja installs its bash completion script in /etc/bash-completion.d Other bash completions are installed to /etc/bash_completion.d Please look into this. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: [PATCH] cygport install infinite loop when symlink in path

points to a non-existent location. [ https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html] My simplistic solution was to force CYGWIN=winsymlinks.native in the .cygport file. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: Cygport user guide

l branch to add some few words to any functions we happen to study. Hopefully pull requests for comment only changes should be easy to approve and merge. Thoughts? Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: Very dangerous hacking ? Surprising relationship between cygwin and Microsoft

o using Internet Explorer and/or Edge. This re-enforces my choice to use Firefox. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs

Re: Cygwin convert environment paths

t perform its own conversions, either manually or using cygpath. As I understand it, the cygpath program is a thin wrapper over a library call, so a CFFI (C Foreign Function Interface) might work. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports:

Re: Odd hang of cc1.exe *now isolated to /tmp weirdness* cpp/gcc

istrators:rwx,m::rwx,o::---/u::rwx,g::rwx,g:SYSTEM:rwx,g:Administrators:rwx,m::rwx,o::---] /cygdrive/c/Users/Doug/AppData/Local/Temp I suggest you change your temporary directory to ./tmp, or align the permissions. HTH, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Prob

Re: Putting packages up for adoption

which to continue to build. > > > I will pickup the mingw64-i686-expat and mingw64-x86_64-expat packages, as I currently maintain the expat package Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Building libusb1.0 from source fails (Attn maintainer)

Any guidance to resolve this is appreciated. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.

Re: Getting Python on Windows points USER_HOME

e are not necessary, and may have damaged your python 3.8.1 for windows install. I suggest you undo these changes, or better yet reinstall python 3.8.1 for windows. HTH, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: Update to "Reporting Guidelines" on the cygwin site

ead (before you hit send), so you can fix typos and thinkos. -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: cygport development

On Mon., Oct. 14, 2019, 02:55 Federico Kircheis, <> wrote: > On 13/10/2019 18.41, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Federico Kircheis writes: > >> I've sent the patches the 14.07.19, unfortunately I still got no answer. > > > > The cygport maintainer is rather busy with non-Cygwin related work these > >

Re: Dragging from explorer to cygwin terminal is not putting the path into the terminal

dant on WiFi, internet and cloud speeds and latency. I did not observe any difference in "Drag and Drop" behaviour with this setting, but I almost exclusively use keyboard Copy and Paste instead of mouse Drop and Drag. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com --

Re: How to install gcc and g++ 6 on cygwin which are not on the setup.exe

e the info command: info gcc and enter the info search command: (CR=press enter) /-std=CR to find the relavent section. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/

Re: gforth package

you like to volunteer? Otherwise, an existing or new maintainer might be interested. Or you could build it yourself for your own use. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Request for an example x68 assembler portable Hello World script

path, though, things can get more chaotic where platforms must be considered on a case by case basis. Have you looked at VM based implementations? These use an intermediate assembler-like language which is executed on a virtual machine. The VM is specific to each platforms, but attempts to allow th

Re: cat.exe failing silently with exit status 3

-a cat ) Also attach the text file created by "cygcheck -svr > cygcheck-svr.txt" to your reply as a text file. (Note, this can take a while to run.) HTH, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: rebuilding python pip from source

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 09:39, Yaakov Selkowitz <> wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-03-04 at 04:57 -0700, Doug Henderson wrote: > > I am trying to rebuild the python37-pip package from source. > > Checking source in setup gives me /usr/src/python-pip-19.0.2-1.src/ > > When I

rebuilding python pip from source

ython.*". Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: Cygwin 3.0.1-1 Breaks ALL cygwin applications on Windows 7 x64

ept those I select). I'm not sure how Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) is managed on Windows 7, but I think cygwin exes and dlls get special handling. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin 3.0.1-1 Breaks ALL cygwin applications on Windows 7 x64

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 15:10, Jerry Baker via cygwin <> wrote: > > On 2/26/2019 1:56 PM, Doug Henderson wrote: > > Two things. > > 1. You can execute cygcheck by navigating to C:\cygwin or C:\cygwin64 > > in Explorer and opening a command or powershell window from exp

Re: Cygwin 3.0.1-1 Breaks ALL cygwin applications on Windows 7 x64

es or functions to run a few specific Windows exes, such as Explorer, icacls, cmd, etc. If you want all the directories from your windows path, they are available in the ORIGINAL_PATH variable, so you can add all of them at the end of the PATH variable, so they do not shadow same-named cygwin exes. H

Re: bash window start recurses

y running cygwin setup again, but do not add any new packages (or just a small one) and click on through until it completes (shows the Finish button). HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: problem with mmap and fork()

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 17:01, Glyn Gowing <> wrote: > I have a program (attached) that works correctly on my mac but does > not work with Cygwin on Windows 10. I'm running the latest version of > What happens in the buggy execution is that the child obtains a lock > before the parent releases it.

Re: problem with mmap and fork()

hores for creating critical sections between processes vs using mutexes between pthreads. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygw

Re: Get Cygwin home directory path for current user

naries work in isolation. In my option, the cygwin and Windows home directories should always be different locations. However, the MINGW64 and the Windows directories can be the same location. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin

expat 2.2.6-1

of changes included in this release is documented in https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_6/expat/Changes -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

[ANNOUNCEMENT] expat 2.2.6-1

of changes included in this release is documented in https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_6/expat/Changes -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: Mutt and gpg 1.4

a symlink to the windows config and database files. The choice may have depended on the EOL characters used in the files. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docu

Re: Why does -std=c++11 hide certain function calls

On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 14:41, Brian Inglis wrote: > _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 1 || _XOPEN_SOURCE || _POSIX_SOURCE" Relavent xkcd - https://xkcd.com/927/ -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

Re: Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character

tes an invalid UTF-8 character, and the font does not have a glyph for REPLACEMENT CHARACTER. The MEDIUM SHADE is also used in place of an ordinary character without a glyph in the font. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character

Replacement Character is displayed. The Characters app shows that the default font contains the Replacement Character, and that is what is displayed in the terminal. -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Error in PS2 Classic GUI

On 8 July 2018 at 07:24, Qaiser Farooq wrote: > When i tried to encrypt WWE smack down here comes the pain ps2 game 4.4gb > it showed me this error "invalid number of arguments for encryption" > > Please help You may need to quote any file name that contains spaces.. H

Re: cygwin stopped working

e not in your cygwin path. A Google (or similar) search for "CYGWIN_NOWINPATH" will find many pages on cygwin.com and stackoverflow.com. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Ejecting a USB drive using Cygwin (sync)?

s on a new line. There was no copyright claim in the original source. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html U

Re: Need help with multibyte UTF-8 characters

riables set to en_CA.UTF-8, and in the windows console, to en_US.UTF-8. I am running Win 10 and cygwin setup was last updated a couple or three days ago. Check the output of the "locale" command. All variables should have the same value. Is your cygwin installation up to date, or fai

Re: sort utility goes berzerk (x86_64)

output of "which -a sort"? Is there only one sort in the path? Q2. What is output of "sort --version"? Confirm if it is "sort (GNU coreutils) 8.26". Q3. What happens when you run "sort --check FILE" on a problem file? Q4. After you kill a hung sort, ar

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

ingw32 tools chains. Such programs have no execution dependencies on cygwin packages, but they may have build dependencies. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.c

Proposed patch for cygport to fix homepage command

quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=${ORIG_PN:-${PN}}; however it does not quote the value everywhere it is used. The attached patch quotes the path to the browser executable, and the homepage URL at all locations where they are used. HTH, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gma

[ANNOUNCEMENT] expat 2.2.3-1

://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/master/expat/Changes for changes. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

expat 2.2.3-1

://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/master/expat/Changes for changes. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libreadline7-7.0.3-3

>On 28 July 2017 at 12:31, Steven Penny wrote: >> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 12:13:49, Doug Henderson wrote: >> In any case, this problem has nothing to do with libreadline of any >> version, nor the current version of cygwin1.dll. It is possible that >> this lies in t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libreadline7-7.0.3-3

e. That's the Microsoft supplied CRT, I believe. In any case, this problem has nothing to do with libreadline of any version, nor the current version of cygwin1.dll. It is possible that this lies in the domain of mingw32, which suggests that it may be off-topic here or at least needs a new subject line.

Re: chere: Add cygwin icon to context menu

the path to the icon file is the windows path to the icon file installed in the cygwin root directory, i.e. $ cygpath -w /Cygwin-Terminal.ico D:\cygwin64\Cygwin-Terminal.ico HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob

expat 2.2.2-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * expat-2.2.2-1 * libexpat1-2.2.2-1 * libexpat-devel-2.2.2-1 This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, originally written by James Clark, and now maintained by a loose group of developers. Expat is a stream-oriented XML

[ANNOUNCEMENT] expat 2.2.2-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * expat-2.2.2-1 * libexpat1-2.2.2-1 * libexpat-devel-2.2.2-1 This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, originally written by James Clark, and now maintained by a loose group of developers. Expat is a stream-oriented XML

Re: ITA nasm

On 29 June 2017 at 09:38, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 29/06/2017 17:22, Doug Henderson wrote: >> >> I am willing to take over maintenance of the nasm package. >> >> Info for current release: >> >> # package name >> NAME="nasm" >> VERS

ITA nasm

flexible and mature assembler tool with support for many output formats licensed under the 2-clause BSD licence." I plan to package 2.13.01-0 based on the latest upstream release. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: Request new nasm package

e nasm package will > be in need of a new maintainer... I am interested in maintaining the nasm package. -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cy

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expat-2.2.1-0

://libexpat.github.io/ for more info. -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Updated: expat-2.2.1-0

://libexpat.github.io/ for more info. -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: Bash seg faulting?

ne endings, and preserves unix line endings. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- 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: units issues

but I can't help much there. See http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#proxies for info. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: units issues

ch use by comparing the current date with the data's date of update. When the data is stale, automatically update it if possible, or notify the user of the problem. Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

Re: CygWin Relink Issue ERP oracle

tep by step. If you must do it yourself, start with this google search: https://www.google.ca/search?q=Oracle+ERP+R12.2.6+on+Windows+2012R2 and continue to the first link that shows up, probably this one: https://community.oracle.com/thread/4010301 HTH, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary,

Re: Latest Git-2.12.2 cannot install python packages for pip

s you need to use: which -a python which -a pip which -a git /usr/bin/python --version /usr/bin/pip --version /usr/bin/git --version Also, note that Python 3.6 on cygwin is named python3 and it uses pip3 for installing packages. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmai

Re: Problem with zombie processes

ith the delays, I see consistent behavior for both cases. Test 1 always succeeds. Test 2 always fails with "IOError or OSError [Errno 22] invalid argument" for python or python3 (respectively). While not a explanation of the different results for test1 and test2, I HTH. Doug -- Dou

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

tor, you must fallback to "safe" defaults. You can't always trust the TERM variable. If you're lucky, you will get a standard answer-back, which, in the case of a terminal emulator, may be faithfully emulated. Programs like screen and tmux throw themselves into the middle of this m

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