Re: Retrieving per-process environment block?

2016-11-30 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2016-11-30 04:00, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 11/29/2016 7:28 PM, Herbert Stocker wrote: > >> Or we simply copy the variables unconverted to the Windows environment >> block, as the Windows env block is not used for anything else - up to >> now it is not updated at all. > > Maybe we could stash the

Re: Cygwin shell eats Windows exceptions?

2016-10-13 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2016-10-14 00:52, Peter Rosin wrote: > On 2016-10-13 16:35, Bill Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm trying to run my Windows C++ application which has a call to >> DebugBreak() to bring up the popup asking if you want to debug this >> application or terminate it. If

Re: Cygwin shell eats Windows exceptions?

2016-10-13 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2016-10-13 16:35, Bill Smith wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to run my Windows C++ application which has a call to DebugBreak() > to bring up the popup asking if you want to debug this application or > terminate it. If I run the program within Cygwin, the program just exits. > > If I run the appl

Re: File create problem

2016-08-25 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi again! Ok, I "solved it" by reinstalling AVG. No idea why that helped... Buggy PoS. Cheers, Peter On 2016-08-25 15:54, Peter Rosin wrote: > Hi! > > I have the strangest of problems. Freshly downloaded setup-x86_64.exe > fails to create some files, e.g. bash.exe, wit

File create problem

2016-08-25 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! I have the strangest of problems. Freshly downloaded setup-x86_64.exe fails to create some files, e.g. bash.exe, with access denied. So, I started digging. Trying to create bash.exe (with any random content) by other means also fails. Creating other files in the C:\cygwin64\bin folder works

Re: Autoconf fooled by AC_FC_LINE_LENGTH

2016-07-29 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2016-07-29 14:23, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Hi Eric, > > building latest Arpack > https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/releases > https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng/issues/41 > > I hit a strange case where the presence of a single line > > AC_FC_LINE_LENGTH(unlimited) > > before the usua

Re: Formatting command line arguments when starting a Cygwin process from a native process

2016-05-09 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! On 2016-05-07 09:45, David Allsopp wrote: > Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, David Allsopp! > > And greetings to you, too! > > > >>> I'm not using cmd, or any shell for that matter (that's actually the >>> point) - I am in a native Win32 process invoking a Cygwin process >>> directly usi

Re: `CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict`, `ln -s target link` fails if target doesn't exist

2016-04-29 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2016-04-29 13:34, Gene Pavlovsky wrote: >>> POSIX says a symlink to a missing target is perfectly well-defined (you >>> can't stat() through it, but you can readlink() it). But Windows native >>> symlinks can't do that. So the problems you are encountering all stem >>> from the fact that you ar

Re: BUG: grep (GNU grep) 2.24

2016-03-21 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2016-03-21 14:56, Achim Gratz wrote: > Gordon Grimes writes: >> % wc -l FILE >> 48786 >> % grep . FILE >> 2240 >> >> Very wrong. > > You're aware that "." doesn't match empty lines? Agreed, that is relevant, but there's the difference between v2.21 and v2.24... On a whim and given that we do

Re: Problem with new acl code and cdrtools

2016-02-09 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2016-02-09 10:06, Ismail Donmez wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> My take on the situation was that you could disable SUN ACLs by telling >> configure that cdrtools should not use aclfromtext(), and that the code >> tha

Re: Problem with new acl code and cdrtools

2016-02-09 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2016-02-09 08:56, Ismail Donmez wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:14 AM, Warren Young wrote: >> On Feb 8, 2016, at 9:59 AM, Ismail Donmez wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: >>>> On 2016-02-08 14:31, Ismail

Re: Problem with new acl code and cdrtools

2016-02-08 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2016-02-08 14:31, Ismail Donmez wrote: > This is a generic code so I don't want to add a cygwin specific > dependency there. Is there a preprocessor definition for cygwin > version? I could use that to disable HAVE_SUN_ACL for cygwin 2.5+ Pardon me for butting in, but isn't adding a Cygwin vers

Re: Data file access on different path (drive)

2015-11-23 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2015-11-23 10:51, Lester Anderson wrote: > Hello, > > I tried a very basic script to test this: > > #!/bin/bash > ruta_elev="cygdrive/q/geophys/Potential-field > datasets/Topography/topo_17.1.img" > ruta_grav="cygdrive/q/geophys/Potential-field datasets/Gravity/grav.img.23.1" > # Also tried >

Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2

2015-08-27 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2015-08-27 21:47, Sam Edge wrote: > One might add, "Always, always initialize automatic variables. This > ensures deterministic behaviour. The compiler will optimise out the > redundant ones." Seems like a fast way to not get a compiler warning if you do happen to use a variable that would be u

Re: [cygwin] Re: git fails to push

2015-08-06 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2015-03-17 18:10, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 03:52:49PM +0100, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Interesting. But the patch may not be needed. The easy thing to >> do seems to be to either use core.createobject = rename >> or to convince some git :-) t

Re: Permissionproblem on CIFS share.

2015-04-27 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2015-04-27 15:25, Björn Kautler wrote: > Hi, > > I have a permissionproblem on a CIFS share. > > The line in fstab reads "//fileserver.company.de/git/mnt/git > cifsbinary,posix=0,user,noacl" > > I then try to push some Git changes, but it does only work by > repeating the push multip

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libgii1-1.0.2-4, libgii1-devel-1.0.2-4, libgii1-input-x-1.0.2-4 and libgii1-debuginfo-1.0.2-4

2015-03-26 Thread Peter Rosin
A new version of 'libgii' is available for download. Rebuild to avoid obsolete dependencies Packed with xz Updated packages: libgii1-1.0.2-4 libgii1-devel-1.0.2-4 libgii1-input-x-1.0.2-4 libgii1-debuginfo-1.0.2-4 *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INF

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libggi2-2.2.2-4, libggi2-devel-2.2.2-4, libggi2-display-aa-2.2.2-4, libggi2-display-file-2.2.2-4, libggi2-display-terminfo-2.2.2-4, libggi2-display-x-2.2.2-4, libggi2-samples-

2015-03-26 Thread Peter Rosin
A new version of 'libggi' is available for download. Rebuild to avoid obsolete dependencies Packed with xz Updated packages: libggi2-2.2.2-4 libggi2-devel-2.2.2-4 libggi2-display-aa-2.2.2-4 libggi2-display-file-2.2.2-4 libggi2-display-terminfo-2.2.2-4

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libggimisc2-2.2.2-4, libggimisc2-devel-2.2.2-4, libggimisc2-samples-2.2.2-4 and libggimisc2-debuginfo-2.2.2-4

2015-03-26 Thread Peter Rosin
A new version of 'libggimisc' is available for download. Rebuild to avoid obsolete dependencies Packed with xz Updated packages: libggimisc2-2.2.2-4 libggimisc2-devel-2.2.2-4 libggimisc2-samples-2.2.2-4 libggimisc2-debuginfo-2.2.2-4 *** CYGWIN-ANNO

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2015-03-26 Thread Peter Rosin
A new version of 'libggiwmh' is available for download. Rebuild to avoid obsolete dependencies Packed with xz Updated packages: libggiwmh0-0.3.2-4 libggiwmh0-devel-0.3.2-4 libggiwmh0-display-x-0.3.2-4 libggiwmh0-samples-0.3.2-4 libggiwmh0-debuginfo-0.3.2-4

Re: [cygwin] Re: git fails to push

2015-03-17 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2015-03-17 15:52, Peter Rosin wrote: > On 2015-03-17 14:33, Jason Pyeron wrote: >> Pardon the direct reply, but my posts are blocked. > > Perhaps your boilerplate footer with copyright claims, or the > raw email addresses? I took the liberty or forwarding it > to the lis

Re: [cygwin] Re: git fails to push

2015-03-17 Thread Peter Rosin
gwin, and I imaging that Cygwin will have a hard time fixing it up... >> -Original Message- >> From: Peter Rosin >> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 9:13 >> >> On 2015-03-16 22:45, Warren Young wrote: >>> On Mar 12, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Peter Rosin >

Re: git fails to push

2015-03-17 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2015-03-16 22:45, Warren Young wrote: > On Mar 12, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> >> To file:///cygdrive/x/some path/with spaces/repo.git > > You shouldn’t be doing anything shared-database-like to a network drive. > Network file sharing protocols typic

Re: git fails to push

2015-03-12 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2015-03-13 00:50, Peter Rosin wrote: > Any suggestions? Forgot cygcheck output... Cheers, Peter Cygwin Package Information Last downloaded files to: C:\Users\peda\Downloads\cygwin64 Last downloaded files from: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ Package Vers

git fails to push

2015-03-12 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! For a long time, I have been suffering from git problems when I push to our server. I have been hoping that it should just magically go away with some update or something, but I guess not. Basically, I have to push several times for it to "take". Like this: $ git push origin Counting objects:

Re: Why does CYGWIN double the backslash in execvp()?

2015-02-27 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2015-02-27 06:03, A L wrote: > Thank you for your response. It may sound plausible but: > >> you tell Cygwin that you want posix semantics > > I can't remember seeing that posix semantics require a C library call > to modify arguments in the way the shell does; since when cygwin a > shell?

Re: Why does CYGWIN double the backslash in execvp()?

2015-02-26 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2015-02-26 21:59, A L wrote: > Hi, > Yesterday I asked about the double slash, but my question has got no > attention (despite some other activity > on the list). I deem the behavior as a bug. To make things more > evident (that it's a bug) one can replace "DIR" > with "ECHO" in the code I pos

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.1.12-5

2014-09-26 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-09-24 20:35, Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: > A new release of bash, 4.1.12-5, has been uploaded and will soon reach a > mirror near you; leaving the previous version of 4.1.10-4 on 32-bit, and > 4.1.11-2 on 64-bit. > > NEWS: > = > This is a minor rebuild which picks up an upstream patch t

Re: problem with dlsym to fetch address of some functions

2014-09-24 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-09-23 21:52, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote: > 2014-09-23 16:40 GMT-03:00 Marco Atzeri : >> On 23/09/2014 20:43, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote: >>> >>>Hi, >>> >>>Forgive me if this is expected. I am probably abusing dlsym >>> behavior on other systems. >> >> >> It will

Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-09-15 Thread Peter Rosin
(sorry for replying to self) On 2014-09-15 09:44, Peter Rosin wrote: > Also, SetDllDirectory will kill all attempts to run 32-bit > Cygwin programs from 64-bit Cygwin (and vice versa). At least I think so. Cheers, Peter -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.ht

Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-09-15 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-09-13 12:00, Christian Franke wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> (by passing an actual safe path, and NOT by completely unsetting PATH). >> > > Disagree. The postfix master(8) spawns all of its daemons with PATH unset. > This IMO does not violate POSIX. > > Note that setting PATH=/bin on Cygw

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: rng-tools-5-1

2014-08-14 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-08-13 11:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 13 10:55, Peter Rosin wrote: >> This seemed like something I could waste a little time on, and learn >> something in the process. Which I did, so not all is lost. :-) Ok, I see how the above could be misread easily, since it

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: rng-tools-5-1

2014-08-13 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-08-12 16:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Aug 12 15:29, Peter Rosin wrote: >> On 2014-08-09 16:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> I just uploaded rng-tools-5-1. >>> >>> The Cygwin release only comes with the rngtest tool for now

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: rng-tools-5-1

2014-08-12 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-08-09 16:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I just uploaded rng-tools-5-1. > > The Cygwin release only comes with the rngtest tool for now. > > The rngd daemon requires porting assembler code to COFF and the > Microsoft calling convention. Any help porting this code would > be greatly appreci

libtirpc and redeclared bindresvport/bindresvport_sa

2014-05-26 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! I ran into this problem [1] when doing some RPC coding, and went searching for a resolution. But I came up empty. Was there any further discussion? Is this what is holding up the libvirt ITP? I guess the window for releasing an ABI-incompatible libtirpc 0.2.1-2 is firmly closed. Meanwhile, li

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-13 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-05-13 14:29, Steven Penny wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Frankly, please give MSYS2 another try. We'd all appreciate it. > > Look at the facts: > > coreutils > newer version released 2 years ago > > bash > newer version released 3 years ago > >

Re: libtool: link: object name conflicts in archive

2014-04-17 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-04-17 10:46, szgyg wrote: > On 4/16/2014 9:21 AM, Gisela Haschmich wrote: >> >> /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=F77 --mode=link gfortran -o liby12.la >> y12mae.lo y12maf.lo y12mbe.lo y12mbf.lo y12mce.lo y12mcf.lo y12mde.lo >> y12mdf.lo y12mfe.lo y12mge.lo y12mhe.lo >> -L/usr/lib/gcc/x

Re: libtool: link: object name conflicts in archive

2014-04-16 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-04-16 09:21, Gisela Haschmich wrote: > >> Side note, the GNU "equivalent" of MS lib.exe is ar. (ld corresponds >> to MS link.exe). >> >> Regarding the issue, it is a bad sign that the archives are named >> libmbmath.lib, >> >> libmbutil.lib etc. For a Cygwin build, you want them named lib

Re: libtool: link: object name conflicts in archive

2014-04-15 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-04-15 13:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 15 11:16, Gisela Haschmich wrote: Hello, i tried to compile MBDyn 1.5.5 with cygwin and got an error "libtool: >>> link: object name conflicts in archive". I used the same for 1.5.0 and >>> it worked. >> libtool: link: o

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

2014-04-11 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-04-11 04:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 01:15:12AM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote: >> ... The reason I'm not contributing more is the requirement >> to assign copyright to a for-profit organization. Sorry. > > Yeah. That bothered me a little

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

2014-04-10 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-04-09 19:05, Christopher Faylor wrote: > And, this gives me the opportunity to say a belated thank-you to you and > other people who have managed, despite all odds, to contribute. > > Here's a knocked together list from the last 13-or-so years of Cygwin. *snip* > Apologies if I missed an

Re: cc1: warning: ../../include/w32api: No such file or directory [enabled by default]

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-02-28 22:49, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Peter Rosin! > >> If I: > > $ : >>tmp.c >> $ gcc -E -Wmissing-include-dirs tmp.c >/dev/null > >> I get this annoying warning on stderr: > >> cc1: warning: ../../include/w32api

cc1: warning: ../../include/w32api: No such file or directory [enabled by default]

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! If I: $ : >tmp.c $ gcc -E -Wmissing-include-dirs tmp.c >/dev/null I get this annoying warning on stderr: cc1: warning: ../../include/w32api: No such file or directory [enabled by default] Searching the 'net suggests that it's an old bug: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00509.html

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-02-26 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-02-27 01:03, Jim Burwell wrote: > On 2/26/2014 15:53, Jim Burwell wrote: >> On 2/26/2014 02:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Feb 25 18:37, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/25/2014 6:24 PM, Jim Burwell wrote: > On 2/25/2014 13:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Feb 25 13:52, Jim

Re: Interesting footnote about environment variables block

2014-02-14 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-02-14 08:50, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, All! > > I just found this document: > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds_shelloverview.mspx?pf=true > > At the very bottom of it, you may find the note: > >> The maximum total environment va

Re: get rid of getpwent? (Was: cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ?)

2014-02-10 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-02-10 10:02, Warren Young wrote: > On Feb 9, 2014, at 9:37 AM, David Stacey wrote: > >> On 09/02/2014 15:45, Warren Young wrote: >>> Results: >>> >>> /bin/cppcheck.exe >> >> As far as I can tell, cppcheck doesn't actually call getpwent() at all; this >> is a false positive turned up by s

Re: fork() + file descriptor bug in 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:54

2014-01-14 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-01-15 05:53, Lord Laraby wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Ted Nolan wrote: >> In message <52d55d96.8070...@redhat.com> you write: >>> >>> Your program may be violating POSIX, which would trigger undefined behavior. >>> >>> Quoting POSIX: >>> pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/969991979

Re: Install Bash 4.2 for Cygwin

2013-12-06 Thread Peter Rosin
package for bash 4.2 and I just found Bash 4.1. > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bash&arch=x86_64 > > 2013/12/6 Peter Rosin : >> Javier wrote: >>> Hello!! >>> >>> Is possible install bash 4.2 on cygwin? Is there some patch or update

Re: Install Bash 4.2 for Cygwin

2013-12-06 Thread Peter Rosin
Javier wrote: > Hello!! > > Is possible install bash 4.2 on cygwin? Is there some patch or update for it? It is available for 64-bit. Not 32-bit though, we're still waiting for that update (with the WORDEXP_OPTION enabled to fix wordexp(3) and enabled support for loadable builtins)... You could

Re: Libtool version 2.4.2 ?

2013-11-18 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-11-18 16:25, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 11/17/2013 1:31 AM, marco atzeri wrote: >> starting to see programs with >> >> configure.ac:16: error: Libtool version 2.4.2 or higher is required >> m4/libtool.m4:48: LT_PREREQ is expanded from... >> >> any chanche to move on ? >> >> On the related l

Re: [PATCH] tests: don't assume getdtablesize () <= 10000000

2013-09-24 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-09-25 06:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:37:26PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> This patch causes failures on at least test-fcntl and test-dup2 on >> cygwin (both 32-bit and 64-bit); there, getdtablesize() currently >> returns the current runtime value, but this valu

Re: Fwd: Re: Trying to build rxvt on Cygwin64.

2013-09-02 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-09-02 16:04, Robert McBroom wrote: > checking for minix/config.h... no > checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes > checking for library containing strerror... none required > checking build system type... autoconf/config.guess: line 4: $'\r': command > not found > autoc

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-06-27 22:33, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I think you keep assuming I have some version of Cygwin already > installed when that is not the case. It is the last stage of the > initial attempt at installation using setup.exe that fails on Wine due > to the fork bug. Furthermore, when I download se

libaa1 is in the wrong category Lib, should be Libs.

2013-04-14 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! libaa1-1.4rc5-11 is all alone and desperate for company in the "Lib" category. Please move it to "Libs". Cheers, Peter -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: possible libtool bug blocking builds of Cygwin setup.exe

2013-04-12 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-04-13 02:31, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On 13/04/13 09:15, Peter Rosin wrote: > >>> Have I stumbled on a real problem? >> >> This all sounds suspiciously like libtool bug 14022, where the reporter >> had confused --build and --host. Ho

Re: possible libtool bug blocking builds of Cygwin setup.exe

2013-04-12 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-04-12 16:34, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Hi, > > I am having trouble building Cygwin setup.exe (regular 32bit on > 32bit). I am finding that the build is hanging at the linking stage of > libgetopt++: > > make[2]: Entering directory > `/cygdrive/c/Users/shaddy/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-setu

Re: Regardless it is cygwin related

2013-04-04 Thread Peter Rosin
Please don't top post. On 2013-04-04 13:03, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: > I did not ask for native widows programming advice any more than cygwin uses > win32-api. > cygwin distributes the header files and I simply asked about linking, which > is exactly what cygwin built programs do. > > I appr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libggiwmh2-0.3.2-3, libggiwmh2-devel-0.3.2-3, libggiwmh2-display-x-0.3.2-3 and libggiwmh2-samples-0.3.2-3 New: libggiwmh0-debuginfo-0.3.2-3

2013-03-16 Thread Peter Rosin
A new version of 'libggiwmh' is available for download. Modernize the cygport file. Build with fresher autotools. Provide a debuginfo package. Build with gcc 4.x. Updated packages: libggiwmh2-0.3.2-3 libggiwmh2-devel-0.3.2-3 libggiwmh2-display-x-0.3.2-3 libggiwmh2

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libggimisc2-2.2.2-3, libggimisc2-devel-2.2.2-3 and libggimisc2-samples-2.2.2-3 New: libggimisc2-debuginfo-2.2.2-3

2013-03-16 Thread Peter Rosin
A new version of 'libggimisc' is available for download. Modernize the cygport file. Build with fresher autotools. Provide a debuginfo package. Build with gcc 4.x. Updated packages: libggimisc2-2.2.2-3 libggimisc2-devel-2.2.2-3 libggimisc2-samples-2.2.2-3 New package:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libgii1-1.0.2-3, libgii1-devel-1.0.2-3 and libgii1-input-x-1.0.2-3 New: libgii1-debuginfo-1.0.2-3

2013-03-16 Thread Peter Rosin
A new version of 'libgii' is available for download. Modernize the cygport file. Depend on directx includes now found in w32api. Build with fresher autotools. Provide a debuginfo package. Build with gcc 4.x. Updated packages: libgii1-1.0.2-3 libgii1-devel-1.0.2-3 libgii1-

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libggi2-2.2.2-3, libggi2-devel-2.2.2-3, libggi2-display-aa-2.2.2-3, libggi2-display-file-2.2.2-3, libggi2-display-terminfo-2.2.2-3, libggi2-display-x-2.2.2-3 and libggi2-samp

2013-03-16 Thread Peter Rosin
A new version of 'libggi' is available for download. Add patch for bug in ggiClose on display-x. Modernize the cygport file. Depend on directx includes now found in w32api. Build with fresher autotools. Provide a debuginfo package. Build with gcc 4.x. Updated packages: libggi2-2.2.2-3

Re: Using jhbuild on cygwin

2013-02-04 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-02-04 14:57, marco atzeri wrote: > On 2/4/2013 2:42 PM, Jonas Platte wrote: >> libXft (xft.pc, required=2.0.0) > > Strange we have 2.3.1: Is it perhaps requiring exactly 2.0.0? Wouldn't it be required>=2.0.0 otherwise? (There where more instances of that that I elided) Cheers, Pete

Re: NTFS inode ouput from ls -i

2012-11-22 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-11-22 22:08, Michael Lester wrote: > mike@computer ~/test3 > $ ls > file1 > > mike@computer ~/test3 > $ cat file1 > Hello! > 123 > > mike@computer ~/test3 > $ ifind -n /cygwin/home/mike/test3/file1 '\\.\c:' > 195962 > > mike@computer ~/test3 > $ icat '\\.\c:' 195962 > Hello! > 123 > > m

Re: xz -9 : Cannot allocate memory

2012-11-14 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-11-15 05:40, marco atzeri wrote: > On 11/14/2012 11:09 PM, David Stacey wrote: >> I am trying to use 'xz -9' to compress a file, but the programme exits >> with the error message 'Cannot allocate memory'. Here's what I tried: >> >> >> $ echo Hello World > compress_me.txt >> >> $ xz -9 compr

Re: ATTENTION JARI AALTO Re: quilt: permission denied problems with helper scripts

2012-09-15 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-09-15 08:09, Jari Aalto wrote: > New release with the fixes has been submitted to the archives. Thanks! Cheers, Peter -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe in

Re: ATTENTION JARI AALTO Re: quilt: permission denied problems with helper scripts

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Rosin
[I already had Jari on bcc, given the track record, but I managed not to scream :-) He's on bcc this time too] On 2012-09-14 16:16, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 01:05:08PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Hi! >> >> When working on some newlib patches,

quilt: permission denied problems with helper scripts

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! When working on some newlib patches, ran into this: peda@pulkan ~/newlib/src/newlib $ quilt refresh /usr/share/quilt/refresh: line 253: /usr/share/quilt/scripts/remove-trailing-ws: Permission denied Patch patches/wordexp-avoid-strdup.patch is unchanged peda@pulkan ~/newlib/src/newlib $ ls -

Re: (core dumped) mkshortcut

2012-09-12 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-09-11 10:24, marco atzeri wrote: > On 9/11/2012 9:59 AM, Pawel Jasinski wrote: >> hi, >> mkshortcut -n "I for cygwin bin" /D/cyghome/bin /home/RobertMarkBram/bin/createWindowsShortcut.sh: line 160: 8128 Aborted (core dumped) mkshortcut -n "$shortc

Re: libtool quoting error

2012-08-19 Thread Peter Rosin
ode changed in the two middle hunks went out after 2.2.6 and are thus gone in 2.2.8 and later, so that no longer applies. I also took the liberty of changing ltmain.m4sh instead of the generated libtool script. So, this is a better attempt for a patch, with Andreas added to THANKS. Ok to push?

Re: wordexp bug

2012-08-17 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-08-17 21:49, Peter Rosin wrote: > On 2012-08-17 15:35, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> AFAICS wordexp(3) is completely broken, returning WRDE_SYNTAX no >> matter what I supply as the string. STC attached. > > I suspect you are using Cygwin, and if so I suspect that we

Re: wordexp bug

2012-08-17 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-08-17 15:35, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > AFAICS wordexp(3) is completely broken, returning WRDE_SYNTAX no > matter what I supply as the string. STC attached. I suspect you are using Cygwin, and if so I suspect that we have been bitten by this change in bash-4.1-rc: c. The (undocumented)

Re: 1.7.10->1.7.13 : output from .NET programs does not get through pipeline to a visual c++ program

2012-04-19 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-04-19 16:14, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:56:33PM +0100, somebody wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> This started in 1.7.10 and I thought this may be fixed in 1.7.12 due >> to emails in the mailing list: >> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2012-03/msg00666.html >> >> But there

Re: Win2000 compatibility

2012-04-12 Thread Peter Rosin
Andy wrote: > MSDN no longer supports Windows 2000. Even something as basic as > CreateFile() now allegedly requires at least Windows XP. In some cases it still mentions Win2k though, such as for MessageBox(). I wonder why there's a difference? Probably depends on the dll the api is located in.

Re: Problem with reading nonblocking /dev/com in 1.7.10 and up

2012-04-10 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2012-04-10 20:17, Abdul Muis wrote: > I have notice that I could not read serial device (/dev/com4 or > /dev/ttyS3) with non blocking mode since 1.7.10 and up. I used to read > serial data while doing openGL visualization. In which, the openGL > display was not changed due to blocking mode readi

Re: rcs 5.8-1 checks out wrong version of file when using similar mark symbols

2012-03-28 Thread Peter Rosin
Gary Johnson skrev 2012-03-28 08:55: > On 2012-03-27, Peter Rosin wrote: >> But the point still stands, don't assume the original authors were >> idiots, and dig into the reasons for them to not having used >> strcmp from the start. > > I don't know, the &quo

Re: rcs 5.8-1 checks out wrong version of file when using similar mark symbols

2012-03-27 Thread Peter Rosin
Peter Rosin skrev 2012-03-27 10:11: > But...careful! You have to assume that the original authors were not > idiots! Maybe the obvious strcmp was not used for a *good* reason? I > can't tell if d->meaningful is guaranteed to be zero-terminated from the > limited context, bu

Re: rcs 5.8-1 checks out wrong version of file when using similar mark symbols

2012-03-27 Thread Peter Rosin
Csaba Raduly skrev 2012-03-27 09:37: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Richard Gribble wrote: >> Using rcs 5.8-1: >> >> Synopsis: >>Given two mark symbols, abc (version 1.1) and abcd (version 1.2), >>executing "co -rabc " will check out version 1.2, when it >>should check out version

Re: libtool issue on shared lib

2012-03-23 Thread Peter Rosin
Peter Rosin skrev 2012-03-23 12:16: > Libtool want's the package to declare that it does not have any wants > undefined symbols. But if this package does have undefined > symbols in it, then it can't be build (easily) on Cygwin. built -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.co

Re: libtool issue on shared lib

2012-03-23 Thread Peter Rosin
marco atzeri skrev 2012-03-23 12:05: > I am trying to adapt socketxx to cygwin > (http://www.linuxhacker.at/socketxx) > > In addition to a lot of other problems, I have a puzzling libtool issue > > > make[2]: Entering directory `/pub/devel/gdcm/socket++-1.12.13_build/socket++' > /bin/sh ../libto

Re: clock_getres(CLOCK_REALTIME, .) may return an outdated and too high resolution

2012-03-22 Thread Peter Rosin
Corinna Vinschen skrev 2012-03-22 10:33: > On Mar 21 23:59, Christian Franke wrote: >> BTW: GetSystemTimeAsFileTime() apparently provides the same >> resolution (at least on Win7 x64). So the more complex use of >> SharedUserData.InterruptTime may have less benefit than expected. > > On pre-Vista,

Re: Incorrect output from cygpath --path --unix for long path

2012-03-03 Thread Peter Rosin
Kevin Braun skrev 2012-03-02 23:22: > Hi, > > If I run this command: > > cygpath --path --unix > "/cygdrive/c/fop-1.0/lib/xmlgraphics-commons-1.4.jar;/cygdrive/c/fop-1.0/lib/xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.jar;/cygdrive/c/fop-1.0/lib/xml-apis-1.3.04.jar;/cygdrive/c/fop-1.0/lib/xercesImpl-2.7.1.jar;/cygdrive

Re: base-files 4.0-9: LANG is set to the system default, why not the user selection?

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Rosin
David Sastre Medina skrev 2012-02-16 21:05: > No need. It looks like I haven't properly understood your complain. Also it > looks like I haven't explain properly what was the thing with setting > 'locale' both system-wide and user-defined. > > For the first, I apologize. WRT the second, here's a n

Re: base-files 4.0-9: LANG is set to the system default, why not the user selection?

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Mike Kaganski skrev 2012-02-16 14:37: > Then you seem to just mock at the maintainer. It's not too polite. Yes, it > would be desirable if this effect (and the proposed steps to fix it for those > who already use this package) would be noted in the release advertisement. > Yes, sometimes even a

Re: base-files 4.0-9: LANG is set to the system default, why not the user selection?

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Mike Kaganski skrev 2012-02-16 12:14: > 16.02.2012 21:11, Peter Rosin пишет: >> Peter Rosin skrev 2012-02-16 06:52: >>> David Sastre Medina skrev 2012-02-15 23:14: >>>> The files under /etc/profile.d are sourced by /etc/profile, which sets >>>> system w

Re: base-files 4.0-9: LANG is set to the system default, why not the user selection?

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Rosin
Peter Rosin skrev 2012-02-16 06:52: > David Sastre Medina skrev 2012-02-15 23:14: >> The files under /etc/profile.d are sourced by /etc/profile, which sets >> system wide settings. >> For user-defined values, the place to override a system-wide setting >> depends on

Re: base-files 4.0-9: LANG is set to the system default, why not the user selection?

2012-02-15 Thread Peter Rosin
David Sastre Medina skrev 2012-02-15 23:14: > The files under /etc/profile.d are sourced by /etc/profile, which sets > system wide settings. > For user-defined values, the place to override a system-wide setting > depends on the shell you're using. E.g., for bash, it would be > ~/.bash_profile. Che

base-files 4.0-9: LANG is set to the system default, why not the user selection?

2012-02-15 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! My Windows is Swedish, but I generally like it to show as little as possible in Swedish so my "display language" is English. I want English, to not suffer from strange translations that don't make sense, to be able to search for error messages, etc. A recent change seems to have LANG set to

Re: sed strips CRs

2012-02-13 Thread Peter Rosin
Earnie Boyd skrev 2012-02-13 16:43: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 02/13/2012 03:56 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> As long as it's consistent with coreutils I'll certainly do the change. >>> >>> Thanks! Would you mind to CC the cygwin list when the next upstr

help2man 1.40.4-1 and cygintl-8.dll

2012-02-09 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! I happened to look in the help2man package and found that it contained a file cygintl-8.dll. Here are the first few files in the help2man package: Thu Dec 29 07:25:27 2011 0 usr/ Thu Dec 29 07:25:27 2011 0 usr/bin/ Thu Dec 29 07:25:27 2011 17540 usr/bin/help2man Thu Dec 29 07:25:2

Re: rm fails but returns success

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Rosin
Corinna Vinschen skrev 2012-02-03 17:37: > On Feb 3 17:27, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen skrev 2012-02-03 17:17: >>> On Feb 3 17:02, Peter Rosin wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> I have this annoying leftover file from a automake testsui

Re: rm fails but returns success

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Rosin
Corinna Vinschen skrev 2012-02-03 17:17: > On Feb 3 17:02, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have this annoying leftover file from a automake testsuite run. >> I don't know if it was created by an MSYS process or a Cygwin >> process, but I can't get

Re: rm fails but returns success

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Rosin
Corinna Vinschen skrev 2012-02-03 17:17: > On Feb 3 17:02, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have this annoying leftover file from a automake testsuite run. >> I don't know if it was created by an MSYS process or a Cygwin >> process, but I can't get

rm fails but returns success

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! I have this annoying leftover file from a automake testsuite run. I don't know if it was created by an MSYS process or a Cygwin process, but I can't get rid of it. I can't take ownership of it either, not even as admin. I haven't tried stopping all MSYS/Cygwin processes yet, nor rebooting, b

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-20 Thread Peter Rosin
Corinna Vinschen skrev 2012-01-20 14:06: > On Jan 20 01:42, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 14:52 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for >>> a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: >>>

Re: tetex-tiny bug

2011-12-21 Thread Peter Rosin
Jan Nieuwenhuizen skrev 2011-12-21 20:44: > marco atzeri writes: > >> On 12/21/2011 4:42 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> Jan? Ping? Did you see that mail? > > I didn't yet, thanks! > > -etex pdfetex language.def-translate-file=cp227.tcx > *etex.ini > +etex

Re: tetex-tiny bug

2011-12-19 Thread Peter Rosin
Peter Rosin skrev 2011-11-25 16:48: > Hi! > > It's been a couple of years since I fixed this [1] on my old > computer, and now I had to fix it on the new one. Can someone > please fix the tetex-tiny package? > > Below is what I did to fix the problem. > &g

Re: tetex-tiny bug

2011-11-28 Thread Peter Rosin
Ryan Johnson skrev 2011-11-25 17:53: > On 25/11/2011 11:48 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Ryan Johnson skrev 2011-11-25 17:38: >>> On 25/11/2011 10:48 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: >>>> It's been a couple of years since I fixed this [1] on my old >>>> comput

Re: tetex-tiny bug

2011-11-25 Thread Peter Rosin
Ryan Johnson skrev 2011-11-25 17:38: > On 25/11/2011 10:48 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> It's been a couple of years since I fixed this [1] on my old >> computer, and now I had to fix it on the new one. Can someone >> please fix the tetex-tiny package? > My understandi

tetex-tiny bug

2011-11-25 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! It's been a couple of years since I fixed this [1] on my old computer, and now I had to fix it on the new one. Can someone please fix the tetex-tiny package? Below is what I did to fix the problem. Cheers, Peter [1] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00756.html --- /usr/share/texmf

Re: Please include 'file' in the base category.

2011-11-22 Thread Peter Rosin
Corinna Vinschen skrev 2011-11-22 19:41: > On Nov 22 15:11, Peter Rosin wrote: >> So, please add 'file' to the Cygwin 'base' category, moving us one small >> step closer to the POSIX heaven. > > Heaven is (almost) here. The file package is in Base now. G

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