Re: Python without X11?

2022-04-05 Thread Russell VT
First off... might be better if your GECOS wasn't set to "test test." (even "stinkf42" would be better). Secondly, have you tried "./configure --help" yet? Yes, it's an unusual request, but simple options to "configure" should help. On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 5:19 AM test test via Cygwin wrote:

Re: emacs-everywhere

2022-03-08 Thread Russell VT
On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 7:33 PM Eliot Moss wrote: > On 3/6/2022 9:00 PM, Russell VT wrote: > > Are you running Thunderbird under Cygwin (ie. in an "X" environment?), > or are you running it > > directly from Windows? > > Thanks for responding, Russell. Directl

Re: emacs-everywhere

2022-03-06 Thread Russell VT
Eliot - Are you running Thunderbird under Cygwin (ie. in an "X" environment?), or are you running it directly from Windows? For reference for those of us that may not be familiar with xdotool... it mimics X11 Client responses. GitHub - https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool ManPage -

Re: setting up new PC under Windows 11?

2022-02-17 Thread Russell VT
I believe all you need to do is to make sure your /etc/passwd file links whatever account you want to use to the proper Cygwin UserID (ie. the one listed in the tar file, if you want the "-p" flag to work in a predictable fashion). On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 3:21 PM Lester Ingber via Cygwin wrote:

Re: Can the cygwin support scipy, pandas, sympy, jupyterlab?

2022-02-17 Thread Russell VT
FWIW, the general answer to "Can Cygwin do..." ... that's generally a "Yes." The REAL question is how much you want to do this on Cygwin, versus trying to do it on just a plain UNIX desktop. But, ultimately, Cygwin can get you most of the way there, pretty easily ... the very last pieces may take

Re: Trouble trying to compile apache2

2022-02-15 Thread Russell VT
like nightly, off-hours builds/pipelines). TLDR; I will start digging in to it, myself... may not have too much spare time, at least this week, until the weekend. Thanks! On Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 4:40 AM Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:17:59PM -0800, Russell VT wrote: > &g

Re: Trouble trying to compile apache2

2022-02-14 Thread Russell VT
https://nightlies.apache.org/httpd/trunk/doxygen/group__MOD__CACHE.html Hope that helps in some fashion... Russell VT Oh damn... I didn't see this prior to my reply, above (because of the long stack trace posted, here). Digging up the old version in the cygwin ports, I found the patch files, > but tr

Re: sshd

2022-02-12 Thread Russell VT
Note that port 5972 isn't *really* what you want, as that's arbitrary... but port 22. Check the Windows firewall, as was already suggested (highly suspect, if you just timeout when trying to connect). If you try rebuilding what you did under Windows, you're likely going to want to look at

Re: Switch to a new PC

2022-02-04 Thread Russell VT
This is "a religious" question, as there are many different "sworn" ways to do it. The "old reliable" method, if you have both filesystems available... at least off the top of my head... cd / ; tar -cvf - / | (cd /path/to/other/disk ; tar -xvfp -) There are also many other solutions using

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: python 3.9 packages

2021-12-23 Thread Russell VT
ools, such as pyenv or pipenv, to better manage their environments (or, in the case of later python 3 versions, the built-in venv mechanism) Regards > Marco Atzeri > Cheers! Russell VT -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Docume

Re: python3.9 failing?

2021-12-23 Thread Russell VT
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 12:52 AM Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 23.12.2021 06:50, Russell VT wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 6:34 AM Achim Gratz wrote: > > > >> Marco Atzeri writes: > >>> Without Python 3.9 installed python3 should link by default to th

Re: python3.9 failing?

2021-12-22 Thread Russell VT
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 6:34 AM Achim Gratz wrote: > Marco Atzeri writes: > > Without Python 3.9 installed python3 should link by default to the > > next in the line (likely 3.8) > > While python3 still defaults to python38 alternatives should probably > prioritize 38 over 39? That's how I

Re: Ctrl+C is sometimes ignored on Windows Terminal

2021-11-01 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
). I'd work on trying to reproduce this in any of the terminals provided by Cygwin... otherwise, chances are you might need to dig deeper in MSTerminal, or even WIndows, first. Regards, Russell VT On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 1:34 AM Naoto Aoki via Cygwin wrote: > Hi, > > When I'm using some

Re: A Bug related to ImageTk in Python on Cygwin

2021-10-21 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
I'll just throw out the obvious "is it plugged in" type question... but, are we to assume you have a fully functional X Server and Client working on your Cygwin install? Any particular desktop/window manager? Have you tried others? Did you compile it yourself, or did you install the package

Re: Terminator 2.0

2021-10-08 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
This developer seems to have taken on the role as "main distributor," rather than making this a simple Python module that's distributed through the likes of PyPy. Judging from the number of "unsupported" distributions/versions in their list,

Re: cloc: hashbang header has "perl" twice

2021-09-25 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
). Cheers - RVT On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 3:32 AM Russell VT wrote: > Looking at the current Cygwin source, the she-bang is actually: > > #!/usr/bin/env perl > > > ...which means it's going to pick up the first perl interpreter in your > path. > > You can confirm th

Re: cloc: hashbang header has "perl" twice

2021-09-25 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
[image: image.png] Cheers - Russell VT On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 12:36 AM Eyal Rozenberg via Cygwin < cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > I'm not sure how bug reporting "etiquette" works here on the list, but - > I was sort of expecting an acknowledgement. Or - was I wrong to post my

Re: Missing Python.h

2021-09-25 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
gt; adds more complexity when I want to launch a script from a Windows > application or bat file. > > On 9/22/2021 5:49 AM, Russell VT wrote: > > First off, this *probably* isn't a Cygwin problem ... but it looks like > your environment is confused as it's using BOTH Python2 and Pyt

Re: Missing Python.h

2021-09-22 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
ike I said, it's already tough enough to manage on older systems with older libraries (SSL, specifically, throws wrenches in to *everything*). Feel free to hit me up for other ideas... I write too much Python code, as it is, and on too many different environments (yes, some still do Python2.3 through 2.6, and i

Re: META: Fix the signup procedure?

2021-08-12 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 12:43 AM Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote: > On 12/08/2021 08:18, Russell VT via Cygwin wrote: > > > I've seen teamseasily > > handle higher traffic lists with a pretty small moderation team. > > Sounds like an offer to me. Thanks Russell. ;-) > LM

Re: META: Fix the signup procedure?

2021-08-12 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:24 PM Christopher Faylor < cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 04:26:18AM -0700, Russell VT wrote: > >Can one of you powerful folks, please, fix the signup approvals and > >make it a bit more difficult

Re: META: Fix the signup procedure?

2021-08-11 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
Holy over-quote, batman! On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 4:37 AM Brian S. Wilson via Cygwin < cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > As a long time user I would oppose an "age" related test to invalidate > emails. Long time users are less likely to be spammers than new email > sign ups. That's kind of... the

META: Fix the signup procedure?

2021-08-11 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
s well? That said, I will concede that it unfairly targets those folks who need legitimate help, for a current or new problem that may have escaped regression checks, or general tool obscurity. Regards, Russell VT grey beard -- Russell M. Van Tassell -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.c

Re: virtualenv 20.2.2-1 dependencies: filelock and distlib

2021-08-10 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
Well, it's been a hot minute since I've used virtualenv, by itself... but, generally you're going to want to use "mkvirtualenv" and related tools to create and then access your Python libraries (often under the projects 'venv' directory).Your mileage may vary, trying to invoke it directly from the

Re: Incorrect expansion of a program argument that is a special character?

2021-07-21 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
s, or wildcards ... along with what options a user may specify to change the behaviour) Do you have an example of where the program functions as-expected, along with examples as to how the identical binary functions differently in other environments? Hope that lights a few lightbulbs for ya! Russ

Re: Debugging PHP with GDB and php-debuginfo

2021-07-20 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
, or the GDB folks how to use the extension. Hope that helps! Russell VT On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 3:55 PM Jim Hyslop wrote: > Hi, all > > I've installed the php-debuginfo extension for gdb, but I can't figure > out how to set a breakpoint with it. Is there a manual for > php-deb

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-16 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
an Tassell russel...@gmail.com This message was sent from my wireless handheld device. On Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 14:14 L A Walsh wrote: > > > On 2021/06/15 00:16, Russell VT wrote: > > I think we need more context, here... as what does Windows versus Cygwin > > think those perm

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-15 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
t, and what actually happened with the tar. Unfortunately, permission issues between Windows and Cygwin can be *extremely* complex (ie. there are a ton of details missing here, which might make it easier to help troubleshoot). Hope that helps point you in a good direction. Cheers! Russell VT

Re: problem

2021-06-08 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
Quick search on find_fast_cwd leads here... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22821467/cygwin-win-8-1-error-find-fast-cwd-warning-couldnt-compute-fast-cwd-pointer When was the last time you updated Cygwin? What version of Windows are you running? What version of Cygwin? More details would be

Re: Python for Windows reports wrong local time when run under Cygwin on Europe/Moscow TZ

2021-06-07 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
What version(s) of the timezone files are installed on each? Also, seems one of the Python versions came from Windows, rather than Cygwin? On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 12:01 AM Mike Kaganski via Cygwin wrote: > Hello, > > Running Cygwin 3.1.7-1 on Windows 10 Version 21H1 (OS Build 19043.985), > I

Re: Cygwin now on Python 3? What about Mercurial?

2021-03-07 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 8:39 AM Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > On 3/4/2021 6:05 AM, marco atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 10:27 AM Russell VT via Cygwin wrote: > >> Cygwin Enthusiasts! > > > > It seems the current package maintainer

Cygwin now on Python 3? What about Mercurial?

2021-03-04 Thread Russell VT via Cygwin
ings along, like this, rather than bitching to all y'all about getting it fixed? (Read: Can I compile this myself, and submit it back to chief stakeholders so that they may publish a new package? I'm "git" and "devops" fluent, though my C and its close relatives are on the weak-