Stop the thread hijacking! (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-1)

2009-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
If you need to talk about bash either change the subject or reply to the thread which was already started about it: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/threads.html#00105 Complaining about bash problems in reply to a binutils announcement doesn't make any sense at all. cgf -- Problem reports:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-1

2009-07-05 Thread Jerry DeLisle
Vincent R. wrote: I backed down on bash version which required install of libreadline6. bash still fails. This is on NT4. Maybe I need a different combination of binutils, libreadline, and bash. I will play with this for a bit. Jerry I have installed new binutils and previous bash versio

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-1

2009-07-05 Thread Vincent R.
> I backed down on bash version which required install of libreadline6. > > bash still fails. This is on NT4. > > Maybe I need a different combination of binutils, libreadline, and bash. I > will > play with this for a bit. > > Jerry I have installed new binutils and previous bash version and

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-1

2009-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
Jerry DeLisle wrote: > Maybe I need a different combination of binutils, libreadline, and bash. Binutils can't possibly be causing shell startup failures, it's not remotely involved(*). It's going to be between libreadline and bash. cheers, DaveK -- (*) - Unless you have something

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-1

2009-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
Fergus wrote: > > Sorry, I cannot provide cygcheck output because I cannot start a process. Run it from cmd.exe; it's a non-cygwin (pure win32) executable, it should be ok. It tries to launch a couple of cygwin exes; they might fail, but most of it will work. cheers, DaveK -- Prob

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-1

2009-07-05 Thread Jerry DeLisle
Dave Korn wrote: --- snip --- This is not a binutils bug report any longer! Try downgrading bash; there's a problem with the new libreadline7 build, which hopefully a respin with gcc-4 and this new binutils will fix. cheers, DaveK I backed down on bash version which required inst

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-1

2009-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
Fergus wrote: > Two packaging oddities after this update: > > 1) New directory \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\ containing > > \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin > \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\ar.exe.lnk > \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\as.exe.lnk > \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\ld.exe.lnk > \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\nm.exe.lnk > \usr\i68

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-1

2009-07-05 Thread Fergus
Two packaging oddities after this update: 1) New directory \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\ containing \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\ar.exe.lnk \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\as.exe.lnk \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\ld.exe.lnk \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\nm.exe.lnk \usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\ranlib.exe.lnk \u

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-1

2009-07-04 Thread Jerry DeLisle
Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This is a much-needed, much-delayed refresh against the current CVS. It should work better with gcc-4. The list of changes is included after the unsubscribe info. This is a list of changes from three bin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-1

2009-07-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This is a much-needed, much-delayed refresh against the current CVS. It should work better with gcc-4. The list of changes is included after the unsubscribe info. This is a list of changes from three binutils NEWS files. Some entr