Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 7 20:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 7 18:00, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Ok, I found a simpler testcase. Thanks for you work and your patience... Please do NOT quote raw email addresses. Usually I remove always that... not this time. I

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-08 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I applied a patch to CVS and just uploaded a new snapshot to http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please give it a try. David, this is for you, too. The problem is fixed for me. Thanks a lot! Ciao, Angelo. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-08 Thread David Rothenberger
On 3/8/2011 7:01 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 7 20:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I found the problem, or at least I could narrow down the effect. It occurs only on XP and Server 2003, afaics, on 32 as well as on 64 bit versions. Hard to explain. For the curious, just have a look into

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 5 08:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/5/2011 5:22 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Anyway, with a binary testing (only .dll.bz2 of snapshots), I have verified that the last snapshot with which the .fmt files get the right permissions (-rw-r--r--) is 20100904 snapshot, instead with 20100910 they

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 5 15:36, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ken Brown wrote: I'm running Win7 in case that makes a difference. Here on Win XP SP3, 32 bit. I haven't W7 :( Corinna, are there changes in the 20100910 snapshot that could explain this? Anyway it would be a remarkable coincidence that 20100910

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 5 10:08, David Rothenberger wrote: On 3/3/2011 9:44 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: After I flagged these problems [*], I chose to do a clean reinstall of TeXLive 2010 (TL2010). After installed its packages ( 2000!), TL2010 installation proceeds with its post-install actions, mainly

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 7 11:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 5 15:36, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ken Brown wrote: I'm running Win7 in case that makes a difference. Here on Win XP SP3, 32 bit. I haven't W7 :( Corinna, are there changes in the 20100910 snapshot that could explain this? Anyway

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-07 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Ok, I found a simpler testcase. Thanks for you work and your patience... Please do NOT quote raw email addresses. Usually I remove always that... not this time. I apologize.. ..and, what about David's report (*)? I am just curios.. Ciao, Angelo. --- (*)

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 7 18:00, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Ok, I found a simpler testcase. Thanks for you work and your patience... Please do NOT quote raw email addresses. Usually I remove always that... not this time. I apologize.. ..and, what about David's report (*)? I am

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-07 Thread David Rothenberger
On 3/7/2011 2:15 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 5 10:08, David Rothenberger wrote: On 3/3/2011 9:44 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: After I flagged these problems [*], I chose to do a clean reinstall of TeXLive 2010 (TL2010). After installed its packages ( 2000!), TL2010 installation proceeds

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-05 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Since fmtutil-sys is apparently the core of the problem, and given my total lack of knowledge about the Tex/Latex system, is there any simple call to fmtutil-sys with which I can reproduce the problem without having to install texlive? It seems too difficult for me.

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/5/2011 5:22 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Since fmtutil-sys is apparently the core of the problem, and given my total lack of knowledge about the Tex/Latex system, is there any simple call to fmtutil-sys with which I can reproduce the problem without having to install

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-05 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: I'm running Win7 in case that makes a difference. Here on Win XP SP3, 32 bit. I haven't W7 :( Corinna, are there changes in the 20100910 snapshot that could explain this? Anyway it would be a remarkable coincidence that 20100910 snapshot ChangeLog says: [...] 2010-09-10

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-05 Thread David Rothenberger
On 3/3/2011 9:44 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: After I flagged these problems [*], I chose to do a clean reinstall of TeXLive 2010 (TL2010). After installed its packages ( 2000!), TL2010 installation proceeds with its post-install actions, mainly generating all format files. The installation is

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 22:23, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: What about some helpful details which allow to reproduce your problem? Like, say, how to get the packages, how you install them, stuff like that. You seem to imply that everybody knows how to do that. I don't. Sorry, I have

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/3/2011 4:23 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: The last steps of installation regard the generation of format file for all users (-rw-r--r-- root root), but with recent snapshots the format file are creted only for root (-rwx-+) (**) : these permissions resemble those created when one installs

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: If you see that behaviour as part of a perl script, you should also see that which every other tool, even simple stuff like `echo foo bar'. Really the perl script, at some time, calls (in a posta install action) 'fmutil-sys --all', which creates the .fmt file with

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: I think fmtutil creates the files in a temporary directory (using TMPDIR, TEMP, or TMP if they exist) and then mv's them. Could this be your problem? What happens if you unset those variables before installing texlive? It is some time that my Cygwin installation does not set

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 4 17:49, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Ken Brown wrote: I think fmtutil creates the files in a temporary directory (using TMPDIR, TEMP, or TMP if they exist) and then mv's them. Could this be your problem? What happens if you unset those variables before installing texlive? It is some

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Since fmtutil-sys is apparently the core of the problem, and given my total lack of knowledge about the Tex/Latex system, is there any simple call to fmtutil-sys with which I can reproduce the problem without having to install texlive? You are right. I will try...

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 07:26:11PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Since fmtutil-sys is apparently the core of the problem, and given my total lack of knowledge about the Tex/Latex system, is there any simple call to fmtutil-sys with which I can reproduce the problem

Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-03 Thread Angelo Graziosi
After I flagged these problems [*], I chose to do a clean reinstall of TeXLive 2010 (TL2010). After installed its packages ( 2000!), TL2010 installation proceeds with its post-install actions, mainly generating all format files. The installation is done as 'root' (administrator), but the

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 18:44, Angelo Graziosi wrote: After I flagged these problems [*], I chose to do a clean reinstall of TeXLive 2010 (TL2010). After installed its packages ( 2000!), TL2010 installation proceeds with its post-install actions, mainly generating all format files. The installation is done

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-03 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: What about some helpful details which allow to reproduce your problem? Like, say, how to get the packages, how you install them, stuff like that. You seem to imply that everybody knows how to do that. I don't. Sorry, I have omitted details because TL2010 is a full