RE: automatically using pipe_byte for certain EXE's

2012-07-27 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 10:05 > Subject: RE: automatically using pipe_byte for certain EXE's > > Daniel Colascione wrote: > >Since message pipes cause problems _in practice_ and byte pipes (which > >Cygwin lived with for many yea

RE: automatically using pipe_byte for certain EXE's

2012-07-27 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Daniel Colascione wrote: >Since message pipes cause problems _in practice_ and byte pipes (which >Cygwin lived with for many years) don't seem to cause problems _in >practice_, pipe_byte should go away and pipe_byte behavior should be >used unconditionally. The folk who develop and release cygwin1

Re: automatically using pipe_byte for certain EXE's

2012-07-26 Thread Noel Grandin
On 2012-07-26 20:23, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Noel Grandin wrote: Is there any way to trigger the pipe_byte option for certain executables? I'm trying to avoid having to dig around inside the hugely complex- LibreOffice build scripts. I'm not sure I follow what you're after. You want Cygwin to re

RE: automatically using pipe_byte for certain EXE's

2012-07-26 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Noel Grandin wrote: >Is there any way to trigger the pipe_byte option for certain executables? >I'm trying to avoid having to dig around inside the hugely complex- >LibreOffice build scripts. I'm not sure I follow what you're after. You want Cygwin to recognize when it's setting up a pipe involvin

Re: automatically using pipe_byte for certain EXE's

2012-07-26 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 7/26/12 9:34 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > Daniel Colascione wrote: >> I still don't know why anyone wouldn't want to use pipe_byte all the time. > > I think that was covered pretty explicitly by cgf in reply to you some time > ago: Cygwin still uses message pipes for ptys in pipe_byte mode, so

RE: automatically using pipe_byte for certain EXE's

2012-07-26 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Daniel Colascione wrote: > I still don't know why anyone wouldn't want to use pipe_byte all the time. I think that was covered pretty explicitly by cgf in reply to you some time ago: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-04/msg00662.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: automatically using pipe_byte for certain EXE's

2012-07-26 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 7/26/12 7:47 AM, Noel Grandin wrote: > I'm running into the pipe_byte problem while trying to use > Visual-Studio's C compiler from inside cygwin. > I'm running latest cygwin (from a few days ago). > > Specifically, I'm building LibreOffice on a 64-bit Windows7 box. > > Is there any way to tri