Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-07-11 Thread Achim Gratz
David Rothenberger daveroth at acm.org writes: The tests work for me, but I've never been able to get them to work without first installing the newly built packages. After some more investigations, this is because the dynamic linker seems to use the libraries installed on the system rather than

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-07-11 Thread Achim Gratz
marco atzeri marco.atzeri at gmail.com writes: a solution for testing is to add the new directory as first in the PATH. I think it already tries to do that, I'll have to check more closely if it's missing some directories or if the order is perhaps wrong. It may also be that the Ruby and Perl

Re: perl-5.14.2 switch

2012-07-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Steven Hartland writes: Just been trying the 5.14.2 that's was available in setup.exe as of 6th June 2012 and the dependencies for LWP are quite broken. I have recompiled all Perl modules in perl_vendor as separate packages due to (among other things) problems with LWP. Although this may be

Re: perl-5.14.2 switch

2012-07-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Steven Hartland writes: I have recompiled all Perl modules in perl_vendor as separate packages due to (among other things) problems with LWP. Cool looking forward to it the new update :) I don't think that Reini will switch from perl_vendor to unbundled module packages, at least not for this

Re: perl-5.14.2 switch

2012-07-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Steven Hartland writes: Unfortunately the current perl_vendor install is so broken cpan won't allow you to fix it with simple install unless you know the exact missing modules and just breaks in some very strange and random ways. Like missing protocol for ftp in LWP I suggested to use

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: perl-5.14.2-3 and most perl dependencies

2012-07-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Reini Urban rurban at x-ray.at writes: perl has now been updated from 5.10.1-5 to 5.14.2-3. Thank you. There seems to be a minor packaging error: /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygperl5_14_2.dll is a symbolic link pointing to /usr/bin/cygperl5_14_2.dll but this file

Re: latex error: latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool

2012-07-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Keith Lindsay writes: When I attempt to run latex on a simple .tex file (attached), I get the following error message: $ latex polynom.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Cygwin) restricted \write18 enabled. ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-forge-20120714-1

2012-07-18 Thread Achim Gratz
marco atzeri marco.atzeri at gmail.com writes: octave-forge-20120714-1 In the directory /usr/lib/octave/packages/nan-2.5.5/i686-pc-cygwin-api-v48+/ several *.mex.exe files have been installed. Apparently, these are actually DLL, not EXE files (at least that's what file and peflags claim they

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-forge-20120714-1

2012-07-18 Thread Achim Gratz
marco atzeri marco.atzeri at gmail.com writes: .mex are dll not exe files. [...] I will look on what caused the change, as temporary workaround remove/copy the *.mex.exe to *.mex files. Thank you for the clarification. I'll see to prepare a patch to include these in rebaseall. Regards,

Re: TeX now vs. Tex in legacy version

2012-07-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: On 7/20/2012 2:01 AM, Fergus wrote: 1. Currently, having recently upgraded, I can't use latex: $ latex a8.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Cygwin) restricted \write18 enabled. ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match

Re: TeX now vs. Tex in legacy version

2012-07-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: There is no latex.exe in the Cygwin distribution. Sorry if I had been unclear: I had a .exe file where there should have been a symlink. I was not trying to imply that Cygwin shipped with it. I have no idea why some people are having this problem. No one reporting the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-24.1-1

2012-07-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Franz Häuslschmid writes: I observed, that org-mode started to behave strangely. Especially the function `org-clock-in' fails with following output to the *Messages* buffer: find-library-name: Can't find library org What more information could I provide to solve that issue? You need

Maxima can't write to /dev/stdout

2012-07-26 Thread Achim Gratz
The following maxima session encounters an EACCESS error that I can't make sense of: (%i1) m: genmatrix (lambda([i,j], i+j-1), 3, 3)$ (%i2) write_data(m, /dev/stdout)$ Maxima encountered a Lisp error: UNIX error 13 (EACCES): Permission denied Automatically continuing. To enable the Lisp

Re: Maxima can't write to /dev/stdout

2012-07-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: And here something goes wrong. If I call `echo foo /dev/stdout' in bash, the above normalize_posix_path calls already handle the path /proc/196/fd/1, not just /proc/196/fd as lisp does. Thanks for having a look, that got me one step

Re: Maxima can't write to /dev/stdout

2012-07-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: If you can nail that down to the actual calls and decisions clisp is doing, it might help to find the cause. I'm trying to, but it seems I still miss some dependencies to actually build clisp with debug information. Unfortunately the build is structured in a way that

Re: Maxima can't write to /dev/stdout

2012-07-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Reini Urban writes: But note that clisp already should come with debug info. Where to look for it? I'm assuming that I need to step into the open function from the lisp open call via gdb to see where the trailing /1 gets stripped of from the file name pointed to by the symlink, so I'd need to

Re: Maxima can't write to /dev/stdout

2012-07-27 Thread Achim Gratz
I still can't build clisp, after several installations for devel packages I'm stuck with missing libgdi... Anyway, to get the symlink out of the picture I traced clisp again pointing it directly to /proc/pid/fd/1: 49 1464915185 [main] lisp 5804 time: 1343386196 = time(0) 156 1464915341

Re: How to keep a dependency from [continually] appearing in setup

2012-08-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Ryan Johnson writes: It can be argued that emacs-auctex should not pull in texlive. The only official TeX available in Cygwin is TeXlive and setup doesn't support recommends, so... It makes sense that gtk-doc needs dblatex, *if* the former is used to create/update documentation rather than

Re: Perl 5.14.2 seems to expect gcc-4

2012-08-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Aaron Schneider writes: Since a lot of people are having issues because 'perl_vendor' is not installed when should, wouldn't be better to set perl_vendor as a mandatory dependency of perl so just everyone gets it installed? I guess package size won't be an issue. No, please don't — I have

Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot

2012-08-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: The good news: I haven't seen a repeat of that old crash so far. Unfortunately, I'm finding that emacs is unstable: The emacs window (running under X) simply disappears after 12-24 hours. This may not have anything to do with the most recent changes. I haven't yet tested

Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot

2012-08-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: Just to be clear: Is this with the recent snapshot? Yes, this is with the 2012-08-01 snapshot. I ask because one other I see something similar seemed to come from 1.7.16. I'm almost always running a snapshot, but I can back it out to vanilla Cygwin or any other

Re: Perl 5.14.2 seems to expect gcc-4

2012-08-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Reini Urban writes: Please don't spread fud. Self-compiled cpan packages are always favored over vendor packages. See your @INC. I really meant packages, of the Cygwin variant (I've got cygport definitions for all of them and posted a link to them over in cygwin-apps). Managing dependencies

Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot

2012-08-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: Thanks. I think I see the problem but I won't be able to get to it tonight. Based on that information, I went back to the July 29th snapshot and it is holding up good so far. I checked my logs and I had the snapshot from

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: So, if you haven't already, we'd appreciate having people try out the latest snapshot at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ . The August 3rd snapshot looks good so far in my testing. Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports:

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-08-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Warren Young writes: I think I've given Achim Gratz enough time to try and fix the bug resulting from his build option changes. I cannot fix something that I can't even reproduce. I can however reproduce the bug that led to and fixed by those changes. As said before, if someone has an idea

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-08 Thread Achim Gratz
I'm at the August 7th snapshot now and Emacs just died on me with this message: Connection lost to X server `:0.0' When compiled with GTK, Emacs cannot recover from X disconnects. This is a GTK bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715 For details, see etc/PROBLEMS. The X server is

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at NexGo.DE writes: The X server is still running as well as a number of other X applications. Something's wrong here with the new snapshot and signal handling / job control in conjunction with X and the newest snapshot... this morning the shell proclaimed (I left it running

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: You mention generic signal handling rather than sigwaitinfo so I don't know if there are other issues. It doesn't seem like much would work if signal handling was completely broken, though. With the latest snapshot

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: deadbeef PING Statistics 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss Ping doesn't time out after only two packets. It sure looks like CTRL-C worked above. Maybe ping got indeed interrupted, but I didn't get the shell prompt back for

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Daniel Colascione dancol at dancol.org writes: It works for me in bash. I don't have tcsh installed, but I don't see why SIGINT would work differently there. Yes, it works in bash for me, too. Tcsh does something that apparently breaks with the new snapshot, but since I don't get any error

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: You're not really giving us much to go on. I don't have anything else, these are the only two (small) issues I've seen after installation of the latest snapshot. A defunct process doesn't mean that something is not properly terminated. Is this also a tcsh shell

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: ...and those are the kind of details which allows us to at least make educated guesses about problems. Showing a defunct ps listing, not so much... You know this, but a defunct listing means that a process terminated, but wasn't reaped by it's parent process.

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: I killed make because I forgot to add a variable definition on the command line. Only later did I find it left that zombie git process that should have been terminated with it (I know it was associated with that particular make invocation by its start time). So you

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: texlive-collection-basic-20120628-2 (TEST)

2012-08-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown kbrown at cornell.edu writes: Please test it and report any problems to the Cygwin mailing list. It would be especially helpful if you would look at /var/log/setup.log.full after installing it, and make sure there are no errors involving updmap. I've only now been able to check

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: texlive-collection-basic-20120628-2 (TEST)

2012-08-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown kbrown at cornell.edu writes: I would have expected updmap-sys --syncwithtrees (which is in the texlive-collection-basic postinstall script) to get rid of those messages. Maybe those messages were produced earlier in the postinstall process. Please try running `updmap-sys'

Re: Promote sqlite 3.7.13-1 from test status? (was: Updated: sqlite3-3.7.13-1)

2012-08-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Warren Young warren at etr-usa.com writes: I haven't heard peep one from either side about this release on this list. (For contrast, I've gotten several positive responses in my answer to the question about this on Stack Overflow[1].) Sorry, I've been swamped with other stuff... Silence =

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at NexGo.DE writes: With the latest snapshot (2012-08-07), pinging a dead machine (i.e. has a DNS entry but doesn't answer) from tcsh in mintty, I can't Ctrl-C ping and have to wait until it finally times out. # ping deadbeef PING deadbeef (xx.xx.xx.xx): 56 data bytes

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at NexGo.DE writes: This is still happening with the 2012-08-16 19:31:57 UTC snapshot. And now I see that all that killing business has left some tcsh processes in task manager with a size of 60k (much too small for both tcsh and ping) that ps in Cygwin doesn't show. I

Re: Another sigwaitinfo problem (with testcase)

2012-08-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Daniel Colascione writes: More odd behavior under the 2012-08-16 snapshot: 1) Start vim 2) Hit C-z 3) Run fg 4) Observe that vim doesn't reappear. Rather, nothing happens, until... 5) C-c 6) vim now redisplays and accepts input I can confirm this behaviour. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+

Re: Please test snapshots

2012-08-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: I should have asked this before: I don't think anyone has made it clear if they are running the cygwin ping or the Windows one. I've been assuming Cygwin. Is that correct? Cygwin's ping. I've removed any remnants of Windows' PATH from all Cygwin startup scripts...

Re: YA please test the latest snapshot

2012-08-20 Thread Achim Gratz
The 20120817 snapshot is holding up good so far in my testing. Fingers crossed... :-) Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: TexLive's ConTeXt runtime error..

2012-08-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Wynfield Henman wynfield at gmail.com writes: This results in: PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (zlib library version does not match - header: 1.2.5, library: 1.2.7) Reinstall zlib and install zlib-devel. If that doesn't help, check where the zlib.h header

/etc/profile

2012-08-21 Thread Achim Gratz
I'm removing the Windows PATH in my startup scripts since there's nothing in there that I think should be accessible from Cygwin. For (t)csh this is easy enough to do with dropping a script into /etc/profile.d that gets executed first, but there's no such provision for sh and the ilk since PATH

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com writes: Unfortunately, at least your windows system dll directory has to be on PATH, or cygwin1.dll will fail to load, so blindly removing ALL windows paths from PATH is wrong. At that point cygwin1.dll is already loaded and so far I haven't seen anything not

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Eric Blake writes: Sorry, POSIX requires that to leave LC_ALL set after the function call, Interesting. Where is that specified? which is not what you want (bash behaves differently according to whether it was started as bash or sh). OK, it wasn't the same as the original invocation anyway

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Eric Blake writes: Interesting. Where is that specified? http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_05 When a function is executed, it shall have the syntax-error and variable-assignment properties described for special built-in utilities in the

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
David Sastre Medina writes: All three changes will be available in the next release (profile_d modification taken from your last version in this thread). Thanks. Thank you. If you'd rather have a complete patch, let me know and I'll post it or send it to you via email, as you prefer.

Re: TexLive's ConTeXt runtime error..

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Wynfield Henman writes: I reinstalled all cygwin zlib modules and the problem persisted. The only zlib I found was the cygwin installed one. Since it is POSIX compliant and TeXLive installs with it it shouldn't be a problem, I should think. But, there is one due to, pdftex I think. The

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
David Sastre Medina writes: I'm having this on github now for easier handling. Check https://github.com/dsastrem/base-files.git Ah, nice. Everythings OK, thank you. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ Wavetables for the Waldorf Blofeld:

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Daniel Colascione writes: People execute Windows programs using Cygwin all the time. With this change, basic things like cmd and notepad will fail to work. Working with Windows programs is the *point* of Cygwin. I really don't think this change should go into the default startup scripts. The

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: If we are changing a longstanding behavior then I agree with Daniel that this is a bad idea. You're just asking for people to be confused. Again, I'm not arguing for changing the default. In fact, as long as ORIGINAL_PATH stays available it might even still be added

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrey Repin writes: Greetings, Achim Gratz! People execute Windows programs using Cygwin all the time. With this change, basic things like cmd and notepad will fail to work. Working with Windows programs is the *point* of Cygwin. I really don't think this change should go into the default

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: I'll just reiterate what Daniel said again: We can't make things like cmd or notepad stop working. That would be a disaster. Yes, and nobody proposed otherwise. I wasn't really following the discussion, and don't really want to check stuff out in git to see what's

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours (resending due to cygwin bounce)

2012-08-24 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: I don't see anything in those scripts that would explain this. I just ran them manually on my system, and the times (in minutes) were 14, 3, 2.5, 2.5, and 7. So I can't think of any explanation except that something on your system (anti-virus or other BLODA?) was

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-25 Thread Achim Gratz
332ae09f97895197b09793488652a114b1adfa44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Achim Gratz strom...@stromeko.de Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:19:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Protect ORIGINAL_PATH and control behaviour by CYGWIN_NOWINPATH * etc/defaults/etc/profile: Protect an existing ORIGINAL_PATH variable. Strip windows

Re: /etc/profile

2012-08-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: [...] Hit send too soon... here's the patch set again without the typos. From 8a930eb8adc4d9364ea0d6c8f63be448c539b448 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Achim Gratz strom...@stromeko.de Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:19:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Protect ORIGINAL_PATH and control

Re: stuff running slowly

2012-08-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Aharon Robbins writes: I've come to the conclusion that it is indeed BLODA. The box in question is my Corporate IT Laptop With All The Mandated Software and I can't disable anti-virus or any of the other stuff (like the automatic screensaver) lest the sky fall and cats start mating with dogs

multiwindow X11 and Emacs

2012-09-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Now that X11 works again without crashing and I've found a font that looks OK I'm running into a problem again that (I think) has existed for much longer: When I start emacs from a shell window outside the X11 session (e.g. the same mintty that I ran startxwin in) and then iconify emacs-X11

Re: multiwindow X11 and Emacs

2012-09-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown kbrown at cornell.edu writes: I can't reproduce this on my system. I'm running 64-bit Windows 7, emacs-24.2-1, the latest Cygwin snapshot (2012-08-27), and the test version of the X server (1.13.0-1). Here's what I tried: Same setup as mine except 32-bit Win7/Enterprise. 1.

Re: multiwindow X11 and Emacs

2012-09-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown kbrown at cornell.edu writes: Still no problem. I'm using only bash, not tcsh. But I gather that you're having problems with both. Hmm. I'll have to try another time after a reboot with just bash alone to rule out any interference. I have a dual core machine (no hyperthreading)

cygport debuginfo extraction

2012-09-21 Thread Achim Gratz
I'm re-packaging the perl module DBI::Dumper as a Cygwin package for internal distribution and the debuginfo package is not produced. This is because /usr/src/debug stays empty, while the .dll.dbg file is produced. I can't figure out what's keeping the source information from being extracted,

Re: cygport debuginfo extraction

2012-09-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) writes: The C extension included in DBI::Dumper is precompiled by Inline::C rather than the usual MakeMaker-controlled XS-C-dll dance, so the usual means of getting debuginfo (via the OPTIMIZE Makefile variable) doesn't work. AFAICS the solution would have to be

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown kbrown at cornell.edu writes: This dependency is created by cygport. It's of course up to the gnuplot maintainer (Volker Zell) whether or not he wants to override it, but I can explain the rationale. [...] Until someone ports zypper or aptitude to Cygwin which can deal with soft

[RFE][PATCH] cygport: allow for subdirectory specification via CPAN_AUTHOR

2012-09-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Hi Yaakov, several Perl distributions have chosen to put the actual archives in a subdirectory (e.g. Inline::Files). So far I've dealt with those by editing SRC_URI after inherit perl, but I'd like something more straigtforward. I propose that CPAN_AUTHOR should optionally include this

Re: Unwanted texlive invasion

2012-09-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Fergus writes: Another trick/ fix/ workaround would be to go into /etc/setup/installed.db and edit it to show you've got texlive texlive-20120628-1.tar.bz2 0 and maybe texlive-collection-basic texlive-collection-basic-20120628-2.tar.bz2 0 (even though you haven't). There may be others but it

Re: is pax available for cygwin?

2012-09-28 Thread Achim Gratz
LMH writes: I don't see pax in the package manager under archive, so I did a search and found a thread about this, but it was from 2004. I need to do some copy operations on files with names containing some characters that annoy bash, so pax would be helpful. Jari Aalto has issued an ITP for

Re: [RFE][PATCH] cygport: allow for subdirectory specification via CPAN_AUTHOR

2012-09-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Reini Urban writes: Just for easier understanding: How would that look like for e.g. A/AM/AMBS/Inline/Inline-Files-0.68.tar.gz NAME=Inline-Files inherit perl CPAN_AUTHOR=AMBS/Inline Yes, exactly. Looks a bit weird. Well, that's the author's choice…. Looks much less wierd to me than

Re: Problem reading physical drive data with Windows 8 and cygwin, data is truncated by 288 sectors

2012-09-30 Thread Achim Gratz
GrahamC writes: dd bs=512 if=/dev/sdg of=/dev/null ^^^ This is the raw device. dd bs=512 if=/dev/sdh1 of=/dev/null This is the first partition (or fs if unpartitioned) on that device. It obviously cannot be larger than the device unless there's

Re: bash very slow in cygwin 1.7.16-1 Win7/64 bit

2012-10-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Adam Kessel writes: I also tried a brand new install into a new directory with default settings, both of 1.7 and legacy 1.5. Still no difference (1.5 is actually even slower). I've had a similar problem about a year ago. The symptom was that each command from Cygwin would make lsass.exe max

Re: [RFE][PATCH] cygport: allow for subdirectory specification via CPAN_AUTHOR

2012-10-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Reini Urban writes: Looks a bit weird. Don't we have a better field for this cpan quirks? Like a new CPAN_DIR which defaults to CPAN_AUTHOR? I've just added an alternative configuration variable CPAN_DIR that records just the directory component and sent the patch (together with a few more to

Re: Emacs 24 can't find org library

2012-10-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Kete Foy writes: If you could package the new Org-mode version of 7.9.2 like Debian does, I think it would fix this problem, and I would appreciate it. Ken packages Emacs releases, including whatever version of Org that comes with it. Debian does exactly the same, btw (Sebastien Delafond

Re: Cygwin 1.7.17 breaks unattended setup

2012-10-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Larry Hall (Cygwin reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin.com writes: As soon as I disable unattended mode (remove the --quiet-mode switch), if I just take all the default settings in the installer GUI and click the Next button a lot, the installation completes just fine. Which is why I said the

Re: Problem with HTTPS in LWP module in Perl

2012-11-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Björn Kautler writes: I'm having a problem with https requests to https://www.geocaching.com; in perl. This has nothing to do with Cygwin, the same error happens on Linux: $ perl -e 'use LWP::Simple;' -e '($r=get(https://www.geocaching.com;)) or print $!\n$@\n;print $r\n;' Connection reset by

Re: emacs hangs when a sub-process goes defunct

2012-11-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: When you say the buffer is tied to an svn repository, do you mean you're using emacs as your commit editor as in the following report? I'm seeing the same thing with magit, FWIW. You do something to a vc file, Emacs decides it needs to ask Git for the status (or you try some

Debugging with GDB

2012-11-20 Thread Achim Gratz
I've installed the cygwin-debuginfo package (and reinstalled cygwin to be sure), but GDB tells me this: warning: the debug information found in /usr/bin/cygwin1.dbg does not match /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll (CRC mismatch). whenever I try to load the symbols for the cygwin1.dll. Is that to be expected

Re: Debugging with GDB

2012-11-20 Thread Achim Gratz
marco atzeri writes: you have an old or different version in /usr/bin try removing /usr/bin/cygwin1.dbg That must be some leftover from a snapshot installation then. Thanks. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ Waldorf MIDI Implementation

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sqlite3-3.7.13-1

2012-11-21 Thread Achim Gratz
a second vote for principle in four months. (The other being Corinna's.) Add to that the original Achim Gratz vote for Unix mode, which carries more weight since it was accompanied by an actual example of problems. FWIW, I think Yaakov is more immediately concerned about the additional API

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown kbrown at cornell.edu writes: Thanks to the efforts of Daniel Colascione, there is also a new package *** emacs-w32-24.2.90-1, again a test release, for users who want to use the native Windows GUI for display. Great stuff. Many thanks to Daniel and you for providing this.

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown kbrown at cornell.edu writes: M-x xterm-mouse-mode Thank you, this works great -- need to hack my .emacs a bit to do this automatically. I'm not sure what you mean by without Gtk. Do you want some other X toolkit, such as Lucid or Motif? Or no X toolkit? What would be the

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Jim Reisert AD1C writes: When I start my X server, I see one dbus-daemon.exe process running. As soon as I start emacs the first time, there is a second dbus-daemon.exe as well as a dbus-launch.exe. Emacs must see the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable that tells it how to connect

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown kbrown at cornell.edu writes: Thanks to the efforts of Daniel Colascione, there is also a new package *** emacs-w32-24.2.90-1, again a test release, for users who want to use the native Windows GUI for display. I've encountered only one problem so far: If I start

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: emacs-w32 shouldn't require dbus-daemon, as far as I know. This sounds like a bug. Could you give me a specific recipe for reproducing the problem? Just make sure Cygwin has cleanly terminated, then open a mintty (I use tcsh if that has a bearing on this bug) and start

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: I'm not sure about the dbus-launch issue, since I always use bash. But here's the output I get from `dbus-launch --csh-syntax': setenv DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS unix:path=/tmp/dbus-wCGlBfQgo6,guid=f3e1dad82fc7ce9eff209b93'; set DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=5020; What's the

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Daniel Colascione writes: Open another mintty and try to kill the hanging emacs process from it. Works fine for me, albeit using kill -9, not regular kill. What exactly do you see? The kill command (with -KILL or any other signal) never returns until I terminate emacs from task manager. I

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Daniel Colascione writes: Under Cygwin, the variable system-type will be 'cygwin; under Windows, it will be 'windows-nt. You can perform conditional initialization as follows: (cond ((eq system-type 'cygwin) (cygwin-specific-initialization)) ((eq system-type 'windows-nt)

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Daniel Colascione dancol at dancol.org writes: I need to keep the emacs-w32 and emacs-gtk under cygwin apart and AFAIK they both get reported as 'cygwin. So I was looking for a way to know this other than by looking at the build string. Ah. You want (window-system) then. Thanks. Now,

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown kbrown at cornell.edu writes: Emacs will *try* to autolaunch a D-Bus session if it doesn't find one, but this feature is broken in the emacs-24 branch (and the problem is not Cygwin-specific). This is Emacs bug #8855. It's been fixed in the trunk, but the fix is complicated and

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-07 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: I think it's time to take this to the emacs list. I've just filed a bug report (bug#13112) in order to focus the discussion. Thanks, I'll follow up there if necessary. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ Samples for the

Re: emacs child process goes defunct

2012-12-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Jonas J Linde writes: I saw in some other thread that there was a problem when emacs tries to use dbus and it isn't started in advance. The new emacs seems to handle that a bit differently. That discussion went a bit further on emacs-bugs. To summarize: It turned out that dbus was a red

Re: sqlite3-3.7.15.1-1 packages to test

2013-01-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Warren Young writes: I guess I shouldn't have moved this discussion to Cygwin-Apps, since it's been greeted by crickets for the past 10 days. So to repost: I've downloaded the test packages and been reviewing the patches, but just being back at work from the holidays I couldn't spend much time

Build setup.exe from CVS

2013-01-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Could the README please be updated to reflect some changes: Instead of gcc-mingw-g++ (pulls in a lot of old cruft and then doesn't work) the package mingw-gcc-g++ should be installed. Also, please mention that libgetopt++ from CVS should be installed directly in the setup directory. Lastly, the

Re: Build setup.exe from CVS

2013-01-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: You could provide a patch, that would be the easieast way to update the docs. Will do once John Turney's most recent change gets checked in since it obsoletes some part of my local changes. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk

Re: sqlite3-3.7.15.1-1 packages to test

2013-01-20 Thread Achim Gratz
David Stacey writes: I've done some more testing, but with little success. I ran the Subversion built-in tests on sqlite3-3.7.15-1 without Warren's patch, and again on sqlite3-3.7.13-1 with the new patch applied. In both cases, the Subversion tests plodded along nicely and then froze after

cygwin-inst-20130121

2013-01-22 Thread Achim Gratz
The latest snapshot and Emacs-24.2.90 do not like each other, I've rolled back to the 2013-01-18 snapshot: (1001)~ # strace emacs-nox 4 4 [main] emacs-nox (5948) ** 132 136 [main] emacs-nox (5948) Program name:

Re: cygwin-inst-20130121

2013-01-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 03:34:55PM +, Achim Gratz wrote: The latest snapshot and Emacs-24.2.90 do not like each other, I've rolled back to the 2013-01-18 snapshot: This should be fixed in the upcoming snapshot

Re: ruby rebase / remap problems

2013-01-24 Thread Achim Gratz
David Stacey writes: Forgive my naive understanding of this, but I gather that rebaseall allocates a portion of memory for each Cygwin dll. Presumably, this bucket of memory is finite, so is it possible that Cygwin could ever grow to a size where it effectively runs out of rebasing address

libQtAssistantClient4{-devel}

2013-01-25 Thread Achim Gratz
These two packages should exist according to the package list, but their corresponding directories are empty. I have the 4.5.3 versions installed, but the rest of Qt is already at 4.8.4. Could someone please check whether the directories should be deleted (there doesn't seem to be any package

Re: Permission problem installing to Mapped Network Drive

2013-01-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Alan writes: $ chmod +x /usr/bin/latex $ ls -l /usr/bin/latex -rw-r--r-- 1 curtis None 21 Jan 25 20:04 /usr/bin/latex I can't change the permissions. How do I fix this? Does mounting that drive someplace else with the noacl option help? If so, then your network admins have configured the

snapshot 2013-01-23

2013-01-28 Thread Achim Gratz
I'm seeing strange behaviour from lftp scripts that use external commands; lftp forks, but then hangs and needs to be killed. This is only happening from mintty, but not when lftp gets started from CMD: sh -c PATH=/bin lftp -c '\!echo bla' Tracing lftp in mintty yields the following after the

Re: snapshot 2013-01-23

2013-01-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at NexGo.DE writes: I'm seeing strange behaviour from lftp scripts that use external commands Git apparently has similar problems when it is started from Emacs (via magit). Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >