Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread George Barrick
Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.12:45:48 UT Hi Marco (and cygwin-x folks), I will try the experiment that I think you are suggesting. If the .so is part of an older .dll, then a reinstallation of the packages should clear up the problem. I have

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread marco atzeri
On 2/27/2012 1:47 PM, George Barrick wrote: Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.12:45:48 UT Hi Marco (and cygwin-x folks), I will try the experiment that I think you are suggesting. If the .so is part of an older .dll, then a reinstallation

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread George Barrick
/bin $ strace -o /tmp/octave.strace octave-3.6.1.exe --version it should open a system message window mentioning what is missing regards Marco Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. Hi Marco, I ran strace on the octave-3.6.1.exe and got an empty message file. However, that strace

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread marco atzeri
maintainer try this $ cd /bin $ strace -o /tmp/octave.strace octave-3.6.1.exe --version it should open a system message window mentioning what is missing regards Marco Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. Hi Marco, I ran strace on the octave-3.6.1.exe and got an empty message file

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread George Barrick
Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.15:00:43 UT Hi George, probably octave is just the victim of Avast I suspect that your antivirus is screwing up cygwin in general. Probably it tries to inject a dll in the dll chain does D:\Program

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread marco atzeri
On 2/27/2012 4:01 PM, George Barrick wrote: Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.15:00:43 UT Hi George, probably octave is just the victim of Avast I suspect that your antivirus is screwing up cygwin in general. Probably it tries to inject a dll in

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread George Barrick
Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.16:18:08 UT I see no reason to re-install cygwin. It is purely a Avast problem Hi Marco, I went and re-installed my antivirus so that its files would be stored in a better directory. That has fixed my

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread marco atzeri
On 2/27/2012 5:20 PM, George Barrick wrote: Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.16:18:08 UT I see no reason to re-install cygwin. It is purely a Avast problem Hi Marco, I went and re-installed my antivirus so that its files would be

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 11:20 -0500, George Barrick wrote: I went and re-installed my antivirus so that its files would be stored in a better directory. That has fixed my problem, as the av still slips .dll's into the execution stack when I run cygwin processes, but now my system knows

most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-25 Thread George Barrick
Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. 2012.02.25.19:18:18 UT Hey cygwin-x folks, I just installed the xorg-server-1.11.4-5, and I thought that some aspect of its configuration may have broken the xfig program on my box. This however was untrue. When I

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-25 Thread George Barrick
Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. 2012.02.25.20:19:51 UT cygwin-x folks, I mis-typed at the end of my message. I should say something like: hope that XFIG developers can reproduce and find the problem. I would not want to burden the xorg-guys

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-25 Thread marco atzeri
On 2/25/2012 9:06 PM, George Barrick wrote: Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. 2012.02.25.19:18:18 UT Hey cygwin-x folks, I just installed the xorg-server-1.11.4-5, and I thought that some aspect of its configuration may have broken the xfig program