On 11/14/2019 8:36 PM, Keith Christian wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:32 PM Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote: >> >> On 11/14/2019 2:32 PM, Keith Christian wrote: >>> The "boxes" command fails to run on a Cygwin64 install two weeks ago. >>> >>> echo "hello" | /usr/bin/boxes >>> boxes: No such file or directory >> >> Running boxes under strace shows that it is trying to open a file named "-" >> and >> exiting because that file doesn't exist. >> >> The version of boxes in the Cygwin distro is very old, so I don't think it's >> worth the trouble to debug this. I just downloaded and built the latest >> release, and it seems to work fine. >> >> I've added the boxes maintainer to the Cc in case he wants to update the >> package. >> > Boxes had been working well in 32 bit Cygwin, I recently upgraded to a > WIndows 10 computer and decided to try 64 bit Cygwin as a fresh > install on the new machine. "boxes" hasn't worked since the 32 to 64 > bit change.
I just tested it on 32-bit Cygwin, and it does indeed work. So the bug is specific to the 64-bit build. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
