Re: Problem [1.5] gdbm update failure

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Fergus wrote: > Setup stalled: > > Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception > Thread: DialogProc > Type: 9Exception > Message: Package validation failure for > release/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.3-9-src.tar.bz2 > AppErrNo: 1 > > Incidentally gdbm-1.8.3-20 installed perfectly well into [1.7]. Try a different mirror. I

Problem [1.5] gdbm update failure

2009-02-26 Thread Fergus
Setup stalled: Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception Thread: DialogProc Type: 9Exception Message: Package validation failure for release/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.3-9-src.tar.bz2 AppErrNo: 1 Incidentally gdbm-1.8.3-20 installed perfectly well into [1.7]. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

Update config.guess to treat cygwin 1.7 as new system name

2009-02-26 Thread Eric Blake
The upcoming Cygwin 1.7.0 release adds so many APIs and improves so much functionality that it probably deserves a separate designation in config.guess. For reference, notice the size of the most recent beta announcement: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-02/msg00018.html For an example o

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] WITHDRAWN: {terminfo/terminfo-extra}-5.7_20090221-10

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
There was an unintended API change in this release, which caused the cygncurses-8.dll to not be backwards compatible with previous DLLs of the same name. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Charles Wilson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] WITHDRAWN: {ncurses/libncurses-devel/libncurses8/ncurses-demo}-5.7-10

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
There was an unintended API change in this release, which caused the cygncurses-8.dll to not be backwards compatible with previous DLLs of the same name. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Charles Wilson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] WITHDRAWN: {terminfo/terminfo-extra}-5.7_20090221-1

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
There was an unintended API change in the associated ncurses release. As part of rolling back to the earlier known-good ncurses package, the updated terminfo must also be rolled back. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Charles Wilson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] WITHDRAWN: {ncurses/libncurses-devel/libncurses8/ncurses-demo}-5.7-1

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
There was an unintended API change in this release, which caused the cygncurses-8.dll to not be backwards compatible with previous DLLs of the same name. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Charles Wilson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:

Re: lynx seems broken (Attn: ncurses maintainer)

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
David Rothenberger wrote: > > Rolling back libncurses8 and terminfo to the previous release solves the > problem for me. Recompiling lynx from source with the new libncurses8 > and terminfo packages also fixes the problem. > Confirmed bug. I've pulled the release. Upstream has silently changed

Re: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:33:07PM -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote: >> From: cygwin-ownerX Oh! Is that who it came from? >> [mailto:cygwin-ownerX Yes. Got that the first time. >> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 18:36 Hmm. It's 10:18PM here. >> To: cygwinX What? You're responding to email to

RE: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 18:36 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Another long pathname question > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:29:57PM -0500, Greg Fre

Re: [1.7] "broken" pipe implementation?

2009-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:27:34AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:16:50AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>I'm compiling screen for 1.7. The configure script has a test for a "usable" >>pipe implementation, which passes, and another one for a "working" pipe >>implement

Re: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:29:57PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote: >If the path is short, it uses the full long directory name as >expected. If the path exceeds 260, it reverts to using the 8.3 names, >thus giving a workaround that will allow you to descend deeper into a >directory structure. > >Inter

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Re: Program hangs on startup

2009-02-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: I am not able to really see what is going on, process explorer says cygwin1!aclcheck Otherwise, I have seen it hang in some function that I cannot remember exactly ascii convert or something and other vista kernel functions. Basically, I would like to kn

passwd questions with cygwin 1.7

2009-02-26 Thread Paul McFerrin
OKAY, I have some passwd questions & problems associated with cygwin 1.7. PRIOR to 1.7, my UID/GID for "Paul" account was 501/401 and all of my files have correct ownership. When I created /etc/passwd via: cd /etc mkpasswk -l -p $HOME >x vim x { changed: UID/GID to 501/4

[1.7] wctomb bug

2009-02-26 Thread Eric Blake
Simple test case. This application uses the C locale (by virtue of the fact that we did not use setlocale(), and evidenced by mb_cur_max of 1). On Linux, this correctly shows wctomb rejecting the conversion (0x100 is too big to fit in a 1-byte sequence) with EILSEQ, but newlib currently trunca

RE: 1.5.25: pthread/ofstream problem

2009-02-26 Thread Filipek, Stefan R.
Dave Korn wrote: > you should definitely see if it reproduces under 1.7 I tried the latest 1.7 and it hangs instead of segfaulting (less than 500k iterations). This seems like a pretty major problem for any intensive multithreaded application. Though infrequent, it has produced a rather large r

Re: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 25 18:58, Greg Freemyer wrote: >> I just read the release email for 1.7.0 >> >> In part it says: >> >> - Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is >>   longer than 260 bytes, or if the current working dir

Re: lynx seems broken (Attn: ncurses maintainer)

2009-02-26 Thread David Rothenberger
On 2/26/2009 9:55 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: Morten Kjærulff wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Morten Kjærulff wrote: Hi, On my machine#2 I just installed lynx, but it just exit without telling anything. Then I went to my

Program hangs on startup

2009-02-26 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi there, I would like to first thank the entire cygwin team for providing such a great tool that saved me countless times in corporate hell. Now, I compiled large application that I am working on from another platform with gcc on cygwin in vista, and I found that it does not even startup proper

Re: lynx seems broken

2009-02-26 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: > Morten Kjærulff wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) >> wrote: >>> Morten Kjærulff wrote: Hi, On my machine#2 I just installed lynx, but it just exit without telling anything. Then I went to my machine#1 where lynx wa

Re: ITP: tack-1.06-1

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Wilson
> Has the correct version of 'tack' been built and packaged? It appears that > version 1.05 > was built and packaged as version 1.06-1. > > $ cygcheck -c tack > Cygwin Package Information > Package VersionStatus > tack 1.06-1 OK > > > $ tack -V > tack v

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 10:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 25 19:20, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) > > wrote: > > > Greg Freemyer wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 > > >> > > >> I know the whole package is still considered test.  H

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: OpenSSH-5.2p1-1

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 10:39, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2009/2/26 Corinna Vinschen: > > On Feb 25 16:12, Frank Fesevur wrote: > >> Since this is a security fix, will there be a 1.5 update as well? > > > > Well, actually I have no intention to update 1.5.x packages anymore. > > I understand you want us to start us

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: OpenSSH-5.2p1-1

2009-02-26 Thread Frank Fesevur
2009/2/26 Corinna Vinschen: > On Feb 25 16:12, Frank Fesevur wrote: >> Since this is a security fix, will there be a 1.5 update as well? > > Well, actually I have no intention to update 1.5.x packages anymore. I understand you want us to start using 1.7, but in the announcement of 1.7.0-41 you wri

Re: Another long pathname question

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 18:58, Greg Freemyer wrote: > I just read the release email for 1.7.0 > > In part it says: > > - Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is > longer than 260 bytes, or if the current working directory is a virtual > path (like /proc, /cygdrive, //server),

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: OpenSSH-5.2p1-1

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 16:12, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2009/2/25 Corinna Vinschen: > > I've just updated the Cygwin 1.7 version of OpenSSH to 5.2p1-1. > > > > This is a new major upstream release.  It fixes a security related issue > > and introdues a lot of new features.  The Cygwin release is created > > from t

Re: special name for vss shadow copy device?

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 19:20, Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) > wrote: > > Greg Freemyer wrote: > > > > > >> Time to experiment with Cygwin 1.7 > >> > >> I know the whole package is still considered test.  How stable is the > >> actual dll(s).  Especially as relates

Re: wget, ssh, ... and cygwin 1.7 issues

2009-02-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 26 00:28, Paul McFerrin wrote: > Corinnia: > I finally got cygwin 1.7 swapped-in to try to reproduce my problem. > Good news, after a few hours of pinging a website, ZERO ERRORS for now. > Since it is an intermittent error, I'll let it run at 6 seconds interval > until tomorrow. > >