[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run2-0.4.0-1

The run2 package provides two utilities: 'run2' and 'checkX' (as the package is actually a renamed and updated successor to the now-obsoleted checkx package). The first utility is a more powerful replacement for the venerable 'run' utility that has long been a part of the cygwin distribution. The s

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils-1.4.2-1

Cygutils is a collection of useful(?) tools for the cygwin platform. This is a feature enhancement release. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-3 ]] As expected now that cygwin-1.7.1 has been officially released, this cygutils package is available exclusively for cygwin-1.7. CHANGES (from cygutils-1.4.1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.5.6-1

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin with a native Windows user interface and minimalist design. Among its features are Unicode support and a graphical options dialog. Its terminal emulation is largely compatible with xterm, but it does not require an X server. Mintty is based on code from PuTT

Re: rsync no longer preserves extended ASCII characters after 1.7 upgrade

On 2009/12/27 11:12 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > But I think the --iconv option is the better way. Assuming you want to > stick with ISO-8859-1 on the Linux side, '--iconv utf8,iso88591' > should do the job. Regarding using the '--iconv' option in rsync transfers from Cygwin (charset UTF-8) to Linux (c

Re: make-3.81-4

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 01:06:48PM -0800, Rob Walker wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:16:59PM -0800, Rob Walker wrote: It's been almost a year and a half since I made a request to have Cygwin's GNU make updated with the upstre

Re: gcc4[1.7] printf treats differently a string constant and a character array

2009/12/28 Andy Koppe: > 2009/12/28 Rodrigo Medina: >> Hi, >> I am moving from cygwin-1.5 and gcc3.4 to cygwin1.7 and gcc4. >> Some simple programs of mine fail. >> >> I am using LC_ALL=es_VE.ISO-8859-15. >> >> I have reduced the problem to this example >> >> -- >> #include >> main() >

Re: Cygwin 1.7.1-1 - problem with non-blocking socket IO

On 12/29/2009 01:07 AM, Uri Simchoni wrote: Thanks for the quick response. Could you post the patch? See the cygwin-cvs mailing list for applied patches to Cygwin. In this case: -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.

RE: Cygwin 1.7.1-1 - problem with non-blocking socket IO

Thanks for the quick response. Could you post the patch? Uri. -Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 7:24 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7.1-1 - problem with non-blocking socket IO On Dec 28 10:03, Uri

Java alternatives (was Re: Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-3)

On 11/12/2009 14:58, Dave Korn wrote: As part of its infrastructure, GCJ uses the Eclipse Compiler for Java (ECJ) to compile .java sources files to bytecode .class files. ECJ is shipped as a JAR file, and is not supplied in this distribution (pending resolution of licensing status and any self-h

Re: Still having problems installing on WinNT 4.0

On 12/28/2009 08:41 PM, Jerry DeLisle wrote: On 12/28/2009 08:18 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:05:10PM -0800, Jerry DeLisle wrote: On a separate machine from my previous install problem, setup.exe runs but I get this warning: "The current ini file is from a newer ver

Re: Still having problems installing on WinNT 4.0

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Jerry DeLisle wrote: > On 12/28/2009 08:18 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:05:10PM -0800, Jerry DeLisle wrote: >>> >>> On a separate machine from my previous install problem, setup.exe runs >>> but I get >>> this warning: >>> >>> "Th

Re: Still having problems installing on WinNT 4.0

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:41:34PM -0800, Jerry DeLisle wrote: >On 12/28/2009 08:18 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:05:10PM -0800, Jerry DeLisle wrote: >>> On a separate machine from my previous install problem, setup.exe runs but >>> I get >>> this warning: >>> >>> "Th

Re: Still having problems installing on WinNT 4.0

On 12/28/2009 08:18 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:05:10PM -0800, Jerry DeLisle wrote: On a separate machine from my previous install problem, setup.exe runs but I get this warning: "The current ini file is from a newer version of setup.exe. If you have any trouble in

Re: Still having problems installing on WinNT 4.0

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:05:10PM -0800, Jerry DeLisle wrote: >On a separate machine from my previous install problem, setup.exe runs but I >get >this warning: > >"The current ini file is from a newer version of setup.exe. If you have any >trouble installing, please download a fresh " > >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: diffutils-2.8.7-2

I've made a new version of 'diffutils' (http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/) available for installation. This is the most recent version of diffutils from alpha.gnu.org . This is just a refresh of the diffutils package using more modern versions of cygwin, gcc, and dependent libraries. There

Still having problems installing on WinNT 4.0

On a separate machine from my previous install problem, setup.exe runs but I get this warning: "The current ini file is from a newer version of setup.exe. If you have any trouble installing, please download a fresh " I have scanned the disks for any ini I can find and there are none rem

CVS version 1.12.13-10 appears to be broken on CIFS/VFAT mounts for 8.[2,4] filenames

Using Windows XP SP3 client. Reverting to CVS version 1.11.22-1 works. Looking at `cvs -t up` output, it appears that the 1.12 version truncates the ".new" file at the 14th character, which happens to be a "." for filenames with 8-character basenames. This fails on CIFS & VFAT mounts, but work

Re: 1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post install.sh

On 12/28/2009 07:52 PM, Brian Wilson wrote: Okay, here is the cygcheck.out file I forgot to attach in my earlier email. While I was able to get the two laptop machines to update to 1.7 earlier today, I'm still not able to get my desktop system at home to upgrade. I'm still getting the "Couldn't

Re: 1.7.1: Does 'chere' work with Vista 64b? Can't tell by me.

On 12/28/2009 06:23 PM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Are you running Vista 64bit? If not, I suspect the registry keys set in Vista 64 are not correct as set by 'chere'. No, actually I'm not, so if you're sure it's a Vista 64bit thing, then that na

Re: 1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post install.sh

Okay, here is the cygcheck.out file I forgot to attach in my earlier email. While I was able to get the two laptop machines to update to 1.7 earlier today, I'm still not able to get my desktop system at home to upgrade. I'm still getting the "Couldn't allocate heap" error message. Sincerely,

Re: My"C" Compiled can't compile "{}"

Paul McFerrin wrote: Well, after all of this discussion, my C compiler IS BROKEN. I.E.: echo "main{}" >test.c /usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41.$ cc -O test.c test.c:1: error: expected =, ,, ;, asm or __attribute__ before { token /usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41.$ echo "main(){}" >test.c /usr/loca

Re: 1.7.1: Does 'chere' work with Vista 64b? Can't tell by me.

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I've always found 'chere -i' works for me. I'd also recommend getting rid of 'c:\_0\local\Scripts\test'. no such file! Your cygcheck output thinks there is: Found: C:\_0\bin\test.exe Warning: C:\_0\local\Scripts\test hides C:\_0\bin\test.exe Found: C:\_0\bi

Re: make-3.81-4

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 01:06:48PM -0800, Rob Walker wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:16:59PM -0800, Rob Walker wrote: >>> It's been almost a year and a half since I made a request to have >>> Cygwin's GNU make updated with the upstream patches for colons in >>> dep

Re: rsync no longer preserves extended ASCII characters after 1.7 upgrade

Andy Koppe wrote, on 12/28/2009 2:12 AM: Yes, that's one way. Specifying e.g. 'LC_CTYPE=en_US rsync ...' (i.e. a language without an explicit character set) will give you the ANSI codepage. Thanks! This fixes it perfectly for me. But I think the --iconv option is the better way. Assuming you

Re: gcc4[1.7] printf treats differently a string constant and a character array

2009/12/28 Rodrigo Medina: > Hi, > I am moving from cygwin-1.5 and gcc3.4 to cygwin1.7 and gcc4. > Some simple programs of mine fail. > > I am using LC_ALL=es_VE.ISO-8859-15. > > I have reduced the problem to this example > > -- > #include > main() > { > static char* line1 = > " This l

1.7.1, 2008R2 64bit, Exim: daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:

Exim errors - from the log and panic log: 2009-12-28 16:54:34 exim 4.69 daemon started: pid=2688, -q3m, listening for SMTP on port 25 (IPv4) port 465 (IPv4) 2009-12-28 16:54:34 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed: Resource temporarily unavailable 2009-12-28 16:57:35 daemon: fork of queu

Re: 1.7.1: Does 'chere' work with Vista 64b? Can't tell by me.

On 12/28/2009 04:51 PM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 12/26/2009 12:50 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: See here, Chere-oes: ;-) I've tried all manner of command option permutations with 'chere' and can't get it to work -- as it has in the past. Here's my latest attempt: $ ch

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 14:13, Kevin Layer wrote: > This seems serious.  Do people just not use cygwin git? It sounds very serious. I am a very interested user of git on Cygwin and I'm watching this thread with interest. However > It may be a 64-bit issue, so I'll try a 32-bit machine, if I c

Re: 1.7.1: Does 'chere' work with Vista 64b? Can't tell by me.

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 12/26/2009 12:50 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: See here, Chere-oes: ;-) I've tried all manner of command option permutations with 'chere' and can't get it to work -- as it has in the past. Here's my latest attempt: $ chere -i -a -n -e "Bitte Bash Bei" -t mintty -o \ "

Re: make-3.81-4

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:16:59PM -0800, Rob Walker wrote: It's been almost a year and a half since I made a request to have Cygwin's GNU make updated with the upstream patches for colons in dependencies and VPATH directives: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/

Re: empty site list in setup

Problem solved. yey.. Thanks a lot. On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > Guy Kroizman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when running the setup from work, I get to the screen of "Choose >> Download site" and the list is empty. >> >> I try adding to the user urls from the mirror site list on the

Re: "C" compiler is broken under 1.7.1-1

Paul McFerrin wrote: > $ cat test101.c main(){} > > $ cc -O test101.c > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: > crt0.o: No such file: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 > exit status > > find /usr/lib/gcc -type f -name crt0.o -print $ You're look

Re: 1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post install.sh

Brian Wilson wrote: > I did notice that the system says I have ZoneAlarm as a personal fire wall; > but I don't and never have used ZoneAlarm. Cisco VPN client installed? Try removing it, rebooting, and doing a clean install without it present. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports:

Re: "C" compiler is broken under 1.7.1-1

$ cat test101.c main(){} $ cc -O test101.c /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: crt0.o: No such file: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status find /usr/lib/gcc -type f -name crt0.o -print $ File crt0.o is missing. Is it supposed to be? I

Re: run2.exe segfaults when GDI and X11 elements are present

Ken Brown wrote: > r27 works fine for me. All previously reported errors are fixed, and I > haven't found any new ones. Thanks. Hopefully I haven't introduced any new ones in r28: remove use of deprecated cygwin path conversion functions in favor of shiny new cygwin-1.7 cygwin_create_path(). Loo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sic 1.0-1 -- Simple irc client

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://tools.suckless.org/sic License : MIT An extremly fast, small and simple irc client. It reads commands from standard input and prints all server output to standard output. It multiplexes also all channel traffic into one output, that you do

Re: cygwin 1.7/emacs 23.1 time bug/workaround status?

On 12/28/2009 12:17 PM, Tom Roche wrote: summary: A cygwin-1.7/emacs-23.1 time bug and its workaround is known, but is it being tracked? I'm Cygwin's Emacs maintainer, and I've documented the bug and workaround in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README. I don't think there's any other tracking b

Re: run2.exe segfaults when GDI and X11 elements are present

On 12/28/2009 12:04 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: Ken Brown wrote: Sorry for the confusion. I've just tried the xml file above with both r24 and r25, and I get a segfault unless DISPLAY is set in the environment. I hadn't noticed previously that this was still broken because I had fixed my own tes

Re: 1.7.1: Mintty/bash window start: -bash: regtool: command not found

On 12/23/2009 3:15 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: I can reproduce this as follows: - Leave a Cygwin session open. - Run setup.exe - Select reinstall for cygwin-1.7.1-1. - Click next - "in-use files detected" appears - Click retry. I saw the same symptom, but by a slightly different path. On updating

Re: "C" compiler is broken under 1.7.1-1

Paul McFerrin wrote: My "C" compiler appears to be broken: .$ cc -v -O test.c what are the contents of test.c -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http:

Re: Cygwin 1.7.1-1 - problem with non-blocking socket IO

On Dec 28 10:03, Uri Simchoni wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to have a problem with non-blocking writes to TCP sockets and > unix-domain sockets - they block. > > The attached program illustrates it - it creates a socketpair(), sets one end > to non-blocking and writes to it - expecting to get an EWOU

cygwin 1.7/emacs 23.1 time bug/workaround status?

summary: A cygwin-1.7/emacs-23.1 time bug and its workaround is known, but is it being tracked? details: Tom Roche Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:51:58 -0500 (EST) >> After updating cygwin [from 1.5.x] to 1.7.1-1, Which has been otherwise delightful! >> which updated my emacs to 23.1, I now see >> (cu

Re: run2.exe segfaults when GDI and X11 elements are present

Ken Brown wrote: > Sorry for the confusion. I've just tried the xml file above with both > r24 and r25, and I get a segfault unless DISPLAY is set in the > environment. I hadn't noticed previously that this was still broken > because I had fixed my own test.xml file by adding the SelfOption you >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: {attr/libattr-devel/libattr1}-2.4.43-1

On Dec 28 08:02, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > > "attr" is a set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on > > filesystem objects, in particular getfattr(1) and setfattr(1).  An > > attr(1) command is also provided which is largely compatible with the > > SGI IRIX tool of the same name. > > If I

Re: run2.exe segfaults when GDI and X11 elements are present

Charles Wilson wrote: > NOW I see the coredump -- which is occurring inside the xml parsing > subroutines. I *HOPE* this is an entirely different bug than the one > that started this thread. > > I'll followup with another message after I start debugging the new > test1.xml coredump. This was an un

Re: 1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post install.sh

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:18:25AM -0500, Brian Wilson wrote: >There is a warning about multiple cygwin1.dlls in my path. I've run a windows >search (including system and hidden folders) against the whole C:\ drive and >found C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll was the only result returned. "There is a w

Re: 1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post install.sh

On 12/28/2009 08:18 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: I've attached the cygcheck.out file as you suggested. Looks like you need to try again. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd.

Re: run2.exe segfaults when GDI and X11 elements are present

On 12/28/2009 10:31 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: The first problem is that test1.xml as posted isn't valid XML -- and the parser (properly) reports: run2.exe FATAL: /c/Users/cwilson/test1.xml validation generated an internal error but no coredump. Oddly, syntax errors in the attributes of the root

Re: My"C" Compiled can't compile "{}"

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:57:29PM +, Greg Chicares wrote: >On 2009-12-28 15:26Z, Paul McFerrin wrote: >> Well, after all of this discussion, my C compiler IS BROKEN. I.E.: > >To try your test program with a different compiler, paste it here: > http://www.comeaucomputing.com/tryitout > >> ech

Re: My"C" Compiled can't compile "{}"

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:09:09AM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote: >I don't have a Linux, This code has served me very well for years. It >is perfect. Arguing this point is really not winning you any points. Your case obviously doesn't work with either gcc 3.4 or gcc 4.x. So, it has not worked fo

Re: My"C" Compiled can't compile "{}"

On 2009-12-28 15:26Z, Paul McFerrin wrote: > Well, after all of this discussion, my C compiler IS BROKEN. I.E.: To try your test program with a different compiler, paste it here: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/tryitout > echo "main{}" >test.c If you want a minimal C program that's valid every

Re: run2.exe segfaults when GDI and X11 elements are present

Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/28/2009 3:21 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: >> Fixed in r24. Thanks for the report. > > Yes, that fixed it. Thanks. >> I can't reproduce your segfault with r23/r24 and the original dual xml >> file. > > Did you try test1.xml from > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-12/msg0087

Re: My"C" Compiled can't compile "{}"

Well, after all of this discussion, my C compiler IS BROKEN. I.E.: echo "main{}" >test.c /usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41.$ cc -O test.c test.c:1: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘{’ token /usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41.$ echo "main(){}" >

Re: 1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post install.sh

2009/12/28 Brian Wilson: > I have no choice but to cancel the install and retry; but it never completes > and always fails at the same point.  Does anyone know what this means and how > to fix the problem?  If it's something stupid I've done; please point out the > issue. I'm experiencing exactly

Re: My"C" Compiled can't compile "{}"

I don't have a Linux, This code has served me very well for years. It is perfect. I used to be a developer with Glenn Fowler and nmake developing "compiler probe" code for nmake. If your compiler can't compile it, then something is wrong. I also get error messages about the C compiler with

Cygwin 1.7.1-1 - problem with non-blocking socket IO

Hi, I seem to have a problem with non-blocking writes to TCP sockets and unix-domain sockets - they block. The attached program illustrates it - it creates a socketpair(), sets one end to non-blocking and writes to it - expecting to get an EWOULDBLOCK. On my system it hangs. With pipe() it wo

Re: run2.exe segfaults when GDI and X11 elements are present

On 12/28/2009 3:21 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: Ken Brown wrote: On 12/27/2009 5:31 PM, Ken Brown wrote: I still get a segfault with r23. I'm running XP SP3 if that's relevant. I also now get a segfault with the following simpler xml file, which I've been using for a long time for starting emacs

Re: 1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post install.sh

I've always installed to the default locations, and I removed everything from the default C:\cygwin\ folder so I would have a clean install. I also cleaned the registry of everything I could find and used a registry cleaner tool (Advanced System Care One) to try and get everything I couldn't fi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: {attr/libattr-devel/libattr1}-2.4.43-1

> "attr" is a set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on > filesystem objects, in particular getfattr(1) and setfattr(1).  An > attr(1) command is also provided which is largely compatible with the > SGI IRIX tool of the same name. If I understand the manpage correctly, doing a 'getfattr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: robots-2.1-1

I've updated the version of robots to 2.1-1. This is a re-release to fix a dependency to an old libncurses package in the first place. I also revamped to source code to be ANSI-C compiler compatible. Enjoy, Corinna To update

Re: C / C# combination question

On Dec 26 18:30, Jan Alphenaar wrote: > Hi again, > > After some more extensive debugging I was able to find out what goes wrong > with an environment variable if a Cygwin C program is called from a C# > program. > > If an environment variable is in uppercase (like in my code) the getenv call > i

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: {attr/libattr-devel/libattr1}-2.4.43-1

I just uploaded the new "attr" package to cygwin.com. "attr" is a set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on filesystem objects, in particular getfattr(1) and setfattr(1). An attr(1) command is also provided which is largely compatible with the SGI IRIX tool of the same name. "libattr-

Re: run2.exe segfaults when GDI and X11 elements are present

Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/27/2009 5:31 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> I still get a segfault with r23. I'm running XP SP3 if that's relevant. > > I also now get a segfault with the following simpler xml file, which > I've been using for a long time for starting emacs under X: This was just a thinko on my