Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Rob Walker
On 8/10/2010 10:38 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:04:47PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: On 8/10/2010 1:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 01:13:41PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: On Cygwin, make-3.82 supports DOS paths by default. I'm c

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-08-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:53:46PM +, John Carey wrote: >Thanks for the test case for the CreateFile() problem; I used it to >create the following test, in which Windows 7 CreateFile() fails with >ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE even when using a stock Cygwin 1.7.5 DLL: As Corinna said: If you are mixin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:04:47PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: >On 8/10/2010 1:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 01:13:41PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: >> >>> On Cygwin, make-3.82 supports DOS paths by default. I'm curious about >>> what work might be involved in re-enablin

Cygwin DLL 1.7.5-1 would not interfere with Symantec anti virus?

2010-08-10 Thread lala_23...@yahoo.com
Hello. One of the issues fixed under the New Cygwin DLL 1.7.5-1 release is the memory leak. Does this mean that we wont have any problems ruuning anti virus software like Symantec anymore? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.co

Missing APPDATA var in env of ssh sessions?

2010-08-10 Thread Charles Wilson
The mingw.org folks are developing a new installer, which uses WININET.dll facilities for d/l support. When I ran the application from within a cygwin shell, I ended up with the following debris in my testing /bin dir: $ pwd /c/msys-src/__xml/_test/bin $ ls libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll mingw-get.exe* $

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-08-10 Thread John Carey
On Aug 10 13:44 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 10 00:19, John Carey wrote: ... > > Presumably the issues mentioned in the source comment may > > also occur, but what I have seen myself is a subsequent call to > > SetCurrentDirectory() closing, not the current directory handle, but > > the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/10/2010 5:04 PM, Rob Walker wrote: On 8/10/2010 1:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 01:13:41PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: On Cygwin, make-3.82 supports DOS paths by default. I'm curious about what work might be involved in re-enabling the --ms-dos option, and I'd like

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Rob Walker
On 8/10/2010 1:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 01:13:41PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: On Cygwin, make-3.82 supports DOS paths by default. I'm curious about what work might be involved in re-enabling the --ms-dos option, and I'd like to help, if I can. I built my Cygwi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:51:38PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: >Am 10.08.2010, 19:54 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor: > >> I wanted to let everyone know that I'm aware of the fact that make-3.82 >> has been released. However, given the number of reported problems in >> the make bugs mailing list

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 10.08.2010, 19:54 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor: I wanted to let everyone know that I'm aware of the fact that make-3.82 has been released. However, given the number of reported problems in the make bugs mailing list, I don't plan on releasing a new version of GNU make until the dust has s

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 01:13:41PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote: >On Cygwin, make-3.82 supports DOS paths by default. I'm curious about >what work might be involved in re-enabling the --ms-dos option, and I'd >like to help, if I can. > >I built my Cygwin make-3.82 packages directly from the upstream

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Rob Walker
On 8/10/2010 10:54 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I wanted to let everyone know that I'm aware of the fact that make-3.82 has been released. However, given the number of reported problems in the make bugs mailing list, I don't plan on releasing a new version of GNU make until the dust has settled

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Update on status of make-3.82 release for cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
I wanted to let everyone know that I'm aware of the fact that make-3.82 has been released. However, given the number of reported problems in the make bugs mailing list, I don't plan on releasing a new version of GNU make until the dust has settled. That means no new version of make for at least a

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-08-10 Thread Al Slater
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/08/2010 09:57, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, John Carey! > >> After a call to SetCurrentDirectory(), I have seen occasional (< 5%) >> failures of CreatePipe() with code ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE. I have also seen >> failure of Cygwin signal handl

RE: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-08-10 Thread John Carey
Greetings to you as well! I did try to search, but was unsuccessful. Can you tell me the subject of one of the messages? Thanks, John Subject: Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set Gre

extending a VS python with cygwin

2010-08-10 Thread Tom Roche
summary: I've got a version of python that I need for other purposes. I'm trying to build duplicity to use with that python. I'm getting m...@cygwinbox ~/bin/duplicity-0.6.09$ python setup.py install ... > error: Python was built with Visual Studio 2003; > extensions must be built with a compiler

[ADMINISTRIVIA] Experimental block of some email with raw addresses

2010-08-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've just instituted a block of email which contains certain email addresses like "cygwin AT ...", "cygwin-owner AT ..." and others. Since I'm using spamassassin to do that, I suspect that the bounce message won't be really clear and it will increase my administrative burden but I thought I'd give

RE: Moses with Cygwin on Windows 7

2010-08-10 Thread Llio Humphreys
I don't know if this might interest others, but I have found a thread explaining the UAC problem at http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistasecurity/thread/67bfc4 b5-faff-4de4-be48-f395bf1c519d. There is an unofficial third-party software available from http://www.itknowledge24.com/

Re: Fwd: BUG: ls generates faulty output from path with multiple spaces

2010-08-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/10/2010 12:47 AM, James Arlow wrote: > Too bad you don't have a WEB BASED BUG TRACKING SYSTEM, > or you all wouldn't have gotten these two pointless emails To some degree, we have one: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/ This mailing list IS our bug tracking system, and it DOES have a web archive.

Re: Incomplete installation of subversion

2010-08-10 Thread Andy Koppe
On 10 August 2010 12:41, David Balažic wrote: > I have a reasonably up to date cygwin installation (did an update a > week ago or so). > Today I run the latest setup (v2.708). In Pending I saw a few libX > packages and minttty 0.8.1. > > Then I selected subversion for install. > On "Next" I got a d

Re: sed: --binary flag is undocumented

2010-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 9 16:41, Carles Cufi wrote: > Hi there, > > I just found out in the IRC channel that to avoid trouble with > cygwin's sed turning \r\n into \n one needs to pass the "--binary" > flag. But this is not documented in the sed man pages, I was wondering > if it should be. I think this is an up

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 10 00:19, John Carey wrote: > After a call to SetCurrentDirectory(), I have seen occasional (< 5%) > failures of CreatePipe() with code ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE. I have also > seen failure of Cygwin signal handling because the signal handling > pipe has mysteriously closed. Why on earth are yo

Incomplete installation of subversion

2010-08-10 Thread David Balažic
Hi! I have a reasonably up to date cygwin installation (did an update a week ago or so). Today I run the latest setup (v2.708). In Pending I saw a few libX packages and minttty 0.8.1. Then I selected subversion for install. On "Next" I got a dialog saying that subversion depended on additional pa

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-08-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, John Carey! > After a call to SetCurrentDirectory(), I have seen occasional (< 5%) > failures of CreatePipe() with code ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE. I have also seen > failure of Cygwin signal handling because the signal handling pipe has > mysteriously closed. Seems like it was discussed a