Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-19 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 14:52 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for > a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > Please reports variations from 1.7.9, including "Hey! It'

Re: cygport: broken vs. autotools by "set -e"

2012-01-19 Thread marco atzeri
On 1/20/2012 12:45 AM, Dave Korn wrote: Hi list, I just updated my Cygwin installation for the first time since Oct 26 last year, and now I'm unable to successfully run cygport builds any more. The builds fail because of the spontaneous exiting of one or other of the scripts that cygpo

Re: hard-coded library search path in gcc-4

2012-01-19 Thread Dave Korn
On 20/01/2012 04:07, Ilguiz Latypov wrote: > I found that gcc-4 from a recent setup.exe could not start cc1 because the > latter could not find some shared object file. > > I confirmed that by running cc1 alone with an empty PATH variable. Running "cygcheck /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/cc1

hard-coded library search path in gcc-4

2012-01-19 Thread Ilguiz Latypov
I found that gcc-4 from a recent setup.exe could not start cc1 because the latter could not find some shared object file. I confirmed that by running cc1 alone with an empty PATH variable. > $ ( export PATH= ; /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/gcc-4.exe -v -E - < /dev/null ) > Using built-in specs. > COL

cygport: broken vs. autotools by "set -e"

2012-01-19 Thread Dave Korn
Hi list, I just updated my Cygwin installation for the first time since Oct 26 last year, and now I'm unable to successfully run cygport builds any more. The builds fail because of the spontaneous exiting of one or other of the scripts that cygport invokes - I've had autoconf-2.68 spontane

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 19 January 2012 14:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for > a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > Please reports variations from 1.7.9, including "Hey! It's a lot fas

Re: YA call for snapshot testing (find /proc/registry64 crash)

2012-01-19 Thread A.R. Burgers
Op 19-1-2012 20:52, Christopher Faylor schreef: Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please reports variations from 1.7.9, including "Hey! It's a lot faster than 1.

YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please reports variations from 1.7.9, including "Hey! It's a lot faster than 1.7.9!" as well as the usual bug reports. When repor

Re: fifo rewrite for Google Summer of Code project

2012-01-19 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 19/01/2012 10:50 AM, bob 295 wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:29:41AM -0500, bob 295 wrote: Last spring we tried to port our SIMPL project code to Cygwin but fell acropper of the known fifo issues in Cygwin.We haven't been able to find expertise to contribute to a rewrite of the fifo fun

Re: fifo rewrite for Google Summer of Code project

2012-01-19 Thread bob 295
>On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:29:41AM -0500, bob 295 wrote: >>Last spring we tried to port our SIMPL project code to Cygwin but fell >>acropper of the known fifo issues in Cygwin.We haven't been able to find >>expertise to contribute to a rewrite of the fifo functionality. >Who's "we"? >>I woul

Re: Cygwin Configuration

2012-01-19 Thread Dave Korn
On 18/01/2012 19:49, Ashlar wrote: > I have cygwin installed with a number of directories named following this > format: > > C:/Documents\040and\040Settings/Administrator/_web/crhub /webroot ntfs > binary,posix=0 0 0 > > When I use the Mount command it includes the assignment for the line > > Wh