Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: > Emacs will *try* to autolaunch a D-Bus session if it doesn't find one, > but this feature is broken in the emacs-24 branch (and the problem is > not Cygwin-specific). This is Emacs bug #8855. It's been fixed in the > trunk, but the fix is complicated and proba

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Daniel Colascione dancol.org> writes: > > I need to keep the emacs-w32 and emacs-gtk under cygwin apart and AFAIK > > they both get reported as 'cygwin. So I was looking for a way to know > > this other than by looking at the build string. > > Ah. You want (window-system) then. Thanks. Now, af

Re: gcc -ansi produces unexpected floating point result

2012-12-06 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/7/2012 8:04 AM, Paul Edwards wrote: /* This program demonstrates a presumed bug in gcc 3.4.4 shipped with cygwin. try gcc4, gcc3 is obsolete. If still exist, please check if the bug is present also on another platforms as it could be a general issue and not a cygwin specific one.

gcc -ansi produces unexpected floating point result

2012-12-06 Thread Paul Edwards
/* This program demonstrates a presumed bug in gcc 3.4.4 shipped with cygwin. If compiled with gcc -mno-cygwin -ansi, it prints: C:\devel\bwbasic>gcc -mno-cygwin -ansi zatest.c C:\devel\bwbasic>a 0.00 2.00 Instead of the expected 2.00 for the first line, and undefined for t

Re: emacs child process goes defunct

2012-12-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2012 5:20 PM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote: 'Emacs -Q' failed after a few minutes of doing svn file diffs. Can you give me a detailed step-by-step recipe so that I can try to reproduce the problem? I don't really know what you mean by "doing svn file diffs". I ran gdb on the hung proc

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 12/6/12 7:13 PM, Ken Brown wrote:> And I've just discovered what that something is: After the cygw32 > build is configured, HAVE_GSETTINGS and HAVE_GCONF are defined to be 1 > in src/config.h (assuming you have the relevant -devel packages > installed). And GSettings and GConf are Glib feature

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2012 4:25 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: Thanks for highlighting the issue. On 12/6/12 1:00 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/6/2012 1:47 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: emacs-w32 shouldn't require dbus-daemon, as far as I know. This sounds like a bug. Could you give me a specific r

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2012 4:37 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: I don't see the issue here. I said in the release announcement that you need to have a D-Bus daemon running before starting emacs-X11 under X. On all other system Emacs successfully finds an existing or autolaunches a new dbus session

Re: sigwait() ignores non-thread-specific pending signals

2012-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:36:18PM +0100, Andreas Steenpa? wrote: >I have noticed that sigwait() does not return immediately if called in >the following situation: >* One of the signals the command is looking for isalready pending. >* This signal was send to the entire process rather than to a spec

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pv-1.3.9-1

2012-12-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 6 23:06, Aaron Schneider wrote: > On 06/12/2012 3:43, Vin Shelton wrote: > >Aaron Schneider writes: > > > >>pv 1.3.9-1 version has been uploaded to Cygwin, will be available > >>shortly on mirrors. > >This version fails with: > > > >zsh: invalid system call pv > > > >on a 64-bit W7 install

RE: emacs child process goes defunct

2012-12-06 Thread Rockefeller, Harry
'Emacs -Q' failed after a few minutes of doing svn file diffs. I ran gdb on the hung process. I am not too familiar with this kind of debugging. Let me know if there is more I can give next time this happens. Here is some output. ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMM

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 12/6/12 1:51 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Daniel Colascione writes: Open another mintty and try to kill the hanging emacs process from it. >> >> Works fine for me, albeit using kill -9, not regular kill. What >> exactly do you see? > > The kill command (with -KILL or any other signal) never re

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 12/6/12 1:54 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Daniel Colascione writes: >> Under Cygwin, the variable system-type will be 'cygwin; under Windows, >> it will be 'windows-nt. You can perform conditional initialization as >> follows: >> >> (cond ((eq system-type 'cygwin) (cygwin-specific-initialization)) >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pv-1.3.9-1

2012-12-06 Thread Aaron Schneider
On 06/12/2012 3:43, Vin Shelton wrote: Aaron Schneider writes: pv 1.3.9-1 version has been uploaded to Cygwin, will be available shortly on mirrors. This version fails with: zsh: invalid system call pv on a 64-bit W7 install. The previous version (1.3.4.1) worked fine. Please let me know

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Daniel Colascione writes: > Under Cygwin, the variable system-type will be 'cygwin; under Windows, > it will be 'windows-nt. You can perform conditional initialization as > follows: > > (cond ((eq system-type 'cygwin) (cygwin-specific-initialization)) > ((eq system-type 'windows-nt) (windows-

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/6/2012 4:24 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:17 PM, On 12/6/2012 10:10 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On 12/6/2012 9:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: a workaround was already available on first link you provided chgrp -R Users ~/.ssh I had tried this earlier runnin

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Daniel Colascione writes: >>> Open another mintty and try to kill the hanging emacs process from it. > > Works fine for me, albeit using kill -9, not regular kill. What > exactly do you see? The kill command (with -KILL or any other signal) never returns until I terminate emacs from task manager.

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 12/6/12 1:37 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Yes, either that or via site-init.el. Currently when it reads in the > customization it finds a default font that doesn't make any sense in > Win32 and it ends up using Arial (probably because its the first on the > list, so it seems it doesn't even bother

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > I'm not sure about the dbus-launch issue, since I always use bash. > But here's the output I get from `dbus-launch --csh-syntax': > > setenv DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS > unix:path=/tmp/dbus-wCGlBfQgo6,guid=f3e1dad82fc7ce9eff209b93'; > set DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=5020; > > Wha

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Daniel Colascione
Thanks for highlighting the issue. On 12/6/12 1:00 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/6/2012 1:47 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> Ken Brown writes: >>> emacs-w32 shouldn't require dbus-daemon, as far as I know. This >>> sounds like a bug. Could you give me a specific recipe for >>> reproducing the problem?

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread Chaz Littlejohn
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:17 PM, > On 12/6/2012 10:10 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: >> >> On 12/6/2012 9:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: >>> >>> >>> a workaround was already available on first link you provided >>> >>>chgrp -R Users ~/.ssh >>> >> >> I had tried this earlier running the chgrp.exe, but

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/6/2012 10:10 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On 12/6/2012 9:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: a workaround was already available on first link you provided chgrp -R Users ~/.ssh I had tried this earlier running the chgrp.exe, but it threw an error saying unknown group 'Users'. I assume this

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pv-1.3.9-1

2012-12-06 Thread Aaron Schneider
On 06/12/2012 19:05, Ken Brown wrote: This isn't the program you're trying to debug. This file contains the debugging symbols. You need to run gdb on pv.exe, as before; gdb will know to look in /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/pv.exe.dbg for the symbols. $ gdb pv GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5.50.20120815-cvs (cyg

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread Chaz Littlejohn
On 12/6/2012 9:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: > > a workaround was already available on first link you provided > > chgrp -R Users ~/.ssh > I had tried this earlier running the chgrp.exe, but it threw an error saying unknown group 'Users'. I assume this is because when chgrp.exe is located outsid

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2012 1:47 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: emacs-w32 shouldn't require dbus-daemon, as far as I know. This sounds like a bug. Could you give me a specific recipe for reproducing the problem? Just make sure Cygwin has cleanly terminated, then open a mintty (I use tcsh if that

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/6/2012 3:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: Hi, Wanted to check to see if you were aware of this permissions bug when using Cygwin in Windows 8: http://superuser.com/questions/397288/using-cygwin-in-windows-8-chmod-600-does-not-work-as-

Re: child windows opens without window-manager

2012-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/6/2012 3:19 PM, egerl...@aiai.de wrote: Hi, a commercial medical program is needed to be displayed in -multiwindow mode on WinXP. Latest cygwin 1.7.5 (installed 3 days ago) seens so work. But child windows are opened in maximum size and these windows can't be resized. The X (close) and the

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/6/2012 9:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: Hi, Wanted to check to see if you were aware of this permissions bug when using Cygwin in Windows 8: http://superuser.com/questions/397288/using-cygwin-in-windows-8-chmod-600-does-not-work-as-

child windows opens without window-manager

2012-12-06 Thread egerlach
Hi, a commercial medical program is needed to be displayed in -multiwindow mode on WinXP. Latest cygwin 1.7.5 (installed 3 days ago) seens so work. But child windows are opened in maximum size and these windows can't be resized. The X (close) and the other two symbols are not shown. The window

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread Chaz Littlejohn
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: > Hi, > > Wanted to check to see if you were aware of this permissions bug when > using Cygwin in Windows 8: > > http://superuser.com/questions/397288/using-cygwin-in-windows-8-chmod-600-does-not-work-as-expected > http://superuser.com/questi

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > emacs-w32 shouldn't require dbus-daemon, as far as I know. This > sounds like a bug. Could you give me a specific recipe for > reproducing the problem? Just make sure Cygwin has cleanly terminated, then open a mintty (I use tcsh if that has a bearing on this bug) and start em

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bzr 2.6+b2-1 -- Python based distributed version control (DVCS)

2012-12-06 Thread Jari Aalto
Package maintainer's foreword = As of 2012-11-15 the future of this software is uncertain as the current development has stagnated. All the lead developers have left Canonical (the project owner). You might want to consider migrating to other alternative DVCS software,

Re: [ATTN: Git maintainer] Is there a reason Git package depends on cvs/cvsps ?

2012-12-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/06/2012 10:57 AM, bartels wrote: > On 12/06/2012 05:59 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>> > Is there a reason Git package depends on cvsps (and in result - >>> cvs) package? >>> > It doesn't looks like cvsps is required for daily Git operations. >>> > Am I missing something? >> Git has M&Ps to all

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pv-1.3.9-1

2012-12-06 Thread Aaron Schneider
On 06/12/2012 19:05, Ken Brown wrote: This isn't the program you're trying to debug. This file contains the debugging symbols. You need to run gdb on pv.exe, as before; gdb will know to look in /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/pv.exe.dbg for the symbols. $ gdb pv GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5.50.20120815-cvs (cyg

Re: [ATTN: Git maintainer] Is there a reason Git package depends on cvs/cvsps ?

2012-12-06 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Earnie Boyd! >> Is there a reason Git package depends on cvsps (and in result - cvs) package? >> It doesn't looks like cvsps is required for daily Git operations. >> Am I missing something? > Git has M&Ps to allow you to clone a CVS repository using git commands. And same for Subversi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pv-1.3.9-1

2012-12-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2012 12:58 PM, Aaron Schneider wrote: On 06/12/2012 18:50, marco atzeri wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. mainCRTStartup () at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-1.7.17-1/winsup/cygwin/crt0.c:23 23 /usr/src/debug/cygwin-1.7.17-1/winsup/cygwin/crt0.c: No such file or dir

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pv-1.3.9-1

2012-12-06 Thread Aaron Schneider
On 06/12/2012 18:50, marco atzeri wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. mainCRTStartup () at /usr/src/debug/cygwin-1.7.17-1/winsup/cygwin/crt0.c:23 23 /usr/src/debug/cygwin-1.7.17-1/winsup/cygwin/crt0.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) you should at least install the

Re: [ATTN: Git maintainer] Is there a reason Git package depends on cvs/cvsps ?

2012-12-06 Thread bartels
On 12/06/2012 05:59 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: > Is there a reason Git package depends on cvsps (and in result - cvs) package? > It doesn't looks like cvsps is required for daily Git operations. > Am I missing something? Git has M&Ps to allow you to clone a CVS repository using git commands. See

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pv-1.3.9-1

2012-12-06 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/6/2012 6:37 PM, Aaron Schneider wrote: On 06/12/2012 13:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You know, you could actually grab GDB and debug the application without the requirement to dive into Cygwin. Debugging the application is the same thing on every OS. This are the errors I get with a si

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pv-1.3.9-1

2012-12-06 Thread Aaron Schneider
On 06/12/2012 13:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You know, you could actually grab GDB and debug the application without the requirement to dive into Cygwin. Debugging the application is the same thing on every OS. This are the errors I get with a simple debugging: (gdb) target exec pv (gdb) ru

Re: [ATTN: Git maintainer] Is there a reason Git package depends on cvs/cvsps ?

2012-12-06 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, All! > > Is there a reason Git package depends on cvsps (and in result - cvs) package? > It doesn't looks like cvsps is required for daily Git operations. > Am I missing something? Git has M&Ps to allow you to clone a CVS repository

Re: emacs hangs when a sub-process goes defunct

2012-12-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2012 10:04 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/6/2012 9:08 AM, Jonas J Linde wrote: Hello! And Ken Brown spoke unto the world. And said: On 11/14/2012 11:07 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote: Emacs often hangs when I save a buffer which is also tied to an svn repository. When I run ps I see the ema

Re: SVN and executable permissions

2012-12-06 Thread Burton Samograd
Csaba Raduly writes: > Hi Burton, > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Burton Samograd wrote: >> bartelswrites: > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > >> Is there way to specify to svn on the command line or though a config file that these types of files should automaticall

Re: emacs hangs when a sub-process goes defunct

2012-12-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2012 9:08 AM, Jonas J Linde wrote: Hello! And Ken Brown spoke unto the world. And said: On 11/14/2012 11:07 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote: Emacs often hangs when I save a buffer which is also tied to an svn repository. When I run ps I see the emacs child process 'svn' . I just had a ver

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bind-9.9.2-P1-1

2012-12-06 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Yaakov (Cygwin/X)! > The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: > *** bind-9.9.2-P1-1 > *** bind-utils-9.9.2-P1-1 > ISC BIND is a suite of Domain Name Service (DNS) utilities. > This is an update to the latest upstream release. dig, host, nslookup, > and nsu

[ATTN: Git maintainer] Is there a reason Git package depends on cvs/cvsps ?

2012-12-06 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! Is there a reason Git package depends on cvsps (and in result - cvs) package? It doesn't looks like cvsps is required for daily Git operations. Am I missing something? -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 06.12.2012, <18:55> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake1.12-1.12.5-1

2012-12-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's suitable for use with Autoconf, compliant with the GNU Makefile standards, and portable to various make implementations. This is the first release in the automake-1.12 release series, and contains the latest version of automake system,

sigwait() ignores non-thread-specific pending signals

2012-12-06 Thread Andreas Steenpaß
I have noticed that sigwait() does not return immediately if called in the following situation: * One of the signals the command is looking for isalready pending. * This signal was send to the entire process rather than to a specific thread. * sigwait() is called from a thread other than the 'main'

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pv-1.3.9-1

2012-12-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 6 12:12, Aaron Schneider wrote: > On 06/12/2012 3:43, Vin Shelton wrote: > > > >This version fails with: > > > >zsh: invalid system call pv > > > >on a 64-bit W7 install. > > > >The previous version (1.3.4.1) worked fine. Please let me know if you > >need more info. > > > > Apparently, t

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/6/2012 3:21 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: Thanks to the efforts of Daniel Colascione, there is also a new package *** emacs-w32-24.2.90-1, again a test release, for users who want to use the native Windows GUI for display. I've encountered only one problem so f

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pv-1.3.9-1

2012-12-06 Thread Aaron Schneider
On 06/12/2012 3:43, Vin Shelton wrote: This version fails with: zsh: invalid system call pv on a 64-bit W7 install. The previous version (1.3.4.1) worked fine. Please let me know if you need more info. Apparently, there is a problem on this new version of pv with cygwin. Maybe someone w

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bind-9.9.2-P1-1

2012-12-06 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** bind-9.9.2-P1-1 *** bind-utils-9.9.2-P1-1 ISC BIND is a suite of Domain Name Service (DNS) utilities. This is an update to the latest upstream release. dig, host, nslookup, and nsupdate are now in a separate bind-utils pack

Re: Updated: emacs*-24.2.90-1 (TEST)

2012-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
> Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: > > Thanks to the efforts of Daniel Colascione, there is also a new package > > > > *** emacs-w32-24.2.90-1, > > > > again a test release, for users who want to use the native Windows GUI > > for display. I've encountered only one problem so far: If I start e