Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-29 Thread Denis Excoffier
The snapshot 20130430 works well. Thank you to JonY, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) and Christopher Faylor who responded. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsu

Re: luatex font path problem

2013-04-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2013-04-28 11:56, Arthur Tu wrote: After lualatex command, file "~/.cache/texmf/luatex-cache/generic/names/otfl-names.lua" was generated. [snip] Could you provide a small TeX sample with which this can be reproduced? Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Stack Overflow versus the Cygwin mailing lists (Was: prefork error : couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161)

2013-04-29 Thread Warren Young
On 4/29/2013 19:42, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'll try to make the point again: If you are looking for help for software then the closer you can get to the source of the software the better the help is likely to be. For purely technical questions, not answered already, yes. We see a lot of br

Re: luatex font path problem

2013-04-29 Thread Arthur Tu
On 4/30/2013 12:47 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/28/2013 12:56 PM, Arthur Tu wrote: After lualatex command, file "~/.cache/texmf/luatex-cache/generic/names/otfl-names.lua" was generated. Entry like this for example { ["familyname"]="SimSun", ["filename"]={ "c:/windows/fonts/simsun.ttc"

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 09:57:47PM +0200, Denis Excoffier wrote: > >On 2013-04-29 12:09, JonY wrote: >> On 4/29/2013 14:40, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> I tried the 20130424 snapshot and obtained the following Windows message >>> (in pop-up and translated from french): >>> >>> bash:

Re: Stack Overflow versus the Cygwin mailing lists (Was: prefork error : couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161)

2013-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 04:36:44PM -0400, Tim Prince wrote: >On 04/29/2013 04:28 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> On 4/29/2013 11:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>> The net is full of bad and outdated advice about Cygwin. >> >> Stack Overflow gives you the tools to fix that. Post comments, post >> be

Re: Stack Overflow versus the Cygwin mailing lists (Was: prefork error : couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161)

2013-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
Witness here the internet phenomenon where a one sentence throwaway line made four months ago can cause multi-paragraph responses. I'll try to make the point again: If you are looking for help for software then the closer you can get to the source of the software the better the help is likely to b

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/temp/cygwin1-20130429.dll.xz Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Compiling deja-dup

2013-04-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/29/2013 5:22 PM, Maarten Jacobs wrote: The long and short of my question is: is there a way for me to make sure that all my build dependencies are met, without having to actually go through the compilation process? Many packages list their dependencies on the project site. That's one way.

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-29 Thread JonY
On 4/30/2013 03:57, Denis Excoffier wrote: > The pop-up is produced even before login, presumably during the load of > "bash --login -i" (but i also have /bin/bash in /etc/passwd, so this may also > be the reason). > > I don't understand why a symlink is created during login, but in any case, > on

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {man/manlint}-1.6g-2: Man, apropos and whatis commands

2013-04-29 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ciao Volker, on cygwin-apps (sorry for replay on this list, I am not subscribed there) Dr. Volker Zell wrote: AS a workaround use: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man foo obviously it prints, "No manual entry for foo" By the way, what about the man page itself, is it working in the italian locale For

RE: Compiling deja-dup

2013-04-29 Thread Maarten Jacobs
Hello all, I have a noob question for direction. I thought it would be an interesting project to attempt to compile deja-dup under Cygwin. (So far I have not been successful finding out if this was done successfully before, or not). However - it appears I have trouble getting my environment set

Re: Stack Overflow versus the Cygwin mailing lists (Was: prefork error : couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161)

2013-04-29 Thread Tim Prince
On 04/29/2013 04:28 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 4/29/2013 11:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: The net is full of bad and outdated advice about Cygwin. Stack Overflow gives you the tools to fix that. Post comments, post better answers, edit incorrect answers, downvote bad answers, vote to delet

Re: Stack Overflow versus the Cygwin mailing lists (Was: prefork error : couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161)

2013-04-29 Thread Warren Young
On 4/29/2013 11:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: the "I'm looking for my keys here because the light is better" type of mentality to be very counterproductive. More like, "I'm looking for my keys on this street because there are bullies on the next street over." Bullies on SO get downvoted to

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-29 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2013-04-29 12:09, JonY wrote: > On 4/29/2013 14:40, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I tried the 20130424 snapshot and obtained the following Windows message >> (in pop-up and translated from french): >> >> bash: CreateSymbolicLinkW not found in KERNEL32.DLL >> >> >> Therefore, i keep

Re: Stack Overflow versus the Cygwin mailing lists (Was: prefork error : couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161)

2013-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 04:19:02PM +, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >Chris Faylor wrote: >>[I see the same problem posted on stackoverflow. I'll never understand >>why people don't just go to the place where they downloaded the >>software for help first] > >(I only just spotted this thread from cgf's

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: enscript-1.6.4-4: A free replacement for the Adobe's enscript program

2013-04-29 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'enscript' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.18 with gcc-4.5.3 o Uses cygport for .hint files generation o debuginfo package included CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygw

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-4.6.3-1: A command-line driven interactive function plotting utility

2013-04-29 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'gnuplot' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release. o Build for cygwin 1.7.18 with gcc-4.5.3 gnuplot NEWS: === New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.6.3 ===

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: httperf-0.9.0-2: A tool for measuring web server performance

2013-04-29 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'httperf' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.18 with gcc-4.5.3 o Uses cygport for .hint files generation o debuginfo package included CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: texi2html-1.82-11: A highly customizable texinfo to HTML and other formats translator

2013-04-29 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'texi2html' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.18 and perl 5.14.2 o Uses cygport for .hint files generation CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, pl

Re: luatex font path problem

2013-04-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/28/2013 12:56 PM, Arthur Tu wrote: After lualatex command, file "~/.cache/texmf/luatex-cache/generic/names/otfl-names.lua" was generated. Entry like this for example { ["familyname"]="SimSun", ["filename"]={ "c:/windows/fonts/simsun.ttc", 0 }, ["fontname"]="SimSun", ["ful

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {openldap/libopenldap2_4_2/openldap-devel}-2.4.35-1: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol suite

2013-04-29 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'openldap/libopenldap2_4_2/openldap-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream version o Build for cygwin 1.7.18 with gcc-4.5.3 openldap NEWS: === OpenLDAP 2.4.35 Release (2013/03/31) Fixed liblmdb mdb_cursor_put with

Stack Overflow versus the Cygwin mailing lists (Was: prefork error : couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161)

2013-04-29 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Chris Faylor wrote: > [I see the same problem posted on stackoverflow. I'll never understand why > people don't just go to the place where they downloaded the software for help > first] (I only just spotted this thread from cgf's linking to it; I suspect I missed the original due to being AFK fo

Re: BASH and MAN failure

2013-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 03:39:45AM -0430, rodmed...@cantv.net wrote: >On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:21:18 -0400 Earnie Boyd wrote > >>You need to source tzset.sh into your >>environment instead of executing tzset.sh in a child environment. > >indeed > >$ . /etc/profile.d/tzset.sh > 1 [main] bash 140

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {aspell/libaspell15/libaspell-devel}-0.60.6.1-2: A spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell

2013-04-29 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'aspell/libaspell15/libaspell-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.18 with gcc-4.5.3 o Uses cygport for .hint files generation o debuginfo package included CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-29 Thread JonY
On 4/29/2013 14:40, Denis Excoffier wrote: > Hello! > > I tried the 20130424 snapshot and obtained the following Windows message > (in pop-up and translated from french): > > bash: CreateSymbolicLinkW not found in KERNEL32.DLL > > > Therefore, i keep the plain 1.7.18 running: > > % cat /proc/v