setup: how to select all src packages too?

2014-02-17 Thread Luke Kendall
It's great that Cygwin has so many packages. And setup.exe makes it easy to select the packages you want. But it seems quite difficult to also select all the corresponding source packages as well, simply because there are so many packages! In the worst case, where you want every package, and

Error encountered using GStreamer on Visual Studio

2014-02-17 Thread Mirza
While running GStreamer1.0 basic tutorial on Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition, in debugging mode following error is encountered: Error: Link 1104:'libmoldname.a' missing I have updated libraries to rectify it but it is not working. Please suggest some approach to correct this error. Thanks in ad

Re: Patch for run-1.3.0-1 core dump

2014-02-17 Thread Charles Wilson
On 2/17/2014 12:25 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Since I've been running with CYGWIN error_start always set at the moment, I've noticed that run is always crashing after launching the process. I went to all the trouble of investigating this, discovering that run2_freeargv() is double-freeing the last el

Re: Patch for run-1.3.0-1 core dump

2014-02-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 12/08/2013 15:22, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 8/10/2013 1:34 PM, foo wrote: >> Whenever I execute run.exe, it generates run.exe.stackdump. >> >> At line 370 in run.c, run2_freeargv() tries to free newargv, and >> run2_freeqrgv() expects that newargv is terminated by NULL. However, >> in shifting

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 13 15:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi folks, > > > this week I applied the first incarnation of the new passwd/group > handling code to the Cygwin repository and after fixing a crash which > manifested in Denis Excoffier's network, I think we're at a point > which allows to push this forw

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mksh-49-1

2014-02-17 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Version 49-1 of "mksh" has been uploaded. MirBSD Korn Shell (mksh) is an actively developed free implementation of the Korn Shell programming language and a successor to the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh). For a detailed list of changes, please see: https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm#r49

Re: batch script execution failing with 255 exit code in cygwin 1.7.28

2014-02-17 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Prakash Babu wrote: thanks Christopher. I found the following archive which introduced this fix (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2014-q1/msg00017.html) I've read this thread, and I'm not convinced that the path improves the behavior. You seem to have traded one inconsistency with anothe