Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Nobody care. Really. Noone going to recheck your answers to see is they are > relevant to the current Cygwin realities. Which is a part of issue. > Cygwin is evolving, and answers found all around the internet, copypasted for > years without ev

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Steven Penny! >> Advice provided through third-party channels is likely to be erroneous. > This is highly presumptuous. It is time-proven. > I have asked 10 questions and given 68 answers on > Stack Overflow, you calling those likely to be erroneous? Nobody care. Really. Noone going

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Doug Henderson
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Andrew DeFaria <> wrote: > On 8/4/2014 7:52 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >>> Thankfully, the "rough attitude" >>> is not held by everyone, though it sometimes has been seen in people who >>> carry platinum watches - and that might encourage its continuation... >>

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/4/2014 7:52 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Thankfully, the "rough attitude" is not held by everyone, though it sometimes has been seen in people who carry platinum watches - and that might encourage its continuation... I like platinum watches. Platinum watches are friends of mine. You s

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/4/2014 7:52 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Thankfully, the "rough attitude" is not held by everyone, though it sometimes has been seen in people who carry platinum watches - and that might encourage its continuation... I like platinum watches. Platinum watches are friends of mine. You s

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 05/08/2014 03:23, Steven Penny wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Advice provided through third-party channels is likely to be erroneous. This is highly presumptuous. I have asked 10 questions and given 68 answers on Stack Overflow, you calling those likely to be

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/04/2014 09:55 PM, Richard Troy wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Steven Penny wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Advice provided through third-party channels is likely to be erroneous. (Sorry Richard, I added Yaakov's response above back in so I could make a comme

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Richard Troy wrote: > you could have helped the person by doing those other things (like looking at > stackoverflow) using less energy than you spent being abrasive. Hey bro, what the hell are you talking about? *I* made one comment, which was this > This is highly

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Richard Troy
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Steven Penny wrote: ...snip... This is highly presumptuous. I have asked 10 questions and given 68 answers on ... This list has had a long history of having a somewhat different attitude - culture, if you will - than you might find elsewhere on the net; some might call

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > Advice provided through third-party channels is likely to be erroneous. This is highly presumptuous. I have asked 10 questions and given 68 answers on Stack Overflow, you calling those likely to be erroneous? http://stackoverflow.com/users

re: Missing 64 bit packages

2014-08-04 Thread Dan Kegel
On 5 Aug 2013, Corinna wrote: > below's the latest list of packages yet mssing in the 64 bit distro > ... > Reini Urban > ... > perl-libwin32 I just ran into this while following http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/cygwin I probably don't need it myself, but was curious whether there were

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2014-08-04 14:16, Philip Daniels wrote: A while ago I asked a question on Stack Overflow about doing a basic install task with cygport, but got no answers. Too esoteric perhaps. Support is only provided (as best we can) through the mailing lists here on cygwin.com. Advice provided through

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 08:16:13PM +0100, Philip Daniels wrote: > A while ago I asked a question on Stack Overflow about doing a basic > install task with cygport, but got no answers. Too esoteric perhaps. I > think it should be easy for anyone who knows cygport, it's a basic "copy > some files to

seg fault on override of a weak symbol in g++

2014-08-04 Thread Keith Clifford
Hi, I was trying to build the ppl 1.1 library and got a seg fault when running one of the tests. I've narrowed it down to the attached test case. System: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Keith-PC 1.7.31(0.272/5/3) 2014-07-25 11:26 x86_64 Cygwin Both the following GCC's exhibit the problem Cygwin: Using built-in spe

cannot display man page for /bin/passwd

2014-08-04 Thread Doug Henderson
When I try to display the man page for /bin/passwd, the man page for the openssl passwd subcommand is displayed. It appears that both the package containing /bin/passwd, and the openssl package place the passwd.1.gz file in the /usr/share/man/man1 directory, so that only the man page from the most

passwd (cygwin) 1.7.31 ignores keyboard interrupts

2014-08-04 Thread Doug Henderson
The password utility /bin/passwd ignores the ^C and ^D interrupt characters in mintty in my 64-bit only cygwin environment. This can lead to inadvertent password changes, possibly requiring a lengthy or complex password recovery or reset. When you start /bin/passwd from a mintty terminal window w

Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Philip Daniels
Hi, A while ago I asked a question on Stack Overflow about doing a basic install task with cygport, but got no answers. Too esoteric perhaps. I think it should be easy for anyone who knows cygport, it's a basic "copy some files to a known location" task. Can anyone help? http://stackoverflow.com

Re: Simplify AD integration?

2014-08-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 30 20:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 30 12:10, Eric Blake wrote: > > [resend; apologies for the encryption snafu] > > > > On 07/30/2014 07:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > > Default is 'auto': > > > > > > builtin accounts; "+SYSTEM", "+LOCAL", etc. > > > primary

Command-line package manager: cyg-apt

2014-08-04 Thread James Nylen
Some of you may have heard of cyg-apt which is a command-line package manager for Cygwin. I and another developer have made extensive updates and fixes to cyg-apt, and gotten it working pretty well: https://github.com/nylen/cyg-apt Bug reports and patches welcome. I've tried to contact cjcormie

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: coreutils-8.23-1

2014-08-04 Thread Christian Franke
Eric Blake wrote: On 08/03/2014 11:32 PM, Christian Franke wrote: Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: A new release of coreutils, 8.23-1, is available for download for testing purposes, leaving 8.15-1 (32-bit) or 8.15-3 (64-bit) as current for another week until I am sure there are no major regressions.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gdb-7.8-1

2014-08-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the Cygwin version of GDB to 7.8-1. This is an update to the latest official upstream version. This release still has some as-yet-unsubmitted fixes for Cygwin signal handling. It also adds python scripting support. GDB is now packed using cygport. Have fun, Corinna -- Corinna V

Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs

2014-08-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 4 09:34, Ken Brown wrote: > On 8/4/2014 4:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Aug 3 21:02, Ken Brown wrote: > >>On 8/1/2014 9:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>It could be a problem with the new default pthread mutexes being > >>>NORMAL, rather then ERRORCHECK mutexes. > >> > >>That doe

Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs

2014-08-04 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/4/2014 4:05 AM, Peter Hull wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Ken Brown wrote: That does seem to be the problem, since I can reproduce the bug starting with the 2014-07-14 snapshot. More precisely, I can reproduce it using emacs-nox (which is what the OP was using according to his cyg

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: coreutils-8.23-1

2014-08-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/03/2014 11:32 PM, Christian Franke wrote: > Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: >> A new release of coreutils, 8.23-1, is available for download for >> testing purposes, leaving 8.15-1 (32-bit) or 8.15-3 (64-bit) as current >> for another week until I am sure there are no major regressions. >> >> ...

Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs

2014-08-04 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/4/2014 4:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 3 21:02, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/1/2014 9:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 1 14:17, Peter Hull wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Since I upgraded to Cygwin-1.7.31*, I see similar issue in building Emacs trun

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New in 64-bit: p7zip-9.20.1-1

2014-08-04 Thread Tony Kelman
Version 9.20.1-1 of p7zip has been uploaded to the 64-bit distribution. This is the first release of p7zip for x86_64. p7zip is the Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that archives with very high compression ratios. It supports packing/unpacking 7z, zip, gzip bzip2, xz, tar, and wim archives.

Re: Newer version of Perl?

2014-08-04 Thread Kptain
Any news? I'm already using Perl 5.18 on Cygwin 32 , and I would like to do the same on 64 bit as most of packages I need are now already available on 64 bits. Thanks in advance, and also for all your work, Rgds, Stephane -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.co

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: coreutils-8.23-1

2014-08-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 4 07:32, Christian Franke wrote: > Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: > >A new release of coreutils, 8.23-1, is available for download for > >testing purposes, leaving 8.15-1 (32-bit) or 8.15-3 (64-bit) as current > >for another week until I am sure there are no major regressions. > > > >... > >[ a

Re: "exit code 1" on 64-bit installer

2014-08-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 4 02:02, Steven Penny wrote: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > You're right: the aforementioned directions are not difficult, and > > following them will help us help you. Please note that making snarky > > comments is not part of those directions. > > I unders

Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs

2014-08-04 Thread Peter Hull
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > That does seem to be the problem, since I can reproduce the bug starting > with the 2014-07-14 snapshot. More precisely, I can reproduce it using > emacs-nox (which is what the OP was using according to his cygcheck output) > but not using emacs-

Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs

2014-08-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 21:02, Ken Brown wrote: > On 8/1/2014 9:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Aug 1 14:17, Peter Hull wrote: > >>On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Angelo Graziosi > >> wrote: > >>>Since I upgraded to Cygwin-1.7.31*, I see similar issue in building Emacs > >>>trunk (--with-w32 build)... The

Re: "exit code 1" on 64-bit installer

2014-08-04 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > You're right: the aforementioned directions are not difficult, and > following them will help us help you. Please note that making snarky > comments is not part of those directions. I understand why you ask for that information, but it pis