[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs-24.4-1

2014-10-21 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** emacs-24.4-1 *** emacs-X11-24.4-1 *** emacs-w32-24.4-1 *** emacs-el-24.4-1 Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (el

Re: FW: [BUG] SCons 2.3.0 sometimes cannot find files

2014-10-21 Thread David Rothenberger
Pavel Fedin wrote: > Hello! > >> I saw the email, but haven't had time to look into it. Your reduced >> test case didn't make it, either. > > How ? The idea is to save it under 'test.py' name and run as 'python > test.py'. You should get FAIL with the original version and PASS if you > apply th

Re: Tester for openblas needed

2014-10-21 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/21/2014 7:49 PM, Tony Kelman wrote: Hopefully the number of threads you set at build time is just a maximum. The library is explicitly designed so you can control the number of threads used at runtime. What we're not sure about is what happens in the default case when you don't manually se

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: scons-2.3.4-1

2014-10-21 Thread David Rothenberger
DESCRIPTION: SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache. In

Re: Tester for openblas needed

2014-10-21 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/21/2014 6:59 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Marco Atzeri writes: Use "make NUM_THREADS=n " to support n threads. " Wait, what? So how many THREADS would you like to see ? It should determine the number of cores at runtime as well as the level of SSE/AVX support: i686 starts with the PentiumP

Re: Tester for openblas needed

2014-10-21 Thread Tony Kelman
It should determine the number of cores at runtime as well as the level of SSE/AVX support: i686 starts with the PentiumPro, which didn't have SSE. Fixing this at compile time is nice for local builds, but no good for packages. As long as you set DYNAMIC_ARCH=1 (which Marco did), openblas does

Re: Tester for openblas needed

2014-10-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: > Use "make NUM_THREADS=n " to support n threads. " Wait, what? > So how many THREADS would you like to see ? It should determine the number of cores at runtime as well as the level of SSE/AVX support: i686 starts with the PentiumPro, which didn't have SSE. Fixing this at c

Re: cygcheck -s segfaults in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-21 Thread John Wiersba
On Tue, 10/21/14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I also created a new snapshot > on https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ which > comes with a cygcheck containing that patch. Thanks, Corinna! Now I can get back to debugging my real issue! :-) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin clipboard flaky on Windows 7

2014-10-21 Thread Chris Stenton
On 21/10/2014 13:15, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 17/10/2014 12:28, Chris Stenton wrote: When X is first started and with one "windows notepad" open I can bi-directionally cut and paste between the MS and X windows world. However, it seems that if I have multiple MS windows open then I can't cut from

Re: Tester for openblas needed

2014-10-21 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/21/2014 2:39 PM, Tony Kelman wrote: So how many THREADS would you like to see ? I think 8 would cover the majority of users, 16 at the most. I've seen cases where openblas can try to use threads on small problems where it shouldn't need to, so it would be good to check whether it's smart

Re: Tester for openblas needed

2014-10-21 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/20/2014 11:56 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 10/20/2014 6:16 PM, Tony Kelman wrote: I may be doing this wrong, but I'm getting errors from your openblas build, but not the reference blas package, when I run the following: $ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/develop/te

Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

2014-10-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/21/2014 12:06 AM, Don MacDougall wrote: I don't know what happened, but you must have inadvertently selected some packages to install that you didn't intend to choose. There are no texlive packages in a default installation. If I somehow did something like this, is there an easy wa

Re: cygwin.com/cgi-bin not found

2014-10-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 21 14:12, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21 2014, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > On 10/21/2014 1:55 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 20 2014, Andrey Repin wrote: > > > >> A somewhat related issue: I'm looking for genini to setup a custom > >> cygwin mirror as described here: >

Re: Tester for openblas needed

2014-10-21 Thread Tony Kelman
I avoided to include lapack as for compatibility I will need to split exactly as netlib in cygblas-0.dll cyglapack-0.dll something for the future. That makes sense, it gets packaged that way in debian and fedora too. I think there's an open issue on openblas' tracker to add a build option to s

Re: Threads

2014-10-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/21/2014 7:17 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 20 15:58, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/20/2014 3:03 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: One of the headaches when porting is sometimes the ABI. While on Linux the first 6 arguments to a function are given in registers, on Windows only 4 args are in regis

Re: Cygwin clipboard flaky on Windows 7

2014-10-21 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 17/10/2014 12:28, Chris Stenton wrote: When X is first started and with one "windows notepad" open I can bi-directionally cut and paste between the MS and X windows world. However, it seems that if I have multiple MS windows open then I can't cut from MS windows and paste into the X world. I

Re: cygwin.com/cgi-bin not found

2014-10-21 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Tue, Oct 21 2014, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 10/21/2014 1:55 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 20 2014, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> A somewhat related issue: I'm looking for genini to setup a custom >> cygwin mirror as described here: >> >> https://www.sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-ser

Re: cygwin.com/cgi-bin not found

2014-10-21 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/21/2014 1:55 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote: On Mon, Oct 20 2014, Andrey Repin wrote: A somewhat related issue: I'm looking for genini to setup a custom cygwin mirror as described here: https://www.sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html It mentions: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsw

Re: Tester for openblas needed

2014-10-21 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/21/2014 7:47 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 10/21/2014 1:33 AM, Tony Kelman wrote: What does your Makefile.conf say for NUM_CORES? I can't seem to get a test program with your build to use more than 2 cores (I have 4 + HT) by setting the OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS environment variable. NUM_CORES=2

Re: cygwin.com/cgi-bin not found

2014-10-21 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Mon, Oct 20 2014, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Steven Penny! > >>> Removed at some point in the past. You referenced the correct path >>> yourself in the mail the above link points to > >> The following example links do not work > >> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin >> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cv

Unattended setup mode

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Lee
I have found that the first time setup unattended mode (-q) is run it needs more user interaction tan might be expected. I can understand the request for a download site but not the showing the Manager or the action summary. These require the user to select Next twice and does not happen if the se

Re: Threads

2014-10-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 20 15:58, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/20/2014 3:03 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >One of the headaches when porting is sometimes the ABI. While on Linux > >the first 6 arguments to a function are given in registers, on Windows > >only 4 args are in registers. This can result in bugs when call

Re: cygcheck -s segfaults in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 21 04:03, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Instead, I found that COMSPEC needs to be set in the environment or I get a > > segfault as shown in my previous email below. I don't know why that is, > > but I can easily demonstrate it. > > Confirmed here. I had actually already seen this segfault

Re: cygwin.com/cgi-bin not found

2014-10-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Steven Penny! >> You didn't made the issue clear. What part of the Cygwin website is >> referencing these links? I.e. what does not work for you on the website? > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-08/msg00179.html That doesn't answer my question. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yande

Re: cygcheck -s segfaults in cygwin64 on Win7Pro-64

2014-10-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Instead, I found that COMSPEC needs to be set in the environment or I get a > segfault as shown in my previous email below. I don't know why that is, > but I can easily demonstrate it. Confirmed here. I had actually already seen this segfault too, but I hadn't figured out it was caused by em