Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Revoked: maxima-exec-clisp

2015-03-17 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 3/17/2015 10:02 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: I've revoked the maxima-exec-clisp sub-package since at the moment it doesn't survive a rebase of the clisp runtime libraries(*). If you have that package already installed please uninstall it manually (this should keep the package maxima installed). F

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: wget-1.16.3-1

2015-03-17 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of wget, 1.16.3-1, will be available soon for download from your favorite mirror, leaving 1.16.2-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. See also the package documentation in /usr/share/doc/wget/. DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a file retrieval utility whic

Alternative implementation of select()?

2015-03-17 Thread Matthew Bromley-Barratt
Hello all, If I've read the code right, the implementation of select() in select.cc sets up a thread per file descriptor. Each of these threads polls their file descriptor looking for events that might have occurred. I also remember reading a long time ago (I cannot find it now) comments from th

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Revoked: maxima-exec-clisp (was: Updated: maxima-5.35.1-3)

2015-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
I've revoked the maxima-exec-clisp sub-package since at the moment it doesn't survive a rebase of the clisp runtime libraries(*). If you have that package already installed please uninstall it manually (this should keep the package maxima installed). For new installations just use maxima as the

Re: who is root? (or /usr/bin/sshd fails to start because of /var/log ownership)

2015-03-17 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: >> On Mar 17 10:10, Mirko Vukovic wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> A few weeks ago, sshd stopped working after a cygwin64 update. I >>> reinstalled cygwin64 (because of the new user and p

Re: who is root? (or /usr/bin/sshd fails to start because of /var/log ownership)

2015-03-17 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 17 10:10, Mirko Vukovic wrote: >> Hello, >> >> A few weeks ago, sshd stopped working after a cygwin64 update. I >> reinstalled cygwin64 (because of the new user and password handling, I >> figured that to be easiest). >> >> I stil

Re: who is root? (or /usr/bin/sshd fails to start because of /var/log ownership)

2015-03-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 03/17/2015 04:45 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: but should sshd log in as a local service (the initial setting), cyg_server, or sshd? ssh-host-config configures sshd to run as the (local) cyg_server by default. -- Larry _ A: Ye

Re: Build script using gcc fails - missing ncurses?

2015-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Fergus Daly writes: > PS Adding ',ncurses' to {list of packages} has made no difference: > still getting error message ".. cannot find -lncurses". Yes, as you already wrote yourself when asking your question, you are missing the package "libcurses-devel". Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE

Re: [cygwin] Re: git fails to push

2015-03-17 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 03:52:49PM +0100, Peter Rosin wrote: > Interesting. But the patch may not be needed. The easy thing to > do seems to be to either use core.createobject = rename > or to convince some git :-) that Cygwin also needs > OBJECT_CREATION_USES_RENAMES = UnfortunatelyNeedTo >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libXfont-1.5.1-1

2015-03-17 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * libXfont1-1.5.1-1 * libXfont-devel-1.5.1-1 libXfont provides the core of the legacy X11 font system, handling the index files (fonts.dir, fonts.alias, fonts.scale), the various font file formats, and rasterizing them. It is

Re: cygwin 1.7.35 absolute/relative path bug

2015-03-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 17 18:23, Dmitry Bely wrote: > Corinna, > > Thanks, your snapshot works for me. Good to know, thanks for your feedback. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat pgpeGwW4vRWgx

Re: Xorg server 1.7.1 spontaneously exiting with clipboard message

2015-03-17 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > If this happens again, can you show me the ~/.xsession-errors file as well? I am waiting for it to happen again, but in a situation where I could remember what led up to it. > Do you have a ~/.startxwinrc? What are it's contents? My ~/.start

Re: cygwin 1.7.35 absolute/relative path bug

2015-03-17 Thread Dmitry Bely
Corinna, Thanks, your snapshot works for me. - Dmitry Bely On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 17 15:05, Dmitry Bely wrote: >> Consider the following test case: >> >> [Makefile] >> .PHONY: default >> default: >> ./test.sh >> >> [test.sh] >> #!/bin/sh >> uname -a >>

Re: [cygwin] Re: git fails to push

2015-03-17 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2015-03-17 15:52, Peter Rosin wrote: > On 2015-03-17 14:33, Jason Pyeron wrote: >> Pardon the direct reply, but my posts are blocked. > > Perhaps your boilerplate footer with copyright claims, or the > raw email addresses? I took the liberty or forwarding it > to the list. I hope that was ok. >

Re: [cygwin] Re: git fails to push

2015-03-17 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2015-03-17 14:33, Jason Pyeron wrote: > Pardon the direct reply, but my posts are blocked. Perhaps your boilerplate footer with copyright claims, or the raw email addresses? I took the liberty or forwarding it to the list. I hope that was ok. >

Re: who is root? (or /usr/bin/sshd fails to start because of /var/log ownership)

2015-03-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 17 10:10, Mirko Vukovic wrote: > Hello, > > A few weeks ago, sshd stopped working after a cygwin64 update. I > reinstalled cygwin64 (because of the new user and password handling, I > figured that to be easiest). > > I still cannot get sshd to run. I get an error message: > >/usr/sbin/ss

who is root? (or /usr/bin/sshd fails to start because of /var/log ownership)

2015-03-17 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, A few weeks ago, sshd stopped working after a cygwin64 update. I reinstalled cygwin64 (because of the new user and password handling, I figured that to be easiest). I still cannot get sshd to run. I get an error message: >/usr/sbin/sshd.exe -d debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_6.7, OpenSSL 1.

Re: git fails to push

2015-03-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 17 14:12, Peter Rosin wrote: > On 2015-03-16 22:45, Warren Young wrote: > > On Mar 12, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > >> > >> To file:///cygdrive/x/some path/with spaces/repo.git > > > > You shouldn’t be doing anything shared-database-like to a network drive. > > Network file sha

Re: Changes in process spawning break perl system() function

2015-03-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
echoed instead > >> > >> This affects 1.7.35. > > > > Thanks for the report. I applied a fix for that and uploaded new > > snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > > > Could you please try them and report back? > > > > > > Tried cygwin1-20150317.dll, the bug is fixed. Thanks for testing! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat pgpvmK2ln5Fjh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cygwin 1.7.35 absolute/relative path bug

2015-03-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 17 15:05, Dmitry Bely wrote: > Consider the following test case: > > [Makefile] > .PHONY: default > default: > ./test.sh > > [test.sh] > #!/bin/sh > uname -a > pwd > echo $0 > > make under Cygwin 1.7.34-6 produced the following results: > > ./test.sh > CYGWIN_NT-6.3 bely-win81 1.7.34(0.2

Re: git fails to push

2015-03-17 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2015-03-16 22:45, Warren Young wrote: > On Mar 12, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> >> To file:///cygdrive/x/some path/with spaces/repo.git > > You shouldn’t be doing anything shared-database-like to a network drive. > Network file sharing protocols typically either A) do not do locki

RE: Build script using gcc fails - missing ncurses?

2015-03-17 Thread Fergus Daly
> A build script I have used forever containing the line > gcc -o execname ./{various.a} -lncurses > has failed in a new installation today of Cygwin, with the error message > ld: cannot find -lncurses > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > The installation script to bui

Build script using gcc fails - missing ncurses?

2015-03-17 Thread Fergus Daly
A build script I have used forever containing the line gcc -o execname ./{various.a} -lncurses has failed in a new installation today of Cygwin, with the error message ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status The installation script to build Cyg

Re: Windows Server 2012 R2 - man very very slow

2015-03-17 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Vilius Mockūnas wrote: Windows version: Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (x64) Cygwin version: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.3-WOW64 host1 1.7.33-2(0.280/5/3) 2014-11-13 15:45 i686 Cygwin man displays man pages very slowly - for example "man ls" takes about 45s to

Re: Changes in process spawning break perl system() function

2015-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > Thanks for the report. I applied a fix for that and uploaded new > snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > Could you please try them and report back? Fix confirmed. Regards, Achim -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

cygwin 1.7.35 absolute/relative path bug

2015-03-17 Thread Dmitry Bely
Consider the following test case: [Makefile] .PHONY: default default: ./test.sh [test.sh] #!/bin/sh uname -a pwd echo $0 make under Cygwin 1.7.34-6 produced the following results: ./test.sh CYGWIN_NT-6.3 bely-win81 1.7.34(0.285/5/3) 2015-02-04 12:14 x86_64 Cygwin /cygdrive/c/Work/Test/Cygwin ./

Re: Changes in process spawning break perl system() function

2015-03-17 Thread LRN
mlink" should be echoed by the shellscript when it is run by perlscript >> >> Actual results: >> "shellscript" is echoed instead >> >> This affects 1.7.35. > > Thanks for the report. I applied a fix for that and uploaded new > snapshots

Re: Changes in process spawning break perl system() function

2015-03-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 17 03:34, LRN wrote: > How to reproduce: > 1) create a shell script (say, /usr/bin/shellscript) containing this: > > #!/bin/sh > echo ${0##*/} > > 2) create a symlink (say, /usr/bin/asymlink) that points to shellscript > > 3) create a perl script (say, /usr/bin/perlscript) containing this

Re: PTY dies when master in parent process is closed.

2015-03-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 15 12:06, Takashi Yano wrote: > Thank you, Corinna. > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:54:23 +0100 > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Patch applied with an additional preceeding comment so we know why > > PeekNamedPipe is called here. > > I have confirmed that the problems have been fixed > in late

Re: Changes in process spawning break perl system() function

2015-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
LRN gmail.com> writes: > This affects 1.7.35. I can confirm this for the latest snapshot also: CYGWIN_NT-6.3 CYGWIN 1.7.36(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-11 12:02 x86_64 Cygwin Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Document

Re: ssmtp stopped working after cygwin 1.7.34-6 was released

2015-03-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] niaid.nih.gov> writes: > After cygwin was updated to 1.7.34-6, ssmtp stopped working for me. You might want to try 1.7.35 before investigating further. Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cyg