Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

2015-10-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! > Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? Presumably that would come via PCRE, which man-db does not currently support. Perhaps PTC upstream. >>> >>> If there were such a mode, would it be allowed to enable it, since that

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

2015-10-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! > On Oct 16, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> >> Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? > I’m curious: what sort of incantations do you frequently give to man which > involve REs? Typical ones. F.e. ^\s+\b to quickly find term r

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

2015-10-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Yaakov Selkowitz! >> It was bugging me for quite some time now. I don't like POSIX RE - they are >> cumbersome and unwieldy. >> Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? > Presumably that would come via PCRE, which man-db does not currently > support. Perhaps

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/16/2015 4:52 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Robert Pace writes: I downloaded the very latest setup-x86_64.exe and setup-x86.exe from www.cygwin.com yesterday (version 2.872). I started trying to install the 64bit version of cygwin and selected "download only". I chose a mirror from the list, and

Re: Evolution

2015-10-16 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 20:27 +, Doug Lewan wrote: > It also loaded lots of extra stuff, including gamin which runs > gam_server (IIRC) like a service. It was eating CPU on occasion, > and I couldn't figure out how to stop it, and that made updating > CYGWIN difficult if not impossible. gamin is

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-16 Thread Robert Pace
I can verify that the setup.ini.sig is not stored in the download folder. I earlier today downloaded the setup.ini.sig from the mirror site and put that file in the mirror folder and it complained that the setup.ini was corrupt. On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Robert Pace w

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Robert Pace writes: > I downloaded the very latest setup-x86_64.exe and setup-x86.exe from > www.cygwin.com yesterday (version 2.872). I started trying to install > the 64bit version of cygwin and selected "download only". I chose a > mirror from the list, and the download concluded fine. I then

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

2015-10-16 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 16, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Mike Cappella wrote: > >> On Oct 16, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:33 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? >>> >>> Presumably that would come via PCRE, which

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

2015-10-16 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 14:19 -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Oct 16, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:33 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? > > > > Presumably that would come via PCRE, which

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

2015-10-16 Thread Mike Cappella
> On Oct 16, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:33 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? > > > > Presumably that would come via PCRE, which man-db does not currently > > support. Perhaps PTC up

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: gimp-2.8.14-2

2015-10-16 Thread Doug Lewan
I tried Evolution, but it wasn't obvious how to get it going and I wasn't patient. It also loaded lots of extra stuff, including gamin which runs gam_server (IIRC) like a service. It was eating CPU on occasion, and I couldn't figure out how to stop it, and that made updating CYGWIN difficult if

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

2015-10-16 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 16, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? I’m curious: what sort of incantations do you frequently give to man which involve REs? Maybe I’m just too old-school, but I wasn’t aware that modern man programs even sup

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

2015-10-16 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 16, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:33 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? > > Presumably that would come via PCRE, which man-db does not currently > support. Perhaps PTC upstream. If th

Re: How to correctly rebase?

2015-10-16 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 16, 2015, at 1:18 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Warren Young writes: >> It would be nice if rebase were smart enough to look for *.mex and *.oct > only in known Octave directories, but >> it isn’t my itch, so I’m not going to be doing anything about it. > > I'll see if that's possible without

Re: git gui: assertion "font != NULL" failed

2015-10-16 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 17:09 +, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > A few days ago, I ran Setup to update my currently installed package, > including my git packages. Since then, whenever I run git gui, I get the > following error: > > $ git gui > assertion "font != NULL" failed: file > "/usr/sr

Re: Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

2015-10-16 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:33 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > It was bugging me for quite some time now. I don't like POSIX RE - they are > cumbersome and unwieldy. > Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? Presumably that would come via PCRE, which man-db does not currently

git gui: assertion "font != NULL" failed

2015-10-16 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
A few days ago, I ran Setup to update my currently installed package, including my git packages. Since then, whenever I run git gui, I get the following error: $ git gui assertion "font != NULL" failed: file "/usr/src/ports/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.11.1-3.x86_64/src/fontconfig-2.11.1/src/fcmatch

Cygwin man does not recognise PerlRE ?

2015-10-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! It was bugging me for quite some time now. I don't like POSIX RE - they are cumbersome and unwieldy. Is there a possibility to build man for Cygwin with PerlRE support? -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, October 16, 2015 17:58:20 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Pr

Re: Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Robert Pace! > I downloaded the very latest setup-x86_64.exe and setup-x86.exe from > www.cygwin.com yesterday (version 2.872). I started trying to install > the 64bit version of cygwin and selected "download only". I chose a > mirror from the list, and the download concluded fine. I

Re: Jemalloc under CYGWIN

2015-10-16 Thread Yucong Sun
Hi, Throught some frustrating and furious debugging I now understand the core issue here. CYGWIN calls malloc provided by jemalloc during initializations, which in turn calls pthreads functions, which in turn uses malloc, which also uses pthreads, causing a deadlock. Now, is there anyway to wo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: gimp-2.8.14-2

2015-10-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Yaakov Selkowitz! >> In the world of windows I use only Outlook (frequently) and The Gimp >> (occasionally). >> Having The Gimp under CYGWIN remove all the tiny bits of clumsiness that I >> have now. And introduce a new clumsiness in requiring to run X server. Sorry, but I prefer nat

Re: How to correctly rebase?

2015-10-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Ken Brown! > I have one other suggestion: If you rebase because of a fork failure, reboot > before retrying the application that failed. I just had the following > experience: > I was running emacs on my 32-bit Cygwin installation and got a fork failure > involving /usr/bin/cygMagic

Re: How to correctly rebase?

2015-10-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/16/2015 11:15 AM, cyg Simple wrote: On 10/16/2015 11:07 AM, Ken Brown wrote: I've seen this happen many times. I don't know the explanation, but my guess is that Windows does some caching that causes it to try to load a given DLL at the same base address as it used the last time that DLL

Re: How to correctly rebase?

2015-10-16 Thread cyg Simple
On 10/16/2015 11:07 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/16/2015 8:58 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 10/16/2015 4:49 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: >>> Ken, >>> >>> On Thursday, 2015-10-15 17:10:38 -0400, you wrote: >>> ... Another possibility is that those DLLs were in use. Rainer, did you make s

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: gimp-2.8.14-2

2015-10-16 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 14:04 +, Doug Lewan wrote: > Whoo hoo! > > In the world of windows I use only Outlook (frequently) and The Gimp > (occasionally). > Having The Gimp under CYGWIN remove all the tiny bits of clumsiness that I > have now. > > Thanks. You're welcome. > (Now to go to wor

Re: How to correctly rebase?

2015-10-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/16/2015 8:58 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/16/2015 4:49 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Ken, On Thursday, 2015-10-15 17:10:38 -0400, you wrote: ... Another possibility is that those DLLs were in use. Rainer, did you make sure that no Cygwin processes were running other than dash? Well, at l

Error Installing Cygwin (setup-x86_64.exe & setup-x86) - No setup.ini.sig found.

2015-10-16 Thread Robert Pace
Hi all, I downloaded the very latest setup-x86_64.exe and setup-x86.exe from www.cygwin.com yesterday (version 2.872). I started trying to install the 64bit version of cygwin and selected "download only". I chose a mirror from the list, and the download concluded fine. I then re-ran the setup ap

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: gimp-2.8.14-2

2015-10-16 Thread Doug Lewan
Whoo hoo! In the world of windows I use only Outlook (frequently) and The Gimp (occasionally). Having The Gimp under CYGWIN remove all the tiny bits of clumsiness that I have now. Thanks. (Now to go to work on Outlook.) -- ,Doug Douglas Lewan Shubert Ticketing (201) 994-4335 Nonfirstorderiza

Re: How to correctly rebase?

2015-10-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/16/2015 4:49 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Ken, On Thursday, 2015-10-15 17:10:38 -0400, you wrote: ... Another possibility is that those DLLs were in use. Rainer, did you make sure that no Cygwin processes were running other than dash? Well, at least I tried to. I ran "/bin/ps -ef"

Re: How to correctly rebase?

2015-10-16 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Ken, On Thursday, 2015-10-15 17:10:38 -0400, you wrote: > ... > Another possibility is that those DLLs were in use. Rainer, did you make > sure > that no Cygwin processes were running other than dash? Well, at least I tried to. I ran "/bin/ps -ef" and only saw one "ps" and one "ash" proce

Re: Https proxy auth issue with git in cygwin 2.2.1

2015-10-16 Thread Johan Laenen
Adam Dinwoodie dinwoodie.org> writes: > I think I've found the problem, and you're right -- Git has changed the > way it makes the curl call. The culprit is commit 5841520b in the > upstream Git repository, which has the following commit message: > > | http: always use any proxy auth method ava

Re: How to correctly rebase?

2015-10-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Warren Young etr-usa.com> writes: > It would be nice if rebase were smart enough to look for *.mex and *.oct only in known Octave directories, but > it isn’t my itch, so I’m not going to be doing anything about it. I'll see if that's possible without running yet another find or at least not runn