Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-27 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 28, 2015, at 12:05 AM, Warren Young wrote: > > You just asked setup.exe to install a whole bunch of software you do not > actually need, so when it starts asking you questions about what you want > done with this software, you are lost, because you don’t even know what the > software *i

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-27 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 27, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > From: Warren Young >> >> On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: >>> >>> Q: How do I install everything? >>> A: You do not want to do this! >> >> I explain this in more detail here: >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/a/21233990 > > For the

Re: mkshortcut (cygutils-1.4.14) free error

2015-10-27 Thread Mark Geisert
Anthony Heading writes: > > The second issue with the non-absolute path is more problematic. > > Without your second patch, I do see the issue but only on the 2nd or > > later invocation. In other words, if the xyzzy.lnk file does not > > initially exist, the command 'src/mkshortcut/.libs/mkshortcu

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: exim-4.86-1

2015-10-27 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
I have updated Exim, the Mail Transfer Agent, to release 4.86, in 32 and 64 bit versions. This is a regular upstream update, see https://github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/ChangeLog If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list: cygwin at cygwin.com, mentioning "exim"

Re: Pop up GUI remotely via SSH

2015-10-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/26/2015 12:07 PM, trimat wrote: Hi all, I would like to pup up on Windows 7 the GUI of a program started remotely from SSH. I can't obtain this with *cygstart* even though I see the process running in Windows Task Manager. Trying to add /--interactive/ flag to Cygwin service /sshd/, the ser

gcc: cannot find -lubsan

2015-10-27 Thread Steven Penny
I have installed the "gcc-core" package: $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.9.3 Using this file: http://gcc.gnu.org/git?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=gcc/testsuite/c-c%2B%2B-common/ubsan/undefined-1.c;hb=382ecb and this command: gcc -fsanitize=undefined undefined-1.c yields this result: /usr/l

Permissions on /var

2015-10-27 Thread Jan Bruun Andersen
Today, as I installed inetutils (I needed telnet for Cygwin; telnet for Windows 10 does nothing; no error, no nothing) I got an error from setup-084_64. The error message directed me to look at /var/log/setup.log.full. Here is the relevant part, very near the end: 2015/10/28 00:55:10 running: C:\c

Re: mkshortcut (cygutils-1.4.14) free error

2015-10-27 Thread Anthony Heading
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015, at 01:29 AM, Mark Geisert wrote: > I really appreciate the leads and code you've provided. Could we > please discuss only on the Cygwin mailing list? That's the convention > we have, barring extraordinary circumstances :) . It allows for > public review. I believe I did send

Re: gawk: Bad File Descriptor error with concurrent readonly access to a network file

2015-10-27 Thread Vermessung AVT - Wolfgang Rieger
From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 10:53 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gawk: Bad File Descriptor error with concurrent readonly access to a network file (Snip) > Cygwin uses full sharing for all files it opens, unless the file is opened

RE: pthread_kill: signals remain pending after target thread exits

2015-10-27 Thread John Carey
Sorry for the delay. From: Corinna Vinschen [corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 5:55 AM > > I've attached a test case that I *think* gets into the right spot, at > > least for 64-bit Cygwin 2.0.4. That is, it hangs trying to receive > > the signal, instead of terminating.

Re: How can I completely remove Perl 5.22?

2015-10-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 27.10.2015 um 18:49 schrieb Jim Reisert AD1C: I am having some problems trying to make ActiveState Perl and Cygwin Perl 5.22 co-exist. If they did so in the past, I see no reason why they shouldn't continue to do so. I currently have a Perl program that uses the Tk library, which I am un

How can I completely remove Perl 5.22?

2015-10-27 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
Hi, I am having some problems trying to make ActiveState Perl and Cygwin Perl 5.22 co-exist. I currently have a Perl program that uses the Tk library, which I am unable to compile using the ActiveState PDK. I am pretty sure it was working before I upgraded Cygwin Perl to version 5.22. My curren

Re: Command line length in Ash or Dash Shells

2015-10-27 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/27/2015 09:10 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Eric, > > On Monday, 2015-10-26 10:14:06 -0600, you wrote: > >> ... >> So once >> you start a dash shell, that dash shell can start any number of other >> dash shells with no command

Re: Command line length in Ash or Dash Shells

2015-10-27 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Corinna, On Tuesday, 2015-10-27 16:17:56 +0100, you wrote: > ... > That won't work. setup.exe is a non-Cygwin application so it's restricted > to the maximum line length of the CreateProcess call, which, per > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682425%28v=vs.85%29.aspx >

Re: Command line length in Ash or Dash Shells

2015-10-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 27 16:10, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Eric, > > On Monday, 2015-10-26 10:14:06 -0600, you wrote: > > > ... > > So once > > you start a dash shell, that dash shell can start any number of other > > dash shells with no command li

Re: Command line length in Ash or Dash Shells

2015-10-27 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Eric, On Monday, 2015-10-26 10:14:06 -0600, you wrote: > ... > So once > you start a dash shell, that dash shell can start any number of other > dash shells with no command line length limit other than the memory > available to your

Re: gawk: Bad File Descriptor error with concurrent readonly access to a network file

2015-10-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 27 06:48, Matt D. wrote: > I haven't had an opportunity to look into it but I've also encountered > errors when performing a parallel make build (make -j) on a large C++ > project which has multiple interdependencies across a network share with too > many threads. > > The reported "Bad File

RE: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-27 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Warren Young > > On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: > > > > Q: How do I install everything? > > A: You do not want to do this! > > I explain this in more detail here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/21233990 For the hell of it I decided to check out this hidden feature. What I got

Setup.exe version 2.873 (64 bits)

2015-10-27 Thread André B . Derraik
Hi, I got a setup problem when using proxy. Setup.exe version 2.873 (64 bits) Proxy problem. On page "Select Your Internet Connection", if you choose the option "Use Internet Explorer Proxy Settings", the program stucks when trying to download the control files (setup.bz2.sig, ...). I use this

Re: gawk: Bad File Descriptor error with concurrent readonly access to a network file

2015-10-27 Thread Matt D.
I haven't had an opportunity to look into it but I've also encountered errors when performing a parallel make build (make -j) on a large C++ project which has multiple interdependencies across a network share with too many threads. The reported "Bad File Descriptor" is the same error that I ge

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.3.0-0.4

2015-10-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 27 10:53, Achim Gratz wrote: > Am 27.10.2015 um 10:27 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >>That test is almost as bad as it can ever get. Given that enumerating all > >>AD accouts with mkpasswd takes about 2 hours and I'm doing something very > >>similar here, I'm not even surprised. I was more s

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.3.0-0.4

2015-10-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 27.10.2015 um 10:27 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: That test is almost as bad as it can ever get. Given that enumerating all AD accouts with mkpasswd takes about 2 hours and I'm doing something very similar here, I'm not even surprised. I was more surprised to see the server go so fast, but my gu

Re: gawk: Bad File Descriptor error with concurrent readonly access to a network file

2015-10-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 25 16:31, Vermessung AVT - Wolfgang Rieger wrote: > 1) Concurrent read access to the setup files was possible and worked > fine with local files (24 hrs testing with millions of file accesses > in 4 parallel jobs). > 2) However, when the file to be read (datafile.txt) is stored on a > networ

Re: pthread_kill: signals remain pending after target thread exits

2015-10-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
John? Ping? On Oct 23 14:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 22 02:08, John Carey wrote: > > > From: Corinna Vinschen [corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com] > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 4:48 AM > > > Subject: Re: pthread_kill: signals remain pending after target thread > > > exits > > ... > >

Re: problems with to_string not declared in this scope

2015-10-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 26 17:04, Achim Gratz wrote: > Am 26.10.2015 um 11:36 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >It would still be nice if somebody with a bit of math knowledge would > >contribute the missing long double functions to newlib. > > Or switch to musl? Easier said than done. The integration with newlib is

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.3.0-0.4

2015-10-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 26 17:03, Achim Gratz wrote: > Am 26.10.2015 um 11:07 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >Erm, really? I tested this locally with a directory with hundreds > >of files, each of which belonged to another user or group, and that > >resulted in a 25% slowdown. Not 1000%. Oh boy. > > That test is a

Re: Bash unable to print epoch timestamp

2015-10-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 26 19:16, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2015-10-26 11:34, Brian Inglis wrote: > >Third time lucky - pasting inline into email and resending to all previous > >lists. > > > >Please note that conversion into too-small buffer size in regression test > >may not have expected result! > > > >Tried to

Re: Why package cache is not used during setup download?

2015-10-27 Thread Aleksey Midenkov
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Aleksey Midenkov! > Cygwin setup process my turn to endless retry-error on bad internet channels, because: >>> 1. setup doesn't know how to retry download (why it fails to download anyway?); >>> >>> Because your