startx doesn't seem to work

2015-11-21 Thread Peter Van Epp
On my Win7 machine with a newly installed cygwin-64 installed via setup-x86_64.exe with everything default except xinit and xorg-server selected running startx from a terminal window opens a full screen window and then dies. A search of startx fails in the mail archives didn't turn up any

Re: cygwin 64bit on Win7 gcc internal compiler error: Segmentation fault on floating point literal 10.0

2015-11-21 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 07:02:50PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/21/2015 3:10 PM, David Standish wrote: > >gcc is broken on fresh install of 64 bit cygwin on 64 bit Win7 > >Enterprise on new laptop. > >version 4.9.3-1 , but other versions broken as well (4.9.2-3, 5.2.0-1) > > > >I suspect there i

Re: cygwin 64bit on Win7 gcc internal compiler error: Segmentation fault on floating point literal 10.0

2015-11-21 Thread David Standish
Ken, I'm not surprised it works for you. Probably something with my machine. I've attached cygcheck -s -v -r output David cygcheck_s_v_r.out Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: h

Re: cygwin 64bit on Win7 gcc internal compiler error: Segmentation fault on floating point literal 10.0

2015-11-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/21/2015 3:10 PM, David Standish wrote: gcc is broken on fresh install of 64 bit cygwin on 64 bit Win7 Enterprise on new laptop. version 4.9.3-1 , but other versions broken as well (4.9.2-3, 5.2.0-1) I suspect there is a straightforward fix to my problem but I have no idea where to begin.

cygwin 64bit on Win7 gcc internal compiler error: Segmentation fault on floating point literal 10.0

2015-11-21 Thread David Standish
gcc is broken on fresh install of 64 bit cygwin on 64 bit Win7 Enterprise on new laptop. version 4.9.3-1 , but other versions broken as well (4.9.2-3, 5.2.0-1) I suspect there is a straightforward fix to my problem but I have no idea where to begin. Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version:

vim not built with --with-x

2015-11-21 Thread Yves Chevallier
Hi, On Cygwin, I usually rebuild `vim` with `./configure --with-x --prefix=/usr` which allows me to have the `--remote` option on vim. >From this I can automatically bind any Windows text files to vim. If no server is running, this means I will open a new terminal `mintty -` in where I launch vim.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cppcheck-1.71-1

2015-11-21 Thread David Stacey
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * cppcheck-1.71-1 * cppcheck-gui-1.71-1 Cppcheck is a static analysis tool for C/C++ code. Unlike C/C++ compilers and many other analysis tools it does not detect syntax errors in the code. Cppcheck primarily detects the types

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.4

2015-11-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released a new TEST version of Cygwin, 2.4.0-0.4. (I uploaded a -0.3 release as well, but it was missing a patch) There are three changes compared to 2.4.0-0.2: - Newlib's strtold implementation was completely non-standard and therefore buggy. I replaced it wi

Re: Cygwin multithreading performance

2015-11-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 21 01:21, Mark Geisert wrote: > Kacper Michajlow wrote: > >Thanks for reply. And sorry for being not specific enough before. 'git > >gc' is a driver which runs various git command to do cleanup in > >repository. Though I'm mostly concerned about the code I linked. > >Instead of 'git gc' it i

Re: Cygwin multithreading performance

2015-11-21 Thread Mark Geisert
Kacper Michajlow wrote: Thanks for reply. And sorry for being not specific enough before. 'git gc' is a driver which runs various git command to do cleanup in repository. Though I'm mostly concerned about the code I linked. Instead of 'git gc' it is better to test directly 'git repack -a -f' and