Re: sshd interaction with desktop not working

2016-02-10 Thread Aijaz Baig
Hello I was able to see some "action" by turning the "NoInteractiveSercvices" option OFF in the registry. So now when I try to run notepad.exe from the ssh shell, it asks me whether I'd like to see the "message" and when I click yes, I see some "window-like" thing on the desktop at which point the

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Assorted MinGW-w64 toolchain libraries and tools

2016-02-10 Thread Tony Kelman
> Not MinGW applications, unless they are Cygwin-hosted tools used for > cross-compiling (which I think we have pretty well covered). Not even things like rustc, node.js, or julia which cannot be compiled as cygwin-linked applications (rust might be possible but I don't think anyone has tried rece

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Assorted MinGW-w64 toolchain libraries and tools

2016-02-10 Thread Tony Kelman
> Not MinGW applications, unless they are Cygwin-hosted tools used for > cross-compiling (which I think we have pretty well covered). Not even things like rustc, node.js, or julia which cannot be compiled as cygwin-linked applications (rust might be possible but I don't think anyone has tried rece

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Assorted MinGW-w64 toolchain libraries and tools

2016-02-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-02-10 14:27, Tony Kelman wrote: Yaakov Selkowitz writes: These packages provide libraries and tools for cross-compiling a wide variety of projects for native Windows with the MinGW-w64 toolchains. Ooh. I will totally be using these, this is great to see. So does this mean it's open sea

Re: Issues with ACL settings after updating to the latest cygwin.dll

2016-02-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, xnor! >>It is normal and was normal for at least seventeen years. > That's a blatant lie. > It never happened to me before, and I doubled checked this by installing > the older 2.3. It didn't happen before 2.4. "Never happened to you" does not equal "wasn't the case". Your presumptuou

Re[2]: Issues with ACL settings after updating to the latest cygwin.dll

2016-02-10 Thread xnor
It is normal and was normal for at least seventeen years. That's a blatant lie. It never happened to me before, and I doubled checked this by installing the older 2.3. It didn't happen before 2.4. You'd be surprized… But the actual answer is "yes". I actually am surprised since you seem to

Re: Issues with ACL settings after updating to the latest cygwin.dll

2016-02-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, xnor! >>Which warning do you mean here? > The "permissions out of order" one. This was not the case before, at > least not on my installation, so I don't see how this can be called > normal. It is normal and was normal for at least seventeen years. >>Come on, be fair. The new ACL h

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Assorted MinGW-w64 toolchain libraries and tools

2016-02-10 Thread Tony Kelman
Yaakov Selkowitz cygwin.com> writes: > These packages provide libraries and tools for cross-compiling a wide > variety of projects for native Windows with the MinGW-w64 toolchains. Ooh. I will totally be using these, this is great to see. So does this mean it's open season for ITP's on mingw-w6

Re: Trunk of 'file' fails to build due to regex error

2016-02-10 Thread David Macek
On 10. 2. 2016 12:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I replied in the bug tracker. It seems a fix (or at least a work-around) was implemented based on your replies. I can now build `file` from trunk without any issues. Thanks. -- David Macek smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Failing 'make check' for non-Cygwin GMP-ECM package -- workaround

2016-02-10 Thread Mark Geisert
Mark Geisert wrote: Mark Geisert wrote: Achim Gratz wrote: Mark Geisert writes: I'm seeing an odd issue after building the GMP-ECM 6.4.4 package from Inria. I downloaded the .tar.gz file and unpacked, ran configure, then make and 'make check'. I get a SIGSEGV from a test using ecm.exe as par

Fwd: Protobuf string serialization bug with statically linked protobuf 2.5.0

2016-02-10 Thread Tomasz Wiszkowski
Dear all, I'm having problems with statically linked executables that use protocol buffers. I suspect the problem may be related to incompatibility between std::string implementation used to compile the library vs. current. If that's the case, the problem would likely go away with recompilation of

Re: linking cygwin as static library

2016-02-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-02-10 12:36, Eduardo Silva wrote: I am porting a Linux based open source project to Windows and now it runs perfectly with Cygwin. Now I want to know how I can link it statically with Cygwin, I want to get rid of cygwin1.dll to have just a standalone binary. https://cygwin.com/faq.html#

linking cygwin as static library

2016-02-10 Thread Eduardo Silva
Hi, I am porting a Linux based open source project to Windows and now it runs perfectly with Cygwin. Now I want to know how I can link it statically with Cygwin, I want to get rid of cygwin1.dll to have just a standalone binary. any hints are appreciated, -- Eduardo Silva http://edsiper.linuxch

Re: Issues with ACL settings after updating to the latest cygwin.dll

2016-02-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, xnor! >>It was always the case. >>Permissions are NOT REQUIRED to be ordered in a specific way, but >>Explorer is >>only capable of editing them in the only one way. >>Means, Explorer is deficient. Explorer. Not Windows. Windows is >>perfectly >>capable of handling the Cygwin ACL in

Re[2]: Issues with ACL settings after updating to the latest cygwin.dll

2016-02-10 Thread xnor
Which warning do you mean here? The "permissions out of order" one. This was not the case before, at least not on my installation, so I don't see how this can be called normal. Come on, be fair. The new ACL handling started out early 2015, got a break when I realized that it doesn't work

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Assorted MinGW-w64 toolchain libraries and tools

2016-02-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution * mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-aalib-1.4rc5-2 * mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-adwaita-icon-theme-3.18.0-1 * mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-adwaita-themes-3.18.0-1 * mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-atk1.0-2.18.0-1 * mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-atkmm1.6-2.24.1-1 * mingw

Re[2]: Issues with ACL settings after updating to the latest cygwin.dll

2016-02-10 Thread xnor
It was always the case. Permissions are NOT REQUIRED to be ordered in a specific way, but Explorer is only capable of editing them in the only one way. Means, Explorer is deficient. Explorer. Not Windows. Windows is perfectly capable of handling the Cygwin ACL in the intended way. No, it re

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-02-10 11:13, LMH wrote: Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2016-02-09 19:37, Jonathan Brenster wrote: I saw a post a number of months back indicating that XP support would start to phase out in Dec '15. Is there a last version or intended last version that still officially supports it? Suppo

Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP

2016-02-10 Thread LMH
Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2016-02-09 19:37, Jonathan Brenster wrote: >> I saw a post a number of months back indicating that XP support would >> start to phase out in Dec '15. >> >> Is there a last version or intended last version that still officially >> supports it? > > Support for XP has yet

Re: Issues with ACL settings after updating to the latest cygwin.dll

2016-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 10 12:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 9 20:53, xnor wrote: > > Here is what I would expect: > > MyUser is in the group Administrators. Given the inherited permissions above > > a Windows-created file should be shown as "-rwxrwxr--+ MyUser > > Administrators"? > > Sorry, can't do that,

Re: Trunk of 'file' fails to build due to regex error

2016-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 23:33, David Macek wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm trying to build the `file` program from trunk, but I'm getting a regex > error that seems to be related to 8-bit character handling in Cygwin. > > The error happens when compiling the magicfile: > > > file: line 83: regex error 17 for `[=.<>

Re: Re[3]: Issues with ACL settings after updating to the latest cygwin.dll

2016-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 10:01, K Stahl wrote: > On Feb 8, 2016 1:33 PM, "xnor" wrote: > > > > > >> I have the same problem with Transmission. > > > > Sorry for another mail, but I need to make another last correction: > > It's not Transmission specific. A simple > > $ cd /cygdrive/path/to/download/dir > > $ tou

Re: Issues with ACL settings after updating to the latest cygwin.dll

2016-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 20:53, xnor wrote: > > >Not sure what Transmission is, but files downloaded with POSIX > >tools are usually not executable. For instance, download Cygwin's > >setup-x86.exe with wget. Then try to execute it. It won't since > >the permissions are set according to your umask and without

Re: chmod failed: Invalid argument

2016-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 10 11:59, Rainer Blome wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 08.02.2016 15:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 31 21:24, Rainer Blome wrote: > >> On 28.01.2016 21:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On a hunch, do you have old /etc/passwd and /etc/group >

Re: chmod failed: Invalid argument

2016-02-10 Thread Rainer Blome
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08.02.2016 15:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 31 21:24, Rainer Blome wrote: >> On 28.01.2016 21:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On a hunch, do you have old /etc/passwd and /etc/group > files There is no `/etc/group`, but `/etc/pass