[ANNOUNCEMENT] noto-fonts 20160307-1.gitbdf7562

2016-04-07 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * noto-fonts-common-20160307-1.gitbdf7562 * noto-fonts-20160307-1.gitbdf7562 * arimo-fonts-20160307-1.gitbdf7562 * cousine-fonts-20160307-1.gitbdf7562 * tinos-fonts-20160307-1.gitbdf7562 * noto-arabic-fonts-20160307-1.gitbdf7562

Strange quoting behaviour using cygwin utilities outside shell

2016-04-07 Thread Anthony Sottile
I'm using cygwin utilities from outside cygwin (essentially piggybacking on msysgit). I'm writing a python application that aims to target both POSIX systems and windows -- using cygwin utilities seems like a perfect fit. I'm using subprocess in python (under the hood it is essentially CreateProc

[ANNOUNCEMENT] bash-completion 2.3-1

2016-04-07 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * bash-completion-2.3-1 * bash-completion-devel-2.3-1 bash-completion is a collection of shell functions that take advantage of the programmable completion feature of bash. This is an update to the latest upstream release. A

Re: Installing python's pypiwin32

2016-04-07 Thread Brian Inglis
Dennis Putnam bellsouth.net> writes: > On 4/4/2016 5:53 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > On 04/04/2016 11:28, Dennis Putnam wrote: > >> I'm trying to install pypiwin32 and have hit a stone wall. That module > >> wants _winreg so I installed cygwinreg. However, I cannot find a way to > >> tell pip to u

Re: Cygwin and Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c on Windows Platform

2016-04-07 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-04-07 20:13, Ty Newby wrote: I am working on setting up a new Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c OMS Hyper-V VM (Windows 2012 R2 Standard x64) with an Oracle 12c v12.1.0.2 repository database on a Windows 2012 R2 Standard x64 two node RAC cluster. The new OMS will be monitoring targets on AIX

Re-install of cygwin today 4/7/16 and xterm missing

2016-04-07 Thread REBSTOCK, ROLAND
All, I reinstalled Cygwin on my win7 workstation and though I can start a X server, when I right click the X icon in the task menu I no longer have a option to start a xterm.  What I found is I have to access CygwinX via start menu and then click on xterm which then starts up a new X applicatio

Cygwin and Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c on Windows Platform

2016-04-07 Thread Ty Newby
I am working on setting up a new Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c OMS Hyper-V VM (Windows 2012 R2 Standard x64) with an Oracle 12c v12.1.0.2 repository database on a Windows 2012 R2 Standard x64 two node RAC cluster. The new OMS will be monitoring targets on AIX, Windows 2008, and Windows 2012 server

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-{headers,runtime,winpthreads}-4.0.6-1 (x86/x86_64)

2016-04-07 Thread JonY
I have just updated the mingw-w64 headers, runtime, and winpthreads to 4.0.6-1. mingw64-*-headers-4.0.6-1 mingw64-*-runtime-4.0.6-1 mingw64-*-winpthreads-4.0.6-1 Here are some of the notable fixes: * Fix scanf memleak * mkstemp should no longer delete files if file handle is closed. * call _fpres

Re: SSH access to desktop

2016-04-07 Thread Kevin Layer
Here's what worked for me: Ran ssh-host-config as administrator and took defaults, except priviledge separation => no install as a service => no Then, I chown'd /var/empty to Administrator and was able to run "sshd -p 8100" and ssh into the box. More importantly, other users were able to start

Re: cygwin support for building for Win CE

2016-04-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7 April 2016 at 07:12, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > Please let me know whether Cygwin offers any package support > for building native Windows CE binaries, specifically 5.0. > I tried i686-w64-mingw32-gcc, and it builds just fine for > regular Windows, but such binaries do not run under CE. > (I'm

Re: Mintty font selection problem on Windows XP

2016-04-07 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 05.04.2016 um 02:40 schrieb Thomas Wolff: Am 05.04.2016 um 01:54 schrieb Paul Ausbeck: Cygwin setup just updated some older packages while installing a requested new component and now mintty does not recognize fonts properly. I was previously using lucinda-console but now some default font

Re: cygwin 2.5.0-0.12 questions, vim and nextafterl()

2016-04-07 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-04-07 04:25, Tim Prince wrote: vim is working well now. Thanks. You were right about cygwin-devel, but it appears to require a full rebuild of gcc, so that will be another 2 days to build and run test suite. Yes, we will need a gcc rebuild with 2.5.0 to pick up all the new features;

Re: The setup-x86.exe can't be called by blocked way on Windows 10

2016-04-07 Thread kuaf
I found this issue is related to administrator rights on setup-x86.exe. It works right now, thank you. 2016-04-07 21:16 GMT+08:00 Andrey Repin : > Greetings, kuaf! > >> I downloaded the latest setup-x86.exe (version 2.8.7.3), attempted to >> install through automation interface on Windows 10 OS. B

Re: cygwin 2.5.0-0.12 questions, vim and nextafterl()

2016-04-07 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/7/2016 9:22 AM, Tim Prince wrote: In my experience, running multiple threads in make check by make -j 2 results in the individual sessions make check-c, make check-c++ ... crashing and restarting endlessly. Even when I run make -k check-c ,check-c++, check-fortran in separate bash windows,

Re: The setup-x86.exe can't be called by blocked way on Windows 10

2016-04-07 Thread kuaf
Hi, Andrey Repin, It's not a pure coincidence. You can did a quick test on Windows 10 only with: 1. start /wait setup-x86.exe This is a immediate return from parent process window 2. start /wait notepad.exe The child process will wait for the notepad.exe to be closed. Thank you 2016-

Re: cygwin 2.5.0-0.12 questions, vim and nextafterl()

2016-04-07 Thread Tim Prince
On 4/7/2016 8:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 7 05:25, Tim Prince wrote: >> >> On 4/6/2016 1:31 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Apr 6 13:07, Tim Prince wrote: 1) vim usually hangs if run under bash, but works fine under mintty (same in previous snapshot) >>> There's a patch

Re: The setup-x86.exe can't be called by blocked way on Windows 10

2016-04-07 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, kuaf! > I downloaded the latest setup-x86.exe (version 2.8.7.3), attempted to > install through automation interface on Windows 10 OS. But the batch > file can't call it by blocked way, .e.g. > test.cmd > > @echo off > rem step1 start "Cygwin setup" /wait "setup-x86.exe" --quiet

cygwin support for building for Win CE

2016-04-07 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
Please let me know whether Cygwin offers any package support for building native Windows CE binaries, specifically 5.0. I tried i686-w64-mingw32-gcc, and it builds just fine for regular Windows, but such binaries do not run under CE. (I'm familiar with building for *nix; not so much Windows.) -

Re: cygwin 2.5.0-0.12 questions, vim and nextafterl()

2016-04-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 7 05:25, Tim Prince wrote: > > > On 4/6/2016 1:31 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Apr 6 13:07, Tim Prince wrote: > >> 1) vim usually hangs if run under bash, but works fine under mintty > >> (same in previous snapshot) > > There's a patch in git master which seems to fix this problem.

Re: How can I try a newly build package locally?

2016-04-07 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 02:58:49PM -0700, thoni56 wrote: > I'm a maintainer of a program that I'd might like to propose for inclusion in > the Cygwin distribution. > > We use CMake so there is a packager available, and it's easy to create a > .bz2 package. > > Once I've created the package, how c

The setup-x86.exe can't be called by blocked way on Windows 10

2016-04-07 Thread kuaf
Hi, I downloaded the latest setup-x86.exe (version 2.8.7.3), attempted to install through automation interface on Windows 10 OS. But the batch file can't call it by blocked way, .e.g. test.cmd @echo off rem step1 "setup-x86.exe" --quiet-mode --local-install --local-package-dir "C:\my-packag

Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I have just noticed that the program 'ls' has started to put quotes around > some entries in the listing when I use it > That are not really present around the actual files / directories. The default quoting style in ls recently changed upstream, and then made its way into Cygwin. See https://

Re: Home directory has blank space, X resources not recognized

2016-04-07 Thread Jon Turney
On 06/04/2016 17:48, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: My employer is making us use Box Sync for backup. We have to move all directories we want backed up into the Box Sync folder. So I have moved my Cygwin ~ (home) directory to that folder. I configured nsswitch.conf as follows: db_home: /cygdri

Re: cygwin 2.5.0-0.12 questions, vim and nextafterl()

2016-04-07 Thread Tim Prince
On 4/6/2016 1:31 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 6 13:07, Tim Prince wrote: >> 1) vim usually hangs if run under bash, but works fine under mintty >> (same in previous snapshot) > There's a patch in git master which seems to fix this problem. I'll > release a 0.13 RSN. > >> 2) gcc testsuit

Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-07 Thread Achim Gratz
Simon Bradley talktalk.net> writes: > I have just noticed that the program 'ls' has started to put quotes around > some entries in the listing when I use it > That are not really present around the actual files / directories. > > This is hugely annoying and I do not want this behaviour. I much pr

RE: SSH access to desktop

2016-04-07 Thread nick.bat...@uk.fujitsu.com
> $ /usr/sbin/sshd.exe -p 8100 > /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. > ... > drwxr-x--x+ 1 Administrator Administrators 0 Mar 16 10:08 empty/ Try making the owner of this directory the same as the Windows user that is running the sshd service. I think this is a hard

strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-07 Thread Simon Bradley
Hello, I have just noticed that the program 'ls' has started to put quotes around some entries in the listing when I use it That are not really present around the actual files / directories. This is hugely annoying and I do not want this behaviour. I much prefer to have ls perform as expected.