Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.6

2016-08-07 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-08-05 05:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The 2.6.0 release is going to introducing the locale_t datatype, as well as all functions related to locale_t locales and per-thread locales per POSIX-1.2008. So, rather than just providing a single, per-process locale, you can now create new locales

tcsh version 6.19.00-3 hangs on exit

2016-08-07 Thread Thomas Taylor
tcsh version 6.19.00-3 hangs on exit. tcsh scripts, once OK, no longer respond to Control-C; must be stopped with Control-Z and then killed. To test, try simplest possible script: #!/bin/csh as first and only line. (Simplest possible bash script works fine.) Am running tcsh version 6.19.00

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-gcc-5.4.0-1 (x86/x86_64) (Testing)

2016-08-07 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-08-05 18:15, JonY wrote: I have just updated the mingw-w64 cross compilers Cygwin 32bit and 64bit. This version is considered testing and has --enable-vtable-verify set. I'd consider moving it to stable if it can build non-trivial C++ applications. I had no issues compiling a few diffe

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-07 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/7/2016 4:11 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote: > On 05.08.2016 17:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > If you see the >> code required to handle .exe and .lnk extensions you don't *want* >> PATHEXT support anymore. >> > > Moreso, this code has recently broken my C++ code in Cygwin. > It tried to see if a d

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-07 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > From: Erik Soderquist >> ... DOS did a lot of things >> against already established conventions, such as using a backslash >> instead of a forward slash as the directory separator, just "to be >> different". > > Not just to be different, but

Re: fresh cygwin installation

2016-08-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 11:31 AM, t s wrote: > I need to make a fresh installation of cywgin. The drive I propose to install > to is detailed in; > > http://www.cpm86.com/sdcard.jpg > > It's an NTFS drive with 238 GB capacity, allocation unit size 4096 bytes. I see no problem with the params thems

fresh cygwin installation

2016-08-07 Thread t s
I need to make a fresh installation of cywgin. The drive I propose to install to is detailed in; http://www.cpm86.com/sdcard.jpg It's an NTFS drive with 238 GB capacity, allocation unit size 4096 bytes. Before I make a mistake; can someone confirm this these are suitable drive parameters for a

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-07 Thread Herbert Stocker
On 05.08.2016 17:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: If you see the code required to handle .exe and .lnk extensions you don't *want* PATHEXT support anymore. Moreso, this code has recently broken my C++ code in Cygwin. It tried to see if a directory /dir/subdir/something existed, and Cygwin said y