Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.3.46-6

2016-08-09 Thread Nem W Schlecht
I can confirm - I get this same error. I'm guessing the patch for this (which is cygwin specific) was accidentally skipped for this build. On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 4:25 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 8/6/2016 6:13 AM, Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: >> >> 7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s

Re: symbolic linls

2016-08-09 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 9, 2016, at 7:16 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >>> As i understand Cygwin will soon no longer support Windows XP resp. >>> 2003. This means that only Windows versions with native symbolic link >>> functionality will be supported after that. Would it be possible to use >>> only native symbolic l

Re: symbolic linls

2016-08-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, David Macek! >> As i understand Cygwin will soon no longer support Windows XP resp. >> 2003. This means that only Windows versions with native symbolic link >> functionality will be supported after that. Would it be possible to use >> only native symbolic links throughout esp. during se

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

2016-08-09 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 9, 2016, at 7:01 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> PATHEXT looks for *executable* files, not file association. I warned >> previously in this thread about getting the two confused. > > Your statement is confusing. If not contradictory. > PATHEXT tells the shell to consider these file extension

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

2016-08-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Erik Soderquist! > PATHEXT looks for *executable* files, not file association. I warned > previously in this thread about getting the two confused. Your statement is confusing. If not contradictory. PATHEXT tells the shell to consider these file extensions executable. If you create a

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

2016-08-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> As for PATHEXT we can do the following scenario instead. >> >> export PATHEXT="$PATHEXT;.TXT" >> vi foo.txt >> :set ff=dos >> i >> a >> b >> c >> >> :wq >> cmd /c foo > As you show here, the PATHEXT definition is so that it also contains > file suffixes which req

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

2016-08-09 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 4, 2016, at 5:43 PM, Michel LaBarre wrote: > > Well my first foray into the world of CYGWIN mailing lists has been a lot of > fun so far. You can’t expect to come into a well-established community and expect no push-back when you insist that they make a wide-reaching change just to suit

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mkvtoolnix-9.3.1-2

2016-08-09 Thread David Stacey
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * mkvtoolnix-9.3.1-2 * mkvtoolnix-gui-9.3.1-2 MKVToolNix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files (*.mkv, *.mka). This has been rebuilt with boost-1.60. Dave. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: doxygen-1.8.11-3

2016-08-09 Thread David Stacey
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * doxygen-1.8.11-3 * doxygen-doxywizard-1.8.11-3 Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavours) and to some extent PHP, C#, and D. This has been rebuilt with libclang3.8 and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cppcheck-1.75-1

2016-08-09 Thread David Stacey
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * cppcheck-1.75-1 * cppcheck-gui-1.75-1 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] Updated: tinyxml2-4.0.1-1

2016-08-09 Thread David Stacey
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * libtinyxml2-devel-4.0.1-1 * libtinyxml2_4-4.0.1-1 TinyXML-2 is a simple, small, efficient, C++ XML parser that can be easily integrated into other programmes. This is an update to the latest upstream release. Dave. -- Prob

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

2016-08-09 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 8, 2016, at 8:00 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote: code required to handle .exe and .lnk extensions you don't *want* PATHEXT support anymore. >>> >>> Moreso, this

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

2016-08-09 Thread Vince Rice
> > On Aug 9, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2016, at 2:07 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote: >> >> On 8/9/2016 2:45 AM, Michel LaBarre wrote: >>> It could very well be that, as one response to me on this thread >>> alluded, CYGWIN's role is to provide the equivalent of an isolate

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

2016-08-09 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 9, 2016, at 2:07 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote: > > On 8/9/2016 2:45 AM, Michel LaBarre wrote: >> It could very well be that, as one response to me on this thread >> alluded, CYGWIN's role is to provide the equivalent of an isolated > > POSIX VM under Windows without the VM. > > ...CYGWIN is

Re: Postinstall script errors on cygwin x86 install

2016-08-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Brent writes: > I recently encountered a very similar problem, and I think that I have > a simple solution, so I wanted to followup. I don't think you've solved your problem. > --this morning, however, some R code failed that worked just 2 days ago (and > was not changed in the interim...) >

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

2016-08-09 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:15 AM, cyg Simple wrote: > On 8/9/2016 10:13 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:58 AM, cyg Simple wrote: >>> I tried "chmod +x foo.txt; ./foo.txt" but that results in Cygwin >>> assuming the text file is a script and executing each line of the file. >>>

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

2016-08-09 Thread Helmut Karlowski
--- > file. I'm not satisfied that we should continue with the .exe > artificial symlink for the same reasons we shouldn't use PATHEXT. > Because of the amount of time to port scripts and software to use the > .exe suffix for executable files it shou

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

2016-08-09 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/9/2016 10:13 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:58 AM, cyg Simple wrote: >> I tried "chmod +x foo.txt; ./foo.txt" but that results in Cygwin >> assuming the text file is a script and executing each line of the file. >> If PATHEXT were used only to determine that the file sho

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

2016-08-09 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:58 AM, cyg Simple wrote: > I tried "chmod +x foo.txt; ./foo.txt" but that results in Cygwin > assuming the text file is a script and executing each line of the file. > If PATHEXT were used only to determine that the file should be passed to > ShellExecute instead it might b

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

2016-08-09 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/9/2016 9:07 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 09/08/2016 14:58, cyg Simple wrote: >> >>> So, if we actually implement PATHEXT, its usage would be limited to >>> suffixes of binary files and files starting with #!, or we >>> would have to use a way to start an application which doesn't work well >

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

2016-08-09 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/8/2016 10:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 8 09:43, cyg Simple wrote: >> On 8/8/2016 7:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Aug 7 10:11, Herbert Stocker wrote: On 05.08.2016 17:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: If you see the > code required to handle .exe and .lnk extension

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

2016-08-09 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 09/08/2016 14:58, cyg Simple wrote: So, if we actually implement PATHEXT, its usage would be limited to suffixes of binary files and files starting with #!, or we would have to use a way to start an application which doesn't work well in a POSIX scenario, or we would have to search the regis

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

2016-08-09 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/8/2016 9:43 AM, cyg Simple wrote: > Maybe we don't want the artificial > symlink of foo == foo.exe all the time. Maybe it is time we drop the > artificial symlink altogether in preference for modifying the scripts > and programs to use .exe when on Windows including Cygwin or perhaps > creati

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

2016-08-09 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/8/2016 10:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 8 09:43, cyg Simple wrote: >> As for PATHEXT we can do the following scenario instead. >> >> export PATHEXT="$PATHEXT;.TXT" >> vi foo.txt >> :set ff=dos >> i >> a >> b >> c >> >> :wq >> cmd /c foo > > As you show here, the PATHEXT definition

Re: Compilation of emacs25.1.50 (success story)

2016-08-09 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Tobias Zawada wrote: > Dear all, > For your information: > > I've just compiled > > GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-cygwin, GTK+ Version 2.24.30) of > 2016-08-08 > > from > > git clone -b master git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git > (snip) > The only issue I had wit

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

2016-08-09 Thread Herbert Stocker
On 8/9/2016 2:45 AM, Michel LaBarre wrote: It could very well be that, as one response to me on this thread alluded, CYGWIN's role is to provide the equivalent of an isolated > POSIX VM under Windows without the VM. Having used Cygwin for a long time, maybe 10 or 13 years, i see that CYGWIN is