Unicode width data inconsistent/outdated

2017-07-25 Thread Thomas Wolff
It would be good to keep wcwidth/wcswidth in sync with the installed Unicode data version (package unicode-ucd). Currently it seems to be hard-coded (in newlib/libc/string/wcwidth.c); it refers to Unicode 5.0 while installed Unicode data suggest 9.0 would be used. I can provide some scripts to gen

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-25 15:48, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: > > On Tue, 7/25/17, Brian Inglis <> wrote: > > Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched > To: cygwin > Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 3:57 PM > > On 2017-07-25 12:16, Achim G

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Tue, 7/25/17, Brian Inglis <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 3:57 PM On 2017-07-25 12:16, Achim Gratz wrote: > Brian Inglis writes: >> rebaselst uses touch -t 70

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-25 12:16, Achim Gratz wrote: > Brian Inglis writes: >> rebaselst uses touch -t 700101 ... - could be patched to 19700101. > > Could be, but touch is specified to assume "19" yhen YY=70 by POSIX, AFAIK. > >> Is this affected by locale and by Windows regional date settings in Con

Re: "rebase-trigger full"

2017-07-25 Thread mike
On 25/07/2017 19:29, Achim Gratz wrote: mike writes: Maybe there are just way more dlls than I ever realised. There certainly are. This is why it's absolutely not recommended to install everything ("Full") or whole categories these days, at least not for a 32bit installation. Regards, Achim.

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/25/2017 12:05 PM, Ian Lambert wrote: On Tue, 7/25/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Normally you don't ever need to think about rebasing on x86_64. The perpetual postinstall script /etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash should handle everythin

Re: "rebase-trigger full"

2017-07-25 Thread Achim Gratz
mike writes: > Maybe there are just way more dlls than I ever realised. There certainly are. This is why it's absolutely not recommended to install everything ("Full") or whole categories these days, at least not for a 32bit installation. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron m

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Ian Lambert via cygwin writes: > $ rebaselst --rebuild update --cleardb rebase > removing /var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg > creating empty /var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg > touch: setting times of '/var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg': Invalid argument So why does this fail for you? Evidently no packages to r

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Ian Lambert via cygwin writes: > Obviously something is not right; here is output from "rebase -is": > > rebase: failed to open rebase database "/etc/rebase.db.x86_64": > No such file or directory > > "locate rebase.db" gives: > /cygdrive/e/cygwin64-3/etc/rebase.db.x86_64 > so it was apparently t

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Brian Inglis writes: > rebaselst uses touch -t 700101 ... - could be patched to 19700101. Could be, but touch is specified to assume "19" yhen YY=70 by POSIX, AFAIK. > Is this affected by locale and by Windows regional date settings in Control > Panel/Region/Formats tab/Additional setting

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: >> touch: setting times of '/var/cache/rebase/rebase_user_exe': Invalid argument > > I have no idea what would cause such error messages. Achim, have you > ever seen this? No, not really. The message seems to suggest that the file was created, but the time can't be set (it's su

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: glpk-4.63-1

2017-07-25 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version 4.63-1 of glpk libglpk40 libglpk-devel have been uploaded for cygwin. The GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) package is intended for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems. It is a set of routines written in ANSI C

Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

2017-07-25 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-24 17:18, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > On 24.07.2017 15:51, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2017-07-24 15:02, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: >>> Am 24.07.2017 um 04:09 schrieb Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]: >>> rather it's a question about portability of code that uses %s for both functi

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Tue, 7/25/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Normally you don't ever need to think about rebasing on x86_64.  The perpetual postinstall script /etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash should handle everything without any manual intervention.  You might

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/25/2017 10:38 AM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: > I'm using 64 bit cygwin already. This is a difference from the OP (It was in my earlier post). Sorry, I missed that. Have you looked at the output of 'rebase -is'? Conflicts are marked with '*'. What about BLODA? = =

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Tue, 7/25/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: "Ian Lambert" <>, cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 9:03 AM On 7/25/2017 12:26 AM, Ian Lambert wrote: > On July 24, 2017 10:5

Re: "rebase-trigger full"

2017-07-25 Thread mike
On 25/07/2017 15:29, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 25/07/2017 16:12, mike wrote: On 25/07/2017 11:17, mike wrote: On 25/07/2017 06:21, Brian Inglis wrote: Thanks very much for that Brian. That seems to have done the trick. It's solved part of my problems anyway. However why does rebasing take such

Re: "rebase-trigger full"

2017-07-25 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 25/07/2017 16:12, mike wrote: On 25/07/2017 11:17, mike wrote: On 25/07/2017 06:21, Brian Inglis wrote: Thanks very much for that Brian. That seems to have done the trick. It's solved part of my problems anyway. However why does rebasing take such a long time? I would have thought that i

Re: "rebase-trigger full"

2017-07-25 Thread mike
On 25/07/2017 11:17, mike wrote: On 25/07/2017 06:21, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-07-24 22:55, mike wrote: Can someone please tell me how to do that. Thanks very much in advance Type the command within the double quotes at a Cygwin shell command prompt, with your Cygwin bin directory in your

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/25/2017 12:26 AM, Ian Lambert wrote: On July 24, 2017 10:58:29 PM EDT, Ken Brown <> wrote: On 7/24/2017 6:08 PM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: This time I ran "rebase-trigger full", did full shutdown/restart, then ran setup. And are you sure there were no Cygwin processes running? This

Re: Link error with static version of zlib?

2017-07-25 Thread cyg Simple
On 7/24/2017 7:31 PM, J (Jean-Claude Gervais) wrote: > Hello Steven and Hans-Bernhard, > > I believe the problem stems from a missing component in the runtime. > > When I use Gentoo's Crossdev and generate either the 32 or 64 bit > version of MinGW, it allows me to compile and link the app with n

Re: "rebase-trigger full"

2017-07-25 Thread mike
On 25/07/2017 06:21, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-07-24 22:55, mike wrote: Can someone please tell me how to do that. Thanks very much in advance Type the command within the double quotes at a Cygwin shell command prompt, with your Cygwin bin directory in your PATH. Then shutdown all Cygwin ser