Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-11-18 17:08, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 13:50, Kristian Ivarsson wrote: The only purpose CYGWIN have is to make/build posix-applications runnable on Windows and applications usually have user defined input, such as paths etc, and on Windows that input is usu

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Doug Henderson via Cygwin
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 13:50, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: > > > The only purpose CYGWIN have is to make/build posix-applications runnable on > Windows and applications usually have user defined input, such as paths etc, > and on Windows that input is usually Windows-native-paths unless

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Eliot Moss
On 11/18/2020 4:18 PM, Kristian Ivarsson wrote: I would agree that if you want an executable that acts and feels more like a Windows native application, then mingw is probably what you want. Cygwin is if you want something that acts and feels more like a Posix thing ... which means it will

Trouble with starting XWin, "(EE) Can't read lock file /tmp/.XO-lock"

2020-11-18 Thread rtroy
Hey everyone, SUPER long time Cygwin user, seldom need help, and my versions are all ancient now and I can't upgrade, I don't think. I'm on Windows 7 and am stuck there. Other version data follows. Everything had been working fine for years, then I had a system crash and on restart, this i

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Norton Allen
On 11/18/2020 3:46 PM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: Is there any other use cases for CYGWIN than to build applications running in Windows ? Do people use CYGWIN (shell) to operate or monitor their applications ? For all other use cases than the development (the shell) I cannot see why C

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin
> I would agree that if you want an executable that acts and feels more like a > Windows native application, then mingw is probably what you want. Cygwin is > if you want something that acts and feels more like a Posix thing ... which > means it will be oriented to Posix style paths. To be ab

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Eliot Moss
I would agree that if you want an executable that acts and feels more like a Windows native application, then mingw is probably what you want. Cygwin is if you want something that acts and feels more like a Posix thing ... which means it will be oriented to Posix style paths. EM -- Problem rep

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin
> 18 nov. 2020 kl. 17:26 skrev René Berber via Cygwin : > > On 11/18/2020 3:00 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: > On 11/17/2020 9:15 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: >>> The filesystem-library as a part of C++17 seems to have some defects and flaws in the cygwin-pa

Re: Autoconf files need v2.69

2020-11-18 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-11-18 11:19, Biswapriyo Nath via Cygwin wrote: I am not familiar with newlib. Please feel free whatever you want to do with my previously provided diff. Also my previous question is unanswered. Cygwin provides autoconf 2.69 but it's what builds the package that counts, also perhaps wha

Re: cmake suddenly stopped working

2020-11-18 Thread Norton Allen
On 11/18/2020 11:35 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: can you try to re-install libstdc++6 ? $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/cmake.exe cmake-3.17.3-2 $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/cygstdc++-6.dll libstdc++6-10.2.0-1 Hmm, here's a problem:   $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/cygstdc++-6.dll   libstdc++6-7.4.0-1 This

Re: Autoconf files need v2.69

2020-11-18 Thread Biswapriyo Nath via Cygwin
I am not familiar with newlib. Please feel free whatever you want to do with my previously provided diff. Also my previous question is unanswered. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.ht

Re: cmake suddenly stopped working

2020-11-18 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 18.11.2020 17:09, Norton Allen wrote: On 11/18/2020 10:33 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 18.11.2020 14:54, Norton Allen wrote: On 11/18/2020 6:31 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 18.11.2020 01:24, Norton Allen wrote: Rolling back cmake from 3.17.3-2 to 3.14.5-1 seems to have res

Re: Sv: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Eliot Moss
On 11/18/2020 11:24 AM, René Berber via Cygwin wrote: Cygwin handles the file system with no problem, but using Posix-like notation, not Windows-like. End of story. And I'll add, this is by design: Cygwin's goal is to provide a programming (and command line) environment as much like Posix as

Re: Sv: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread René Berber via Cygwin
On 11/18/2020 3:00 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: On 11/17/2020 9:15 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: The filesystem-library as a part of C++17 seems to have some defects and flaws in the cygwin-package and pretty much every lexical- and canonical operation works in mysterious

Re: cmake suddenly stopped working

2020-11-18 Thread Norton Allen
On 11/18/2020 10:33 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 18.11.2020 14:54, Norton Allen wrote: On 11/18/2020 6:31 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 18.11.2020 01:24, Norton Allen wrote: Rolling back cmake from 3.17.3-2 to 3.14.5-1 seems to have resolved the problem. Any idea why no one

Re: Autoconf files need v2.69

2020-11-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 18 15:06, Biswapriyo Nath via Cygwin wrote: > Currently the autoconf files in newlib-cygwin repo are in 2.64 version > but the latest autoconf package is version 2.69. So, autoreconf > command shows errors. Possible diff attached. We can update to 2.68, but not 2.69. Newlib still requires

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-18 Thread Achim Gratz
tealhill via Cygwin writes: > ### Summary > > Why should Cygwin add Sysnative to $PATH? As a workaround for > Microsoft's failure to add Sysnative to %PATH%. With my maintainer hat for base-files on, I reject this proposal. As already noted, there is no precedent for Cygwin doing things like tha

Re: cmake suddenly stopped working

2020-11-18 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 18.11.2020 14:54, Norton Allen wrote: On 11/18/2020 6:31 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 18.11.2020 01:24, Norton Allen wrote: Rolling back cmake from 3.17.3-2 to 3.14.5-1 seems to have resolved the problem. Any idea why no one else seems to be seeing this problem with 3.17.3-2? I

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-18 Thread Bill Stewart
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 4:42 PM tealhill via Cygwin wrote: > Therefore, I am suggesting that Cygwin work around Microsoft's omission. > My suggested workaround is for Cygwin to add Sysnative to its own > $PATH, automatically. I don't think that should be a default behavior in cygwin and is likely

Re: cmake suddenly stopped working

2020-11-18 Thread Norton Allen
On 11/18/2020 5:40 AM, Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:24:12 -0500, Norton Allen Rolling back cmake from 3.17.3-2 to 3.14.5-1 seems to have resolved the problem. Any idea why no one else seems to be seeing this problem with 3.17.3-2? If it is caused by incomplete r

Re: cmake suddenly stopped working

2020-11-18 Thread Norton Allen
On 11/18/2020 6:31 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: On 18.11.2020 01:24, Norton Allen wrote: Rolling back cmake from 3.17.3-2 to 3.14.5-1 seems to have resolved the problem. Any idea why no one else seems to be seeing this problem with 3.17.3-2? I assume you had an incomplete upgrade. wh

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Re: cmake suddenly stopped working

2020-11-18 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 18.11.2020 01:24, Norton Allen wrote: Rolling back cmake from 3.17.3-2 to 3.14.5-1 seems to have resolved the problem. Any idea why no one else seems to be seeing this problem with 3.17.3-2? I assume you had an incomplete upgrade. what is the output of "cygcheck cmake" ? $ cygcheck cma

Re: cmake suddenly stopped working

2020-11-18 Thread Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:24:12 -0500, Norton Allen > Rolling back cmake from 3.17.3-2 to 3.14.5-1 seems to have resolved the > problem. > > Any idea why no one else seems to be seeing this problem with 3.17.3-2? > If it is caused by incomplete rebasing, a full rebase might make it work. cf. http

Autoconf files need v2.69

2020-11-18 Thread Biswapriyo Nath via Cygwin
Currently the autoconf files in newlib-cygwin repo are in 2.64 version but the latest autoconf package is version 2.69. So, autoreconf command shows errors. Possible diff attached. diff --git a/config/override.m4 b/config/override.m4 index 52bd1c3..1c3c298 100644 --- a/config/override.m4 +++ b/conf

Sv: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin
> On 11/17/2020 9:15 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: > > > The filesystem-library as a part of C++17 seems to have some defects > > and flaws in the cygwin-package and pretty much every lexical- and > > canonical operation works in mysterious ways (or not at all) > [snip] > > https://cygw