Re: vboxsharedfs - Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-12-05 Thread Oskar Skog
On 2021-12-06 05:31, Takashi Yano wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 16:49:13 +0200 Oskar Skog wrote: But if I create a symlink on that filesystem, it's not identified as a symlink. Although, I don't know if this has ever worked as it is the first time I've ever tested it, it probably hasn't ever worked

Re: vboxsharedfs - Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-12-05 Thread Takashi Yano
On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 16:49:13 +0200 Oskar Skog wrote: > But if I create a symlink on that filesystem, it's not identified as a > symlink. Although, I don't know if this has ever worked as it is the > first time I've ever tested it, it probably hasn't ever worked (see > below). > > user@DESKTOP-*

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tesseract-ocr-5.0.0-1

2021-12-05 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce
Version 5.0.0-1 of packages libtesseract-ocr_5 (API bump) tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-devel tesseract-training-util Version 5.00-1 of packages tesseract-ocr-deu tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr-fra tesseract-ocr-ita tesseract-ocr-nld tesseract-ocr-por t

[GOLDSTAR] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf-15-1, autoconf2.7-2.71-1

2021-12-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/5/2021 3:50 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Autoconf has been updated to the latest upstream release 2.71, see the packaging notes below. Additionally the automake wrapper has been updated to the latest upstream version 15 (with some modifications for Cygwin). Great work, thanks for doing this.

Re: Cygwin installer does not terminate

2021-12-05 Thread Jon Turney
On 30/11/2021 09:09, Stefan Smorra wrote: Hello, I am running the x86 installer under 64bit Windows 10 (as administrator) as follows: [...] The problem is that the installer does not terminate. It stays open in the background (hidden) what can be seen in the task manager. Also it's cons

Re: vboxsharedfs - Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-12-05 Thread Oskar Skog
On 2021-12-05 04:54, Takashi Yano wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:04:57 +0200 Oskar Skog wrote: vboxsharedfs file systems no longer work. Any attempt to access will result in "too many levels of symbolic links". This only affects the VirtualBox shared folder, the Samba share works just fine. ...

Re: maxima-5.45.0-1 can't find a lisp.exe

2021-12-05 Thread Lemures Lemniscati
On Sun, 05 Dec 2021 13:37:24 +0100, Achim Gratz > Lemures Lemniscati writes: > > clisp2.49.92-1 OK > > That's a test package, you need to install the latest released package. With the latest realeased clisp package, maxima works. Thank you. Lem -- Problem reports: h

Re: maxima-5.45.0-1 can't find a lisp.exe

2021-12-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Lemures Lemniscati writes: > clisp2.49.92-1 OK That's a test package, you need to install the latest released package. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf rackAttack V1.04R1: http://Synth.Stromek

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2021-12-05 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest release version available on CPAN: noarch -- perl-Alien-Build-2.46-1-src perl-libwww-perl-6.59-1-src perl-Test2-Suite-0.000144-1-src -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe fro

maxima-5.45.0-1 can't find a lisp.exe

2021-12-05 Thread Lemures Lemniscati
Hi! I tried maxima, but it failed with a message. $ uname -svrmo; echo --; cygcheck -c maxima clisp gnuplot-base; echo --; /usr/bin/maxima CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.3.3(0.341/5/3) 2021-12-03 16:35 x86_64 Cygwin -- Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus clisp

Build instructions in the FAQ

2021-12-05 Thread Oskar Skog
I have recently tested a small patch. The build instructions in the FAQ kind of worked. I think the list of prerequisite packages could be a bit more clear. https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin The FAQ forgot to mention that `patch` is required. `cocom` is also require

Fwd: vboxsharedfs - Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-12-05 Thread Oskar Skog
On 2021-12-05 04:54, Takashi Yano wrote: In 64bit Windows10, for vbox shared path, GetFinalPathNameByHandleW() returns path with trailing '\'. As a result, RtlEqualUnicodeString() fails and tries to resolve symlink repeatedly. For example, RtlEqualUnicodeString() compares \??\UNC\VBoxSrv\tmp and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf-15-1, autoconf2.7-2.71-1

2021-12-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Autoconf has been updated to the latest upstream release 2.71, see the packaging notes below. Additionally the automake wrapper has been updated to the latest upstream version 15 (with some modifications for Cygwin). GNU Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf-archive-2021.02.19-1

2021-12-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Autoconf Archive has been updated to the latest upstream release 2021-02-19 on Cygwin. The GNU Autoconf Archive is a collection of more than 450 macros for GNU Autoconf that have been contributed as free software by friendly supporters of the cause from all over the Internet. --

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake1.16-1.16.5-1

2021-12-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Automake has been updated to the latest upstream version 1.16.5 on Cygwin. This is Automake, a Makefile generator. It was inspired by the 4.4BSD make and include files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets. Automake1.16 contains autom