Native ARM support for Cygwin

2021-12-07 Thread Aaron Franke via Cygwin
Hello Cygwin, I am wondering what are the plans for adding support for native ARM64 Windows to Cygwin. Currently there are only downloads for x86 (both 32-bit and 64-bit), but not for ARM. I do see in the FAQ that there is a mention of how ARM systems can run the x86 version of Cygwin, however I

Possible fit?

2021-12-07 Thread Jonathan Thiessen
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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf2.5-2.69-4, autoconf2.7-2.71-2

2021-12-07 Thread Achim Gratz
The autoconf2.5 and autoconf2.7 packages are re-released to fix a packaging bug that caused identical files being installed by the two packages and thus interfering with the intended parallel installation of both. GNU Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to a

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

2021-12-07 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/5/2021 3:50 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Autoconf upstream has stated that the 2.7x releases are not fully backwards compatible. Cygwin therefore chose to provide a new autoconf2.7 package (keeping autoconf2.5 available) and modifying the wrapper script to allow packaging systems to set WANT_AUT

Re: vboxsharedfs - Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-12-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 8 00:32, Takashi Yano wrote: > On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 15:57:56 +0100 > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Dec 7 09:46, Takashi Yano wrote: > > > I think '/cygdrive/z/..' should be '/cygdrive', however, > > > in current cygwin, it is interpreted into '//VBoxSrv'. > > > > > > Is this as you intende

Re: vboxsharedfs - Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-12-07 Thread Takashi Yano
On Wed, 8 Dec 2021 00:32:49 +0900 Takashi Yano wrote: > With my patch, above case behaves like: > > $ mount > C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) > C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) > C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) > C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0

Re: Orphaned Packages in Packages List

2021-12-07 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 07.12.2021 16:19, Fenlason, Allen [US] (ES) wrote: I am trying to understand the process for managing packages that are listed on the CygWin Packages list page. This specifically refers to https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html. In reading the CygWin Package Contributor's Guide, it i

Re: vboxsharedfs - Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-12-07 Thread Takashi Yano
On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 15:57:56 +0100 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 7 09:46, Takashi Yano wrote: > > I think '/cygdrive/z/..' should be '/cygdrive', however, > > in current cygwin, it is interpreted into '//VBoxSrv'. > > > > Is this as you intended? > > > > With my patch which stops to treat UNC

Orphaned Packages in Packages List

2021-12-07 Thread Fenlason, Allen [US] (ES)
I am trying to understand the process for managing packages that are listed on the CygWin Packages list page. This specifically refers to https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html. In reading the CygWin Package Contributor's Guide, it indicates that packages without active maintainers are

Re: vboxsharedfs - Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-12-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 7 09:46, Takashi Yano wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 19:55:27 +0900 > Takashi Yano wrote: > > First, I think the same. However, with this patch, it sometimes causes > > hang for a few seconds around the code: > [...] > > with path_copy of "//VBoxSrv". I am not sure why. That's expected and no

Re: clipboard broken

2021-12-07 Thread Takashi Yano
On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 12:51:54 +0100 Thomas Wolff wrote: > I cannot copy more than precisely 128KB into /dev/clipboard. Copying it > back will report Bad address. > Worked in 3.3.0, broken in 3.3.2 (did not test 3.3.1). Thanks for the report. I found the cause. I will submit a patch for this issue s

clipboard broken

2021-12-07 Thread Thomas Wolff
I cannot copy more than precisely 128KB into /dev/clipboard. Copying it back will report Bad address. Worked in 3.3.0, broken in 3.3.2 (did not test 3.3.1). Thomas -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https: