Is charliep1...@yahoo.com not possible to use for my Cygwin email subscription?

2025-04-18 Thread Charles Perkins via Cygwin
Hello folks, I had been using for my subscription but now I want to use . But as best I can tell, it simply won't work. Can you tell me why?? Thanks in advance, Charlie P. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

installing scipy in cygwin

2025-03-27 Thread Charles Russell via Cygwin
With pip install scipy I get error: ../scipy/meson.build:163:9: ERROR: Dependency "OpenBLAS" not found I found this issue discussed in https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/20491 and https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/building/blas_lapack.html However, the suggested fix: python -m pip -Csetup-a

no search option for cygwin archives?

2025-03-27 Thread Charles Russell via Cygwin
For the cygwin archives at https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/ I can no longer find any search option using the Firefox browser -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubsc

wget runs now

2025-02-26 Thread Charles Perkins via Cygwin
.  Maybe sometime soon I will once again try to get Xwindows to work. Naturally Yours, Charlie P. On 2/24/2025 9:51 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2025-02-24 15:54, Charles Perkins wrote: I tried to use wget.  Here's the result: $ wget -r --tries=10 https://a.nice.website/newsletters/ -o log C:/cyg

X11 does not start up

2025-01-27 Thread Charles Perkins via Cygwin
Hello folks, I have had multiple problems trying to install X11 on Cygwin.   I am running Cygwin on Windows 11 on my Asus VivoBook. The initial X11 installation showed Error 3 for the sub-installation of xinit. Looking through previous answers, I found a suggestion to run the following:  C

RE: emacs 29.4-1: Connection lost to X server

2025-01-19 Thread Charles Henkel via Cygwin
y end, but I am doubting it's a generic issue. -Original Message- From: Ken Brown Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2025 2:41 PM To: Charles Henkel ; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: emacs 29.4-1: Connection lost to X server On 1/18/2025 11:52 AM, Charles Henkel via Cyg

emacs 29.4-1: Connection lost to X server

2025-01-18 Thread Charles Henkel via Cygwin
Context: Both Win 10 (10.0.19044) and Win 11 (24H2) Latest versions you get installing as of 15jan2025: cygwin 3.5.5-1 emacs 29.4-1 xorg-server 21.1.12-1 Problem: After a f

default high priority for mintty

2024-02-29 Thread Charles Russell via Cygwin
What is the easiest way to open mintty with high priority by default? Adding /High to the shortcut command string no longer seems to work in Windows 11. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.

Re: Cygwin sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

2020-12-20 Thread Charles Russell
On 12/20/2020 12:51 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Charles Russell! SOLVED On 12/17/2020 3:24 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: >> in some cases I could not find any real >> issue, but deleting and recreating the rules fixed the issue. That did the trick: simply

Re: Is there an alternative to gmane for managing this mailing list?

2020-12-20 Thread Charles Russell
On 12/19/2020 4:10 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2020-12-19 00:40, Achim Gratz wrote: Charles Russell writes: My ISP (AT&T) currently seems to be blocking mail to news.gmane.io. Is there some other way to maintain thread coherence without subscribing to the mailing list, which would inundat

Re: Cygwin sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

2020-12-18 Thread Charles Russell
SOLVED On 12/17/2020 3:24 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > in some cases I could not find any real > issue, but deleting and recreating the rules fixed the issue. That did the trick: simply deleting and reinstating the firewall settings for sshd solved the problem on both computers. I had troubl

Re: Cygwin sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

2020-12-17 Thread Charles Russell
On 12/17/2020 3:09 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: Have you checked your new router to see what default rules are enabled there? The router firewall is disabled. (I have a another router serving as a firewall between it and the modem.) Besides, all hosts are on the local side of the new router, an

Is there an alternative to gmane for managing this mailing list?

2020-12-17 Thread Charles Russell
My ISP (AT&T) currently seems to be blocking mail to news.gmane.io. Is there some other way to maintain thread coherence without subscribing to the mailing list, which would inundate my inbox? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

2020-12-17 Thread Charles Russell
On 12/17/2020 11:49 AM, Bill Stewart wrote: > Make sure to look carefully through all of the firewall rules and > check whether there is a rule blocking that executable or port. > Selecting "Advanced Settings" and then "incoming rules", I see one rule for sshd private: enabled, allowed and one

Re: Cygwin sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

2020-12-17 Thread Charles Russell
On 12/16/2020 9:37 AM, wors...@bellsouth.net wrote: > While installing a new router, I changed my local network from > 192.168.4.* to 192.168.50.*. This seems to have broken Cygwin sshd on > both of my remote computers, but only for Cygwin; sshd works fine if I > boot the remote computer from a li

Re: gfortran 9.3 write format error

2020-04-18 Thread Charles Russell
Problem solved (probably). When setting out to downgrade gfortran, I found that there was a slight upgrade available - 9.3.0.1 to 9.3.0.2. I upgraded, ran "make clean" and "make test". This time it ran to completion with no error message. Seems unlikely this minor upgrade fixed a major probl

Re: gfortran 9.3 write format error

2020-04-18 Thread Charles Russell
On 4/18/2020 11:23 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: what compiler version are you using on Debian $ gfortran --version GNU Fortran (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0 When support ended for g77 I feared for my collection of old fortran code, but it all worked fine under gfortran after a few trivial changes that I

Re: cygwin gfortran segfaulting on valid write statements

2020-04-17 Thread Charles Russell
On 4/17/2020 2:46 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: Try running under strace: $ strace -o prog.strace prog -options... args... or gdb: $ gdb prog (gdb) run -options... args... SEGV diagnostics (gdb) bt (gdb) q and attach or paste all output. The follow

Re: cygwin gfortran segfaulting on valid write statements

2020-04-17 Thread Charles Russell
On 4/17/2020 2:39 PM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: in what type of statement have you the segfault ? I recently tried building and running some old fortran code using what I think is the current version of cygwin gfortran (--version reports 9.3.0) and was surprised to get a run-time error

Unable to view pdf files

2019-10-11 Thread Blair, Charles E III
I have not been able to view pdf files, trying: (1) midori only offers applications for djvu, jpg, and dvi files. (2) ghostscript was listed as already installed, but gv file.pdf yields "command not found," and "man gv" and "man ghostcript" also don't work. Neither did re-installing. (3)

Re: my C arrays are too large

2019-09-13 Thread Blair, Charles E III
Thank you very much for your help. Moving the big array to a global variable made the problem go away. Before that, I tried ulimit -Ss 8192 After this, the segmentation error message was still there. --- My e-ma

Re: My C arrays are too large

2019-09-13 Thread Blair, Charles E III
My apologies for failing to reply on-list. I don't know how :( My machine is 64 bit, and I hope I installed the correct version of cygwin. This program: #include int main(){char *a[50][8192]; return 0;} compiles with gcc (no special options) but gives "Segmentation fault". --

My arrays in C are too large

2019-09-13 Thread Blair, Charles E III
I have been using on other machines a program that includes char *a[50][8192]; but this declaration, by itself, gives "segmentation" errors. [8192 is BUFSIZ on other machines, although it seems to be 1024 here. The program uses 50 different permutations on strings of size BUFSIZ.] -

printf, "unable to initialize PRN" message

2019-09-10 Thread Blair, Charles E III
I have just installed cygwin (64 bit) and gcc. The "hello world" program works, but #include int main(){printf( "%c\n" , 'X' );return 0;} leads to Unable to initialize device PRN Unable to initialize device PRN -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: h

Re: sshd privsep user still required?

2019-01-17 Thread Charles Russell
On 1/17/2019 8:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 16 15:31, Bill Stewart wrote: I installed the OpenSSH server as a service using ssh-host-config, and all is working. I'm running Windows 10 (1803). I renamed the sshd privilege separation (privsep) account to something else and restarted the

chgrp doesn't work

2019-01-11 Thread Charles Hedrick
File system mounted via Kerberized NFS. chgrp has no effect, whether specifying the group by name (with an entry in /etc/group) or number. An error is given if an invalid group name is used. No error when a good one is used. Packet trace shows a GETATTR but nothing that would change the group.

Re: user/group mapping for NFS

2019-01-11 Thread Charles Hedrick
I have thousands of users and they change all the time. I really don’t want to have to update a file on all windows machines. That’s the point of having LDAP. > On Jan 11, 2019, at 4:17 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > On Jan 10 20:28, Charles Hedrick wrote: >> On Jan 10,

Re: user/group mapping for NFS

2019-01-10 Thread Charles Hedrick
Incidentally, I’m actually more concerned about groups than users. Users could reasonably want to do chgrp to adjust group membership of a file or directory, but they can’t do much about user. However it would be nice to see the real user as well. On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen

Re: user/group mapping for NFS

2019-01-10 Thread Charles Hedrick
On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen mailto:corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com>> wrote: Well, it should. What happens is this: After asking the non-AD LDAP server for the account name, it asks the account fetching algorithm for that name from scratch. This depends on the /etc/nsswitch.conf se

user/group mapping for NFS

2019-01-10 Thread Charles Hedrick
We have a system that is doing a Kerberized NFS mount of directories on Linux. We have our LDAP system set up as a mapping server, with samaccountname added to users so that the Windows mount command does the mount as the right user. ls -l causes a query that looks like (&(objectClass=posixAcco

Re: Installing sshd with option --type manual

2017-05-09 Thread Charles Russell
On 5/4/2017 3:31 PM, Fran Litterio wrote: You can try opening the Services Control Panel app (run "start services.msc" in a Command Prompt) and changing the startup type of service "Cygwin sshd" to "Automatic (Delayed Start)". Yes! I was looking in the alphabetized list of services for sshd

Re: Installing sshd with option --type manual

2017-05-06 Thread Charles Russell
On 5/4/2017 3:31 PM, Fran Litterio wrote: > On 4/28/2017 11:48 AM, Charles Russell wrote: >> Starting from a default installation of sshd that was working >> properly, I tried uninstalling sshd with cygrunsrv and reinstalling >> with --type manual. >> >> (cygrunsr

Re: Installing sshd with option --type manual

2017-05-06 Thread Charles Russell
On 5/4/2017 3:31 PM, Fran Litterio wrote: On 4/28/2017 11:48 AM, Charles Russell wrote: Starting from a default installation of sshd that was working properly, I tried uninstalling sshd with cygrunsrv and reinstalling with --type manual. (cygrunsrv --install sshd --path /usr/sbin/sshd.exe

Re: Installing sshd with option --type manual

2017-05-06 Thread Charles Russell
On 4/28/2017 10:48 AM, Charles Russell wrote: Starting from a default installation of sshd that was working properly, I tried uninstalling sshd with cygrunsrv and reinstalling with --type manual. (cygrunsrv --install sshd --path /usr/sbin/sshd.exe --type manual) After rebooting I cannot start

Installing sshd with option --type manual

2017-04-28 Thread Charles Russell
Starting from a default installation of sshd that was working properly, I tried uninstalling sshd with cygrunsrv and reinstalling with --type manual. (cygrunsrv --install sshd --path /usr/sbin/sshd.exe --type manual) After rebooting I cannot start sshd with cygrunsrv. Instead, I get message

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pal 0.4.3-1 -- A cal-like calendar with day highlight and support for events

2016-06-12 Thread Charles Russell
What is this "update"? The cited homepage shows no updates since 2008 ("browse all files"). The green button shows last update 2013, but the version number is identical to that of 2008. The last entry in the cited changelog is 2008. I find pal useful, and if someone is actively maintaining it

Re: make command is throwing a "cygheap base mismatch detected" error.

2016-04-05 Thread Rory Charles
Looks like I solved the issue by re-installing Docker Toolbox. Thanks. Sorry for the trouble. From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com on behalf of Rory Charles Sent: 05 April 2016 11:49 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: make command is throwing a "cygheap

Re: make command is throwing a "cygheap base mismatch detected" error.

2016-04-05 Thread Rory Charles
I would add a cygcheck file for you, but I'm not able to add attachments, it seems. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

make command is throwing a "cygheap base mismatch detected" error.

2016-04-05 Thread Rory Charles
Hello, I'm using Docker for Windows alongside TortoiseGit and Git for Windows and I installed cygwin to get the make functionality. It was working fine and then I updated TortoiseGit, Git for Windows and cygwin and now I am getting the below error. $ make 3 [main] make (8180) C:\cygwin64

Re: Compiling for native Windows

2015-12-14 Thread Charles Russell
On 12/14/2015 8:16 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 14/12/2015 15:06, sisyph...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, Last time I built gmp on Cygwin for Windows it was using gcc-3.4.5 - and was, I think, done as a cross-compilation involving the -mno-cygwin option. Am I right in thinking that the days of "-mn

no callstack after assert

2014-11-25 Thread Mick Charles Beaver
Hello, I was poking around with gcc and gdb and found that when I hit an assert, I did not have a valid callstack/backtrace. Is this expected? A little info: * I am using Windows 7 and 8, 64-bit. * I used the latest gcc (4.8.3) and gdb (7.8) that a fresh cygwin installed. * uname -a reports: CY

"warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10"

2014-06-18 Thread Charles Walrus
Hello sorry to bother. I did research, could not find relevant support for this problem, so I am coming to the mailing list as last ditch. Here's the problem: When I try to use plot in octave, I get the following output: "warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10 warning: ft_render: u

Re: File permissions when using ACLs

2014-03-11 Thread Charles Plager
st though of: Cygwin uses special permissions in the case where the file is not executable (but readable or readable/writable)? I guess I can see that. I'd still love to hear from anybody who's experienced the vanishing permissions... Thanks! Charles On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:30 A

File permissions when using ACLs

2014-03-11 Thread Charles Plager
xperience files that lose all permissions? Any suggestions on resetting the file (short of reformatting the drive)? * Any other hints/insights that might be useful here? Thanks, Charles p.s. We see this behavior for Cygwin 1.7.9 and beyond. In 1.7.5, it doesn't appear as if the

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-03-03 Thread Charles Wilson
On 2/26/2014 5:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Weird, I was pretty sure we already have an /etc/shells file installed by default. Apparently not. So, shan't we add one? /bin/sh /bin/bash /bin/dash /bin/mksh /bin/zsh /usr/bin/sh /usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/dash /usr/bin/mks

Re: Patch for run-1.3.0-1 core dump

2014-02-17 Thread Charles Wilson
On 2/17/2014 12:25 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Since I've been running with CYGWIN error_start always set at the moment, I've noticed that run is always crashing after launching the process. I went to all the trouble of investigating this, discovering that run2_freeargv() is double-freeing the last el

Re: TIFFWriteDirectory() fails on network drive

2014-01-31 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/31/2014 3:38 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 31 14:17, Hsu, Justine wrote: The attached program tries to save a blank 64 x 64 TIFF image to specified path. When the path specified is local, the images saves fine. If the path is on a network drive on a Windows7, then it saves a corrupt fi

Re: Maintainer for git?

2014-01-29 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/28/2014 4:02 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: I've found that I need to do the following: PATH=/usr/bin git or I get odd failures. So I've actually set that up as an alias: alias git='PATH=/usr/bin git' This sounds like you have issues with the default $PATH order. Nope, /usr/bin i

Re: Maintainer for git?

2014-01-28 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/28/2014 12:00 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: I've found that I need to do the following: PATH=/usr/bin git or I get odd failures. So I've actually set that up as an alias: alias git='PATH=/usr/bin git' NM. Should have read thru to the end of the thread before pos

Re: Maintainer for git?

2014-01-28 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/23/2014 6:01 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: Rebase didn't help. Still broken, IMO. I'm going back to 1.7.9 or will rebuild w/ cygcrypto-0.9.8 as the OP had suggested. x86$ git clone https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git ffmpeg Cloning into 'ffmpeg'... remote: Reusing existing pack: 345748,

Re: cygstart fails

2014-01-20 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/14/2014 5:08 PM, Christian Franke wrote: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Thomas Wolff sent the following at Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:26 PM After today's setup update, cygstart (e.g. "cygstart .") fails with: /usr/bin/cygstart.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygpopt-0

RE: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-03 Thread Charles Butterfield
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Kilroy [mailto:kilr...@googlemail.com] > I think the difference is where you select the checkbox. There's one in > Compatibility->Privilege Level->Run as admin, and another in > Shortcut->Advanced->Run as admin. The compatibility one is telling > windows th

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: inetutils-1.9.1-1; NEW: inetutils-server-1.9.1-1

2013-12-03 Thread Charles Wilson
On 12/3/2013 8:40 AM, Frank Fesevur wrote: 2013/11/15 Charles Wilson: CHANGES (since 1.7-2) o Updated to latest upstream release o Rely on cygport to autogenerate setup.hints o Split package into client and server components. I just tried to install the clients

RE: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-02 Thread Charles Butterfield
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Kilroy [mailto:kilr...@googlemail.com] > On 01/12/2013 21:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Are you starting mintty with "run as administrator" by any chance? > Corrina's right - check that the same user is being used in both cases. > I don't think this would

Re: [patch] cygwin-apps/run 1.0.3

2013-12-02 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/30/2013 10:01 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 09:52:01PM -0500, Max Polk wrote: Follow-up to run 1.0.3 crashing and leaving run.exe.stackdump, first reported at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg00169.html The list wouldn't let me send a patch because it had an

RE: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-12-01 Thread Charles Butterfield
> -Original Message- > From: David Kilroy [mailto:kilr...@googlemail.com] > Can you run the following commands from mintty running bash vs cmd > running bash: > > cygpath -u "y:\apps" > test -d /cygdrive/y/apps > echo $? > > Result of the first command should be /cygdrive/y/apps 2nd comma

RE: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-11-30 Thread Charles Butterfield
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Kilroy [mailto:kilr...@googlemail.com] > The xhere script should pass y:\apps to cygpath to get the cygwin path, which > should be /cygdrive/y/apps. IIRC /cygdrive/y may not be visible via ls, but it > should be usable. I'm guessing the path is failing the

RE: chere + mintty doesn't work with mapped drives

2013-11-29 Thread Charles Butterfield
Dave wrote: > Can you clarify which isn't working: > a) a network share mapped to a drive letter, e.g N:\my\network\location This is my situation. I have my Y: drive mapped to a Linux Samba server. See more details below > b) network share accessed via \\ e.g. \\server\path\my\network\locatio

Re: CVS version difference, 32-bit vs 64-bit

2013-11-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/25/2013 10:11 PM, Mark Hadfield wrote: On 32-bit Cygwin the CVS package is at version 1.12.13 whereas on 64-bit Cygwin it is at 1.11.23. The latter can handle proxy servers whereas the former cannot, so I would prefer 1.12.13 on both. I note that 1.11.23 (the last stable release) is quite

Re: attempting to get the latest version of Xinetd and Inetd going on the latest version of 64 bit cygwin

2013-11-25 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/25/2013 4:41 PM, Katherine Moss wrote: This command results in: "interactive is only allowed with install." The same thing happens when I attempt to install Inetd. For inetd, try using the iu-config script instead of installing manually. It's possible you may need to be in an elevated w

Re: cygcheck -svc segfaults on Windows 8.1 with cygwin64

2013-11-19 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/19/2013 12:13 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Why do they have to make such a mess out of a simple function like GetVersionEx? It returns different OS version numbers based on the existence of a manifest in the executable. How dense is that? So we have thousands of executables, none of them

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run-1.3.0-1

2013-11-18 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/18/2013 8:36 AM, Patrick Herbst wrote: . That's the latest from Wednesday last week. Any news on this?? No, it's been on hold until I could get the inetutils package pushed out. Now it's back to the top of the task list. -- C

Re: Libtool version 2.4.2 ?

2013-11-18 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/17/2013 1:31 AM, marco atzeri wrote: starting to see programs with configure.ac:16: error: Libtool version 2.4.2 or higher is required m4/libtool.m4:48: LT_PREREQ is expanded from... any chanche to move on ? On the related libtool annaunce, some time ago: Now that (a) inetutils is out,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: inetutils-1.9.1-1; NEW: inetutils-server-1.9.1-1

2013-11-15 Thread Charles Wilson
cygwin64. CHANGES (since 1.7-2) o Updated to latest upstream release o Rely on cygport to autogenerate setup.hints o Split package into client and server components. o Added debuginfo package o First cygwin64 release -- Charles Wilson volunteer inetutils maintainer for

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {tcp_wrappers/libwrap0/libwrap-devel}-7.6-22

2013-11-15 Thread Charles Wilson
libwrap, but it was a necessary API change to enable DLL builds on cygwin. -- Charles Wilson volunteer tcp_wrappers maintainer for cygwin To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link o

Re: Find dll name corresponding to an import library

2013-11-06 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/6/2013 5:31 PM, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: Is there a canonical way to do so? dlltool --identify libfoo.a -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: gcc-4.8.2-1: /bin/gcc fails

2013-11-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/5/2013 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 4 20:18, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Under the circumstances, configuring inetutils with --libexecdir=/usr/sbin makes the most sense. Full ACK. Otherwise you'd have to provide some script which tweaks an existing /etc/inetd.conf to use the ne

Re: gcc-4.8.2-1: /bin/gcc fails

2013-11-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 11/4/2013 6:42 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 2 23:54, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: So, while I'm not convinced that this is a huge issue overall, if "don't do that" isn't good enough, the easiest workaround is to configure GCC with --libexecdir=/usr/lib. That would be the safer option, I

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-11-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/30/2013 9:51 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/10/2013 8:48 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: Yeah; even for my stripped-down version, I need to pre-process the setup.ini and remove all mentions of cygwin, libstdc++6, libgcc1, etc. The ncurses DLLs are also a huge nexus. (It's probably easi

Re: SIGKILL and TerminateProcess

2013-10-30 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/29/2013 3:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 06:37:46PM +, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: CYGWIN lets me access some Windows-specific APIs (the same way one would do by using some UNIX-flavor-specific libraries), without having to port them all to CY

Re: Emacs doesn't start from icon after update to 1.7.25 [attn: Chuck]

2013-10-30 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/28/2013 4:25 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: I saw this, but haven't had time to investigate. It's at the top of the list, right after finishing the port/respin of inetutils-1.9 for 32bit and 64bit cygwin. Just checking for status. Is this still pending investigation? Yes -- it is still "pendin

Re: setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-10-30 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/26/2013 5:40 AM, David Stacey wrote: On 25/10/13 17:12, Charles Wilson wrote: Oooo - this sounds like fun. I've knocked up some (very bad) perl that gives you what you need. It generates a graphviz file that you can pipe to 'dot' to generate the dependency graph in what

Re: git clone failing with "fatal: index-pack failed"

2013-10-28 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/26/2013 12:23 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 10/23/2013 07:56 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Please excuse any duplication. I'm getting the following when attempting to clone a large git repository using Cygwin's git: $ git clone gitolite@172.20.10.200:axcient Cloning into 'axcient'... remote:

setup.ini dependency graph?

2013-10-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Does anybody have a script or a tool that can parse a setup.ini and generate a dependency graph? I'm using pmcyg to create a stripped-down standalone installation CD and it's too big, so I'm trying to figure out where the culprit is that's pulling in so much stuff... -- Chuck -- Problem repo

RE: CHERE package missing from 64-bit Setup 2.830

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Butterfield
Larry - Thanks for your suggestions regarding mixing 32 and 64-bit installations (CHERE, INETUTILS, PING, etc). I have a couple of follow-on questions: 1) Can I simply copy the 32-bit binaries into the 64-bit "bin" directory? That is, will they work fine with the 64-bit Cygwin DLLs in the pat

INETUTILS and PING package missing from 64-bit Setup 2.830

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Butterfield
Also noticed that "inetutils" package is missing from 64-bit. Also noticed that "ping" package is missing from 64-bit. Gosh - I use both of these on occasion.  I'm now feeling I may have made a mistake in upgrading to 64-bit. My questions: 1)  Is there some way to install and run the 32-bit ve

CHERE package missing from 64-bit Setup 2.830

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Butterfield
I'm in the middle of re-installing Cygwin. Decided to go with the 64-bit package this time.  But I can't find the "chere" package, not any recent reference to it in this list.  Are there any workarounds that give me a right click to open a bash shell? Regards -- Charlie B -- Problem reports:

Re: banner bug

2013-10-07 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/6/2013 4:05 PM, Tom Goodman wrote: I am seeing bad output and an abort when running banner. $ banner fred X X Known issue (since last Thursday). Haven't had a chance to debug it yet, but thanks for the report. -- Chuck -- Problem

Re: Emacs doesn't start from icon after update to 1.7.25 [attn: Chuck]

2013-09-25 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/25/2013 2:36 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: Looks fine. I'm out of ideas. Maybe Chuck (the run and run2 maintainer) can help you if you want to pursue this. Anyone else (Chuck?) have any ideas on this? As I can't open Emacs from the shortcut anymore, my current workaround is opening an rxvt win

Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

2013-09-18 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/18/2013 1:53 PM, Frédéric Bron wrote: Is it possible to build setup64.exe from a 32bit cygwin? As previously mentioned, despite the subject, there is no such thing as setup64.exe. The makefile creates setup.exe. The filename gets changed when it gets uploaded to cygwin.com to either setu

Re: config.guess and config.sub older than new Cygwin64

2013-09-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/4/2013 5:43 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: Just a note to those of you using Cygwin64 to build packages. You will need to most likely replace the config.guess and config.sub files in those packages with newer ones from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/ because it won't guess your system correctly.

Re: Fwd: Re: Trying to build rxvt on Cygwin64.

2013-09-02 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/2/2013 5:09 PM, Václav Zeman wrote: On 09/02/2013 09:14 PM, Robert McBroom wrote: make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/rxvt/W11/w32' gcc -c xlib.c -O -I.. -mwin32 xlib.c: In function ‘XOpenDisplay’: xlib.c:131:26: error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment (NT_window*)(scr

Re: xz -9 : Cannot allocate memory

2013-08-29 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/29/2013 12:00 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 29 11:32, Charles Wilson wrote: So...this is NOTABUG, right? Right. But is a bit lame that it just fails. Does it have to use this big buffer or would it also work with a smaller buffer, if there's no memory chunk big enough? From

Re: xz -9 : Cannot allocate memory

2013-08-29 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/29/2013 11:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 29 14:34, Achim Gratz wrote: Achim Gratz NexGo.DE> writes: With the initial heap size set to 1MB, the same allocations for mmap work just fine. The mmap length used by xz is the same for files of all sizes. The large mmap is for the scra

Re: Is there going to be rxvt-unicode and terminus-fonts pkgs on 64bits?

2013-08-28 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/28/2013 2:20 AM, Arthur Tu wrote: Also lftp and inet-tools(which includes telnet). I'm currently working on inetutils. It's slow going, as the cygwin version is *heavily* patched from stock, and I'm forward-porting those changes from inetutils-1.7 to inetutils-1.9. Stay tuned. I just

Re: Why are the 32- and 64-bit cygwin1.dlls incompatible?

2013-08-23 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/23/2013 2:12 PM, Warren Young wrote: I don't think ncurses can work without a tty interface Orpie runs in a cmd.exe window. ncurses must have some fall-back mode. When you launch a cygwin program in a cmd.exe window, cygwin sets up a tty-like interface (the TERM=cygwin terminal), and (

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {rsh/rsh-server}-0.17-2

2013-08-20 Thread Charles Wilson
with either the rsh client or server, please report to the cygwin mailing list. Changes since 0.17-1 * Rely on cygport to autogenerate setup.hints * Added debuginfo package * First cygwin64 release -- Charles Wilson volunteer rsh maintainer for cygwin

Re: Lack of case-sensitive filename handling with git 1.7.9-1 for Cygwin 64-bit

2013-08-16 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/16/2013 4:17 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I assume the format of the git database files depends on the architecture. Therefore it's probably not advisable to use a git repo created under 32 bit git with a 64 b Oh, wow. That's...awkward. I'm sharing the same drive area mounted in both cyg3

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake1.4-1.4p6-11

2013-08-12 Thread Charles Wilson
se of /d modifier in transliteration operator at .../lib/Automake/Wrap.pm line 60." This messes up the expected stderr output. -- Charles Wilson volunteer automake maintainer for cygwin To update your installation, cli

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake1.5-1.5-11

2013-08-12 Thread Charles Wilson
libtool's multi-m4 file structure, and so unexpected warnings are emitted. These errors all appear to be related to platform updates (perl, libtool) and do not actually represent regressions in automake itself, so to speak. -- Charles Wilson volunteer

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake1.6-1.6.3-12

2013-08-12 Thread Charles Wilson
. While technically, these 19 failures are regressions from the previous am1.6 release: 0 of 370 tests failed They all appear to be related to platform updates (perl, libtool, gettext) and do not actually represent regressions in automake itself, so to speak. -- Charles Wilson volunteer

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake1.7-1.7.9-11

2013-08-12 Thread Charles Wilson
of 451 tests failed They all appear to be related to platform updates (perl, libtool, etc) and do not actually represent regressions in automake itself, so to speak. -- Charles Wilson volunteer automake maintainer for cygwin To

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake1.8-1.8.5-11

2013-08-12 Thread Charles Wilson
es) They all appear to be related to platform updates (perl, libtool, etc) and do not actually represent regressions in automake itself, so to speak. -- Charles Wilson volunteer automake maintainer for cygwin To update your i

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake1.9-1.9.6-11

2013-08-12 Thread Charles Wilson
lated to platform updates (e.g. perl), or otherwise do not actually represent regressions in automake itself, so to speak. -- Charles Wilson volunteer automake maintainer for cygwin To update your installation, click on the &qu

Re: Patch for run-1.3.0-1 core dump

2013-08-12 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/10/2013 1:34 PM, foo wrote: Whenever I execute run.exe, it generates run.exe.stackdump. At line 370 in run.c, run2_freeargv() tries to free newargv, and run2_freeqrgv() expects that newargv is terminated by NULL. However, in shifting newargv at line 253-256, it fails to shift NULL terminato

Re: checkX problem or misunderstanding

2013-08-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/4/2013 10:24 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/4/2013 9:50 PM, wynf... wrote: It is clearly written in my message, in fact in imported it from the checkX documentation. What part of the problem I'm describing is not clear to you? "DESCRIPTION Determines if X is installed, Xse

Re: Updated: gcc-tools-epoch2-automake-1.11.6-1

2013-08-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/3/2013 10:21 AM, Kelley Cook wrote: Hi Charles, Are the dependencies correct here? gcc-tools-epoch1-autoconf> No, they are not. Fixed on cygwin.com and in my local archive. Thanks for the headsup. It seems counter intuitive, that the current of GCC automake would require

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake1.11-1.11.6-2

2013-08-02 Thread Charles Wilson
the expectations of the test and the capabilities of my vala: Any attempt to actally launch valac reports: "error: Unknown profile posix" I'm really not too concerned about these failures, since they all appear to be (a) bugs in the testsuite,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake1.10-1.10.3-2

2013-08-02 Thread Charles Wilson
) bugs in the testsuite, or (b) bugs in other programs. -- Charles Wilson volunteer automake maintainer for cygwin To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. Th

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: automake1.12-1.12.6-2

2013-08-02 Thread Charles Wilson
investigated. Still -- only 4 (or 0) failures out of almost 3000 tests is not bad. -- Charles Wilson volunteer automake maintainer for cygwin To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on t

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