Re: Problems with cygwin in Windows 10

2015-07-21 Thread Michael DePaulo
Hi, (This is the same reply I sent when Robert emailed cygwin-xfree rather than cygwin.) On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Robert McBroom wrote: > > Having problems with the X interface in Windows 10 (currently build 10240). > /bin/startxwin fails with the symptoms in the attached file xwin.txt.

Re: Does /etc/profile need to set MANPATH?

2015-07-20 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Mikhail Usenko wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2014 10:37:30 +0200 > Achim Gratz <...> wrote: > >> Corinna Vinschen writes: >> > Whatever, it looks like MANPATH can really go away. Achim, do your worst. >> >> Done. >> > > Besides defining MANPATH (and the other variables

Re: Updated: xorg-server-1.17.2-1 (TEST)

2015-07-17 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > > The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: > > *** xorg-server-*1.17.2-1 > > These packages contain XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. > > In addition to upstream fixes [1], the following cygwin-specific changes >

Re: Return codes over 1 byte

2015-07-09 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 19:30 -0400, Michael DePaulo wrote: >> mark06 mentioned this on IRC today and then left the channel about 1 hour >> later: >> >> has anyone ever discussed exit codes above one byte?

Return codes over 1 byte

2015-07-09 Thread Michael DePaulo
mark06 mentioned this on IRC today and then left the channel about 1 hour later: has anyone ever discussed exit codes above one byte? they are valid on modern windows, but cygwin's bash will mess them I was curious, so I googled it (I could not find an answer) and then tried it out. I can confir

Re: Isuse with xwin-xdg-menu "View logfile"

2015-07-09 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 07/07/2015 04:13, Michael DePaulo wrote: >> >> First of all, let me say how much I like xwin-xdg-menu. Thumbs up to >> Jon Turney, and to all the other developers like Yaakov Selkowitz who >> work on related comp

Re: From Microsoft: Windows 10 Console and Cygwin

2015-05-04 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Rich Eizenhoefer wrote: > > I've created a backlog item for this request so we can track the ask. It's > possible, but would probably need to pick your brain in-depth more about the > ask in the future. In the meantime, is it okay if I attach a copy of this > em

Re: From Microsoft: Windows 10 Console and Cygwin

2015-04-29 Thread Michael DePaulo
Hi, see bottom post. On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi Rich, > > nice to read from you. > > On Apr 29 19:01, Rich Eizenhoefer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm the Program Manager at Microsoft for the updated Windows 10 >> console. I searched the Cygwin FAQ and mailing list arch

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: gtkperf-0.40-1

2015-03-12 Thread Michael DePaulo
Version 0.40-1 of gtkperf has been uploaded. Note that this utility tests GTK2 performance, not GTK3 performance. DESCRIPTION === GtkPerf is an application designed to test GTK+ performance. The point is to create common testing platform to run predefined GTK+ widgets and this way define

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygport-0.18.0.1-1

2015-03-05 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > I have uploaded a new version of cygport to the Cygwin distribution and > the Fedora/EPEL Cygwin copr. Highlights in this version: > > * A new 'upload' command for package maintainers; >... Thank you! Don't forget to update the documenta

Re: Cygwin DLLs being modified somehow?

2015-02-23 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Michael DePaulo! > >> I found this too: >> http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/Rebaseall > >> However, this leads to a another question. On the X2Go project, we >> compile nxproxy, a 3rd-party

Re: Cygwin DLLs being modified somehow?

2015-02-23 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:31 PM, René Berber wrote: > On 2/22/2015 7:53 PM, Michael DePaulo wrote: > >> I am seeing very weird behavior and I am hoping that someone can explain it. >> >> This happens on 2 different machines. My personal Windows 10 64-bit >> mach

Cygwin DLLs being modified somehow?

2015-02-22 Thread Michael DePaulo
I am seeing very weird behavior and I am hoping that someone can explain it. This happens on 2 different machines. My personal Windows 10 64-bit machine, and a Windows 7 64-bit VM hosted by the X2Go project on another continent. It seems to be happening to multiple DLLs, but I will list one examp

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-12 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I finally released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin > release. The version number is 1.7.34-002. I *think* I am experiencing a very bad regression. These are the Windows permissions on my ~/.ssh/id_rsa file: C:\cygwin\hom

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-09 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > For your convenience I wrote new documentation. Since this is a TEST > prerelease, the new documentation is not part of the official docs yet. > Rather have a look at > > https://cygwin.com/preliminary-ntsec.html > > If you read it (whic

Re: setup-x86.exe stops downloading after one or two packages

2014-12-08 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 8 09:00, Michael DePaulo wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 5:57 AM, jropph wrote: >> > For the few last weeks setup-x86.exe 2.852 stops downloading packages after >> > 1 or 2 files. >> > >>

Re: setup-x86.exe stops downloading after one or two packages

2014-12-08 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 5:57 AM, jropph wrote: > For the few last weeks setup-x86.exe 2.852 stops downloading packages after > 1 or 2 files. > > When I run it again, it downloads 1 or 2 of the remaining files, and then it > stops again. > > I verified this also in another mirror. I reported this p

Re: Cygwin installer hangs while downloading files

2014-08-18 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Michael DePaulo wrote: > HI, > > I'm having a weird issue with the Cygwin installer. It occurs whether > I am using it to update my 2 installations of Cygwin (both 32-bit and > 64-bit), or to perform a new install. The issue is that the ins

Re: Running a cygwin application on Windows

2014-08-16 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Fernando Gont wrote: > On 08/16/2014 06:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Aug 16 12:29, Achim Gratz wrote: >>> Fernando Gont writes: My idea was to use cygwin, since I'm not much of a Windows programmer. Is there any way to produce and ship an exe with

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.6.7-2

2014-08-15 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Michael DePaulo! > >>>>> >>>>> This release removes the cache database generation from the postinstall >>>>> step >>>>> due to its often excessive length. Users wi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.6.7-2

2014-08-15 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2014-08-15 07:22, Michael DePaulo wrote: >>> >>> This release removes the cache database generation from the postinstall >>> step >>> due to its often excessive length. Users will need to mana

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.6.7-2

2014-08-15 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: > > * man-db-2.6.7-2 > > man-db is an implementation of the standard Unix documentation system > accessed using the man command. It uses a Berkeley DB database in place o