Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-06 Thread Andy Koppe
Rurik Christiansen: >> So, did anyone actually read my response here about how this wouldn't >> work for Cygwin?  If so, you'd have to think that these responses were >> pretty off-topic. > > Actually I did but I gracefully disagree :) > > Strictly speaking you are technically perfectly correct. >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-06 Thread Rurik Christiansen
On 7 April 2010 00:13, Christopher Faylor wrote: [...] > So, did anyone actually read my response here about how this wouldn't > work for Cygwin?  If so, you'd have to think that these responses were > pretty off-topic. Actually I did but I gracefully disagree :) Strictly speaking you are tech

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-06 Thread Tim McDaniel
About release number testing, Jeremy Bopp wrote: The most accurate way to check for functionality is to specifically test for it, a la autoconf. Even better, when possible, is to just try it and catch errors. -- Tim McDaniel, t...@panix.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 10:02:44AM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >People doing one or more of the above should hopefully be technical >enough to understand the dangers and devise workarounds though. I think humor really belongs on the cygwin-talk mailing list. >To be honest, I'm not sure what can be

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-06 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 4/6/2010 9:13 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:57:24PM +0300, Matthias Andree wrote: >> There's the LSB, Linux Standards Base, and it supports a "lsb_release" >> command, try "lsb_release -a" for a start, here a few samplers: > > So, did anyone actually read my respo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:57:24PM +0300, Matthias Andree wrote: >Tim McDaniel wrote on 2010-04-05: > >> On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:42:05PM +1000, Rurik Christiansen wrote: * How do I know what the current release is ? (e.g. is there somet

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-06 Thread Matthias Andree
Tim McDaniel wrote on 2010-04-05: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:42:05PM +1000, Rurik Christiansen wrote: * How do I know what the current release is ? (e.g. is there something like /etc/redhat-release or whatever ? The docs mention /var/log/setup ...

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-06 Thread Rurik Christiansen
On 6/04/2010 1:32 AM, Tim McDaniel wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:42:05PM +1000, Rurik Christiansen wrote: >>> * How do I know what the current release is ? (e.g. is there >>> something like /etc/redhat-release or whatever ? The docs mention >>>

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-05 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:32:53AM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:42:05PM +1000, Rurik Christiansen wrote: * How do I know what the current release is ? (e.g. is there something l

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:32:53AM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote: >On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:42:05PM +1000, Rurik Christiansen wrote: >>> * How do I know what the current release is ? (e.g. is there >>> something like /etc/redhat-release or whatever ? T

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-05 Thread Tim McDaniel
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:42:05PM +1000, Rurik Christiansen wrote: * How do I know what the current release is ? (e.g. is there something like /etc/redhat-release or whatever ? The docs mention /var/log/setup ... but is not clear at all) ... Other

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:42:05PM +1000, Rurik Christiansen wrote: >On 5/04/2010 7:28 AM, jurri...@rivierenland.xs4all.nl wrote: >> >>> == >>> NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE >>> >>>

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05/04/2010 08:42, Rurik Christiansen wrote: > I am fairly new at this. I've installed 1.7.1 but: > > * How do I know what the current release is ? (e.g. is there something > like /etc/redhat-release or whatever ? The docs mention /var/log/setup > ... but is not clear at all) The current rel

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-05 Thread Rurik Christiansen
On 5/04/2010 7:28 AM, jurri...@rivierenland.xs4all.nl wrote: > >> == >> NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE >> >> Cygwin 1.7.1 or earlier users of LSA authentication using the cyglsa.dll >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-04 Thread Jeremy Bopp
jurri...@rivierenland.xs4all.nl wrote: > From: Corinna Vinschen > Date: Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 05:22:09PM +0200 >> == >> NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE >> >> Cygwin 1.7.1 or earlier use

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-04 Thread jurriaan
From: Corinna Vinschen Date: Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 05:22:09PM +0200 > > == > NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE > > Cygwin 1.7.1 or earlier users of LSA authentication using the cyglsa.d

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
For anyone who's interested, there is one additional fix in 1.7.3 - strace -p now works again. It was broken for about a year and a half. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.3-1

2010-04-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just release 1.7.3-1. This is a bugfix release which fixes a serious deadlock problem, a couple of not so serious bugs, plus a few minor changes. == NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOT