Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] New package: lua-5.1.4-11

Packaging? The subdirectory structure release/Lua/lua/ looks a bit odd to me (no other instances that I can find of release/Name/name/). Everything installs perfectly well as far as I can tell. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cy

Switched back to cygwin EMACS from EMACS for win32

(This is not a bug report for cygwin or Emacs, it's more like a story). Long time ago, I used old cygwin EMACS, 21.x version, but I found it crashes now and then, so I struggled til I found native EMACS 23 beta is provided at (*) (*) http://ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl. I went

Re: HEADSUP maintainers: Packages install scripts without execute permissions

On Jun 22 22:06, Christian Franke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> So I created a list of packages which install scripts into >> /etc/preremove, /etc/postinstall, and /usr/bin without setting execute >> permissions on them. Please guys, fix the permissions ASAP. >> >> [...] >> Christian Frank

Re: Cygwin 1.7 Installation on Server 2008 with Terminal Services

On Jun 22 14:36, Hortenstine, John wrote: > > Quite inconvenient, but working: > > > > For the time being, until we have a gcc which sets the > > TS-aware flag by > > default and most of the executables have been rebuilt with it, switch > > DEP to "Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and s

Re: [1.7] sshd dc problem

On Jun 22 17:48, Reini Urban wrote: > Starting the laptop at home, without PDC connection works. I can properly > login. > But ssh to this box fails with -1 = initgroups (URBANR, 10513) > This is without cyglsa > > $ /usr/sbin/sshd -d -D >25 592959 [main] sshd 5208 fhandler_tty_slave::write:

Re: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing Emacs shell?

David Karr schrieb: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf >> Of Ken Brown >> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 12:54 PM >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com >> Subject: Re: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing >> Emacs shell? >>

Re: Cygwin 1.7 Installation on Server 2008 with Terminal Services

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Hortenstine, John on 6/22/2009 9:07 AM: > The post install .sh scripts fail to run on Server 2008 with Terminal > Services because bash crashes. Crash can be fixed using peflags and > setting the Terminal Services aware bit on (solution fo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: readline-5.2.14-12, libreadline6-5.2.14-12

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline and libreadline6, 5.2.14-12, is available for use, replacing 5.2.13-11, as the current version. 5.1-5 remains the previous version, to match the fact that a previous version of bash 3.1 is still available. This is probably t

Re: default codepage

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 22 16:48, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Since the latest locale-related changes, the default codepage after > > starting cygwin _without_ explicit setting (of a locale variable) > > seems to have changed from CP1252 ("Windows ANSI") to ISO 8859-1 ("Latin > > 1"). > > W

Re: default codepage

On Jun 23 15:45, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jun 22 16:48, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > Since the latest locale-related changes, the default codepage after > > > starting cygwin _without_ explicit setting (of a locale variable) > > > seems to have changed from CP1252 ("Windo

Re: default codepage

On Jun 23 16:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 23 15:45, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Jun 22 16:48, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > > Since the latest locale-related changes, the default codepage after > > > > starting cygwin _without_ explicit setting (of a locale variabl

RE: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing Emacs shell?

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf > Of Matthias Andree > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:13 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing > Emacs shell? > > David Karr schrieb

RE: Cygwin 1.7 Installation on Server 2008 with Terminal Services

> This sounds like a good idea. Since you already did it, maybe you'd > like to help by writing such a FAQ entry? > Eric Blake mentioned that he was working on the real solution (adding the Terminal Services bit to bash.exe). If you believe it would still be worth while to document this workar

RE: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing Emacs shell?

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf > Of David Karr > Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 4:42 PM > To: kbr...@cornell.edu; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing > Emacs shell? > > > --

Re: default codepage

> > > > On Jun 22 16:48, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > > > Since the latest locale-related changes, the default codepage after > > > > > starting cygwin _without_ explicit setting (of a locale variable) > > > > > seems to have changed from CP1252 ("Windows ANSI") to ISO 8859-1 > > > > > ("Latin 1").

Re: default codepage

On Jun 23 17:04, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > I tested this myself and now I understand what you mean. The console > > seems to use ISO-8859-1, but actually it doesn't. What happens is this: > > The console I/O functions are using UTF-16 under the hood, so each > > incoming character is converted to U

Re: Cygwin 1.7 Installation on Server 2008 with Terminal Services

On Jun 23 10:01, Hortenstine, John wrote: > > > This sounds like a good idea. Since you already did it, maybe you'd > > like to help by writing such a FAQ entry? > > > > Eric Blake mentioned that he was working on the real solution (adding > the Terminal Services bit to bash.exe). If you belie

Re: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing Emacs shell?

Am 23.06.2009, 17:03 Uhr, schrieb David Karr : I just tried changing my script to instead just do a "read" with a prompt. This does not kill the shell at the end of the script. When I do it in Java, it kills the shell at the end of the script. Weird. Is Java trying anything WRT signalling

Re: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing Emacs shell?

David Karr real.com> writes: > > > > I'm not sure how complicated it needs to be. My test case gathers a > > > couple > > > > of parameters and then calls a Java (JDK 1.6.0_14) class. > > > > I found that the key is whether the Java class reads from stdin or not. > > I just tried changing my sc

Re: Cygwin 1.7 Installation on Server 2008 with Terminal Services

Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > Bash isn't the only affected binary so it's still worth the FAQ entry. > But, never mind, I just created one. The FAQ should mention the 'rebase' package, not the 'rebaseall' package. And not to sound anxious, but are we going to have a new binutils and gc

Re: Cygwin 1.7 Installation on Server 2008 with Terminal Services

On Jun 23 16:07, Eric Blake wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > Bash isn't the only affected binary so it's still worth the FAQ entry. > > But, never mind, I just created one. > > The FAQ should mention the 'rebase' package, not the 'rebaseall' package. Thanks, done. > And not

Re: default codepage

Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > wcwidth for the "C" locale returns the standard non-CJK values. The > return values for wcwidth only depend on language and the @cjknarrow > modifier, not on the charset. Well, technically the @cjknarrow modifier IS part of the codeset. > > > But wait -

Help building boost-1.39 on cygwin-1.7 using gcc-4

Hi there, I am trying to build the latest boost on cygwin-1.7 using g++-4 I configured boost to use the gcc-4, that far no problem. Then, I built it giving it the link=static and runtime-link=static options It seems however that the build is not successful, although the build completes (giving

RE: find(1) assertion for folder with a sub-folder named `x:'

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 19 17:55, Haojun Bao wrote: > > hi, > > > > Here's a test case to make find(1) assertion: > > > > mkdir no-such-dir/foo/bar: -p > > > > #this will not assert > > find no-such-dir/ > > > > mkdir no-such-dir/foo/c: -p > > I think the right answer here

Re: Slow/sluggish response ("system" task at 50%)

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Gene Smith wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote, On 06/22/2009 08:08 PM: There's also 1.7 - 1.7 seems to fix it. It now takes 34 seconds as compared to 14 minutes with cygwin-1.5. (But I suspect that a fresh install of 1.5 might produc

Re: default codepage

Eric Blake wrote: > > > > > But wait - yet here's my question: Why is there a difference between > > > bash --login > > > and > > > bash > > > - where in the latter case CP1252 (or the default ANSI codepage) > > > *is* still the default? > > It must be that one of your startup scripts is ch

RE: Slow/sluggish response ("system" task at 50%)

> From: gds > Subject: Re: Slow/sluggish response ("system" task at 50%) > Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:55:25 -0400 > > Current version 1.5 is slow while beta-1.7 is > fast, for still unknown reasons. > Perhaps 1.7 will challenge the performance of B.20. :-) ...Karl ___

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.25-15

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 14 13:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I've uploaded a new release Cygwin 1.5.25-15. This is a bug fix release. Changes since version 1.5.25-14: - Fix a potential problem with pressing Ctrl-C in remote sessions from within a Windows console. Under some circumstan

'emacs' command becomes a no-op

After bringing everything up-to-date in Cygwin (Windows Server 2003), emacs won't run. I give the command, it thinks for half a second, and then gives me the command prompt. I'm also noticing different behavior from readline in a Perl script. I'm using mintty, which got upgraded in the proc

Re: Connecting to cygwin ssh is slow

I'm a bit late to this thread but I had the same issue and I found a solution that worked for me and wanted to share it. Original thread: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00361.html I already had UseDNS=no, but was still seeing about a 5 second delay after seeing the "Last login: Tue Ju

Re: 'emacs' command becomes a no-op

Chap Harrison wrote: After bringing everything up-to-date in Cygwin (Windows Server 2003), emacs won't run. I give the command, it thinks for half a second, and then gives me the command prompt. I'm also noticing different behavior from readline in a Perl script. I'm using mintty, which got

Re: Slow/sluggish response ("system" task at 50%)

Gene Smith wrote: Since I don't have a "HOME" env var in windows, cygwin is getting the cygwin HOME from /etc/passwd. So I tried it both ways. With 1.5 I set home to be the empty directory /home/smited (under c:/cygwin). It didn't make it any faster. With beta-1.7 I set home to /cygdrive/c/D

Re: Slow/sluggish response ("system" task at 50%)

Karl M wrote: From: gds Current version 1.5 is slow while beta-1.7 is fast, for still unknown reasons. Perhaps 1.7 will challenge the performance of B.20. :-) New slogan: Cygwin 1.7 - as good as B.20! ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc.

Re: Slow/sluggish response ("system" task at 50%)

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:54:12PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >Karl M wrote: >>> From: gds >>> Current version 1.5 is slow while beta-1.7 is >>> fast, for still unknown reasons. >>> >> Perhaps 1.7 will challenge the performance of B.20. >> >> :-) > >New slogan: Cygwin 1.7 - as good as B.20!

Re: find(1) assertion for folder with a sub-folder named `x:'

Phil Betts wrote: mkdir -p foo/c: cd foo rm -rf c:/ In case you can't see why that's bad, DON'T TRY IT!! Don't even copy it, because you will accidentally paste it into a terminal window, you will get to say "oopsy!" [1], and you will hurt your forehead on your keyboard. [OT] I have a wo

Re: Slow/sluggish response ("system" task at 50%)

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:54:12PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Karl M wrote: From: gds Current version 1.5 is slow while beta-1.7 is fast, for still unknown reasons. Perhaps 1.7 will challenge the performance of B.20. :-) New slogan: Cygwin 1.7 - as good as B

Re: Some questions about mintty

2009/6/22 Mark Harig: > 1. There is no description of the '-e' switch in mintty's manual page. >   Is it an "execute-this-command" option?  Or, should the user be >   aware that it is specific to "execute this shell"? The -e option was added for compatibility with xterm and other terminals, but it

setup-1.7.exe command line options

Where can I find documentation on the setup-1.7.exe command line options, in particular the one for installing packages without invoking the GUI that I think was added last year? I had a look in all the places I could think of, but without success, and invoking setup with -h, -H, -help or --help d

RE: setup-1.7.exe command line options

Andy Koppe wrote on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:08 PM: > Where can I find documentation on the setup-1.7.exe command line > options, in particular the one for installing packages without > invoking the GUI that I think was added last year? > > I had a look in all the places I could think of, but wit

Re: setup-1.7.exe command line options

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:13:39PM -0500, Thrall, Bryan wrote: >Andy Koppe wrote on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:08 PM: > >> Where can I find documentation on the setup-1.7.exe command line >> options, in particular the one for installing packages without >> invoking the GUI that I think was added last

Re: setup-1.7.exe command line options

Andy Koppe wrote: Where can I find documentation on the setup-1.7.exe command line options, in particular the one for installing packages without invoking the GUI that I think was added last year? I had a look in all the places I could think of, but without success, and invoking setup with -h, -

Re: setup-1.7.exe command line options

Ralph Hempel wrote: Andy Koppe wrote: Where can I find documentation on the setup-1.7.exe command line options, in particular the one for installing packages without invoking the GUI that I think was added last year? I had a look in all the places I could think of, but without success, and invo

Re: Some questions about mintty

> 3. When the color of the cursor is changed to a block, the text > � can be read through the block, but it appears that the text is > � always white. The background colour is used for text beneath the cursor, so if the cursor is visible infront of the background, the text beneath the cursor sho

Re: Slow/sluggish response [Solved, sort of]

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Gene Smith wrote: Since I don't have a "HOME" env var in windows, cygwin is getting the cygwin HOME from /etc/passwd. So I tried it both ways. With 1.5 I set home to be the empty directory /home/smited (under c:/cygwin). It didn't make it any faster. With beta-1.7

Re: Slow/sluggish response [Solved, sort of]

Gene Smith wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> Gene Smith wrote: >> >> >> >>> Since I don't have a "HOME" env var in windows, cygwin is getting the >>> cygwin HOME from /etc/passwd. So I tried it both ways. With 1.5 I set >>> home to be the empty directory /home/smited (under c:/cygwin). It >>>

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.49-22

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.2.49-22, has been uploaded, replacing 3.2.48-21 as current, and leaving 3.1-6 as previous. This is probably the last bash release for cygwin 1.5; my next release will be bash 4.0 for cygwin 1.7. NEWS: = This is a minor pa

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: readline-6.0.3-1; New package libreadline7-6.0.3-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline, 6.0.3-1, and a corresponding bump in the runtime library to the new package libreadline7, are now available for use in cygwin 1.7, replacing 5.2.14-12 and libreadline6 as the current version. Cygwin 1.5 users are unaffected

Re: find(1) assertion for folder with a sub-folder named `x:'

"Phil Betts" writes: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jun 19 17:55, Haojun Bao wrote: >> > hi, >> > >> > Here's a test case to make find(1) assertion: >> > >> > mkdir no-such-dir/foo/bar: -p >> > >> > #this will not assert >> > find no-such-dir/ >> > >> > mkdir no-such-dir/foo/c: -

Re: Some questions about mintty

2009/6/23 Mark Harig : >> The background colour is used for text beneath the cursor, so if the >> cursor is visible infront of the background, the text beneath the >> cursor should be visible too. With the default white-on-black colours, >> you get black text inside a white cursor block. >> >> Is i

Re: setup-1.7.exe command line options

2009/6/23 Christopher Faylor: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:13:39PM -0500, Thrall, Bryan wrote: > >> Where can I find documentation on the setup-1.7.exe command line > >> options, in particular the one for installing packages without > >> invoking the GUI that I think was added last year? > >> > >>