cygwin-api.info.gz and cygwin-ug-net.info.gz look as malformed info file.

2011-03-02 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko
cygwin-api.info.gz and cygwin-ug-net.info.gz look as malformed info file. It does not parsable by info.exe and emacs.exe and dows not listened in 'dir' file. They seems do not contain any info specific syntax. But in header written: This is cygwin-ug-net.info, produced by makeinfo version 4

Re: 1.7.8-1 ls -l /proc/sys/Device causes system reset

2011-03-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 16:41, Tim Coalson wrote: > > On 03/01/2011 04:57 PM, Tim Coalson wrote: > > The problem: > > > > $ > > /bin/ls > >-l /proc/sys/Device > > > > hit enter, and my system instantly reboots, > >without > >shutdown. Without the -l > > option, works fine. Unfortunately, ls with > >col

Re: 1.7.8-1 ls -l /proc/sys/Device causes system reset

2011-03-02 Thread Timothy Coalson
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar  1 16:41, Tim Coalson wrote: >> I have found two culprits so far, SSHDRV65 and SSHDRV79.  They seem to be >> drivers related to CD copy protection software in windows. > > I *really* start to hate Windows XP. > > But I can't reproduc

Re: 1.7.8-1 ls -l /proc/sys/Device causes system reset

2011-03-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 2 04:23, Timothy Coalson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > On Mar  1 16:41, Tim Coalson wrote: > >> I have found two culprits so far, SSHDRV65 and SSHDRV79.  They seem to be > >> drivers related to CD copy protection software in windows. > > > > I *real

Re: 1.7.8-1 ls -l /proc/sys/Device causes system reset

2011-03-02 Thread Timothy Coalson
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar  2 04:23, Timothy Coalson wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Corinna Vinschen >> wrote: >> > On Mar  1 16:41, Tim Coalson wrote: >> >> I have found two culprits so far, SSHDRV65 and SSHDRV79.  They seem to be >> >> drivers re

OpenBSD version of netcat ported to cygwin

2011-03-02 Thread T. Linden
Hi, I've ported the OpenBSD version of netcat to cygwin. It provides much more features as the one supplied with cygwin. Details can be found here: http://www.daemon.de/Netcat best, tl -- Please note that according to the German law on data retention, information on every electronic informati

readdir truncates file names whose UTF-8 representation is longer than 255 bytes

2011-03-02 Thread Uri Simchoni
Hi, I'm using Cygwin 1.7.7 in UTF-8 mode. I have a file whose name is composed of Hebrew character, so the UTF-8 representation is longer than 255 characters. Trying "ls -l" fails to list the file's attributes. Using a short C program that loops through a directory (readdir()/stat()) shows that r

winmm.dll error 487 is easily reproducible

2011-03-02 Thread EXCOFFIER Denis
Hello, I get the winmm.dll error 487 (under 1.7.8-1, but not under 1.7.7-1) with the following, easily 100% reproducible: echo "dummy text" > /tmp/foo /usr/bin/xz -8 /tmp/foo /usr/bin/xz -d < /tmp/foo.xz <--- this produces the error rm -f /tmp/foo /tmp/foo.xz xz is the current one in Cy

Re: OpenBSD version of netcat ported to cygwin

2011-03-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 2 12:52, T. Linden wrote: > Hi, > > I've ported the OpenBSD version of netcat to cygwin. It provides much > more features as the one supplied with cygwin. > > Details can be found here: http://www.daemon.de/Netcat If you're willing to pack this as Cygwin package and maintain it, I'm will

Re: readdir truncates file names whose UTF-8 representation is longer than 255 bytes

2011-03-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 2 06:56, Uri Simchoni wrote: > Hi, > I'm using Cygwin 1.7.7 in UTF-8 mode. I have a file whose name is composed of > Hebrew character, so the UTF-8 representation is longer than 255 characters. > Trying "ls -l" fails to list the file's attributes. > Using a short C program that loops throu

Re: winmm.dll error 487 is easily reproducible

2011-03-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 2 13:06, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: > Hello, > > I get the winmm.dll error 487 (under 1.7.8-1, but not under 1.7.7-1) with > the following, easily 100% reproducible: > > echo "dummy text" > /tmp/foo > /usr/bin/xz -8 /tmp/foo > /usr/bin/xz -d < /tmp/foo.xz <--- this produces the error

Re: winmm.dll error 487 is easily reproducible

2011-03-02 Thread EXCOFFIER Denis
The latest snapshot (20110301) solves the issue. Thank you. Denis Excoffier. P.S.: By the way, what is the normal way to install snapshots? It is easy to replace cygwin1.dll (keeping around the working one), but in order to test the cygwin1 package in full (eg to check within stdio.h whether vsn

cygpath

2011-03-02 Thread Jim P
I just updated my cygwin install, and cygpath appears to be broken. Issuing the command "cygpath", with any or no command-line options, returns nothing and a status of 127. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: cygpath

2011-03-02 Thread Edward Lam
On 3/2/2011 9:05 AM, Jim P wrote: I just updated my cygwin install, and cygpath appears to be broken. Issuing the command "cygpath", with any or no command-line options, returns nothing and a status of 127. But other commands work? eg. ls ... If you've rebased your cygwin install in the past,

Re: cygpath

2011-03-02 Thread Roger K. Wells
On 03/02/2011 09:05 AM, Jim P wrote: I just updated my cygwin install, so did I (an hour ago) and cygpath appears to be broken. Issuing the command "cygpath", with any or no command-line options, returns nothing and a status of 127. cygpath works as expected roger wells -- Problem reports

RE: OpenBSD version of netcat ported to cygwin

2011-03-02 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
T. Linden sent the following at Wednesday, March 02, 2011 6:52 AM >I've ported the OpenBSD version of netcat to cygwin. It provides much >more features as the one supplied with cygwin. > >Details can be found here: http://www.daemon.de/Netcat I looked and it seems that you are distributing cygwin1

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Withdrawn: {libiconv/libiconv2/libcharset1}-1.13.1-2 (moved to test)

2011-03-02 Thread Charles Wilson
On 3/1/2011 11:43 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 13:08 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >> Well, the library components appear to operate correctly. However, the >> executable, iconv.exe, does not do so. It picked up an dependency on a >> new symbol, _feinitialize, by being comp

Re: ssh ... PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

2011-03-02 Thread Dave Korn
On 01/03/2011 01:45, Mirko Vukovic wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to ssh to g...@github.com, and I get the error > "PTY allocation request failed on channel 0" I get that too, but I also get the "You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access" message. I think the

TeXLive and winmm.dll error

2011-03-02 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Just for completeness... Today, while upgrading my TeXLive installation, I got $ tlmgr update --all ... a lot of similar failure ... `pdftex -ini -jobname=physe -progname=physe physe.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=phyzzx -progname=phyzzx physe.ini' failed `pdftex -ini -jobname=texsis -pro

Re: TeXLive and winmm.dll error

2011-03-02 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/02/2011 10:51 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Just for completeness... The brokenness of winmm.dll on WinXP is a known issue. > > This occurs with 1.7.8. That doesn't help us. What would help is telling us if the problem still persists when you try the latest snapshot. -- Eric Blake ebl

Re: TeXLive and winmm.dll error

2011-03-02 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Eric Blake wrote: What would help is telling us if the problem still persists when you try the latest snapshot. With last snapshot, it seems to work. Ciao, Angelo. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: ht

Error on executing /etc/postinstall/libgcj-common.sh

2011-03-02 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko
$ cd / $ LANG=c /etc/postinstall/libgcj-common.sh Customised /usr/lib/logging.properties already in existence, not overwriting. Installing default version of /usr/lib/security/classpath.security (from /etc/defaults/usr/lib/security/classpath.security) /bin/touch: cannot touch `/usr/lib/secur

Re: ssh and user env vars from control panel

2011-03-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/1/2011 10:14 PM, Rafael Kitover wrote: Hello list, I generally set most of my environment variables in the System control panel for my user, instead of in my .bashrc/.zshrc I noticed that when I log in to Cygwin via ssh, these environment variables are not available. Would this be conside

entering special symbols in mintty

2011-03-02 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
If I use the default Cygwin.bat file, I can enter special characters with the Alt key, but this doesn't work in mintty, unless there's some option I've overlooked. For example, to enter the copyright symbol (©) in a standard Windows application, including Command Prompt, I can hold down the Alt

log2f() in 1.7.8

2011-03-02 Thread Víctor Paesa
Hi, In 1.7.7, log2f() is defined in math.h as extern float log2f _PARAMS((float)); #if !defined(__cplusplus) #define log2f(x) (logf (x) / (float) _M_LOG2_E) #endif In 1.7.8, log2f() is defined in math.h as extern float log2f _PARAMS((float)); #if !defined(__cplusplus) #define log2f(x) (logf (x)

Re: ssh and user env vars from control panel

2011-03-02 Thread Charles Wilson
On 3/2/2011 2:44 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 3/1/2011 10:14 PM, Rafael Kitover wrote: >> I generally set most of my environment variables in the System control >> panel for my user, instead of in my .bashrc/.zshrc >> >> I noticed that when I log in to Cygwin via ssh, these environment >> va

RE: entering special symbols in mintty

2011-03-02 Thread Jim Garrison
Mintty seems to be interpreting Alt+ codes in OCTAL instead of decimal, based on the Unicode code point and not the Windows Alt+ codes. For example, Windows' Character Map applet shows the "Euro" symbol as Unicode character U+20AC and Alt+0128. Entering Alt+0128 in mintty has no discer

RE: entering special symbols in mintty

2011-03-02 Thread Jim Garrison
As to your specific request for the copyright symbol, try entering Alt+169 (no leading zero). This should result in the copyright symbol, since its Unicode code-point is 0xA9 or 169 decimal.

Re: ssh and user env vars from control panel

2011-03-02 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > I generally set most of my environment variables in the System control > > panel for my user, instead of in my .bashrc/.zshrc > > > > I noticed that when I log in to Cygwin via ssh, these environment > > variables are not available. > > > > Would this be considered a misfeature? > > No, it's c

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: hdf5-1.8.6-1

2011-03-02 Thread marco atzeri
Version {libhdf5_6,libhdf5-devel,hdf5}-1.8.6-1 for cygwin have been uploaded. This is the first release of 1.8.x series on cygwin. Due to API change the library bumped from libhdf5_0 to libhdf5_6. DESCRIPTION HDF5 is a suite/library that makes possible the management of extremely large and compl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {octave,octave-devel,octave-doc}-3.4.0-2

2011-03-02 Thread marco atzeri
New versions 3.2.4-2 of octave, octave-devel, octave-doc are available in the Cygwin distribution: This is a the first release of 3.4.x for cygwin For all the main changes http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-3.4.html DESCRIPTION The GNU Octave language for numerical computations O

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {octave,octave-devel,octave-doc}-3.4.0-2

2011-03-02 Thread David Billinghurst
On 3/03/2011 8:47 AM, marco atzeri wrote: New versions 3.2.4-2 of octave, octave-devel, octave-doc are available in the Cygwin distribution: Thank you. David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documenta

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-forge-20110226-1

2011-03-02 Thread marco atzeri
New version of octave-forge-20110226-1 for cygwin is available in the Cygwin distribution: This release is the bundle of upstream version for octave 3.4.x series Upstream decided to split all the package as standalone, but I prefer to maintain theprevious bundle structure. I can not manage the

Re: log2f() in 1.7.8

2011-03-02 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, Víctor Paesa wrote: > Hi, > > In 1.7.7, log2f() is defined in math.h as > > extern float log2f _PARAMS((float)); > #if !defined(__cplusplus) > #define log2f(x) (logf (x) / (float) _M_LOG2_E) > #endif > > In 1.7.8, log2f() is defined in math.h as > > extern float log2f _PAR

Where is cygfreetype-6.dll?

2011-03-02 Thread Peng Yu
Hi, I downloaded the latest ImageMagick-i686-pc-cygwin.tar and installed it. But when I run convert.exe, it says the following message. Could anybody let me know how to fix the problem? Could anybody let me know where to download cygfreetype-6.dll? /home/username/ImageMagick-6.6.7/bin/convert.exe

cygwin 1.78 errors when invoking terminator (*** fatal error - MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x708), Win32 error 6. Terminating.)

2011-03-02 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi;   I get the following error output when opening a terminator (enclosed at bottom of the email). This is the jessies.org terminator, not the gnome terminator.   Now I don't get the following when I open a cygwin prompt.   So I thought it might be a terminator thing.   I had just updated t

Re: interactive shell mis-parsing 1st two words on line

2011-03-02 Thread Tom Rodman
The '[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.1.10-4' ( http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-02/msg00551.html ) says: This is a minor rebuild which picks up an upstream patch to fix memory corruption when using \W in $PS1. -- So I upgraded bash on Monday to 4.1.10. The problem continues (I show my $PS1

Re: Where is cygfreetype-6.dll?

2011-03-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/2/2011 8:36 PM, Peng Yu wrote: Hi, I downloaded the latest ImageMagick-i686-pc-cygwin.tar and installed it. But when I run convert.exe, it says the following message. Could anybody let me know how to fix the problem? Could anybody let me know where to download cygfreetype-6.dll? You get i

distributing executables for windows

2011-03-02 Thread anctop
I'd like to ask a question about distributing programs compiled with cygwin to windows. I've compiled some utility programs (e.g. "grep") in the cygwin bash environment, then copied the executables and the dependent libraries (e.g. "grep.exe" and "cygwin1.dll", "cygintl-8.dll", "cygiconv-2.dll", "

Re: entering special symbols in mintty

2011-03-02 Thread Andy Koppe
On 2 March 2011 20:27, Jim Garrison wrote: > Mintty seems to be interpreting Alt+ codes in OCTAL instead of decimal, > based on the Unicode code point and not the Windows Alt+ codes.  For > example, Windows' Character Map applet shows the "Euro" symbol as Unicode > character U+20AC and A

Re: distributing executables for windows

2011-03-02 Thread Andy Koppe
On 3 March 2011 03:54, anctop wrote: > I'd like to ask a question about distributing programs compiled with > cygwin to windows. > > I've compiled some utility programs (e.g. "grep") in the cygwin bash > environment, then copied the executables and the dependent libraries > (e.g. "grep.exe" and "cy

Re: setup.exe considerations (was: Doubtful about unison)

2011-03-02 Thread Andy Koppe
On 1 March 2011 14:04, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> >> Which is the problem: the unison command was compiled against a newer >> >> cygwin1.dll than yours. >> > >> > To be fair, setup.exe ought to be able to resolve or warn about such >> > version dependencies. Unfortunately the infrastructure for that

Re: Doubtful about unison

2011-03-02 Thread Andy Koppe
On 1 March 2011 14:25, Olivier Lefevre wrote: > On 3/1/2011 8:20 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> To be fair, setup.exe ought to be able to resolve or warn about such >> version dependencies. > > That's what I was tempted to say. For the record this is what I did: > 1) select Keep > 2) manually pick uni

Re: distributing executables for windows

2011-03-02 Thread anctop
I understand that the terminfo entry should be distributed too, but this is my very question : where to put the "cygwin" file in the windows tree ? I've tried "C:\usr\share\terminfo\63", but it does not work. Do you mean that I have to re-compile "ncurses" and "terminfo" with some adjustment to the

Re: distributing executables for windows

2011-03-02 Thread Andy Koppe
On 3 March 2011 07:17, anctop wrote: > I understand that the terminfo entry should be distributed too, but > this is my very question : where to put the "cygwin" file in the > windows tree ? > I've tried "C:\usr\share\terminfo\63", but it does not work. The Cygwin DLL assumes that the directory ab