re: 1.7.9: Installing error: fonts and X-start-menu-icons

2011-12-21 Thread James Botte
Sigh... I thought I had things working, but... the more I used it, the more I'm realizing that all of my woes are because I was trying to install it on a Samba share. I have done the same thing on my local hard drive (which doesn't have much space, which is why I was trying to install it on th

where is libffi?

2011-12-21 Thread yoichi.niitsu
I can’t build my program using gtk+-2.0 on cygwin development environment (gcc-3.4.4, etc.). The error message from linker is, /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find ?lffi Actually, there exists /usr/bin/cygffi-4 but I can’t find /usr/lib/libffi*. I’m

Re: 16 byte pthread stack alignments

2011-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 20 17:45, Brian Ford wrote: > I'm just headed home from work right now, but I thought I would let you > know of a regression from 1.7.9. It appears the effect of this patch: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2004-q2/msg00124.html > > is no longer working in the current snapshot. I'

Re: where is libffi?

2011-12-21 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/21/2011 10:32 AM, yoichi.niitsu wrote: > I can’t build my program using gtk+-2.0 on cygwin development environment > (gcc-3.4.4, etc.). The error message from linker is, > > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot > find ?lffi > > Actually, there exists

Re: 16 byte pthread stack alignments

2011-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 21 10:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 20 17:45, Brian Ford wrote: > > I'm just headed home from work right now, but I thought I would let you > > know of a regression from 1.7.9. It appears the effect of this patch: > > > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2004-q2/msg00124.html > >

Re: 1.7.9: Installing error: fonts and X-start-menu-icons

2011-12-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, James Botte! > (the Windows "find" was being used even though /usr/bin was in the PATH > before /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32), This is what you get when you're using Cygwin tools from windows shell (CMD). (Or so I assume.) > to constant problems with execute permissions. Funny enough,

Re: FAQ 4.2 Why is Cygwin suddenly so slow?

2011-12-21 Thread e...@iol.it
My Cygwin installation use about 1 s per shell command. For example: $ time env HOMEPATH=\Docume ... COMPUTERNAME=MES real0m1.075s user0m0.030s sys 0m0.015s $ time time Usage: time [-apvV] [-f format] [-o file] [--append] [--verbose] [--portability] [--format=format] [--output=f

Re: FAQ 4.2 Why is Cygwin suddenly so slow?

2011-12-21 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/21/2011 1:43 PM, e...@iol.it wrote: My Cygwin installation use about 1 s per shell command. For example: $ time env HOMEPATH=\Docume ... COMPUTERNAME=MES real0m1.075s user0m0.030s sys 0m0.015s $ time time Usage: time [-apvV] [-f format] [-o file] [--append] [--verbose]

Re: FAQ 4.2 Why is Cygwin suddenly so slow?

2011-12-21 Thread e...@iol.it
>From: marco.atz...@gmail.com >antivirus ? >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda thanks, from this list I had Sophos Anti-Virus installed in the system. It is version 9.5 fully updated and not 7. Anyway I tried to disable its 6 windows services, check the 8 tasks it generate wa

Re: Sorry "people" (NOT MY taxonomy!!), but igncr IS flawed

2011-12-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 19/12/2011 17:35, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Dave Korn! > >> Windows GUI-based archivers are well known for causing this problem. > > To be fair, you should reduce your reference to "WinZIP is known for". > At the very least, WinRAR and 7-Zip, both won't try to hold your hand in this >

Re: 16 byte pthread stack alignments

2011-12-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21/12/2011 09:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > But OTOH I have to admit that I don't see how this alignment business > worked at all. Aligning the stack to 16 byte in mainCRTStartup doesn't > guarantee that the stack is still 16 byte aligned in main(). If that > worked so far, it seems like a mi

Re: 16 byte pthread stack alignments

2011-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 21 15:20, Dave Korn wrote: > On 21/12/2011 09:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > But OTOH I have to admit that I don't see how this alignment business > > worked at all. Aligning the stack to 16 byte in mainCRTStartup doesn't > > guarantee that the stack is still 16 byte aligned in main().

Re: tetex-tiny bug

2011-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Jan? Ping? Did you see that mail? On Dec 19 09:52, Peter Rosin wrote: > Peter Rosin skrev 2011-11-25 16:48: > > Hi! > > > > It's been a couple of years since I fixed this [1] on my old > > computer, and now I had to fix it on the new one. Can someone > > please fix the tetex-tiny package? > >

Re: 16 byte pthread stack alignments

2011-12-21 Thread Brian Ford
I'm sorry. I should have learned by now not to post at the last minute before leaving for the day. I always make mistakes and leave out important information. Thanks for considering my problem in spite of these oversights. More below... On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 20

Re: 16 byte pthread stack alignments

2011-12-21 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 21 15:20, Dave Korn wrote: > > GCC assumes that the stack starts off 16-aligned when the OS hands over to > > the exe's entrypoint, and then makes sure it stays that way by always > > rounding > > stack frame sizes up to the nearest multiple

Re: tetex-tiny bug

2011-12-21 Thread marco atzeri
On 12/21/2011 4:42 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Jan? Ping? Did you see that mail? On Dec 19 09:52, Peter Rosin wrote: Peter Rosin skrev 2011-11-25 16:48: Hi! It's been a couple of years since I fixed this [1] on my old computer, and now I had to fix it on the new one. Can someone please fix

Re: 16 byte pthread stack alignments

2011-12-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 21 10:22, Brian Ford wrote: > On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Dec 21 15:20, Dave Korn wrote: > > > GCC assumes that the stack starts off 16-aligned when the OS hands over > > > to > > > the exe's entrypoint, and then makes sure it stays that way by always > > > rou

Re: FAQ 4.2 Why is Cygwin suddenly so slow?

2011-12-21 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 03:30:11PM +0100 e...@iol.it wrote: > >From: marco.atz...@gmail.com > > >antivirus ? > >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda > > thanks, > from this list I had Sophos Anti-Virus installed in the system. It is version > 9.5 fully updated and not 7

setup 2.761 regression: '--quiet-mode' conflicts with '--packages'

2011-12-21 Thread Greg Chicares
It appears that some recent change to setup.exe has unintentionally made '--quiet-mode' incompatible with '--packages' for command-line installs. A similar problem was reported here: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-12/msg00244.html Using current setup.exe version 2.761, this no longer works

Re: 16 byte pthread stack alignments

2011-12-21 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Brian Ford wrote: > I'm trying to test now, but I haven't built cygwin in years so I'm still > working to get things set up. Still trying, but getting the following warning turned into an error by -Werror which looks like it might be valid? cc1plus: warnings being treated as

Re: Sorry "people" (NOT MY taxonomy!!), but igncr IS flawed

2011-12-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Dave Korn! >>> Windows GUI-based archivers are well known for causing this problem. >> >> To be fair, you should reduce your reference to "WinZIP is known for". >> At the very least, WinRAR and 7-Zip, both won't try to hold your hand in >> this case. >> I don't know about WinACE, thou

Re: tetex-tiny bug

2011-12-21 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
marco atzeri writes: > On 12/21/2011 4:42 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Jan? Ping? Did you see that mail? I didn't yet, thanks! -etex pdfetex language.def-translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini +etex etexlanguage.def-translate-file=c

Re: tetex-tiny bug

2011-12-21 Thread Peter Rosin
Jan Nieuwenhuizen skrev 2011-12-21 20:44: > marco atzeri writes: > >> On 12/21/2011 4:42 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> Jan? Ping? Did you see that mail? > > I didn't yet, thanks! > > -etex pdfetex language.def-translate-file=cp227.tcx > *etex.ini > +etex

Re: setup 2.761 regression: '--quiet-mode' conflicts with '--packages'

2011-12-21 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/21/2011 12:15 PM, Greg Chicares wrote: > It appears that some recent change to setup.exe has unintentionally made > '--quiet-mode' incompatible with '--packages' for command-line installs. > A similar problem was reported here: > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-12/msg00244.html > > Us

Re: 16 byte pthread stack alignments

2011-12-21 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Brian Ford wrote: > Still trying, but getting the following warning turned into an error by > -Werror which looks like it might be valid? > > cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors > src/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc: > In member function fhandler_base_overlapped::wait_return >

Re: setup 2.761 regression: '--quiet-mode' conflicts with '--packages'

2011-12-21 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 21/12/2011 21:02, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > On 12/21/2011 12:15 PM, Greg Chicares wrote: >> It appears that some recent change to setup.exe has unintentionally made >> '--quiet-mode' incompatible with '--packages' for command-line installs. >> A similar problem was reported here: >> http://sourcewa

sftp-server -h succeeds on cmd, fails on mintty

2011-12-21 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, I'm experiencing a wider problem with sftp'ing to/from a Cygwin sshd service. However as a starting point into debugging, I've identified a simple failure in the sftp-server that may give an indication into the wider problem. When I ran just a simple usage argument to sftp-server in a mintty

Re: sftp-server -h succeeds on cmd, fails on mintty

2011-12-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/21/2011 8:17 PM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing a wider problem with sftp'ing to/from a Cygwin sshd service. However as a starting point into debugging, I've identified a simple failure in the sftp-server that may give an indication into the wider problem. When I ran just a sim

Re: sftp-server -h succeeds on cmd, fails on mintty

2011-12-21 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi Larry, On 22/12/11 12:25, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 12/21/2011 8:17 PM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm experiencing a wider problem with sftp'ing to/from a Cygwin sshd >> service. However as a starting point into debugging, I've identified a >> simple failure in the sftp-server tha

Re: sftp-server -h succeeds on cmd, fails on mintty

2011-12-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/21/2011 9:10 PM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi Larry, On 22/12/11 12:25, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 12/21/2011 8:17 PM, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing a wider problem with sftp'ing to/from a Cygwin sshd service. However as a starting point into debugging, I've identified a simpl

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-21 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 06/12/11 20:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > A lot of changes and fixes have been made in Cygwin since 1.7.9 has > been released, so we're looking forward to release Cygwin 1.7.10 soon. > > Please test the latest developer snapshots at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > which should have "Release