Re: configure --prerfix=/

2012-05-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 3 09:41, Fedin Pavel wrote: > Supplying prefix=/ to configure script causes it to lock up. It > doesn't output any single line, just freezes. Even Ctrl-C doesn't > help. > I know this is maybe unusual, but i really know why i want to do > it. And, in fact, this is a legitimate operation.

Re: [Bug] rebaseall

2012-05-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 3 06:59, Achim Gratz wrote: > In addition, there should be a "picket fence" in front of those expression(s), > too. Otherwise they match other lines that are not supposed to be deleted > (the > DLL lines are probably safe, but could be changed defensively as well). Sounds good to me. Ja

Re: configure --prerfix=/

2012-05-03 Thread Fedin Pavel
On 03.05.2012 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Yes, that's a bug in autoconf. It doesn't fully respect POSIX pathname rules. What happens is that it simply attaches pathnames with a leading slash to the prefix, Ah, yes, really, i simply forgot this. In fact IMHO it's not a bug in autoconf. We

Re: configure --prerfix=/

2012-05-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 3 11:59, Fedin Pavel wrote: > On 03.05.2012 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Yes, that's a bug in autoconf. It doesn't fully respect POSIX pathname > >rules. What happens is that it simply attaches pathnames with a leading > >slash to the prefix, > > Ah, yes, really, i simply forgot th

Re: [Bug] rebaseall

2012-05-03 Thread Jason Tishler
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:51:19AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 3 06:59, Achim Gratz wrote: > > In addition, there should be a "picket fence" in front of those > > expression(s), too. Otherwise they match other lines that are not > > supposed to be deleted (the DLL lines are probably s

[bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Fedin Pavel
Why is elf.h include incomplete in Cygwin? I am cross-compiling Linux kernel under Cygwin, and i had to patch modpost utility, adding missing R_xxx definitions for some reloc types. Since kernel v3 i have to add some more definitions, as well as patch one more utility, recordmcount. So, amount

Re: [bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: >  Why is elf.h include incomplete in Cygwin? >  I am cross-compiling Linux kernel under Cygwin, and i had to patch modpost > utility, adding missing R_xxx definitions for some reloc types. > Since kernel v3 i have to add some more definitions, as

Re: [Bug] rebaseall

2012-05-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Jason, On May 3 08:46, Jason Tishler wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:51:19AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On May 3 06:59, Achim Gratz wrote: > > > In addition, there should be a "picket fence" in front of those > > > expression(s), too. Otherwise they match other lines that are not

Re: [bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Fedin Pavel
On 03.05.2012 17:08, Earnie Boyd wrote: To build the Linux kernel under Cygwin requires you have the proper libraries and headers for Linux installed in the cross environment. It should not be using the libraries and headers provided by the Cygwin build environment. I know about this. My cross-

Re: [bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/05/2012 9:24 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: On 03.05.2012 17:08, Earnie Boyd wrote: To build the Linux kernel under Cygwin requires you have the proper libraries and headers for Linux installed in the cross environment. It should not be using the libraries and headers provided by the Cygwin build

Re: [bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Fedin Pavel
On 03.05.2012 17:34, Ryan Johnson wrote: I've also run in to this problem, though in my case I just fired up a VM to work around it... I needed the VM anyway to actually run the newly-built kernel. That said, it would be nice to be able to build on the host and just scp the new vmlinuz across..

Re: [bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread marco atzeri
On 5/3/2012 3:59 PM, Fedin Pavel wrote: On 03.05.2012 17:34, Ryan Johnson wrote: I've also run in to this problem, though in my case I just fired up a VM to work around it... I needed the VM anyway to actually run the newly-built kernel. That said, it would be nice to be able to build on the hos

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test update: perl-5.14.2-1, please update your dependent packages

2012-05-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Reini Urban x-ray.at> writes: > perl has been updated to 5.14.2-1 as test in the Experimental section. > > It looks pretty stable to me when I tested it in the last 2 weeks. I've hit two interesting snags (perl_vendor is installed): 1) Some modules, when built with cpanminus fail at test, but t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-24.0.96-1 (TEST)

2012-05-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/2/2012 5:02 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 02/05/2012 1:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 02/05/2012 9:55 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/30/2012 11:52 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/04/2012 10:08 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/30/2012 9:07 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/04/2012 8:48 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:

Re: [bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 04:04:32PM +0200, marco atzeri wrote: >On 5/3/2012 3:59 PM, Fedin Pavel wrote: >> On 03.05.2012 17:34, Ryan Johnson wrote: >>> I've also run in to this problem, though in my case I just fired up a >>> VM to work around it... I needed the VM anyway to actually run the >>> new

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test update: perl-5.14.2-1, please update your dependent packages

2012-05-03 Thread Reini Urban
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Reini Urban x-ray.at> writes: >> perl has been updated to 5.14.2-1 as test in the Experimental section. >> >> It looks pretty stable to me when I tested it in the last 2 weeks. > > I've hit two interesting snags (perl_vendor is installed): > >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sed-4.2.1-1

2012-05-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of sed to 4.2.1-2. No changes, just an update to the cygport packaging method. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the qu

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libedit-20120311-1

2012-05-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I just updated the libedit package to version 20120311-1. This is the latest upstream version available as autoconf'ed package as used in Debian or Fedora. The Cygwin package required three minor patches. This package now uses the cygport packaging method. To update your installation, click on

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: parrot-4.3.0-1, rakudo and rakudo-star-201204-1 (perl6)

2012-05-03 Thread Reini Urban
I updated the Cygwin distributions of parrot-4.3.0-1, rakudo-201204.1-1 (aka perl6) and rakudo-star-201204-1 These are stable, a so-called "supported" releases. Canonical homepages: http://www.parrot.org/ http://www.rakudo.org/ Canonical downloads: http://www.parrot.org/release/current http:

Re: gdb problem

2012-05-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/23/2011 5:47 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/23/2011 3:04 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 04:37:55PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: The attached testcase illustrates a problem with `gdb -i=mi'. I've tested both gdb 7.3.50-1 and 7.3.50-2, with cygwin 1.7.9 as well as with several

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-24.0.96-1 (TEST)

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/05/2012 10:45 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/2/2012 5:02 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 02/05/2012 1:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 02/05/2012 9:55 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/30/2012 11:52 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/04/2012 10:08 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/30/2012 9:07 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:

Short gdb question.

2012-05-03 Thread eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com
Is this the right place to suggest that gdb be upgraded for cygwin. If not where could I suggest that? If this is an acceptable place then can I add here that if you guys do upgrade gdb that I was hoping you could make it a bit more detailed maybe make it to show a bit more information about cr

Re: Short gdb question.

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/05/2012 7:47 PM, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Is this the right place to suggest that gdb be upgraded for cygwin. If not where could I suggest that? If this is an acceptable place then can I add here that if you guys do upgrade gdb that I was hoping you could make it a bit more det

Swallowed words in most section 3 man pages' SEE ALSO section

2012-05-03 Thread Jens Schweikhardt
hello, world\n it appears that quite a number of functions in section 3 of the manual have the following SEE ALSO section (# added where a word is missing). $ man 3 strstr [...] SEE ALSO strstr is part of the # library. The full documentation for # is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If i

Re: ssh-agent sh -c ssh-add => Could not open a connection to your authentication agent

2012-05-03 Thread John Hein
Christopher Faylor wrote at 12:41 -0400 on May 2, 2012: > Should be fixed in the upcoming snapshot for today: Confirmed. Thanks. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscrib

Re: Short gdb question.

2012-05-03 Thread Reid Thompson
On 5/3/2012 7:47 PM, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Is this the right place to suggest that gdb be upgraded for cygwin. If not where could I suggest that? If this is an acceptable place then can I add here that if you guys do upgrade gdb that I was hoping you could make it a bit more detai

Re: gdb problem

2012-05-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 04:05:04PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >On 10/23/2011 5:47 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 10/23/2011 3:04 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 04:37:55PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: The attached testcase illustrates a problem with `gdb -i=mi'. I've tested

Re: Short gdb question.

2012-05-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 10:21:07PM -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: >On 5/3/2012 7:47 PM, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: >> Is this the right place to suggest that gdb be upgraded for cygwin. If >> not where could I suggest that? If this is an acceptable place then >> can I add here that if you g

Re: Short gdb question.

2012-05-03 Thread eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 10:21:07PM -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: On 5/3/2012 7:47 PM, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Is this the right place to suggest that gdb be upgraded for cygwin. If not where could I suggest that? If this is an acceptable place then can I add

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test update: perl-5.14.2-1, please update your dependent packages

2012-05-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Reini Urban writes: >> 2) If I install another module that uses LWP (HTTP::Status, for example), >> then I >> also need to reinstall LWP.  Otherwise I'm getting errors like these: >> >> Attempt to reload LWP/Protocol/http.pm aborted. >> Compilation failed in require at (eval 7) line 2. > > I could

Licensing questions (was: [bug] elf.h incomplete)

2012-05-03 Thread Fedin Pavel
On 03.05.2012 19:24, Christopher Faylor wrote: Right. I've noticed the incompleteness of elf.h from time to time too but extending it would be tedious since you can't just cut/paste from a GPLv* file. Maybe one of the BSDs has something more complete these days? By the way, interesting questio

Re: Licensing questions

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/05/2012 11:38 PM, Fedin Pavel wrote: On 03.05.2012 19:24, Christopher Faylor wrote: Right. I've noticed the incompleteness of elf.h from time to time too but extending it would be tedious since you can't just cut/paste from a GPLv* file. Maybe one of the BSDs has something more complet