libdb4.8-devel.sh exits with errorlevel=2

2013-07-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! Relevant lines from setup.log.full: 2013/07/16 10:52:34 running: C:\Programs\CygWin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/libdb4.8-devel.sh" admindir /var/lib/alternatives invalid admindir /var/lib/alternatives invalid 2013/07/16 10:52:34 abnormal exit: exit code=2 T

Re: SVN::Ra problems

2013-07-16 Thread Mikko Rapeli
> >> cygcheck output from the working setup is: > >> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe > >> Found: C:\Testwell\CTC\perl > >> Warning: C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe hides C:\Testwell\CTC\perl > > > I wonder if this is the reason? Perhaps Cygwin was picking up the wrong > > perl? > > Without any "perhaps". Ye

Re: bzr problem

2013-07-16 Thread Katsumi Yamaoka
Achim Gratz wrote: > Katsumi Yamaoka writes: >>> I'd venture to guess that the DLL(s) in question belong to a Python >>> package. If so, does the rebaseall script you are using look at those >>> libraries at all? >> >> As far as I can observe, those DLLs are listed in TEMP/rebase.lst >> (that reba

64-bit NFS

2013-07-16 Thread Fedin Pavel
Hello! Is there any particular reason why NFS server is missing in 64-bit version ? I heard nfs-server package is not maintained any more. If anybody is interested, i have patched my 32-bit NFS server, and in order to do this i had to do the following face-lift tomy Cygwin installation: 1. Fix

Re: ctrl-c to windows program causes mintty to hang [1.7.20 / win7]

2013-07-16 Thread Marvin
Pretty awesome! Works like a charm! -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/ctrl-c-to-windows-program-causes-mintty-to-hang-1-7-20-win7-tp99346p100846.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/p

Re: 64-bit NFS

2013-07-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 16 14:48, Fedin Pavel wrote: > Hello! > > Is there any particular reason why NFS server is missing in 64-bit version > ? > I heard nfs-server package is not maintained any more. If anybody is > interested, i have patched my 32-bit NFS server, and in order to do this i > had to do the fol

RE: 64-bit NFS

2013-07-16 Thread Fedin Pavel
Hello! > > Is anybody interested in these patches? Unfortunately i can't take > > over regular nfs-server maintenance. > > Why not? You seem to be the right person for this. Because of time lack. BTW, who is original author of our Universal NFS Server ? I think some of patches should go di

Re: problem with cvs binary?

2013-07-16 Thread Charles Wilson
On 7/15/2013 11:21 PM, Mark Levedahl wrote: The currently provided cvs executable does not work correctly, simple test case is: ~>export CVSROOT=/tmp/cvsroot ~>cvs init ~>cvs co -d /tmp/workdir . cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot make directory : No such file or directory ~>cygcheck -c cvs Cygwin

Re: problem with cvs binary?

2013-07-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 16 09:07, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 7/15/2013 11:21 PM, Mark Levedahl wrote: > >The currently provided cvs executable does not work correctly, simple > >test case is: > > > >~>export CVSROOT=/tmp/cvsroot > >~>cvs init > >~>cvs co -d /tmp/workdir . > >cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot make dire

Re: During postinstall, warning: Package: Unknown package; a2ps.sh exit code 2

2013-07-16 Thread Kyle Skrinak
Ken, It's a bug. I'm unclear how to report it to the cygwin maintainer, but I found a workaround over on an ubuntu bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/a2ps/+bug/149551 It's a very simple fix: echo "letter" > /etc/papersize in your cygwin terminal. I reran setup.exe without

Cygwin, python and abspath()

2013-07-16 Thread Mikko Rapeli
Hi, Does anyone know why os.path.abspath() in python on cygwin is creating invalid path names when given these cygwin compatible dos path names? $ pwd /cygdrive/c/temp $ python -c "import os; os.path.abspath('/cygdrive/c/temp')" /cygdrive/c/temp $ python -c "import os; os.path.abspath('c:/temp'

Re: Cygwin, python and abspath()

2013-07-16 Thread Mikko Rapeli
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 06:01:06PM +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know why os.path.abspath() in python on cygwin is creating > invalid path names when given these cygwin compatible dos path names? > > $ pwd > /cygdrive/c/temp > > $ python -c "import os; os.path.abspath('/cygdri

mingw.org cross compiler [Was: problem with cvs binary?]

2013-07-16 Thread Charles Wilson
On 7/16/2013 9:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Are the mingw cross compilers still necessary, now that we have modern mingw-w64 toolchains? On Fedora they aren't shipped since F17, which already came with mingw-w64 toolchains either. No, in the sense that you could use the mingw-w64 i686 toolch

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: run2-0.4.2-1

2013-07-16 Thread K Stahl
Sorry, my first message got lost in the mailer. Basically, I updated today and noticed that checkX segfaults (see attachment). I've tried both the latest and previous versions, and they both fail now. Any help would be appreciated. On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:45 AM, K Stahl wrote: > Just reve

Re: mingw.org cross compiler [Was: problem with cvs binary?]

2013-07-16 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 7/16/2013 9:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> Are the mingw cross compilers still necessary, now that we have >> modern mingw-w64 toolchains? On Fedora they aren't shipped since >> F17, which already came with mingw-w64 toolchains eit

Issue with run.exe and PWD with spaces since last update (Cygwin 1.7.21)

2013-07-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! I'm trying to execute a script that was working fine until recent update. It doesn't crash, just, for some reason, trim the last component of a path. In a nutshell, the issue is this: $ mkdir "/a b" $ cd "/a b" $ ls -l "$SYSTEMROOT/System32/notepad.exe" (just to confirm that the

Re: Issue with run.exe and PWD with spaces since last update (Cygwin 1.7.21)

2013-07-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! > I'm trying to execute a script that was working fine until recent update. > It doesn't crash, just, for some reason, trim the last component of a path. Sorry, it doesn't "trim" anything. The line was from earlier guess, before I started to run more tests. > In a nutshell, the i

Re: bzr problem

2013-07-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Katsumi Yamaoka writes: > BTW, when I run `bzr update' for the Emacs trunk, it shows a warning > that varies like: > > 0 [main] python2.7 1300 child_info_fork::abort: unable to remap\ > _ARC4.dll to same address as parent (0xBE) - try running rebaseall > 0 [main] python2.7 4180 child_info_fork:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: poco-1.4.6p1-1

2013-07-16 Thread David Stacey
The following packages have been added to Cygwin: - poco-1.4.6p1-1 - libpoco-devel-1.4.6p1-1 - libpoco-doc-1.4.6p1-1 - libpoco16-1.4.6p1-1 - poco-debuginfo-1.4.6p1-1 DESCRIPTION === Poco is a collection of modern, powerful open source C++ class libraries and frameworks for bu

How does 'alternatives' find a file?

2013-07-16 Thread Henry Baker
I've had to create a cygwin tree from a circa 2011 tar dump, and I've had a devil of a time trying to make it work. The biggest problem I have right now is that 'alternatives'-style symlinks don't work. (The "!"-style symlinks _do_ seem to work.) After doing a lot of Google searching, I tried

Re: How does 'alternatives' find a file?

2013-07-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 7/16/2013 2:46 PM, Henry Baker wrote: I've had to create a cygwin tree from a circa 2011 tar dump, and I've had a devil of a time trying to make it work. The biggest problem I have right now is that 'alternatives'-style symlinks don't work. (The "!"-style symlinks _do_ seem to work.) Her

Re: mingw.org cross compiler [Was: problem with cvs binary?]

2013-07-16 Thread Charles Wilson
On 7/16/2013 12:25 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: least want to update our current offering to something more current than 4.5.x, AND it's necessary on i686 because recent gmp/mpfr/mpc library updates have broken mingw-gcc. If, after this update,

Re: How does 'alternatives' find a file?

2013-07-16 Thread Charles Wilson
On 7/16/2013 4:11 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 7/16/2013 2:46 PM, Henry Baker wrote: I've had to create a cygwin tree from a circa 2011 tar dump, and I've had a devil of a time trying to make it work. Looking at the ones I have in /etc/alternatives, they are the first kind listed (or the

Re: Recent Cygwin problems

2013-07-16 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2013-06-21, Gary Johnson wrote: > I've had Cygwin installed on this computer for over two years > without any problems but recently I've started seeing a few problems > and my installation seems corrupted. > > 1. Starting several weeks ago, whenever I run setup.exe I get this > pop-up mess

[PATCH] Fix optional variables in libargp

2013-07-16 Thread Fedin Pavel
Hello! > Okay, well I agree that this sounds like a good solution. For now you > have a workaround, and I'll be glad to consider a patch if you submit > one. Please take it. This is my experimental implementation which appears to be simpler than i suggested. Some details: this implementation