Re: Intermittent failures retrieving process exit codes

2013-11-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Tom, On Nov 13 23:01, Tom Honermann wrote: > On 12/21/2012 01:30 AM, Tom Honermann wrote: > >[...] > >When the race condition results in the undesirable outcome, the exit > >code for the process is set to the exit code for the secondary thread's > >call to ExitThread(). I can only speculate at

updating TeXLive packages exceeds Windows path length limit

2013-11-14 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Hi, I've just downloaded the latest setup-x86.exe to update my Cygwin installation on a Windows XP box. While setup downloads the required packages, it stops with a message saying: Can't open \\servername\path\to\Downloads\[url_of_mirror]\path\to\texlive-collection-documentation-base-2013052

Re: updating TeXLive packages exceeds Windows path length limit

2013-11-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 14 10:25, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > Hi, > > I've just downloaded the latest setup-x86.exe to update my Cygwin > installation on a Windows XP box. While setup downloads the required > packages, it stops with a message saying: > > Can't open > \\servername\path\to\Downloads\[url_of_mirror]\p

Re: Optimized Cygwin package

2013-11-14 Thread Kptain
Thanks all! Starting from scratch I've been able to generate a package around ONLY 463Mb. It's more correct. K. -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Optimized-Cygwin-package-tp104027p104308.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

Re: updating TeXLive packages exceeds Windows path length limit

2013-11-14 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Am 2013-11-14 11:06, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Nov 14 10:25, Markus Hoenicka wrote: Hi, I've just downloaded the latest setup-x86.exe to update my Cygwin installation on a Windows XP box. While setup downloads the required packages, it stops with a message saying: Can't open \\servername\p

Can't trigger system debugger when program launched (via backticks) by Cygwin's Perl crashes

2013-11-14 Thread Jim Cant
If a program started by Cygwin's Perl using backticks fails do to a divide-by-zero, the Windos system debugger is not called; it is called if another Perl (ActiveState) is used. I have PerlĀ  scripts that launch arbitrary processes using backticks. Occasionally, a crash will occur (zero divide,

Re: Intermittent failures retrieving process exit codes

2013-11-14 Thread Tom Honermann
On 11/14/2013 04:19 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: thanks for letting us know! You're welcome :) I'm very glad to read that this is an OS bug and a fix is available. At least partially. I'm a bit confused. As far as I understand it this is the situation now: Vista/2008 and earlier: no fi

Recursive, case insensitive grep (2.14-1 x86-64 MS Windows) causes Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at rip=000773B2F42

2013-11-14 Thread Chris Betti
Segmentation fault caused when running this command in a local git repository. Full permissions are available to the user: > grep -RIin "foo" . Segmentation fault (core dumped) Dump file contains: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at rip=000773B2F42 rax=000600096275 rbx=000600096275 rcx

build library libmad

2013-11-14 Thread d.henman
Building libmad I download an attempted to build libmad-0.15.1b. with the build shared option set. Options to --force-mem and addr were deleted as unneccessary anymore. The configure and make process proceed without any errors. But, no dll is made. I can only see .lo files and one libmad

Re: build library libmad

2013-11-14 Thread nu774
(2013/11/15 1:01), d.henman wrote: > Building libmad > > I download an attempted to build libmad-0.15.1b. with the build shared > option set. > > Options to --force-mem and addr were deleted as unneccessary anymore. > > The configure and make process proceed without any errors. > > But, no dl

Re: updating TeXLive packages exceeds Windows path length limit

2013-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:06:54AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Nov 14 10:25, Markus Hoenicka wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just downloaded the latest setup-x86.exe to update my Cygwin >> installation on a Windows XP box. While setup downloads the required >> packages, it stops with a message say

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygcheck-dep-1.1-1

2013-11-14 Thread Mikhail Usenko
Subject: Updated - cygcheck-dep-1.1-1 Version 1.1-1 of cygcheck-dep has been uploaded. cygcheck-dep is a bash script helping to show dependencies for installed Cygwin packages. When you try some Cygwin's software you are installing and/or uninstalling some packages along the line, and the script

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygcheck-dep-1.1-1

2013-11-14 Thread Luke Kendall
On 11/15/2013 09:06 AM, Mikhail Usenko wrote: * A warning is printed out if an installed package denotes a required package which is not installed. I assume this means: a warning is printed if an installed package depends on a required package that is not installed. I assumed setup ins