[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: nspr-4.10.3-1, nss-3.15.3.1-1

2014-01-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** libnspr4-4.10.3-1 *** libnspr-devel-4.10.3-1 *** nss-3.15.3.1-1 *** libnss3-3.15.3.1-1 *** libnss-devel-3.15.3.1-1 Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides a platform-neutral API for system-level and libc-like functions.

Re: stat64 and friends

2014-01-29 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 09:25:02AM +0400, Pavel Fedin wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I'd like to complain about missing stat64() family of functions. (snip) >> >> It's a bit painful to add these definitions in the code here and there. >>AFAIK ev

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread BGINFO4X
> BGINFO4X writes: >> I did it, and the results are diferent. > > Because you made it so. > >> I attach on the email both setup results: with commandline and with GUI. > > So you managed to trick setup into not installing some Base packages in > the GUI. If you wouldn't have done that, you'd hav

Re: AW: Win32::Eventlog: Not found after upgrade

2014-01-29 Thread sisyphus1
-Original Message- From: ulrich.her...@t-systems.com " Trying to "use Win32::Eventlog;" will not work - though I don't think that's the error you're up against here." => yes, it will work (this is my current workaround): $ export PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Chris J. Breisch
BGINFO4X wrote: On my humble opinion, If I check ONLY bash with GUI, and I use the command-line "setup-x86.exe -g -o --no-desktop --no-shortcuts --no-startmenu --local-install %CYGWINALOCALPACKAGES% --quiet-mode --root %CYGWINADMINDIR% --packages bash" both results should be the same. No. You

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread BGINFO4X
2014-01-29 Chris J. Breisch : > BGINFO4X wrote: >> >> On my humble opinion, If I check ONLY bash with GUI, and I use the >> command-line "setup-x86.exe -g -o --no-desktop --no-shortcuts >> --no-startmenu --local-install %CYGWINALOCALPACKAGES% --quiet-mode >> --root %CYGWINADMINDIR% --packages bash"

WG: AW: Win32::Eventlog: Not found after upgrade

2014-01-29 Thread Ulrich.Herbst
Hi Rob, 1. I use perl 5.14. 2. I was wrong on "Win32::Eventlog from perl 5.10 is working with 5.14"... This doesn't work at all (perl just ends without any output... but that's something completely different - we haven't to discuss this) 3. I don't want to build Win32::Eventlog on my own... fo

Re: WG: AW: Win32::Eventlog: Not found after upgrade

2014-01-29 Thread sisyphus1
-Original Message- From: Ulrich.Herbst 3. I don't want to build Win32::Eventlog on my own... for these reasons: - I had to do it on many systems... - We don't have compilers and make and tools... installed on them (production environments) Ok - alternatively it's only *2* files th

Re: Win32::Eventlog: Not found after upgrade

2014-01-29 Thread Achim Gratz
t-systems.com> writes: > Reinstalling perl/libwin32 didn't help. It would help, provided you actually installed the correct package perl-libwin32 at the current version 0.28-3. If you see something installed in vendor_perl/5.10, then it comes from an earlier version of that package. Regards,

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Achim Gratz
BGINFO4X kztsoftware.com> writes: > On my humble opinion, If I check ONLY bash with GUI, and I use the > command-line "setup-x86.exe -g -o --no-desktop --no-shortcuts > --no-startmenu --local-install %CYGWINALOCALPACKAGES% --quiet-mode > --root %CYGWINADMINDIR% --packages bash" both results should

Re: Maintainer for git?

2014-01-29 Thread Charles Wilson
On 1/28/2014 4:02 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: I've found that I need to do the following: PATH=/usr/bin git or I get odd failures. So I've actually set that up as an alias: alias git='PATH=/usr/bin git' This sounds like you have issues with the default $PATH order. Nope, /usr/bin i

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:28:33AM +0100, Marco Atzeri wrote: >On 29/01/2014 07:57, Steven Penny wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Ilja Umov wrote >>> That's probably why MSYS2 is being developed: >>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows/MSYS2 >> >> Well I ha

Re: Maintainer for git?

2014-01-29 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:11:02PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Chris and I discussed this problem further and we applied a patch to the > Cygwin DLL which saves and restores the FPU state and XMM registers on > 32 bit as well when a thread gets interrupted for signal handling. > > For testing

Re: stat64 and friends

2014-01-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 09:51:38AM +0100, Csaba Raduly wrote: >On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 09:25:02AM +0400, Pavel Fedin wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> I'd like to complain about missing stat64() family of functions. >(snip) >>> >>> It's a bit p

Re: Maintainer for git?

2014-01-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:58:35AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >On 1/28/2014 4:02 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> I've found that I need to do the following: >> >>> PATH=/usr/bin git >> >>> or I get odd failures. So I've actually set that up as an alias: >> >>> alias git='PATH=/usr/bin git' >> >

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Achim Gratz wrote: They are, if you don't fiddle with a checkbox that you shouldn't be able to toggle in the first place. In other words it's a bug in the GUI that you are able to bypass the install of some Base packages. No, I don't agree with that statement. I'd be more inclined to believe

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Chris J. Breisch breisch.org> writes: > No, I don't agree with that statement. I'd be more inclined to believe > that it's a bug in the command-line interface that doesn't allow you to > do what the GUI does. You can disagree all you want, the source of setup makes it pretty clear that all pack

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Ilja Umov! > there is a certainly a good historical reason why cygwin installer > has so many options. But now one-click installers are so common > (Google Chrome is the best example), it may look rather scary, > especially for beginners. Google chrome is an ONE package. Cygwin setup i

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/29/2014 11:24 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Chris J. Breisch breisch.org> writes: No, I don't agree with that statement. I'd be more inclined to believe that it's a bug in the command-line interface that doesn't allow you to do what the GUI does. You can disagree all you want, the source of set

Re: Maintainer for git?

2014-01-29 Thread David Conrad
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:11:02PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Chris and I discussed this problem further and we applied a patch to the >> Cygwin DLL which saves and restores the FPU state and XMM registers on >> 32 bit as well when a

Re: Clearing the buffer after quitting LESS, MAN, VIM etc.

2014-01-29 Thread Dawid Ferenczy
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > You are not an acknowledged expert in sleep, issues, or me, so your > opinions are irrelevant. I don't know why you felt compelled to comment > on this minor point but your recommendations, understanding of humor, or > likes are really off-topic for the C

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Ilja Umov
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> there is a certainly a good historical reason why cygwin installer >> has so many options. But now one-click installers are so common >> (Google Chrome is the best example), it may look rather scary, >> especially for beginners. > > Google ch

Re: Maintainer for git?

2014-01-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 29 15:35, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:11:02PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Chris and I discussed this problem further and we applied a patch to the > > Cygwin DLL which saves and restores the FPU state and XMM registers on > > 32 bit as well when a thread gets in

Re: Maintainer for git?

2014-01-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 29 12:13, David Conrad wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:11:02PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> Chris and I discussed this problem further and we applied a patch to the > >> Cygwin DLL which saves and restores the FPU state a

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread BGINFO4X
> On 1/29/2014 11:24 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> >> Chris J. Breisch breisch.org> writes: >>> >>> No, I don't agree with that statement. I'd be more inclined to believe >>> that it's a bug in the command-line interface that doesn't allow you to >>> do what the GUI does. >> >> >> You can disagree all

Re: second call to mmap() results in error

2014-01-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 29 09:00, Steven Bardwell wrote: > My application needs several areas of shared memory, and I am getting an > error ("No such device") on the second call to mmap(). The first call works > fine. > > Here a simple program that shows the error (compiled with > gcc -o mmaptest mmaptest.c -lrt):

RE: second call to mmap() results in error

2014-01-29 Thread Steven Bardwell
> On Jan 29 09:00, Steven Bardwell wrote: > > My application needs several areas of shared memory, and I am getting an > > error ("No such device") on the second call to mmap(). The first call works > > fine. > > > > > > The problem does not seem to depend on the size of the requested > > memory.

Re: Clearing the buffer after quitting LESS, MAN, VIM etc.

2014-01-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 05:28:16PM +, Dawid Ferenczy wrote: >But could I ask you, if you have some spare time (I know that it's stupid >:) I haven't got any spare time too), could you take a look on preserving >the whole scrollback buffer, no matters how big it is, please? As I have >describ

Re: second call to mmap() results in error

2014-01-29 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 29/01/2014 19:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 29 09:00, Steven Bardwell wrote: My application needs several areas of shared memory, and I am getting an error ("No such device") on the second call to mmap(). The first call works fine. The problem does not seem to depend on the size o

Re: setup.exe different packages

2014-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/29/2014 1:10 PM, BGINFO4X wrote: It seems like "base category" is "like a dependency" of bash ... , which can be bypassed with the setupGUI. Close but not quite. "Base" is a category containing packages, including bash, that is installed by default. -- Larry _

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread iljau
I'll try to explain situation from my perspective, Hoping it will be of of interest at least to somebody. If I need some unix-y things, I usually end up using: http://www.vagrantup.com/ But using a virtual machine may be a bit too much overhead sometimes. (As I couldn't find any good intro/tut

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/29/2014 3:40 PM, iljau wrote: On 2014-01-29 09:28 Christopher Faylor wrote: It should be pretty obvious that discussion about MSYS is off-topic. Please stop. I'll do it. Ah, right. Of course Chris meant "Please stop after Ilja gets his last comment in." Now that that's happened, MSY

Exploring the idea of going from MKS tooklt to Cygwin

2014-01-29 Thread mrushton
Can anyone give me any ideas or comments ? I am exploring the idea of moving some scripting from the MKS toolkit to Cygwin. I have all of these korn shell scripts that I use to poll our EDI mailboxes, translated the EDI, ftp files to various servers, etc. I am trying to go from Windows XP

Problem running git submodule init: "error while loading shared libraries: ?"

2014-01-29 Thread jones.noa...@gmail.com
Intro: If you don't know/have time to solve it, I'd still appreciate a few pointers on how to debug this issue (is a library really missing? what library is missing?) Just did a fresh install of cygwin-x86, added the packages: git, openssh, ca-certificates, libsasl2. This is on Windows Server 2008

Re: Exploring the idea of going from MKS tooklt to Cygwin

2014-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/29/2014 4:29 PM, mrushton wrote: Can anyone give me any ideas or comments ? I am exploring the idea of moving some scripting from the MKS toolkit to Cygwin. I have all of these korn shell scripts that I use to poll our EDI mailboxes, translated the EDI, ftp files to various servers, etc.

Re: Problem running git submodule init: "error while loading shared libraries: ?"

2014-01-29 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 29/01/2014 22:35, jones.noamle(at)gmail.com wrote: Intro: If you don't know/have time to solve it, I'd still appreciate a few pointers on how to debug this issue (is a library really missing? what library is missing?) Just did a fresh install of cygwin-x86, added the packages: git, openssh,

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote > Ah, right. Of course Chris meant "Please stop after Ilja gets his last > comment in." Now that that's happened, MSYS discussion can stop. ;-) You want some on-topic? Ok here goes Bash 4.2 has been out almost 3 years now, any roadmap f

Problem compiling C++11 project with Cygwin

2014-01-29 Thread xxxx xxxx
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20145488/cygwin-g-stdstoi-error-stoi-is-not-a-member-of-std#_=_ I have still this problem, is there a patch or fix around? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygw

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/29/2014 4:48 PM, Steven Penny wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote Ah, right. Of course Chris meant "Please stop after Ilja gets his last comment in." Now that that's happened, MSYS discussion can stop. ;-) You want some on-topic? Ok here goes Bash 4.2 has

Re: Problem compiling C++11 project with Cygwin

2014-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/29/2014 5:21 PM, wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20145488/cygwin-g-stdstoi-error-stoi-is-not-a-member-of-std#_=_ I have still this problem, is there a patch or fix around? Did you try the suggestion for the same problem under mingw? It looks like this could be a temp

Re: Cygwin installer could be much more better

2014-01-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:48:17PM -0600, Steven Penny wrote: >On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote >> Ah, right. Of course Chris meant "Please stop after Ilja gets his last >> comment in." Now that that's happened, MSYS discussion can stop. ;-) > >You want some on-topic? Ok

Re: Problem running git submodule init: "error while loading shared libraries: ?"

2014-01-29 Thread Kal Sze
On 30 January 2014 05:46, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > > On 29/01/2014 22:35, jones.noamle wrote: >> >> Intro: If you don't know/have time to solve it, I'd still appreciate a >> few pointers on how to debug this issue (is a library really missing? >> what library is missing?) >> >> Just did a fresh inst

Re: Problem running git submodule init: "error while loading shared libraries: ?"

2014-01-29 Thread jones.noamle
I will try gettext - but I would also like to see how this can be debugged. I ran strace (as mentioned in the original post) but didn't know exactly what to look for. What exactly does cygwin do to load shared libs? How can I spot this in strace's output? On 1/29/2014 8:24 PM, Kal Sze wrote:

ps | grep hangs intermittently

2014-01-29 Thread Steven Penny
I can run "ps | grep" and it will run smooth $ time ps | grep bash 231219083252 2312 cons0 1000 21:20:11 /usr/bin/bash real0m0.031s user0m0.015s sys 0m0.030s and then other times it will hang $ time ps | grep bash 31441908

Re: ps | grep hangs intermittently

2014-01-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 09:30:28PM -0600, Steven Penny wrote: >I can run "ps | grep" and it will run smooth > >$ time ps | grep bash > 231219083252 2312 cons0 1000 21:20:11 /usr/bin/bash > >real0m0.031s >user0m0.015s >sys 0m0.030s > >and then oth

Re: ps | grep hangs intermittently

2014-01-29 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/threads.html#00262 With all due respect, so what? That is for 1.7.25, I have 1.7.27 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentatio

Re: ps | grep hangs intermittently

2014-01-29 Thread David Boyce
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/threads.html#00262 > > With all due respect, so what? That is for 1.7.25, I have 1.7.27 It was reported in 1.7.25, fixed for 1.7.28. -- Problem

Re: ps | grep hangs intermittently

2014-01-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 09:46:15PM -0600, Steven Penny wrote: >On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/threads.html#00262 > >With all due respect, so what? That is for 1.7.25, I have 1.7.27 I pointed you at a thread so that you could read t