Re: Running texconfig breaks backspace in Bash/MinTTY

2016-03-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/18/2016 4:14 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2016-03-18 06:34, Ken Brown wrote: The best long-term solution is to get rid of the need for texconfig by making tlmgr work on Cygwin[*]. No thanks. Don't we have all of TeX Live packaged already? Wouldn't using this conflict with the packages

Re: Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?

2016-03-20 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 16, 2016, at 2:18 AM, Gerrit Haase wrote: > > this is not documented, at least > not where I expected to find the information: > https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.setup.cli This is “frequently asked”? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:

Re: can't get sshd to new Windows 2012 R2 Server to work

2016-03-20 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 15, 2016, at 4:35 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: > > Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Next time, please *attach* this, don’t paste it inline. (That’s not my idiosyncratic preference, it’s part of the instructions: https://cygwin.com/problems.html) > Running in Terminal Service session You say

Re: make command fails on cygwin-x86 (cyggmp-10.dll: Loaded to different address)

2016-03-20 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Dear Achim >Tatsuro MATSUOKA yahoo.co.jp> writes: >> The last step of setup seem to be autorebase then setup command is the > easiest way >> to use "rebase". Am I right? > > Yes. >> After rebase sometime one needs to restart PC. Right? > > No.  You only need to restart if in-use DLL have bee

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2016-03-20 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions are updated to the latest version available on CPAN: perl-Log-Log4perl-1.47-1 perl-Mojolicious-6.56-1 perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.44-1 perl-Socket6-0.26-1 -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce

2.4-2.5 x64: bash crashes on backticks, gdb crashes on opening core dump

2016-03-20 Thread Ivan Pozdeev
bash I'm being plagued by these crashes for about half a month now. Specifically, it cannot run any `configure' script. The crashes appear to happen in child bash/sh processes launched while processing backticks. Other times, commands with stream redirection fail silently or produce nothing

Re: clang copy of limits.h misses NAME_MAX

2016-03-20 Thread Ismail Donmez
Hi, On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > Hello there, > > clang has its own copy of some system headers. One of those lacks an entry > that breaks compilation of any program trying to work with directories the > POSIX way: > > $ cat tdirent.c > #include > > void foo(vo

X widget question

2016-03-20 Thread Marco Atzeri
I have finally identified where ncview was segfaulting on X86_64 The solution was to reverse the order of destruction for a chain of widgets i=0; - while( (w = *(diminfo_row_widget + i++)) != NULL ) - XtDestroyWidget( w ); + while( (w = *(diminfo_row_widget + i)

Re: Change PS1 when run as administrator

2016-03-20 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> I'm fairly certain that I have not had this machine that long > > The mtimes on those files is as reliable as your system clock, because > they’re generated during first install. Turns out I was wrong, I've had the machine since 2014-12-04 a

Re: [Attn] git maintainer: Remote Code Execution for git < 2.7.1

2016-03-20 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:41:41AM +0200, Ismail Donmez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 07:43:54AM +0200, Ismail Donmez wrote: > >> Please see http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/15/5 . > >> Would be nice to update to just

Running texconfig breaks backspace in Bash/MinTTY

2016-03-20 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Here's an interesting bug: normally in a Bash session in MinTTY, backspace and Ctrl+H both delete the previous character, as expected. However, after running texconfig and returning to the shell, both the backspace key and Ctrl+H appear to just print "^H" to the terminal. It looks like this is gen

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mc-4.8.16-1

2016-03-20 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version mc-4.8.16-1 of Midnight Commander has been uploaded for cygwin CHANGES This is a upstream bugfix release https://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.16 DESCRIPTION GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager. It's a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: wtf-0.0.4-8

2016-03-20 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version 0.0.4-8 of "wtf" has been uploaded. wtf translates acronyms and filename suffixes for you. The wtf program looks-up the definition of a term. It supports a number of definition sources. In this version they are an acronyms database and a filename suffixes database. CHANGES - Built also

Re: 2.4-2.5 x64: bash crashes on backticks, gdb crashes on opening core dump

2016-03-20 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 20/03/2016 10:05, Ivan Pozdeev wrote: bash I'm being plagued by these crashes for about half a month now. Specifically, it cannot run any `configure' script. The crashes appear to happen in child bash/sh processes launched while processing backticks. Other times, commands with stream redi

clamav: Request for package update

2016-03-20 Thread Jonathan D Johnston
Attention package clamav maintainer (Reini Urban?) Usage of freshclam (1) reports that the recommended version of ClamAV is 0.99.1, but the most recent version in https://cygwin.com/packages/ is 0.98.7 . Version 0.98.7 isn't functional with the current ClamAV databases. Can this package be updat

Re: Suddenly: Font does not support ANSI character range?

2016-03-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 19.03.2016 um 19:54 schrieb Andrey Tarasevich: On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 19.03.2016 um 18:18 schrieb Andrey Tarasevich: ... when I attempt to start Cygwin terminal (mintty), I'm immediately greeted with a message box saying Lucida Console Font does no

Re: Running texconfig breaks backspace in Bash/MinTTY

2016-03-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/17/2016 7:40 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 3/16/2016 6:11 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Am 16.03.2016 um 16:07 schrieb Ken Brown: >>> On 3/16/2016 10:00 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 08:34:45AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > On 3/16/2016 7:45 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> H

Re: git svn -T svn://svn. ...

2016-03-20 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 07:46:06PM +, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 01:32:30PM -0500, cyg Simple wrote: > > Using the latest production release 2.4.1(1) the command is removing the > > / after the svn: leaving svn:/svn which isn't correct. Using > > 'svn://svn' doesn't help e

Re: ctrl-c doesn't reliably kill ping

2016-03-20 Thread cyg Simple
On 3/15/2016 7:43 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 02:00:38PM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Frank Farance! >> >>> A little digression, so you understand the background ... The workstation I >>> am >>> doing this from is connected to a Verizon router to their FIOS netw

Package choosing algorithm ...

2016-03-20 Thread Houder
Hi Corinna, A year ago you changed the "package choosing algorithm" ... https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00034.html - [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.864) -- by Corinna Vinschen Here C. announces the modification of the "package choosing algorithm" (and the introductio

RE: faster opening Cygwin from Explorer window

2016-03-20 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Marco Atzeri sent the following at Friday, March 18, 2016 11:01 AM >On 18/03/2016 15:43, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> I frequently ping-pong back and forth between working in the Windows >> and Cygwin environments, needing to keep both Explorer windows and >> Cygwin PWD focused on the same folder/dire

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.3.2

2016-03-20 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.3.2 with the following changes (same as pre-release 2.2.4, plus 3 fixes): Highlights: * Font setup and configuration improvements. * Colour schemes / Theme files. * GUI configuration of wav file for terminal beep. * Startup error handling improvements. Font conf

Is ping only supposed to work for admin accounts?

2016-03-20 Thread Ray Satiro
I just used the cygwin installer to install ping-1.0.2-1.tar.xz but it doesn't work for limited user accounts: $ ping google.com ping: socket: Operation not permitted 149 29930 [main] ping 11668 dup_ent: duping protoent "icmp", 0xD56580 46 29976 [main] ping 11668 dup_ent: protoent icmp

Re: 2.4-2.5 x64: bash crashes on backticks, gdb crashes on opening core dump

2016-03-20 Thread Ivan Pozdeev
20.03.2016 15:47, Marco Atzeri пишет: On 20/03/2016 10:05, Ivan Pozdeev wrote: bash I'm being plagued by these crashes for about half a month now. Specifically, it cannot run any `configure' script. The crashes appear to happen in child bash/sh processes launched while processing backtick

Re: Is ping only supposed to work for admin accounts?

2016-03-20 Thread Brian Mathis
Yes. Ping needs admin rights in all operating systems, but they have various ways to allow access, such as running suid in unix or using a special API call on Windows. If you need ping from cygwin, it's best to rely on the Windows version without installing the cygwin one. ~ Brian On Sun, Mar 2