Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?

2016-04-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrey Repin writes: > Couple of my scripts rely on ASH/DASH functionality that is not present in > BASH. (Namely "local -".) > To amend that, I make a symlink /bin/sh = /bin/dash . > But every time bash update, it overwrite the link. I think the correct course of action would be to put /bin/sh un

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: postgresql-9.5.2-1

2016-04-02 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version 9.5.2-1 of packages libecpg-compat3 libecpg-devel libecpg6 libpgtypes3 libpq-devel libpq5 postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib postgresql-devel postgresql-doc postgresql-plperl postgresql-plpython are available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES Th

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: glpk-4.60-1

2016-04-02 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version 4.60-1 of glpk libglpk40 libglpk-devel have been uploaded for cygwin. The GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) package is intended for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems. It is a set of routines written in ANSI C

Re: xgraph 12.1-3 segfaults when run

2016-04-02 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 29/03/2016 17:13, Stefan Parviainen wrote: Dear list, I installed xgraph 12.1-3 using the Cygwin installer, but it seems to segfault immediately when run (e.g. "xgraph data.txt"). GDB gives the following: Starting program: /usr/bin/xgraph data.txt [New Thread 7848.0x2040] [New Thread 7848.0x

Re: [attention p7zip maintainer] p7zip 15.14 is out

2016-04-02 Thread cyg Simple
On 4/1/2016 2:49 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Gerrit Haase writes: >> is is common sense nowadays, to add packages required to build from >> source to the executable runtime dependencies? > > It is quite helpful when some build dependencies aren't quite obvious > from the readme and/or would be option

Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?

2016-04-02 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/02/2016 03:21 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Andrey Repin writes: >> Couple of my scripts rely on ASH/DASH functionality that is not present in >> BASH. (Namely "local -".) >> To amend that, I make a symlink /bin/sh = /bin/dash . >> But every time bash update, it overwrite the link. > > I think th

Re: [attention p7zip maintainer] p7zip 15.14 is out

2016-04-02 Thread Achim Gratz
cyg Simple writes: > On 4/1/2016 2:49 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> Gerrit Haase writes: >>> is is common sense nowadays, to add packages required to build from >>> source to the executable runtime dependencies? >> >> It is quite helpful when some build dependencies aren't quite obvious >> from the re

Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?

2016-04-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Eric Blake writes: > Since I maintain both dash and bash, I'm game for setting up /bin/sh as > an alternative. However, I've never targeted the alternatives system > before as a package maintainer; any advice on docs or an example that I > could copy from? I would probably make the defaults give b

Re: Keep calm

2016-04-02 Thread Jon Turney
On 01/04/2016 20:10, Achim Gratz wrote: Jon Turney writes: Also, it would be really cool if setup.xz files were finally made available (the best compression option in my experience is -6e). This is something I want to look at, once the initial problems have been sorted out. An .xz compressed

RE: [attention p7zip maintainer] p7zip 15.14 is out

2016-04-02 Thread Tony Kelman
>> Yes but only for development installs. Strictly as a user of the binary >> install I wouldn't want the dependency here. > > We were talking about the cygport file and whether to include a > build-time dependency in there. I also thought the naming for REQUIRES vs DEPEND was a bit confusing unti

Updated package needed for mercurial 3.7.3 security update

2016-04-02 Thread Andy Moreton
Hi, The current package is for mercurial 3.5.1, but upstream have released 3.7.3 as a security release, with fixes for: CVE-2016-3630 Mercurial: remote code execution in binary delta decoding CVE-2016-3068 Mercurial: arbitrary code execution with Git subrepos CVE-2016-3069 Mercurial: arbitrary co

pass arguments enclosed with double quotes from bash shell to windows program

2016-04-02 Thread Cary Lewis
I need to start acrobat from a bash shell. Acrobat needs some of its parameters to be enclosed with double quotes. This is needed to automatically open and print a pdf. When I try to do that directly from a bash shell, I can't get it to pass arguments enclosed with the double quotes. It will do

Re: pass arguments enclosed with double quotes from bash shell to windows program

2016-04-02 Thread Michael Enright
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Cary Lewis wrote: > I need to start acrobat from a bash shell. > > Acrobat needs some of its parameters to be enclosed with double > quotes. This is needed to automatically open and print a pdf. > > > If I try to do a \", then it passes the \" to the windows app. I

Re: pass arguments enclosed with double quotes from bash shell to windows program

2016-04-02 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/2/2016 2:59 PM, Cary Lewis wrote: I need to start acrobat from a bash shell. Acrobat needs some of its parameters to be enclosed with double quotes. This is needed to automatically open and print a pdf. When I try to do that directly from a bash shell, I can't get it to pass arguments encl

Janus for vim

2016-04-02 Thread Dennis Putnam
I've to installed Janus for vim and after the seemingly successful install it doesn't seem to do anything. I've had no problems with on other *nix's. Does anyone have any experience with Janus on cygwin? TIA. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Unreliable flock

2016-04-02 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, All! The script (let's call it test.sh): #!/bin/dash -x _lock="./console-session.lock" { flock -n 9 || { echo "The $(cat "$_lock") command is running already." exit 3 } >&2 printf "$1" >&9 trap 'rm "$_lock";' EXIT HUP INT ABRT TERM sleep 20 } 9>> "$_lock" V

Re: pass arguments enclosed with double quotes from bash shell to windows program

2016-04-02 Thread René Berber
On 4/2/2016 2:19 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > Have you tried: '"arg"' ? bash should strip the ' ' and leave the " ". > Also, what about "\"foo\"" ? > > My experiments with this suggest that they work. I tried invoked a .bat > file that echoes its first argument, and it did show "\"foo\"", but I > su

Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?

2016-04-02 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-04-02 04:21, Achim Gratz wrote: Andrey Repin writes: Couple of my scripts rely on ASH/DASH functionality that is not present in BASH. (Namely "local -".) To amend that, I make a symlink /bin/sh = /bin/dash . But every time bash update, it overwrite the link. I think the correct course

Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?

2016-04-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > I am not in favour of /bin/sh being alternatives-able. I'd posit that it should not be bash then and somwone else might reasonably want a different /bin/sh, perhaps even bash. Which is exactly why the alternatives system exists. > The *proper* course of action is to us

makeinfo causes perl error ? Cygwin X86 download today

2016-04-02 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello I have clean all cygwin directory and re-installed the cygwin_x86 in to tb my netbook working on Win 10 32 bit today. $ makeinfo  6 [main] perl 37148 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed by 're.dll' (0x66) is already occupied Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds at /usr/share/t