Re: makeinfo causes perl error ? Cygwin X86 download today

2016-04-03 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 03/04/2016 08:53, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: 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

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave forge packages

2016-04-03 Thread Marco Atzeri
New versions of octave-generate_html0.1.10-1 octave-geometry 2.1.1-1 octave-mpi 1.2.0r43-2 octave-octproj 1.1.5-2 octave-optim1.5.0-1 octave-parallel 3.0.4-1 octave-struct 1.0.12-1 octave-tsa 4.4.1-1 are available in th

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

2016-04-03 Thread Vlado
On 2.4.2016 20:59, 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 enclos

Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?

2016-04-03 Thread Dirk Fassbender
Am 03.04.2016 um 08:24 schrieb 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 exis

Re: makeinfo causes perl error ? Cygwin X86 download today

2016-04-03 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
    > From: Marco Atzeri  > To: cygwin > Date: 2016/4/3, Sun 16:29 > Subject: Re: makeinfo causes perl error ? Cygwin X86 download today > > On 03/04/2016 08:53, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: >> Hello >> I have clean all cygwin directory and re-installed the cygwin_x86 >> in to tb my netbook wo

Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?

2016-04-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Dirk Fassbender writes: > So it is not easy to write portable scripts for the standard shell > /bin/sh between different systems and the exchange of the standard > shell needs a check for all scripts, that uses a shebang line /bin/sh > or are use during system initialisation. Whatever is under /bi

Re: Janus for vim

2016-04-03 Thread Dennis Putnam
On 4/2/2016 5:03 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: > 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. > Never mind, I found the problem. Old 'vi

Re: makeinfo causes perl error ? Cygwin X86 download today

2016-04-03 Thread Brian Inglis
Tatsuro MATSUOKA yahoo.co.jp> writes: > 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

Re: makeinfo causes perl error ? Cygwin X86 download today

2016-04-03 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 03/04/2016 13:58, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: From: Marco Atzeri To: cygwin Date: 2016/4/3, Sun 16:29 Subject: Re: makeinfo causes perl error ? Cygwin X86 download today On 03/04/2016 08:53, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: Hello I have clean all cygwin directory and re-installed the cygwin_x86

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: arpack-3.3.0-3

2016-04-03 Thread Marco Atzeri
New versions 3.3.0-3 of arpack (source) libarpack-devel libarpack0 libparpack-devel libparpack0 for cygwin are available in the Cygwin distribution: CYGWIN CHANGES Rebuilt for library dependency update. DESCRIPTION ARPACK is a collection of Fortran77 subroutines designed to solve lar

Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?

2016-04-03 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-04-03 01:24, Achim Gratz wrote: 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.

crash caused by stack-allocated array in child process after fork?

2016-04-03 Thread Thomas Wolff
Mintty has been struck by a mysterious crash condition which seems to be related to a weird combination of circumstances, involving the creation of an array on the stack, like wchar msg[1024]; in a child process after a fork (as used for daemonizing). Details are described in https://github.

Re: Re: makeinfo causes perl error ? Cygwin X86 download today

2016-04-03 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
--- Brian Inglis wrote: > Tatsuro MATSUOKA writes: > > 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 alrea

Re: makeinfo causes perl error ? Cygwin X86 download today

2016-04-03 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
--- Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 03/04/2016 13:58, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: > >> From: Marco Atzeri > >> To: cygwin > >> Date: 2016/4/3, Sun 16:29 > >> Subject: Re: makeinfo causes perl error ? Cygwin X86 download today > >> > >> On 03/04/2016 08:53, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: > >>> Hello > >>> I have

Re: Unable to start mintty.

2016-04-03 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 30.03.2016 um 9:27 schrieb Thomas Wolff: Am 30.03.2016 um 4:49 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, All! I've not used mintty for quite some time, and discovered today that I no longer able to start it inside a directory. Quite frustrating moment is that I can perfectly start it from desktop

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.3.4

2016-04-03 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.3.4 with the following changes: * Workaround for suspected compilation problem causing crash after daemonizing (#530). The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/ It also links to the issue tracker. -- Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

Re: makeinfo causes perl error ? Cygwin X86 download today

2016-04-03 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
--- Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 03/04/2016 13:58, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: > >> From: Marco Atzeri > >> To: cygwin > >> Date: 2016/4/3, Sun 16:29 > >> Subject: Re: makeinfo causes perl error ? Cygwin X86 download today > >> > >> On 03/04/2016 08:53, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: > >>>  Hello > >>>  I have

Re: crash caused by stack-allocated array in child process after fork?

2016-04-03 Thread Mark Geisert
Thomas Wolff wrote: Might it be related to https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2016-03/msg0.html ? I can only comment on this last sentence. Although I was seeing a particular function declared as a constructor being run twice, I was confused about the timing (due to not properly flu

Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?

2016-04-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Yaakov Selkowitz! > On 2016-04-03 01:24, Achim Gratz wrote: >> 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

Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?

2016-04-03 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-04-03 18:05, Andrey Repin wrote: Because, within my reach, Cygwin is the only system that not using DASH as /bin/sh. Though, I may try rolling some busybox… There *is* a world outside of Debian/Ubuntu; Fedora, RHEL/CentOS, and Arch Linux all use bash for /bin/sh. However, a simple tes