Windows Subsystem For Linux

2016-08-29 Thread Schwarz, Konrad
So I was wondering if the Windows Subsystem For Linux, apparently part of Windows 10 Anniversary Update, obsoletes Cygwin. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux

2016-08-29 Thread Ray Donnelly
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Schwarz, Konrad wrote: > So I was wondering if the Windows Subsystem For Linux, apparently part of > Windows 10 Anniversary Update, obsoletes Cygwin. > That seems a *little* inflammatory to me. Since Windows Subsystem for Linux can't inter-operate with Windows v

Re: x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld lib dir configuration issue

2016-08-29 Thread JonY
On 8/29/2016 10:06, Whek rin wrote: > The utility x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld from package mingw-x86_64-binutils > cannot by default find libraries from the path > /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sysroot/mingw/lib, where the package > mingw64-x86_64-runtime installs them. I believe this is a build > configuratio

Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux

2016-08-29 Thread Tim Prince
On 8/29/2016 7:15 AM, Ray Donnelly wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Schwarz, Konrad > wrote: >> So I was wondering if the Windows Subsystem For Linux, apparently part of >> Windows 10 Anniversary Update, obsoletes Cygwin. >> > That seems a *little* inflammatory to me. Since Windows Su

RE: Script broken after updating bash to 4.3.46-7?

2016-08-29 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Gene Pavlovsky > Andrey, > That's what I personally think, none of the scripts I use have CRs, > and this is why I'd prefer not using the `igncr` option. > However the recent change to how `read` works makes it necessary to > modify existing scripts which interoperate with Windows console >

Re: Proposal for new cygwin.bat which is independent from install directory

2016-08-29 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/27/2016 1:44 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Christian Franke! > >> Andrey Repin wrote: Hmm... therefore it is also better to change the last line to: .\bash --login -i >>> "%~dp0bin\bash.exe" --login -i > >> Changing the directory before bash is run is a security measur

Re: Script broken after updating bash to 4.3.46-7?

2016-08-29 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/27/2016 12:15 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Gene Pavlovsky! > >> Looks like it's related to a recent change in bash, which is `read` >> now honors Cygwin-specific `igncr` shell option (`set -o igncr`), >> which I didn't enable. >> Adding `set -o igncr` to the top of the script does the

Re: x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld lib dir configuration issue

2016-08-29 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/28/2016 10:06 PM, Whek rin wrote: > The utility x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld from package mingw-x86_64-binutils > cannot by default find libraries from the path > /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sysroot/mingw/lib, where the package > mingw64-x86_64-runtime installs them. I believe this is a build > configura

Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux

2016-08-29 Thread Keith Christian
Any software add-on which aims to "replace Cygwin" will have to address each and every use case for which Cygwin is currently chosen by so many users. Cygwin has made HUGE strides over the years and with every iteration improves our efficiency as we interact with Windows. (Thank you, Cygwin Maint

Re: The Cygwin User Guide on path names

2016-08-29 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Linda Walsh! > Andrey Repin wrote: >> Also, @ Linda, the string escaping is done by the shell before passing >> arguments to the command, as I understand. >> If I'm starting an application not from shell, the app, being a good citizen, >> should not second-guess the arguments it is give

Re: Proposal for new cygwin.bat which is independent from install directory

2016-08-29 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, cyg Simple! > On 8/27/2016 1:44 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Christian Franke! >> >>> Andrey Repin wrote: > Hmm... therefore it is also better to change the last line to: > .\bash --login -i "%~dp0bin\bash.exe" --login -i >> >>> Changing the directory befor

Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux

2016-08-29 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Schwarz, Konrad! > So I was wondering if the Windows Subsystem For Linux, apparently part of > Windows 10 Anniversary Update, obsoletes Cygwin. Please don't start this flamewar again. The topic was discussed to death, use search. In short, the problem is that is an isolated subsystem.

Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux

2016-08-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
> So I was wondering if the Windows Subsystem For Linux, apparently part of > Windows 10 Anniversary Update, obsoletes Cygwin. For a previous discussion of this, see the thread starting at https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2016-04/msg00244.html. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs-24.5-3 (TEST)

2016-08-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/23/2016 6:30 PM, Ken Brown wrote: This is a rebuild of the 24.5-2 packages, patched to allow native Windows paths like C:\foo or C:/foo in situations where file names are expected. For the sake of the archives, I'm announcing here that I consider this experimental release to be a failure[

Re: gmp-6.1.1-1

2016-08-29 Thread Achim Gratz
jeff writes: >> Hopefully this solves the problem reported in: >> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg0.html >> >> > The problem has been resolved, and all of my code now compiles. Thanks for the confirmation. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk

Re: bash: igncr shell option breaks my PS1 prompt

2016-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/28/2016 03:20 PM, Gene Pavlovsky wrote: > Re-posting a reply I got from Henri (aka Houder) hou...@xs4all.nl > His letter follows: > > Hi Gene, > > Reread your entry to the mailing list ... > >> Apparently the latest bash in Cygwin modified the read builtin to use >> Cygwin-specific shell o

Re: Script broken after updating bash to 4.3.46-7?

2016-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/26/2016 06:49 PM, Gene Pavlovsky wrote: > After I updated Cygwin yesterday, a daily database backup bash script > (`automysqlbackup`) broke. > My previous bash was 4.3.42-4 (installed when I updated Cygwin on > 2016/07/23), current is 4.3.46-7. > Here's the code snippet: > ```bash > local i

[gnumeric v1.12.31] ssconvert cannot find xcall32(.dll) in fn-math and html plugin folders

2016-08-29 Thread Jannick
Hi, I am not sure if this is a bug: running a xlsx2tex conversion     ssconvert --export-type=Gnumeric_html:latex a.xlsx a.tex results in the error messages ** (ssconvert:12292): WARNING **: Unable to open module file "/usr/lib/gnumeric/1.12.31/plugins/fn-math/xlcall32"

Re: Extreme Slowness of cygwin commands [SOLVED?]

2016-08-29 Thread bzs
On August 29, 2016 at 01:18 ben...@gmail.com (Ben Altman) wrote: > > This comes a while later but I was wrong and you were right. > Glad to be of service. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voic

Attempting to build cygwin1.dll

2016-08-29 Thread Nirgendsdorf
System details first: "CYGWIN_NT-5.1 GKDC531 2.5.2(0.297/5/3) 2016-06-23 14:27 i686" on Windows XP SP3, on a dual-core Pentium 4 (i786) box. I have rebuilt and optimized gcc and several math libraries with the architecture-specific options of gcc, `-march=native' and `-mfpmath=sse', to get the

Re: bash: igncr shell option breaks my PS1 prompt

2016-08-29 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Eric Blake! > But it seems like \n handling in PS1 is independent of any change in > handing in the 'read' builtin. As evidence, I ran the following test > using the older bash-4.3.42-4 build: > $ bash-4.3.42-4 > $ set -o igncr > $ PS1='$(date)\n# ' > bash: command substitution: line

Re: Attempting to build cygwin1.dll

2016-08-29 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-08-29 21:21, Nirgendsdorf wrote: I am sure I have all the support libraries for the 32-bit mingw gcc installed and working (I've built software with it). Does this mean a 64-bit machine is required to build the Cygwin DLL? No; the mingw64 cross-compiler is required for building cyglsa64