Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

2017-07-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 24 02:09, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > > But that's just scanning a decimal integer to time_t. > > It's not a question of whether I can or can't convert a string into an > integer, rather it's a question about portability of code that uses %s I see your point but... "porta

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pinentry-1.0.0-2

2017-07-24 Thread İsmail Dönmez
Hi, On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > New version 1.0.0-2 of > > pinentry > pinentry-emacs > pinentry_gnome3 > pinentry_gtk2 > pinentry_qt > > are available in the Cygwin distribution: > > CYGWIN CHANGES > Removed ncurses interface and

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pinentry-1.0.0-2

2017-07-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/24/2017 6:53 AM, İsmail Dönmez wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: New version 1.0.0-2 of pinentry pinentry-emacs pinentry_gnome3 pinentry_gtk2 pinentry_qt are available in the Cygwin distribution: CYGWIN CHANGES

Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

2017-07-24 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> > > But that's just scanning a decimal integer to time_t. > > > > It's not a question of whether I can or can't convert a string into an > > integer, rather it's a question about portability of code that uses %s > I see your point but... "portability" is kind of the wrong expression > here. If

Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

2017-07-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/24/2017 08:24 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: But that's just scanning a decimal integer to time_t. >>> >>> It's not a question of whether I can or can't convert a string into an >>> integer, rather it's a question about portability of code that uses %s > >> I see your p

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-23 13:18, mike wrote: > On 23/07/2017 19:14, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2017-07-23 11:39, mike wrote: >>> On 23/07/2017 16:58, Jack wrote: On 2017.07.23 08:32, mike wrote: > Hi > > I updated my Cywin installation on the 21st or 22nd of July 2017. I run > 32-bit Cygwi

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Sun, 7/23/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sunday, July 23, 2017, 5:18 PM On 7/23/2017 8:32 AM, mike wrote: > Hi > > I updated my Cywin installation on the

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Mon, 7/24/17, Brian Inglis wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Monday, July 24, 2017, 1:02 PM On 2017-07-23 13:18, mike wrote: > On 23/07/2017 19:14, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On

Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

2017-07-24 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> Demand. I patches strftime to add %s because Coreutils wanted it. But > coreutils doesn't use strptime, so I had no reason to add it. Well, I was bringing up a point of API inconsistency, hoping that it'd serve as an implicit request for an improvement so that strptime() gets its "%s"... May

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/24/2017 12:08 PM, Ian Lambert wrote: On Sun, 7/23/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Yes, there was a change about two years ago. I suspect you have a .startxwinrc that uses fbpanel instead of xwin-xdg-menu. See https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-07/msg00013.html Ken,

Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

2017-07-24 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On 23.07.2017 19:09, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: But that's just scanning a decimal integer to time_t. It's not a question of whether I can or can't convert a string into an integer, rather it's a question about portability of code that uses %s for both functions and expects it

Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

2017-07-24 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 24.07.2017 um 04:09 schrieb Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]: rather it's a question about portability of code that uses %s for both functions and expects it to work unchanged in the Cygwin environment. And the answer to that question is: such code _is_not_portable_, and therefore th

Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

2017-07-24 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
> then its use of %s in either of those functions constitutes a _bug_ Oh really? Is that why "%s" was added to Cygwin's strftime() lately? Thanks again for your input. Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: htt

Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

2017-07-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/24/2017 04:28 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >> then its use of %s in either of those functions constitutes a _bug_ > > Oh really? Is that why "%s" was added to Cygwin's strftime() lately? Your mailer is breaking up threads, which is making it very annoying to follow where

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Mon, 7/24/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: "Ian Lambert" <>, cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Monday, July 24, 2017, 3:51 PM On 7/24/2017 12:08 PM, Ian Lambert wrote: > On Sun, 7/23/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: >  Yes, there was a change a

Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

2017-07-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-24 15:48, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/24/2017 04:28 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >>> then its use of %s in either of those functions constitutes a _bug_ >> >> Oh really? Is that why "%s" was added to Cygwin's strftime() lately? > > Your mailer is breaking up threads, w

Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

2017-07-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-24 15:02, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > Am 24.07.2017 um 04:09 schrieb Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]: > >> rather it's a question about portability of code that >> uses %s for both functions and expects it to work unchanged in the >> Cygwin environment. > > And the answer to t

Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has

2017-07-24 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On 24.07.2017 15:51, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-07-24 15:02, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: Am 24.07.2017 um 04:09 schrieb Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]: rather it's a question about portability of code that uses %s for both functions and expects it to work unchanged in the Cygwin environ

Re: Link error with static version of zlib?

2017-07-24 Thread J (Jean-Claude Gervais)
Hello Steven and Hans-Bernhard, I believe the problem stems from a missing component in the runtime. When I use Gentoo's Crossdev and generate either the 32 or 64 bit version of MinGW, it allows me to compile and link the app with no other dependencies than msvcrt.dll. I can run the cross-compile

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread mike
On 24/07/2017 23:08, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: On Mon, 7/24/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: "Ian Lambert" <>, cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Monday, July 24, 2017, 3:51 PM On 7/24/2017 12:08 PM, Ian Lambert wrote: > On Sun,

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread mike
On 24/07/2017 18:02, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-07-23 13:18, mike wrote: On 23/07/2017 19:14, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-07-23 11:39, mike wrote: On 23/07/2017 16:58, Jack wrote: On 2017.07.23 08:32, mike wrote: Hi I updated my Cywin installation on the 21st or 22nd of July 2017. I run 3

[ANNOUNCEMENT] emacs-auctex 11.91-1

2017-07-24 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * emacs-auctex-11.91-1 * preview-latex-11.91-1 AUCTeX is an extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in GNU Emacs and XEmacs. It supports many different TeX macro packages, including AMS-TeX, LaTeX, Texinfo, Con

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/24/2017 6:08 PM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: This time I ran "rebase-trigger full", did full shutdown/restart, then ran setup. And are you sure there were no Cygwin processes running? This could happen even after shutdown/restart if you have any Cygwin services that start automatical

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On July 24, 2017 10:58:29 PM EDT, Ken Brown <> wrote: >On 7/24/2017 6:08 PM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: >> This time I ran "rebase-trigger full", did full shutdown/restart, >then ran setup. > >And are you sure there were no Cygwin processes running? This could >happen even after shutdown/resta

"rebase-trigger full"

2017-07-24 Thread mike
Can someone please tell me how to do that. Thanks very much in advance Mike -- I *AM* a unique and special snowflake -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-24 20:58, Ken Brown wrote: > On 7/24/2017 6:08 PM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: >> This time I ran "rebase-trigger full", did full shutdown/restart, then ran >> setup. > > And are you sure there were no Cygwin processes running? This could happen > even > after shutdown/restart if y

Re: "rebase-trigger full"

2017-07-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-24 22:55, mike wrote: > Can someone please tell me how to do that. > > Thanks very much in advance Type the command within the double quotes at a Cygwin shell command prompt, with your Cygwin bin directory in your PATH. Then shutdown all Cygwin services and exit all Cygwin programs. Do