Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

> Next step is to blow away my entire cygwin installation and install each > package anew. Not sure what else I can do. This will be the 2nd time in > 6 months I've had to do this. As long as you're doing that, be sure to delete and redownload all of the package files. -- Unsubscribe info:

screen [ping cgf]

> Will this have any impact on having a version of screen that works? I have a working version of screen on Cygwin. I use it daily, and it works fine. With CYGWIN=tty set, the reattachment bug appears to be solved; it detaches and reattaches sessions normally, which was a problem for a long time

Re: screen [ping cgf]

> >screen is an extremely useful program, that people have been asking for in > >Cygwin for a long time. I'd be willing to package it, but when I floated > >the idea a year ago or so, the feeling seemed to be that there were still > >too many bugs to make it useful. If people can live with (or ev

Re: screen

> And, just in case you're wondering if I am going to volunteer to help you > track down problems - I'm not. So, maybe anyone who wants screen should > volunteer to help. No, that was not my intention. I was trying to be courteous. But that's a two-way street. Forget it, I won't bother next ti

Re: screen [ping cgf]

> Could you post a link to your latest build (and sources), so people can > test and comment on it. Sure: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/screen/setup.hint http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/screen/screen-4.0.2-0test1.tar.bz2 http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/screen/screen-4.0.2-

Re: screen [ping cgf]

> At 16-2-2007 22:38, Frank Fesevur wrote: > > I have just tried it and so far it works for me. Although I must admit I > > have only used it very limited. But a colleague just mailed that he > > could not detach/retach :-S > > This detach/retach problem seems to be caused by an incomplete unins

garbage in man output

I've just had to reinstall Windows (comments suppressed) and so of course Cygwin too. I've got everything working pretty much as before, except for one new problem: man pages are all coming out with formatting commands rendered as garbage text. For example, the output of 'man ls' starts out with

Re: garbage in man output

> On 3/1/2007 3:13 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > ...man pages are all coming out with formatting commands > > rendered as garbage text. For example, the output of 'man ls' starts out > > with > > > > ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m > >ls - list direc

Re: One happy screen user

> I am using the screen test package Andrew Schulman mentioned here some 2 > weeks ago. And so far it works great for me. > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/msg00446.html > > Andrew, thanks for your work. Again, I'm not experiencing any problems > with this build. Pl

Re: Making sftp and ssh work on cygwin

> $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > $ sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Connecting to 142.268.10.26... > Connection closed Try adding -v or -vv to get some information about the protocol exchange, and where it's stopping. You can probably also get some information from the ssh server logs. -- Unsubscribe inf

Re: Making sftp and ssh work on cygwin

> Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Try adding -v or -vv to get some information about the protocol exchange, > > and where it's stopping. You can probably also get some information from > > the ssh server logs. > > > > Thanks for your quick answer, Andrew. I d

Re: Making sftp and ssh work on cygwin

> By default, the errors will be sent to the Windows Event Log. ... if the server is on a Windows host. Marielle hasn't told us what OS the server is running. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Making sftp and ssh work on cygwin

> Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Try adding -v or -vv to get some information about the protocol exchange, > > and where it's stopping. You can probably also get some information from > > the ssh server logs. > > > > Thanks for your quick answer, Andrew. I d

Re: OCaml package hasn't updated for a while (Ping unison maintainer)

> One problem is that a major client of O'Caml is unison, and, because of > binary incompatibility, the releases of O'Caml need to be coordinated with > unison. I've added a ping, and we'll see what Andrew says. I'm not > familiar enough with O'Caml program dependencies to know whether I can > si

Re: OCaml package hasn't updated for a while (Ping unison maintainer)

> Reviving an aging thread, do you intend to package the current unison > beta version 2.27.29? My ISP just migrated to using it as the default, > so I'm on shaky ground trying to get my current 2.10.2 to match up. Yes, I do. Sorry it's been so long. I have some time today and will get started o

ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

Unison users on Cygwin: I'm preparing a new unison2.27 package, to be released shortly. As I do that, I'm looking over the old Unison packages in Cygwin: unison2.9.1 unison2.9.20 unison2.10.2 unison2.12.0 unison2.13 unison2.17 and I'm thinking that it's time for me to abandon the first four of t

Re: ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

> I am _not_ the maintainer I'm the Cygwin maintainer for Unison. > but 2.9.1 is the only version I have that > will talk to a current development machine -- a current debian machine too. My Debian host has $ apt-cache policy unison unison: Installed: 2.13.16-6 Candidate: 2.13.16-6 Versi

Re: ping Unison users: abandon versions 2.9.1-2.12.0 ?

> I use 2.10.2, but so long as you can provide something like 2.27.29 in > its place I could move ahead and match my server. OK, understood. I'll have a unison2.27 package out tomorrow. It will be version 2.27.29 for right now, but all versions 2.27.x can sync with each other. -- Unsubscribe i

Re: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/_32/working/math-gmpz/Math-GMPz-0.22 > $ perldoc ExtUtils::MakeMaker > Error in tempfile() using ./XX: Parent directory (./) is not > writable > at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1483 tempfile() is trying to create the tempfile in the current direc

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Unison: new, updated, and obsoleted packages

Unison is a file synchronizer for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Sever

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lablgtk2-20060908-1

A new version of the lablgtk2 package is available in the Cygwin distribution. Changes in version 20060908-1: * New upstream bug fix release. * Changed to cygport build method. Andrew E. Schulman *** To update your installation, cl

Re: [Packaging error] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated:lftp-3.5.11-1

> The new version overwrites /etc/lftp.conf, the old version was ok: Confirmed-- thanks. It seems that I screwed that up when I changed to cygport. I'll release a new version today. Andrew. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: screen-4.0.3-1

The package 'screen' is now available in the Cygwin distribution. screen is a terminal multiplexer and window manager that runs several separate 'screens' on a single physical character-based terminal. Each virtual terminal emulates a DEC VT100 plus several ANSI X3.64 and ISO 2022 functions. You

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp-3.5.11-2

A new version of the lftp package is available in the Cygwin distribution. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http client. It supports multiple network protocols, offers tab completion, command history, job control, and bookmarks, can mirror sites and transfer multiple files in

Re: rxvt question

> If this is the cause of the problem then the solution is simple: use a > Cygwin version of the app or avoid the use of ptys. There's no Cygwin version of SQL*Plus, which comes as a binary blob from Oracle. I was going to say "Unfortunately", but decided that this is actually a blessing. Teggy,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: screen-4.0.3-1

Thanks everyone. As I said before, there were many little pieces to be solved, and plenty of credit to go around in the Cygwin community. Happy screening. Andrew. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documenta

cygport: patches welcome?

I like cygport and would like to make a couple of improvements to it: (1) Comprehensive man page, describing the available facilities for writing cygport scripts. As it is now, I have to page through /usr/lib/cygport/bin/* and even /usr/bin/cygport itself, to see what the available functions are

Re: Units and Cygport

> make_etc_defaults /etc/cygport.conf What's that for? The user will already need to have cygport installed if they're going to build the package, right? A. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docum

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen-4.0.3-1

screen-4.0.3-1 is now available in the 'current' release of the Cygwin distribution. This version was previously released in the 'experimental' release. No one has posted any trouble reports, and the package works fine for me, so I've now moved it into current. screen is a terminal multiplexer a

1.5.24: duplicate directory entries - cygcheck.out (0/1)

Some directory entries are appearing twice in ls output. E.g. see lib in the following output: $ ls -li /usr/local total 0 1688849860279750 drwxrwx---+ 2 aschulma Users 0 May 7 14:15 bin 2251799813802842 drwxrwx---+ 2 aschulma Users 0 May 7 13:45 etc 562949953541629 drwxrwx---+ 2 aschulma User

Re: links

> An explanation of why this ".lnk" ism came into being. > > I, as I user do not think its justified, but somebody had the idea and sold > it, but apparently, we, users were not informed or asked about it. > > I has also broke other programs that ran fine with, well symbolic limks. The >

Re: How to close a SSH connection from a BAT file

> Brian Thanks for the suggestions and I was extreemly interested in trying > your > suggestion of running the SSH client as a service. However I have not been > successful in setting it up. Although it does install as a service, when it > is > started it immediatly stops as unable to authenti

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp-3.5.12-1

A new version of lftp is available in the Cygwin distribution. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http client. It supports multiple network protocols, offers tab completion, command history, job control, and bookmarks, can mirror sites and transfer multiple files in parallel, a

Re: screen reattach not working?

> Hi! > What is the current status of screen reattach? > For me it does not work under the default cygwin bash shell, which > uses cmd console afaik and it does not work under cygwin sshd. The > only way it works is under cygwin rxvt. I would most like to use it > under sshd. > What's the magic to

Re: Naming Cygwin Shells

> > Simple question here. I am trying to figure out a way to name a cygwin shell > so that I can have multiple windows up doing tails and other such functions > and easily see what system i am looking at. See the section on PROMPTING (and also the PROMPT_COMMAND variable) in the bash manual for

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: unison2.13, unison2.17, unison2.27

> The /etc/postinstall/unison... installer scripts assume that alternatives is > available on the path. On > my system /usr/sbin is not on the PATH, so the postinstall script fails. Oops. > Also is bash style shell arithmetic used for the priority allowed in a > /bin/sh script ? I'm not sure,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: unison2.13, unison2.17, unison2.27

> The man page for alternatives > (8) does not seem to specify the allowed range for priority values, but using > 2017 for unison 2.17 > and 2027 for unison 2.27 seem to upset it: > > ajm> /usr/sbin/alternatives.exe --display unison > path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/unison >

Re: unison-2.27.exe silently exits

> I've installed 2.27 and and 2.13 on 3 different machines (XP, Vista, > 2003 server), but on all of them, unison-2.27.exe simply exits (error > code 1) with no output, regardless of anything written on the command > line (-version, -help). Using Process Monitor, I see that it does read > defa

Re: unison-2.27.exe silently exits

> I've installed 2.27 and and 2.13 on 3 different machines (XP, Vista, > 2003 server), but on all of them, unison-2.27.exe simply exits (error > code 1) with no output, regardless of anything written on the command > line (-version, -help). Robert, I have an updated version of unison2.27. Can

Re: unison-2.27.exe silently exits

> tar -C/ unison2.27-2.27.48-3.tar.bz2 Sorry, should be tar -C/ -jxf unison2.27-2.27.48-3.tar.bz2 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: unison-2.27.exe silently exits

> > Robert, I have an updated version of unison2.27. Can you please test it to > > see > > if it works on your hosts? > > Thanks, Andrew - that works! OK. FYI I had accidentally left in a patch I was testing, that made unison-2.27.exe a Windows-mode instead of console-mode executable. I don't

Re: problem compiling project (bash error 126, ash error 122)

> /cygdrive/c/CCStudio_v3.3/C2000/cgtools/bin/ar2000: error 122 Jan, as I read that error, it's coming from the compiler, not the shell. Have you checked the compiler documentation for error 122? > C:/cygwin/bin/bash: /cygdrive/c/CCStudio_v3.3/C2000/cgtools/bin/ar2000: > Message too long > make

Re: Section 508 Compliance

> Can you please let us know if the latest version of Cygwin is compliant > with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act? Of what country? > If possible, please provide > us a completed Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT). If possible, please provide us ample payment. > Confidentialit

Re: Cygwin emulates an environment closest to ...

> Cygwin emulates an environment closest to SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, IBM's AIX, > DEC OSF (Digital UNIX), or IRIX ? > No this is not my homework. I need to know the closest archetype for a > makefile. http://cygwin.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: atool

The atool package is now available in the Cygwin distribution. atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar, tar+gzip, zip, bzip2, rar, 7zip, ...). atool is called under several names: * aunpack extracts files from an archive. It overcomes the dreaded "multiple files in arc

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: sng

The sng package is now available in the Cygwin distribution. SNG (Scriptable Network Graphics) is a minilanguage designed specifically to represent the entire contents of a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file in an editable form. Thus, SNGs representing elaborate graphics images and ancillary chu

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: sng

> > Home page: http://www.nongnu.org/atool/ > > Or possibly http://sng.sourceforge.net/ ;-) Er... right. Can you tell that I recycle my announcements? Thanks, A. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docume

GraphicsMagick: gm does nothing, always exits with status 53 - cygcheck-svr.out (0/1)

$ gm convert t.png -matte -colors 256 t2.png || echo $? 53 $ gm identify t.png || echo $? 53 $ gm --help || echo $? 53 Does anyone else observe this behavior? I have GM 1.0.6-1 installed. Thanks, Andrew. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: GraphicsMagick: gm does nothing, always exits with status 53

> $ gm convert t.png -matte -colors 256 t2.png || echo $? > 53 > > $ gm identify t.png || echo $? > 53 > > $ gm --help || echo $? > 53 And here is cygcheck.out. Thanks, Andrew. Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Mar 06 15:45:46 2008 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Buil

Re: GraphicsMagick: gm does nothing, always exits with status 53 - cygcheck-svr.out (1/1)

> I tried recently to do the same as you did, and to give my cygcheck.out > uuencoded. Well I didn't exactly try to uuencode it-- what I did was to attach it to a message and post it through Gmane. I'd forgotten that that doesn't work well for cygwin purposes. Sorry for the base64 garbage, every

Re: GraphicsMagick: gm does nothing, always exits with status 53

> Missing DLL? What does "cygcheck `which gm.exe`" show? Ah hah, thanks. $ cygcheck `which gm.exe` | grep Error Error: could not find cygdpstk-1.dll http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cygdpstk-1.dll seems to show that that DLL was last present in xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.8.2.0-1, whi

Re: GraphicsMagick: gm does nothing, always exits with status 53

> convert -list Format > > from ImageMagick coredumps for me. Can anybody else check ? Sure enough... same result here. IM seems to be fairly up to date. README lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the maintainer. Is s/he listening? > By the way > > gm convert -list Format > > from GraphicsMagick wor

Re: cygwin 1.5.25-11 and puttycyg

> Running 32-bit Vista with Cygwin 1.5.25-7 successfully. > > Upgraded to Cygwin 1.5.25-11 and puttycyg > (http://craigtatham.com/wiki/Puttycyg) stopped working. > > cygcheck -s -v -r output attached. > > Regular Cygwin Bash Shell works OK and most Cygwin programs (tested a > few) seem to be OK

Re: Konsole or similar in cygwin

You could use Poderosa: http://en.poderosa.org/. For a text-style tabbed window manager within your Cygwin console, try screen. It's available in the Cygwin installer. Andrew. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.h

Re: Konsole or similar in cygwin

> You could use Poderosa: http://en.poderosa.org/. > > For a text-style tabbed window manager within your Cygwin console, try screen. > It's available in the Cygwin installer. I just also ran across Console, another tabbed console app that looks to be simpler than Poderosa: http://sourceforge.ne

Re: FAQ suggestion

> * When I want to test installing something myself for which there is > no cygwin package supplied, and I don't want to break anything (nor am > I able to backup the current cygwin root tree) We have /usr/local or /opt for that. Furthermore you can use stow to easily install and uninstall test p

Re: FAQ suggestion

> What is stow? http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ Available as a Cygwin package. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/

Re: /etc/screenrc issue on cygwin64

> > > Hi cygwin, > > I have found that two lines in /etc/screenrc cause the nano editor to get one > line off in its text buffer display when running gnu screen in a mintty > terminal on cygwin64. The two lines are as follows (the ones beginning with > "termcap" and "terminfo"): > > ># Do no

Re: /etc/screenrc issue on cygwin64

> I have found that two lines in /etc/screenrc cause the nano editor to get one > line off in its text buffer display when running gnu screen in a mintty > terminal on cygwin64. The two lines are as follows (the ones beginning with > "termcap" and "terminfo"): > > ># Do not use xterms alternate

Re: bug in 'cs' value of Xterm termcap (was: Updated: screen 4.1.0-20130513-1)

> For whatever reason I set my newly installed environment to use 'xterm' mode > and ran across this bug. > > The archives led me to > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00029.html > and specifically > > # Set the hardstatus prop on gui terms to set the titlebar/icon title > > termcapinf

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated, new for 64-bit: lftp 4.4.11-1

A new version of lftp, 4.4.11-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. The is the first release of lftp for x86_64. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http/bittorrent client. It supports multiple network protocols. It uses the readline library for input, so it offers tab co

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New in 64-bit: unison2.27, unison2.32, unison2.40, unison2.45

The Unison packages for Cygwin are now available in the x86_64 distribution. Unison is a file synchronizer for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or on different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then b

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated, new for 64-bit: lftp 4.4.11-1

> Achim Gratz NexGo.DE> writes: > > This version seems to have serious problems with the mirror command. > > Instead of transferring just the changed files, it seems to always want to > > transfer _everything_. I haven't yet looked into why this might happen, at > > the moment I've reverted to t

Re: GOLD STAR (was Re: [PATCH] 'rebase' uninitialised variable)

> I can't respond to David Stacey's original mail but I think he should > get a gold star for persevering and figuring this out: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-11/msg00484.html Awarded: http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#DSt -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: A ream of questions

> I suspected I would not get my point across, but the questions were more > important. I don't know. Whatever your point was, it was lost on me and probably almost everyone who frequents this list. But please don't elaborate, I don't think we're interested. If you have constructive improvem

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated, new for 64-bit: lftp 4.4.11-1

> Achim Gratz writes: > > The lftp mailing list is seemingly down, so I've sent the bug report > > directly to the maintainer in the hope for a fix. > > This bug has been fixed in release 4.4.14 of lftp. Good. I'll get a new release out. Andrew -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/probl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp 4.4.14-1

A new version of lftp, 4.4.14-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release that fixes the infamous mirror bug. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http/bittorrent client. It supports multiple network protocols. It uses the readline library for inpu

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

> Because of this dependency line > > man > groff > perl > > A base 64-bit Cygwin install now requires Perl. Can this be changed? While > Perl > is a fine language I hardly feel it is appropriate to add that bulk to a base > install. > > Note this issue is only with the 64-bit version, the b

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

> Andrew Schulman writes: > > lftp also has this problem. It comes with a few sample scripts, two of > > which > > are in Perl. I include the sample scripts because why not, but cygport is > > now > > quite diligent about finding this sort of thing, with the

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

> On 2014-01-13 13:21, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > lftp also has this problem. It comes with a few sample scripts, two of > > which > > are in Perl. I include the sample scripts because why not, but cygport is > > now > > quite diligent about finding this sort o

Re: Vim under screen screwing up console on close

> > Simplest way to reproduce is this: run 'screen', then run 'vim', then > > exit with ':q'. My bash prompt is now on the bottom line of my mintty > > window, but everything I type, and all output after that, stays on the > > last line, each line overwriting the previous. Using 'clear', or > > s

Re: socat with IP6 support?

> > > can you build socat with IPv6 support out of the box and it actually > > > works? > > > > It did build and work just fine with the FreeBSD ip6.h file, with and > > without the patch, but as I said, for all that socat uses the actual > > ip6.h library, I could have put in a file empty except

Re: Vim under screen screwing up console on close - cygcheck.out (0/1)

> > > Simplest way to reproduce is this: run 'screen', then run 'vim', then > > > exit with ':q'. My bash prompt is now on the bottom line of my mintty > > > window, but everything I type, and all output after that, stays on the > > > last line, each line overwriting the previous. Using 'clear',

Re: socat with IP6 support?

> Thanks. I added the ip6.h header nevertheless for the upcoming > Cygwin 1.7.28. This seems to work fine for socat, but for socat-debuginfo 2.0.0-b6, the build fails because IPV6_DSTOPTS is undefined. Cygwin doesn't seem to define IPV6_DSTOPTS. In Ubuntu, it's defined in /usr/include/linux/in6

Re: cygcheck and literal plus sign

> >$ cygcheck -p 'g\+\+.exe' > >Found 0 matches for g\ \ .exe > > > >How can I include a literal '+' (plus character) in my search? > > By remembering that this is a regex search. How do you quote special > characters > in regexes? Answer: With a '\'. That's what he did. The single qu

Re: cygcheck and literal plus sign

> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 06:34:49AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> >$ cygcheck -p 'g\+\+.exe' > >> >Found 0 matches for g\ \ .exe > >> > > >> >How can I include a literal '+' (plus character) in my search? &

Re: OpenSSH port forwarding bug

> Hi All... > The following example shows the port forwarding problem. > > > ~ > > $ ssh raven -W coyote:22 > getsockname failed: Bad file descriptor > SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.5 > Protocol mismatch. > ~ > > $ ssh raven nc coyote 22 > SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.5 > Protocol mismatch. What are you trying to

Re: Need general snapshot testers

> I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am working > on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in recent snapshots. Hm, with luck maybe that will also fix the recent garbled screen problem in screen(1): http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00223.html http

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: getent-2.18.90-1

> On Feb 24 14:29, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:19:20PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > I just uploaded the new getent package to the 32 and 64 bit distros. > > > > Getent is included in Base, but it has a dependency on libargp, which is > > only in Devel and Libs. At

Re: Install packages (-P option) listed in a file?

> My Google-fu seems to be weak this morning. > > Does the -P option to the installer support reading packages to be installed > from a file instead of directly from the command line argument? If so, what's > the syntax (I tried -P@filename). Remember this has to run in a Windows cmd > shell,

Re: Please stop sending email to ...

> >Alternatively, as cgf has already mentioned, > > states "If you have *any* questions or > >problems with the mailing lists, see the Sourceware mailing list FAQs" > >with a link to that same Sourceware page. And that page includes the > >following: > > Thank you!

Re: Gold star? Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: base-files 4.2-1

> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:37:10PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: > >Base-files is a set of system configuration and setup files. > > Thanks for stepping up and adopting this important package Achim. > It is much appreciated. > > I don't know if it is already in the works but this is clearly gold >

Re: Was ploticus package removed from Cygwin?

> On 24/04/2014 03:45, Bill Border wrote: > > When I first installed Cygwin about 2 years ago, in the setup program I was > > able to search for and install the ploticus package. > > > > I just re-downloaded the Cygwin setup program and when I search for > > ploticus it is not found. > > > > Was

Re: snapshot 05/05: ssh segmentation fault within screen

> On 05/06/2014 10:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > The problem, which I totally not realized since I started implementing > > this stuff is, that by propagating this cache to child processes, said > > child processes suffer from what the parent process does to the passwd > > structures in the

Re: socat with IP6 support?

> On Jan 20 03:45, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Cygwin doesn't seem to > > define IPV6_DSTOPTS. In Ubuntu, it's defined in > > /usr/include/linux/in6.h (value 59), along with a whole bunch of other > > IPv6 socket options. > > > > I'm not s

Re: socat with IP6 support?

> On May 8 15:23, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > On Jan 20 03:45, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > > Cygwin doesn't seem to > > > > define IPV6_DSTOPTS. In Ubuntu, it's defined in > > > > /usr/include/linux/in6.h (value 59), alo

Re: socat with IP6 support?

> To copy file1 to file2 on the localhost, run: > > socat tcp6-listen: file2 > > to set up a listener, and: > > socat tcp6:[::1]: file1 > > to connect to the listener and transfer the file. Note, this only works if file1 and file2 are absolute paths. If not they have to be

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: socat 1.7.2.4-1, 2.0.0-b7-1

Two new versions of socat are available in the Cygwin distribution: 1.7.2.4-1 - current 2.0.0-b7-1 - test These are new upstream releases, that address a security vulnerability (possible buffer overflow) in previous versions. Security advisory: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/s

Re: socat with IP6 support?

> > To copy file1 to file2 on the localhost, run: > > > > socat tcp6-listen: file2 > > > > to set up a listener, and: > > > > socat tcp6:[::1]: file1 > > > > to connect to the listener and transfer the file. > > > > If you have two hosts, you could try the same, running the fir

Re: socat with IP6 support?

> 2.0 works for me, too. Thanks for testing. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen 4.2.1-1

A new version of screen, 4.2.1-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release. This release may or may not fix some of the known outstanding issues with screen: Scrolling breaks in shells inside screen: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-01/msg00223.html ssh segmentat

Re: screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

Hi Shaddy. > Hi, > > This is a problem that I noticed some time last year, so I apologise for > sitting on it for so long. I actually started drafting a number of > emails to report but never committed. > > The problem only occurs with screen on 64-bit Cygwin. The 32-bit appears > to work correc

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel 5.01-1, 4.56-2

A new version of stunnel, 5.01-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release. A new Cygwin release of the previous version, 4.56-2, is also available. This release has no source or packaging changes, but the package has been rebuilt against OpenSSL 1.0.1g, for those w

pinfo configure problem

I'm trying to build pinfo 0.6.10 in 64-bit. The configure script halts, claiming "curses is not usable". The command that fails is: gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -I/usr/include -L/usr/lib -lncursesw conftest.c and this fails because the order of the arguments is wrong. The command should be

Re: pinfo configure problem

> On May 13 06:55, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > I'm trying to build pinfo 0.6.10 in 64-bit. The configure script halts, > > claiming "curses is not usable". The command that fails is: > > > > gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2 -I/usr/include -L/usr/lib -lncurse

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated, new for x86_64: orpie

A new version of orpie, 1.5.2-1, is now available in the Cygwin distribution. * New upstream release * First release for x86_64 in Cygwin * Rebuilt against OCaml 4 Orpie is a fullscreen RPN calculator for the console. Its operation is similar to that of modern HP calculators, but data entry has

Re: pinfo configure problem - configure.ac (1/1)

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Re: pinfo configure problem - configure.ac (0/1)

> On May 13 07:49, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > On May 13 06:55, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > > I'm trying to build pinfo 0.6.10 in 64-bit. The configure script halts, > > > > claiming "curses is not usable". The command that fails is: > >

Re: pinfo configure problem - configure.ac (0/1)

> > On May 13 07:49, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > > On May 13 06:55, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to build pinfo 0.6.10 in 64-bit. The configure script > > > > > halts, > > > > > claiming "curses

Re: pinfo configure problem - configure.ac (0/1)

> On 05/13/2014 09:32 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > >> autoreconf -f -i? > > > > Alas, no. > > > > Here's configure.ac, in case that's helpful. > > which contains: > > # curses > AC_CHECK_CURSES > if ! test "x$USE_

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