Re: libgc: shared libraries

2010-09-27 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 20:01 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Bob, Your libgc package currently provides only a static library. Like most libraries, it should provide a shared version as well. Would you be able to update libgc accordingly? Please feel free to borrow from Ports:

Re: guile: please update

2010-09-27 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 22:37 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Jan, Would you be able to update your guile package? Some software expect newer versions nowadays, and I found at least one additional variable that needs to be exported. Please feel free to use my work from Ports:

Re: [RFU] lzip-1.11-1

2010-09-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 26 23:19, JonY wrote: http://spoon.yaxm.org/cygwin-1.7/lzip/setup.hint http://spoon.yaxm.org/cygwin-1.7/lzip/lzip-1.11-1.tar.bz2 http://spoon.yaxm.org/cygwin-1.7/lzip/lzip-1.11-1-src.tar.bz2 Please remove 1.9-1. Thanks. Done. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: libgc: shared libraries

2010-09-27 Thread Bob Heckel
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:27, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkow...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 20:01 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Bob, Your libgc package currently provides only a static library.  Like most libraries, it should provide a shared version as well.  Would

Re: SIGSEGV in xorg-1.8.2.0 during -resize operation

2010-09-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 23/09/2010 20:34, Eliot Moss wrote: On 9/23/2010 11:56 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: I've uploaded a new test build at [1] Hopefully this handles this error condition a bit more gracefully. Perhaps you could try it out? [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20100923-git-2172af4d1ea713f1.exe.bz2

Re: Failed to write cache during install

2010-09-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 24/09/2010 01:50, Richard Gitschlag wrote: I recently set up Cygwin and XWin on my XP system, but need help with error messages that occured during post-install scripts. My setup log file shows: 2010/08/26 10:17:04 running: F:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile

Re: SIGSEGV in xorg-1.8.2.0 during -resize operation

2010-09-27 Thread Eliot Moss
On 9/27/2010 10:53 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: There is a remaining issue -- which was there before but which I had not posted about. If I Suspend/Resume, then on resumption the driver disables the Aero theme and points its finger at XWin.exe as the culprit, saying it did something incompatible with

Re: gvim tiny font in 1.7.7

2010-09-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 22/09/2010 16:34, David T-G wrote: Hi, all -- [Let's see if I can provide all of the details the first time instead of having to go back and forth just for foundation... :-] Can you attach your /var/log/XWin.0.log, please? I have used Cygwin for years and have been using the cygwin gvim

Re: Running Java application with drag and drop support in cygwin

2010-09-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 20/09/2010 11:31, Dees wrote: Any update? On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Deesdeepali.shef...@gmail.com wrote: People, any clue? Struggling really hard. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Deesdeepali.shef...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jon, Did you get a chance to look at this? From whatever

Re: fvwm ignores clickToFocus for function keys

2010-09-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 26/09/2010 12:28, Charles Smith wrote: This conversation was transferred from the cygwin main list because Larry Hall said it was xfree-specific... From: Morgan Gangwere0 dot fractalus at gmail dot com Sounds like something is trashing a buffer... however I'm not entirely sure. ...

Git version, XWin dies in cygwin but not in Windows

2010-09-27 Thread Michel Hummel
I am testing the git version of the XWin server (I don't know if it is the good place to talk about this version) and I am experiencing a problem (May be it is also a problem on the official Xwin). Sometime ( I can not make a reproducible test case) when the server stops, the Xwin process

Re: SIGSEGV in xorg-1.8.2.0 during -resize operation

2010-09-27 Thread Eliot Moss
It turned out to be easy to get a log where the Aero mode got turned off after a resume. Here it is (stderr comes after it). Thanks -- Eliot Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.8.2.0 (10802000) Snapshot: 20100923-git-2172af4d1ea713f1 XWin was started with the

Re: SIGSEGV in xorg-1.8.2.0 during -resize operation

2010-09-27 Thread Eliot Moss
A small suggestion: I have twice been bitten by the fact that I cannot just send an XWin log to the cygwin-xfree list. This is because the log contains an email address, so the cygwin email serve bounces the message. If the format of the email address in the log used at rather than a literal

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog mount.cc

2010-09-27 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-09-27 16:10:14 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog mount.cc Log message: * mount.cc (fs_info::update): Remove erroneous NtClose on random handle value. Patches:

src/winsup/doc ChangeLog faq-what.xml new-feat ...

2010-09-27 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-09-27 16:37:57 Modified files: winsup/doc : ChangeLog faq-what.xml new-features.sgml ntsec.sgml Log message: * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.8): Document

src/winsup/doc ChangeLog pathnames.sgml

2010-09-27 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-09-27 16:46:34 Modified files: winsup/doc : ChangeLog pathnames.sgml Log message: * pathnames.sgml (mount-table): Fix pathnames-mount-ex example. Change an expression.

Re: Cygwin Filesystem Performance degradation 1.7.5 vs 1.7.7, and methods for improving performance

2010-09-27 Thread Yoni Londner
Hi, What is /mnt/hgfs/C in this case? How is it mounted? .host:/ on /mnt/hgfs type vmhgfs (rw,ttl=5) I am now preparing an easy to use scandir/stat performance testing program that will perform it in various methods and printout comparison results in an easy to use manner. It will compare

Update graphicsmagick with quantum depth = 16

2010-09-27 Thread Marco Atzeri
Dear users, I am thinking to update GraphicsMagick-1.3.12 moving from quantum depth = 8 to quantum depth = 16 following a discussion on octave bug list http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30715 about the improved image quality using the higher quantum depth, specially for medical and scientific images.

Re: setup.exe: How to install sources from the command line?

2010-09-27 Thread Al
When I open the shell for the first time, the user directory is created. Is there a trigger to reach this without manually opening a login shell? The check is in '/etc/profile'.  It's just checking if $HOME exists. Thank you, that's it. I try what's happen if I source /etc/profile from a

Re: setup.exe: How to install sources from the command line?

2010-09-27 Thread Al
Google wasn't my friend here. I managed to install packages with the --category and --packages option of setup.exe.  I didn't find out how to install sources. As there is no answer I assume it is not possible to install source packages with setup.exe from the windows commandline. So I was

//UNC/ paths problem

2010-09-27 Thread Wladimir Mutel
Hi, We have 2 separate Win2k8 R2 x64 server systems (without domain, and both regularly updated from Windows Update). On each of these systems, we have some file shares which we access from other system. I noticed that when I start Cygwin shell session with Administrator rights, I can't

Re: //UNC/ paths problem

2010-09-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 27 14:30, Wladimir Mutel wrote: Hi, We have 2 separate Win2k8 R2 x64 server systems (without domain, and both regularly updated from Windows Update). On each of these systems, we have some file shares which we access from other system. I noticed that when I start Cygwin shell session

Re: //UNC/ paths problem

2010-09-27 Thread Wladimir Mutel
Corinna Vinschen wrote: We have 2 separate Win2k8 R2 x64 server systems (without domain, and both regularly updated from Windows Update). On each of these systems, we have some file shares which we access from other system. I noticed that when I start Cygwin shell session with Administrator

Re: setup.exe: How to install sources from the command line?

2010-09-27 Thread Al
For future readers of this thread. When I open the shell for the first time, the user directory is created. Is there a trigger to reach this without manually opening a login shell? The check is in '/etc/profile'.  It's just checking if $HOME exists. This does the trick from a batch script:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lzip-1.11-1

2010-09-27 Thread JonY
Version 1.11-1 of lzip has been uploaded. lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm with a user interface similar to gzip or bzip2. It supports recovery from damaged archives. Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html This is a new upstream release. ***

Mount table - LOCAL MACHINE and CURRENT USER regitry set

2010-09-27 Thread Laura
Hello, I need some help regarding the following problem. I must say that I don't have much experience with Cygwin or Unix. I have a Cygwin installations on my PC (C:\_DevTools\Cygwin), and in the same time I have another Cygwin (not installed : C:\Documents and Settings\ionela1\My

Re: strange crashes on invocation

2010-09-27 Thread Heath Kehoe
On 9/24/2010 2:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 01:23:48PM -0500, Heath Kehoe wrote: Well, another difference is the addition of PATH_MAX*2 bytes on the stack. Those functions do some stack manipulations that I'm having trouble grokking. Does 'ret' need to be topmost

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Testing: mintty-0.9b2-1

2010-09-27 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8:59 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: mintty 0.9b2-1 is on its way to the Cygwin mirrors. This is a test release. a .zip can be downloaded from http://mintty.googlecode.com. FWIW, I've been using a home-built mintty-0.9b2 from googlecode all day with no problems (loving extended mouse mode!). I swear

Re: 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) - Cannot change mode of file, and other permission issues on a Windows fileshare

2010-09-27 Thread Keith Christian
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen Nevertheless, are you really sure you tried the noacl mount option for this share?  The noacl option results in trying to open the file a second time, with just the READ_CONTROL and FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES access rights.  This should work in most

Re: 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) - Cannot change mode of file, and other permission issues on a Windows fileshare

2010-09-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 27 10:12, Keith Christian wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen Nevertheless, are you really sure you tried the noacl mount option for this share?  The noacl option results in trying to open the file a second time, with just the READ_CONTROL and

Re: 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) - Cannot change mode of file, and other permission issues on a Windows fileshare

2010-09-27 Thread Keith Christian
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Corinna Vinschen What you have to do is to use some entirely different path, commas to separate the mount options, and drop the noumount option, like this:  Z: /my_z_drive dont_care binary,posix=0,user.noacl 0 0  $ mount -f -o binary,posix=0,user.noacl Z:

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-09-27 Thread Kevin Layer
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/11/2010 04:03 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: If it is not being worked on... I agree with Brian. This is a serious impediment to using Cygwin 1.7. I would think it would be of top priority. Only people who experience the problem can diagnose,

Re: 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) - Cannot change mode of file, and other permission issues on a Windows fileshare

2010-09-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 27 10:33, Keith Christian wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Corinna Vinschen What you have to do is to use some entirely different path, commas to separate the mount options, and drop the noumount option, like this:  Z: /my_z_drive dont_care binary,posix=0,user.noacl 0 0

Re: strange crashes on invocation

2010-09-27 Thread Heath Kehoe
On 9/27/2010 10:31 AM, Heath Kehoe wrote: On 9/24/2010 2:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 01:23:48PM -0500, Heath Kehoe wrote: Well, another difference is the addition of PATH_MAX*2 bytes on the stack. Those functions do some stack manipulations that I'm having

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-09-27 Thread Bill Hoffman
On 9/27/2010 12:38 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: Eric Blakeebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/11/2010 04:03 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: If it is not being worked on... I agree with Brian. This is a serious impediment to using Cygwin 1.7. I would think it would be of top priority. Only people who

Vista problem / heuristic status elevation / manifests

2010-09-27 Thread Daniel Povey
When running cygwin on Windows 7, if you compile programs with names that include update and install and other keywords, they won't execute. It seems to relate to heuristic privelege elevation: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/onoj/archive/2007/04/20/windows-vista-uac-and-installer-detection.aspx A

Re: Have idea for titlebar tweak -- need help with syntax

2010-09-27 Thread Lee Rothstein
On 9/24/2010 5:15 AM, SJ Wright wrote: I'd like my terminal title bar to show my current working directory, the running process (with a fall-back to the active shell when idle) and the word Cygwin. I have an old .bashrc file in which I collected code for the middle bit (running process),

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-09-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 02:24:05PM -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote: On 9/27/2010 12:38 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: Eric Blakeebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/11/2010 04:03 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: If it is not being worked on... I agree with Brian. This is a serious impediment to using Cygwin 1.7. I

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-09-27 Thread Bill Hoffman
On 9/27/2010 3:59 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: And, when I tried this, it pointed to an actual problem in git rather than a problem in Cygwin so that limits what is meant by developer. Isn't git normally used for source control management by programmers? If this is such a bad problem why

cygwin perl not working on my new x64 pc

2010-09-27 Thread Koestner, Bart (FC CoE)
Hi, I have a new PC at work, a 64-bit Dell T3500 with Windows XP Pro x64 Edition 2003 with svc pack 2. After running the cygwin install, the problem is that when I run a perl script in a cygwin bash shell, or just fire up perl.exe, it just returns instantly without doing anything or reporting a

Re: cygwin perl not working on my new x64 pc

2010-09-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/27/2010 6:34 PM, Koestner, Bart (FC CoE) wrote: I have a new PC at work, a 64-bit Dell T3500 with Windows XP Pro x64 Edition 2003 with svc pack 2. After running the cygwin install, the problem is that when I run a perl script in a cygwin bash shell, or just fire up perl.exe, it just

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-09-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 05:56:04PM -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote: On 9/27/2010 3:59 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: And, when I tried this, it pointed to an actual problem in git rather than a problem in Cygwin so that limits what is meant by developer. Isn't git normally used for source control

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-09-27 Thread Bill Hoffman
On 9/27/2010 7:03 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Christopher, I did have a question on the old thread that went un-answered. I was wondering exactly what process you used to determine that it was git that was having a stack issue. It would be helpful as a starting point for a developer to try

random xterm: Error 29, errno 11: Resource temporarily unavailable

2010-09-27 Thread Stephen More
I can issue the following command, sometimes it works perfectly fine, sometimes it complains, and other times it just dies: bash-3.2$ xterm -e /usr/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/ssh 192.168.1.105 Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion 0 [main] xterm 4560 exception::handle:

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-09-27 Thread survivant
Does anyone one have an answer for this problem ? (I saw lot of threads in different forums.. but never an answer.) I'm trying to clone a repository from my computer to my computer. I,m using cygwin 1.7. I,m able to clone all my others projects without problems. This project is 900k.. and

Re: git stopped working with 1.7.1

2010-09-27 Thread Tomas Staig
survivant wrote: Does anyone one have an answer for this problem ? (I saw lot of threads in different forums.. but never an answer.) I'm trying to clone a repository from my computer to my computer. I,m using cygwin 1.7. I,m able to clone all my others projects without problems. This

What does this look like to you folks.

2010-09-27 Thread SJ Wright
First, a little background: In quite a few previous edits of my .bash_aliases file, I've used the same alias to cd to a particular folder. Tonight I typed it in and got the following as a return: [/cygdrive/c/blu/newest] mintty-cygwinsmith + laugh + pwd /cygdrive/c/blu/newest + cd

Re: What does this look like to you folks?

2010-09-27 Thread SJ Wright
SJ Wright wrote: First, a little background: In quite a few previous edits of my .bash_aliases file, I've used the same alias to cd to a particular folder. Tonight I typed it in and got the following as a return: [/cygdrive/c/blu/newest] mintty-cygwinsmith + laugh + pwd

Re: What does this look like to you folks?

2010-09-27 Thread Gregg Levine
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:26 PM, SJ Wright sjwrigh...@charter.net wrote: SJ Wright wrote: First, a little background: In quite a few previous edits of my .bash_aliases file, I've used the same alias to cd to a particular folder. Tonight I typed it in and got the following as a return:

Re: Have idea for titlebar tweak -- need help with syntax

2010-09-27 Thread SJ Wright
Lee Rothstein wrote: On 9/24/2010 5:15 AM, SJ Wright wrote: I'd like my terminal title bar to show my current working directory, the running process (with a fall-back to the active shell when idle) and the word Cygwin. I have an old .bashrc file in which I collected code for the middle bit

Updated: lzip-1.11-1

2010-09-27 Thread JonY
Version 1.11-1 of lzip has been uploaded. lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm with a user interface similar to gzip or bzip2. It supports recovery from damaged archives. Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html This is a new upstream release. ***