Re: [Patch] Rebase: new switch --oblivious

2012-07-13 Thread Jason Tishler
Achim, On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 09:31:23PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Achim Gratz writes: Will do. Might need a day or two. I decided to do it right now. The patch stack against CVS is attached. The change to build.sh is unchanged since I don't understand what or how Jason wants it

cygwin/X: can't start X server...

2012-07-13 Thread ping
guys: please let me know if this is the off-topic for cygwin list. originally right after I installed cygwin, I had impression (I could remember wrong) I ever be able to start x server and run the rxvt. today I just couldn't get it work. I tried from windows start-all program-... nothing

Re: cygwin/X: can't start X server...

2012-07-13 Thread ping
On 07/13/2012 12:16 PM, ping wrote: guys: please let me know if this is the off-topic for cygwin list. originally right after I installed cygwin, I had impression (I could remember wrong) I ever be able to start x server and run the rxvt. today I just couldn't get it work. I tried from

Re: clisp crashes on startup

2012-07-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 12 20:48, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 7/10/12 8:41 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 7/10/12 1:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 9 21:59, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 7/9/12 2:26 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: [snip] It turns out that clisp crashes only when I've rebased DLLs

Re: Differences between C++ 'new' operator and 'malloc()' (NOT a C/C++ question)

2012-07-13 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Claude SIMON wrote: (snip) Since my last testings, I updated Cygwin, the JDK and the JRE. So, my current configuration is now : Windows Vista 32 bits SP2 Cygwin 1.7.15 g++ 4.5.3 javac 1.7.0_05 javah 1.7.0_05 java 1.7.0_05 When running the test case, I

Re: Differences between C++ 'new' operator and 'malloc()' (NOT a C/C++ question)

2012-07-13 Thread Al Slater
On 12/07/2012 16:59, Claude SIMON wrote: Ryan Johnson wrote: [...] Sorry, I should have actually looked at the repo before assuming the test case was a monstrosity. By way of penance, I've now looked, downloaded, tweaked, and tested it. [...] Thanks for testing. I removed your test

test -f //dot

2012-07-13 Thread Paul Keir
Hi, While running configure on llvm I get a hang on: ... checking for Graphviz... echo Graphviz checking for dot... The configure script has a line starting: if { test -f $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext ... The problem occurs when $as_dir is / test -f //dot ...also hangs (at least 15 mins.).

Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe

2012-07-13 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Dear Cygwin experts, I am trying to open the exact location in the html file using my default browser with the command of the form cygstart.exe file:///C:/somepath/doc/ref/chap31.html#X84F59A2687C62763 However, the anchor is ignored, so instead of going to the exact location it opens the file

Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe

2012-07-13 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Alexander Konovalov wrote: Dear Cygwin experts, I am trying to open the exact location in the html file using my default browser with the command of the form cygstart.exe file:///C:/somepath/doc/ref/chap31.html#X84F59A2687C62763 However, the anchor is

Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe

2012-07-13 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Hi Alex, On 13 July 2012 20:26, Csaba Raduly rcs...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Alexander Konovalov wrote: Dear Cygwin experts, I am trying to open the exact location in the html file using my default browser with the command of the form cygstart.exe

Re: clisp crashes on startup

2012-07-13 Thread Reini Urban
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 12 20:48, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 7/10/12 8:41 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 7/10/12 1:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 9 21:59, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 7/9/12 2:26 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: [snip] It

Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe

2012-07-13 Thread Alexander Konovalov
Hi Dima, Csaba, Thanks for replies. I am running 64-bit Windows 7, Cygwin 1.7.11 (2012-02-24). The default browser is Chrome, but I've tried with Firefox and InternetExplorer - same result whenever I'm using single quotes or not with each of the three browsers. Remote URLs indeed work fine. With

Re: Differences between C++ 'new' operator and 'malloc()' (NOT a C/C++ question)

2012-07-13 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 13/07/2012 4:25 AM, Al Slater wrote: On 12/07/2012 16:59, Claude SIMON wrote: Ryan Johnson wrote: [...] Sorry, I should have actually looked at the repo before assuming the test case was a monstrosity. By way of penance, I've now looked, downloaded, tweaked, and tested it. [...]

RE: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe

2012-07-13 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Alexander Konovalov wrote: I am trying to open the exact location in the html file using my default- browser with the command of the form cygstart.exe file:///C:/somepath/doc/ref/chap31.html#X84F59A2687C62763 However, the anchor is ignored, so instead of going to the exact location it opens the

Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe

2012-07-13 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 13/07/2012 9:02 AM, Alexander Konovalov wrote: Thanks for replies. I am running 64-bit Windows 7, Cygwin 1.7.11 (2012-02-24). The default browser is Chrome, but I've tried with Firefox and InternetExplorer - same result whenever I'm using single quotes or not with each of the three

Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe

2012-07-13 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 13/07/2012 9:19 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Cygstart does not actually parse general URIs. For a long time it had a special case that tested explicitly for `http:', and recently added `mailto:' after a similar issue arose [1]. Ironically, most URIs seem to work precisely because cygstart

RE: test -f //dot

2012-07-13 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Paul Keir wrote: While running configure on llvm I get a hang on: ... checking for Graphviz... echo Graphviz checking for dot... The configure script has a line starting: if { test -f $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext ... The problem occurs when $as_dir is / test -f //dot This will be to do with

Re: clisp crashes on startup

2012-07-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 13 07:52, Reini Urban wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 12 20:48, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 7/10/12 8:41 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 7/10/12 1:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 9 21:59, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 7/9/12 2:26 PM,

Re: test -f //dot

2012-07-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 13 13:27, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Paul Keir wrote: While running configure on llvm I get a hang on: ... checking for Graphviz... echo Graphviz checking for dot... The configure script has a line starting: if { test -f $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext ... The problem occurs when

Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe

2012-07-13 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 13 July 2012 21:02, Alexander Konovalov al...@mcs.st-and.ac.uk wrote: Hi Dima, Csaba, Thanks for replies. I am running 64-bit Windows 7, Cygwin 1.7.11 (2012-02-24). The default browser is Chrome, but I've tried with Firefox and InternetExplorer - same result whenever I'm using single

Re: test -f //dot

2012-07-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/13/2012 05:39 AM, Paul Keir wrote: Hi, While running configure on llvm I get a hang on: ... checking for Graphviz... echo Graphviz checking for dot... The configure script has a line starting: if { test -f $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext ... The problem occurs when $as_dir is /

Re: test -f //dot

2012-07-13 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-autoconf] On 07/13/2012 05:39 AM, Paul Keir wrote: Hi, While running configure on llvm I get a hang on: ... checking for Graphviz... echo Graphviz checking for dot... The configure script has a line starting: if { test -f $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext ... The problem

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-13 Thread ping
On 07/12/2012 09:09 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, LMH! Totally unnecessary. If you've maintained your installation for quite some time, updating regularly, then setup cache contains lots of obsolete packages. Would be much, much faster to just burn it and download new setup.exe when you

Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe

2012-07-13 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Alexander Konovalov al...@mcs.st-and.ac.uk wrote: Dear Cygwin experts, I am trying to open the exact location in the html file using my default browser with the command of the form cygstart.exe file:///C:/somepath/doc/ref/chap31.html#X84F59A2687C62763 In

Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe

2012-07-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/13/2012 09:33 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Alexander Konovalov al...@mcs.st-and.ac.uk wrote: Dear Cygwin experts, I am trying to open the exact location in the html file using my default browser with the command of the form cygstart.exe

RE: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-13 Thread James Johnston
-Original Message- Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 02:14 Subject: Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration So I will just tar up the cygwin directory and put it back after the new install. If I download a new copy of setup.exe and point it at the install directory, will

cygwin/X: can't start X server...

2012-07-13 Thread ping
guys: please let me know if this is the off-topic for cygwin list. originally right after I installed cygwin, I had impression (I could remember wrong) I ever be able to start x server and run the rxvt. today I just couldn't get it work. I tried from windows start-all program-... nothing

RE: cygwin/X: can't start X server...

2012-07-13 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
ping wrote: please let me know if this is the off-topic for cygwin list. From the very first bullet under cygwin at http://cygwin.com/lists.html: Questions about the Cygwin/X project (or any X-related questions for Cygwin) should go to the cygwin-xfree mailing list -- Problem reports:

RE: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-13 Thread Andy Hall
2. Since this is a Windows thing, is there some reason why the execution of file or file.exe isn't handled as a special case in the exec call (and all its flavors) and no place else? make, for example? If you have a rule that creates foo from foo.c, gcc will actually create foo.exe.

Re: clisp crashes on startup

2012-07-13 Thread Reini Urban
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 13 07:52, Reini Urban wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 12 20:48, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 7/10/12 8:41 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 7/10/12 1:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On

Need advice debugging a cygwin/git hang

2012-07-13 Thread Kevin Layer
I have scripts to fetch and rebase a list of 50+ repos. I run this on a 16-core AMD Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. In about 1 out of 10 times, I get a git fetch origin that uses 100% of a core until killed. It just happened again a few minutes ago: $ ps aux PIDPPIDPGID

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:20:11AM -0700, Andy Hall wrote: 2. Since this is a Windows thing, is there some reason why the execution of file or file.exe isn't handled as a special case in the exec call (and all its flavors) and no place else? make, for example? If you have a rule that creates

Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

2012-07-13 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 7/13/12 10:26 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: So, everyone, please let this drop unless you have a constructive suggestion. Speaking of pragmatism: what about a CYGWIN environment variable to turn off the behavior? That way, people like the OP could extract their archives without worry, and it

Re: clisp crashes on startup

2012-07-13 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 7/13/12 9:30 AM, Reini Urban wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 13 07:52, Reini Urban wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 12 20:48, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 7/10/12 8:41 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 7/10/12 1:13

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.3.0-1

2012-07-13 Thread Jason Tishler
New News: === I have updated the version of rebase to 4.3.0-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following are the changes since the previous release: * Add -O/--oblivious option to support the rebasing of temporary DLLs. * Fix typo in

compiling coreutils with cygport

2012-07-13 Thread Jeff Janes
If I use setup.exe to download the src for coreutils (just by checking the Src? checkbox in the gui) , and then use cygport to build it, it fails. The reason it fails seems to be that ginstall.exe does not have the proper manifest file so windows refuses to execute it. This is the same error

Re: compiling coreutils with cygport

2012-07-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/13/2012 03:25 PM, Jeff Janes wrote: If I use setup.exe to download the src for coreutils (just by checking the Src? checkbox in the gui) , and then use cygport to build it, it fails. The reason it fails seems to be that ginstall.exe does not have the proper manifest file so windows

Re: test -f //dot

2012-07-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Paul Keir! While running configure on llvm I get a hang on: ... checking for Graphviz... echo Graphviz checking for dot... The configure script has a line starting: if { test -f $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext ... The problem occurs when $as_dir is / test -f //dot Use empty

Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe

2012-07-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Alexander Konovalov! Thanks for replies. I am running 64-bit Windows 7, Cygwin 1.7.11 (2012-02-24). The default browser is Chrome, but I've tried with Firefox and InternetExplorer - same result whenever I'm using single quotes or not with each of the three browsers. Remote URLs

Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe

2012-07-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/13/2012 9:02 AM, Alexander Konovalov wrote: so maybe cygstart parses its argument differently dependently whether it starts with file:// or http://? That's correct. And before you waste too much time on this, you should make sure that you have the latest cygutils package installed. The