man-db: cache handling

2014-07-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
Chris, There are a few issues with the current man-db setup: 1) the cache is not strictly necessary for operation of man(1); 2) mandb -c is quite slow with a large number of manpages (~20min on my system) 3) generating the cache only during man-db postinstall doesn't help for manpages updated

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.31-2

2014-07-22 Thread Robert Bu
Hi, Android version control tool, repo, does not work with CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict. Below is the error message when I do repo init ...: Traceback (most recent call last): File /cygdrive/d/cygwin/home/robert_bu/repo/report/.repo/repo/main.py, line 500, in module

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.31-2

2014-07-22 Thread Robert Bu
Hi again, Sorry to fix top-post of the previous mail. Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released Cygwin 1.7.31-2. This is mostely a bugfix release. - Workaround a problem following native NTFS symlinks. This patch has been not applied to 1.7.30, accidentally. Addresses:

Re: Core dump on 32-bit Cygwin if program calls dlopen

2014-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 17 20:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 16:31, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 17/07/2014 08:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 06:02, JonY wrote: On 7/16/2014 15:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 15 16:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 15 21:55, JonY wrote: On 7/15/2014 21:08,

Re: Minires truncates host names

2014-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Daniel, On Jul 21 21:11, D. Boland wrote: Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It works. As you can see, this is done on a WinXP machine. I could also test on a Win7 machine. I don't have Win8 or Win8.1. That's fine. Thanks a lot for confirming again that Pierre's patch

Re: FTP timeout message with CURL

2014-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 21 22:12, Angelo Graziosi wrote: I see that when I download big files (say, 400 MiB) from FTP server, CURL emits a curl: (28) FTP response timeout message. For example, $ curl -R -O ftp://ftp.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/14.04/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso % Total%

Re: Re: cygpath does not work properly in Makefile

2014-07-22 Thread Gökçe Aydos
On 2014-07-21 13:23, Marco Atzeri wrote: I presume the make you are using is not cygwin one as the first form is understandable only by cygwin programs I do not see a difference between the two lines, because the command cygpath is used in both. I want to add that I get the behavior both

Re: Re: cygpath does not work properly in Makefile

2014-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 22 11:24, Gökçe Aydos wrote: On 2014-07-21 13:23, Marco Atzeri wrote: I presume the make you are using is not cygwin one as the first form is understandable only by cygwin programs I do not see a difference between the two lines, because the command cygpath is used in both. I want to

Caveats for removing /cygdrive prefix?

2014-07-22 Thread Matt D.
I've always used Cygwin's fstab /cygdrive default but I'm growing tired of always typing it out; msys's simple /a /c /d prefix for drive letters always seemed closer to home while on a Windows machine. The only problem I've encountered is a borked ls display when an actual folder a, b, etc.,

Re: Core dump on 32-bit Cygwin if program calls dlopen

2014-07-22 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 22/07/2014 09:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 20:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 16:31, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 17/07/2014 08:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It's the libgcc DLL which gives us grief, so a new libgcc package is sufficent, afaics. We should check if this DLL fixes the

Re: Core dump on 32-bit Cygwin if program calls dlopen

2014-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 22 13:59, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 22/07/2014 09:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 20:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 16:31, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 17/07/2014 08:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It's the libgcc DLL which gives us grief, so a new libgcc package is sufficent, afaics. We

Re: FTP timeout message with CURL

2014-07-22 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Works for me on Cygwin 1.7.31. No FTP response timeout message. Here (W7 Ultimate 64b) still FTP response timeout message, even with 1.7.31... :( Ciao, Angelo. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Caveats for removing /cygdrive prefix?

2014-07-22 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/22/2014 7:38 AM, Matt D. wrote: I've always used Cygwin's fstab /cygdrive default but I'm growing tired of always typing it out; msys's simple /a /c /d prefix for drive letters always seemed closer to home while on a Windows machine. The only problem I've encountered is a borked ls

Re: FTP timeout message with CURL

2014-07-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 22 15:39, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Works for me on Cygwin 1.7.31. No FTP response timeout message. Here (W7 Ultimate 64b) still FTP response timeout message, even with 1.7.31... :( Tested on W7 Ultimate with 1.7.31 x86_64 Cygwin. Works still fine for me.

Re: Caveats for removing /cygdrive prefix?

2014-07-22 Thread Warren Young
On 7/22/2014 05:38, Matt D. wrote: I've always used Cygwin's fstab /cygdrive default but I'm growing tired of always typing it out; msys's simple /a /c /d prefix for drive letters always seemed closer to home while on a Windows machine. It's not clear to me from your message if you know this,

cygwin ssh, sspi, gssapi

2014-07-22 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Hi! After looking arround for informations about cygwin supporting Windows SSPI interface I found various informations telling it does, but a lot of others stating it does not. Now I am a but confused. Does cygwin support SSPI directly? Does it support SSPI via external libraries -- some say I

Re: Caveats for removing /cygdrive prefix?

2014-07-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 07/22/2014 07:38 AM, Matt D. wrote: I've always used Cygwin's fstab /cygdrive default but I'm growing tired of always typing it out... I'm in the habit of creating '/cygdrive' as a directory. Doing so gets me tab-completion so I never have to type all of the cygdrive prefix name. Just

Re: FTP timeout message with CURL

2014-07-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 15:39 +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Works for me on Cygwin 1.7.31. No FTP response timeout message. Here (W7 Ultimate 64b) still FTP response timeout message, even with 1.7.31... :( I got this on Win7 Pro 64bit with Cygwin 1.7.31-2 x86_64;

Re: Caveats for removing /cygdrive prefix?

2014-07-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Matt D. writes: I've always used Cygwin's fstab /cygdrive default but I'm growing tired of always typing it out; msys's simple /a /c /d prefix for drive letters always seemed closer to home while on a Windows machine. If typing is your problem then you can either use a shorter prefix like /cd

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2014-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:32:34PM +, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: From: sous lesquels snip If you can't wait, then read the message using your browser and click on the Raw text link near the top. The first line will say something like From cygwin-return-191383-listarch-cygwin=... Note

Reminder: Don't send html email and don't try to send private messages

2014-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
I just got back from a couple days of vacation and had to clean out the spam traps. As is usual these days, the majority of the email there was not spam but was just was html-formatted. Anyone who showed up in the spam trap already got a message telling them not to do that but I thought I would

Re: Caveats for removing /cygdrive prefix?

2014-07-22 Thread Linda Walsh
Matt D. wrote: I've always used Cygwin's fstab /cygdrive default but I'm growing tired of always typing it out; msys's simple /a /c /d prefix for drive letters always seemed closer to home while on a Windows machine. The only problem I've encountered is a borked ls display when an actual

Re: FTP timeout message with CURL

2014-07-22 Thread Sean Murphy
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz yselkow...@cygwin.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 15:39 +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Works for me on Cygwin 1.7.31. No FTP response timeout message. Here (W7 Ultimate 64b) still FTP response timeout message,