[ITA] fish

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
I'd like to adopt the fish package. The package seems to be abandoned. A new release is out upstream with multiple security fixes, but the Cygwin package hasn't been updated. Emails to the maintainer have bounced, and he hasn't answered recent discussions on the cygwin list about the need to

Re: [ITA] fish

2014-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Andrew, On Oct 13 04:33, Andrew Schulman wrote: I'd like to adopt the fish package. The package seems to be abandoned. A new release is out upstream with multiple security fixes, but the Cygwin package hasn't been updated. Emails to the maintainer have bounced, and he hasn't answered

[BUG] libffi needs to be rebuilt for i386

2014-10-13 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello! I have found another problem, this time in libffi. Something appears to be wrong with the binary, and on my system it failed to execute its DllMain. As a result, it did not register its .eh_frame contents, and upon module unload i got abort() in __deregister_frame_info_bases() I started

Re: [BUG] libffi needs to be rebuilt for i386

2014-10-13 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/13/2014 11:39 AM, Pavel Fedin wrote: Hello! I have found another problem, this time in libffi. Something appears to be wrong with the binary, and on my system it failed to execute its DllMain. As a result, it did not register its .eh_frame contents, and upon module unload i got

Re: patch: typo fix in setup.exe

2014-10-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/10/2014 11:28 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 10 10:40, Eric Blake wrote: ping On 09/27/2014 10:27 AM, Eric Blake wrote: Assuming this is the right place for this patch - something I noticed today, when I got an error message including the word thelist. 2014-09-27 Eric Blake

Re: patch: typo fix in setup.exe

2014-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 13 06:51, Eric Blake wrote: On 10/10/2014 11:28 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 10 10:40, Eric Blake wrote: ping On 09/27/2014 10:27 AM, Eric Blake wrote: Assuming this is the right place for this patch - something I noticed today, when I got an error message including the

Re: [BUG] libffi needs to be rebuilt for i386

2014-10-13 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello, Marco. Monday, October 13, 2014, 13:56:57 you wrote: FYI debug symbols are in libffi-debuginfo package Thank you, i know this. Actually, when i started my research, i noticed that DllMain() and corresponding init code is not called for libffi. I started to examine that. I don't

Re: [ITA] fish

2014-10-13 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 13/10/2014 09:33, Andrew Schulman wrote: I'd like to adopt the fish package. The package seems to be abandoned. A new release is out upstream with multiple security fixes, but the Cygwin package hasn't been updated. Emails to the maintainer have bounced, and he hasn't answered recent

Re: [ITA] fish

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
One comment regarding the new config.fish file - can you make the cd $HOME dependent upon the CHERE_INVOKING variable being unset? That way chere will work for those who set it up for fish. See /etc/profile for the bash equivalent. Sure, that will go in revision -3.

Re: cygport upload command?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
On 2014-07-07 20:14, Andrew Schulman wrote: Yaakov, would you consider adding an 'upload' command to cygport, that would handle the uploading details? That would take away the last bit of manual work in a routine package update. I'm a bit busy at the moment, but it sounds like a good

cygwin macs failing siltently

2014-10-13 Thread Gulliver Smith
With recent upgrade of cygwin, emacs is always crashing. Windows XP VirtualBox virtual machines (don't ask) setup.exe version 2.8.50 (32 bit) tried both emacs 24.3.93-1 and 24.3-2 X-server is cygin 64 bit on windows 7. It was working last week. Now silent crash, no log entries. Occassionally a

Re: cygwin emacs failing siletnly

2014-10-13 Thread Gulliver Smith
Follow up: It is only emacs for X-windows that fails silently. emacs-nox works perfectly. As I said, the silent failure has no core dump and no log messages anywhere. Nothing is displayed in the shell window. Thanks Gulliver -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: cygwin emacs failing siletnly

2014-10-13 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
Try re-setting your fonts. See this post: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/msg00248.html -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: cygwin emacs failing siletnly

2014-10-13 Thread Gulliver Smith
Thanks for the pointer to fc-cache. On which machine should this be run? a) the machine hosting the X-Server b) the machine on which emacs is running fc-cache ran successfully on a - the machine hosting the x-server but fails silently on the virtual machine hosting emacs and xterm. Thanks

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog net.cc

2014-10-13 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2014-10-13 08:18:19 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog net.cc Log message: * net.cc (cygwin_setsockopt): Drop redundant test for AF_LOCAL and SOCK_STREAM in SO_PEERCRED case, as

Re: [PATCH] Disable AF_UNIX handshake with setsockopt(..., SO_PEERCRED, ...)

2014-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 13 10:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 13 07:37, Christian Franke wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 10 20:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: In short, the whole code is written under the assumption that any sane application calling nonblocking connect would always call select/poll

Re: Necessary To Query SACL Information?

2014-10-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 12 20:37, Bryan Berns wrote: I noticed when I launch an executable, Cygwin queries SACL information on the executable (which I can see in Process Monitor as a 'QuerySecurityFile' operation). On some of my protected file servers, this generates a failure audit. Looking at the source

Re: HEADSUP to Emacs users

2014-10-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 10/11/14 19:36, Ken Brown wrote: In a continuing effort to track down the cause of the mysterious crashes that some Emacs users have reported, I'm now wondering if these are caused by the stack being too small. If you have been experiencing crashes, please issue the following command (as

Re: HEADSUP to Emacs users

2014-10-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/13/2014 5:11 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Now, on Windows 7 with 64b Cygwin, emacs works fine in text mode and X, but will crash when I connect to this box via ssh and try to run it on a remote X terminal (while still working fine in text mode). It works fine for me in that scenario. Do

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated (experimental): coreutils-8.23-3

2014-10-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/12/2014 02:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: With coreutils 8.23-2 this suceeds, with the -3 release you'll get the error cp: cannot create directory ‘ACLtest/profile.d’: File exists It's even simpler than that: $ cd /tmp $ mkdir -p a/1/2 b/1/2 $ touch a/1/2/x b/1/2/y $ cp

RE: HEADSUP to Emacs users

2014-10-13 Thread Doug Lewan
-Original Message- From: ... On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Saturday, 2014 October 11 13:37 To: cygwin Subject: HEADSUP to Emacs users In a continuing effort to track down the cause of the mysterious crashes that some Emacs users have reported, I'm now wondering if these are

Re: what path to use that is not DOS??

2014-10-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/11/2014 03:37 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Eric Blake wrote: On 10/08/2014 01:55 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: I get this message the 1st time logging in via 'rlogin': MS-DOS style path detected: /Windows/System32/cygwin/usr/spool/mail/Bliss/law Preferred POSIX equivalent is:

Re: HEADSUP to Emacs users

2014-10-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 10/13/14 13:37, Ken Brown wrote: It works fine for me in that scenario. I didn't report it earlier, since it's not that important to me; howerver if I could solve... Do you get an error message when it crashes? Yes: ** (emacs:3752): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.23-4

2014-10-13 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of coreutils, 8.23-4, has been uploaded, and will be available soon from your favorite mirror. This replaces the experimental 8.23-3 and stable 8.23-2, and leaves 8.15-1 (32-bit) or 8.15-3 (64-bit) as previous. NEWS: = This is a minor update that fixes a regression in the -3

emacs auto-indentation bug

2014-10-13 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
I haven't changed my ~/.emacs file since 2012, but sometime in the last several weeks I've noticed changes in emacs behavior. 1. I've never turned on automatic indentation--don't actually know how--yet if I indent a new line by pressing the tab key, when I hit the enter key, the next line has

Re: HEADSUP to Emacs users

2014-10-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/13/2014 12:21 PM, Doug Lewan wrote: -Original Message- From: ... On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Saturday, 2014 October 11 13:37 To: cygwin Subject: HEADSUP to Emacs users In a continuing effort to track down the cause of the mysterious crashes that some Emacs users have reported,

Re: HEADSUP to Emacs users

2014-10-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/13/2014 12:56 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 10/13/14 13:37, Ken Brown wrote: It works fine for me in that scenario. I didn't report it earlier, since it's not that important to me; howerver if I could solve... Do you get an error message when it crashes? Yes: ** (emacs:3752):

Re: emacs auto-indentation bug

2014-10-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/13/2014 2:26 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: I haven't changed my ~/.emacs file since 2012, but sometime in the last several weeks I've noticed changes in emacs behavior. 1. I've never turned on automatic indentation--don't actually know how--yet if I indent a new line by pressing the tab

Re: emacs auto-indentation bug

2014-10-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Nellis, Kenneth writes: I haven't changed my ~/.emacs file since 2012, but sometime in the last several weeks I've noticed changes in emacs behavior. 1. I've never turned on automatic indentation--don't actually know how--yet if I indent a new line by pressing the tab key, when I hit the

Re: fish PATH problem

2014-10-13 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 10/10/2014 14:46, Andrew Schulman wrote: OK, I rolled a new release of fish 2.1.1: x86: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/x86/fish-2.1.1-1.tar.xz http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/x86/fish-2.1.1-1-src.tar.xz x86_64:

RE: emacs auto-indentation bug

2014-10-13 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
Thanx to Achim and Ken for their responses, but especially to an off-list responder (who may prefer to remain anonymous), who told me specifically how to disable these (unwanted) features. In case this is useful to anyone: To cause auto-indenting to use spaces instead of tabs: (setq-default

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sharutils-4.14-2

2014-10-13 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of sharutils, 4.14-2, has been uploaded and will soon be available at your favorite mirror. This leaves 4.14-1 as the previous build. NEWS: = This is a minor rebuild that removes the 'compress' dummy executable now that the 'ncompress' package is available without patent

Updated: sharutils-4.14-2

2014-10-13 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of sharutils, 4.14-2, has been uploaded and will soon be available at your favorite mirror. This leaves 4.14-1 as the previous build. NEWS: = This is a minor rebuild that removes the 'compress' dummy executable now that the 'ncompress' package is available without patent