The new permission system and git

2015-06-22 Thread Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2
Sorry to say this but everywhere I use cygwin (work, home) these days I run into trouble with the new permission system initially introduced at 1.7.35 IIRC. I just did this: $ cd //some/server $ git init . $ git add statistik $ git commit error: invalid object 04

Re: [Attn Maintainer] octave

2015-06-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: 2) zp_octave_finish.dash checks if /var/lib/octave/update.flag exists and if so execute /usr/bin/octave-cli /var/lib/octave/update_packages_list You need to set the path in the update script so that it finds the DLL in /usr/lib/lapack or the script will never work

Re: [PATCH 1/5] winsup/doc: Create info pages from cygwin documentation

2015-06-22 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 22/06/2015 15:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 22 15:39, Jon TURNEY wrote: v2: Updated to use docbook2x-texi not docbook2texi, since source is now docbook XML. Tweak DocBook XML so info directory entry has a description. v3: Use a custom charmap to handle reg; v4: Proper build avoidance

Re: [PATCH 5/5] winsup/doc: Update ancient README about building documentation

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 22 15:39, Jon TURNEY wrote: Update list of pre-requisites, everything else is obsolete. Future work: Ensure that the list of pre-requisites in FAQ 6.21 How do I build Cygwin remains synchronized with this list. 2015-06-22 Jon Turney jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk * README:

RE: [cygwin] The new permission system and git

2015-06-22 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: Lemke, Michael Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 11:31 AM Sorry to say this but everywhere I use cygwin (work, home) these days I run into trouble with the new permission system initially introduced at 1.7.35 IIRC. I just did this: $ cd //some/server I

Re: delay when querying /proc/loadavg

2015-06-22 Thread Vince Rice
On Jun 22, 2015, at 11:14 AM, m0viefreak m0viefreak...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I noticed that there is long delay when getting the content of /proc/ladavg: $ time cat /proc/loadavg 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/16 cat /proc/loadavg 0.01s user 1.47s system 100% cpu 1.480 total I am aware

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw64-*-gcc-4.9.2-2 (x86/x86_64)

2015-06-22 Thread Achim Gratz
JonY writes: I have just updated the mingw-w64 cross compilers Cygwin 32bit and 64bit to mingw64-*-gcc-4.9.2-2. The 32bit gcc-debuginfo archive is truncated. Please re-upload this file. x86/release/mingw64-x86_64-gcc/mingw64-x86_64-gcc-debuginfo/mingw64-x86_64-gcc-debuginfo-4.9.2-2.tar.xz

delay when querying /proc/loadavg

2015-06-22 Thread m0viefreak
Hello, I noticed that there is long delay when getting the content of /proc/ladavg: $ time cat /proc/loadavg 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/16 cat /proc/loadavg 0.01s user 1.47s system 100% cpu 1.480 total I am aware that loadavg is not meaningful on cygwin and always returns 0 0 0, but it is used in many

Re: [ITA] Perl distributions (in preparation of Perl 5.22)

2015-06-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: That leaves the following Perl distributions in the hands of Yaakov, mainly because they are related to library or tool packages he owns. perl-Authen-SASL perl-Cairo perl-Cairo-GObject perl-Glib perl-Glib-Object-Introspection perl-Gnome2 perl-Gnome2-Canvas

Re: [PATCH 4/5] winsup/doc: Use xidepend to generate the source list for FAQ targets as well

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 22 15:39, Jon TURNEY wrote: 2015-06-22 Jon Turney jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk * Makefile.in (FAQ_SOURCES): Remove and generate with xidepend. Ok. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer

Re: [PATCH 3/5] winsup/doc: Remove 'Usage' prefix from synopses

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 22 15:39, Jon TURNEY wrote: Remove redundant 'Usage' prefix from synopses. 2015-06-22 Jon Turney jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk * utils.xml: Remove 'Usage' prefix from synopses. Ok. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to

Re: [PATCH 2/5] winsup/doc: Add intro man pages from cygwin-doc

2015-06-22 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 22/06/2015 16:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: A few nits: Thanks for the detailed review. + paraKeep in mind that there are many underlying differences between UNIX + and Win32 (for example, a case-insensitive file system), making complete + compatibility an ongoing

Re: [PATCH 2/5] winsup/doc: Add intro man pages from cygwin-doc

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
A few nits: [intro.1] + paraemphasisCygwin/emphasis is a Linux-like environment for + Windows. It consists of two parts:/para + paraA DLL (filenamecygwin1.dll/filename) which acts as a Linux API s#Linux#POSIX# + emulation layer providing substantial Linux API

Re: [PATCH 1/5] winsup/doc: Create info pages from cygwin documentation

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 22 15:39, Jon TURNEY wrote: v2: Updated to use docbook2x-texi not docbook2texi, since source is now docbook XML. Tweak DocBook XML so info directory entry has a description. v3: Use a custom charmap to handle reg; v4: Proper build avoidance texinfo node references may not

Re: cacls combination problem in 1.7.35, merging privs of existing file privs of process

2015-06-22 Thread John Ruckstuhl
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:41 AM, John Ruckstuhl john.ruckst...@intusurg.com wrote: I'm noticing this summer, that whenever I try to edit an existing file with vi for the first time, the file's permissions change. Could this be a problem with merging permissions of existing file and

Re: [PATCH] genini.pl: create SHA512 instead of MD5 checksums

2015-06-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Amended for switchable digest algorithm (default is SHA-512) as discussed during the setup changes. If OK to commit, I'll add a ChageLog entry. ? genini.cvs.diff Index: genini === RCS file: /cvs/cygwin-apps/genini/genini,v

Re: [ITA] Perl distributions (in preparation of Perl 5.22)

2015-06-22 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 6/22/2015 6:59 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Achim Gratz writes: That leaves the following Perl distributions in the hands of Yaakov, mainly because they are related to library or tool packages he owns. There are a few Perl distribution packages that are captive in another source package. The

Re: mingw-w64 --enable-fully-dynamic-string

2015-06-22 Thread Tony Kelman
If a cygwin package rebuild can make the ABI's compatible again that would be awesome and fix the breakage I've been seeing Thanks JonY for the 4.9.2-2 rebuild. Everything looks to be playing well together again on my end. (I should still investigate some future-proofing of my setup but it's

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.1.0-0.1

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Ken, On Jun 21 14:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/20/2015 4:55 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: - First cut of an implementation to allow signal handlers running on an alternate signal stack. - New API sigaltstack, plus definitions for SA_ONSTACK, SS_ONSTACK, SS_DISABLE, MINSIGSTKSZ,

Support for ITIMER_PROF?

2015-06-22 Thread Ken Brown
According to the Cygwin API documentation (https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/std-notes.html), getitimer and setitimer only support ITIMER_REAL for now. I'm wondering whether there's any chance that support for ITIMER_PROF might be added. I have no idea what the obstacles are. My reason for

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-8

2015-06-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * xinit-1.3.4-8 xinit contains commands used for starting X sessions. This release fixes the X session launcher to set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP earlier for the benefit of DBusActivatable applications. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: shared-mime-info-1.4-1

2015-06-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: * shared-mime-info-1.4-1 This package provides the FreeDesktop.org MIME type database. This is an update to the latest upstream release: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/commit/?id=Release-1-4 (Note that some

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: MIME Applications specification implementation

2015-06-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages (and their respective subpackages) have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * garcon-0.2.1-2 * gnome-menus-3.13.3-3 * lxde-common-0.99.0-4 * mate-menus-1.8.0-2 * mate-session-manager-1.8.1-7 * Thunar-1.6.10-1 * xarchiver-0.5.4-1 * xfce4-session-4.10.1-5 These releases

[newlib-cygwin] Don't push on original stack during alternate signal stack setup

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=f4abb28ea81bd5d7f651ec8f3ac944c3c82493ac commit f4abb28ea81bd5d7f651ec8f3ac944c3c82493ac Author: Corinna Vinschen cori...@vinschen.de Date: Mon Jun 22 13:09:55 2015 +0200 Don't push on original stack during alternate signal stack

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl-7.43.0-1

2015-06-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * curl-7.43.0-1 * libcurl4-7.43.0-1 * libcurl-devel-7.43.0-1 * libcurl-doc-7.43.0-1 cURL is a library and command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols, SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP

Updated: curl-7.43.0-1

2015-06-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * curl-7.43.0-1 * libcurl4-7.43.0-1 * libcurl-devel-7.43.0-1 * libcurl-doc-7.43.0-1 cURL is a library and command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols, SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP

Updated: xinit-1.3.4-8

2015-06-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * xinit-1.3.4-8 xinit contains commands used for starting X sessions. This release fixes the X session launcher to set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP earlier for the benefit of DBusActivatable applications. -- Yaakov

Updated: shared-mime-info-1.4-1

2015-06-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: * shared-mime-info-1.4-1 This package provides the FreeDesktop.org MIME type database. This is an update to the latest upstream release: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/commit/?id=Release-1-4 (Note that some

Updated: MIME Applications specification implementation

2015-06-22 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages (and their respective subpackages) have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * garcon-0.2.1-2 * gnome-menus-3.13.3-3 * lxde-common-0.99.0-4 * mate-menus-1.8.0-2 * mate-session-manager-1.8.1-7 * Thunar-1.6.10-1 * xarchiver-0.5.4-1 * xfce4-session-4.10.1-5 These releases

Re: [Attn Maintainer] octave

2015-06-22 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 6/22/2015 6:49 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Marco Atzeri writes: 2) zp_octave_finish.dash checks if /var/lib/octave/update.flag exists and if so execute /usr/bin/octave-cli /var/lib/octave/update_packages_list You need to set the path in the update script so that it finds the DLL in

Re: Support for ITIMER_PROF?

2015-06-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/22/2015 9:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 22 08:05, Ken Brown wrote: According to the Cygwin API documentation (https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/std-notes.html), getitimer and setitimer only support ITIMER_REAL for now. I'm wondering whether there's any chance that support for

[PATCH 2/5] winsup/doc: Add intro man pages from cygwin-doc

2015-06-22 Thread Jon TURNEY
v2: intro.1 and cygwin.1 are identical. Make cygwin.1 a link to intro.1 Update dates in static man pages v3: Use doclifter to convert intro.[13] to DocBook XML Clean up markup and fix a couple of spelling mistakes. Build and install manpages from XML v4: Update to refer to GPLv3+, SUSv4

Re: [PATCH 1/5] winsup/doc: Create info pages from cygwin documentation

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 22 18:15, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 22/06/2015 15:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 22 15:39, Jon TURNEY wrote: v2: Updated to use docbook2x-texi not docbook2texi, since source is now docbook XML. Tweak DocBook XML so info directory entry has a description. v3: Use a custom charmap

Re: [PATCH 2/5] winsup/doc: Add intro man pages from cygwin-doc

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 22 18:47, Jon TURNEY wrote: v2: intro.1 and cygwin.1 are identical. Make cygwin.1 a link to intro.1 Update dates in static man pages v3: Use doclifter to convert intro.[13] to DocBook XML Clean up markup and fix a couple of spelling mistakes. Build and install manpages from XML

Re: No /usr/bin/perl.exe installed in perl-5.14.4-3

2015-06-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/22/2015 9:06 PM, Victor Shih wrote: When updating perl to perl-5.14.4-3, I found that it no longer ran. Specifically, there was no /usr/bin/perl.exe executable installed. I notice that none is listed here: https://cygwin.com/packages/x86/perl/perl-5.14.4-3 It's now in the perl_base

Re: No /usr/bin/perl.exe installed in perl-5.14.4-3

2015-06-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/22/2015 10:32 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 6/22/2015 9:06 PM, Victor Shih wrote: When updating perl to perl-5.14.4-3, I found that it no longer ran. Specifically, there was no /usr/bin/perl.exe executable installed. I notice that none is listed here:

Re: [Attn Maintainer] octave

2015-06-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: 1) openblas is optional but it collides with lapack blas. So it must be before in the PATH $ cygcheck -l libopenblas /usr/bin/cygblas-0.dll That sounds like something you'd want to use alternatives for. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb

Re: No /usr/bin/perl.exe installed in perl-5.14.4-3

2015-06-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Victor Shih writes: When updating perl to perl-5.14.4-3, I found that it no longer ran. Specifically, there was no /usr/bin/perl.exe executable installed. It is in perl_base and cygcheck says your install is missing that file. Since you're also missing a ton of other files related to Perl, it

Re: [ITA] Perl distributions (in preparation of Perl 5.22)

2015-06-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: Are you sure that the packages built for the RC are not compatible with the final version ? I am sure that this is the official line (technically it is compatible). I am also reasonably sure that the Perl you build with at the end of the week will be the release version and

Re: Support for ITIMER_PROF?

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 22 08:05, Ken Brown wrote: According to the Cygwin API documentation (https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/std-notes.html), getitimer and setitimer only support ITIMER_REAL for now. I'm wondering whether there's any chance that support for ITIMER_PROF might be added. I have no idea what the

[PATCH 5/5] winsup/doc: Update ancient README about building documentation

2015-06-22 Thread Jon TURNEY
Update list of pre-requisites, everything else is obsolete. Future work: Ensure that the list of pre-requisites in FAQ 6.21 How do I build Cygwin remains synchronized with this list. 2015-06-22 Jon Turney jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk * README: Update. Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY

[PATCH 3/5] winsup/doc: Remove 'Usage' prefix from synopses

2015-06-22 Thread Jon TURNEY
Remove redundant 'Usage' prefix from synopses. 2015-06-22 Jon Turney jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk * utils.xml: Remove 'Usage' prefix from synopses. Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk --- winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 4 +++ winsup/doc/utils.xml | 88

[PATCH 2/5] winsup/doc: Add intro man pages from cygwin-doc

2015-06-22 Thread Jon TURNEY
v2: intro.1 and cygwin.1 are identical. Make cygwin.1 a link to intro.1 Update dates in static man pages v3: Use doclifter to convert intro.[13] to DocBook XML Clean up markup and fix a couple of spelling mistakes. Build and install manpages from XML 2015-06-22 Jon Turney

[PATCH 0/5] More cygwin-doc stuff

2015-06-22 Thread Jon TURNEY
intro.1 and intro.3 man pages for Cygwin Cygwin User's Guide and Cygwin API reference .info A few documentation related cleanups. Jon TURNEY (5): winsup/doc: Create info pages from cygwin documentation winsup/doc: Add intro man pages from cygwin-doc winsup/doc: Remove 'Usage' prefix from

[PATCH 1/5] winsup/doc: Create info pages from cygwin documentation

2015-06-22 Thread Jon TURNEY
v2: Updated to use docbook2x-texi not docbook2texi, since source is now docbook XML. Tweak DocBook XML so info directory entry has a description. v3: Use a custom charmap to handle reg; v4: Proper build avoidance texinfo node references may not contain ':', so provide alternate text for a few

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.1.0-0.2

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released a second TEST version of Cygwin. The version number is 2.1.0-0.2. This test release is mostly for interested *developers*. The important news which needs some testing is the implementation of sigaltstack(2) and the underlying implementation of running a

TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.1.0-0.2

2015-06-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released a second TEST version of Cygwin. The version number is 2.1.0-0.2. This test release is mostly for interested *developers*. The important news which needs some testing is the implementation of sigaltstack(2) and the underlying implementation of running a