snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why?

2016-01-23 Thread Houder
Hi Corinna, Just curious if there is a reason ... I was able to extract cygpath.exe from cygwin-inst-20160121.tar.xz (snapshots) in order to test your last modification to cygpath.cc. No problem here. However, when examining the contents of the archive, I was surprised to find the SAME

Re: Using Perl on Cygwin; how to prevent display of unwanted usage/error message?

2016-01-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Kenneth Wolcott! > I'm using a qx call to "net user username /DOMAIN" (probably should > use system instead) to determine whether a person having an active > account in an application is still an employee. > I get two messages back (error and/or usage) when a username is not

Re: Problem with dlsym against libicu

2016-01-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/22/2016 10:49 PM, Sam Habiel wrote: Hello all. I am porting GT.M (https://www.fisglobal.com/Solutions/Services/Database-Engine) to run on Cygwin x86. My changes are here: https://github.com/shabiel/fis-gtm/. GT.M is used in healthcare and banking; I happen to work in the former field. The

Re: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why?

2016-01-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 23 20:09, Houder wrote: > On 2016-01-23 19:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jan 23 13:59, Houder wrote: > >>Hi Corinna, > >> > >>Just curious if there is a reason ... > >> > >>I was able to extract cygpath.exe from cygwin-inst-20160121.tar.xz > >>(snapshots) > >>in order to test your last

Re: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why?

2016-01-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 23 13:59, Houder wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Just curious if there is a reason ... > > I was able to extract cygpath.exe from cygwin-inst-20160121.tar.xz > (snapshots) > in order to test your last modification to cygpath.cc. No problem here. > > However, when examining the contents of the

Re: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why?

2016-01-23 Thread Houder
On 2016-01-23 19:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 23 13:59, Houder wrote: Hi Corinna, Just curious if there is a reason ... I was able to extract cygpath.exe from cygwin-inst-20160121.tar.xz (snapshots) in order to test your last modification to cygpath.cc. No problem here. However, when

Re: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why?

2016-01-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Houder writes: > Did the same test on FC19. Same result. The patch most likely responsible is only applied to FC21/22/23 best I can tell. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for Waldorf Q V3.00R3 and Q+ V3.54R2:

Re: Compiling gcc trunk under cygwin

2016-01-23 Thread Roger Orr
David Wohlferd LimeGreenSocks.com> writes: > Until recently, I've been able to build gcc under cygwin just fine. But > (relatively) recent checkins (232454 & 232071) are causing problems. Have you reported the problems with 232454 to gcc yet? I've already reported the 232071 problem, on the

Re: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why?

2016-01-23 Thread Houder
Hi Andrey, On 2016-01-23 15:21, Andrey Repin wrote: But this is actually a problem. Not sure ...extraction appears NOT to be a problem ... (yes, the same file is extracted multiple times). On the other hand, the "big" archive file might indicate there is room for improvement ... However,

Re: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why?

2016-01-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > I found out why this happens, I just don't know why it only occurs since > 2015-07-20. Looks like this patch http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/tar.git/commit/?id=132f2c79628ff5f11bb7d41c5c34f94228d63c54 and the following two fixups would be a likely source of

Re: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why?

2016-01-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Houder! > Just curious if there is a reason ... > I was able to extract cygpath.exe from cygwin-inst-20160121.tar.xz > (snapshots) > in order to test your last modification to cygpath.cc. No problem here. > However, when examining the contents of the archive, I was surprised to >

Re: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why?

2016-01-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Houder! Judging from tar tf cygwin-inst-20160121.tar.xz the archive is composed in more than one step. The packaging script is really ought for a thorough investigation. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, January 23, 2016 17:23:33 Sorry for my terrible english... --

Re: Performance of "ls -F"

2016-01-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 22 22:04, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > Just a hint: ls -F requires to stat every single file. stat in turn > > requires to load not only the usual metadata but also to fetch the ACL > > and convert it to POSIX permissions. > > The timings are from shares mounted with

Re: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why?

2016-01-23 Thread Houder
On 2016-01-23 20:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 23 20:09, Houder wrote: On 2016-01-23 19:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >I found out why this happens, I just don't know why it only occurs since >2015-07-20. > >The reason is the script is using an expression along the lines of > > find ...

Re: Any progress on "Fork issues ith long command lines and long $PATH"?

2016-01-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/21/2016 8:18 AM, Ken Brown wrote: In the meantime, I'm looking into patching emacs so that the Cygwin build will accept Windows file names, at least under some circumstances. If I can do that without breaking anything else, I'll put out a test release. This is done now. Please test.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs-24.5-3 (TEST)

2016-01-23 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution as test releases: * emacs-24.5-3 * emacs-X11-24.5-3 * emacs-w32-24.5-3 * emacs-el-24.5-3 Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting

Updated: emacs-24.5-3 (TEST)

2016-01-23 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution as test releases: * emacs-24.5-3 * emacs-X11-24.5-3 * emacs-w32-24.5-3 * emacs-el-24.5-3 Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting

Re: snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why?

2016-01-23 Thread Houder
On 2016-01-23 21:18, Achim Gratz wrote: Houder writes: Did the same test on FC19. Same result. The patch most likely responsible is only applied to FC21/22/23 best I can tell. As I realized, that Corinna is using "the latest and the greatest" of the Fedora distribution, I go myself

Re: Changing Setup's license to GPLv3+

2016-01-23 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-01-21 04:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: does anything speak against switching Setup's license to GPLv3+? If nobody complains, I'll bump to v3+ in a week or so. Fine with me wrt my contributions. -- Yaakov