Re: Random "child_info_fork::abort:"

2016-10-14 Thread Tony Kelman
>  2 [main] mandb (736) t:\cygwin64\bin\mandb.exe: *** fatal error - > cygheap base mismatch detected - 0x1802FC408/0x110C408. As far as I can tell, build 14946 fixed whatever the problem was. Crisis averted, for now. -Tony -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Errors using configure when building packages

2016-10-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/14/2016 1:46 PM, Sinkler, Wharton wrote: I've got a new Cygwin installation on Win7, which has issues with configure, the first step of building packages from source (I've seen this with ImageMagick, libtiff and others so it's not specific to the package I'm installing). It seems to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] libgit2 0.23.4-2

2016-10-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libgit2_23-0.23.4-2 * libgit2-devel-0.23.4-2 * mingw64-i686-libgit2-0.23.4-2 * mingw64-x86_64-libgit2-0.23.4-2 libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library

libgit2 0.23.4-2

2016-10-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libgit2_23-0.23.4-2 * libgit2-devel-0.23.4-2 * mingw64-i686-libgit2-0.23.4-2 * mingw64-x86_64-libgit2-0.23.4-2 libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library

Errors using configure when building packages

2016-10-14 Thread Sinkler, Wharton
I've got a new Cygwin installation on Win7, which has issues with configure, the first step of building packages from source (I've seen this with ImageMagick, libtiff and others so it's not specific to the package I'm installing). It seems to sporadically be unable to remove a file

RE: Cygwin shell eats Windows exceptions?

2016-10-14 Thread Bill Smith
Thanks for all of the responses from everyone. > If you need to do interactive debugging, run it under cmd or with cygstart. [Bill Smith] it seems that an ok workaround is for me to use cygstart to start a command prompt within a Cygwin shell and then in the command prompt, run the program

Re: Cygwin shell eats Windows exceptions?

2016-10-14 Thread Herbert Stocker
On 10/13/2016 11:17 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > The point is that on Linux/Unix platforms, command-line utilities do not pop up > windows, or any other kind of UI, which seek user input. Doing so can > cause scripted processes to appear to "hang" and clutter the desktop. Not so anymore.