Re: BASH and MAN failure

2013-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 11:53:33AM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 4/8/2013 11:44 AM, rodmed...@cantv.net wrote: Hi, Suddenly bash --login started giving the follwin message: $ bash --login 1 [main] bash 4084 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: couldn't create pipe

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gdb-7.6.50-1

2013-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of the gdb debugger available for installation. This version is a refresh from the main branch of the CVS repository on sourceware.org. This version also has some as-yet-unsubmitted fixes for Cygwin signal handling. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO ***

Updated: gdb-7.6.50-1

2013-04-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of the gdb debugger available for installation. This version is a refresh from the main branch of the CVS repository on sourceware.org. This version also has some as-yet-unsubmitted fixes for Cygwin signal handling. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO ***

Re: starting cygwin shell

2013-04-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 06:16:17PM +, Gene wrote: Thomas Wolff towo at towo.net writes: Am 07.04.2013 09:42, schrieb Gene: I am new to cygwin. I am trying to create a .bat file so I can start cygwin from w7 windows menu. Cygwin install creates a Cygwin Terminal icon on your desktop in in

Re: SIGCHLD is not delivered

2013-04-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 07:30:42PM +0200, Andreas Steenpa? wrote: The test case works with the newest snapshot (20130401). Thanks for the fix! Thanks for the feedback. I haven't advertised a fix yet because there is still something not quite right in the snapshots and I haven't had a chance to

Re: SIGCHLD is not delivered

2013-04-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 09:25:16PM +0200, Andreas Steenpa? wrote: Le 05/04/2013 19:41, Christopher Faylor a ?crit : On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 07:30:42PM +0200, Andreas Steenpa? wrote: The test case works with the newest snapshot (20130401). Thanks for the fix! Thanks for the feedback. I haven't

Re: But it is cygwin related.

2013-04-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 11:04:29PM +0900, wynfield wrote: No Earnie. It wasn't about programming. Read and try to comprehend. cygwin seems to have a missing api in it or one it should have is missing. The cygwin.dll or possibly another cygwin dll shuffles i/o betwwen cygwin programs and

Re: But it is cygwin related.

2013-04-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:59:01PM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote: On 4/4/2013 2:40 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: It occurred to me to mention to the OP that the mingw package (minimal Gnu for Windows is what I think it stands for) is a lighter weight version of the gcc stuff for Windows. It does not try to

Re: It does involve cygwin

2013-04-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 02:37:11PM +0900, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:59:01PM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote: On 4/4/2013 2:40 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: snipped If you have to enter MinGW land to perform what the OP wants then that is a really clear

Re: ltfs / mtx built under cygwin

2013-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:34:00AM -0400, Cary Lewis wrote: Has anyone managed to build ltfs or mtx on Cygwin? ltfs needs fuse, which I managed to build, but I don't know if it's really functional or not. It's not. Cygwin doesn't support fuse. cgf -- Problem reports:

Re: username case sensitive with the sshd service

2013-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:33:42PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! That's not the right thing to do. By sticking to OpenSSH-5.2p1, you end up with an old version of OpenSSH, with unfixed security bugs, thus thwarting the sole reason why you're using SSH. Why not just

Re: direct interface to win32 api for char output

2013-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 12:06:06AM +0900, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: This will be done in assembly language and I'd prefer not to have to resort to directly using windows or bios interrupts. I would like build a very tiny program and I want to skip linking the c library to this little program.

Re: Missing mime types lead to broken pages in the package list.

2013-04-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 06:31:00AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Hi folks, There are a lot of broken entries in the lower levels of the package list on the website. Clicking a package name at http://cygwin.com/packages/ takes you to the page that lists the available binary and source package

Re: Missing mime types lead to broken pages in the package list.

2013-04-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 07:17:44AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 06:31:00AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: There are a lot of broken entries in the lower levels of the package list on the website. Clicking a package name at http://cygwin.com/packages/ takes you to the page

handle leak in recent snapshot

2013-04-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
Just before my computer blue screened, I was trying to debug a handle leak in the most recent snapshot. It seems to be associated with fork/exec but I don't know for sure. I'm doing a memory test on my system now so it will be some time before I can get back to this but be advised that the most

Hang on CTRL-C (was Re: livelock on sigfe)

2013-03-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:53:38AM +0900, jojelino wrote: On 2013-03-17 AM 1:44, Christopher Faylor wrote: No, not really. The caller in this case isn't interesting. The number of threads executing is interesting. cgf there is another debug session. I was trying to CTRL+C to mintty session

Re: CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.18

2013-03-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
I just uploaded a new snapshot to deal with this issue: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-03/msg00395.html I'd appreciate testing of the newest snapshot since this change involved low-level signal code. As usual, if you do encounter a problem, simple test cases are appreciated. -- Problem

Re: SIGCHLD is not delivered

2013-03-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 02:30:53PM +0100, Andreas Steenpa? wrote: I have noticed that sometimes SIGCHLD is not delivered when a child process exits. I can reproduce this behaviour reliably under the following, very special circumstances: I've uploaded a new snapshot which seems to fix this

Re: request to hold off on uploading new packages

2013-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 09:48:11AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: On 03/21/2013 08:16 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Could you all hold off on uploading new packages to 32-bit Cygwin until Monday? I have a vague feeling that there is something not quite right with the mirrors but I can't verify

Re: can't install ginac - make fails

2013-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 06:05:57PM -0700, strangerland wrote: I receive this error when I try to compile ginac Sorry. Wrong mailing list. Use the main cygwin list for help. cgf

Re: cygwin-...@cygwin.com is spamming.

2013-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
And, now, so are you! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: single point of failure: server machine for setup.exe

2013-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 04:42:48PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 3/22/2013 4:03 PM, Alexander Stohr wrote: ... you rellly got what i was telling you? tons of mirrored data were rendered useless to the world due to the fact that a single initial or key element was missing from the web.

request to hold off on uploading new packages

2013-03-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
Could you all hold off on uploading new packages to 32-bit Cygwin until Monday? I have a vague feeling that there is something not quite right with the mirrors but I can't verify that unless the release area is quiescent. Thanks. cgf

Re: hardware upgrade status

2013-03-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 02:32:09AM -1000, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Christopher Faylor wrote: http://cygwin.com/ is now available. Would it be too much to ask that the server be dual-stacked and given an IPv6 address? :) It has been requested but apparently it isn't

hardware upgrade status

2013-03-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
As you can see, email seems to be working on the new system. The old sourceware was a hodge podge of hand-built files installed in nonstandard locations. I changed that on the new sourceware. It now uses semi-official rpms for most of everything. I spent most of the day yesterday chasing down

Re: hardware upgrade status

2013-03-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 03:43:22PM -0400, David T-G wrote: Christopher (and everyone else) -- ...and then Christopher Faylor said... % % As you can see, email seems to be working on the new system. % % The old sourceware was a hodge podge of hand-built files installed in % nonstandard locations

Re: hardware upgrade status

2013-03-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
http://cygwin.com/ is now available. If anyone notices any problems please report them to the overseers mailing list. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 07:20:53PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: On 3/17/2013 10:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. Last time I answered one of your RFCs, I got accused of bikeshedding. (This was the Win9x EOL issue, a month or so ago. I'm not sure

Re: [PATCH] setup: port to 64-bit, part 2

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:35:46AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 17 02:27, Christopher Faylor wrote: If we're going to do that then I'd like the actual maintainers to start generating packages rather than random other people. Otherwise chaos will ensue. I didn't know Yaakov

Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
I'd like to have a feel for how the 64-bit version of Cygwin will impact package maintainers. So, I'd appreciate some discussion about this. 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 05:54:13PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: (Do you want all responses to the list in this case?) Unless you have something you want to say which you'd rather not have archived on the list, yes. Otherwise, send me personal email to me at-sign cgf period cx. cgf

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 05:42:53PM +, David Stacey wrote: On 17/03/13 16:45, Christopher Faylor wrote: 1) Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows available? 2) If no, would you be willing to install one? 3) Are you willing to download the current 64-bit Cygwin and start porting your

Re: Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

2013-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 06:43:52PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: 1) Yes. 2) N/A 3) Yes (but not in the next two or three weeks). 4) No. 5) No. 6) Yes, as long as they don't pretend to be me. 7) Yes, if that helps to speed up things. My working assumption is that the differences between the two

Re: deadlock with busy waiting on sigfe

2013-03-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:00:49AM +0900, jojelino wrote: On 2013-03-16 AM 10:46, jojelino wrote: On 2013-03-16 AM 4:41, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 04:45:54PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, if you are running this on a DOS console, and you hit CTRL-C, you

Re: deadlock with busy waiting on sigfe

2013-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 04:45:54PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 04:35:41AM +0900, jojelino wrote: On 2013-03-11 PM 11:36, Christopher Faylor wrote: A proper bug report would at least include what you were actually doing to trigger this problem. I was trying to CTRL+C

Re: Release directories (was Re: [PATCH] setup: port to 64-bit, part 1)

2013-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:41:47AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 13 21:01, Yaakov wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:51:18 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: If Yaakov applied the changes necessary to get the 64 bit setup running for a start, would it be possible to let upset create a

Re: Release directories (was Re: [PATCH] setup: port to 64-bit, part 1)

2013-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 04:11:53PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 14 10:57, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:41:47AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 13 21:01, Yaakov wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:51:18 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: If Yaakov applied

Re: gdb bt gives many question marks

2013-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 09:34:45AM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 14/03/2013 3:37 AM, Ken Huang wrote: Hi all, I have a problem when using gdb to debug my program in cygwin, the 'bt' command gives me many '??'. So I write a quite easy program named abort.c which just aborts. after compiled

[fche: IMPORTANT: sourceware.org hardware migration, MARCH 18..22]

2013-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
- Forwarded message from Frank Ch. Eigler - From: Frank Ch. Eigler To: newlib Subject: IMPORTANT: sourceware.org hardware migration, MARCH 18..22 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:36:03 -0400 (EDT) Hi - Please be aware that **next week**, we will attempt to switch over the hardware that serves

Re: deadlock with busy waiting on sigfe

2013-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 05:53:50PM +0900, jojelino wrote: On 2013-01-20 PM 3:54, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 02:23:23PM +0900, jojelino wrote: Once again: don't care about your backtraces. Submit a proper bug report. cgf And found another livelock with CYGWIN_NT-5.2

Re: deadlock with busy waiting on sigfe

2013-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 04:35:41AM +0900, jojelino wrote: On 2013-03-11 PM 11:36, Christopher Faylor wrote: A proper bug report would at least include what you were actually doing to trigger this problem. I was trying to CTRL+C cygwin python process that is executing some operation and fell

Re: Why libquadmath0-4.7.2

2013-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 06:03:08PM +, Dave Korn wrote: On 05/03/2013 16:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 05:11:34PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: I have GCC-4.5.3 installed and I am not going to install the test version 4.7.2-1, but setup.exe *wants* to install

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gdb-7.5.50-2

2013-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of the gdb debugger available for installation. This version is a refresh from the main branch of the CVS repository on sourceware.org. It fixes two Cygwin-specific problems with signal handling. This release of gdb should correctly detect and handle Cygwin-specific

Re: exit bug on 1.7.17 ?

2013-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 04:39:16PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 06:51:09PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: pg_ctl is broken because it hangs waiting for a child process to finish. This can be seen with the following test program: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h

Re: emacs-X11 crashes under gdb in recent snapshots

2013-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 11:34:30AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:49:21AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 12:44:26AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 04:30:34PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: Starting with the 20130102 snapshot

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.23.51-1

2013-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This is a refresh against CVS. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at:

Re: emacs-X11 crashes under gdb in recent snapshots

2013-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 06:07:53PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/9/2013 5:02 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 11:34:30AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:49:21AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 12:44:26AM -0500, Christopher

Updated: gdb-7.5.50-2

2013-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of the gdb debugger available for installation. This version is a refresh from the main branch of the CVS repository on sourceware.org. It fixes two Cygwin-specific problems with signal handling. This release of gdb should correctly detect and handle Cygwin-specific

Updated: binutils-2.23.51-1

2013-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of binutils available for installation. This is a refresh against CVS. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at:

Re: emacs-X11 crashes under gdb in recent snapshots

2013-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:49:21AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 12:44:26AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 04:30:34PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: Starting with the 20130102 snapshot, I get a SEGV if I run emacs-X11 under gdb. Thanks

Re: exit bug on 1.7.17 ?

2013-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 06:51:09PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: pg_ctl is broken because it hangs waiting for a child process to finish. This can be seen with the following test program: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h main() { system(sleep 5 echo waking);

Re: GCC maintainer volunteer?

2013-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 11:40:35AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 6 04:29, Yaakov wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:55:43 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd be happy to get rid of it but don't people still use it? We can't have the gcc4 package overwriting someone's gcc3 if so

Deleted rogue binutils-2.23.1-1

2013-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've deleted the rogue copy of binutils that someone installed in the cygwin release area. It looks like this version probably came from JonY. If this was somehow installed by a script then please correct the script that did this. In any event, please be careful not to do this again. cgf

Anyone know who copied a rogue binutils package to the release?

2013-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
There was a cygport themed binutils in the release area. Anyone know who put it there? cgf

Re: Issue with binutils-2.23.1-1

2013-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 08:40:32AM -0500, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: I noticed a problem after upgrading to the 2.23.1-1 release of binutils that cygport was no longer generating debuginfo files. After digging in to it a little and following up on the cygwin-ports mailing list, Yaakov determined that

Re: emacs-X11 crashes under gdb in recent snapshots

2013-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 04:30:34PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: Starting with the 20130102 snapshot, I get a SEGV if I run emacs-X11 under gdb. The same thing happens with emacs-w32, but not with emacs-nox. In the case of emacs-X11, it doesn't matter whether I run it in mintty or under an X

Re: emacs-X11 crashes under gdb in recent snapshots

2013-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 12:44:26AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 04:30:34PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: Starting with the 20130102 snapshot, I get a SEGV if I run emacs-X11 under gdb. Thanks for the explicit instructions. I can reproduce this. Investigating. I see what

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST: postgresql-9.2.3-1

2013-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:17:38AM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: TEST Version 9.2.3-1 of packages libecpg-compat2 libecpg-devel libecpg5 libpgtypes2 libpq-devel libpq5 postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib postgresql-devel postgresql-doc

Re: Why libquadmath0-4.7.2

2013-03-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 05:11:34PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: I have GCC-4.5.3 installed and I am not going to install the test version 4.7.2-1, but setup.exe *wants* to install libquadmath0-4.7.2-1 even if I have selected Curr packages (which should exclude any reference to 4.7.2

Re: [PATCH] setup: remove legacy code

2013-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 12:45:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 4 05:19, Yaakov wrote: The attached patch removes all is_legacy and !IsWindowsNT() codepaths, as well as one part specific to Win2K. 2013-03-04 Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@... Throughout, drop support for

Re: [PATCH] setup: port to 64-bit, part 1

2013-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 11:32:36AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 4 02:09, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 08:39:45PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 12:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 12:23:44PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun

Re: [PATCH] setup: remove legacy code

2013-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 04:39:45PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 4 10:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 12:45:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 4 05:19, Yaakov wrote: The attached patch removes all is_legacy and !IsWindowsNT() codepaths, as well as one

Re: [PATCH] setup: port to 64-bit, part 1

2013-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 05:52:20PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 4 11:10, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 11:32:36AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: A web based solution is also easier to change. If it turns out that the information we give to the users is bad, wrong

Re: [RFU] lftp

2013-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 06:40:37PM -0500, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: Hi Andrew, For some reason lftp-debuginfo is also being pulled down with this release (it shows in the pending list, I've selected to skip it). Is this on purpose or a mistake in the setup.hint? Looking at some old mirrors, I see

Re: [RFU] lftp

2013-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 04:22:54PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: I can't explain why your lftp-debuginfo setup.hint file didn't get transferred, though, since it did when I ran the script the second time. Just in case it's not clear... wherever the setup.hint file for lftp-debuginfo is coming

Re: segfault in recent snapshots

2013-03-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 02:17:35PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Since you're running GDB anyway, what does `bt' print when the SEGV occured? It was already posted and it didn't make sense. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-03/msg00023.html That's why I asked for the stackdump file since it

Re: [PATCH] setup: port to 64-bit, part 1

2013-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 00:46, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: This patch fixes the remaining issues, *except in autoload.c*, for a 64bit setup.exe. Some notes: 1) This assumes that 64bit .ini will be named setup64.ini. 2) This also assumes

Re: [RFU] lftp

2013-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:40:32AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: Please upload, remove version 4.3.7-1, and leave 4.4.0-1 as previous. Thanks, Andrew. wget \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/lftp/lftp-4.4.4-1.tar.bz2 \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/lftp/lftp-4.4.4-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: [PATCH] setup: port to 64-bit, part 1

2013-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 12:23:44PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 00:46, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: This patch fixes the remaining issues, *except in autoload.c*, for a 64bit setup.exe. Some notes: 1) This assumes

Re: [PATCH] setup: port to 64-bit, part 1

2013-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 09:54:58PM -0600, Yaakov wrote: Based on your recent commit to cygwin-64bit-branch, are we dropping support for Win2K as well? Yes. cgf, do you concur with removing the legacy support code? Yes.

Re: [PATCH] setup: port to 64-bit, part 1

2013-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 08:39:45PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 12:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 12:23:44PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 3 00:46, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote

Re: segfault in recent snapshots

2013-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 12:02:43PM +, Henry S. Thompson wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 08:00:38PM +, Henry S. Thompson wrote: Snapshots of 31/1 and 1/3 are giving segfaults for psql (see previous thread?) previous thread? http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com

Re: segfault in recent snapshots

2013-03-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 08:00:38PM +, Henry S. Thompson wrote: Snapshots of 31/1 and 1/3 are giving segfaults for psql (see previous thread?) previous thread? and locally compiled xemacs. Any way I can help debug? Yes. As always, provide a simple test case which demonstrates the problem.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bison-2.7-1

2013-03-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
A new version of 'bison' is available for download. This updates the package to the latest version available from ftp.gnu.org. Relevant portions of the Bison NEWS file are at the end of this message. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list. I would

Updated: bison-2.7-1

2013-03-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
A new version of 'bison' is available for download. This updates the package to the latest version available from ftp.gnu.org. Relevant portions of the Bison NEWS file are at the end of this message. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list. I would

upset: *** setup.ini: warning - package gcc4-java requires non-existent package java-ecj

2013-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
Could someone fix this please?

Need help with reported cygwin snapshot problem

2013-02-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
Yaakov is reporting a problem with Cygwin on IRC: (02/27/13 00:01:06) cygwinports: cgf:remember my webkit hang? this should be easier to reproduce: wget'ing a large file also hangs at the end (02/27/13 00:01:11) cygwinports: e.g. wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p392.tar.bz2

Re: startxwin started bash does not read .bashrc or .bash_profile

2013-02-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:37:52PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Kevin Layer! I know ~/.bashrc hasn't been read because my prompt is not changed and my aliases are not there. That's just assumption. Not the first-hand knowledge. It may be true, or not... Best way to know is to place

Re: wrong performance of malloc/free under multi-threading

2013-02-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:13:24PM +0900, jojelino wrote: On 2013-02-26 PM 10:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote: This is Cygwin only. cygwin malloc is not reentrant according to malloc_wrapper.cc so let's not expect performance like linux or native windows. until someone have plenty of time to resolve

Re: GCC maintainer volunteer?

2013-02-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:40:04PM +0800, JonY wrote: On 2/24/2013 12:55, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:01:56AM +0800, JonY wrote: On 2/24/2013 09:39, Ken Brown wrote: But isn't all this irrelevant for you? There's no reason to keep gcc3 around anymore, is there? I

Re: GCC maintainer volunteer?

2013-02-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:01:56AM +0800, JonY wrote: On 2/24/2013 09:39, Ken Brown wrote: But isn't all this irrelevant for you? There's no reason to keep gcc3 around anymore, is there? I don't know, I'll leave that to the core Cygwin devs to decide. I'd be happy to get rid of it but don't

Re: Pango failure

2013-02-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 02:26:42PM -0500, da...@daryllee.com wrote: Now I remember why I referred all my students to MinGW g. Do you instruct your students to lead with a negative before asking for help too? You must be pretty inspirational. cgf -- Problem reports:

Re: Pango failure

2013-02-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:25:25AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Achim Gratz! da...@daryllee.com writes: Upon completion of the installation, I got this Postinstall script error: Package libpango1.0_0 pango1.0.sh exit code 1 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-02/msg00196.html

Re: [PATCH 64bit] Export io.h symbols with underscore

2013-02-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:02:55AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 22 10:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 22 03:40, Yaakov wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:49:51 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: access should go, no doubt about it. For get_osfhandle and setmode I would prefer

Re: GCC maintainer volunteer?

2013-02-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 05:48:20AM +0800, JonY wrote: Who is the upstream GCC maintainer for Cygwin anyway? It's Dave Korn, Kai Tietz, and me. I haven't been active for years though. If you have patches that you'd like to get in maybe Kai could expedite that. cgf

Re: [PATCH 64bit] Export io.h symbols with underscore

2013-02-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:18:48AM -0600, Yaakov wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:42:36 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I wasn't fulling grokking the fact that Cygwin explicitly defined the get_osfhandle without an underscore in io.h. Sigh. That's probably my fault too. But we definitely

Re: RFU: mksh-43-1

2013-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:45:30PM -0500, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: Please upload: wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=3 \ http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5530441/cygwin/mksh/setup.hint \ http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5530441/cygwin/mksh/mksh-43-1.tar.bz2 \ http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5530441/cygwin/mksh/mksh-43-1-src.tar.bz2 \

Re: Erreur messages when trying to compile

2013-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 07:37:22AM -0800, jere95 wrote: Thanks a lot I was able to solve the problem! For the record: 1) This is a simple C programming problem which should not be sent to a mailing list. You should fix these types of problems yourself. 2) If that wasn't enough to make this

Re: [PATCH 64bit] Fix speclib for x86_64

2013-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 04:19:17AM -0600, Yaakov wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:51:59 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: +my $uscore = ($target =~ /^x86_64\-/ ? undef : '_'); There is no reason to quote the dash here. But, I would actually prefer a substr check since that is a little faster

Re: Qsort defects (in C-library)

2013-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:05:11PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 18 08:51, Dennis de Champeaux wrote: // I hope this is the proper mailing list Unfortunately it's not. Qsort is not implemented in Cygwin itself, but rather in newlib, the underlying C lib. The right mailing list is

Re: psql crashes with snapshot

2013-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 04:27:17PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Hello, I just downloaded the PostgreSQL client tools and noticed that psql crashes every time. The usual rebase didn't help. I reverted cygwin1.dll to the latest official version (1.7.17, 2012-10-19) and now psql works fine. What

Re: [PATCH 1/4] setup.exe

2013-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:16:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 16 21:10, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: It doesn't have to be a library. Cygwin's regexec.c would probably suffice. I'll have a look. What about just using std::regex? Setup is using the stdc

Re: [PATCH 1/4] setup.exe

2013-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 06:43:00PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 17 12:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:16:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 16 21:10, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: It doesn't have to be a library. Cygwin's regexec.c

Re: [PATCH 1/4] setup.exe

2013-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 08:20:48PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 17 19:44, Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: Sorry, I didn't follow the entire thread. I'm not big in libstdc++ stuff, but I thought std::regex is part of it by default. Me too. Can someone definitively

Re: [PATCH 1/4] setup.exe

2013-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 04:47:01PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I just added a regex object to setup.exe. I tested it on Windows and it seems to work for the simple case. Nothing is using it right now of course. I just did a little configury cleanup in setup to remove the warnings about old

Re: [PATCH 64bit] Fix speclib for x86_64

2013-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 04:46:22AM -0600, Yaakov wrote: 2013-02-16 Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@... * Makefile.in (libcygwin.a): Move --target flag from here... (toolopts): to here, to be used by both mkimport and speclib. * speclib: Omit leading underscore in symbol names

Re: [PATCH 64bit] Fix speclib for x86_64

2013-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 02:41:41PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 17 04:46, Yaakov wrote: 2013-02-16 Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@... * Makefile.in (libcygwin.a): Move --target flag from here... (toolopts): to here, to be used by both mkimport and speclib. * speclib:

Re: [PATCH 64bit] Fix speclib for x86_64

2013-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 06:09:44PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 17 11:52, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 02:41:41PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 17 04:46, Yaakov wrote: 2013-02-16 Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@... * Makefile.in (libcygwin.a): Move

Re: mintty session with a particularly fork-unfriendly address space layout

2013-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:25:56AM -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Live user wrote: Even starting several sessions at the same time, keeps happening 0 [main] bash 10532 child_info_fork::abort: C:\cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll: Loaded to different address:

Re: Emacs silently fails to run after last cygwin update

2013-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 01:29:22PM -0500, Bryan M. Kramer wrote: I upgraded cygwin on both an XP and a Windows 7 box this week. In both cases, the x windows version of emacs fails to start. In both cases the X server is cygwin X running on the windows 7 box). I have tried reinstalls on most of

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