Unable to subscribe to the cygwin-announce list

2023-09-25 Thread Duncan Roe via Cygwin
Hi Admins, On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 03:46:31PM +0100, cygwin wrote: > > The auto-forwarding of announcements from the cygwin-announce mailing list > to the cygwin mailing list has been removed. > > This seems to be hard to make work reliably (sometimes it doubles the > messages, sometimes they

Re: Announcements now only go to the cygwin-announce list

2023-09-21 Thread Duncan Roe via Cygwin
Hi cygwin, On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 03:46:31PM +0100, cygwin wrote: > > The auto-forwarding of announcements from the cygwin-announce mailing list > to the cygwin mailing list has been removed. > > This seems to be hard to make work reliably (sometimes it doubles the > messages, sometimes they

Re: Memory Barriers at pthread using CYGWIN

2023-06-08 Thread Duncan Roe via Cygwin
On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 05:29:59PM +0300, cygwin wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote a simple test for pthread_barrier_wait. it won't work as expected. > > result should be > > r1 = 1, r2 = 1 > > Thanks, > Mümin > cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.26) > > project(test) > > set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 14) >

Re: mintty mouse behavior with vim

2023-05-11 Thread Duncan Roe via Cygwin
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 03:24:18PM +, cygwin wrote: > > Greetings. > > In mintty, while using vim, I would like to highlight a few lines, and > have vim tell me how many lines have been highlighted. Is this a > possibility? For example: > > 0 > 1 > ->2 > ->3 > ->4 > ->5 > 6 > 7 > 8 > 9 > > If

Re: Cygwin X11 on second (Nvidia) graphics card

2023-01-29 Thread Duncan Roe via Cygwin
Hi Franz, On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 06:18:43PM +0100, cygwin wrote: > Am 27.01.2023 um 20:58 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: > > On 2023-01-27 08:22, Franz Fehringer via Cygwin wrote: > > > I have a question which seems quite natural but i cannot find > > > anything useful using google & co. > > >

Re: variables, mostly private, not included into debug symbols list on -g3 -ggdb settings

2022-06-29 Thread Duncan Roe
Hi Ariel, On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 12:38:49AM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > Hello list, > any idea why private variables from C++ source files are not included into > symbols list with -g3 and -ggdb compilation settings in gcc version 11.3.0 > under Cygwin. Like that, roughly: > > grep

Re: raise(-1) has stopped returning an error recently

2021-11-27 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 11:01:46AM -0700, cygwin wrote: [...] > Trying to rerun cygport build most tests are now "skipped test: failed to > find an adequate shell SKIP ... (exit status: 77)"! Something more may have > changed (in gnulib?) to invalidate Cygwin shell(s) in something updated > since

Re: raise(-1) has stopped returning an error recently

2021-11-26 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 10:25:46AM +0100, cygwin wrote: [...] > > What is that "permanent restriction" in Cygwin? Is that something we > could fix or something unfixable? Did you try to debug Cygwin in terms > of that problem? If not, could you extract a reduced, very simple > stand-alone

Re: raise(-1) has stopped returning an error recently

2021-11-23 Thread Duncan Roe
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 11:18:25AM -0700, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2021-11-23 02:50, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Nov 23 19:27, Duncan Roe wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 02:06:19PM +0100, cygwin wrote: > > > > On Nov 22 11:25, Corinna Vinschen via

Re: raise(-1) has stopped returning an error recently

2021-11-23 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 02:06:19PM +0100, cygwin wrote: > On Nov 22 11:25, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > On Nov 22 16:20, Duncan Roe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I stumbled across this when running 'make check' in the grep source > > >

raise(-1) has stopped returning an error recently

2021-11-21 Thread Duncan Roe
Hi, I stumbled across this when running 'make check' in the grep source directory. test-raise failed when it didn't a few weeks ago. I cut it down to the STC at the end of this email Under Linux: > 16:15:57$ ./test-raise > raise(-1) returned -1 Under Cygwin: > 16:16:51$ ./test-raise.exe >

Re: cygport build injecting /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/7.4.0/ paths

2021-11-12 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 01:25:48PM -0700, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2021-11-12 12:18, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: [...] > Now should I patch /usr/bin/libtool, libtoolize the sources, cygautoreconf, > or upgrade libtool? > Anyone have any ideas for the best approach? > Or just go for it and try each

Re: cygport build injecting /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/7.4.0/ paths

2021-11-12 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 10:50:41AM -0700, Brian Inglis wrote: > Got these errors trying to build latest ncurses on my system, so retried on > scallywag and got same result, with no clue where that is coming from! > There are no files in the tarball, repo, or build dirs containing 7.4.0 but > it

Re: Problem or question on Cygwin XWin

2021-06-14 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 04:41:42PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: > There is a listen parameter on XWin, but the man page doesn't > say what format to use for the listen parameter. > > I want to have it listen for tcp from a local net: 192.168.3.0. > > I started having problems with my cygwin X receiving

Re: odd prob for cygwin 'dd' from a character device on network disk

2021-06-11 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 08:20:30PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: > On 2021/06/09 19:23, Duncan Roe wrote: > > > > > nfs / nodev? > > > I'm not sure what you mean or are asking. > I'm not using nfs...but cygwin. > > The file 'zero' is in the same dir as the file 'null

Re: odd prob for cygwin 'dd' from a character device on network disk

2021-06-09 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 06:19:43PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: > I've been using a character device on linux in my > home directory named 'zero' that is a copy of the > 'zero' device in /dev: > crwxrwxrw- 1 1, 5 Jun 15 2015 zero > > to do read benchmarks using 'dd' (and write benchmarks > using a

Re: Test message - please ignore

2021-05-01 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 12:43:41PM +1000, Duncan Roe wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 09:41:26PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 11:47:46AM +1000, Duncan Roe wrote: > > >Test ezmlm replacement > > > > Please do

Re: Test message - please ignore

2021-05-01 Thread Duncan Roe
Hi Chris, On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 09:41:26PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 11:47:46AM +1000, Duncan Roe wrote: > >Test ezmlm replacement > > Please don't send test messages. If you have something to say, > send the message. That will show you

Test message - please ignore

2021-04-30 Thread Duncan Roe
Test ezmlm replacement -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Tee and file redirections are very slow to write anything.

2021-02-24 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 04:58:24PM -0500, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 2/24/2021 3:48 PM, ASSI wrote: > > Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin writes: > > > I found recently when trying to save output from a script for later > > > inspection that "tee" and file redirections seem to have massive > > >

Re: blockdev.exe is missing in util-linux. How to determine block device size in bash?

2020-12-06 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 12:43:25PM +0300, cygwin wrote: > Strange. On Win7 this doesn't work: > > il@mar2 /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32 > $ cat /proc/partitions > major minor #blocks name win-mounts > > 8 0 0 sda > 816 0 sdb > > il@mar2

Re: BUG: command invocation misinterpreted as variable setting, SOMETIMES.

2020-11-20 Thread Duncan Roe
Hi Jason, On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 02:52:09PM +, cygwin wrote: > > Good day - > > I am using a fairly up-to-date Cygwin: >release: cygwin >arch: x86_64 >setup-timestamp: 1603379981 >include-setup: setup <2.878 not supported >setup-minimum-version: 2.895 >setup-version:

Re: Failed assertion dialog box ATTN: Takashi Yano

2020-11-19 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 09:19:29AM +0900, cygwin wrote: > Hi all, > > On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 11:06:58 +1100 > Duncan Roe wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 07:30:20PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > > > > It does not seem to happen in xterm which is weird. &

Re: Failed assertion dialog box ATTN: Takashi Yano

2020-11-19 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 09:19:29AM +0900, cygwin wrote: > Hi all, > > On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 11:06:58 +1100 > Duncan Roe wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 07:30:20PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > > > > It does not seem to happen in xterm which is weird. &

Re: Failed assertion dialog box ATTN: Takashi Yano

2020-11-19 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 07:30:20PM +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > It does not seem to happen in xterm which is weird. It happens in an xterm for me. xterm is /dev/pty1 and mintty is /dev/pty0. They both do it. So I think it has to be pseudo-console. (xterm has DISPLAY set to a Linux system but

Re: Failed assertion dialog box

2020-11-14 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 11:21:12PM -0500, cygwin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 10:45 PM Duncan Roe > wrote: > > > Hi William, > > > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 12:27:57PM -0500, cygwin wrote: > > > I've run into a problem running a collection of tests under

Re: Failed assertion dialog box

2020-11-13 Thread Duncan Roe
Hi William, On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 12:27:57PM -0500, cygwin wrote: > I've run into a problem running a collection of tests under Cygwin and I > wonder if anyone can suggest a way around it. > > The problem occurs when a program being run fails a C/C++ runtime > assertion. Ordinarily, this just

Re: Cygwin-64 on W10-64 : the only game in town?

2020-11-01 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 08:49:23AM +, cygwin wrote: > With W7 no longer supported, W10-32 supported but no longer provided on > new machines (Microsoft states that, "Beginning with Windows 10, version > 2004, all new Windows 10 systems will be required to use 64-bit builds > and Microsoft will

Re: GDB missing libraries after upgrade

2020-10-31 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 02:09:28PM +0900, cygwin wrote: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 14:56:14 +1100, Duncan Roe > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 02:30:07PM +1100, Duncan Roe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Updated cygwin64 this morning and now gdb won't start. > >

Re: GDB missing libraries after upgrade

2020-10-30 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 02:30:07PM +1100, Duncan Roe wrote: > Hi, > > Updated cygwin64 this morning and now gdb won't start. > > cygcheck shows 2 missing libraries: > > 14:10:32$ cygcheck gdb > Found: C:\cygwin64\bin\gdb.exe > C:\cygwin64\bin\gdb.exe > C:\cy

GDB missing libraries after upgrade

2020-10-30 Thread Duncan Roe
Hi, Updated cygwin64 this morning and now gdb won't start. cygcheck shows 2 missing libraries: 14:10:32$ cygcheck gdb Found: C:\cygwin64\bin\gdb.exe C:\cygwin64\bin\gdb.exe C:\cygwin64\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.dll

Re: Problems with native Unix domain sockets on Win 10/2019

2020-09-25 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 04:30:45PM -0400, cygwin wrote: > On 9/25/2020 2:50 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > > On 9/25/2020 10:29 AM, Michael McMahon wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 25/09/2020 14:19, Ken Brown wrote: > > > > On 9/24/2020 8:01 AM, Michael McMahon wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Command line processing in dcrt0.cc does not match Microsoft parsing rules

2019-09-09 Thread Duncan Roe
Hi Eric, On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 11:57:21AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On 9/9/19 11:47 AM, Stephen Provine via cygwin wrote: > > Argh, my mistake about top posting again. My email client does not help me > > with this by default and I have to manually construct quoting of previous > > responses

Re: bug with grep 3.0.2 in cygwin 3.0.7

2019-08-30 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 09:42:46PM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 8/29/2019 3:08 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, ak...@free.fr! > > > > > Hi, > > > I encounter some problem with grep option -E on cygwin 3.0.7 > > > > > > > echo "a^b" | grep "a^b" #answer a^b ie it's OK > > > but > > > echo

Re: Error "fatal: write failure on 'stdout': No error" in native console

2019-08-16 Thread Duncan Roe
Hi Audrey, On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 01:36:58PM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, All! > > I'm trying to resolve the problem at my new workplace, which seems to be > affecting the ability to use git with VS Code. > It just does not see the repo, no matter if I point its nose directly to the >

Re: `std::stod ("nan")` returns negative NaN

2018-08-13 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:52:48PM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 at 11:16, Masamichi Hosoda wrote: [...] > On Fedora 27 with 7.3.1 it gives > ``` > stod ("nan") = nan > stod ("-nan") = nan > quiet_NaN () = nan > ``` [...] Same with Slackware 14.2 / gcc (GCC) 5.3.0 --

Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

2018-06-04 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 04:26:57PM -0400, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > > My mail servers regularly categorize cygwin at cygwin.com mail as spam. > > And then there is all of the mail that simply gets rejected because of > DMARC policies applied by the sender's domain. > > > There are other

Re: Floating point exception in strtod()

2018-04-07 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 04:56:13PM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 4/7/2018 1:40 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > > $ cat strtod_test.c > > #include > > #include > > #include > > > > int > > main () > > { > >   /* The following number comes from /usr/share/asymptote/ode.asy.  */ > >   const char *str =

Re: convenient trimming of quoted text to make points

2017-08-31 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 11:26:10AM -0400, cyg Simple wrote: > On 8/26/2017 2:04 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > > cyg Simple wrote: > >> On 8/24/2017 8:36 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > >>   > >>> If you can't trim your quoted text, then please stop burying the > >>> new stuff on the bottom. > >>>     > >> > >>

Re: alias appears to not work inside a called bash scripty

2017-08-21 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 06:30:15PM -0400, Michel LaBarre wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a 4 line bash script: > #!/bin/bash > alias nawk=gawk > alias nawk > nawk 'BEGIN {FS="^"} ; (length($0) > maxline) { maxline = length($0) ; > line=$0} ; END{print maxline, line}' $* > > > When I run

Re: Bug? wcsxfrm causing memory corruption

2017-05-20 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:30:46AM +0200, Erik Bray wrote: > Greetings-- > > In the process of fixing the Python test suite on Cygwin I ran across > one test that was consistently causing segfaults later on, not > directly local to that test. The test involves wcsxfrm so that's > where I focused

Re: Segfault using `watch -c` with ANSI escapes in output

2017-04-19 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:14:02AM +0200, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Duncan Roe wrote: > > > > Where does "watch" come from? It's not on my cygwin installation: > > > >> 16:12:50$ type watch > >> -bash: type: watch: not f

Re: Segfault using `watch -c` with ANSI escapes in output

2017-04-19 Thread Duncan Roe
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 01:36:34PM +0100, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > I'm seeing a segfault from using `watch -c` with commands that output > ANSI colour sequences, which is a bit sad given the whole point of the > `-c` is to get the ANSI colour sequences to be displayed. > > Simple test case: > >

Re: Cygwin - Install Liquidsoap for Shoutcast or Icecast

2017-03-27 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:58:23AM -0500, Vince Rice wrote: > >>> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Andrew Schulman > >>> You should start at https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi to see if > >>> someone has already packaged it for Cygwin. > >>> > >>> If no one has, then you can either

Re: inetutils-server, OpenSP and units install glitches and fixes

2017-03-27 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:48:07PM +, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote: > From: Ian Lambert via cygwin > > ... > > On a related note, using not ancient Red Hat 5.6 where the mirror is > > stored, tar won't expand the Cygwin packages? > > > > $ tar -xvf units-2.13-1.tar.xz > > > > tar: This

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

2017-02-27 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 09:08:55AM -0800, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:46:08, cyg Simple wrote: > > If *your* script has a dependency to run using *dash* instead of *sh* > > then you _must_ use #!/bin/dash anyway. > > I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Dash is.

Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

2016-12-07 Thread Duncan Roe
On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:11:42AM +0100, Gerrit Haase wrote: > 2016-12-01 11:51 GMT+01:00 Roberto Ríos Gallardo says: > > Please give the installers more meaningful names. In particular, make > > sure "cygwin" is part of it. "setup-x86_64.exe" is not very obvious. A > > version number would be

Re: Cygwin 64 problem

2016-11-27 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:02:29AM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/27/2016 9:03 AM, Girish Joglekar wrote: > > Hi Ken, > > Thank you for your reply on the Cygwin mailing list. I have created a > > slightly smaller test example smaller than what I had created in Feb. > > Attached is a tar file.

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux starts to compete with Cygwin?

2016-10-26 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 12:21:07AM +0300, Evgeny Grin wrote: > With latest Window Insider preview it's possible to run Linux command > from cmd, Windows commands from bash and even use input-output redirects! > https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/10/19/windows-and-ubuntu-interoperability/ >

Re: bc version has issue with \r when run from cmd

2016-10-24 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 06:19:31PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > >From: "L. A. Walsh" > > >Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 15:52:42 -0700 > > > > To L.A. Walsh. > > > > I understand all that but what i'm saying is that version 1.06 (not > > 1.06.95, which cygwin is using, but 1.06, which Gow uses),

Re: Autotools support group, forum, mailing list, ???

2016-10-02 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 06:13:07PM -0400, HiTech HiTouch wrote: > Please forgive the somewhat off topic, but people who use Autotools and > Mingw hang here and may be able to point me. > > I'm looking for a central place where people ask questions about Autotools > (autoconf automake, etc.). My

Re: pick or semilar

2016-09-01 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 04:28:07PM -0600, Doug Henderson wrote: > On 26 August 2016 at 15:46, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > On 17/08/2016 15:25, Morten Kjærulff wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is there a tool like "pick" > >> https://github.com/thoughtbot/pick > >> > >> in cygwin? > > > > I've just

Re: /dev/ptmx fails with Azure accounts

2016-08-08 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 09:05:27AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 7 13:27, Duncan Roe wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 12:27:51PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Aug 4 09:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > On Aug 3 15

Re: /dev/ptmx fails with Azure accounts

2016-08-06 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 12:27:51PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 4 09:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 3 15:05, rm...@aboutgolf.com wrote: > > > [...] > > > Unknown+User@Lenovo-PC /cygdrive/c/cygwin64 > > > $ ./azure-check2 > > > Sid:

Font error message during Cygwin update (mostly harmless)

2016-07-11 Thread Duncan Roe
Hi When upgrading to current 5.2.1 Cygwin, this message appears in the window: > Package: z/Perpetual > zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh exit code 1 The relevant lines in /var/log/setup.log.full appear to be: > 2016/07/11 22:24:30 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile >

Re: mintty issue with version 2.3.7

2016-07-10 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:56:14AM +0200, Christoph Zimmermann wrote: > After the recent update to version 2.3.7 mintty prints the error message > > Error: could not open log file: File exists. > : File exists > > every time I open a mintty window. I've tracked this down to the following >

Re: Help debugging a dll issue

2016-05-21 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 07:30:37PM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 5/19/2016 10:54 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > >Dear Cygwin friends -- > > > >I am trying to get pypy to build under cygwin. (It used to do so, but > >has not been maintained.) I am very close, but there is something quite > >odd

Re: Help debugging a dll issue

2016-05-20 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 08:02:20AM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 5/20/2016 7:26 AM, Duncan Roe wrote: > > >Hi Eliot, > > > >Do you know what is the name of the totally different symbol? (maybe from nm > >-D) > > Yes -- I have been using nm and objdump to exa

Re: Help debugging a dll issue

2016-05-20 Thread Duncan Roe
here is something else > there of use > in this situation. > > Regards -- EM > Hi Eliot, Do you know what is the name of the totally different symbol? (maybe from nm -D) I wrote a "findit" utility a while back - it would be interesting if it gave the same answer for both

Re: bcftools error running Make after installing update 2.4.1.1 to Cygwin64

2016-01-25 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 09:30:29PM +, David Stacey wrote: > On 25/01/16 21:00, Robert May wrote: > >many warnings are given in the following text - see end for error message > > > >echo '#define BCFTOOLS_VERSION "1.3"'> version.h > >gcc -g -Wall -Wc++-compat -O2 -std=c99 -I. -Ihtslib-1.3 >

Re: FW: Error installing/updating Cygwin on Windows 10

2016-01-24 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 02:30:34PM -0500, Maarten Jacobs wrote: > Hello, > > I have been getting the following error when I update/install packages in > Cygwin (32-bit) on Windows 10: > > Package: _/Unknown package > base-files-mketc.sh exit code 1 > > When I look at /var/log/setup.log.full, it

Re: Error installing/updating Cygwin on Windows 10

2016-01-24 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 05:09:54PM -0500, Maarten Jacobs wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:02:07 +1100 > > From: duncan_...@acslink.net.au > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > Subject: Re: FW: Error installing/updating Cygwin on Windows 10 > > > > On Sun, Jan

Re: Rounding off real (floating point) values - bash to awk

2015-12-03 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 09:18:52AM -0500, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 11/26/2015 8:24 AM, Lester Anderson wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I can use a script like: > > > >#!/bin/bash > >x=3.7 > ># pass variable x to awk via -v (var=value) > >awk -v x=$x 'BEGIN { printf "%3.0f\n", x }' > ># > > > >which returns

Re: Calling cygpath from find exec?

2015-12-01 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 02:23:33PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/23/2015 01:45 PM, Matt D. wrote: > > Is there a reason why these produce different results? > > > > find . -exec cygpath -wa {} \; > > find . -exec echo $(cygpath -wa {}) \; > > Incorrect quoting. You are invoking: > > find .

Re: cygwin 64bit on Win7 gcc internal compiler error: Segmentation fault on floating point literal 10.0

2015-11-21 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 07:02:50PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/21/2015 3:10 PM, David Standish wrote: > >gcc is broken on fresh install of 64 bit cygwin on 64 bit Win7 > >Enterprise on new laptop. > >version 4.9.3-1 , but other versions broken as well (4.9.2-3, 5.2.0-1) > > > >I suspect there

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-30 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 08:43:20AM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: > Am 28.10.2015 um 21:38 schrieb Duncan Roe: > >As it happens, I also saw that message last night. I only wanted to > >*reinstall* > >everything I had installed previously, owing to AVG antivirus having deleted &g

Re: initial cygwin installation

2015-10-28 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:05:06AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Oct 27, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > > > From: Warren Young > >> > >> On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:11 PM, t s wrote: > >>> > >>> Q: How do I install everything? > >>> A: You do not want to do this! > >> > >> I explain this

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-29 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 05:57:06AM -0400, Bryan Berns wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Andrey Repin anrdae...@yandex.ru wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is on the

Re: tclsh does not export changes to env to child process

2015-07-04 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Stas Maximov stas.maxi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Tcl shell does not export changes to array variable env: http://wiki.tcl.tk/env Test script: test_env_export1: - begin -- set env(FILENAME) filename_val puts $env(PATH)

Re: How ask a question on Tkgate for Cygwin ?

2015-05-31 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 12:39:04PM +0200, Rémi 2005 wrote: Hello, I've worked hard and I found some responses alone. But it's not enough... Cygwin doesn't find the make command but I've added to Cygwin the make and the gcc g++ compiler. And now, when I run configure, Cygwin try to compile

Re: [TESTERS needed] New POSIX permission handling

2015-05-16 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:20:10PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Steven Penny wrote: Here is the test I ran: The test I ran here http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-04/msg00186.html is now failing again: $ cd /cygdrive/c $ touch ~/{alpha,bravo}.sh

Re: Can I move Cygwin and Cygwin64 to a drive other than C: ?

2015-04-06 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 12:55:51AM -0500, Robert Miles wrote: On 4/1/2015 3:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 1 03:26, Robert Miles wrote: The C: drive on one of my 64-bit Windows 7 computers is approaching 90% full, but there are two other drives that are nearly empty. Can I move the

Re: g++4.9.2 fails to compile standard C++11 code

2015-03-12 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 06:55:16PM -0400, Vlad Gheorghiu wrote: The following code fails to compile under latest cygwin, Windows 7, g++4.9.2. Compiled with g++ -std=c++11 test.cpp. The compiler complains that std::log2 is not a member of std. #include cmath #include iostream

Odd ezmlm warning messages from this list

2015-01-29 Thread Duncan Roe
Hi, I get messages like the one below now and then. From the message text it would seem something has gone wrong with the mail formatting (2 reply addresses). This is just a heads-up, Cheers ... Duncan. - Forwarded message from cygwin-h...@cygwin.com - Date: 18 Jan 2015 00:03:42 -

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.5

2014-11-07 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 06:23:54PM +, Habermann, David (D) wrote: I just released a 5th TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release, 1.7.33-0.5. Ever since using this 1.7.33-0.x series (currently running 1.7.33-0.5) I've been having intermittent trouble with one of my scripts, and

Re: mintty: WINCH-signal to child

2014-10-19 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:02:33PM +0100, Helmut Karlowski wrote: When I run for example an editor from a shell in a mintty-window and change the window-size the editor is informed by a WINCH-signal. That is good. But the shell it was started from does not know about the change, so after

Re: Problem with cron jobs

2014-08-21 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 07:59:29AM -0400, Cary Lewis wrote: I have created a small shell script that acts like a network connectivity watchdog, which checks for a successful ping to the internet, and if it doesn't work, restarts the machine. When I attempt to run it from a cron job, the

Re: Missing strings.exe in binutils

2014-06-01 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 07:01:41PM -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote: Hi - I have a script within a very complex software package that uses the strings command. Everything I Googled/read suggests that strings.exe comes from the binutils package. The problem is that neither of the available versions

Re: POXIX regexp and i686-pc-mingw32-g++

2014-04-30 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 05:50:45PM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Can anyone help me to use the POSIX regexp library (header regex.h) with the i686-pc-mingw32-g++ compiler? I've searched through google and I can't find any example of this. If this won't work, does anyone have a practical

Re: No shortcuts after default install - how to start cygwin?

2014-04-26 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 07:35:03PM +1000, ben modra wrote: Hi, After performing a standard (default) install using setup-x86.exe, there are no shortcuts in the start menu or desktop. I don't really mind but don't know how to initiate cygwin without it. Its a work pc, which means I have

Re: GIT (was: Coverity Scan)

2014-04-25 Thread Duncan Roe
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 08:42:34AM +0800, JonY wrote: On 4/26/2014 07:27, Andrey Repin wrote: This is exactly what makes me dislike it strongly. This, and idiotic model of copying whole repository to my machine, when I only want to glance at the source code, and find the culprit of my

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-11 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:47:26PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: On 4/10/2014 20:16, Duncan Roe wrote: Yes, I'm one of those users. I need my login name to match the Linux systems so I can use rsh and not be challenged for a password when the cygwin host name is in ~/.rhosts If you switch

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-11 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 02:39:34PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 11 16:20, Duncan Roe wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:47:26PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: On 4/10/2014 20:16, Duncan Roe wrote: Yes, I'm one of those users. I need my login name to match the Linux systems so I

Re: setting cygwin terminal (mintty) title from a very remote system

2014-04-11 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I typically connect to systems through several hops; this note is about how I managed to set the title of the cygwin terminal to match the remote system. Usually it just shows the name on the first hop only. I would love to learn

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:11:20PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 10 12:42, Warren Young wrote: On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: * Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username. This is a really fat problem. Who needs this functionality? I

Re: set Cygwin terminal title

2014-04-08 Thread Duncan Roe
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:55:02PM +0100, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:24:29PM +0100, xmoon 2000 wrote: Ho can I set Cygwin termnal title? I have tried echoing every escape sequence I have found on web. None seem to work. It's reasonably likely your `$PS1` includes

Re: Trouble with running cygwin dll on Vortex86MX+ CPU

2014-04-07 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 06:12:56PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 4/7/2014 5:09 PM, Colin wrote: snip Indeed. And if your path under bash doesn't include /usr/bin, then I'll wager your postinstall scripts didn't run or at least completely/correctly. See /etc/postinstall for the

Re: Request for Junctions be treated consistently

2014-04-07 Thread Duncan Roe
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:34:02AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Look, directory reparse points are, by and large, symlinks to another, real directory entry. The directory has a primary path, which is its own path under which it has been created, and the reparse point is

NOT WORKED AROUND Re: No I/O redirection under GDB

2014-04-05 Thread Duncan Roe
. On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 03:15:14PM +1100, Duncan Roe wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 10:51:24PM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote: On 4/4/2014 10:29 PM, Duncan Roe wrote: I just found that gdb's run command doesn't action redirection (e.g. run /dev/pty2 /dev/pty2 21, where the shell on /dev/pty2

No I/O redirection under GDB

2014-04-04 Thread Duncan Roe
I just found that gdb's run command doesn't action redirection (e.g. run /dev/pty2 /dev/pty2 21, where the shell on /dev/pty2 is doing a long sleep). Instead, the invoked program gets the redirections as command line arguments. Looking through the archives, I found

WORKED AROUND Re: No I/O redirection under GDB

2014-04-04 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 10:51:24PM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote: On 4/4/2014 10:29 PM, Duncan Roe wrote: I just found that gdb's run command doesn't action redirection (e.g. run /dev/pty2 /dev/pty2 21, where the shell on /dev/pty2 is doing a long sleep). Instead, the invoked program gets

FIXED: GCC can't find its header directoriescy

2013-04-11 Thread Duncan Roe
Thanks Dave - removing the old cygwin dlls from C:\WINDOWS fixed gcc alternatives. I put them there because I like to have the odd cygwin utility available to CMD.EXE. May put them back - but will take more care with them in future, Cheers ... Duncan. -- Problem reports:

RE: FIXED: GCC can't find its header directoriescy

2013-04-11 Thread Duncan Roe
Hi Casba, On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Duncan Roe wrote: Thanks Dave - removing the old cygwin dlls from C:\WINDOWS fixed gcc alternatives. I put them there because I like to have the odd cygwin utility available to CMD.EXE. May put them back - but will take more care

RE: FIXED: GCC can't find its header directoriescy

2013-04-11 Thread Duncan Roe
Thanks all - it is done Greetings, Duncan Roe! Thanks Dave - removing the old cygwin dlls from C:\WINDOWS fixed gcc alternatives. I put them there because I like to have the odd cygwin utility available to CMD.EXE. May put them back - but will take more care with them

1.7.15: gcc fails to load: missing cygmpfr-4.dll

2013-04-10 Thread Duncan Roe
I have just installed cygwin on this system. When I try to compile a small program, I get this error: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/cc1.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygmpfr-4.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ldd agrees: 11:47:53$ ldd

1.7.15 gcc post-install fails altdir /etc/alternatives invalid

2013-04-10 Thread Duncan Roe
Fresh install on this system. Installer reports errors: on checking setup.log.full I see errors like 2013/04/11 11:07:36 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/gcc4-fortran.sh altdir /etc/alternatives invalid 2013/04/11 11:07:36 abnormal exit: exit code=2 2013/04/11

GCC can't find its header directoriescy

2013-04-10 Thread Duncan Roe
Thanks guys for the pointers to cygmpfr-4.dll. Got it. This problem with headers started happening on an old installation so I reinstalled but it still happens: 12:31:51$ gcc -v strerror.c -o strerror Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc

FW: GCC can't find its header directories: test C file

2013-04-10 Thread Duncan Roe
Sorry - meant to include source so you can easily test, Cheers ... Duncan. -Original Message- From: Duncan Roe Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2013 3:13 PM To: cygwin. Subject: GCC can't find its header directoriescy Thanks guys for the pointers to cygmpfr-4.dll. Got it. This problem