Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] procps-ng 3.3.12-2

On Mon, 6/19/17, Wayne Porter <> wrote: Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] procps-ng 3.3.12-2 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Monday, June 19, 2017, 12:30 PM The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * procps-ng-3.3.12-2 * libprocps-ng6-3.3.12-2 *

RE: How to find out the current cygwin version?

On September 8, 2017 9:05:31 AM EDT, "Nellis, Kenneth" wrote: >From: David Billinghurst >> On 8/09/2017 14:39, Ben Stover via cygwin wrote: >> >> > Assume I get to another (Windows) computer where Cygwin is already >> installed. >> > >> > How can I find out which

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

On Wed, 7/26/17, Brian Inglis <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2017, 1:07 PM > Anyway, Achim can easily fix this. You can fix this locally quickly using: $ fgrep

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

On Wed, 7/26/17, Achim Gratz <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2017, 1:13 PM Ian Lambert via cygwin writes: > Indeed, Cygwin is installed on a FAT32

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

On Tue, 7/25/17, Brian Inglis <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 8:09 PM Unless you are on some FAT or other legacy filesystem that might object to

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

On Tue, 7/25/17, Brian Inglis <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 3:57 PM On 2017-07-25 12:16, Achim Gratz wrote: > Brian Inglis writes: >> rebaselst uses touch -t

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

On Tue, 7/25/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Normally you don't ever need to think about rebasing on x86_64.  The perpetual postinstall script /etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash should handle everything without any manual intervention.  You might

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

> On July 24, 2017 10:58:29 PM EDT, Ken Brown <> wrote: >> On 7/24/2017 6:08 PM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: >>> This time I ran "rebase-trigger full", did full shutdown/restart, >> then ran setup. >> >>>    0 [main] nautilus

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

On July 24, 2017 10:58:29 PM EDT, Ken Brown <> wrote: >On 7/24/2017 6:08 PM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: >> This time I ran "rebase-trigger full", did full shutdown/restart, >then ran setup. > >And are you sure there were no Cygwin processes running? This

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

On Mon, 7/24/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: "Ian Lambert" <>, cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Monday, July 24, 2017, 3:51 PM On 7/24/2017 12:08 PM, Ian Lambert wrote: > On Sun, 7/23/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: >  Yes, there was a change

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

On Mon, 7/24/17, Brian Inglis wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Monday, July 24, 2017, 1:02 PM On 2017-07-23 13:18, mike wrote: > On 23/07/2017

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

On Sun, 7/23/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sunday, July 23, 2017, 5:18 PM On 7/23/2017 8:32 AM, mike wrote: > Hi > > I updated my Cywin installation on the

Re: How to repeat a bash shell script until success

On July 14, 2017 9:06:02 AM EDT, cyg Simple <> wrote: >On 7/14/2017 1:27 AM, Gary Johnson wrote: >> On 2017-07-12, Bryan Dunphy wrote: >>> I have a shell script, originally created for Mac OS X. that waits >>> for an external drive to be mounted (by . >> > >In reality the OP script appears to be

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] vim 8.0.0647-1

On Sun, 6/18/17, Yaakov Selkowitz <> wrote: Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] vim 8.0.0647-1 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sunday, June 18, 2017, 11:58 PM The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * vim-8.0.0647-1 * vim-common-8.0.0647-1 * vim-minimal-8.0.0647-1 *

A success installing Dataplot using Cygwin, thanks to this list

Question: Would this software be a candidate for a Cygwin package? Disclaimer: My testing has been minimal so far, but the X GUI and command line versions seem to work OK. "Dataplot® is a free, public-domain, multi-platform (Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP/VISTA/7/8/10) software system for

Re: Compile/run problems on cygwin not solved by going to cygwin64

On Wed, 6/28/17, Wouter van Doorn <> wrote: Subject: Compile/run problems on cygwin not solved by going to cygwin64 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2017, 4:00 PM == This is what ldd has to say about

libuv uv__io_poll or uv__poll_io R tolerance, giving me uv polio, help?

Can someone please help with getting libuv to compile, as part of: $ R CMD /usr/lib/R/bin/INSTALL -l /usr/lib/R/site-library httpuv_1.3.3[mod].tar.gz I think I may have stumbled across a bug in the libuv core.c and/or internal.h source, but I'm not sure. From a search of the maillist, I know

Re: Two undefined links after installing tcl-tk

On June 11, 2017 6:45:29 AM EDT, Marco Atzeri <> wrote: >On 11/06/2017 08:24, Ugly Leper wrote: >> Two undefined links after installing tcl-tk are >> /lib/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh -> ../tclConfig.sh >> /lib/tk8.6/tkConfig.sh -> ../tkConfig.sh >> There are no such .sh files at /lib or at /usr/lib (or

Re: setup 2.880 release candidate - please test

On June 7, 2017 1:07:39 PM EDT, Jon Turney wrote: > >A new setup release candidate is available at: > >Changes compared to 2.879: > >- Add the option "--user-agent" to override the user-agent string sent >in HTTP requests. >(Addresses: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00857.html

Re: setup release candidate - please test

On Fri, 5/26/17, Jon Turney <> wrote: Subject: Re: setup release candidate - please test To: "The Cygwin Mailing List" Cc: "Ian Lambert" <> Date: Friday, May 26, 2017, 8:05 AM On 17/05/2017 20:38, Jon Turney wrote: > On 16/05/2017 15:06, Jon Turney wrote: >> I don't

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: units 2.14-1

On May 22, 2017 2:09:35 PM EDT, Brian Inglis wrote: >On 2017-05-21 23:45, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2017-04-27 13:20, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> * units-2.14-1 >>> >>> The Units program converts quantities > >Timegenie.com cert has been renewed for another 3 months until August >19 >and

Re: setup release candidate - please test

On Tue, 5/16/17, Brian Inglis <> wrote: Subject: Re: setup release candidate - please test To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2017, 12:55 PM > Except not using the option, this is the only one I found that works here with wget: >

Re: setup release candidate - please test

> >>> Does it work if you try user agent combos of >>> {Cygwin-Setup,CygwinSetup}/{2.878-3,2.878}? None of these work with wget. >> >> You might also try with no user-agent (wget --user-agent="" apparently) This also does not work with wget. > Depending on the results of the

Re: setup release candidate - please test

On Mon, 5/15/17, Jon Turney <> wrote: Subject: Re: setup release candidate - please test To: "The Cygwin Mailing List" <cygwin@cygwin.com> Cc: "Ian Lambert" <> Date: Monday, May 15, 2017, 12:12 PM On 15/

Re: setup release candidate - please test

On Sun, 5/14/17, Jon Turney <> wrote: Subject: Re: setup release candidate - please test To: "The Cygwin Mailing List" <cygwin@cygwin.com> Cc: "Ian Lambert" <> Date: Sunday, May 14, 2017, 9:53 AM On 08/

Re: setup release candidate - please test

On May 8, 2017 7:06:31 AM EDT, Jon Turney wrote: > >A setup release candidate is available at: > > https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86.exe > https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86_64.exe > As reported before, _64 still can't make it through my location's

Re: How to debug XWin starting only sometimes?

On May 1, 2017 11:19:59 AM EDT, Leon Meier wrote: > >Starting startxwin from mintty actually succeeds (always or at least >more often than starting through the shortcut). This has been my experience as well. Not much recently, but now and then the black X appears, but the xdg-menu does not.

Re: Various packages rebuilt for dependencies

On March 28, 2017 3:16:08 PM EDT, Chad Dougherty wrote: >On 2017-03-22 17:44, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: >> >[...] >> * vim-8.0.0494-1 > >I have a new problem with this update. When I invoke vim as

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

On March 27, 2017 8:48:07 AM EDT, "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 -xv

inetutils-server, OpenSP and units install glitches and fixes

Running setup updates and installs in mirror-mode, I had 3 problems. The first is "fixed." The 2nd is fixed, with a question. The 3rd is still a puzzle. Setup message: Package: _/Unknown package inetutils-server.sh exit code 1 OpenSP.sh exit code 127 /var/log/setup.log.full

Re: Volunteer to update GNU Scientific Library package to gsl-2.2?

On Thu, 3/23/17, zab2t wrote: Subject: Volunteer to update GNU Scientific Library package to gsl-2.2? To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thursday, March 23, 2017, 3:08 PM Is there anyone willing to volunteer to update the GNU Scientific Library package to at least version gsl-2.x?

Re: Very Slow Setup Parsing / was Re: Segmentation Faults

On Wed, 3/22/17, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote: Subject: Re: Very Slow Setup Parsing / was Re: Segmentation Faults To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2017, 12:10 PM On 3/22/2017 11:59 AM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: > I've now downloaded a complete cygw

Very Slow Setup Parsing / was Re: Segmentation Faults

On Wed, 2/8/17, Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: Segmentation Faults To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 1:31 PM On 08/02/2017 18:13, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: > FWIW, since doing the updates late last month, many program

Segmentation Faults

FWIW, since doing the updates late last month, many programs are seg faulting for me, including XWin, wget, curl, ssh, procps, top, gawk... mintty, bash, vi, cd, and ls still work, so all is not lost, but I'm certainly not able to use cygwin as much as before, and recovery is more difficult

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lapack-3.7.0-1

On Thu, 1/12/17, Marco Atzeri wrote: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lapack-3.7.0-1 To: "Ian Lambert" , cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017, 6:58 AM On 11/01/2017 21:29, Ian Lambert wrote: > On January 11, 2017 3:41:42 AM EST, Marco Atzeri  wrote: >> To:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lapack-3.7.0-1

On January 11, 2017 3:41:42 AM EST, Marco Atzeri wrote: >To: cygwin-annou...@cygwin.com >Subject: Updated: lapack-3.7.0-1 > >New versions lapack-3.7.0-1 of > >lapack (source) >liblapack0 >liblapack-devel >liblapack-doc > >are available in the Cygwin distribution, 32 and 64 bit : > Is anyone

Re: Setup not asking for proxy user,password / was Resend: pdfseparate does nothing for me?

On Tue, 12/13/16, Brian Inglis wrote: Subject: Re: Setup not asking for proxy user,password / was Resend: pdfseparate does nothing for me? To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2016, 3:57 PM On 2016-12-13 11:43, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: > On Mon, 12/12/16, Achim Gr

Re: Setup not asking for proxy user,password / was Resend: pdfseparate does nothing for me?

On Mon, 12/12/16, Achim Gratz wrote: Subject: Re: Setup not asking for proxy user,password / was Resend: pdfseparate does nothing for me? To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Monday, December 12, 2016, 1:40 PM Ian Lambert via cygwin writes: > Maybe a comparison of how wget hand

Periodic search for FAQ link update for clean_setup.pl?

Looking for suggestions on cleaning up package directories, https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.setup.disk-space has a broken link, again, to clean_setup.pl ? Mailing list search finds: https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-06/msg00573.html that has an old version attached, 1.0700

Re: Fwd: Re: DMARC - gmail.com or is it yahoo.com

On Sat, 12/10/16, Christopher Faylor wrote: Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: DMARC - gmail.com or is it yahoo.com To: ... Date: Saturday, December 10, 2016, 3:39 PM I just turned on a new DMARC-aware version of ezmlm-send which rewrites the From

Re: Setup not asking for proxy user,password / was Resend: pdfseparate does nothing for me?

On Thu, 12/8/16, Achim Gratz wrote: Subject: Re: Setup not asking for proxy user,password / was Resend: pdfseparate does nothing for me? To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thursday, December 8, 2016, 2:22 PM Ian Lambert writes: > The proxy gives the 407 error, based on some testing > with