Re: HOWTO: cross-compile the Linux kernel on Cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 11/06/2012 11:31 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Prerequisites: * Cygwin snapshot 1.7.16s/20120611 or newer (DLL and headers) * Cygwin gcc4-core 4.5 or newer, make, perl * Cygwin gettext, libelf-devel, libgmp-devel, libmpc-devel, libmpfr-devel, zlib-devel * (for make menuconfig)

Re: HOWTO: cross-compile the Linux kernel on Cygwin

2012-06-12 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 12/06/2012 12:34 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 6/12/2012 9:17 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:31:59PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Prerequisites: [snip] Nice, Yaakov. Indeed, this is a real cool addition to Cygwin's capabilities Yaakov. :-) Should we

Re: child_info_fork::abort:

2012-06-11 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 11/06/2012 9:49 AM, Rodrigo Botafogo wrote: Ryan, Thanks also for your reply. In your reply you say that if the system has a very large number of DLL rebase might not work. Just for curiosity, what is a large number of DLL? When do I run a risk of having problems with rebaseall? Short

Re: How to avoid the installation of Latex

2012-06-11 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 11/06/2012 11:31 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: I tried to avoid the installation of all the latex stuff because first It consumes a lot of time and second I use Miktex so there is no need for it. It also seems to be impossible to get rid of it after it was installed. I had this problem a

Re: i686-pc-mingw32-gcc 4.5.2 and static linking libstdc++-6?

2012-06-08 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 08/06/2012 10:55 AM, Dennis Isenhour wrote: On 2012-06-01 22:40, Greg Chicares wrote: What if you use i686-pc-mingw32-g++ instead of i686-pc-mingw32-gcc? I've tried that (so i'm no longer receiving the unrecognized option warning message), but I must still be doing something wrong as I'm

Re: Windows 8 Release Preview. fork problems with rsync

2012-06-07 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 06/06/2012 12:12 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 6 16:41, Bertrand Latinville wrote: I'm using rsync --chmod=ug=rwX -arvz --prune-empty-dirs --include=*/ --include-from=include-file.txt --exclude=* ${source_dir}/ ${dest_dir} Thanks. I can confirm the effect. For no apparent

Re: child_info_fork::abort:

2012-06-05 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 05/06/2012 11:45 AM, Rodrigo Botafogo wrote: I´m using the latest cygwin distribution 1.7.15-1 and I´m using Ruby with netcdf. I keep on getting the following messages: 0 [main] ruby 8140 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed by 'cygnetcdf-7.dll' (0x42) is already occupied

Re: Mintty Log Off problem (now 1.7.16s)

2012-05-30 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 30/05/2012 11:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 29 12:41, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: On 05/29/12 12:31, Andy Koppe wrote: On 29 May 2012 17:17, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: Ryan Johnson wrote: I routinely encounter mintty windows that don't close after I exit the login shell they run

Re: Mintty Log Off problem (now 1.7.16s)

2012-05-29 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 28/05/2012 1:32 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: On 02/18/12 11:28, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: I've found a little more information -- this problem goes away if I change my default shell to dash. Seems tcsh is involved somehow. It comes back when I change my default shell back to tcsh. Going

Re: Mintty Log Off problem (now 1.7.16s)

2012-05-29 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 29/05/2012 2:27 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 29 May 2012 13:57, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 28/05/2012 1:32 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: On 02/18/12 11:28, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: I've found a little more information -- this problem goes away if I change my default shell to dash. Seems tcsh

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 14/05/2012 12:30 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing list and not a vBulletin type forum. I second the motion. No. Mailing lists are

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.15

2012-05-12 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 12/05/2012 11:46 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:11:06AM +, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Cygwin friends and users, I just released 1.7.15. This is a bugfix release. Only one new feature has been added. This release breaks fifo support

Re: Short gdb question.

2012-05-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/05/2012 8:39 AM, Reid Thompson wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 14:37 +, Reid Thompson wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 00:45 -0700, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Alright if I download and compile it can I just mv gdb.exe into /bin and overwrite gdb.exe? use ./configure --prefix=/

Re: gdb problem

2012-05-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/05/2012 1:19 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/3/2012 11:10 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 04:05:04PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/23/2011 5:47 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/23/2011 3:04 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 04:37:55PM -0400, Ken Brown

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-24.0.96-1 (TEST)

2012-05-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/05/2012 1:39 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/3/2012 4:10 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 03/05/2012 10:45 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/2/2012 5:02 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 02/05/2012 1:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: The gdb-mi integration also seems to work reasonably well, with a few exceptions

Re: elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/05/2012 11:46 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 05:03:23PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-05-03 10:24, Christopher Faylor wrote: Right. I've noticed the incompleteness of elf.h from time to time too but extending it would be tedious since you can't just

Re: [bug] elf.h incomplete

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/05/2012 9:24 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: On 03.05.2012 17:08, Earnie Boyd wrote: To build the Linux kernel under Cygwin requires you have the proper libraries and headers for Linux installed in the cross environment. It should not be using the libraries and headers provided by the Cygwin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-24.0.96-1 (TEST)

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/05/2012 10:45 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/2/2012 5:02 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 02/05/2012 1:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 02/05/2012 9:55 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/30/2012 11:52 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/04/2012 10:08 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/30/2012 9:07 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote

Re: Short gdb question.

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/05/2012 7:47 PM, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Is this the right place to suggest that gdb be upgraded for cygwin. If not where could I suggest that? If this is an acceptable place then can I add here that if you guys do upgrade gdb that I was hoping you could make it a bit more

Re: Licensing questions

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/05/2012 11:38 PM, Fedin Pavel wrote: On 03.05.2012 19:24, Christopher Faylor wrote: Right. I've noticed the incompleteness of elf.h from time to time too but extending it would be tedious since you can't just cut/paste from a GPLv* file. Maybe one of the BSDs has something more

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-24.0.96-1 (TEST)

2012-05-02 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 02/05/2012 9:55 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/30/2012 11:52 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/04/2012 10:08 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/30/2012 9:07 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/04/2012 8:48 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/04/2012 4:08 PM, Ken Brown wrote: Test releases of the emacs, emacs-X11

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-24.0.96-1 (TEST)

2012-05-02 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 02/05/2012 1:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 02/05/2012 9:55 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/30/2012 11:52 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/04/2012 10:08 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/30/2012 9:07 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/04/2012 8:48 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/04/2012 4:08 PM, Ken Brown wrote

Re: gdb hanging in emacs

2012-04-30 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 29/04/2012 6:19 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:53:24AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/28/2012 3:58 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use a home-built cross-gdb to do some remote debugging over tcp, but running gdb inside emacs doesn't work. M-x gud-gdb

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-24.0.96-1 (TEST)

2012-04-30 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 30/04/2012 4:08 PM, Ken Brown wrote: Test releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages (24.0.96-1) are now available. This is a pretest for the upcoming release of emacs-24.1. Emacs users are encouraged to try it and report any problems to the cygwin mailing list. I'm

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-24.0.96-1 (TEST)

2012-04-30 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 30/04/2012 8:48 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/04/2012 4:08 PM, Ken Brown wrote: Test releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages (24.0.96-1) are now available. This is a pretest for the upcoming release of emacs-24.1. Emacs users are encouraged to try it and report any

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-24.0.96-1 (TEST)

2012-04-30 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 30/04/2012 10:08 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/30/2012 9:07 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/04/2012 8:48 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/04/2012 4:08 PM, Ken Brown wrote: Test releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages (24.0.96-1) are now available. This is a pretest for the upcoming

gdb hanging in emacs

2012-04-28 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, I'm trying to use a home-built cross-gdb to do some remote debugging over tcp, but running gdb inside emacs doesn't work. M-x gud-gdb works fine, it's something wrong with the emacs integration. Unlike past times this has come up, the issue doesn't seem to be related to seg faults;

How to access /dev/ttyS* ?

2012-04-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, I'm trying to connect a VirtualBox guest's serial port to something that cygwin/gdb can access for remote debugging, and am having trouble connecting the pieces... One post from a couple of years ago [1] suggests using /dev/ttyS* to access COM ports. This would work great... except

Re: How to access /dev/ttyS* ?

2012-04-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 26/04/2012 4:04 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 26 11:48, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to connect a VirtualBox guest's serial port to something that cygwin/gdb can access for remote debugging, and am having trouble connecting the pieces... One post from a couple of years ago

Re: Building for nocygwin

2012-04-23 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 23/04/2012 9:56 AM, Michel Bardiaux wrote: [snip] That is the general solution. The error message was appropriate and gave a clue. Beyond that you'll need to communicate a patch to the maintainers of the package that is still using -mno-cygwin. Let me rephrase. gcc-3 -mno-cygwin -o

Re: snprintf() with g++ -std=c++98: error: 'snprintf' was not declared in this scope

2012-04-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/04/2012 9:32 AM, Denis Excoffier wrote: Hello, It could be that snprintf() is not properly declared instdio.h. According to [1], it's not officially part of c++98 (???). Try gnu++98 instead. As for why it's not in c++0x, there's a problem with the macros being defined [2] that AFAIK

Re: snprintf() with g++ -std=c++98: error: 'snprintf' was not declared in this scope

2012-04-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/04/2012 11:18 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 4 16:54, Denis Excoffier wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:02:24AM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/04/2012 9:32 AM, Denis Excoffier wrote: Hello, It could be that snprintf() is not properly declared instdio.h. According to [1], it's

Re: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs

2012-03-30 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 30/03/2012 9:27 AM, Ken Brown wrote: If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin bash prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an outgoing message with `recipient' as recipient and `subject' as subject. (This is what happens if I type the same URL into

Re: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs

2012-03-30 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 30/03/2012 9:43 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/03/2012 9:27 AM, Ken Brown wrote: If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin bash prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an outgoing message with `recipient' as recipient and `subject' as subject

Re: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs

2012-03-30 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 30/03/2012 11:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 30 09:43, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/03/2012 9:27 AM, Ken Brown wrote: If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin bash prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an outgoing message with `recipient

Re: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs

2012-03-30 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 30/03/2012 1:52 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/30/2012 12:04 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/03/2012 11:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 30 09:43, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 30/03/2012 9:27 AM, Ken Brown wrote: If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin bash prompt, I

Compiler warnings when building latest cygwin cvs with gcc-4.6 (0/2)

2012-03-29 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all While trying to build the cygwin dll from source, I accidentally left my home-built gcc-4.6 in PATH... and it complains loudly about all kinds of things, some of which might actually be of interest. I'll follow up shortly with two patches that fix those problems in a backwards

Re: Compiler warnings when building latest cygwin cvs with gcc-4.6 (1/2)

2012-03-29 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 29/03/2012 10:36 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Patch 1: fix function attribute conflicts * dcrt0.cc (getstack): Simplify function attribute declarations. (do_exit): Remove conflicting function attributes. * environ.cc (various): Ditto. * errno.cc (various): Ditto

Re: Compiler warnings when building latest cygwin cvs with gcc-4.6 (2/2)

2012-03-29 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 29/03/2012 10:36 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Patch 2: fix compiler misc. warnings * fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_disk_file::fchmod): Fix harmless out of bounds array access. * hookapi.cc (find_first_notloaded_dll): Remove write-only variable. * net.cc

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-28 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 28/03/2012 6:43 PM, JonY wrote: On 3/29/2012 04:21, Brian Wilson wrote: I hope it doesn't leave the system in an unusable state if some DLL is still in use. I may be wrong but I'm nearly certain that has been Corinna's goal from the start. She is sometimes just a little too M. A lot of

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-27 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 27/03/2012 7:40 AM, Michael Lutz wrote: Am 27.03.2012 10:36 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: Needless to say that the ultimately most efficient way would be to find a method to avoid rebase problems after fork at all. The last attempt at it looked promising at first, but then again...

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-27 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 27/03/2012 4:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 26 22:59, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 26/03/2012 9:40 PM, Jason Tishler wrote: New News: === I have updated the version of rebase to 4.1.0-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-27 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 27/03/2012 11:29 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 27 11:18, Ryan Johnson wrote: The problem right now -- at least in my naive invocations -- is that rebaseall attempts to rebase things which are in-use. Perhaps the initial in-sync-ness check opens the file in exclusive mode and fails? I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-26 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 26/03/2012 9:40 PM, Jason Tishler wrote: New News: === I have updated the version of rebase to 4.1.0-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following are the changes since the previous release: * Add rebase/rebaseall touch file (i.e., -t

Re: How to fix a non-default package version?

2012-03-23 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 23/03/2012 6:19 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: I would like to keep Perl 5.14 and lighttpd 1.4.18 installed on my Cygwin system, but every time I run setup.exe Perl 5.10 and lighttpd 1.4.20 are automatically installed (I often forget to change the versions back). Is there some way I can fix the

Status of large address awareness?

2012-03-16 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, What's the current status of large address awareness for cygwin binaries? I know at one point it seemed to be working well -- other than an issue with emacs (fixed now?) -- and there was talk of making it the default. However, this does not seem to be the case yet, based on looking

Fork errors during toolchain build

2012-03-15 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, I'm trying to build a crosstool chain under cygwin and I keep getting blocked by fork errors -- in spite of having rebased just before starting. Oddly, the errors come from scripts, not invocations of just-built-gcc (which used to be the killer). Unfortunately, this means there's no

Re: Unfolding the stack

2012-03-12 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 12/03/2012 5:39 AM, Michel Bardiaux wrote: To complete the port of some library to Cygwin, I need a way to produce a traceback with as much info as possible. Currently I have something that works but not that well. There are basically 3 parts: * Gather all the stack frames; see below. *

Re: Unfolding the stack

2012-03-12 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 12/03/2012 11:20 AM, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Alternatively, you could compile with -g and try to traverse the debug info tables gdb uses to work around everything nasty gcc does, but there's no clean API there that I know of. Since cygwin_stackdump does not dare to tread there... Pretty

gcc-4.7.0-RC-20120302 fails to build for i686-pc-cygwin

2012-03-07 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, I tried to bootstrap the gcc-4.7 RC and it fails because it expects to find process.h and the file actually lives in cygwin/process.h (see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52513). I'm asking here because the gcc devs thought this would mean 4.6 is broken as well, but I

Re: gcc-4.7.0-RC-20120302 fails to build for i686-pc-cygwin

2012-03-07 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 07/03/2012 8:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 7 07:54, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, I tried to bootstrap the gcc-4.7 RC and it fails because it expects to findprocess.h and the file actually lives in cygwin/process.h (see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52513). I'm

How to uninstall tetex (without installing texlive)?

2012-03-07 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, For the moment I don't want to upgrade to texlive (the 200MB download factors in there), but even after removing every visible semblance of tetex, setup still wants to bring in texlive. I've searched setup.ini and ensured that no package listing tetex as a dependency there is

Re: How to uninstall tetex (without installing texlive)?

2012-03-07 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 07/03/2012 9:14 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, For the moment I don't want to upgrade to texlive (the 200MB download factors in there), but even after removing every visible semblance of tetex, setup still wants to bring in texlive. I've searched setup.ini and ensured that no package

Re: mintty scroll to bottom

2012-03-05 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 05/03/2012 5:05 AM, Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZSW wrote: On March 04, 2012 12:51 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 2 20:20, Andy Koppe wrote: On 2 March 2012 08:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 1 20:43, Andy Koppe wrote: On 29 February 2012 12:46, Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZSW wrote: What

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: texlive-20110705-1, texlive-collection-*-20120202-1, libkpathsea{6,-devel}-20110705-1, libptexenc{1,-devel}-20110705-1, asymptote-2.15-1

2012-03-02 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 02/03/2012 12:57 PM, Ken Brown wrote: Thanks to the tremendous efforts of Yaakov Selkowitz, TeX Live has been added to the Cygwin distribution, replacing teTeX. I will be taking over as maintainer. Wow. Kudos to you two! If you have any [teTex] packages installed, setup.exe should

Re: mintty scroll to bottom

2012-03-02 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 02/03/2012 3:20 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 2 March 2012 08:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 1 20:43, Andy Koppe wrote: On 29 February 2012 12:46, Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZSW wrote: What is the mintty equivalent to rxvt/xterm's -si|+si Turn on/off scroll-to-bottom on TTY

Re: BLODA detection code in latest snapshot

2012-03-01 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 01/03/2012 4:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 29 11:06, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 29/02/2012 10:01 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 29 09:51, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 27/02/2012 7:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, I've just uploaded a new snapshot 2012-02-27 12:04:23 UTC

Re: BLODA detection code in latest snapshot

2012-02-29 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 29/02/2012 7:22 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: do you filter by DLL name or it's full path? Because, %SystemRoot%\system32\shlwapi.dll is likely to be harmless. But same name DLL inserted from any other place... That would be moving beyond mere BLODA and into malware territory. At that point, just

Re: BLODA detection code in latest snapshot

2012-02-29 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 27/02/2012 7:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, I've just uploaded a new snapshot 2012-02-27 12:04:23 UTC. It contains two code snippets which are supposed to help diagnosing BLODA problems. If you set the environment variable CYGWIN to detect_bloda and then start a Cygwin process

Re: BLODA detection code in latest snapshot

2012-02-29 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 29/02/2012 10:01 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 29 09:51, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 27/02/2012 7:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, I've just uploaded a new snapshot 2012-02-27 12:04:23 UTC. It contains two code snippets which are supposed to help diagnosing BLODA problems

Re: add -debuginfo packages

2012-02-19 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 19/02/2012 12:41 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:42:20PM -0500, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 18/02/2012 12:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 04:47:48PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 21/08/2009 00:40, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 04/08/2009 13:58

Re: add -debuginfo packages

2012-02-18 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 18/02/2012 11:47 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 21/08/2009 00:40, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 04/08/2009 13:58, Reini Urban wrote: Rather than stripping our exe's and dll's I suggest to strip the debug info into seperate /usr/lib/debug/path/file.dbg and package them seperately in -debuginfo

Re: add -debuginfo packages

2012-02-18 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 18/02/2012 12:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 04:47:48PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 21/08/2009 00:40, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 04/08/2009 13:58, Reini Urban wrote: Rather than stripping our exe's and dll's I suggest to strip the debug info into seperate

Re: File operations really slow in emacs

2012-02-16 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi Corinna, On 16/02/2012 6:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 15 10:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 14:50, Ryan Johnson wrote: Heisenburg? Impossible to know both what SMB share a mount points to and whether it's currently connected? Almost. You have to access the share to find

Re: File operations really slow in emacs

2012-02-14 Thread Ryan Johnson
Bump? On 13/02/2012 8:31 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 11/02/2012 5:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 10 20:18, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, For some reason file operations have become very slow inside emacs starting yesterday. It's especially painful when saving a file that's managed

Re: File operations really slow in emacs

2012-02-14 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 14/02/2012 8:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 08:37, Ryan Johnson wrote: Bump? Stagger! On 13/02/2012 8:31 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 11/02/2012 5:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 10 20:18, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, For some reason file operations have become very slow

Re: File operations really slow in emacs

2012-02-14 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 14/02/2012 10:17 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 09:44, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 14/02/2012 8:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 08:37, Ryan Johnson wrote: (\??\C:\cygwin\cygdrive,0x28BB68) ^^^ This looks suspicious. I assume you're suffering from SMB

Re: File operations really slow in emacs

2012-02-14 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 14/02/2012 11:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 10:47, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 14/02/2012 10:17 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Does anybody know a system call which allows to fetch the network drive state (connected/not connected) without a billion microsecond timeout? [...] What if we

Re: File operations really slow in emacs

2012-02-14 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 14/02/2012 12:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 12:46, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 14/02/2012 11:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 14 10:47, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 14/02/2012 10:17 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Does anybody know a system call which allows to fetch the network drive

Re: File operations really slow in emacs

2012-02-13 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 11/02/2012 5:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 10 20:18, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, For some reason file operations have become very slow inside emacs starting yesterday. It's especially painful when saving a file that's managed by mercurial (more than 20 seconds!), but I've seen

Re: File operations really slow in emacs

2012-02-11 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 11/02/2012 5:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 10 20:18, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, For some reason file operations have become very slow inside emacs starting yesterday. It's especially painful when saving a file that's managed by mercurial (more than 20 seconds!), but I've seen

Re: File operations really slow in emacs

2012-02-11 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 11/02/2012 12:24 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 09:21:11AM -0500, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 11/02/2012 5:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 10 20:18, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, For some reason file operations have become very slow inside emacs starting yesterday

File operations really slow in emacs

2012-02-10 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, For some reason file operations have become very slow inside emacs starting yesterday. It's especially painful when saving a file that's managed by mercurial (more than 20 seconds!), but I've seen it on the command line as well (x-server takes a similar amount of time to start, for

Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use

2012-02-07 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 07/02/2012 11:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 7 16:43, Denis Excoffier wrote: I've also instrumented cygwin1.dll as suggested recently to Heiko Elger in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00092.html [...] - the /proc/pid/maps of the processes involved in the fork failure look

Re: Cannot start Bash after today's update

2012-02-07 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 07/02/2012 12:14 PM, Ilguiz Latypov wrote: [verboten confidential/privileged material disclaimer] http://sourceware.org/lists.html#disclaimer-bounce You're lucky the list didn't bounce you. Remove that notice and try again. Ryan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: IBM ssh gateway

2012-02-01 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 01/02/2012 5:46 AM, Guy Harrison wrote: Hi Folks, Can anyone help interpret this? I am fairly certain the problem lies with IBM but I am no crypto expert. Is (for instance) the server rejecting the connection because (say) it does not understand ECDSA? Unfortunately I do not have an older

Re: llvm/clang 3.0-1 silently ignores C++ exception handling

2012-02-01 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 01/02/2012 1:21 AM, Christian Franke wrote: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 19:41 +0100, Christian Franke wrote: Clang++ 3.0-1 does not produce any exception handling code. Unwind tables and code within catch(.) {...} blocks are not generated. Throw always abort()s program.

Re: AW: Levovo trackpoint come delayed (reproducable with xev)

2012-01-24 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 24/01/2012 8:17 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 23/01/2012 21:56, Paul Maier wrote: On 22/01/2012 23:10, Paul Maier wrote: Lenovo trackpoint scrolling events get buffered somewhere until I release the button: then I get hundreds of scrolling events all at once. I can clearly see these events in

Re: isprint core dump

2012-01-23 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 23/01/2012 3:16 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: I haven't had the chance to try under Linux, but isprint(3055872) is core-dumping on me. From the isprint() man page: /c/ ... must have the value of an /unsigned char/ or *EOF* The test case probably overruns some internal table by 3MB or so.

Re: isprint core dump

2012-01-23 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 23/01/2012 4:39 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 01/23/2012 02:34 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: From: Eric Blake No, but it DOES come from POSIX: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isprint.html And cygwin's behavior matches POSIX on this point; the bug is in your program, not

Re: ssh/scp sometimes unable to connect

2012-01-20 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 20/01/2012 8:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 19 16:31, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, I just re-ran setup.exe yesterday and now ssh behaves erratically, often timing out instead of asking for a password: $ ssh cs.utoroto.ca ssh: connect to host cs.utoroto.ca port 22: Connection timed out

Re: fifo rewrite for Google Summer of Code project

2012-01-19 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 19/01/2012 10:50 AM, bob 295 wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:29:41AM -0500, bob 295 wrote: Last spring we tried to port our SIMPL project code to Cygwin but fell acropper of the known fifo issues in Cygwin.We haven't been able to find expertise to contribute to a rewrite of the fifo

Re: Elevated prompt under ssh on Windows 7

2012-01-18 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 18/01/2012 7:12 AM, Timothy Madden wrote: Is there a way to get the remote shell not to run elevated under sshd, even if the user could otherwise run programs elevated in the native Windows OS ? I suspect you could set up ssh to use a shell which drops the user's privilege level and then

Re: 1.7.9: Passing Arguments to cygstart

2012-01-13 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 13/01/2012 10:43 AM, Emmett Kelly wrote: I am attempting to start a program using cygstart. I am logged in through an SSH from a linux machine, I am capable of starting the program using: cygstart program.exe Forgive my ignorance here, but is there a reason you can't just ./program.exe ?

Re: Efficient posix_spawn implementation for Cygwin

2012-01-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/01/2012 5:25 PM, dan...@dancol.org wrote: posix_spawn [1] is an optional POSIX facility that allows programs to start other programs without using fork or vfork. I've created an efficient implementation of posix_spawn for Cygwin. The code is available at

Re: cyg*.dll, linking

2011-12-13 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 13/12/2011 1:16 PM, Brian Craft wrote: I'm building a few libraries which are dependencies of a program I'm building. Most of them build via autotools. Doing make install installs files *.a, *.la, *.dll.a. Linking the executable succeeds without error, however when running it, the loader

Re: RFE: mintty + trackpoint?

2011-12-11 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 11/12/2011 6:08 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 10 December 2011 15:15, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all (esp. Andy), A recent email on the cygwin/x mailing list pointed out that Lenovo trackpoint scrolling had stopped working in xterm [1]. I didn't know it was there in the first place, but I can just

RFE: mintty + trackpoint?

2011-12-10 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all (esp. Andy), A recent email on the cygwin/x mailing list pointed out that Lenovo trackpoint scrolling had stopped working in xterm [1]. I didn't know it was there in the first place, but I can just imagine how useful it would be. Any chance of mintty picking up that functionality?

Re: gcc-4.5.3 segfaults wrt alloca

2011-12-09 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 09/12/2011 5:58 AM, Denis Excoffier wrote: I use the latest packages and cygwin snapshots. The problem described below began several snapshots in the past, around beginning of December. The following program, with static allocation of a reasonable amount of data, segfaults, maybe in

Re: gcc-4.5.3 segfaults wrt alloca

2011-12-09 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 09/12/2011 12:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 12/09/2011 07:55 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 09/12/2011 5:58 AM, Denis Excoffier wrote: I use the latest packages and cygwin snapshots. The problem described below began several snapshots in the past, around beginning of December. The following

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-08 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 08/12/2011 6:18 AM, Robert Miles wrote: On 12/4/2011 4:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Anyway, stoppping the PCA service and setting its start mode to Manual does the trick for me. While I was at it I also disabled Superfetch, which drops the memory usage of this svchost to a fraction of

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
Trying again without the verboten 80kB PNG attachment... On 04/12/2011 3:18 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 04/12/2011 2:29 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 02:55:13AM -0500, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 25/11/2011 10:47 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Hello, * On Thu, Nov 24, 2011

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 25/11/2011 10:47 AM, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Hello, * On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 07:59:58PM -0500 Ryan Johnson wrote: Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 machine causes it to become sluggish or even unresponsive. I have seen very similar effects on my Win7-64

Re: tetex-tiny bug

2011-11-25 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 25/11/2011 10:48 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: It's been a couple of years since I fixed this [1] on my old computer, and now I had to fix it on the new one. Can someone please fix the tetex-tiny package? My understanding is that tetex has not been maintained in years (neither cygwin nor upstream)

Re: tetex-tiny bug

2011-11-25 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 25/11/2011 11:48 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: Ryan Johnson skrev 2011-11-25 17:38: On 25/11/2011 10:48 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: It's been a couple of years since I fixed this [1] on my old computer, and now I had to fix it on the new one. Can someone please fix the tetex-tiny package? My

Re: cygwin dlls needed to run binutils

2011-11-24 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 24/11/2011 7:07 AM, Dave Korn wrote: On 23/11/2011 16:59, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 23/11/2011 11:47 AM, Surrounder wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: A cygcheck on 'ld' shows cyggcc_s-1.dll is pulled in as a result of a dependency on cygintl-8.dll. I don't see a dependency on cygz.dll

Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-11-24 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 machine causes it to become sluggish or even unresponsive. For example, compiling a large package makes the mouse jumpy, delays keystrokes, adds stutter to my music, and makes task switching painfully slow (though,

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-11-24 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 24/11/2011 11:06 PM, Mike wrote: Hi Ryan, Ryan Johnson wrote: Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 machine causes it to become sluggish or even unresponsive. For example, compiling a large package makes the mouse jumpy, delays keystrokes, adds stutter to my

Re: cygwin dlls needed to run binutils

2011-11-23 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 23/11/2011 11:47 AM, Surrounder wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: A cygcheck on 'ld' shows cyggcc_s-1.dll is pulled in as a result of a dependency on cygintl-8.dll. I don't see a dependency on cygz.dll but perhaps another tool from the package pulls that one in. I found out that the needed

Re: XWin.exe causes Windows apps. to freeze

2011-11-21 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 21/11/2011 12:14 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I have a persistent problem at work after XWin has been running for a while (sometimes hours, sometimes days). Windows programs will spontaneously freeze For example, I'm composing a message in Outlook, and all of a sudden, my keyboard stops

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