Re: Cygwin convert environment paths

2020-05-10 Thread Steven Penny via Cygwin
> That's what cygpath is there for, among other things. You expect people to use cygpath... from within PHP? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Cygwin convert environment paths

2020-05-10 Thread Steven Penny via Cygwin
I see here: That Cygwin does convert some environment variables, from Windows format to Unix format. For example HOME and TMP. But for me at least, are some important omissions. I use APPDATA and PROGRAMFILES a good amount, and those arent

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.34-2 (x86/x86_64)(Test)

2020-04-20 Thread Steven Penny via Cygwin
> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: > > * binutils-2.34 Why is binutils still 24 MB? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Request package updates for Poppler, Subversion and Git

2020-04-12 Thread Steven Penny via Cygwin
> Will git contrib/subtree be in the next release? It's not in the latest > version 2.21.0-1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27109525/install-git-subtree-with-cygwin -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Request for additional ming-w64 binaries

2020-03-28 Thread Steven Penny via Cygwin
> the following packages are missing static libraries, i.e *.a files Cygwin has always been bad about this, and I dont see that changing. And if you post an issue to the repo, it just gets closed: best bet would be to look at

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-2.34+1git.de9c1b7cfe-1 (x86/x86_64)

2020-03-18 Thread Steven Penny via Cygwin
> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: > > * binutils-2.34+1git.de9c1b7cfe > > This release should fix libtool shared library builds on 32bit Cygwin. Below are the current "non Base" dependencies (and transitive dependencies) of current "python3". As can be seen,

Cygwin 7z breaks symlinks

2020-03-15 Thread Steven Penny via Cygwin
If you try to use p7zip to create an archive with symlink: 7z a -snl c.tar a.txt b.txt The symlink is broken: $ 7z l -slt c.tar [...] Path = b.txt Folder = - Size = 5 Packed Size = 512 Modified = 2020-03-15 10:34:04 Mode = -rwxrwxrwx User = Group =

Re: setup release candidate - please test

2017-05-08 Thread Steven Penny via cygwin
On Mon, 8 May 2017 12:06:31, 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 Since this changes the way we download files, I think this can use some wider testing before release.