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: https://cygw

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 conver

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:h

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 these

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.