Re: xemacs crashes with SIGSEGV after update

2015-04-09 Thread Vin Shelton
Siegmar Gross writes: today I updated all packages of my 32-Bit Cygwin installation (installed on top of Windows 7). After that xemacs crashed if I tried to open a file. Therefore I reinstalled the older version xemacs-21.4.23.1. Unfortunately the older version crashes

Re: xemacs crash when fontifying files

2015-02-13 Thread Vin Shelton
Will Parsons writes: I've recently noticed that xemacs will crash if one attempts to turn on syntax highlighting via turn-on-font-lock (even started with the -q option), but only if run under X. (If X is not running, there is no problem.) The crash causes the following to print: Lisp

Re: xemacs crash when fontifying files

2015-02-13 Thread Vin Shelton
Dr. Volker Zell writes: Vin Shelton writes: Is this with 21.4.23? There is a patch in 21.4.23 specifically designed to work around this. Yes.. Oops. I've just applied a patch to 21.4 to fix this. - Vin -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: [HEADSUP] Moving setup sources to git

2015-02-10 Thread Vin Shelton
: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. Regards, Vin Shelton

Re: Cygwin Subprocesses on XEmacs

2015-01-30 Thread Vin Shelton
sure you're using 21.4.23 sources? Additionally I had to use an older version of texinfo (namely version 4.13) otherwise the build breaks when generating the .info files (I got the information to use an older version from Vin Shelton). Yes, the texinfo incompatibilities is one reason I want

Re: Cygwin Subprocesses on XEmacs

2015-01-29 Thread Vin Shelton
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 28 22:32, Vin Shelton wrote: I think I have verified this behavior - I restored the old sysdep.c module and moved the disconnect_controlling_terminal() call [which calls setsid()] from right after the fork() to just before

Re: Cygwin Subprocesses on XEmacs

2015-01-28 Thread Vin Shelton
Hi, Corinna et al, On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 27 23:05, Vin Shelton wrote: I spent some time debugging M-x shell in XEmacs on 32-bit Cygwin. Here's what I found out. In the child after fork() but before exec(), the setsid() call

Re: Cygwin Subprocesses on XEmacs

2015-01-28 Thread Vin Shelton
Dear Corinna, et al - On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 28 08:20, Vin Shelton wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 27 23:05, Vin Shelton wrote: I spent some time debugging M-x shell in XEmacs on 32-bit Cygwin. Here's what I

Cygwin Subprocesses on XEmacs

2015-01-27 Thread Vin Shelton
I spent some time debugging M-x shell in XEmacs on 32-bit Cygwin. Here's what I found out. In the child after fork() but before exec(), the setsid() call in disconnect_controlling_terminal() is causing the subprocess not to function after it gets spawned. Here is a patch which works around the

Re: [HEADSUP] Dropping libopenssl098 from distro

2015-01-24 Thread Vin Shelton
would recommend making an updated XEmacs 21.4 kit before that point. Regards, Vin Shelton

Re: [HEADSUP] Dropping libopenssl098 from distro

2015-01-23 Thread Vin Shelton
Hi, Volker - Vin wrote: I can build XEmacs on 32-bit Cygwin. What doesn't work for you? Volker wrote: Here we are A few thoughts: 1. You need to use the most recent XEmacs sources from mercurial. 2. You must have an old version of libpng installed, because 21.4.22 won't compile with the

Re: [HEADSUP] Dropping libopenssl098 from distro

2015-01-15 Thread Vin Shelton
Volker - I can build XEmacs on 32-bit Cygwin. What doesn't work for you? Thanks, Vin Shelton On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Dr. Volker Zell dr.volker.z...@oracle.com wrote: David Stacey writes: On 14/01/15 14:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The following packages have

Re: [HEADSUP] Dropping libopenssl098 from distro

2015-01-15 Thread Vin Shelton
Marco/Volker et al - On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Marco Atzeri marco.atz...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/15/2015 1:31 PM, Vin Shelton wrote: It used to compile but was not usable because of broken subprocess support. Now it doesn't even compile :-( Ciao Volker Volker - I can build

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pv-1.3.9-1

2012-12-05 Thread Vin Shelton
in a complex pipeline This version fails with: zsh: invalid system call pv on a 64-bit W7 install. The previous version (1.3.4.1) worked fine. Please let me know if you need more info. Regards, Vin Shelton -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

Re: New gcc-4 compile error w/getc and isspace

2009-11-09 Thread Vin Shelton
Dave Korn wrote: Vin Shelton wrote: t2.c: In function ‘tst’: t2.c:9: error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment Did something recently change in the ctype.h or stdio.h header files to cause this? Thanks, Dave! - Vin -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

New gcc-4 compile error w/getc and isspace

2009-11-08 Thread Vin Shelton
Consider this module: #include stdio.h #include ctype.h void tst(FILE *fp) { int c; while ( isspace(c = getc(fp)) ) ; return; } gcc-4 -c t2.c t2.c: In function ‘tst’: t2.c:9: error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment I'm pretty sure this module used to compile

Re: Segfault under cygwin 1.7.62

2009-10-12 Thread Vin Shelton
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Andy Koppe writes:   Meanwhile, Corinna has implemented support for the latter on   cygwin-cvs, so that mad filename works fine now:     $ touch

Re: Segfault under cygwin 1.7.62

2009-10-08 Thread Vin Shelton
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Vin Shelton writes:   XEmacs people - here is the line of code implicated in the crash:                    switch (XCHARSET_REP_BYTES (charset)) Can you do a pobj on charset in the debugger and find out what

Re: Segfault under cygwin 1.7.62

2009-10-08 Thread Vin Shelton
Stephen - Thanks again for taking this up. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Vin Shelton writes:   (gdb) pobj charset   Cannot access memory at address 0x4 Urk.  That's unexpected.  You might want to try going up the stack to frame 1 and trying

Re: undef WIN32_FILENAMES with cygwin-1.7

2009-06-25 Thread Vin Shelton
Hi, Reini - On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Reini Urban wrote: cygwin-1.7 removed support for accepting win32 style pathnames. xemacs should follow. The particular problem was file-truename returning a fabricated windows path, instead of the POSIX path, which for example failed the mule

Re: under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

2009-03-14 Thread Vin Shelton
René Berber wrote: Vin Shelton wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Just for grins, could you rebuild zsh against libncurses9 -- but this time use gcc3? cygiconv-2 and cygncurses-9 use the static gcc-3.4.4 libgcc.a, but you are apparently using the gcc-4.3.2 shared libgcc. I just wonder

under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

2009-03-13 Thread Vin Shelton
Greetings - When I build the latest zsh sources on Cygwin 1.7 using ncurses8-5.5.3, I get a working zsh. When I build the same zsh sources against ncurses9-5.7-13, although the build completes successfully, the executable will not run: $ /usr/local/zsh-2009-03-11/bin/zsh -f $ echo $? 127 My

Re: under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

2009-03-13 Thread Vin Shelton
Charles Wilson wrote: Vin Shelton wrote: When I build the latest zsh sources on Cygwin 1.7 using ncurses8-5.5.3, I get a working zsh. When I build the same zsh sources against ncurses9-5.7-13, although the build completes successfully, the executable will not run: $ /usr/local/zsh-2009-03-11

Re: Upgrade woes (file in use)

2009-03-12 Thread Vin Shelton
installed as one user and later tried to run setup as a different user. If memory serves, I got 'file in use' messages. I had to uninstall and reinstall to avoid this. - Vin Shelton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: xemacs

2007-10-25 Thread Vin Shelton
Ronald Smith wrote: I have cygwin installed on my XP machine along with the x-server and the Singular version of xemacs. I am trying to get my scroll wheel to work with xemacs, but I simply cannot get it to work. The following works for me: (mwheel-install) Regards, Vin Shelton

Re: cygwins' emacs does not work in multi-language environment (mule)

2007-07-09 Thread Vin Shelton
. Regards, Vin Shelton acs at xemacs dot org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Emacs ignores signals

2007-04-16 Thread Vin Shelton
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:48:56PM -0400, Vin Shelton wrote: I've attached it to this message. PLEASE DON'T DO THAT! You've sent a massive attachment to thousands of people, most of whom, are uninterested in said attachment. Please think before doing something

Making a cygwin setup CD

2007-03-19 Thread Vin Shelton
the setup.ini file. These scripts may or may not work for you 'out of the box', but I hope people find these scripts useful or perhaps instructive. Regards, Vin Shelton autorun.inf Description: Binary data MakeCygwinKit Description: Binary data MakeSetupIni.pl Description: Binary data

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xemacs-21.4.20-2/xemacs-tags-21.4.20-2/xemacs-emacs-common-21.4.20-2

2006-12-16 Thread Vin Shelton
a new version with those compatibility links, now? -- Chuck In my opinion, it's probably not worth it, but I would revert the patch if you did add the compatibility link. Regards, Vin Shelton XEmacs Release Manager -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Uhh-oh, I used a non-standard directory for install

2006-11-03 Thread Vin Shelton
/bash cut -f1 -d' ' /etc/setup/installed.db | grep -v INSTALLED.DB | \ xargs --delim='\n' cygcheck -l | xargs --delim='\n' cygpath -w | \ sed -e 's/\(.*\)/del \1/g' | sort -u remove-all-cyg-files.bat Regards, Vin Shelton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: gunzip 1.3.5 error reading from stdin on Cygwin

2006-10-29 Thread Vin Shelton
(added cc: to zsh-workers. The original message can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg73620.html ) Vin Shelton wrote: After upgrading my system this morning, I'm getting an error running gunzip when it reads from stdin. Steps to reproduce: wget ftp

gunzip 1.3.5 error reading from stdin

2006-10-24 Thread Vin Shelton
compressed data--crc error gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error Interestingly, gunzip gmp-4.2.1.tar.gz works. I've attached the output of 'cygcheck -s -v -r'. Regards, Vin Shelton Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Oct 24 11:04:38

Re: I broke cygport

2006-10-18 Thread Vin Shelton
. Regards, Vin Shelton -- The Journey by Mary Oliver http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6771poem=30506 cygport2.diffs Description: Binary data

Re: crosstool-0.42 cygwin

2006-10-03 Thread Vin Shelton
managed (see the cygwin doc for mount). It's easy to run afoul of either of these two. HTH, Vin Shelton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

Re: Cannot build 21.4.16 under cygwin (gcc 3.3.3)

2005-01-07 Thread Vin Shelton
is, this is a regression -- xemacs-21.4.15 works OK (mind you, I haven't tried recompiling it with gcc-3.3.3). Henry, AFAIK, we didn't make any changes in 21.4.16 that would account for this. As an experiment, can you try to build 21.4.15 with gcc-3.3.3? I would be surprised if that worked. - Vin Shelton