Re: [ITA] Git et al

2014-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 20:01, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Our Git package hasn't been updated in a long time. Although its maintainer, Eric Blake, has been on the mailing lists, I don't think he's done any work in keeping Git up-to-date (including replying to a number of requests for updates), so I'd like to

[ITA] tcl-sqlite3

2014-01-13 Thread Jan Nijtmans
Cygwin64 has an exisiting tcl-sqlite3 package (version 3.7.15.2-1) which doesn't exist in Cygwin32. This package is not in cygwin-pkg-maint, so I assume someone (other than Warren Young) uploaded it as part of the Cygwin64 bootstrap process. This package was very useful to me: The source code of

Re: [ITA] Git et al

2014-01-13 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/11/2014 01:01 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Our Git package hasn't been updated in a long time. Although its maintainer, Eric Blake, has been on the mailing lists, I don't think he's done any work in keeping Git up-to-date (including replying to a number of requests for updates), so I'd like

Re: [ITA] Git et al

2014-01-13 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On 13 January 2014 21:32, Eric Blake wrote: On 01/11/2014 01:01 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Our Git package hasn't been updated in a long time. Although its maintainer, Eric Blake, has been on the mailing lists, I don't think he's done any work in keeping Git up-to-date (including replying to a

Re: Bringing up NFS server on 64 bits

2014-01-13 Thread marco atzeri
Il 1/13/2014 8:33 AM, Pavel Fedin ha scritto: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint rpcgen Charles Wilson Where is he ? I have posted a message about small bug in libtirpc, he doesn't reply... Kind regards, Pavel Fedin Expert Engineer Samsung Electronics Research

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ngspice-26-1

2014-01-13 Thread marco atzeri
Hi, new version 26-1 of ngspice is available in the Cygwin distributions (32 and 64 bit). CHANGES Several new features have been added to ngspice-26, improving its applicability and compatibility. Bug fixes: Many small bugs removed, handling of libraries updated, improved code

Re: Bringing up NFS server on 64 bits

2014-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 09:48, Pavel Fedin wrote: Hello! Not necessarily. If the package is in a good shape, has no known security issues, and works fine with the latest Cygwin, you're good. Other than that, just keep an eye on the Cygwin ML if somebody reported a problem with your packages and see

patch for octave's mex.h - fix compiling mex files

2014-01-13 Thread Alois Schloegl
When trying to compile the mex-files of the Octave packages NaN-toolbox and biosig, the error below is observed with the recent version of octave in Cygwin, According to http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Problems-with-mkoctfile-using-GCC-4-8-1-td4657964.html

Re: nested popen()'s lead to fgets() failure on 64-bit only

2014-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 21:15, David Levine wrote: Hi, The program below works just fine on 32-bit Cygwin: buf1 = /usr/bin/file.exe buf2 = /usr/bin/file.exe: application/x-dosexec But on 64-bit Cygwin (2.831), the second fgets() fails: That's the version number of the setup-x86_64.exe tool, not

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 09:51, Steven Penny wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Steven Penny wrote A base 64-bit Cygwin install now requires Perl. Can this be changed? Any updates? It has been 5 months Not that I'm aware of. Perl requirements are pretty basic these days. Corinna -- Corinna

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote Not that I'm aware of. Perl requirements are pretty basic these days. If we're not going to have Python we shouldn't have Perl either. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00211.html -- Problem reports:

Re: patch for octave's mex.h - fix compiling mex files

2014-01-13 Thread marco atzeri
Il 1/13/2014 12:17 PM, Alois Schloegl ha scritto: When trying to compile the mex-files of the Octave packages NaN-toolbox and biosig, the error below is observed with the recent version of octave in Cygwin, According to

Re: rTorrent 0.8.9/0.12.9 Storage error issue

2014-01-13 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Sorry, I somehow missed your original email. On 13 January 2014 02:25, Norbi wrote: Maybe any idea with this one? I've seen this occasionally. I found deleting and re-adding the torrent would correct the issue for me. I've not packaged any newer versions of rtorrent because they are cause a

Extended attributes

2014-01-13 Thread Pavel Fedin
Hello! Is there any support for xattrs ? I sometimes work with SquashFS images which make use of them (like security.capability) and i'd like to be able to store them along files. If not implemented, can this be somehow fulfilled ? For example, we could store them in a dedicated NTFS stream.

Re: Extended attributes

2014-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 17:53, Pavel Fedin wrote: Hello! Is there any support for xattrs ? I sometimes work with SquashFS images which make use of them (like security.capability) and i'd like to be able to store them along files. If not implemented, can this be somehow fulfilled ? For example, we could

Re: git clone fails on large repos when using cygcrypto-1.0.0.dll, works with 0.9.8

2014-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 10 11:27, Chris O'Bryan wrote: I've been having issues cloning large repos with git under Cygwin, but only when I compiled git myself. The version of Git that Cygwin's setup.exe downloads works fine, while mine would intermittently fail with messages like this: Cloning into

Re: nested popen()'s lead to fgets() failure on 64-bit only

2014-01-13 Thread David Levine
Corinna wrote: That's the version number of the setup-x86_64.exe tool, not the version number of Cygwin. Try `uname -r'. 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) Maybe you're calling the wrong file command? What's your $PATH set to? What if you change your popen call to run /usr/bin/file.exe with full path?

Re: nested popen()'s lead to fgets() failure on 64-bit only

2014-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 09:35, David Levine wrote: Corinna wrote: That's the version number of the setup-x86_64.exe tool, not the version number of Cygwin. Try `uname -r'. 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) Maybe you're calling the wrong file command? What's your $PATH set to? What if you change your popen

fork() + file descriptor bug in 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:54

2014-01-13 Thread tednolan
Hello, I'm running: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 prog5 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:54 x86_64 Cygwin gcc (GCC) 4.8.2 on a 64 bit Win7 system. I have just run into an odd bug, which I have boiled down into the program below (which started as a mod to tiff2ps). If you compile this program:

ipsec for cygwin

2014-01-13 Thread Klaus Hader
Hi everybody, is there a ipsec (with ikev1 support) for cygwin ? I tried to compile StrongSwan - unfortunately without success ( usually in the contaxt of posix_types.h ). Has anybody succeeded in this? greetings, Klaus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: nested popen()'s lead to fgets() failure on 64-bit only

2014-01-13 Thread David Levine
Corinna wrote: Not really. I have no idea why this fails for you. Does an strace show anything suspicious? Yes, there's an exception, it looks like in WFMO. It's happens when closing handles after forking sh.exe for the second popen(). strace excerpt is below. The exception didn't happen

Re: nested popen()'s lead to fgets() failure on 64-bit only

2014-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 11:38, David Levine wrote: Corinna wrote: Not really. I have no idea why this fails for you. Does an strace show anything suspicious? Yes, there's an exception, it looks like in WFMO. It's happens when closing handles after forking sh.exe for the second popen(). strace

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Warren Young
On 8/9/2013 11:17, Steven Penny wrote: Because of this dependency line man groff perl The groff package includes several helper programs written in Perl: afmtodit, groffer, and grog. Red Hat and Mandriva split these utilities out into a separate package[*] but that would be something

Re: rTorrent 0.8.9/0.12.9 Storage error issue

2014-01-13 Thread Norbi
Unfortunately I've seen this every time downloading a big file, usually around 4-6GB. They are loading from watch directories so deleteing and adding manually again not an option, as I wrote, the easiest in my case to restart rTorrent. Thanks for the assistance, if you have any question, I try to

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: On 8/9/2013 11:17, Steven Penny wrote: Because of this dependency line man groff perl The groff package includes several helper programs written in Perl: afmtodit, groffer, and grog. Red Hat and Mandriva split these

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Warren Young
On 1/13/2014 11:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: In retrospect, it would have potentially made sense to use the same versions and packaging for the 64-bit as for the 32-bit. That might have minimized this type of problem. An argument could be made that since these helper programs are not core

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 01:22:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:39:50AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: On 8/9/2013 11:17, Steven Penny wrote: Because of this dependency line man groff perl The groff package includes several helper programs written in Perl:

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
Because of this dependency line man groff perl A base 64-bit Cygwin install now requires Perl. Can this be changed? While Perl is a fine language I hardly feel it is appropriate to add that bulk to a base install. Note this issue is only with the 64-bit version, the base 32-bit

Re: patch for octave's mex.h - fix compiling mex files

2014-01-13 Thread Alois Schloegl
Il 1/13/2014 12:17 PM, Alois Schloegl ha scritto: When trying to compile the mex-files of the Octave packages NaN-toolbox and biosig, the error below is observed with the recent version of octave in Cygwin, According to

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2014-01-13 12:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, I didn't upload the 64-bit groff. This is one of the reasons why I had reservations about people other than the package maintainers uploading packages. The end result is that I'm forced to deal with someone else's decision. This has

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrew Schulman writes: lftp also has this problem. It comes with a few sample scripts, two of which are in Perl. I include the sample scripts because why not, but cygport is now quite diligent about finding this sort of thing, with the result that its automatically-generated setup.hint now

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
Andrew Schulman writes: lftp also has this problem. It comes with a few sample scripts, two of which are in Perl. I include the sample scripts because why not, but cygport is now quite diligent about finding this sort of thing, with the result that its automatically-generated

Iwidgets requires Itk 3.4, but only 3.3 available

2014-01-13 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello, I would like to use Iwidgets 4.0.1 under Cygwin, but this requires Itk 3.4. The set-up utility however has Itcl 3.4 and Itk 3.3. Where can I find the correct version? Regards, Arjen -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?

2014-01-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2014-01-13 13:21, Andrew Schulman wrote: lftp also has this problem. It comes with a few sample scripts, two of which are in Perl. I include the sample scripts because why not, but cygport is now quite diligent about finding this sort of thing, with the result that its

error: mkstemp was not declared in this scope

2014-01-13 Thread Alex Reynolds
I am running Cygwin 1.7.27 (0.271/5/3) and g++ 4.8.2. I am testing attempts to make temporary files in a POSIX-compliant way, using mkstemp(). I get the following error when I compile code that calls mkstemp(): - $ g++ -Wall -ansi -pedantic foo.cpp

problem -- cygwin doesn't allow remounting of root; running 32-bit progs from 64-bit cygwin

2014-01-13 Thread Linda Walsh
I normally run with cygwin in my root dir -- doing otherwise causes problems when programs are started from windows. I installed cygwin64 the other day and it overwrote links I had to separate cyg64 cyg32.. Setup wants to install things in separate dirs .. ok fine... but some dirs have shared

Re: nested popen()'s lead to fgets() failure on 64-bit only

2014-01-13 Thread David Levine
Corinna wrote: Your PID values are pretty suspicious. Even on a busy machine they should seldomly have more than 4 digits, let alone 6. The PIDs are only getting high if process and other handles are hold and not closed by another process. This looks a lot like a BLODA problem. Did you

Interactive non-login shell and tilde expansion

2014-01-13 Thread Steven Penny
If you look at the Cygwin.bat file you have this line bash --login -i Starting Cygwin this way yields expected results $ cat ~/foo.sh cat -v ~ $ ~/foo.sh /home/Steven However if you change the line in Cygwin.bat to this bash -i it produces unexpected results $

Re: error: mkstemp was not declared in this scope

2014-01-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2014-01-13 15:32, Alex Reynolds wrote: $ g++ -Wall -ansi -pedantic foo.cpp foo.cpp: In function ‘int main()’: foo.cpp:44:21: error: ‘mkstemp’ was not declared in this scope mkstemp isn't ANSI C, so don't compile with -ansi; this wouldn't work with linux gcc either. Yaakov -- Problem

No more processes ... i == 0 failed

2014-01-13 Thread Septimus Stevens
I see No More Processes occasionally when I have several windows open (but not egregiously many). Closing the chrome browser usually makes the problem go away, but I wonder if I have a parameter set wrong. Yesterday, things got worse. I couldn't run vim until I closed chrome. Vim was giving me

Re: No more processes ... i == 0 failed

2014-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:38:29PM +0700, Septimus Stevens wrote: I see No More Processes occasionally when I have several windows open (but not egregiously many). Closing the chrome browser usually makes the problem go away, but I wonder if I have a parameter set wrong. Yesterday, things got

Re: Interactive non-login shell and tilde expansion

2014-01-13 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Steven Penny wrote $ ~/foo.sh /home/Steve0^G Update, it only produces this output if I enter ~/foo.sh using tab completion. That is to say, ~/f + TAB. If I manually enter each character, it works as expected. -- Problem reports:

Re: git clone fails on large repos when using cygcrypto-1.0.0.dll, works with 0.9.8

2014-01-13 Thread Balaji Venkataraman
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Chris O'Bryan wrote: I've been having issues cloning large repos with git under Cygwin, but only when I compiled git myself. The version of Git that Cygwin's setup.exe downloads works fine, while mine would intermittently fail with messages like this: