Re: setup.hint spelling/typo fixes

Jon Turney writes: > I fixed on cygwin.com various spelling errors or typos in setup.hint: […] > AG: perl-TimeDate: formating -> formatting That typo in the description is from upstream, it gets generated from the META information on CPAN. :-) http://api.metacpan.org/v0/release/TimeDate (see

Re: [PATCH] Allow overriding the home directory via the HOME variable

On Oct 22 17:38, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Sep 16 15:06, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > * uinfo.cc (cygheap_pwdgrp::get_home): Offer an option in > > > nsswitch.conf that let's the environment variable HOME (or > > >

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Oct 22 12:03, Warren Young wrote: >> Several gawk module manual pages (fnmatch, fork, readdir, and >> time(3am)) currently shadow pages of the same name in section 3p, >> owned by man-pages-posix. These are currently dumped into the generic >> man3 directory, which

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

On Oct 22 12:03, Warren Young wrote: > Several gawk module manual pages (fnmatch, fork, readdir, and > time(3am)) currently shadow pages of the same name in section 3p, > owned by man-pages-posix. These are currently dumped into the generic > man3 directory, which causes them to take precedence

RE: git gui: assertion "font != NULL" failed

> From: Jon Turney [mailto:jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk] > Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 7:54 > > The dependency chain is git-gui -> gitk -> font-adobe-dpi75 > > It doesn't look like the fonts in xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 are available to > fontconfig, so I've changed the dependency of gitk to

Re: setup.exe a mystery -SOLVED

Following your suggestion solved my problems On 22.10.2015 14:37, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/22/2015 6:28 AM, Tom Axehult wrote: I lost bash weeks ago and hence cygwin which I used to start from Cywin.bat as administrator, by the well known bash --login -i For reasons beyond me, I can run Xemacs

chere Bash Prompt Here window closes immediately

When I right click a folder in Windows Explorer and select "Bash Prompt Here", a window opens briefly and then closes immediately. If I select "Applications -> Xterm" from the Cygwin/X Server tray icon, XTerm opens fine. Cygcheck and Xwin logs attached. Chere -lr output below.

Re: Error accessing mapped drive >2TB?

On Oct 22 12:34, Warren Young wrote: > On Oct 22, 2015, at 2:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > On Oct 21 11:26, Warren Young wrote: > >> On Oct 21, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>> > >>> On Oct 21 09:52, Warren Young wrote: > > I mean, I know how to snag a stream

Re: [PATCH] Allow overriding the home directory via the HOME variable

On Oct 23 11:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 22 17:38, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Hi Corinna, > > > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > On Sep 16 15:06, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > * uinfo.cc (cygheap_pwdgrp::get_home): Offer an option in > > > >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.3.0-0.4

On Oct 23 11:06, Achim Gratz wrote: > I don't have much time to test it right now (and won't have any time at all > next week), but so far things look good. The problem with the 0.2 test > version with UID/GID mapping and not recognizing the primary domain in some > cases is gone (might have been

setup.hint spelling/typo fixes

I fixed on cygwin.com various spelling errors or typos in setup.hint: Please update your local copy JA: apngdis: invividual -> individual YS: artikulate : pronounciation -> pronunciation YS: autoconf2.1: creattes -> creates JY: binutils: assember -> assembler MA: catdoc: charachers ->

Re: /bin/pwd -P doesn't expand all symlinks

Thanks Ken, you gave me an idea. $ uname -srvmo CYGWIN_NT-6.3 2.3.0(0.290/5/3) 2015-09-08 22:33 x86_64 Cygwin I'm using native symlinks for compatibility. Turns out that if you use the below option to create the symlink you get the behavior I'm seeing. If you don't use this it works correctly.

Re: pthread_kill: signals remain pending after target thread exits

On Oct 22 02:08, John Carey wrote: > > From: Corinna Vinschen [corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 4:48 AM > > Subject: Re: pthread_kill: signals remain pending after target thread exits > ... > > > On Sep 11 18:11, John Carey wrote: > > > There seems to be a problem

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.3.0-0.4

Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > There's, as usual, a downside: AuthZ leans a bit to the slow side. It's not too bad, as long as your network connection is fast (and fast means short roundtrip time for an AD query). If I take each page fault as reported by time as a proxy for an AD

Re: [PATCH] Allow overriding the home directory via the HOME variable

Hi Corinna, On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 23 11:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Oct 22 17:38, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > > > On Sep 16 15:06, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > * uinfo.cc

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.3.0-0.4

On Oct 23 14:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 23 11:06, Achim Gratz wrote: > > I don't have much time to test it right now (and won't have any time at all > > next week), but so far things look good. The problem with the 0.2 test > > version with UID/GID mapping and not recognizing the

RE: /bin/pwd -P doesn't expand all symlinks

> From: Mark O'Keefe > > Hi, > > While using /bin/pwd -P to expand directories to get the absolute, non- > symlinked version of the directory I discovered that this doesn't work on > Cygwin as I believe it is meant to work. > > > $ cd /tmp > $ /bin/pwd -P > /tmp > $ ln -s /home . > $ cd home >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.3.0-0.4

I don't have much time to test it right now (and won't have any time at all next week), but so far things look good. The problem with the 0.2 test version with UID/GID mapping and not recognizing the primary domain in some cases is gone (might have been a fluke anyway). Correlating the output

problems with to_string not declared in this scope

Hi, I'm getting a compile error using cygwin related to std::to_string method. The error says 'to_string' was not declared in this scope. I have spent a lot of time searching for a solution but did not come up with any. I found this thread https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-01/msg00251.html

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 11:38 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 22 12:03, Warren Young wrote: > > Several gawk module manual pages (fnmatch, fork, readdir, and > > time(3am)) currently shadow pages of the same name in section 3p, > > owned by man-pages-posix. These are currently dumped into

Re: [PATCH] winsup/utils: add CPU cache variables to getconf(1)

On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 12:35 -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > * getconf.c (conf_table): Add LEVEL*_CACHE_* variables. > --- > winsup/utils/ChangeLog | 4 > winsup/utils/getconf.c | 15 +++ > 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) Approved off-list, committed as 505812d. -- Yaakov

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > The bottom line is that when there > are pages with the same name, you just need to be specific if you want > to get the right thing. Therefore, I see nothing to fix in either > package. > man readdir Man: find all matching manual pages (set MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT to

Re: setup.hint spelling/typo fixes

On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 14:48 +0100, Jon Turney wrote: > I fixed on cygwin.com various spelling errors or typos in setup.hint: > > Please update your local copy Done, thanks! -- Yaakov

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 21:59 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: > Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > > The bottom line is that when there > > are pages with the same name, you just need to be specific if you want > > to get the right thing. Therefore, I see nothing to fix in either > > package. > > > man readdir

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > This is not stock behaviour, nor does Fedora carry such a patch. I've linked that patch in an earlier message. > As this is a user-visible change to a core POSIX-mandated utility, I > do not believe such a patch should be included without broader support > thereto.

New: libmusicbrainz5-5.1.0-1

The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * libmusicbrainz5_1-5.1.0-1 * libmusicbrainz5-devel-5.1.0-1 MusicBrainz is a community-maintained open source encyclopedia of music information. The MusicBrainz Client Library (libmusicbrainz) is a development library geared

New: alexandria-0.6.9-4

The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * alexandria-0.6.9-4 Alexandria is a simple program designed to allow individuals to keep a catalogue of their book collection. In addition, it enables users to keep track of books which are on loan. -- Yaakov

Re: BUG: /bin/pwd -P doesn't expand all symlinks

Greetings, Mark O'Keefe! > While using /bin/pwd -P to expand directories to get the absolute, > non-symlinked version of the directory I discovered that this doesn't work > on Cygwin as I believe it is meant to work. > $ cd /tmp > $ /bin/pwd -P > /tmp > $ ln -s /home . > $ cd home > $ /bin/pwd

Re: Error accessing mapped drive >2TB?

In this thread there appears to be a small amount of misunderstanding of what a reparse point is and how it should be used. A reparse point can be thought of as a special form of extended attribute on a file system object (directory or file) that can stored a single {tag-value, opaque-data} pair.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: yaz-5.14.11-1

The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * yaz-5.14.11-1 * libyaz5-5.14.11-1 * libyaz-devel-5.14.11-1 YAZ is a programmers toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50/SRW/SRU clients and servers. Z39.50-2003 (version 3) as well as SRU version 1.1 through 2.0 are

New: yaz-5.14.11-1

The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * yaz-5.14.11-1 * libyaz5-5.14.11-1 * libyaz-devel-5.14.11-1 YAZ is a programmers toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50/SRW/SRU clients and servers. Z39.50-2003 (version 3) as well as SRU version 1.1 through 2.0 are

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: several Ruby modules

The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * ruby-hpricot-0.8.6-3 * ruby-htmlentities-4.3.2-1 * ruby-imagesize-0.1.1-4 * ruby-marc-0.7.1-1 * ruby-syck-1.0.5-1 * ruby-zoom-0.4.1-5 -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

New: several Ruby modules

The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * ruby-hpricot-0.8.6-3 * ruby-htmlentities-4.3.2-1 * ruby-imagesize-0.1.1-4 * ruby-marc-0.7.1-1 * ruby-syck-1.0.5-1 * ruby-zoom-0.4.1-5 -- Yaakov

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pdf2djvu-0.9.1-1

The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * pdf2djvu-0.9.1-1 pdf2djvu creates DjVu files from PDF files. It's able to extract graphics, text, hyperlinks, bookmarks, and metadata. This is an update to the latest upstream release, built with GraphicsMagick-1.3.22. --

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: libmusicbrainz5-5.1.0-1

The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * libmusicbrainz5_1-5.1.0-1 * libmusicbrainz5-devel-5.1.0-1 MusicBrainz is a community-maintained open source encyclopedia of music information. The MusicBrainz Client Library (libmusicbrainz) is a development library geared

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: alexandria-0.6.9-4

The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * alexandria-0.6.9-4 Alexandria is a simple program designed to allow individuals to keep a catalogue of their book collection. In addition, it enables users to keep track of books which are on loan. -- Yaakov -- Problem

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: tellico-2.3.10-1

The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * tellico-2.3.10-1 Tellico makes it easy to track your books, videos, music, even your wine and anything else. A simple and intuitive interface shows cover images, groupings, and any detail you want. Grab information from many

New: tellico-2.3.10-1

The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * tellico-2.3.10-1 Tellico makes it easy to track your books, videos, music, even your wine and anything else. A simple and intuitive interface shows cover images, groupings, and any detail you want. Grab information from many

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: homebank-5.0.5-1

The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * homebank-5.0.5-1 HomeBank is a free software that will assist you to manage your personal accounting. It is designed to easy to use and be able to analyse your personal finance and budget in detail using powerful filtering tools

New: kmymoney-4.7.2-2

The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * kmymoney-4.7.2-2 KMyMoney is a personal finance manager for KDE. It enables users to keep careful track of their personal finances by providing a broad array of financial features and tools. -- Yaakov

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: kmymoney-4.7.2-2

The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * kmymoney-4.7.2-2 KMyMoney is a personal finance manager for KDE. It enables users to keep careful track of their personal finances by providing a broad array of financial features and tools. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports:

New: skrooge-1.12.5-1

The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * skrooge-1.12.5-1 Skrooge is a personal finances manager for KDE, aiming at being simple and intuitive. It allows you to keep track of your expenses and income, categorize them, and build reports of them. -- Yaakov

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: skrooge-1.12.5-1

The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * skrooge-1.12.5-1 Skrooge is a personal finances manager for KDE, aiming at being simple and intuitive. It allows you to keep track of your expenses and income, categorize them, and build reports of them. -- Yaakov -- Problem

New: gnucash-2.6.9-1

The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * gnucash-2.6.9-1 * gnucash-devel-2.6.9-1 * gnucash-docs-2.6.9-1 GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software. Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: gnucash-2.6.9-1

The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * gnucash-2.6.9-1 * gnucash-devel-2.6.9-1 * gnucash-docs-2.6.9-1 GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software. Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: xmlsec1-1.2.20-1

The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * xmlsec1-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1_1-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1-devel-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1-doc-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1-gcrypt1-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1-gcrypt-devel-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1-gnutls1-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1-gnutls-devel-1.2.20-1 *

New: xmlsec1-1.2.20-1

The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * xmlsec1-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1_1-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1-devel-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1-doc-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1-gcrypt1-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1-gcrypt-devel-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1-gnutls1-1.2.20-1 * libxmlsec1-gnutls-devel-1.2.20-1 *

Re: Attn gawk and man-db maintainers: 3am pages shadowing 3p

On Oct 23, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On Linux, 'man readdir' gets you readdir(2) (the kernel system call), > which promptly states: > >This is not the function you are interested in. Look at readdir(3) >for the POSIX conforming C library interface. Interesting, but

Re: Install Bug on Windows XP

Greetings, Thomas Dineen! > Gentle People: > When I install the newest Cygwin 32 on Windows XP the > install process hangs on cmake-debuginfo-3.3.2-1. > The system seems to hang in an infinite loop with > setup.exe drawing 99% of the CPU. > Please note that the download and SHA checksum

Re: Error accessing mapped drive >2TB?

Greetings, Warren Young! >> Apple should have registered with Microsoft their own reparse point tag. >> Instead they broke the rules and used Microsoft's >> IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT > If Apple uses their own tags, wouldn’t that cause the Windows SMB client to > be unable to understand Unix

Re: Error accessing mapped drive >2TB?

On Oct 23, 2015, at 4:04 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > I’ve made the suggested changes to the program, here: > > http://pastebin.com/uZdDZPgi By the way, if you look at scream_and_die() and wonder why I’ve badly overcomplicated it, it’s because a previous version presented a printf-like

Re: Error accessing mapped drive >2TB?

On Oct 23, 2015, at 3:20 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Well, it was *you* asking "How could we prove that the problem is the > Apple SMB server?" I was just trying to help. If that's not desired, > I don't have to. I shouldn’t have suggested attacking the problem at the SMB protocol layer to

Re: Error accessing mapped drive >2TB?

On Oct 23, 2015, at 8:30 AM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > > In this thread there appears to be a small amount of misunderstanding of > what a reparse point is and how it should be used. Thank you for clearing all of this up. It was a fascinating read. > the Apple SMB

Re: Install Bug on Windows XP

Yaakov: Yes on the disk space. Is there a way to manually finish the install? Thomas Dineen On 10/22/2015 7:25 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 18:52 -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote: When I install the newest Cygwin 32 on Windows XP the install process hangs on

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: juffed-0.10-2

The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * juffed-0.10-2 * juffed-devel-0.10-2 JuffEd is an advanced text editor based on the Qt toolkit. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: sqliteman-1.2.2-6

The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * sqliteman-1.2.2-6 Sqliteman is a simple but powerful SQLite3 GUI database manager. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

New: sqliteman-1.2.2-6

The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * sqliteman-1.2.2-6 Sqliteman is a simple but powerful SQLite3 GUI database manager. -- Yaakov

Updated: python*-pyqt5-5.5-1, python*-sip-4.16.9-1

The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * python-pyqt5-5.5-1 * python-sip-4.16.9-1 * python3-pyqt5-5.5-1 * python3-sip-4.16.9-1 PyQt is a set of Python v2 and v3 bindings for Digia's Qt application framework and runs on all platforms supported by Qt. The bindings are

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Qt 5.5.1

The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * libQt5Core-devel-5.5.1-1 * libQt5Core5-5.5.1-1 * libQt5Declarative-devel-5.5.1-1 * libQt5Declarative5-5.5.1-1 * libQt5Designer-devel-5.5.1-1 * libQt5Designer5-5.5.1-1 * libQt5Gui-devel-5.5.1-1 * libQt5Gui5-5.5.1-1 *

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: qscintilla2-2.9-1

The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * libqscintilla2_12-2.9-1 * libqscintilla2-common-2.9-1 * libqscintilla2-devel-2.9-1 * libqscintilla2-qt5_12-2.9-1 * libqscintilla2-qt5-common-2.9-1 * libqscintilla2-qt5-devel-2.9-1 * python-pyqt4-qsci-2.9-1 *

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: python*-pyqt5-5.5-1, python*-sip-4.16.9-1

The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * python-pyqt5-5.5-1 * python-sip-4.16.9-1 * python3-pyqt5-5.5-1 * python3-sip-4.16.9-1 PyQt is a set of Python v2 and v3 bindings for Digia's Qt application framework and runs on all platforms supported by Qt. The bindings are

Updated: qscintilla2-2.9-1

The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * libqscintilla2_12-2.9-1 * libqscintilla2-common-2.9-1 * libqscintilla2-devel-2.9-1 * libqscintilla2-qt5_12-2.9-1 * libqscintilla2-qt5-common-2.9-1 * libqscintilla2-qt5-devel-2.9-1 * python-pyqt4-qsci-2.9-1 *

New: juffed-0.10-2

The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: * juffed-0.10-2 * juffed-devel-0.10-2 JuffEd is an advanced text editor based on the Qt toolkit. -- Yaakov

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: qupzilla-1.8.7-1

The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * qupzilla-1.8.7-1 QupZilla is a lightweight QtWebKit browser. QupZilla has all standard functions you expect from a web browser, including bookmarks, history (both also in sidebar) and tabs. Above that, it has by default enabled

New: qupzilla-1.8.7-1

The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: * qupzilla-1.8.7-1 QupZilla is a lightweight QtWebKit browser. QupZilla has all standard functions you expect from a web browser, including bookmarks, history (both also in sidebar) and tabs. Above that, it has by default enabled