[Bug] Named Pipes (FIFO) / Bash

2011-01-22 Thread Achim Gratz
I'm having problems with some bash scripts that were developed (not be me) and working OK in Cygwin 1.6.x versions, but not in 1.7.x (tested on 1.7.6, 1.7.7 and the latest snapshot). After some gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair I've whittled it down to a problem with named pipe handling in

Re: [Bug] Named Pipes (FIFO) / Bash

2011-01-24 Thread Achim Gratz
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com writes: Not just in bash, but in cygwin in general. Named pipes are still an incomplete implementation, and until patches are written to get it working more like posix, you can't expect them to work reliably. I said I knew that it wasn't working like POSIX pipes.

Re: [Bug] Named Pipes (FIFO) / Bash

2011-01-30 Thread Achim Gratz
I'd be grateful for any insights and/or ideas for possible workarounds. Could anybody please comment if there are changes to the whole area of (named) pipes in the upcoming 1.7.8 release? Should I just grab the latest snapshot and try my luck? I don't mind if it's not POSIX compliant if at

Re: Preremove/postinstall scripts fail with snapshot installed

2011-02-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu writes: If I run setup.exe with a cygwin snapshot installed, bash crashes while running all preremove and postinstall scripts. Here's a typical error message in /var/log/setup.log.full: I'm getting similar crashes running Git fetch on a snapshot installation on

Re: emacs and large-address awareness under recent snapshots

2011-08-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen ... writes: still tries to workaround some old problem in the Cygwin sbrk implementation in Cygwin 1.5. Unfortunately the comment doesn't contain any hint as to what exact problem this code is trying to workaround. Apologies if that's obvious and you've already checked that:

Re: [Bug] Named Pipes (FIFO) / Bash

2011-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes: In other words, opening the pipe is non-blocking, even though no listener is present. Listing /proc/self/fd lists fd 6 as opened to FIFO /tmp/pipe, but any output to it blocks indefinitely. I believe that the FIFO has in fact never been opened as far

Proxy settings for setup.exe

2012-02-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Is there a command-line switch to tell setup.exe that it should use the proxy settings from IE? Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Q+, Q and microQ:

Re: Proxy settings for setup.exe

2012-02-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] writes: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.cli -p --proxy HTTP/FTP proxy (host:port) I know this, but rather my question was how to use the IE proxy settings. I can select this in an interactive install and I can fake

Re: Proxy settings for setup.exe

2012-02-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes: Is there a command-line switch to tell setup.exe that it should use the proxy settings from IE? I've looked through the sources today and the answer seems to be sadly no. I did however find an undocumented string option -# to supposedly avoid polluting

Re: STC for libapr1 failure

2012-02-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: I'm sorry to report that the 20120220 snapshot breaks the X server, which uses fcntl() with a lock file. STC? Btw., in how far is XWin broken? I just tried to start it from the start menu and that worked perfectly fine. I get the default xterm and that

Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

2012-03-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Earnie Boyd ear...@users.sourceforge.net writes: And what Windows user who casually installs Cygwin has access to an X server? I do and FTR: I don't want the cygwin Xorg server to be a dependency to all programs that might use X because that would pull in a lot of packages that I have no use

Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

2012-03-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkow...@users.sourceforge.net writes: Thank you for reinforcing my point. No, thank you for all your work, because without that we couldn't have this discussion. While we certainly promote the Cygwin/X server, forcing xorg-server/xinit as a dependency not only won't

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: texlive-20110705-1, texlive-collection-*-20120202-1, libkpathsea{6,-devel}-20110705-1, libptexenc{1,-devel}-20110705-1, asymptote-2.15-1

2012-03-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu writes: Thanks to the tremendous efforts of Yaakov Selkowitz, TeX Live has been added to the Cygwin distribution, replacing teTeX. I will be taking over as maintainer. Good stuff. Many thanks to both of you. If you update an old Cygwin installation and have

cygport/setup questions

2012-03-13 Thread Achim Gratz
I'm in the process of preparing an update for our aging Cygwin installation at work. The basic (unattended) install is now working even if it needs some more testing. I will have to patch a few applications, install many more packages from CPAN and somehow customize the installation as a last

Re: cygport/setup questions

2012-03-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkow...@users.sourceforge.net writes: On 2012-03-13 15:35, Achim Gratz wrote: 1. Is there some way to specify CPAN bundles rather than individual packages in the .cygport file? I don't mind if I'll get a tar.bz for each package the bundle pulls in, I just want to limit

breakage in groff-1.20.1-2

2012-03-14 Thread Achim Gratz
The pfbtops program in that package can't convert most fonts back to PS. It complains about a block not starting with 0x80, exits with an error and produces truncated and mangled output. Besides a few lines missing from the end of the output, it apparently dropped single bytes from the binary

Re: cygport/setup questions

2012-03-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkow...@users.sourceforge.net writes: On 2012-03-14 14:33, Achim Gratz wrote: PATCH_URI is a list of one or more patches which are applied to the source immediately after unpacking. Like SRC_URI, you can specify remote URIs (e.g. from other distros) or just a filename

Re: cygport/setup questions

2012-03-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkow...@users.sourceforge.net writes: It's not quite complete yet, but see /usr/share/doc/cygport/manual.html for the official documentation. Thanks, I'll have a look. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ Factory and User

[bug] Something fishy going on with sqlite3...

2012-03-15 Thread Achim Gratz
I've been trying to troubleshoot an SQLite failure that boils down to this: SQLite catches an access denied error when trying to create a _temporary_ table and only when sqlite3 is run from mintty. If I do the same thing in a console, all is well (as I found out when trying to strace the sqlite3

Re: [bug] Something fishy going on with sqlite3...

2012-03-15 Thread Achim Gratz
René Berber r.ber...@computer.org writes: The obvious question: what is your $TMP ? Obvious maybe — but TMP doesn't get invoked. :-) SQLite tries to create the file in the current working directory. Again, if I do that from a windows console window, all is well, if I do it from mintty I get an

Re: [bug] Something fishy going on with sqlite3...

2012-03-15 Thread Achim Gratz
René Berber r.ber...@computer.org writes: Right. Problem is I can't reproduce the error. I don't have any better information at the moment. I'm not using a snapshot, I'm at 1.7.11(0.260/5/3) 2012-02-24, and the operation you show, using mintty: I've switched to snapshots due to other

Re: [bug] Something fishy going on with sqlite3...

2012-03-16 Thread Achim Gratz
René Berber r.berber at computer.org writes: How do you set them to go into files? In my initial tests? Not at all, that was the default (I may be able to override that in the system or user configuration, but have not touched anything there). When I compile SQLite with SQLITE_TEMP_STORE=3

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: _autorebase. Call rebaseall after installing new or updated DLLs

2012-03-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: I've added a new package called _autorebase to the Cygwin distro. This package is usually installed and updated automatically. In the default view of setup.exe you won't even see it. Thank you very much (even though I'd just added the same functionality to my setup

cygwin-ports git access over http?

2012-03-28 Thread Achim Gratz
I'm behind a firewall at work that only allows HTTP access through, so is there a way clone cygwin-ports over HTTP? If not, is there already a Git mirror that provides such access? Besides, even when cloning without a firewall, I get: git clone

Re: cygwin-ports git access over http?

2012-03-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov (Cygwin/X yselkowitz at users.sourceforge.net writes: On 2012-03-29 00:36, Achim Gratz wrote: I'm behind a firewall at work that only allows HTTP access through, so is there a way clone cygwin-ports over HTTP? If not, is there already a Git mirror that provides such access? I'm

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: _autorebase. Call rebaseall after installing new or updated DLLs

2012-03-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: Minor nit: rebaseall picks up a file with the suffix .osc in the texmf tree that isn't actually a DLL. Sure? Have a look into the rebaseall script: I don't see how it should be able to pick up a file with the suffix .osc. Slip of fingers. It picks up:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: _autorebase. Call rebaseall after installing new or updated DLLs

2012-03-29 Thread Achim Gratz
marco atzeri writes: /usr/share/TeXmacs/plugins/octave/octave/tm-start.oct This should have a .m suffix really since it contains octave commands. raised the issue upstream https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?36033 Thank you. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: _autorebase. Call rebaseall after installing new or updated DLLs

2012-03-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: Corinna Vinschen writes: Feel free to participate in further development of the rebase tool. Patches for useful functionality is always welcome. The right forum is the cygwin-apps list. Thanks for the invitation. Is there a reason gmane.os.cygwin.applications

Re: breakage in groff-1.20.1-2

2012-03-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: The pfbtops program in that package can't convert most fonts back to PS. It complains about a block not starting with 0x80, exits with an error and produces truncated and mangled output. Besides a few lines missing from the end of the output, it apparently dropped single

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: _autorebase. Call rebaseall after installing new or updated DLLs

2012-03-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Larry Hall (Cygwin) writes: That's a question for GMane. Cygwin has no association or control of that channel. But it's probably because cygwin-apps is a subscriber-only mail list http://cygwin.com/lists.html. Just subscribe and see if that helps. This is set up when the group is set up on

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: _autorebase. Call rebaseall after installing new or updated DLLs

2012-03-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: That's exactly why you can't post. We don't allow indiscriminate posting to cygwin-apps from gmane. AFAIU, setting it to non-public achieves the same goal: you must be subscribed to be able to post through GMane. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305

Re: [bug] Something fishy going on with sqlite3...

2012-04-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at NexGo.DE writes: I'm stumped... The solution to this riddle: sqlite3 wrongly infers Cygwin as SQLITE_OS_WIN. Forcing a define for SQLITE_OS_UNIX produces an executable that works with temp store to disk even when the user is not an administrator. Additionally, the good

Re: [bug] Something fishy going on with sqlite3...

2012-04-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Warren Young warren at etr-usa.com writes: Send me the cygport file and I'll build new sqlite3 packages. I've just made a local patch package, tests look good so far. Specifically, I can now build the Perl DBD::SQLite module (either with the bundled SQLite or the locally installed library) and

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.12

2012-04-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: I just released 1.7.12. This is mainly a bugfix release, but a couple of bigger changes were required under the hood to fix some of the bugs. I'm not really sure if that happens because of the changes in 1.7.12 or if I just never saw it before: Using ~-expansion in

Re: [bug] Something fishy going on with sqlite3...

2012-04-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Warren Young warren at etr-usa.com writes: Will you please try them? Looks good to me, but hasn't seen extensive testing. There is likely to be one difference w.r.t your version, which is that my packages include a patch to replace a deprecated Cygwin 1.5 cygwin1.dll call with its

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.12

2012-04-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: The weird home dir could be a bug in Cygwin. I can't reproduce it, but I could think of a reason. Do you have a directory called /mnt/userdata or an account called userdata in /etc/passwd? Anyway, I applied a patch which should result in: No account there with the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.12

2012-04-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: On Apr 5 17:49, Achim Gratz wrote: I don't have any problems with the question marks showing up in directory listings, I would just prefer if a user that has no home directory set in /etc/passwd is not offered as an expansion for '~'. Expansion is done by the shell

Re: Where are end user instructions to compile an updated package?

2012-04-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Keith Christian writes: I'm interested in compiling the latest Sqlite source into a Cygwin package to updated the current version, for use on one machine. Generally, use the source package as a starting point. Specifically in this instance, I've posted a cygport file that would do this in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: _autorebase. Call rebaseall after installing new or updated DLLs

2012-04-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: Feel free to participate in further development of the rebase tool. Patches for useful functionality is always welcome. The right forum is the cygwin-apps list. Gmane still has cygwin-apps read-only, so I hope it is acceptable if I post it

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: _autorebase. Call rebaseall after installing new or updated DLLs

2012-04-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: I guess I have to respond to this every time it comes up. Sigh... cygwin-apps is SUPPOSED TO BE read only in gmane. It's a subscriber-post-only mailing list. If we opened the list up to every random user of gmane it would completely defeat the purpose of this

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.21.1-1

2012-04-24 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: I've made a new version of groff available for installation. This is a refresh from ftp.gnu.org. This version produces the same errors with pfbtops that I reported some time ago against the previous version. I've compiled

peflags warning and tsaware flags

2012-04-26 Thread Achim Gratz
What is peflags trying to tell me with this warning, which is only present when the -v switch is in effect? ash -c PATH=/bin peflags -t -d -v /usr/lib/zsh/4.3.12/zsh/zutil.dll Warning: file is non-executable but has tsaware set (/usr/lib/zsh/4.3.12/zsh/zutil.dll).

Re: peflags warning and tsaware flags

2012-04-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: The warning might be a bit misleading. What it really tries to tell you is that the file in question is not an executable (*.exe). The tsaware flag has no meaning for DLLs, it's only evaluated in headers of executables. That explains a lot more than that warning

how to drop administrator privileges?

2012-04-26 Thread Achim Gratz
I've recently had a test fail because I started it with administrator privileges (via the Administrator group). The test tried to write to a file that it set read-only before and of course as an administrator it was still able to write to it. So the test fail wasn't really that important, but I

bad performance when opening many files on Win7

2012-04-26 Thread Achim Gratz
I've seen major performance regressions on Win7 compared to an pre-1.7 Cygwin version on Win2000. I had initially suspected the virus scanner and disabling the real-time scan for the whole Cygwin folder did improve things appreciably. However the real performance hit when an application opens

Re: how to drop administrator privileges?

2012-04-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Charles Wilson writes: The cygdrop.exe utility is part of the cygutils package. Thank you. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ SD adaptation for Waldorf rackAttack V1.04R1: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada -- Problem

Re: bad performance when opening many files on Win7

2012-04-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Larry Hall (Cygwin) writes: Here's some background. http://www.suacommunity.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1697mpage=1 Anything there describe your setup? The part about groups with many members looks oddly familiar. Incidentally I've never had enough patience for makepasswd to finish while scanning

Re: peflags warning and tsaware flags

2012-04-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Larry Hall (Cygwin) writes: Does this help? Thanks, I've been reading this before. Tentatively I concluded that all Cygwin executables should have the +tsaware set, I just wanted to make sure that there aren't some that I would break if I do this. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305

Re: how to drop administrator privileges?

2012-04-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Charles Wilson writes: The cygdrop.exe utility is part of the cygutils package. (1001)~ # cygdrop -v ls GetTokenInformation: error 122 (1002)~ # cygdrop ls GetTokenInformation: error 122 (1003)~ # cygdrop Usage: cygdrop [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARG ...] Group options -lDisable local

Re: bad performance when opening many files on Win7

2012-04-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at nexgo.de writes: The part about groups with many members looks oddly familiar. Incidentally I've never had enough patience for makepasswd to finish while scanning the AD... so, given that I don't think I could change all that code, I guess that all the ids/groups used

Re: peflags warning and tsaware flags

2012-04-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: So, adding the tsaware flag to Cygwin executables might not help, but should never hurt. Thanks. So I'll extend my installer to sweep all executables and add +tsaware. Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports:

Re: Cygwin 1.7.14-2 setup.exe v2.772 broken?

2012-04-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: I think I fixed the problem. I at least fixed *a* problem. The latest setup.exe, now on cygwin.com has the fix that solved the issue for me. The setup.exe currently on the website shows version 2.774 in the GUI, but logs

Re: Cygwin 1.7.14-2 setup.exe v2.772 broken?

2012-04-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 09:00:17AM +, Achim Gratz wrote: I can't duplicate this. If I redirect stdout I get this: Starting cygwin install, version 2.774 and the log files contain the correct version too. Moreover, I can't find the string 2.769 in any object

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test update: perl-5.14.2-1, please update your dependent packages

2012-05-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Reini Urban rurban at x-ray.at writes: perl has been updated to 5.14.2-1 as test in the Experimental section. It looks pretty stable to me when I tested it in the last 2 weeks. I've hit two interesting snags (perl_vendor is installed): 1) Some modules, when built with cpanminus fail at test,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test update: perl-5.14.2-1, please update your dependent packages

2012-05-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Reini Urban writes: 2) If I install another module that uses LWP (HTTP::Status, for example), then I also need to reinstall LWP.  Otherwise I'm getting errors like these: Attempt to reload LWP/Protocol/http.pm aborted. Compilation failed in require at (eval 7) line 2. I could not repro

Re: bad performance when opening many files on Win7

2012-05-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at NexGo.DE writes: Fetching all groups from the DC gave me some 6 entries in a 4MiB group file. And if anything, things became even slower when using that file. I finally found some reproduceable case where the lsass.exe process will go berserk. It's all programs

Re: bad performance when opening many files on Win7

2012-05-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at NexGo.DE writes: How does one get suitable entries for /etc/group on these? As per the description in the Cygwin UG ntsec chapter, I've created an entry for Everyone, which incidentally revealed what Cygwin associated with that pesky user that was shown

Re: bad performance when opening many files on Win7

2012-05-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: How did you do that? The ACLs in the Cygwin default dirs are supposed to contain only three ACEs, one for the installing user, one for the local admin group, and one for everyone. At least that's how setup.exe installs them. These are inherited from the settings in

Re: bad performance when opening many files on Win7

2012-05-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: I don't know how to use pod2html. Please send a simple usage example which works out of the box, so that I can see if I can reproduce this behaviour. (1004)~ time pod2html --flush --title=DateTime::Locale::ml \

Re: bad performance when opening many files on Win7

2012-05-09 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: There's something fishy on your machine, and it's not Cygwin, afaics. I'd still blame some firewall/virus stuff. Thank you for looking into this. I suspect the configuration of our machines as well (since it is not just mine), since it only seems to happen when

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test update: perl-5.14.2-1, please update your dependent packages

2012-05-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: Reini Urban writes: 2) If I install another module that uses LWP (HTTP::Status, for example), then I also need to reinstall LWP.  Otherwise I'm getting errors like these: Attempt to reload LWP/Protocol/http.pm aborted. Compilation failed in require at (eval 7) line 2

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of the message to postmaster. Include all headers so that we can track this down. This is happening on a few debian lists as well, Google will show you. It is unconcluive if he's even subscribed to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Test update: perl-5.14.2-1, please update your dependent packages

2012-05-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at nexgo.de writes: With the new X server from a few days ago it [OpenGL] reliably crashes the rootless/multiwindow configuration with a really hairy backtrace, but rooted X is still OK. It is definitely the new X server, mor specifically the built-in window manager. I've

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of the message to postmaster. Yeah, just about any postmaster? I've got a new one from Joe Assistly and just guessed the domain since you don't want to

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: It shouldn't have to tell you what domain to use for postmaster for this mailing list. The four words for this mailing list would have been enough, thank you. You did manage to figure it out but, unfortunately, your forwarded header shows that the email response

[BUG] lftp 4.3.6

2012-05-29 Thread Achim Gratz
There is an insidious bug that affects at least lftp on the latest cygwin snapshot as well as the 1.7.15 release. Prepare and run an lftp script like this: perl -e 'foreach (1..100){' \ -e 'print ls -r file:/, ' \ -e '(map {$_x10. /}(a..z)), \n}' \ test.lftp lftp -f test.lftp |

Re: [BUG] lftp 4.3.6

2012-05-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: perl -e 'foreach (1..100){' \ -e 'print ls -r file:/, ' \ -e '(map {$_x10. /}(a..z)), \n}' \ test.lftp Sorry, there's a space missing: perl -e 'foreach (1..100){' \ -e 'print ls -r file:/, ' \ -e '(map {$_x10 . /}(a..z)), \n}' \ test.lftp

Re: [BUG] lftp 4.3.6

2012-05-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at nexgo.de writes: Under Linux i can't get lftp 4.3.3 to misbehave in the same manner even with much larger command lines and files, so it is either something introduced with a newer version of lftp or unique to lftp on Cygwin. The previous lftp version 4.3.3 on Cygwin

Re: [BUG] lftp 4.3.6

2012-05-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at NexGo.DE writes: The previous lftp version 4.3.3 on Cygwin also does not show the bug. I've reported the bug to the lftp mailing list as well. I'm investigating further with a local compile... I've compiled both the 4.3.3 and 4.3.6 version using the same settings, so

Re: [BUG] lftp 4.3.6

2012-05-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at NexGo.DE writes: I've compiled both the 4.3.3 and 4.3.6 version using the same settings, so they have the same libraries etc. -- 4.3.3 is still good and 4.3.6 has the bug. Let's see what upstream has to say about it, meanwhile I'd think that 4.3.6 should be pulled

Re: [BUG] lftp 4.3.6

2012-05-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrew Schulman writes: Upstream has released 4.3.7 which fixes the bug. Yay! Thanks for chasing that down. I'll package and release 4.3.7 shortly. Andrew. Thank you. When you're at it, please remove the README~ from the patch file... :-) Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305

Re: [BUG] lftp 4.3.6

2012-05-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrew Schulman writes: OK, sorry. Most annoying emacs feature that yet I've never bothered to turn off. I always try to cut those out, but sometimes they slip through. No need to be sorry, but maybe we could convince Yaakov not to package autosave files or at least give a warning about their

Re: [BUG] lftp 4.3.6

2012-05-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov (Cygwin/X yselkowitz at users.sourceforge.net writes: As in the attached? I'd think you should quote the exclude regex like '*~' or \*~, but otherwise this certainly looks appealing. Sorry for bringing up another issue: is it intended that KEEPDIRS produces .keep-package files in the

Re: [BUG] lftp 4.3.6

2012-05-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at NexGo.DE writes: I'd think you should quote the exclude regex like '*~' or \*~, but otherwise this certainly looks appealing. I've gone with the \*~ variant and it works like a charm. Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: [BUG] lftp 4.3.6

2012-05-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrew Schulman writes: Thanks for chasing that down. I'll package and release 4.3.7 shortly. Andrew. I just see your RFU over in cygwin apps... Please leave 4.3.3 as previous and remove 4.3.6, thanks. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+

Re: [RFU] SQlite3 (was: Something fishy going on with sqlite3...)

2012-06-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Hi Warren, There's a new version for SQlite3 released. I've put the fix in the source patch now and removed the define from the CPPFLAGS, also ignoring sqlite3.pc for the diff. (watch for the linewraps) ---88--- --- origsrc/sqlite-autoconf-3071201/sqlite3.c 2012-05-22

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp-4.3.7-1

2012-06-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrew Schulman writes: A new version of lftp, 4.3.7-1, is now available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, that fixes a few bugs since the previous Cygwin release, version 4.3.6-1. You can read the full changelog at http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html. Thank you very

Re: [RFU] SQlite3

2012-06-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Warren Young writes: Thanks, Achim. See my RFU message on the -apps list if you want to try the packages in advance of them hitting the mirrors. I tried them and they are OK. :-) I changed your .cygport file considerably. Partly that's just style issues, but it also has to do with my

Re: tcl/tk fails to connect to display

2012-06-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Jeremy Ramer writes: $ gitk Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display :0 Start an X server. Tk now requires X and won't run without it. Regards, Achim. -- +[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]+ DIY Stuff: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/DIY.html

Re: Performance problems with emacs-X11 in current cygwin

2012-06-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: As I said earlier, I don't understand very well how git branches work, but I *think* this means we have to look in the 2-32 branch, prior to the 2.31.0 tag, to find the problematic commit. I've checked out the 2-32 branch, and I guess the next step is to find a problem-free

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-19 Thread Achim Gratz
richw writes: [...] A reboot fixes the problem, as long as I run cygwin.bat before I access nfs. The problem quite likely lies with your 11 different copies of cygwin1.dll. You start the NFS server and it picks up one of those, just not the one for your actual Cygwin installation. Now Cygwin

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-19 Thread Achim Gratz
richw writes: rw@seven ~ $ /bin/uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 seven 1.7.15(0.260/5/3) 2012-05-09 10:25 i686 Cygwin Your cygcheck.out said I should be expecting a 1.7.11 version here. So maybe you didn't nuke all extra versions or your cygcheck output wasn't for your actual installation...

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-19 Thread Achim Gratz
Rolf Campbell writes: I would hate to add TortoiseSVN to the BLODA. The icon cache _is_ dodgy — at least the one for TortoiseGit, which needs to be restarted regularly. But getting back to SQLite, backing out the changes in the build would get us back a different bug. So it would be very

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-19 Thread Achim Gratz
Warren Young writes: Note that SQLite isn't really designed for concurrent access to the database file from a different process. There is a paucity of truth in that statement. So let me re-formulate that sentence: concurrent access ultimately relies on the file locking provided by the OS.

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-20 Thread Achim Gratz
richw writes: I believe what needs to be studied is why an access from a remote system to an nfs file system before opening a bash prompt causes the automatic mount of /usr/bin and /usr/lib to be skipped. With the most likely problem apparently out of the way, let's look at the second: when

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-20 Thread Achim Gratz
richw writes: when you access the NFS export, three daemons get started (mountd, nfsd and portmap) under their own account (apparently .\nfs?). The daemons are apparently started before the NFS export is accessed. At least, the windows services report shows them as started. The logon Is .\nfs

Re: /bin and /lib mount points occasionally lost

2012-06-20 Thread Achim Gratz
richw writes: I modified /etc/exports to read / (ro,no_root_squash) /usr/bin (ro,no_root_squash) /usr/lib (ro,no_root_squash) and then tried a mount. I was surprised that I could not mount /usr/bin, but I could mount /bin. (Is that correct? Why?) It probably means that /usr/lib and

Re: crash on latest cygwin snapshot

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: Weird. I see nothing like that. I get the same behavior with the supposedly working snapshot and with the snapshot for which problems are reported. And with 1.7.15. Besides the problems reported, the June 19 snapshot kills mintty processes for me once or twice a

Re: bad performance when opening many files on Win7

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: There's something fishy on your machine, and it's not Cygwin, afaics. I'd still blame some firewall/virus stuff. Just to put some closure on this: after the latest bout of security patches distributed by our IT the issue has vanished completely. I suspect that it had

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: Cygwin should (and apparently does) abstract away that difference. But it seems that the locking strategy might be slightly different between Win32 and POSIX, triggering a foray into that disk I/O error branch. There may still be a bug some place else, i.e. it may get

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-26 Thread Achim Gratz
David Rothenberger writes: The cygport file should check for all required build dependencies. If you find one missing, please let me know. I'm not near my work machine, so this is from memory... the test suite requires perl modules I didn't have installed and fails most perl tests without them

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at nexgo.de writes: I'm not near my work machine, so this is from memory... the test suite requires perl modules I didn't have installed and fails most perl tests without them — not too worried about this, will install those later this week. The fail is not due

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-27 Thread Achim Gratz
David Rothenberger writes: Strange. It works for me and the ldd output for _Core.dll is reasonable. What version of autotools, swig etc. are you using? The only swig wrappers that work for me are those for Python. Both Ruby and Perl seem to die on those strangely non-functional DLL the build

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz Stromeko at nexgo.de writes: Strange. It works for me and the ldd output for _Core.dll is reasonable. I can't seem to get this working. There are a few warnings, but nothing that would explain such a massive fail. Would you mind posting the ldd output for your _Core.dll

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-28 Thread Achim Gratz
David Rothenberger writes: I can't seem to get this working. There are a few warnings, but nothing that would explain such a massive fail. Would you mind posting the ldd output for your _Core.dll? % ldd /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/auto/SVN/_Core/_Core.dll ntdll.dll

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Rolf Campbell writes: On 2012-06-27 14:17, David Rothenberger wrote: Anyway, I'll have a new release available shortly built against the latest SQLite package, so others that want to use TortoiseSVN can try it. I just upgraded to the -5 package, and turned the TSVN icon caching back on, and

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Warren Young writes: Now, if somebody could find out _where_ in SQLite it fails... Is it not true that you're the only one in many years of SQLite's availability in Cygwin who wanted it compiled the way it currently is? Well yes, since one couldn't use temporary databases unless you have

Re: cygwin 1.7.15: svn disk I/O error

2012-06-28 Thread Achim Gratz
David Rothenberger writes: I make two packages, one for 5.10 and one for 5.14. There's a separate patch that's required for 5.14. Did you include it? The source package for -4 includes it automatically. Yes, I worked from the -4 package on one machine and the -3 package on the other. There

Re: Unable to install LWP

2012-07-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrew DeFaria Andrew at DeFaria.com writes: Is this a rebase issue? How can I update my LWP? Yes, this is a rebase issue. You can just build without the test, change into the build directory and rebase manually, then do the install. You can also force the installation even though the test

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygport-0.10.11-1

2012-07-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov (Cygwin/X yselkowitz at users.sourceforge.net writes: * Split debuginfo subpackages are created automatically whenever possible. Thank you. I suggest the following patch to greatly reduce the amount of temporary storage needed: diff -c src_postinst.cygpart.orig src_postinst.cygpart ***

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