[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.2.6-1

2019-03-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Gnuplot version 5.2.6 is available as a release version on Cygwin now. Notes: -- The configuration has changed to not include "backwards compatibility) any longer, which removes partial support for deprecated features. This build makes use of the new libcerf library package, so gnuplot sh

Re: Very slow start of cygwin-3.0.0-1 (32-bit)

2019-02-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: >> > Test the latest snapshot from https://cygwin.com/snapshots/, please. >> Fixed, thank you. I can confirm that this problem is solved. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf

Re: Very slow start of cygwin-3.0.0-1 (32-bit)

2019-02-21 Thread Achim Gratz
cyg...@roche.com writes: > I am using Cygwin (32-bit) on 64-bit Windows 10 computer. This >computer is member of a big AD domain. My account is member of a lot of >AD groups. I think I'm seeing the same problem as you. If you start the shell from "strace -w" you can see how long each call to the

Re: perl -- classic?

2019-02-05 Thread Achim Gratz
L A Walsh writes: > I can't get many cpan things to work with current perl. Then these are unlikely to work with an older perl as well. > Things like > Term::Size::chars no longer works as it says chars isn't exported. > but it is 'EXPORT_OK', and it used to work. Import it into your namespace?

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mpfr-4.0.2-1

2019-02-02 Thread Achim Gratz
The MPFR Library The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding (also called correct rounding). It is based on the GMP multiple-precision library. The main goal of MPFR is to provide a library for multiple-precision floati

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libcerf-1.11-1

2019-01-24 Thread Achim Gratz
This is an update to the latest upstream version. Libcerf is a self-contained numeric library that provides an efficient and accurate implementation of complex error functions, along with Dawson, Faddeeva, and Voigt functions. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you w

Re: iperf 2.0.13 available

2019-01-24 Thread Achim Gratz
Bob McMahon writes: > We've done a lot of work to make iperf 2.0.13 work well on cygwin. There > are also a lot of new features relevant to the WiFi testing community. Is > there a contact on how to get this distributed via cgywin apps? Either the current maintainer does an update or, if that do

Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10

2019-01-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Michael Wild writes: > Thanks, but until I get a running setup.exe I can't get a running > Cygwin and only then I can get a running apt-cyg, right? You only need a UPX executable, you can get it from upstream: https://github.com/upx/upx/releases And (somewhat uncharacteristically) they actually

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2019-01-21 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version on CPAN, respectively: x86/x86_64 -- perl-DBD-mysql-4.050-1 perl-Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.36-1 noarch -- perl-JSON-4.01-1 perl-Module-ScanDeps-1.27-1 perl-Test-Simple-1.302160-1 perl-Test2-Suite-0.000118-1 perl-T

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cfitsio-3.450-1

2019-01-21 Thread Achim Gratz
This is an update to the latest upstream version. Notes - The library version has changed from libcfitsio3 to libcfitsio7. Packages depending on libcfitsio should be recompiled to make use of the newer ABI. The build now enables BZip2 and multithreading support. A Perl binding is availab

Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10

2019-01-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Michael Wild writes: > Thanks. I have very little hope of getting it whitelisted... Is UPX > compression really a necessity? Otherwise I'll have to resort to my custom > compiled versions. No, that's just so the download is smaller. Which isn't the point if you've built it yourself anyway… you co

Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10

2019-01-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Michael Wild writes: > Anybody else experiencing this? I tried trawling through the mailing > list, but nothing specific turned up. Maybe this is an interaction > with the BLODA imposed on me by our company IT policy. But then I'd > expect others to have seen this issue too. It wouldn't be the fir

Re: /proc/partitions changed ?

2019-01-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: > Thanks for checking > > or Windows 10 is changed or does not work > at least from 2.11.0. ~ (2001) cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name win-mounts 8 0 244198584 sda 8 1131072 sda1 8 2 244066304 sda2 D:\ 816 62516809 sdb

Re: Needing the executable grap

2019-01-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Fergus writes: > g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -std=c++0x -Wall -std=c++0x -g -O2 -std=c++0x > -MT grap.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/grap.Tpo -c -o grap.o grap.cc It is almost always a mistake to request strict standards coherence as it will make _all_ functions not explicitly in the ISO standard invisi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zstd-1.3.8-1 and development headers / libraries

2019-01-13 Thread Achim Gratz
This release updates Zstandard to the latest upstream version. Note Support for legacy formats from versions before 1.0 has been removed from the build. Zstandard, or zstd as short version, is a fast lossless compression algorithm, targeting real-time compression scenarios at zlib-level a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.10.4-1

2019-01-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Did you intend to keep 1.10.4 around only for x86 and not x86_64? Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf rackAttack: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds -- Problem reports: ht

Re: Cygwin Statistics and curiosity

2019-01-11 Thread Achim Gratz
E. Madison Bray writes: > I have often wondered why apt-cyg [1] hasn't been adopted fully by > Cygwin as one of the default packages (in fact I'm not sure if there > even is an actual cygwin package for apt-cyg), aside from the fact > that it's not formally maintained as part of the cygwin ecosyste

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2019-01-05 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version on CPAN, respectively: x86/x86_64 -- perl-DBD-SQLite-1.62-1 perl-Net-DNS-SEC-1.11-1 perl-Package-Stash-XS-0.29-1 perl-TermReadKey-2.38-1 perl-Text-CSV_XS-1.38-1 perl-Unicode-Collate-1.27-1 perl-Unicode-LineBreak-

Re: Installation history

2018-12-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Aaron Digulla writes: > With "rpm -qa --last", you can get the package update history (which package > version was installed when). > > Is there a similar command for Cygwin? No, bout you can find the install history in /var/log/setup.log (provided you're not cleaning that directory regularly).

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > Tweaks to HTML clipboard/export feature >   * Flexible HTML formatting levels. >   * Configurable, also in Options dialog. >   * No more table cell container. >   * HTML escaping. >   * Apply styles individually and other tweaks for increased compatibility. >   * Font fallbac

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > Am 05.12.2018 um 21:21 schrieb Achim Gratz: >> Thomas Wolff writes: >>> Other >>>   * Ensuring /bin in PATH for user commands. >> Blindly prepending /bin to the existing PATH is asking for trouble with >> certain setups. > Just t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.5

2018-12-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > Other >   * Ensuring /bin in PATH for user commands. Blindly prepending /bin to the existing PATH is asking for trouble with certain setups. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Waldorf MIDI Implementation & additional d

Re: readline in Cygwin64?

2018-12-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Fergus writes: > Just installed Cygwin64. Beautiful. > However, I need to build an executable. In Cygwin32 the build proceeds > without exception but in Cygwin64 two error msgs are generated during the > attempt: > 1)fatal error: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory > 2)cannot fin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2018-12-02 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version on CPAN, respectively: Note perl-JSON-XS-4.0-0 is a test release that you will have to install by selecting the "test" version in setup manually. Please read the change log before testing: https://metacpan.org/chan

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: gnuplot-5.2.5-1

2018-12-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Gnuplot version 5.2.5 is available as a test version on Cygwin now. Notes: -- The configuration has changed to not include "backwards compatibility) any longer, which removes partial support for deprecated features. Unless I hear of problems with this change, this version will be promoted t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: libcerf-1.7-1

2018-12-01 Thread Achim Gratz
This is a new package in Cygwin. Libcerf is a self-contained numeric library that provides an efficient and accurate implementation of complex error functions, along with Dawson, Faddeeva, and Voigt functions. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscrib

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: protobuf-3.6.1-1

2018-12-01 Thread Achim Gratz
This is an update to the latest upstream release for protobuf. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specifi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.26.3-1

2018-12-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Perl has been updated to version 5.26.3-1 on Cygwin. This is the third upstream maintenance release for Perl 5.26, released on Nov 29, 2018. Release notes: https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3 -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscri

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Lester Ingber writes: > On the new PC I use Powershell (as Admin) to run setup-x86_64.exe for the > Base setup. Not absolutely needed, but it creates all the directories and files you need correctly, so it's a good start. > From the old PC I can use the /etc/setup/installed.db file in the new ma

Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer?

2018-11-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Lester Ingber writes: > I'd like to simply transfer my cygwin64/ directory from my old Thinkpad > to my new Thinkpad, both running Win 10 x64 Pro. E.g., I would put my > old c:/cygwin64/ onto a flash SSD USB drive e:/ . > cd c:/ > tar cfp - cygwin64 > e:/cygwin64.tar & > Then e:/cygwin64.tar would

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.4

2018-11-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > OK, it shall be made configurable. But please describe in which ways > workflows are broken and how / in which application HTML tables (HTML > source?) would appear. I commonly paste things from MinTTY into our Wiki editor (in the browser), which choses the advertised HTML a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.4

2018-11-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > Terminal features >   * Copy as HTML (#811). As long as this is not opt-in this is a most unwelcome change that breaks my workflow. I don't even know where it might have some use, but again, if it was optional (like the "copy as richt text" thing) or had its own shortcut ke

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xfig,xfig-lib,transfig}-3.2.7-1

2018-11-11 Thread Achim Gratz
This is an update to the latest upstream release of xfig (including fig2dev/transfig). -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send ema

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zstd-1.3.7-1 and development headers / libraries

2018-11-11 Thread Achim Gratz
This release updates Zstandard to the latest upstream version. Note The built-in benchmark function can infloop on too short input with some settings, apparently due to the granularity of timing measurements on Windows being too coarse. Zstandard, or zstd as short version, is a fast lossl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2018-11-08 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version on CPAN, respectively: x86/x86_64 -- perl-Clone-0.41-1 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.07-1 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA-0.31-1 perl-DBD-mysql-4.048-1 perl-DBI-1.642-1 perl-Socket6-0.29-1 perl-Text-CSV_XS-1.37-1 perl-YAML-LibYAML

Re: cygport fails with package starting with number

2018-11-07 Thread Achim Gratz
Brian Inglis writes: > On 2018-11-07 13:15, Achim Gratz wrote: >> Marco Atzeri writes: >>> It seems that the behaviour of cygport is changed recently >>> and rebuilding the 4ti2 package fails on the name 4ti2. >> Introduced by a3997ae7ac, which constructs a varia

Re: cygport fails with package starting with number

2018-11-07 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: > It seems that the behaviour of cygport is changed recently > and rebuilding the 4ti2 package fails on the name 4ti2. Introduced by a3997ae7ac, which constructs a variable whose name starts with the package name. However, a leading number does not result in a valid identifie

Re: cygport fails with package starting with number

2018-11-07 Thread Achim Gratz
cyg Simple writes: >> 4ti2_debuginfo_CONTENTS: bad substitution > > This is coming from the ${!dbg_contents_var} syntax. What is this > input to tar supposed to be? The "bad substitution" is because the > variable isn't an integer. No, the reason is that it's not a valid identifier. If Yaakov h

Re: Bug report: Core dump with too many args

2018-11-07 Thread Achim Gratz
Ole Tange writes: > I get core dump when running: > > $ /bin/echo `seq 100` > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > This also looks bad: > > $ /bin/wc `seq 100` > 2 [main] -bash 15396 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - cmalloc > would have returned NULL > Hangup They both just

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.11.2-0.1

2018-10-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 30.10.2018 um 13:46 schrieb Marco Atzeri: It seems the "cygwin" portion of setup.ini was not updated at all. It is reporting the 2.10.0-1 but the files are not anymore there. I've checked the sourceware repo and it has the correcxt setup.ini now, you may need to wait a bit for it to shhow u

Re: Broken file in ALL cygwin mirrors report! socat-debuginfo

2018-10-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Houder writes: > The latter ones will properly untar, but not the files of size 32. There is a special branch in setup that accepts this particular case for historical reasons. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Terratec K

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: maxima-5.42.1-1

2018-10-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Maxima has been updated to the new upstream relese 5.42.1 on Cygwin. Maxima - Computer Algebra System Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] zstd-1.3.6-1 and development headers / libraries

2018-10-15 Thread Achim Gratz
This release updates Zstandard to the latest upstream version. Note The built-in benchmark function can infloop on too short input with some settings, apparently due to the granularity of timing measurements on Windows being too coarse. Zstandard, or zstd as short version, is a fast lossl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2018-09-15 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version on CPAN, respectively: x86/x86_64 -- perl-DBD-mysql-4.047-1 noarch perl-Archive-Zip-1.64-1 perl-Mail-Message-3.007-1 perl-Mail-Transport-3.003-1 perl-Mojolicious-8.0-1 *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: >> How feasible would it be to generate an alternate setup.ini >> (setup-snapshots.ini or something) and include the snapshots in the >> actual mirror with a switch to setup to select the alternate file? >> When we finally get to it with OCaml's CI, that is probably how I >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2018-09-01 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version on CPAN, respectively: x86/x86_64 -- perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.06-1 perl-DateTime-1.50-1 perl-Net-DNS-SEC-1.10-1 perl-YAML-LibYAML-0.74-1 noarch -- perl-Archive-Zip-1.63-1 perl-CGI-4.40-1 perl-Date-Manip-6.73-1 p

Re: error in "cygpath" behavior

2018-08-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Steven Penny writes: > I am not understanding - it appears that "dot-dot" (..) is well defined by > POSIX: […] > so it would appears that ".." would be an acceptable return value in any case. Except that you've asked for a Windows path, not POSIX, and you have no idea what Windows' idea of the CWD

Re: running self compiled 32 bit binary on 64 bit Windows?

2018-08-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Ulli Horlacher writes: > This script would run setup-x86_64.exe which asks a lot of questions > (mirror site, proxy, installation directory, etc) in the first run. > This will overcharge my users! Well, after all the hints you've already got, how about you actually look at what setup.exe does when

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.11.0-0.2

2018-08-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > A CLI option "all-test" would be helpful, too :) That command (not exactly the same name, though) has been added to cygport 9 months ago: http://repo.or.cz/cygport.git/commitdiff/515fc7caa1ccfd8ce3e67deeb6667be481f56e42 Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305

Re: distributing preconfigured cygwin

2018-08-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Ulli Horlacher writes: >> If they can follow your current instructions, they can surely start some >> script that does this correctly? > > I do not have a script which installs all needed packages. So write one. > This install script must first download the cygwin base package, install > it and t

Re: equivalent to su or sudo?

2018-08-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Ulli Horlacher writes: > I need to run some scripts with full administrator rights (for chown, > chmod, setfacl). Whatever runs these scripts must already have aquired administrative rights. > Is there a cygwin equivalent to su or sudo? No, you can only start out with administrative rights and t

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.11.0-0.2

2018-08-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Aug 17 10:36, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 8/17/2018 6:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.11.0-0.2 >> >> It looks like this didn't get marked as a test release in >> cygwin-2.11.0-0.2.hint. > > Sigh. Should be fixed now. Would proba

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.11.0-0.1

2018-08-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.11.0-0.1 > > I'm planning for a release end of August. Please test. I've tested it for about a week now and have released for my other users this week. This release actually fixed two problem I've encountered on my new Server 2016

Re: top exits spuriously on R2016

2018-08-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > I've got my new R2016 server re-configured to only have a single > processor group instead of two (and HT switched off to match the > available memory better to my median memory usage per core). > > However, top still spuriously exits (I originally thought

Re: strtod ("nan") returns negative NaN

2018-08-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > With your patch, strtold looks more correct, but it still prints the > sign of NaN: > > strtod ("nan", NULL) = nan > strtod ("-nan", NULL) = nan > strtold ("nan", NULL) = nan > strtold ("-nan", NULL) = -nan > nan ("") = nan > > Question: What's wrong with that?

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.11.0-0.1

2018-08-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Houder writes: > from: > const int xxx = 0x3d; // FE_ALL_EXCEPT on Linux, i.e. the denormal-operand > // exception is excluded on Linux > > to: > const int xxx = 0x3f; // Cygwin allows the denormal-operand exception; > // Linux (Andreas Jaeger) does not.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] zstd-1.3.5-1 and development headers / libraries

2018-08-11 Thread Achim Gratz
This release updates Zstandard to the latest upstream version. Note The built-in benchmark function can infloop on too short input with some settings, apparently due to the granularity of timing measurements on Windows being too coarse. Zstandard, or zstd as short version, is a fast lossl

Re: git-email missing module

2018-08-04 Thread Achim Gratz
john doe writes: > I had to install "Mail::Address" manually using cpan. You shouldn't do that. The module in question is packaged with perl-MailTools (camelcased), so this needs to be added to the dependencies for Git. Adam, the perl modules that come with Git need to be properly provided as pe

Re: x86_64: floating-point environment (i.e. fenv.h). BUG.

2018-08-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Houder writes: >> Since you know how to fix things, please just send patches to >> the cygwin-patches ML. > > Ah ... Agreed. However, as I am not set up for building (anymore), this > will take some time ... (not even git is installed). Just make a unified diff of your changes… Regards, Achim. -

Re: Issue running PowerShell code on Windows Machine from Linux machine using Cygwin

2018-08-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > If I setup password-less login to the cygwin ssh server, using > authorized-keys, I can access all remote shares from cygwin, > and also from cmd, started from cygwin with `winpty cmd`, for that matter. > Possibly, if the remote login is the first login of the user, the > mou

Re: Issue running PowerShell code on Windows Machine from Linux machine using Cygwin

2018-07-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Shekhar Shukla writes: > I am having issue while establishing a ssh connection from Linux to Windows > machine using Cygwin. My powershell script works when I run it from Linux > using ssh connection(Cygwin) to Windows and manually enter my passowrd. > But whn I use public key to authenticate my u

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mpfr-4.0.1-4p11

2018-07-28 Thread Achim Gratz
The MPFR Library The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding (also called correct rounding). It is based on the GMP multiple-precision library. The main goal of MPFR is to provide a library for multiple-precision floati

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2018-07-28 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version on CPAN, respectively: x86/x86_64 -- perl-YAML-LibYAML-0.72-1 noarch -- perl-Business-ISMN-1.132-1 perl-Exporter-Tiny-1.002001-1 perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.058-1 perl-libwww-perl-6.35-1 perl-Mojolicious-7.88-1 perl

Re: Fork issue on W10 WOW

2018-07-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: > In this case AVG is innocent. > I removed all AV and the lottery is still there Again, if the ASLR setup has been changed via registry, I wouldn't bet that the uninstallation of the application that changed them to reset to the defaults (if it was indeed AVG,). > it seems t

Re: Fork issue on W10 WOW

2018-07-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: > Nothing fancy, just vanilla fresh new > W10 64bit Home preinstalled on HP Notebook > German Language > Version 1709 > Build system 16299.547 Hmmm. That should update itself to 1803 almost the same second you let it anywhere near a network. Anyway, the only time I've seen s

Re: Fork issue on W10 WOW

2018-07-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: > currently I have over 7300 always busy > 73C5-73C51000 /cygdrive/c/Windows/SysWOW64/cryptbase.dll What type of Windows do you use? I have Home N for testing at home and Server 2016 plus a bunch of users w/ Enterprise clients (will get one myself in a few days) and n

Re: Win32::GUI Installation

2018-07-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Badoobj Badoobj writes: > I am trying to install Win32-GUI 1.06. The version I downloaded does not > have an executable. The current version of this package for Cygwin is 1.14 and 1.06 is so old that it should be no longer available on anyof the mirrors. > I just want to verify if it does not req

Re: running self compiled 32 bit binary on 64 bit Windows?

2018-07-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Ulli Horlacher writes: >> You have to install Cygwin, not "transfer". > > I have several 100 users, none of them is able to install cygwin and > the packages they need the official way, they are way to *CENSORED* for > this job :-} If they can follow your current instructions, they can surely star

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.0

2018-07-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrey Repin writes: > Is it recognized by the remote? I suppose it does, but just to be > extra sure. Yes it is, as I said I have my own terminfo database for it or it would make a bunch of other problems. > I've seen systems that don't have half the terminals configured, causing all > sorts of

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.0

2018-07-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > According to TERM=screen-256color infocmp -1|grep 34 >     cnorm=\E[34h\E[?25h, >     cvvis=\E[34l, > the cursor could be turned into an underline when "cursor_normal" mode > is restored, i.e. when a screen application terminates. > But which application does actually

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.0

2018-07-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > Andrey quoted how he configures 'screen'; can you show the relevant part > of 'tmux' configuration please? It's not configured at all, just called through a script. As part of the SSH invocation (through mosh) I set the terminal to screen-256color and start screen on the re

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.0

2018-07-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > As I cannot reproduce the exact scenario, I don't see yet where/how > you set TERM=screen-256color and when the cursor would switch. > Also I notice that the xterm-256color entry is missing the Co entry > (which is likely what you want), strange. I need to set this in a scri

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.0

2018-07-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > I guess it's more about the configuration of tmux. There is in fact a > cursor style setting sequence that mintty newly supports. > Please make a terminal log and check whether ^[[34h (ESC [ 3 4 h) > appears during tmux initialization. I figured as much meanwhile, but I've n

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.0

2018-07-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > I have uploaded mintty 2.9.0 with the following changes: […] No good deed goes unpunished, I guess. One of these changes makes the cursor come out as static underline instead of blinking block whenever I'm going into my usual screen or tmux session. I have not yet figured

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2018-07-01 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version on CPAN, respectively: x86/x86_64 -- perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.04-1 noarch -- perl-File-Find-Object-Rule-0.0309-1 perl-File-ShareDir-1.116-1 perl-Mojolicious-7.85-1 perl-Test-Warn-0.36-1 -- *** C

Re: Fork issue on W10 WOW

2018-06-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: > on a new W10 HP Laptop, the 32 bit installation always fails > on postinstallation scripts that use perl. Please check if that installation has activated the option of forcing ASLR on everything (even if explicitly marked non-ASRL aware). > It is not due to an Antivirus as

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2018-06-17 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version on CPAN, respectively: x86/x86_64 -- perl-DateTime-1.49-1 perl-List-SomeUtils-XS-0.58-1 perl-Net-DNS-SEC-1.09-1 perl-YAML-LibYAML-0.70-1 noarch -- perl-Config-AutoConf-0.317-1 perl-Date-Manip-6.72-1 perl-Date

Re: Problematic interpretion of paths starting with double slashes

2018-06-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Sven Eden writes: > True, if /this isn't just a mount point for //this, meaning > that the "that"s are two different files. […] Again, my main objection is that the interpretation of a path should not change based on the availability or non-availability of any host (or its name resolution) over th

Re: Windows upgrade

2018-06-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Alejandro Benitez writes: > I have a 32 bit cygwin installation of 8 years of age in an amd64 PC > with 2 GB of RAM with Windows 10. So far it's been so good. I never > had the need to use a 64 bit Windows, but recently 64 bit has become > mainstream and I also started having low memory issues, so

Re: Aw: Re: Problematic interpretion of paths starting with double slashes

2018-06-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Sven Eden writes: > Doing a simple stat on / if (and only if) the UNC lookup > fails, does not endanger anything. It wouldn't break > anything or do any other damage. Besides from adding an > additional <0.01s lag to any failed access that *really* > meant a network share. > > So no. Adding this ti

Re: running self compiled 32 bit binary on 64 bit Windows?

2018-06-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Ulli Horlacher writes: > I have compiled the application with gcc from cygwin. You've compiled with the native compiler on a 32bit Cygwin, producing a 32bit Cygwin executable. > It runs without problems on Windows 7 32 bit but on Windows 8 64 bit it > does not output ANYTHING. No (error) message,

Re: Perl child_info_fork runtime error

2018-06-04 Thread Achim Gratz
Ulli Horlacher writes: > /client/bin is a directory which I have created. > It should not collide with anything. So what's in there, is in PATH etc. pp. > The problem is: > > [main] perl 4232 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed by 'Encode.dll' > (0x37) is already occupied > > Encode

top exits spuriously on R2016

2018-06-01 Thread Achim Gratz
I've got my new R2016 server re-configured to only have a single processor group instead of two (and HT switched off to match the available memory better to my median memory usage per core). However, top still spuriously exits (I originally thought it had to do with top not being processor group

Re: Perl child_info_fork runtime error

2018-05-30 Thread Achim Gratz
Ulli Horlacher writes: > Line 106 in /client/bin/fexsend is: That path looks suspiciously like something not properly packaged for Cygwin. If so, it may use DLL that are not rebased and collide with Cygwin's. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]

[ANNOUNCEMENT] zstd-1.3.4-1 and development headers / libraries

2018-05-25 Thread Achim Gratz
This release updates Zstandard to the latest upstream version. Note The built-in benchmark function can infloop on too short input with some settings, apparently due to the granularity of timing measurements on Windows being too coarse. Zstandard, or zstd as short version, is a fast lossle

Re: Error using git-svn (module List::Util: No such process at /usr/share/perl5/5.26/XSLoader.pm line 96)

2018-05-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja writes: > I fixed my problem with git-svn downgrading perl-Scalar-List-Utils to > version 1.49 (instead of 1.50) from here > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/x86/release/ > perl-Scalar-List-Utils/ > > I'm attaching the file cygcheck.out This doesn't show the mo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2018-05-16 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been added or updated to their latest version on CPAN, respectively: noarch -- perl-DateTime-TimeZone-2.19-1 perl-Mojolicious-7.79-1 perl-YAML-1.25-1 -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: perl-Algorithm-Combinatorics

2018-05-15 Thread Achim Gratz
The Perl distribution Algorithm-Combinatorics has been added to Cygwin. x86 / x86_64 perl-Algorithm-Combinatorics-0.27-1 -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " t

Re: perl-Win32-API package problem

2018-05-15 Thread Achim Gratz
SJ Luo writes: > The two lines of commands "mv ; cp xxx" are to dereference the > symbolic links of testing-needed dll files because > Win32::API::LoadLibrary() seems not be able to resolve Cygwin symbolic > link. You'd need to use native symlinks for that to work, yes. > By checking the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2018-05-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > Steven Penny writes: >> would you consider adding any of these: >> >> http://metacpan.org/pod/Algorithm::Combinatorics >> Testers: 10564 > > I think I have used that one before, so depending on how cleanly it > builds on Cygwin I might be

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Perl distributions

2018-05-13 Thread Achim Gratz
The following Perl distributions have been added or updated to their latest version on CPAN, respectively: x86/x86_64 -- perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Random-0.15-1 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA-0.30-1 perl-Digest-SHA-6.02-1 perl-Net-DNS-SEC-1.08-1 noarch -- perl-B-Hooks-EndOfScope-0.24-1 perl-Busines

Re: /usr/include/ssp/wchar.h:78:1: error: unknown type name ‘FILE’ (during cygport package build)

2018-05-13 Thread Achim Gratz
Hans-Bernhard Bröker writes: > That does look rather weird. Why would one write that instead of just > -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 ? That's what cygport does and Yaakov said he'd copied it from Fedora. But yes, that _is_ unexpected and it did break stuff elsewehere. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12

Re: How portable (relocatable) is a Cygwin installation?

2018-05-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Andy Li writes: > We are looking for an easy way to distribute an OCaml development > enviroment based on Cygwin. You're asking to package up a complete software ecosystem on top of a POSIX emulation layer on top of a non-POSIX OS. Any which way you slice it, this will not fit the "easy" qualific

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mpfr-4.0.1-3p6

2018-05-06 Thread Achim Gratz
The MPFR Library The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding (also called correct rounding). It is based on the GMP multiple-precision library. The main goal of MPFR is to provide a library for multiple-precision floati

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: gnuplot-5.2.3-1

2018-05-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Gnuplot version 5.2.3 is available as a test version on Cygwin now. Note: - The configuration has changed to not include "backwards compatibility) any longer, which removes partial support for deprecated features. Unless I hear of problems with this change, this version will be promoted to b

Re: EAIO-Installator. Fehler.

2018-05-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes: > I suggest you to highlight the issue to EAIO; the cygwin project > is not involved in their activity. That's apparently a printer driver from HP… Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Terratec KOMPLEXER

Re: Problem

2018-05-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Erik Soderquist writes: > At this point I'm kind of wishing the embedded message pointed to > http://cygwin.com/problems.html rather than the mailing list... https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=21f22726c77917d98d9cbe01f05843fdd7189df9 Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-1

Re: [Bug] File permissions across domains

2018-04-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: >> I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Are there >> differences or not? > > You're on to something. I have over 500 groups in my token in the old > domain, but only half of those end up in the token when I'm logged

Re: hardware/system info?

2018-04-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Ulli Horlacher writes: > There is no HardwareConfig (on Windows 7 32bit). You need to have administrative rights to see that branch. > But I found: > > "wmic csproduct get name" Yes, that is probably a better idea. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk B

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.26.2-1

2018-04-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Perl has been updated to version 5.26.2-1 on Cygwin. This is the second upstream maintenance release for Perl 5.26, released on April 14, 2018. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubsc

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