Re: Presence of cygwin64 elements in an existing Cygwin 32 install after updating

Keith Christian writes: > What is the meaning of "result was 0" and "result was 1" above? It tells you whether the package needs to be updated (1) or not (0). > then, another listing similar to this: > > Found category KDE in package akonadi > Deleted manual package akonadi > Found ca

Re: Presence of cygwin64 elements in an existing Cygwin 32 install after updating

Keith Christian writes: > Must be this? > > C:\Users\keith\Downloads\setup-x86.exe --help > > -c --remove-categoriesSpecify categories to uninstall Yes. If in doubt, combine with -M to see what it's up to. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andro

Re: Strange errors with gcc and top, even after rebaseall

nobo...@web.de writes: > ok, then i need at work two 32bit versions, one for building software > A and one for software B, and a 64bit version for working with Cygwin, > e. g. locate, backups etc.. I guess I don't understand why you thoink you'd need two installations for two build environments.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have been added to Cygwin or updated to their latest version on CPAN, respectively: x86/x86_64 -- perl-DateTime-1.44-1 perl-PerlIO-utf8_strict-0.007-1 perl-Sub-Name-0.21-1 perl-Sort-Key-1.33-1 noarch -- perl-Class-Factory-Util-1.7-1 perl-DateTime-Cale

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version available from CPAN: x86/x86_64 -- perl-autovivification-0.17-1 perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-3.0237-1 perl-DBI-1.637-1 perl-JSON-XS-3.04-1 perl-List-MoreUtils-XS-0.422-1 perl-List-SomeUtils-XS-0.55-1 perl-Text-BibTeX-0.81-1

Re: gawk 4.1.4: CR separate char for CRLF files

Vermessung AVT - Wolfgang Rieger writes: > Another solution which we have been using for many years now, though > it might not be feasible for you: Cygwin is, like it or not, a rolling distribution. > We very rarely update Cygwin. We have been using Cygwin for some 15+ > years now. We use tools l

Re: Errors on installing additional packages

Blaesse, Michael writes: > I used Cygwin 1.7 32 bit installed on a network drive on Windows 7 > client for more than a year. Since a few weeks I get similar error > messages like the ones below trying to install additional packages > with the corresponding setup.exe. Thus, I did a fresh install of

Re: bash pipe fails in script with subshell/loop cmbination

Wouter van Doorn writes: > I've run into a problem regarding pipes in bash, in a command that > loops. I've reduced it to a very small one-liner that fails. WJFFM. Unless it's down (again) to your somewhat bizarre PATH settings, you're most likely looking at some BLODA that tries to follow each f

Re: ‘SIG_SETMASK’ and -std=c99

Marco Atzeri writes: > building again hdf5-1.8.18 on latest cygwin I hit > > error: ‘SIG_SETMASK’ undeclared > > removing "-std=c99" from CFLAGS solves the issue. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20849917/invalid-signal-processing-library-in-linux > As before the "-std=c99" was not causing an

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] mpfr-3.1.5-1p10

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 floatin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libreadline7-7.0.3-3

Steven Penny writes: > Could you link to Davids post? I do not see it for this month or July, and I > dont seem to have trouble with numlock on or off, even with July 31 version. She can't, this was a discussion on IRC. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XT

Re: Regular Expressions on the Package Search Page

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] writes: > On the Cygwin Package Search page > > either regular expression matching doesn't work or way to let the > search engine know that one is looking for a regex needs to be > documented. You rather have the wron

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] _autorebase-001006-1

Ken Brown writes: > Just out of curiosity, what's the significance of the dates > "1999-05-03 07:29:06 UTC" First commit in Cygwin CVS. > and "2002-08-17 07:00 CEST" in rebaselst? Latest high water mark for the Elbe in Dresden. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb An

[ANNOUNCEMENT] _autorebase-001006-1

The _autorebase package has been updated to work correctly on file systems that don't allow timestamps for the start of the UNIX epoch. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] mosh-1.3.2-1

This is an update to the latest upstream release. The announcement is available here: https://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mosh-users/2017-July/000357.html -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "Lis

Cygwin.bat (was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libreadline7-7.0.3-3)

Eric Blake writes: >> As in "C:\cygwin64\Cygwin.bat" that can be found after a regular install of >> Cygwin >> > > Oh, that one doesn't show up under 'cygcheck -p', so it must be created > by setup.exe. It's created by the postinstall script of base-files. The source for it lives in /etc/default

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

Ian Lambert via cygwin writes: > Indeed, Cygwin is installed on a FAT32 formatted > external drive, which is limited to 1980-01-01 on > the early end. Yes, that's the problem. Oh well, a braindead fs, where have I seen that before… is there any other such system in use that somebody would want to

Re: "rebase-trigger full"

mike writes: > Maybe there are just way more dlls than I ever realised. There certainly are. This is why it's absolutely not recommended to install everything ("Full") or whole categories these days, at least not for a 32bit installation. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron m

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

Ian Lambert via cygwin writes: > $ rebaselst --rebuild update --cleardb rebase > removing /var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg > creating empty /var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg > touch: setting times of '/var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg': Invalid argument So why does this fail for you? Evidently no packages to r

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

Ian Lambert via cygwin writes: > Obviously something is not right; here is output from "rebase -is": > > rebase: failed to open rebase database "/etc/rebase.db.x86_64": > No such file or directory > > "locate rebase.db" gives: > /cygdrive/e/cygwin64-3/etc/rebase.db.x86_64 > so it was apparently t

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

Brian Inglis writes: > rebaselst uses touch -t 700101 ... - could be patched to 19700101. Could be, but touch is specified to assume "19" yhen YY=70 by POSIX, AFAIK. > Is this affected by locale and by Windows regional date settings in Control > Panel/Region/Formats tab/Additional setting

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

Ken Brown writes: >> touch: setting times of '/var/cache/rebase/rebase_user_exe': Invalid argument > > I have no idea what would cause such error messages. Achim, have you > ever seen this? No, not really. The message seems to suggest that the file was created, but the time can't be set (it's su

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version available from CPAN: x86/x86_64 -- perl-DBD-mysql-4.043-1 perl-Params-Validate-1.29-1 perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.48-1 perl-Test-LeakTrace-0.16-1 noarch -- perl-Exception-Class-1.43-1 perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] perl-5.22.4-1

Perl has been updated to version 5.22.4-1 on Cygwin. This is the fourth upstream maintenance release for Perl 5.22, released on July 15 2017. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscrib

Re: Request to the git maintainer

Eliot Moss writes: > I looked upstream, and at least some of the files I am concerned about > are installed using "tar" piped to another "tar", with umask 022 set > explicitly. I think the problem is that the source of this copying > has 600 or 700 permissions. Not sure if *that* is an upstream p

Re: Request to the git maintainer

Eliot Moss writes: > Dear maintainer of git > > I use CrashPlan as my backup engine. It has difficulty backing up > files with no "other" access. Many git locale (.mo) and doc-related > files have permissions 600 (directories 700). Is there a good reason > for this? I would think that 644

Re: problem with gnupg2 not prompting for passphrase

jeff writes: > jeff_xeon:/cygdrive/u:503: gpg2 --output fred.good --decrypt fred.gpg > gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID A3791E7DD935A424, created > 2013-03-21 > "Jeff Deifik " > gpg: public key decryption failed: No such device or address > gpg: decryption failed: No secret key > > I

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-6.3.0-2 (x86/x86_64)(Test)

Marco Atzeri writes: > I did for you and also removed the 6.3.0-1 > files, to avoid future problems when removing the override.hint Someone might still need to trigger calm to run to pick up these changes and produce a matching setup.ini, it seems. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.8.1-0.1

Brian Inglis writes: > Nearly always forget the branch part: gotta retrain my fingers > to add the appropriate branch commands for the source control > products I use, and do more granular commits instead of big bangs. The thing to remember is that with git you can just as easily create the branch

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

Achim Gratz writes: > Yes. I'll have to figure out just why it tries to set the background to > the named color "white" on startup, then. That must have got saved as > an option somewhere, maybe I can still find an old enough backup to > compare the startup files to.

Re: Compiled programs fail to run from Cygwin Terminal, but work from windows cmd

Wouter van Doorn writes: […] Your strace shows that you're getting the following exception on loading one of the Windows DLL or just after an attempt to do that: C096: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION Executing an instruction not allowed in current machine mode. You might want to look

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

Ken Brown writes: > OK, so it's not a Cygwin issue. And I just learned about M-x > list-colors-display. If you try this in emacs-nox in Mintty with > TERM=xterm-256color, you'll see that white is #e5e5e5 and brightwhite > is #ff. So I guess there's no bug here, just a surprising > definitio

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

Ken Brown writes: > Even with no .minttrc, 'emacs-nox -Q' followed by 'M-x > set-background-color RET white RET' turns the background gray. I can't rule out that there was a change to the configuration of Emacs on that day that effectively added the set-background operation on that day. > I can a

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

Ken Brown writes: >> No, it really was a Cygwin update (to 2.7.0-1). The Emacs update was >> before that and it had worked right up to that update. > > Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant by "Cygwin update". I > understand now. I'll try to do a bisection of the Cygwin sources. It > may be a f

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

Ken Brown writes: > Your original report, written on February 22, said that the problem > started after the latest Cygwin update. That means you would have > installed emacs-25.1, if Emacs was updated at all. No, it really was a Cygwin update (to 2.7.0-1). The Emacs update was before that and it

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] mosh-1.3.0-1

This is an update to the latest upstream release. The announcement is available here: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mosh-users/2017-March/000341.html -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "Lis

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

Ken Brown writes: > 1. I edited .minttyrc to set > BackgroundColour=#F8F8F8. (ForegroundColour is 0,0,0, which I guess is > the default.) OK. > 2. I ran 'emacs-nox -Q'. The background color didn't visibly change; > it's still off-white. The mode line and menu line appear to be > reversed (black

Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

Achim Gratz writes: > After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with > emacs-nox running in a mintty: when Emacs starts, it decides that the > background color is gray instead of the usual white (for all but the > rightmost character in the status line, int

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version available from CPAN: x86/x86_64 -- perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-3.0233-1 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-EC-1.31-1 perl-DateTime-1.43-1 perl-Params-Validate-1.28-1 perl-YAML-LibYAML-0.65-1 noarch perl-Business-ISBN-3.004-1 per

Re: Apache rebase trouble

Michael Lemke writes: > Now, how about an answer to my actual question? How do I get the Apache/php > dlls properly rebased? For reference, here's the error again and so is the > attached > cygcheck.out. How large is your UserVM? You don't stand a snowflakes chance in hell with 2GB with your p

Re: Apache rebase trouble

Michael Lemke writes: > Sorry for breaking threading but I am currently not subscribed. That's a really bad excuse. You can subscribe, but opt out of getting emails sent to you, then reply via Gmane. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD ad

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: units 2.14-1

Brian Inglis writes: > Currency exchange rates are updated on every run of setup by a permanent > postinstall script > /etc/postinstall/zp_units_cur.sh > running > /usr/bin/units_cur Can you please make that configurable by some file in /var/lib/units that will prevent the perpetual po

Re: Building modules for perl-5.24

Ken Brown writes: > I'm happy to get them from the source packages. But I was asking how > to manage build prerequisites. For example, perl-Data-Compare depends > on perl-File-Find-Rule. So I have to build and install the latter > before I can build the former. How do you handle this? I was >

Re: Building modules for perl-5.24

Ken Brown writes: > I'd like to build test releases for perl-5.24 of the perl modules > needed by biber, so that I can upgrade biber (as a test release). I > don't mind doing the work, but I imagine you have a script that > simplifies the process. (Presumably you have to build and install the > p

Re: $ uptime: bad data in /proc/loadavg

Andrey Repin writes: > Just a few days ago it worked, but now > > $ uptime > bad data in /proc/loadavg > $ cat /proc/loadavg > 0,00 0,00 0,00 1/3 > > It reporting approx the same from under elevated shell. Use the latest snapshot or test package instead, I don't think that the fix for this is in a

Re: How to migrate from Cygwin Ports?

Cygwin Ports has recently been shut down. How can I identify all packages that were installed from their web site in order to uninstall those stale packages? Start setup.exe with the option -o / --delete-orphans and it will remove all packages on the system that it cannot find an install packag

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated/New] Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version available from CPAN: x86/x86_64 -- perl-Compress-Bzip2-2.26-1 perl-Sub-Identify-0.14-1 perl-Unicode-LineBreak-2017.004-1 noarch perl-libwww-perl-6.26-1 perl-MIME-Charset-1.012.2-1 perl-Params-ValidationC

Re: Can not get XWindows to Work in Cygwin/X .... I LOVE CYGWIN, USE IT EVERY DAY

mrushton writes: > I type Startxwin or xwin and just get a xterm to the server? Well, then X works as it's supposed to be. The standard setup is to use a rootless server and have Windows manage the application windows (like that xterm you're seeing). There should be two new icons in the try in W

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] _autorebase-001005-1

The _autorebase package has been updated to avoid rebasing flexdll libraries for OCaml that are not rebaseable. -- *** 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

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Test] perl-5.24.1-1

A test version of Perl version 5.24.1-1 is available on Cygwin. This is the first upstream maintenance release for Perl 5.24. Note This release is intended primarily for Cygwin package maintainers to check compatibility and eventually build package updates in preparation of a general releas

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated/New] Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have either been updated to their latest version available from CPAN or added to Cygwin as a build or runtime dependency for other Perl distributions: x86/x86_64 -- perl-Clone-0.39-1 perl-List-MoreUtils-0.419-1 perl-Sub-Identify-0.13-1 perl-YAML-LibYAML-0.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] mpfr-3.1.5-1p2

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 floatin

Re: Cygwin installation issues with Powerbroker

Akshay Belle writes: > I am trying to use cygwin on my office laptop, which as a software > called powerbroker that provide admin privileges for installation of > third party software like cygwin. Powerbroker has worked well with all > other software installations, however cygwin is not installing

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated/New] Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have either been updated to their latest version available from CPAN or added to Cygwin as a build or runtime dependency for other Perl distributions: x86/x86_64 -- perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-3.0231-1 perl-DBD-mysql-4.042-1 perl-List-MoreUtils-XS-0.418-1 perl-Lis

Re: Setup-x86_64 and Cygwin 64 Latest Updates - Packages NOT Upgraded

Brian Inglis writes: > @ libproj9 > version: 4.9.2-1 > @ libslang2 > version: 2.3.1a-1 > @ perl-Carp > version: 1.38-1 > > Are dependencies only auto-updated when the manually > picked packages that depend on them are? No, but the last two packages need manual updating because setup considers the

Re: Solved: R-3.3.3-1: unable to load stats.dll

Brian Inglis writes: > This is the situation alternatives(8) was designed > for - to mediate names and functions. Except alternatives is based on symlinks and therefore doesn't work for DLL. We've been through this discussion multiple times. If anybody has time and incliniation to provide an al

Re: R-3.3.3-1: unable to load stats.dll

Oliver Schoett writes: > I should add that the following command gives strange output: > > $ ldd /usr/lib/R/library/stats/libs/stats.dll Try $ cygcheck /usr/lib/R/library/stats/libs/stats.dll instead. On a hunch, check your PATH and make sure it contains "/usr/lib/lapack". Regards, Achim. --

Re: How to get GNU Parallel working with Cygwin

Matt D. writes: > I noticed today that we don't have this package. "We" don't have this package because it can't work correctly on Cygwin in certain circumstances (see below) and upstream didn't want to change the way semaphores work to accomodate this situation. > I tried building it > from sour

Re: Manual installation of cygport packages

Andrew Schulman writes: >> On 3/15/2017 6:37 AM, Rui Pedro Caldeira wrote: >> > Hello all, I'm new to this and I successfully build a package with >> > cygport. My problem is that, I would like to install it in order to >> > test if the package was successfully built. Is there anyway to do >> > tha

Re: Manual installation of cygport packages

Rui Pedro Caldeira writes: > Hello all, I'm new to this and I successfully build a package with > cygport. My problem is that, I would like to install it in order to > test if the package was successfully built. Is there anyway to do > that? Yes, you can point setup to a local directory. It must

Re: Strange errors running gcc tests on Cygwin

Brian Inglis writes: > Has that been released yet or is it implied in options -O --oblivious > and -T --filelist=FILE as documented in NEWS? Yes, -O is the option I was talking about (it now also implies -s, so you don't need explicitly say that). The typical use would be with -T as you say, may

Re: Strange errors running gcc tests on Cygwin

Brian Inglis writes: > Ensure that all Cygwin dlls including anything you build are included > in every rebase, and do an incremental rebase after every build. Don't do this, it's not what incremental rebase is for. I've specifically implemented the "ephemeral" option to rebase to temporarily de

Re: fork() fails if it is called recursively from a child thread.

Takashi Yano writes: > 0 [main] a 4668 fork: child -1 - forked process 8456 died unexpectedly, > retry 0, exit code 0xC142, errno 11 Not sure if that helps, but that error says that some DLL could not be initialized. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andr

Re: Perl: Can't compile Module::Build::Tiny (required by Perl::Critic)

Jim Reisert AD1C writes: > Any ideas? I had this compiled OK in a previous installation of > Cygwin64. Maybe a new problem? Most likely a new test. Testing for read-only status quite often doesn't work as expected on Windows due to write/change access being granted by some DACL somewhere up the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] Perl distributions

noarch -- perl-Capture-Tiny-0.46-1 perl-Date-Manip-6.58-1 perl-DateTime-TimeZone-2.10-1 perl-JSON-MaybeXS-1.003009-1 perl-LWP-Protocol-https-6.07-1 perl-Log-Log4perl-1.49-1 perl-Mojolicious-7.27-1 perl-Net-DNS-1.08-1 perl-Net-HTTP-6.13-1 perl-Specio-0.36-1 perl-Test-Simple-1.302078-1 perl-Tex

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dash-0.5.9.1-1

Eric Blake writes: > To reiterate my answer in different terms: > > If you can convince Fedora to switch /bin/sh to dash, then I will > immediately follow in Cygwin. Until then, I'm worried that there are > enough scripts in the wild that use bashisms and will therefore break if > /bin/sh is not b

Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with emacs-nox running in a mintty: when Emacs starts, it decides that the background color is gray instead of the usual white (for all but the rightmost character in the status line, interestingly enough). I have the normal mintty

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version available from CPAN: noarch -- perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.047-1 perl-libwww-perl-6.19-1 perl-Mojolicious-7.26-1 perl-Path-Tiny-0.104-1 perl-Specio-0.35-1 perl-Test-Script-1.15-1 perl-YAML-1.22-1 x86/x86_64 -- perl-C

Re: Apparent rebase issue

Eliot Moss writes: > Today I tried to extend my emacs installation with emacs-X11 > and a few more packages. (I already had the non-X version of > emacs installed, and I have a well-working X setup running.) […] You may simply have run out of address space in your 32bit installation, although the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated/New] Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have either been updated to their latest version available from CPAN or added to Cygwin as a build or runtime dependency for other Perl distributions: x86/x86_64 -- perl-DateTime-1.42-1 perl-Mail-Box-Parser-C-3.008-1 perl-Package-Stash-XS-0.28-3 perl-Param

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

Thomas Wolff writes: > The man page speaks about speculative local echo which sounds like > asking for trouble... It is indispensable when you have a long-latency link. > Anyway, I could reproduce effects as you described with > mintty – tmux – mosh localhost (no additional screen needed) > And,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

Thomas Wolff writes: > Further comments welcome, and it's Achim's turn to provide further > diagnostics input as requested in another mail. It could also be that > screen or tmux simply make invalid assumptions about the setting of > Wraparound modes. That will take a while. I'll have to set up s

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

Achim Gratz writes: > Thomas Wolff writes: >> Is this within tmux or after leaving tmux (see comment below)? It >> would be help to cross-test this; if it's mintty, which version would >> show the behaviour first? What happens in xterm? > > Within tmux or more ofte

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

Thomas Wolff writes: > Is this within tmux or after leaving tmux (see comment below)? It > would be help to cross-test this; if it's mintty, which version would > show the behaviour first? What happens in xterm? Within tmux or more often screen within tmux. I'll have to try what happens in plain

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave forge packages

Marco Atzeri writes: > I will look again > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=47761 Ah OK, so I did already report that earlier and was just not finding the discussion. > It is a bug from the upstream code. > http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~tisean/Tisean_3.0.1/index.html Yea

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.4

Thomas Wolff writes: > I have uploaded mintty 2.7.4 with the following changes: Since about November/December last year I'm having problems with screen and tmux sessions in mintty not correctly refreshing and leaving garbage characters displayed in the terminal. It seems that the terminal size is

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave forge packages

Marco Atzeri writes: > octave-tisean0.2.3-2 This package wastes over 800MiB of rebase space, I assume by reserving COMMON arrays of about 200MiB across four octave object files. Could you please check if that's really necessary? As it stands now, you really _dont_ want to install

Re: Perl library request - local::lib

Brian Mathis writes: > Please add the local::lib library to the available perl packages. It was a deliberate decision to not include it. Just throwing out a request like that won't convince me otherwise, but I may change my mind if you have any arguments with substance. > This allows bootstrappi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version available from CPAN: noarch perl-Archive-Extract-0.80-1 perl-Data-GUID-0.049-1 perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.044-1 perl-Mojolicious-7.22-1 perl-Test-RequiresInternet-0.05-1 perl-Tie-Cycle-1.222-1 perl-YAML-Tiny-1.70-1 per

Re: ssh-host-config: patch fix debug option + broken for me on Vista (non-domain)

Corinna Vinschen writes: > COMPUTERNAME is the same as LOGONSERVER on non-domain machines as well > as on domain controllers. So this `if' test if the machine is a domain > member machine. I can supply another cornercase where LOGONSERVER is not set: if you run an sshd under the (only) user that

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gmp-6.1.2-1

GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library = GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There is no practical limit to the precision except the ones implied by the ava

Re: Cygwin 2.6.1 32-bit post install failed by /usr/bin/perl.exe

Katsumi Yamaoka writes: > I see. But the current 32-bit full-install seems to work (I > haven't tested everything, though). The operative word here is "seems to work". The fact that you see no problem already tells you that you don't need a lot of the things that you have installed. I curate a

Re: sincerely beg your help!!! for getting version 2.6.0-1

sun zheng writes: > i was requesting to install cygwin 2.6.0-1 in my company's pc since > this is the latest version. due to security checking, it takes nearly > 2 months for me to get the approval of this version. If that's a requirement, you will need to provide a local mirror with the exact sta

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version available from CPAN: x86/x86_64 -- perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-DSA-0.19-1 perl-Net-SSLeay-1.80-1 perl-Text-BibTeX-0.78-1 noarch perl-File-Find-Object-0.3.2-1 perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.043-1 perl-Mojolicious-7.19-1 per

Re: Cygwin 2.6.1 32-bit post install failed by /usr/bin/perl.exe

Katsumi Yamaoka writes: > Run setup-x86.exe for full install excluding *x86_64* modulues. You do not want a full Cygwin install. In particular, you do not want a full installl for Cygwin 32bit. > However, the post install didn't seem to end. At that time, ps > on mintty showed a lot of defunct

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: shutdown 2.0-1

Frank Fesevur writes: > I've just updated the version of shutdown to v2.0-1 and it can be > found at a server near you. There is a build or packaging error somewhere with the 64bit version: the shutdown.exe delivered with the x86_64 package is in fact a 32bit executable that refuses to work in 64b

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] perl-5.22.3-1

Perl has been updated to version 5.22.3-1 on Cygwin. This is the third upstream maintenance release for Perl 5.22, released on January 14 2017. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscr

Re: Installer request: Remember state of final checkboxes between runs

Marco Atzeri writes: > On 13/01/2017 16:14, Brian Mathis wrote: >> The installer should remember that this option was declined and >> default the checkbox to that state on the next run. >> > > there are some options available for this > > -N --no-startmenu Disable creation of start

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version available from CPAN: x86/x86_64 -- perl-DBD-SQLite-1.54-1 perl-Net-SSLeay-1.79-1 perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.47-1 noarch perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.040-1 perl-Mojolicious-7.13-1 perl-Net-DNS-1.07-1 perl-PAR-1.01

Re: Editors set x-bit (sometimes)

Nellis, Kenneth writes: > Really? I always thought the opposite. With -exec, doesn't > find invoke the command for each single found object? While xargs > allows a single command to operate on a whole slew of objects. I said "-exec +", although I concur it was too easy to miss. > For example: >

Re: Editors set x-bit (sometimes)

Brian Inglis writes: > Remove DACLs Default ACLs also on directories using: > setfacl -bk ~/.[!.]* ~/.[!.]*/**/ ~/.[!.]*/**/* \ > /???/**/ /???/**/* /sbin/ /sbin/* > - that takes a while to run, and you may get a few anonymous > setfacl: Permission denied > messag

Re: Setup not asking for proxy user,password / was Resend: pdfseparate does nothing for me?

Ian Lambert via cygwin writes: > Maybe a comparison of how wget handles > authentication versus how setup handles it > could help? The problem is on your side and I cannot reproduce it. So that analysis (which I've asked for earlier) either comes from you or you'll have to wait until someone els

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] maxima-5.39.0

Maxima has been updated to the new upstream relese 5.39.0 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, ordina

Re: Setup not asking for proxy user,password / was Resend: pdfseparate does nothing for me?

Ian Lambert writes: > The proxy gives the 407 error, based on some testing > with wget -d. Even without providing user/password, it works > around half the time, for wget. Below are some debug output from setup, > and debug output from wget testing, which shows the 407 error. It took some time to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] Perl distributions

The following Perl distributions have been updated to their latest version available from CPAN: x86/x86_64 -- perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-3.0225-1 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-DSA-0.18-1 perl-DBD-SQLite-1.52-1 perl-DBD-mysql-4.041-1 perl-JSON-XS-3.03-1 perl-Unicode-Collate-1.19-1 noarch -- perl-Busine

Re: Setup not asking for proxy user,password / was Resend: pdfseparate does nothing for me?

Ian Lambert writes: > Setup is not as lucky, is unable to get setup.ini, and never asks for user, > password. > It also only lists the download site I last used. It's quite clear that setup and your proxy miscommunicate about the authentication. > myuser@mypc ~/junk/cygwin > $ wget https://cygwi

Re: Pre-compiled Perl::Critic ?

Jim Reisert AD1C writes: > Would it be possible to release a pre-compiled version of > Perl::Critic? I built it yesterday from CPAN sources, and it took > about nine *hours* to finish! The laptop I built it on has an Intel > I7-6600U, 16 GB of memory and an SSD, so I don't know why it should > h

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

OwN-3m-All writes: > See, this happens with the mirror I've provided in the setup (only > sometimes... sometimes it works): > > https://s17.postimg.org/6xuvfaljz/setup_issue.png Since setup.exe isn't using that runtime library, I suggest you're at the receiving end of some BLODA. I've seen things

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

OwN-3m-All writes: > That's really not a good solution. I don't have control over the > mirrors or would know why one isn't working. The only way to thoroughly solve that problem is to provide your own mirror (which by definition you have control over). > I think a new command-line argument shou

Re: Resend: pdfseparate does nothing for me?

Ian Lambert writes: > Of course that has been tried and it does not work. It eventually pops > up "unable to get setup from [ok]". So does "use HTTP/FTP > Proxy" (with only host and port entry available), and "Direct > Connection". Well, if you're connected through a proxy, then of course "direct

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