3.3.3: possible DLL breakage with network mounted drives running make

2021-12-03 Thread Lee Dilkie
Hey Folks, Trying to track down why our builds started failing after upgrading to cygwin 3.3.3. Narrowed it down to a change in how make (gmake) is invoked with a specified directory to execute in and that directory is a network drive in windows (10, 21H2). simple Makefile attached and

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

2017-02-24 Thread Lee Dilkie
On 2/24/2017 9:43 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 02/23/2017 10:57 PM, Steven Penny wrote: Or more likely, many people likely have pre-existing scripts wrongly written as #!/bin/sh but which use bash-ism rather than portable POSIX-specified shell However, I think it is worth the trouble. If

Re: Console buffer width always 1 column less than setting

2017-02-07 Thread Lee Dilkie
On 2/7/2017 9:40 AM, cyg Simple wrote: On 2/7/2017 9:23 AM, Lee Dilkie wrote: Cyg, I understand list etiquette but I'm referring to *human* etiquette. Steve asked for help, got help but rather than acknowledge it (and add a note at the bottom to *politely* tell Vince that he should find

Re: Console buffer width always 1 column less than setting

2017-02-07 Thread Lee Dilkie
On 2/7/2017 9:11 AM, cyg Simple wrote: On 2/6/2017 12:43 PM, Lee Dilkie wrote: On 2/5/2017 3:59 PM, Steven Penny wrote: On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 14:12:04, Vince Rice wrote: On Feb 5, 2017, at 1:53 PM, Steven Penny wrote: Please fix your email client. You should not be quoting people’s email

Re: Console buffer width always 1 column less than setting

2017-02-06 Thread Lee Dilkie
On 2/5/2017 3:59 PM, Steven Penny wrote: On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 14:12:04, Vince Rice wrote: On Feb 5, 2017, at 1:53 PM, Steven Penny wrote: Please fix your email client. You should not be quoting people’s email directly. that's just silly. Anyone with access to this public list has your

Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

2016-12-01 Thread Lee Dilkie
On 12/1/2016 5:51 AM, Roberto Ríos Gallardo wrote: Please give the installers more meaningful names. In particular, make sure "cygwin" is part of it. "setup-x86_64.exe" is not very obvious. A version number would be nice too. I'd agree that adding "cygwin" to the setup program would be nice

Re: cygpath -w and .exe magic

2016-08-26 Thread Lee Dilkie
On 8/26/2016 9:08 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: Dear Cygwin Community, $ ls -l total 60 -rwxr-x--- 1 knellis Domain Users 60927 Aug 26 08:57 hello.exe $ ./hello Hello, world! $ cygpath -w hello hello $ The purpose of cygpath -w, it seems to me, is to provide to Windows a valid path given a

Re: FD_SETSIZE and sizeof(fd_set)

2016-06-23 Thread Lee Dilkie
On 6/23/2016 6:54 AM, Steven Bardwell wrote: Here is a "program" that shows the issue I am worried about. It is so simple that I must be overlooking something really obvious: #include #undef FD_SETSIZE #define FD_SETSIZE 256 #include #include main() { fd_set rfds;

Re: how do I report a bug in cygpath

2008-11-11 Thread Lee Dilkie
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 10 16:06, Lee Dilkie wrote: Hi folks, If this isn't the list, or the method, how would one go about reporting a bug in the cygpath utility. It is reporting an absolute path for windows style in all invocations and ignoring the absence of -a. $ cygpath

Re: how do I report a bug in cygpath

2008-11-11 Thread Lee Dilkie
Christopher Faylor wrote: FWIW, it is entirely possible that if you had submitted the requested cygcheck output the problem would have been more obvious. -- I don't doubt that for a minute. In fact, I went and gathered all the cygcheck output and was composing the email when I came

how do I report a bug in cygpath

2008-11-10 Thread Lee Dilkie
Hi folks, If this isn't the list, or the method, how would one go about reporting a bug in the cygpath utility. It is reporting an absolute path for windows style in all invocations and ignoring the absence of -a. $ cygpath -w foo C:\foo $ cygpath -wa foo C:\foo $ cygpath -u foo foo $ cygpath

Re: how do I report a bug in cygpath

2008-11-10 Thread Lee Dilkie
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Thanks for the reply Larry. It is reporting an absolute path for windows style in all invocations and ignoring the absence of -a. $ cygpath -w foo C:\foo $ cygpath -wa foo C:\foo $ cygpath -u foo foo $ cygpath -ua foo /cygdrive/c//foo WJFFM. What does

Re: how do I report a bug in cygpath

2008-11-10 Thread Lee Dilkie
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:33:03PM -0500, Lee Dilkie wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Thanks for the reply Larry. It is reporting an absolute path for windows style in all invocations and ignoring the absence of -a. $ cygpath -w foo C:\foo

Re: how do I report a bug in cygpath

2008-11-10 Thread Lee Dilkie
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:07:23PM -0500, Lee Dilkie wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:33:03PM -0500, Lee Dilkie wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Thanks for the reply Larry. It is reporting

cygpath -m output incorrect on cygwin 1.7

2008-10-20 Thread Lee Dilkie
Hi Folks, I run the setup-1.7 and upgraded my 1.5 version to try it out and I came across this. cygwin 1.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /cygdrive/g/dilkiel_Tug_parallel_1/SmallApps/TUG $ cygpath -m foo foo cygwin 1.7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/views/dilkiel_Tug_parallel_1/SmallApps/TUG $ cygpath -m foo

Re: cd not following windows shortcuts

2008-05-23 Thread Lee Dilkie
And on top of that (top posting too), even windows cmd console won't let you follow .lnk files... They are files, not symlinks. Only explorer know how to navigate them. -lee Brian Dessent wrote: Gustavo Seabra wrote: Right, it isn't a directory. But shouldn't Cygwin convert the path and

Re: Question about link.exe?

2008-05-15 Thread Lee Dilkie
I found that setting the complier and linker (all the tools, actually) to the full path is the most reliable means to ensure the correct executables are picked up. ie. CC = full_path_to_ds_8_bin/cl.exe LINK = full_path_to_ds_8_bin/link.exe you can use the registered environment variables for