Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
Sigh. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:07:33AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Can we please shut this discussion down? The person who had the initial >problem is satisfied and I've made it clear that no one at >sourceware.org/cygwin.com is interested in pursuing additional web site >measures. While

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
Can we please shut this discussion down? The person who had the initial problem is satisfied and I've made it clear that no one at sourceware.org/cygwin.com is interested in pursuing additional web site measures. While that could change at some point in the past, it is not going to do so because

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-18 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/03/18 8:38 AM, Warren Young wrote: > Your proposed solutions don't really work. I disagree. Granted, they are not 100% effective, but since when is perfection the standard by which all solutions are judged? > They're crutches which may > help in some cases, but they don't absolutely and f

Re: svn: Can't change perms of file Permission denied

2010-03-18 Thread Steve Bray
On 03/18/2010 05:06 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: It seams that svn needs to be able to write the DAC, and if it cannot then svn up cannot work. This seems to be not the case in the past (or was there some magic voodoo on my old system?) Any suggestions on where to start? Granting Full on the share a

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-18 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/03/17 10:28 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > On 18/03/2010 00:58, Steven Monai wrote: > >> As an alternative to setting up SSL on cygwin.com, what about the idea >> of crypto-signing (e.g. with gnupg) every release of setup.exe, and then >> posting the signature alongside the binary? I know I would

RE: Remotely run GUI shows up incorrectly on Cygwin 1.7.1

2010-03-18 Thread Denham Robert
> Hi, > > I recently upgraded a computer running XP Embedded to Cygwin 1.7.1. > When I ssh from another computer, and run a graphical program (such as > the calculator included in Win XP), it doesn't display correctly. > > If I run the program from a local ssh shell, it does display correctly.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: {mingw-libgcrypt/mingw-libgcrypt-devel/mingw-libgcrypt11}-1.4.5-1

2010-03-18 Thread Charles Wilson
The mingw-libgcrypt package provides a version of the libgcrypt library and tools built using the standard windows runtime library and NOT cygwin. It is (or will be) used by setup.exe and is provided specifically for that purpose. No other uses are supported. However, for testing purposes it does p

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libgcrypt/libgcrypt-devel/libgcrypt11}-1.4.5-1

2010-03-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG. It provides functions for all cryptographic building blocks: symmetric ciphers, hash algorithms, MACs, public key algorithms, large integer functions, random numbers and a lot of supporting functions. [[ compiled u

Cygwin1.dll 1.7.1 causes ActivePerl 5.10 hang on gzip pipe close on Windows Server 2003

2010-03-18 Thread Matthew Kidd
I upgraded to Cygwin 1.7.1 on a (64-bit) Windows Server 2003 and immediately ran into trouble. It seems that Perl can no longer shutdown pipes related to Cygwin executables. Here is some example code: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # my $fname = 'Y:\path\to\ratherbigfile.gz'; my $fname = '/cygdrive

Re: cannot create files with trailing dots on network share

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/18/2010 7:03 PM, Douglas Seay wrote: I’ve had some problems, and it looks like it boils down to handling . (dot) characters. I created a little script to create some files with dots in various places. This script works fine in my $HOME directory (C:\cygwin\home\SEAYD). The name is wrong when

cannot create files with trailing dots on network share

2010-03-18 Thread Douglas Seay
I’ve had some problems, and it looks like it boils down to handling . (dot) characters. I created a little script to create some files with dots in various places. This script works fine in my $HOME directory (C:\cygwin\home\SEAYD). The name is wrong when the last character of the filename i

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: coreutils-8.4-2

2010-03-18 Thread Eric Blake
For those people testing cygwin snapshots, a new release of coreutils, 8.4-2, has been uploaded. 7.0-2 remains current, because the 8.4-2 release depends on features available only in recent snapshots (that is, don't upgraded if you are still using the current cygwin 1.7.1). NEWS: = This is a

RE: svn: Can't change perms of file Permission denied

2010-03-18 Thread Jason Pyeron
It seams that svn needs to be able to write the DAC, and if it cannot then svn up cannot work. This seems to be not the case in the past (or was there some magic voodoo on my old system?) Any suggestions on where to start? Granting Full on the share and the directory mitigated this issue. I am un

Re: libmysqlclient build failure

2010-03-18 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) writes: > This is how I build MySQL: > > http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/db/mysql/ > Thanks for the hint. I still couldn't convince 5.1.45 to build, but after some fiddling with libtool incompatibilities I was able to coerce 5.1.39 in

Re: Updated [experimental]: coreutils-8.4-1

2010-03-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/18/2010 03:16 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> On 03/11/2010 10:18 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >>> For those people testing cygwin snapshots, a new release of coreutils, >>> 8.4-1, has been uploaded. 7.0-2 remains current, because the 8.4-1 >>> release depends on features available

Re: Updated [experimental]: coreutils-8.4-1

2010-03-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/11/2010 10:18 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> For those people testing cygwin snapshots, a new release of coreutils, >> 8.4-1, has been uploaded. 7.0-2 remains current, because the 8.4-1 >> release depends on features available only in recent snapshots (that is, >> don't upgrade

Re: Updated [experimental]: coreutils-8.4-1

2010-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 18 14:23, Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/11/2010 10:18 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > > For those people testing cygwin snapshots, a new release of coreutils, > > 8.4-1, has been uploaded. 7.0-2 remains current, because the 8.4-1 > > release depends on features available only in recent snapshots (that

Re: Updated [experimental]: coreutils-8.4-1

2010-03-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/11/2010 10:18 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > For those people testing cygwin snapshots, a new release of coreutils, > 8.4-1, has been uploaded. 7.0-2 remains current, because the 8.4-1 > release depends on features available only in recent snapshots (that is, > don't upgraded if you are still using

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Concurrency Issue with Shared State Initialization

2010-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:55:48PM +0100, Schmidt, Oliver wrote: >Hi Corinna, > >> Would you mind to give the latest developer snapshot from >> http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try? It tries very carefully to >> eliminate concurrency problems in the initialization phase. > >I see. With the same

Re: How to get older version of cygwin (need to install perl 5.8 - not 5.10)

2010-03-18 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/18/2010 11:43 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > Rance Hall was heard to say: > >> this is the old cygwin 1.5 setup still active but unsupported. It may >> contain the perl version you want. >> >> No promised, I don't have 1.5 installed anymore, and dont have the >> time to look in the archive fo

Re: either nothing or cygheap base mismatch error

2010-03-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/11/2010 2:45 AM, Eugen Zalinescu wrote: My problem is that I cannot start cygwin (with Cygwin.bat). Actually any cygwin application finishes as soon as I invoke it (or in about 1sec), with no output, as in D:\cygwin\bin> bash D:\cygwin\bin> However, sometimes (I cannot reproduce the b

Re: Intermittent perl errors with cygwin 1.7

2010-03-18 Thread Dave Korn
On 18/03/2010 17:04, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 3/18/2010 11:51 AM, Cygwin wrote: >>> 4 [main] perl 3156 D:\Local\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - >>> cygheap base mismatch detected - 0x6120C6E0/0xD4C6E0. >>> There is not another cygwin DLL on my system, and rebooting does in >>> fact

Re: Intermittent perl errors with cygwin 1.7

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/18/2010 11:51 AM, Cygwin wrote: "Cygwin" <> wrote in message news:hne7t6$8l...@dough.gmane.org... About once a month I get something like this: 4 [main] perl 3156 D:\Local\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - cygheap base mismatch detected - 0x6120C6E0/0xD4C6E0. This problem is probably

Re: How to get older version of cygwin (need to install perl 5.8 - not 5.10)

2010-03-18 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Rance Hall was heard to say: this is the old cygwin 1.5 setup still active but unsupported. It may contain the perl version you want. No promised, I don't have 1.5 installed anymore, and dont have the time to look in the archive for you, but thats where I'd start. I still have a 1.5 install

Re: cygwin Digest 16 Mar 2010 19:15:45 -0000 Issue 6926

2010-03-18 Thread George Barrick
2010.03.18.16:13:51 UT Hi Gregg and CygWin folks, I found the PGP/GPG key, and confirmed the validity of the setup.exe. As for the blocking, my college hires Cymphonix to do this for them, and then the college Information Svces. guys stay com- pletely away fro

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-18 Thread George Barrick
2010.03.18.16:13:51 UT Hi Gregg and CygWin folks, I found the PGP/GPG key, and confirmed the validity of the setup.exe. As for the blocking, my college hires Cymphonix to do this for them, and then the college Information Svces. guys stay com- pletely away fr

Re: How to get older version of cygwin (need to install perl 5.8 - not 5.10)

2010-03-18 Thread Rance Hall
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:55 AM, jvsrvcs wrote: > > I inherited some code at work that is dependent on a number of .pm that will > only run with perl 5.8.  I can not upgrade the pm's so must use perl 5.8. > > I have cygwin installed but it will only let me install perl 5.10.1.  I want > to roll b

How to get older version of cygwin (need to install perl 5.8 - not 5.10)

2010-03-18 Thread jvsrvcs
I inherited some code at work that is dependent on a number of .pm that will only run with perl 5.8. I can not upgrade the pm's so must use perl 5.8. I have cygwin installed but it will only let me install perl 5.10.1. I want to roll back to perl 5.8. I tried ActiveState perl but it will not r

Re: Intermittent perl errors with cygwin 1.7

2010-03-18 Thread Cygwin
Has no one else seen anything like this? "Cygwin" wrote in message news:hne7t6$8l...@dough.gmane.org... About once a month I get something like this: 4 [main] perl 3156 D:\Local\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - cygheap base mismatch detected - 0x6120C6E0/0xD4C6E0. This problem is proba

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-18 Thread Warren Young
On 3/17/2010 9:05 PM, Steven Monai wrote: On 2010/03/17 6:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Oh. Are we still talking about this? I drifted off. Somebody please wake me when all of this tempest in a bikeshed is over. I don't understand the reason for the dismissive attitude. Your proposed s

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Concurrency Issue with Shared State Initialization

2010-03-18 Thread Schmidt, Oliver
Hi Corinna, > Would you mind to give the latest developer snapshot from > http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try? It tries very carefully to > eliminate concurrency problems in the initialization phase. I see. With the same scenario as in my original posting I trigger an assertion added by Chris

Re: 1.7.1 cygwin gateway

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/18/2010 5:33 AM, Deon Brits wrote: Good Day, It is the first time I use Cygwin so hope that I am using the correct contact details... I have to support a product called Tivoli Application dependency discovery manager that uses Cygwin ssh that is on the remote sites to do a SSH connection.

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Concurrency Issue with Shared State Initialization

2010-03-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Oliver, On Mar 16 13:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 16 10:53, Schmidt, Oliver wrote: > > >No one is doubting that problems exist. That's why we're working > > >on them. > > > > Sorry for again being unclear. The information above was soley meant to > > complement the cygcheck output - whic