pread vs. git

2012-07-16 Thread Eric Blake
Recent git added a hack to explicitly avoid cygwin's pread as unsafe: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/PATCH-v2-1-1-index-pack-Disable-threading-on-cygwin-td7562195.html Comments like this aren't very re-assuring either: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-06/msg00057.html or this big hairy com

Perl 5.14.2-3 doesn't include Term::ReadKey

2012-07-16 Thread Erik Falor
Perl 5.14.2-3 is shipping without the non-core Term::ReadKey module. It seems that this module was left out once before and re-added in 5.10:

Re: Built perl 5.6.2 on Cygwin 1.7.11, but get SIGABRT from resulting perl.exe

2012-07-16 Thread jojelino
On 2012-07-17 AM 4:52, Nicholas DiPiazza wrote: Hi jojelino, You asked: what is result of gdb --args perl b abort r bt (when breakpoint is hit.) Here it is: nick@nick-PC ~/perl-5.6.2 $ gdb --args perl GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.50.20111026-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Founda

Re: Install Crashes Windows

2012-07-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 7/16/2012 3:18 AM, Mark Geisert wrote: Daniel Cowdery writes: For starters, I'm running Windows Vista 32-bit. I run the Setup.exe file and select all the extra modules I require (on Suggestion: First limit yourself to the modules setup.exe installs by default. After that is working, you can

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2012

2012-07-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/16/2012 6:48 PM, Sven Köhler wrote: Am 16.07.2012 13:39, schrieb Ken Brown: Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream release, TeX Live 2012. Just updated cygwin inside my Windows 7 virtual machine. It's not looking good. The following kind of generic error shows

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2012

2012-07-16 Thread Sven Köhler
Am 16.07.2012 13:39, schrieb Ken Brown: > Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream > release, TeX Live 2012. Just updated cygwin inside my Windows 7 virtual machine. It's not looking good. The following kind of generic error shows in mintty: -bash: /usr/bin/pdflatex: Ba

Re: mcrypt issue

2012-07-16 Thread Aaron Schneider
On 16/07/2012 22:16, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: I am seeing an mcrypt problem with short plaintext strings. I don't have a Linux box to compare results, so I don't know if this is an upstream or a Cygwin issue. $ mcrypt --version Mcrypt v.2.6.8 (i686-pc-cygwin) Linked against libmcrypt v.2.5.8 Copyr

mcrypt issue

2012-07-16 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
I am seeing an mcrypt problem with short plaintext strings. I don't have a Linux box to compare results, so I don't know if this is an upstream or a Cygwin issue. $ mcrypt --version Mcrypt v.2.6.8 (i686-pc-cygwin) Linked against libmcrypt v.2.5.8 Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Nikos Mavroyanopoulos (n.

Re: Built perl 5.6.2 on Cygwin 1.7.11, but get SIGABRT from resulting perl.exe

2012-07-16 Thread Nicholas DiPiazza
Hi jojelino, You asked: > what is result of > gdb --args perl > b abort > r > bt (when breakpoint is hit.) Here it is: nick@nick-PC ~/perl-5.6.2 $ gdb --args perl GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.50.20111026-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL versio

RE: Built perl 5.6.2 on Cygwin 1.7.11, but get SIGABRT from resulting perl.exe

2012-07-16 Thread Nicholas DiPiazza
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2012

2012-07-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/16/2012 3:01 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: -Original Message- From: Ken Brown /usr/bin/mktexlsr is provided by texlive-collection-basic. I made a packaging error so that setup.exe didn't recognize texlive-collection-basic as a dependency of texlive-collection-langhungarian. I'll fix t

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2012

2012-07-16 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
-Original Message- From: Ken Brown /usr/bin/mktexlsr is provided by texlive-collection-basic. I made a packaging error so that setup.exe didn't recognize texlive-collection-basic as a dependency of texlive-collection-langhungarian. I'll fix that. -END Original Message- Thank y

Re: Built perl 5.6.2 on Cygwin 1.7.11, but get SIGABRT from resulting perl.exe

2012-07-16 Thread jojelino
On 2012-07-17 AM 3:35, Nicholas DiPiazza wrote: Hi Reini Urban, Thanks for this and sorry for my delay in response. ' I tried switching to a 32-bit system before doing the build, rebaseall, perlrebase, patchperl, and perlall. Each of these still result in the Abort signal being thrown. $ ldd p

RE: Built perl 5.6.2 on Cygwin 1.7.11, but get SIGABRT from resulting perl.exe

2012-07-16 Thread Nicholas DiPiazza
Hi Reini Urban, Thanks for this and sorry for my delay in response. ' I tried switching to a 32-bit system before doing the build, rebaseall, perlrebase, patchperl, and perlall. Each of these still result in the Abort signal being thrown. $ ldd perl.exe ntdll.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/S

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2012

2012-07-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/16/2012 10:01 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: This morning, when I ran setup.exe to update my Cygwin packages, the post-install script, /etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langhungarian.sh, failed. I've lost the message output by setup.exe, but the referenced shell script contains the following s

Re: Potential BLODA reported for smartctl due to WMI calls

2012-07-16 Thread Christian Franke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 11 07:45, Christian Franke wrote: If smartctl is run for an USB drive, a potential BLODA is reported: ... Potential BLODA detected! Thread function called outside of Cygwin DLL: C:\Windows\system32\wbem\wbemprox.dll Potential BLODA detected! Thread function c

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2012

2012-07-16 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
This morning, when I ran setup.exe to update my Cygwin packages, the post-install script, /etc/postinstall/texlive-collection-langhungarian.sh, failed. I've lost the message output by setup.exe, but the referenced shell script contains the following single line, /usr/bin/mktexlsr and that refe

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: perl-5.14.2-3 and most perl dependencies

2012-07-16 Thread Reini Urban
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:58 AM, marco atzeri wrote: > On 7/16/2012 9:35 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> There seems to be a minor packaging error: >> /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygperl5_14_2.dll >> is a symbolic link pointing to >> /usr/bin/cygperl5_14_2.dll >> but this file

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2012

2012-07-16 Thread Ken Brown
Cygwin's TeX Live packages have been updated to the latest upstream release, TeX Live 2012. TeX Live provides a comprehensive, cross-platform TeX system. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages arou

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-forge-20120714-1

2012-07-16 Thread marco atzeri
New version of octave-forge-20120714-1 for cygwin is available in the Cygwin distribution: This release is the bundle of upstream packages for octave 3.6.x serie ADVISE On cygwin none of the package is autoloaded, as some package could change substantially the normal octave behaviour (eg "nan"

Re: compiling coreutils with cygport

2012-07-16 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2012-07-13 16:25, Jeff Janes wrote: If I use setup.exe to download the src for coreutils (just by checking the "Src?" checkbox in the gui) , and then use cygport to build it, it fails. The reason it fails seems to be that ginstall.exe does not have the proper manifest file so windows refuses

Re: compiling coreutils with cygport

2012-07-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-07-13 17:03, Eric Blake wrote: Actually, coreutils tries to use all the *_unlocked variants of stdio, since those have better speed in single-threaded programs (all but sort are single-threaded, and sort skips stdio). I do know that cygwin has putchar_unlocked, but does not have quite as

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: perl-5.14.2-3 and most perl dependencies

2012-07-16 Thread marco atzeri
On 7/16/2012 9:35 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Reini Urban x-ray.at> writes: perl has now been updated from 5.10.1-5 to 5.14.2-3. Thank you. There seems to be a minor packaging error: /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygperl5_14_2.dll is a symbolic link pointing to /usr/bin/c

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: perl-5.14.2-3 and most perl dependencies

2012-07-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Reini Urban x-ray.at> writes: > perl has now been updated from 5.10.1-5 to 5.14.2-3. Thank you. There seems to be a minor packaging error: /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygperl5_14_2.dll is a symbolic link pointing to /usr/bin/cygperl5_14_2.dll but this file doesn't exi

Re: Install Crashes Windows

2012-07-16 Thread Mark Geisert
Daniel Cowdery writes: > For starters, I'm running Windows Vista 32-bit. > I run the Setup.exe file and select all the extra modules I require (on Suggestion: First limit yourself to the modules setup.exe installs by default. After that is working, you can always run setup.exe again to pick up t