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

2012-07-17 Thread jojelino
On 2012-07-18 AM 4:55, Nicholas DiPiazza wrote: Jojelino asked: "and then, what was the result of gdb --args perl b _sigfe_free if *((unsigned*)$esp+1)==0x2010 #which i am interested in to see what the backtrace was. disp *((unsigned*)$esp+1) r bt #when breakpoint is hit"

Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

2012-07-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 7/17/2012 6:56 PM, Reini Urban wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Is there a workaround for the problem mentioned in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00580.html? I suddenly started getting this error like every other time I run perl. perlrebase When I run pe

Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

2012-07-17 Thread Reini Urban
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Is there a workaround for the problem mentioned in > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00580.html? I suddenly started > getting this error like every other time I run perl. perlrebase -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

cygheap base mismatch detected

2012-07-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Is there a workaround for the problem mentioned in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00580.html? I suddenly started getting this error like every other time I run perl. -- Andrew DeFaria I'm not tense, just terribly, terribly alert. -- Problem reports: http://cy

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

2012-07-17 Thread Reini Urban
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Erik Falor wrote: > 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: > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-07/msg00085 You need to install the seperate package perl_

RE: Permission request from "Translation for education"

2012-07-17 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, July 17, 2012 3:01 PM >On Jul 17 17:20, Aram Agabekyan wrote: >> I am a student at the Department of Foreign Languages and at the >> same time a volunteer at an organization named "Translation for >> Education". I love surfing on the Internet and bein

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

2012-07-17 Thread Nicholas DiPiazza
Jojelino asked: "and then, what was the result of gdb --args perl b _sigfe_free if *((unsigned*)$esp+1)==0x2010 #which i am interested in to see what the backtrace was. disp *((unsigned*)$esp+1) r bt #when breakpoint is hit" Here is the result: $ gdb --args perl GNU gdb (GDB)

Re: latex error: latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool

2012-07-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Keith Lindsay writes: > When I attempt to run latex on a simple .tex file (attached), I get > the following error message: > > $ latex polynom.tex > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Cygwin) > restricted \write18 enabled. > ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt does

Re: latex error: latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool

2012-07-17 Thread Keith Lindsay
On 7/17/2012 12:48 PM, Keith Lindsay wrote: Hi, When I attempt to run latex on a simple .tex file (attached), I get the following error message: $ latex polynom.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Cygwin) restricted \write18 enabled. ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex

*Very* outdated FAQ entry

2012-07-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi guys, due to Aram's request for permission to translate the FAQ, I accidentally stumbled over FAQ entry 6.40, "How should I port my Unix GUI to Windows?", http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.programming.unix-gui Per cvs annotate, this text is at least 7 years old but probably older. As suc

Re: latex error: latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool

2012-07-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/17/2012 2:48 PM, Keith Lindsay wrote: Hi, When I attempt to run latex on a simple .tex file (attached), I get the following error message: $ latex polynom.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Cygwin) restricted \write18 enabled. ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/

Re: Permission request from "Translation for education"

2012-07-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 17 17:20, Aram Agabekyan wrote: > Hey there, > > I am a student at the Department of Foreign Languages and at the > same time a volunteer at an organization named “Translation for > Education”. I love surfing on the Internet and being informed about > the latest happenings around me. Unfort

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2012

2012-07-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/17/2012 12:13 PM, Sven Köhler wrote: 2) There's a packaging error, namely that pdftex.exe depends on cygpoppler-26.dll, but the texlive packages don't depend on the libpoppler26 package. Sorry about that. I'll fix it ASAP. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FA

Permission request from "Translation for education"

2012-07-17 Thread Aram Agabekyan
Hey there, I am a student at the Department of Foreign Languages and at the same time a volunteer at an organization named “Translation for Education”. I love surfing on the Internet and being informed about the latest happenings around me. Unfortunately, most of my fellow citizens don’t kn

Re: running latex generates "Bad address" error message

2012-07-17 Thread marco atzeri
On 7/17/2012 6:23 PM, Sven Köhler wrote: Am 17.07.2012 16:55, schrieb Keith Lindsay: Hi, When I run the command "latex" on the command line, without any command line arguments, I get the following message: -bash: /usr/bin/latex: Bad address courtesy of MS$. Cygwin uses the system loader. R

Re: Install Crashes Windows

2012-07-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 7/17/2012 3:09 AM, Daniel Cowdery wrote: Thanks Larry, I run windows update fairly frequently, so I can't imagine that would be the cause, unless you think I need to update my drivers manually?? If Windows is up-to-date, then drivers are the next suspect (assuming it's not BLODA of some so

Re: running latex generates "Bad address" error message

2012-07-17 Thread Sven Köhler
Am 17.07.2012 16:55, schrieb Keith Lindsay: > Hi, > > When I run the command "latex" on the command line, without any command > line arguments, I get the following message: > > -bash: /usr/bin/latex: Bad address Read my post from 2 minutes ago: Install libpoppler26. But can somebody tell me, w

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: TeX Live 2012

2012-07-17 Thread Sven Köhler
Am 17.07.2012 05:07, schrieb 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 >

Re: pread vs. git

2012-07-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 16 22:51, Eric Blake wrote: > 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 Boy, is that annoying. Cygwin's pread/pwrite is thread-safe since June 2011. The impl

RE: Install Crashes Windows

2012-07-17 Thread Daniel Cowdery
Thanks Larry, I run windows update fairly frequently, so I can't imagine that would be the cause, unless you think I need to update my drivers manually?? Also please see my previous response (it didn't make it to the mailing list as I forgot to set as plain text. " Thanks Mark, I tested the