Re: disk format question

2013-01-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Christopher Faylor! Sorry, Christopher, I've had some troubles locally, and didn't see the other replies before I sent mine. > On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:12:02PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >>Greetings, Warren Young! >> The windows format.com >> >>> format.com hasn't existed since

Re: sqlite3-3.7.15.1-1 packages to test

2013-01-09 Thread Warren Young
On 1/9/2013 15:27, David Stacey wrote: On 08/01/2013 21:31, Warren Young wrote: I guess I shouldn't have moved this discussion to Cygwin-Apps, since it's been greeted by crickets for the past 10 days. I rebuilt Subversion from clean (again with the test sqlite3 package) and ran the tests a sec

Re: postgres initdb: error while loading shared libraries: ?

2013-01-09 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 08/01/2013 11:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 08/01/2013 9:20 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:44:10 -0800, Ryan Johnson wrote: The error message is: $ initdb -D /usr/share/postgresql/data /usr/sbin/initdb.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared obj

Re: Updated: perl-DBI-1.623-1

2013-01-09 Thread Reini Urban
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Yaakov wrote: > The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: > > *** perl-DBI-1.623-1 > > The Perl Database Interface (DBI) provides a single API to access a wide > variety of databases, support for which is provided by a DBD::* driver > module

Re: disk format question

2013-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:12:02PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >Greetings, Warren Young! > >>> The windows format.com > >> format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days. That includes the >> DOS-based versions of Windows, up through Windows ME. Under NT-derived >> versions of Windows, "format" is

Re: disk format question

2013-01-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! >> The windows format.com > format.com hasn't existed since the DOS days. That includes the > DOS-based versions of Windows, up through Windows ME. Under NT-derived > versions of Windows, "format" is a built-in command in cmd.exe. You can easily check it with a simpl

Re: lyx postinstall error - attention maintainer

2013-01-09 Thread marco atzeri
On 1/9/2013 6:29 PM, Bo Peng wrote: Hi, Marco, I retired from the lyx development team a few years ago and have stopped maintaining its cygwin build. I have asked around but nobody seemed to be interested in taking over my role. Anyway, if the 1.6.6 building is not working properly, I will try t

Re: lyx postinstall error - attention maintainer

2013-01-09 Thread Bo Peng
Hi, Marco, I retired from the lyx development team a few years ago and have stopped maintaining its cygwin build. I have asked around but nobody seemed to be interested in taking over my role. Anyway, if the 1.6.6 building is not working properly, I will try to update it to the latest version in t

Re: runing ./configure on gdb 7.5.50 sources

2013-01-09 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 09/01/2013 1:57 AM, Jose Munoz wrote: Hello, I would like to patch my current version of gdb (7.5.50.20120815-cvs (cygwin-special)) on a cygwin 1.7.17-1 installation. Prior to that, I tried to build the original gdb sources, which I downloaded using setup.exe and selecting them. Without

Re: [bug?] 2nd printf output gets gobbled up when 1st used in a thread

2013-01-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 1 16:16, furrylogical wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Cygwin seems to behave strangely when `printf` is used in threads: if > the first `printf` encountered occurs in another thread, then the > first `printf` that occurs in the main function will vanish into thin > air. The following fragmen

Re: Rebuilding make

2013-01-09 Thread Fedin Pavel
On 09.01.2013 14:57, Fedin Pavel wrote: 1. doc/fdl.texi and doc/make-stds.texi files are missing from the archive. 2. configure seems to incorrectly determine HAVE_DOS_PATHS as true. This breaks $abspath() function. I solved (1) by adding these files from the original UNIX archive. Of course

Rebuilding make

2013-01-09 Thread Fedin Pavel
Hello! I want to try my hands on improving 'make' performance by switching from fork() to spawn(). Actually, the code is already there, under #ifdef __EMX__, waiting to be reused. However i have some problems rebuilding it: 1. doc/fdl.texi and doc/make-stds.texi files are missing from the a

RE: disk format question

2013-01-09 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Warren Young wrote: > If this were Linux, I'd suggest basing your script's logic on device or > filesystem UUIDs, but I don't know how to do that under Cygwin. Under Cygwin, you can refer to a device by UUID by looking under the path /proc/sys/GLOBAL??/ (those are literal question marks; you'll pr

runing ./configure on gdb 7.5.50 sources

2013-01-09 Thread Jose Munoz
Hello, I would like to patch my current version of gdb (7.5.50.20120815-cvs (cygwin-special)) on a cygwin 1.7.17-1 installation. Prior to that, I tried to build the original gdb sources, which I downloaded using setup.exe and selecting them. Without modifying any source code of gdb, I run .

lyx postinstall error - attention maintainer

2013-01-09 Thread marco atzeri
On 1/9/2013 1:20 AM, Tim Collins wrote: On 1/7/2013 10:59 PM, marco atzeri wrote: On 1/8/2013 7:49 AM, Tim Collins wrote: Marco, The package is lyx not lynx. $ cygcheck -l lyx | grep etc /etc/postinstall/lyx.sh/lyx.sh sorry, than it is a package mistake Mon Jun 14 02:22:31 2010

Re: disk format question

2013-01-09 Thread bartels
On 01/08/2013 10:24 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 1/8/2013 08:38, bartels wrote: That may very well be true, but I have a friend called locate: I *had* a friend called "which", but he didn't find it. I have now unfriended him. ;) Very funny. Yeah, know thy friends, is true. Cygwin remains a mo