Near the end of the Cygwin (64bit) update process today, an error regarding zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh

2016-04-08 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; FYI: Near the end of the Cygwin (64bit) update process today, an error regarding zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh Package: z/Perpetual zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh exit code 1 I thought that it might be good to report this. Ken Wolcott -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.ht

[ANNOUNCEMENT] icu 57.1-1

2016-04-08 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * libicu57-57.1-1 * libicu-devel-57.1-1 * icu-doc-57.1-1 ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. ICU is widely portable and gives appl

Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 08.04.2016 um 20:52 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: Like for grep which now barfs out when a character isn’t recognized in the current encoding (and grep doesn’t even provide an environment variable to override this mis-feature), these assumedly-modern upstream changes are a nuisanc

RE: grep (GNU grep) 2.24

2016-04-08 Thread Gordon Grimes
HI all, Firstly, I neglected to show that I had piped the grep results into "wc -l". That's where the numbers came from. Secondly, I've reinstalled the later version and will watch for a recurrence. If it happens I'll post the full test, including the "FILE" contents. Thanks for the response

Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/08/2016 12:52 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Thomas Wolff writes: >> Like for grep which now barfs out when a character isn’t recognized in >> the current encoding (and grep doesn’t even provide an environment >> variable to override this mis-feature), these assumedly-modern >> upstream changes are

Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > Like for grep which now barfs out when a character isn’t recognized in > the current encoding (and grep doesn’t even provide an environment > variable to override this mis-feature), these assumedly-modern > upstream changes are a nuisance. You are barking up the wrng tree, p

Re: xgraph 12.1-3 segfaults when run

2016-04-08 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 29/03/2016 17:13, Stefan Parviainen wrote: Dear list, I installed xgraph 12.1-3 using the Cygwin installer, but it seems to segfault immediately when run (e.g. "xgraph data.txt"). GDB gives the following: Let me know if the new 12.1-5 version works as should. All the examples seem fine. Re

Re: Re-install of cygwin today 4/7/16 and xterm missing

2016-04-08 Thread REBSTOCK, ROLAND
Thank you Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 8, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Jon Turney wrote: > >> On 08/04/2016 02:13, REBSTOCK, ROLAND wrote: >> All, I reinstalled Cygwin on my win7 workstation and though I can >> start a X server, when I right click the X icon in the task menu I no > > I guess you are star

Re: Re-install of cygwin today 4/7/16 and xterm missing

2016-04-08 Thread Jon Turney
On 08/04/2016 02:13, REBSTOCK, ROLAND wrote: All, I reinstalled Cygwin on my win7 workstation and though I can start a X server, when I right click the X icon in the task menu I no I guess you are starting the X server directly, rather than using startxwin? longer have a option to start a xte

Re: /bin/rebaselst: cannot create /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied

2016-04-08 Thread Houder
On 2016-04-08 14:46, Achim Gratz wrote: Houder xs4all.nl> writes: To verify, I removed my modification again ... --- a/drv/e/Setup/test/bin/rebaselst.orig +++ b/drv/e/Setup/test/bin/rebaselst -93,9 +93,14 check_file () { echo "removing $1" rm -f $1 fi +# if [ "$2" =

Re: /bin/rebaselst: cannot create /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied

2016-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Houder xs4all.nl> writes: > To verify, I removed my modification again ... > > --- a/drv/e/Setup/test/bin/rebaselst.orig > +++ b/drv/e/Setup/test/bin/rebaselst > -93,9 +93,14 check_file () { > echo "removing $1" > rm -f $1 > fi > +# if [ "$2" = "no" -a -e $1 ] ; then >

Re: /bin/rebaselst: cannot create /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied

2016-04-08 Thread Houder
On 2016-04-08 14:06, Achim Gratz wrote: Houder xs4all.nl> writes: No ... it did not. You realize that this makes absolutely no sense? No. (cannot help that today) However, this modification did. Which does exactly the same thing in a more roundabout way. Or should anyway. To verif

Re: Strange quoting behaviour using cygwin utilities outside shell

2016-04-08 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/8/2016 12:42 AM, Anthony Sottile wrote: I'm using cygwin utilities from outside cygwin (essentially piggybacking on msysgit). I'm writing a python application that aims to target both POSIX systems and windows -- using cygwin utilities seems like a perfect fit. Why not use cygwin's python

Re: /bin/rebaselst: cannot create /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied

2016-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Houder xs4all.nl> writes: > No ... it did not. You realize that this makes absolutely no sense? > However, this modification did. Which does exactly the same thing in a more roundabout way. Or should anyway. Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: /bin/rebaselst: cannot create /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied

2016-04-08 Thread Houder
On 2016-04-08 12:59, Achim Gratz wrote: Houder xs4all.nl> writes: MY APOLOGIES FOR WASTING YOUR TIME! I meant 444 (r--r--r--). Sigh. Try if the following patch fixes your problem: --- /bin/rebaselst +++ # @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ echo "creating empty $1" touch -t 700101 "$1" fi +

Re: /bin/rebaselst: cannot create /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied

2016-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Houder xs4all.nl> writes: > MY APOLOGIES FOR WASTING YOUR TIME! I meant 444 (r--r--r--). Sigh. Try if the following patch fixes your problem: --- /bin/rebaselst +++ # @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ echo "creating empty $1" touch -t 700101 "$1" fi + chmod 644 "$1" } _tr () { Regards,

Re: Cygwin and Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c on Windows Platform

2016-04-08 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-04-08 3:13 GMT+02:00 Ty Newby writes: > Also, has anyone else had experience with using Cygwin with Oracle > Enterprise Manager to deploy agents? Hello Ty, yes, I have setup a new Enterprise Manager 13c on Windows recently, using the current Cygwin distribution. Deploying agents works as doc

Re: /bin/rebaselst: cannot create /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied

2016-04-08 Thread Houder
On 2016-04-08 12:31, Achim Gratz wrote: Houder xs4all.nl> writes: But I am missing some "Unix logic" here: - I modified the permissions of the files (chmod u+x) What makes you think that these files should be executable? - invoked setup (using -B) - rebaselst is content now, thoug

Re: /bin/rebaselst: cannot create /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied

2016-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Houder xs4all.nl> writes: > But I am missing some "Unix logic" here: > > - I modified the permissions of the files (chmod u+x) What makes you think that these files should be executable? > - invoked setup (using -B) > - rebaselst is content now, though > - it creates the same file

Re: /bin/rebaselst: cannot create /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied

2016-04-08 Thread Houder
On 2016-04-08 11:10, Achim Gratz wrote: Houder xs4all.nl> writes: Perhaps not important, but when setup is invoked like this: E:\Setup\bld\setup.exe -B -n -R e:/Setup/test -l e:/Setup/_test_repository that is, with -B /bin/rebaselst has trouble writing: /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Pe

Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 07.04.2016 13:11, Andrew Schulman wrote: I have just noticed that the program 'ls' has started to put quotes around some entries in the listing when I use it That are not really present around the actual files / directories. The default quoting style in ls recently changed upstream, and then

Re: /bin/rebaselst: cannot create /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied

2016-04-08 Thread Achim Gratz
Houder xs4all.nl> writes: > Perhaps not important, but when setup is invoked like this: > > E:\Setup\bld\setup.exe -B -n -R e:/Setup/test -l > e:/Setup/_test_repository > > that is, with -B > > /bin/rebaselst has trouble writing: > > /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied, and >

Re: /bin/rebaselst: cannot create /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied

2016-04-08 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Houder! > Perhaps not important, but when setup is invoked like this: > E:\Setup\bld\setup.exe -B -n -R e:/Setup/test -l > e:/Setup/_test_repository > that is, with -B > /bin/rebaselst has trouble writing: > /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied, and > /var/cache/reb

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xgraph-12.1-5

2016-04-08 Thread Marco Atzeri
Version 12.1-5 of xgraph has been uploaded. Xgraph is a two-dimensional plotting program that accepts data in a form similar to the unix program graph and displays line graphs, scatter plots, or bar charts on an X11 display. These graphs are fully annotated with a title, axis numbering and labels

/bin/rebaselst: cannot create /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied

2016-04-08 Thread Houder
Hi Achim, Perhaps not important, but when setup is invoked like this: E:\Setup\bld\setup.exe -B -n -R e:/Setup/test -l e:/Setup/_test_repository that is, with -B /bin/rebaselst has trouble writing: /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst: Permission denied, and /var/cache/rebase/rebase_exe: Permis