Re: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS

2016-04-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Secure connections historically had a high overhead, sure, but that's very rarely the case nowadays. Certainly my experince of loading the Cygwin web page is that there's no perceptible difference between the http and https versions. Adam Langley (a senior engineer at Goog

Re: converting from -mno-cygwin

2016-04-26 Thread Lee
On 4/26/16, JonY wrote: > On 4/27/2016 05:08, Lee wrote: >> Questions: >> >> How to tell if I should be using libwinpthread or pthread? I had no >> idea so installed both: >> /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin >> $ ls -l *hread* >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root None 47635 Apr 7 08:54 libwinpthread-1.d

Re: converting from -mno-cygwin

2016-04-26 Thread JonY
On 4/27/2016 05:08, Lee wrote: > Questions: > > How to tell if I should be using libwinpthread or pthread? I had no > idea so installed both: > /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin > $ ls -l *hread* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root None 47635 Apr 7 08:54 libwinpthread-1.dll > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root None 65024

converting from -mno-cygwin

2016-04-26 Thread Lee
I'm trying to get privoxy (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/) to build under the current cygwin. It works using cygwin 1.5 + gcc v3 -mno-cygwin & I was hoping it would be relatively easy to get it working using the cross-compiler toolchain. But I keep getting stuck :( $ make i686-w64-mingw3

Re: unison-2.48.3-1 cannot sync to a server running unison2.48.3 (ocaml 4.02)

2016-04-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Could you please provide a unison version wich is compiled against ocaml > 4.02? Reinhard, so you know I'm working on this, but I'm having trouble building unison-2.48 with the latest version of ocaml. I've asked the ocaml maintainers for help. Will let you know as soon as I have a new release

Re: ld randomly assigns wrong user and group IDs to executable

2016-04-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrew Schulman writes: > Seems to be a BLODA problem. The problem is inconsistent/intermittent, and > happens only on one of my three Windows hosts. The bad machine has > Symtantec Endpoint Protection running (I can't disable it), and > CYGWIN=detect_bloda also finds C:\windows\system32\privman64.

Re: ld randomly assigns wrong user and group IDs to executable

2016-04-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
> During configure, a particular c++ program compiles fine, but the generated > executable has the wrong user and group IDs and permissions, so the > configure test fails and my build fails. Seems to be a BLODA problem. The problem is inconsistent/intermittent, and happens only on one of my three

Re: Mintty font problem

2016-04-26 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 12.04.2016 um 22:27 schrieb Thomas Wolff: Am 11.04.2016 um 22:40 schrieb Thomas Wolff: Am 11.04.2016 um 14:43 schrieb KARL BOTTS: Perhaps related to font issues in mintty: In .minttyrc is a new property FontWeight=700, which means you had configured the bold version of the font. after I

Re: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS

2016-04-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Brian Clifton writes: > In addition to this patch, Apache could be configured better (Cygwin.com > scores a B): > https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=cygwin.com You'd need to address this to overseers at sourceware.com. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb

Re: Cygwin-2.5.0 net share wbadmin no longer working post update

2016-04-26 Thread Alexandria Gutierrez
I wanted to provide an update in order to help others with the same issue. We ended up using method 3 from this link: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html Switching the user context without password, Method 3: With password Essentially as the user run "passwd -R" in order to store the pas

Re: gcc x86 - problem on library search order

2016-04-26 Thread JonY
On 4/26/2016 20:10, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > > On 26/04/2016 12:16, JonY wrote: >> On 4/26/2016 01:46, Marco Atzeri wrote: >>> Visible on 32bit and not present on 64bit >>> >>> $ cat uuid.c >>> #include >>> >>> int main () >>> { >>> uuid_t out; >>> uuid_generate_random(out); >>> retur

Re: gcc x86 - problem on library search order

2016-04-26 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 26/04/2016 12:16, JonY wrote: On 4/26/2016 01:46, Marco Atzeri wrote: Visible on 32bit and not present on 64bit $ cat uuid.c #include int main () { uuid_t out; uuid_generate_random(out); return 0; } $ gcc uuid.c -luuid /tmp/ccLlmFMf.o:uuid.c:(.text+0x16): undefined referenc

Re: gcc x86 - problem on library search order

2016-04-26 Thread JonY
On 4/26/2016 01:46, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Visible on 32bit and not present on 64bit > > $ cat uuid.c > #include > > int main () > { > uuid_t out; > uuid_generate_random(out); > return 0; > } > > > $ gcc uuid.c -luuid > /tmp/ccLlmFMf.o:uuid.c:(.text+0x16): undefined reference to > `

Re: Proposed patch for web site: update most links to HTTPS

2016-04-26 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Adam Dinwoodie! > >> Secure connections historically had a high overhead, sure, but that's >> very rarely the case nowadays. Certainly my experince of loading the >> Cygwin web page is that there's no perceptible difference between