long I/O delays when strace is running

2017-04-19 Thread Daniel Santos
Well I've solved one problem, but now I have another one. To try to understand why except is getting broken pipes (child processes are "going away"), I modified DejaGNU's /usr/bin/runtest so that it would strace each except process: -exec "$expectbin" $debug -- "$runpath"/runtest.exp $target $

Re: cygwin-doc html/ missing docbook.css and index dups cygwin-{api,ug-net}

2017-04-19 Thread Jon Turney
On 19/04/2017 16:42, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-04-19 04:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 16 12:22, Brian Inglis wrote: Could you please consider having setup-x86{,_64} install Windows shortcuts to at least the UG .pdf and index.html if present, in the .../Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin folder

Another BLODA with Cylance PROTECT? Can't rebase

2017-04-19 Thread Timothy McDaniel
I'm setting up a new Windows machine, and as usual, hitting a problem with installing Cygwin. setup-x86_64.exe. Package postinstall shows Package: 0/Perpetual 0p_000_autorebase.dash exit code 2 Package: _/Unknown package base-files-mketc.sh exit code 254 base-files-profil

Re: cygwin-doc html/ missing docbook.css and index dups cygwin-{api,ug-net}

2017-04-19 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-04-19 04:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 16 12:22, Brian Inglis wrote: >> Package cygwin-doc files >> /usr/share/doc/cygwin-2.8.0/html/cygwin-{api,ug-net}/*.html >> all contain references to docbook.css: >> >> but docbook.css is missing from the .../html/cygwin-{api,ug-net

Re: Segfault using `watch -c` with ANSI escapes in output

2017-04-19 Thread Duncan Roe
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:14:02AM +0200, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Duncan Roe wrote: > > > > Where does "watch" come from? It's not on my cygwin installation: > > > >> 16:12:50$ type watch > >> -bash: type: watch: not found > > > > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-

Re: Latest 64 bit cygwin miscompiles gawk master

2017-04-19 Thread arnold
Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Watch several of the checks crash and burn > > No, I don't. I just ran the exact sequence as above on a x86_64 Windows > 10 machine with Cygwin 2.8.0 and gcc 5.4.0 and "ALL TESTS PASSED". See the note I just posted. If gawk is configured to not compile a

Re: Latest 64 bit cygwin miscompiles gawk master

2017-04-19 Thread arnold
Well, here is some more info. After installing MPFR and GMP development packages and rerunning configure, the compile and tests run with no problems. Really strange. I note that my compilation of gawk 4.1.4 where things went OK was _without_ the MPFR and GMP development packages. Another interes

Re: Latest 64 bit cygwin miscompiles gawk master

2017-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Arnold, On Apr 19 08:32, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > Hi. > > I just did a fresh install of the 64 bit cygwin on a new Windows 10 > computer. I am trying to build gawk from git master and getting > failures. It looks like something is being miscompiled in the NODE > union. Compiler is GCC 5.4.

Re: Segfault using `watch -c` with ANSI escapes in output

2017-04-19 Thread Jon Turney
On 18/04/2017 16:10, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-04-18 06:36, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: I'm seeing a segfault from using `watch -c` with commands that output ANSI colour sequences, which is a bit sad given the whole point of the `-c` is to get the ANSI colour sequences to be displayed. Simple test c

Latest 64 bit cygwin miscompiles gawk master

2017-04-19 Thread arnold
Hi. I just did a fresh install of the 64 bit cygwin on a new Windows 10 computer. I am trying to build gawk from git master and getting failures. It looks like something is being miscompiled in the NODE union. Compiler is GCC 5.4. I have no problems with this compiler on Ubuntu 16 or with GCC 4.

Re: /bin/ gets deleted on error

2017-04-19 Thread Gerrit Haase
2017-04-13 15:13 GMT+02:00 Felipe Vieira says: > > For the second time this week my /bin/ folder gets obliterated on an > error during normal usage. It is equivalent of doing the infamous "rm > -rf /bin" . > ... > From what I recall the terminal was spamming messages containing the > words "fork"

Re: cygwin-doc html/ missing docbook.css and index dups cygwin-{api,ug-net}

2017-04-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 12:22, Brian Inglis wrote: > Hi folks, > > Package cygwin-doc files > > /usr/share/doc/cygwin-2.8.0/html/cygwin-{api,ug-net}/*.html > > all contain references to docbook.css: > > > > but docbook.css is missing from the .../html/cygwin-{api,ug-net}/ > directories. > >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Git v2.12.2-1

2017-04-19 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Version 2.12.2-1 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a mirror near you. This update includes the following packages: - git - git-cvs - git-debuginfo - git-email - git-gui - gitk - git-svn This is an update to the latest upstream release. For a full list of the upstream changes

Re: Segfault using `watch -c` with ANSI escapes in output

2017-04-19 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Duncan Roe wrote: > > Where does "watch" come from? It's not on my cygwin installation: > >> 16:12:50$ type watch >> -bash: type: watch: not found > https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=watch%5C.exe&arch=x86_64 gives us https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/pa