RE: Extra CR symbol from backticks on Cygwin 2.9.0

2017-09-12 Thread Michel LaBarre
Nikolay, there is no ASCII newline/EOL character. A "newline/EOL" is a context-dependent notion. The fundamental CYGWIN position (Eric, Simple, Andrey): POSIX uses LF as EOL so POSIX-compliant behaviour in CYGWIN is to remove LF - windows be damned. A slightly more generous interpretation migh

[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 2.9.0-3

2017-09-12 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * cygwin-2.9.0-3 * cygwin-devel-2.9.0-3 * cygwin-doc-2.9.0-3 This release should fix a regression reported in 2.9.0: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-09/msg00114.html Also included is a workaround for building with GCC 6. -

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-6.4.0-1 (x86/x86_64)

2017-09-12 Thread JonY
gcc-6.4.0-1 has been uploaded for Cygwin. This is a straight upgrade of Cygwin gcc over 6.3.0. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send e

Re: The bash console exits in 2.9.0

2017-09-12 Thread Houder
On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:24:00, Achim Gratz wrote: > Nick Popoff writes: > > Maybe, you are already aware of this problem introduced in 2.9.0. When I > > say, for example: > > > > man ls > > > > The bash console just exits and 'less' stays running in memory until I kill > > it. This behavior comple

Re: Extra CR symbol from backticks on Cygwin 2.9.0

2017-09-12 Thread cyg Simple
On 9/12/2017 9:06 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/12/2017 12:38 AM, Nikolay Melekhin wrote: >> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Command-Substitution >> >> "...with any trailing newlines deleted." That is why I expected that >> bash should remove trailing newlines in command substitu

Re: Extra CR symbol from backticks on Cygwin 2.9.0

2017-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/12/2017 12:38 AM, Nikolay Melekhin wrote: > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Command-Substitution > > "...with any trailing newlines deleted." That is why I expected that > bash should remove trailing newlines in command substitution results, > which are CRLF on Windows. N

Re: Extra CR symbol from backticks on Cygwin 2.9.0

2017-09-12 Thread cyg Simple
On 9/12/2017 1:38 AM, Nikolay Melekhin wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Thanks! This option is what I am looking for. > However I cannot agree with you on bash behavior in Cygwin. Section of > command substitution in bash documentation says: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Command-Sub

Re: Extra CR symbol from backticks on Cygwin 2.9.0

2017-09-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Nikolay Melekhin! Please don't top-post. Thank you. > Thanks! This option is what I am looking for. > However I cannot agree with you on bash behavior in Cygwin. Section of > command substitution in bash documentation says: > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Command