Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TeX Live 2017

2017-10-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/4/2017 4:01 PM, Ken Brown wrote: The bibtexextra collection is marked as a test release because it includes biblatex-3.7; the latter is designed to work with biber-2.7, which is not yet available in the Cygwin distribution because it requires at least perl-5.24. biber-2.7 has now been re

[ANNOUNCEMENT] perl-PAR-Packer 1.040-1

2017-10-23 Thread Ken Brown
The following package has been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * perl-PAR-Packer-1.040-1 PAR is a Cross-Platform Packaging and Deployment tool, dubbed as a cross between Java's JAR and Perl2EXE/PerlApp. This module implements the App::Packer::Backend interface, for generating stand-alone ex

[ANNOUNCEMENT] texinfo 6.5-2

2017-10-23 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * texinfo-6.5-2 * texinfo-tex-6.5-2 * info-6.5-2 Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file to produce output in a number of formats, both online and printed (dvi, html, info, pdf, xml, etc.). This is a r

[ANNOUNCEMENT] biber 2.7-1

2017-10-23 Thread Ken Brown
The following package has been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * biber-2.7-1 Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX. Biber supports full UTF-8, can (re-)encode input and output, supports highly configurable sorting, dynamic bibliography sets, and many other features. This is a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [SECURITY] Updated: {apr1,libapr1,libapr1-devel}-1.6.3-1

2017-10-23 Thread David Rothenberger
SECURITY: = APR 1.6.3 release addresses one security vulnerability; CVE-2017-12613; Out-of-bounds array deref in apr_time_exp*() functions When apr_exp_time*() or apr_os_exp_time*() functions are invoked with an invalid month field value in APR 1.6.2 and prior, out of bounds mem

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [SECURITY] Updated: libaprutil1-1.6.1-1

2017-10-23 Thread David Rothenberger
SECURITY: = APR-util 1.6.1 release addresses one security vulnerability; CVE-2017-12618; Out-of-bounds access in corrupted SDBM database. APR-util 1.6.0 and prior failed to validate the integrity of SDBM database files used by apr_sdbm*() functions, resulting in a possible out of

Re: cygwin x86_64: mingw64-g++ 6.4.0 (both i686 and x86_64) issue (bug?) with reinterpret_cast

2017-10-23 Thread JonY
On 10/23/2017 02:47 PM, Paolo ZAMBOTTI wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having some issues while compiling C++ code with mingw64 c++ compiler > (6.4.0) distributed within Cygwin packages. > I can guess the issue I'm going to report is not strictly related to Cygwin > distribution but I cannot test other

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: zpaq-7.15-1

2017-10-23 Thread Achim Gratz
zpaq is a free and open source incremental, journaling command-line archiver. http://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html Incremental means that when you back up your hard drive, for example: zpaq add /cygdrive/e/backup.zpaq /cygdrive/c/* then only those files whose last-modified date or size has ch

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: zstd-1.3.2-1 and development headers / libraries

2017-10-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Zstandard, or zstd as short version, is a fast lossless compression algorithm, targeting real-time compression scenarios at zlib-level and better compression ratios. http://www.zstd.net/ This version is compiled with support for GZip, LZ4 and Xz compression. Besides a standalone compression too

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated] perl-5.26.1-1 and all Perl distributions

2017-10-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Perl has been updated to version 5.26.1-1 on Cygwin. This is the first upstream maintenance release for Perl 5.26, released on September 22 2017. Please note that the entire 5.24.x versions of Perl were not released on Cygwin, so there are a few things that had deprecation warnings in those vers

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.9.7-2

2017-10-23 Thread David Rothenberger
CYGWIN NEWS: This is a rebuild against Perl 5.26.1-1. NEWS: = Please see the release notes http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.9.html for more details about the changes in Subversion. See http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.9.6/CHANGES for mor

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.8.19-2

2017-10-23 Thread David Rothenberger
CYGWIN NEWS: This is a rebuild against Perl 5.26.1-1. NEWS: = See CHANGES (URL below) for more information about the differences between 1.8.0 and previous Subversion releases. IMPORTANT: Please read the release notes (URL below) before upgrading from a previous major release. 1.

Re: Cygwin alongside WSL

2017-10-23 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-10-23 06:38, KARL BOTTS wrote: > > Does anybody have any concrete experience using Windows Subsystem for Linux > (hence WSL) on the same machine, alongside Cygwin? Yes, I have used Bash on Ubuntu on Windows/WSL/lxss and found cmd console useless, so I installed wsltty from github, and I j

Re: Cygwin alongside WSL

2017-10-23 Thread arrl via cygwin
On 10/23/2017 10:02 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, KARL BOTTS! > >> Does anybody have any concrete experience using Windows Subsystem for Linux >> (hence WSL) on the same machine, alongside Cygwin? > If you have any specific question - ask it. > Asking a yes-or-no question doesn't add to th

cygwin x86_64: mingw64-g++ 6.4.0 (both i686 and x86_64) issue (bug?) with reinterpret_cast

2017-10-23 Thread Paolo ZAMBOTTI
Hello, I'm having some issues while compiling C++ code with mingw64 c++ compiler (6.4.0) distributed within Cygwin packages. I can guess the issue I'm going to report is not strictly related to Cygwin distribution but I cannot test other mingw64 distributions so let me start reporting the issue

Re: Cygwin alongside WSL

2017-10-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, KARL BOTTS! > Does anybody have any concrete experience using Windows Subsystem for Linux > (hence WSL) on the same machine, alongside Cygwin? If you have any specific question - ask it. Asking a yes-or-no question doesn't add to the knowledge, and essentially boils down to "may I ask

Cygwin alongside WSL

2017-10-23 Thread KARL BOTTS
Does anybody have any concrete experience using Windows Subsystem for Linux (hence WSL) on the same machine, alongside Cygwin? --- Karl Botts, kdbo...@usa.net -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://c

Re: How to use CMake with cygwin/mingw toolchain?

2017-10-23 Thread Peter Quiring
I also found just setting CC and CXX environment variables pointing to the mingw gcc works. Thanks for the links. On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2017-10-20 07:50, Peter Quiring wrote: >> What is the current process to use the mingw toolchain that is >> included wit

Re: mingw include path missing Qt

2017-10-23 Thread Peter Quiring
I didn't see it was in /usr/include/qt5 as well. That would be a standard location. Thanks. On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 20/10/2017 20:00, Peter Quiring wrote: >> >> Another issue I'm having with mingw is the Qt headers are not in the >> include path. >> >> So I alw