Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 20:44:44, Brian Inglis wrote: Both dash and bash are in Base, installed by default, and both are login shells, while dash requires only cygwin1.dll to run, and can be used during setup, before other libraries or utilities are installed. Yeah, I did not mean to say login shel

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-03-27 19:12, Steven Penny wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:09:07, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >> "Only" if /bin/bash is your preferred shell.  Granted, that's the >> default, and what most users would want anyway, but that is not >> strictly speaking a mintty dependency.  As I mentioned in my re

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 18:12 -0700, Steven Penny wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:09:07, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > "Only" if /bin/bash is your preferred shell. Granted, that's the > > default, and what most users would want anyway, but that is not > > strictly speaking a mintty dependency. As I m

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:09:07, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: "Only" if /bin/bash is your preferred shell. Granted, that's the default, and what most users would want anyway, but that is not strictly speaking a mintty dependency. As I mentioned in my response, the auto-detected dependency on bash is fr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 15:51 -0700, Steven Penny wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:02:47, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > >>> mintty requires: bash cygwin > > I remember some discussion that the cygwin dependency, which most > > packages have, should not (or does not need to be) listed. > > And in fact, min

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 21:02 +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 25.03.2019 um 19:12 schrieb Achim Gratz: > > Thomas Wolff writes: > > > Sorry, I neither know how to make use of such a package nor how to > > > generate it or what it contains. > > > But I'd take a patch:) > > As you wish… > I used to use

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:02:47, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>> mintty requires: bash cygwin I remember some discussion that the cygwin dependency, which most packages have, should not (or does not need to be) listed. And in fact, mintty does not depend on bash. Why does cygport think so? Uh, Mintty d

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 4:36 PM Achim Gratz wrote: > ... > > I removed -s as suggested by Achim, added -g as advised by Corinna, > > but cygport still says: > > *** Info: No debug files, skipping debuginfo subpackage > > Well, do not reset CFLAGS in your Makefile and cygport helpfully > provides a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > I used to use tar rather than cygport package to generate the packages. > One reason was that I didn’t want my local user/group to appear in them. > Is that possible with cygport? PTC. But yes, I think GNU Tar has an option to override those, cygport is just not using it ye

Re: I get an ERROR

2019-03-27 Thread cygwinautoreply
>when i try to convert i gotan error >./ps2classic.exe e cex ps2.key /cygdrive/c/ps2classics_GUI_2.1/Getaway, The >- Black Monday (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl).iso ISO.BIN.ENC ISO.BIN.ENC >2P0001-PS2U1_00- >2 [main] ps2classic 8544 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_

I get an ERROR

2019-03-27 Thread REAZ Forex
when i try to convert i gotan error ./ps2classic.exe e cex ps2.key /cygdrive/c/ps2classics_GUI_2.1/Getaway, The - Black Monday (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl).iso ISO.BIN.ENC ISO.BIN.ENC 2P0001-PS2U1_00- 2 [main] ps2classic 8544 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD p

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-27 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 25.03.2019 um 19:12 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: Sorry, I neither know how to make use of such a package nor how to generate it or what it contains. But I'd take a patch:) As you wish… I used to use tar rather than cygport package to generate the packages. One reason was that I

Re: bash does not recognize valid windows path: `bash: 'c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe' /c echo 123: command not found`

2019-03-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Andry! > If try to replace it by: > 'c:/windows\system32\cmd.exe' /c echo 123 > Then all works fine. > I've checked it in the old 1.5.x version and seems this bug is there for ages. Strictly speaking, Cygwin programs don't have to recognize Windows paths. Although SOME of them do. B

Re: emacs-X11 freezes with mouse cut and paste

2019-03-27 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/27/2019 10:40 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote: > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 HARRYR-PC 3.0.4(0.338/5/3) 2019-03-16 09:50 x86_64 Cygwin > GNU Emacs 26.1 > > How this happened. > It had happened twice before but appeared to be intermittent. > This time it happened I had copied a line from an xterm, including th

Re: cat.exe failing silently with exit status 3

2019-03-27 Thread Chris Wagner
Thanks for the responses. The uname output was already in my attachment. I executed cat as /usr/bin/cat.exe. Cygcheck cat is also in my original attachment. I attached the cygcheck -svr. The other Cygwin installations referenced are from my debugging and are not active. The missing Perl f

bash does not recognize valid windows path: `bash: 'c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe' /c echo 123: command not found`

2019-03-27 Thread Andry via cygwin
If try to replace it by: 'c:/windows\system32\cmd.exe' /c echo 123 Then all works fine. I've checked it in the old 1.5.x version and seems this bug is there for ages. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: h

emacs-X11 freezes with mouse cut and paste

2019-03-27 Thread Rockefeller, Harry
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 HARRYR-PC 3.0.4(0.338/5/3) 2019-03-16 09:50 x86_64 Cygwin GNU Emacs 26.1 How this happened. It had happened twice before but appeared to be intermittent. This time it happened I had copied a line from an xterm, including the [return]. Moved mouse to emacs window and using the middle