Re: Setting up a proper modelling environment in Cygwin

2020-09-13 Thread Lawrence Bernardo via Cygwin
Thank you Marco for addressing my concerns. And I think checking for the fortran module consistency will be really helpful for me to assess issues I run into in the future. I have rolled back the versions I have been using to all be based on gfortran/gcc version 7.4.0, but an update, although not u

Re: Setting up a proper modelling environment in Cygwin

2020-09-13 Thread Lawrence Bernardo via Cygwin
Dear Eliot, Thank you for your response. Indeed, after trying a number of different combinations of component versions using the setup application, I found a working set based on gcc/gfortran version 7.4.0. And I get what you mean about Cygwin-specifc adjustments, as one of the codes I tried to co

[ANNOUNCEMENT] discus 0.4.0-1

2020-09-13 Thread Andrew Schulman via Cygwin-announce
discus 0.4.0-1 is now available in Cygwin. This release adds Python 3 compatibility, and minor improvements such as adapting its display to the terminal width. Discus aims to make df prettier, with features such as color, graphs, and smart formatting of numbers (automatically choosing the most sui

Re: postinstall: fontconfig abnormal exit

2020-09-13 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 9/12/2020 2:08 AM, ASSI wrote: I like your idea of using perpetual postinstall scripts. I think the way to do it is probably to make fontconfig_dtd.sh perpetual with prefix "zp_". Yes, that seems like a better solution. I see a lot of the texlive stuff already works this way and it appears

[ANNOUNCEMENT] fontconfig 2.13.1-2

2020-09-13 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * fontconfig-2.13.1-2 * fontconfig-doc-2.13.1-2 * libfontconfig1-2.13.1-2 * libfontconfig-common-2.13.1-2 * libfontconfig-devel-2.13.1-2 Fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization

Re: Issues with removing cygwin installed TTF font files

2020-09-13 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 9/13/2020 10:16 AM, Michael Soegtrop wrote: Dear Cygwin Team and Users, since a few months I have issues deleting cygwin installations. In some cases randomly the /usr/share/fonts/microsoft folder and the TTF files in it remain. According to DOS dir the folder contains junctions to TTF file

Issues with removing cygwin installed TTF font files

2020-09-13 Thread Michael Soegtrop
Dear Cygwin Team and Users, since a few months I have issues deleting cygwin installations. In some cases randomly the /usr/share/fonts/microsoft folder and the TTF files in it remain. According to DOS dir the folder contains junctions to TTF files - not sure how this is possible - afaik a jun

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cfitsio-3.490-1

2020-09-13 Thread Achim Gratz
This is an update to the latest upstream version. cfitsio-3.490-1 mingw64-i686-cfitsio-3.490-1 mingw64-x86_64-cfitsio-3.490-1 Notes - The build now enables BZip2, cURL and multithreading support. The build again provides the mingw64 packages. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUB

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fetchmail-6.4.12-1

2020-09-13 Thread Achim Gratz
The current upstream release of fetchmail is now available on Cygwin as the fetchmail-6.4.12-1 package. The upstream release changelog is here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/ This release uses the Python3 interpreter as Python2 is now EOL and has been compiled with

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mpclib-1.2.0-1

2020-09-13 Thread Achim Gratz
This is an upstream release. http://www.multiprecision.org/mpc/home.html MPC Multiprecision Library == The GNU MPC library is a C library for multiple-precision complex floating-point computations with exact rounding (also called correct rounding). It is based on the GM

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openldap-2.4.53-1

2020-09-13 Thread Achim Gratz
The openldap package in Cygwin has been updated to the latest upstream version 2.4.53. https://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html Notes = I don't use the server components of openldap myself and know next to nothing about these, so use them with due care. The tests are unchan