Re: Packages needed to create a virtual environment in Python 3.9

thank you P.B. Lecavalier! I greatly appreciate your response! Perhaps this can guide the cygwin packaging in te future I was missing ` python-setuptools-wheel` but I had installed the ` python-setuptools-wheel` Now I have success $ python3 -m ensurepip Looking in links: /tmp/tmpy457n2k6 Requir

Re: Packages needed to create a virtual environment in Python 3.9

I ran into this error today ( I was trying to use https://github.com/raulgotor/linkerscope.git ) but even with an empty folder I get error message even after I install " python-pip-wheel" from setup $ mkdir /tmp/pip-test ; cd /tmp/pip-test ; python3.9 -m venv venv mkdir /tmp/pip-test ; cd /tmp

Re: Perl stopped working

try echo 'print "Hello Perl\n"' | perl perhaps you're thinking of pythons REPL ? I sort of like perl -de 1 to interact with perl On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 8:53 AM Michael via Cygwin wrote: > After running cygwin-setup and updating all cygwin-packages, perl no > longer seems to work (or maybe a

Re: cleanup of in-use files moved to recycle bin

where we use the null character to delimit fields - for example /proc/*/cmdline and /proc/*/environ - are there others? How will this change affect other user scripts that read /proc/mounts ? On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM David Dyck wrote: > Is the format of /proc/mounts changing from being sp

Re: cleanup of in-use files moved to recycle bin

Is the format of /proc/mounts changing from being space delimited to being null delimited? where can I read more about this change? On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote: > On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote: > > > > 2) assuming there is not, I want to make

possible typo (mention of setup.exe) in cygwin web pages

I think the "setup.exe" mentioned in https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-ex-win.html "Quick Start Guide for those more experienced with Windows" setup.exe is mentioned 3 times on the page, the first is: To install a basic Cygwin environment, run the *setup.exe* program and click Next at ea

Re: How to make Cygwin handle Unicode symbolic links?

I assume you meant cygcheck , not symcheck ? ( i've been "into" symbolic links in cygwin today so the title caught my eye ) what do you have for the CYGWIN environment variable, I've been using winsymlinks:native eg export CYGWIN=winsymlinks:na

Re: new git update fails with fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

Thank you for your ideas! I have made no changes but can't reproduce the issue today both with a very short path of /usr/bin and the original path I tried with VPN off or on I would be happy to try a few other experiments - but I don't even need the workaround of reverting to an older git $ whic

new git update fails with fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

I upgraded to the most recent git and I get the following error ( stable2.45.1-1x86_648597 KiB2024-05-25 18:58 ) $ git clone -v https://github.com/lxml/lxml.git Cloning into 'lxml'... POST git-upload-pack (175 bytes) POST git-upload-pack (gzip 8652 to 4281 bytes) remote: Enumerating objects: 3393

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:10 PM Mark Geisert wrote: > > Hi David, > > David Dyck via Cygwin wrote: > > First, thanks for digging further into this. > > > > I'm guessing that I am missing some of the developer pieces that > > assisted you in deducing from

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

First, thanks for digging further into this. I'm guessing that I am missing some of the developer pieces that assisted you in deducing from On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:28 PM Mark Geisert wrote: > > Replying to myself, ahem... > > Mark Geisert wrote: > > You could try downgrading ncurses via Cy

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 12:50 PM Mark Geisert wrote: > > > You could try downgrading ncurses via Cygwin setup. Best case: things work. Best case achieved Ran setup this is what it said it would do Uninstall libncursesw10 6.1-1.20190727 (automatically added) Uninstall ncurses 6.1-1.20190727 (a

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:56 AM Brian Inglis wrote: > Apparently that Windows Version is for the Windows 11 Preview. > That appears to be an alpha quality product, from bug fix announcements. > I didn't find anything much useful from MS or articles only features. > You might want to reach out fo

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 10:04 PM Brian Inglis wrote: > It's a known problem that after Windows updates, especially Insider, > quarterly, or biannually e.g. [20]20H2 [20]2009, it's often advisable to > rerun Cygwin Setup and allow packages to be upgraded in case patches are > made for new releases,

Re: many cygwin shells/tools (tcsh, fish, bash, and zsh) crashing STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 10:08 PM Takashi Yano wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 21:36:15 -0700 > David Dyck wrote: > > I've had it running for many years, but recently upgraded to windows 10 > > c:\cygwin64\bin>ver > > > > Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.

Re: misterious GIT failure (SOLVED)

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 1:08 PM matthew patton via Cygwin wrote: > I haven't run into a scenario yet where 'readlink' doesn't work. > Here's a unrelated example where symbolic links don't work the same as on unix/linux ( not sure this is a readlink issue ) When I try to write through /proc

Re: ag 2 <(echo 2) gets assertion "p >= path" failed: .. /cygwin-3.1.7 ... /cygwin/path.cc", line 3065, function: int symlink_info::check

/6/2020 3:47 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > >>>> On 9/6/2020 2:43 PM, David Dyck via Cygwin wrote: > >>>>> This command triggers an assertion failure > >>>>>"ag" is from the_silver_searcher > >>>>> > >>>>

Re: ag 2 <(echo 2) gets assertion "p >= path" failed: .. /cygwin-3.1.7 ... /cygwin/path.cc", line 3065, function: int symlink_info::check

On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 12:07 PM Eliot Moss wrote: > > On 9/6/2020 2:43 PM, David Dyck via Cygwin wrote: > > This command triggers an assertion failure > >"ag" is from the_silver_searcher > > > > $ ag 2 <(echo 2) > > assertion "p >= path

Re: Problem with 575 man pages -- ( libncurses-devel-5.7-4 problem? )

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 at 22:35 -0700, l...@... wrote: A large number (575) of 'man' pages, that reference other man pages using a '.so' (source include) reference, fail to work because the plain text files have the '.gz' extension appended without actually being gzipped. Could this be due to a mi

RE: Using windows text mode without setup.exe

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 at 12:43 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alternatively, if you don't want to go through your application fixing the file open calls, you can just link it against textmode.o, which will cause all your files to be opened in textmode by default. See also http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: Using windows text mode without setup.exe

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 at 11:51 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The application needs read from and write to files in text mode (i.e. using CRLF format). This works fine on my development machine, because I can just use the Cygwin setup program to specify the Windows text mode as default. Ho