Re: flex package POSIX violation

2018-01-05 Thread Gerrit Haase
2017-12-31 22:13 GMT+01:00 Steven Penny writes: > The POSIX standard, at least since 1997 [1], requires the presence of a > "lex" > utility. > > Most systems (including Cygwin) provide a Lex implementation via the "flex" > package. However with other OS, a "lex -> flex" symlink is provided, whereas

Re: Building modules for perl-5.24

2017-05-18 Thread Gerrit Haase
2017-05-17 22:49 GMT+02:00 Ken Brown writes: > Achim, > > I'd like to build test releases for perl-5.24 of the perl modules needed by > biber, so that I can upgrade biber (as a test release). I don't mind doing > the work, but I imagine you have a script that simplifies the process. Hello Ken, I

Re: /bin/ gets deleted on error

2017-04-19 Thread Gerrit Haase
2017-04-13 15:13 GMT+02:00 Felipe Vieira says: > > For the second time this week my /bin/ folder gets obliterated on an > error during normal usage. It is equivalent of doing the infamous "rm > -rf /bin" . > ... > From what I recall the terminal was spamming messages containing the > words "fork"

Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

2016-12-06 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-12-01 11:51 GMT+01:00 Roberto RĂ­os Gallardo says: > Please give the installers more meaningful names. In particular, make > sure "cygwin" is part of it. "setup-x86_64.exe" is not very obvious. A > version number would be nice too. The version is part of setup.ini in the header: # This file w

Re: Broken bash command substitution

2016-11-25 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-11-24 17:25 GMT+01:00 L. A. Walsh says: > Tydus wrote: > > > You didn't specify what version of bash you are running. Therefore he attached the cygcheck output which says: bash 4.3.46-7 ;) Gerrit -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin Setup Command-line Arguments - Paths with a Space Incorrectly Parsed

2016-11-14 Thread Gerrit Haase
> Try adding a dot: > > set WD=%~dp0 > echo "%WD%." > "setup-x86_64.exe" --root "%WD%." --local-package-dir "%WD%." > pause or set WD=%~dp0. ... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.h

Re: Cygwin Setup Command-line Arguments - Paths with a Space Incorrectly Parsed

2016-11-14 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-11-13 23:19 GMT+01:00 OwN-3m-All wrote: > cd "C:\test\with space" > set WD=%~dp0 > echo "%WD%cygTemp" > "setup-x86_64.exe" --root "%WD%" --local-package-dir "%WD%cygTemp" > pause > The problem is this trailing backslash in the directory name. D:\temp\Neuer Ordner\cygwinpkg>setup_script.bat

Re: ssh-host-config fails on Win7 even as admin

2016-10-07 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-10-07 10:21 GMT+02:00 Gerrit Haase meant: > 2016-10-06 12:09 GMT+02:00 Bernd Prager wrote: >> *** Query: Should privilege separation be used? (yes/no) yes > Running ssh-host-config looks like different for me (openssh-7.2p2-1): I meant, I am not asked about privilege separ

Re: ssh-host-config fails on Win7 even as admin

2016-10-07 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-10-06 12:09 GMT+02:00 Bernd Prager wrote: > All, > > I am running ssh-host-config on CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.6.0(0.304/5/3) 2016-08-31 > under Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1 in a Cygwin64 Terminal as > Adminstrator: > > It breaks with: > > *** Query: Should privilege separation be used? (yes/no)

Re: Native symlinks and setup.exe

2016-10-04 Thread Gerrit Haase
Hello Gene, in my opinion, it is not a setup.exe or tar problem, but I think packages should not include symlinks at all. All can be created postinstallation by the postinstall script, inside Cygwin and the users environment it is running on. Obviously, a political discussion is required, to deci

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] openssl 1.0.2h-1

2016-08-31 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-05-04 19:35 GMT+02:00 Yaakov Selkowitz: > > The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: > > * openssl-1.0.2h-1 > * openssl-devel-1.0.2h-1 > * openssl-perl-1.0.2h-1 > * libopenssl100-1.0.2h-1 > * mingw64-i686-openssl-1.0.2h-1 > * mingw64-x86_64-openssl-1.0.2h-1 > > ...

Re: building libgeos

2016-08-22 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-08-22 17:41 GMT+02:00 Felipe Vieira writes: > Guys, > I'm getting this error when trying to compile libgeos: ... > I was trying a lot of google solutions but none of the worked. Hello Felipe, > Can you suggest any work around? I found this: https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/595 So there

Re: Conflict between Cygwin 1.7 and Ubuntu for Windows 14316

2016-04-18 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-04-18 15:25 GMT+02:00 Gerrit Haase wrote: > my thought was, that UoW maybe requires (X) to access a file, > because this is the bit missing from these files, and of course this > is most probably a bug in UoW, if adding (X) is the solution to access > Cygwin created files from UoW

Re: Conflict between Cygwin 1.7 and Ubuntu for Windows 14316

2016-04-18 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-04-15 13:38 GMT+02:00 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 15 10:48, Gerrit Haase wrote: >> 2016-04-14 11:11 GMT+02:00 Evgeny Grin wrote: >> > Back to cmd: >> > @ icacls cmd-file >> > cmd-file DESKTOP-5PNH8IH\Karlson:(RX) >> > DESKTOP-5PNH8IH

Re: Conflict between Cygwin 1.7 and Ubuntu for Windows 14316

2016-04-15 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-04-14 11:11 GMT+02:00 Evgeny Grin wrote: > Back to cmd: > @ icacls cmd-file > cmd-file DESKTOP-5PNH8IH\Karlson:(RX) > DESKTOP-5PNH8IH\Karlson:(I)(F) > Everyone:(I)(RX) > > @ icacls cygsh-file > cygsh-file DESKTOP-5PNH8IH\Karlson:(R,W,D,WDAC,WO) >DESKTOP-5PNH8IH\Ka

Re: Conflict between Cygwin 1.7 and Ubuntu for Windows 14316

2016-04-15 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-04-15 2:50 GMT+02:00 John Cowan wrtites: > cowan@large-skunk ~ LOL, love your machines hostname ;) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

Re: Conflict between Cygwin 1.7 and Ubuntu for Windows 14316

2016-04-13 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-04-13 17:43 GMT+02:00 John Cowan writes: > The exact contents aren't the point. The point is that file1, created > under Cygwin, is not readable by UoW (or writable either), whereas file2, > created by very similar methods under Win32 proper, is readable and > writable by UoW. Seems to be a

Re: Conflict between Cygwin 1.7 and Ubuntu for Windows 14316

2016-04-13 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-04-13 7:22 GMT+02:00 John Cowan wrote: > > When a file is created under Cygwin, ... What do you mean "under Cygwin"? I always thought that there is no difference at all, creating files worked always transparently for me, given that the permissions were correctly set. Regards, Gerrit -- Pro

Re: native Linux userland in Windows 10

2016-04-13 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-04-12 14:50 GMT+02:00 Andrew Schulman is curious: > > Has anyone had a chance to try this new feature? Does it work as well as is > claimed? > I will try ;) Here is how to: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/04/howto-ubuntu-on-windows.html Gerrit -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.

Re: grep (GNU grep) 2.24

2016-04-09 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-04-08 22:52 GMT+02:00 Gordon Grimes wrote: > % wc -l FILE > 48786 > % grep . FILE > 2240 > > Very wrong. > > I reverted to version 2.21 and everything now works as expected: > % grep . FILE > 48786 Hi Gordon, I am curious, what is the result if you do s.th. like: cat FILE | grep x where x

Re: Cygwin and Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c on Windows Platform

2016-04-08 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-04-08 3:13 GMT+02:00 Ty Newby writes: > Also, has anyone else had experience with using Cygwin with Oracle > Enterprise Manager to deploy agents? Hello Ty, yes, I have setup a new Enterprise Manager 13c on Windows recently, using the current Cygwin distribution. Deploying agents works as doc

Re: openssl 1.1 beta release available?

2016-04-05 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-04-05 15:59 GMT+02:00 Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Gerrit Haase! > >> is there an openssl 1.1 beta build available somewhere, or is it >> planned to release soon? > > Betas are rarely built for Cygwin. > Wait for a full release, or ask to build with a specif

openssl 1.1 beta release available?

2016-04-05 Thread Gerrit Haase
Hello, is there an openssl 1.1 beta build available somewhere, or is it planned to release soon? Regards, Gerrit =^..^= -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: [attention p7zip maintainer] p7zip 15.14 is out

2016-03-31 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-03-19 15:12 GMT+01:00 Achim Gratz wrote: > > You might also want to add 'DEPEND="nasm"', since the build needs it > (probably other stuff too, but I already had that installed). Hello Achim, is is common sense nowadays, to add packages required to build from source to the executable runtime

Re: Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?

2016-03-16 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-03-15 19:53 GMT+01:00 Achim Gratz writes: > Gerrit Haase writes: >> How can I see all packages in Base category, I am in offline mode, and >> it shows me only all the packages which are present in my package >> folder. > Lastly if you really want to see everything,

Re: Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?

2016-03-15 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-03-15 18:07 GMT+01:00 Erik Soderquist : > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Gerrit Haase wrote: >> How can I see all packages in Base category, I am in offline mode, and >> it shows me only all the packages which are present in my package >> folder. > > I was of

Re: Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?

2016-03-15 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-03-15 15:38 GMT+01:00 Achim Gratz writes: > Gerrit Haase gmail.com> writes: >> setup.log attached. >> Nothing suspicious like missing packages or so. > > It is in fact very suspicious. How did you manage to skip almost all > packages in category Base, of which

Re: Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?

2016-03-15 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-03-15 16:31 GMT+01:00 Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2016-03-15 07:36, Gerrit Haase wrote: >> >> I have some business to do with Cygwin, again. Yeah! > > > Hey there, it's been a *long* time. Welcome back! > >> Regards, I think this was working bette

Re: Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?

2016-03-15 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-03-15 15:08 GMT+01:00 Gerrit Haase wrote: > In which package is the script base-files-profile.sh included? Replying myself, well I have base-files-4.2-3.tar.xz, but it was not installed, maybe not the right version? Well, setup didn't mention this as missing dependency. And I d

Re: Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?

2016-03-15 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-03-15 15:02 GMT+01:00 Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Gerrit Haase wrote: >> Well, thanks. I did the installation today, and >> /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh obviously didn't run. > > So what do /var/log/setup.log and/or /var/lo

Re: Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?

2016-03-15 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-03-15 14:44 GMT+01:00 Ken Brown wrote: > On 3/15/2016 8:36 AM, Gerrit Haase wrote: >> >> Back then there was some postinstallation script which was creating >> basic files like /etc/profile and other basic things were created with >> the first login, like/home/

Re: Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?

2016-03-15 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-03-15 14:24 GMT+01:00 cyg Simple wrote: > On 3/15/2016 8:36 AM, Gerrit Haase wrote: >> Hello All, >> > > Hi Gerrit, > >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > And don't forget about: >> FAQ: http:/

Re: Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?

2016-03-15 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-03-15 14:38 GMT+01:00 Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Gerrit Haase! > >> Back then there was some postinstallation script which was creating >> basic files like /etc/profile and other basic things were created with >> the first login, like /home/ directory, includ

Don't I get /etc/profile with a fresh installation?

2016-03-15 Thread Gerrit Haase
Hello All, I have some business to do with Cygwin, again. Yeah! I have a fresh installation now, but found, there is no /etc/profile, no PATH set besides the Windows inherited PATH, so of course I can not use the shell, e.g. -bash-4.3$ which ls -bash: which: command not found -bash-4.3$ Also af