From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Subject: Re: "/usr/bin/boxes" command fails to run, Windows 10, CYGWIN_NT-10.0 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 23:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1d6e9bd3-0efe-abd5-20e8-ea896f8a7e44@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFWoy7HYNfvGNW0w3AQkZ3zXy7r11Cj=cpN873iqjUi0d5K_aA@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/14/2019 2:32 PM, Keith Christian wrote:
> The "boxes" command fails to run on a Cygwin64 install two weeks ago.
>
> echo "hello" | /usr/bin/boxes
> boxes: No such file or directory
Running boxes under strace shows that it is trying to open a file named "-" and
exiting because that file doesn't exist.
The version of boxes in the Cygwin distro is very old, so I don't think it's
worth the trouble to debug this. I just downloaded and built the latest
release, and it seems to work fine.
I've added the boxes maintainer to the Cc in case he wants to update the package.
Ken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-14 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-14 21:32 Keith Christian
2019-11-14 23:45 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2019-11-15 2:14 ` Keith Christian
2019-11-15 3:01 ` Ken Brown
2019-11-15 7:05 ` David Rothenberger
2019-11-15 13:01 ` Jari Aalto
2019-11-15 14:20 ` Keith Christian
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