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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
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 1:15 AM Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> wrote:
>
> On 2019-11-14 21:31, Ken Brown wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Fixed. Latest release uploaded.
>
> Thanks,
> Jari
Thanks, Jari!
======= Keith
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