"/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

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Nov 14 23:45:00 GMT 2019


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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