From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16379 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2013 19:00:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 16367 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jun 2013 19:00:16 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (HELO mail-bk0-f54.google.com) (209.85.214.54) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:00:15 +0000 Received: by mail-bk0-f54.google.com with SMTP id it16so467033bkc.13 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:00:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.204.233.16 with SMTP id jw16mr1351950bkb.82.1372359612843; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.194] (93-33-98-251.ip44.fastwebnet.it. [93.33.98.251]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id qw6sm2175604bkb.4.2013.06.27.12.00.10 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51CC8BB8.40607@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:01:00 -0000 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Failure with fork() References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00693.txt.bz2 Il 6/27/2013 8:35 PM, Alan W. Irwin ha scritto: > I have been following this thread with great interest via the archive, > but now I have newly subscribed to this list to ask additional > questions. > > Corinna said "Should be fixed in CVS. Thanks (to Arjen) for the report." > > My thanks to Arjen for getting this thread started, and > my thanks to Corinna for so swiftly finding the fix. > > I would now like to test this fix from a broader perspective of > attempting to run the fixed setup.exe version on Wine. > > My background is I have had considerable success with using the > combination of MinGW, MSYS, and Wine as a build and test platform for > free software. I would like to similarly attempt to use the > combination of Cygwin and Wine as a build and test platform for free > software but I was stopped from doing that because the last stage of > running Cygwin setup.exe on Wine ran into this fork issue. > > The only Windows platform available to me is Wine. And I have > no Cygwin on Wine experience at this stage because this fork bug shut > me out. But now that it is fixed in CVS, how do I get access to > the fixed version of setup.exe? > > Are there daily snapshot builds of the CVS version I could access? daily not, but on reasonable schedule (aka when Corinna or Christopher release one) http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ just wait for the next cygwin1-20130xxx.dll.bz2 and replace the installed cygwin1.dll with the new one > > Or do I have to build the CVS version of Cygwin from scratch on (the > Wine version of) Windows using MinGW and MSYS, and if so is there a > website with directions for how to do that? > > Sorry for the Cygwin newbie questions, but I am quite experienced with > the Unix command line and building software both on Linux and on the > bash.exe command line accessible with MinGW/MSYS/Wine so I hope I will > only need hints to get started with (a) building the CVS version > of Cygwin with the fork fix, and (b) building and testing software for > the Cygwin on Wine platform. > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple