Re: Failure with fork()

[marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

Il 6/28/2013 8:42 AM, Alan W. Irwin ha scritto:
> I am getting absolutely nowhere.
>
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>
> I didn't get these hangs a month ago when I tried all this
> before with wine-1.5.19.  Instead, at that time I got the exact error
> message when running the above script concerning an unhandled page
> fault that others have described at
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24018 and which the fork-fixed
> cygwin1.dll is supposed to fix.  So presumably Cygwin's
> bash.exe or some application executed by the above script has
> changed in the last month to cause the different wine symptoms.
> Or I am inadvertently doing something different than I did a month
> ago.
>
> So unless someone can suggest a method to get around the "Can't open
> package database for writing.  File exists." message, and assuming
> that method doesn't subsequently run into the script hang (which is a
> big if), then I think it is time for someone with a lot more wine and
> cygwin expertise than me to take over here to attempt to try and
> figure out a way to run setup.exe on Wine with fork-fixed cygwin1.dll
> overwriting the buggy version.
>
> Alan

Hi Alan,
I assume you are not testing on wine for fun, but cygwin on wine
seems a real problem as the bug can be in any of the two platforms.

Could you clarify the original scope ?
Eventually we can test in your behalf.

As alternative to wine, if I am not wrong, Corinna when testing cygwin 
on several platforms (32/64, XP, W7, W8 , Server...)  is using some VM
and also her main compiling machine is a Linux one;
setup.exe itself is cross-compiled on a Linux machine.
Eventually it is a more easy approuch for your trials

Regards
Marco




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