WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn't reserve space" from DOS shell

WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn't reserve space" from DOS shell

[Karr, David]

I have a user here who is trying to set up Cygwin on WinXP.  Is that
expected to work?

He was able to install all the pieces of the development environment (Cygwin
included).  When he does a "make" of our product in a Bash shell, it works
fine, just as it does on Win2k and WinNT.  When he runs "make" from a DOS
shell (or tcsh), he gets the following error:

f:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap
(0x2430000)
 in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487

One of the first things that happens in our Makefiles is that it runs a
little shell script that pulls some information from the environment.  It
appears that this "bash" shell (from the error message) is being created
because of the attempt to run that shell script.  The next line that we see
in the output is a warning from "make" saying that it wasn't able to find a
particular file, and the message makes it apparent that the shell script
returned an empty string (or nothing), which shouldn't happen.

This problem does not occur on Win2k or WinNT, either in a DOS shell, Bash
shell, or Tcsh shell.

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Re: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn't re serve space" from DOS shell

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:13:40PM -0700, Karr, David wrote:
>I have a user here who is trying to set up Cygwin on WinXP.  Is that
>expected to work?

NO!

cgf

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Re: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn'tre serve space" from DOS shell

[Robert Collins]

On 25 Jul 2001 17:13:40 -0700, Karr, David wrote:
> I have a user here who is trying to set up Cygwin on WinXP.  Is that
> expected to work?
No. XP is reported as broken by Corinna - one of the core cygwin
developers.
 
> He was able to install all the pieces of the development environment (Cygwin
> included).  When he does a "make" of our product in a Bash shell, it works
> fine, just as it does on Win2k and WinNT.  When he runs "make" from a DOS
> shell (or tcsh), he gets the following error:
> 
> f:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap
> (0x2430000)
>  in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
This means that fork() is broken - and make is never being started. You
need to 
a) build a debug cygwin on a working machine, and try to findout whats
wrong - and fix it (or at least provide enough details that one of the
cygwin developers can fix it).
b) wait .

Rob

> One of the first things that happens in our Makefiles is that it runs a
> little shell script that pulls some information from the environment.  It
> appears that this "bash" shell (from the error message) is being created
> because of the attempt to run that shell script.  The next line that we see
> in the output is a warning from "make" saying that it wasn't able to find a
> particular file, and the message makes it apparent that the shell script
> returned an empty string (or nothing), which shouldn't happen.
> 
> This problem does not occur on Win2k or WinNT, either in a DOS shell, Bash
> shell, or Tcsh shell.
> 
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Re: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn't re serve space" from DOS shell

[Tim Prince]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets
"couldn't re serve space" from DOS shell


> On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:13:40PM -0700, Karr, David wrote:
> >I have a user here who is trying to set up Cygwin on WinXP.  Is that
> >expected to work?
>
> NO!
>
> cgf
>
XP64 requires a modified build of cygwin1.dll to run under Win32
emulation. There is no support for building native software.  XP32
emulates Win2K better; I installed cygwin and built and installed
gcc-3.1 under it, but I wouldn't "expect" everything (e.g. expect) to
work.


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Re: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn't re serve space" from DOS shell

[David Starks-Browning]

On Wednesday 25 Jul 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:13:40PM -0700, Karr, David wrote:
> >I have a user here who is trying to set up Cygwin on WinXP.  Is that
> >expected to work?
> 
> NO!

Should this go in the FAQ?  (As if it would help...)

David


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Re: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn't re serve space" from DOS shell

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:53:59PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>On Wednesday 25 Jul 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:13:40PM -0700, Karr, David wrote:
>> >I have a user here who is trying to set up Cygwin on WinXP.  Is that
>> >expected to work?
>> 
>> NO!
>
>Should this go in the FAQ?  (As if it would help...)

Probably.  Then I can say:

NO!  Check the FAQ!

cgf

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Re: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn't reserve space" from DOS shell

[Peter Buckley]

This win32 error 487 has been covered in two long threads in the past
month or so- try using google to search the arhives for stuff like 
"windows/win32 error 487" and "cygwin heap". People were getting these
errors on winNT and/or win2k IIRC. Maybe it will help you pin down the
problem and find a workaround, or maybe through your experience with
this problem you will spearhead the port of cygwin to winXP :-)

HTH,
Peter 

"Karr, David" wrote:
> 
> I have a user here who is trying to set up Cygwin on WinXP.  Is that
> expected to work?
> 
> He was able to install all the pieces of the development environment (Cygwin
> included).  When he does a "make" of our product in a Bash shell, it works
> fine, just as it does on Win2k and WinNT.  When he runs "make" from a DOS
> shell (or tcsh), he gets the following error:
> 
> f:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap
> (0x2430000)
>  in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
> 
> One of the first things that happens in our Makefiles is that it runs a
> little shell script that pulls some information from the environment.  It
> appears that this "bash" shell (from the error message) is being created
> because of the attempt to run that shell script.  The next line that we see
> in the output is a warning from "make" saying that it wasn't able to find a
> particular file, and the message makes it apparent that the shell script
> returned an empty string (or nothing), which shouldn't happen.
> 
> This problem does not occur on Win2k or WinNT, either in a DOS shell, Bash
> shell, or Tcsh shell.
> 
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Re: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn't reserve space" from DOS shell

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:52:52AM -0400, Peter Buckley wrote:
>This win32 error 487 has been covered in two long threads in the past
>month or so- try using google to search the arhives for stuff like 
>"windows/win32 error 487" and "cygwin heap". People were getting these
>errors on winNT and/or win2k IIRC. Maybe it will help you pin down the
>problem and find a workaround, or maybe through your experience with
>this problem you will spearhead the port of cygwin to winXP :-)

This is just a Windows XP problem.  It is unrelated to those other messages.

cgf

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Re: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn' t re serve space" from DOS shell

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:37:12PM -0700, Karr, David wrote:
>No disrespect intended, Chris, but coming from you :) , I guess I would
>appreciate a LITTLE more detail, like a statement to the effect of "no
>one has tested it yet", or "we know for a fact that it doesn't work,
>and we're not sure when it will".  I sometimes have a little trouble
>extracting enough meaning from your somewhat short (in length, not
>tone) responses.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-07/msg01088.html

cgf

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RE: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn't re serve space" from DOS shell

[Karr, David]

No disrespect intended, Chris, but coming from you :) , I guess I would
appreciate a LITTLE more detail, like a statement to the effect of "no one
has tested it yet", or "we know for a fact that it doesn't work, and we're
not sure when it will".  I sometimes have a little trouble extracting enough
meaning from your somewhat short (in length, not tone) responses.

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Faylor [ mailto:cgf@redhat.com ]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:14 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets
"couldn't re serve space" from DOS shell


On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:13:40PM -0700, Karr, David wrote:
>I have a user here who is trying to set up Cygwin on WinXP.  Is that
>expected to work?

NO!

cgf

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