From: Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: (core dumped) mkshortcut
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+sc5mmWsjFK-4hg=qmEfUg=VPHrmY75+L-8PC3=4OnJJ9zsFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7770DC1B-52FD-4A10-81D7-8B31B0425EB6@Denis-Excoffier.org>
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Denis Excoffier wrote:
>
> On 2012-09-10 at 14:54, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Robert Mark wrote:
>>> Hi Earnie,
>>>
>>>>> As per a previous message
>>>>> (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00215.html) I am still finding
>>>>> that mkshortcut causes core dumps (Windows 7, 64 bit). I have tried a
>>>>> few different options: -P or -D still cause dumps. I have checked
>>>>> permissions and they are all ok. Some folders do cause the error, some
>>>>> don't.
>>>>>
>>>>> mkshortcut -n "I for cygwin bin" /D/cyghome/bin
>>>>> /home/RobertMarkBram/bin/createWindowsShortcut.sh: line 160: 8128
>>>>> Aborted (core dumped) mkshortcut -n "$shortcutName"
>>>>> "$target"
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to guess but have no fact to back it that the reason is due
>>>> to the fact you're executing in a 32bit environment and the shortcut
>>>> the tool makes needs a 64bit enviroment. This may only be resolved by
>>>> a 64bit version of Cygwin.
>>>
>>> I did say I was running 64bit Win 7, so what exactly do you mean?
>>>
>>
>> I mean that Cygwin at the moment is a 32 bit application. So you are
>> executing in an emulation mode and some things might just not work as
>> expected.
>
> I must say that i run on 32 bits natively (XP) and have what i think is
> the very same problem. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-08/msg00542.html
> I add here that my XP is "french only" (nationalization not possible).
That is a horse of a different color; in your case I'm guessing that
mkshortcut is not supporting UNICODE file names but I don't know that.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-10 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-09 4:43 Robert Mark
2012-09-09 17:34 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-09-10 11:59 ` Robert Mark
2012-09-10 13:00 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-09-10 19:20 ` Denis Excoffier
2012-09-11 5:58 ` Earnie Boyd [this message]
2012-09-11 8:00 ` Pawel Jasinski
2012-09-11 8:25 ` Pawel Jasinski
2012-09-11 12:18 ` marco atzeri
2012-09-12 12:21 ` Robert Mark
2012-09-12 13:33 ` Andrey Repin
2012-09-12 21:33 ` Andrey Repin
2012-09-12 13:02 ` Peter Rosin
2012-09-12 18:58 ` Charles Wilson
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