From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Future of 32-bit distro (was: rebase-4.4.3-1 regression: Too many DLLs for available address space)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5811365-3b30-5cd6-e4fe-c72fd26d618d@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180112091344.GA20334@calimero.vinschen.de>
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On 2018-01-12 03:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 11 22:52, Denis Excoffier wrote:
>> The full list contains 8006 lines, i have the complete Cygwin 32bit installation
>
> The bottom line of this is, and it has been said before and I can't
> stress this enough, we can't support this scenario at all, for the
> simple fact that we have more DLLs than fit into the 32 bit address
> space. It's not much of a problem on 64 bit, but on 32 bit it's just
> not feasible anymore.
>
> Ultimately, You should (must) not install all of Cygwin on 32 bit, only
> the set of stuff you need on top of the base category. Or install 64
> bit Cygwin.
If it is not possible for the entire 32-bit distribution to function as
a whole, is it time to reconsider how much we provide for 32-bit? And
when can we just drop 32-bit entirely?
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Yaakov
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-11 12:31 rebase-4.4.3-1 regression: Too many DLLs for available address space Christian Franke
2018-01-11 16:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-01-11 17:53 ` Achim Gratz
2018-01-11 17:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-01-11 21:52 ` Denis Excoffier
2018-01-12 9:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-01-12 18:11 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2018-01-12 19:02 ` Future of 32-bit distro Brian Inglis
2018-01-12 19:33 ` Keith Christian
[not found] ` <7218003ac95dc6814bbb309dda3df748@smtp-cloud8.xs4all.net>
2018-01-13 1:56 ` Brian Inglis
2018-01-13 2:15 ` Keith Christian
2018-01-12 19:40 ` Steven Penny
2018-01-12 20:20 ` Future of 32-bit distro (was: rebase-4.4.3-1 regression: Too many DLLs for available address space) Vince Rice
2018-01-12 22:00 ` Keith Christian
2018-01-13 9:11 ` Future of 32-bit distro David Stacey
2018-01-12 17:16 ` rebase-4.4.3-1 regression: Too many DLLs for available address space Thomas Waldmann
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