Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/04/22/10:39:21
Sorry to say, for me it does not have any effect at all.
It hangs in the same way, just as often.
/Anders
Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Please read the IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE at the bottom of this note.
> Also, after you've upgraded, it is important on win95 to add the 'tty'
> value to the list of values for the CYGWIN32 environment variables.
> It has been reported that this stops the freezing on Win95.
>
> ---Peter Boncz <boncz AT wins DOT uva DOT nl> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi there:
> >
> > I use b19.1 now on windows 95. I have a complex makefile system that
> > does a lot of stuff including gcc,g++,sed,bison,flex, and our own
> utilities
> > it just bootstrapped.
> >
> > On b18 it worked. It must be said; it worked slow; probably due to
> many
> > process forks, etc..
> >
> > - the good news: b19 is much faster in the make sequence
> > - the bad news: it really freezes the system in a nasty way.
> >
> > b18 was pretty stable; as long as you keep only window with bash
> > open at the same time (beeeh!)
> >
> > On b19 I could get this behaviour e.g. by typing a nonexisting
> > command in the root dir. bash would then freeze. This went
> > away in b19.1.
> >
> > But, as said, b19.1 still is not stable enough. When I run with trace
> > it is so slow that it runs forever and I can't judge whether it now
> > passes or not.
> >
> > In my situation, though, the system freezes in a reproduceable way.
> > It fires off one of my utilities (first time) and then everything
> > freezes. not even ctrl-alt-del can save it any more..
> >
> > As a final word: this is a bug report and not a criticism. I really
> > appreciate the work cygnus and people on the net are putting into
> > the cygwin32 environment.
> >
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> ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site)
> http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page)
> http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page)
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> http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages)
> http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin)
> ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site)
> http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters - Mingw32)
> http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan)
> http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports)
> http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration)
> http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports)
> http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/ (more - software portals)
> http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/rpm (Redhat Package Manager)
> http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports)
> http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports)
> ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/ (German mirror)
> http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul (Valery Tulnikov - software ports)
>
> Help for Win32 Beginners:
> http://www.relisoft.com
> http://www.program.com/resources/win32.html
>
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>
> -------------------- IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE ------------------------
> You should get the following to update your cygwinb19 package:
>
> Sergey Okhapkin's coolview package which contains an updated
> cygwinb19.dll. (Yes, even if you've already downloaded the b19.1
> update from the Cygnus Site).
>
> Mumit Khan's compilation of EGCS for the cygwinb19.dll; especially if
> your using the C++ compiler. The current version of the compiler that
> comes with the tools have lots of problems that have been fixed with
> the EGCS version. This is a drop-in replacement for the GCC toolset.
>
> URL's are listed above.
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