Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/07/25/20:58:31
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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