Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:24:30 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Building cygwin on Win98 system Message-ID: <20000428212430.D5447@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <000b01bfb136$ab120b20$8b856bce@mindy> <20000428132743.A2403@cygnus.com> <390A1F46.7F4015D7@comco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.12i In-Reply-To: <390A1F46.7F4015D7@comco.com>; from tad@comco.com on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 06:31:18PM -0500 On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 06:31:18PM -0500, Tadeusz Liszka wrote: >Chris Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 10:24:52AM -0700, Mindy Beseler wrote: >> >I'm hoping someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I have tried this at >> >least a 10 times and get the same results each time!! >> >> Unfortunately, what you're doing wrong is building on Windows 98. >> >> The latest cygwin snapshot may work better but there are never any >> guarantees with Windows 9x. > >I have missed this disclaimer in the documentation :-) Is there any document >listing known problems / limitations with Win98 besides three sentences in the >installation manual ? No. >I got rid of ash and tcsh, (esp. inside make sh was replaced with >bash,) but it still occasionally crashes, and when it does it is 'fun' >to watch. In any case the behavior was consistent with memory problems >i.e. overstepping of some fixed size buffers. The version of ash in the new release has been updated and a lot of the buffer overruns have been fixed. I'd like to say that they were all fixed but I suspect that that can never be a true statement. If you can reliably reproduce a crash, then I have two requests 1) Please attempt to fix the problem, and 2) Please explain to me how Windows NT manages to avoid the problem. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com