Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:39:35 -0600 From: Aaron Humphrey Reply-To: alfvaen@gmail.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: testers needed prior to 1.5.19 release In-Reply-To: <20050915000358.GB31774@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050914232707.GD27150@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050914234754.GA31774@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050915000358.GB31774@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j8FFe6au019518 On 9/14/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: > This will be fixed in the upcoming snapshot. Look for the comment: > * spawn.cc (av::fixup): Guard against problems reading an executable > which does not match Microsoft's documentation about PE format. > in the ChangeLog. Once that shows up the snapshot will have the fix. I just now encountered a very similar problem with "Argument list too long"...with a backgammon.exe(from bsd-games)compiled with cygwin gcc 3.3.1. While recompiling with gcc 3.4.4 produced a version that worked with older snapshots, the new snapshot allows the older copy to work as well. -- --Alfvaen (Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Current Song--Cutting Crew:One For The Mockingbird Current Book--Amy Tan:The Kitchen God's Wife If I were perfect for you, wouldn't you tire of me? --A Little Night Music, "Soon" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/