X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:32:08 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: plotting from octave: address space already occupied, fork aborts Message-ID: <20110915013208.GA21925@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4E703F00.8020101@gmail.com> <4E709C95.3070600@cs.utoronto.ca> <4E709F16.2050002@gmail.com> <20110914150242.GA6836@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4E71166C.6050808@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E71166C.6050808@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:02:36PM +0200, Marco atzeri wrote: >On 9/14/2011 5:02 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Why do we need to add an arbitrary new extension here? Why isn't >>octave using "dll"? "oct" is certainly not a standard extension for a >>shared library. > >octave is using .oct on all platforms including linux > >upstream choice, no specific difference for cygwin Maybe they should be called ".dll" on Cygwin then. Either that or we need to come up with some way for packages to register their idiosyncratic shared library extensions with rebaseall. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple