From: mmandel AT sunflowr DOT usd DOT edu (Marc Mandel) Subject: Re: Catastrophic failures in configuration scripts. 11 Sep 1997 20:25:30 -0700 Message-ID: <199709112306.SAA08161cygnus.gnu-win32@sunflowr.usd.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" , "Smith, Eric" Eric, > Occasionally, when attempting to execute configure scripts under bash I > receive the following error: > > cygwin: Cygwin32: Catastrophic fail - unable to Create pinfo_mutex > > To make sure that it is not something from an earlier execution within > the shell which is killing me, I have retried the command sequence from > a fresh invocation of the shell. The following is a dump of the shell > text. > > C:\>bash > bash$ pwd > > bash$ cd src > bash$ configure > cygwin: Cygwin32: Catastrophic fail - unable to Create pinfo_mutex > > creating cache ./config.cache > checking host system type... i386-pc-cygwin32 I got the same type of error today. I had downloaded the source for pdksh-5.2.3. I ran configure and got the following: [/pdksh-5.2.3]$ ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for gcc... gcc checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes [...stuff deleted...] checking if opendir() opens non-directories... yes checking if you have /dev/fd/n... no not updating unwritable cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating Makefile cygwin: Cygwin32: Catastrophic fail - unable to Create pinfo_mutex creating config.h config.h is unchanged [/pdksh-5.2.3]$ Now, the makefile was created, so I ran it ("make"). There were no errors and a pdk.exe was created. Unfortunately, when I run a command, it never returns back to the prompt. BTW, I am running stock b18 distribution on winnt ws 4.0 sp2. Any ideas? TIA, marc mandel - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".