From: Anders DOT Franzen AT mbox2 DOT swipnet DOT se (Anders Franzen) Subject: Re: Win95 hangs 22 Apr 1998 10:39:21 -0700 Message-ID: <353D1A60.5F2BE6C2.cygnus.gnu-win32@mbox2.swipnet.se> References: <19980421011514 DOT 29545 DOT rocketmail AT send1d DOT yahoomail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Sorry to say, for me it does not have any effect at all. It hangs in the same way, just as often. /Anders Earnie Boyd wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > Please read the IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE at the bottom of this note. > Also, after you've upgraded, it is important on win95 to add the 'tty' > value to the list of values for the CYGWIN32 environment variables. > It has been reported that this stops the freezing on Win95. > > ---Peter Boncz wrote: > > > > > > Hi there: > > > > I use b19.1 now on windows 95. I have a complex makefile system that > > does a lot of stuff including gcc,g++,sed,bison,flex, and our own > utilities > > it just bootstrapped. > > > > On b18 it worked. It must be said; it worked slow; probably due to > many > > process forks, etc.. > > > > - the good news: b19 is much faster in the make sequence > > - the bad news: it really freezes the system in a nasty way. > > > > b18 was pretty stable; as long as you keep only window with bash > > open at the same time (beeeh!) > > > > On b19 I could get this behaviour e.g. by typing a nonexisting > > command in the root dir. bash would then freeze. This went > > away in b19.1. > > > > But, as said, b19.1 still is not stable enough. When I run with trace > > it is so slow that it runs forever and I can't judge whether it now > > passes or not. > > > > In my situation, though, the system freezes in a reproduceable way. > > It fires off one of my utilities (first time) and then everything > > freezes. not even ctrl-alt-del can save it any more.. > > > > As a final word: this is a bug report and not a criticism. I really > > appreciate the work cygnus and people on the net are putting into > > the cygwin32 environment. > > > > -- > > === P.A. Boncz ================= phone: +31-20-525 7580 === WCW room > F106 === > > === (Ph.D. student) email: boncz AT fwi DOT uva DOT nl > === > > === Magnum Database Project PGP: finger > boncz AT chart DOT fwi DOT uva DOT nl === > > === University of Amsterdam ====== WWW: > http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~boncz/ ======= > > > > > > - > > 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". > > > > - \\||// > ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- > --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- > ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- > > Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: > ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) > http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) > http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) > http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) > http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) > http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) > ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) > http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters - Mingw32) > http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) > http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) > http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) > http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports) > http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/ (more - software portals) > http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/rpm (Redhat Package Manager) > http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) > http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports) > ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/ (German mirror) > http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul (Valery Tulnikov - software ports) > > Help for Win32 Beginners: > http://www.relisoft.com > http://www.program.com/resources/win32.html > > DISCLAIMER: These links or links from these pages to other sites do > not constitute an endorsement of any entities, advertisers, products > or services therein. I am not responsible for and do not control or > monitor the content of these sites or the accuracy of information > found therein. > > -------------------- IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE ------------------------ > You should get the following to update your cygwinb19 package: > > Sergey Okhapkin's coolview package which contains an updated > cygwinb19.dll. (Yes, even if you've already downloaded the b19.1 > update from the Cygnus Site). > > Mumit Khan's compilation of EGCS for the cygwinb19.dll; especially if > your using the C++ compiler. The current version of the compiler that > comes with the tools have lots of problems that have been fixed with > the EGCS version. 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