Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:24:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: "Manik, Raina (IE10)" cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Signal 127 when doing make In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Manik, Raina (IE10) wrote: > Hi all, > > I get the following error while doing a make on cygwin... > > Signal 127 > gmake: *** [platreg.s] Error 255 > > I've attached the output of cygcheck -s -c -r -v if anyone > needs it. > > Suggestions on what the nature of this problem is, would be > very welcome. I've looked at the output of make debug information > and strace dumps of make but i can't get a hang of where the > trouble is. > > PS: Please cc: me on this email since i'm not part of the list. > > thanks > Manik Manik, Signal 127 usually means that some application could not be exec'd. Look at the make output before that point. Try getting make to echo your commands (by running it with -n, for example) and check that all the necessary programs exist and are executable. Check your shell settings, check the make mode (try explicitly passing --unix to make). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/