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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:53:43 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: Olivier Lefevre <Olivier DOT Lefevre AT biocrates DOT at>
Subject: Re: Antw: Re: cygwin python 2.3 oddity
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	Olivier Lefevre <Olivier DOT Lefevre AT biocrates DOT at>
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Olivier,

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:58:14PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:55:10PM +0200, Olivier Lefevre wrote:
> >OK, so I upgraded everything and now with python 2.3.2 it works.
> >Weird.  I didn't change anything else.

When I built Python 2.3-2, I didn't change anything either -- I just
built against Cygwin 1.5.x.

> >However, following up on my own suggestion re. truss, I found about
> >strace and wanted to try it but:
> >
> >    bash-2.05b$ strace python
> >    strace.exe: error creating process python, (error 2)
> >
> >Is this a known issue? It's not mentioned in python-2.3.README, at
> >any rate.
> 
> python is a symlink.  strace doesn't grok symlinks.

Try the following:

    $ strace -o python.log python2.3.exe

Jason

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