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Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 16:10:41 -0700
From: "Virgil Adumitroaie" <virgilz AT gmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.5.19-4 issues
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My apologies for the second call, it seemed my request was ignored
and it was not clear why.

I just want to add that I am surprised you have not
been able to reproduce the problem with qt designer.
I have tried cygwin update and clean install on three different
computers runnning xp sp2 (one being a virtual pc - vmware)
and all three installations displayed this problem. Downgrading
to 1.5.18-1 removed the problem on all three.

Anyway, I will heed your suggestions, and thank you for your time.

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From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 23:07:04 -0400
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.5.19-4 issues
Virgil Adumitroaie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is my second call to the cygwin developers. There is a problem
> with cygwin 1.5.19-4 (on windows xp sp2).


Why is a second call required?  The first was plenty good enough.  And
actually, revisiting the issue so quickly can actually work against your
intentions.


> The qt designer (/usr/lib/qt3/bin/designer) crashes and its compilation
> from source fails.


Sorry, I can't reproduce the crash of which you speak.  I didn't attempt
to compile the source.


> You might not care about matplotlib, but the "gcc:
> fork: Resource temporarily unavailable" which I get during compilation,
> indicates some other trouble.


I believe you have gotten a pointer on this issue already so I won't comment
further.


> Please let me know if you think otherwise, or if you don't get the same
> behavior.
> What changes made between 1.5.19-4 and 1.5.18-1 could produce these
> problems?


Ah, now there's the $1,000,000 question.  Obviously, if there was a known
cause of this, there would already be a patch.  So your efforts in tracking
this down would be beneficial.  You may want to start with a recent snapshot
to see if it would help or hurt.  Any recent snapshot is going to give you
good insight into the capabilities of 1.5.20, which is pending release.

Perhaps it would be best to read and follow the problem reporting guidelines
outlined here:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


This could unearth some important information that might help as well.


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