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Subject: Re: Configure without output - noob question
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Hi,

On Wednesday, December 26, 2012 11:35:26 AM UTC-6, Maksim Soifer wrote:
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> So - second round.
>  
> i put dev enviroment to win 7 and launched directly bash.exe
> 
> after some try and fails i got to run configure and it stalled with
> 
> checking for offset of exit status in return status from wait...
> 
> i run that conftest.exe dieclty from windows - program  it seems dont do anything and wont close itself
> 
> here conftest.c
> 
>   pid = fork();

DJGPP has a fork() that doesn't really work, it always fails. This is a limitation for most MS-DOS clones in general. You can check the sources to DJGPP's Bash 2.0x, it has to work around that by using sequential stuff like spawn* (P_WAIT).