On Thu, 23 May 2013, Satish Balay wrote: > Hi, > > I'm seeing the following behavior with make, PATH on cygwin. Google > brought up a related post [with PATH and same error] > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/137168 with reference to > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA as the issue - but I don't > understand how this would apply to this case. Hence this post.
Looks like my search was not exhaustive. I see another similar report http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-02/msg00416.html Satish > > Attaching a makefile that demonstrates this problem. The following are > my observations. > > - The breakage is observable - when I have 2 commands invoked via 'make' > either as 'cmd1|cmd2' or 'cmd1; cmd2'. The same command executed directly > by a shell script runs fine. Or single command from make runs fine as well. > - It appears to be related to the huge length of one of the commands - and > length of PATH > - I tried it on 3 different machines [with differences in default installed > software] > win2008/x64 - breaks when PATH is over 1.5K chars > win2003/x32 - breaks when PATH is over 2K chars > win7/x32 - breaks when PATH is over 20K chars. > > Any ideas on how to debug this further to better understand the issue > - or workarrounds? This is with latest cygwin [and rebaseall done > correctly] > > [Note: I won't have control over cygwin-registery or user env such as > PATH - but I will have control over what I can add to makefile which I > distribute] > > BTW: wrt BLODA - I'm increasing the PATH length with: 'export > PATH=$PATH:$PATH' - so the "Big List Of Dodgy Apps" should be the same > in both cases? > > thanks, > Satish > > ---------------- > > balay@msnehalem2 ~ > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack > 2012/Bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/MPICH2/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SQL > Server/100/Tools/Binn:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL > Server/100/Tools/Binn:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL > Server/100/DTS/Binn:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Windows Performance > Toolkit:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SQL > Server/90/Tools/binn:/cygdrive/c/Program Files > (x86)/Intel/Compiler/Fortran/10.1.019/EM64T/Lib:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/Mellanox/WinMFT:/cygdrive/c/Program > Files/Mellanox/MLNX_VPI/IB/Tools:/usr/lib/lapack > > balay@msnehalem2 ~ > $ echo $PATH |wc -c > 765 > > balay@msnehalem2 ~ > $ ./test.sh > 30621 > > balay@msnehalem2 ~ > $ make -f test.mk > 30621 > > balay@msnehalem2 ~ > $ export PATH=$PATH:$PATH > > balay@msnehalem2 ~ > $ echo $PATH |wc -c > 1530 > > balay@msnehalem2 ~ > $ ./test.sh > 30621 > > balay@msnehalem2 ~ > $ make -f test.mk > 0 [main] sh 6952 child_info_fork::abort: can't commit memory for stack > 0x28A000(90112), Win32 error 487 > /bin/sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > 0 [main] sh 7580 child_info_fork::abort: can't commit memory for stack > 0x28A000(90112), Win32 error 487 > /bin/sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > 0 [main] sh 10048 child_info_fork::abort: can't commit memory for stack > 0x28A000(90112), Win32 error 487 > /bin/sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > 0 [main] sh 3000 child_info_fork::abort: can't commit memory for stack > 0x28A000(90112), Win32 error 487 > /bin/sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > 0 [main] sh 5380 child_info_fork::abort: can't commit memory for stack > 0x28A000(90112), Win32 error 487 > /bin/sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > test.mk:2: recipe for target `all' failed > make: *** [all] Error 254 > > balay@msnehalem2 ~ > $ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
