On Feb 16 00:26, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > ... and fork is losing, and it's driving me crazy. > > On my P4 550 (3.40GHz) with 1.5.23, .24, as well as current snapshot > (didn't have this computer before that), I always get fork errors, such as:
I'm running Cygwin for a while on a dual core Athlon but I didn't have any such problem so far. > ../libtool: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > usually when building packages, always leading to errors in the build > process, due to incomplete commands being sent to gcc, etc. What do you mean with "incomplete commands"? > Parallel make has been ruled out. Rebase does not help. AFAICS either > this is a bash issue (since configure, libtool, etc. are all bash > scripts), or with Cygwin itself. And you could also rule out multiple Cygwin versions, Virus checker software, etc? Did you contemplate trying to strace this? make with strace can take a *bit* of time, but maybe it's possible to catch something interesting. > Windows XP Media Center Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Is that the version which doesn't install the nul device by default? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
