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Re: More problems with subprocesses in 1.3.3


No, no difference with the Oct 16th snapshot.

andy

At 01:45 PM 10/11/01 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:


>Andy Piper wrote:
>
>>At 11:53 AM 10/11/01 +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>>
>>>Andy, since you're likely to compile xemacs with it, you should use an
>>>'inst' snapshot.  And you should probably not use a snapshot to create
>>>xemacs binaries for distribution.  (Someone correct me on the 2nd
>>>point if necessary.)
>>
>>Where do I get this from?
>
>
>go here:
>http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/
>
>for each snapshot, you'll see:
>
>winsup-src-*.tar.bz2
>    sources in the winsup directory
>cygwin1-*.dll.bz2
>    stripped and compressed cygwin1.dll
>cygwin-inst-*.tar.bz2
>    directory from "make install" (dll, exes, libs, headers, etc)
>cygwin-src-*.tar.bz2
>    all sources needed to build cygwin1.dll (winsup, newlib, etc)
>
>I would suggest first:
>   get the cygwin1-*.dll.bz2 (dll only), uncompress it, and then (from a 
> cmd.exe prompt, with all cygwin processes stopped) replace your existing 
> cygwin1.dll with it -- after first making a backup, of course.
>
>See if the behavior still occurs.  If not, great.  If so, then:
>
>   get the cygwin-inst-*.tar.bz2, and uncompress/install it (I normally 
> uncompress/unpack into a temp directory, and then manually copy 
> everything but the DLL into the appropriate locations from a bash 
> shell.  Then I manually copy the DLL from a cmd prompt).   Reverting back 
> to "standard" is much easier, though: just re-run setup and reinstall the 
> official "cygwin", "mingw", and "w32api" packages of your choice.
>
>Anyway, after installing the "inst" snapshot, rebuild xemacs and see if 
>the behavior recurs.  If not, great.  If so....sigh.  We'll try to track 
>it down. :-)
>
>--Chuck
>
>
>
>>andy
>>
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