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Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
- From: jim dot a dot davidson at bt dot com
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 20:22:26 -0000
- Subject: Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
I am trying to rebuild the Cygwin tools under W98 and keep getting this
error message when running make:
Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable.
Despite rebooting the machine and ensuring that sufficient swap space is
available this continues to recur.
This is the extract from the make.log
fi
make[2]: Leaving directory `/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/libiberty'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/libiberty'
Configuring in i686-pc-cygwin/winsup
loading cache ../config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking target system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc -L/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup
-L/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin -L/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/w32api/lib
-isystem /src/winsup/include -isystem /src/winsup/cygwin/include -isystem
/src/winsup/w32api/include -isystem /src/newlib/libc/sys/cygwin -isystem
/src/newlib/libc/sys/cygwin32 -B/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/newlib/ -isystem
/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/newlib/targ-include -isystem /src/newlib/libc/include
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc -L/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup
-L/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin -L/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/w32api/lib
-isystem /src/winsup/include -isystem /src/winsup/cygwin/include -isystem
/src/winsup/w32api/include -isystem /src/newlib/libc/sys/cygwin -isystem
/src/newlib/libc/sys/cygwin32 -B/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/newlib/ -isystem
/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/newlib/targ-include -isystem /src/newlib/libc/include
accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for g++... c++ -L/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup
-L/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin -L/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/w32api/lib
-isystem /src/winsup/include -isystem /src/winsup/cygwin/include -isystem
/src/winsup/w32api/include -isystem /src/newlib/libc/sys/cygwin -isystem
/src/newlib/libc/sys/cygwin32 -B/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/newlib/ -isystem
/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/newlib/targ-include -isystem /src/newlib/libc/include
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
updating cache ../config.cache
creating ./config.status
/src/winsup/configure: Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
/src/winsup/configure: Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
make: *** [configure-target-winsup] Error 1
Can anyone offer me any advice.
Thanks.
> Best Regards
> Jim
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