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Re: sh.exe: TP_NUM_W_BUFS too small?


Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> When running configure scripts, I sometimes see this error message repeated
> several times, for different lines of the configure script:
> 
> bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - Internal error: TP_NUM_W_BUFS too small.
> 
> I saw this when building libsdl 1.2.13 on Cygwin 1.7 (uname -v reports
> 2009-07-13 10:28) on 64-bit Vista SP2. The configure script seem to have
> succeeded anyway (the build completes and libsdl works). So, is it really
> an error?

  Yes.  Cygwin ran out of internal buffers for ASCII->Unicode conversion and
the shell process was killed.  This may not have caused you problems;
configure will have interpreted it as meaning the autoconf test failed, so it
maybe ended up thinking a certain header file or library wasn't present, and,
depending which test it was testing at the time, that might have been the
right answer anyway.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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