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Re: vfork problems on Win98 -- is there a fix?


On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:56:36AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:44:28AM -0400, Ashok Vadekar wrote:
>>I may have run into a related problem under Win2K.  I tried to make
>>calc OOTB and got as far as the help directory before it started spawning
>>as many sub-shells as it could, until the machine more or less stopped.
>>It seemed to be trying to resize the swap file to make more room, but
>>there should have been no need for the scores of sh.exe's showing up in the
>>task manager list.  This effect always seemed to occur at the same point in
>>the make, so it doesn't appear to be an accumulated memory loss fault, from
>>these symptom, but it could very well be related for fork().
>>
>>I ended up avoiding the problem by making the help sub tree under solaris, 
>>and then finishing the x86 build under cygwin.  It didn't produce a completely
>>correct binary, but it sort of works.
>
>Oddly enough, I just downloaded the calc, extracted the file, and typed "make".
					 ^                   ^
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>It built the entire package without warning.

cgf

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