That's why I stay on 1.3.2 :) Are you running a pre-built binary? I build the binaries under 1.3.2 - I don't know whether that would make a difference.
andy At 12:18 PM 3/13/02 -0800, Taylor, Patrick wrote: >Ever since upgrading from cygwin 1.3.2 (quite a few months ago), >I have had a lot of difficulty with running subprocesses for >make and grep from within xemacs. At first they would fail >only sometimes, but since upgrading to more recent versions of >cygwin, they fail almost every time. > >When I launch a make within xemacs (via M-x compile), the >subprocess almost always hangs. The output buffer shows > > cd /wherever/.../ > make -k > >and that's it. Doing a kill-compilation sometimes has no >effect, and I have to so it several times to actually kill >the subprocess. > >When I launch a grep (via M-x grep), the problem is slightly >different. The subprocess always completes, but often does >not produce any matches in the output buffer even when there >are definitely matches. Sometimes it works fine. > >These problems have severely crippled my development >productivity. I have resorted to running make and grep >from the bash shell outside of xemacs and just manually >processing the errors/matches, losing all the benefits >of running these subprocesses from within xemacs. > >I have searched several mailing lists for cygwin and xemacs >and have found a couple of people with similar problems, but >there have been no followups to those messages, or to the >message I originally posted about this in September. > >My version info: >- XEmacs 21.4 (patch 6) (i686-pc-cygwin) >- Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 >- Cygwin DLL version info: > DLL version: 1.3.10 > DLL epoch: 19 > DLL bad signal mask: 19005 > DLL old termios: 5 > DLL malloc env: 28 > API major: 0 > API minor: 51 > Shared data: 3 > DLL identifier: cygwin1 > Mount registry: 2 > Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions > Cygwin registry name: Cygwin > Program options name: Program Options > Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 > Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags > Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix > Cygdrive default prefix: > Build date: Mon Feb 25 11:14:34 EST 2002 > Shared id: cygwin1S3 > >PLEASE: if either >- you know anything about this problem, OR >- you have no problems using the same functionality >LET ME KNOW! > >Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Thanks, >Patrick > >_____________________________________________________________ >Below is an earlier message about this issue from September. >I received no replies. >_____________________________________________________________ > >I just upgraded to the latest cygwin DLL version 1.3.3-2. >I'm using Windows 2000 Pro with SP 2. > >I immediately started experiencing problems with subprocesses >in my cygwin version of xemacs (XEmacs 21.4 (patch 3) "Academic >Rigor" [Lucid] (i686-pc-cygwin) of Thu May 17 2001 on SHALOM). > >When I launch a make within xemacs, it often hangs immediately. > >When I launch a grep within xemacs, it always completes but >sometimes finds no matches when there are definitely matches. >Very odd. > >Again, these problems are sporadic, but fairly frequent. >I do not have these problems with make or grep launched directly >from bash. > >Has anyone else experienced this or have a clue what the problem >might be? Please respond by email, since I do not subscribe to >these lists. > >Thanks, >Patrick Taylor >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/