hi, I confirm that, there is something fishy here.
this one is from XP REJAP@rzuem5008 ~ $ mkshortcut -n "Ifor cygwin bin" /c/cygwin/bin REJAP@rzuem5008 ~ $ mkshortcut -n "I for cygwin bin" /c/cygwin/bin Aborted (core dumped) and this one out of Win7 32 rejap@win7dev ~ $ mkshortcut -n "I for cygwin bin" /c/cygwin/bin Aborted (core dumped) rejap@win7dev ~ $ mkshortcut -n "Ifor cygwin bin" /c/cygwin/bin What is interesting, both links lnk file exist and are identical. Cheers, Pawel On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Earnie Boyd <ear...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> >> On 2012-09-10 at 14:54, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Robert Mark wrote: >>>> Hi Earnie, >>>> >>>>>> As per a previous message >>>>>> (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00215.html) I am still finding >>>>>> that mkshortcut causes core dumps (Windows 7, 64 bit). I have tried a >>>>>> few different options: -P or -D still cause dumps. I have checked >>>>>> permissions and they are all ok. Some folders do cause the error, some >>>>>> don't. >>>>>> >>>>>> mkshortcut -n "I for cygwin bin" /D/cyghome/bin >>>>>> /home/RobertMarkBram/bin/createWindowsShortcut.sh: line 160: 8128 >>>>>> Aborted (core dumped) mkshortcut -n "$shortcutName" >>>>>> "$target" >>>>> >>>>> I'm going to guess but have no fact to back it that the reason is due >>>>> to the fact you're executing in a 32bit environment and the shortcut >>>>> the tool makes needs a 64bit enviroment. This may only be resolved by >>>>> a 64bit version of Cygwin. >>>> >>>> I did say I was running 64bit Win 7, so what exactly do you mean? >>>> >>> >>> I mean that Cygwin at the moment is a 32 bit application. So you are >>> executing in an emulation mode and some things might just not work as >>> expected. >> >> I must say that i run on 32 bits natively (XP) and have what i think is >> the very same problem. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-08/msg00542.html >> I add here that my XP is "french only" (nationalization not possible). > > That is a horse of a different color; in your case I'm guessing that > mkshortcut is not supporting UNICODE file names but I don't know that. > > -- > Earnie > -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple