When a program hangs under cygwin, you may have to kill it (try both kill and Task Manager). This should reduce the number of reboots required. So should switching to W2K. ----- Original Message ----- From: "steph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 7:19 AM Subject: unable to compil without restart cygwin many times > hi, > I encountered blocking problems using cygwin under wi ndows millenium while > compiling library using automake, libtool , ... > the compilation crashes for unknown reasons and stopped. > it seems that each time, the sed program has crashed ... > > is this a known problem ? > how to avoid this ? > > I encountered the problem with the fox library available at > http://www.cfdrc.com/FOX/fox.html > > bye > steph > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple