Hi Andrew,
Thanks. That is quite encouraging. People keep saying cygwin on Win98 is
really flaky. Your experience seems to be that it is pretty solid (if
only the typical MS product gave as little trouble as a failure after 5
hours compiling :-) ). Perhaps the mmap problem is the only one hurting
the Win98 installs. The fact that I can compile after fudging my way
around the mmap problem seems to also support that.
Regards,
Steve
Andrew E. Kalman wrote:
I have had the misfortune of using Win98 for the past many, many years
as a development platform for the Salvo RTOS and the various compilers
it supports. Yes, we do use Win2k for Salvo library builds in Cygwin,
but we are (well, were, actually) stuck with Win98 for other reasons.
I now have a big, fast Win2k machine ready and I can't wait to migrate
to it ...
[....]
So, to summarize, Cygwin definitely had a make-related memory leak at
one time. It is now gone. I have no idea what made it go away. I
suspect it was something in the course of Cygwin's development /
updates. Maybe it's part of the problem you are experiencing. I never
built Cygwin, just installed the latest release.
Regards,
