Hi Alan, I noticed the Cygwin people are quite responsive, notably Corinna Vinschen, so at the very least you could ask it again. It may have just slipped through the cracks.
(I remember seeing a very similar post-install error, when I installed Cygwin under Windows 7, but it seems to work happily anyway) Regards, Arjen On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:56:48 -0700 (PDT) "Alan W. Irwin" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-06-24 12:34-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> [....]I cannot currently help you out with Cygwin >>testing of >> PLplot because of a Cygwin-related bug in Wine that is a >>complete >> showstopper. [....] > > Hi Arjen: > > I just reviewed the situation for that showstopper bug > (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24018). There >is one > assertion it is a Cygwin issue in how the stack is >handled by fork > calls, but the test (which claims there are problems >with an infinite > number of fork calls for the Cygwin platform) is not too >convincing > since such an infinite loop containing fork calls could >run out of > other resources than the stack. Worse yet, nobody >followed up with a > better test of what is happening to the stack with >Cygwin fork calls, > and there is only one casual "by the way" mention of >wine bug 24018 on > the principal Cygwin list where Cygwin bugs should be >reported. From > these results it appears this bug has been caught in >limbo between > Cygwin and Wine developers for a couple of years now. > > To restart interest in fixing this bug, do you know any >Cygwin > developers who might be willing to take a look at > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24018 to see >whether they can > come up with a better test of what happens to the Cygwin >stack for > large numbers of fork calls and with that test either >prove or > disprove that 24018 is a Cygwin issue? > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of >Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS >equation-of-state > implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); >the Time > Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot >scientific plotting > software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project > (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project >(loll.sf.net); > and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ > DISCLAIMER: This message is intended exclusively for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and destroy this message. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The foundation 'Stichting Deltares', which has its seat at Delft, The Netherlands, Commercial Registration Number 41146461, is not liable in any way whatsoever for consequences and/or damages resulting from the improper, incomplete and untimely dispatch, receipt and/or content of this e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
