Report an error when building on windows with new infrastructure

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello Sean,

This is a known problem with Cygwin. Sometimes it happens intermittently 
(but that's mostly on windows 7 and 64bit) and sometimes it's very 
predictable. When it's predictable, like yours seems to be, it's usually 
caused by too long command lines. It would help us if you could post 
more of the buildlog, preferably with a "VERBOSE=" build so we can see 
where this happens and try to shorten command lines in that area.

As a workaround, you could try shortening the path length to your source 
root directory. Say if you have your source in 
C:\some\deep\directory\with\a\really\long\directory\path\build-infra\, 
you could try moving it to c:\build-infra and see if that helps. A 
difference in the old and new build is that we use absolute paths for 
everything in the new build while the old used relative paths for most 
things, this makes us more sensitive to path depth for the source root.

It looks like you added a dot to 'make VERBOSE= ', that would probably 
mess things up. The idea is to set the make variable VERBOSE to the 
empty string.

/Erik

On 2012-05-18 10:10, Sean Chou wrote:
> Hi,
>
>       While trying to build on windows with new infrastructure, I got this
> error:
>
> "/bin/sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>   2 [main] sh 2392 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed by 'cygiconv
> -2.dll' (0x674C0000) is already occupied"
>
>       And when   'make VERBOSE=. '  is used, it says "nothing to do for
> all..."
> and ' make VERBOSE="-d -p" '  builds something, but seems far from
> complete.
>
>       The old build infrastructure works fine.
>
>       I'm building on windowsxp, both 32bit and 64bit.
>
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 xxx 1.7.10(0.259/5/3) 2012-02-05 12:36 i686 Cygwin
> CYGWIN_NT-5.2-xxx 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin
>
>       Is this because XP is not supported ?
>