On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.kirkby@onetel.net">david.kirkby@onetel.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<br>
it has been reported that there are issues in trying to build Maxima on Cygwin<br>
using ECL. Does this look like an ECL issue. See error message at<br>
<br>
<a href="http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11260" target="_blank">http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11260</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I can confirm that this is _not_ specific to Windows XP. On a different virtualbox image I am getting the same errors. It seems that the problem is related to the use of fork() in cygwin, which is very fragile.<br>
<br>I am considering various possibilities. The obvious one is to reuse the code in RUN-PROGRAM that we already have for Windows/Mingw+MSVC in the Cygwin builds. I am not sure how easy this is -- still investigating.<br>
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Juanjo<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) <br><a href="http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com" target="_blank">http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com</a><br>