Ton van Overbeek, I suspect that the real solution here would be for me to link Cygwin's automode.o into WindowMaker, thus allowing WindowMaker to run regardless of the mount type of $HOME/GNUstep/. I'll see what I can do about that...
Harold Ton van Overbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Gerald Williams wrote: > > BTW, WindowMaker exits with a SEGV on our systems. I haven't > > looked into it, but verified the problem on multiple systems > > so it's not isolated to my machine (all IBM laptops running > > Win2K/Cygwin, though). In all cases, wmaker begins to run and > > starts creating icons, etc., then throws up a screen reporting > > that it received a signal 11. I haven't had time to look into > > it yet. > > Had the smae behaviour on W98SE. > WindowMaker copies its config files to the user home directory > ($HOME/GNUstep/...). > If this directory is not binary mounted you get the signal 11. > Probably the reading code in WindowMaker opens the config files > in binary mode and then gets confused by the \r\n combinations > it gets from a text mounted filesystem. > If you mount the home directory as binary, no signal 11 and WindowMaker > works fine. > > Ton van Overbeek >