On May 22, 9:39 pm, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Dr. David Kirkby > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi, > > it has been reported that there are issues in trying to build Maxima on > > Cygwin > > using ECL. Does this look like an ECL issue. See error message at > > >http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11260 > > 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.
It was encountered on Windows 7. I do not know whether the current Cygwin/Sage+ECL 11 would work on XP (Mike Hansen reports it does, but I don't know whether he refers to his past experience, or the present situation). > > 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. > > Juanjo > > -- > Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC > c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 > (Spain)http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
