Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-05 Thread fernando
On Thursday, September 05, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Warren Young wrote: I purposefully said and licensing though, because the Windows license swamps the hardware costs. It can be true about the SSD and RAM costs but it's not the same kind of sandbox too (Wine vs VM). But about the licensing costs I

Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-05 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/09/2013 7:09 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 03:26:10PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: This bug could well be Wine's, rather than Cygwin's. Wine can always play the It's not documented to work that way card but the bottom line is still that it is not a platform that we

RE: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-04 Thread Jim Garrison
Am I missing something, or is there a reason one would want to run a Linux emulator under a Windows emulator on Linux?

Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 03:36:46PM +, Jim Garrison wrote: Am I missing something, or is there a reason one would want to run a Linux emulator under a Windows emulator on Linux? That is the question I've been asking for years. Someone always has an answer but I'm never been convinced that it

Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-04 Thread Warren Young
On 9/4/2013 09:36, Jim Garrison wrote: Am I missing something, or is there a reason one would want to run a Linux emulator under a Windows emulator on Linux? For myself, it is occasionally nice to have a Cygwin sandbox environment to play with when I'm on one of my Macs, away from a Windows

Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 9/4/2013 09:36, Jim Garrison wrote: Am I missing something, or is there a reason one would want to run a Linux emulator under a Windows emulator on Linux? For myself, it is occasionally nice to have a Cygwin sandbox environment to play

Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 03:26:10PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: This bug could well be Wine's, rather than Cygwin's. Wine can always play the It's not documented to work that way card but the bottom line is still that it is not a platform that we are interested in devoting time to. cgf -- Problem

Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-04 Thread Warren Young
On 9/4/2013 15:54, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Warren Young wrote: Wine is cheaper than a VM in terms of hardware requirements and licensing. You must have some very expensive hardware. I figure a VM costs me $25-50 in RAM and SSD space. Because it's not a full OS,

bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-03 Thread Austin English
Howdy, I recently noticed the 64-bit cygwin installer crashes under wine. After further debugging, it appears that the issue is that cygwin is misaligning the stack, causing a crash. I've copy/pasted the analysis below: Hello folks, confirming. Reminded me of bug 27680 (violation of the

Re: bug report: 64-bit cygwin setup crashes under Wine

2013-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:08:44PM -0700, Austin English wrote: I recently noticed the 64-bit cygwin installer crashes under wine. After further debugging, it appears that the issue is that cygwin is misaligning the stack, causing a crash. I've copy/pasted the analysis below: Hello folks,