Re: vfork problems on Win98 -- is there a fix?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:44:28AM -0400, Ashok Vadekar wrote:
>I may have run into a related problem under Win2K.  I tried to make
>calc OOTB and got as far as the help directory before it started spawning
>as many sub-shells as it could, until the machine more or less stopped.
>It seemed to be trying to resize the swap file to make more room, but
>there should have been no need for the scores of sh.exe's showing up in the
>task manager list.  This effect always seemed to occur at the same point in
>the make, so it doesn't appear to be an accumulated memory loss fault, from
>these symptom, but it could very well be related for fork().
>
>I ended up avoiding the problem by making the help sub tree under solaris, 
>and then finishing the x86 build under cygwin.  It didn't produce a completely
>correct binary, but it sort of works.

Oddly enough, I just downloaded the calc, extracted the file, and typed "make".
It built the entire package without warning.

cgf

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