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Re: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn't reserve space" from DOS shell
- To: "Karr, David" <david dot karr at cacheflow dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn't reserve space" from DOS shell
- From: Peter Buckley <peter dot buckley at cportcorp dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:52:52 -0400
- References: <2C08D4EECBDED41184BB00D0B74733420473EEA2@cf-bay-exch-03.cacheflow.com>
This win32 error 487 has been covered in two long threads in the past
month or so- try using google to search the arhives for stuff like
"windows/win32 error 487" and "cygwin heap". People were getting these
errors on winNT and/or win2k IIRC. Maybe it will help you pin down the
problem and find a workaround, or maybe through your experience with
this problem you will spearhead the port of cygwin to winXP :-)
HTH,
Peter
"Karr, David" wrote:
>
> I have a user here who is trying to set up Cygwin on WinXP. Is that
> expected to work?
>
> He was able to install all the pieces of the development environment (Cygwin
> included). When he does a "make" of our product in a Bash shell, it works
> fine, just as it does on Win2k and WinNT. When he runs "make" from a DOS
> shell (or tcsh), he gets the following error:
>
> f:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap
> (0x2430000)
> in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
>
> One of the first things that happens in our Makefiles is that it runs a
> little shell script that pulls some information from the environment. It
> appears that this "bash" shell (from the error message) is being created
> because of the attempt to run that shell script. The next line that we see
> in the output is a warning from "make" saying that it wasn't able to find a
> particular file, and the message makes it apparent that the shell script
> returned an empty string (or nothing), which shouldn't happen.
>
> This problem does not occur on Win2k or WinNT, either in a DOS shell, Bash
> shell, or Tcsh shell.
>
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