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Re: Cygwin64 1.7.26: Problem with linking many files


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 07:22:57PM +0100, Bengt Larsson wrote:
>I found a problem with linking many files in Cygwin64. It works fine in
>bash but from the Windows shell I get the below. To repeat, download the
>latest version of my editor from http://www.bengtl.net/files/mg3a/
>Extract into a directory, go there and type "make". Since it's when
>linking many files this seems the easiest to repeat. There is no problem
>in Cygwin32, either from bash or the Windows shell.
>
>...
>
>gcc -pipe -O2 -DDIRED -DPREFIXREGION -o mg basic.o dir.o dired.o file.o
>line.o match.o paragraph.o random.o region.o search.o ucs.o util.o
>variables.o version.o width.o window.o word.o langmode_c.o ucsnames.o
>buffer.o display.o echo.o extend.o help.o kbd.o keymap.o macro.o main.o
>modes.o cinfo.o spawn.o ttyio.o tty.o ttykbd.o fileio.o -lcurses
>/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/4.8.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
>cannot find macro.o: Too many open files
>...

I'm building snapshots now which should fix this problem.  This is YA
reason for a quick 1.7.27 release.

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

cgf

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