From: Alex Riesen Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:40:39 GMT Subject: Re: master has some toys Message-ID: <81b0412b0511170440l641a05b9q7b8957a36297315@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 11/17/05, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > It appears we'd better have something like this in the main > > Makefile, so people do not have to do it themselves everywhere? > > I'd like to wait to have a reaction from other people. I vividly remember > my eyes falling out of my sockets when somebody reported success on cygwin > without NO_MMAP. If there is *any* cygwin version which fixes it, we > should rather make people upgrade, no? my eyes too. I used to compile Peters tree, and it never worked (w2k, antivirus present, but self-disabled because of some lucky crash). That is why the whole story started (and I started to look for unclosed files and unmapped maps).