Re: master has some toys

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 18, 2005, 02:48 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511180345450.6359@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <437D2D14.5080205@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, John Benes wrote:

> I was able to compile master and pu on Cygwin without NO_MMAP=YesPlease
> in the Cygwin section.  However, the make test failed on the
> binary-apply on both master and pu, output follows.

Nobody doubts that you can *compile* it. The problem is the fixing of the mmap()ed regions after fork(). Since win32 is such a sane system, it does not provide mmap() or fork() out of the box. And under some very obscure circumstances, cygwin's emulation of mmap() and fork() fails.

BTW, it would be more helpful if you do not just tell *what* test fails, but *how*. For example, try to run "git-whatchanged -p" and send just the first page of the output (both stdout and stderr). I bet it says it has a problem fixing up mmap() after fork().

Hth, Dscho