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Re: Recent cygport and cygwin-specific READMEs [Was: Re: GCC-4.7.2-2: Go/No-go?]


On Apr 24 00:52, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 4/13/2013 11:45 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> >On 2013-04-13 00:55, Andy Koppe wrote:
> >>I've also tried installing cygport from git master but got this after
> >>running ./autogen.sh && make:
> >>
> >>make: *** No rule to make target `data/gnuconfig/config.guess', needed
> >>by `all-am'.  Stop.
> >
> >This is one quirk of git that I've never understood: git clone does not
> >expand submodules by default without the --recursive flag.  Run "git
> >submodule update --init" to get these after a clone.
> 
> Something very odd: when I do this, I get fork errors:
> 
> $ /usr/bin/git submodule update --init
> [...]
>  294079 [main] git-fetch 6928 fork: child -1 - forked process 10000
> died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741515, errno 11
> error: cannot fork() for index-pack: Resource temporarily unavailable
> fatal: fetch-pack: unable to fork off index-pack
> Unable to fetch in submodule path 'data/gnuconfig'
> 
> 
> But, if I do this instead:
> 
> $ PATH=/usr/bin /usr/bin/git submodule update --init
> [...]
> 
> it works.  Why would simply shortening the PATH have this effect?

Do you have a big environment?  Thre's a chance that the stack address
moves due to that.


Corinna

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