Re: [Mingw-msys] Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 6

[Keith M. <kei...@to...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote, quoting me:
>> Earnie Boyd wrote, quoting Vincent Magnin:
>> [Re: Problem during MSYS postinstall]
>>>> E:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's
>>>> heap, Win32 error 6
>>>
>>> Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable?  If so, remove it, then
>>> try again.
>>
>> Hmm.  I have `CYGWIN=ntsec' in my Windows environment.  It has been
>> there since long before I discovered MSYS, and I've never seen this
>> problem, when I've installed MSYS.
>
> But, I have seen this variable cause this sort of thing.

So, yet another problem which isn't consistently reproducible. :-(

But surely, MSYS doesn't need a CYGWIN environment variable.  If
it's known that it *may* cause a problem, perhaps the postinstall
script should unset it, or at least `export -n' it; maybe msys.bat,
or /etc/profile should do likewise.

Regards,
Keith.