From: Cesar S. <ces...@gm...> - 2008-12-01 01:00:57
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Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > Cesar Strauss wrote, on 11/30/2008 4:57 PM: >>>>> The only thing I've noticed is disabling on-access virus scanning seems >>>>> to slightly reduce the frequency of crashes, but I'm still not able to >>>>> build anything. >>>> 1) Please try uninstalling the anti-virus software completely, >>>> sometimes disabling it is not enough. >>>> 2) The following page has some other software that is known to cause problems: >>>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda >>> Thanks for the suggestions. I tried both and still no luck. >> Could you try installing Cygwin and see if it crashes as well? > > I have been using cygwin as well. Nothing has ever crashed in Cygwin, Interesting. If Cygwin is not affected, it might mean there is a fix already available somewhere in the Cygwin sources. In the past, a workaround for a Vista-related crash was successfully solved by code derived from Cygwin. > but I can't build either of the packages (gnucash or songbird) from > Cygwin, presumably because of idiosyncracies in the build processes. > In this case, the build system (Cygwin) differs from the final host system (MinGW), so you are actually cross-compiling. I see there are instructions for cross-compiling in the build documentation of gnucash. If all else fails, perhaps you could try this way. Regards, Cesar |