From: Michael S. Z. <ms...@mo...> - 2005-06-01 13:29:59
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On Wed June 1 2005 00:13, Hugh Perkins wrote: > Seems I cant use ./configure using mingw32 on Windows XP? After maybe > 50 or 100 tests, messages such as (paraphrasing) "unable to fork, > permission denied", or "resource unavailable" appear, then my entire > computer becomes incredibly slow and sluggish, and I am forced to > reboot. > > I can reproduce this reliably on my machine, in both Cygwin and Mingw. > I'd guess that the forking is using some system resource and not > freeing it correctly? I saw a bug related to this in the buglist from > March, something like "memory leak on spawning shell scripts", so I > guess I"m not the only person with the problem? > > Running Windows XP SP2. > > Obviously, mingw and cygwin are both unusable as a ./configure > platform whilst this issue remains. > > Thoughts? > Port valgrind? Mike |