Re: [wxhaskell-users] announce: wxHaskell 0.9.4, windows bug fix release

[Claus R. <cla...@ta...>]

> - wxWidgets make install didn't copy all of the include files
>     to the installation directory (just copying the one file mentioned
>     on the wxHaskell building page seems to be sufficient, but I still
>     wonder what is going on there)

ah, there are several of them, a pair for each platform, of which only
one is copied. but this is an _old_ _stable_ release! why hasn't it
been patched?

> .. But "make dist" fails for wxHaskell, with what 
> seems to be a cygwin problem:
> 
> C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe (2124): *** fork: can't reserve memory for stack 0x40000 - 0x240000, Win32 error 487
>       5 [main] bash 1584 fork_parent: child 2124 died waiting for longjmp before initialization
> /bin/bash: fork: No such file or directory
> make: *** [wxc-dist] Error 129

updating cygwin didn't help. but slowing down the process revealed
another error hidden behind this one, namely execvp complaining about
too long a commandline. and if I do "make dist -n", I'm not really
surprised about that complaint - have you ever looked at the things
you're building there with your nice makefile function library?-)

perhaps it is not so much a cygwin bug but an excessive use of
resources? or is it an unfortunate implementation failing to keep
up with your demands? anyway:

removing the "echo" part from the cp&echo-function was sufficient
to let "make dist" go through, but I'm somewhat surprised that you 
didn't have the same problem when building your distribution for 
the webpage. any ideas?

cheers,
claus

ps. oh, the build with 6.5 on winxp works (thoroughly tested 
    using wx/BouncingBalls;-), although 6.5 still has some issue
    when running under bash, so one has to run ghci under cmd
    instead.. it seems others have already seen that in their own
    builds, but I didn't want to leave the error message issue 
    open on the list.