I have been following this thread with great interest via the archive, but now I have newly subscribed to this list to ask additional questions.
Corinna said "Should be fixed in CVS. Thanks (to Arjen) for the report." My thanks to Arjen for getting this thread started, and my thanks to Corinna for so swiftly finding the fix. I would now like to test this fix from a broader perspective of attempting to run the fixed setup.exe version on Wine. My background is I have had considerable success with using the combination of MinGW, MSYS, and Wine as a build and test platform for free software. I would like to similarly attempt to use the combination of Cygwin and Wine as a build and test platform for free software but I was stopped from doing that because the last stage of running Cygwin setup.exe on Wine ran into this fork issue. The only Windows platform available to me is Wine. And I have no Cygwin on Wine experience at this stage because this fork bug shut me out. But now that it is fixed in CVS, how do I get access to the fixed version of setup.exe? Are there daily snapshot builds of the CVS version I could access? Or do I have to build the CVS version of Cygwin from scratch on (the Wine version of) Windows using MinGW and MSYS, and if so is there a website with directions for how to do that? Sorry for the Cygwin newbie questions, but I am quite experienced with the Unix command line and building software both on Linux and on the bash.exe command line accessible with MinGW/MSYS/Wine so I hope I will only need hints to get started with (a) building the CVS version of Cygwin with the fork fix, and (b) building and testing software for the Cygwin on Wine platform. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
