On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > I was having a private chat with Corinna about this. > > Her doubts above mirror mine. I wonder if this will add to the traffic > from people who, e.g., expect their java apps to understand Cygwin ptys. > Now we will have people who don't understand why their 32-bit screen > doesn't work under 64-bit Cygwin mintty. > > The original error message was certainly not clear but maybe we need > to have something like: > > "Can't run 32-bit Cygwin programs in a 64-bit Cygwin environment"
What about CYGWIN=32bitCygwinExec or some such? And what about the other direction? It is clear that some operations cannot occur especially pty but that is still true with execing any Windows program. I don't see this being too big an extra burden on support. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- 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
