On Nov 30, 4:40 pm, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:32 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That is weird that you have to do this.  Juanjo suggested that he had
> > made a bunch of changes to totally change how forking works in ECL
> > this summer, but maybe they weren't merged?  I'm cc:ing him on this.
>
> I did not change the way fork is used: fork is broken in cyginw, period.
> However, I managed to avoid using fork() altogether, at least when
> compiling programs. This does not solve the problem; it just hides it.
>

Sorry, I misunderstood - as you know, I'm not an expert on ECL or
Cygwin, just a grunt trying to help out.  I guess the point is whether
there is a way to avoid this problem when we compile Maxima.    Or is
Dima's solution the best one for this?

- kcrisman

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