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Re: New User: Linux Synth Help


On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:56:08AM -0600, Richardson, Anthony wrote:
> I've built the Linux synthetic target library using the default
> configtool options and I've built the example programs.  I've
> also built the I/O auxiliary per the ref manual instructions.
> The examples seem to run fine except when I try to use the ecosynth
> I/O auxiliary program.  Then I get the following error:
> 
>   $ ./hello --io
>   Error: failed to execute the I/O auxiliary.
> 
> I think it is finding the auxiliary program okay.

If you look at the code in synth_intr.c it has found the auxiliary and
its the fork that is failing. If you print out the value of "child" it
will be the errno value, but negative. That might give you a better
idea whats going wrong.

     Andrew

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