Re: WinXP: "make" from a Bash shell works fine, but gets "couldn't reserve space" from DOS shell

[Peter Buckley <peter dot buckley at cportcorp dot com>]

This win32 error 487 has been covered in two long threads in the past
month or so- try using google to search the arhives for stuff like 
"windows/win32 error 487" and "cygwin heap". People were getting these
errors on winNT and/or win2k IIRC. Maybe it will help you pin down the
problem and find a workaround, or maybe through your experience with
this problem you will spearhead the port of cygwin to winXP :-)

HTH,
Peter 

"Karr, David" wrote:
> 
> I have a user here who is trying to set up Cygwin on WinXP.  Is that
> expected to work?
> 
> He was able to install all the pieces of the development environment (Cygwin
> included).  When he does a "make" of our product in a Bash shell, it works
> fine, just as it does on Win2k and WinNT.  When he runs "make" from a DOS
> shell (or tcsh), he gets the following error:
> 
> f:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap
> (0x2430000)
>  in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
> 
> One of the first things that happens in our Makefiles is that it runs a
> little shell script that pulls some information from the environment.  It
> appears that this "bash" shell (from the error message) is being created
> because of the attempt to run that shell script.  The next line that we see
> in the output is a warning from "make" saying that it wasn't able to find a
> particular file, and the message makes it apparent that the shell script
> returned an empty string (or nothing), which shouldn't happen.
> 
> This problem does not occur on Win2k or WinNT, either in a DOS shell, Bash
> shell, or Tcsh shell.
> 
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