gtk2 using SysV memory? (Was: Re: [ITP] gvim-6.4)

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
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> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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>>The error message you see points to the fact that apparently some part
>>of gvim or subsequent libraries use SYSV shared memory.  The reason you
>>see this error message and I see a SIGSYS is that I don't have
>>CYGWIN=server set in my environment by default and no cygserver is
>>running unless I'm debugging it.
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> OK, I see this now as well locally, if I unset CYGWIN.
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>>So what we have here looks like something I don't like, which is, that
>>running gvim requires to run Cygserver because something, gvim itself or
>>some library, is using SYSV shared memory.
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> After doing some experimentation, it looks like this isn't a specific
> problem with gvim, but is common to gtk2 apps, e.g.:
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> $ CYGWIN= gcolor2
> Bad system call
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> $ gcolor2
> [runs]
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>>I don't think that should be necessary, except in very trying cases like, 
>>say, a database like postgresql.  So, whatever is using SYSV shared 
>>memory in this scenario, it shouldn't.  The fact that I can start
>>gvim on local Xmingw server but not on a remote X server shows,
>>that SYSV shared memory can't be a necessity.
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> Gerrit?

Yes maybe, need to take a look at the configure and build logs though.


Gerrit
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