Re: master has some toys

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, John Benes wrote:

I was able to compile master and pu on Cygwin without NO_MMAP=YesPlease
in the Cygwin section.  However, the make test failed on the
binary-apply on both master and pu, output follows.

Nobody doubts that you can *compile* it. The problem is the fixing of the 
mmap()ed regions after fork(). Since win32 is such a sane system, it does 
not provide mmap() or fork() out of the box. And under some very obscure 
circumstances, cygwin's emulation of mmap() and fork() fails.

BTW, it would be more helpful if you do not just tell *what* test fails, 
but *how*. For example, try to run "git-whatchanged -p" and send just 
the first page of the output (both stdout and stderr). I bet it says it 
has a problem fixing up mmap() after fork().

Hth,
Dscho