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Re: cygwin problems with Hyperthreaded machines?
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:55:14AM -0500, Chuck McDevitt wrote:
>I've been running into some severe problems with using Cygwin on
>Hyperthreaded machines.
>
>The problem mostly occurs when capturing the stdout from a program with
>the backquote operator,
>or using the shell command in makefiles. The captured values end up as
>blank sometimes.
>
>For example, in my Makefile,
>
> source-dir := $(strip $(shell pwd))
>
>pwd always returns something, but source-dir sometimes gets set to an
>empty string.
>
>This never happens on single-CPU non-hyperthreaded machines.
>
>I've also seen occasional hangs during a make, again only on hyperthreaded
>machines.
>
>I've tried the latest cygwin dll from cygwin.com, as well as the snapshot
>from 3/12, and I still get this problem.
>
>Anyone else out there seeing this? Is this a known problem? Is there
>some version of the cygwin dll that doesn't have this problem?
It's not a known problem and you are not providing enough details to track
the problem down.
http://cygwin.com/problems.html
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Red Hat, Inc.
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